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The common phrase in the business world is "opportunity cost". If you download the MP3 instead of buying the album, the artist loses out. That's always been the argument against music/software "piracy".
Thing is: I don't believe this argument necessarily applies. Having MP3s to play while you're at your computer is all very well, but it's so bloody hard to get decent quality tracks from the web; they're either scrambled, have too much treble/bass, , are too loud/quiet or the server dies before you're finished.
I'm a perfectionist - I don't just want lots of music, but I want it to stand the test of being listenable when I record it onto my MD walkman (stop thief!) so ultimately, I'm most likely to buy the CD and THEN rip it.
Re:Boycott natural language technologies.
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Now then: what better way to shoot down the argument above than to see what it looks like when put through the Babelfish wringer. Totally quite by the way, Babelfish is absolutely useless at translating any useful amount of text. To prove the point, here's the old English-German-English trick on the first two paragraphs:
" you ask those stupid products " of the natural speech ", which are set out there, for Jeeves ", " Babelfish ", " GPLTrans " and all are even antisocial corporatistmachinations. They existierenen only for further dispossesion the capital of the work, with predictable not welcome effects after the larger part of the social constituency. It all part of a Plots to move into a world on in which the Rich has the access _ really _ to the intelligent INFO officials i.e. actual people for doing its research for it, while the remainder is refused by us the most effective means that we have to already pick (i.e. Librarian) crucial information out for our social fight.
I rest my case. btw, idiots shouldn't be allowed to swallow dictionaries.
The problem, as I see it, of letting stuff evolve organically is that people and society tend to fuck it up. Unfortunately, people will always be greedy, selfish and jealous and (dons flame-suit) the more freedom you give to a large group, the more likely some of them are to abuse it. By the same definition, any freely elected government will freely take any handouts freely offered by big corporation whose interests in personal liberty are minimal and who, by dint of their size, then freely influence the poor, innocent govt. officials to curtail our liberty.
What Stephenson, Berners-Lee et al were all gravitating towards is an idea of a society (and a government is really only a reflection/secondary element/spin-off of its society), where there is a strong enough feeling of trust and social responsibility awareness of the importance personal liberty that nobody has to fight to keep some of their stuff private; encryption will be as inalienable a right as free speech (which would also slightly less alienable than it currently is;-) ).
Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, this utopian ideal has a snowball's chance in hell of actually happening. Ah well. Bless the lads for trying anyway.
I guess you answered my question. Congratulations, sir: you and I have wasted useful bandwidth having a little slagging match.
I just have two questions: whose tongue were you talking about? Surely that should have read "your tongue"? And what in the name of all that's smelly and obnoxious is a goatface?
Neal Stephenson?? Could be interesting for all those interesting "Authorisation Janeway Alpha" encryption bits.
Only possible thing that might make this good would be if there wasn't a set cast. It is, after all, about the Federation and should surely span a couple of generations. Hey, this might be a good idea actually...
So what was that one with Kim/Chakotay making it home safely because of this funky new drive but everyone else dying and the lads becoming outcasts because of their grim determination to go back in time and change what happened? Go on, dazzle me:)
We could have all the "enlightened" federation ships running Linux 2100, each with their own customised bridge skins, constantly h4x0ring the Klingon ships which are running P'TACH!! (or however you spell it) 2000, which was designed by a direct descendant of one W. Gates, who defected to the Klingon side in 2017.
Each show would climax with an illegal operation gag and the Klingon captain always finishes with the line: "I'd have succeeded if it weren't for that pesky Norwegian!"...
...it's rare enough that I've seen any Trek episode that I didn't find some way entertaining or at even had to resist the urge the urge to flip onto something else. The plots have varied over time between bland and phenomenal, but Trek at its best can be no less riveting than the X-Files, First Wave, Millenium or whatever. For the most part, the plots teeter on the bland edge but it's never bad TV and you don't feel your IQ going down the toilet as you watch it.
Granted, each of the latter series have their characters you just want to strangle (Wesley Crusher, Jake Sisko, Neelix...) but, by and large, there's a lot worse shit out there that I could be watching (This is beginning to sound very half-hearted;-] ).
Having said all that, a fifth Trek might be pushing it. DS9's last episode was aired on this side of the Atlantic last Monday by Sky, and it left a huge hole open for the almost inevitable DS9 movie. Movies I could just about take; the series, no. Sorry lads...
E-mail aside, the only time a lot of internet users type anything over the Net is when they're filling out their credit-card details. They are the ultimate consumers. Otherwise, clicking links = clicking remote button.
Somebody already said it earlier: 5% of the web, read by 95% of the users. It's not the amount the information so much as how accessible that information is.
its pretty simple to set up a web server and make your own pages.
...and God help you if you decide to post anything that doesn't coincide with AOL/Time-Warner's cosy middle-class white-bread 7pm-on-a-Saturday-evening view of the world. That includes everyone from the porn-merchants to the Klan fuckheads, the hackers and the dangerous intellectuals. You may not like some of them but this ISP doesn't like any of them
AOL/Time-Warner are of course perfectly entitled to regulate what is contained on their own servers but by dint of their very size and ubiquity they reduce the choice readily available both to their own users looking for anything outside aol.com/my.netscape.com and the first-timers who simply go for the biggest name.
Monopolies are not generally bad. Misuse of a monopoly position (a la MS) is. But when it comes to those who would provide millions with their only everyday access to the world outside their own town, one uniform point of view without competition can only be harmful. The day News International/Fox get onto the net proper is the day we kiss our freedom goodbye.
College account, floating profile, but then there's a lot of stuff screwed up on these comps, not least of which is the sysadmin's insistence of running setiathome by default in the background of every machine!
Not like I have a choice of browser anyway; IE was dumped from every computer in our college when they ditched 95 for NT (boo..no more nuking) but discovered that IE5 had a little problem as regards temp internet files eating up user profile caches. Upside of this: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down".
This brings back fond memories I have of finally purging IE3 from the C drive and suddently getting "access denied" messages from the Temporary Internet Files folder...at least Netscape keeps itself to itself in one tidy folder and doesn't sprawl all over your stuff like the house-guest from Hell...
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Sod that: make your own! I'm going to find my soldering iron right now.
I reckon that all Saddam Hussein needs now is one of these things and a PSX2 missile guidance chip and he'll take Kuwait proper this time :-)
So now y'all can get from the liquor store to the Kwik-E-Mart faster than ever before...
Now all we need is Pokemon for Linux...if you train your card well you can evolve it up to a Gold Card etc...
SmartQuake(tm):
//kill Gates!
unbindall
name GtD
number "1234 5678 9101"
bind +swipe "impulse 9"
changelevel redmond.bsp
Hey. does this mean we get charged interest on every frag?
page began to load fine for me, with title bar etc and then stopped with:
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can't connect to database
Poor kids
The common phrase in the business world is "opportunity cost". If you download the MP3 instead of buying the album, the artist loses out. That's always been the argument against music/software "piracy".
Thing is: I don't believe this argument necessarily applies. Having MP3s to play while you're at your computer is all very well, but it's so bloody hard to get decent quality tracks from the web; they're either scrambled, have too much treble/bass, , are too loud/quiet or the server dies before you're finished.
I'm a perfectionist - I don't just want lots of music, but I want it to stand the test of being listenable when I record it onto my MD walkman (stop thief!) so ultimately, I'm most likely to buy the CD and THEN rip it.
Now then: what better way to shoot down the argument above than to see what it looks like when put through the Babelfish wringer. Totally quite by the way, Babelfish is absolutely useless at translating any useful amount of text. To prove the point, here's the old English-German-English trick on the first two paragraphs:
" you ask those stupid products " of the natural speech ", which are set out there, for Jeeves ", " Babelfish ", " GPLTrans " and all are even antisocial corporatistmachinations. They existierenen only for further dispossesion the capital of the work, with predictable not welcome effects after the larger part of the social constituency. It all part of a Plots to move into a world on in which the Rich has the access _ really _ to the intelligent INFO officials i.e. actual people for doing its research for it, while the remainder is refused by us the most effective means that we have to already pick (i.e. Librarian) crucial information out for our social fight.
I rest my case. btw, idiots shouldn't be allowed to swallow dictionaries.
Even better, think of a fridge, which works the same way but with all those lovely ozone-unfriendly materials.
The problem, as I see it, of letting stuff evolve organically is that people and society tend to fuck it up. Unfortunately, people will always be greedy, selfish and jealous and (dons flame-suit) the more freedom you give to a large group, the more likely some of them are to abuse it. By the same definition, any freely elected government will freely take any handouts freely offered by big corporation whose interests in personal liberty are minimal and who, by dint of their size, then freely influence the poor, innocent govt. officials to curtail our liberty.
;-) ).
What Stephenson, Berners-Lee et al were all gravitating towards is an idea of a society (and a government is really only a reflection/secondary element/spin-off of its society), where there is a strong enough feeling of trust and social responsibility awareness of the importance personal liberty that nobody has to fight to keep some of their stuff private; encryption will be as inalienable a right as free speech (which would also slightly less alienable than it currently is
Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, this utopian ideal has a snowball's chance in hell of actually happening. Ah well. Bless the lads for trying anyway.
I guess you answered my question. Congratulations, sir: you and I have wasted useful bandwidth having a little slagging match.
I just have two questions: whose tongue were you talking about? Surely that should have read "your tongue"?
And what in the name of all that's smelly and obnoxious is a goatface?
(All done now btw. Go back to your tinker-toys.)
and don't try emptying it on the floor
"Some Coke?"
"Yeah, sure, but just a small slice"
er, enlighten us, then. how should it translate?
Neal Stephenson?? Could be interesting for all those interesting "Authorisation Janeway Alpha" encryption bits.
:o)
Only possible thing that might make this good would be if there wasn't a set cast. It is, after all, about the Federation and should surely span a couple of generations. Hey, this might be a good idea actually...
shit...contradicting myself now...
ah. ignore my question in the other thread then :)
So what was that one with Kim/Chakotay making it home safely because of this funky new drive but everyone else dying and the lads becoming outcasts because of their grim determination to go back in time and change what happened? Go on, dazzle me :)
That's it! Star Trek: H4x0r5...
We could have all the "enlightened" federation ships running Linux 2100, each with their own customised bridge skins, constantly h4x0ring the Klingon ships which are running P'TACH!! (or however you spell it) 2000, which was designed by a direct descendant of one W. Gates, who defected to the Klingon side in 2017.
Each show would climax with an illegal operation gag and the Klingon captain always finishes with the line: "I'd have succeeded if it weren't for that pesky Norwegian!"...
...it's rare enough that I've seen any Trek episode that I didn't find some way entertaining or at even had to resist the urge the urge to flip onto something else. The plots have varied over time between bland and phenomenal, but Trek at its best can be no less riveting than the X-Files, First Wave, Millenium or whatever. For the most part, the plots teeter on the bland edge but it's never bad TV and you don't feel your IQ going down the toilet as you watch it.
;-] ).
Granted, each of the latter series have their characters you just want to strangle (Wesley Crusher, Jake Sisko, Neelix...) but, by and large, there's a lot worse shit out there that I could be watching (This is beginning to sound very half-hearted
Having said all that, a fifth Trek might be pushing it. DS9's last episode was aired on this side of the Atlantic last Monday by Sky, and it left a huge hole open for the almost inevitable DS9 movie. Movies I could just about take; the series, no. Sorry lads...
E-mail aside, the only time a lot of internet users type anything over the Net is when they're filling out their credit-card details. They are the ultimate consumers. Otherwise, clicking links = clicking remote button.
Somebody already said it earlier: 5% of the web, read by 95% of the users. It's not the amount the information so much as how accessible that information is.
its pretty simple to set up a web server and make your own pages.
...and God help you if you decide to post anything that doesn't coincide with AOL/Time-Warner's cosy middle-class white-bread 7pm-on-a-Saturday-evening view of the world. That includes everyone from the porn-merchants to the Klan fuckheads, the hackers and the dangerous intellectuals. You may not like some of them but this ISP doesn't like any of them
AOL/Time-Warner are of course perfectly entitled to regulate what is contained on their own servers but by dint of their very size and ubiquity they reduce the choice readily available both to their own users looking for anything outside aol.com/my.netscape.com and the first-timers who simply go for the biggest name.
Monopolies are not generally bad. Misuse of a monopoly position (a la MS) is. But when it comes to those who would provide millions with their only everyday access to the world outside their own town, one uniform point of view without competition can only be harmful. The day News International/Fox get onto the net proper is the day we kiss our freedom goodbye.
Gnarph could be a misspelling of "Nerf". Nerf - lager = a very foamy beer!
Maybe it's just what Pinky quaffs...narf!
College account, floating profile, but then there's a lot of stuff screwed up on these comps, not least of which is the sysadmin's insistence of running setiathome by default in the background of every machine!
Not like I have a choice of browser anyway; IE was dumped from every computer in our college when they ditched 95 for NT (boo..no more nuking) but discovered that IE5 had a little problem as regards temp internet files eating up user profile caches. Upside of this: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down".
Very fucking irritating...
This brings back fond memories I have of finally purging IE3 from the C drive and suddently getting "access denied" messages from the Temporary Internet Files folder...at least Netscape keeps itself to itself in one tidy folder and doesn't sprawl all over your stuff like the house-guest from Hell...
Still kind of handy when your ISP spontaneously and frequently decides to drop your connection though...I'd never have got 4.5 otherwise (lucky me) :-)