The constitution also fails to mention the right of *individuals* to bear arms (who's in those "state malitias" anyway?). Yet, we want access to guns to be protected by law. Some might argue that federal guarantees of access to health care are at least as constitutional and, dare I say, more relevant to our general welfare than many other matters into which congress feels free to step; gun control being but one.
Then again, it's not like our president was a professor of constitutional law at one of the most renowned institutions in the country or anything. He probably never read the constitution and made the glaring error to which you refer.
Actually, it's not good for me personally. Not in the short run, anyway. I can afford and use Apple's shiniest new wonders. Also, it's not clear to me that even something as silly (from a short-term business model perspective) as an OLPC-like project would hurt the company. They have a growing and deserved image problem here on/. and elsewhere. Really. Of course you're correct on the history: high margin innovative products have gotten Apple to where they are. That's not in itself a compelling reason for them not to consider something somewhat philanthropic *now*.
Upon seeing the RSS title, I was hoping this piece was about Steve finally going down-market.
Yes, Apple's brand identity is about bourgeois status, but doesn't Steve ever consider doing something about the digital divide anyway?
Apple has repeatedly shown that it can create whole new markets. How about celebrating this nice round number stock price by working on something for the not-so-well-off?
Our jails and prisons are also swelling because of the slow death (through years of budget cuts) of our community mental health system.
A scholarly article on the matter
So, someone goofed and let a delusional person speak in a public forum on a topic related to her delusion. There's nothing to do here but make fun of people who suffer from delusions, or make fun of Georgian legislators: neither news for nerds nor stuff that matters.
Pretty scary thinking about one of these things hitting on top of or near a major population center. You mean "pretty pointless". Galactic FUD worthy of our fearmongering government.
Everything from cellphones and other small embedded computers that people wouldn't even think of as computers, to the bulk of the biggest machines on the supercomputer Top-500 list. That is flexibility.
I am just a noob, but it sound like this Linus guy is what you people are calling a "real fanboy". In my country, is easier to trust critic. In such cases we do not even read TFA.
Seems like AI is still struggling to make itself useful (and to redefine itself) if this makes the news for IEEE. Yes, I know there are real world applications of things we might call AI, but as the years go on, the backlash against the naive optimism of the 70's and 80's seems more and more justified.
Maybe someday we'll get to the bottom of this syntax/semantics thing, but I wouldn't bet my (hypothetical) VC money on it.
"Linux has it's uses, serious creative work isn't one of them."
While you're in general correct in your polemical post, you're going a bit far here. I *have* used both Mac and Linux and for *serious* (well, Masters level at least) creative work with not only serious hardware, but with my own (as in, I designed it and built it). The MOST serious creative work can IMHO be done more or less equally as painfully on Darwin and Linux because the MOST serious among us (about art, I mean, not income) are working at a very low level, and could therefore give a shit about all of those slick Mac apps.
Again, you are in general correct, but have *YOU* used both Max/MSP and Pd for a *serious* project? Creative work in Linux requires more work and -- for some -- is well worth it. What many people call creative work is simply the repetition of history using someone else's tools.
Here's a guess: The Physicalists have it basically right. Freedom, like objective morality, like God, IS simply a useful illusion to a cerebral cortex burdened by a capacity for self-regard. And, we'll end up proving it. We'll prove it in the same sense in which we've proven that light responds to gravity: with testable hypotheses and repeatable measurements (we don't yet have the tools to measure the things needed to generate the hypostheses needed to spawn the tools needed to make the measurements needed to find the answers... yippee! Science!)
And here's the kicker: All of the doomsday prophets who claim things like "If science disproves freedom, then all mighty nihilistic hell will break loose" have it exactly wrong. What our species needs is HUMILITY. And that's what we'll get when we finally learn that we are 100% animal, 0% God. Morality, law, guilt, norms, all of these things will still work. We will recognize them for what they are: Concepts that exist (as just that, concepts, patterns of neuronal activity stable within a brain and analogous between brains mediated by action, shared by language) in order to help us "all just get along". Morlity is for society. Society is for the flourishing of the life. Life -- it just is.
"Things didn't go wrong because Stalin was a particularly evil man"
What?
I encourage folks interested in the history of practical communism to read about Stalin (the man). That's all.
I wouldn't defend communism except in theory (and who cares about that), but really, come on. All systems of government centralize power somehow and power-hungry folks end up at the top.
Few have used a cult of personality so effectively and so murderously.
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Thanks for the advocacy in your sig. You might add an apostrophe to "youths".
The constitution also fails to mention the right of *individuals* to bear arms (who's in those "state malitias" anyway?). Yet, we want access to guns to be protected by law. Some might argue that federal guarantees of access to health care are at least as constitutional and, dare I say, more relevant to our general welfare than many other matters into which congress feels free to step; gun control being but one. Then again, it's not like our president was a professor of constitutional law at one of the most renowned institutions in the country or anything. He probably never read the constitution and made the glaring error to which you refer.
But it's magical. MAGICAL!
Like I said in the OP: silly, I know. Cheers ;)
Actually, it's not good for me personally. Not in the short run, anyway. I can afford and use Apple's shiniest new wonders. Also, it's not clear to me that even something as silly (from a short-term business model perspective) as an OLPC-like project would hurt the company. They have a growing and deserved image problem here on /. and elsewhere. Really. Of course you're correct on the history: high margin innovative products have gotten Apple to where they are. That's not in itself a compelling reason for them not to consider something somewhat philanthropic *now*.
Upon seeing the RSS title, I was hoping this piece was about Steve finally going down-market. Yes, Apple's brand identity is about bourgeois status, but doesn't Steve ever consider doing something about the digital divide anyway?
Apple has repeatedly shown that it can create whole new markets. How about celebrating this nice round number stock price by working on something for the not-so-well-off?
Silly, I know.
Our jails and prisons are also swelling because of the slow death (through years of budget cuts) of our community mental health system. A scholarly article on the matter
...and when you are free you are cursed by overabundant possibilities.
I was impressed with your point until you disclosed that you are anal. [smiles].
So, someone goofed and let a delusional person speak in a public forum on a topic related to her delusion. There's nothing to do here but make fun of people who suffer from delusions, or make fun of Georgian legislators: neither news for nerds nor stuff that matters.
I am just a noob, but it sound like this Linus guy is what you people are calling a "real fanboy". In my country, is easier to trust critic. In such cases we do not even read TFA.
Seems like AI is still struggling to make itself useful (and to redefine itself) if this makes the news for IEEE. Yes, I know there are real world applications of things we might call AI, but as the years go on, the backlash against the naive optimism of the 70's and 80's seems more and more justified.
Maybe someday we'll get to the bottom of this syntax/semantics thing, but I wouldn't bet my (hypothetical) VC money on it.
Old dog. New trick.
While you're in general correct in your polemical post, you're going a bit far here. I *have* used both Mac and Linux and for *serious* (well, Masters level at least) creative work with not only serious hardware, but with my own (as in, I designed it and built it). The MOST serious creative work can IMHO be done more or less equally as painfully on Darwin and Linux because the MOST serious among us (about art, I mean, not income) are working at a very low level, and could therefore give a shit about all of those slick Mac apps.
Again, you are in general correct, but have *YOU* used both Max/MSP and Pd for a *serious* project? Creative work in Linux requires more work and -- for some -- is well worth it. What many people call creative work is simply the repetition of history using someone else's tools.
Large objects can remain suspended in air indefinitely. Just takes a little nip, tuck and some silicone.
"Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend a Hoax."
Here's a guess: The Physicalists have it basically right. Freedom, like objective morality, like God, IS simply a useful illusion to a cerebral cortex burdened by a capacity for self-regard. And, we'll end up proving it. We'll prove it in the same sense in which we've proven that light responds to gravity: with testable hypotheses and repeatable measurements (we don't yet have the tools to measure the things needed to generate the hypostheses needed to spawn the tools needed to make the measurements needed to find the answers... yippee! Science!)
And here's the kicker: All of the doomsday prophets who claim things like "If science disproves freedom, then all mighty nihilistic hell will break loose" have it exactly wrong. What our species needs is HUMILITY. And that's what we'll get when we finally learn that we are 100% animal, 0% God. Morality, law, guilt, norms, all of these things will still work. We will recognize them for what they are: Concepts that exist (as just that, concepts, patterns of neuronal activity stable within a brain and analogous between brains mediated by action, shared by language) in order to help us "all just get along". Morlity is for society. Society is for the flourishing of the life. Life -- it just is.
"Things didn't go wrong because Stalin was a particularly evil man" What? I encourage folks interested in the history of practical communism to read about Stalin (the man). That's all. I wouldn't defend communism except in theory (and who cares about that), but really, come on. All systems of government centralize power somehow and power-hungry folks end up at the top. Few have used a cult of personality so effectively and so murderously.
...for providing a great name for the next release. We were going to go with *zit-faced swamp-donkey*.
"Should We Land on the Moon's Poles or Equator?" Answer: No. We've got more important things to do.
Beware the pretense of knowing what the "vast majority" apprehends. ...off topic, but vital.