why Bill Gates thinks Microsoft Windows 2003 will not suck.. or why George W. thinks the war with Iraq won't suck.. or why the slashdot editors think slashdot doesn't suck.
Shut up. Any business deserves this type of treatment. Most of these jobs are actually worth well over $100k but corps refuse to pay that. Instead they take their labor overseas and hurt our economy that much more.
The more people that act this way and tell the man where he can stick it the better our economy will be. I'd much rather take my order from a well mannered, hard working and professional employee than someone working for minimum wage because that's the only job they could get.
I'd also rather work at the local 7-11 than Sun Microsystems. At least down at the 7-11 I can hang out with the store owner and know I'm not going to be in the next round of layoffs.
Corporations treat people like numbers. Its about fucking time they started getting treated the same.
The first experience I had with slackware was on a 486 DX2/66 with a cheap 1MB trident video card that was unsupported by X. I felt so l33t when I finally got it configured and working with the SVGA server at 320x240 and playing doom at 8-bit.
Then 3DFX and all those ex SGI engineers just had to go and start a 3D revolution that left my l33t slackware game box in the dust.
That's why I PAY companies that treat Linux first class. I purchase extra stuff from them because I like them and they like me. Or at least that's my perception, so don't blow it.
To save time can you give me a list of phone number to opt-out of all the spam and monitoring I will get from all the products I wish to buy? The problem is that everything wants to recording information about me these days. When it gets to the point that you have to opt-out of spam and monitoring for every single service or product you buy... well... nevermind. You'll see.
I don't own a PVR because of the entire media industry. I watched the RIAA and MPAA erode my freedoms, harrass students, and make most forms of entertainment virtually mind-numbingly boring. Take cable, for example, if I want to watch content that may or may not be entertaining I must also watch commercials and often be subject to product placement within my favorite shows and other forms of brainwashing. I think its all wrong. So I cancelled my cable and don't watch TV anymore. I rarely go to the theatre or buy CDs or DVDs. I can get more informative and entertaining content on the net for free. Not that copyrighted commercial crap filled with product placement, but I'm talking real content created by real people who just happen to be artists.
Sure, maybe its the channel layout or the cable monopolies. Maybe its the ads. Or maybe its just a lot of people getting fed up with commercialism. I'm sure all your statistics will back up whatever your conclusion.
My answer for being treated like this is to stop browsing slashdot. Try visiting alterslash.org instead. And never click on the reviews until you are genuinely interested in the products. I only look for that sort of info when I am shoping for hardware. The rest of the time its just advertisements which make up about half the articles here these days. Its very rare to find real useful info on here that hasn't already been picked up by some less popular news site. Even CNN beats slashdot to about half the interesting tech articles, try checking out their technology page sometime. Very sad for slashdot IMO. I mean, what's VA trying to do? Make money like AOL? Good luck.
Any music service I have found online expects me to use either some proprietary format with DRM or mp3s. My entire music collection was ripped from my CDs to ogg format. My OS doesn't even support mp3s anymore. Until the music industry can offer me something worth buying how can they expect me to continue to pay for music? I have enough commercial music and there's plenty of free music available, it just doesn't get advertised as much, cuz its free.
Besides, my time could be better spend learning how to play music or publish my own stuff. That's free these days, too.
Very good. I agree. Nothing changes until new concepts are introduced, like freenet. Freenet will probably replace the web as we know it or will be the catalyst to enact new anti-encryption and/or anti-open source legistlation. Because progress for economists does not always mean the same thing as progress for technologists. And who do you think runs the show?
so in a perfect world the school would choose to not buy any microsoft products or any commercial software of any kind in order to save money to repair the library and broken dining halls. Its too bad we live with a bunch of freakin bean counters and morons.
True, but Intel does not have as significant a lead as one might think. They may be releasing 3Ghz CPUs but they cost twice as much as an AMD CPU which is clocked at a lower speed but performs on par. And Intel's 64-bit chips are going to have the same problems cluster and supercomputer makers had in the last few years. There just isn't enough software available to justify the costs. I bet most consumers don't want expensive fast chips, they want a bunch of cheap fast chips that are backwards compatible with what they are running today.
But there are so many new emerging markets in supercomputing that its hard to tell who's going to sell well.
But I believe they were referring to the energy stored in oil came from the Sun. That energy took millions of years to collect into a small pocket of oil that we'll burn through in a matter of a few years. There' no way to get that energy back. Once we burn that tank of gas its gone forever. Now you may be selfish enough to think that our current generation should live in luxury because of the natural resources. I do not. We need to act more like responsible adults instead of selfish children. We need to find a way to become self sufficient without relying on irreplacable sources of non-renewable energy. We need to learn how to live off the energy we can collect form the Sun, wind and water. Or we might as well just say fuck it and forget about CO2 emmissions, nuclear waste, radiation, the Ozone, etc. If we really don't care and just want the money then what's the point? Why try to prevent even of the smallest oil spill?
The worst that will happen if we don't act responsibly is the planet will go through some major climate changes that may kill off most of the population. Either that or we'll run out of oil or energy and kill off most of the population. Either way it won't happen in my lifetime so what do I care? Well, I do care.
It should be illegal for anyone to look at porn if their religion forbids it. If you want to believe in your religion you MUST BE RESPONSIBLE for your actions. If you break the laws of your own system of beliefs what's to stop you from breaking any other laws? I would have them put in jail for being a pud-whacking christian or whatever the hell they say they are, them sick fucks.
But what makes more money, a farmer or a TV series. Media and IP have no value because there is no limit to their supply, yet they rake in more cash than I could ever imagine. By my logic if you take all the "money" in our current economic system and focused it on real products, physical products, materials, resources, farming, etc. And gave away all the media and IP. And used the media system to promote education, not war and commercialism. You might be able to afford to give away free food in the supermarkets or give those farmers a few seeds and the tools to make them grow.
But what incentive do I have to write code? I mean, for free, even? Well, I was writing code when I was a kid, hacking out commodore assembly all weekend long, just to learn it, because it was fun.
If you can think creatively enough to make your jobs fun for a human, instead of laborous, hard, painful, or sometimes similar to paid torture, occationally to the fatal end. Work, labor, slavery, whatever you want to call it is simply wrong. People need to be given the freedom to choose what they want to do. Whatever people don't want to do needs to be automated at whatever the cost. Its really that simple to me. But like I said, I'm a loon.:)
China is about 2 generations behind in technology. This is a little over a year, maybe two. And they seem to be gaining speed and catching up quickly. We might be able to maintain a slight advantage over them because of our technology lead, however, our companies are not interested in technology, their only concern is money. Here's my perspective of America for you...
Our dot com bubble upset some rich old media conglomerates that didn't make much money off their VC experiments. So anyway the media tells people to pull their money out of the stock market, and you know how much Americans love their TV. They do what they're told and pull their money out, the stock market crashes, the media companies buy up startups by the dozen in some sort of half off sale.
The technology we developed during the bubble is the only thing keeping the entire economy from collapsing. That and oil and other monopolies, of course (like Microsoft?). If our companies were focused on developing technology we might be able to recover. But that would probably require kicking the entire administration out of office so we weren't being constantly distracted by Bushy Baby throwing his temper tantrum about Iraq.
But soon, I'm talking within the next 2 years, when the rest of the world "gets it" (NOTE: they've already got it..), the US will lose its crown as the world technology leader. Japan already built a faster supercomputer that models global climate instead of nuclear blasts like the US.
The US may have resources, but its entire economy is based on personal greed and the desire to horde those resources rather than distribute them to those that need them. In time this becomes extremely inefficient and will only seriously hurt the economy. China has how many billion people? That's billions of bright minds capable of creating software, hardware, and many other things us Americans can't even learn in school because our school system would rather pay Microsoft than teach us real technology, like Linux. Because its too hard.
It feels good to me knowing that the war between communism and capitalism has not yet been won. Capitalists celebrated a premature victory when the USSR collapsed. Industrial automation, computerized automation, robotic automation, these things changed everything.
The only better thing China could do is compete with itself. If it teamed together several different chipmakers, OS designers, etc. and set them to compete with eachother to see who could design the best products while forcing everything to share data, no patents, etc. Then they could catch up to the US level of technology a little faster and be able to surpass it that much easier.
And don't forget how much India could change the scene.
I think of communism and capitalism as economic models, but if there's more to them than I think please comment and help educate me.
Personally I'd rather work in a world that didn't have money than in America where all my friends lost their homes and jobs because of money.
Well, your kids are free, except when they are directly under your control. So as soon as they are out of your sight all those rules and responsiblities are only as good as their trust in you.
What I am talking about is more related to their lives after they turn 18. Children are almost never educated about the real world we toss them into when they turn 18, yet we expect them to be responsible, etc.
When I was 16 I had my own car, made my own meals, drove myself to school. I had a parent around the house 2 days a week. A cupboard full of alcohol and a room full of marijuana. I completed highschool, taking AP courses with a 3.1x GPA or some shit. I smoked with my friends only after those AP tests and only a couple times a week or during the summer. And right after highschool I got a job and started my career in the tech sector.
Now I have no faith in capitalism, the US gov't or its people or most parents. But that's probably because of the weed.;)
What am I saying? I don't know. Freedom and education is better than law?
Okay, so then if money is based on your labor and I go and write a perl script that does the same thing you are paid to do does my perl script generate money?
Does IP generate money simply by existing or being used? If so then couple we make enough IP to replace the human labor required to generate the GNP? If so then do you think it would ever be possible to get rid of money from the system altogether?
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Overrated? I did work for Sun Microsystems at one time, y'know.
why Bill Gates thinks Microsoft Windows 2003 will not suck.. or why George W. thinks the war with Iraq won't suck.. or why the slashdot editors think slashdot doesn't suck.
Shut up. Any business deserves this type of treatment. Most of these jobs are actually worth well over $100k but corps refuse to pay that. Instead they take their labor overseas and hurt our economy that much more.
The more people that act this way and tell the man where he can stick it the better our economy will be. I'd much rather take my order from a well mannered, hard working and professional employee than someone working for minimum wage because that's the only job they could get.
I'd also rather work at the local 7-11 than Sun Microsystems. At least down at the 7-11 I can hang out with the store owner and know I'm not going to be in the next round of layoffs.
Corporations treat people like numbers. Its about fucking time they started getting treated the same.
I hope we kill all the terrorists!
But I have a couple questions.
1. What happened to that Bin Laden guy?
2. How many innocent people were killed by US sanctions and bombing in the last war with Iraq?
Oh, and I guess I might have one more question...
What if there are 5 billion terrorists in the world?
The first experience I had with slackware was on a 486 DX2/66 with a cheap 1MB trident video card that was unsupported by X. I felt so l33t when I finally got it configured and working with the SVGA server at 320x240 and playing doom at 8-bit.
Then 3DFX and all those ex SGI engineers just had to go and start a 3D revolution that left my l33t slackware game box in the dust.
That's why I PAY companies that treat Linux first class. I purchase extra stuff from them because I like them and they like me. Or at least that's my perception, so don't blow it.
To save time can you give me a list of phone number to opt-out of all the spam and monitoring I will get from all the products I wish to buy? The problem is that everything wants to recording information about me these days. When it gets to the point that you have to opt-out of spam and monitoring for every single service or product you buy... well... nevermind. You'll see.
I don't own a PVR because of the entire media industry. I watched the RIAA and MPAA erode my freedoms, harrass students, and make most forms of entertainment virtually mind-numbingly boring. Take cable, for example, if I want to watch content that may or may not be entertaining I must also watch commercials and often be subject to product placement within my favorite shows and other forms of brainwashing. I think its all wrong. So I cancelled my cable and don't watch TV anymore. I rarely go to the theatre or buy CDs or DVDs. I can get more informative and entertaining content on the net for free. Not that copyrighted commercial crap filled with product placement, but I'm talking real content created by real people who just happen to be artists.
Sure, maybe its the channel layout or the cable monopolies. Maybe its the ads. Or maybe its just a lot of people getting fed up with commercialism. I'm sure all your statistics will back up whatever your conclusion.
thats sad because microsoft is the driving company behind many many jobs.
I think its many many jobs and many many ignorant users that are the driving force behind microsoft.
My answer for being treated like this is to stop browsing slashdot. Try visiting alterslash.org instead. And never click on the reviews until you are genuinely interested in the products. I only look for that sort of info when I am shoping for hardware. The rest of the time its just advertisements which make up about half the articles here these days. Its very rare to find real useful info on here that hasn't already been picked up by some less popular news site. Even CNN beats slashdot to about half the interesting tech articles, try checking out their technology page sometime. Very sad for slashdot IMO. I mean, what's VA trying to do? Make money like AOL? Good luck.
Any music service I have found online expects me to use either some proprietary format with DRM or mp3s. My entire music collection was ripped from my CDs to ogg format. My OS doesn't even support mp3s anymore. Until the music industry can offer me something worth buying how can they expect me to continue to pay for music? I have enough commercial music and there's plenty of free music available, it just doesn't get advertised as much, cuz its free.
Besides, my time could be better spend learning how to play music or publish my own stuff. That's free these days, too.
I get about as much "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." from CNN as I do slashdot.
er nevermind. :P
I think that would be GGNU (GNU's Not UNIX). Has ta be recursive 'n stuff.
Very good. I agree. Nothing changes until new concepts are introduced, like freenet. Freenet will probably replace the web as we know it or will be the catalyst to enact new anti-encryption and/or anti-open source legistlation. Because progress for economists does not always mean the same thing as progress for technologists. And who do you think runs the show?
so in a perfect world the school would choose to not buy any microsoft products or any commercial software of any kind in order to save money to repair the library and broken dining halls. Its too bad we live with a bunch of freakin bean counters and morons.
True, but Intel does not have as significant a lead as one might think. They may be releasing 3Ghz CPUs but they cost twice as much as an AMD CPU which is clocked at a lower speed but performs on par. And Intel's 64-bit chips are going to have the same problems cluster and supercomputer makers had in the last few years. There just isn't enough software available to justify the costs. I bet most consumers don't want expensive fast chips, they want a bunch of cheap fast chips that are backwards compatible with what they are running today.
But there are so many new emerging markets in supercomputing that its hard to tell who's going to sell well.
Could not a network of solar panels flowing over the surface of the oceans become that "free lunch" you were talking about?
Think creatively, man.
But I believe they were referring to the energy stored in oil came from the Sun. That energy took millions of years to collect into a small pocket of oil that we'll burn through in a matter of a few years. There' no way to get that energy back. Once we burn that tank of gas its gone forever. Now you may be selfish enough to think that our current generation should live in luxury because of the natural resources. I do not. We need to act more like responsible adults instead of selfish children. We need to find a way to become self sufficient without relying on irreplacable sources of non-renewable energy. We need to learn how to live off the energy we can collect form the Sun, wind and water. Or we might as well just say fuck it and forget about CO2 emmissions, nuclear waste, radiation, the Ozone, etc. If we really don't care and just want the money then what's the point? Why try to prevent even of the smallest oil spill?
The worst that will happen if we don't act responsibly is the planet will go through some major climate changes that may kill off most of the population. Either that or we'll run out of oil or energy and kill off most of the population. Either way it won't happen in my lifetime so what do I care? Well, I do care.
It should be illegal for anyone to look at porn if their religion forbids it. If you want to believe in your religion you MUST BE RESPONSIBLE for your actions. If you break the laws of your own system of beliefs what's to stop you from breaking any other laws? I would have them put in jail for being a pud-whacking christian or whatever the hell they say they are, them sick fucks.
Do these people actually need a babysitter?
Yes.
You're right, I'm a loon.
:)
But what makes more money, a farmer or a TV series. Media and IP have no value because there is no limit to their supply, yet they rake in more cash than I could ever imagine. By my logic if you take all the "money" in our current economic system and focused it on real products, physical products, materials, resources, farming, etc. And gave away all the media and IP. And used the media system to promote education, not war and commercialism. You might be able to afford to give away free food in the supermarkets or give those farmers a few seeds and the tools to make them grow.
But what incentive do I have to write code? I mean, for free, even? Well, I was writing code when I was a kid, hacking out commodore assembly all weekend long, just to learn it, because it was fun.
If you can think creatively enough to make your jobs fun for a human, instead of laborous, hard, painful, or sometimes similar to paid torture, occationally to the fatal end. Work, labor, slavery, whatever you want to call it is simply wrong. People need to be given the freedom to choose what they want to do. Whatever people don't want to do needs to be automated at whatever the cost. Its really that simple to me. But like I said, I'm a loon.
Yep.
China is about 2 generations behind in technology. This is a little over a year, maybe two. And they seem to be gaining speed and catching up quickly. We might be able to maintain a slight advantage over them because of our technology lead, however, our companies are not interested in technology, their only concern is money. Here's my perspective of America for you...
Our dot com bubble upset some rich old media conglomerates that didn't make much money off their VC experiments. So anyway the media tells people to pull their money out of the stock market, and you know how much Americans love their TV. They do what they're told and pull their money out, the stock market crashes, the media companies buy up startups by the dozen in some sort of half off sale.
The technology we developed during the bubble is the only thing keeping the entire economy from collapsing. That and oil and other monopolies, of course (like Microsoft?). If our companies were focused on developing technology we might be able to recover. But that would probably require kicking the entire administration out of office so we weren't being constantly distracted by Bushy Baby throwing his temper tantrum about Iraq.
But soon, I'm talking within the next 2 years, when the rest of the world "gets it" (NOTE: they've already got it..), the US will lose its crown as the world technology leader. Japan already built a faster supercomputer that models global climate instead of nuclear blasts like the US.
The US may have resources, but its entire economy is based on personal greed and the desire to horde those resources rather than distribute them to those that need them. In time this becomes extremely inefficient and will only seriously hurt the economy. China has how many billion people? That's billions of bright minds capable of creating software, hardware, and many other things us Americans can't even learn in school because our school system would rather pay Microsoft than teach us real technology, like Linux. Because its too hard.
It feels good to me knowing that the war between communism and capitalism has not yet been won. Capitalists celebrated a premature victory when the USSR collapsed. Industrial automation, computerized automation, robotic automation, these things changed everything.
The only better thing China could do is compete with itself. If it teamed together several different chipmakers, OS designers, etc. and set them to compete with eachother to see who could design the best products while forcing everything to share data, no patents, etc. Then they could catch up to the US level of technology a little faster and be able to surpass it that much easier.
And don't forget how much India could change the scene.
I think of communism and capitalism as economic models, but if there's more to them than I think please comment and help educate me.
Personally I'd rather work in a world that didn't have money than in America where all my friends lost their homes and jobs because of money.
Well, your kids are free, except when they are directly under your control. So as soon as they are out of your sight all those rules and responsiblities are only as good as their trust in you.
;)
What I am talking about is more related to their lives after they turn 18. Children are almost never educated about the real world we toss them into when they turn 18, yet we expect them to be responsible, etc.
When I was 16 I had my own car, made my own meals, drove myself to school. I had a parent around the house 2 days a week. A cupboard full of alcohol and a room full of marijuana. I completed highschool, taking AP courses with a 3.1x GPA or some shit. I smoked with my friends only after those AP tests and only a couple times a week or during the summer. And right after highschool I got a job and started my career in the tech sector.
Now I have no faith in capitalism, the US gov't or its people or most parents. But that's probably because of the weed.
What am I saying? I don't know. Freedom and education is better than law?
Okay, so then if money is based on your labor and I go and write a perl script that does the same thing you are paid to do does my perl script generate money?
Does IP generate money simply by existing or being used? If so then couple we make enough IP to replace the human labor required to generate the GNP? If so then do you think it would ever be possible to get rid of money from the system altogether?
I think companies should work smarter, not harder, to make a profitable business model based on something kinda like this.