Excuse me, but when did the male hacker become a negative stereotype? Someone's confusing Slashdot's nerds for ESR's hackers, at great expense to available females everywhere.
No, he'll care about a free internet. Rather than admit to the public he wants his porn, he'll start spouting Slashdot/ACLU rhetoric about freedom of speech and so forth. He'll care about a "free internet" precisely because he can't say he cares about "my porn".
Mankind is inherently good, but oppression and his upbringing quickly teach even the smallest child that the best way to make yourself happy is to hurt and control others.
OF COURSE WE CAN CHOOSE ANOTHER ISP! Just like we can choose another political candidate at the ballot box. Except that in business the Green Party would be dead (out of business) and I'd have noone to choose from.
This situation is called an oligopoly, and it is exactly what allowing a two-tiered internet leads to.
Yep, you're free to choose whichever of the two area ISPs/carriers you like. Kind of like how we're free to choose whichever political candidate we like!
In order to vote the bastards out of power a new voting system is needed so that you can vote your conscience without wasting a vote. I recommend a Condorcet Method with Borda Count tiebreaker.
If you don't know what those are, Wikipedia is your friend.
I prefer using them, but the problem is that we've let our actual military gain far more power (nanoarmor anyone? Tanks?) than civil militias can hope for even under the best circumstances.
That crash will never happen because labor isn't "just another commodity to be traded". Labor is millions of people with lives, hopes, dreams, possessions, rights, bodies, souls and aspirations. Many of these hopes, dreams and aspirations involve a decently-paying job and do not involve moving to India just to go to college on the cheap. Therefore, these people will continue to pay for high-cost edumacations (how much do they really teach people in IT and CS programs, nowadays?), and the schools which provide said high-cost edumacations will never crash.
Also, if the price of labor ever really drops as low as you think we'll be witnesses to a real, live Leftist Revolution. Not everyone is as complacent as the USA. Not everyone puts up with having your work priced down or having no income because you won't work an order of magnitude lower than you need.
I hope they realize that suppressing all knowledge of the Truth will only make the Glorious Communist Revolution come faster as the masses find themselves suspiciously cut off from knowledge of alternate and Better Forms of Society.
Actually, the color coding would probably be more useful if it were texture mapping instead. Perhaps an icon for applications and thumbnails of some kind for files?
I agree completely. What's really needed in the GUI world isn't some 3D view of things, but the graphical equivalent of shell scripting.
That's where 3D might be able to help, by representing programs, their inputs and their outputs with 3D models that could be put together like say... K'Nex. There would only be X types of models, where X is the number of ways a given program can connect to another, but if they were actually color-coded (like the previously mentioned toys) it would become rather easy to put them together into useful structures. Where parameters were required a text box could be used to fill them in. Finished structures could be saved into a single icon or model that represents the entire thing and invokes it upon something like a double-click.
And if you want to ask about the interface for doing this, go find Maya or Milkshape 3D or any other modeling program, and ask them. They've probably done the most work on the subject.
Of course not. They'll give money to the guy who can host their blog with better performance and reliability, perhaps by soliciting donations from readers (like every webpage does). A few new businesses could even open and employ people just to host blogs, at least until the fad dies down. Everybody who invests with intelligence wins.
Probably. Windows and Unix are gradually becoming quite like each other per application: Windows and Unix desktop software are becoming alike and Windows and Unix server software are becoming alike. Soon the real choice will be not between operating systems, but between Enterprise, Datacenter, Desktop or Server editions of either one.
Whether this is a good thing or not is up to you, of course.
You could possibly sue because Krispy Kremes contain a chemical that produces a faint scent engineered to make the eater desire more. I think the attempt to make donuts addictive is sue-worthy.
I predict that when this stuff hits supermarket shelves there will be a sudden upsurge in demand for portable, reusable and small blast radius Electromagnetic Bombs that can shut off all forms of obnoxious advertising for a time. We already get annoyed by televisions and store radios everywhere we go, so this would simply be the straw to break the camel's back.
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Excuse me, but when did the male hacker become a negative stereotype? Someone's confusing Slashdot's nerds for ESR's hackers, at great expense to available females everywhere.
No, he'll care about a free internet. Rather than admit to the public he wants his porn, he'll start spouting Slashdot/ACLU rhetoric about freedom of speech and so forth. He'll care about a "free internet" precisely because he can't say he cares about "my porn".
Anything whose chiefest motive is to enrich itself at the expense of others, even at the expense of its own human cells, is bad.
Mankind is inherently good, but oppression and his upbringing quickly teach even the smallest child that the best way to make yourself happy is to hurt and control others.
OF COURSE WE CAN CHOOSE ANOTHER ISP! Just like we can choose another political candidate at the ballot box. Except that in business the Green Party would be dead (out of business) and I'd have noone to choose from.
This situation is called an oligopoly, and it is exactly what allowing a two-tiered internet leads to.
Yep, you're free to choose whichever of the two area ISPs/carriers you like. Kind of like how we're free to choose whichever political candidate we like!
Ah, but when people can't get their pr0n... All of a sudden Joe Sixpack is going to care about a free internet.
Actually this topic was on Slashdot just last week before Digg had it.
Thank you oh First Republican President. Yeah, the bastard who voided the Constitution and create Executive Orders from whole cloth.
In order to vote the bastards out of power a new voting system is needed so that you can vote your conscience without wasting a vote. I recommend a Condorcet Method with Borda Count tiebreaker.
If you don't know what those are, Wikipedia is your friend.
I prefer using them, but the problem is that we've let our actual military gain far more power (nanoarmor anyone? Tanks?) than civil militias can hope for even under the best circumstances.
This was on Digg yesterday. And they also have a story about how some new Futurama stuff might get made.
That crash will never happen because labor isn't "just another commodity to be traded". Labor is millions of people with lives, hopes, dreams, possessions, rights, bodies, souls and aspirations. Many of these hopes, dreams and aspirations involve a decently-paying job and do not involve moving to India just to go to college on the cheap. Therefore, these people will continue to pay for high-cost edumacations (how much do they really teach people in IT and CS programs, nowadays?), and the schools which provide said high-cost edumacations will never crash.
Also, if the price of labor ever really drops as low as you think we'll be witnesses to a real, live Leftist Revolution. Not everyone is as complacent as the USA. Not everyone puts up with having your work priced down or having no income because you won't work an order of magnitude lower than you need.
Videogames claim lives because the government wants to regulate video games.
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Slashdot ate the irony tag in the real post.
I hope they realize that suppressing all knowledge of the Truth will only make the Glorious Communist Revolution come faster as the masses find themselves suspiciously cut off from knowledge of alternate and Better Forms of Society.
Actually, the color coding would probably be more useful if it were texture mapping instead. Perhaps an icon for applications and thumbnails of some kind for files?
It looks damn cool, but it seems to lofty a goal to really make it there.
I agree completely. What's really needed in the GUI world isn't some 3D view of things, but the graphical equivalent of shell scripting.
That's where 3D might be able to help, by representing programs, their inputs and their outputs with 3D models that could be put together like say... K'Nex. There would only be X types of models, where X is the number of ways a given program can connect to another, but if they were actually color-coded (like the previously mentioned toys) it would become rather easy to put them together into useful structures. Where parameters were required a text box could be used to fill them in. Finished structures could be saved into a single icon or model that represents the entire thing and invokes it upon something like a double-click.
And if you want to ask about the interface for doing this, go find Maya or Milkshape 3D or any other modeling program, and ask them. They've probably done the most work on the subject.
Of course not. They'll give money to the guy who can host their blog with better performance and reliability, perhaps by soliciting donations from readers (like every webpage does). A few new businesses could even open and employ people just to host blogs, at least until the fad dies down. Everybody who invests with intelligence wins.
Probably. Windows and Unix are gradually becoming quite like each other per application: Windows and Unix desktop software are becoming alike and Windows and Unix server software are becoming alike. Soon the real choice will be not between operating systems, but between Enterprise, Datacenter, Desktop or Server editions of either one.
Whether this is a good thing or not is up to you, of course.
Who wanted a 3D desktop again? I happen to like just a command line and Fluxbox.
Older? When did the 9800 become "older"?
You could possibly sue because Krispy Kremes contain a chemical that produces a faint scent engineered to make the eater desire more. I think the attempt to make donuts addictive is sue-worthy.
I predict that when this stuff hits supermarket shelves there will be a sudden upsurge in demand for portable, reusable and small blast radius Electromagnetic Bombs that can shut off all forms of obnoxious advertising for a time. We already get annoyed by televisions and store radios everywhere we go, so this would simply be the straw to break the camel's back.