It's my understanding that only small groups actually experience evolution because they must learn to adapt to survive. Large groups perish as a whole without evolving (althought he small groups may exist on the fringes of the larger group). Since we've overpopulated the world (thanks to the little kid who was born in Bosnia - - if he'd stayed inside we wouldn't have 6 billion people in the world today) --- we've actually paved the way for the end of selective evolution and opened the door to artificial evolution, progress for the masses, synthetic man.
Perhaps this is the evolution which awaits us: BAM! Overnight, we have three fingers growing out of our forehead so we can turn pages as we read instead of using our hands, and since computers will eventually take the place of books (everywhere but in museums), these three fingered head cases will become extinct. Maybe everyone in the world will be HIV positive someday, existing solely on inhibiting drugs to maintain life, and perhaps that is the only way humanity will survive a nuclear winter. Maybe the flu virus will eventually destroy the immune systems of everyone on earth and we will evolve into large, walking viruses. Maybe North America, or what is left of it after the U.S. passes off into ancient history, will be the birth place of a new Dodo or something that will evolve into the most intelligent creature in the universe. It can be very possible. The Dodo didn't need fossil fuels to exist. We're dead ending ourselves because we're destroying the forests, the fossil fuels, the environment, plasticizing (if there is there a word) ourselves into becoming synthetic representations of what Man once was. So once everything is gone, we sit here, 11 billion, 20 billion strong, wondering where our next meal comes from, when we get our next pain pill, and how long until the umteenth million rerun of Dobie Gillis hits the big tube so we can jell and forget about everything.
I don't mean to sound sarcastic, well . . . yes I do in a way, but I just think we're dead ending ourselves and there's no incentives for humanity, as a whole, to reverse this trend.
I like Jesse Ventura, too, for the same reason: He says what he means. But if we compare him to Hawking, who will be remembered more in the future? Jesse will be dead and in his grave and forgotten and Hawking will live on and on in word and deed.
I have a disability, and Hawking has always been one of my heroes, if one can have heroes anymore (but Ren and Stempy are a couple of heroes to me, too). For me, I use to think that life was going to be short so what the hell, but now I think, life is going to be short so I'm going to learn as much and do as much as I can. Who the hell cares what other people think anyway.
I don't think we're going to have too much to worry about in the future anyway, if we're expecting future Man to do anything to continue what's already been started. Future Man is a joke. Evolution, for humanity, is a dead end. We no longer have selective evolution for we no longer need to adapt in small groups to overcome obstacles. We are now one huge single minded entity bent on destroying ourselves intentionally or unintentionally. This is what really makes America beautiful . . . the blissful ignorance of the uneducated masses, and the apathy of those who have the abiilites to do something constructive but have a misplaced morality which prevents them from doing it.
Reactionary religious Bigots will always abound and screw up everything intelligent people try to do. What we need are fewer cowards in politics, and more people, right or wrong, who are willing to speak what they believe and not what people want to hear . . . not what is pc or ez but what is nearer to truth than fable. ---nedy--------------------------------"All unuttered truths turn poisonous." . . . Nietzche
I'd rather be a Cracker any day. I've met a lot of pretty nice Hackers on line, but I've also met some that enjoy hurting people and screwing around with web sites and going where no man has gone before kind of stuff. But all of the Crackers I've met so far have been super kewl. And I've learned a lot from them, and I'm still learning. ---nedy------------------------------------------- -"He that falls in love with hismelf will have no rivals." . . . Benjamin Franklin
Practical engineers don't get the big bucks, but when they're not around, nothing works right. Degreed engineers, who take home the big paychecks, usually can flash their diploma and get their ways, and nothing ever works right once they're finished with them. Then the practical engineers come along, screw with the thing for a few minutes and it works the way it's suppose to work. ---nedy----------------------------------"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, do it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." . . . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Mozilla 5.0 has its limitations, but they are easy enough to work around. Once you know a program's limitations, the marriage works a lot better.------------ As for Netscape, you really don't need all the plug-ins and add-ons and stuff. In fact, you don't need a lot of it. Just enough to make it run properly. With all the add ons, it looks fancy, but it runs about as well as Explorer, which is not good. It's like a fast car - - you have to stip away the dead weight to make it perform.------------nedy.------------------------- ---------------- Casey Stengel: "The future ain't what it use to be."
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Disagree in principle. I downloaded some patches that make Poser work a little better, and make animation a snap. I still don't like all of the over-blown features of Poser, but then, I don't like a lot of stuff with a lot of software so I go in and delete a lot of stuff as long as it doesn't screw things up. I haven't tried it on my LINUX yet. That will be another challenge. ---nedy.
When you come right down to it, the 34 Million miles from Earth to Mars (54.4 Million Kilometers) which the probe traveled was actually only off it's mark by 50 miles. So a $125 million dollar probe burned up in the atmosphere. It would be like trying to back your uncle's Astin Martin into the garage and missing the door opening by a centimeter, then it bursts into flame and self destructs. Damn, those Brits think of everything, don't they? ---nedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Groucho to Margaret Dumont: "I can see you and me married. I can see you bending over the stove. I can't see the stove."
Okay, I printed this thread and showed it to my dad and he said I was in the wrong on this one, that you're not stupid, just that you have some kind of comprehension deficit, so I apologize. I'm sorry I called you stupid. I'll watch for the handle Troll and be more understanding in the future. ---nedy. "We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." --- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Boy did you get up on the wrong side of the universe this morning. I was being sarcastic and you were being insulting. There's a big difference. If you can't handle a little constructive criiticism *( I was suggesting nicely that you should learn more about what you were writing about than just throwing out random thoughts as reality), you should go rethink your place in society. And you are still wrong if you think 300 individual cables are going to go inside one hulking cable. Things are not done that way. Companies hang their own cables. I know I don't write perfectly and I never admitted to it, and I don't believe in hell so I guess you'll just have to settle on being alone there. But I'm not going to insult you. I'm going to just say that I think you should really learn more about what your writing about. I changed my mind. I'm going to insult you anyway. You're stupid. ---nedy. "Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon." --- The Talmud
Bullshit!! It's a lot easier to blame inadequacies on some simple oversight (which, if you evaluate these things seem quite strange given that this is a mega-billion dollar agency with more built in checks and balances than the federal government) than it is to simply admit that sometimes we just don't know what we're doing. Seems weird they went this long into a project with daily communications and all, and then noticed they were talking two different languages ONLY after the space craft disappeared. Stupid is not the word. Coverup is the word. ---nedy. "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." ---Shakespeare, Hanlet IV,v.
So NASA is going to allow advertising. Next thing you know the Pope will have a swoosh on his vestments, and maybe Reform Jews will have Addidas on the Yamakas. I heard that MacDonalds is planning on painting their logo in red on the asses of every rat in San Francisco, since the last census found there were more rats than people in the city (politicians included). The other day, there was a small article tucked away in the newspaper which said some advertising agency is planning on having huge illuminated ads on the surface of the moon that can be seen from earth. Kind of takes the romance out of things, what with giant condom ads staring you right in the face just when you get ready to kiss someone. And now we have Pepsi and Coke fighting over who is going to put their machines in school cafeterias, so it all goes to prove one thing, as Rosanne Rosannadana use to say: "If it isn't one thing, it's another . . . . " ---nedy "Puto deus fio." (I believe I am turning into god" ---Giaus Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from De Vita Caesarum, Divus Vespasianus XXIII, 4. (as said by Vespasianus jsut before dying).
If there isn't a realistic parallel between NYC at the turn of the century and whether you are allowed competition (my spelling, not your's) in the cable industry, then how do you expect the signal is going to get to your house from the cable head-in? It has to come over cables. Not all cable companies are willing to share their cables with other companies, even if they get a lease fee or use fee for doing so, because it would cost them customers. So, the alternative is for any new company to string their own cables. So now you have competition and two sets of cables, and perhaps the entire cable industry becomes totally unregulated and closed franchises are no longer necessary . . . in large population centers, many cable companies would compete for customers, each with their own set of lines crisscrossing the cities in a spiderwork of cables (Sorry, Spidey sometimes cable companies can cut into a super hero domanin) . . . therefore you would have another blotch upon the aesthetics of how a natural skyline should appear. I'll take your "I'm sorry" as an admission that you just did not know how a cable signal gets into your home. ---nedy "Pecunia regimen est rerun omnium (Money rules all). ---Publilius Syrus
Shhhh . . . Quyet . . . I'm hunting wabbits . .." And Bills gates only owns 14% of Microsoft now, and Paul Allen only owns 5%, but if they are two of the wealthiest people in the world, just imagine the extent of Microsoft's holdings. So maybe Elmer Fudd should have started hunting those wabbits dozens of years ago when the men in dark suits from Microsoft were prowling the "creative" garages of the U.S. for computer nerds they could easily buyout. So now, with all the "back engineering" they are the world's market leader and everyone picks on them . . So why not! If they were more above board about stuff, and not so stingy, and didn't intentionally write into their software programming which would disrupt competitors' software, Microsoft might be more respected than it is . . . but then, that wouldn't be any fun if they were an honest company. What we have here is a failure to communicate . . . on an ethical level. ---nedy. Voltaire (Alauteur du livre des trois imposteurs): "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Nedyelyko Robinson: "If Bill Gates did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
Can you imagine how many cables would be strung from one pole to another if there were multiple cable companies serving any given area. It would be like New York City at the turn of the century, when so many competing electical companies and then teldephone companies almost blackened the skyline with cables. Mergers are a way of life, as are buyouts. In todays market, it's not how good your product is or how well you market it, but how much you can make by taking over other companies and then piecing them out to a dozen other companies, or shutting them down as write offs. It's business, that's all it is. Look at the current buy out of Tektronix by Xerox. Xerox was losing it because they would never share technology so other companies simply developed better and cheaper technology and Xerox got left by the wayside. Tektronix has been in trouble the last couple of years, laying off thousands of workers. They were ripe for a buyout. Xerox did it --- for almost a Billion Dollars. Both companies made out on this deal. Xerox now has GOOD colour laser printer technology without having to develop it, and Tektonix has an influx of almost a billion dollars cash to buyout smaller companies. ---nedy.
Who gives a rat's ass (that's the little round hole underneath the long tail thingy) one way or another, unless you're out there on the make. Everyone should, if they could, make their own ideals and guidelines. You may find it important to emulate your idol(s), but if you try to copy them word for word and act for act, you've abandoned yourself, for whatever it's worth. Perhaps you have no self worth, then by all means, go copycat someone who does have some. You may only end up to be a shallow, mirrored image but at least you're no longer completely boring. ---nedy.
See, too much work or becoming obsolete is a defeatist concept. If there is an idea or even a small ideal creeping around in the back of someone's head, it will be brought into being simply though perserverence and a deliberate will to make things happen. This is what separates the doers from the thumb suckers. "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live." --- Mark Twain.
Y2K in in the computer of the beholder. Thankfully, my computer is a little more intelligent than the ones going around crying "The sky is falling!" ---nedy.
Pseudo-science and Science Fiction are wonderful things to play with, but Clarke and others tend to take themselves too serious at times. Perhaps it goes with believing too much in their own rhetoric. The future of Man lies in overpopulation and the depletion of natural resources, followed by disease, war, and eventual barbarism. Perhaps the man of the future will sit in a cave with a battery powered lap top and search the remaining internet for some sign of intelligent life. Perhaps he will never find it. Androids feeling pain is with us now, depending upon just how much merging of man and machine you want to consider. People walk around with all kinds of mechanical devices implanted in them today. Now if we were to start implanting human parts into machines, a real cross over could be accomplished. But any progressive thinking doctor would tell you that the elimination of pain is one of the primary goals in medical science, so why would future science create an android which would feel pain? Emotional pain perhaps, if such a thing could be made possible, but never physical pain. http://www.xensei.com/users/jong/nedy.html
"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (Men readily believe what they want to believe) C. Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico III, 18
With all the acquisitions, takeovers, buyouts, and mergers taking place in the hardware, software and net industries, it's only a matter of time before Corel goes the way of many others. As soon as it becomes too profitable or too innovative, it will be gobbled up by one of the larger corporations. Eventually, everything will be controlled by just one or two major corporations, even LINUX, and the real internet, and the real innovations, will come from those who have learned to operate creatively outside the system, and not to rely on corporations like Corel to be there for them forever.
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It's my understanding that only small groups actually experience evolution because they must learn to adapt to survive. Large groups perish as a whole without evolving (althought he small groups may exist on the fringes of the larger group). Since we've overpopulated the world (thanks to the little kid who was born in Bosnia - - if he'd stayed inside we wouldn't have 6 billion people in the world today) --- we've actually paved the way for the end of selective evolution and opened the door to artificial evolution, progress for the masses, synthetic man.
Perhaps this is the evolution which awaits us: BAM! Overnight, we have three fingers growing out of our forehead so we can turn pages as we read instead of using our hands, and since computers will eventually take the place of books (everywhere but in museums), these three fingered head cases will become extinct. Maybe everyone in the world will be HIV positive someday, existing solely on inhibiting drugs to maintain life, and perhaps that is the only way humanity will survive a nuclear winter. Maybe the flu virus will eventually destroy the immune systems of everyone on earth and we will evolve into large, walking viruses. Maybe North America, or what is left of it after the U.S. passes off into ancient history, will be the birth place of a new Dodo or something that will evolve into the most intelligent creature in the universe. It can be very possible. The Dodo didn't need fossil fuels to exist. We're dead ending ourselves because we're destroying the forests, the fossil fuels, the environment, plasticizing (if there is there a word) ourselves into becoming synthetic representations of what Man once was. So once everything is gone, we sit here, 11 billion, 20 billion strong, wondering where our next meal comes from, when we get our next pain pill, and how long until the umteenth million rerun of Dobie Gillis hits the big tube so we can jell and forget about everything.
I don't mean to sound sarcastic, well . . . yes I do in a way, but I just think we're dead ending ourselves and there's no incentives for humanity, as a whole, to reverse this trend.
---nedy.
I like Jesse Ventura, too, for the same reason: He says what he means. But if we compare him to Hawking, who will be remembered more in the future? Jesse will be dead and in his grave and forgotten and Hawking will live on and on in word and deed.
I have a disability, and Hawking has always been one of my heroes, if one can have heroes anymore (but Ren and Stempy are a couple of heroes to me, too). For me, I use to think that life was going to be short so what the hell, but now I think, life is going to be short so I'm going to learn as much and do as much as I can. Who the hell cares what other people think anyway.
I don't think we're going to have too much to worry about in the future anyway, if we're expecting future Man to do anything to continue what's already been started. Future Man is a joke. Evolution, for humanity, is a dead end. We no longer have selective evolution for we no longer need to adapt in small groups to overcome obstacles. We are now one huge single minded entity bent on destroying ourselves intentionally or unintentionally. This is what really makes America beautiful . . . the blissful ignorance of the uneducated masses, and the apathy of those who have the abiilites to do something constructive but have a misplaced morality which prevents them from doing it.
---nedy.
Reactionary religious Bigots will always abound and screw up everything intelligent people try to do. What we need are fewer cowards in politics, and more people, right or wrong, who are willing to speak what they believe and not what people want to hear . . . not what is pc or ez but what is nearer to truth than fable. ---nedy--------------------------------"All unuttered truths turn poisonous." . . . Nietzche
I'd rather be a Cracker any day. I've met a lot of pretty nice Hackers on line, but I've also met some that enjoy hurting people and screwing around with web sites and going where no man has gone before kind of stuff. But all of the Crackers I've met so far have been super kewl. And I've learned a lot from them, and I'm still learning. ---nedy------------------------------------------- -"He that falls in love with hismelf will have no rivals." . . . Benjamin Franklin
Practical engineers don't get the big bucks, but when they're not around, nothing works right. Degreed engineers, who take home the big paychecks, usually can flash their diploma and get their ways, and nothing ever works right once they're finished with them. Then the practical engineers come along, screw with the thing for a few minutes and it works the way it's suppose to work. ---nedy----------------------------------"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, do it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." . . . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Mozilla 5.0 has its limitations, but they are easy enough to work around. Once you know a program's limitations, the marriage works a lot better.------------ As for Netscape, you really don't need all the plug-ins and add-ons and stuff. In fact, you don't need a lot of it. Just enough to make it run properly. With all the add ons, it looks fancy, but it runs about as well as Explorer, which is not good. It's like a fast car - - you have to stip away the dead weight to make it perform.------------nedy.------------------------- ---------------- Casey Stengel: "The future ain't what it use to be."
Disagree in principle. I downloaded some patches that make Poser work a little better, and make animation a snap. I still don't like all of the over-blown features of Poser, but then, I don't like a lot of stuff with a lot of software so I go in and delete a lot of stuff as long as it doesn't screw things up. I haven't tried it on my LINUX yet. That will be another challenge. ---nedy.
When you come right down to it, the 34 Million miles from Earth to Mars (54.4 Million Kilometers) which the probe traveled was actually only off it's mark by 50 miles. So a $125 million dollar probe burned up in the atmosphere. It would be like trying to back your uncle's Astin Martin into the garage and missing the door opening by a centimeter, then it bursts into flame and self destructs. Damn, those Brits think of everything, don't they? ---nedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Groucho to Margaret Dumont: "I can see you and me married. I can see you bending over the stove. I can't see the stove."
Okay, I printed this thread and showed it to my dad and he said I was in the wrong on this one, that you're not stupid, just that you have some kind of comprehension deficit, so I apologize. I'm sorry I called you stupid. I'll watch for the handle Troll and be more understanding in the future. ---nedy. "We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." --- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
I agree. --- nedy.
Boy did you get up on the wrong side of the universe this morning. I was being sarcastic and you were being insulting. There's a big difference. If you can't handle a little constructive criiticism *( I was suggesting nicely that you should learn more about what you were writing about than just throwing out random thoughts as reality), you should go rethink your place in society. And you are still wrong if you think 300 individual cables are going to go inside one hulking cable. Things are not done that way. Companies hang their own cables. I know I don't write perfectly and I never admitted to it, and I don't believe in hell so I guess you'll just have to settle on being alone there. But I'm not going to insult you. I'm going to just say that I think you should really learn more about what your writing about. I changed my mind. I'm going to insult you anyway. You're stupid. ---nedy. "Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon." --- The Talmud
Bullshit!! It's a lot easier to blame inadequacies on some simple oversight (which, if you evaluate these things seem quite strange given that this is a mega-billion dollar agency with more built in checks and balances than the federal government) than it is to simply admit that sometimes we just don't know what we're doing. Seems weird they went this long into a project with daily communications and all, and then noticed they were talking two different languages ONLY after the space craft disappeared. Stupid is not the word. Coverup is the word. ---nedy. "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." ---Shakespeare, Hanlet IV,v.
So NASA is going to allow advertising. Next thing you know the Pope will have a swoosh on his vestments, and maybe Reform Jews will have Addidas on the Yamakas. I heard that MacDonalds is planning on painting their logo in red on the asses of every rat in San Francisco, since the last census found there were more rats than people in the city (politicians included). The other day, there was a small article tucked away in the newspaper which said some advertising agency is planning on having huge illuminated ads on the surface of the moon that can be seen from earth. Kind of takes the romance out of things, what with giant condom ads staring you right in the face just when you get ready to kiss someone. And now we have Pepsi and Coke fighting over who is going to put their machines in school cafeterias, so it all goes to prove one thing, as Rosanne Rosannadana use to say: "If it isn't one thing, it's another . . . . " ---nedy "Puto deus fio." (I believe I am turning into god" ---Giaus Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from De Vita Caesarum, Divus Vespasianus XXIII, 4. (as said by Vespasianus jsut before dying).
If there isn't a realistic parallel between NYC at the turn of the century and whether you are allowed competition (my spelling, not your's) in the cable industry, then how do you expect the signal is going to get to your house from the cable head-in? It has to come over cables. Not all cable companies are willing to share their cables with other companies, even if they get a lease fee or use fee for doing so, because it would cost them customers. So, the alternative is for any new company to string their own cables. So now you have competition and two sets of cables, and perhaps the entire cable industry becomes totally unregulated and closed franchises are no longer necessary . . . in large population centers, many cable companies would compete for customers, each with their own set of lines crisscrossing the cities in a spiderwork of cables (Sorry, Spidey sometimes cable companies can cut into a super hero domanin) . . . therefore you would have another blotch upon the aesthetics of how a natural skyline should appear. I'll take your "I'm sorry" as an admission that you just did not know how a cable signal gets into your home. ---nedy "Pecunia regimen est rerun omnium (Money rules all). ---Publilius Syrus
Shhhh . . . Quyet . . . I'm hunting wabbits . . ." And Bills gates only owns 14% of Microsoft now, and Paul Allen only owns 5%, but if they are two of the wealthiest people in the world, just imagine the extent of Microsoft's holdings. So maybe Elmer Fudd should have started hunting those wabbits dozens of years ago when the men in dark suits from Microsoft were prowling the "creative" garages of the U.S. for computer nerds they could easily buyout. So now, with all the "back engineering" they are the world's market leader and everyone picks on them . . So why not! If they were more above board about stuff, and not so stingy, and didn't intentionally write into their software programming which would disrupt competitors' software, Microsoft might be more respected than it is . . . but then, that wouldn't be any fun if they were an honest company. What we have here is a failure to communicate . . . on an ethical level. ---nedy. Voltaire (Alauteur du livre des trois imposteurs): "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Nedyelyko Robinson: "If Bill Gates did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
Can you imagine how many cables would be strung from one pole to another if there were multiple cable companies serving any given area. It would be like New York City at the turn of the century, when so many competing electical companies and then teldephone companies almost blackened the skyline with cables. Mergers are a way of life, as are buyouts. In todays market, it's not how good your product is or how well you market it, but how much you can make by taking over other companies and then piecing them out to a dozen other companies, or shutting them down as write offs. It's business, that's all it is. Look at the current buy out of Tektronix by Xerox. Xerox was losing it because they would never share technology so other companies simply developed better and cheaper technology and Xerox got left by the wayside. Tektronix has been in trouble the last couple of years, laying off thousands of workers. They were ripe for a buyout. Xerox did it --- for almost a Billion Dollars. Both companies made out on this deal. Xerox now has GOOD colour laser printer technology without having to develop it, and Tektonix has an influx of almost a billion dollars cash to buyout smaller companies. ---nedy.
Who gives a rat's ass (that's the little round hole underneath the long tail thingy) one way or another, unless you're out there on the make. Everyone should, if they could, make their own ideals and guidelines. You may find it important to emulate your idol(s), but if you try to copy them word for word and act for act, you've abandoned yourself, for whatever it's worth. Perhaps you have no self worth, then by all means, go copycat someone who does have some. You may only end up to be a shallow, mirrored image but at least you're no longer completely boring. ---nedy.
See, too much work or becoming obsolete is a defeatist concept. If there is an idea or even a small ideal creeping around in the back of someone's head, it will be brought into being simply though perserverence and a deliberate will to make things happen. This is what separates the doers from the thumb suckers. "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live." --- Mark Twain.
Y2K in in the computer of the beholder. Thankfully, my computer is a little more intelligent than the ones going around crying "The sky is falling!" ---nedy.
Pseudo-science and Science Fiction are wonderful things to play with, but Clarke and others tend to take themselves too serious at times. Perhaps it goes with believing too much in their own rhetoric. The future of Man lies in overpopulation and the depletion of natural resources, followed by disease, war, and eventual barbarism. Perhaps the man of the future will sit in a cave with a battery powered lap top and search the remaining internet for some sign of intelligent life. Perhaps he will never find it.
Androids feeling pain is with us now, depending upon just how much merging of man and machine you want to consider. People walk around with all kinds of mechanical devices implanted in them today. Now if we were to start implanting human parts into machines, a real cross over could be accomplished. But any progressive thinking doctor would tell you that the elimination of pain is one of the primary goals in medical science, so why would future science create an android which would feel pain? Emotional pain perhaps, if such a thing could be made possible, but never physical pain.
http://www.xensei.com/users/jong/nedy.html
"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (Men readily believe what they want to believe) C. Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico III, 18
Negativity = Apathy
Opposition = Innovation
"Nullumst iam dictum quod non sit dictum prius."
(Nothing is ever said that has not been said before). Publius Terentius Afer (Terrance) Eunuchus, 41
With all the acquisitions, takeovers, buyouts, and mergers taking place in the hardware, software and net industries, it's only a matter of time before Corel goes the way of many others. As soon as it becomes too profitable or too innovative, it will be gobbled up by one of the larger corporations. Eventually, everything will be controlled by just one or two major corporations, even LINUX, and the real internet, and the real innovations, will come from those who have learned to operate creatively outside the system, and not to rely on corporations like Corel to be there for them forever.