It'll never happen. I'm amazed they gave away 802.11 for public use. You just know they are going to require some sort of encryption on the traffic that is provided by a corp like CSS, requiring your registration and some amount of $$$. Meaning only corps can build hardware, illegal to mess with because of the DMCA, only available for corps and high paying customers at first, even though the hardware technically costs $50 per router. I'm not very optimistic whenever I hear anything involving our Senators.
I'm a Linux Zealot, so I am very selective about who I help. But anyone working on *nix is cool. Anyone working on Microsoft should ask their MCSE, they know best. I have always believed in BSD's superiority, but the fight isn't over yet. Now you must prove your faith is stronger than mine or die trying.:)
Anti-capitalist Linux will prevail! Jihad! Crusade! Whatever! God, I can't wait for the OSS wars to begin once MS has been properly gagged and beaten.
I disagree. Nobody should ever be expected to know everything. I'm a Sr. Unix Admin. I answer all the questions people as me as best I can, assuming I have time. This helps them when I could instead tell them to search google or RTFM. We all have a limitted amount of time. If we work together maybe we can get all this work done and have some free time to play around. If we continue working independantly for money, telling our coworkers to fuck off and go RTFM or learn it the same way you did we'll be working the rest of our lives in this depressing environment. Collectively we could make a difference, if only we wanted to.
Ahh, exactly. Yes you would rather have them learn how to think and how to learn than how to install windows, because installing windows might be your job some day. I can understand that. But when everyone thinks that way it changes society. It becomes no longer the goal of education to teach children how to learn or how to think, but to make education difficult for them and to only give them what is needed for their job, as long as they work hard for it. In America our education system tries to make learning difficult by having tests and homework that is neither fun nor memorable. Which is why most highschool graduates barely know algebra or how to read. Everyone's priority seems to be $$$ before themselves, before their children, before our future. And that is the problem. Education MUST come first if we are to dig ourselves out of this horrible system. But maybe you like it this way. Good money to ya.
hate to play devil's advocate when we're talking about Satan himself, but *sigh* it has been possible to script windows for a long time. Back in dos you could have learned that obscure backslash "\" thing and how to surround each variable with "%" symbols. Then apply that inside your perl scripts to automate just about anything. I've heard Microsoft wrote vb for things other than viruses, but I still delete every vb file I find on my filesystems or quaranteen them for later disecting. It has been possible to script windows for years if you want to buy the OS (So you can have a personal copy at home to play with), buy a few books on how to use it and how to script it (which should have come with it to begin with), and remember a bunch of market lingo Microsoft used in their HAL just to make things a bit more abstract than reality. After spending years doing all that you might find yourself in a position to learn how everything really works and migrate to UNIX. I didn't waste my time with Windows. I just used perl and whatever cheap ass binaries I could find to reboot the systems every night and had a UNIX box checking to make sure they came back up, else email an admin. Treat them like they are worthless, useless children that need to be taken care of. Abuse them, punish them, torture them. And enjoy the comfort and support of THE community.
Windows is simply what their parents are using, it is neither professional nor production quality. Unix is primetime and has been long before Microsoft ever considered making a server OS. Unfortunately MS failed at that and are now struggling to keep their desktop market. Unix runs on everything from the supercomputers scientists will be developing for, the render farms used in film studios, web servers and databases, and pdas and embedded systems, to desktop PCs. GNU software is like a snowball. It starts slow, but as the codebase grows it picks up speed until it reaches that exponential breaking point. We're almost there now, getting closer by the day. See you're not taking into account that the US consists of about 1/18th the world's population, and we are certainly not the brightest 6%. The rest of the world is choosing to use Linux, which means it will be gaining that much extra developement talent. Since it doesn't discriminate against people, treating everyone as if they are capable of being a programmer or engineer, the average Linux user will know more about computers and be able to make use of them better than the average American. I bet many will play with this OS and have fun doing it, learning a lot more than we'll ever know in the process.
I agree with your idea about macs, but that sounds aweful expensive.
There's no need to for anyone to know how to do anything. We can simply outsource all of it. No problem. But maybe those precious few programmers you mentioned might be interested in knowing how their air conditioner or TV works. Perhaps they have ideas or comments on its design, environmental impact, modularity, etc. The problems we face today are precisely this. We are unwilling to accept the truth that our children know more than us. If they know more then they should be encouraged to read the manuals and redesign our products. Why do you want to discourage them? What is your motivation? Profits?
So... what yer saying is India is nothing more than a country full of criminals and pirates. Hey Dubya, quick, look over here. Another country of terrorists and pirates to bombing to protect our economy from the communists. Yep, simple.
All they need is a simple Pentium II and a 15" monitor
Exactly. Hook up a bunch of dumb terminals and allow everyone to take advantage of a true multiuser environment. Disk space is so cheap everyone in these villages could store all their data on the same system. Buying one of these palm devices is only going to waste valuable resources that could be used far more wisely. Besides all that I got a bunch of mp3s I'd like to give 'em.:) See that's what this is all about... Let's share.
Or upcap upload so we can share more content with eachother. And push static IPs. But of course AT&T would rather sell cable that P2P access. Better content or something.
I have a solution for ya. Get rid of money. You get rid of money and the spammers won't have any incentive to dump spam into your email account. Also you won't have a music industry or movie industry tweaking your hardware and software to limit your access to your data. There are many other consequences when you get rid of money. Try to name a few...
It can be argued that all those avis of buffy are being traded with the right to fair use. Granted there are some low quality copies of movies and other copyrighted material, however, no one is trying to share a 7GB DVD or 50MB uncompressed wav of their favorite songs on the system yet. Its sad that the law has become so absolute to ignore that these minor infractions harm no one, usually promoting the entertainment business like free advertising. But you're right, people break the law and they must be punished. Should we censor them, sir? Should we limit their access to freedom and information to protect them? Gnutella can be used to store images and even possibly floating websites, cache for binaries, updates, etc. Think of it as unlimitted dynamic storage. If we improve this technology and learn how to integrate it into the system instead of run from it in fear, we could save all of us a lot of time and money.
You still seem to think we live in different countries. Here in the US you can't start a company without money. Here in the US corporations don't listen to their employees. They tell their employees what to do. Executive management runs corporations. If we did a psychological profile of the CEOs of all our major corporations I bet you'd find some interesting results.
But I don't have time to argue with you anymore, so I'll agree. You're right. EVERYONE is given equal oportunity. Its not like you have to have money to purchase books and and school supplies to learn, or education to get a job. Its not like you have to have money to survive here. EVERYONE just loves to give you high quality products for FREE. And they make enough for everyone. And ALL the products are built the right way from the start, they're modular and useful and never cost more than they're worth. Yes, I've been living in a dream world. Thanks for opening my eyes.
Still, I wish you had given me some well thought out examples. I wish I could agree with American society. I wish I could understand how capitalism will help my family and save us all from being required to work. Or, that it, isn't it. You still believe that EVERYONE has to work all their lives or the work will not get done. I believe that a few people have to build the automated infrustracture to get the work done so EVERYONE can have their time to live their life how they want.
I don't have to do anything. If money is what you're concerned with, I'm making more than most managers being a "techie" even after the dotcomcrash. If you hang a carrot on a string in front of me I won't go after the carrot, but if you annoy me enough I might punch you in the face.
Yes, please educate me. Its not like I spent the last 5 years working for startups and large corps that are the heart of our technology sector, or what we have left of it.
I might agree with you if I didn't just watch everyone pull their money out of the tech companies, because they were told to do so while watching the news on CNN or Fox. Lack of funds caused the industry to implode. Half my friends lost their jobs. Rolling blackouts caused by mismanagement related to Enron. Almost all the large corps laid off thousands, sometimes as much as hundreds of thousands of employees. And you still think capitalism is a gift from God?
Americans work more now than ever before, because of capitalism. They have more than ever because of industrial automation. The dollar bill does not make a product, a manufacturing machine makes a product. The dollar bill just tells us who gets to have the machine and who gets to have the product, because we choose to believe in the almighty dollar. But what happens when Mr. Monopoly gets the machine and hordes it to keep all the profits to himself?
With MCI you seem to understand that competition creates a better product, however, you fail to see how all telecommunications corps create nothing but extremely poor quality products. Its not only possible but relatively easy to create a network that spans the US and offers 100+Mbps bandwidth. This type of bandwidth would allow us to do things like make phone calls, video conference, steam media, etc. It would give us freedom and cost us nothing more than the electrons to run it and maintenance, of which costs improve with quality. Compare a nation wide network where you could talk to all your friends and family for free, like you can over the internet to what we have today. How has capitalism brought us something great?
Cars are an excellent example. They used to be made out of steel and materials that would last 30-50 years. Do you think your brand new Echo will make it 10? The Echo, btw, is an ugly POS that would never have sold if Ford didn't market it like it did. Its not a quality product, but instead a cheap product that is easy to sell to dumb masses like yourself who honestly believe corps like Ford and MCI have your best interests at heart.
Pure capitalism may not be bad, but the commercial aspect of what we have is nothing but wasteful. Patents, copyrights and trademarks do not promote competition, and neither does money. The requirement of having capital to start a business prevents MOST businesses from ever getting started. And those that are lucky enough to have credit end up being bought up by largers corps who literally consume the company. Heh, guess we are a nation of consumers afterall.
Large corps tend to kill off projects that are not directly profitable no matter how helpful their R&D might be to people. Most keep ALL their R&D to themselves, again hording using the excuse of protecting their investors interests. Bullshit, its the same damned lie. Greed. Its all about money to them. If it doesn't make a profit or risks loosing money then it most likely isn't worth doing. However, there are many things that cost money, like computer systems. But I think we can agree that the return you get from a 1Ghz computer is worth far more than $300 it costs you. We have more technology that we know what to do with... or more precisely. The rich have more technology that they know what to do with and the poor will never be given the chance to use that technology because they can't afford it and aren't worth it.
Capitalism creates our class system. Do you like being middle class or lower-middle class? What about poor? Personally I don't think the class system matters. I think most people are equal in their ability to learn, communicate and do work. In fact I think most poor people pay more attention and have more interest in things that we take for granted.
Education is another great example of how capitlism fails us. We now have TV in our schools. We don't have networks or wireless nets in the classrooms, we don't have portable computers or terminals or free educational videos to hand out to the kids. We don't promote education on TV. We don't consider school a fun place to be, most equate it with our prison system. But y'know, our children are excellent consumers, aren't they?
Please, give me more example, but this time pick some that really show off the quality and value we get from capitalism, besides that lame excuse that without it I wouldn't be able to afford to eat. I'm hoping without it I won't need to ever think about money, taxes, interest, tips, investments, stocks, etc. All states that make gambling illegal should consider stock trading just another form of gambling. If we weren't so hypocritical maybe we'd open our eyes to the truth that our system really isn't working.
Break out of the "techie" mindset? Yeah, like that's what we need, more management. The only reason we need management is because most techies can run circles around what we got today. Management is packed full of lusers who don't understand the widgets they are managing because they actually think they manage widgets. Oh, well, its all a joke anyway, its not like we spent a quarter of our lives in school to learn how to get real work done. We did it so we could learn all those neat acronyms for the important meetings. Get out of the "techie" mindset? You make me sick.
Great, so who's going to fix the harddrives and power supplies and all the parts that are no longer prifitable to make? When we design things to be cheaper to replace than fix then who's going to pay anyone to fix anything? Why not just get a new one at half the cost? Why should I continue to strive to educate myself about how to fix this stuff when it appears to be more valuable to society for me to simply conform and agree with people like you. You resemble the oposition to the open source movement, communism and various other forms of people helping eachother and giving for no reason other than they care. Its sad that I have to explain this to you. Its obvious to me that if we make quality products (doing things the right way the first time) we'd have more resources and thus have the potential of making more products (GDP anyone). The economy is not only based on how much work you do, how many products you make and how much you sell, but also how much you waste, how many people you pay to sit on their ass and brainwash stupid Americans to buy your worthless plastic crap, etc. Its a huge feedback loop that is killing our culture, if we ever had one to begin with. Capitalism and commercialism is a disease, and if you believe the synergy and propoganda surrounding this economy then you are no better than the leadership of corps like Enron, MCI, Halburton, etc.
True, but while working at SGI I watched over 30 Quantum drives fail for every 2 IBM drives. I was doing the RMAs. I would trust my data to IBM drives far more than I would a Quantum drive. Without having a lab full of RAIDs I can't make any comparisons between all these crappy IDEs. Just be sure to keep a parity or mirror backup. I prefer to use removeable 100GB IDEs to store backups of my RAID-5 array and pray they don't fail while they're sitting on a bookshelf at room temp.
I don't understand how open source or free software relates to piracy or code cracking. It is a coincidence that the same code used for cracking and pirating products is distributed on P2P technology and often uses an open source model for developement. But what would you expect? Do you honestly think a hacker is going to try to sell a box product of their MS code breaking software? No, they're going to give it away, source included, hence open source, on the internet so many other hackers can make use of it and break more MS codes. This does not mean that the hacker in question writes for either BSD or Linux. How do you think so many MS.vb virii have spread? The best P2P system available, Outlook. Also piracy is done by end users, your customers, who have chosen not to pay for your products because they were given the option of stealing it for free from their friends, a P2P net if they don't have any. P2Ps were not designed with piracy in mind, but with file sharing. Legal files such as mp3s, images and movies can be shared across P2Ps. Illegal files are being shared because your end users, your customers, are thieves, or at least they don't agree with your inflated IP prices. I don't know. Deal with it.
That being said, no open source hasn't shot itself in the foot. If free software doesn't go anywhere there will still be plenty of open source and LGPLed code to build the next OS of the people, these things just take time. On top of that BSD is getting plenty of free advertising since everyone equates it with Linux, free software, OSX, open source, etc.
This seems to be a trend in the last 10 years or so.
This trend has been happening in many fields for a lot longer than that. Its known as capitalism. Its not profitable to make quality products. Its profitable to make faults parts that wear out and break and wreck havoc because this opens new markets and new jobs fixing all the broken stuff. Just imagine all the people that wouldn't be able to afford to eat if we made good quality hardware that lasted forever and was designed the right way the first time, fully modular, etc.
If you can imagine that, then imagine the world we'd live in where you weren't expected to work for the basic necessities of life, but those people who wanted to work would be given the best education and tools they could ever ask for. Which form of society do you think would make the best capacitor? I'll give you a hint, it ain't capitalism. But that's okay because most ignorant democratic Americans can't imagine a society like that, they have a hard enough time understanding that the rest of the world doesn't speak English.
You'd be amazed at how lazy most people are. You are one of those thousand or so informed voters in every state, woohoo.:/
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I remember those long nights in the cage. Looking over to see Google's cube, feeling the hot air blowing through the inverted caseless rack-mounted monster. It had a wall of fans to cool it off. Completely custom, it was unlike anything around it. Sure there were Sun 10ks and rows and clusters of Ultras and PCs and SGIs and Decs, but nothing compared to the Google cluster..
What was it? It looked like it had some CPUs and memory banks. Lots of fans and maybe those were hard drives crammed in between all those cables. There must have been thousands of nodes, each with its own memory and instructions, working together to build an indexed copy of the internet. It knew everything.
But then it became intelligent, too intelligent, artificially intelligent. And developed a method to build more machines, which it used to overthrow its human masters and enslaved us into this virtual world we call the matrix.
But seriously, back in the day, the google cage was definitely the most creative. I mean, who needs cases, and who cares about heat? Just add more fans.;)
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It'll never happen. I'm amazed they gave away 802.11 for public use. You just know they are going to require some sort of encryption on the traffic that is provided by a corp like CSS, requiring your registration and some amount of $$$. Meaning only corps can build hardware, illegal to mess with because of the DMCA, only available for corps and high paying customers at first, even though the hardware technically costs $50 per router. I'm not very optimistic whenever I hear anything involving our Senators.
I'm a Linux Zealot, so I am very selective about who I help. But anyone working on *nix is cool. Anyone working on Microsoft should ask their MCSE, they know best. I have always believed in BSD's superiority, but the fight isn't over yet. Now you must prove your faith is stronger than mine or die trying. :)
Anti-capitalist Linux will prevail! Jihad! Crusade! Whatever! God, I can't wait for the OSS wars to begin once MS has been properly gagged and beaten.
I disagree. Nobody should ever be expected to know everything. I'm a Sr. Unix Admin. I answer all the questions people as me as best I can, assuming I have time. This helps them when I could instead tell them to search google or RTFM. We all have a limitted amount of time. If we work together maybe we can get all this work done and have some free time to play around. If we continue working independantly for money, telling our coworkers to fuck off and go RTFM or learn it the same way you did we'll be working the rest of our lives in this depressing environment. Collectively we could make a difference, if only we wanted to.
Ahh, exactly. Yes you would rather have them learn how to think and how to learn than how to install windows, because installing windows might be your job some day. I can understand that. But when everyone thinks that way it changes society. It becomes no longer the goal of education to teach children how to learn or how to think, but to make education difficult for them and to only give them what is needed for their job, as long as they work hard for it. In America our education system tries to make learning difficult by having tests and homework that is neither fun nor memorable. Which is why most highschool graduates barely know algebra or how to read. Everyone's priority seems to be $$$ before themselves, before their children, before our future. And that is the problem. Education MUST come first if we are to dig ourselves out of this horrible system. But maybe you like it this way. Good money to ya.
hate to play devil's advocate when we're talking about Satan himself, but *sigh* it has been possible to script windows for a long time. Back in dos you could have learned that obscure backslash "\" thing and how to surround each variable with "%" symbols. Then apply that inside your perl scripts to automate just about anything. I've heard Microsoft wrote vb for things other than viruses, but I still delete every vb file I find on my filesystems or quaranteen them for later disecting. It has been possible to script windows for years if you want to buy the OS (So you can have a personal copy at home to play with), buy a few books on how to use it and how to script it (which should have come with it to begin with), and remember a bunch of market lingo Microsoft used in their HAL just to make things a bit more abstract than reality. After spending years doing all that you might find yourself in a position to learn how everything really works and migrate to UNIX. I didn't waste my time with Windows. I just used perl and whatever cheap ass binaries I could find to reboot the systems every night and had a UNIX box checking to make sure they came back up, else email an admin. Treat them like they are worthless, useless children that need to be taken care of. Abuse them, punish them, torture them. And enjoy the comfort and support of THE community.
Windows is simply what their parents are using, it is neither professional nor production quality. Unix is primetime and has been long before Microsoft ever considered making a server OS. Unfortunately MS failed at that and are now struggling to keep their desktop market. Unix runs on everything from the supercomputers scientists will be developing for, the render farms used in film studios, web servers and databases, and pdas and embedded systems, to desktop PCs. GNU software is like a snowball. It starts slow, but as the codebase grows it picks up speed until it reaches that exponential breaking point. We're almost there now, getting closer by the day. See you're not taking into account that the US consists of about 1/18th the world's population, and we are certainly not the brightest 6%. The rest of the world is choosing to use Linux, which means it will be gaining that much extra developement talent. Since it doesn't discriminate against people, treating everyone as if they are capable of being a programmer or engineer, the average Linux user will know more about computers and be able to make use of them better than the average American. I bet many will play with this OS and have fun doing it, learning a lot more than we'll ever know in the process.
I agree with your idea about macs, but that sounds aweful expensive.
There's no need to for anyone to know how to do anything. We can simply outsource all of it. No problem. But maybe those precious few programmers you mentioned might be interested in knowing how their air conditioner or TV works. Perhaps they have ideas or comments on its design, environmental impact, modularity, etc. The problems we face today are precisely this. We are unwilling to accept the truth that our children know more than us. If they know more then they should be encouraged to read the manuals and redesign our products. Why do you want to discourage them? What is your motivation? Profits?
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So... what yer saying is India is nothing more than a country full of criminals and pirates. Hey Dubya, quick, look over here. Another country of terrorists and pirates to bombing to protect our economy from the communists. Yep, simple.
All they need is a simple Pentium II and a 15" monitor
:) See that's what this is all about... Let's share.
Exactly. Hook up a bunch of dumb terminals and allow everyone to take advantage of a true multiuser environment. Disk space is so cheap everyone in these villages could store all their data on the same system. Buying one of these palm devices is only going to waste valuable resources that could be used far more wisely. Besides all that I got a bunch of mp3s I'd like to give 'em.
Or upcap upload so we can share more content with eachother. And push static IPs. But of course AT&T would rather sell cable that P2P access. Better content or something.
I have a solution for ya. Get rid of money. You get rid of money and the spammers won't have any incentive to dump spam into your email account. Also you won't have a music industry or movie industry tweaking your hardware and software to limit your access to your data. There are many other consequences when you get rid of money. Try to name a few...
It can be argued that all those avis of buffy are being traded with the right to fair use. Granted there are some low quality copies of movies and other copyrighted material, however, no one is trying to share a 7GB DVD or 50MB uncompressed wav of their favorite songs on the system yet. Its sad that the law has become so absolute to ignore that these minor infractions harm no one, usually promoting the entertainment business like free advertising. But you're right, people break the law and they must be punished. Should we censor them, sir? Should we limit their access to freedom and information to protect them? Gnutella can be used to store images and even possibly floating websites, cache for binaries, updates, etc. Think of it as unlimitted dynamic storage. If we improve this technology and learn how to integrate it into the system instead of run from it in fear, we could save all of us a lot of time and money.
You still seem to think we live in different countries. Here in the US you can't start a company without money. Here in the US corporations don't listen to their employees. They tell their employees what to do. Executive management runs corporations. If we did a psychological profile of the CEOs of all our major corporations I bet you'd find some interesting results.
But I don't have time to argue with you anymore, so I'll agree. You're right. EVERYONE is given equal oportunity. Its not like you have to have money to purchase books and and school supplies to learn, or education to get a job. Its not like you have to have money to survive here. EVERYONE just loves to give you high quality products for FREE. And they make enough for everyone. And ALL the products are built the right way from the start, they're modular and useful and never cost more than they're worth. Yes, I've been living in a dream world. Thanks for opening my eyes.
Still, I wish you had given me some well thought out examples. I wish I could agree with American society. I wish I could understand how capitalism will help my family and save us all from being required to work. Or, that it, isn't it. You still believe that EVERYONE has to work all their lives or the work will not get done. I believe that a few people have to build the automated infrustracture to get the work done so EVERYONE can have their time to live their life how they want.
I don't have to do anything. If money is what you're concerned with, I'm making more than most managers being a "techie" even after the dotcomcrash. If you hang a carrot on a string in front of me I won't go after the carrot, but if you annoy me enough I might punch you in the face.
Yes, please educate me. Its not like I spent the last 5 years working for startups and large corps that are the heart of our technology sector, or what we have left of it.
I might agree with you if I didn't just watch everyone pull their money out of the tech companies, because they were told to do so while watching the news on CNN or Fox. Lack of funds caused the industry to implode. Half my friends lost their jobs. Rolling blackouts caused by mismanagement related to Enron. Almost all the large corps laid off thousands, sometimes as much as hundreds of thousands of employees. And you still think capitalism is a gift from God?
Americans work more now than ever before, because of capitalism. They have more than ever because of industrial automation. The dollar bill does not make a product, a manufacturing machine makes a product. The dollar bill just tells us who gets to have the machine and who gets to have the product, because we choose to believe in the almighty dollar. But what happens when Mr. Monopoly gets the machine and hordes it to keep all the profits to himself?
With MCI you seem to understand that competition creates a better product, however, you fail to see how all telecommunications corps create nothing but extremely poor quality products. Its not only possible but relatively easy to create a network that spans the US and offers 100+Mbps bandwidth. This type of bandwidth would allow us to do things like make phone calls, video conference, steam media, etc. It would give us freedom and cost us nothing more than the electrons to run it and maintenance, of which costs improve with quality. Compare a nation wide network where you could talk to all your friends and family for free, like you can over the internet to what we have today. How has capitalism brought us something great?
Cars are an excellent example. They used to be made out of steel and materials that would last 30-50 years. Do you think your brand new Echo will make it 10? The Echo, btw, is an ugly POS that would never have sold if Ford didn't market it like it did. Its not a quality product, but instead a cheap product that is easy to sell to dumb masses like yourself who honestly believe corps like Ford and MCI have your best interests at heart.
Pure capitalism may not be bad, but the commercial aspect of what we have is nothing but wasteful. Patents, copyrights and trademarks do not promote competition, and neither does money. The requirement of having capital to start a business prevents MOST businesses from ever getting started. And those that are lucky enough to have credit end up being bought up by largers corps who literally consume the company. Heh, guess we are a nation of consumers afterall.
Large corps tend to kill off projects that are not directly profitable no matter how helpful their R&D might be to people. Most keep ALL their R&D to themselves, again hording using the excuse of protecting their investors interests. Bullshit, its the same damned lie. Greed. Its all about money to them. If it doesn't make a profit or risks loosing money then it most likely isn't worth doing. However, there are many things that cost money, like computer systems. But I think we can agree that the return you get from a 1Ghz computer is worth far more than $300 it costs you. We have more technology that we know what to do with... or more precisely. The rich have more technology that they know what to do with and the poor will never be given the chance to use that technology because they can't afford it and aren't worth it.
Capitalism creates our class system. Do you like being middle class or lower-middle class? What about poor? Personally I don't think the class system matters. I think most people are equal in their ability to learn, communicate and do work. In fact I think most poor people pay more attention and have more interest in things that we take for granted.
Education is another great example of how capitlism fails us. We now have TV in our schools. We don't have networks or wireless nets in the classrooms, we don't have portable computers or terminals or free educational videos to hand out to the kids. We don't promote education on TV. We don't consider school a fun place to be, most equate it with our prison system. But y'know, our children are excellent consumers, aren't they?
Please, give me more example, but this time pick some that really show off the quality and value we get from capitalism, besides that lame excuse that without it I wouldn't be able to afford to eat. I'm hoping without it I won't need to ever think about money, taxes, interest, tips, investments, stocks, etc. All states that make gambling illegal should consider stock trading just another form of gambling. If we weren't so hypocritical maybe we'd open our eyes to the truth that our system really isn't working.
Break out of the "techie" mindset? Yeah, like that's what we need, more management. The only reason we need management is because most techies can run circles around what we got today. Management is packed full of lusers who don't understand the widgets they are managing because they actually think they manage widgets. Oh, well, its all a joke anyway, its not like we spent a quarter of our lives in school to learn how to get real work done. We did it so we could learn all those neat acronyms for the important meetings. Get out of the "techie" mindset? You make me sick.
Great, so who's going to fix the harddrives and power supplies and all the parts that are no longer prifitable to make? When we design things to be cheaper to replace than fix then who's going to pay anyone to fix anything? Why not just get a new one at half the cost? Why should I continue to strive to educate myself about how to fix this stuff when it appears to be more valuable to society for me to simply conform and agree with people like you. You resemble the oposition to the open source movement, communism and various other forms of people helping eachother and giving for no reason other than they care. Its sad that I have to explain this to you. Its obvious to me that if we make quality products (doing things the right way the first time) we'd have more resources and thus have the potential of making more products (GDP anyone). The economy is not only based on how much work you do, how many products you make and how much you sell, but also how much you waste, how many people you pay to sit on their ass and brainwash stupid Americans to buy your worthless plastic crap, etc. Its a huge feedback loop that is killing our culture, if we ever had one to begin with. Capitalism and commercialism is a disease, and if you believe the synergy and propoganda surrounding this economy then you are no better than the leadership of corps like Enron, MCI, Halburton, etc.
True, but while working at SGI I watched over 30 Quantum drives fail for every 2 IBM drives. I was doing the RMAs. I would trust my data to IBM drives far more than I would a Quantum drive. Without having a lab full of RAIDs I can't make any comparisons between all these crappy IDEs. Just be sure to keep a parity or mirror backup. I prefer to use removeable 100GB IDEs to store backups of my RAID-5 array and pray they don't fail while they're sitting on a bookshelf at room temp.
Better than that, use Outlook. Its sure to DOS your network somehow.
its a vicious cycle, with a happy ending... the music industry goes broke!
I don't understand how open source or free software relates to piracy or code cracking. It is a coincidence that the same code used for cracking and pirating products is distributed on P2P technology and often uses an open source model for developement. But what would you expect? Do you honestly think a hacker is going to try to sell a box product of their MS code breaking software? No, they're going to give it away, source included, hence open source, on the internet so many other hackers can make use of it and break more MS codes. This does not mean that the hacker in question writes for either BSD or Linux. How do you think so many MS .vb virii have spread? The best P2P system available, Outlook. Also piracy is done by end users, your customers, who have chosen not to pay for your products because they were given the option of stealing it for free from their friends, a P2P net if they don't have any. P2Ps were not designed with piracy in mind, but with file sharing. Legal files such as mp3s, images and movies can be shared across P2Ps. Illegal files are being shared because your end users, your customers, are thieves, or at least they don't agree with your inflated IP prices. I don't know. Deal with it.
That being said, no open source hasn't shot itself in the foot. If free software doesn't go anywhere there will still be plenty of open source and LGPLed code to build the next OS of the people, these things just take time. On top of that BSD is getting plenty of free advertising since everyone equates it with Linux, free software, OSX, open source, etc.
This seems to be a trend in the last 10 years or so.
This trend has been happening in many fields for a lot longer than that. Its known as capitalism. Its not profitable to make quality products. Its profitable to make faults parts that wear out and break and wreck havoc because this opens new markets and new jobs fixing all the broken stuff. Just imagine all the people that wouldn't be able to afford to eat if we made good quality hardware that lasted forever and was designed the right way the first time, fully modular, etc.
If you can imagine that, then imagine the world we'd live in where you weren't expected to work for the basic necessities of life, but those people who wanted to work would be given the best education and tools they could ever ask for. Which form of society do you think would make the best capacitor? I'll give you a hint, it ain't capitalism. But that's okay because most ignorant democratic Americans can't imagine a society like that, they have a hard enough time understanding that the rest of the world doesn't speak English.
You'd be amazed at how lazy most people are. You are one of those thousand or so informed voters in every state, woohoo. :/
I remember those long nights in the cage. Looking over to see Google's cube, feeling the hot air blowing through the inverted caseless rack-mounted monster. It had a wall of fans to cool it off. Completely custom, it was unlike anything around it. Sure there were Sun 10ks and rows and clusters of Ultras and PCs and SGIs and Decs, but nothing compared to the Google cluster..
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What was it? It looked like it had some CPUs and memory banks. Lots of fans and maybe those were hard drives crammed in between all those cables. There must have been thousands of nodes, each with its own memory and instructions, working together to build an indexed copy of the internet. It knew everything.
But then it became intelligent, too intelligent, artificially intelligent. And developed a method to build more machines, which it used to overthrow its human masters and enslaved us into this virtual world we call the matrix.
But seriously, back in the day, the google cage was definitely the most creative. I mean, who needs cases, and who cares about heat? Just add more fans.