Clearly the authors missed the most obvious explanation, which is that the potato is originally from Mars, duh. Probably brought to earth by Incan/Martian astronauts. I for one welcome our Martian Potato overlords.
Also co-author - with Marvin Minsky - of a classic, prescient (if a bit narrow) work on what would become neural network pattern recognition; Perceptrons.
I returned to Shanghai from the US and Tokyo recently and was shocked to discover that not only did the 3G China networks bypass the great firewall, but the kindle 3G access fired up easily in all three countries with absolutely no cost to me! . . . FREE 3G . . . Worldwide . . . as far as I can tell. The kindle has already paid for itself. w00t!
Now more than ever, it's vital we pay attention to the candidates the Obama Administration puts forward.
In light of VP Joe 'Hollywood' Biden's unbridled support by and for media industries and the Administration's inability to take a principled stand against the financial, insurance or pharmaceutical lobbyists, as well as its apparent pursuit of unbridled Executive power, it's dubious that the candidates we see coming from this White House will be equal to the chair being vacated by Justice Stevens.
If you think Kagen is an acceptable replacement, you must read Glenn Greenwald's commentary on the nominations . . . We absolutely MUST have a nominee that will fill Stevens seat with the same dedication to the rule-of-law and sensible jurisprudence he provided.
This is just too important for us to get it wrong. Unfortunately, it will take an unprecedented show of public intolerance for inadequate nominees.
This is the dark side of the Obama candidacy in my opinion, completely predictable from the moment he chose Joe "Media Industry Lacky" Biden as his running-mate.
If the Bush administration was pandering to the energy industry, this one will be pandering to the traditional media industries. What will be most interesting will be seeing how this administration balances telecommunications and new media interests versus more traditional media interests. I predict they'll tie themselves in knots even the most adept contortionist couldn't imagine.
I can confirm the nearly identical media experience in Shanghai. I live in the French Concession (no TV at home, but have seen news, etc in restaurants). I also SSH through the great firewall when necessary, but seldom have the need.
I've seen no change in accessibility. I still can't get boingboing w/o SSH:P
My Chinese gf has been complaining for the last few weeks that Google has completely dropped all their China map info from google maps; many areas are now less detailed as well. Is this yet another concession to the Chinese Govt?
<obligatory> I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords </obligatory>
Sure . . . except for the fact that most patent policy has been nearly single-handedly established by the judiciary for the last, oh, fifty years or so.
Between the establishment of the CAFC and Lehman's revamping of the USPTO as a PBO (yes, I know it didn't become a PBO until after Lehman, but he got the ball rolling as it were) I think the patent system might interestingly be considered captured by a burgeoning patent industry (as in, regulatory capture); i.e. is the USPTO fast becoming the 21st century's FCC?
Ultimately, it's stooping to the telco's level and escalating the battle from the legal arena to the technological. Might happen . . . but in the end the public loses. Hopefully, Congressional bills supporting Network Neutrality will prevail.
What I'd like to know is, who's up for re-election in November that can have an significant impact on the issue?! Anyone?
I've been using the wikimedia software for briefing and note-taking at law school. It's perfect for the job. The syntax for links, outlining, highlighting, etc is simple and really perfect for the job. Not to mention the automatic toc, searches, etc . ..
I don't understand why anyone would use word, or oneNote for that matter (which a lot of my peers do). For my money (free!), wikimedia beats 'em all hands down.
When I began my most recent job as a Unix Sys Admin, I made a point of buying a copy the this book and giving it to the project manager. I think it's still gathering dust on a cube-shelf somewhere.
When I think of the problems we've encountered in the intervening years and how much time, energy, money and emotional stress would have been alleviated by simply understanding half of what Brooks covers in his book, I want to cry; okay, sometimes I want to just laugh maniacally . . .
I've been SSHing on my Samsung (PalmOS - with TGssh) for a couple of months now . . . it's a freaking godsend - no more macerena of cell-phone, palm, blackberry and laptop.
Yes . . . at all. How can you not see this??? The comparison with ANSI/ISO C is just plain silly and doesn't really address my point. Let me spell it out.
M$ has been found guilty of illegally using its monopoly position to protect something the Findings of Fact in the case called the "Applications Barrier to Entry". What does this mean? It means M$ is so concerned that they are the only providers of APIs for development on the PC platform that they will jeapordize everything to protect it.
.NET is essentially a very elaborate and expensive response to the percieved threat posed by java. It's sole raison d'etre is to kill java. If M$ didn't see java as potential threat to the Applications Barrier to Entry,.NET would never have come into being - I think M$ calls this "Innovation".
What might M$'s strategy be (assuming of course the Findings of Fact in the case against them accurately represent their interests and business practices)? It seems pretty clear that once the threat of java is mitigated sufficiently by the adoption of.NET we would indeed start to see radical proprietary improvements of.NET on the M$ platform (let's call them 'extensions' for the sake of argument). In this scenario (where there is no basis for a lawsuit such as Sun's vs M$ on java - where M$ TRIED THE SAME !#@$ING THING) the vast majority of.NET users will happily trundle on down the path of least resistence using M$'s proprietary extensions and the 'open standard' of.NET will be a joke. Albeit one supported by a dwindling number of mono and gnome users.
Who knows, maybe Migel will get rich and be bought-out by M$. He won't be the first, but he won't have my help.
Except, of course, when you are a monopoly. In which case the notion of "standard" you're talking about ceases to work.
You can bet the M$ people are still looking to find a way of leveraging their dominance of the desktop to pry open the server market. I trust 'em about as far as I could throw Steve Balmer, and he just keeps getting bigger.
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Clearly the authors missed the most obvious explanation, which is that the potato is originally from Mars, duh. Probably brought to earth by Incan/Martian astronauts. I for one welcome our Martian Potato overlords.
Also co-author - with Marvin Minsky - of a classic, prescient (if a bit narrow) work on what would become neural network pattern recognition; Perceptrons.
I returned to Shanghai from the US and Tokyo recently and was shocked to discover that not only did the 3G China networks bypass the great firewall, but the kindle 3G access fired up easily in all three countries with absolutely no cost to me! . . . FREE 3G . . . Worldwide . . . as far as I can tell. The kindle has already paid for itself. w00t!
Now more than ever, it's vital we pay attention to the candidates the Obama Administration puts forward.
In light of VP Joe 'Hollywood' Biden's unbridled support by and for media industries and the Administration's inability to take a principled stand against the financial, insurance or pharmaceutical lobbyists, as well as its apparent pursuit of unbridled Executive power, it's dubious that the candidates we see coming from this White House will be equal to the chair being vacated by Justice Stevens.
If you think Kagen is an acceptable replacement, you must read Glenn Greenwald's commentary on the nominations . . . We absolutely MUST have a nominee that will fill Stevens seat with the same dedication to the rule-of-law and sensible jurisprudence he provided.
This is just too important for us to get it wrong. Unfortunately, it will take an unprecedented show of public intolerance for inadequate nominees.
The best . . . and hardest to do well . . . in my humble opinion.
Valis would be interesting too.
I was going to suggest you use "oligopoly" instead of oligarchy, but after considering it further I think the proper term should be "oligarchopoly".
New word?
This is the dark side of the Obama candidacy in my opinion, completely predictable from the moment he chose Joe "Media Industry Lacky" Biden as his running-mate.
If the Bush administration was pandering to the energy industry, this one will be pandering to the traditional media industries. What will be most interesting will be seeing how this administration balances telecommunications and new media interests versus more traditional media interests. I predict they'll tie themselves in knots even the most adept contortionist couldn't imagine.
Reading Slashdot from Shanghai . . . no problems.
I can confirm the nearly identical media experience in Shanghai. I live in the French Concession (no TV at home, but have seen news, etc in restaurants). I also SSH through the great firewall when necessary, but seldom have the need.
:P
I've seen no change in accessibility. I still can't get boingboing w/o SSH
My Chinese gf has been complaining for the last few weeks that Google has completely dropped all their China map info from google maps; many areas are now less detailed as well. Is this yet another concession to the Chinese Govt?
<obligatory> I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords </obligatory>
Sure . . . except for the fact that most patent policy has been nearly single-handedly established by the judiciary for the last, oh, fifty years or so.
Between the establishment of the CAFC and Lehman's revamping of the USPTO as a PBO (yes, I know it didn't become a PBO until after Lehman, but he got the ball rolling as it were) I think the patent system might interestingly be considered captured by a burgeoning patent industry (as in, regulatory capture); i.e. is the USPTO fast becoming the 21st century's FCC?
That was my initial reaction to "tiered internet" proposals as well.
( my original comment on the issue)
Ultimately, it's stooping to the telco's level and escalating the battle from the legal arena to the technological. Might happen . . . but in the end the public loses. Hopefully, Congressional bills supporting Network Neutrality will prevail.
What I'd like to know is, who's up for re-election in November that can have an significant impact on the issue?! Anyone?
mischa
I've been using the wikimedia software for briefing and note-taking at law school. It's perfect for the job. The syntax for links, outlining, highlighting, etc is simple and really perfect for the job. Not to mention the automatic toc, searches, etc . . .
I don't understand why anyone would use word, or oneNote for that matter (which a lot of my peers do). For my money (free!), wikimedia beats 'em all hands down.
Anyone else using this tech for school?
When I began my most recent job as a Unix Sys Admin, I made a point of buying a copy the this book and giving it to the project manager. I think it's still gathering dust on a cube-shelf somewhere.
When I think of the problems we've encountered in the intervening years and how much time, energy, money and emotional stress would have been alleviated by simply understanding half of what Brooks covers in his book, I want to cry; okay, sometimes I want to just laugh maniacally . . .
and wtf do they mean by "consciousness"? is there some technical definition of this term? or are they just throwing around some nonsense?
The Watchmen, Sandman, Sin City . . . I've got 'em all (in comic book format)
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Hrm . . . have to think about that one. Nice idea.
I've been SSHing on my Samsung (PalmOS - with TGssh) for a couple of months now . . . it's a freaking godsend - no more macerena of cell-phone, palm, blackberry and laptop.
now if it just had an mp3 player . . .
Follow the thread between Alan Cox and Miguel for some interesting back and forth on this.
For my money, Miguel is just plain wrong on this.
I for one think the back and forth between Miguel and Alan is one of the most interesting things I've read through slashdot for some time.
Yes . . . at all. How can you not see this??? The comparison with ANSI/ISO C is just plain silly and doesn't really address my point. Let me spell it out.
M$ has been found guilty of illegally using its monopoly position to protect something the Findings of Fact in the case called the "Applications Barrier to Entry". What does this mean? It means M$ is so concerned that they are the only providers of APIs for development on the PC platform that they will jeapordize everything to protect it.
.NET is essentially a very elaborate and expensive response to the percieved threat posed by java. It's sole raison d'etre is to kill java. If M$ didn't see java as potential threat to the Applications Barrier to Entry,
What might M$'s strategy be (assuming of course the Findings of Fact in the case against them accurately represent their interests and business practices)? It seems pretty clear that once the threat of java is mitigated sufficiently by the adoption of
Who knows, maybe Migel will get rich and be bought-out by M$. He won't be the first, but he won't have my help.
</rant>
Except, of course, when you are a monopoly. In which case the notion of "standard" you're talking about ceases to work.
You can bet the M$ people are still looking to find a way of leveraging their dominance of the desktop to pry open the server market. I trust 'em about as far as I could throw Steve Balmer, and he just keeps getting bigger.
Hello KDE . . . Wow, I'm a bit stunned. What a shame.