What I'm curious about, then, is what happens when differnet kinds of people, rate on differnet kinds of things:
I don't generally even hear lyrics, caring almost-entirely about sound, syncopation / counterpoint / force / complexity-harmonics,
( good Bach rendition, good taiko / industrial / industrial-dance, Consolidated's Crackhouse, and whatever that tune by 'Snap' was that CFNY played, back in the day, that also had the lyrical-syncopation/complexity I love. . . one single tune by Eminem had equivalent lyrical-syncopation, but it's so rare, from what I've heard, that usually ignoring the lyrics is better, fer me )
swirls of sound dancing amongst one-another, structure-dance, tinge of humour, etc. ..
Is your system ALSO identifying the several different KINDS-of-valuing,
so-that ones who consistently identify what we like by sound, get music that is similar by sound,
and whomever identifies what-is-similar by voiceplay ( song-equivalent to Chaucer, I'm thinking ), or melody, or something-else,
gets recommendations based-on-that?
There are dimensions of similarity-judging, I'm getting-at, and discovering the normalS, note that plural, and letting them do their thing,
is entirely different from what using statistics on several different kinds of judging
and averaging 'em,
if you see what I mean. ..
2 things: "Corps Business" ( Freedman ) & Coop
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Skunkworks's discovery of the ( in hindsight ) obvious principle that segregation of Responsibility from Authority ( the standard way of having Shareholders / Management / Workers all doing different, anti-congruent commitments/determinations ) cannot work, seems to show that coop-business is really the only way to go. . . ( all "employees/workers/managers/leaders" are (?equal)shareholders, NO ONE else is. Therefore all decisions are made by owners and the survival of the business is inherently balanced-with the profit-motive.
I don't know why people are so averse to creating such work-structures/systems, but whomever does would seem to have a significant long-term-advantage against the short-sighted/blind paradigm of cancerous monetary-gratification-at-any-cost paradigm )
The discovery that business can weaken/erode cultural-segregation/prejudice is also useful, since it shows that business has a humanity-survival useful function that isn't obvious from the trenches. ..
( reported in new scientist, sometime in the last few years )
Also, where in hell it became necessary to make vertical-hierarchies, I don't know. . . the horizontal/flat ones seem to be more effective. ..
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( PS: the absolutely-selfish-motivation that cancer expresses is expressible at other levels, not just cellular, and
yes there is a difference between community, like say the countless different kinds-of-cells of living-human-body,
as contrasted-with a commune, which couldn't be represented by anything more diverse than a fungus. ..
community seems to require both diversity, complementarity and gestalt, which isn't what the belonging-drug lefties do. ..,
nor is it what the Defined Roles Family is OK, but 'community' NOT-ok conservatives do.
-shrug- why the political-motivation, though, since it doesn't make interesting-experiencing?, and that seems to be the only-thing one CAN take with-one. ..
whatever. . . )
The atmosphere at the time wasn't so useless-for-flying-in as present-day's is: it was oxygen-richer and significantly denser.
Nowadays the biggest bird that can get airborne is a gooneybird/albatross ( or maybe an eagle, as I've never seen a pair of albatross/eagle together. . . ), yet
in water we've got some pretty big "flying" things with very little wing on 'em.
I don't know if the asteroid/comet strike changed the air-composition or stripped some atmosphere off from our world, or both, but it's the explanation that makes sense-est.
( BTW, I think it was NewScientist that covered both those aspects, oxygen & density, separately IIRC, but it's been years, so I'm not certain, and with their "Must Be Subscribed To DeadTrees Edition To Have Archives" rule. . . bah. )
Actually, since the dimensions & approximate-mass of these pterosaurs is known, the atmospheric-density could be calculated by anyone whith the knowledge to do so, straightforwardly, eh?
Unfortunately, though, the argument that neural-net systems ( analog-computers, our brains ) only switch from one determination/mode to another when it has been pushed enough to do-so, is correct, so helping everyone to self-entrain into feeling that What We Are Already Doing Is Good(-enough) may be tactically "right" ( aka Nice ),
but it is strategically suicide ( we are climbing the ladder well/fast, but it's against a deathtrap, not a building! it is the wrong ladder. .. .. the equivalent to going-along-with everyone's stampeding as a means of Making Our World Better ( stopping meaning being different-rules than group's-current-rules, and results in our bruising ), and finding oneself ( and everyone one is with ) falling from that cliff. ..
People Only Learn When Forced. ..
is both unfortunate and real
( this-one's life is proof-enough for this-one, yet many-others also have experience of the same-kind ), and
It Is Better To Learn, Than To Be Successfully-Naive And Extinct,
and crossing the tipping-point may hurt, but the world resultant of not crossing it would hurt more. ..
I gather Americans are the result of the forced-hurt of breaking British Imperial Authority on 'em by battle, so the gains of that freedom are the result of having been abused-enough to have crossed that tipping-point. ..
Maybe open-source trustable systems need that tipping-point among world-population and the organizations world-population makes. . . ( as opposed-to early-adopters, who are loony, anyways, but we're ok with that. . . )
1. money isn't the only kind of "coin" around, and extortion is extortion ( obliterating others' autonomy / own-validity is the basis of Authority,
but not the basis of Self-Command, . . to see the difference . . )
2. creatures of our world are contextual-creatures ( we are plastic ), and once a someone's world is made more Authority/Obliteration centric, they work from that basis, with whatever tendency/commitment they have in them. ..
3. giving-in to their abuse-of-worth means never being able to take that change back: it's one-way.
4. if they get control of a number of open-source projects, then they control ( and can outright stop the integrity/security development of ) open-source development, and that may be the actual design, if they need to kill alternatives/competition for a Big Client of theirs,
or their-own work,
or closed-source/cathedral software the-entire-category
( and they may require to do-so, even-be legally-obligated to do-so, in-order to serve the Great God fiscal bottom-line ). ..
Therefore, I'd bite the bullet, and post their e-mail ( if that's legal where you are ) to show other open-source projects the threat itself and the origin, and point-out that everyone could be held in vulnerability/security-flaw by law by this entity once enough open-source projects give-in to it, and that could have "global" consequences. ..
In short, even the possiblity that open-source projects may comply with their control is a security-vulnerability, and one must now ask how many projects cannot legally identify/fix security-flaws because they have-already been 0wned. ..
( p.s. no I don't consider Conspiracy to be significant a shaper of deep-history in the world:
enforcement of ignorance/abuse on everyone,
for sake of greed-for-authority for oneself/group
is entirely sufficient to explain humanity's history, though the implications of that assumption are . . not-complimentary.
Just-as obliteration-of-others' own-validity == Authority is a kind of "coin",
there are alternative kinds of "coin":
like the wonderful feeling of being among a world of entities who have autonomy & really, livingly are their-own-capability & creativity & self-essence, all contributing to the fun/delight of being, Just Because,
though that'd be the kind of paradise that'd offend the authority-is- -what-makes-God- -be-God types, defective though their argument be. ..
mutually-exclusive worlds. ..
Though that is ONLY true if the society one lives-in cares enough about appearances & still has a free-ish mass-media ( once the majority are in Enforce-mode, adding more enforcing-abuse won't work: see the Soviet Socialist Imperial Establishment System for example of that . . . )
Firstly, it was called the 'Iron Curtain' because that's what Churchill ( iirc ) perceived/named it to be, back at the end of WWII. ..
As for escalation, China's Communist Party knows that North-Americans are expendable, are whiney, have no guts ( poke hard and we cave-in, see Iraq war for evidence of that, and also Vietnam -- has-to-do-with politics rather-than military-commitment or survival-commitment being our basis ), haven't got the guts to wage WAR
( autonomizing the locals means waging war,
helping locals remain dependent so We are Big & Important
is waging-battle, not waging-war.
In Vietnam, I think it was the Aussies, or the South Koreans, can't remember which, who waged war while the rest of us waged battle. . and lost the war )
. ..
In short, the Chinese Communist Party knows that if it comes to battle between China and North America, North America loses much-more ( fails more, breaks more, gives/caves-in to hurt/mindlessness/nonproduction more ) than China can, and that's that, and the Chinese Communist Party protects its survival by that path.
. . and everyone knows about CCP making it clear that
just as gov't-enforcement destroyed Tibet in 'repatriating' it, they've threatened Taiwan with nuclear incineration if Taiwan doesn't obey repatriation, too ( Chinese corpses better to the Party than independent Chinese are ), so if CCP's threatening US of A, Japan, AND Taiwan with War Real Soon Now,
then they're agitating to get butchering and the moment/excuse hasn't catered to 'em enough, and that's the ONLY delay. ..
It looks like they fear for their Party's position/survival, and are willing to conflagrate China & Rest Of World to get that position's importance protected, to me. ..
Political-motivation ignites wars and "police-actions" to protect its incumbent special-interest-groups' habit, and neither Lives nor Reality matter or can-stop that from continuing to be the case, as our history shows
WWIII is a "when" question, not an "if" question, and it'll be manufactured by human-ignorance in order to enforce^h^h^h^h^h^h^hprotect Order/Authority/Obedience/Conformity, however it's actuated, since nothing changes. ..
and appeasement didn't prevent WWII, in case anyone needs reminding. ..
1. Intellect-Quotient doesn't measure intelligence, only intellect as defined by male cognizers.
1a. that means that it is ( and has long been ) a means of negating/denying women's kind of intelligence, and therefore is a means of abuse-of-(category's)-worth ( in this case, category being "women" )
1b. Therefore, since we have enough intelligence to feel/perceive that hitting bruise is different from hitting robust non-bruise, we perceive that adding yet another abuse on beaten-on woman-worth isn't "good" ( read Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind to discover how women are put-down in/by the assumptions in, and enforced-by, male-engineered education & definition-of-knowledge.. no it isn't primarily about how women are put-down, but reading it is eye-opening for anyone who wants to know Woman, who didn't grow-up-in woman-mind/culture/experience. The male-ignorance-enforcement-establishment's backlash against that book was such that they did an answer to the backlash & followup book, Knowledge, Difference and Power: Essays Inspired by Women's Ways of Knowing )
2. There are a number of quite different kinds of intelligence, Intellect-Quotient being only one. Daniel Goleman, in one of his papers, said that at-least 7 major ones had been identified, including relational-intelligence, which no male-engineered-quotient is even going to acknowledge ( unless forced! ), let-alone value.
in The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Leonard Shlain notices that any population that saturates its substance-of-knowing on atomic-sequential-alphabetic-literacy, then does misogynistic-pogrom mode ( listing holocausts from time-nearly-immemorial ), and pointing-out the rather-precise mesh between saturating a population with when it butchers everything ( especially woman-nature ) that it can.
HAVING EXPERIENCED R-MIND, which I couldn't even-have-believed-to-exist for the first 30 years of my life, I understand that the spasdic "left-brain-dominant" mode that our "education" manufactures, in order to protect its mode, or to protect itself/habit, is incapable of knowing entire dimensions of Reality.
Also a consequence of having experience R-Mind as well-as L-Mind, I know that "woman" is more R-Mind than guy-mind is, and that that is probably why L-Mind butchers woman-worth so aggressively: to protect itself from the existence-of differentness's being.
Merely-read The New Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards PhD to know-about it ( bogo-intelligence ) or
honestly-work-through it to KNOW what it's talking-about ( knowing ). ..
which is precisely the kind of thing that started me on this: years ago a friend told me that it was insane to even permit someone who could not ever experience being a woman to be a gynecologist, and that struck me. ..
then a few years later I mentioned this to another woman, and she told me a woman could not be a gynecologist, because a woman couldn't be a doctor ( she wasn't young, and our cultural-programming had been effective, hadn't it? ).
What's insipid about the whole thing, is that it's been known for years that women are MUCH better at steady/fi
We are born with an immune-system. Computers are born with the equivalent to AIDS: Immune Deficiency Syndrome, but in their case it is ABSOLUTE Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
And there are a couple of gotchas in the parent's cosmology, it seems:
One doesn't know if one's system is infected just because one hasn't connected to the 'net "raw". . . ( if you want to "know" something, test it correctly )
Firewalls are circumventable ( i.e. have bugs, and such are exploited ).
Software is sometimes accidentally distributed already-infected ( Microsoft did it with one of their CDs, manufactured in an infected factory, IIRC ).
Using recordable media means ( if one exchanges information between systems, or between infected previous-install and current not-yet-infected install, for instance ) risk. ..
Etc.
And. . . Trusted Computing can also pertain to INDEPENDENT, INTEGRITY-DRIVEN comparative-reviews, eh?
Virus Bulletin used-to-have visible to anyone archives ( I think they changed that, some time ago ), and back-a-year-or-two ago it was Eset & Vet ( http://www.nod32.com/ and http://www.vet.com.au/ ) who were the ones to beat. Vet won if simplicity was a factor, as Eset apparently has one gazillion config microsettings
( and also, it wasn't possible to buy Eset online if one was running Linux, last time I tried: one HAD to be using MS-Windoze + MS Browser to buy it, but they apparently contracted-out their net-purchase-system, so it wasn't Eset that did that, it was whomever their contractor-company that enforced non-secure system to purchase Eset )
Anyways. . Oh! they've boshed privacy entirely! now one MUST register/login to view the awards at all, eh?
if you've a throwaway e-mail address, maybe you can see if they're worth anything nowadays, on their "100% Award", which is an award given to all AV progs that defeat 100% of all the in the wild viruses they sic on 'em. ..
and also, one of the bases of CCP's economic miracle: subsidizedlabour-concentration-camps. For protecting the established structure, it's brilliant, but when Nature says Adapt, and establishment-structure says Universe Must Obey!, . . .
extinction happens, eh?
Actually, what with humanity's record, maybe I should hope for that? Would a universer sterile of humanity be more humane or is there some heart in some human-beings?
Oh, here's another beaut: CCP's return to totalitarianism, in order to prevent political-opening from threatening its position/power, as such enemy, openness, infects neighbours http://www.theepochtimes.ca/news/5-7-14/30286.html
And Finally, since Epoch refers endlessly to the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, but never, for no comprehensible reason, link to 'em, here's the link so you can read the "treason" that values Chinese culture,
yourself http://english.epochtimes.com/jiuping.asp
*I* think the guy must be an Agent, for the super-secret "Get Humanity-ITSLEF a Darwin Award" conspiracy/organization:
you-know, the one that has agents in many publically-elected, and other oft-visible, points-of-leverage?. ..
Question: When a herd stampedes off a cliff, does its immense Assumed Authority(tm) make it *important* in its broken-heap, at the bottom?
Alternate Question: Do enough of us care to move steadily at-an-angle to what authoritative-idiocy wants, to ensure that we survive?
Strange, that, since "vigilance" and "fear/stasis" seem to culturally coincide. ..
Why is Competence+Autonomy inferior to Vigilance?
I've noticed that authority prefers a passive lower-tier / populace, and that pervasive individual-competence would be drastically-more effective than mere vigilance ( and culturally costly: it'd cost established habits/assumptions, and it'd cost authority-on-others [some-of] it's magnitude ), but perhaps this assumption/perception o'this-one is wrong. ..
Yes I know that it seems we're both arguing the same-side, but there is fundamental difference between watching+reacting, and every-single-one owning-one's-own-ground. ..
The Government of the British Empire didn't engage in spoofing, or in re-direction through zombied-systems, etc...
Vigilantism, as attractive as it is to me, fails when one doesn't certainly have the origin's identity. ..
In fact, it seems to me, that Justice requires correct identification of perpetrator *&* crime, as-well-as correct corrective-law ( which is usually the thing felt-to-be-lacking that induces vigilantism, right? ). ..
IF that's the case, then wouldn't the problem be the non-correct law, rather-than failure-of-application-of-law?
Why not pressure/torque the law-maker(s)?
Why not remove all protection ( sysadmin implementing SpamAssassin, etc. ) from them, and let them get the raw stuff they ignore, while catering to their lover^h^h^h^h^h^h lobbyists?
Make raw-experience a requirement of the position of legislator.
No-one can legislate women's rights if they haven't experienced the condition of being a woman,
no-one can legislate spam-management unless they've experienced spam, . ..
It makes for a wonderfully threatening batch of implications, doesn't it?
Here's one I'd been working-on, for a couple of days ( for Ask Slushdot ), but the story beat-me-to-it by a day, it seems, so:
Since solar-heating is sooo-much more cost-effective than solar-electricity, particularly when manufacturing silicon photovoltaics is considered, AND
since most of the cost of manufacturing [m]ethanol-fuel is the cost of evaporating-out the alcohol, has anyone implemented a solar-heating-assisted [m]ethanol production
( perhaps using wet-cloth-wrapped tubes for the condenser-section: evaporation on the outside of the tubes, condensation on the inside of the tubes, maybe a fan aimed over the wet-cloth-outside-tubes to assist that -- I think "swamp-coolers" are evaporation-based cooling-systems. . . )?
Anything that makes more-accessible clean fuel must be good to get, eh?
Every kind of thing one removes, replace with something clean.
( http://www.tucows.com/windows.html for some alternative things, ferinstance )
If one is removing a weather-app that is actually bogoware, then replace it with something trustworthy.
Removing a search-bar?
Replace it with something trustworthy ( like Firefox's default googlebar thingy )
THEN they are less likely to re-install whatever damn uber-bogon(s) they'd had when they suckered one into fixing, again, their system.
. ..
and for some others, perhaps you hadn't noticed that MS-IE always installs something for Alexa? Every install, every update. I don't know what it ( in the registry, IIRC ) does, but I don't care for Alexa, and don't trust anyone as underhanded as MS has proven to be ( backdoors, breaking of Netscape, stealing Stacker ( corrupting it in the process ) and suing Stac Technologies for having made Stacker in the first-place, endlessly-etc. . ), over the years. ..
Another solution is to sign with 2 signature-types simultaneously, and require that they both check-out. ..
IF the MD5 signature is bogus, because it was a constructed/rigged document, will the alter-document ALSO be an SHA1 collision? AND a GPG collision?
( and what was that rule about unrolling-the-loop? Going from 1 to 2 is the hugest increase in effectiveness?
Seems to be an underlying principle that loop-unrolling is only an/instance/ of, since using 2 different hashes significantly increases security, so long as the really-are different, now just differently-named variants of the same algorithm. . . )
Mass? ( a kilogram into orbit costs, a kilogram to Mars costs more than my entire live is worth, in economic-terms )
Perforation & Abrasion?
( those planet-wide dust-storms exist, eh? )
Being coated with grimy submicroscopic seal-eating dust?
( would someone please come-up-with an electro-static, or fluorinated-polimer, coating that makes that dust NOT stick? )
Multi-generation problems: maybe the first-gen plants are OK, but gradually generate more-sterile seeds, then they're fsck'd. ..
( anyone betting their lives on a within-one-generation test deserves to lose the bet, badly: multi-generation tests keep coming-up-with surprising results, like that one showing a single atom of plutonium could measurably increase cancer-rates in the distant-descendents of mice ( reported in NS ), or the multi-generation enhancement of the harm done-by Agent Orange ( not the music-group: no-one's tested that ). ..
Unfortunately, multi-generation, full-spectrum testing means consideration & patience, and it also means making the experiment-design & experiment-engineering open, so-that ANY flaw can be discovered, before everything has been committed on an "authorized", and rong, design/implementation. . . )
Interactions-between plants when in such conditions?
Increased sensitivity to the radio-energy they're bathed-in, when in low-pressure, low-gravity, low-light metabolism?
Increased sensitivity to chemical/metals distortion in the same conditions?
That NASA page says chemicals ( hormones, etc. ) diffuse through plants much quicker in low-pressure, so what does that sabotage? Will it be impossible to get ripe fruit there?
Temperature? Not many foods I eat naturally grow at -60C, maybe that's just odd-diet, here, but. ..
Green-house-floor? You can't make it 1-mil polyester & then go walking-on it, can you? ( not with that desolate & sharp rocky/dust stuff beneath. . . )
Contamination? Some of us are violently offended when some meat-brain decides that science need be obliterated in order to put up a ( graffiti ) Name(plate/scrawl) in some location that had been pristine. ..
I remember reading about some spelunkers who destroyed the pristine-ness of multi-kilometre-deep cave-system ( breaking walls in it ) in order to make-indelible that
THEY HAVE BEEN THERE, so now the subtle-ecology that was there is murdered, and the entire-world can't get that back, but the fsck-wits got Their Names in The Book...
(long-term black-rage)
I expect politics/BS/national-macheezemo to trump science, every-single-day, in any world defined by mass-media, but science is possible, you know? And some, perhaps only few, have the guts to value discovering what truly-is, no-matter what our various establishments ( including "science" establishment ) say. ..
It means being systematic, open-design of directed-shotgun approach, robot-probes, discovering-what-is, etc, but making our ignorance stand prouder and bigger than Universe's offerings gets nothing of any real worth. ..
Any bubble-ecology we put there is going to contaminate the local conditions, and that removes some-of-the potential that was there, but maybe knowing only-our-own-sh*t is so unconsciously-only-answer to our race, that alternative is utterly unthinkable?
In short, though, I don't believe that unit-tests can be summed-on-paper and considered-to-be equivalent to a whole-system-test: any pattern has structure, implications, & interactions/resonation, and ignoring the dimensional-depth of reality doesn't prove anything, long-term ( except stupid self-extintion being a right. . . )
I e-mailed 'em, asking about this, and was told that. ..
The chip in the thing isn't the standard chip, and making an OSS driver would compromise their IP, so it Would Not Happen, Period.
I pointed-out that they could make binary-drivers, then. ..
No response. ..
So, I'm instead committing-on Edirol's FA-101,
and hoping that FreeBob ( early-alpha ) is going to sufficiently-work on it ( or I'm going to be stuck dual-booting ), but am reasonably certain OSS, aka open evolution wins when competing against closed-evolution, when seen long-term. ..
I don't know if RME-Audio's made a "win-driver", like the software-modems, or if they've used a fpga, or what, or if the Reason is really a "reason" hiding political-commitment, but I cannot commit that much resources to something that is guaranteed to force me to live-in an OS I find obnoxious, so I finance their competitors, it seems. . . ( who don't support linux, but who don't stomp compatibility, at-least. ..
I simply don't know if it isn't possible for RME-Audio to open the spec without running into IP liability/damage, but have no-doubt that permitting the market to shift ( as Ardour is doing ) so-that it isn't controlled by the upstream companies is felt to be a threat by many companies' establishment, and I know that committing the work necessary for making binary-only-drivers costs: so I neither blame nor bless 'em for their predicament. ..
Particularly since anyone wanting to do pro-recording without paying the SW-tax ( to the tune of $1000 for OS + Ardour-equiv + AV/Firewall/Etc ) is going to have a significant advantage, and anyone who read the Tipping Point ( customer-tracking stripped URI ) is going to understand the implications of that pressure on the market. ..
Some conditions are mutually-exclusive, and so if one exists somewhere, the other doesn't.
Noise/silence. If one exists, the other is censored, that moment.
Sickness/Wellbeing. Ditto.
Our immune-systems are censorship-systems.
It isn't a question of censorship/no-censorship, it is a question of
censorship for authority, or censorship against obliteration-of-harmony/worth/free-being-living. In the first, then monoculture must be enforced, in the second, space-is-made for diversity to be living-in.
Fascism, commie-imperialism, and every other damn/conforming-enforcing+needing/ -ism silences living-diversity, because it is "grounded" at the wrong level.
Fundamental acceptance of/otherness-that-enhances-livingDiversity/ isn't something one grows in developing-as-a-human on the boob-tube, or in *politics*, so I'm not holding my breath fer it among humanity's commitment/action. ..
Only one point, though ( the other one disappeared, it seems)
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More seriously, that's an accommodation of humanity: it's more convenient to erode worth than to grow it, and if one wants to get one's own gain, then one has to be more aggressive a predator-of-worth than Others are, so. ..
The only problem with that equasion is that there are different/kinds/ of worth, and some are worth more to any individual than are others.
I find autonomy, quiet, harmony, freedom-of-intelligence, spiritual freedom, etc. to be worth more than { belonging, social-sentience, status, position, image, money, "self-esteem" which is One's Social-Circle's Opinion Of One, a car, a partner, "education", etc }.
Therefore I can't be manipulated to sacrifice the kind-of-worth I hold-to, in order to have the kind-of-worth I/don't/ so deeply value.
BUT, since the entire "education" of a someone in the society/machine we/made/ on us, is oriented to making our lives' expenditure/work into grazing-fodder for "corporations" ( keeping in mind that governments, churches, etc are other-appearing instances of what I really mean here, not just business-entities ), then what result is inevitable?
WWIII will change that, because it'll be a pogrom/tantrum so deep/profound that humanity is going-to learn the difference between kinds-of-values.
ANY sufficiently profound obliteration-experience/can/ induce such learning ( think of ones who have endured near obliteration, over the course of years, say reasonably-advanced Huntingtons, or something, and ask what their values are, compared with "money". ..
WHEN humanity experiences something that heavy, humanity will change the same way, but not before: ideas and understanding are different in substance/nature, see. . . )
A year or two ago, I read, here somewheres, that ALL drivers had to be 64-bit, if one switched. ..
IF that is true, and one has to get drivers for a bunch of strange stuff for one's AMD64 notebook ( dig the screen-space & capability on this barebones Asus 'book ), and such aren't going to be all available, then it makes sense to go with SUSE AMD64 & Win-32, doesn't it?
I don't want to buy 2 copies of WinXP just because the first one won't really work. ..
Specifically, I'm thinking of 3rd-party drivers. ..
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What I'm curious about, then, is what happens when differnet kinds of people, rate on differnet kinds of things:
I don't generally even hear lyrics, caring almost-entirely about sound, syncopation / counterpoint / force / complexity-harmonics, .
( good Bach rendition, good taiko / industrial / industrial-dance, Consolidated's Crackhouse, and whatever that tune by 'Snap' was that CFNY played, back in the day, that also had the lyrical-syncopation/complexity I love. . . one single tune by Eminem had equivalent lyrical-syncopation, but it's so rare, from what I've heard, that usually ignoring the lyrics is better, fer me )
swirls of sound dancing amongst one-another, structure-dance, tinge of humour, etc. .
Is your system ALSO identifying the several different KINDS-of-valuing,
so-that ones who consistently identify what we like by sound,
get music that is similar by sound,
and whomever identifies what-is-similar by voiceplay ( song-equivalent to Chaucer, I'm thinking ), or melody, or something-else,
gets recommendations based-on-that?
There are dimensions of similarity-judging, I'm getting-at, and discovering the normalS, note that plural, and letting them do their thing, .
is entirely different from what using statistics on several different kinds of judging
and averaging 'em,
if you see what I mean. .
"Corps Business; the 30 Management Principles of the US Marines" ( David H Freedman ) is one of the most thrillingly delightful works on the difference between braindead business and living-business.
Skunkworks's discovery of the ( in hindsight ) obvious principle that segregation of Responsibility from Authority ( the standard way of having Shareholders / Management / Workers all doing different, anti-congruent commitments/determinations ) cannot work, seems to show that coop-business is really the only way to go. . . ( all "employees/workers/managers/leaders" are (?equal)shareholders, NO ONE else is. Therefore all decisions are made by owners and the survival of the business is inherently balanced-with the profit-motive.
I don't know why people are so averse to creating such work-structures/systems, but whomever does would seem to have a significant long-term-advantage against the short-sighted/blind paradigm of cancerous monetary-gratification-at-any-cost paradigm )
The discovery that business can weaken/erode cultural-segregation/prejudice is also useful, since it shows that business has a humanity-survival useful function that isn't obvious from the trenches. . .
( reported in new scientist, sometime in the last few years )
Also, where in hell it became necessary to make vertical-hierarchies, I don't know. . . the horizontal/flat ones seem to be more effective. . .
. . .
( PS: the absolutely-selfish-motivation that cancer expresses is expressible at other levels, not just cellular, and . ., .
yes there is a difference between community, like say the countless different kinds-of-cells of living-human-body,
as contrasted-with a commune, which couldn't be represented by anything more diverse than a fungus. .
community seems to require both diversity, complementarity and gestalt, which isn't what the belonging-drug lefties do. .
nor is it what the Defined Roles Family is OK, but 'community' NOT-ok conservatives do.
-shrug- why the political-motivation, though, since it doesn't make interesting-experiencing?, and that seems to be the only-thing one CAN take with-one. .
whatever. . . )
The atmosphere at the time wasn't so useless-for-flying-in as present-day's is: it was oxygen-richer and significantly denser.
Nowadays the biggest bird that can get airborne is a gooneybird/albatross ( or maybe an eagle, as I've never seen a pair of albatross/eagle together. . . ), yet
in water we've got some pretty big "flying" things with very little wing on 'em.
I don't know if the asteroid/comet strike changed the air-composition or stripped some atmosphere off from our world, or both, but it's the explanation that makes sense-est.
( BTW, I think it was NewScientist that covered both those aspects, oxygen & density, separately IIRC, but it's been years, so I'm not certain, and with their "Must Be Subscribed To DeadTrees Edition To Have Archives" rule. . . bah. )
Actually, since the dimensions & approximate-mass of these pterosaurs is known, the atmospheric-density could be calculated by anyone whith the knowledge to do so, straightforwardly, eh?
Unfortunately, though, the argument that neural-net systems ( analog-computers, our brains ) only switch from one determination/mode to another when it has been pushed enough to do-so, is correct, so helping everyone to self-entrain into feeling that What We Are Already Doing Is Good(-enough) .
.. the equivalent to going-along-with everyone's stampeding as a means of Making Our World Better ( stopping meaning being different-rules than group's-current-rules, and results in our bruising ), and finding oneself ( and everyone one is with ) falling from that cliff. . .
may be tactically "right" ( aka Nice ),
but it is strategically suicide ( we are climbing the ladder well/fast, but it's against a deathtrap, not a building! it is the wrong ladder. .
People Only Learn When Forced. . .
is both unfortunate and real .
( this-one's life is proof-enough for this-one, yet many-others also have experience of the same-kind ), and
It Is Better To Learn, Than To Be Successfully-Naive And Extinct,
and crossing the tipping-point may hurt, but the world resultant of not crossing it would hurt more. .
I gather Americans are the result of the forced-hurt of breaking British Imperial Authority on 'em by battle, so the gains of that freedom are the result of having been abused-enough to have crossed that tipping-point. . .
Maybe open-source trustable systems need that tipping-point among world-population and the organizations world-population makes. . . ( as opposed-to early-adopters, who are loony, anyways, but we're ok with that. . . )
1. money isn't the only kind of "coin" around, and extortion is extortion ( obliterating others' autonomy / own-validity is the basis of Authority,
but not the basis of Self-Command, . . to see the difference . . )
2. creatures of our world are contextual-creatures ( we are plastic ), and once a someone's world is made more Authority/Obliteration centric, they work from that basis, with whatever tendency/commitment they have in them. . .
3. giving-in to their abuse-of-worth means never being able to take that change back: it's one-way.
4. if they get control of a number of open-source projects, then they control ( and can outright stop the integrity/security development of ) open-source development, and that may be the actual design, if they need to kill alternatives/competition for a Big Client of theirs, .
or their-own work,
or closed-source/cathedral software the-entire-category
( and they may require to do-so, even-be legally-obligated to do-so, in-order to serve the Great God fiscal bottom-line ). .
Therefore, I'd bite the bullet, and post their e-mail ( if that's legal where you are ) to show other open-source projects the threat itself and the origin, and point-out that everyone could be held in vulnerability/security-flaw by law by this entity once enough open-source projects give-in to it, and that could have "global" consequences. . .
In short, even the possiblity that open-source projects may comply with their control is a security-vulnerability, and one must now ask how many projects cannot legally identify/fix security-flaws because they have-already been 0wned. . .
( p.s. no I don't consider Conspiracy to be significant a shaper of deep-history in the world:
enforcement of ignorance/abuse on everyone,
for sake of greed-for-authority for oneself/group
is entirely sufficient to explain humanity's history, though the implications of that assumption are . . not-complimentary.
Just-as obliteration-of-others' own-validity == Authority is a kind of "coin", . .
there are alternative kinds of "coin":
like the wonderful feeling of being among a world of entities who have autonomy & really, livingly are their-own-capability & creativity & self-essence, all contributing to the fun/delight of being, Just Because,
though that'd be the kind of paradise that'd offend the authority-is- -what-makes-God- -be-God types, defective though their argument be. .
mutually-exclusive worlds. .
: )
Uncivil Obedience: The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator by some guy named Borovoy. .
The book was "done" on CBC Radio, years-ago, and the "Aha!" the guy had that making Authority's abuse obvious essentially . . torqued it against itself. .
Though that is ONLY true if the society one lives-in cares enough about appearances & still has a free-ish mass-media ( once the majority are in Enforce-mode, adding more enforcing-abuse won't work: see the Soviet Socialist Imperial Establishment System for example of that . . . )
Firstly, it was called the 'Iron Curtain' because that's what Churchill ( iirc ) perceived/named it to be, back at the end of WWII. . .
As for escalation, China's Communist Party knows that North-Americans are expendable, are whiney, have no guts ( poke hard and we cave-in, see Iraq war for evidence of that, and also Vietnam -- has-to-do-with politics rather-than military-commitment or survival-commitment being our basis ), haven't got the guts to wage WAR .
( autonomizing the locals means waging war,
helping locals remain dependent so We are Big & Important
is waging-battle, not waging-war.
In Vietnam, I think it was the Aussies, or the South Koreans, can't remember which, who waged war while the rest of us waged battle. . and lost the war )
. .
In short, the Chinese Communist Party knows that if it comes to battle between China and North America, North America loses much-more ( fails more, breaks more, gives/caves-in to hurt/mindlessness/nonproduction more ) than China can, and that's that, and the Chinese Communist Party protects its survival by that path.
War Is Not Far from Us and Is the Midwife of the Chinese Century: Leading CCP official argues for exterminating U.S. population
CCP Official Claims Sino-Japanese War Possible by Year's End
. . and everyone knows about CCP making it clear that .
just as gov't-enforcement destroyed Tibet in 'repatriating' it, they've threatened Taiwan with nuclear incineration if Taiwan doesn't obey repatriation, too ( Chinese corpses better to the Party than independent Chinese are ), so if CCP's threatening US of A, Japan, AND Taiwan with War Real Soon Now,
then they're agitating to get butchering and the moment/excuse hasn't catered to 'em enough, and that's the ONLY delay. .
It looks like they fear for their Party's position/survival, and are willing to conflagrate China & Rest Of World to get that position's importance protected, to me. . .
Political-motivation ignites wars and "police-actions" to protect its incumbent special-interest-groups' habit, and neither Lives nor Reality matter or can-stop that from continuing to be the case, as our history shows
WWIII is a "when" question, not an "if" question, and it'll be manufactured by human-ignorance in order to enforce^h^h^h^h^h^h^hprotect Order/Authority/Obedience/Conformity, however it's actuated, since nothing changes. . . .
and appeasement didn't prevent WWII, in case anyone needs reminding. .
There are several things going-on here. . .
1. Intellect-Quotient doesn't measure intelligence, only intellect as defined by male cognizers.
1a. that means that it is ( and has long been ) a means of negating/denying women's kind of intelligence, and therefore is a means of abuse-of-(category's)-worth
( in this case, category being "women" )
1b. Therefore, since we have enough intelligence to feel/perceive that hitting bruise is different from hitting robust non-bruise, we perceive that adding yet another abuse on beaten-on woman-worth isn't "good" ( read Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind to discover how women are put-down in/by the assumptions in, and enforced-by, male-engineered education & definition-of-knowledge .. no it isn't primarily about how women are put-down, but reading it is eye-opening for anyone who wants to know Woman, who didn't grow-up-in woman-mind/culture/experience. The male-ignorance-enforcement-establishment's backlash against that book was such that they did an answer to the backlash & followup book, Knowledge, Difference and Power: Essays Inspired by Women's Ways of Knowing )
2. There are a number of quite different kinds of intelligence, Intellect-Quotient being only one. Daniel Goleman, in one of his papers, said that at-least 7 major ones had been identified, including relational-intelligence, which no male-engineered-quotient is even going to acknowledge ( unless forced! ), let-alone value.
Seven Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong lists these: "word smart" "music smart" "logic smart" "people smart" "naturalist" "existential" on the reviews. . .
in The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Leonard Shlain notices that any population that saturates its substance-of-knowing on atomic-sequential-alphabetic-literacy, then does misogynistic-pogrom mode ( listing holocausts from time-nearly-immemorial ), and pointing-out the rather-precise mesh between saturating a population with when it butchers everything ( especially woman-nature ) that it can.
HAVING EXPERIENCED R-MIND, which I couldn't even-have-believed-to-exist for the first 30 years of my life, I understand that the spasdic "left-brain-dominant" mode that our "education" manufactures, in order to protect its mode, or to protect itself/habit, is incapable of knowing entire dimensions of Reality.
Also a consequence of having experience R-Mind as well-as L-Mind, I know that "woman" is more R-Mind than guy-mind is, and that that is probably why L-Mind butchers woman-worth so aggressively: to protect itself from the existence-of differentness's being.
Merely-read The New Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards PhD to know-about it ( bogo-intelligence ) or . .
honestly-work-through it to KNOW what it's talking-about ( knowing ). .
which is precisely the kind of thing that started me on this: years ago a friend told me that it was insane to even permit someone who could not ever experience being a woman to be a gynecologist, and that struck me. .
then a few years later I mentioned this to another woman, and she told me a woman could not be a gynecologist, because a woman couldn't be a doctor ( she wasn't young, and our cultural-programming had been effective, hadn't it? ).
What's insipid about the whole thing, is that it's been known for years that women are MUCH better at steady/fi
We are born with an immune-system. Computers are born with the equivalent to AIDS: Immune Deficiency Syndrome, but in their case it is ABSOLUTE Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
And there are a couple of gotchas in the parent's cosmology, it seems:
One doesn't know if one's system is infected just because one hasn't connected to the 'net "raw". . . ( if you want to "know" something, test it correctly )
Firewalls are circumventable ( i.e. have bugs, and such are exploited ).
Software is sometimes accidentally distributed already-infected ( Microsoft did it with one of their CDs, manufactured in an infected factory, IIRC ).
Using recordable media means ( if one exchanges information between systems, or between infected previous-install and current not-yet-infected install, for instance ) risk. . .
Etc.
And. . . Trusted Computing can also pertain to INDEPENDENT, INTEGRITY-DRIVEN comparative-reviews, eh?
Virus Bulletin used-to-have visible to anyone archives ( I think they changed that, some time ago ), and back-a-year-or-two ago it was Eset & Vet ( http://www.nod32.com/ and http://www.vet.com.au/ ) who were the ones to beat. Vet won if simplicity was a factor, as Eset apparently has one gazillion config microsettings
( and also, it wasn't possible to buy Eset online if one was running Linux, last time I tried: one HAD to be using MS-Windoze + MS Browser to buy it, but they apparently contracted-out their net-purchase-system, so it wasn't Eset that did that, it was whomever their contractor-company that enforced non-secure system to purchase Eset )
Anyways. . Oh! they've boshed privacy entirely! now one MUST register/login to view the awards at all, eh?
Ah well, they USED to offer good independent information to us, anyways. . .. xml
Here's the only page it seems they allow anonymous reading of:
http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/this_month/index
if you've a throwaway e-mail address, maybe you can see if they're worth anything nowadays, on their "100% Award", which is an award given to all AV progs that defeat 100% of all the in the wild viruses they sic on 'em. . .
Interestingly, so does ChiCom:
( BTW, The Epoch Times seems to have better integrity than indymedia, hence my bothering to trust Epoch somewhat )
China Military Could Threaten U.S. Cities, Says -watered-down- US Defense Dept. Report
or the perhaps-more-amusing. . .
War Is Not Far from Us and Is the Midwife of the Chinese Century: Leading CCP official argues for exterminating U.S. population
or the perhaps-even-more-amusing-as-an-ignitor-of-world-c onsuming-slaughter. . .
CCP Official Claims Sino-Japanese War Possible by Year's End
ChiCom's torture-murder of . . diversity/dissidence/nonconformity. . .
Ninety-Eight Falun Gong Practitioners Confirmed Tortured to Death in July
ChiCom Police's torture-murder of one woman:l .l l
( forgive the stomach-turning photo of what's left of her face )
http://www.theepochtimes.ca/news/5-6-28/29913.htm
Background on it. .
http://www.theepochtimes.ca/news/5-6-25/29782.htm
( ditto on the "after" photo, on this page )
http://www.theepochtimes.ca/news/5-8-22/31481.htm
and also, one of the bases of CCP's economic miracle: subsidized labour-concentration-camps.
For protecting the established structure, it's brilliant, but when Nature says Adapt, and establishment-structure says Universe Must Obey!, . . . extinction happens, eh?
Actually, what with humanity's record, maybe I should hope for that? Would a universer sterile of humanity be more humane or is there some heart in some human-beings?
Oh, here's another beaut: CCP's return to totalitarianism, in order to prevent political-opening from threatening its position/power, as such enemy, openness, infects neighboursl
http://www.theepochtimes.ca/news/5-7-14/30286.htm
And Finally, since Epoch refers endlessly to the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, but never, for no comprehensible reason, link to 'em, here's the link so you can read the "treason" that values Chinese culture,
yourself http://english.epochtimes.com/jiuping.asp
Just For Balance, the wikipedia entry on Epoch.
*I* think the guy must be an Agent, for the super-secret "Get Humanity-ITSLEF a Darwin Award" conspiracy/organization: .
you-know, the one that has agents in many publically-elected, and other oft-visible, points-of-leverage?. .
Question: When a herd stampedes off a cliff, does its immense Assumed Authority(tm) make it *important* in its broken-heap, at the bottom?
Alternate Question: Do enough of us care to move steadily at-an-angle to what authoritative-idiocy wants, to ensure that we survive?
"Vigilance is the best defense"
Strange, that, since "vigilance" and "fear/stasis" seem to culturally coincide. . .
Why is Competence+Autonomy inferior to Vigilance?
I've noticed that authority prefers a passive lower-tier / populace, and that pervasive individual-competence would be drastically-more effective than mere vigilance ( and culturally costly: it'd cost established habits/assumptions, and it'd cost authority-on-others [some-of] it's magnitude ), but perhaps this assumption/perception o'this-one is wrong. . .
Yes I know that it seems we're both arguing the same-side, but there is fundamental difference between watching+reacting, and every-single-one owning-one's-own-ground. . .
Or how-about SciTech SNAP Graphics [drivers] for Linux
Volesoft tole me about 'em, see. . .
The Government of the British Empire didn't engage in spoofing, or in re-direction through zombied-systems, etc...
Vigilantism, as attractive as it is to me, fails when one doesn't certainly have the origin's identity. . .
In fact, it seems to me, that Justice requires correct identification of perpetrator *&* crime, as-well-as correct corrective-law ( which is usually the thing felt-to-be-lacking that induces vigilantism, right? ). . .
IF that's the case, then wouldn't the problem be the non-correct law, rather-than failure-of-application-of-law?
Why not pressure/torque the law-maker(s)?
Why not remove all protection ( sysadmin implementing SpamAssassin, etc. ) from them, and let them get the raw stuff they ignore, while catering to their lover^h^h^h^h^h^h lobbyists? .
Make raw-experience a requirement of the position of legislator.
No-one can legislate women's rights if they haven't experienced the condition of being a woman,
no-one can legislate spam-management unless they've experienced spam, . .
It makes for a wonderfully threatening batch of implications, doesn't it?
Here's one I'd been working-on, for a couple of days ( for Ask Slushdot ), but the story beat-me-to-it by a day, it seems, so:
Since solar-heating is sooo-much more cost-effective than solar-electricity, particularly when manufacturing silicon photovoltaics is considered, AND
since most of the cost of manufacturing [m]ethanol-fuel is the cost of evaporating-out the alcohol, has anyone implemented a solar-heating-assisted [m]ethanol production
( perhaps using wet-cloth-wrapped tubes for the condenser-section: evaporation on the outside of the tubes, condensation on the inside of the tubes, maybe a fan aimed over the wet-cloth-outside-tubes to assist that -- I think "swamp-coolers" are evaporation-based cooling-systems. . . )?
Anything that makes more-accessible clean fuel must be good to get, eh?
I suspect that Ballmer has just set a new record for Astronomical-Magnitude of Troll. . .
Simple trick for this:
Every kind of thing one removes, replace with something clean.
( http://www.tucows.com/windows.html for some alternative things, ferinstance )
If one is removing a weather-app that is actually bogoware, then replace it with something trustworthy.
Removing a search-bar?
Replace it with something trustworthy ( like Firefox's default googlebar thingy )
THEN they are less likely to re-install whatever damn uber-bogon(s) they'd had when they suckered one into fixing, again, their system.
. . .
and for some others, perhaps you hadn't noticed that MS-IE always installs something for Alexa? Every install, every update. I don't know what it ( in the registry, IIRC ) does, but I don't care for Alexa, and don't trust anyone as underhanded as MS has proven to be ( backdoors, breaking of Netscape, stealing Stacker ( corrupting it in the process ) and suing Stac Technologies for having made Stacker in the first-place, endlessly-etc. . ), over the years. . .
Another solution is to sign with 2 signature-types simultaneously, and require that they both check-out. . .
/instance/ of, since using 2 different hashes significantly increases security, so long as the really-are different, now just differently-named variants of the same algorithm. . . )
IF the MD5 signature is bogus, because it was a constructed/rigged document, will the alter-document ALSO be an SHA1 collision? AND a GPG collision?
( and what was that rule about unrolling-the-loop? Going from 1 to 2 is the hugest increase in effectiveness?
Seems to be an underlying principle that loop-unrolling is only an
What about, as another pointed-out, radiation?
Mass? ( a kilogram into orbit costs, a kilogram to Mars costs more than my entire live is worth, in economic-terms )
Perforation & Abrasion?
( those planet-wide dust-storms exist, eh? )
Being coated with grimy submicroscopic seal-eating dust?
( would someone please come-up-with an electro-static, or fluorinated-polimer, coating that makes that dust NOT stick? )
Multi-generation problems: maybe the first-gen plants are OK, but gradually generate more-sterile seeds, then they're fsck'd. . .
( anyone betting their lives on a within-one-generation test deserves to lose the bet, badly: multi-generation tests keep coming-up-with surprising results, like that one showing a single atom of plutonium could measurably increase cancer-rates in the distant-descendents of mice ( reported in NS ), or the multi-generation enhancement of the harm done-by Agent Orange ( not the music-group: no-one's tested that ). . .
Unfortunately, multi-generation, full-spectrum testing means consideration & patience, and it also means making the experiment-design & experiment-engineering open, so-that ANY flaw can be discovered, before everything has been committed on an "authorized", and rong, design/implementation. . . )
Interactions-between plants when in such conditions?
Increased sensitivity to the radio-energy they're bathed-in, when in low-pressure, low-gravity, low-light metabolism?
Increased sensitivity to chemical/metals distortion in the same conditions?
That NASA page says chemicals ( hormones, etc. ) diffuse through plants much quicker in low-pressure, so what does that sabotage? Will it be impossible to get ripe fruit there?
Temperature? Not many foods I eat naturally grow at -60C, maybe that's just odd-diet, here, but. . .
Green-house-floor? You can't make it 1-mil polyester & then go walking-on it, can you? ( not with that desolate & sharp rocky/dust stuff beneath. . . )
Contamination? Some of us are violently offended when some meat-brain decides that science need be obliterated in order to put up a ( graffiti ) Name(plate/scrawl) in some location that had been pristine. . .
I remember reading about some spelunkers who destroyed the pristine-ness of multi-kilometre-deep cave-system ( breaking walls in it ) in order to make-indelible that
THEY HAVE BEEN THERE, so now the subtle-ecology that was there is murdered, and the entire-world can't get that back, but the fsck-wits got Their Names in The Book...
(long-term black-rage)
I expect politics/BS/national-macheezemo to trump science, every-single-day, in any world defined by mass-media, but science is possible, you know? And some, perhaps only few, have the guts to value discovering what truly-is, no-matter what our various establishments ( including "science" establishment ) say. . .
It means being systematic, open-design of directed-shotgun approach, robot-probes, discovering-what-is, etc, but making our ignorance stand prouder and bigger than Universe's offerings gets nothing of any real worth. . .
Any bubble-ecology we put there is going to contaminate the local conditions, and that removes some-of-the potential that was there, but maybe knowing only-our-own-sh*t is so unconsciously-only-answer to our race, that alternative is utterly unthinkable?
In short, though, I don't believe that unit-tests can be summed-on-paper and considered-to-be equivalent to a whole-system-test: any pattern has structure, implications, & interactions/resonation, and ignoring the dimensional-depth of reality doesn't prove anything, long-term ( except stupid self-extintion being a right. . . )
Even the CHOICE isn't simple, anymore!
Keeerraighps!
DistroWatch's x86_64 tagged *active* distros
31 entries!!?!?
x86-64 Knoppix, though, hehehe. . .
'Ere's one, then:
I'm shopping 'round for a high-quality audio interface, for recording into Ardour.
The RME-Audio Fireface looked ( understatement-warning ) Ideal.
No Linux support.
I e-mailed 'em, asking about this, and was told that. . .
The chip in the thing isn't the standard chip, and making an OSS driver would compromise their IP, so it Would Not Happen, Period.
I pointed-out that they could make binary-drivers, then. . .
No response. . .
So, I'm instead committing-on Edirol's FA-101, .
and hoping that FreeBob ( early-alpha ) is going to sufficiently-work on it ( or I'm going to be stuck dual-booting ), but am reasonably certain OSS, aka open evolution wins when competing against closed-evolution, when seen long-term. .
I don't know if RME-Audio's made a "win-driver", like the software-modems, or if they've used a fpga, or what, or if the Reason is really a "reason" hiding political-commitment, but I cannot commit that much resources to something that is guaranteed to force me to live-in an OS I find obnoxious, so I finance their competitors, it seems. . . ( who don't support linux, but who don't stomp compatibility, at-least. . .
I simply don't know if it isn't possible for RME-Audio to open the spec without running into IP liability/damage, but have no-doubt that permitting the market to shift ( as Ardour is doing ) so-that it isn't controlled by the upstream companies is felt to be a threat by many companies' establishment, and I know that committing the work necessary for making binary-only-drivers costs: so I neither blame nor bless 'em for their predicament. . .
Particularly since anyone wanting to do pro-recording without paying the SW-tax ( to the tune of $1000 for OS + Ardour-equiv + AV/Firewall/Etc ) is going to have a significant advantage, and anyone who read the Tipping Point ( customer-tracking stripped URI ) is going to understand the implications of that pressure on the market. . .
http://www.saxonpublishers.com/
It's more fundamental than that, actually:
/conforming-enforcing+needing/ -ism silences living-diversity, because it is "grounded" at the wrong level.
/otherness-that-enhances-livingDiversity/ isn't something one grows in developing-as-a-human on the boob-tube, or in *politics*, so I'm not holding my breath fer it among humanity's commitment/action. . .
.
/even-I/ could, certainly, some do. . .
Some conditions are mutually-exclusive, and so if one exists somewhere, the other doesn't.
Noise/silence. If one exists, the other is censored, that moment.
Sickness/Wellbeing. Ditto.
Our immune-systems are censorship-systems.
It isn't a question of censorship/no-censorship, it is a question of
censorship for authority, or
censorship against obliteration-of-harmony/worth/free-being-living.
In the first, then monoculture must be enforced,
in the second, space-is-made for diversity to be living-in.
Fascism, commie-imperialism, and every other damn
Fundamental acceptance of
Some can learn. .
If
Only one point, though ( the other one disappeared, it seems)
.
/kinds/ of worth, and some are worth more to any individual than are others.
/don't/ so deeply value.
/made/ on us, is oriented to making our lives' expenditure/work into grazing-fodder for "corporations" ( keeping in mind that governments, churches, etc are other-appearing instances of what I really mean here, not just business-entities ), then what result is inevitable?
/can/ induce such learning ( think of ones who have endured near obliteration, over the course of years, say reasonably-advanced Huntingtons, or something, and ask what their values are, compared with "money". . .
--
More seriously, that's an accommodation of humanity: it's more convenient to erode worth than to grow it, and if one wants to get one's own gain, then one has to be more aggressive a predator-of-worth than Others are, so. .
The only problem with that equasion is that there are different
I find autonomy, quiet, harmony, freedom-of-intelligence, spiritual freedom, etc. to be worth more than
{ belonging, social-sentience, status, position, image, money, "self-esteem" which is One's Social-Circle's Opinion Of One, a car, a partner, "education", etc }.
Therefore I can't be manipulated to sacrifice the kind-of-worth I hold-to, in order to have the kind-of-worth I
BUT, since the entire "education" of a someone in the society/machine we
WWIII will change that, because it'll be a pogrom/tantrum so deep/profound that humanity is going-to learn the difference between kinds-of-values.
ANY sufficiently profound obliteration-experience
WHEN humanity experiences something that heavy, humanity will change the same way, but not before: ideas and understanding are different in substance/nature, see. . . )
Cheers,
-me
A year or two ago, I read, here somewheres, that ALL drivers had to be 64-bit, if one switched. . .
IF that is true, and one has to get drivers for a bunch of strange stuff for one's AMD64 notebook ( dig the screen-space & capability on this barebones Asus 'book ), and such aren't going to be all available, then it makes sense to go with SUSE AMD64 & Win-32, doesn't it?
I don't want to buy 2 copies of WinXP just because the first one won't really work. . .
Specifically, I'm thinking of 3rd-party drivers. . .