The test shows that it doesn't matter what way the image is being shown on the retina. The brain still adapts to interpret "up" the right way, if you just give it some time. Of course, with just the image of a pencil, things gets meaningless. But you have your sense of balance and motion to correct things to help you in everyday life.
Unless the person has been taught about anatomy, the brain has no idea that the real image is up-side-down on the retina. And it probably doesn't care what is the "right" way anyways, as long as it doesn't experience conflict.
Now how about a test where you rotate the image 90 degrees? *hydr*
What all this says to me is something I've always known. We _all_ have reasons to do what we do. There's nothing to hold against anyone to do what they choose, because they have all very legitimate reasons. Even Hitler (not comparable to Bill Gates, comparable to all of us wether we like it or not). Everyone have issues to live through.
But at some point in time it's time to say: Game over! Enough is enough. Let's wake up from this dream of ours and start living again.
The way I read this is that DeCSS source, css-auth, etc are all legal if they are being used as a tool for interoperability. If they are being used for pirating movies that yes they are illegal.
Then we should ban floppy disks, zip-drives, CDRW-burners, printers, scanners and yes, even pen and paper. They can all be used for pirating and stealing intellectual property (eg. DVD movies).
I thought it was the criminal act or intention beyond reasonable doubt (plans, hiring criminals etc), that was illegal. The last one is pretty important against Warez and Cracker sites, but that doesn't stick against fair use. I think watching your newly bought DVD on Linux is fair use within a good range.
The movie/media industry knows this, they're not stupid. However, they see themselves as big and strong, yet terribly vulnerable to pirating. They're paranoid and want to have a stranglehold at the market to relieve their fear. The little legal grounds they have for ammunition is the EULA of the Xing-player, which forbids reverse engineering. But everyone knows EULAs targeted at mass-production will never stick in court, as people are left with very little choice. Usually the EULA appears during install. Well after the purchase, and there's no negotiation. Besides, there are ways to bypass the EULA during install before consenting to it.
This is all a ploy to limit our freedom, so an old boy's club can have monopoly on DVD-player licenses. And to give the movie-industry a false sense of security. If we as people don't stand up to this, they're going to eat our hand, foot and whatever's left of us. The whole incident is yet another proof that security through obscurity just doesn't work that well. Humans have an ugly tendency to underestimate eachother, and a terrific sense of competition.
Such chords are slow, error-prone, non-intuitive and cumbersome. It is suitable only for people familiar with playing piano or similar instruments. While a keyboard is big and clunky, or else difficuly to use. I would recommend a "webpad" device to be modular, so that you can connect a small keyboard or mouse to it if you want to. Or any USB- and network device you like for that matter.
I fully agree these "webpads" should have the same capabilities that laptops have today. Just strip them of CD-ROM, harddrive, cooling-fan and much of the other baggage. They might serve as mobile display-panels which you may connect to your laptop, TV-outlet, VCR or whatever. It should be possible to fasten them physically to a display-less laptop machine of the future. In fact, all these devices (e.g. keyboard, trackball) should be possible to fasten physically to each other by using a holder between them or something.
Btw, with 8 buttons and 2 fingers you have a total of 7+6+5+4+3+2+1=28 unique combinations. Personally I like to have choices on the same device, and I prefer Palm-like pen interface for such small devices. But anyone who wants to connect to it a mouse, trackball or touchpad instead I fully support.
These ideas cannot be patented as this is "prior art" too.;-)
Online, hostile environments are driving almost every social group other than techno-savvy young white men away from coherent public discussion of technology. These men are invariably smart and skilled, but almost unable to communicate civilly or tolerate disagreement or difference. Are we breeding communities of impulsive and creative jerks?
After reading the first paragraph, I quickly decided reading Part 2 wasn't worth my time. Even the first sentence is utterly paradoxial and partial racistic. How can hostile environments drive people away from coherent discussions? Surely, they exclude each other. Rational people who seek answers without hassle will stay with forums where they don't get spammed, flamed or advertised to daily. Slashdot is one of these forums, especially filtered through Cut-The-Crap.
All techno-savvy people on the Internet are not white males, although they are in the majority in the West. This is more for social reasons, ie immigration and social repression of minority groups and so forth. The deciding factors in this area are very complex and variable, so I will not even attempt to dive into that matter.
The author completely disregards what Internet is all about. He seem to think it is social community all by itself. But that perspective makes no broader sense. Internet is an extension of our local community, creating a virtual global community. It then follows that all the problems we are facing on Internet has its roots in us as people and community in real life. We may create electronic forums to stimulate development to more mature discussions and mutual respect. But in the end, it is the individual human being that will have to change as part of a solution. The Internet is _accelerating_ this process. As we are communication more, ugly fluff isn't hidden under the carpet as much as before.
All in all, this post is trying to label people and sort them out in clean little bins. This is always wrong, and statistics have been misinterpreted and misused this way for way too long.
Aha, Thanks for pointing that out. It didn't say that when I looked there the first time. The rest of the FAQ clears out all areas of confusion regarding Windows it seems. Maybe it was added later or my page didn't finish loading. You still need Windows to install the free BeOS though, but it certainly looks much better.
You are comparing flaming with assault, something I find like comparing boxing with war. Flaming is still a form of psychological abuse. Most countries have laws against personal threats expressed in snail- and email. The limit of free speech ends where the other person's rights are being trampled upon. This doesn't apply to public internet boards though.
I'll guarantee you someone who'd really want to harrass you through email and on public internet boards could really affect your day badly to say the least. I'm not saying it'll hurt you badly, it depends on who you are. But there should be legal ways to stop things like that.
Q: Will I have to repartition my hard drive to install BeOS 5? A: No. If you're currently using Windows, you'll be able to download BeOS 5 via a Web browser and store it as a file within the Windows file system. Downloading BeOS 5 will be no different than downloading any application or utility. No repartitioning will be necessary, and launching BeOS 5 will be as simple as double-clicking an icon on the desktop. If you decide to delete BeOS 5 -- though we hope you don't -- doing so will be as simple as uninstalling any typical Windows application.
This is typical corporation-talk. Why don't they mention _anything_ about being able to start BeOS without Windows? If this is so, then this is just a test version, and it isn't even entirely "free beer". You still have to buy Windows. I _want_ to repartition my disks. It's what you do when you have multiple OSes on a disk. And I sure as hell don't want to go through my crashy Win98 boot-sequence to use BeOS daily. Is this a demo or what?
I'm lucky(?) to have Windows in the first place, as the OEM version went completely foobar. What about the (supposed) masses of Linux zealots around? What about them????;-)
It's a tiny step in the right direction though, and I applaud that I will be able to test the OS' capabilities first-hand soon.
clone: A term which is applied to genes, cells, or entire organisms which are derived from - and are genetically identical to - a single common ancestor gene, cell, or organism, respectively. Cloning of genes and cells to create many copies in the laboratory is a common procedure essential for biomedical research. Note that several processes which are commonly described as cell "cloning" give rise to cells which are almost but not completely genetically identical to the ancestor cell. "Cloning" of organisms from embryonic cells occurs naturally in nature (e.g. with the occurrence of identical twins). The laboratory cloning of a sheep using the genetic material from a cell of an adult animal has recently been reported.
cloning: the process of producing a genetically identical copy - or clone.
twinning: Two offspring developing with the same maternal parent and born at the same time. Twins can develop from the same zygote (monozygotic or "identical twins") or from separate zygotes (dizygotic or "fraternal twins"). Identical twins share the same genetic heritage whereas fraternal twins are no more or less related than are siblings born at different times.
identical twin: Twins which have been produced by the division of a single zygote (monozygotic). Each twin has an identical genotype. While each twin begins with the same set of genetic information, the effect of the environment within which each individual grows up can cause differences in how their genetic make-up is expressed.
No wonder people disagree so much on so many subjects when they don't agree on their terminology and don't tolerate the views of others! Twins from more than one eggcell is certainly not clones, while identical twins are usually called "clones" in the media when coming from laboratories. Wether they are truly clones or whatever they are is up to whoever judges them. Whatever reason they have for judging their neighbours. Also, wether a technical cloning has actually been perfomed remains a technical issue in each case. For the rest of us it's just words. I prefer to call them humans, or by their name if I get to know them.
Human Identical Twins are still human.
Human clones are still human.
No Less.
Not bad from someone from Microsoft though. I guess you're human too *sigh*.
Type enforcement sounds like a killer app for Linux. Just imagine doing your casual IRCing and then some D00dz starts scanning your ports and launching DoS attacks against your machine. But now with the latest kernel you can remotely shut down their computer, ring several alarms in their house while flashing red lightbulbs. Not to mention a couple of dark dressed NSA gays knocking their door down a few minutes later. This would work wonders against silly script kiddies on IRC.
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- Steeltoe
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What are you complaining about? You just censored the statement with three punctuations yourself, making it into a whole different meaning. Unless it was your intent to be ironic, it doesn't actually contribute to your case.
The correct statement was:
"That could include blocking out objectionable signs or covering up a competitor's logo, he says, as long as doing so meets CBS' journalistic guidelines."
Censorship is bad, even in an argument against it. *duuh*
I've read the four books of this saga, but can't remember any Formics. They called them Buggers all along in those books as far as I remember. I think I would have remembered.
Nothing in this world can recapture those hours reading Ender's Game. Certainly not a movie, not even on a copied DVD. *grin*
>The ones living in countries where the cinemas lag 6 months behind the US. The solution is of course to release movies world-wide, both cinema-wise and DVD wise. That'll kill a LOT of the piracy.
A very excellent point. Just too bad the movie industry doesn't see it that way. They want to squeeze as much money as they can from each country. Stupid or what?
Listen to yourself. What future do you really want? A future run by corporations or a future run by people? I think the answer is pretty obvious, since corporations consist of people.
Fact is one of them has to lose over the other in the future. Corporations can't grow in power without abusing people, and people can't earn and live out their rights without lost revenue to corporations.
It's as simple as that.
In their eyes, the best way for corporations to earn money is to drug us down and make us their drones. Then they can do whatever they want of society. But what is really the point of that? So that a small elite can feel powerful and rich? There should be something else to life than that, and that means power and freedom to the individuals to do what their hearts desires.
In the future DVDs WILL be copied and pirated, since we're going to count storage in Tb instead of Gb. This could have a positive effect on the movie-bussiness, as they will have to come up with better answers to people's needs. Ie, bigger cinema screens, social aspects of movie-going, physical effects etc. The initiative-takers of this will be the ones who earn money from their ideas. Upstarts and copycats without one creative idea in their mind will as previously, not.
People that claim piracy are hurting corporations, forget what side is the most human. We don't live this life for corporations to grow on us. The more power you give them, the more numerous and bigger they get. So there have to be some resistance. Call it illegal. Call it perverted, or whatever you like, but I doubt it has ever hurt the bussiness as they claim it have. When they say that, they're thinking about quite a different reality than this one.
Think about that.
- Steeltoe
PS: This is not FUD, it's just to show the extreme that could happen if we suddenly just "gave up", stopped thinking for- and talking among ourselves. In some countries this has already happened, but with governments, which is much more probable.
Actually, the Orwellian year 1984 was really well beyond "our" 20th Century. I don't remember the analysis stating the approximate year as in A.D. Point taken, 1984 was just the official year defined by the Parliament of Truth. They had probably redefined the year several times already. Scary, huh? d;^)
There exists several lengthy analysis of "1984" which covers more horrors than what most people can grasp by reading the book alone. I think Orwell wrote "1985" (an analysis mostly) himself, or perhaps that was some other guy.
If you liked "1984" I would recommend Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". Personally, I think that one is closer to a conceivable future here in the West. "1984" is more like future Communistic (*) regimes. In a way, many dictatorian regimes has already had 194-like tendencies. But not to that extent as in the book.
(*) NB! Not communistic, look up in Webster's for the differences between Communism and communism *sigh, do I ever get tired of that stupid discussion*)
This one shows how ridiculous the fashion industry really is. Hell, I mean, I really enjoy watching beautiful women and girlies in pretty dresses and beach-outfits. Everything seems to fit on them, even all kinds of gears and goggles.
That doesn't mean it's going to look like that on me!;(
But maybe... Just Maybe if I buy one of those devices, maybe I'll get the girl too.. d:)
The reason Slashdot works so well as it does lies in its democratic ways:
* People send in suggestions to stories. * People choose to respond to stories and other posts. * People are given temporary moderator access. * People choose to moderate posts.
All this means freedom to the people. Slashdot is a medium by the people for the people. But you have some "proprietary" chains in the string too:
* Creators * Story posters * Permanent moderators
For Slashdot these are the weakest links in the chain. That doesn't mean they haven't done a good job, but they can't compete with the rest of the world. (As a side-note, very few people can. Kasparov obviously can.)
But they are nonetheless important, since they keep Slashdot from drifting off course. Even though we have to tolerate mistakes and ego-trips from their part from time to time.
News from Slashdot is extremely biased and put on the "edge" at times. But at least there's a proper system (karma) on here to rectify the situation when it occur, putting matters in balance. This lacks in professional media, thus obscuring such "problems".
I think many will agree that this is an important agenda. More important than the report, which will not change the way we deal with the issue.
People with mental problems are looked upon by society as freaks, but we're being more and more aware that this one concerns us all. Everyone has issues. It's just that some bury it so deep they almost never see them again. This doesn't stop it from influencing your life badly though.
At his scale, we can't deal with this by a brief stop at the hospital. We will have to change the way we live, and believe me, we will. For better or for worse, change is inevitable.
The undertone in this article is wether mental health has been on decline in the last decade/century. We're surprised at the high number of people that is being doomed 'mentally ill' by the statistics. As always, the cure by authorities is curing the sympthoms instead of the illness itself.
I personally don't think we're much different than generations before us when concerning mental health. But to be sincere, we don't have much facts to back up either claim. There are lots of reason that different numbers of people are being diagnosed mentally ill each year. Key factors that play a role here is awareness in the population and professional practices. In the 50's you could be diagnosed schitzophrenic by just being rebellious. Scientists were keen on testing out lobotomy on violent candidates. Nowadays, we have shrinks earning lots of money.
A higher percent of the population are more lonely, depressed, unstable and violent than ever before. But what does this have to do with mental health? Having a disorder in your brain doesn't automatically make you a criminal, or vica verca. Being depressed isn't necessarily bad, but an experience, a challenge, you can grow on.
So what if a tiny bit more of the population have brain disorders due to drugs, alcohole misuse, bad diet and pollution? This is not the main source of problems. ANY person can get unhappy, for a longer period of time. Instead of spending huge amounts of money on theraupists for individual cases, the authorities should focus on the reasons to why people get sick and unhappy. And DO something about it, we're still a _community_ aren't we? People need to be shown what condition they are in, and taught what they can do to help themselves psychologically and spiritually.
Everyone has issues to be resolved on this. And there aren't enough theraupists in the world for us all. At least not for money.
When a professional doctor diagnoses you as mentally ill, he's basically saying there's something wrong with you. But fails to mention why, and that it's not your fault. Also, if your view of the world differs drastically from the doctor's own, he/she may not understand this and condemn you as confused or schitzophrenic because of this. In such circumstances, you give up your power over your own sanity to the personal beliefs of your shrink.
You are your own best shrink. Nobody can understand yourself as good.
"It's time to make the leap to Linux. Everyone else is. In fact, in the past month alone, mainstream tech companies Intel and IBM have invested in the open source operating system."
They could as well said "It's time to jump. Everyone else is."
It's the same thing that happened with the DOS-Windows transition and most other transitions on the x86 family. They think people need to be scared into doing the same.
Just for the record, Sun still is the company who actually made the Java SDK. Blackdown just reconfigured it to work under Linux. Now, perhaps they should have put the proper acknowledgements and links along with the download. They could at least have asked the Blackdown-crew first. I'm assuming here. Anyone who know if they did?
But is it really more wrong when a company does this thing, than when individuals or groups of people do it? I think the reason we react so harsh on this is mostly because Sun has ignored Linux support for so long concerning Java, in favour for their own OS.
It seems./ers do nothing but file complaints all day. Before this happened, Sun got criticized for not having a Linux version of the Java SDK on their pages. Now that they do, we complain about that. As long as we get to complain, we are happy./ers?
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The test shows that it doesn't matter what way the image is being shown on the retina. The brain still adapts to interpret "up" the right way, if you just give it some time. Of course, with just the image of a pencil, things gets meaningless. But you have your sense of balance and motion to correct things to help you in everyday life.
Unless the person has been taught about anatomy, the brain has no idea that the real image is up-side-down on the retina. And it probably doesn't care what is the "right" way anyways, as long as it doesn't experience conflict.
Now how about a test where you rotate the image 90 degrees? *hydr*
- Steeltoe
What all this says to me is something I've always known. We _all_ have reasons to do what we do. There's nothing to hold against anyone to do what they choose, because they have all very legitimate reasons. Even Hitler (not comparable to Bill Gates, comparable to all of us wether we like it or not). Everyone have issues to live through.
But at some point in time it's time to say: Game over! Enough is enough. Let's wake up from this dream of ours and start living again.
- Steeltoe (sane, but drunk this tschime)
FINALLY AOL 5.0 for Windows. But when will we see a Linux version of this? I long to see AOL beat the crap out of Linux.
- Steeltoe
Then we should ban floppy disks, zip-drives, CDRW-burners, printers, scanners and yes, even pen and paper. They can all be used for pirating and stealing intellectual property (eg. DVD movies).
I thought it was the criminal act or intention beyond reasonable doubt (plans, hiring criminals etc), that was illegal. The last one is pretty important against Warez and Cracker sites, but that doesn't stick against fair use. I think watching your newly bought DVD on Linux is fair use within a good range.
The movie/media industry knows this, they're not stupid. However, they see themselves as big and strong, yet terribly vulnerable to pirating. They're paranoid and want to have a stranglehold at the market to relieve their fear. The little legal grounds they have for ammunition is the EULA of the Xing-player, which forbids reverse engineering. But everyone knows EULAs targeted at mass-production will never stick in court, as people are left with very little choice. Usually the EULA appears during install. Well after the purchase, and there's no negotiation. Besides, there are ways to bypass the EULA during install before consenting to it.
This is all a ploy to limit our freedom, so an old boy's club can have monopoly on DVD-player licenses. And to give the movie-industry a false sense of security. If we as people don't stand up to this, they're going to eat our hand, foot and whatever's left of us. The whole incident is yet another proof that security through obscurity just doesn't work that well. Humans have an ugly tendency to underestimate eachother, and a terrific sense of competition.
- Steeltoe
Such chords are slow, error-prone, non-intuitive and cumbersome. It is suitable only for people familiar with playing piano or similar instruments. While a keyboard is big and clunky, or else difficuly to use. I would recommend a "webpad" device to be modular, so that you can connect a small keyboard or mouse to it if you want to. Or any USB- and network device you like for that matter.
;-)
I fully agree these "webpads" should have the same capabilities that laptops have today. Just strip them of CD-ROM, harddrive, cooling-fan and much of the other baggage. They might serve as mobile display-panels which you may connect to your laptop, TV-outlet, VCR or whatever. It should be possible to fasten them physically to a display-less laptop machine of the future. In fact, all these devices (e.g. keyboard, trackball) should be possible to fasten physically to each other by using a holder between them or something.
Btw, with 8 buttons and 2 fingers you have a total of 7+6+5+4+3+2+1=28 unique combinations. Personally I like to have choices on the same device, and I prefer Palm-like pen interface for such small devices. But anyone who wants to
connect to it a mouse, trackball or touchpad instead I fully support.
These ideas cannot be patented as this is "prior art" too.
- Steeltoe
After reading the first paragraph, I quickly decided reading Part 2 wasn't worth my time. Even the first sentence is utterly paradoxial and partial racistic. How can hostile environments drive people away from coherent discussions? Surely, they exclude each other. Rational people who seek answers without hassle will stay with forums where they don't get spammed, flamed or advertised to daily. Slashdot is one of these forums, especially filtered through Cut-The-Crap.
All techno-savvy people on the Internet are not white males, although they are in the majority in the West. This is more for social reasons, ie immigration and social repression of minority groups and so forth. The deciding factors in this area are very complex and variable, so I will not even attempt to dive into that matter.
The author completely disregards what Internet is all about. He seem to think it is social community all by itself. But that perspective makes no broader sense. Internet is an extension of our local community, creating a virtual global community. It then follows that all the problems we are facing on Internet has its roots in us as people and community in real life. We may create electronic forums to stimulate development to more mature discussions and mutual respect. But in the end, it is the individual human being that will have to change as part of a solution. The Internet is _accelerating_ this process. As we are communication more, ugly fluff isn't hidden under the carpet as much as before.
All in all, this post is trying to label people and sort them out in clean little bins. This is always wrong, and statistics have been misinterpreted and misused this way for way too long.
- Steeltoe (white male in case someone wondered)
Hmm, make that: You still need Windows to install the free BeOS INSIDE Windows ;*)
Argh, I need a new pair of glasses too.
- Steeltoe
Aha, Thanks for pointing that out. It didn't say that when I looked there the first time. The rest of the FAQ clears out all areas of confusion regarding Windows it seems. Maybe it was added later or my page didn't finish loading. You still need Windows to install the free BeOS though, but it certainly looks much better.
Free beer? Wowsies. Competition must be strong.
- Steeltoe
You are comparing flaming with assault, something I find like comparing boxing with war. Flaming is still a form of psychological abuse. Most countries have laws against personal threats expressed in snail- and email. The limit of free speech ends where the other person's rights are being trampled upon. This doesn't apply to public internet boards though.
I'll guarantee you someone who'd really want to harrass you through email and on public internet boards could really affect your day badly to say the least. I'm not saying it'll hurt you badly, it depends on who you are. But there should be legal ways to stop things like that.
- Steeltoe
This is typical corporation-talk. Why don't they mention _anything_ about being able to start BeOS without Windows? If this is so, then this is just a test version, and it isn't even entirely "free beer". You still have to buy Windows. I _want_ to repartition my disks. It's what you do when you have multiple OSes on a disk. And I sure as hell don't want to go through my crashy Win98 boot-sequence to use BeOS daily. Is this a demo or what?
I'm lucky(?) to have Windows in the first place, as the OEM version went completely foobar. What about the (supposed) masses of Linux zealots around? What about them???? ;-)
It's a tiny step in the right direction though, and I applaud that I will be able to test the OS' capabilities first-hand soon.
- Steeltoe
clone: A term which is applied to genes, cells, or entire organisms which are derived from - and are genetically identical to - a single common ancestor gene, cell, or organism, respectively. Cloning of genes and cells to create many copies in the laboratory is a common procedure essential for biomedical research. Note that several processes which are commonly described as cell "cloning" give rise to cells which are almost but not completely genetically identical to the ancestor cell. "Cloning" of organisms from embryonic cells occurs naturally in nature (e.g. with the occurrence of identical twins). The laboratory cloning of a sheep using the genetic material from a cell of an adult animal has recently been reported.
cloning: the process of producing a genetically identical copy - or clone.
twinning: Two offspring developing with the same maternal parent and born at the same time. Twins can develop from the same zygote (monozygotic or "identical twins") or from separate zygotes (dizygotic or "fraternal twins"). Identical twins share the same genetic heritage whereas fraternal twins are no more or less related than are siblings born at different times.
identical twin: Twins which have been produced by the division of a single zygote (monozygotic). Each twin has an identical genotype. While each twin begins with the same set of genetic information, the effect of the environment within which each individual grows up can cause differences in how their genetic make-up is expressed.
No wonder people disagree so much on so many subjects when they don't agree on their terminology and don't tolerate the views of others! Twins from more than one eggcell is certainly not clones, while identical twins are usually called "clones" in the media when coming from laboratories. Wether they are truly clones or whatever they are is up to whoever judges them. Whatever reason they have for judging their neighbours. Also, wether a technical cloning has actually been perfomed remains a technical issue in each case. For the rest of us it's just words. I prefer to call them humans, or by their name if I get to know them.
Human Identical Twins are still human.
Human clones are still human.
No Less.
Not bad from someone from Microsoft though. I guess you're human too *sigh*.
- Steeltoe
Type enforcement sounds like a killer app for Linux. Just imagine doing your casual IRCing and then some D00dz starts scanning your ports and launching DoS attacks against your machine. But now with the latest kernel you can remotely shut down their computer, ring several alarms in their house while flashing red lightbulbs. Not to mention a couple of dark dressed NSA gays knocking their door down a few minutes later. This would work wonders against silly script kiddies on IRC.
- Steeltoe
My Grand vision for my future Company:
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2) We own your hands. You may not misuse or exploit weaknesses in the Product. All operations documented in the Users Manual must be followed in the exact sequence they were written. We have provided a safety feature for the Product if malicious breaches are detected (See section 7).
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Good luck with your futures.
- Steeltoe
What are you complaining about? You just censored the statement with three punctuations yourself, making it into a whole different meaning. Unless it was your intent to be ironic, it doesn't actually contribute to your case.
The correct statement was:
"That could include blocking out objectionable signs or covering up a competitor's logo, he says, as long as doing so meets CBS' journalistic guidelines."
Censorship is bad, even in an argument against it. *duuh*
- Steeltoe
I've read the four books of this saga, but can't remember any Formics. They called them Buggers all along in those books as far as I remember. I think I would have remembered.
Nothing in this world can recapture those hours reading Ender's Game. Certainly not a movie, not even on a copied DVD. *grin*
- Steeltoe
>The ones living in countries where the cinemas lag 6 months behind the US. The solution is of course to release movies world-wide, both cinema-wise and DVD wise. That'll kill a LOT of the piracy.
A very excellent point. Just too bad the movie industry doesn't see it that way. They want to squeeze as much money as they can from each country. Stupid or what?
- Steeltoe
Listen to yourself. What future do you really want? A future run by corporations or a future run by people? I think the answer is pretty obvious, since corporations consist of people.
Fact is one of them has to lose over the other in the future. Corporations can't grow in power without abusing people, and people can't earn and live out their rights without lost revenue to corporations.
It's as simple as that.
In their eyes, the best way for corporations to earn money is to drug us down and make us their drones. Then they can do whatever they want of society. But what is really the point of that? So that a small elite can feel powerful and rich? There should be something else to life than that, and that means power and freedom to the individuals to do what their hearts desires.
In the future DVDs WILL be copied and pirated, since we're going to count storage in Tb instead of Gb. This could have a positive effect on the movie-bussiness, as they will have to come up with better answers to people's needs. Ie, bigger cinema screens, social aspects of movie-going, physical effects etc. The initiative-takers of this will be the ones who earn money from their ideas. Upstarts and copycats without one creative idea in their mind will as previously, not.
People that claim piracy are hurting corporations, forget what side is the most human. We don't live this life for corporations to grow on us. The more power you give them, the more numerous and bigger they get. So there have to be some resistance. Call it illegal. Call it perverted, or whatever you like, but I doubt it has ever hurt the bussiness as they claim it have. When they say that, they're thinking about quite a different reality than this one.
Think about that.
- Steeltoe
PS: This is not FUD, it's just to show the extreme that could happen if we suddenly just "gave up", stopped thinking for- and talking among ourselves. In some countries this has already happened, but with governments, which is much more probable.
Actually, the Orwellian year 1984 was really well beyond "our" 20th Century. I don't remember the analysis stating the approximate year as in A.D. Point taken, 1984 was just the official year defined by the Parliament of Truth. They had probably redefined the year several times already. Scary, huh? d;^)
There exists several lengthy analysis of "1984" which covers more horrors than what most people can grasp by reading the book alone. I think Orwell wrote "1985" (an analysis mostly) himself, or perhaps that was some other guy.
If you liked "1984" I would recommend Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". Personally, I think that one is closer to a conceivable future here in the West. "1984" is more like future Communistic (*) regimes. In a way, many dictatorian regimes has already had 194-like tendencies. But not to that extent as in the book.
(*) NB! Not communistic, look up in Webster's for the differences between Communism and communism *sigh, do I ever get tired of that stupid discussion*)
- Steeltoe
The URL needs www. at the beginning.
The more this post gets moderated, the higher the Slashdor-wave d;-)
- Steeltoe
This one shows how ridiculous the fashion industry really is. Hell, I mean, I really enjoy watching beautiful women and girlies in pretty dresses and beach-outfits. Everything seems to fit on them, even all kinds of gears and goggles.
;(
That doesn't mean it's going to look like that on me!
But maybe... Just Maybe if I buy one of those devices, maybe I'll get the girl too.. d:)
- Steeltoe
The reason Slashdot works so well as it does lies in its democratic ways:
* People send in suggestions to stories.
* People choose to respond to stories and other posts.
* People are given temporary moderator access.
* People choose to moderate posts.
All this means freedom to the people. Slashdot is a medium by the people for the people. But you have some "proprietary" chains in the string too:
* Creators
* Story posters
* Permanent moderators
For Slashdot these are the weakest links in the chain. That doesn't mean they haven't done a good job, but they can't compete with the rest of the world. (As a side-note, very few people can. Kasparov obviously can.)
But they are nonetheless important, since they keep Slashdot from drifting off course. Even though we have to tolerate mistakes and ego-trips from their part from time to time.
News from Slashdot is extremely biased and put on the "edge" at times. But at least there's a proper system (karma) on here to rectify the situation when it occur, putting matters in balance. This lacks in professional media, thus obscuring such "problems".
- Steeltoe
>Sometimes that's not as easy as you'd think.
It's allowed to try isn't it? d:-)
I think many will agree that this is an important agenda. More important than the report, which will not change the way we deal with the issue.
People with mental problems are looked upon by society as freaks, but we're being more and more aware that this one concerns us all. Everyone has issues. It's just that some bury it so deep they almost never see them again. This doesn't stop it from influencing your life badly though.
At his scale, we can't deal with this by a brief stop at the hospital. We will have to change the way we live, and believe me, we will. For better or for worse, change is inevitable.
The undertone in this article is wether mental health has been on decline in the last decade/century. We're surprised at the high number of people that is being doomed 'mentally ill' by the statistics. As always, the cure by authorities is curing the sympthoms instead of the illness itself.
I personally don't think we're much different than generations before us when concerning mental health. But to be sincere, we don't have much facts to back up either claim. There are lots of reason that different numbers of people are being diagnosed mentally ill each year. Key factors that play a role here is awareness in the population and professional practices. In the 50's you could be diagnosed schitzophrenic by just being rebellious. Scientists were keen on testing out lobotomy on violent candidates. Nowadays, we have shrinks earning lots of money.
A higher percent of the population are more lonely, depressed, unstable and violent than ever before. But what does this have to do with mental health? Having a disorder in your brain doesn't automatically make you a criminal, or vica verca. Being depressed isn't necessarily bad, but an experience, a challenge, you can grow on.
So what if a tiny bit more of the population have brain disorders due to drugs, alcohole misuse, bad diet and pollution? This is not the main source of problems. ANY person can get unhappy, for a longer period of time. Instead of spending huge amounts of money on theraupists for individual cases, the authorities should focus on the reasons to why people get sick and unhappy. And DO something about it, we're still a _community_ aren't we? People need to be shown what condition they are in, and taught what they can do to help themselves psychologically and spiritually.
Everyone has issues to be resolved on this. And there aren't enough theraupists in the world for us all. At least not for money.
When a professional doctor diagnoses you as mentally ill, he's basically saying there's something wrong with you. But fails to mention why, and that it's not your fault. Also, if your view of the world differs drastically from the doctor's own, he/she may not understand this and condemn you as confused or schitzophrenic because of this. In such circumstances, you give up your power over your own sanity to the personal beliefs of your shrink.
You are your own best shrink. Nobody can understand yourself as good.
"It's time to make the leap to Linux. Everyone else is. In fact, in the past month alone, mainstream tech companies Intel and IBM have invested in the open source operating system."
They could as well said "It's time to jump. Everyone else is."
It's the same thing that happened with the DOS-Windows transition and most other transitions on the x86 family. They think people need to be scared into doing the same.
Are we sheep or what?
- Steeltoe
Just for the record, Sun still is the company who actually made the Java SDK. Blackdown just reconfigured it to work under Linux. Now, perhaps they should have put the proper acknowledgements and links along with the download. They could at least have asked the Blackdown-crew first. I'm assuming here. Anyone who know if they did?
./ers do nothing but file complaints all day. Before this happened, Sun got criticized for not having a Linux version of the Java SDK on their pages. Now that they do, we complain about that. As long as we get to complain, we are happy ./ers?
But is it really more wrong when a company does this thing, than when individuals or groups of people do it? I think the reason we react so harsh on this is mostly because Sun has ignored Linux support for so long concerning Java, in favour for their own OS.
It seems
- Steeltoe