They had a similar problem with the product name 'Internet Explorer"
You can still download the original Sprynet (Non-MS) Internet Explorer at the Evolt.org browser archive, here
I recall that MS also had to settle with Synet (not Sprynet) on the name Interner Explorer. The original company went under, but was kept alive long enough by lawyers for some sort of settlement from MS. That story you can read about here, with added info here.
Then, these are the people who insist that "BookShelf" is not a generic term.
Microsoft provides a non-exploitive means of employment for thousands of people all across the
world and in doing so fulfills a social contract that is very valuable indeed.
I know of a software shop where the NON-MS side of the house is maybe 5 people, and the MS side of the house is maybe 25 to 50. The usual thing databases, etc. Guess which side, which department ins more productive? hint, it is not the MS Side. The smaller department outright outproduces the MS department. And is the department that is keeping the company afloat. Of course, this is upsetting to the the MS crew who wants to phase out the NON-MS department.
What this says to me is that MS has been promoting widespread programmer incompetancy and inflated cost of ownership. How else to explain the above scenario? How else to explain the need for dozens of people in one scenario in one body of technology where the same thing is accomplished by a mere handful? If the personnel are legitamate experts, then that means that the technology itself is inherently flawed.
The only thing saving those MS geeks in that company is that the managers have bought the MS marketing line, despite the reality of accounting figures. When they get rid of the older system, they will likely kill the company.
the last paragraph of the WSJ Article says it best:
In its campaign against open-source, Microsoft has been unable to come up with examples of companies being harmed by it. One reason [...] is that virtually all the available evidence
suggests that open source is "a huge advantage" to
companies. "They are able to build on a common standard that is not owned by anyone," he said. "With Windows, Microsoft owns them."
Ratios and Mozart, etc
on
Protein Music
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I remember someone did some statistical analysis on something just like this many years ago, as far as distribution of frequencies etc. The end result was that the distribution curve in the DNA matched that of large pieces of music, such as by Mozart, etc.
I wonder about 1) how albums by certain rock artists would match up in this regard; and 2) the algorthm for the original conversion of DNA to music. There are so many ways that it could be done. You could take the 21 amino acids and line them up on any number of scales: chromatic, wholetone, diatonic, etc. Some choices would generate more musical results than others.
Here is a routine that I have used from time to time for those on the low end of the learning curve:
1) with Power off - have them find all of the keys on the keyboard (enter key, escape key, functions keys. etc) Make the push ther keys, which is why the power is off
2) With Power off - mouse drill, as above - pick up the muse find the ball, etc.
3) Power on and off drills - how to tell if it is on, sleeping. etc. How to turn on the computer, how to shut it off, correctly.
4) Following directions - do a simple installation of something with a professional manual.
The point of this is to get used to the manual, how to figure things out, and how to know when to quite because you are over your head.
Do not explain the directions to them! Ask them to read the directions, system requirements, etc. on each individual bit, ask them the vital question. "what does that mean to you?" "Read it again" etc.
Example:
"Okay, read the first line" - 'requires windows 2000' Okay!
"What does that mean to you?" - 'it needs windows'
"right! what kind of windows does your computer have?" - 'I don't know' Okay! What did it say when it started?" - 'I don't remember' "Well, let's look" - 'Okay' "Good. let's shut down the Computer" - (student does so, because you already taught this) "good, now turn it on" - (Student does so, because you already taught this) "excellent, - What does it say you have?" - 'Redhat Linux' - "alright, let's read that first line" - 'requires Windows 2000' "Right. And what kind of windows do you have?" - 'Redhat Linux "good. Now is that windows 2000?" - Nope.' "Right! so can you use this on this computer?" - 'Nope' "Right. - Is that Windows at all?" - I guess not" "Right. Now what about that computer there?" - 'yes it is, I see the logo'
ETC. through reading the instructions. This obviously needs alot of patience, but gets the basics covered quickly.
handle questions by having them look.
('Will this run on my machine?' - "What does it say?")
If you keep focussing on people looking and learning and doing it themselves and getting more familiar, that will handle things thoroughly.
This is different from the MS Marketing Virus how?
An old spanish proverb goes (roughly) "A thief thinks everyone is a thief"
In other words a thief will see all attempts to be trustworthy and develop trust, to develop a flourishing society, etc ; he/she/it will see all of these as a threat to their own (immoral) activities, and think that some one else is trying to steal from them.
Only a thief would see a gun in every out-stretched, helping hand.
This was Reported earleir (12 june 2001 on the Register here under the title "WinXP IE6 spells death for Doubleclick - and a boost for MSN?"
There was an interesting follow up the following day, see here, under the Title "IE6 will not monster our cookies, says Doubleclick"
The gist of the second story:
Doubleclick cookies may be entirely blocked by the current beta versions of IE6, but DoubleClick insists that this won't be the case by the time the finished version of IE6 ships, this August. The company has a machine readable P3P policy in preparation, and this will allow Doubleclick cookies to be accepted by IE6 at the default privacy settings.
And there is this tidbit
That's just a snapshot of the way Redmond is currently embracing independent Internet standards. By keeping ahead of the curve, putting them in place first, Microsoft can call the shots as regards how they're put in place.
Lovely, simply lovely.
To get off on arguing about Double click misses the main point entirely. MS is there first with the most money in the next generation of privacy control, via IE6.
And I thought lag on my cable modem was bad.
I would assume some system would be incorporated to have it auto-navigate. if(mountain) turn left;
You need some Artificial Intelligence stuff. Since Titan is one of the better candidates for native life in the solar system, it is always nice to have the "Run Away!" option.
For example, radio and television were unknown at the time the First Amendment was drafted. But that amendment clearly means that Congress shall not muck about with free speech on radio or television, just as they shall not in newspapers. (In practice, we have let them get by with fudging somewhat for broadcasters, on the theory that the airwaves are a public resource. Shame on us.)
In a similar fashion, this should include other free spreech issues on the web, and the use of copyright law to limit speech.
These guys are being controlled telepathically by the Martians.
They are doing this to send out a large amount of genetic material out to the Martian/Jovial joint cloning program. They can then clone large amounts of people to smuggle back into the planet so that they can take over the planetary government by infiltrration without bothering to send a space fleet.
Most real estate sales want to get you in the door, to do a face to face where you can get smoozed. They also have this thing about not giving information to their competition. And so it is going to be difficult to find something comprehensive.
sort of like Arpa Net when it was started. No university wanted to share their servers. (but they did government mandate. everyone had to be part of the network)
Here people focus more on the liabilities of putting stuff up on the net, vs the benefits.
If you were having problems with past versions, this [upgrade] may be your best bet. Still, if you're at XFree86 3.3.6 and you're using an obscure
graphics card, I'd suggest doing a little checking to see if your video card is supported. Some cards are still supported best in version 3.3.x. This is, quite obviously, one of the biggest
concerns of most users. Although, as far as I know, no cards' support was broken in the upgrade from 4.0.3 to 4.1.0.
This is the major point for me. Especially since I sometimes throw together frankenboxen with a wide variety of obscure parts. [I obviously need the education]
Still looks very promising. Tbe proverbial step in the right direction.
Let's face it - If I had the big bucks, then 100k+ for a system might be pocket change.
but if it was an obsession, taking up substantial portions of my income to a destructive level, then there is a problem.
A human can be obsessed with anything. Take the previously discussed example of hypnotism. Now if you have people in a chronic hypnotic state, such as via you favorite recreational chemicals, or what ever, - well I imagine that advertising might be much more effective.
heck, any positive feedback loop can be addictive. Maybe we should just make sure that only negative feedback loops are legal?
sounds like a plan to me.
My point is that Positive feedback loops are destructive if there is not a limiter on them. The word Addiction is used too broadly to cover things and classify positive things as negative.
I am sure there will be a market for a video recording software that will fake this service out, and allow you to record it all to your hard drive. Especially since the size of hardrives are pushing past the 100 gig range, etc. let's face it, for most of what I want to do, analog output is fine.
Art level stuff I would probably go out and buy the DVD or something.
But once I sat back and reflected on how awfully, horribly wrong ZD's print publications have gone in trying to address the enthusiast community, I felt a little better. A lot better, actually. Which leads me to my message to ZD and the other big media companies who want to play on our turf:
Welcome to our house. Better learn how to graph.
Although it seems like they may be playing more to the Mass market than to the specialty areas and experts. Which means that they will be somewhat successful, and will continue to have no influence on knowledgable experienced folks.
Some years ago, I came across a book called "Faces of The Enemy" It is an excellent book, and was also a nova special of PBS back in the 80s. I have a tape of the show and I own the book.
Basically it goes into the profound similarity between in cultural situations where group X says Group Y is horrible, evil, etc. It is a revelation to recognize it as a profound group psychosis. It has nothing to do with politics or religion in the common sense of the word. It is a revelation to see it in oneself and to overcome it.
I have lived over seas, and I have also seen it in the middle east. The fact of the hate itself I consider a psychosis. Two psychotics do not make either side a saint.
I have seen a man reading the bible, interjecting racist remarks into the plain text, convinced that what he was saying was in fact in the text. When it wasn't there at all.
Fundamentally, I throw out and throw away anything that walks down the road of foam at the mouth these guys or those guys or them guys over there are PURE evil.
One of the things that Wiesenthall (a WWII deathcamp survivor and famed Nazi hunter) said about the Nazis was the sheer shock that he discovered that they were human, too. Simply human. That there was no more monster there then there was in anyone else.
All too much of this takes the witch hunt attitude of "we will search for evidence of evil"; it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, and down the toilet you go. I have seen some of the stuff you are talking about, and the wacko gleam in the eye obsession is there in an awful lot of the writing.
I am sorry. I reject that obsession with hate and the urge to detroy. I have lost family due to such hate (I am not jewish)
I may despise MS, for example, for their software and marketing practices. But ultimately, they too are human.
Go ahead. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them more thoroughly, despise them as completely as possible, until there is no room in your soul for anything else. Forever.
And see where it leaves you.
It is not a place I recommend. But you can live there if you want.
2. No Pets. Scientologists like to release the "Thetans" in Pets. By killing them.
This comment reminds me of the hindus in India who think Catholics are cannibals because in the sacrament of Holy Communion you "eat the Body of Christ". [This used to be a widespread belief many years ago, and you still find it out in the less educated areas in India.]
The main criticism here is plain technique. FUD is best reserved for use by the Microsofties, not someone who is supposed to be intelligent.
I really dislike seeing FUD used by folks. Just a pet peeve. I greatly admire intelligent argument based on issues.
Philosophy is an Operating dSystem for the Mind. You have your OS, I have Mine. They have theirs. When was the last time you even looked at your own source code? For most people, it is spaghettifried code like you would never imagine. Some modules never fire up correctly.
(man - i got to get a job. Let's Play Quake Instead! ok..)
They apparently succeed just because they have some kind of system for inspecting code. Just something, somehow. So they say in their own way. [They haven't gone away in fifty years, and they seems to be growing.]
Never mind if you would never agree to the design principals, or whatever. or are horrifried by what they do. If you want to rant and rave and spit blood, fine.
You probably know how to pull apart a piece of source code and criticise it from a design viewpoint. You can use that here in this context.
Saying "MS code sucks" is a lame statement. Being able to say how and why under what functionality is far more useful. Now applying that to the Operating System of the Mind could be useful.
You could critique various systems usefully, instead of FUDding around. You could what functionality would be useful, and which should be dropped.
Probably the most damning would be this customer satisfaction statistic:
Of all servers shipping with Windows software, as many as 50% (whatever the number is) have the Windows software erased and replaced by an alternate system that the owners believe to be simply superior, simple more usable and suitable (insert your favorite adjectives) for their own purposes.
Someone ought to compile this statistics and issue a white paper on the increasing number of people who erase their windows systems.
the court said the key test was whether law enforcement officers would have had to enter the home to obtain the same information if they did not have access to modern devices. In such a case, the majority said, the officers must first show probable cause of a crime and obtain a search warrant, just as they do to physically enter a home and conduct a search.
I find this interesting in the context of other forms of technology survaillence, such as software back doors, etc. This ruling is probably more important than we first realize, just for that reason.
Pain is far more complicated than most people recko.
for example, with hypnotism you can cause someone to experience and displayed the most amazing and diverse display of medical symptoms, all of which when examined by a doctor would be completely convincing.
Under such a situation, you could even have surgury ordered. But since the original cause would have been a hypnotic session, the symptoms would always return.
I do not recommend this as a personal experiment.
Under such a situation, the symptoms would be drastically real, regardless of the source. The problem is, of course, if you say to some one that it is "all in their mind" that the immediate reaction is that it is not real, that it is a fantasy. What that critic would need would be to live with a hynotically induced headache or toothache for a few days. This would be convincing as far was how much a fantasy it is. It would, of course, be under-helpful to criticise the person all along that they were imagining it all. The pain is real.
What all this seems to indicate is that there are multiple causes for the set of symptoms for Carpal Tunnel. And that mental conditions can contribute to the medical condition
and that the medical condition is quite quite real. Of course, do they know what it really is?
The list of hysterical diseases in the article is fascinating, but does not make even those conditions less real. Mis-diagnosed, maybe, but still real.
Of course, how are they going to treat this? just shout at everyone that they are hoaxing?
It might seem that way to someone studying law at a school so prestigous and selective, where the current and former members of the student body are surely the most brilliant and ambitious of all academia, but if i may speak for the Slashdot crowd, it's a little boggling for us.
A long time programming friend of mine mentioned that the most useful courses he took outside of the programming course were a business law course, just to cover the basics of things like this, and a business accounting course, just to get his mind wrapped around modelling what bean counters were doing in the first place.
You would think with all of the legal issues running around, technical types could spend time just to get a toe wet, and get some familiarity with the concepts. It seems very much worth it.
precisely the point. (sorry to see you moderated as off topic)
because some *will* see it as radical cool, and others recall in horror. The next big series of wars ( say, compared to the crusades, or the recent spat of european wars since napoleon) may be based on precisely this philosophical point.
I am sure that for many, it would be perfect, until it is over populated by the weekminded imps on weekend vacation, or all of the psychos get online. Imagine Borg Spam for example. Advertising right into your mind, and not being able to filter it!
Imagine America, Land of the Free, home of the Brave, and Birthplace of the Borg.
The typical knee-jerk reaction to all this stuff is to recall the Borg.
What people never looked at in the various trek series was how the Borg became the Borg.
My thought on this is that they would become the borg because in the beginning someone, somegroup, thought that all of that embedded/wearable technology is radically completely cool.
I can imagine the first network where a human can access computer data directly via a wire to that skull. Or where direct interfaces happen from brain to brain. Someone is going to have the equivalent of a religious experience as far as the significance of this vs Nirvana and the group mind.
People tend to become the things they resist. [Note for example, cops going criminal in their actions against crime] So already the seeds of the Borg are among us.
If you do not want to become a Borg in the present or future life, you will have to provide a better solution than the experience that the Borg will be.
this one takes the que from the tv in the form of a special audio signal, so the computer has to
be in the same room as the tv
All if can imagine is the effect on house pets. Obviously it has to be above the range of human hearing. But if it gets into bat range, then it is far more directional.
Presumably they decided to do it this way instead of using IR because otherwise all of the sequences in the scanning of URLs just interfered with too many other remotes.
Slashdot Mirror
You can still download the original Sprynet (Non-MS) Internet Explorer at the Evolt.org browser archive, here
I recall that MS also had to settle with Synet (not Sprynet) on the name Interner Explorer. The original company went under, but was kept alive long enough by lawyers for some sort of settlement from MS. That story you can read about here, with added info here.
Then, these are the people who insist that "BookShelf" is not a generic term.
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I know of a software shop where the NON-MS side of the house is maybe 5 people, and the MS side of the house is maybe 25 to 50. The usual thing databases, etc. Guess which side, which department ins more productive? hint, it is not the MS Side. The smaller department outright outproduces the MS department. And is the department that is keeping the company afloat. Of course, this is upsetting to the the MS crew who wants to phase out the NON-MS department.
What this says to me is that MS has been promoting widespread programmer incompetancy and inflated cost of ownership. How else to explain the above scenario? How else to explain the need for dozens of people in one scenario in one body of technology where the same thing is accomplished by a mere handful? If the personnel are legitamate experts, then that means that the technology itself is inherently flawed.
The only thing saving those MS geeks in that company is that the managers have bought the MS marketing line, despite the reality of accounting figures. When they get rid of the older system, they will likely kill the company.
the last paragraph of the WSJ Article says it best:
In its campaign against open-source, Microsoft has been unable to come up with examples of companies being harmed by it. One reason [...] is that virtually all the available evidence suggests that open source is "a huge advantage" to companies. "They are able to build on a common standard that is not owned by anyone," he said. "With Windows, Microsoft owns them."
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I wonder about 1) how albums by certain rock artists would match up in this regard; and 2) the algorthm for the original conversion of DNA to music. There are so many ways that it could be done. You could take the 21 amino acids and line them up on any number of scales: chromatic, wholetone, diatonic, etc. Some choices would generate more musical results than others.
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1) with Power off - have them find all of the keys on the keyboard (enter key, escape key, functions keys. etc) Make the push ther keys, which is why the power is off
2) With Power off - mouse drill, as above - pick up the muse find the ball, etc.
3) Power on and off drills - how to tell if it is on, sleeping. etc. How to turn on the computer, how to shut it off, correctly.
4) Following directions - do a simple installation of something with a professional manual.
The point of this is to get used to the manual, how to figure things out, and how to know when to quite because you are over your head.
Do not explain the directions to them! Ask them to read the directions, system requirements, etc. on each individual bit, ask them the vital question. "what does that mean to you?" "Read it again" etc.
Example:
"Okay, read the first line" - 'requires windows 2000'
Okay! "What does that mean to you?" - 'it needs windows'
"right! what kind of windows does your computer have?" - 'I don't know'
Okay! What did it say when it started?" - 'I don't remember'
"Well, let's look" - 'Okay'
"Good. let's shut down the Computer" - (student does so, because you already taught this)
"good, now turn it on" - (Student does so, because you already taught this)
"excellent, - What does it say you have?" - 'Redhat Linux' -
"alright, let's read that first line" - 'requires Windows 2000'
"Right. And what kind of windows do you have?" - 'Redhat Linux
"good. Now is that windows 2000?" - Nope.'
"Right! so can you use this on this computer?" - 'Nope'
"Right. - Is that Windows at all?" - I guess not"
"Right. Now what about that computer there?" - 'yes it is, I see the logo'
ETC. through reading the instructions. This obviously needs alot of patience, but gets the basics covered quickly.
handle questions by having them look.
('Will this run on my machine?' - "What does it say?")
If you keep focussing on people looking and learning and doing it themselves and getting more familiar, that will handle things thoroughly.
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This is different from the MS Marketing Virus how?
An old spanish proverb goes (roughly) "A thief thinks everyone is a thief"
In other words a thief will see all attempts to be trustworthy and develop trust, to develop a flourishing society, etc ; he/she/it will see all of these as a threat to their own (immoral) activities, and think that some one else is trying to steal from them.
Only a thief would see a gun in every out-stretched, helping hand.
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There was an interesting follow up the following day, see here, under the Title "IE6 will not monster our cookies, says Doubleclick"
The gist of the second story:
And there is this tidbitLovely, simply lovely.To get off on arguing about Double click misses the main point entirely. MS is there first with the most money in the next generation of privacy control, via IE6.
Time to play connect the dots.
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I would assume some system would be incorporated to have it auto-navigate.
if(mountain) turn left;
You need some Artificial Intelligence stuff. Since Titan is one of the better candidates for native life in the solar system, it is always nice to have the "Run Away!" option.
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In a similar fashion, this should include other free spreech issues on the web, and the use of copyright law to limit speech.
But that might be asking too much.
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They are doing this to send out a large amount of genetic material out to the Martian/Jovial joint cloning program. They can then clone large amounts of people to smuggle back into the planet so that they can take over the planetary government by infiltrration without bothering to send a space fleet.
We got problems
;-)
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sort of like Arpa Net when it was started. No university wanted to share their servers. (but they did government mandate. everyone had to be part of the network)
Here people focus more on the liabilities of putting stuff up on the net, vs the benefits.
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This is the major point for me. Especially since I sometimes throw together frankenboxen with a wide variety of obscure parts. [I obviously need the education]
Still looks very promising. Tbe proverbial step in the right direction.
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but if it was an obsession, taking up substantial portions of my income to a destructive level, then there is a problem.
A human can be obsessed with anything. Take the previously discussed example of hypnotism. Now if you have people in a chronic hypnotic state, such as via you favorite recreational chemicals, or what ever, - well I imagine that advertising might be much more effective.
heck, any positive feedback loop can be addictive. Maybe we should just make sure that only negative feedback loops are legal?
sounds like a plan to me.
My point is that Positive feedback loops are destructive if there is not a limiter on them. The word Addiction is used too broadly to cover things and classify positive things as negative.
"He was addicted to life. But we cured him"
;-)
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Art level stuff I would probably go out and buy the DVD or something.
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But once I sat back and reflected on how awfully, horribly wrong ZD's print publications have gone in trying to address the enthusiast community, I felt a little better. A lot better, actually. Which leads me to my message to ZD and the other big media companies who want to play on our turf:
Welcome to our house. Better learn how to graph.
Although it seems like they may be playing more to the Mass market than to the specialty areas and experts. Which means that they will be somewhat successful, and will continue to have no influence on knowledgable experienced folks.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
Basically it goes into the profound similarity between in cultural situations where group X says Group Y is horrible, evil, etc. It is a revelation to recognize it as a profound group psychosis. It has nothing to do with politics or religion in the common sense of the word. It is a revelation to see it in oneself and to overcome it.
I have lived over seas, and I have also seen it in the middle east. The fact of the hate itself I consider a psychosis. Two psychotics do not make either side a saint.
I have seen a man reading the bible, interjecting racist remarks into the plain text, convinced that what he was saying was in fact in the text. When it wasn't there at all.
Fundamentally, I throw out and throw away anything that walks down the road of foam at the mouth these guys or those guys or them guys over there are PURE evil.
One of the things that Wiesenthall (a WWII deathcamp survivor and famed Nazi hunter) said about the Nazis was the sheer shock that he discovered that they were human, too. Simply human. That there was no more monster there then there was in anyone else.
All too much of this takes the witch hunt attitude of "we will search for evidence of evil"; it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, and down the toilet you go. I have seen some of the stuff you are talking about, and the wacko gleam in the eye obsession is there in an awful lot of the writing.
I am sorry. I reject that obsession with hate and the urge to detroy. I have lost family due to such hate (I am not jewish)
I may despise MS, for example, for their software and marketing practices. But ultimately, they too are human.
Go ahead. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them more thoroughly, despise them as completely as possible, until there is no room in your soul for anything else. Forever.
And see where it leaves you.
It is not a place I recommend. But you can live there if you want.
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2. No Pets. Scientologists like to release the "Thetans" in Pets. By killing them.
This comment reminds me of the hindus in India who think Catholics are cannibals because in the sacrament of Holy Communion you "eat the Body of Christ". [This used to be a widespread belief many years ago, and you still find it out in the less educated areas in India.]
The main criticism here is plain technique. FUD is best reserved for use by the Microsofties, not someone who is supposed to be intelligent.
I really dislike seeing FUD used by folks. Just a pet peeve. I greatly admire intelligent argument based on issues.
Philosophy is an Operating dSystem for the Mind. You have your OS, I have Mine. They have theirs. When was the last time you even looked at your own source code? For most people, it is spaghettifried code like you would never imagine. Some modules never fire up correctly.
(man - i got to get a job. Let's Play Quake Instead! ok ..)
They apparently succeed just because they have some kind of system for inspecting code. Just something, somehow. So they say in their own way. [They haven't gone away in fifty years, and they seems to be growing.]
Never mind if you would never agree to the design principals, or whatever. or are horrifried by what they do. If you want to rant and rave and spit blood, fine.
You probably know how to pull apart a piece of source code and criticise it from a design viewpoint. You can use that here in this context.
Saying "MS code sucks" is a lame statement. Being able to say how and why under what functionality is far more useful. Now applying that to the Operating System of the Mind could be useful.
You could critique various systems usefully, instead of FUDding around. You could what functionality would be useful, and which should be dropped.
Heck, it would even be an intelligent debate.
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I am sure it would be damning.
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I find this interesting in the context of other forms of technology survaillence, such as software back doors, etc. This ruling is probably more important than we first realize, just for that reason.
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http://www.emf.com/
http://www.rfsafe.com/
http://www.emfsafe.com
http://www.radiation.org.uk/
http://www.shieldworks.com/
http://emfpollutionsolutions.com/
http://www.cell-phone-radiation-emf-shield.com/
http://www.rpmwebworx.com/cellphoneradiation/
Some of these look like they are a little flakey.
so you are on your own
;-)
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for example, with hypnotism you can cause someone to experience and displayed the most amazing and diverse display of medical symptoms, all of which when examined by a doctor would be completely convincing.
Under such a situation, you could even have surgury ordered. But since the original cause would have been a hypnotic session, the symptoms would always return.
I do not recommend this as a personal experiment.
Under such a situation, the symptoms would be drastically real, regardless of the source. The problem is, of course, if you say to some one that it is "all in their mind" that the immediate reaction is that it is not real, that it is a fantasy. What that critic would need would be to live with a hynotically induced headache or toothache for a few days. This would be convincing as far was how much a fantasy it is. It would, of course, be under-helpful to criticise the person all along that they were imagining it all. The pain is real.
What all this seems to indicate is that there are multiple causes for the set of symptoms for Carpal Tunnel. And that mental conditions can contribute to the medical condition
and that the medical condition is quite quite real. Of course, do they know what it really is?
The list of hysterical diseases in the article is fascinating, but does not make even those conditions less real. Mis-diagnosed, maybe, but still real.
Of course, how are they going to treat this? just shout at everyone that they are hoaxing?
feh.
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makes sense to me.
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A long time programming friend of mine mentioned that the most useful courses he took outside of the programming course were a business law course, just to cover the basics of things like this, and a business accounting course, just to get his mind wrapped around modelling what bean counters were doing in the first place.
You would think with all of the legal issues running around, technical types could spend time just to get a toe wet, and get some familiarity with the concepts. It seems very much worth it.
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precisely the point. (sorry to see you moderated as off topic)
because some *will* see it as radical cool, and others recall in horror. The next big series of wars ( say, compared to the crusades, or the recent spat of european wars since napoleon) may be based on precisely this philosophical point.
I am sure that for many, it would be perfect, until it is over populated by the weekminded imps on weekend vacation, or all of the psychos get online. Imagine Borg Spam for example. Advertising right into your mind, and not being able to filter it! Imagine America, Land of the Free, home of the Brave, and Birthplace of the Borg.
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What people never looked at in the various trek series was how the Borg became the Borg.
My thought on this is that they would become the borg because in the beginning someone, somegroup, thought that all of that embedded/wearable technology is radically completely cool.
I can imagine the first network where a human can access computer data directly via a wire to that skull. Or where direct interfaces happen from brain to brain. Someone is going to have the equivalent of a religious experience as far as the significance of this vs Nirvana and the group mind.
People tend to become the things they resist. [Note for example, cops going criminal in their actions against crime] So already the seeds of the Borg are among us.
If you do not want to become a Borg in the present or future life, you will have to provide a better solution than the experience that the Borg will be.
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All if can imagine is the effect on house pets. Obviously it has to be above the range of human hearing. But if it gets into bat range, then it is far more directional.
Presumably they decided to do it this way instead of using IR because otherwise all of the sequences in the scanning of URLs just interfered with too many other remotes.
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