One of the pivotal events in President Eisenhower's early years in the U.S. Army was his participation in the Army's first transcontinental motor vehicle convoy across the country. The vehicles left Washington, DC, on July 7, 1919, drove to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, turned west onto the Lincoln Highway, and remained on the named route the rest of the way to San Francisco -- where, that is, scouts could find the highway. The convoy reached the West Coast on September 6.
The idea that cyberspace was a "man's world" probably began in the labs where mainframes were developed: male-dominated Tech Colleges. This stereotype was probably dragged into the PC world, and became a self-fulfilling prophecy. History (as usual) refutes the stereotype: While in the U.S. Army, I had guard duty guarding two computer vans -- one ran in a hot and humid environment; the other in a cold, dry environment (you figure out why). Both were manned by male and female techs. The year-1967(!)
Puleeese!! Who cares about getting your music heard, if you are never going to sell it? If the people holding MP3 versions of songs, whether they were originals, covers, or previously recorded material had to pay someone for it, the whole picture would change. Try this analogy -- you go out and buy 100 CD's, and a jukebox. You put the juke box in your finished basement on freeplay, and let the fun begin! If no one ever paid for the plays, or brought in new CD's, how often would YOU change the CD's About as often as MP3 outfits pay royalties? Does that make it clearer? Or is the joyful prospect of picking Paul McCartney's pocket stiill clouding your reason?
All right... You all have spent so much time in front of an 18" screen, you can't see the big picture. 1) The term "Dark Ages" refers to the purported lack of administration, peace, law, and order that prevailed in the aftermath of the "fall" of the Roman Empire. Most modern historians now agree that a) the Germanic tribes were not really a destabilizing force; they just weren't as bureaucratically minded as the Romans; and b) the Roman Catholic Church was not the stultifying force it had been made out to be. Also, regarding life before and after the computers, does anybody know (or care) what happened to the people whose livelihoods depended on whales when light came from coal, enrgy from steam, and warm weather gear from out west? The answer is a resounding NO! However, computers are different in one important way from ALL other technologies (Television being the transitional exception): computers provide us with an illusion of involvement and community, but only an illusion. For example, I don't know whom I have addressed, or how many people "heard" me; and you all don't know anything at all about me except the contents of this message. Thanks for listening Frank D
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The idea that cyberspace was a "man's world" probably began in the labs where mainframes were developed: male-dominated Tech Colleges. This stereotype was probably dragged into the PC world, and became a self-fulfilling prophecy. History (as usual) refutes the stereotype: While in the U.S. Army, I had guard duty guarding two computer vans -- one ran in a hot and humid environment; the other in a cold, dry environment (you figure out why). Both were manned by male and female techs. The year-1967(!)
Puleeese!! Who cares about getting your music heard, if you are never going to sell it? If the people holding MP3 versions of songs, whether they were originals, covers, or previously recorded material had to pay someone for it, the whole picture would change. Try this analogy -- you go out and buy 100 CD's, and a jukebox. You put the juke box in your finished basement on freeplay, and let the fun begin! If no one ever paid for the plays, or brought in new CD's, how often would YOU change the CD's About as often as MP3 outfits pay royalties? Does that make it clearer? Or is the joyful prospect of picking Paul McCartney's pocket stiill clouding your reason?
All right... You all have spent so much time in front of an 18" screen, you can't see the big picture. 1) The term "Dark Ages" refers to the purported lack of administration, peace, law, and order that prevailed in the aftermath of the "fall" of the Roman Empire. Most modern historians now agree that a) the Germanic tribes were not really a destabilizing force; they just weren't as bureaucratically minded as the Romans; and b) the Roman Catholic Church was not the stultifying force it had been made out to be. Also, regarding life before and after the computers, does anybody know (or care) what happened to the people whose livelihoods depended on whales when light came from coal, enrgy from steam, and warm weather gear from out west? The answer is a resounding NO! However, computers are different in one important way from ALL other technologies (Television being the transitional exception): computers provide us with an illusion of involvement and community, but only an illusion. For example, I don't know whom I have addressed, or how many people "heard" me; and you all don't know anything at all about me except the contents of this message. Thanks for listening Frank D