I see your point, but don't agree on that degree of specialization in day to day life. If my car doesn't start, I fix it. Cars are based on very few simple precepts - anyone should be able to at least fault find and maybe fix a car.
The tailor thing - ever repaired a ripped jacket liner, or replaced a zipper? No? Why not - do you take your shoes to the cobblers when a lace snaps?
Again the basic concepts are very simple and should be understood by all.
I think too many people think of most day to day objects as black boxes - they don't understand how they work, or why. This is why helpdesks are understaffed, newish cars seize on the freeway through lack of oil, etc, etc.
This lack of interest extends to the sciences, literature and everything else that people don't need to know to operate a remote control. This is and always will be a bad idea.
I'm sure I could use a Heinlein quote about specialization here, to illustrate my point, but I haven't read TIFL, so I cant.:-/
Purely out of interest, if an egg and sperm could be modified BEFORE FERTILIZATION, to grow maybe just a undifferentated mass of cells, that could NEVER become a child, would you find that worse than a quick wank, or better because the sperm, egg etc are not completely wasted?
I'm honestly not dissing your viewpoint, I honestly want to know your opinion.
What gets me is - how about if the best potential chess player in the world is currently sowing rice seeds in the Gujarat, is a 68 year old woman, is illiterate and has never had time to play any game, let alone chess?
It seems that the computer chess player has better potentiality, because it is designed to play chess - Human chess players 'just happen'. The current best may not be 'the best'.
If you want to see what the OS/3x range feels like to use, do a web search on hercules and os/360.
Hercules is a virtual machine for linux that you can run os/360 (which is now public domain-ish) on. It'll run os/390 too, but then you'll have IBM lawyers after you. You have to boot in single user mode and build a multi user system. TSO works, and you'll finally use x3270 that was bundled with your distro and you never installed......
>OpenBSD is only the single most secure operating system on the planet OpenSource or otherwise.
No it's not - some closed source (gasp!) operating systems have a similarly secure reputation and history.
Example: IBM OS/400.
It's been out for 10+ years.
Number of 0Wn£D production boxes = 0
I'm not contradicting your point about OBSD being secure, or great, just making the point that there are more operating systems on this planet than you think.
But hey - if more people drop M$ for *nix, you will get more developers, Open source means you get the source, you compile it on your elitobox, so you get more software, too. (Not always I know - Linux seems to be just i386 sometimes), but generally -
If black holes can evaporate, as is currently being discussed as a possible reason why no small ones are found, perhaps you would like to reconsider your statement that Earth is a closed system...
Study some statistical thermodynamics.
Read about quantum tunneling.
Earth is not a closed system.
It hasn't even got an event horizon.....
Is it just me, or is it slowly getting more difficult to get hold of his books nowadays? All decent bookshops had his books in the Science Fiction Department a couple of years ago, even if it was just a few paperback Fridays.
My local Waterstones (a 4 story (HoHo) quite large bookshop) does not stock any of his books....Large newsagents no longer stock him...
Of course major online stores carry his books - people who use them like Heinlein, in general, but he is disappearing from meatspace (ugh - hate that word!) stores.
I hearby submit the idea that complex carbon based long chain polymers, could, in the presence of an ultra violet light source or other hi level energy source, could be compelled to arrange themselves in regular patterns.
I hypothesise that further experimentation with these molecules could bring rise to a class of molecule that can be built up into larger stable structures, that will still have the self arranging properties of the constituent molecules. These molecules could be organised into massive 'cells' of hydrocarbons, with the ability to react to the environment, and the ability to replicate - this process is still in delelopment however, as errors in the copying process are introducing 'feature creep' into the emerging processes.
This technology could, ultimately result in automated hydrocarbon automations perhaps of some use in industry to move or manipulate otherwise inanimate objects, such as computers. Such automations would need minimal maintainance, and would have the ability to 'remember' quite complex instruction. I envisage the replacement of current robotic assembly lines with arrays of these self replicating automations, with the cost benefits therein.
Slashdot Mirror
OK kiddies,
Now is the time to get that killfile, and turn it inside out.
Seeyah Microsoft - the new internet will be built inside the ruins of the old.
Wouldn't the port have to over 1024? (for a non root user)
Mac X is a unix port after all.....
Seems they try everything with them. Low friction bearings? Buckyballs. Finding ancient gasses? look inside buckyballs.
Whats next? Fish n chips "Do you want bucky with them?"
Might have implications for Samba, especially the authentication twist using unused fields they stuck in (was it Win2000?).
.net in it's tracks - .net must be seen as monopoly if you can only use Microsoft's servers and clients.....
This sort of EU stuff might also stop
You made me spit coffee over my monitor this morning.
I see your point, but don't agree on that degree of specialization in day to day life. If my car doesn't start, I fix it. Cars are based on very few simple precepts - anyone should be able to at least fault find and maybe fix a car.
:-/
The tailor thing - ever repaired a ripped jacket liner, or replaced a zipper? No? Why not - do you take your shoes to the cobblers when a lace snaps?
Again the basic concepts are very simple and should be understood by all.
I think too many people think of most day to day objects as black boxes - they don't understand how they work, or why. This is why helpdesks are understaffed, newish cars seize on the freeway through lack of oil, etc, etc.
This lack of interest extends to the sciences, literature and everything else that people don't need to know to operate a remote control. This is and always will be a bad idea.
I'm sure I could use a Heinlein quote about specialization here, to illustrate my point, but I haven't read TIFL, so I cant.
Have a look at 5250 emulators. Kind of like binary telnet!
You edit a field or fields (including command line field, password field, whatever) and when enter is pressed the all field contents are sent.
When using an editor, the whole screen is one large field. You move arond the field, editing locally, and only update when pressing enter.
Page up and down also update remotely for obvious reasons.
Why wouldn't pico work?
As Yoda would put it, anyway.
What we need to do is to take a killfile, and turn it inside out.
Humans are also 78% compatible with bananas.....
Purely out of interest, if an egg and sperm could be modified BEFORE FERTILIZATION, to grow maybe just a undifferentated mass of cells, that could NEVER become a child, would you find that worse than a quick wank, or better because the sperm, egg etc are not completely wasted?
I'm honestly not dissing your viewpoint, I honestly want to know your opinion.
What gets me is - how about if the best potential chess player in the world is currently sowing rice seeds in the Gujarat, is a 68 year old woman, is illiterate and has never had time to play any game, let alone chess?
It seems that the computer chess player has better potentiality, because it is designed to play chess - Human chess players 'just happen'. The current best may not be 'the best'.
Mod this UP! Best description of AOL take up ever.
'Newbies putting coasters in their cupholders.'
Excellent!
Name Pavlov ring any bells?
(W Gibson)
"Enough attention to emergent properties of itterated non-linear systems"
You waited all week to use that phrase, didn't you?
If you want to see what the OS/3x range feels like to use, do a web search on hercules and os/360.
Hercules is a virtual machine for linux that you can run os/360 (which is now public domain-ish) on. It'll run os/390 too, but then you'll have IBM lawyers after you. You have to boot in single user mode and build a multi user system. TSO works, and you'll finally use x3270 that was bundled with your distro and you never installed......
Took me right back to my tape ape days.....
One reason could be simply that PPC chips run cooler - can you imagine the size of the heatsink on a P4 to cool it by radiating only?
It'd probably weigh more than the machine...
Surely it's not going to hit very quickly? What's the G of this lump of rock? Tiny, probably.
It'll be more of a clunk....
>OpenBSD is only the single most secure operating system on the planet OpenSource or otherwise.
No it's not - some closed source (gasp!) operating systems have a similarly secure reputation and history.
Example: IBM OS/400.
It's been out for 10+ years.
Number of 0Wn£D production boxes = 0
I'm not contradicting your point about OBSD being secure, or great, just making the point that there are more operating systems on this planet than you think.
A suggestion that there may be a massive planet out there, with a 6 million year orbit!
d _4 67000/467572.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsi
This guy is still analysing the orbits of more comets, so evidence is growing...
But hey - if more people drop M$ for *nix, you will get more developers, Open source means you get the source, you compile it on your elitobox, so you get more software, too. (Not always I know - Linux seems to be just i386 sometimes), but generally -
Is this not a good thing?
Think so.
But
If black holes can evaporate, as is currently being discussed as a possible reason why no small ones are found, perhaps you would like to reconsider your statement that Earth is a closed system...
Study some statistical thermodynamics.
Read about quantum tunneling.
Earth is not a closed system.
It hasn't even got an event horizon.....
Is it just me, or is it slowly getting more difficult to get hold of his books nowadays? All decent bookshops had his books in the Science Fiction Department a couple of years ago, even if it was just a few paperback Fridays.
My local Waterstones (a 4 story (HoHo) quite large bookshop) does not stock any of his books....Large newsagents no longer stock him...
Of course major online stores carry his books - people who use them like Heinlein, in general, but he is disappearing from meatspace (ugh - hate that word!) stores.
"What are you doing?"
I've got a fax coming through...
I hearby submit the idea that complex carbon based long chain polymers, could, in the presence of an ultra violet light source or other hi level energy source, could be compelled to arrange themselves in regular patterns.
I hypothesise that further experimentation with these molecules could bring rise to a class of molecule that can be built up into larger stable structures, that will still have the self arranging properties of the constituent molecules. These molecules could be organised into massive 'cells' of hydrocarbons, with the ability to react to the environment, and the ability to replicate - this process is still in delelopment however, as errors in the copying process are introducing 'feature creep' into the emerging processes.
This technology could, ultimately result in automated hydrocarbon automations perhaps of some use in industry to move or manipulate otherwise inanimate objects, such as computers. Such automations would need minimal maintainance, and would have the ability to 'remember' quite complex instruction. I envisage the replacement of current robotic assembly lines with arrays of these self replicating automations, with the cost benefits therein.
No existing prior art exists at this time.
Oh - wait......