There is also a divide for people wanting to sell add-ons (software apps) for the system. How do you integrate it? How do you make it visible?
In a convnetional, modular computer system, you add and sell more modules.
As I recall from years ago, Jeff used to claim that the division between "Operating System", "Application" and "Content" was big learning barrier and slowed down computer use. So he would essentially abolish the first two items, or at least keep them largely invisible from the user.
I wonder if something like Google Desktop is along these lines. You'd use that to immediately find some information to act on, without having to muck around some cluttered file system.
Likewise MicroSoft's attempt to webify the desktop and access it through the browser is another attempt at hiding barriers. (I will make no comments on whether I think It is working adequately.)
Every parent knows there no more sure way to convince a teenager to do something than to prohibit it. China's campaign will encourage many of the young men hanging out at the computer cafes to acquire and play these banned games.
Jeff has been promoting these extremely simple interfaces since the late 1970s. The original MacIntosh computer, before Steve Jobs co-opted it and jammed it full of Xerox GUI technology, was supposed to be like this. Then Jeff partnered with the Cannon [ copier ] company with the CAT-PC. This PC had no explicit operating system. It came up in a text edit mode. The disk was one giant piece of text you could search and edit. You could highlight sections and execute them as computation.
A recent Slashdot thread mentioned Linus's
citationin as a top manager in 2004.
His right blend of management discipline and independence has kept the Linux project successfully evolving for 13 years. And still be a Geek and make some money.
Plus Linus is on the cover again this week.
The Seinfeld test is a special subset of the Turing test. The computer has to be able to make new and funny jokes. It has to be able to recognize humor and laugh.
I am still waiting for some of the big problems from the 1950s, whose solutions were "just around the corner". These include:
- Automated language translation.
- Self-programming computers.
- Natural language understanding and interfaces.
- Image understanding.
...
These has migrated in and out of artificial intelligence over the decades.
In 2005 the time of Bush's announcement, mouse cell substrates was the most reliable method of growing stem cells. New non-mouse methods are now known.
I dont think any serious researcher is using the ancient methods any more. They've moved to localites that fund stem cell research.
I guess its abotu 50-50. The shuttle return is already at least a year beyond its initial date. Some of the new things like the on-board repair kits and new fuel tanks took longer than originally predicted.
The White House zero-budgets the agencies
it hates almost every year. This includes
almost everything environmental: EPA, NOAA
(and its Dept. Commerce parent), a good part
of the USGS, any NASA environmental satellites,
and more. Then Congress usually restores
these items. Until the President gets a
line item veto, it has to stake the whole
appropiations bill. Bush has never vetoed a bill
yet.
I dont even bother with editors and debuggers.
I write a program by typing into
cat > prog.java
I even pried off the backspace key off my keyboard because it was unnecessary.
I wish I had spent more time cultivating friends and experiences rather than chasing knowledge. The latter was too tempting at college with its classes and computers and libraries.
By not turning on both transmission channels only 370 pictures were transmitted out of 700 expected if the experiement ran to completion. Still the 370 were fabulous.
There must be a scientific version of Andy Warhol's aphorism: "theres a new theory every fifteen minutes". Whether its geology, astronomy, or medicine they cant seem to agree on a story.
Actually I am just being cynical. Some fields are finally showing convergence, such as cosmology where the evidence is starting to agree with each other.
I suggest a lot of this "newest, greatest theory B.S." is publicity mongering by institutions trying get more grants.
The Earth may have had 10%s of CO2 until photosynthesis was underway and 1%s into the era of the dinosaurs (its.01%s now). This is determined from paleosoil chemistry and rock types. Its probably not too bad if it takes hundreds of thousands or millions of years to reach these levels. Life can adapt easily. Its a different case if only a few centuries or generations and much harder to adapt.
There were several hypertext projects in the 1980s. I liked Apple's HyperCard. However, it was Berners- Lee's that caught on. His was relatively simple, had most of the basic parts, and most importantly, was freely downloadable from the Net. This pretty much paralleled UNIX/Linux's experience. I recall Ted charged licenses for his, it didnt have all the necessary pieces, and didnt really understand the exploding InterNet.
During the 1989 Voyager flyby of Neptune, we grabbed screenshots of NASA TV, cleaned them up and put them on the Net and usenet. At that time JPL had a one-year embargo on raw data, so that the principal scientists who spent years in these projects could analyze and publish them first. JPL has become much more generous since then.
The 1110 raw data images have been jpgs on on the ESA/JPL
sites since 17/01/05. You have to extract these from 30-plexes and make some assumptions about orientation. Plus lots of cleanup.
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There is also a divide for people wanting to sell add-ons (software apps) for the system. How do you integrate it? How do you make it visible?
In a convnetional, modular computer system, you add and sell more modules.
The strategy of some anti-social computer companies is "when in doubt, invent your own". Just fragments the market, and makes things more complicated.
As I recall from years ago, Jeff used to claim that the division between "Operating System", "Application" and "Content" was big learning barrier and slowed down computer use. So he would essentially abolish the first two items, or at least keep them largely invisible from the user.
I wonder if something like Google Desktop is along these lines. You'd use that to immediately find some information to act on, without having to muck around some cluttered file system.
Likewise MicroSoft's attempt to webify the desktop and access it through the browser is another attempt at hiding barriers. (I will make no comments on whether I think It is working adequately.)
Every parent knows there no more sure way to convince a teenager to do something than to prohibit it. China's campaign will encourage many of the young men hanging out at the computer cafes to acquire and play these banned games.
Jeff has been promoting these extremely simple interfaces since the late 1970s. The original MacIntosh computer, before Steve Jobs co-opted it and jammed it full of Xerox GUI technology, was supposed to be like this. Then Jeff partnered with the Cannon [ copier ] company with the CAT-PC. This PC had no explicit operating system. It came up in a text edit mode. The disk was one giant piece of text you could search and edit. You could highlight sections and execute them as computation.
A recent Slashdot thread mentioned Linus's citationin as a top manager in 2004. His right blend of management discipline and independence has kept the Linux project successfully evolving for 13 years. And still be a Geek and make some money.
Plus Linus is on the cover again this week.
The Seinfeld test is a special subset of the Turing test. The computer has to be able to make new and funny jokes. It has to be able to recognize humor and laugh.
I am still waiting for some of the big problems from the 1950s, whose solutions were "just around the corner". These include:
...
- Automated language translation.
- Self-programming computers.
- Natural language understanding and interfaces.
- Image understanding.
These has migrated in and out of artificial intelligence over the decades.
Once the search engines cache it, it is never forgotten. Doesn't mean its going to be found again.
In 2005 the time of Bush's announcement, mouse cell substrates was the most reliable method of growing stem cells. New non-mouse methods are now known.
I dont think any serious researcher is using the ancient methods any more. They've moved to localites that fund stem cell research.
I guess its abotu 50-50. The shuttle return is already at least a year beyond its initial date. Some of the new things like the on-board repair kits and new fuel tanks took longer than originally predicted.
Advocacy groups inflate the occurnce of their pet cause to obtain more attention and money. Its not just for this crime, but others, diseases, etc.
Crying wolf every day wont help solve the problem.
The White House zero-budgets the agencies it hates almost every year. This includes almost everything environmental: EPA, NOAA (and its Dept. Commerce parent), a good part of the USGS, any NASA environmental satellites, and more. Then Congress usually restores these items. Until the President gets a line item veto, it has to stake the whole appropiations bill. Bush has never vetoed a bill yet.
I dont even bother with editors and debuggers.
I write a program by typing into
cat > prog.java
I even pried off the backspace key off my keyboard because it was unnecessary.
I wish I had spent more time cultivating friends and experiences rather than chasing knowledge. The latter was too tempting at college with its classes and computers and libraries.
IRAs are only 22 years old. They may change considerable in the next 20 years.
The prudent thing is to save and invest something for what ever is appropriate at that time.
By not turning on both transmission channels only 370 pictures were transmitted out of 700 expected if the experiement ran to completion. Still the 370 were fabulous.
There must be a scientific version of Andy Warhol's aphorism: "theres a new theory every fifteen minutes". Whether its geology, astronomy, or medicine they cant seem to agree on a story.
Actually I am just being cynical. Some fields are finally showing convergence, such as cosmology where the evidence is starting to agree with each other. I suggest a lot of this "newest, greatest theory B.S." is publicity mongering by institutions trying get more grants.
The Earth may have had 10%s of CO2 until photosynthesis was underway and 1%s into the era of the dinosaurs (its .01%s now). This is determined from paleosoil chemistry and rock types. Its probably not too bad if it takes hundreds of thousands or millions of years to reach these levels. Life can adapt easily. Its a different case if only a few centuries or generations and much harder to adapt.
Each of the 370 pics is a triplet. I am not sure what the parts are- different wavelengths or angles. They appear to be different things.
There were several hypertext projects in the 1980s. I liked Apple's HyperCard. However, it was Berners- Lee's that caught on. His was relatively simple, had most of the basic parts, and most importantly, was freely downloadable from the Net. This pretty much paralleled UNIX/Linux's experience. I recall Ted charged licenses for his, it didnt have all the necessary pieces, and didnt really understand the exploding InterNet.
If you get within screaming distance of Marin County Ted will tell how he invented the first web protype- loudly and often.
During the 1989 Voyager flyby of Neptune, we grabbed screenshots of NASA TV, cleaned them up and put them on the Net and usenet. At that time JPL had a one-year embargo on raw data, so that the principal scientists who spent years in these projects could analyze and publish them first. JPL has become much more generous since then.
The 1110 raw data images have been jpgs on on the ESA/JPL sites since 17/01/05. You have to extract these from 30-plexes and make some assumptions about orientation. Plus lots of cleanup.