Of course, we do that in order to devote as much attention as possible to excelling in our avocation. I'm an amateur developer cause it pays the rent but professional poet, philosopher, historian of the 15th century. It is of the nature of higher pursuits that they do not remunerate like conventional skills.
It is also true that this is the source of tremendous creative value. When the Ams go Pro, they can devote all their energy to their passions.
Who's bashing China? I'm bashing the Party. I don't get my undies in a wad when people bad-mouth the Bush Administration, and not just because I agree with them.
This is a glib and unsupported assertion and purely conventional thinking. I think an informed and reasonable person must admit that the current state of the network enables the suppression of dissent far more effectively than ever before. A political broadsheet, passed hand-to-hand is effectively untraceable. What's on the other end of your wire, friend? While an informed few may be better connected, the vast majority will be more easily outed.
And let's remember that it is thanks to American firms like Cisco and Oracle that the PRC is in a position to effect such a crackdown.
I'm not sure cultural factors are primary here. Yes, there is a long heritage of collective responsibility, deference to elders and clan leaders, the paternalist state, etc. But do recall that the current regime has engaged in widespread, politically-motivated murder and torture.
The Party regards a form of collective spiritual and physical exercise as a political threat and have imprisoned and tortured its followers. It is within the living memory of most Chinese that the universities were emptied and intellectuals, professors and students forced to undergo *political re-education* on collective farms and forced-labor camps. Millions of Chinese have died for their political views (even the mere potential for dissenting views) in the last sixty years.
Which is why the current appropriation of the slogan *Let a thousand flowers bloom* sticks in my craw so. Besides being a mis-translation, this slogan of the early days of the cultural revolution was not an invitation to voice new ideas or question established norms, but bait to lure dissenting elements into the open. It is like saying *arbeit macht frei.* It may or may not be so, but to use the phrase in any but a historical context would be deeply offensive to many, even today. That such a reaction is not invited by the Chinese phrase is a testament to Western cultural astigmatism.
We should clarify that Plato would have used the term philosophos to indicate a lover of wisdom. A philosopher of the time typically pursued all subjects of humane inquiry. There were not yet areas of specialty; the sole distinction in learned discourse would have been between humane science (man and his relationship to the world and the mediators of this relationship: perception, expression and abstraction) and techne: art and craft.
From the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable of F.C. Brewer, 1894:
Before the time of Pythagoras (B.C. 586-506) the sages of Greece were called sophists (wise men). Pythagoras out of modesty called himself a philosopher (a wisdom-lover). A century later Protagoras of Abdera resumed the title, and a set of quibblers appeared in Athens who professed to answer any question on any subject, and took up the title discarded by the Wise Samian. From this moment sophos and all its family of words were applied to "wisdom falsely so called," and philo-sophos to the "modest search after truth."
Thus we see the media conspires to paint gamers as dorks, concealing the true numbers of non-dorks who are proud to game in the privacy of their anonymous basements.
You aren't by any chance suggesting that Vin Diesel is not a dork are you?!?
Indeed, Curt has done research for several recent modules, including AoO, IINM. The story of how he rode in at the helm of Multi-man Publishing--at the time just sub-contracting some ASL development--when Avalon Hill was going to be eaten by Hasbro and saved The Game from extinction is rightly legend.
He is also an occasional habitue on the lists. Good egg. I believe we'd see him more at cons, but his real-life job seems to keep him busy during Oktoberfestungenzeit.
Yup. If you look at the ODB standards, they leave a lot to implementation. Scan tools are available, but not OSS. Last I checked, there are three different implementations of OBD and no one makes a tool for Siemens. The ones I've seen have been reverse engineered and are incomplete.
This is good news for those of us who like to tinker with our cars, too. A while back I looked into available OSS interfaces to various models. It was a moot search. You ought to be able to plug your friggin' car into the serial port of your laptop and run diagnostics on emissions, compression, etc., as a matter of course.
It should also be noted that legislation addressing this issue was originally championed by the late Sen. Paul Wellstone of MN.
It should also remind us how close we are to similarly prescribed access to the internals of a general purpose computer. Wouldn't some interests like to see a *No user serviceable parts inside. Opening case voids any warranties or EULAs associated with this machine.* sticker on your next box.
Among Folkways highlights is this highly regarded collection of field recordings of traditional songs of the Mbuti Pygmies. (Quiet, in the back there.) Crazy multi-voiced harmony and polyrhythm which stands out as among the oldest surviving human cultural achievements.
I believe that the only thing the Department of Homeland Security has managed to accomplish is to imprint upon a certain class of people that homeland should be capitalized *Homeland*. You can shout till yer blue in the face that nationalism is a dead hand, yet this simple shift of value is leveraged to offset any amount of frank discussion.
My father-in-law is retired and spends his time in the Coast Guard Reserve in FLA. He say the only thing DHS has meant to his unit is new letterhead.
In your best Paris Island gut-buster: U-rah!
It should be mentioned that it doesn't require a conspiracy for a group of like-minded individuals to organize their activities in pursuit of a class of common goals and shared interests.
I build all the reports for a market-leading commercial product in FOP and have been doing so since v0.20.3. All FO properties are not completely supported in current FOP, but it is not *buggy*. I have had to do a little code to help it around keeps (only supported on fo:table-row) but that's why they call it eXtensible.
Performance is very robust. We build 400 page documents and batch runs of short reports customized for thousands of data points.
I got my wife a beginning PHP book and an account on my server. Worked a treat, I can tell you. Today I teased her about wanting to walk with her and have all the guys admire her: Look at the head on that broad! She allowed that she had told all her co-workers about it but not everyone appreciated what a great present it was.
There is an important dynamic around process change and programming that it really seems no one would like to talk about. Certainly academic HCI research is well-insulated from these issues.
It is the meatspace bugs that are the hardest to squash.
I'll tell you why. Because this is the creative (allowances, people) work of one, yet living, man; subject to all the exigencies of time, commitment, attitude and cash flow. Canon, my ass. He's got interns doing story and dialogue, dude. He's apparently got some long-term income requirements and he's not done buffing his helmet.
You can talk about the canon after he's dead. And then only if we decide the first one was worth all the crap he's put us through since.
CANON: fr. Latin: according to rule; fr. Greek: kanonikos. The modern literary usage denotes work judged to form a model of quality; in technical parlance: conforming to standard, definitive. Both connote the adjudicative valuation of peers.
Lucas cannot have a canon, whether his o'erweening ego demands it or not, though he may have conventions or principles.
. ..people will be able to direct and shape their virtual personas into real world ones. .
Which kinda eliminates the value of playing a personna in a virtual world, no? I think, rather, it is more profitable to look at RP behavior as another mode of tangible experience. There is a value in being something other than yourself and being able to interact and be respected or reviled in this other guise. The emotional and intellectual content of this second life can be far less second order than a telephone, after all. Respect the power of make-believe. Use it to your advantage.
The convergence you suggest defeats the value of the exercise.
Slashdot Mirror
The guy sourced for the article happens to be an OSS geek. Anorak in the hed. Hello, slashdot? Is the BBC reduced to astroturfing?
Top five pro-am activities:
Gardening
DIY
Sports
Arts and Crafts
Photography
And the number one most popular pro-am activity:
Sex.
Go ahead, London.
Of course, we do that in order to devote as much attention as possible to excelling in our avocation. I'm an amateur developer cause it pays the rent but professional poet, philosopher, historian of the 15th century. It is of the nature of higher pursuits that they do not remunerate like conventional skills.
It is also true that this is the source of tremendous creative value. When the Ams go Pro, they can devote all their energy to their passions.
Who's bashing China? I'm bashing the Party. I don't get my undies in a wad when people bad-mouth the Bush Administration, and not just because I agree with them.
This is a glib and unsupported assertion and purely conventional thinking. I think an informed and reasonable person must admit that the current state of the network enables the suppression of dissent far more effectively than ever before. A political broadsheet, passed hand-to-hand is effectively untraceable. What's on the other end of your wire, friend? While an informed few may be better connected, the vast majority will be more easily outed.
And let's remember that it is thanks to American firms like Cisco and Oracle that the PRC is in a position to effect such a crackdown.
Criminal.
I'm not sure cultural factors are primary here. Yes, there is a long heritage of collective responsibility, deference to elders and clan leaders, the paternalist state, etc. But do recall that the current regime has engaged in widespread, politically-motivated murder and torture.
The Party regards a form of collective spiritual and physical exercise as a political threat and have imprisoned and tortured its followers. It is within the living memory of most Chinese that the universities were emptied and intellectuals, professors and students forced to undergo *political re-education* on collective farms and forced-labor camps. Millions of Chinese have died for their political views (even the mere potential for dissenting views) in the last sixty years.
Which is why the current appropriation of the slogan *Let a thousand flowers bloom* sticks in my craw so. Besides being a mis-translation, this slogan of the early days of the cultural revolution was not an invitation to voice new ideas or question established norms, but bait to lure dissenting elements into the open. It is like saying *arbeit macht frei.* It may or may not be so, but to use the phrase in any but a historical context would be deeply offensive to many, even today. That such a reaction is not invited by the Chinese phrase is a testament to Western cultural astigmatism.
We should clarify that Plato would have used the term philosophos to indicate a lover of wisdom. A philosopher of the time typically pursued all subjects of humane inquiry. There were not yet areas of specialty; the sole distinction in learned discourse would have been between humane science (man and his relationship to the world and the mediators of this relationship: perception, expression and abstraction) and techne: art and craft.
From the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable of F.C. Brewer, 1894:
Before the time of Pythagoras (B.C. 586-506) the sages of Greece were called sophists (wise men). Pythagoras out of modesty called himself a philosopher (a wisdom-lover). A century later Protagoras of Abdera resumed the title, and a set of quibblers appeared in Athens who professed to answer any question on any subject, and took up the title discarded by the Wise Samian. From this moment sophos and all its family of words were applied to "wisdom falsely so called," and philo-sophos to the "modest search after truth."
Thus we see the media conspires to paint gamers as dorks, concealing the true numbers of non-dorks who are proud to game in the privacy of their anonymous basements.
You aren't by any chance suggesting that Vin Diesel is not a dork are you?!?
Indeed, Curt has done research for several recent modules, including AoO, IINM. The story of how he rode in at the helm of Multi-man Publishing--at the time just sub-contracting some ASL development--when Avalon Hill was going to be eaten by Hasbro and saved The Game from extinction is rightly legend.
He is also an occasional habitue on the lists. Good egg. I believe we'd see him more at cons, but his real-life job seems to keep him busy during Oktoberfestungenzeit.
Yup. If you look at the ODB standards, they leave a lot to implementation. Scan tools are available, but not OSS. Last I checked, there are three different implementations of OBD and no one makes a tool for Siemens. The ones I've seen have been reverse engineered and are incomplete.
This is good news for those of us who like to tinker with our cars, too. A while back I looked into available OSS interfaces to various models. It was a moot search. You ought to be able to plug your friggin' car into the serial port of your laptop and run diagnostics on emissions, compression, etc., as a matter of course.
It should also be noted that legislation addressing this issue was originally championed by the late Sen. Paul Wellstone of MN.
It should also remind us how close we are to similarly prescribed access to the internals of a general purpose computer. Wouldn't some interests like to see a *No user serviceable parts inside. Opening case voids any warranties or EULAs associated with this machine.* sticker on your next box.
If we can speak with one voice, we can play an important role in protecting the nation's critical infrastructure. . .
and operate as a cartel under color of the public weal.
Among Folkways highlights is this highly regarded collection of field recordings of traditional songs of the Mbuti Pygmies. (Quiet, in the back there.) Crazy multi-voiced harmony and polyrhythm which stands out as among the oldest surviving human cultural achievements.
I believe that the only thing the Department of Homeland Security has managed to accomplish is to imprint upon a certain class of people that homeland should be capitalized *Homeland*. You can shout till yer blue in the face that nationalism is a dead hand, yet this simple shift of value is leveraged to offset any amount of frank discussion.
My father-in-law is retired and spends his time in the Coast Guard Reserve in FLA. He say the only thing DHS has meant to his unit is new letterhead.
In your best Paris Island gut-buster: U-rah!
It should be mentioned that it doesn't require a conspiracy for a group of like-minded individuals to organize their activities in pursuit of a class of common goals and shared interests.
Politics: you're soaking in it!
I build all the reports for a market-leading commercial product in FOP and have been doing so since v0.20.3. All FO properties are not completely supported in current FOP, but it is not *buggy*. I have had to do a little code to help it around keeps (only supported on fo:table-row) but that's why they call it eXtensible.
Performance is very robust. We build 400 page documents and batch runs of short reports customized for thousands of data points.
I use FOP in a production environment. Look at Cocoon. Roll your own XSL solution. Build the reports in OpenOffice.
Save yourself a few bucks.
I got my wife a beginning PHP book and an account on my server. Worked a treat, I can tell you. Today I teased her about wanting to walk with her and have all the guys admire her: Look at the head on that broad! She allowed that she had told all her co-workers about it but not everyone appreciated what a great present it was.
And he's sharing three of them with the same guy. Smells like frat spirit.
The denominator in these equations should be the peer pressure quotient: the desire of most people to be like most other people.
Yah!
There is an important dynamic around process change and programming that it really seems no one would like to talk about. Certainly academic HCI research is well-insulated from these issues.
It is the meatspace bugs that are the hardest to squash.
They build this active object BS into their GUIs and then direct you to ignore them.
Next: "Microsoft recommends you execute programs from the command window, or better yet, get an OS with a proper shell."
I have a friend who likes to say that Java is Lisp in C clothing.
There is a difference between an invention and a convention.
I'll tell you why. Because this is the creative (allowances, people) work of one, yet living, man; subject to all the exigencies of time, commitment, attitude and cash flow. Canon, my ass. He's got interns doing story and dialogue, dude. He's apparently got some long-term income requirements and he's not done buffing his helmet.
You can talk about the canon after he's dead. And then only if we decide the first one was worth all the crap he's put us through since.
CANON: fr. Latin: according to rule; fr. Greek: kanonikos. The modern literary usage denotes work judged to form a model of quality; in technical parlance: conforming to standard, definitive. Both connote the adjudicative valuation of peers.
Lucas cannot have a canon, whether his o'erweening ego demands it or not, though he may have conventions or principles.
. . .people will be able to direct and shape their virtual personas into real world ones. .
Which kinda eliminates the value of playing a personna in a virtual world, no? I think, rather, it is more profitable to look at RP behavior as another mode of tangible experience. There is a value in being something other than yourself and being able to interact and be respected or reviled in this other guise. The emotional and intellectual content of this second life can be far less second order than a telephone, after all. Respect the power of make-believe. Use it to your advantage.
The convergence you suggest defeats the value of the exercise.
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