Here in Detroit - the motor capitol - we have virtually no public transportation. Oh yeah, a monorail that travels slowly along a 3 mile loop, and some light bussing, but those are more token gestures. With a city of a population around 1 million, you would think that there would be something to help bring all the commuters in from the suburbs.
We *had* public transportation. It was bought out and dismantled by the auto industry. Bill G didn't think of his tactics on his own, he has inspiring sources that preceded him.
This is the kind of thing that Ralph Nader and the green party are trying to push by opposing the stranglehold that large corporations have on this country. Democracy and capitalism is ceding to a corporatacracy where nobody will have a vote.
Instead of government of, by, and for the people, we have a government of the Exxons, by the General Motors, and for the DuPonts.
My next car (I don't need another right now, and I'm ready to swap) will be at least a hybrid vehicle. Much like how I choose to Linux on a daily basis - the more users, the more developers and services will be offered.
Gas should cost 6 bucks a gallon, given the harm it does.
I'm curious... what powers your beloved train? Even if you electricity, that has to be generated somewhere. Some generators do it based on renewable resources, but most just burn diesel.
at least the government is technically democratically accountable to their actions
It's a good thing that there isn't some megalomaniacal corporation that's trying to do the same thing by implanting subliminal messages into their OS to make us into tame little sheep (which by the way causes the system to crash often)....:)
True - both are gambling, but so is the stock market.:)
the big difference is that there are plenty of eyes watching the gov't gambling, to keep the chances real. Offshore casinos could easily jack the chances for winning, as well as dodge taxes...
so - if it was already out for close to 80 years when they decided to make it, then why didn't they just reverse engineer the structure of a dvd, build a reader, dream up some De-CSS code, and make a duplicate copy... it sounds like they could have saved a lot of effort.
it could make sense...... not necessarily, but it could.
Apple and Pixar could find a natural fit - particularly with Apple moving to a BSD platform, and when you throw in Steve's 2 jobs, it's not too far off base.
Considering Pixar's biggest hits have all been collaborations with Disney, they could find a natural fit
But the more bizarre connection: Apple & Disney... isn't too far off base, considering they'll want to compete with the resulting company of AOL buying out Time/Warner.
what's with all the fart jokes? I mean the occasional joke referring to feces can sometimes be funny, but dwelling on the topic while drudging through distilling someone else's plot gets old real quickly.
I'm a big fan of supporting independant media - I congratulate these video artists on the work that they've created (most don't even get that far). But please put a little bit more thought into your story before sticking a camera in front of it, and perhaps a little more once you get to the editing room.
The original poster's problem is either "there is too much garbage" or "too many trees are being consumed." Either way, if that's the problem you want to solve, then you focus your energy where it will do the most good.
The thing is, when you start protesting the demolition of our heritage forests, you get branded a commie-pinko hippie. Why not start where it's easy - like reducing useless waste, and start getting people into the right mindframe. This way, moving onto larger - more practical causes make more sense.
I'll make an analogy. You come back to your box one day, and you find that / is full (to make this easy, let's say you haven't partitioned your drive) what do you delete first? That core file in your home directory? All the pr0n from your browser cache? Or do you start parsing through/var/log/messages looking for the unimportant messages that you might not need anymore, and investigate further from there?
It was my impression - or perhaps maybe just my inspiration from when I rewatched the Matrix for the nth time, that I paid attention to what Neo was doing when the night clubbers came to his door.
It seemed as though he had written a search utility that searched through internet documents - including newspaper microfiches for info on Morpheus. I imagined him sticking some OCR code into his searching utilitty. This could easily be run through a file like/usr/dict/words - or hell, concatenate foreign dictionaries, and combine it with a Babel-fish-like translator to give the ultimate search results.
Textbridge (on the Mac) has a "verify" function that allows for interactivity. As it is OCR'ing, it seems to run each word through a dictionary, and if it's not found, then it asks you to verify what it should be. This process makes it only a little bit faster than raw typing.
This is vastly simpler then trying to fit yourself into your buddies' flat bed scanner.
Another possibility would be to lure your boss into one of these 3-d scanners so that you could take pot shots whenever you wanted.
Or, even better - add this to the DOOM-sysadmin interface to add user's faces to the processes that they spawned, and are littering your machine - that way you could get some real personal job satisfaction doing your sysadmin work.
yeah - when I was at school (umich) we had access to a 40 year old IBM mainframe (MTS - Michgan Terminal System) that kept everything internally. You could chat with others online, and the best part was the fact that if you flamed someone (or hit on them, or whatever) and later decided that you shouldn't have sent that message - you could retract it (if they hadn't read it first).
yeah, I like MacNN and all the dirt, gossip & rumor pages just as much as the next guy. Unfortunately, it comes down to intellectual property.
I can see 2 main reasons why Adobe would be pissed:
lets their competitors (OK, so photoshop is unrivaled in the commercial realm, but they want to keep it that way) to see what kinds of innovations they should struggle to get into their product before Adobe releases.
the whole effect that is discussed in a Dilbert comic. By telling the customer that the next version is going to be super-great, you've sold them, and they won't want to buy your current edition and spend more money for the upgrade. This in turn kills your revenue for financing the development of that new version.
I like hearing new bits and pieces of stuff that's yet to come down the pike, but keep it real folks, and don't turn next year's super-cool stuff into vaporware.
SEALAND STATE CORPORATION was formed under a Charter that gives the Corporation total authority under its Board of elected Senators to administer and to govern the island.
This is the first example that I've seen (aside from maybe Cuervo Island) where a piece of land is ruled outright by a corporation. What wonderful checks and balances they must consider when deciding the bottom line, and therefore what they do to the environment, residents, other countries, even other companies.
If they truly are "beyond reach" who is to say that they won't start dilluting the Linux name (since they can't really be sued.)
Have you ever found a terribly invasive plant or weed in your yard, and pulled the top off? The top shrivels and dies, but the roots can survive and next year, you'll just have a more robust plant/weed to deal with.
The only way to break up this monopoly which has soaked the business world so deeply is to split horizontally - kill the weeds!
Forget about child support, let's talk about clones, and gene therapy.
That way, anyone who wants to have my child, or take a piece of me for study, or use in another living organism will have to pay me a licensing fee to for use of my unique genes.:)
Apple is supporting the carbon api for maintaining compatibility with "classic" apps. The cocoa api is supposed to be for Mac OS X natively.
The fact that the Mac remains a "mainstream alternative" to windows lies in it's developer support. Once those companies start to make the transition to designing apps for the FreeBSD environment, I don't see a very difficult time writing an appropriate GUI API (perhaps working with Eazel) to be able to easily port over applications to other *nix platforms.
This makes a rather strong statement about other emulators, that as long as you don't steal anything they tried to hide, you can emulate anything that you want. Including, Game consoles, Operating Systems, etc.
This is a rather strong blow for consumer rights, and I give Connectix a big high-five to take on Sony.
Now I'll probably actually buy one of these things...
Slashdot Mirror
Here in Detroit - the motor capitol - we have virtually no public transportation. Oh yeah, a monorail that travels slowly along a 3 mile loop, and some light bussing, but those are more token gestures. With a city of a population around 1 million, you would think that there would be something to help bring all the commuters in from the suburbs.
We *had* public transportation. It was bought out and dismantled by the auto industry. Bill G didn't think of his tactics on his own, he has inspiring sources that preceded him.
This is the kind of thing that Ralph Nader and the green party are trying to push by opposing the stranglehold that large corporations have on this country. Democracy and capitalism is ceding to a corporatacracy where nobody will have a vote.
Straight from their site: http://www.votenader.com/
My next car (I don't need another right now, and I'm ready to swap) will be at least a hybrid vehicle. Much like how I choose to Linux on a daily basis - the more users, the more developers and services will be offered.
Gas should cost 6 bucks a gallon, given the harm it does.
I'm curious... what powers your beloved train? Even if you electricity, that has to be generated somewhere. Some generators do it based on renewable resources, but most just burn diesel.
at least the government is technically democratically accountable to their actions
It's a good thing that there isn't some megalomaniacal corporation that's trying to do the same thing by implanting subliminal messages into their OS to make us into tame little sheep (which by the way causes the system to crash often).... :)
A) Delphiauto will be installing these things into GM cars over the next year or so.
B) cat-5? why? IEEE 802.11 wireless is the way man. Of course, this could lead to drive-by downloading... ;)
True - both are gambling, but so is the stock market. :)
the big difference is that there are plenty of eyes watching the gov't gambling, to keep the chances real. Offshore casinos could easily jack the chances for winning, as well as dodge taxes...
so - if it was already out for close to 80 years when they decided to make it, then why didn't they just reverse engineer the structure of a dvd, build a reader, dream up some De-CSS code, and make a duplicate copy... it sounds like they could have saved a lot of effort.
it could make sense...... not necessarily, but it could.
what's with all the fart jokes? I mean the occasional joke referring to feces can sometimes be funny, but dwelling on the topic while drudging through distilling someone else's plot gets old real quickly.
I'm a big fan of supporting independant media - I congratulate these video artists on the work that they've created (most don't even get that far). But please put a little bit more thought into your story before sticking a camera in front of it, and perhaps a little more once you get to the editing room.
A real genius copies, and doesn't steal.
The original poster's problem is either "there is too much garbage" or "too many trees are being consumed." Either way, if that's the problem you want to solve, then you focus your energy where it will do the most good.
The thing is, when you start protesting the demolition of our heritage forests, you get branded a commie-pinko hippie. Why not start where it's easy - like reducing useless waste, and start getting people into the right mindframe. This way, moving onto larger - more practical causes make more sense.
I'll make an analogy. You come back to your box one day, and you find that / is full (to make this easy, let's say you haven't partitioned your drive) what do you delete first? That core file in your home directory? All the pr0n from your browser cache? Or do you start parsing through /var/log/messages looking for the unimportant messages that you might not need anymore, and investigate further from there?
To get change quickly, you go for the easy parts
Yeah - and I see a sun SparcStation in this image too...
http://inside.benews.com/img/914.mounted.jpg
It was my impression - or perhaps maybe just my inspiration from when I rewatched the Matrix for the n th time, that I paid attention to what Neo was doing when the night clubbers came to his door.
It seemed as though he had written a search utility that searched through internet documents - including newspaper microfiches for info on Morpheus. I imagined him sticking some OCR code into his searching utilitty. This could easily be run through a file like /usr/dict/words - or hell, concatenate foreign dictionaries, and combine it with a Babel-fish-like translator to give the ultimate search results.
Who's up for starting another OSS project? :)
Textbridge (on the Mac) has a "verify" function that allows for interactivity. As it is OCR'ing, it seems to run each word through a dictionary, and if it's not found, then it asks you to verify what it should be. This process makes it only a little bit faster than raw typing.
This is vastly simpler then trying to fit yourself into your buddies' flat bed scanner.
Another possibility would be to lure your boss into one of these 3-d scanners so that you could take pot shots whenever you wanted.
Or, even better - add this to the DOOM-sysadmin interface to add user's faces to the processes that they spawned, and are littering your machine - that way you could get some real personal job satisfaction doing your sysadmin work.
yeah - when I was at school (umich) we had access to a 40 year old IBM mainframe (MTS - Michgan Terminal System) that kept everything internally. You could chat with others online, and the best part was the fact that if you flamed someone (or hit on them, or whatever) and later decided that you shouldn't have sent that message - you could retract it (if they hadn't read it first).
Hope MacNN wins
yeah, I like MacNN and all the dirt, gossip & rumor pages just as much as the next guy. Unfortunately, it comes down to intellectual property.
I can see 2 main reasons why Adobe would be pissed:
I like hearing new bits and pieces of stuff that's yet to come down the pike, but keep it real folks, and don't turn next year's super-cool stuff into vaporware.
SEALAND STATE CORPORATION was formed under a Charter that gives the Corporation total authority under its Board of elected Senators to administer and to govern the island.
This is the first example that I've seen (aside from maybe Cuervo Island) where a piece of land is ruled outright by a corporation. What wonderful checks and balances they must consider when deciding the bottom line, and therefore what they do to the environment, residents, other countries, even other companies.
If they truly are "beyond reach" who is to say that they won't start dilluting the Linux name (since they can't really be sued.)
this could probably work better re-arranged slightly:
too much internet
writer ponders wrong question
should spend time on book
Apple brings a great product to the table--nonetheless, I still refuse to buy one of their products.
hardware or software? They're talking of bringing OS X to intel hardware...
Truth --> Raw Data --> Study Findings--> Yahoo Article--> Slashdot --> Slashdot postings
Or even better yet, just read the postings on /. as truth... :)
Have you ever found a terribly invasive plant or weed in your yard, and pulled the top off? The top shrivels and dies, but the roots can survive and next year, you'll just have a more robust plant/weed to deal with.
The only way to break up this monopoly which has soaked the business world so deeply is to split horizontally - kill the weeds!
Forget about child support, let's talk about clones, and gene therapy.
That way, anyone who wants to have my child, or take a piece of me for study, or use in another living organism will have to pay me a licensing fee to for use of my unique genes. :)
just imagine...
BeOS vs. DOS 2.1
Let's see... both have CLIs, both run on intel chips, uhh... they both can boot from a floppy. Sure - let's do a death-match
Installation:
- DOS 2.1 - no install, just boot from floppy
- BeOS - quick, intelligent install, though can also boot from floppy
- Tie
Interface- DOS - CLI with a limited set of commands
- BeOS - purty GUI with POSIX-compliant CLI
- winner: BeOS
Applications- DOS - Lotus 1-2-3, and IBM Write
- BeOS - many, many found on http://www.be.com/software/ including Quake II.
- winner: BeOS
Hardware Compatibility- DOS - need really old machine, probably 8086 >= x >= 386
- BeOS - need rather new machine, pentium class and higher
- tie - BeOS requires expensive equipment, whereas DOS restricts me to only using shit I should have recycled ages ago.
Intenet Support- DOS - I once used my 9600 baud modem to gain a telnet connection, where I could surf the web using lynx.
- BeOS - native TCP/IP
- winner: BeOS
Stability- DOS - I never saw it crash
- BeOS - I never saw it crash
- tie
Price- DOS - (originally bundled with $5000 piece of hardware) currently - $.25 at local garage sale
- BeOS - (originally $100) currently - free Lite version, full version is $69.95
- tie
Death Match winner: BeOSCome back next week when we pit the Palm OS vs. Irix
I first read this to be:
Maybe if Bill gets his default page set to "Naughty Barney Nymphos"....
If only :)
Apple is supporting the carbon api for maintaining compatibility with "classic" apps. The cocoa api is supposed to be for Mac OS X natively.
The fact that the Mac remains a "mainstream alternative" to windows lies in it's developer support. Once those companies start to make the transition to designing apps for the FreeBSD environment, I don't see a very difficult time writing an appropriate GUI API (perhaps working with Eazel) to be able to easily port over applications to other *nix platforms.
This makes a rather strong statement about other emulators, that as long as you don't steal anything they tried to hide, you can emulate anything that you want. Including, Game consoles, Operating Systems, etc.
This is a rather strong blow for consumer rights, and I give Connectix a big high-five to take on Sony.
Now I'll probably actually buy one of these things...