i dont need any new 'os'. and if they halt shipping of xp, well, i will just use my xp cd with the new pc i buy after formatting it.
i dont care about updates either, because windows updates generally break a many stuff than they fix. remember how web developers had their pcs screwed with the last service pack ? well i wasnt one of them because i dont do windows updates.
and since they are signing it themselves they probably can offer higher bit encryption, like going up to 1024. it would be even better than bought certificates. most of the ssl certs sites buy from CA's are generally 256 bit due to the price tag involved. so you may be safer with pirates with an unsigned ca.
i think we should try to customize our lifestyles according to our preferences. who says that you need to own a car, for example ? if one doesnt have the need for a car to commute or do traveling or shopping, s/he shouldnt buy one because everyone else has one and community thinks that owning car is a must.
not owning a car would release the person from many obligations.
same goes for furniture, other house belongings. we should minimize our belongings to the things we really need to have and like to have, but, we should try that what we have in that style are the best that we can have according to our needs or enjoyment.
this should maximize our benefit from possessions whereas minimizing our overhead.
when i was around 17 years of age, precisely 15 years earlier than today, a high school student in my country have been able to develop a super glue that was much stronger than the ones (originating out of japan) that were around that time. formula was bought by japan, kid also probably went to japan to study and live. with no help or resources given to him from any source. this example tells one thing - if you let creativity flow in and dont hamper it, you can never know what can be discovered, invented.
I doubt you could name a single valid line of inquiry in the field of chemistry that hasn't been experimented to death and published about to within an inch of its life that doesn't involve any piece of equipment more complex than glassware and burners. i find it unbelievable that im saying this, but we dont know what we dont know yet. remember that american patent office was commenting that 'everything to be discovered has already been discovered' in 1890s. we know what happened after then.
exactly this 'new fields opening up' thing is what im talking about. if we put it in your words, new fields are not opening up because science and knowledge has become too institutionalized in the last 100 years. thats what im saying. also i would like to remind you that most of the pioneers of new fields havent been funded by any institution, organization, or had cutting edge 'technologies' under their command. take the example of faraday for example.
Basically, you just don't know what you're talking about because you have no grasp of the history of science and technology. bold, absurd, broad sweeping statements. you are being too conservative and rather scientifically arrogant in my opinion.
Or because all of the low hanging fruit has already been taken. Besides, you can play that game with any of the 19th century discoveries, too. not quite.
science in late 18th and early 19th centuries were a pastime for aristocracy and upper middle class citizens. chemistry experiments were done in bedroom. it was an era of scientific curiosity and amateurship. this is an ideal circumstance for discoveries, for creativity and curiosity is never stifled by anything.
as time passed, governments realized that scientific edge actually meant power. research was taken under government control, through universities or through laws that prevented certain stuff or regulations. you cant experiment with advanced chemicals in your backyard no more. similarly, i believe many advanced tools that have been developed with our recent advances in electronics are also held under control of various companies, individuals and government. when something was discovered in early 19th century, it instantly became public domain for humanity's knowledge. today patents are there too, stifling discoveries further due to restricting flow of information.
Railroads are the byproduct of advances in metallurgy, which dates back to the start of the Bronze Age. The telegraph is based on research on electricity that dates back to the 18th century. analogy doesnt hold. railroads are comparable to steam engines, or boilers, but not to metallurgy.
Besides, even your hypothetical "inventions" are still based on previous research. Light-based computing? Based on lasers, which, in turn, are based on discoveries that go back as far as Sir Isaac Newton. Besides, electricity travels at the same speed as light, so what's the point? Quantum computing is where it's at, and that's already in the pipeline. light based computing is not a hypothesis, its being researched actively as of now by prominent organizations. some fruits of it is experiments of crystalline storage systems research. and as said, you cant extend the 'based on' that long. there is a rational limit.
The reason it feels like we're not advancing as fast as we were in the 19th century is kind of because of a mental form of relativity - the faster your civilization advances, the slower it feels like it's going. The difference between technology and science between 1800 and 1850 is far, far less than the difference between 1900 and 1950, which, in turn, is far less than the difference between 1950 and 2000. we are not advancing since 1970s. we are refining. everything we have today are refinements of almost exactly what we had then.
all of those are inventions and perfections, new meshes of existing discoveries. human genome project is a grandchild of discovery of genetics and dna, railroads are a discovery of internal combustion, computers are still the grandchilds of simple electric current over wire, and sons of transistors. we havent advanced to light based computing for example. this would be an invention, rather than turbo engines being an 'invention' compared to first gasoline engine.
there is still heaploads of stuff we dont know about our universe. however we are not advancing with the speed we did in 19th century. because science got extremely institutionalized and conservative.
but overspecialization also brings lack of innovation, vision, and in general invention.
just think how frequent were the inventions in the 19th century. if you force yourself, you can see that institutionalization and specialization of new science branches have also brought refinements of earlier discoveries, but decreased the number of discoveries and inventions too.
we need discovery, inventions. we are sorely lacking them these days.
are you so dumb and stupid enough to think that you can suppress bad reviews on the internet ? havent you been able to conclude that just because of the shit you pulled, there will be blog postings of that reviews all over the internet ? internet is 'the people'. and people dont like being gagged or repressed.
have fun drooling in the failure that is your new game, brought upon you by your own stupidity.
you accuse someone of something, then come up and say that 'proof is not required'. get a load of that !!! back to middle ages. next ; witch hunting, death by stoning, and dung for dinner.
well, since it has come to this, i am hereby accusing all MPAA, RIAA members of child abuse, child pornography, treason. remember, PROOF IS NOT REQUIRED.
shady backroom deals that goes 'rub my back, ill rub yours'. you played the 'good, agreeable kid' to big buck corps since you started business bill. you have been their lapdog. excuse me, but anyone would succeed after getting big boys behind you by playing their yes man.
The things that made the Japanese system so exceptional (lifetime employment, employee loyalty) are being abandoned by the Japanese people in order to make their economy more flexible and able to respond dynamically to market demands. no such thing as 'in order to make their economy more flexible'. for kaizen have NO relevance to economy flexibility. kaizen is an improvement cycle, and its in practice not only in japan but in europe too now.
you confused (or maybe deliberately did it) the new japanese generation's refusal for hard work and traditional self sacrifice values for more individuality. those two are irrelevant.
i see that you are of the republican mindset. youre talking totally irrelevant stuff to where im coming from.
japanese ascension is not related to any special setup they had with their corporations and government. its a direct result of their ideologies, one of which is the group/cooperation spirit, and another is kaizen and comparable business and life philosophies.
the group/cooperation spirit is what china is made of.
Oh yeah, because decade long recessions due to mismanagement, lack of initiative, and cozying of companies in order to "protect the workers" are a real good thing. cozying of companies never ends up in protecting the workers. and the history of u.s. since 1992 has been totally vice versa.
suit yourself. japanese made it to the top of the world with their small population, cooperating instead of competing like u.s. does. now there's china with the same social mindset, group mindset rather than individualism. and they have multiples of japan's population. their impact is gonna be much higher.
im sorry i couldnt withhold myself that long. everything americans suffer, are brought upon themselves by that shitty understanding of 'let "losers" sink, let the rest fight it out and "winners" win'. this reflects in every aspect of your life :
starts from high school. you are indoctrinating children with that 'winner/loser' syndrome early in life, causing them to take on emotional distortions and distresses for the rest of their life. there can be only one winner in a competition. everyone starts to see anyone apart from themselves as 'others' who they need to compete with and beat to 'win'. they become socially aggressive, emotionally distant, less emphatetic towards anyone, even their family. then school shootings happen. teenage crimes happen. gangs happen. and you people ask 'why'.
you let this shit get ahold of your political scene too. the republican party in your country, which is the american placeholder for cutthroat, self-interest conservatives, preach that its better to nullify government and let everyone 'compete' for everything, and those who 'cant make it' die. why ? oh because its more efficient ! but before you know it, it also brings the fact that big buck eventually suppress and destroy small and medium businesses, and eventually whole country, entire sectors rest in the privileged few mega corporations that their owners had funded the republican party with. only distinction here is that this is not specific to america, it happens in every country through conservative parties.
you let those who cant make it fall to streets, and crime happens. whereas norwegian external affairs minister can drive a fucking bicycle to his office without fear of anything happening, the rich even in your mildest cities has to take excessive security measures and evade all districts and neighborhoods but few. talk about being the king of the hill that is standing in a plain of shit.
the early indoctrination to 'winner/loser' syndrome also affects social life. people are more emotionally distant, therefore it is difficult for them to bond with their later partners in life, children, relatives, friends, colleagues. you end up with a society that has many problems just because of that winner/loser syndrome and cutthroat competition logic. divorces happen, more mobbing in the workplace, problematic relations and so on.
you may be still brainwashed with the competition thing and be stupid as to think that it provides success. not as such. it would be true only if japanese werent on the face of the earth as an example.
when i was studying industrial engineering, on an occasion about skills and employment and eventual success(regarding the competition between usa and japan in engineering matters) someone has given me a very short but clear insight into the matter; americans tend to be overly competitive, and those who make it to the top of the pile are very talented and successful people. but they sorely lack in cooperation and coexistence. japanese on the other hand think that if someone is excessively specialized, s/he is probably lacking in some other field. instead they cooperate. cooperation of many people who are less specialized and experts but highly inclined to cooperation beats the hell outta experts in low number. this is why they used to say if you single out japanese in a negotiation, you can deal with them easily. but if you let them come in group, you get dealt with.
we know the success of japan after ww2. a thoroughly devastated, low population, almost no natural resource country have made it to the top of the world as an economic power. all the while americans were 'competing' between themselves and outside, japanese have been cooperating. we know what the result is.
you are well aware that scholastic education system is reminiscent of medieval church and also just an extension of current ruling establishment in spirits ? and also, modern education just happens to be memorizing textbook and playing along to whatever is asked in the exams ?
the pinnacle of what europe can accomplish, and accomplished. a bunch of STUPID IDIOTS which are chosen as 'representatives' have totally fucked up the ideals of personal rights, freedoms and handed the whole country to whomever at the helm at any point to be abused. clearly shows representative democracy does not work. you elect the person, then that person can vote as s/he wishes, not how you wish. we need to get rid of all those faggots and start direct democracy.
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i dont need any new 'os'. and if they halt shipping of xp, well, i will just use my xp cd with the new pc i buy after formatting it.
i dont care about updates either, because windows updates generally break a many stuff than they fix. remember how web developers had their pcs screwed with the last service pack ? well i wasnt one of them because i dont do windows updates.
its real humidity measurement. evaporation is at high levels here.
and since they are signing it themselves they probably can offer higher bit encryption, like going up to 1024. it would be even better than bought certificates. most of the ssl certs sites buy from CA's are generally 256 bit due to the price tag involved. so you may be safer with pirates with an unsigned ca.
i believe general participant to reader ration around the net is around 5 - 10%. if 100 users use a service, 5 posts on it and such.
in summer, of course.
in antalya, mediterranean coast, southwestern turkey, it gets 40 degrees celsius in shadow, and 99% humid in the summer.
i think we should try to customize our lifestyles according to our preferences. who says that you need to own a car, for example ? if one doesnt have the need for a car to commute or do traveling or shopping, s/he shouldnt buy one because everyone else has one and community thinks that owning car is a must.
not owning a car would release the person from many obligations.
same goes for furniture, other house belongings. we should minimize our belongings to the things we really need to have and like to have, but, we should try that what we have in that style are the best that we can have according to our needs or enjoyment.
this should maximize our benefit from possessions whereas minimizing our overhead.
I doubt you could name a single valid line of inquiry in the field of chemistry that hasn't been experimented to death and published about to within an inch of its life that doesn't involve any piece of equipment more complex than glassware and burners. i find it unbelievable that im saying this, but we dont know what we dont know yet. remember that american patent office was commenting that 'everything to be discovered has already been discovered' in 1890s. we know what happened after then.
exactly this 'new fields opening up' thing is what im talking about. if we put it in your words, new fields are not opening up because science and knowledge has become too institutionalized in the last 100 years. thats what im saying. also i would like to remind you that most of the pioneers of new fields havent been funded by any institution, organization, or had cutting edge 'technologies' under their command. take the example of faraday for example. Basically, you just don't know what you're talking about because you have no grasp of the history of science and technology. bold, absurd, broad sweeping statements. you are being too conservative and rather scientifically arrogant in my opinion.
a considerable number of them will be long haired, hairy man. and stuff about moms' basements.
science in late 18th and early 19th centuries were a pastime for aristocracy and upper middle class citizens. chemistry experiments were done in bedroom. it was an era of scientific curiosity and amateurship. this is an ideal circumstance for discoveries, for creativity and curiosity is never stifled by anything.
as time passed, governments realized that scientific edge actually meant power. research was taken under government control, through universities or through laws that prevented certain stuff or regulations. you cant experiment with advanced chemicals in your backyard no more. similarly, i believe many advanced tools that have been developed with our recent advances in electronics are also held under control of various companies, individuals and government. when something was discovered in early 19th century, it instantly became public domain for humanity's knowledge. today patents are there too, stifling discoveries further due to restricting flow of information.
Railroads are the byproduct of advances in metallurgy, which dates back to the start of the Bronze Age. The telegraph is based on research on electricity that dates back to the 18th century. analogy doesnt hold. railroads are comparable to steam engines, or boilers, but not to metallurgy. Besides, even your hypothetical "inventions" are still based on previous research. Light-based computing? Based on lasers, which, in turn, are based on discoveries that go back as far as Sir Isaac Newton. Besides, electricity travels at the same speed as light, so what's the point? Quantum computing is where it's at, and that's already in the pipeline. light based computing is not a hypothesis, its being researched actively as of now by prominent organizations. some fruits of it is experiments of crystalline storage systems research. and as said, you cant extend the 'based on' that long. there is a rational limit. The reason it feels like we're not advancing as fast as we were in the 19th century is kind of because of a mental form of relativity - the faster your civilization advances, the slower it feels like it's going. The difference between technology and science between 1800 and 1850 is far, far less than the difference between 1900 and 1950, which, in turn, is far less than the difference between 1950 and 2000. we are not advancing since 1970s. we are refining. everything we have today are refinements of almost exactly what we had then.
all of those are inventions and perfections, new meshes of existing discoveries. human genome project is a grandchild of discovery of genetics and dna, railroads are a discovery of internal combustion, computers are still the grandchilds of simple electric current over wire, and sons of transistors. we havent advanced to light based computing for example. this would be an invention, rather than turbo engines being an 'invention' compared to first gasoline engine.
there is still heaploads of stuff we dont know about our universe. however we are not advancing with the speed we did in 19th century. because science got extremely institutionalized and conservative.
but overspecialization also brings lack of innovation, vision, and in general invention.
just think how frequent were the inventions in the 19th century. if you force yourself, you can see that institutionalization and specialization of new science branches have also brought refinements of earlier discoveries, but decreased the number of discoveries and inventions too.
we need discovery, inventions. we are sorely lacking them these days.
are you so dumb and stupid enough to think that you can suppress bad reviews on the internet ? havent you been able to conclude that just because of the shit you pulled, there will be blog postings of that reviews all over the internet ? internet is 'the people'. and people dont like being gagged or repressed.
have fun drooling in the failure that is your new game, brought upon you by your own stupidity.
through the early years of microsoft gonna be in the picture too ?
hacking a few high school grades deserves 38 years in prison. get a load of that.
you accuse someone of something, then come up and say that 'proof is not required'. get a load of that !!! back to middle ages. next ; witch hunting, death by stoning, and dung for dinner.
well, since it has come to this, i am hereby accusing all MPAA, RIAA members of child abuse, child pornography, treason. remember, PROOF IS NOT REQUIRED.
shady backroom deals that goes 'rub my back, ill rub yours'. you played the 'good, agreeable kid' to big buck corps since you started business bill. you have been their lapdog. excuse me, but anyone would succeed after getting big boys behind you by playing their yes man.
you confused (or maybe deliberately did it) the new japanese generation's refusal for hard work and traditional self sacrifice values for more individuality. those two are irrelevant.
no shit can be more annoying. what kind of dirty, fucked up politics system you have there that these faggots can 'slip' stuff into legislation ?
i see that you are of the republican mindset. youre talking totally irrelevant stuff to where im coming from.
japanese ascension is not related to any special setup they had with their corporations and government. its a direct result of their ideologies, one of which is the group/cooperation spirit, and another is kaizen and comparable business and life philosophies.
the group/cooperation spirit is what china is made of.
there. we have another outdated, ancient unit of measure in this thread now. heads of oxen.
not bad
suit yourself. japanese made it to the top of the world with their small population, cooperating instead of competing like u.s. does. now there's china with the same social mindset, group mindset rather than individualism. and they have multiples of japan's population. their impact is gonna be much higher.
im sorry i couldnt withhold myself that long. everything americans suffer, are brought upon themselves by that shitty understanding of 'let "losers" sink, let the rest fight it out and "winners" win'. this reflects in every aspect of your life :
starts from high school. you are indoctrinating children with that 'winner/loser' syndrome early in life, causing them to take on emotional distortions and distresses for the rest of their life. there can be only one winner in a competition. everyone starts to see anyone apart from themselves as 'others' who they need to compete with and beat to 'win'. they become socially aggressive, emotionally distant, less emphatetic towards anyone, even their family. then school shootings happen. teenage crimes happen. gangs happen. and you people ask 'why'.
you let this shit get ahold of your political scene too. the republican party in your country, which is the american placeholder for cutthroat, self-interest conservatives, preach that its better to nullify government and let everyone 'compete' for everything, and those who 'cant make it' die. why ? oh because its more efficient ! but before you know it, it also brings the fact that big buck eventually suppress and destroy small and medium businesses, and eventually whole country, entire sectors rest in the privileged few mega corporations that their owners had funded the republican party with. only distinction here is that this is not specific to america, it happens in every country through conservative parties.
you let those who cant make it fall to streets, and crime happens. whereas norwegian external affairs minister can drive a fucking bicycle to his office without fear of anything happening, the rich even in your mildest cities has to take excessive security measures and evade all districts and neighborhoods but few. talk about being the king of the hill that is standing in a plain of shit.
the early indoctrination to 'winner/loser' syndrome also affects social life. people are more emotionally distant, therefore it is difficult for them to bond with their later partners in life, children, relatives, friends, colleagues. you end up with a society that has many problems just because of that winner/loser syndrome and cutthroat competition logic. divorces happen, more mobbing in the workplace, problematic relations and so on.
you may be still brainwashed with the competition thing and be stupid as to think that it provides success. not as such. it would be true only if japanese werent on the face of the earth as an example.
when i was studying industrial engineering, on an occasion about skills and employment and eventual success(regarding the competition between usa and japan in engineering matters) someone has given me a very short but clear insight into the matter; americans tend to be overly competitive, and those who make it to the top of the pile are very talented and successful people. but they sorely lack in cooperation and coexistence. japanese on the other hand think that if someone is excessively specialized, s/he is probably lacking in some other field. instead they cooperate. cooperation of many people who are less specialized and experts but highly inclined to cooperation beats the hell outta experts in low number. this is why they used to say if you single out japanese in a negotiation, you can deal with them easily. but if you let them come in group, you get dealt with.
we know the success of japan after ww2. a thoroughly devastated, low population, almost no natural resource country have made it to the top of the world as an economic power. all the while americans were 'competing' between themselves and outside, japanese have been cooperating. we know what the result is.
you are well aware that scholastic education system is reminiscent of medieval church and also just an extension of current ruling establishment in spirits ? and also, modern education just happens to be memorizing textbook and playing along to whatever is asked in the exams ?
the pinnacle of what europe can accomplish, and accomplished. a bunch of STUPID IDIOTS which are chosen as 'representatives' have totally fucked up the ideals of personal rights, freedoms and handed the whole country to whomever at the helm at any point to be abused. clearly shows representative democracy does not work. you elect the person, then that person can vote as s/he wishes, not how you wish. we need to get rid of all those faggots and start direct democracy.