Of course, once this is compensated into my New England accent, doesn't this pronounce as "Line-ux"? Because I know I would pronounce his name the same way as the peanuts character.
"1) for the cost to develop and build each of those boxes, how much FOOD could have been air dropped in its place? "
Probably not enough to last a life-time. Besides this is a thought exercise. The question is not "How did this situation come to be?" It's "What are you going to do now?" The question would be just as valid if aliens had given them the internet boxes.
Also it doesn't need a nuclear battery. It's soloar powered. It said so in the question. It would be to bad if the goverement could track the emmisions. But they'd be intermitant signals. It'd be while before they could round them up. And with a bit of encription they wouldn't know who was useing them for what. I'd be more worried about how many of these devices fell into goverment hands. You'd have to be very cautius of goverment officials posing as peasants.
If I was a moderator I'd mark every single post that said "Mark this as flamebait" as "flamebait" simply because I don't think I've seen a moderator do this. Just because a person can anticipate the moderation doesn't mean he doesn' deserve the moderation. I'm not commenting on this post in particular. Just posts that use this strategy in general. I bet the moderators will mark this offtopic.
Yes. But it works well for software. When you're talking hardware everyone will try to get as much as they can lay their hands on. So the goverment has to regulate it or else the 'community' will run out of whatever it is that people want.
I agree that communism as it is implimented means the goverment tells you what you can and can't do. And I don't think I can think of any way to impliment it for a large group of people any other way.
But for software, everyone takes what they want. And if Mr. John Doe downloads more then what he needs, Who cares? It doesn't cost anyone anything.
Perhaps you're not aware of the definition of Communism. Communism does not mean "The Goverment tells you what to do and think." it means "a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed"
That's practicaly a definition of Open Source. How closely China follows those ideals is anouther question.
"... the Windows operating system is priced less than our competitors,'' said the [Microsoft] spokesman, Jim Cullinan." What? Which competitors are they talking about? They can't be refering to Linux so they're talking about what? MacOS?
This would be a perfect solution (Win2000 as Open-source). IT would force Microsoft to come up with a better product or be left behind by those that do. They could still make money off windows but it would have to be in a more fair way. (Like Redhat and Linux)
But does the court have the authority to do this? I can't imagine MS agreeing with this in a deal with the DOJ.
Perhaps you're not reading the article. The students were puting the files on "shared" network directories on thier own computers to share with other students on the network. The www page bit was just an analogy.
The only university hardware involved was the network itself. (Wires, hubs, etc.)
Imagine : wavy lines Date : circa 2005 It's 7:00am your alarm goes off. It sends a signal out to your toaster and coffee maker. They both start preparing your breakfast. A few min later when you get to the kitchen your breakfast is all ready. You finish eating breakfast and reading the morning newspaper. (on the screen or padd in your dining room) And leave for work. The lock on your door detects you leaving and locks the front door as well. It also sends a pulse to the remote-starter on your car. When you get to your car the engine is running and your windows are defrosted. The map in your car already has contacted the trafic report site of your choice and plotted a course around the 42 car pile-up on your usuale route. When your car's GPS detects that you're almost at work it sends a signal to boot up your workstation and start your other coffee maker. You work for eight hours. It's time to go home. On your screen is the button to remote start your car. You don't click on it. Your car is in the lot and you're not crazy. You walk out to the lot and unlock your car by hand. You drive home. They've cleared up the wreck so you can use your usual route. When you near your driveway your car's GPS sends a signal to your house which turns on the external lights. When you enter your driveway the locks on your house are automaticaly unlocked for you. wavy lines Date : Present This would probably be a major hassle to set up since the appliences all come from diferent manufacturers. And it'll be a pain when it breaks. But I can definetly see why I'd want my appliences on the net. And why script-kiddys better not be able to mess with it.
I got prety decent range with my PalmIII at least 10ft. (Didn't try any longer.(And this was with nearly full bateries.) But my main problem was that I had to use the stylus to tap at my new remote. Sure you can use your fingers but who wants finger-prints all over the screen?
"If I install a Linux OS on their computer, it is going to be nearly impossible for them to get help with problems with their computer and they are going to call me. If they have Windows, they can usually get tips/tricks/help from people they work with, friends, family, etc. They are not going to want to get into IRC or newsgroups to solve problems. " This is a DIRECT result of Microsoft's monopoly. If nobody used Windows do you think it'd be easy to get support for? If Windows had the user-population of Linux and vice-versa you'd be installing Linux on the newbies' computers for the same reason. There's nothing inherent to the OS that means there's support available. It's because of MS's monopoly. And you're playing into it perfectly. They've positioned themselves so Joe Public will say "Well everyone's using Windows so if i use Linux my freinds can't help me." That's what this ruling is about. They've made it so you, when installing OSes on the computers of newbies, have NO CHOICE about the OS to install.
FACT: All novels or other textual works are recorded either in binary or with ink upon paper. Well there goes the whole copyright system. Actualy my point is that I think the judge ment something like this. This sentence : "Computers use binary." is not copyrightable. This sentence : "The princess kissed the frog and the turtle." is even though it's recorded in a binary form.
But it's not like we directly decide where it goes. It's not as if I can say to the IRS "Here's the money I owe you. I want 25% of it to go to NASA,.5% to fight MS, 5% For the Military, 12% to the Strategic Helium Reserve, etc..." Once we hand over the money, we don't get it back. It's not as if the goverment would be refunding us if it decided not to fight Microsoft.
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"Might I suggest that whomever posts the quickies place an obvious warning label as to objectionable content so that users don't click where they shouldn't while at work"
Umm... He did mention the word "porn". How obvious does it have to be?
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And what's that second plant underneath the desk? The Yucca's broker?
But that's the point. If he's pointing out a variable that he thinks wasn't properly controled, he's sugesting that there's a chance however small that that variable effected the outcome of the expirement.
Would you rather he said "The way this experiment was performed the milk wasn't ruled out as the culpret. But what the hell! We all drink milk! We know that's not it."?
I doesn't matter anyway though, since the milk was p resent for both the controll and the test it's not a variable.
Well, it's realy a stupid question actualy. Since it's not quantitative it's essantaly asking "Do you wish Windows was less buggy then it is now?". This is like asking "Do you wish your car was more gas-efficiant?" Nobody in their right mind would say "No, In fact I wish my car would burn oil too!".
"Furthermore, IMHO, not being bombed by terrorists is a bit more important than maintaining my personal privacy. "
Of course the logical extension of this would be the Borg Collective. Sure the borg extend your life-span, eliminate wars and all other forms of conflict and make you part of the winingest team in the Galaxy. But who wants to be part of the collective? I know I don't.
Also, while we're on the subject, on Jam Echelon day how many of the jaming messages would have been flaged if they filtered out all messages with the word "Echelon" in them?
My problem isn't that it's easier to vote. It's that I have no faith that they'll even try to educate voters on what choices there are. The less effort required to vote the lower percentage of people who strongly care about what's going on. Not that the middle-of-the-road type people don't have a right to a vote, but when we see an election or issue we don't care about we're more likely to choose one out of fancy, or who's name we recognise most.
Also as far as I can see no one seems to have mentioned that Internet voting would effectivly limit voting to the middle and upper classes. People who don't have or don't want computers or Internet access would still have to fight traffic, wake up early, and stand in line while the old lady in front of them makes a fuss about something or anouther. So we'd effectivly be doubleing or tripleing the number of upper and middle class voters while keeping the lower class votes at the same level. That's going to scew results.
If we took this one step further it could be an even greater tool for democracy but it would have even more risks. What if we were alowed to vote on the issues themselves and not just the politions? This would definetly reduce voter frustration. But it could be extremly easily skewed simply by rewording the first paragraph and even the first line of whatever we were voting on.
I sugest that when Internet voting becomes available that a mechinism should be employed have short boiler-plate summaries of each polition's views and histories. Not just autobiographies either. Watchdog orgs should be in on this to. And this should be on the screen that comes up BEFORE the voting page. I also think that when Internet voting shows up Telephone voting should also become available. Otherwise you're cutting out people without Computers. (pay-phones are everywhere.)
>" i mean, what happens when you listen to a real jukebox? "
Generaly I put my $.10/$.25/$.50 (depending on how old the machine is) and I select which music I want to hear. Then that song is added to the queue. As far as I can remember, I've never had to disclose my name to the JukeBox, nor did I have to tell it which records I own at home. But I don't use Jukeboxes very often. It's possible I missed something.
I thought the point was that pronouncable names are easier to remember. You tell xomeone that "Cyclops" = help desk they'll remember. You tell someone that "Machine202485924" = helpdesk they'll have to write it down if they ever want to type it in again.
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Yea what was that anyway. I think even in the teen tournament a category about a recent movie is pretty weak.
He didn't specify the mainland of the continent. Any of the smaller islands hanging around will also qualify.
Of course, once this is compensated into my New England accent, doesn't this pronounce as "Line-ux"? Because I know I would pronounce his name the same way as the peanuts character.
"1) for the cost to develop and build each of those boxes, how much FOOD could have been air dropped in its place? "
Probably not enough to last a life-time. Besides this is a thought exercise. The question is not "How did this situation come to be?" It's "What are you going to do now?" The question would be just as valid if aliens had given them the internet boxes.
Also it doesn't need a nuclear battery. It's soloar powered. It said so in the question.
It would be to bad if the goverement could track the emmisions. But they'd be intermitant signals. It'd be while before they could round them up. And with a bit of encription they wouldn't know who was useing them for what.
I'd be more worried about how many of these devices fell into goverment hands. You'd have to be very cautius of goverment officials posing as peasants.
If I was a moderator I'd mark every single post that said "Mark this as flamebait" as "flamebait" simply because I don't think I've seen a moderator do this. Just because a person can anticipate the moderation doesn't mean he doesn' deserve the moderation.
I'm not commenting on this post in particular. Just posts that use this strategy in general.
I bet the moderators will mark this offtopic.
Yes. But it works well for software. When you're talking hardware everyone will try to get as much as they can lay their hands on. So the goverment has to regulate it or else the 'community' will run out of whatever it is that people want.
I agree that communism as it is implimented means the goverment tells you what you can and can't do. And I don't think I can think of any way to impliment it for a large group of people any other way.
But for software, everyone takes what they want. And if Mr. John Doe downloads more then what he needs, Who cares? It doesn't cost anyone anything.
Perhaps you're not aware of the definition of Communism. Communism does not mean "The Goverment tells you what to do and think." it means "a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed"
That's practicaly a definition of Open Source.
How closely China follows those ideals is anouther question.
"... the Windows operating system is priced less than our competitors,'' said the [Microsoft] spokesman, Jim Cullinan."
What? Which competitors are they talking about? They can't be refering to Linux so they're talking about what? MacOS?
This would be a perfect solution (Win2000 as Open-source). IT would force Microsoft to come up with a better product or be left behind by those that do. They could still make money off windows but it would have to be in a more fair way. (Like Redhat and Linux)
But does the court have the authority to do this? I can't imagine MS agreeing with this in a deal with the DOJ.
Perhaps you're not reading the article. The students were puting the files on "shared" network directories on thier own computers to share with other students on the network. The www page bit was just an analogy.
The only university hardware involved was the network itself. (Wires, hubs, etc.)
Imagine :
wavy lines
Date : circa 2005
It's 7:00am your alarm goes off. It sends a signal out to your toaster and coffee maker. They both start preparing your breakfast. A few min later when you get to the kitchen your breakfast is all ready.
You finish eating breakfast and reading the morning newspaper. (on the screen or padd in your dining room) And leave for work. The lock on your door detects you leaving and locks the front door as well. It also sends a pulse to the remote-starter on your car. When you get to your car the engine is running and your windows are defrosted. The map in your car already has contacted the trafic report site of your choice and plotted a course around the 42 car pile-up on your usuale route.
When your car's GPS detects that you're almost at work it sends a signal to boot up your workstation and start your other coffee maker.
You work for eight hours.
It's time to go home. On your screen is the button to remote start your car. You don't click on it. Your car is in the lot and you're not crazy. You walk out to the lot and unlock your car by hand. You drive home. They've cleared up the wreck so you can use your usual route. When you near your driveway your car's GPS sends a signal to your house which turns on the external lights. When you enter your driveway the locks on your house are automaticaly unlocked for you.
wavy lines
Date : Present
This would probably be a major hassle to set up since the appliences all come from diferent manufacturers. And it'll be a pain when it breaks. But I can definetly see why I'd want my appliences on the net. And why script-kiddys better not be able to mess with it.
They're not that stupid. If the ads were at the end you wouldn't listen!
I got prety decent range with my PalmIII at least 10ft. (Didn't try any longer.(And this was with nearly full bateries.) But my main problem was that I had to use the stylus to tap at my new remote. Sure you can use your fingers but who wants finger-prints all over the screen?
"If I install a Linux OS on their computer, it is going to be nearly impossible for them to get help with problems with their computer and they are going to call me. If they have Windows, they can usually get tips/tricks/help from people they work with, friends, family, etc. They are not going to want to get into IRC or newsgroups to solve problems. " This is a DIRECT result of Microsoft's monopoly. If nobody used Windows do you think it'd be easy to get support for? If Windows had the user-population of Linux and vice-versa you'd be installing Linux on the newbies' computers for the same reason. There's nothing inherent to the OS that means there's support available. It's because of MS's monopoly. And you're playing into it perfectly. They've positioned themselves so Joe Public will say "Well everyone's using Windows so if i use Linux my freinds can't help me." That's what this ruling is about. They've made it so you, when installing OSes on the computers of newbies, have NO CHOICE about the OS to install.
FACT: Computer of all types use Binary, now what?
FACT: All novels or other textual works are recorded either in binary or with ink upon paper.
Well there goes the whole copyright system. Actualy my point is that I think the judge ment something like this. This sentence : "Computers use binary." is not copyrightable. This sentence : "The princess kissed the frog and the turtle." is even though it's recorded in a binary form.
But it's not like we directly decide where it goes. It's not as if I can say to the IRS "Here's the money I owe you. I want 25% of it to go to NASA, .5% to fight MS, 5% For the Military, 12% to the Strategic Helium Reserve, etc..."
Once we hand over the money, we don't get it back. It's not as if the goverment would be refunding us if it decided not to fight Microsoft.
"Might I suggest that whomever posts the quickies place an obvious warning label as to objectionable content so that users don't click where they shouldn't while at work"
Umm... He did mention the word "porn". How obvious does it have to be?
And what's that second plant underneath the desk? The Yucca's broker?
". the natural range and flow of emotions is part of what makes us who we are and part of what makes us human.
But if you were unbalanced for whatever reason. (Born that way, brain damage, whatever...) You could use a computer to define a new range and flow.
Also I assume the knowledge of exactly how this is controlled would be very usefull to people researching almost anything to do with our brains.
But that's the point. If he's pointing out a variable that he thinks wasn't properly controled, he's sugesting that there's a chance however small that that variable effected the outcome of the expirement.
Would you rather he said "The way this experiment was performed the milk wasn't ruled out as the culpret. But what the hell! We all drink milk! We know that's not it."?
I doesn't matter anyway though, since the milk was p resent for both the controll and the test it's not a variable.
Well, it's realy a stupid question actualy. Since it's not quantitative it's essantaly asking "Do you wish Windows was less buggy then it is now?". This is like asking "Do you wish your car was more gas-efficiant?" Nobody in their right mind would say "No, In fact I wish my car would burn oil too!".
I'm more suprised about the 10% that said "no".
"Furthermore, IMHO, not being bombed by terrorists is a bit more important than maintaining my personal privacy. "
Of course the logical extension of this would be the Borg Collective. Sure the borg extend your life-span, eliminate wars and all other forms of conflict and make you part of the winingest team in the Galaxy. But who wants to be part of the collective? I know I don't.
Also, while we're on the subject, on Jam Echelon day how many of the jaming messages would have been flaged if they filtered out all messages with the word "Echelon" in them?
My problem isn't that it's easier to vote. It's that I have no faith that they'll even try to educate voters on what choices there are. The less effort required to vote the lower percentage of people who strongly care about what's going on. Not that the middle-of-the-road type people don't have a right to a vote, but when we see an election or issue we don't care about we're more likely to choose one out of fancy, or who's name we recognise most.
Also as far as I can see no one seems to have mentioned that Internet voting would effectivly limit voting to the middle and upper classes. People who don't have or don't want computers or Internet access would still have to fight traffic, wake up early, and stand in line while the old lady in front of them makes a fuss about something or anouther. So we'd effectivly be doubleing or tripleing the number of upper and middle class voters while keeping the lower class votes at the same level. That's going to scew results.
If we took this one step further it could be an even greater tool for democracy but it would have even more risks. What if we were alowed to vote on the issues themselves and not just the politions? This would definetly reduce voter frustration. But it could be extremly easily skewed simply by rewording the first paragraph and even the first line of whatever we were voting on.
I sugest that when Internet voting becomes available that a mechinism should be employed have short boiler-plate summaries of each polition's views and histories. Not just autobiographies either. Watchdog orgs should be in on this to. And this should be on the screen that comes up BEFORE the voting page.
I also think that when Internet voting shows up Telephone voting should also become available. Otherwise you're cutting out people without Computers. (pay-phones are everywhere.)
>" i mean, what happens when you listen to a real jukebox? "
Generaly I put my $.10/$.25/$.50 (depending on how old the machine is) and I select which music I want to hear. Then that song is added to the queue.
As far as I can remember, I've never had to disclose my name to the JukeBox, nor did I have to tell it which records I own at home.
But I don't use Jukeboxes very often. It's possible I missed something.
I thought the point was that pronouncable names are easier to remember. You tell xomeone that "Cyclops" = help desk they'll remember. You tell someone that "Machine202485924" = helpdesk they'll have to write it down if they ever want to type it in again.