Re:They know not what they do
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As a former employee of M also, I completely concur. After graduation, I worked there for two years after in paging/cellular. Of the five projects I was assigned to, all of them were cancelled. The beauracracy was stifling and they were struggling to get a pulse on what products there customers needed. The company was in a constant state of restructuring in attempts to recapture it's identity.
And to think people were worried about cell phone radiation...geez...
Information does have limits and predators
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The Regulon
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Jon is trying to argue here that information has no natural limits or predators which will keep its proliferation in check. This idea is wrong.
First of all information has to occupy some type of medium such as film, magnetic tape, optical disc, canvas, printed page, whatever which has a finite capacity for information. As the media is filled to capacity some information is going to be disposed of. What do you do when your hard drive gets full? You remove what's not important by deleting or moving it somewhere else. Sounds like natural selection to me. The world's capacity for information is enormous; just because we can't see its limit doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
My second point is that information does have predators due to the fact that it is bound to such mediums. These are lightning, age, damage, corrosion, and any other factor which might cause the loss of data. In fact, an article was posted on/. just yesterday about worry over an EMP attack on the United States' information infrastructure. These factors are the same reason why we have lost much of Hollywood's early films, countless paintings from centuries passed, and other forms of information that we will never have again.
Is information indestructible? I really don't think so, but it makes for a good topic for Jon to ramble on.
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As a former employee of M also, I completely concur. After graduation, I worked there for two years after in paging/cellular. Of the five projects I was assigned to, all of them were cancelled. The beauracracy was stifling and they were struggling to get a pulse on what products there customers needed. The company was in a constant state of restructuring in attempts to recapture it's identity.
I have seen pocket tests...kind of like litmus paper for alcohol...can't vouch for the accuracy, though...
I really don't think the Postal Service is going to mind the extra revenue...
Hey, its news to me!
And to think people were worried about cell phone radiation...geez...
Jon is trying to argue here that information has no natural limits or predators which will keep its proliferation in check. This idea is wrong.
First of all information has to occupy some type of medium such as film, magnetic tape, optical disc, canvas, printed page, whatever which has a finite capacity for information. As the media is filled to capacity some information is going to be disposed of. What do you do when your hard drive gets full? You remove what's not important by deleting or moving it somewhere else. Sounds like natural selection to me. The world's capacity for information is enormous; just because we can't see its limit doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
My second point is that information does have predators due to the fact that it is bound to such mediums. These are lightning, age, damage, corrosion, and any other factor which might cause the loss of data. In fact, an article was posted on /. just yesterday about worry over an EMP attack on the United States' information infrastructure. These factors are the same reason why we have lost much of Hollywood's early films, countless paintings from centuries passed, and other forms of information that we will never have again.
Is information indestructible? I really don't think so, but it makes for a good topic for Jon to ramble on.