It's a Wall Street Conspiracy to condition kids to work for points instead of money. On the other hand, it could be the much needed push to transition us to Star Trek economics, which would be really bad for Wall Street. So this game is really like a metaphor for life. The Man wants you to work for free, until everybody does work for free and nobody can afford to pay The Man any more. At which point there is a huge recession, and the next thing you know, you are going back in time to try and save a whale.
Well, while you are at it, "generated by natural gas generators," should have been: natural-gas-powered generators or generators powered by natural gas.
I was attempting to install this, when I went with ownCloud instead. The reason? SparkleShare doesn't have Windows-sync clients that work on XP. That's a deal killer. Many small businesses have only XP machines. Yeah, it may be time to let it die, but what good is a syn-client that only works on half of your PCs. It doesn't matter if it is time to move on from XP, what does matter is that lots of people haven't.
ownCloud, however, was smart enough to make a Windows sync-client that works with XP.
If your site has good content, the people will come regardless. Much better than a really pretty site with crap content, in my opinion. Another example here is, craigslist. I can't stand to even load up craigslist. It looks so freaking awful, yet they have made a fortune off that 1995-html1.0-looking crap.
> They could spend their time reading about economic fallacies
At some point the manufactures cut their own throats. If someone automates and gets a good advantage on the competition, the world goes on. When everyone automates, everyone outsources, everyone replaces workers with machines, no one will be able to buy their products. Ha ha.
I'm reading a book now about the beginnings of North and South Dakota. A lot of people moved there because, even though slavery was over at the time, there were so many people in the South that would work for next to nothing, that there was no way to get ahead.
Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Welcome to slavery 2.0, only it is machines doing the work now, or the work is being outsourced to slave labor in other countries. The kicker is, we have no new states to move to where there is still a chance to overcome the obstacles and make something of yourself.
I believe that Terminal Services on a linux box is the "killer app" for linux on the desktop in the corporate or small business world...if only those freeNX virtual desktops are serving up a Quickbooks client. And not even a great open-source replacement for it, it needs to be a real Quickbooks *client* to pull off our coup.
And errrr, yes, you are correct, that's *simultaneously*.:)
Yes. I just built a terminal server at work. 5 legal remote desktop users = 450.00 - 500.00 dollars. And that is not counting the OS, which must be a Server OS, or the hardware. You are easily looking at 1500.00 - 2000.00 for a legal 5 user remote desktop.
Make a copy of Office available on the Remote Desktop...need a license for each user. You sneeze right, you need a license for that.
Now do a search to see if that product is legal. Well no, they are not. If you don't have a Remote Desktop User CAL for each user, it's in violation of Windows EULA. I just spent a lot of time researching this stuff.
You can even run thinstuff on XP. Works great. I tested it. Is it legal. No. On XP, you can't put in Remote Desktop CALs, so there is no way to make it legal, even if you used thingstuff and attempted to purchase legal CALs.
This isn't going to happen on Windows. Could finally be the year of Linux on the desktop, though. Windows EULA specifically prohibits one shared computer with multiple users without a license for each user. Run any microsoft app, like Office, and you are doubly screwed. If a person wanted to be legal, this setup would cost a fortune, because you are really getting into Windows Server territory.
I've set up a desktop Linux (Ubuntu) with FreeNX. Holy cow, we are just a Linux-based Quickbook client away from taking over the corporate world. All the licensing issues go right out the er....Window(s).
I could easily see a Linux version of your plan taking over the world, though. No matter how powerful PCs get, Microsoft isn't going to just let one copy of Windows work where it used to take 4.
Time for the ppl to demand that the created money goes to us directly instead of rewarding middlemen
I'm sorry, we have already gotten our funny money. It's time to just stop, because we are stealing from future generations, to the tune of trillions of dollars.
We have to put out our own tablet, because our OEMs can't build a competitor to the Kindle Fire and sell it for 199.00 if 80.00 dollars out of that 199.00 is for our OS.
Microsoft can't release a 700.00 tablet. Anyone going to spend that much money would go for an Apple product. The logical entry point to sell a lot of them is on the low end, and guess what...the OEMs can't meet the low end price point and use Windows 8.
This may not be the year of Linux, but it could be the year it backed MS into a corner.
I could kind of see maybe banking sites or utility sites having to be standard compliant, but if I were blind, I can't honestly say I would want to attempt to use the Internet in the way I do now, much less feel some kind of need that every single site on the Internet should be forced to change just because of me.
I know all people are equal, yada, yada, yada, but should skateboard parks be forced to provide scooters to disabled people so they can scoot around your skateboard park? Or maybe common sense should say, "maybe skateboarding isn't for everyone."
I mean, if a person is blind, maybe playing angry birds isn't for them. Where do you draw the line? There are tons of things on the Internet that I could not imagine being suitable for a blind person. Why not just admit those things are not for blind people, and let communities and websites form around activities that are better suited for blind people?
by John Perkins. If you haven't seen it, it is worth seeing (or reading, because there is a book). We go to them and make them an offer they can't refuse: in this pocket, there is enough money to make you and your family wealthy; in this pocket there is a gun...what's it going to be?
For some reason, America has a strong desire to make the rest of the world "like us." Our foreign policy mirrors that. First we attempt to buy them off. If that doesn't work, we shoot them.
True freedom means that people are free to make their own choices, for better or for worse. Luckily, the US will step in to make sure everyone makes the right choice...and you better bet your life the right choice is that everyone ends up looking just like us.
And look at the time period XP was on the market vs. Vista, 7, and now 8. I know businesses just getting their first Win 7 machines and MS is already pushing 8 out on everyone. That's fine for home users. For businesses, it just isn't good business.
A "just works" version of Windows, that MS sold support for, marketed toward businesses, that just stayed the same forever. As it is, MS makes its money on new versions. That's fine for MS, but bad for businesses that don't want to upgrade every four - six years. If MS made money selling a business copy of windows and then got a fair amount for support and updates on it perpetually, it would be win/win for businesses, developers, and MS.
Where I work at, we installed new systems in police stations in the last two years that were brand new and had Windows XP on them, because the software at the time didn't have Windows 7 drivers.
Can anyone who has used Sparkleshare say if it would work in this situation? I'm looking at building a Sparkleshare server, which is described as an open source version of dropbox, but where you control the server. On some level, it doesn't look that hard to set up, but there are parts of it that still aren't explained well at the website.
But if you search for open source dropbox alternative, Sparkleshare shows up on a lot of lists.
Here is the same info from the Lancet. Per wikipedia, the Lancet is "one of the world's best known, oldest, and most respected general medical journals."
Cross off cancer here and insert diabetes, or obesity. If you bothered to do your own research, I guarantee you could could not just dismiss this as bullshit.
From the Lancet:
"In many [western] countries, peoples' diet changed substantially in the second half of the twentieth century, generally with increases in consumption of meat, dairy products, vegetable oils, fruit juice, and alcoholic beverages, and decreases in consumption of starchy staple foods such as bread, potatoes, rice, and maize flour. Other aspects of lifestyle also changed, notably, large reductions in physical activity and large increases in the prevalence of obesity."[18]
"It was noted in the 1970s that people in many western countries had diets high in animal products, fat, and sugar, and high rates of cancers of the colorectum, breast, prostate, endometrium, and lung; by contrast, individuals in developing countries usually had diets that were based on one or two starchy staple foods, with low intakes of animal products, fat, and sugar, and low rates of these cancers."[18]
"These observations suggest that the diets [or lifestyle] of different populations might partly determine their rates of cancer, and the basis for this hypothesis was strengthened by results of studies showing that people who migrate from one country to another generally acquire the cancer rates of the new host country, suggesting that environmental [or lifestyle factors] rather than genetic factors are the key determinants of the international variation in cancer rates."[18]
Other factors factored in, like activity, Campbell found surprisingly that many Chinese actually consume about 30% more calories than Americans, yet they had incredibly less overweight people. Again, he didn't compare a sedentary American to a field worker in China, he compared them to an office worker in China to make it fair.
So it wasn't just calories, it is the types of food. Processed foods and animal foods are to blame. China actually proves to be an excellent place to study because they have a wide range of groups that live the same way, eat the same way, and live in the same place most of their lives. Campbell found that the more animal foods and processed foods they ate, the more disease and obesity the had. This isn't just junk science, either. You can do the research for yourself. As third world countries get wealthier and adopt a western-style diet, they also adopt western disease rates and obesity. It is not just their genes. If they move here and start eating like us, they get our diseases at the same rates (or higher). There is nothing special about these people other than their diets.
Our diets combined with our lifestyles are killing us here...and if you want to cut your chances of cancer, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses down, the solution is simple. All you have to do is eat like you live in a 3rd world country. Less animal products and processed foods, more whole foods. It's that simple.
I do disagree with Campbell that you *have* to become a vegetarian. They do eat meat in China, just way less of it. But his studies on people that reversed massive heart disease just by becoming vegetarians is fairly impressive.
First, I rarely bittorent anything, but I recently tried to find an audiobook for my son that is old and no longer being sold anywhere. My experience was somewhat similar to the oatmeal trying to watch game of thrones online: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones. Audible? No. Amazon? No. Barnes & Noble? No.
The only places I could find the audiobook were used and costs 40.00 or more for cassette tapes...which I would then have had to convert to MP3s myself. Long story short, thanks to bittorent, my son is now halfway through the book and loves it.
If someone would have bothered to actually sell the audiobook, I would have forked over money for it.
This is a prime example of why copyright law should be relaxed on abandoned copyrighted material. They like to bitch about piracy, but they sure don't go out of their way to offer the public what they really want.
Content medium shifting is legal for consumers (for the most part). Content medium shifting as a paid service doing it for consumers has not held up well in court at all. Note that I may not totally agree with that, but there are a long list of companies that tried and failed to:
Format shift music Edit language/content from DVDs that consumers *purchased*. Rip DVDs bit by bit to a "video jukebox," thus not bypassing encryption. Store movies on a network DVR....like a "VCR with a long cable in between."
I'm sure we can add quite a few more casualties of the copyright gray area here.
Yeah. They are going to spend a fortune to give everyone a percentage point or two off an item. Why not save the money and JUST LOWER THE PRICE OF THE ITEM.
This screams, "let's drive our last remaining customers to Amazon.com."
I did this and it isn't that great. I didn't get dirt cheap cameras, either. They must be made for winter -- hunting season -- and to be used at night. In the heat of the day in Texas, the sensors are not very sensitive and sometimes just flat do not work. Other problems:
* To cut down on the number of bad pictures, they have a delay before and after a picture is taken. * Fast moving people may get totally missed. You have to place them carefully. * You have to mount them where they aren't easy to get to == put off changing batteries * The Infra-red flashes are very visible at night...if you happen to be looking toward it.
All of that said, night pictures with infra-red are extremely clear. You may get a much better picture from one of these than a cheap DVR. The key word there is *may*. It depends on a lot of factors.
Everyone can't work for minimum wage and America survive. This is not to knock minimum wage jobs, but everyone can't work at Wal-Mart and McDonalds. When you make minimum wage, you spend it all on housing/rent, gas, and food. There is no money left over for anything else. If you have a consumer-based economy, and nobody has any money to spend, what is going to happen to your economy.
We can't send all the real jobs overseas and expect everyone here to work at a shop in the mall. Who are you going to sell stuff to?
If we don't bring real, productive jobs back to America, we have had it. We can't rely on IP, intangibles, copyright lawsuits, and royalties to keep us afloat. It's real jobs, producing real products, or we have had it.
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It's a Wall Street Conspiracy to condition kids to work for points instead of money. On the other hand, it could be the much needed push to transition us to Star Trek economics, which would be really bad for Wall Street. So this game is really like a metaphor for life. The Man wants you to work for free, until everybody does work for free and nobody can afford to pay The Man any more. At which point there is a huge recession, and the next thing you know, you are going back in time to try and save a whale.
This game sounds fun.
Well, while you are at it, "generated by natural gas generators," should have been: natural-gas-powered generators or generators powered by natural gas.
Didn't really think it would get published.
I was attempting to install this, when I went with ownCloud instead. The reason? SparkleShare doesn't have Windows-sync clients that work on XP. That's a deal killer. Many small businesses have only XP machines. Yeah, it may be time to let it die, but what good is a syn-client that only works on half of your PCs. It doesn't matter if it is time to move on from XP, what does matter is that lots of people haven't.
ownCloud, however, was smart enough to make a Windows sync-client that works with XP.
So far, ownCloud seems to be working well.
If your site has good content, the people will come regardless. Much better than a really pretty site with crap content, in my opinion. Another example here is, craigslist. I can't stand to even load up craigslist. It looks so freaking awful, yet they have made a fortune off that 1995-html1.0-looking crap.
> They could spend their time reading about economic fallacies
At some point the manufactures cut their own throats. If someone automates and gets a good advantage on the competition, the world goes on. When everyone automates, everyone outsources, everyone replaces workers with machines, no one will be able to buy their products. Ha ha.
I'm reading a book now about the beginnings of North and South Dakota. A lot of people moved there because, even though slavery was over at the time, there were so many people in the South that would work for next to nothing, that there was no way to get ahead.
Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Welcome to slavery 2.0, only it is machines doing the work now, or the work is being outsourced to slave labor in other countries. The kicker is, we have no new states to move to where there is still a chance to overcome the obstacles and make something of yourself.
I believe that Terminal Services on a linux box is the "killer app" for linux on the desktop in the corporate or small business world...if only those freeNX virtual desktops are serving up a Quickbooks client. And not even a great open-source replacement for it, it needs to be a real Quickbooks *client* to pull off our coup.
And errrr, yes, you are correct, that's *simultaneously*. :)
Yes. I just built a terminal server at work. 5 legal remote desktop users = 450.00 - 500.00 dollars. And that is not counting the OS, which must be a Server OS, or the hardware. You are easily looking at 1500.00 - 2000.00 for a legal 5 user remote desktop.
Make a copy of Office available on the Remote Desktop...need a license for each user. You sneeze right, you need a license for that.
There are several dirt cheap Citrix-like products: Check out http://www.thinstuff.com/
Now do a search to see if that product is legal. Well no, they are not. If you don't have a Remote Desktop User CAL for each user, it's in violation of Windows EULA. I just spent a lot of time researching this stuff.
You can even run thinstuff on XP. Works great. I tested it. Is it legal. No. On XP, you can't put in Remote Desktop CALs, so there is no way to make it legal, even if you used thingstuff and attempted to purchase legal CALs.
This isn't going to happen on Windows. Could finally be the year of Linux on the desktop, though. Windows EULA specifically prohibits one shared computer with multiple users without a license for each user. Run any microsoft app, like Office, and you are doubly screwed. If a person wanted to be legal, this setup would cost a fortune, because you are really getting into Windows Server territory.
I've set up a desktop Linux (Ubuntu) with FreeNX. Holy cow, we are just a Linux-based Quickbook client away from taking over the corporate world. All the licensing issues go right out the er....Window(s).
I could easily see a Linux version of your plan taking over the world, though. No matter how powerful PCs get, Microsoft isn't going to just let one copy of Windows work where it used to take 4.
I'm sorry, we have already gotten our funny money. It's time to just stop, because we are stealing from future generations, to the tune of trillions of dollars.
We have to put out our own tablet, because our OEMs can't build a competitor to the Kindle Fire and sell it for 199.00 if 80.00 dollars out of that 199.00 is for our OS.
Microsoft can't release a 700.00 tablet. Anyone going to spend that much money would go for an Apple product. The logical entry point to sell a lot of them is on the low end, and guess what...the OEMs can't meet the low end price point and use Windows 8.
This may not be the year of Linux, but it could be the year it backed MS into a corner.
I could kind of see maybe banking sites or utility sites having to be standard compliant, but if I were blind, I can't honestly say I would want to attempt to use the Internet in the way I do now, much less feel some kind of need that every single site on the Internet should be forced to change just because of me.
I know all people are equal, yada, yada, yada, but should skateboard parks be forced to provide scooters to disabled people so they can scoot around your skateboard park? Or maybe common sense should say, "maybe skateboarding isn't for everyone."
I mean, if a person is blind, maybe playing angry birds isn't for them. Where do you draw the line? There are tons of things on the Internet that I could not imagine being suitable for a blind person. Why not just admit those things are not for blind people, and let communities and websites form around activities that are better suited for blind people?
by John Perkins. If you haven't seen it, it is worth seeing (or reading, because there is a book). We go to them and make them an offer they can't refuse: in this pocket, there is enough money to make you and your family wealthy; in this pocket there is a gun...what's it going to be?
For some reason, America has a strong desire to make the rest of the world "like us." Our foreign policy mirrors that. First we attempt to buy them off. If that doesn't work, we shoot them.
True freedom means that people are free to make their own choices, for better or for worse. Luckily, the US will step in to make sure everyone makes the right choice...and you better bet your life the right choice is that everyone ends up looking just like us.
And it is already at version 8.02
From the article: Windows RT tablets are built on the Windows 8 OS
And look at the time period XP was on the market vs. Vista, 7, and now 8. I know businesses just getting their first Win 7 machines and MS is already pushing 8 out on everyone. That's fine for home users. For businesses, it just isn't good business.
A "just works" version of Windows, that MS sold support for, marketed toward businesses, that just stayed the same forever. As it is, MS makes its money on new versions. That's fine for MS, but bad for businesses that don't want to upgrade every four - six years. If MS made money selling a business copy of windows and then got a fair amount for support and updates on it perpetually, it would be win/win for businesses, developers, and MS.
Where I work at, we installed new systems in police stations in the last two years that were brand new and had Windows XP on them, because the software at the time didn't have Windows 7 drivers.
Can anyone who has used Sparkleshare say if it would work in this situation? I'm looking at building a Sparkleshare server, which is described as an open source version of dropbox, but where you control the server. On some level, it doesn't look that hard to set up, but there are parts of it that still aren't explained well at the website.
But if you search for open source dropbox alternative, Sparkleshare shows up on a lot of lists.
http://sparkleshare.org/
Here is the same info from the Lancet. Per wikipedia, the Lancet is "one of the world's best known, oldest, and most respected general medical journals."
Cross off cancer here and insert diabetes, or obesity. If you bothered to do your own research, I guarantee you could could not just dismiss this as bullshit.
From the Lancet:
"In many [western] countries, peoples' diet changed substantially in the second half of the twentieth century, generally with increases in consumption of meat, dairy products, vegetable oils, fruit juice, and alcoholic beverages, and decreases in consumption of starchy staple foods such as bread, potatoes, rice, and maize flour. Other aspects of lifestyle also changed, notably, large reductions in physical activity and large increases in the prevalence of obesity."[18]
"It was noted in the 1970s that people in many western countries had diets high in animal products, fat, and sugar, and high rates of cancers of the colorectum, breast, prostate, endometrium, and lung; by contrast, individuals in developing countries usually had diets that were based on one or two starchy staple foods, with low intakes of animal products, fat, and sugar, and low rates of these cancers."[18]
"These observations suggest that the diets [or lifestyle] of different populations might partly determine their rates of cancer, and the basis for this hypothesis was strengthened by results of studies showing that people who migrate from one country to another generally acquire the cancer rates of the new host country, suggesting that environmental [or lifestyle factors] rather than genetic factors are the key determinants of the international variation in cancer rates."[18]
Other factors factored in, like activity, Campbell found surprisingly that many Chinese actually consume about 30% more calories than Americans, yet they had incredibly less overweight people. Again, he didn't compare a sedentary American to a field worker in China, he compared them to an office worker in China to make it fair.
So it wasn't just calories, it is the types of food. Processed foods and animal foods are to blame. China actually proves to be an excellent place to study because they have a wide range of groups that live the same way, eat the same way, and live in the same place most of their lives. Campbell found that the more animal foods and processed foods they ate, the more disease and obesity the had. This isn't just junk science, either. You can do the research for yourself. As third world countries get wealthier and adopt a western-style diet, they also adopt western disease rates and obesity. It is not just their genes. If they move here and start eating like us, they get our diseases at the same rates (or higher). There is nothing special about these people other than their diets.
Our diets combined with our lifestyles are killing us here...and if you want to cut your chances of cancer, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses down, the solution is simple. All you have to do is eat like you live in a 3rd world country. Less animal products and processed foods, more whole foods. It's that simple.
I do disagree with Campbell that you *have* to become a vegetarian. They do eat meat in China, just way less of it. But his studies on people that reversed massive heart disease just by becoming vegetarians is fairly impressive.
First, I rarely bittorent anything, but I recently tried to find an audiobook for my son that is old and no longer being sold anywhere. My experience was somewhat similar to the oatmeal trying to watch game of thrones online: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones. Audible? No. Amazon? No. Barnes & Noble? No.
The only places I could find the audiobook were used and costs 40.00 or more for cassette tapes...which I would then have had to convert to MP3s myself. Long story short, thanks to bittorent, my son is now halfway through the book and loves it.
If someone would have bothered to actually sell the audiobook, I would have forked over money for it.
This is a prime example of why copyright law should be relaxed on abandoned copyrighted material. They like to bitch about piracy, but they sure don't go out of their way to offer the public what they really want.
Content medium shifting is legal for consumers (for the most part). Content medium shifting as a paid service doing it for consumers has not held up well in court at all. Note that I may not totally agree with that, but there are a long list of companies that tried and failed to:
Format shift music
Edit language/content from DVDs that consumers *purchased*.
Rip DVDs bit by bit to a "video jukebox," thus not bypassing encryption.
Store movies on a network DVR....like a "VCR with a long cable in between."
I'm sure we can add quite a few more casualties of the copyright gray area here.
Yeah. They are going to spend a fortune to give everyone a percentage point or two off an item. Why not save the money and JUST LOWER THE PRICE OF THE ITEM.
This screams, "let's drive our last remaining customers to Amazon.com."
Who comes up with this crap?
I did this and it isn't that great. I didn't get dirt cheap cameras, either. They must be made for winter -- hunting season -- and to be used at night. In the heat of the day in Texas, the sensors are not very sensitive and sometimes just flat do not work. Other problems:
* To cut down on the number of bad pictures, they have a delay before and after a picture is taken.
* Fast moving people may get totally missed. You have to place them carefully.
* You have to mount them where they aren't easy to get to == put off changing batteries
* The Infra-red flashes are very visible at night...if you happen to be looking toward it.
All of that said, night pictures with infra-red are extremely clear. You may get a much better picture from one of these than a cheap DVR. The key word there is *may*. It depends on a lot of factors.
Everyone can't work for minimum wage and America survive. This is not to knock minimum wage jobs, but everyone can't work at Wal-Mart and McDonalds. When you make minimum wage, you spend it all on housing/rent, gas, and food. There is no money left over for anything else. If you have a consumer-based economy, and nobody has any money to spend, what is going to happen to your economy.
We can't send all the real jobs overseas and expect everyone here to work at a shop in the mall. Who are you going to sell stuff to?
If we don't bring real, productive jobs back to America, we have had it. We can't rely on IP, intangibles, copyright lawsuits, and royalties to keep us afloat. It's real jobs, producing real products, or we have had it.
> Within that time frame, everyone will already have one; a smart phone.
Finally, I can call my remote to find the darn thing.