autonomous seating
on
Painless Chairs?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
solution - no chair at all
why make th assumption that you need a chair? - many cultures do not and happily sit on th floor
this may be difficult to do at work due to 'cultural normalising pressure' but it is perfectly possible to set up your computer at home this way
use a very low coffee table for th keyboard and a higher one for th monitor
then learn to sit properly on th floor - two best ways are the lotus position and legs folded in a collapsed kneeling position as you see japanese ppl often doing
both of these positions give great benefit to th body - equivalent to holding an asana in yoga - th full lotus position is difficult (usually impossible) for most ppl to do at first but you can train yr body to do it by first sitting in half lotus or something easier again
simply by sitting like this yr back will be strengthened all th time you are using a computer rather than th reverse
tell me something i don't already know - and you are helping to make my point with yr words pure and simple
foods are not pure and simple substances - they are exceedingly complex complexes of a vast panoply of chemical composites
- drugs on th other hand are almost by definition exceedingly refined, pure, homogenous substances - and thus i contend that sugar is more correctly thought of as a drug not a food
Your body RUNS on sugar. ALL starches (potatoes, grains, you name it) have to be converted to sugar before your body can use them.
again i am aware of this fact - however conversion of foods inside th body through a balanced metabolic process into more simple substances is th evolutionary path we have followed - consuming substances that have been refined and simplified outside of th body is a recent development and not, i would argue, a healthy one
Maybe it's time to stop letting people graduate from high school without demonstrating basic scientific literacy.
this comment requires no reply beyond remarking that it smacks of both elitism and fascism
Back as a little kid I had the required chemistry set. There was a warning in the book that came with it: Never ever eat anything that you make with the chemistry set. Did no one else learn this important lesson as a child?
nicely expressed - this of course also includes sugar which a highly refined substance extracted from sugar cane and not a food
in my understanding th chemical refinement of white sugar from sugar cane requires about th same level of processing as refining cocaine from coca leaves does
thus sugar can easily be seen as a drug - one that we hook our children on from an early age
ever tried kicking th sugar habit completely? - i can tell you from experience that it's not easy - but also from my experience well worth doing
Yeah, the printable version is usually much nicer, but it's more polite (to the people who wrote the article) to link to the ad-infested version. They need to make a buck too.
ok, let me rephrase my original comment:
for those who believe that th web was created
for information sharing rather than making a buck
yr desire to share a story is best achieved
by linking to th page which best displays that story
(usually th printable version if it exists)
vedic mathematics teaches a system of sixteen simple sutras
(or principles) which when applied to general arithmetic
- addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
(or th corresponding carrollian terms) -
give a very elegant and powerful system of mental arithmetic
th application of th sutras goes far beyond arithmetic however, and this book also shows how they can be used to derive elegant and powerful proofs in various fields of mathematics
th system is very interesting and elegant,
and gives you a fresh way to go over old
(or new) ground if you are returning to mathematics
there is a website here
if you are interested in reading more
about vedic mathematics
Linux is a tool. Thats all it is not nessary a force of Good or Evil
i could not disagree more
th technologies we choose to use or not use are th major forces for political and social change throughout history
politicians and ppl interested in politics flatter themselves that they lead th world - my opinion is that they are always only playing catch-up with th changes in society brought about by technological change
it is easy not to realise how we live immersed in our technologies and th realities they create
natural language itself is a technology - english, japanese etc. as are many other intangible things
by our choice (or more often our unconcious adoption) of technologies we create our world - and make it a heaven or a hell
warning : this is a corporate entity sponsoring th organisation of this meetup
knowing this, it might be useful to browse their privacy agreement before giving them an email address that you like to keep spam free
particularly this section of text :
You also agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as topic group newsletters or meetup announcements (which also may include promotional communications), administrative notices, product or service offerings, and other communications relevant to your use of our service.
i suggest you take a good look at yrself mate - this is a highly unimpressive contribution you've made
ppl here are making some good comments about how completely you can follow th dictates of a vissionary pioneer genius and th best you can do is come up with a lame scuttlebutt ad-hominem attack
Re:PR fluff dressed up as engineering cred
on
Inside Intel
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· Score: 1, Offtopic
fnord is th reason there's no 'e' in th word 'the'
PR fluff dressed up as engineering cred
on
Inside Intel
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Almost as absurd as the idea of Intel backing out of their IA-64 development in favor of x86-64 is the unfortunate perception that the world's largest desktop microprocessor manufacturer is not driven by engineering but rather by marketing.
th very first sentence in this article states th perception th article is focussed on diminishing
today we'll be showing you the Intel that doesn't care about anything outside of making fast, reliable and powerful circuits.
really? - as a for-profit company, perhaps their shareholders might be interested in them making maximum profit as well?
and who is this 'we' - only a single authour is mentioned at th top of th article - or perhaps his name has simply been appended to a pre-prepared puff piece?
another example of rhetorical writing pulled from th first few paragraphs
very talented engineers [who] are focused on pushing the limits of technology
ok - there may be real information contained in this article - but frankly there were enough warning signals in th first few paragraphs to tell me my time was better spent elsewhere
this piece is a little bit fluffy (ok a lot), and gets some details wrong (equating free software to open source for example) but has some interesting rhetoric, vis:
Media corporations assume the viewers are stupid. In their eyes the total creative potential of the audience is Funniest Home Videos. Creative people do not buy more stuff, they make their own. This is a problem for media multinationals. They do not trust their audience to be creative. It might be bad for profits, bad for executive salaries.
...
Open publishing means that the process of creating news is transparent to the readers. They can contribute a story and see it instantly appear in the pool of stories publicly available. Those stories are filtered as little as possible to help the readers find the stories they want. Readers can see editorial decisions being made by others. They can see how to get involved and help make editorial decisions. If they can think of a better way for the software to help shape editorial decisions, they can copy the software because it is free and change it and start their own site. If they want to redistribute the news, they can, preferably on an open publishing site.
...
Open publishing is not new. It is an electronic reinvention of the ancient art of story telling.
and finally a reference to slashdot :
Note that while slashdot.org has many open publishing features, and was an important inspiration for open publishing, I don't think it really is open publishing. Significantly, the stories (as opposed to the comments) are taken from reader contributions, but are processed behind closed doors.
Now our government has managed to sell 1/2 of something we already own back to us it's time they hung onto what's left and split the services and infrastructure components in two.
right on - national infrastructure built and amortized by th citizens should never be corporatised
selling government services on th other hand is ok - most ppl would have had little problem with th government keeping th infrastructure and selling off highly pforitable services such as th yellow pages
His landlord was cleaning out his room after his death and came across a startling discovery: alone in his room, Darger had created a beautiful and violent fantasy world, primarily embodied in a 15,000 page epic narrative, "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion."
several illustrations from this huge work shown on this site
after viewing these images i would question th nyt's use of th word sexualised - and on another matter, th nyt article suggests anime is a corruption of th english word animation - i had always understood it to be from th french word animé
i said thanks in advance but thanks again - just been looking at th dillo web-page and it looks to be exactly what i want - a functional, no bullshit web browser under th gpl
looks like a mainly european development team which just serves to fuel my suspicion that there's a lot of good stuff going on in europe that slips under th radar
practise "autonomous seating" while at the computer - use a chair with no back - this will improve your posture and exercise (and thus burn energy) th muscles in yr abdomen and lower back
th general idea is to use yr body properly at all times - and thus generally not require special times to "work out"
surprised that no-one has mentioned knuth's suggestion yet
i've mirrored knuth's discussion and suggestion for a solution below - link can be found here, on his news for 1999 page.
~~~~~~~mirrored text of donald knuth~~~~~~~~
What is a kilobyte?
Many people (and many online dictionaries) claim that a kilobyte (kB or KB) is
2^10 bytes, and that a megabyte (MB) is 2^10 kilobytes, etc.
I'm a big fan of binary numbers, but I have to admit that this convention
flouts the widely accepted international standards for scientific
prefixes.
Therefore I propose a simple way to resolve the dilemma and the ambiguity:
Let us agree to say that
2^10 bytes is a
large kilobyte, abbreviated KKB;
2^20 bytes is a
large megabyte, abbreviated MMB;
and so on up the line: Large giga-, tera-, peta-, exa-, zetta-, and yottabytes are GGB, TTB, PPB, EEB, ZZB, and YYB, taking us up to 2^80.
(Notice that doubling the letter connotes both binary-ness and large-ness.)
These proposals were motivated by the
suggestions in 1995 of IUPAC-IDCNS (the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's
Interdivisional Committee on Nomenclature and Symbols),
which were extended by IEC TC 25 (Technical Committee 25 of the International Electrotechnical Commission), chaired by
Anders J. Thor.
According to those committees,
2^20 bytes should be called a "mebibyte" and abbreviated MiB;
2^40 bytes should be called a "tebibyte" and abbreviated TiB; etc.
The members of those committees deserve credit for raising an important issue,
but when I heard their proposal it seemed dead on arrival --- who would
voluntarily want to use MiB for a maybe-byte?! So I came up with the
suggestion above, and mentioned it on page 94 of my
Introduction to MMIX.
Now to my astonishment, I learn that the committee proposals have actually
become
an international standard.
Still, I am extremely reluctant to adopt such funny-sounding terms;
Jeffrey Harrow says "we're going to have to learn to love (and pronounce)" the new coinages, but he seems to assume that standards are automatically adopted
just because they are there. Surely a huge number of standards for
other computer things, like networking protocols, have been replaced by
better ideas when they came along. Thus I hope it still isn't too late
to propose what I believe is a significantly better alternative, and I
still think it unlikely that people will automatically warm to "mebibytes".
Indeed, the last time I looked (June 28), names like "mebibyte.com" were being offered for sale but with no takers!
I might, however, want to buy into a name like mmegabyte.com...
And even in the unlikely event that mebibytes do catch on, MMB surely wins over MiB as their abbreviation.
[See also the
discussion by Kevin Walsh.]
yes, agreed - and now that we live in a world where most scarcities need not exist, industrial inertia (industrial revolution inertia) results in most corporate manuevering having th function of manufacturing scarcity - (good name for a book i think)
I am trying to start a home recording studio and would like to use the GPL but it is unclear that it applies to music. This is the same question related to books.
relevant to yr question here's some links on open licenses for music :
Slashdot Mirror
solution - no chair at all
why make th assumption that you need a chair? - many cultures do not and happily sit on th floor
this may be difficult to do at work due to 'cultural normalising pressure' but it is perfectly possible to set up your computer at home this way
use a very low coffee table for th keyboard and a higher one for th monitor
then learn to sit properly on th floor - two best ways are the lotus position and legs folded in a collapsed kneeling position as you see japanese ppl often doing
both of these positions give great benefit to th body - equivalent to holding an asana in yoga - th full lotus position is difficult (usually impossible) for most ppl to do at first but you can train yr body to do it by first sitting in half lotus or something easier again
simply by sitting like this yr back will be strengthened all th time you are using a computer rather than th reverse
Sugar is a carbohydrate, pure and simple.
tell me something i don't already know - and you are helping to make my point with yr words pure and simple
foods are not pure and simple substances - they are exceedingly complex complexes of a vast panoply of chemical composites
- drugs on th other hand are almost by definition exceedingly refined, pure, homogenous substances - and thus i contend that sugar is more correctly thought of as a drug not a food
Your body RUNS on sugar. ALL starches (potatoes, grains, you name it) have to be converted to sugar before your body can use them.again i am aware of this fact - however conversion of foods inside th body through a balanced metabolic process into more simple substances is th evolutionary path we have followed - consuming substances that have been refined and simplified outside of th body is a recent development and not, i would argue, a healthy one
Maybe it's time to stop letting people graduate from high school without demonstrating basic scientific literacy.
this comment requires no reply beyond remarking that it smacks of both elitism and fascism
Back as a little kid I had the required chemistry set. There was a warning in the book that came with it: Never ever eat anything that you make with the chemistry set. Did no one else learn this important lesson as a child?
nicely expressed - this of course also includes sugar which a highly refined substance extracted from sugar cane and not a food
in my understanding th chemical refinement of white sugar from sugar cane requires about th same level of processing as refining cocaine from coca leaves does
thus sugar can easily be seen as a drug - one that we hook our children on from an early age
ever tried kicking th sugar habit completely? - i can tell you from experience that it's not easy - but also from my experience well worth doing
Yeah, the printable version is usually much nicer, but it's more polite (to the people who wrote the article) to link to the ad-infested version. They need to make a buck too.
ok, let me rephrase my original comment :
for those who believe that th web was created
for information sharing rather than making a buck
yr desire to share a story is best achieved
by linking to th page which best displays that story
(usually th printable version if it exists)
th printable version - which has all th text on one page
and less advertising and graphics - is here
in general it is a nice courtesy
to link to th printable version of stories
when this option is available
(this is not meant as criticism of th submitter of this story
- i appreciated yr submission)
a book you might find interesting is called
Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple
Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas
amazon link here
(link given for info not vendor suggestion)
vedic mathematics teaches a system of sixteen simple sutras
(or principles) which when applied to general arithmetic
- addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
(or th corresponding carrollian terms) -
give a very elegant and powerful system of mental arithmetic
th application of th sutras goes far beyond arithmetic however, and this book also shows how they can be used to derive elegant and powerful proofs in various fields of mathematics
th system is very interesting and elegant,
and gives you a fresh way to go over old
(or new) ground if you are returning to mathematics
there is a website here
if you are interested in reading more
about vedic mathematics
Linux is a tool. Thats all it is not nessary a force of Good or Evil
i could not disagree more
th technologies we choose to use or not use are th major forces for political and social change throughout history
politicians and ppl interested in politics flatter themselves that they lead th world - my opinion is that they are always only playing catch-up with th changes in society brought about by technological change
it is easy not to realise how we live immersed in our technologies and th realities they create
natural language itself is a technology - english, japanese etc. as are many other intangible things
by our choice (or more often our unconcious adoption) of technologies we create our world - and make it a heaven or a hell
warning : this is a corporate entity sponsoring th organisation of this meetup
knowing this, it might be useful to browse their privacy agreement before giving them an email address that you like to keep spam free
particularly this section of text :
as i write australia holds 3 places in th top 10 locales of sign-ups
pos 2 - brisbane :: 23 signups :: 22 signups :: 18 signups
pos 5 - melbourne
pos 9 - sydney
these are th three top australian cities by population,but in th reverse order -
sydney ~= 4M melbourne ~= 3.5M brisbane ~= 1.5M
but mainly i'm surprised there seems to be so many slashdot readers in australia
excellent post
in reply to bouncings
i suggest you take a good look at yrself mate - this is a highly unimpressive contribution you've made
ppl here are making some good comments about how completely you can follow th dictates of a vissionary pioneer genius and th best you can do is come up with a lame scuttlebutt ad-hominem attack
guess it's time to add one to th list
fnord is th reason there's no 'e' in th word 'the'
th very first sentence in this article states th perception th article is focussed on diminishing
really? - as a for-profit company, perhaps their shareholders might be interested in them making maximum profit as well?
and who is this 'we' - only a single authour is mentioned at th top of th article - or perhaps his name has simply been appended to a pre-prepared puff piece?another example of rhetorical writing pulled from th first few paragraphs
very talented engineers [who] are focused on pushing the limits of technology
ok - there may be real information contained in this article - but frankly there were enough warning signals in th first few paragraphs to tell me my time was better spent elsewhere
love this phrase - if you just invented it (and a quick google search couldn't find any mentions) then my hats off to you
featured article includes a link
to another document entitled
open publishing is the same as free software
this piece is a little bit fluffy (ok a lot), and gets some details wrong (equating free software to open source for example) but has some interesting rhetoric, vis :
not news to us :(
Now our government has managed to sell 1/2 of something we already own back to us it's time they hung onto what's left and split the services and infrastructure components in two.
right on - national infrastructure built and amortized by th citizens should never be corporatised
selling government services on th other hand is ok - most ppl would have had little problem with th government keeping th infrastructure and selling off highly pforitable services such as th yellow pages
from the nyt article :
At times, anime figures look strikingly like the sexualized children created by the Chicago outsider artist Henry Darger.
not having heard of henry darger i went and did a quick google search
some info from here
His landlord was cleaning out his room after his death and came across a startling discovery: alone in his room, Darger had created a beautiful and violent fantasy world, primarily embodied in a 15,000 page epic narrative, "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion."
several illustrations from this huge work shown on this site
after viewing these images i would question th nyt's use of th word sexualised - and on another matter, th nyt article suggests anime is a corruption of th english word animation - i had always understood it to be from th french word animé
i said thanks in advance but thanks again - just been looking at th dillo web-page and it looks to be exactly what i want - a functional, no bullshit web browser under th gpl
looks like a mainly european development team which just serves to fuel my suspicion that there's a lot of good stuff going on in europe that slips under th radar
ok, there's always lynx and w3m for lightweight web-browsing
but my question is - what is th most lightweight, free software graphical web-browser out there? - nothing fancy, just functional please
i've been looking for articles such as this on th web with not much success...
- anyone know of similar articles on th web (lightweight gnu/linux, lightweight computing) or even whole websites dedicated to th subject?
thanks in advance
practise "autonomous seating" while at the computer - use a chair with no back - this will improve your posture and exercise (and thus burn energy) th muscles in yr abdomen and lower back
th general idea is to use yr body properly at all times - and thus generally not require special times to "work out"
It seems to me it would be much more unambiguous to simply state "metric megabytes" for the power of ten, and "long megabytes" for the power of two.
yr suggestion is very similar to a proposal donald knuth made a few years back
- in brief he suggests honoring th scientific standard for MB, and calling 2^20 bytes a large megabyte, abbreviated MMB
i've mirrored th text of his proposal in a first level comment below (titled knuth's suggestion)
surprised that no-one has mentioned knuth's suggestion yet
i've mirrored knuth's discussion and suggestion for a solution below - link can be found here, on his news for 1999 page.
~~~~~~~mirrored text of donald knuth~~~~~~~~
What is a kilobyte?Many people (and many online dictionaries) claim that a kilobyte (kB or KB) is 2^10 bytes, and that a megabyte (MB) is 2^10 kilobytes, etc.
I'm a big fan of binary numbers, but I have to admit that this convention flouts the widely accepted international standards for scientific prefixes.
Therefore I propose a simple way to resolve the dilemma and the ambiguity: Let us agree to say that
and so on up the line: Large giga-, tera-, peta-, exa-, zetta-, and yottabytes are GGB, TTB, PPB, EEB, ZZB, and YYB, taking us up to 2^80. (Notice that doubling the letter connotes both binary-ness and large-ness.)
These proposals were motivated by the suggestions in 1995 of IUPAC-IDCNS (the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's Interdivisional Committee on Nomenclature and Symbols), which were extended by IEC TC 25 (Technical Committee 25 of the International Electrotechnical Commission), chaired by Anders J. Thor. According to those committees, 2^20 bytes should be called a "mebibyte" and abbreviated MiB; 2^40 bytes should be called a "tebibyte" and abbreviated TiB; etc. The members of those committees deserve credit for raising an important issue, but when I heard their proposal it seemed dead on arrival --- who would voluntarily want to use MiB for a maybe-byte?! So I came up with the suggestion above, and mentioned it on page 94 of my Introduction to MMIX. Now to my astonishment, I learn that the committee proposals have actually become an international standard. Still, I am extremely reluctant to adopt such funny-sounding terms; Jeffrey Harrow says "we're going to have to learn to love (and pronounce)" the new coinages, but he seems to assume that standards are automatically adopted just because they are there. Surely a huge number of standards for other computer things, like networking protocols, have been replaced by better ideas when they came along. Thus I hope it still isn't too late to propose what I believe is a significantly better alternative, and I still think it unlikely that people will automatically warm to "mebibytes". Indeed, the last time I looked (June 28), names like "mebibyte.com" were being offered for sale but with no takers! I might, however, want to buy into a name like mmegabyte.com... And even in the unlikely event that mebibytes do catch on, MMB surely wins over MiB as their abbreviation. [See also the discussion by Kevin Walsh.]
"Economics [has] always been about scarcity"
yes, agreed - and now that we live in a world where most scarcities need not exist, industrial inertia (industrial revolution inertia) results in most corporate manuevering having th function of manufacturing scarcity - (good name for a book i think)I am trying to start a home recording studio and would like to use the GPL but it is unclear that it applies to music. This is the same question related to books.
relevant to yr question here's some links on open licenses for music :
electronic frontier foundation's open audio license (there was a slashdot discussion on this when it first came out)
open music registry (site acting as a registry of open audio licensed music)
open music (not sure about this group's bona fides - just found them through a google search)