Believe it or not,when the Mozilla project decided to kill the Mozilla suite (browser email newsreader and composer all in one piece) some developers decided to continue it on. The project is called Seamonkey and its the browser of choice for many of us. I add this comment on to the parent because the code that was split off when Firefox happened is NVU. But the composer component of Seamonkey, while somewhat plain, is a fairly decent WYSIWYG html editor. Also,it has a seamless drag and drop capability with the browser component which is nice for grabbing images from anywhere else on the web to your own page.
Alse, because the browser and composer are so tightly integrated,you can just pick 'edit'from any browser window and it pulls the page you are viewing into a composer window.
Seamonkey is,of course an open source pzrt of the Mozilla project that you can download for free.
The days when a group of people who flunked out of Calculus (and couldn't get into the English Department so they transferred to J school) get to decide what 'the public needs to know' are long gone.
A lot of us are fricking glad that 'news organizations' don't 'work to maintain the balance of information' any longer. The situation isn't really that much improved from before, but at least some of the pomposity has been eradicated. Fucking Walter Concrete might be your hero, but to a lot of us he was just another stuffed shirt. Dan Rather was the last of the line, and it wasn't sad to see him go.
The Internet Service Providers provide connectivity to the backbone. So, simply put, the number of ISPs is truncated a little, and some protocol changes are made. The 'mainstream' protocol is already due for a major update, in the form of IPV6. 'Why not do a little more tinkering around with it,' I am sure the authorities are saying....
Granted, you'll still be able to throw Slackware on a bunch of boxes in your basement and throw files back and forth between them. Nobody is saying you actually have to connect to The New Gateway To The New Secure Information Superhighway.
I remember what the hardware vendors did to OS/2. Bundling it on their hardware meant sending a thick licensing payment to IBM, who incidentally was one of their direct competitors on the market, for ever unit they sold. Possibly in some cases a payment greater than the profit on their sale of the hardware. It wasn't Microsoft alone that killed OS/2. It was the market of buyers who didn't want it, the app developers who didn't want to develop for it, and the hardware vendors that didn't want to pay a tax to one of their competitors for each unit they sold.
We'll be faced with going back to international travel times of a few weeks. Of course, this may also result in the resurgence of domestic manufacturing which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Naw, the outsourcing fucks will just hold their meetings by teleconference. Face to face isn't really that important. Most of the 'globalizing of trade' isn't dependent on air travel. It's dependent on big shipping containers.
The only resource we are using up is oil and there is growing interest and use of Hydrogen for Fuel (do a youtube search on HHO)
Why would we need to use something risky and unproven like hydrogen for a 'fuel'? Can't we just unearth a lot of spinning flywheels? With enough spinning, heavy flywheels, our energy needs can be met for decades.
I doubt if parent poster will be able to figure out what I'm getting at. But I had to say it anyway.
And we'll never be able to reach a consensus on a new economic model because of it.
Thank goodness for that. 'Consensus' implies central planning, and central planning implies the dude up at the top telling everyone else what to do. Which is inherently self-defeating.
But let's be fair here, a great deal of the advances we've made have been in the field of digging things up and consuming them -- energy, plastics, computers, etc. etc.
Utter crap. Where did you dig up your computer? I didn't dig mine out of the ground. There is tremendous value-add involved, the raw materials aren't all that is involved.
GE knew 40 years ago that they''d be able to buy and own US presidents, the way the owned Ronald Reagan and presently own Obama. (two presidents for whom the links to GE are very, very easy to trace) so they didn't sweat much then, or now.
Oh, he's fretting alright. Apparently he and his wife BOTH were sick that day in 7th Grade health class and have never understood where children come from. Wouldn't you fret if you were confused to that degree?
We have plenty of land and space and resources; what we do not have is a decent distribution system and that is a political - not scientific - problem.
That's a crock. It's a technical problem, technology is based in science, and even science is at root political. And the preceding sentence just scratches the surface. But bromides are fun to dabble in, so have fun.
That's hard to say. But most of the people who shriek on about 'looming excessive population growth' have centralized 'just do what we have in this plan here' fixes they are proposing. It's the same everywhere, and regular people just need to say 'fuck off' to the central planners. (and themselves not 'fuck off' more than they can afford the children that result from, of course)
There is a lot more loaded into that 'no' than you apparently think. It should be 'none of the above, you've asked a very very loaded question.'
Why does it matter that this Friedman dude has a Pulitzer Prize? Isn't that just a journalist's award? How does that qualify him as an expert in this stuff. I know he's successful at selling books. Or at least at getting them onto the bookshelves of bookstores....
There are people who counter your position with the position that the whole idea of referring to energy as 'fossil fuel' is just a preloaded form of propaganda. Energy is energy is energy. It isn't something that it will ever be possible to run out of. At present a lot of it comes from 'fossil' sources. But more energy pours into the environment all the time. We couldn't ever run out. We just need to find new and better ways to convert it into forms we can use effectively for our objectives.
It isn't a zero-sum deal. That's what lets all the gas out of the 'population growth will wipe us out' boogyman.
Ehrlich's time was the 60s and 70s. Back then an American could work ONE JOB and OWN A HOME AND AFFORD TWO CARS AND A FAMILY.
Yes, but in the 60's and 70's familys tended to have one, or maybe two televisions in the house. Telephones were items leased from the phone company that were seldom if ever replaced, and many households just had one or two in the house. People bought vinyl disks to play on things called phonographs. Very little of the tech in the households of that era was regularly replaced.
Granted, Sony didn't have the profit margins or the market penetration that it does today, but people were generally as happy in their lives, or more so, than they are now.
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Real hackers write their code using a little wire cutter. They cut the appropriate diodes out of the array.
And to answer your second question: No, there is no such thing as a disassembler. Once the code is converted to binary, it's gone, baby, gone.
We've already got some of those and people are willing to wait in long lines and pay a premium for the newest models.
Only a small subset of the populace is like that, however. The Rest Of Us (tm) find them amusing to observe.
like requiring all programmers to register with a government authority
Better yet, we can set up the Operating Systems so they can only run programs that have been downloaded from special App Stores! Hey! What an idea!
Believe it or not,when the Mozilla project decided to kill the Mozilla suite (browser email newsreader and composer all in one piece) some developers decided to continue it on. The project is called Seamonkey and its the browser of choice for many of us. I add this comment on to the parent because the code that was split off when Firefox happened is NVU. But the composer component of Seamonkey, while somewhat plain, is a fairly decent WYSIWYG html editor. Also,it has a seamless drag and drop capability with the browser component which is nice for grabbing images from anywhere else on the web to your own page.
Alse, because the browser and composer are so tightly integrated,you can just pick 'edit'from any browser window and it pulls the page you are viewing into a composer window.
Seamonkey is,of course an open source pzrt of the Mozilla project that you can download for free.
Because the public needs to know? Hardly.
The days when a group of people who flunked out of Calculus (and couldn't get into the English Department so they transferred to J school) get to decide what 'the public needs to know' are long gone.
A lot of us are fricking glad that 'news organizations' don't 'work to maintain the balance of information' any longer. The situation isn't really that much improved from before, but at least some of the pomposity has been eradicated. Fucking Walter Concrete might be your hero, but to a lot of us he was just another stuffed shirt. Dan Rather was the last of the line, and it wasn't sad to see him go.
They are sociopaths, getting off on causing others misery. They need to be locked up.
Did your wife look at your Facebook page this morning and subsequently pee in your oatmeal or something?
I guess that wasn't the kind of porn you liked, eh?
The Internet Service Providers provide connectivity to the backbone. So, simply put, the number of ISPs is truncated a little, and some protocol changes are made. The 'mainstream' protocol is already due for a major update, in the form of IPV6. 'Why not do a little more tinkering around with it,' I am sure the authorities are saying....
Granted, you'll still be able to throw Slackware on a bunch of boxes in your basement and throw files back and forth between them. Nobody is saying you actually have to connect to The New Gateway To The New Secure Information Superhighway.
Well, you see, Barry is behind it now, so it can't be criticized much.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation does not roll twelve-siders.
It isn't a game on a card table in the basement for them.
So, uh....
It could turn out to be an 'over Steve's Dead Body' kind of thing. IOW, wait a little while now.
The existence qf this lawsuit kind of shows a lack of diligence, IMHO
I remember what the hardware vendors did to OS/2. Bundling it on their hardware meant sending a thick licensing payment to IBM, who incidentally was one of their direct competitors on the market, for ever unit they sold. Possibly in some cases a payment greater than the profit on their sale of the hardware. It wasn't Microsoft alone that killed OS/2. It was the market of buyers who didn't want it, the app developers who didn't want to develop for it, and the hardware vendors that didn't want to pay a tax to one of their competitors for each unit they sold.
We'll be faced with going back to international travel times of a few weeks. Of course, this may also result in the resurgence of domestic manufacturing which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Naw, the outsourcing fucks will just hold their meetings by teleconference. Face to face isn't really that important. Most of the 'globalizing of trade' isn't dependent on air travel. It's dependent on big shipping containers.
The only resource we are using up is oil and there is growing interest and use of Hydrogen for Fuel (do a youtube search on HHO)
Why would we need to use something risky and unproven like hydrogen for a 'fuel'? Can't we just unearth a lot of spinning flywheels? With enough spinning, heavy flywheels, our energy needs can be met for decades.
I doubt if parent poster will be able to figure out what I'm getting at. But I had to say it anyway.
And we'll never be able to reach a consensus on a new economic model because of it.
Thank goodness for that. 'Consensus' implies central planning, and central planning implies the dude up at the top telling everyone else what to do. Which is inherently self-defeating.
Dude got his Pulitzer for being a good writer. It's as simple as that. Stephen King is a good writer, too.....
But let's be fair here, a great deal of the advances we've made have been in the field of digging things up and consuming them -- energy, plastics, computers, etc. etc.
Utter crap. Where did you dig up your computer? I didn't dig mine out of the ground. There is tremendous value-add involved, the raw materials aren't all that is involved.
GE knew 40 years ago that they''d be able to buy and own US presidents, the way the owned Ronald Reagan and presently own Obama. (two presidents for whom the links to GE are very, very easy to trace) so they didn't sweat much then, or now.
Oh, he's fretting alright. Apparently he and his wife BOTH were sick that day in 7th Grade health class and have never understood where children come from. Wouldn't you fret if you were confused to that degree?
It's not hard to prove that the Earth's temperature is increasing.
Of course it isn't. You just have to choose the proper data going into the calculations.
We have plenty of land and space and resources; what we do not have is a decent distribution system and that is a political - not scientific - problem.
That's a crock. It's a technical problem, technology is based in science, and even science is at root political. And the preceding sentence just scratches the surface. But bromides are fun to dabble in, so have fun.
What could possibly go wrong?
That's hard to say. But most of the people who shriek on about 'looming excessive population growth' have centralized 'just do what we have in this plan here' fixes they are proposing. It's the same everywhere, and regular people just need to say 'fuck off' to the central planners. (and themselves not 'fuck off' more than they can afford the children that result from, of course)
There is a lot more loaded into that 'no' than you apparently think. It should be 'none of the above, you've asked a very very loaded question.'
Why does it matter that this Friedman dude has a Pulitzer Prize? Isn't that just a journalist's award? How does that qualify him as an expert in this stuff. I know he's successful at selling books. Or at least at getting them onto the bookshelves of bookstores....
There are people who counter your position with the position that the whole idea of referring to energy as 'fossil fuel' is just a preloaded form of propaganda. Energy is energy is energy. It isn't something that it will ever be possible to run out of. At present a lot of it comes from 'fossil' sources. But more energy pours into the environment all the time. We couldn't ever run out. We just need to find new and better ways to convert it into forms we can use effectively for our objectives.
It isn't a zero-sum deal. That's what lets all the gas out of the 'population growth will wipe us out' boogyman.
Ehrlich's time was the 60s and 70s. Back then an American could work ONE JOB and OWN A HOME AND AFFORD TWO CARS AND A FAMILY.
Yes, but in the 60's and 70's familys tended to have one, or maybe two televisions in the house. Telephones were items leased from the phone company that were seldom if ever replaced, and many households just had one or two in the house. People bought vinyl disks to play on things called phonographs. Very little of the tech in the households of that era was regularly replaced.
Granted, Sony didn't have the profit margins or the market penetration that it does today, but people were generally as happy in their lives, or more so, than they are now.