You know

All I would really need if I had nothing, immagining myself back into medieval Japan, before Edo Period,

I would like to have some land to plant something to feed my own, a solid house to keep them safe and comfortable from bad weather, some water nearby so that my crop would grow, a big and solid katana to defend my wife and children should their life be endangered in some way...

Being and engineer in spirit ( one is born with some likes and aptitudes IMHO ), I would probably build all this out of raw materials in Nature, chop trees to build my house, smelt the iron to make my agricultural tools and my sword, build my own water wheel to mill some wheat to bake my own bread...

I would try to be happy, out of the "MoneyIsm" fever...

BRGDS

Alex

Hobby for me also. Who desparately needs a computer?

I do.

Well I managed fine without a PC for 6 weeks when I was doing fieldwork in Snowdonia. This was a couple of years ago. Sure did have a lot of emails to read when I'd finished. I did have my GBA, mobile, mp3player, and GPS mind.

Is it...? ROFL

The awnser is NO.

Yeah, I had to wonder about that, too.

I don't know.Probably not.

The only thing I really depend on a *personal* computer for is taxes. Tax prep is expensive, or extremely tedious without a computer

The rest is just work.

Hi

It all boils down to this :

Do we really need the computer to satisfy OUR OWN NEEDS...? Or do we use/need it to satisfy the SYSTEM'S ( whatever this might be ) NEEDS...?

One thing that strikes me quite a lot is that contrary to my expectations and wishful thinking, technology ( Computers included ) have not always ( if ever... ) been used to serve Mankind, I will explain :

Does anyone here naively believe that our dependence on fossile fuels is a NEED...? ... meaning, is it really IMPOSSIBLE to stabilize a High Lawson criterium nuclear fusion plasma to return thermal energy beyont the break-even point ?

... like this, I could expose several examples, like IS REALLY HIV virus impossible to destroy ? or Was REALLY H5N1 fever a Pandemics, or was it a crooky business between pharmaceutical corporations and governments worldwide...?


IMHO, Capitalsim f**ck* up everything, and now we are tied to a set of Beliefs/False Needs that exist to "harvest" the work force of Mankind to cash in to some really smart dudes...

I think computers could be used differently...

For instance... wouldn't it be wondeful ef each computing node of the Internet could be allocated to a massively parallel algorythm so solve really complex problems that may be hindering Mankind to reach its development potential ?

Now... does this really interests those who have the power to control things...?

BRGDS

Alex


EDIT : One of these World wide computing effort problems could be the design of Inertial confinment or magnetic confinment fusion reactors, or novel drug research initiatives... Yet I have seen nothing alike...

Just immagine : The total computing power of Mankind allocated to solve the CFD/Magneto Hydrodynamic design of a fusion reactor within a genetic optimization framwork in design parameter space...

We could have the "blueprint" for the solution for Energy crisis within few months...

Now... do we ALL want this to happen...?

* points at Alexvader
says "You talk funny!"
* runs off giggling.


Seriously. Dude!.. your posts would be a lot better if you dropped all the techno-gibberish. It ain't impressing anyone.

Hi GazL

My point is not impressing anyone...

My point is stressing that there are serious problems Mankind is debating with :

Scarcity of resources, unsustainable/Unsymmetrical development, diseases, pollution...

Almost each of them share one common denominator :

Inadequate/Inconvenient management...

A Computer, like almost any other tool ever created would be awesome if used properly to adress these issues, technical giberishes or not, but in most of the cases, tools are used for the perpetuation of the current status...

Wether I use technical giberish to transmit this idea, It is not the main subject I wish to transmit...

It is just to stress that the practical problems which i nominate ( what you call technical giberishes ) are SOLVABLE ... therefore if they do not get SOLVED, it is not because of a lack of MEANS...

I hope my message/opinion has become clear now...

BRGDS

Alex


EDIT: Whenever people are in a communication process, the meaning of a message is validated by what the receiver wishes to understand about it, but the INTENTION of that same message remains the property of its emitter.

... in short : I CAN NOT and WILL NOT do anything if people choose to decide being impressed or not by information that is ACCESSORY to what i mean to transmit...

As I stated, it doesn't even come last in my intentions... simply does not exist.

I rely in the receiver's judgement to select what is the useful content of that given message.

As well as it is HIS RESPONSABILITY to decide wether "to be impressed" or not, or grasp the content of what I communicated.

Sounds like you found the problem to me

Yep MBybee...

And to my deep regret, there is nothing within my reach that i can do to help to mitigate it

BRGDS

Alex

I really need the internets to satisfy my own needs.