What next will they think of? The idea of a "Russian *Internet*" or a "Chinese *Internet*" just makes me laugh!!
As for accusations of "cultural imperialism" - can I just point out that English speaking people developed the Internet at their own time and expense (and a lot of tax-payers money) - so they are entitled to have it in English if they want..
this is daft - just plain daft... when we look back at this moment and realise that we opened the can of worms that led to a 21st C. "Tower of Babel" - we will weep...
Some of us "get it" - but we have been here for a number of years and don't have vast amounts of money tied up in copyright and intellectual property rights.
The first and most important thing is to *own your property*
My deal with Carlton gives me absolute freedom with the text I wrote - it only stamps on publishers who might pirate the book - hence the fact that the entire HTML-ised version of "Complete Hackers Handbook" is available for free.
I own it - I can do what I want with it - lets keep it that way....
Creative Copyright is a great tool also - but if you get signed to a publisher - make sure you own what you created...
I have an ongoing debate with a friend who is both a philosopher of science and a mathematics teacher.
Suffice it to say that I wish he had taugh me mathematics (and algebra, geometry, calculus) rather than the teachers I had..
One of the things that come up in our discussions is the idea the the Ancient Egyptians knew about PHI and PI - as can be seen from the structure of their architecture - and that the builders of Stonehenge also had working knowledge of trigonometry.
But as a mathematician - he denies that the there was any knowledge of "mathematics" because the principles were never described "mathematically" - just used in an "intuitive way".
"Without the maths", he said, "You can't argue that they understood the maths" and, he continued, "if they never expressed their finding in mathematical terms (i.e. in formulas with proofs) - then it isn't maths anyway - its just architecture"
Strikes me that the "Rosetta Stone" should concentrate on algorithms and not religious solutions... "99 Bottles" is good because it allows so many variants on a simple task.. a little like a "meta-hello-world"...
How may ways do *you* know to solve the "Hello World" problem?
Quite right - why is it every cutback due to Government "lack of interest in global warming" and not just "lack of interest in education and science everywhere"...
If I had a penny for every NASA cutback since Apollo 11.... I'd have enough for several crates of beer by now...
I didn't like IE6.x and removed all icons to prevent people using it (ok.. certain programs require the rendering engine.. so it stayed but was... very hard to find)
Not that I want to start a "religious war" or anything... but I actually prefer FireFox..
.. or maybe I'm just scared to see what my websites actually *look like* in IE6.x/IE7.x..
emacs...... OO.o.ps...
PS: a small comment such as the above does not mean I have to "slow down cowboy" (who ever cowboy is.. or what I have to do to "slow down cowboy".. like.. introduce wait loops of something..)
bah.. some of us CAN TYPE you know (and sometimes even without looking at our hairy feet...)
Rabbits are ideal "prey food" for all sorts of mammals and birds - the problem for humans is that (as I have been told) - the fat level of rabbits means that you can eat rabbit all the time and still starve to death because of the low fat levels...
Humans invented "rabbit stew" for a reason - it enables the recycling of dead rabbit into food that will sustain humans - the addition of lard (for frying), vegetables (for vitamins and minerals) and flavourings (to stave off boredom) - means that eating rabbit stew might just keep you alive - but you aren't going to get fat on it...
If the N.K. govt think they can feed their population with rabbits - there is a very good chance that the people will get thinner.. and smaller over generations.. the link between good nutrition and human height is now well established - humans who have a balanced diet get taller over generations - while those with a minimal diet get shorter
How I long for the days when I had a "BBC-C" micro-computer with 32K of RAM that was available the moment I turned it on...... NOT!!!!
I'll put up with longer boot times as long as the computer becomes more useful in relation to the boot time....
I love firefox and have yet to download and install 2.0 because I am waiting for my extensions to catch up.
After this debate - its time to go and download firefox 2.0 and extensions be damned.. it goes on a trial server tonight...
If my computer is *capable* of showing video I pay the tax even though I am only stream Creative Copyright controlled media?
What proportion of the "tax" (read: subsidy for big-media) will go to the CC videos and music?
Suppose I *choose* not to stream TV and video but have a computer which is enable to do so - should I be "taxed" on a service I never use?
This is like the "digital tax" in Spain which penalises me for using DVDs and CDs to back up my OWN data from my OWN computer which I own the copyright on.
So everytime I make a DVD of my own material - where's my share of the "digital tax" - or a refund.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
NO TAXATION ON GOODS NOT CONSUMED
The MPAA and RIAA are charging me money everytime I use a blank CD/DVD - and I am a recusant who refuses to "pirate" MSM on the grounds it is complete and utter SH*T
P155ED 0FF, offended, getting ready to seeth and whine....
Yeah right - so they do all this stuff - and then nobody can work out how to ignore the bogus information being given out by these dvds, correct it and rewrite the files?
I think NOT....
If they are playable - they are copyable.
Anyway who gives a flying f*** about copying the complete and utter sh*t that MSM puts out - why the f*** should I give up MY bandwidth to distribute crappy hollywood films for FREE
That's like doing mainstream media's job for them - for FREE.
You did know that you were a distribution arm of The Hollywood Machine everytime you stick some POS mainstream movie in your torrent tracker didn't you?
You do understand that while you think you are giving them the finger - they are laughing at you because you are doing exactly what they want you to do.
Hollywood Movies - if you don't like the movies - don't bother watching them, talking about them, downloading them - just don't come to me whining about "I download because they cost too much"
You do have a choice - just stop watching their mind-numbing drivel...
The whole point is that Gary should NOT be extradited for data crimes commited in the UK. We have laws against that kind of thing and are quite capable of dishing out punishment in the UK - without imposing the cruel and unusual punishment of extraditing him and sentencing him in a foreign and hostile country.
We don't support Gary's actions - I personally think he was a little daft - but we do support opposition to extradition and a trial under US law.
He should not be made an example of to cover up the shortcomings in the US MILNET security systems - 2 years for crying out loud!! default passwords for crying out loud!!
Come on - a great hacker he is NOT - but egg on faces all over MILNET admins - and thats the reason they are gunning for him.
The last time the English and French undertook a project like this i.e. Concorde - the costs soared five-fold between planning and implementation - to £1.134 billion - and the production models sold never even covered part of the cost.
This has all the hall-makings of yet another Anglo-French financial disaster - although if they do as well with the carrier as they did with concorde we shall see some interesting technology.
I lived under the concorde flight path for years - I could set my clock by it - and when it was retired I realised that I would miss it's elegant grace and beauty, the only SSL passenger transport in the world, as I would never see it fly again.
Even if it was a little noisy....
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What next will they think of? The idea of a "Russian *Internet*" or a "Chinese *Internet*" just makes me laugh!! As for accusations of "cultural imperialism" - can I just point out that English speaking people developed the Internet at their own time and expense (and a lot of tax-payers money) - so they are entitled to have it in English if they want ..
this is daft - just plain daft ... when we look back at this moment and realise that we opened the can of worms that led to a 21st C. "Tower of Babel" - we will weep ...
Some of us "get it" - but we have been here for a number of years and don't have vast amounts of money tied up in copyright and intellectual property rights. The first and most important thing is to *own your property* My deal with Carlton gives me absolute freedom with the text I wrote - it only stamps on publishers who might pirate the book - hence the fact that the entire HTML-ised version of "Complete Hackers Handbook" is available for free. I own it - I can do what I want with it - lets keep it that way ....
Creative Copyright is a great tool also - but if you get signed to a publisher - make sure you own what you created ...
I have an ongoing debate with a friend who is both a philosopher of science and a mathematics teacher.
..
Suffice it to say that I wish he had taugh me mathematics (and algebra, geometry, calculus) rather than the teachers I had
One of the things that come up in our discussions is the idea the the Ancient Egyptians knew about PHI and PI - as can be seen from the structure of their architecture - and that the builders of Stonehenge also had working knowledge of trigonometry.
But as a mathematician - he denies that the there was any knowledge of "mathematics" because the principles were never described "mathematically" - just used in an "intuitive way".
"Without the maths", he said, "You can't argue that they understood the maths" and, he continued, "if they never expressed their finding in mathematical terms (i.e. in formulas with proofs) - then it isn't maths anyway - its just architecture"
> How important do you think 'self-made' software will be in the future?
...
... then ask why you have IT "churn" because your staff do nothing but "firefight")
Only as important as the poor IT d00ds who have to support the whole mess once the fly-by-night "finance manager" has left the company
(for "finance manager" substitute any role in the company
Strikes me that the "Rosetta Stone" should concentrate on algorithms and not religious solutions ... "99 Bottles" is good because it allows so many variants on a simple task .. a little like a "meta-hello-world" ...
How may ways do *you* know to solve the "Hello World" problem?
Quite right - why is it every cutback due to Government "lack of interest in global warming" and not just "lack of interest in education and science everywhere" ...
If I had a penny for every NASA cutback since Apollo 11 .... I'd have enough for several crates of beer by now ...
.. and I thought it was only Microsoft and Google that tried to "break the web" on purpose ....
Why should I bother?
.. certain programs require the rendering engine .. so it stayed but was ... very hard to find)
... but I actually prefer FireFox ..
.. or maybe I'm just scared to see what my websites actually *look like* in IE6.x/IE7.x ..
I didn't like IE6.x and removed all icons to prevent people using it (ok
Not that I want to start a "religious war" or anything
emacs ... ... OO.o.ps ...
PS: a small comment such as the above does not mean I have to "slow down cowboy" (who ever cowboy is .. or what I have to do to "slow down cowboy" .. like .. introduce wait loops of something ..)
bah .. some of us CAN TYPE you know (and sometimes even without looking at our hairy feet ...)
Rabbits are ideal "prey food" for all sorts of mammals and birds - the problem for humans is that (as I have been told) - the fat level of rabbits means that you can eat rabbit all the time and still starve to death because of the low fat levels ...
...
.. and smaller over generations .. the link between good nutrition and human height is now well established - humans who have a balanced diet get taller over generations - while those with a minimal diet get shorter
Humans invented "rabbit stew" for a reason - it enables the recycling of dead rabbit into food that will sustain humans - the addition of lard (for frying), vegetables (for vitamins and minerals) and flavourings (to stave off boredom) - means that eating rabbit stew might just keep you alive - but you aren't going to get fat on it
If the N.K. govt think they can feed their population with rabbits - there is a very good chance that the people will get thinner
How I long for the days when I had a "BBC-C" micro-computer with 32K of RAM that was available the moment I turned it on ... ... NOT!!!!
I'll put up with longer boot times as long as the computer becomes more useful in relation to the boot time ....
I love firefox and have yet to download and install 2.0 because I am waiting for my extensions to catch up. After this debate - its time to go and download firefox 2.0 and extensions be damned .. it goes on a trial server tonight ...
This is so sick ...
If my computer is *capable* of showing video I pay the tax even though I am only stream Creative Copyright controlled media?
What proportion of the "tax" (read: subsidy for big-media) will go to the CC videos and music?
Suppose I *choose* not to stream TV and video but have a computer which is enable to do so - should I be "taxed" on a service I never use?
This is like the "digital tax" in Spain which penalises me for using DVDs and CDs to back up my OWN data from my OWN computer which I own the copyright on.
So everytime I make a DVD of my own material - where's my share of the "digital tax" - or a refund.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
NO TAXATION ON GOODS NOT CONSUMED
The MPAA and RIAA are charging me money everytime I use a blank CD/DVD - and I am a recusant who refuses to "pirate" MSM on the grounds it is complete and utter SH*T
P155ED 0FF, offended, getting ready to seeth and whine ....
Yeah right - so they do all this stuff - and then nobody can work out how to ignore the bogus information being given out by these dvds, correct it and rewrite the files?
....
...
I think NOT
If they are playable - they are copyable.
Anyway who gives a flying f*** about copying the complete and utter sh*t that MSM puts out - why the f*** should I give up MY bandwidth to distribute crappy hollywood films for FREE
That's like doing mainstream media's job for them - for FREE.
You did know that you were a distribution arm of The Hollywood Machine everytime you stick some POS mainstream movie in your torrent tracker didn't you?
You do understand that while you think you are giving them the finger - they are laughing at you because you are doing exactly what they want you to do.
Hollywood Movies - if you don't like the movies - don't bother watching them, talking about them, downloading them - just don't come to me whining about "I download because they cost too much"
You do have a choice - just stop watching their mind-numbing drivel
The whole point is that Gary should NOT be extradited for data crimes commited in the UK. We have laws against that kind of thing and are quite capable of dishing out punishment in the UK - without imposing the cruel and unusual punishment of extraditing him and sentencing him in a foreign and hostile country.
We don't support Gary's actions - I personally think he was a little daft - but we do support opposition to extradition and a trial under US law.
He should not be made an example of to cover up the shortcomings in the US MILNET security systems - 2 years for crying out loud!! default passwords for crying out loud!!
Come on - a great hacker he is NOT - but egg on faces all over MILNET admins - and thats the reason they are gunning for him.
The last time the English and French undertook a project like this i.e. Concorde - the costs soared five-fold between planning and implementation - to £1.134 billion - and the production models sold never even covered part of the cost. This has all the hall-makings of yet another Anglo-French financial disaster - although if they do as well with the carrier as they did with concorde we shall see some interesting technology. I lived under the concorde flight path for years - I could set my clock by it - and when it was retired I realised that I would miss it's elegant grace and beauty, the only SSL passenger transport in the world, as I would never see it fly again. Even if it was a little noisy ....