i remember BlackNet. i especially remember people offering unlimited 'chits' for information about technologies like merkle sheaths, etc. i'm very happy that someone has rekindled that desire. i have one thought, however.
do you really think anything as downright subversive as this has a snowball's chance in hell?
i believe it was Tom Wolfe who said, in an article describing his experiences before writing the 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,' that religion was "a shared neuroemotional experience." thats right, an experience. part of me desperately wants to suggest the humour in imagining what kinds of possible religions might be created by sentient machines capable of 'experience,' but the rest knows that this is beyond any forseeable event horizon.
yeah, i mean that. on that level i totally agree with j lanier. sentient machines are so far off that, well, they're going to come down the pipe, if indeed they ever do, about the same time as the next singularity.
"i don't have the patience for that," was what he said about some "21st century Kant." because Kant was the one who made sure that we understood the difference between all the hypotheses that we could make, and reality. and no, i'm not confusing him with hume. in my mind CT is just as bad as hume was. and certainly a member of whatever passed for victorian digerati.
but i digress.
our capacity for technological advancement is inextricably linked with our capacity for measurement, thus your 4 points. as our ability to measure events and objects on a nanoscopic scale increase, so will our technological prowess.
but don't kid yourself...if you think that any amount of modelling, branch prediction, and hypotheses can ever actually 'know' something, especially something as individual as experience, then perhaps you've forgot about the cat.
I used to be a hard-core Mac user too. I had a IIci and then a Quadra 950. I ran 7.1.1. And then I started doing some work on Windows boxes. I ran NT 3.5. It sucked! It crashed in flames left and right, often so badly that the kernel was corrupted and the WHOLE system had to be rebuilt.
Then NT 3.51 came out. It was stable. It didn't crash, even when some application did. And it ran Director even, granted the graphics weren't all that great.
A year ago I switched to Be. Its beautiful, it doesn't crash, and it has a BSD kernel! Now, 5 years after 3.51, that Macintosh has finally released a stable multi-tasking operating system based on a *nix kernel everyone's going "ooh, aah."
Have you even tried Be?
Because they didn't hide the *nix. They made sure that you knew where it was if you wanted to use it. They included emacs, and perl, and a pile of other tools.
So what I'd really like to know is why is everyone praising Apple?
Or is it like Neil Stephenson said in 'In the beginning...'
"Some people I know in the GNU/Linux world are annoyed with Be for going off on this quixotic adventure when their formidable skills could have been put to work helping to promulgate Linux."
I don't think you should encourage them at all. I'm temporarily outside of the US. I'm not here permanently. Besides, whether you know it or not, there are ways to get green cards. Thats right, money. And its not just the US either. Buy a business worth £200,000 in the UK, or bring in £1,000,000 and you can stay.
As far as the case of H1-Bs in the US, yeah, its indentured servitude. You know, you agree to a certain shitty situation for a specified period of time, with the notion that you've paid your way when that time period is over. But letting them stay? No thank you. That is every corporate executive's dream.
Why aren't any of you asking about starting guilds? I can see why the idea of a union might stick in your throat, but some kind of collective organization is necessary. The sooner we realize it and act on that realisation the better.
Did it occur to you that "some sort of shared ideal," in the case of the Neo-Victorians, happened to be engineering.
So, while its true that nanotechnology won't morph americans into Neo-Victorians, its quite possible that the societies that are organized around engineering on that scale may come espouse the beliefs originally known as Victorianism.
personally, i can't wait for corsets to come back into style
does any of this really matter until apple has a real OS?
i gave that shit up 6 years ago, and until they release w/ protected memory space I really couldn't give a shit less what they do and what package it comes in.
all of you that are creaming for a powerbook SHOULD be creaming for a VAIO w/ Be.... and thats the way it is --
this is a troll, right? I mean you're not really serious, are you? you don't really think that the fact that AOL forces this on their customers is going to have anything to do with the other 200+ 10^6 people that use the web, do you? as far as embedded apps go, you realize that mozilla is open source, don't you? anyone can use it on any platform they port to, and there are lots of platforms out there that are suitable for IAs; you realize this, right?
because personally the last thing on earth i want to do is use a non-standards compliant browser. but if you've got one that's standards compliant, displays everthing properly, doesn't crash my machine at least once per session, and is fast enough to keep up with my machine AND my cable connection, bring it on!
otherwise go back to your sandbox and play castles in the sand. --
I mean really, these are some of the most staid people in a business of staid people. And not to put too fine a point on it, but they have lost lots of money in the past making unwise decisions. That they are looking to move forward into the 21st century is a good sign.
I, in addition to many others, am really curious as to how they're going to come up with some reasonable standard of damages. Indeed, figures from recent email viruses and DDoS attacks seem to be grossly inflated, such that this could be another bad move on the part of Lloyd's. In fact, this could be a example of one of their 'members', which is what partners are called, trying to forge a new e-business.
However high my regard for Bruce Schneier is, and it is considerable, isn't this the type of thing that would require a major-league hardware/network security partner? @Stake seems like a much better candidate to provide this kind of service. Or Zero Knowledge.
But with the social engineering factor beyond their control, and the cost-assessment of damages impossibly arbitrary, I question the wiseness of this move on the side of both parts. I can't see the win-win here, only the lose-lose.
Still, I can't wait until the first claim is settled. Then we'll know just how badly the f*ckers were lying about damages before. --
The company I work for has made several bids on work in China. One thing I can tell you; even on computers that have to run 'doze for applications they usually insist on Netscape for a browser. --
OK, Dr G is full of himself, and a confirmed self-publicist to boot. As far as documents being in no physical file system, well, in many ways thats what document management systems are all about. You don't care about where its stored, or whether or not its in some folder. You have some search that will find the document(s) that you want. And you can create folders that are nothing but real-time searches. OK, nothing new here.
As far as interfaces go, I like the notion of hand waving. Which do you think we can get down first, PSR or gestural interfaces. Like Sterling said in "Holy Fire," the future of interfaces is gestural, as in its probably easier to program sign-language recognition than pattern speech.
As for the article, can anyone really stomach that much selfserving horsesh*t? --
Think about it this way, more and more people will be getting broadband access in the near future. Don't ask for for growth figures, lets just say they're up there. Now for evey single one of those nodes, there's a gateway, router, subdomain, etc. right? Well in meatspace there are zip codes, right? But here, there aren't. Not yet any way. So lets imagine that my cable provider is ###.###.*.*, and lets imagine that its subnetted in some fashion that has geographical correspondance. Oh, now I have zip codes for the 'net. Forget about your average ISP, its too difficult to corraborate the data. All I need is one piece of geographical information for each of the various subnets and then I can sell this data to...DoubleClick!
well lets see, one thing that has been overlooked so far is taxes. yeah, thats right, taxes. as in if you spend more than 330 days outside of the US you get credited up to 72k, meaning that effectively you don't pay taxes on US income. how can you make this work in your favor? get a job where your employer has an office in the US, and for tax and other reasons pays you in the US. Subtract 72k from what you earned and pay taxes on that. how about a big fat check for 5-7k or so???
as far as speaking the language goes, it depends on your employer and your job. back office developers don't have to speak the language all that well, but if you're going to be sent out to do pre-sales, or CeBIT, you're going to need some proficiency.
recently some countries have changed their work visa requirements. in france it became official in december, 1998. you get a fast track visa if you're a high tech engineer, it takes less than two months. this situation is becoming more and more common; talk to the consular offices of the countries you want to go to.
as far as where to live, dublin is a nice place, so is sydney, and don't forget scandinavia. whats important to you? being near the ocean? the mountains? mass transit? options not already mentioned include santiago, buenos aires, wellington, and taipei.
BAAN does not provide code, and more specifically doesn't provide hooks into their code except in special circumstances to special vendors/consultants.
One of our US partners is such a company, and their hook is very minor; they integrate with a DMS and have to do it via a text file. --
In old days, maybe we send you to gulag. I have better idea for you comrade; we have you write control code for Zvezda module, yes? You work in Zvezda module, yes? Nothing but cosmonauts to look at, surely you have no problems concentrating. As for being fired; no fired, ejected! --
In years gone by I had a LaCie pocket drive. 240MB, but hey, on a MacIIci it was good enough for the system (MacOS6.8-7.01) and the apps that weren't on the server. The glory of it was that I had all my quick keys, etc. In short, my world.
This being said, I don't see how on earth M$ can provide this over the net. 'specially cause that profile probably doesn't work with this computer.
Between C# &.net I think we've had enough buzzwords from M$ for one week.
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I do too, but more because i have a quota outgoing. One easy way to control p2p would have to be limited outgoing connections, with really high rates!
its all a question of scale.
do you really think anything as downright subversive as this has a snowball's chance in hell?
like on the discovery channel?
A: its 'a' damned furriner B: its not a good thing C: wiat until pat buchanan gets elected ;)
yeah, i mean that. on that level i totally agree with j lanier. sentient machines are so far off that, well, they're going to come down the pipe, if indeed they ever do, about the same time as the next singularity.
"i don't have the patience for that," was what he said about some "21st century Kant." because Kant was the one who made sure that we understood the difference between all the hypotheses that we could make, and reality. and no, i'm not confusing him with hume. in my mind CT is just as bad as hume was. and certainly a member of whatever passed for victorian digerati.
but i digress.
our capacity for technological advancement is inextricably linked with our capacity for measurement, thus your 4 points. as our ability to measure events and objects on a nanoscopic scale increase, so will our technological prowess.
but don't kid yourself...if you think that any amount of modelling, branch prediction, and hypotheses can ever actually 'know' something, especially something as individual as experience, then perhaps you've forgot about the cat.
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And I still haven't seen the service contract ;)
Then NT 3.51 came out. It was stable. It didn't crash, even when some application did. And it ran Director even, granted the graphics weren't all that great.
A year ago I switched to Be. Its beautiful, it doesn't crash, and it has a BSD kernel! Now, 5 years after 3.51, that Macintosh has finally released a stable multi-tasking operating system based on a *nix kernel everyone's going "ooh, aah."
Have you even tried Be?
Because they didn't hide the *nix. They made sure that you knew where it was if you wanted to use it. They included emacs, and perl, and a pile of other tools.
So what I'd really like to know is why is everyone praising Apple?
Or is it like Neil Stephenson said in 'In the beginning...'
"Some people I know in the GNU/Linux world are annoyed with Be for going off on this quixotic adventure when their formidable skills could have been put to work helping to promulgate Linux."
As far as the case of H1-Bs in the US, yeah, its indentured servitude. You know, you agree to a certain shitty situation for a specified period of time, with the notion that you've paid your way when that time period is over. But letting them stay? No thank you. That is every corporate executive's dream.
Why aren't any of you asking about starting guilds? I can see why the idea of a union might stick in your throat, but some kind of collective organization is necessary. The sooner we realize it and act on that realisation the better.
So, while its true that nanotechnology won't morph americans into Neo-Victorians, its quite possible that the societies that are organized around engineering on that scale may come espouse the beliefs originally known as Victorianism.
personally, i can't wait for corsets to come back into style
personally i spell it 'Sony'. oh, i mispelled it, its actually 'Sony + PCTV'
i gave that shit up 6 years ago, and until they release w/ protected memory space I really couldn't give a shit less what they do and what package it comes in.
all of you that are creaming for a powerbook SHOULD be creaming for a VAIO w/ Be....
and thats the way it is
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because personally the last thing on earth i want to do is use a non-standards compliant browser. but if you've got one that's standards compliant, displays everthing properly, doesn't crash my machine at least once per session, and is fast enough to keep up with my machine AND my cable connection, bring it on!
otherwise go back to your sandbox and play castles in the sand.
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I, in addition to many others, am really curious as to how they're going to come up with some reasonable standard of damages. Indeed, figures from recent email viruses and DDoS attacks seem to be grossly inflated, such that this could be another bad move on the part of Lloyd's. In fact, this could be a example of one of their 'members', which is what partners are called, trying to forge a new e-business.
However high my regard for Bruce Schneier is, and it is considerable, isn't this the type of thing that would require a major-league hardware/network security partner? @Stake seems like a much better candidate to provide this kind of service. Or Zero Knowledge.
But with the social engineering factor beyond their control, and the cost-assessment of damages impossibly arbitrary, I question the wiseness of this move on the side of both parts. I can't see the win-win here, only the lose-lose.
Still, I can't wait until the first claim is settled. Then we'll know just how badly the f*ckers were lying about damages before.
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and then i thought that maybe someday someone would start writing filters for that.
and then...
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The company I work for has made several bids on work in China. One thing I can tell you; even on computers that have to run 'doze for applications they usually insist on Netscape for a browser.
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As far as interfaces go, I like the notion of hand waving. Which do you think we can get down first, PSR or gestural interfaces. Like Sterling said in "Holy Fire," the future of interfaces is gestural, as in its probably easier to program sign-language recognition than pattern speech.
As for the article, can anyone really stomach that much selfserving horsesh*t?
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Can someone pass me the can of Raid? Or better yet, the Black Flag!
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as far as speaking the language goes, it depends on your employer and your job. back office developers don't have to speak the language all that well, but if you're going to be sent out to do pre-sales, or CeBIT, you're going to need some proficiency.
recently some countries have changed their work visa requirements. in france it became official in december, 1998. you get a fast track visa if you're a high tech engineer, it takes less than two months. this situation is becoming more and more common; talk to the consular offices of the countries you want to go to.
as far as where to live, dublin is a nice place, so is sydney, and don't forget scandinavia. whats important to you? being near the ocean? the mountains? mass transit? options not already mentioned include santiago, buenos aires, wellington, and taipei.
you just might find you never want to go home.
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It shouldn't. It will run Be right?
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I was going to compare Lucas to Gates and Lucasfilms and their marketing deals to M$, but...
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One of our US partners is such a company, and their hook is very minor; they integrate with a DMS and have to do it via a text file.
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In old days, maybe we send you to gulag. I have better idea for you comrade; we have you write control code for Zvezda module, yes? You work in Zvezda module, yes? Nothing but cosmonauts to look at, surely you have no problems concentrating. As for being fired; no fired, ejected!
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This being said, I don't see how on earth M$ can provide this over the net. 'specially cause that profile probably doesn't work with this computer.
Between C# & .net I think we've had enough buzzwords from M$ for one week.