The only way UNIX is more secure is if you read every line of code and every line of every script you run as root, and do everything else in a chroot-jailed sandbox.
But at least with Linux you have this option. With windows you are at the mercy of Microsoft. And lately it appears as if they haven't been doing their job.
I disagree with the use of CD Keys and any other anti-piracy measures since I am not a pirate. However, if I purchase your software you still treat me like one. No thank you.
The thing is if we're all on kazaa, then the p2p network begins to kick ass because we have more bandwidth to our neighbor than the kazaa node a few hundred miles away. So not only would the bandwidth increase, more content would be available. If you're into that sort of thing.
But general net bandwidth might get a slight impact from the additional network usage. Its unlikely it would be very noticable, and the widespread adoption of broadband would fund new technologies to provide the infrastructure all those new connected users are going to want. Its good for the economy.
But how can you blame the Linux user? Look what he has to put up with. His OS is nearing carrier grade stability, used all over for science, business and entertainment. Completely free as in no cost and the freedom to use it just about any way you want. And it supports more hardware than any other OS out there. Yet there are how many commercial companies writing software for Linux? How many hardware vendors release drivers or support Linux by actually writing software and releasing documentation? How many businesses support Linux as a viable alternative to mainstream commercial OSs that only look nicer or have a simpler interface.
It should be obvious by now that the computer iliterate control more businesses, more markets and have more control over your freedom to choose than your government ever did. So then I wonder why a Linux user might choose to support a free software developer over a commercial package, which probably includes some form of registration, serial number for authorization or other form of commercial/capitalist tone that clearly shows the greedy in the eyes of all you shareholders.
Its pathetic that we can't play fair and get along and understand eachother. I understand you. But, no, there won't be commercial software for Linux for a long time, if ever. And you know something? That doesn't matter. Because it is not needed. We will write our own. so.!..
Why pay for that when a few IDE cards @ $50 each and a decent athlon CPU will perform the same task as a fancy hardware RAID. Is there some benefit to hardware RAID other than server class equipment. We are talking IDE here afterall. I thought they stopped making server class IDE drives, which is why we RAID them in the first place, I guess. If you need a RAID solution that never fails and want to spend some money might as well go Sun A/Dx000 and build a couple redundant servers to setup load balancing and failover. The whole point of using IDE RAID is to save money and get massive amounts of relatively stable storage space.
That is a matter of perspective. What one person finds artistic or pornographic could be highly offensive to another. I, for example, find almost all forms of pornographic photography artistic and/or arousing in some way, whether I'm actually "into" the thing or not. While some other people are still offended by nudity in its most simple of forms. Personally I think we should be given the freedom to choose which content, which experiences we are exposed to. Especially in a public library.
So I should be allowed to browse my porn as long as I don't masturbate right there in front of you. And you can do whatever the hell you want, just don't look at my screen. Privacy must be respected at all times.
Like I'm sure AT&T was selling broadband at $50/month back when RMS was charging for tape, which I'm also sure he must have been getting for free, cuz he's so evil and wants to charge you for every little thing.
Browsing gnu.org I find links to millions of lines of FREE code because of the concerted efforts of some Richard M. Stallman. And I thank him dearly.
Yeah, but Sun has been having serious hardware problems these last few years. Maybe its just me or maybe its just their desktop systems, but their CPU yeilds seem to produce a lot of bad ones that pass their quality tests and fail a year or two later. I am talking about the USIIi, it remains to be seen if the USIII will have these same problems.
I have yet to land a job managing thousands of enterprise servers, so don't bank your purchasing decisions based on my observations, but personally I would probably trust Power 4 (IBM) or Itanium2 (HP) over a Sun for stability and performance these days. I have yet to see any Itanium2 hardware, but I know all of SGI's previous hardware up to the Onyx2/O2000 systems and think their new Altix or whatever kicks ass.
Between that for performance computing and an IBM mainframe what more do we need? Oh, more overpriced Sun Ultra 5s for the desktop that fail after 2 years of low to normal use (cheap harddrives, bad CPUs, bad memory). Needless to say I don't trust Sun anymore.
The Ultra 1/2 systems were great. Most of them are still running. But I bet these nice new blades will fail in a couple years, too. I can't justify the costs, can you?
A quick way to compare two binaries might be to do diffs on their strings output, check which libraries they need/want/use, monitor their system calls through sar or various traces, run them through a debugger and check variable names, values, etc.
But I'm real stoned right now, so I may have spelled a few things wrong.
Why not just make it a web service. Write it in java or C#. But be sure to use XML for all schemas, content delivery and databases. Then embed it in the kernel.;)
There are no excuses. Can't do it on the command line? Learn perl.
I won't touch a windows network or help admin one because of how cheesy and unreliable that software is designed. If you want my help you got to use the best tool for the job, which unless we're talking about the desktop does NOT come from Microsoft.
By scripting and automating shit with perl you can deal with any number of these stoopid windows boxes that keep getting in your way, prompting you if you are sure. Hell, perl expect can securely manage an entire UNIX network using one user account and ssh.
If you can't find a command on an NT box and want to waste your time writing one I suggest grabbing perl and cygwin and smoking a big phat bowl to supress the desire to throw the box out the freakin window because of all the "are you sure" prompts.
What hardware is supported 100% by the manufacturer for Linux. Building a gaming system is cool and all, but when you install Linux on it and find out you can't use TV-out or about half the features of your video card. It makes me feel like I've been ripped off.
I don't want to buy any more hardware unless I know I won't run into NDA/IP walls that restrict me from getting good drivers. My money is worth more than a useless hunk of silicon.
How do we build a Linux gaming system with analog video In and Out. Better yet I would like to build a small, possibly portable, video streaming box out of a cheap mini PC using Linux. I can totally customize the interface, but finding good quality supported hardware is a bitch and a half. The last thing I want to do is buy something, install Linux on it and find out the manufacturer is like Trident and doesn't want to release documentation for their ultra secret super technical dirt-cheap video card to the community.
The civil war hasn't ended yet, it only took on a different form. Its not about the color of our skin. And race has never been an issue, we're all the same race. Take a biology class sometime if you have your doubts. But now we're coming to terms with our differences, with how we think, how we work, what life means to us. We can't agree on anything and most of us aren't willing to sit down and talk through it, so we ignore eachother and work independantly with the groups we belong to, feeling like we fit in. When we're really yet another faction in a big information war, surpressing other people's ideas and manipulating their psyche for our own benefit.
Statistics play very nicely into this information war. Statistics like the percentage of people of certain skin pigments in prison contribute to the problem. This all has to do with our environment. If we change our environment to treat people equally then maybe equality would not be so difficult. In other words we must value people over objects and money and other material things before we can build the communication network required to solve these problems.
Getting past that selfish stage in childhood takes most people their whole lives.
Good analogy, now suppose the space shuttle built by those geeks was able to safely travel in and out of our atmosphere because it was designed the right way the first time. It holds a better record than NASA or any other commercial venture and offers free flights to outer space. Then we might begin to realize how amazing the FSF movement is.
Nobody is complaining that the shuttle is outdated or flawed. But it certainly isn't free or safe (stable). And in our lifetime with how things are going we'll never be able to take it for a joyride. If the shuttle and everything else were developed like Linux we'd all have personal shuttles easy enough for a child to use in less than a decade.
This is great news. If they own a patent to compressed content delivery we can shut down the net and go back to the way things used to be. All this technology is way to difficult to learn how to use anyway. Perhaps being a luddite is the most logical perspective in this world to maintain some form of sanity.
Can you imagine the effect that would have on our society and future generations if you did in fact lock up or put all males between 15 and 30 under survellience for suspicion to commit a violent act. Those men would never forget how they were treated or why.
Some of us sysadmins get sick of that mentality. Personally I would say its not supported until it become part of the default install. You can always learn how to do it yourself.
But in the case of GNOME I might make an exception, since I hate CDE, possibly even more than you do.
Hanging out drinking beer with nekkid chicks isn't much fun either, but at least its not work, eh?
Personally I love working on computers, learning and building new things with technology I'll probably never completely understand. That's fun. But some people call it work.
Yeah, very true. But personally I think it is extremely important for each and every one of us to express our opinions and for those opinions to be heard by all. Without communication even our current economy has problems sustaining itself. First we must build a dialog, then we can begin to work through the details, if (and its a big if) we are willing to cooperate and work together. I don't foresee any of this type of stuff happening anywhere near the US anytime soon. I feel like we're just too independant to work together on issues of this importance.
I don't know. Capitalism got us this far..
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Well, you got to understand that every American has to pay $3 for a gallon of milk. How much does it cost in India?
We have a higher cost of living, which requires higher pay. This is why we've created an artifical "minimum wage", which in turns raises the cost of living.
Its all a vicious cycle that ends in our death.
Capitalism was the right form of economy until we developed the technology known as industrial automation. Now it will require an exponential amount of inefficiency to counteract the loss of jobs caused by industrial and computerized automation, so the peasants can afford to feed themselves.
Or we can love the peasant for simply existing and decide to use our massive machinery (that they built for us) to feed them for free. Maybe they'll go to school and become an engineer and thank us with some revolutionary new technology. Or maybe they'll work minimum wage the rest of their lives... maybe that's good enough for all of us. Some boring monotonous job that doesn't produce anything of value, but does cause confusion and creates some profit for a corporation that treats us like a number.
What world do you want to live in?
We don't have to be poor. We just have to work together and love eachother, which might be harder than being poor.
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Duh. I wonder.
I know it may be difficult for you to understand. But at present we don't worry about the wellbeing of human life.
Cool, then you can blame all Moslems for 9/11, and all Jews for Palestine, and all Christians for the Sexual Abuse by catholic priests.
We already did. We just bombed afghanistan for the actions of a few terrorists that looked like Muslims. Osama bin Laden wasn't even in the country. But we killed around 3000 innocent civilians in the process, about the same number that died in the 9/11 attack. Jews for Palestine? Who's fault is that? I'd say both sides, but peace requires both of them to stop fighting. Of all the countries in the world I would expect Isreal to have a clue that what they are doing is wrong. But some of us never seem to learn. They all deserve what they get, but none of us deserve death. Until we can agree on that, its all pointless.
You can't kill a person to teach them anything. It just doesn't work that way.
Sexual abuse? Who gives a fuck about sexual abuse? We're talking about deaths. The loss of life is far more extreme than sexual abuse. I'd let everyone in the world rape me if we did away with money and weapons and never took the life of another innocent person out of spite and revenge.
I think that would be because corporations have actions and a voice, like a person. But they have no responsibilities to anyone but shareholders. Meaning a corporation will do anything within the limits of the law to make money. Since most countries don't have labor laws quite as strict as the US we already saw our cheap labor coming from China, India, etc. Now they are doing this to intellectual labor.
My point is it is the system. It is capitalism acting as the driving force behind all of this. It is true that money provides incentive for people to work, but without money I know of many other incentives that would work far better. Such as improving our work environment. Using technology and the proper tools to make the work easily. Thinking creatively to make learning and working fun. Working together as a team to solve projects instead of competing individually. Communism is the answer, like it or not.
Or have fun and play the game, watching the economy go boom, bust, boom, bust, over and over again. Watching people whine and moan about money while what really matters, our health, is ignored until you're watching your loved ones die, often a very slow death, hooked up to a machine to bleed the last few pennies out of their worthless corpse.
I really wish reality was different. I wish I could do all of this over again in a society based on love that never ever cared about money. But I can't. I can only voice my opinion and hope others listen or at least consider the possibilities.
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Their primary talent appears to be obtaining money.
Exactly. But isn't that the goal in capitalism? I don't see the problem as being ignorant masses, like most CEOs. I see the problem as being money, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how many jobs people have, it only matters if we get the work done, if we produce and distribute the products so we can cloth ourselves and eat. It only matters if we work to design the products, not if we take home a few pieces of paper that says we put in 8 hours @ $25/hour. That's the problem with our society. We waste way too much time worrying about insignificant details like a few extra pennies. In the end they don't matter. The only thing that does really matter is our experiences throughout our life. I, for one, would rather not have to deal with the experience of managing money, including interest, taxes, bills, etc. And I'm willing to say "Hey, go ahead and have a free meal, on me." I'll continue working in such an economy as long as we improve the work environment. That's all I ask.
But this is all philosophy and as of right now most people think our system works just fine the way it is. Philosophy is discouraged in the US.
No, but if you had a different attitude I might help you wash your car, cook dinner, grab some beers, teach your kids UNIX, networking and programming, and physics if they're interested, and maybe help you sort through the trash in your basement. But it sounds to me like you are just too lazy to do these things yourself.
I'm willing to _work_ for free for that utopian society (btw someone thinks I'm worth a lot in a capitalist society... so much in fact I'm not willing to do my job for less than 6 figures). But I won't work for you or your money. I don't even like you.
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The only way UNIX is more secure is if you read every line of code and every line of every script you run as root, and do everything else in a chroot-jailed sandbox.
But at least with Linux you have this option. With windows you are at the mercy of Microsoft. And lately it appears as if they haven't been doing their job.
I disagree with the use of CD Keys and any other anti-piracy measures since I am not a pirate. However, if I purchase your software you still treat me like one. No thank you.
The thing is if we're all on kazaa, then the p2p network begins to kick ass because we have more bandwidth to our neighbor than the kazaa node a few hundred miles away. So not only would the bandwidth increase, more content would be available. If you're into that sort of thing.
But general net bandwidth might get a slight impact from the additional network usage. Its unlikely it would be very noticable, and the widespread adoption of broadband would fund new technologies to provide the infrastructure all those new connected users are going to want. Its good for the economy.
But how can you blame the Linux user? Look what he has to put up with. His OS is nearing carrier grade stability, used all over for science, business and entertainment. Completely free as in no cost and the freedom to use it just about any way you want. And it supports more hardware than any other OS out there. Yet there are how many commercial companies writing software for Linux? How many hardware vendors release drivers or support Linux by actually writing software and releasing documentation? How many businesses support Linux as a viable alternative to mainstream commercial OSs that only look nicer or have a simpler interface.
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It should be obvious by now that the computer iliterate control more businesses, more markets and have more control over your freedom to choose than your government ever did. So then I wonder why a Linux user might choose to support a free software developer over a commercial package, which probably includes some form of registration, serial number for authorization or other form of commercial/capitalist tone that clearly shows the greedy in the eyes of all you shareholders.
Its pathetic that we can't play fair and get along and understand eachother. I understand you. But, no, there won't be commercial software for Linux for a long time, if ever. And you know something? That doesn't matter. Because it is not needed. We will write our own. so
Why pay for that when a few IDE cards @ $50 each and a decent athlon CPU will perform the same task as a fancy hardware RAID. Is there some benefit to hardware RAID other than server class equipment. We are talking IDE here afterall. I thought they stopped making server class IDE drives, which is why we RAID them in the first place, I guess.
If you need a RAID solution that never fails and want to spend some money might as well go Sun A/Dx000 and build a couple redundant servers to setup load balancing and failover. The whole point of using IDE RAID is to save money and get massive amounts of relatively stable storage space.
That is a matter of perspective. What one person finds artistic or pornographic could be highly offensive to another. I, for example, find almost all forms of pornographic photography artistic and/or arousing in some way, whether I'm actually "into" the thing or not. While some other people are still offended by nudity in its most simple of forms. Personally I think we should be given the freedom to choose which content, which experiences we are exposed to. Especially in a public library.
So I should be allowed to browse my porn as long as I don't masturbate right there in front of you. And you can do whatever the hell you want, just don't look at my screen. Privacy must be respected at all times.
er that's how I see it, anyway.
No shit!
Like I'm sure AT&T was selling broadband at $50/month back when RMS was charging for tape, which I'm also sure he must have been getting for free, cuz he's so evil and wants to charge you for every little thing.
Browsing gnu.org I find links to millions of lines of FREE code because of the concerted efforts of some Richard M. Stallman. And I thank him dearly.
Yeah, but Sun has been having serious hardware problems these last few years. Maybe its just me or maybe its just their desktop systems, but their CPU yeilds seem to produce a lot of bad ones that pass their quality tests and fail a year or two later. I am talking about the USIIi, it remains to be seen if the USIII will have these same problems.
I have yet to land a job managing thousands of enterprise servers, so don't bank your purchasing decisions based on my observations, but personally I would probably trust Power 4 (IBM) or Itanium2 (HP) over a Sun for stability and performance these days. I have yet to see any Itanium2 hardware, but I know all of SGI's previous hardware up to the Onyx2/O2000 systems and think their new Altix or whatever kicks ass.
Between that for performance computing and an IBM mainframe what more do we need? Oh, more overpriced Sun Ultra 5s for the desktop that fail after 2 years of low to normal use (cheap harddrives, bad CPUs, bad memory). Needless to say I don't trust Sun anymore.
The Ultra 1/2 systems were great. Most of them are still running. But I bet these nice new blades will fail in a couple years, too. I can't justify the costs, can you?
A quick way to compare two binaries might be to do diffs on their strings output, check which libraries they need/want/use, monitor their system calls through sar or various traces, run them through a debugger and check variable names, values, etc.
But I'm real stoned right now, so I may have spelled a few things wrong.
Why not just make it a web service. Write it in java or C#. But be sure to use XML for all schemas, content delivery and databases. Then embed it in the kernel. ;)
There are no excuses. Can't do it on the command line? Learn perl.
I won't touch a windows network or help admin one because of how cheesy and unreliable that software is designed. If you want my help you got to use the best tool for the job, which unless we're talking about the desktop does NOT come from Microsoft.
By scripting and automating shit with perl you can deal with any number of these stoopid windows boxes that keep getting in your way, prompting you if you are sure. Hell, perl expect can securely manage an entire UNIX network using one user account and ssh.
If you can't find a command on an NT box and want to waste your time writing one I suggest grabbing perl and cygwin and smoking a big phat bowl to supress the desire to throw the box out the freakin window because of all the "are you sure" prompts.
What hardware is supported 100% by the manufacturer for Linux. Building a gaming system is cool and all, but when you install Linux on it and find out you can't use TV-out or about half the features of your video card. It makes me feel like I've been ripped off.
I don't want to buy any more hardware unless I know I won't run into NDA/IP walls that restrict me from getting good drivers. My money is worth more than a useless hunk of silicon.
How do we build a Linux gaming system with analog video In and Out. Better yet I would like to build a small, possibly portable, video streaming box out of a cheap mini PC using Linux. I can totally customize the interface, but finding good quality supported hardware is a bitch and a half. The last thing I want to do is buy something, install Linux on it and find out the manufacturer is like Trident and doesn't want to release documentation for their ultra secret super technical dirt-cheap video card to the community.
The civil war hasn't ended yet, it only took on a different form. Its not about the color of our skin. And race has never been an issue, we're all the same race. Take a biology class sometime if you have your doubts. But now we're coming to terms with our differences, with how we think, how we work, what life means to us. We can't agree on anything and most of us aren't willing to sit down and talk through it, so we ignore eachother and work independantly with the groups we belong to, feeling like we fit in. When we're really yet another faction in a big information war, surpressing other people's ideas and manipulating their psyche for our own benefit.
Statistics play very nicely into this information war. Statistics like the percentage of people of certain skin pigments in prison contribute to the problem. This all has to do with our environment. If we change our environment to treat people equally then maybe equality would not be so difficult. In other words we must value people over objects and money and other material things before we can build the communication network required to solve these problems.
Getting past that selfish stage in childhood takes most people their whole lives.
Good analogy, now suppose the space shuttle built by those geeks was able to safely travel in and out of our atmosphere because it was designed the right way the first time. It holds a better record than NASA or any other commercial venture and offers free flights to outer space. Then we might begin to realize how amazing the FSF movement is.
Nobody is complaining that the shuttle is outdated or flawed. But it certainly isn't free or safe (stable). And in our lifetime with how things are going we'll never be able to take it for a joyride. If the shuttle and everything else were developed like Linux we'd all have personal shuttles easy enough for a child to use in less than a decade.
This is great news. If they own a patent to compressed content delivery we can shut down the net and go back to the way things used to be. All this technology is way to difficult to learn how to use anyway. Perhaps being a luddite is the most logical perspective in this world to maintain some form of sanity.
Can you imagine the effect that would have on our society and future generations if you did in fact lock up or put all males between 15 and 30 under survellience for suspicion to commit a violent act. Those men would never forget how they were treated or why.
Similar to most geeks and the media empires.
Some of us sysadmins get sick of that mentality. Personally I would say its not supported until it become part of the default install. You can always learn how to do it yourself.
But in the case of GNOME I might make an exception, since I hate CDE, possibly even more than you do.
Hanging out drinking beer with nekkid chicks isn't much fun either, but at least its not work, eh?
Personally I love working on computers, learning and building new things with technology I'll probably never completely understand. That's fun. But some people call it work.
Yeah, very true. But personally I think it is extremely important for each and every one of us to express our opinions and for those opinions to be heard by all. Without communication even our current economy has problems sustaining itself. First we must build a dialog, then we can begin to work through the details, if (and its a big if) we are willing to cooperate and work together. I don't foresee any of this type of stuff happening anywhere near the US anytime soon. I feel like we're just too independant to work together on issues of this importance.
I don't know. Capitalism got us this far..
Well, you got to understand that every American has to pay $3 for a gallon of milk. How much does it cost in India?
We have a higher cost of living, which requires higher pay. This is why we've created an artifical "minimum wage", which in turns raises the cost of living.
Its all a vicious cycle that ends in our death.
Capitalism was the right form of economy until we developed the technology known as industrial automation. Now it will require an exponential amount of inefficiency to counteract the loss of jobs caused by industrial and computerized automation, so the peasants can afford to feed themselves.
Or we can love the peasant for simply existing and decide to use our massive machinery (that they built for us) to feed them for free. Maybe they'll go to school and become an engineer and thank us with some revolutionary new technology. Or maybe they'll work minimum wage the rest of their lives... maybe that's good enough for all of us. Some boring monotonous job that doesn't produce anything of value, but does cause confusion and creates some profit for a corporation that treats us like a number.
What world do you want to live in?
We don't have to be poor. We just have to work together and love eachother, which might be harder than being poor.
Duh. I wonder.
I know it may be difficult for you to understand. But at present we don't worry about the wellbeing of human life.
Cool, then you can blame all Moslems for 9/11, and all Jews for Palestine, and all Christians for the Sexual Abuse by catholic priests.
We already did. We just bombed afghanistan for the actions of a few terrorists that looked like Muslims. Osama bin Laden wasn't even in the country. But we killed around 3000 innocent civilians in the process, about the same number that died in the 9/11 attack. Jews for Palestine? Who's fault is that? I'd say both sides, but peace requires both of them to stop fighting. Of all the countries in the world I would expect Isreal to have a clue that what they are doing is wrong. But some of us never seem to learn. They all deserve what they get, but none of us deserve death. Until we can agree on that, its all pointless.
You can't kill a person to teach them anything. It just doesn't work that way.
Sexual abuse? Who gives a fuck about sexual abuse? We're talking about deaths. The loss of life is far more extreme than sexual abuse. I'd let everyone in the world rape me if we did away with money and weapons and never took the life of another innocent person out of spite and revenge.
I think that would be because corporations have actions and a voice, like a person. But they have no responsibilities to anyone but shareholders. Meaning a corporation will do anything within the limits of the law to make money. Since most countries don't have labor laws quite as strict as the US we already saw our cheap labor coming from China, India, etc. Now they are doing this to intellectual labor.
My point is it is the system. It is capitalism acting as the driving force behind all of this. It is true that money provides incentive for people to work, but without money I know of many other incentives that would work far better. Such as improving our work environment. Using technology and the proper tools to make the work easily. Thinking creatively to make learning and working fun. Working together as a team to solve projects instead of competing individually. Communism is the answer, like it or not.
Or have fun and play the game, watching the economy go boom, bust, boom, bust, over and over again. Watching people whine and moan about money while what really matters, our health, is ignored until you're watching your loved ones die, often a very slow death, hooked up to a machine to bleed the last few pennies out of their worthless corpse.
I really wish reality was different. I wish I could do all of this over again in a society based on love that never ever cared about money. But I can't. I can only voice my opinion and hope others listen or at least consider the possibilities.
Their primary talent appears to be obtaining money.
Exactly. But isn't that the goal in capitalism? I don't see the problem as being ignorant masses, like most CEOs. I see the problem as being money, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how many jobs people have, it only matters if we get the work done, if we produce and distribute the products so we can cloth ourselves and eat. It only matters if we work to design the products, not if we take home a few pieces of paper that says we put in 8 hours @ $25/hour. That's the problem with our society. We waste way too much time worrying about insignificant details like a few extra pennies. In the end they don't matter. The only thing that does really matter is our experiences throughout our life. I, for one, would rather not have to deal with the experience of managing money, including interest, taxes, bills, etc. And I'm willing to say "Hey, go ahead and have a free meal, on me." I'll continue working in such an economy as long as we improve the work environment. That's all I ask.
But this is all philosophy and as of right now most people think our system works just fine the way it is. Philosophy is discouraged in the US.
They were wrong. Hell, they weren't even computer literate.
No, but if you had a different attitude I might help you wash your car, cook dinner, grab some beers, teach your kids UNIX, networking and programming, and physics if they're interested, and maybe help you sort through the trash in your basement. But it sounds to me like you are just too lazy to do these things yourself.
I'm willing to _work_ for free for that utopian society (btw someone thinks I'm worth a lot in a capitalist society... so much in fact I'm not willing to do my job for less than 6 figures). But I won't work for you or your money. I don't even like you.