1) i thought art described anything artificial (man-made)
2) according to dictionary.com: art: human efforts to immitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. seems to me that video games that do any of these things are art (or posess components of art). physics is immitated in many video games (or altered, or supplemented or counteracted). light. gravity. nature itself (sounds, wind, water, life, death).
3) who actually would debate this? probably the regular group of anti-capitalist, socialist, elitists who accept without challenge the idea that paint spattered on a canvas in random patterns is art but feel the need to debate whether or not something (at least partly) motivated by profits, something requiring intellect, skill, time and effort, and investment and something that somebody actually gives enough of a crap about that they will shell over their money for -- they cannot accept that it is art. typical elitist spewage.
i started out as a user administering an application that ran on AIX (yikes!) and sybase on AIX. i had a little prior unix user experience. i tried to exhaust my capabilities as a user/power-user, writing shell scripts, cron jobs, reading man pages, learning all i could (or i thought i could). then i applied for a junior level job in an admin group that hosted the same type of application so i had some experience with it that compensated for my lack of admin knowledge to some degree which was okay for an entry-level/junior position. i went from there.
you should get a unix box at home as your user skills progress and then start learning admin stuff. you should also learn how to compile packages with make and stuff.
a very good understanding of tcp/ip is necessary. make sure you get involved with troubleshooting lots of problems as a unix user and then as an administrator. network problems, disk i/o problems, etc,....
hitachi has several very large storage arrays that are very competitive with EMC last i checked. again, that is if you need it to be in digial format and need it to be online.
they're affraid that the preferences you set initially did not actually reflect you, the voter ^H^H^H^H^H^H^customer's true intention. so they're going to give you the opportunity to to try again and again until the selections they^H^H^H^H^H you really intended is assured. it's all in the interest of fairness of course.
it is relatively easier for them to support the appliance than to officially support all the various and sundry combinations of system software and hardware that people can make boot. they designed the appliance and hence they know how it works and there are no variables.
it costs more for ANY company to support ANY additional platform. this must be passed onto the consumer. if they do not believe there are enough additional consumers to offset this cost it's not worth their while (and most linux advocates i know want everything to to be free anyway). it's not to say that there's never been foul play involved in these decisions but everything is not a conspiracy.
i believe that light is a virtual particle -- meaning that is has mass by virtue of having speed. at rest a photon would have no mass ( and i am not sure in what sense this could happen in reality or in what sense it could be said to really exist anymore at rest ). virtual particles get their mass by their speed.
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human attention is the resource which media require to survive. its slightly philosophical i guess, but to me information doesn't exist unless it's being consumed by a human. there is a finite amount of time in a human's day (and in a human's life) and all media compete to get this time (sort of like some cellular automata models compete for cpu time on virtual machines - the more well adapted CAs get more virtual machine cpu time thus giving them more cycles to reproduce than their less-adapted competition).
for example, i have found local news program relatively worthless for my purposes. they simply don't seem to relay information pertinent to me or my life or even information thats interesting. i am endlessly amused, however, at the lengths they go to trying to convince people that the crap they sell (their media) is so valuable one cannot possibly live without consuming it (they overdramatize, notice how everything is a crisis. someone wrote an article about how the media has turned normal seasonal weather events into crisis - and they have their own little logos. one even titled their schpeel "nature's fury". for heavens sake, it was 8 inches of snow in philadelphia in january. is this a crisis? i digress....
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1) i thought art described anything artificial (man-made)
2) according to dictionary.com: art: human efforts to immitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. seems to me that video games that do any of these things are art (or posess components of art). physics is immitated in many video games (or altered, or supplemented or counteracted). light. gravity. nature itself (sounds, wind, water, life, death).
3) who actually would debate this? probably the regular group of anti-capitalist, socialist, elitists who accept without challenge the idea that paint spattered on a canvas in random patterns is art but feel the need to debate whether or not something (at least partly) motivated by profits, something requiring intellect, skill, time and effort, and investment and something that somebody actually gives enough of a crap about that they will shell over their money for -- they cannot accept that it is art. typical elitist spewage.
i started out as a user administering an application that ran on AIX (yikes!) and sybase on AIX. i had a little prior unix user experience. i tried to exhaust my capabilities as a user/power-user, writing shell scripts, cron jobs, reading man pages, learning all i could (or i thought i could). then i applied for a junior level job in an admin group that hosted the same type of application so i had some experience with it that compensated for my lack of admin knowledge to some degree which was okay for an entry-level/junior position. i went from there.
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you should get a unix box at home as your user skills progress and then start learning admin stuff. you should also learn how to compile packages with make and stuff.
a very good understanding of tcp/ip is necessary. make sure you get involved with troubleshooting lots of problems as a unix user and then as an administrator. network problems, disk i/o problems, etc,
hitachi has several very large storage arrays that are very competitive with EMC last i checked. again, that is if you need it to be in digial format and need it to be online.
alex
they're affraid that the preferences you set initially did not actually reflect you, the voter ^H^H^H^H^H^H^customer's true intention. so they're going to give you the opportunity to to try again and again until the selections they^H^H^H^H^H you really intended is assured. it's all in the interest of fairness of course.
it is relatively easier for them to support the appliance than to officially support all the various and sundry combinations of system software and hardware that people can make boot. they designed the appliance and hence they know how it works and there are no variables. it costs more for ANY company to support ANY additional platform. this must be passed onto the consumer. if they do not believe there are enough additional consumers to offset this cost it's not worth their while (and most linux advocates i know want everything to to be free anyway). it's not to say that there's never been foul play involved in these decisions but everything is not a conspiracy.
i believe that light is a virtual particle -- meaning that is has mass by virtue of having speed. at rest a photon would have no mass ( and i am not sure in what sense this could happen in reality or in what sense it could be said to really exist anymore at rest ). virtual particles get their mass by their speed.
human attention is the resource which media require to survive. its slightly philosophical i guess, but to me information doesn't exist unless it's being consumed by a human. there is a finite amount of time in a human's day (and in a human's life) and all media compete to get this time (sort of like some cellular automata models compete for cpu time on virtual machines - the more well adapted CAs get more virtual machine cpu time thus giving them more cycles to reproduce than their less-adapted competition). for example, i have found local news program relatively worthless for my purposes. they simply don't seem to relay information pertinent to me or my life or even information thats interesting. i am endlessly amused, however, at the lengths they go to trying to convince people that the crap they sell (their media) is so valuable one cannot possibly live without consuming it (they overdramatize, notice how everything is a crisis. someone wrote an article about how the media has turned normal seasonal weather events into crisis - and they have their own little logos. one even titled their schpeel "nature's fury". for heavens sake, it was 8 inches of snow in philadelphia in january. is this a crisis? i digress....