Society in general puts a lot of money into preserving knowledge. It would seem to be a reasonable thing to do. Old journals do not exist because they got published, they exist ( or a subset exist) because libraries subscribe and preserve.
You argue well for libraries getting heavily involved in the provision of search engines and the provision of a network of servers to maintain scientific publications after dead tree production stops.
Your arguments do not provide a foundation to stop the inevitable.
In fact if you look at reality, libraries are becoming less successful at their main function as the volume of material to be preserved increases. A lot of it now lasts a few years and is junked to make room for a new round.
We need stable standards so something published now can be read in 100 years. And we need the volume reduction electronic production brings.
Oh; and just like every thing else science needs to look at productivity gains. Spending a year doing a paper search when a computer can do it in a day is a nonsense society has already stopped paying for it and is unlikely to pay in the future.
Hear a lot about "peer review". Are readers really unable to think for themselves? If you are experienced in a field do really care jack shit about the view of the guy down the hall, when reading the article written by the guy up the road.
Oh well, no doubt this will have a score of 1; and my views will not be seen.
Ok./ moderation isn't perfect; but moderation by a small inward looking group of specialists isn't either.
In my field I deal with real world implementation. Academia deals with small samples. After reading some of the papers I am often left wondering if some researchers have done stats 101. I make the above statement with some passion.
Online publications has enormous potential. If you don't want to make a complete ass of yourself you can get your publication reviewed by other who you respect. The publication can be published with the reviewer's names.
No you do not need a paper publication for this process to continue.
Those in the field who rely on the review process to cut down what they read will know the names and will only read articles written and review by the small inward looking group that they always have.
It would however allow for other to contribute papers to be ripped to shreds or possible advance the cause.
It would also allow those that are not part of the system (but who have spent considerable time in the field) the opportunity to add an acid comment against some of the nonsense that is published.
Well it's about 1meg already; and this will get a rating of 1 so why bother.
Before I started travelling I had a friend who had travelled for 6 years tell me :
Australia for the beaches.
Canada for the mountains.
The rest is a waste of time.
I think he was being a bit hard.
England: for the monuments the history.
France: for the food.
Sweden: for the pine forests.
Germany: for the order ( a little sad).
Singapore: for the exteme order ( it might be what you like).
Japan: so many people and so polite.
USA: To be amazed at the quality of some of the phyical infustructure; the degragation of other; the extreme rich; the poor. Such extreme views: Pro gun; anti gun; pro abortion; anti abortion. And the place still works; it is simply amazing.
Which is the best, when away from home: I miss the Gum trees; the wide open spaces; the stars still shine bright over large areas. I miss being able to assume the person doing the job can read; will aim to get the job done and will have a resonable education.
Australia: But there is no place like home; and that is just the way it is.
The telnet client in NT is rubbish. Up to now I had seen no reason to upgrade to 2000; I will test out this statement and if true I will change my clients.
It's funny isn't it; as microsoft improve there system becomes more like Unix; I suppose they will get there one day.
Lets be honest if your capable of installing windows from scratch your probable in the group that wipe the OS anyway. Pity microsoft get a cut of the purchase price but that is the computer manufactures problem, they have to compete in a market were OS free machines are now available.
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I think I would be pointing out to Mr Garfinkel that he is probably breaking the Digital Millennium act. Doesn't it make it illegal to work out what is going on. I think in the long term that is going to have greater repercussions, and getting a few journalists up in arms would probable be a good thing.
We need something to replace the y2k bug, do you think this could be hyped up to be the next big thing. Spruce up the bunker here comes the y2k power failure.
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This I think is what time teaches you. If you have been doing the same thing for a long time you start rewriting the stuff you did years earlier. New OS new language etc. The stupid mistakes made at the end of a 12 hour day can only be lived with because of the elegance of some of the stuff written early in the day. You get a hell of a lot more done in the first 6 hours. Find something else to do for the other 6. Reading about the industry getting a feel for the trends talking to the others on the project, discussing ideas, these are things to do in the afternoon.
I was faced with the same problem about three years ago. My son was taking a great interest in programming. I felt he had to learn for himself how on OS worked, how a compiler worked etc. I believe these were things that you have to understand if you are going to spend your life doing this stuff. You can't learn that sort of stuff in a closed enviroment. Gave him a linux system, spent some time teaching him C ( because that is the language used). Now if I want to know how to do something under linux I ask him.
A million copies. Someone didn't follow the microsoft trial. The numbers supplied by microsoft mean nothing. The number will be greater than "noone" and less them a "million".
But in the end who cares, the industry has changed forever, the number of OS's sold by company A is irrelevant. There is now company A,B,C,D and E well established in the OS market.
I don't have time to work out why an argument on global warming was posted under "Giordano Bruno After 400 Years"; my guess, intellectuals publications supporting human activity are few and far between.
The link you posted was a breath of fresh air, and the signature rate statistics you provided are very encouraging.
My arguments for opposing the alarmist view have always been a little bit more simplistic and looked at the longer term.
1) The coal was laid down when plants life did a lot better, and the creatures a lot larger. It was laid down in a period when temperatures where stable over millions of years ( mind you there are states in the USA that have come close to banning the teaching of our planets history further back than 5000 years, I know, God just put it there). 2) Recent history ( we are talking the last million years) is not of a planet that has a stable temperature. The earth has entering several ice ages, the last we only came out of because of high volcanic activity. Thirty thousand years ago Tasmania was joined to Australia, joined because the planet was coming out of an Ice age, an Ice age that would see those worrying about high tide wrapped in polar gear, looking for an ocean that has long left their shores.
In geological terms thirty thousands years is nothing. Why they carry on about the warm weather over the last 40, when the last 100 thousand has seen cold weather that would destroy civilization as we know it.
3) People doing climate model studies constantly point out our current situation is very unstable, it is very easy to have the models take the earth back into an ice age that it never leaves.
Based on these simple thoughts my conclusion has always been:
a) Anyone who expects long term temperature stability is kidding themselves big time. Look at the long term temperature figures ( as the paper you pointed to has).
b) Just perhaps mankind is undoing the damage done by plants.
c) Trying to maintain an unstable situation is a lost cause. Is a lost cause really a good reason for kicking mankind back to the stone age.
Yes we are going to run out of oil, and yes we may move to coal ( at our current energy use rate Australia has enough coal to last mankind 300 years), but if we can return the climate we had when that coal was laid down, the planet is not going to be badly off.
What is wrong with mankind undoing the damage done by the plants, as the paper correctly points out, the plants are going to benefit anyway.
Open source is about getting more points of view, if Transmeta keep the instruction set closed, nothing comes to the open source community because of their work. Nothing goes back to Transmeta.
What is the best instruction set to run linux? What is the best instruction set to interface to?
Questions many will never be able to ponder because of the way Transmeta have gone.
Surly you are not going to claim that X86 is the ultimate program interface.
No I think Transmeta has made a mistake, but to blame it all on one of their programmers is a bit rich.
Who cares how many bug's anyone claims, counted or uncounted. What matters is what people think when it starts sitting on their desk. Not the people that are paid to say nice things, average user.
I was playing cards on the net, my opponent mentioned she was using WIN2000, and it crashed more often than NT4. Now that had a profound effect on my view of what is about to happen.
Ok I will wait a little longer, but if that is the general view after the release date. No way.
But even if it is better than NT4, you have to ask the question however, why would you spend $500 when you can have a better internet solution for free.
Given Microsoft's past history surly the question is not why 63% percent of people believe x, but how did they come up with the number. Bill Gates request, dart board........
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Society in general puts a lot of money into preserving knowledge. It would seem to be a reasonable thing to do. Old journals do not exist because they got published, they exist ( or a subset exist) because libraries subscribe and preserve.
You argue well for libraries getting heavily involved in the provision of search engines and the provision of a network of servers to maintain scientific publications after dead tree production stops.
Your arguments do not provide a foundation to stop the inevitable.
In fact if you look at reality, libraries are becoming less successful at their main function as the volume of material to be preserved increases. A lot of it now lasts a few years and is junked to make room for a new round.
We need stable standards so something published now can be read in 100 years. And we need the volume reduction electronic production brings.
Oh; and just like every thing else science needs to look at productivity gains. Spending a year doing a paper search when a computer can do it in a day is a nonsense society has already stopped paying for it and is unlikely to pay in the future.
Hear a lot about "peer review". Are readers really unable to think for themselves? If you are experienced in a field do really care jack shit about the view of the guy down the hall, when reading the article written by the guy up the road.
Are people really that stupid that they can't read a paper and come to their own conclusions.
I don't know; how did the 0.817 come about.
Oh well, no doubt this will have a score of 1; and my views will not be seen.
./ moderation isn't perfect; but moderation by a small inward looking group of specialists isn't either.
Ok
In my field I deal with real world implementation. Academia deals with small samples. After reading some of the papers I am often left wondering if some researchers have done stats 101. I make the above statement with some passion.
Online publications has enormous potential. If you don't want to make a complete ass of yourself you can get your publication reviewed by other who you respect. The publication can be published with the reviewer's names.
No you do not need a paper publication for this process to continue.
Those in the field who rely on the review process to cut down what they read will know the names and will only read articles written and review by the small inward looking group that they always have.
It would however allow for other to contribute papers to be ripped to shreds or possible advance the cause.
It would also allow those that are not part of the system (but who have spent considerable time in the field) the opportunity to add an acid comment against some of the nonsense that is published.
Rehashing the company line with no additional content is insightfull score 4? God it's bad enough having the microsoft surfs; giving them a score?
Inforamative???
The comment is basically not right; if you add the function calls to your structure ( which you can do in C) then you are there.
Objects wrap up the data and the functions to deal with the data; then is the core idea.
Well it's about 1meg already; and this will get a rating of 1 so why bother.
Before I started travelling I had a friend who had travelled for 6 years tell me :
Australia for the beaches.
Canada for the mountains.
The rest is a waste of time.
I think he was being a bit hard.
England: for the monuments the history.
France: for the food.
Sweden: for the pine forests.
Germany: for the order ( a little sad).
Singapore: for the exteme order ( it might be what you like).
Japan: so many people and so polite.
USA: To be amazed at the quality of some of the phyical infustructure; the degragation of other; the extreme rich; the poor. Such extreme views: Pro gun; anti gun; pro abortion; anti abortion. And the place still works; it is simply amazing.
Which is the best, when away from home: I miss the Gum trees; the wide open spaces; the stars still shine bright over large areas. I miss being able to assume the person doing the job can read; will aim to get the job done and will have a resonable education.
Australia: But there is no place like home; and that is just the way it is.
The question was flame bait; little more.
The telnet client in NT is rubbish. Up to now I had seen no reason to upgrade to 2000; I will test out this statement and if true I will change my clients.
It's funny isn't it; as microsoft improve there system becomes more like Unix; I suppose they will get there one day.
The reason is not long, it does not need many words.
Linux doesn't try and lock you in.
QED.
Lets be honest if your capable of installing windows from scratch your probable in the group that wipe the OS anyway. Pity microsoft get a cut of the purchase price but that is the computer manufactures problem, they have to compete in a market were OS free machines are now available.
I think I would be pointing out to Mr Garfinkel that he is probably breaking the Digital Millennium act. Doesn't it make it illegal to work out what is going on. I think in the long term that is going to have greater repercussions, and getting a few journalists up in arms would probable be a good thing.
We need something to replace the y2k bug, do you think this could be hyped up to be the next big thing. Spruce up the bunker here comes the y2k power failure.
This I think is what time teaches you. If you have been doing the same thing for a long time you start rewriting the stuff you did years earlier. New OS new language etc. The stupid mistakes made at the end of a 12 hour day can only be lived with because of the elegance of some of the stuff written early in the day. You get a hell of a lot more done in the first 6 hours. Find something else to do for the other 6. Reading about the industry getting a feel for the trends talking to the others on the project, discussing ideas, these are things to do in the afternoon.
I was faced with the same problem about three years ago. My son was taking a great interest in programming. I felt he had to learn for himself how on OS worked, how a compiler worked etc. I believe these were things that you have to understand if you are going to spend your life doing this stuff. You can't learn that sort of stuff in a closed enviroment. Gave him a linux system, spent some time teaching him C ( because that is the language used). Now if I want to know how to do something under linux I ask him.
I wonder how many in the good old USA still believe the right to bear arms is really worth it.
A million copies. Someone didn't follow the microsoft trial. The numbers supplied by microsoft mean nothing. The number will be greater than "noone" and less them a "million".
But in the end who cares, the industry has changed forever, the number of OS's sold by company A is irrelevant. There is now company A,B,C,D and E well established in the OS market.
Long live Be Unix, and I suppose MIcrosoft.
I don't have time to work out why an argument on global warming was posted under "Giordano Bruno After 400 Years"; my guess, intellectuals publications supporting human activity are few and far between.
The link you posted was a breath of fresh air, and the signature rate statistics you provided are very encouraging.
My arguments for opposing the alarmist view have always been a little bit more simplistic and looked at the longer term.
1) The coal was laid down when plants life did a lot better, and the creatures a lot larger. It was laid down in a period when temperatures where stable over millions of years ( mind you there are states in the USA that have come close to banning the teaching of our planets history further back than 5000 years, I know, God
just put it there).
2) Recent history ( we are talking the last million years) is not of a planet that has a stable temperature. The earth has entering several ice ages, the last we only came out of because of high volcanic activity. Thirty thousand years ago Tasmania was joined to Australia, joined because the planet was coming out of an Ice age, an Ice
age that would see those worrying about high tide wrapped in polar gear, looking for an ocean that has long left their shores.
In geological terms thirty thousands years is nothing. Why they carry on about the warm weather over the last 40, when the last 100 thousand has seen cold weather that would destroy civilization as we know it.
3) People doing climate model studies constantly point out our current situation is very unstable, it is very easy to have the models take the earth back into an ice age that it never leaves.
Based on these simple thoughts my conclusion has always been:
a) Anyone who expects long term temperature stability is kidding themselves big time. Look at the long term temperature figures ( as the paper you pointed to has).
b) Just perhaps mankind is undoing the damage done by plants.
c) Trying to maintain an unstable situation is a lost cause. Is a lost cause really a good reason for kicking mankind back to the stone age.
Yes we are going to run out of oil, and yes we may move to coal ( at our current energy use rate Australia has enough coal to last mankind 300 years), but if we can return the climate we had when that coal was laid down, the planet is not going to be badly off.
What is wrong with mankind undoing the damage done by the plants, as the paper correctly points out, the plants are going to benefit anyway.
Thankyou for posting a very interesting link.
No doubt this is true. But.
Open source is about getting more points of view, if Transmeta keep the instruction set closed, nothing comes to the open source community because of their work. Nothing goes back to Transmeta.
What is the best instruction set to run linux? What is the best instruction set to interface to?
Questions many will never be able to ponder because of the way Transmeta have gone.
Surly you are not going to claim that X86 is the ultimate program interface.
No I think Transmeta has made a mistake, but to blame it all on one of their programmers is a bit rich.
Who cares how many bug's anyone claims, counted or uncounted. What matters is what people think when it starts sitting on their desk. Not the people that are paid to say nice things, average user.
I was playing cards on the net, my opponent mentioned she was using WIN2000, and it crashed more often than NT4. Now that had a profound effect on my view of what is about to happen.
Ok I will wait a little longer, but if that is the general view after the release date. No way.
But even if it is better than NT4, you have to ask the question however, why would you spend $500 when you can have a better internet solution for free.
Given Microsoft's past history surly the question is not why 63% percent of people believe x, but how did they come up with the number. Bill Gates request, dart board........
If 12 is an even number, which it is then, 12/30/1998 was an even day and an even day is not really that unusual is it.
I think we are talking about even digits, and the story is screwed.
Didn't someone start a competition for the most imaginative way to distribute the code.
Surly the winner is the court.
I was tossing up between CODE FUSION and Code Warrior, why do you not consider CODE FUSION an option.
Thats a dam good idea. We get somthing out of it.