A number of open source contributers start out as university students and sometimes hang on. For example Stallman of MIT, Bill Joy at Berekely and Linus Tovalds at his college. The lure of big industry bucks then draws most of these kinds away, especially at Stanford & Silicon Valley, my home base.
In the print version compared one working "reasonable" hours at an establish company versus breakneck hours at a startup. Assuming a half-million IPO, the value of the extra hours, the advantage of investing the surplus from the normal job in the stock many years before the IPO is vested, and so on, Infoworld calculates a wash in financial terms. The non-IPO persons has extra free time to live a "real" life.
I know at least one 45-year old Silicon Valleymale still a virigin. But am not telling:-(
The regulon is "copying"
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The Regulon
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There is no medium that lasts for ever.
The earliest such as stone engravings last the
longest, but even their languages are forgetton.
Only the good stuff preserved by copying and
translation (and much lost too). Only the
important books have been copied, since most of
the originals have been lost.
Modern media is more transient. Magnetic storage
lasts a decade, assuming its "language" or
encoding protocol lasts even that long. Web media
and video are even more transient. Again
preservation by copying is what lasts.
However, it may take a generation or two to get
past some wrong or evil idea if controlled by a
dogmatic group.
The opposite of science is dogmatism and revealation.
By definition, their body of knowledge is presumed
correct, albeit errors in transmission.
All new data has to fit their world view or be
rejected.
Where do you think most of this activity is happening? With Joe Suburb that takes two minutes to download a song over a 56K line or Joe College who can do it in a couple seconds?
Indoor plumbing has been in rich people's houses in some of the oldest cities dug up. But its popularity really picked up when someone discoer a u-shaped kink in the pipes would prevent smelly backups in rather recent history.
We, the hacker community, declare GPL violations as such. Then it falls off our radar screen and the software hopefully withers away from lack of sales and bug fixes.
The old time languages FORTAN, LISP, COBOL and BASIC are still in widespread use. The largest computer company in the world began by selling BASIC for the Altair. Its best selling language and InterNet strategy is a descendent of BASIC.
Either out of ego, evil, or error, (take that J.J.!) someone will try it and we'll have a crisis for a few days. Its human nature.
Genetic analysis in two seconds?
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Planet Gattaca
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Much of the plot dynamics relies on being able to distingush bad genotypes in a couple of seconds from dandruff or finger pricks. I thought this was merely a plot device until hearing about companies like Assymetrix that put tens of thousands custom gene analyzers on a chip using the same techniques and micro-electronics. One such device is in testing to directly detect cancer cells by DNA rather than by appearance. More accurate. Must be fast.
About an genetically engineered astronaut class and a guy who sneaks into it with Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law. The title is neoglism from the four chemicals of DNA. More thoughtful and better than your average F/X space opera.
Can't even figure out a dozen genes yet
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Planet Gattaca
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Viruses like AIDs and the common cold have been sequenced for over a decade. Their 1-2 dozen genes structures are well-known and poorly understood. Its a long way to a 480 gene minimal cell and 100,000 gene human.
Looking for more work and income by continually discovering new "problems". In the old days family and small town organizations like the church would help many of these problems. Now they are diverted to pills and doctors.
True anonymity is rare. The access logs on both ends record IP addresses. From that a determined investigator can find you. Police and crackers do this all the time. Never write anything you ever want attached to your name.
If they cant figure out how the 14 genes of the AIDS virus or the 300 genes of minimal life work, they've got a long,long,long way to go to understand humans.
People think its going to rise foreever. Some unexpected event spooks the market. Negative pschology spooks the market for years. Its going to happen some day. Enjoy the ride until then.
We wont't truely understand the biochemistry of life until we actually build some life. I suspect it will be a lot harder than expressing a minimal set of genes, but will eventually be doable.
Slashdot Mirror
Candidates wold love more, but aren't getting that
way.
A number of open source contributers start out
as university students and sometimes hang on.
For example Stallman of MIT, Bill Joy at Berekely
and Linus Tovalds at his college.
The lure of big industry bucks then draws most
of these kinds away, especially at Stanford &
Silicon Valley, my home base.
Newspapers, discussion groups, finance, purchases.
It just that 90% of the ideas were me-toos, not
workable, or scams. I'm satisfied with the 10%
that seem useful.
In the print version compared one working
"reasonable" hours at an establish company
versus breakneck hours at a startup.
Assuming a half-million IPO, the value of the
extra hours, the advantage of investing the
surplus from the normal job in the stock
many years before the IPO is vested, and so on,
Infoworld calculates a wash in financial terms.
The non-IPO persons has extra free time to live
a "real" life.
Got one New Year's prediction right.
Bomb in 1999 predicting InterNet Stock bubble
would burst and in 1996 when InterNet would
gridlock.
A recent census found Silicon Valley tied with
Alaska with highest imbalance of single males
30 - 50.
I know at least one 45-year old Silicon Valleymale still a virigin. :-(
But am not telling
There is no medium that lasts for ever.
The earliest such as stone engravings last the
longest, but even their languages are forgetton.
Only the good stuff preserved by copying and
translation (and much lost too). Only the
important books have been copied, since most of
the originals have been lost.
Modern media is more transient. Magnetic storage
lasts a decade, assuming its "language" or
encoding protocol lasts even that long. Web media
and video are even more transient. Again
preservation by copying is what lasts.
Science is knowledge that survives testing.
However, it may take a generation or two to get
past some wrong or evil idea if controlled by a
dogmatic group.
The opposite of science is dogmatism and revealation.
By definition, their body of knowledge is presumed
correct, albeit errors in transmission.
All new data has to fit their world view or be
rejected.
Its really up to the consumers-
if pirated W2K helps people make money
or a home-grown OS helps them better, then
the people will be deciding.
Incidently, a domestic clone computer company
is beating the pants off of foreign suppliers
because it understands its customers better.
Where do you think most of this activity is
happening? With Joe Suburb that takes two minutes
to download a song over a 56K line or Joe College
who can do it in a couple seconds?
Indoor plumbing has been in rich people's houses
in some of the oldest cities dug up.
But its popularity really picked up when someone
discoer a u-shaped kink in the pipes would
prevent smelly backups in rather recent history.
The November 1999 medium Palo Alto home purchase
price was $899,000.
FDR, Lenin, etc.
The 20th century was the era of global wars
and terrible global weapons pretty continuously
between 1914 and 1989.
We, the hacker community, declare GPL violations as such.
Then it falls off our radar screen
and the software hopefully withers away
from lack of sales and bug fixes.
The old time languages FORTAN, LISP, COBOL and BASIC are still in widespread use.
The largest computer company in the world began
by selling BASIC for the Altair. Its best selling language and InterNet strategy is a descendent of BASIC.
Either out of ego, evil, or error,
(take that J.J.!) someone will try it
and we'll have a crisis for a few days.
Its human nature.
Much of the plot dynamics relies on being able to
distingush bad genotypes in a couple of seconds from dandruff or finger pricks.
I thought this was merely a plot device until
hearing about companies like Assymetrix that put
tens of thousands custom gene analyzers on a chip using the same techniques and micro-electronics.
One such device is in testing to directly detect
cancer cells by DNA rather than by appearance.
More accurate. Must be fast.
About an genetically engineered astronaut class
and a guy who sneaks into it with
Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law.
The title is neoglism from the four chemicals of DNA.
More thoughtful and better than your average F/X space opera.
Viruses like AIDs and the common cold have been
sequenced for over a decade. Their 1-2 dozen genes structures are well-known and poorly understood. Its a long way to a 480 gene minimal cell and 100,000 gene human.
Looking for more work and income by continually discovering new "problems". In the old days family and small town organizations like the church would help many of these problems.
Now they are diverted to pills and doctors.
True anonymity is rare. The access logs on both
ends record IP addresses. From that a determined
investigator can find you. Police and crackers
do this all the time. Never write anything
you ever want attached to your name.
If they cant figure out how the 14 genes of the
AIDS virus or the 300 genes of minimal life work,
they've got a long,long,long way to go to
understand humans.
People think its going to rise foreever.
Some unexpected event spooks the market.
Negative pschology spooks the market for years.
Its going to happen some day. Enjoy the ride
until then.
We wont't truely understand the biochemistry
of life until we actually build some life.
I suspect it will be a lot harder than expressing
a minimal set of genes, but will eventually
be doable.