I quote from a completely different story, to which I linked, and that's "Redundant". That kind of stupid TrollMod can't understand NASA, budgets, or Iraq, either.
Edison went further: he lobbied his NY State politico buddies (like the Rockefellers) to use rival AC for the electrocutions. Tesla gave still-famous public exhibitions of AC, voltage/frequency tuned to run only along the surface of human skin, holding an "Edison bulb" in one hand, then grabbing an AC electrode in the other. The bulb glowed violently, Tesla stayed calm and cool. Tesla got the electrocution contract, the power transmission contract, and wide acceptance as "safe power".
OSS needs big business to give back to the community, but big business needs that return even more. Big business reduces costs, increases flexibility, shortens time to market, mitigates risks and amplifies its own innovations using other people's open source. They'll get a lot more of all of that when they spend time, money and resources on improving the source they're now mostly only reading and installing. That's called "return on investment", supposedly the #1 expertise of big business. The longer corporate culture fails to invest and collect that way, the more it looks like their main expertise is "getting something for nothing", or maybe "killing the goose that lays the golden egg".
If only pen-PDAs had introduced a new "pen paradigm" to replace (or at least augment) the keyboard and mouse paradigms in their UI. But they aren't even as graphical as the current creaky old paradigm (dating from the beginning of the epoch). They're more textual. They don't do text recognition, either per-letter or per-word/-phrase, as accurately as typing. And worse, correcting mistakes takes longer and is much more distracting than with typing.
Penpads have the opportunity to make most interfaces to info symbolic. Well beyond the mere icons and overloaded (and dumb as a stick) windows we're used to. Feedback between the pen and the graphics could be much more tightly coupled than through the larger circuit of deskbound keys/mouse and distant text/icons/buttons. That feedback needs to leverage much more informative "display transformations", showing state not only of the info directly controlled, but immediate effects on related info, whether found, input, read, weighted, written or sent. Iconic gestures with with smart widgets, retrieving each other in context collections, "smart hiding" unused onscreen GUIs, on-the-fly dataflow and flowchart control diagrams. And the maximum integration of all data, segregated only within modal datatype boundaries, with maximum symmetry in interfaces and interconnectivity. "Applications" would disappear in favor of default-networked dataflow, with every immediate context offering every legal operation, at most two gestures away. "Saving" data goes away, with just un/do WYSIWYG visualization of versioned transactions stored in relations. Local storage as cache only, synced to distributed network "backups". All because the pen is more expressive, but less precise.
All those features will come. We'll reiterate the evolution in large tablets first. Which will immediately start shrinking, as always with personal electronics. But we had our chance to get it right the first time, in 1996-2006 (the "Pilot Era"), if only SW architects had shown as much imagination as the HW architects and engineers put out. But at least this time around we'll have plenty of mistakes to learn from.
I haven't found any history which says Edison died penniless. In fact, all the bios I read today mention that he died in his eighties on his NJ estate, still close friends with Henry Ford, honored recently by Rockefeller and his cronies. That his failing heath prevented him from returning as often to his Florida estate. Doesn't sound "penniless" to me. FWIW, none mention the iron mining, which wouldn't seem more a debacle than many other inventions he attempted. Though in his last years he sought a native American source for tire materials instead of rubber, succeeding with a goldenrod weed.
Sure, Edison was prohibited from exploiting AC by the patents. Of course, he bet on the wrong horse, and used every trick he could to stop his own competition, including 1093 patents.
The Constitution directs Congress to protect patents, a monopoly limited by Congress only long enough for successful inventors to recoup their investment. That provision was no doubt influenced by "lobbying" by Ben Franklin one of the great inventors of all time. Franklin died rich, had lots of time for other endeavors (like founding America), but without patent protection. Seems like business people get rich off inventions, regardless of patents or inventors.
Edison "advocated" for all power systems, including longdistance transmission, to be DC - because that's what he was selling. His battle with Tesla for the first big contract, electrifying NYC, is the stuff of legend. Tesla won. And died penniless in the 1940s, while Edison died fat and rich from thousands of patents, most on inventions invented by people working for him. Some of whom no doubt died penniless.
Edison wanted to pump DC across longdistance lines, which would have consumed much more than the 10-20% losses in Tesla's AC. A hundred years ago, electronics complexity was so low that a single electric motor's mechanical power was often distributed around an entire factory by pulleys, rather than use multiple motors. Now we've got more complexity on a single square CPU inch than existed in the entire world when Tesla and Edison battled.
I'd love to see how Tesla would have applied his high frequency/voltage engineering to photonics.
I didn't really expect you to take the "you" of my post as singular, but rather the inclusive plural sometimes said as "y'all". Maybe "your company" would have been more precise.
But since you insist on defending the practice, along the "just following orders" philosophy, I'll remind you that you're responsible for going along with your company's policies. Which you validate by insisting that facts can be detected by assertion by authority, rather than by corroboration and deduction.
And since you were so snarky, and inferring a nonexistent implication that you own or control your company, I'll offer some more advice. The word is spelled "ideologue". And you need an editor. I hope you're not tutoring any writing courses.
Too bad your online tutoring company couldn't take the "teaching moment" opportunity to teach kids the truth about "authoritative sources". Especially since USA Today is edited on the same principles as Bartleby, not Wikipedia. Not to mention that "Bartlby.com" is a typo hijack site for Bartleby.com, which I'm guessing is the website you meant to type.
That's a much more valuable lesson in learning than even the total contents of Bartlby plus Wikipedia. But then, you'd be teaching kids to question your authority as well, cross-referencing you rather than just accepting whatever you say. You might start by pointing your kids to the socratic method.
I used to see several links a day from various websites to E2 entries - in 2002-3. I can't remember the last time I saw even one link. Seems like E2 might be thriving in its own insular community, perhaps, but it's not integrated into the Web - not nearly as much as is Wikipedia. Considering the superficial and frivilous entries I grew to expect before clicking to E2, I'm not surprised. But such self-referentiality isn't that common for mature or relevant general reference sites.
"ome of the most notable missions on NASA's scientific agenda would be postponed indefinitely or canceled under the agency's new budget, despite its administrator's vow to Congress six months ago that not "one thin dime" would be taken from space science to pay for President Bush's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars."
You can't even get a response out of the E2 server today. While you can read about E2 on Wikipedia during a Slashdotting after the millionth Wikipedia article.
The choice of the Anonymous Cowards is a natural loser.
And disgratulations (conpropulations?) to Everything2, the practically forgotten early attempt to pull off what Wikipedia has actually done. If you want to actually learn about Everything2, you really should just look it up in the Wikipedia.
I said "your world", which means the Arab world, which includes Morocco. Of course, all those terms are approximations. However, Morocco is also included in some definitions of the Mideast. I chose Casablanca because I've been there (as well as other Arab/Mideast cities/countries), and I think Casablanca's position so close to Europe gives it an advantage in launching a native product global. An advantage reflected in its people's outgoing, modern, (relatively) cosmopolitan culture.
The Mormons who have taken time in this thread to respond to my ambiguous, but loaded, statement have been just as friendly and articulate as all the Mormons I've known personally.
I hope that Mormons generally believe separation of Church and State is not only good, but always works both ways. Because there are lots of religious people who threaten the independence of the state, but don't seem to believe there's any control in the other direction. Those "Dominionists" are sending the US down theocracy road. I'm glad to believe that Mormons aren't driving that streetcar.
Most viruses are RNA coated with proteins the RNA generates from its environment. The earliest self-replicating molecule type we can document is RNA, though prions might turn up now that we know a little bit about them. Prions aren't as durable as RNA, so finding ancient evidence of them might be harder. But once we do, might we not start saying prions are the precursors of all life?
How many Utah public schools teach cosmology and biology according to Mormon, not scientific, principles?
I really am curious. Perhaps Mormons respect the distinction between science and religion, as does official Catholic dogma. The state decision in the story we're discussing in these threads seems to suggest the people of Utah do so.
No, I'm very aware of Jewish values of literacy, education, science and math, even here in NYC. And the parliamentary government and private ownership in Israel, as opposed to the fiefdoms of most Arab countries.
And I'm completely aware how this subthread is really about your desire to portray Israel and Arab countries in a contest, as I remarked in it earlier. Even while you inisist on touting ICQ, whether from Tel Aviv or otherwise, when it's far from the first IM app.
Questions about Mideastern-originated tech innovations aren't just a pretext for anonymous Israeli supremacism. How about posting something constructive, like some Mideastern tech native to Israel that no one outside has heard about, but which could go global? Like I asked?
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I quote from a completely different story, to which I linked, and that's "Redundant". That kind of stupid TrollMod can't understand NASA, budgets, or Iraq, either.
Edison went further: he lobbied his NY State politico buddies (like the Rockefellers) to use rival AC for the electrocutions. Tesla gave still-famous public exhibitions of AC, voltage/frequency tuned to run only along the surface of human skin, holding an "Edison bulb" in one hand, then grabbing an AC electrode in the other. The bulb glowed violently, Tesla stayed calm and cool. Tesla got the electrocution contract, the power transmission contract, and wide acceptance as "safe power".
Tesla 1, Edison 0.
OSS needs big business to give back to the community, but big business needs that return even more. Big business reduces costs, increases flexibility, shortens time to market, mitigates risks and amplifies its own innovations using other people's open source. They'll get a lot more of all of that when they spend time, money and resources on improving the source they're now mostly only reading and installing. That's called "return on investment", supposedly the #1 expertise of big business. The longer corporate culture fails to invest and collect that way, the more it looks like their main expertise is "getting something for nothing", or maybe "killing the goose that lays the golden egg".
If only pen-PDAs had introduced a new "pen paradigm" to replace (or at least augment) the keyboard and mouse paradigms in their UI. But they aren't even as graphical as the current creaky old paradigm (dating from the beginning of the epoch). They're more textual. They don't do text recognition, either per-letter or per-word/-phrase, as accurately as typing. And worse, correcting mistakes takes longer and is much more distracting than with typing.
Penpads have the opportunity to make most interfaces to info symbolic. Well beyond the mere icons and overloaded (and dumb as a stick) windows we're used to. Feedback between the pen and the graphics could be much more tightly coupled than through the larger circuit of deskbound keys/mouse and distant text/icons/buttons. That feedback needs to leverage much more informative "display transformations", showing state not only of the info directly controlled, but immediate effects on related info, whether found, input, read, weighted, written or sent. Iconic gestures with with smart widgets, retrieving each other in context collections, "smart hiding" unused onscreen GUIs, on-the-fly dataflow and flowchart control diagrams. And the maximum integration of all data, segregated only within modal datatype boundaries, with maximum symmetry in interfaces and interconnectivity. "Applications" would disappear in favor of default-networked dataflow, with every immediate context offering every legal operation, at most two gestures away. "Saving" data goes away, with just un/do WYSIWYG visualization of versioned transactions stored in relations. Local storage as cache only, synced to distributed network "backups". All because the pen is more expressive, but less precise.
All those features will come. We'll reiterate the evolution in large tablets first. Which will immediately start shrinking, as always with personal electronics. But we had our chance to get it right the first time, in 1996-2006 (the "Pilot Era"), if only SW architects had shown as much imagination as the HW architects and engineers put out. But at least this time around we'll have plenty of mistakes to learn from.
I haven't found any history which says Edison died penniless. In fact, all the bios I read today mention that he died in his eighties on his NJ estate, still close friends with Henry Ford, honored recently by Rockefeller and his cronies. That his failing heath prevented him from returning as often to his Florida estate. Doesn't sound "penniless" to me. FWIW, none mention the iron mining, which wouldn't seem more a debacle than many other inventions he attempted. Though in his last years he sought a native American source for tire materials instead of rubber, succeeding with a goldenrod weed.
Sure, Edison was prohibited from exploiting AC by the patents. Of course, he bet on the wrong horse, and used every trick he could to stop his own competition, including 1093 patents.
The Constitution directs Congress to protect patents, a monopoly limited by Congress only long enough for successful inventors to recoup their investment. That provision was no doubt influenced by "lobbying" by Ben Franklin one of the great inventors of all time. Franklin died rich, had lots of time for other endeavors (like founding America), but without patent protection. Seems like business people get rich off inventions, regardless of patents or inventors.
Edison "advocated" for all power systems, including longdistance transmission, to be DC - because that's what he was selling. His battle with Tesla for the first big contract, electrifying NYC, is the stuff of legend. Tesla won. And died penniless in the 1940s, while Edison died fat and rich from thousands of patents, most on inventions invented by people working for him. Some of whom no doubt died penniless.
Edison wanted to pump DC across longdistance lines, which would have consumed much more than the 10-20% losses in Tesla's AC. A hundred years ago, electronics complexity was so low that a single electric motor's mechanical power was often distributed around an entire factory by pulleys, rather than use multiple motors. Now we've got more complexity on a single square CPU inch than existed in the entire world when Tesla and Edison battled.
I'd love to see how Tesla would have applied his high frequency/voltage engineering to photonics.
I didn't really expect you to take the "you" of my post as singular, but rather the inclusive plural sometimes said as "y'all". Maybe "your company" would have been more precise.
But since you insist on defending the practice, along the "just following orders" philosophy, I'll remind you that you're responsible for going along with your company's policies. Which you validate by insisting that facts can be detected by assertion by authority, rather than by corroboration and deduction.
And since you were so snarky, and inferring a nonexistent implication that you own or control your company, I'll offer some more advice. The word is spelled "ideologue". And you need an editor. I hope you're not tutoring any writing courses.
You're that "Anonymous Coward", who's responsible for the most immature, irrelevant travesties of judgement on Slashdot.
Too bad your online tutoring company couldn't take the "teaching moment" opportunity to teach kids the truth about "authoritative sources". Especially since USA Today is edited on the same principles as Bartleby, not Wikipedia. Not to mention that "Bartlby.com" is a typo hijack site for Bartleby.com, which I'm guessing is the website you meant to type.
That's a much more valuable lesson in learning than even the total contents of Bartlby plus Wikipedia. But then, you'd be teaching kids to question your authority as well, cross-referencing you rather than just accepting whatever you say. You might start by pointing your kids to the socratic method.
I used to see several links a day from various websites to E2 entries - in 2002-3. I can't remember the last time I saw even one link. Seems like E2 might be thriving in its own insular community, perhaps, but it's not integrated into the Web - not nearly as much as is Wikipedia. Considering the superficial and frivilous entries I grew to expect before clicking to E2, I'm not surprised. But such self-referentiality isn't that common for mature or relevant general reference sites.
NASA to Cut Back Scientific Missions Because of Budget:
"ome of the most notable missions on NASA's scientific agenda would be postponed indefinitely or canceled under the agency's new budget, despite its administrator's vow to Congress six months ago that not "one thin dime" would be taken from space science to pay for President Bush's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars."
I read the Uncyclopedia spinoff from Wikipedia for the real truth.
You can't even get a response out of the E2 server today. While you can read about E2 on Wikipedia during a Slashdotting after the millionth Wikipedia article.
The choice of the Anonymous Cowards is a natural loser.
When do we get the machine that can read a doctor's handwriting?
And disgratulations (conpropulations?) to Everything2, the practically forgotten early attempt to pull off what Wikipedia has actually done. If you want to actually learn about Everything2, you really should just look it up in the Wikipedia.
I said "your world", which means the Arab world, which includes Morocco. Of course, all those terms are approximations. However, Morocco is also included in some definitions of the Mideast. I chose Casablanca because I've been there (as well as other Arab/Mideast cities/countries), and I think Casablanca's position so close to Europe gives it an advantage in launching a native product global. An advantage reflected in its people's outgoing, modern, (relatively) cosmopolitan culture.
The Mormons who have taken time in this thread to respond to my ambiguous, but loaded, statement have been just as friendly and articulate as all the Mormons I've known personally.
I hope that Mormons generally believe separation of Church and State is not only good, but always works both ways. Because there are lots of religious people who threaten the independence of the state, but don't seem to believe there's any control in the other direction. Those "Dominionists" are sending the US down theocracy road. I'm glad to believe that Mormons aren't driving that streetcar.
Animals and vegetables are DNA coated with protein (and RNA). Many are tasty, though those acids can come back on you.
Most viruses are RNA coated with proteins the RNA generates from its environment. The earliest self-replicating molecule type we can document is RNA, though prions might turn up now that we know a little bit about them. Prions aren't as durable as RNA, so finding ancient evidence of them might be harder. But once we do, might we not start saying prions are the precursors of all life?
You are claiming that 100% of people who are described as belonging to one of the major religions believe in that religion's creation story literally.
Just because you're wrong doesn't make you right.
No body. Ask your mom about Santa Claus, too.
How many Utah public schools teach cosmology and biology according to Mormon, not scientific, principles?
I really am curious. Perhaps Mormons respect the distinction between science and religion, as does official Catholic dogma. The state decision in the story we're discussing in these threads seems to suggest the people of Utah do so.
No, I'm very aware of Jewish values of literacy, education, science and math, even here in NYC. And the parliamentary government and private ownership in Israel, as opposed to the fiefdoms of most Arab countries.
And I'm completely aware how this subthread is really about your desire to portray Israel and Arab countries in a contest, as I remarked in it earlier. Even while you inisist on touting ICQ, whether from Tel Aviv or otherwise, when it's far from the first IM app.
Questions about Mideastern-originated tech innovations aren't just a pretext for anonymous Israeli supremacism. How about posting something constructive, like some Mideastern tech native to Israel that no one outside has heard about, but which could go global? Like I asked?