You don't need to carry the things yourself. Just accelerate whatever you want to send in the right direction and let inertia and gravity do the job. If you aim right you may be able to send the packages into a near-Earth orbit, wherefrom you collect them using cheap vehicles and send them down in the orbital elevator.
And before you start laughing, most of the ideas in the previous paragraph are almost out of the science fiction already. Before we manage to build a Lunar base or mine an asteroid we will probably have solved the rest.
Stephen Baxter's book has a nice account of the problems involved in trying to mine an asteroid. It also has many good ideas on how to push Nasa and the lawyers out of the way.
If you imagine all a country like China does with its money is more weapons you are being very simplistic. They make weapons, allright, because they will never accept Iraq's fate in the hands of the West (not that I liked Saddam in any way, mind you, but I don't blame China for doing what they can to defend themselves). But China is a very large and poor country, with a population who needs a thousand of things you take for granted in the US - simple things like sewage, electricity and transportation are not yet available everywhere in China.
It is common is this kind of discussion for someone to use the "Fischer card". IMHO, being the best involves being able to play for years and continously prove yourself against new challenges. It holds not only for chess but for any human activity. Bobby fails this test: under excessive pressure he broke down and fled the board.
Allow me to change that sentence to "Avoiding paying royaties to the developed countries is a major component of any sensible comercial or industrial policy in a developing country".
When I wrote it I was thinking more about software, hardware and pharmacological drugs in general than about DVD specifically.
Let me try to explain it here. Avoiding paying royaties to US and EU is a major component of any sensible comercial or industrial policy in a developing country. in market the size of China's any cent not leaving the country is a cent to be invested in a million of important things to the Chinese population.
Incidentally that is also one of the major reasons for countries like Brazil, India and China to be seriously looking at Open/Free Software - in the medium and long term, the savings in royalties not send abroad usually justify any short-term problems that may arise.
I am not trying to dismiss the feat, no. Chess as a human standing place against the machines are over since Deep Blue. But give credit where credit is due, the feat here is Kasparov's, one of the few humans alive today still capable of beating the machines anytime, anywhere.
It is an interesting coincidence that during the same few years computer chess entered adulthood the best chess player ever born was alive to hold the fort for a while longer. Probably not a coincidence, either.
You expend too much, youngster. My 128K 8 bit Apple II still works fine - I have Visicalc for my spreadsheet needs and the CPM card allows me to use the wonderful WordStar, the king of the word processors. Who needs anything else?
This also crossed my mind, but the poster was talking specifically about the experiments using Jews in the death camps. Von Braun, although a card-carrying party member, never took a direct role on it.
Nevertheless, most of the early space race (and the early Cold War arms race as a whole) was actually a game played between "American" German scientists and "Soviet" German scientists. Nazi or not, none of those were ever prosecuted for anything that happened during the war, by either side of the Allies.
Obviously the policy makers understand as much about OSS as they do about Genetic Engineering or Hydroelectric Power Plants construction and operation. Nevertheless they have to make decisions about all these issues and for this they have technicians around them who do understand the issues involved.
The point here is that a large and influential group of the technology experts with connections in the Worker's party happen to be strong proponents of OSS in all public business. As it is, it took us some time to make the whole case to the decision makers and dismiss all Microsoft FUD surrounding the issue, but now the ball seems to be rolling.
You and a lot of people here are making the same mistake. You imply the only factor here is immediate price, forgetting things that should be at least as important, such as security issues (we are talking about a government here), long-term pricing (comes the next upgrade, no one can garantee Microsoft will not put the prices up again), advances in technology education (meaning the government and the universities will be trainnning more people capable of operating and producing Open Source Software) and even royaties (some important fraction of every dollar expend in closed American software leaves the country). As a Brazilian taxpayer, I feel it is a lot better to see my mone spent in OSS than in Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe etc.
FPSs like Quake or Counter are quite difficult or impossible for older people or even teenagers without good motor skills. Online RPGs in general are quite difficult to people without the right mindset (and the will to keep killing rats and rabbits for hours till their skill with a sword gets good enough to allow them to kill dogs and cats, reload and repeat).
Second Life audience is likely to be quite different from Everquest or Ultima, since their most important point is the original building capacity.
What the fuck you mean, "write songs and let people hear"? This is business, man, you gotta make a buck! Ever heard a banker say "I just like to give money away and let people spend"? Or a farmer who "likes to make food so people will eat"?
People like you are ruinning this industry. You so-called artists, making songs just for the fun of it and getting in the way of honest hard workers like Britney who are on it for the right reasons, to make a couple of millions dollars a month.
Thank God for RIAA and the corporations. In some years all this "share" and "independent" crap will be over, everybody in jail, broken or bought out, and we can go back the business of selling crap music to the sheep, I say, the people.
Each time a file is shared, the artists and technicians involved lose all their income, and most of those affected by this crime (being the sensitive people they are) go insane and their rage make them start murdering and raping all children around. Infringing copyright is the gateway crime that causes all other crimes you mentioned.
It doesn't matter the date we pick. Maybe when Unix was created. Maybe when Stallman got mad at Xerox. Maybe when Linus posted his first code. Maybe when Raymond published the "Cathedral...".
OSS software is too young, a recently born baby which has yet a lot of "road ahead" before it can called mature. Yes, we have some great software, but there is still a lot to do, much more than what was already done.
And Microsoft is obviously not the entity to pass judgement on OSS.
An earlier poster touched on one issue with this, and that is that ISPs in the US owned or legally threatened by US corps and laws would start blocking access to the offshore systems/networks if they became too successfull.
What will we do with all those jokes about "The Great Firewall of China"? Just forget about it and start considering it bad manners to mention them in educated company?
In the good old days, the protection package included protection from other gangs. I don't know why the model couldn't be extended to the virtual space - if you DDoS my "clients", I will DDoS you...
I have been in and out Bugtraq along the years, and it is pretty fine. But I was thinking of something more than a mailing list, probably a whole set of tools (site/irc/list/foruns) geared toward the discovery, publicizing and reproduction of security problems.
Given the enormous teen audience such a beast would attract I don't think it would be even possible to keep it up without the services of the very good moderators and the best security experts around. But them again one may dream.
And then you have the geographic problem. Such a place would have to be hosted somewhere with very liberal laws and a government capable of (and willing to) resisting the vast pressure the targeted companies would put on it.
I think it also settles the question about full and limited disclosure. Limited disclosure is clearly a tool that allows lazy admins and developers to sit on their lazy asses while their company lawyers shoot the messengers.
What is needed now is an "official" infrastructure (mailing list/site/IRC channel/whatever) harboured somewhere with sensible laws and clearly geared toward transparent evaluation, discussion and discovery of security bugs in public software. Developers, admins and security experts welcomed, no matter their colour of their hats.
I have been here from singularity to boom to burst to today's lukewarm recovery, and Apache has been running 2/3 of the Web since there is a Web. Year after year/. publishes this same Netcraft announcement, give or take a percent point.
Apache is like Gillete: you know there are other brands, you even know a few people use those other brands but when push comes to shove and you girlfriend order you shopping for shaving tools, Gillete is always the way...
First, I am not American, so I can stand behind both my comment and your answer. I would gladly defend the idea that my country's government should be forbidden from using proprietary software (and even that only free/open software should be allowed anywhere in the country if only this move wouldn't get our ass kicked very hard at WTO) based solely on the assessment you just expressed (albeit inverted): each time a Brazilian buys a Microsoft product in Brazil, he/she is transfering some wealth from the far poorer Brazil to the far richer USA. Eventually most developing/poor countries will notice this is pretty sound policy, both technically and economically.
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My routine is more like UP key + Enter (with "adsl-start" as the line being repeated).
You don't need to carry the things yourself. Just accelerate whatever you want to send in the right direction and let inertia and gravity do the job. If you aim right you may be able to send the packages into a near-Earth orbit, wherefrom you collect them using cheap vehicles and send them down in the orbital elevator.
And before you start laughing, most of the ideas in the previous paragraph are almost out of the science fiction already. Before we manage to build a Lunar base or mine an asteroid we will probably have solved the rest.
Stephen Baxter's book has a nice account of the problems involved in trying to mine an asteroid. It also has many good ideas on how to push Nasa and the lawyers out of the way.
If you imagine all a country like China does with its money is more weapons you are being very simplistic. They make weapons, allright, because they will never accept Iraq's fate in the hands of the West (not that I liked Saddam in any way, mind you, but I don't blame China for doing what they can to defend themselves). But China is a very large and poor country, with a population who needs a thousand of things you take for granted in the US - simple things like sewage, electricity and transportation are not yet available everywhere in China.
It is common is this kind of discussion for someone to use the "Fischer card". IMHO, being the best involves being able to play for years and continously prove yourself against new challenges. It holds not only for chess but for any human activity. Bobby fails this test: under excessive pressure he broke down and fled the board.
Allow me to change that sentence to "Avoiding paying royaties to the developed countries is a major component of any sensible comercial or industrial policy in a developing country".
When I wrote it I was thinking more about software, hardware and pharmacological drugs in general than about DVD specifically.
In order to draw the match he had to beat the machine once, on game three (match ended 2-2 with two draws and a victory for each side).
just to avoid paying American royalty fees
Let me try to explain it here. Avoiding paying royaties to US and EU is a major component of any sensible comercial or industrial policy in a developing country. in market the size of China's any cent not leaving the country is a cent to be invested in a million of important things to the Chinese population.
Incidentally that is also one of the major reasons for countries like Brazil, India and China to be seriously looking at Open/Free Software - in the medium and long term, the savings in royalties not send abroad usually justify any short-term problems that may arise.
I am not trying to dismiss the feat, no. Chess as a human standing place against the machines are over since Deep Blue. But give credit where credit is due, the feat here is Kasparov's, one of the few humans alive today still capable of beating the machines anytime, anywhere.
It is an interesting coincidence that during the same few years computer chess entered adulthood the best chess player ever born was alive to hold the fort for a while longer. Probably not a coincidence, either.
You expend too much, youngster. My 128K 8 bit Apple II still works fine - I have Visicalc for my spreadsheet needs and the CPM card allows me to use the wonderful WordStar, the king of the word processors. Who needs anything else?
This also crossed my mind, but the poster was talking specifically about the experiments using Jews in the death camps. Von Braun, although a card-carrying party member, never took a direct role on it.
Nevertheless, most of the early space race (and the early Cold War arms race as a whole) was actually a game played between "American" German scientists and "Soviet" German scientists. Nazi or not, none of those were ever prosecuted for anything that happened during the war, by either side of the Allies.
Obviously the policy makers understand as much about OSS as they do about Genetic Engineering or Hydroelectric Power Plants construction and operation. Nevertheless they have to make decisions about all these issues and for this they have technicians around them who do understand the issues involved.
The point here is that a large and influential group of the technology experts with connections in the Worker's party happen to be strong proponents of OSS in all public business. As it is, it took us some time to make the whole case to the decision makers and dismiss all Microsoft FUD surrounding the issue, but now the ball seems to be rolling.
You and a lot of people here are making the same mistake. You imply the only factor here is immediate price, forgetting things that should be at least as important, such as security issues (we are talking about a government here), long-term pricing (comes the next upgrade, no one can garantee Microsoft will not put the prices up again), advances in technology education (meaning the government and the universities will be trainnning more people capable of operating and producing Open Source Software) and even royaties (some important fraction of every dollar expend in closed American software leaves the country). As a Brazilian taxpayer, I feel it is a lot better to see my mone spent in OSS than in Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe etc.
"Batata acompanha?" (something like "Do you want fries on the side?").
FPSs like Quake or Counter are quite difficult or impossible for older people or even teenagers without good motor skills. Online RPGs in general are quite difficult to people without the right mindset (and the will to keep killing rats and rabbits for hours till their skill with a sword gets good enough to allow them to kill dogs and cats, reload and repeat).
Second Life audience is likely to be quite different from Everquest or Ultima, since their most important point is the original building capacity.
* he the original poster in his answer to you
What the fuck you mean, "write songs and let people hear"? This is business, man, you gotta make a buck! Ever heard a banker say "I just like to give money away and let people spend"? Or a farmer who "likes to make food so people will eat"?
People like you are ruinning this industry. You so-called artists, making songs just for the fun of it and getting in the way of honest hard workers like Britney who are on it for the right reasons, to make a couple of millions dollars a month.
Thank God for RIAA and the corporations. In some years all this "share" and "independent" crap will be over, everybody in jail, broken or bought out, and we can go back the business of selling crap music to the sheep, I say, the people.
Each time a file is shared, the artists and technicians involved lose all their income, and most of those affected by this crime (being the sensitive people they are) go insane and their rage make them start murdering and raping all children around. Infringing copyright is the gateway crime that causes all other crimes you mentioned.
You are standing in front of a house. There is a sign in door. The sign reads "YHBT. YHL. HAND.".
It doesn't matter the date we pick. Maybe when Unix was created. Maybe when Stallman got mad at Xerox. Maybe when Linus posted his first code. Maybe when Raymond published the "Cathedral...".
OSS software is too young, a recently born baby which has yet a lot of "road ahead" before it can called mature. Yes, we have some great software, but there is still a lot to do, much more than what was already done.
And Microsoft is obviously not the entity to pass judgement on OSS.
It would live even if the next coders were cockroaches...
An earlier poster touched on one issue with this, and that is that ISPs in the US owned or legally threatened by US corps and laws would start blocking access to the offshore systems/networks if they became too successfull.
What will we do with all those jokes about "The Great Firewall of China"? Just forget about it and start considering it bad manners to mention them in educated company?
In the good old days, the protection package included protection from other gangs. I don't know why the model couldn't be extended to the virtual space - if you DDoS my "clients", I will DDoS you...
I have been in and out Bugtraq along the years, and it is pretty fine. But I was thinking of something more than a mailing list, probably a whole set of tools (site/irc/list/foruns) geared toward the discovery, publicizing and reproduction of security problems.
Given the enormous teen audience such a beast would attract I don't think it would be even possible to keep it up without the services of the very good moderators and the best security experts around. But them again one may dream.
And then you have the geographic problem. Such a place would have to be hosted somewhere with very liberal laws and a government capable of (and willing to) resisting the vast pressure the targeted companies would put on it.
I think it also settles the question about full and limited disclosure. Limited disclosure is clearly a tool that allows lazy admins and developers to sit on their lazy asses while their company lawyers shoot the messengers.
What is needed now is an "official" infrastructure (mailing list/site/IRC channel/whatever) harboured somewhere with sensible laws and clearly geared toward transparent evaluation, discussion and discovery of security bugs in public software. Developers, admins and security experts welcomed, no matter their colour of their hats.
I have been here from singularity to boom to burst to today's lukewarm recovery, and Apache has been running 2/3 of the Web since there is a Web. Year after year /. publishes this same Netcraft announcement, give or take a percent point.
Apache is like Gillete: you know there are other brands, you even know a few people use those other brands but when push comes to shove and you girlfriend order you shopping for shaving tools, Gillete is always the way...
First, I am not American, so I can stand behind both my comment and your answer. I would gladly defend the idea that my country's government should be forbidden from using proprietary software (and even that only free/open software should be allowed anywhere in the country if only this move wouldn't get our ass kicked very hard at WTO) based solely on the assessment you just expressed (albeit inverted): each time a Brazilian buys a Microsoft product in Brazil, he/she is transfering some wealth from the far poorer Brazil to the far richer USA. Eventually most developing/poor countries will notice this is pretty sound policy, both technically and economically.