Without religion or beliefs our society as well as science has no direction. These two windows to view the world through do not oppose each other, rather they can be made to complement each other to make life fuller. However, this demands tolerance and the ability to adapt to new ideas in _both camps_. When someone from either camp disregards something from the other or competes with someone from their own camp, he or she views reality in a much narrower sense than the total. For example by using too much of one half of the brain. Or you can look at it as cutting and chipping away essential parts of the Big Picture.
You don't have to submit to higher powers, leaders or governments to be religious or spiritual. You don't have to spam people showing up at their door, just to score extra points for an eventual afterlife. Karma does not mean you will be punished for your misdeeds. Religion does not necessarily imply intoleration to the views and life of others. You don't have to accept authorative views, give away all your money, live in poverty or anything you don't want at all. Everyone has the right to choose their own way of life, and everyone eventually live life based on their choices. So let's make those choices better. It's only a matter of shifting your focus, away from things that makes you unhappy or dopes you down (in front of a computer).
There are many paths to a better life. A site that takes up the issue pretty broadly can be found at: http://www.eu.spiritweb.org/. There's much misinformation about new age/spirituality floating around the net, but this is one of the best sites around IMHO.
Ultimately, whatever resonates with your mind, is right for you (believe me you will FEEL it when you encounter it!). Not everyone is supposed to become a guru or something, that is a misbelief. There's more than one truth, the trick is to extract out your truth. Ie, what is necessary as truth today may become totally false tomorrow. That doesn't make the previous truth false yesterday. We're basically children in our playground Earth, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're not destined for greatness (whatever that means;). It's all up to ourself. We have to learn to assume responsibility, cooperate and love without expecting anything in return.
What makes you happy? New technology? For how long. Searching for externals, ie money, fame etc, will never fullfill anyone completely..
Btw, have you listened to the text of popular music lately? The world IS changing now!
You forget that anything you do to disrupt can be countermeasured. Why go to war this way? We should instead tell our friends and colleagues about this. Nobody likes to be targeted with ads or cynically tracked, but people must be aware before they can care.
I don't think companies care much for their databases. Of course they would like to have as much detailed information as possible. But just having a list of emails gives them enough of excuses to spew out more spam.
As a programmer where do you really see the advantage of having multitudes of proprietary solutions instead of public open ones. That's what UNIX was about originally, the standards. The big bad mistake was for the license to allow for proprietary modifications, because certain companies uses every trick they can think of to lock their users into their traps.
If UNIX is ever going to develop beyond the standard UNIX base, it will have to support a more open development. It may feel good to be nostalgic about something, but it doesn't help development much in the longer run.
Not that I believe "programming for free" can solve all problems mind you. The way I see it companies are going to have to support open source more and more. It will be more efficient to collaborate, and it will give them invaluable PR as people get more clue about freedom in their own lives.
If they want to filter out sites that merely critizise Mattel and/or has a crack readily downloadable, they should make another option for it. Not hide it under every filtering-option they have. Besides that, it was a good point but doesn't explain all the stupid lawsuits either.
IMO, the owners of Cyberpatrol is being very unprofessional in their acts.
I have never tried CyberPatrol and I don't feel trying it out either. However, I'm sure every user installing it has to click on some EULA which strips the consumer of any rights forever and ever. So anyone filing a suit has to prove that this infringement overrides their EULA.
It sounds like you should've got a bonus, instead of getting fired. These guys can't take security very seriously. I'd love to see US bombed by its own airplanes. Stupidity deserves its fate.
Having myself bought a "Direct3D and OpenGL compliant" S3 Virge/MX+ for my notebook (1 1/2 years ago). I regret ever buying from a company like S3. The card was NOT hardware OpenGL or Direct3D compliant as their website claimed. Instead it supported accellerated DirectDraw, which isn't 3D by a long shot. It could be made mini-GL compliant, but the company refused to make the drivers making thousands of Virge-owners mad as hell. They also refused to open up anything.
You may think this was another issue since it was not with nVIDIA, but it is not. It is about Open Source, Free Software and freedom in general.
Now how many people do you think bought the S3 Savage card after this? Not many S3 ViRGE owners I guess. Hopefully such companies notice the difference in their pockets after a while. Most people won't be fooled a second time..
Of course, the S3 ViRGE is not supported on Win2K... And they still refuse to give out the specs for their legacy hardware.
DON'T BUY FROM S3. DON'T BUY FROM NVIDIA. DON'T BUY FROM COMPANIES THAT WANTS TO LOCK YOU IN A PROPRIETARY DEAD-END! Now that wasn't hard was it?
Piracy? PIRACY??? If I hear that word again I think my head is going to blow up...
Piracy is about hijacking ships and steal from people before killing them off. You don't steal anything from anyone by copying, information is free. It's just a mindset that publishers wants to impose on us so that they can make more profits on our willingness to bend over..
If you actually read some of those texts, I'm sure you'll see the insane limitations corporations and governments are trying to impose on the net and society as a whole. And do you think they'll ever stop or give up on this? Of course not, they're in for the money and power! There are no limits to greed, but we got to draw a line somewhere.
When I first heard of the word "Piracy" regarding software from "Software Houses" as they were called then, I was perhaps 10-11 years old and read it in a "Microcomputer magazine". They even had a picture of a pirate ship with pirates onboard! Nedless to say I laughed at that. Today 13 years later, the word as well as the mindset has become mainstream, and I'm not laughing anymore..
Just because publishers are reluctant to find alternative ways of distributing, doesn't mean we should support them in everything they do. I'd much rather live in a free society with slightly worse products, than in a society where just a selected few elite got to have it all. When companies or governments act badly, we should _act_ on it ourselves. Anything else is irresponsible. It's our duty to think beyond stupid laws and limitations and do what's rational according to our own morals. Teach and share with others, learn what we do badly ourselves. Diversity and information sharing is the key to evolution.
Do you really think a crippled demo along with its inevitable ads for the final release tells you everything you need to know to spend so much money on a game? That game-magazines touts informed decisions? For one thing, no game is worth over $25, and I'm tired of being disappointed over and over again. There's too much hype to wade through to ever hope finding the best titles before your money runs out.
"Don't support piracy." Why? Because someone says so with no good reasons? Well, I don't support piracy, but that's because of personal preferences. Not just because "someone told me to", or "it's hurting the bussiness". But rather because in the end it doesn't help very much.
Btw, I'm going to buy a new game in a few days, just need to make sure it's the right choice. So I'm not all Communistic, DON'T SHOOT!;-)
I think most governments (perhaps except in the Netherlands) wants to avoid this word, freedom, as much as possible. Why? Well, it's the source of all downfalls of governments. It causes crimes, looting, riots and revolutions. The more you can limit people's freedom, the less they can group together to fight against your propaganda and strickt laws. Or do some other questionable and immoral activities, like watching filth on the Net. Side note: Having a state-religion is perhaps the most powerful way to do this btw, wether it be capitalism or some other older religions.
Of course, this argumentation is flawed viewed from the population, since the people defines the state and not the other way around.
Neither corporational or governmental embodiments are the final answer to our evolution. Neither are the intention behind them, there's plenty of horrific examples of good intentions gone wrong. I think the only way is to get rid of elitism, and start spreading information freely so everyone can make informed decisions to grow on and see what's really going on. Just like in Star-Trek.;-)
"Hey, guys! Over here! I've found one!!" "W-What?" "Time to die evil Communist!" A gun is pointed at the evil communist's forehead. "B-but clearly sharing is better and mo-more efficient." "Bah, that's what they all say. Everybody in their right mind knows the free-market is stronger!" "Okey, I admit it. I'm an evil Communist trying to convert you superior Americans. I want to live in your luxurious spendor, but the KGB cover-salary doesn't cover such expenses."
*BANG*
"Another strike for the US! Huzzah! Huzzah!! Huzzaaah!!!"
Obviously this is a time of great conflicts so why not? You don't earn any rights by viewing your legally purchased DVDs in a cellar with the MPAA hunting for you outside.
It's true that creating graphical MUDs or MMPs as you call them are very costly. You can't just take any big game, like Half-life, water it out into a "big" world, and add multiplayer capabilities. There's a whole slew of opportunities and tuning to be made to make a gaming world. Generally, the more people to play, the more complex it gets. Especially in maintenance.
This leads me to a question. How often do companies use each other code, eg license out code to another? I believe if most of the engines and code were available, this would greatly cut down on prices and giving more revenue to those companies that cooperate on such projects. I feel the development time and cost mostly goes into reinventing the wheel.
"Sure. But it also grants the German people (government and citizens) to effectively combat any major effort to disrupt the process of healing."
It's not the process of healing that gets disrupted, it's the process of blocking it from memory. The conflict or wound is still very much present in the German population, and will be inherited to the children until people decide to really deal with it.
If you tell a problem to go away, it will. However, it will still come back again to haunt you.
This is one of the lamest thing about commercial Linux products. It makes people think of Linux as just another UNIX now being splintered into commercial factions. It ought to stop, before people just don't want to bother with it. I know I wouldn't bother if there were 30 different Linuxes to choose from and any given package only worked on a few of them. Choice is good, but lack of flexibility is not. Even when it's illusionary.
Any differences between distros and Linux-flavours should be generic. If there are differences that ain't, somebody should do something about it.
A really free license, would that be BSD? Personally I'm in favour of the GPL, because this is not a perfect world. I do not want some company to embrace all my code, extend it into oblivion and release it as proprietary. I want my code and any released changes remain available to the public.
BSD is perhaps more free. But remember that freedom goes both ways. Laws against murdering people is also limiting freedom. The rights of the copyright holder should be protected.
GPL is sort of a standing-ground against closed corporations who spend too much energy struggling against each other. What a waste!
- Steeltoe
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That's a great idea! You should be able to program whatever you want into this thing, and be able to turn the features on and off whenever you feel like it. Would be great!
Friends:
Wants to play Quake 3 Arena [x] Wants to play Unreal Tournament [ ] Wants to go out drinking and check out chicks [x]
Girlfriends: Wants to stay over for just one night [x]
Help: Need help with the car [x] I'm dying here (arrghh) [x]
And of course the gizmos should do all the talking for you, no need to worry about social dysfunctionality anymore!
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You don't have to submit to higher powers, leaders or governments to be religious or spiritual. You don't have to spam people showing up at their door, just to score extra points for an eventual afterlife. Karma does not mean you will be punished for your misdeeds. Religion does not necessarily imply intoleration to the views and life of others. You don't have to accept authorative views, give away all your money, live in poverty or anything you don't want at all. Everyone has the right to choose their own way of life, and everyone eventually live life based on their choices. So let's make those choices better. It's only a matter of shifting your focus, away from things that makes you unhappy or dopes you down (in front of a computer).
There are many paths to a better life. A site that takes up the issue pretty broadly can be found at: http://www.eu.spiritweb.org/. There's much misinformation about new age/spirituality floating around the net, but this is one of the best sites around IMHO.
Ultimately, whatever resonates with your mind, is right for you (believe me you will FEEL it when you encounter it!). Not everyone is supposed to become a guru or something, that is a misbelief. There's more than one truth, the trick is to extract out your truth. Ie, what is necessary as truth today may become totally false tomorrow. That doesn't make the previous truth false yesterday. We're basically children in our playground Earth, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're not destined for greatness (whatever that means ;). It's all up to ourself. We have to learn to assume responsibility, cooperate and love without expecting anything in return.
What makes you happy? New technology? For how long. Searching for externals, ie money, fame etc, will never fullfill anyone completely..
Btw, have you listened to the text of popular music lately? The world IS changing now!
- Steeltoe
What do you do to limit yourself today?
You forget that anything you do to disrupt can be countermeasured. Why go to war this way? We should instead tell our friends and colleagues about this. Nobody likes to be targeted with ads or cynically tracked, but people must be aware before they can care.
I don't think companies care much for their databases. Of course they would like to have as much detailed information as possible. But just having a list of emails gives them enough of excuses to spew out more spam.
- Steeltoe
It's because some authors put too much faith into companies. It's a virtuous thing to do, like the BSD-license, but it may also be a naive move..
;-)
I guess some people don't mind proprietary solutions at all. After all it's good for "competition".
- Steeltoe
As a programmer where do you really see the advantage of having multitudes of proprietary solutions instead of public open ones. That's what UNIX was about originally, the standards. The big bad mistake was for the license to allow for proprietary modifications, because certain companies uses every trick they can think of to lock their users into their traps.
If UNIX is ever going to develop beyond the standard UNIX base, it will have to support a more open development. It may feel good to be nostalgic about something, but it doesn't help development much in the longer run.
Not that I believe "programming for free" can solve all problems mind you. The way I see it companies are going to have to support open source more and more. It will be more efficient to collaborate, and it will give them invaluable PR as people get more clue about freedom in their own lives.
- Steeltoe
What do you do to limit yourself today?
Of course they have to cut away alien spacecrafts, spacestations and spaceworlds. If it doesn't exist, we can't see it and vica versa.
- Steeltoe
What do you do to limit yourself today?
If they want to filter out sites that merely critizise Mattel and/or has a crack readily downloadable, they should make another option for it. Not hide it under every filtering-option they have. Besides that, it was a good point but doesn't explain all the stupid lawsuits either.
IMO, the owners of Cyberpatrol is being very unprofessional in their acts.
- Steeltoe
That sounds like a pretty dumb firewall. For example your very own comment would be filtered out as _bad_.
- Steeltoe
Finally someone with some practical sense!
Let's try it out on your city Now and see how well it goes..
- Steeltoe
I have never tried CyberPatrol and I don't feel trying it out either. However, I'm sure every user installing it has to click on some EULA which strips the consumer of any rights forever and ever. So anyone filing a suit has to prove that this infringement overrides their EULA.
- Steeltoe
It sounds like you should've got a bonus, instead of getting fired. These guys can't take security very seriously. I'd love to see US bombed by its own airplanes. Stupidity deserves its fate.
- Steeltoe
What do you do today to limit yourself?
You forget that probably over 60% of those million copies are due to OEM-deals when people want to buy themselves and new and shiny computer.
I've been writing crap lately, and here I go again..
- Steeltoe
A very easy way is to only provide the download of new builds through an installer that fingerprints the package after download/copy from CD.
It's not hard to come up with ideas for a Big Brother society. Not hard at all, It's tougher to prevent such things.
- Steeltoe
Having myself bought a "Direct3D and OpenGL compliant" S3 Virge/MX+ for my notebook (1 1/2 years ago). I regret ever buying from a company like S3. The card was NOT hardware OpenGL or Direct3D compliant as their website claimed. Instead it supported accellerated DirectDraw, which isn't 3D by a long shot. It could be made mini-GL compliant, but the company refused to make the drivers making thousands of Virge-owners mad as hell. They also refused to open up anything.
You may think this was another issue since it was not with nVIDIA, but it is not. It is about Open Source, Free Software and freedom in general.
Now how many people do you think bought the S3 Savage card after this? Not many S3 ViRGE owners I guess. Hopefully such companies notice the difference in their pockets after a while. Most people won't be fooled a second time..
Of course, the S3 ViRGE is not supported on Win2K... And they still refuse to give out the specs for their legacy hardware.
DON'T BUY FROM S3. DON'T BUY FROM NVIDIA. DON'T BUY FROM COMPANIES THAT WANTS TO LOCK YOU IN A PROPRIETARY DEAD-END!
Now that wasn't hard was it?
- Steeltoe
Piracy is about hijacking ships and steal from people before killing them off. You don't steal anything from anyone by copying, information is free. It's just a mindset that publishers wants to impose on us so that they can make more profits on our willingness to bend over..
For more information check out: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philoso phy.html
If you actually read some of those texts, I'm sure you'll see the insane limitations corporations and governments are trying to impose on the net and society as a whole. And do you think they'll ever stop or give up on this? Of course not, they're in for the money and power! There are no limits to greed, but we got to draw a line somewhere.
When I first heard of the word "Piracy" regarding software from "Software Houses" as they were called then, I was perhaps 10-11 years old and read it in a "Microcomputer magazine". They even had a picture of a pirate ship with pirates onboard! Nedless to say I laughed at that. Today 13 years later, the word as well as the mindset has become mainstream, and I'm not laughing anymore..
Just because publishers are reluctant to find alternative ways of distributing, doesn't mean we should support them in everything they do. I'd much rather live in a free society with slightly worse products, than in a society where just a selected few elite got to have it all. When companies or governments act badly, we should _act_ on it ourselves. Anything else is irresponsible. It's our duty to think beyond stupid laws and limitations and do what's rational according to our own morals. Teach and share with others, learn what we do badly ourselves. Diversity and information sharing is the key to evolution.
Do you really think a crippled demo along with its inevitable ads for the final release tells you everything you need to know to spend so much money on a game? That game-magazines touts informed decisions? For one thing, no game is worth over $25, and I'm tired of being disappointed over and over again. There's too much hype to wade through to ever hope finding the best titles before your money runs out.
"Don't support piracy." Why? Because someone says so with no good reasons? Well, I don't support piracy, but that's because of personal preferences. Not just because "someone told me to", or "it's hurting the bussiness". But rather because in the end it doesn't help very much.
Btw, I'm going to buy a new game in a few days, just need to make sure it's the right choice. So I'm not all Communistic, DON'T SHOOT! ;-)
- Steeltoe
What do you do to limit yourself today?
I think most governments (perhaps except in the Netherlands) wants to avoid this word, freedom, as much as possible. Why? Well, it's the source of all downfalls of governments. It causes crimes, looting, riots and revolutions. The more you can limit people's freedom, the less they can group together to fight against your propaganda and strickt laws. Or do some other questionable and immoral activities, like watching filth on the Net. Side note: Having a state-religion is perhaps the most powerful way to do this btw, wether it be capitalism or some other older religions.
;-)
Of course, this argumentation is flawed viewed from the population, since the people defines the state and not the other way around.
Neither corporational or governmental embodiments are the final answer to our evolution. Neither are the intention behind them, there's plenty of horrific examples of good intentions gone wrong. I think the only way is to get rid of elitism, and start spreading information freely so everyone can make informed decisions to grow on and see what's really going on. Just like in Star-Trek.
- Steeltoe
What do you do to limit yourself today?
This sounds like Communistic propaganda!
"Hey, guys! Over here! I've found one!!"
"W-What?"
"Time to die evil Communist!" A gun is pointed at the evil communist's forehead.
"B-but clearly sharing is better and mo-more efficient."
"Bah, that's what they all say. Everybody in their right mind knows the free-market is stronger!"
"Okey, I admit it. I'm an evil Communist trying to convert you superior Americans. I want to live in your luxurious spendor, but the KGB cover-salary doesn't cover such expenses."
*BANG*
"Another strike for the US! Huzzah! Huzzah!! Huzzaaah!!!"
- Steeltoe
What do you do to limit yourself today?
After watching Walker Texas Ranger I think they'll think twice before planning any invasion.
I think we're in the safe (for now).
- Steeltoe
Obviously this is a time of great conflicts so why not? You don't earn any rights by viewing your legally purchased DVDs in a cellar with the MPAA hunting for you outside.
- Steeltoe
What do you do to limit yourself today?
It's true that creating graphical MUDs or MMPs as you call them are very costly. You can't just take any big game, like Half-life, water it out into a "big" world, and add multiplayer capabilities. There's a whole slew of opportunities and tuning to be made to make a gaming world. Generally, the more people to play, the more complex it gets. Especially in maintenance.
This leads me to a question. How often do companies use each other code, eg license out code to another? I believe if most of the engines and code were available, this would greatly cut down on prices and giving more revenue to those companies that cooperate on such projects. I feel the development time and cost mostly goes into reinventing the wheel.
- Steeltoe
"Sure. But it also grants the German people (government and citizens) to effectively combat any major effort to disrupt the process of healing."
It's not the process of healing that gets disrupted, it's the process of blocking it from memory. The conflict or wound is still very much present in the German population, and will be inherited to the children until people decide to really deal with it.
If you tell a problem to go away, it will. However, it will still come back again to haunt you.
- Steeltoe
You can still add banners to Peacefire and like-minded sites on your website, to show your support.
- Steeltoe
This is one of the lamest thing about commercial Linux products. It makes people think of Linux as just another UNIX now being splintered into commercial factions. It ought to stop, before people just don't want to bother with it. I know I wouldn't bother if there were 30 different Linuxes to choose from and any given package only worked on a few of them. Choice is good, but lack of flexibility is not. Even when it's illusionary.
Any differences between distros and Linux-flavours should be generic. If there are differences that ain't, somebody should do something about it.
- Steeltoe
Who knows, it's their little secret along with all the other popular proprietary codexes around..
Disclaimer: Running this software may blow up your computer, but it will be your own fault.
- Steeltoe
A really free license, would that be BSD?
Personally I'm in favour of the GPL, because this is not a perfect world. I do not want some company to embrace all my code, extend it into oblivion and release it as proprietary. I want my code and any released changes remain available to the public.
BSD is perhaps more free. But remember that freedom goes both ways. Laws against murdering people is also limiting freedom. The rights of the copyright holder should be protected.
GPL is sort of a standing-ground against closed corporations who spend too much energy struggling against each other. What a waste!
- Steeltoe
That's a great idea! You should be able to program whatever you want into this thing, and be able to turn the features on and off whenever you feel like it. Would be great!
Friends:
Wants to play Quake 3 Arena [x]
Wants to play Unreal Tournament [ ]
Wants to go out drinking and check out chicks [x]
Girlfriends:
Wants to stay over for just one night [x]
Help:
Need help with the car [x]
I'm dying here (arrghh) [x]
And of course the gizmos should do all the talking for you, no need to worry about social dysfunctionality anymore!
- Steeltoe