This reminds me of the current open learning situation. It won't work for a long, long time. I've been to many sites, made many searches for material provided so that I can learn remotely for a reasonable fee (and I'm not talking about computer-related stuff, necessarily). All I can find are behind-closed-doors trial programs from 3 years ago, or extremely platform-discriminatory software restrictions.
If we can't get the simple transfer of materials and tutor support right, how is this going to work?
If I'm wrong and there is a decent open learning program out there, I'd be interested to find a participant.
Cardinal point orientation is not unusual in British monuments from the same age (I'm not going to touch on the Orkney Stonemasons and Egypt angle, that's mainly supposition). How? Simple: at that time, the midwinter sunrise was almost exactly south east, and the midwinter sunset at exactly south west. Midday? More or less due south.
Lay out a circle. Stand in the centre, you can make out the cardinal points. No problem. This concept was extended by brits in the later Bronze Age, who developed a "four poster" monument, often precisely aligned NE-SW with 4 stones at the corners of both a circle and a rectangle. Hard? no. Simple common sense. All it needs is a rope, a small community, some rock nearby. Increase the size of any of these variables, and I'm sure you have the formula for many prehistoric monuments like the pyramids.
A number of people have replied, commenting that FreeServe is a just alternative. It isn't. FreeServe offer their deal through the use of BT's SurfTime service, ergo, it is still being controlled by BT. AltaVista's deal was different, and made feasable by relulatory prodding...
They're great books, thanks. Approximately one question:
Will an upgrade to the "new" guide allow transportation between the real and fictional worlds?
Is the Guide open source?
If so, does that mean that time travel (using the "new" guide from Mostly Harmless) is open source and as such open source must have been invented by some poor person from the future looking to make money from the guide by investing in redhat and andover.net, etc on the stock market?
In fact, would NowWhat have a stock market, or would that be too interesting?
--- "will linux run with windows 95 or do I need to upgrade?" - Overheard
Netpliance is a rather odd name. "Internet Appliance" is a rather odd description. At the end of the day, it's still an x86 pc and always will be, Netpliance aren't gonna win by hiding under their "it's not modifiable" agenda. And, has anyone got one of these "unmodifiable" ones? I would think it could be easy to swap out the BIOS chip. If by "buying" one you are forced to use the service, shouldn't it be called a hire-purchase agreement? This seems a very hasty and un-tactful move on their part.
So, If I am lucky enough to have a wonderful singing voice and just so happen to sound very much like the original artist, am I in trouble for not using an "appropriate analogue recorder". I, my friends, am analogue and don't want copy protection circuits implanted in my head.
This is Not the first (second, if dreamcast counts) console to feature a proper OS. That would be the Bandai @Mark/@World, which featured a PowerPC 603 processor and ran a slimline version of the MacOS. It had a modem and CD player. That was over 5 years ago!
Ahh, but won't the shielding necessary to keep all those little cute magnetic fields away from, say, high-tension power cables and the like take away the weight advantage?
It's really a bit odd commenting, my-2-cents-ing, IANAL but-ing, trolling and doing everything that we do best about our very selves, but thank goodness we haven't had to abandon comments (like a certain other, unmentionable news/satire site that does induce violent sickness in 95% of Rats tested in the laboratory), or resorted to 10 Billion comments about how nice it was for all those little people to experience DevFS in the recent 2.3 releases. And didn't you get a warm feeling when all of us shared openly our views about DeCSS? I thought so. Three cheers for Slashdot!
Does this mean that all advocacy mailing lists I subscribe to will need one of these ADVs? If people can complain about an oversized mailbox, won't all these ADV's just take up all that space all over again? And if, for example, someone signs up for a (say) slashdot loging with a bogus email, will Slashdot and/or the originator of the request get the demand for $10? what about truly accidental typos?
Linux was developed and became a Good Thing because during the mid-nineties, when the Hurd was too young to be viable, people invested in Linux. And we have a stable, fast OS. It was innovative; it made MS take a reality check, and gave Open Source some teeth. It's still a UNIX clone, but it's been heavily modified. When it started out, it didn't have any trademark issues. Now, we continue to innovate; we have GNOME and KDE bringing exciting advances in the GUI for end users (what seems like) daily. Both copied nice, GUIs like Windows, MacOS, etc, but moved beyond that. In my opinion, copying a brand new GUI from a company that's at least made a token gesture is (almost) like biting the hand that feeds. If I want Aqua, I'll buy OS X when it comes out. My 2 cents.
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This reminds me of the current open learning situation. It won't work for a long, long time. I've been to many sites, made many searches for material provided so that I can learn remotely for a reasonable fee (and I'm not talking about computer-related stuff, necessarily). All I can find are behind-closed-doors trial programs from 3 years ago, or extremely platform-discriminatory software restrictions.
If we can't get the simple transfer of materials and tutor support right, how is this going to work?
If I'm wrong and there is a decent open learning program out there, I'd be interested to find a participant.
Cardinal point orientation is not unusual in British monuments from the same age (I'm not going to touch on the Orkney Stonemasons and Egypt angle, that's mainly supposition). How? Simple: at that time, the midwinter sunrise was almost exactly south east, and the midwinter sunset at exactly south west. Midday? More or less due south.
Lay out a circle. Stand in the centre, you can make out the cardinal points. No problem. This concept was extended by brits in the later Bronze Age, who developed a "four poster" monument, often precisely aligned NE-SW with 4 stones at the corners of both a circle and a rectangle. Hard? no. Simple common sense. All it needs is a rope, a small community, some rock nearby. Increase the size of any of these variables, and I'm sure you have the formula for many prehistoric monuments like the pyramids.
A number of people have replied, commenting that FreeServe is a just alternative. It isn't. FreeServe offer their deal through the use of BT's SurfTime service, ergo, it is still being controlled by BT. AltaVista's deal was different, and made feasable by relulatory prodding...
They're great books, thanks. Approximately one question:
Will an upgrade to the "new" guide allow transportation between the real and fictional worlds?
Is the Guide open source?
If so, does that mean that time travel (using the "new" guide from Mostly Harmless) is open source and as such open source must have been invented by some poor person from the future looking to make money from the guide by investing in redhat and andover.net, etc on the stock market?
In fact, would NowWhat have a stock market, or would that be too interesting?
---
"will linux run with windows 95 or do I need to upgrade?" - Overheard
Netpliance is a rather odd name. "Internet Appliance" is a rather odd description. At the end of the day, it's still an x86 pc and always will be, Netpliance aren't gonna win by hiding under their "it's not modifiable" agenda. And, has anyone got one of these "unmodifiable" ones? I would think it could be easy to swap out the BIOS chip. If by "buying" one you are forced to use the service, shouldn't it be called a hire-purchase agreement? This seems a very hasty and un-tactful move on their part.
So, If I am lucky enough to have a wonderful singing voice and just so happen to sound very much like the original artist, am I in trouble for not using an "appropriate analogue recorder". I, my friends, am analogue and don't want copy protection circuits implanted in my head.
This is Not the first (second, if dreamcast counts) console to feature a proper OS. That would be the Bandai @Mark/@World, which featured a PowerPC 603 processor and ran a slimline version of the MacOS. It had a modem and CD player. That was over 5 years ago!
Ahh, but won't the shielding necessary to keep all those little cute magnetic fields away from, say, high-tension power cables and the like take away the weight advantage?
It's really a bit odd commenting, my-2-cents-ing, IANAL but-ing, trolling and doing everything that we do best about our very selves, but thank goodness we haven't had to abandon comments (like a certain other, unmentionable news/satire site that does induce violent sickness in 95% of Rats tested in the laboratory), or resorted to 10 Billion comments about how nice it was for all those little people to experience DevFS in the recent 2.3 releases. And didn't you get a warm feeling when all of us shared openly our views about DeCSS? I thought so. Three cheers for Slashdot!
Does this mean that all advocacy mailing lists I subscribe to will need one of these ADVs? If people can complain about an oversized mailbox, won't all these ADV's just take up all that space all over again? And if, for example, someone signs up for a (say) slashdot loging with a bogus email, will Slashdot and/or the originator of the request get the demand for $10? what about truly accidental typos?
Linux was developed and became a Good Thing because during the mid-nineties, when the Hurd was too young to be viable, people invested in Linux. And we have a stable, fast OS. It was innovative; it made MS take a reality check, and gave Open Source some teeth. It's still a UNIX clone, but it's been heavily modified. When it started out, it didn't have any trademark issues. Now, we continue to innovate; we have GNOME and KDE bringing exciting advances in the GUI for end users (what seems like) daily. Both copied nice, GUIs like Windows, MacOS, etc, but moved beyond that. In my opinion, copying a brand new GUI from a company that's at least made a token gesture is (almost) like biting the hand that feeds. If I want Aqua, I'll buy OS X when it comes out. My 2 cents.