I find it hard to believe that one can actually think that present philosophies that have a clear origin can legitimately claim that they are actually older than they really are. If we go on that theory we can see that the philosophy of Natzism was actually advocated much earlier. If you read The Brothers Karamazov and look at the tale of the Grand Inquisitor you see a great many parallels in what the inquisitor says and what the Natzis belived.
I looked at almost everything that was on the linked site. Not only does there not appear a translated version of the text (Really haven't reveived my copy of Ancient Religious Chinese For Dummies(tm) yet). Why is this that interesting? The bible, the Koran, and other publications are usually published for the "good of the people" and "free".
A good question for anyone who lives in NYC. Couldn't one just wear a gun/AK47/large knife to ward off any potential criminals? The best way for people to stay from you is to level the playing field.
Maybe "people" who happen to be lawyers in the game as possible problems will cause them to explode on the surface of the planet? I never really played the game but that's what I guess.
I know people can be fired but is it also possible for the company to sue a decision maker if they make a stupid decision say perhaps put half the company's money into a portugese goat milk factory? Go with the wrong app for the project? It seems that if you do something wrong (to a degree) that perhaps they cannot do anything more. Or maybe just wishful thinking.
Similar to the question is who manages consultants or small businesses? In certain cases this can be thought of as a undeniable of autonomy. If I sell lemonade on a street corner there isn't a group of people who directly supervise me in what I do. The same can be applied to the case of these companies and of individuals who use independent methods of capital gain. One of the reasons people go into consulting isn't for the money (totally) it's for the autonomy. If I worked for any stressful organization like the NSA, IBM, MS, or Satan I would consider doing something to break the barrier that separated me and the work that I love or giving me the problems that I hate.
If I am a boss in the traditional sense I will have to have fear to gain respect. People all know that I do little but If they feel that I have little competence then I become a real clown. Therefore one must cause fear in the subjects. Now granted a society based on fear is usually a bad thing but corporate culture is not society as we know it. Slavery and bondage (child labor, 18 hour work days) were common in the 19th and early 20th centuries because the culture was light years behind what the culture was like or tolerant of at the time. Now we see a resurgence of the ability of people to become more fallable or more vulnerable in some respects with feelings, opioions and the ability to ask questions. The phrase "there's no such thing as a dumb question" will eventually full incorporate itself into the culture of the work place.
What if I get caught with absolute trash? If I publish something that could haunt me for 50+ years in my field of technical expertice? Do people like to live dangerously nowadays? What ever happened to job security? A little fear never hurt anyone in the pocketbook.
How can one be good as a "Market Analyst" when it usually takes a college degree. I must admit that it was easier to be a con man back in the good ol' days of yesteryear. All I had to do was put on a charming looking suit, top hat, and a cane and say I was a doctor/lawyer/business man/diplomat from England and they would believe me. Now we have become a credentiled(sp) society that has some wisdom. Usually we aren't taken in by smooth talkers but occasionally this can backfire on us bigtime. In industries such as the PC industry people have a higher level of startup information and consequently people are again taking other "at their word". I guess it could work however in the case of an other con it makes for a particularly nasty fall from the tower.
Hmm.. well that may not necessarily be the case. Just narrowly focusing their focus. White I have nodoubt that NT is not for me or for most of the operations that require 100% reliability (or for that matter Linux even with RtLinux; I I have a heart monitor I don't want it crashing with a kernel panic or a Blue Screen of Death(tm)) I think that people even in the internet age have a hard time thinking that there is a world beyond their back doors. Besides my machine at home and another machine that I used for a brief period of time (about 1-2 years total and not in any admin capacity) I have never seen a big group of linux machines. In fact I have never seen any workstation class (simple desktop or computer lab machine) running linux that someone would have console access to. Now from these facts I could descern that MS stuff is almost the only operating system in the world. That linux is only something in my imagination or that I am hallucinating from want or something. Does this mean that I take this on my word. Conversely if I say work for Linux care and have a linux machine at home I could argue that the only OS and platform is Linux and that Windows 95/98/NT/2000beta are all just a horrible nightmare derived from some complex that thinks that I do not wish to succeed. It is only when I look to other areas and interview people: managers, sysadmins, CEOs, programmers, and such that I will find that true story. Even going to the library can be a stunning experience. What if the library is in a traditional city in Iran? Most likely I will not find data decrying Islam or Ala or If we went to Vatican City you wouldn't see a group of satanists.
Just out of curiousity I have heard banter around slashdot that CNN is quite probably a very biased and misinformed group. I have seen some of their stuff (I really don't have cable) and it looks good are there any specific findings that I can use to either confirm or deny these things. Or are they just uninformed about technology related things?
I was interested about a possible mailing or web page that has information about intelligence data, national/international news, etc. I would thing that something like this would suppliment what I usually get from places like slashdot. I know of several speciality things but nothing that fits the criterion I have described. Just wondering.
Who is to say that all the rather occultish things don't have their place. The subconcious mind has the ability to process data in ways that allow for individuals to make decisions based on information that is gathered in ways we cannot detect or were conciously trying to avoid (an annoying co-worker, boss, whinny kid at the burger window). PS on a related note check out this for something that might work.
Usually this can be seen (not always) using the following method. Take the grain of truth from each of the opinions (for example: Linux is a stable operating system) and look at how many people with essentially nothing to loose say about it. Or even better perhaps some of the biased stuff. If someone can speak in a biased manner even this shows something about what the person thought. If people are saying the same thing on different pages using equally balanced sources it is usually right on the money that it is right.
However there is an equal chance that someone based their opinion in a biased fashion from an unreliable source (for example Windows NT blue screens every 5 seconds and causes baldness, the plague, blights your family with bad breath for 10 generations, etc taken from an AC off slashdot or a post on usenet) then that can be perpetuated in a systematic fashion inadvertently unless the person in question uses a proper bibliographic method (MLA, Trabian, etc).
Perhaps there is a way. If I have a company and mindcraft publishes a report which is obviously flawed and people use this report in such a way (from a rival company) that I loose revenue can it be claimed that Mindcraft is in theory capable of libel against said company?
Hashing things out in a public forum like this is a good source of information. I usually get a text copy of all (or most of) the stories that spill out from the maxium ammount of stories on slashdot. Then I take the material and use it in text format and make an outline from this to create an orderly system of thought that allows me to get and look at all the data at once. Kind of nice to see the whole chaos return to order at the end of the day.
I looked at the article and then thought for a while about what exactly would this imply for anyone who actually picked good sources in the first place. There are plenty of sources good and bad in this world and most people can usually tell the difference. I could just as likely quote Abraham Lincoln or Adolf Hitler for something about what public policy should be towards our fellow men. As far as technology goes we should look for the people who have the best results and use as many results as possible to get a balanced view. I usually go on the web and get as much information as possible to do a report and then cite all these things in my decision. It shows objectivity and evenhandedness
Hate to rain on your parade but Windows 2000 takes a hell of a great deal more resources than your computer could handel anyway. So what does that mean? It means that with the next "upgrade" of MS's OS you will be left out in the cold. Your choice of window manager could use a little refining. Try using Window Maker or icewm. I use both and they work quite well for the hardware (486/dx 66 16Mb Ram 20 VM 340HD runs, xemacs, gimp, gnome-terminal, gcc,g++, etc quite well). Well for financial applications as such as you describe perhaps your could use WINE to do everything you need to do. And if none of the above works perhaps you can upgrade your hardware somewhat. At least you aren't stuck in the same boat I am with a computer with absolutely non upgradeable components and little way to get it to change. I stress the use of linux because if you stay with windows and MS eventually if you can't upgrade you will be left out in the cold with nowhere to go and a great deal of problems.
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We are the borg. Resistance is futile. You will now receive all copies of your "OS" at once. Linux has already been assimiliated by species 3456. Your technological destinctiveness has in this case not been aded to our own. Prepare to reveive the drone you call Bill. This inferior drone has done enough damage to the collective.
Well I don't really have the equipment or the connection but judging from what kind of problems I have connecting to slashdot and other popular sites on T-3 connections I think that there is some cause for me to be skeptical. I remember one time when ftp.cdrom.com was inacessible for quite a while because of some problems with a major back bone network point.
I don't know about any of you but the speed of data lines for the average person are quite liimted and really not suitatble to real time voice transfers anyway. Taking these things into encryption fields will only degrade preformance further. What I think that would be a better thing is to have a voice scrambler to attach to a phone. If I could get one of those I would be quite happy.
Well now I am curious to know how you think that NT removes the command prompt from the users actions or how it's really visually different from 95 (Besides the little Name to the left of the start button. I am writing this message on an NT box). The same icon and the same commands are still in use with good ol' dos. Basically NT is 95 + (a whole lot of extra expensive network functions). Dos may be bad but damn was it efficient. I had days when I wondered why the same game or type of game screamed on my 386 and crawled or refused to run on linux on the same hardware. I think there is a level of diminishing returns with technology. You can only get so advanced before the old stuff dosn't work anymore. How about homes now. Why don't we have cheap homes that are based upon the victorian style of homes? How about castles? These styles were en vouge when they were around but now they just cost a great deal and are difficult (and consequently much, much more costly). If you want to give that ability to the masses then have it as an option in the boot mode or something that makes a really hand holding thing with gnome or something and then have on the "shutdown" option on the "start menu" have an option that "reboots" into guru mode. Of course all these terms are not correct and there really is no booting but people will think one thing is going on when indeed it really isn't and people will be able to use it flawlessly and people like me will be able to tolerate it enough to stomach it in the end and not have to go away to something else again.
Funny you should mention that I was browsing through a grocery store (fairly common one where I come from) and found something in their magazine area. Something called Linux magazine. It was quite good and appeared to be a nice mag for those in this world who want to get a head start in the world of linux with a user friendly guide.
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I have some doubt unless you say "book" as something produced with "paper" as qualifiers.
Well considering the number of people who actually read the bible I would suspect that it would be easy to deceive them.
EX.
1. And the Great giant Gates strode onto the battle field followed by the damned.
2. Linus called to his people. "Verrily I say unto you his iniquity has made him lax we shall perservere over our mortal enemy".
3. And Linus stretched forth his holy staff and brought down the wrath of the one true god onto the evil one.
4. The evil one was wrought with the power of the source and was rendered onto the powers of his own hell and tormentors of his own creation.
I find it hard to believe that one can actually think that present philosophies that have a clear origin can legitimately claim that they are actually older than they really are. If we go on that theory we can see that the philosophy of Natzism was actually advocated much earlier. If you read The Brothers Karamazov and look at the tale of the Grand Inquisitor you see a great many parallels in what the inquisitor says and what the Natzis belived.
I looked at almost everything that was on the linked site. Not only does there not appear a translated version of the text (Really haven't reveived my copy of Ancient Religious Chinese For Dummies(tm) yet). Why is this that interesting? The bible, the Koran, and other publications are usually published for the "good of the people" and "free".
A good question for anyone who lives in NYC. Couldn't one just wear a gun/AK47/large knife to ward off any potential criminals? The best way for people to stay from you is to level the playing field.
I get the feeling that this is a universal phenomeon and can be seen everywhere; am I correct about this?
Maybe "people" who happen to be lawyers in the game as possible problems will cause them to explode on the surface of the planet? I never really played the game but that's what I guess.
I know people can be fired but is it also possible for the company to sue a decision maker if they make a stupid decision say perhaps put half the company's money into a portugese goat milk factory? Go with the wrong app for the project? It seems that if you do something wrong (to a degree) that perhaps they cannot do anything more. Or maybe just wishful thinking.
Similar to the question is who manages consultants or small businesses? In certain cases this can be thought of as a undeniable of autonomy. If I sell lemonade on a street corner there isn't a group of people who directly supervise me in what I do. The same can be applied to the case of these companies and of individuals who use independent methods of capital gain. One of the reasons people go into consulting isn't for the money (totally) it's for the autonomy. If I worked for any stressful organization like the NSA, IBM, MS, or Satan I would consider doing something to break the barrier that separated me and the work that I love or giving me the problems that I hate.
If I am a boss in the traditional sense I will have to have fear to gain respect. People all know that I do little but If they feel that I have little competence then I become a real clown. Therefore one must cause fear in the subjects. Now granted a society based on fear is usually a bad thing but corporate culture is not society as we know it. Slavery and bondage (child labor, 18 hour work days) were common in the 19th and early 20th centuries because the culture was light years behind what the culture was like or tolerant of at the time. Now we see a resurgence of the ability of people to become more fallable or more vulnerable in some respects with feelings, opioions and the ability to ask questions. The phrase "there's no such thing as a dumb question" will eventually full incorporate itself into the culture of the work place.
What if I get caught with absolute trash? If I publish something that could haunt me for 50+ years in my field of technical expertice? Do people like to live dangerously nowadays? What ever happened to job security? A little fear never hurt anyone in the pocketbook.
How can one be good as a "Market Analyst" when it usually takes a college degree. I must admit that it was easier to be a con man back in the good ol' days of yesteryear. All I had to do was put on a charming looking suit, top hat, and a cane and say I was a doctor/lawyer/business man/diplomat from England and they would believe me. Now we have become a credentiled(sp) society that has some wisdom. Usually we aren't taken in by smooth talkers but occasionally this can backfire on us bigtime. In industries such as the PC industry people have a higher level of startup information and consequently people are again taking other "at their word". I guess it could work however in the case of an other con it makes for a particularly nasty fall from the tower.
Hmm.. well that may not necessarily be the case. Just narrowly focusing their focus. White I have nodoubt that NT is not for me or for most of the operations that require 100% reliability (or for that matter Linux even with RtLinux; I I have a heart monitor I don't want it crashing with a kernel panic or a Blue Screen of Death(tm)) I think that people even in the internet age have a hard time thinking that there is a world beyond their back doors. Besides my machine at home and another machine that I used for a brief period of time (about 1-2 years total and not in any admin capacity) I have never seen a big group of linux machines. In fact I have never seen any workstation class (simple desktop or computer lab machine) running linux that someone would have console access to. Now from these facts I could descern that MS stuff is almost the only operating system in the world. That linux is only something in my imagination or that I am hallucinating from want or something. Does this mean that I take this on my word. Conversely if I say work for Linux care and have a linux machine at home I could argue that the only OS and platform is Linux and that Windows 95/98/NT/2000beta are all just a horrible nightmare derived from some complex that thinks that I do not wish to succeed. It is only when I look to other areas and interview people: managers, sysadmins, CEOs, programmers, and such that I will find that true story. Even going to the library can be a stunning experience. What if the library is in a traditional city in Iran? Most likely I will not find data decrying Islam or Ala or If we went to Vatican City you wouldn't see a group of satanists.
Just out of curiousity I have heard banter around slashdot that CNN is quite probably a very biased and misinformed group. I have seen some of their stuff (I really don't have cable) and it looks good are there any specific findings that I can use to either confirm or deny these things. Or are they just uninformed about technology related things?
I was interested about a possible mailing or web page that has information about intelligence data, national/international news, etc. I would thing that something like this would suppliment what I usually get from places like slashdot. I know of several speciality things but nothing that fits the criterion I have described. Just wondering.
Who is to say that all the rather occultish things don't have their place. The subconcious mind has the ability to process data in ways that allow for individuals to make decisions based on information that is gathered in ways we cannot detect or were conciously trying to avoid (an annoying co-worker, boss, whinny kid at the burger window). PS on a related note check out this for something that might work.
Usually this can be seen (not always) using the following method. Take the grain of truth from each of the opinions (for example: Linux is a stable operating system) and look at how many people with essentially nothing to loose say about it. Or even better perhaps some of the biased stuff. If someone can speak in a biased manner even this shows something about what the person thought. If people are saying the same thing on different pages using equally balanced sources it is usually right on the money that it is right.
However there is an equal chance that someone based their opinion in a biased fashion from an unreliable source (for example Windows NT blue screens every 5 seconds and causes baldness, the plague, blights your family with bad breath for 10 generations, etc taken from an AC off slashdot or a post on usenet) then that can be perpetuated in a systematic fashion inadvertently unless the person in question uses a proper bibliographic method (MLA, Trabian, etc).
Perhaps there is a way. If I have a company and mindcraft publishes a report which is obviously flawed and people use this report in such a way (from a rival company) that I loose revenue can it be claimed that Mindcraft is in theory capable of libel against said company?
Hashing things out in a public forum like this is a good source of information. I usually get a text copy of all (or most of) the stories that spill out from the maxium ammount of stories on slashdot. Then I take the material and use it in text format and make an outline from this to create an orderly system of thought that allows me to get and look at all the data at once. Kind of nice to see the whole chaos return to order at the end of the day.
I looked at the article and then thought for a while about what exactly would this imply for anyone who actually picked good sources in the first place. There are plenty of sources good and bad in this world and most people can usually tell the difference. I could just as likely quote Abraham Lincoln or Adolf Hitler for something about what public policy should be towards our fellow men. As far as technology goes we should look for the people who have the best results and use as many results as possible to get a balanced view. I usually go on the web and get as much information as possible to do a report and then cite all these things in my decision. It shows objectivity and evenhandedness
Hate to rain on your parade but Windows 2000 takes a hell of a great deal more resources than your computer could handel anyway. So what does that mean? It means that with the next "upgrade" of MS's OS you will be left out in the cold. Your choice of window manager could use a little refining. Try using Window Maker or icewm. I use both and they work quite well for the hardware (486/dx 66 16Mb Ram 20 VM 340HD runs, xemacs, gimp, gnome-terminal, gcc,g++, etc quite well).
Well for financial applications as such as you describe perhaps your could use WINE to do everything you need to do. And if none of the above works perhaps you can upgrade your hardware somewhat. At least you aren't stuck in the same boat I am with a computer with absolutely non upgradeable components and little way to get it to change. I stress the use of linux because if you stay with windows and MS eventually if you can't upgrade you will be left out in the cold with nowhere to go and a great deal of problems.
Federation Net console v10.90.3.4.56.98alpha-omega-red
Incomming transmission........
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We are the borg. Resistance is futile. You will now receive all copies of your "OS" at once. Linux has already been assimiliated by species 3456. Your technological destinctiveness has in this case not been aded to our own. Prepare to reveive the drone you call Bill. This inferior drone has done enough damage to the collective.
Well I don't really have the equipment or the connection but judging from what kind of problems I have connecting to slashdot and other popular sites on T-3 connections I think that there is some cause for me to be skeptical. I remember one time when ftp.cdrom.com was inacessible for quite a while because of some problems with a major back bone network point.
I don't know about any of you but the speed of data lines for the average person are quite liimted and really not suitatble to real time voice transfers anyway. Taking these things into encryption fields will only degrade preformance further. What I think that would be a better thing is to have a voice scrambler to attach to a phone. If I could get one of those I would be quite happy.
Well now I am curious to know how you think that NT removes the command prompt from the users actions or how it's really visually different from 95 (Besides the little Name to the left of the start button. I am writing this message on an NT box). The same icon and the same commands are still in use with good ol' dos. Basically NT is 95 + (a whole lot of extra expensive network functions). Dos may be bad but damn was it efficient. I had days when I wondered why the same game or type of game screamed on my 386 and crawled or refused to run on linux on the same hardware. I think there is a level of diminishing returns with technology. You can only get so advanced before the old stuff dosn't work anymore. How about homes now. Why don't we have cheap homes that are based upon the victorian style of homes? How about castles? These styles were en vouge when they were around but now they just cost a great deal and are difficult (and consequently much, much more costly). If you want to give that ability to the masses then have it as an option in the boot mode or something that makes a really hand holding thing with gnome or something and then have on the "shutdown" option on the "start menu" have an option that "reboots" into guru mode. Of course all these terms are not correct and there really is no booting but people will think one thing is going on when indeed it really isn't and people will be able to use it flawlessly and people like me will be able to tolerate it enough to stomach it in the end and not have to go away to something else again.
Funny you should mention that I was browsing through a grocery store (fairly common one where I come from) and found something in their magazine area. Something called Linux magazine. It was quite good and appeared to be a nice mag for those in this world who want to get a head start in the world of linux with a user friendly guide.