Apparently Ross Perot was actually the "P" in that plan. He still supports it and hopes to make it one of his major platforms (in his fourth party quest for the title).
i'm not sure who modded this as insightful, but it is actually shortsighted. on one hand there is the human comparison where we should say to let the old and infirmed die when they are "supposed to" on the basis of your reasoning. in keeping with the human leaning, i would be interested to see if this viewpoint be be reflected if you could clone a human, long dead, that could allow us some insight into our current selves.
sticking to similar circumstances, there are the matters of understanding our environment, potentially curing our ailments (many human innovations in disease-fighting have come from our study of animals), and of course, pretty, pretty animals in our zoos.
as a biologist and biological anthropologist, my focus has largely been in human and societal studies. however, in studying various areas of the americas and west africa, i developed a minor passion in the infamous dodo bird. related to this post, the dodo bird is on tap to be one of the first species (extinct species) to be cloned from their fossilized genetic code. i realize they are not alive to be preserved, but it should be interesting (a little jurassic park action for yeah).
i agree with some of the commentary here. this isn't a terribly crucial exchange. there oughtta be full disclosure to those whose responsibilities lie in the correcting of bugs in software, but joe schmoe public needn't have access to the info.
until they allow full disclosure (at least in part to some relevant group) there's not much to discuss here.
that is very strange indeed that DELL would say such things. of note: an associate of mine was just hired for Dell's new publication which will be similar to Yahoo! Internet Life, though not a consumer mag; rather, it is for the millions of Dell product owners (similar to Sympatico NetLife, etc.). anyway, the relevance to the story here is that my associate, who was just hired on as editor-in-chief, mentions that one particular focus of the publication is to stress the importance of the Linux apps that they denegrate in the lead column. this post threw me for a loop and i'm not sure what to make of the whole situation.
i ran a "research company" for several years selling original essays and compiling lecture notes. this legislation is a joke. it is a total violation of free speech. besides, what about the student's rights, the student who pays for their education, to share the information they pay to acquire, with whomever they choose? i don't remember signing an NDA before gym class!
i find it amusing that a penguin is a representative symbol for linux. tux the linux penguin. hee hee. only, haven't penguins been used for generations by expressly non-open source type companies? i know up here in canada, conglomerates such as canada dry (part of pepsico i believe) and several major dry cleaning corporations (sketchley's, etc.) have used penguins as a symbol of restrictive order, some teamwork, but mostly droned out animals. similar to the old joke about women dressing their men up in tuxedos cuz they're all the same anyway - that's an old joke but it has a kernel of truth, yes?
the penguin hardly symbolizes the open source movement as one of teamwork, progress and widescope. it has become a symbol of similarity and loss of identity which hopefully open source does not promote.
why was this modded down? i know it was no leap of logic, but considering that the topic was a two-liner about mir staying in orbit - and no elaboration - why not drop a funny one about mir? you mod asses - take this one down too - you guys ecchh this place up.
that mir situation just gets sillier by the day. i must say the fungus is simply the best. a foot worth of spacemoss coating the outer portion? i would hate to think what was really going on with that russian sub - somebody needs to remind that country that sometimes even world powers need to rest and recuperate.
i'm fairly sure that you can't opt out of this, though i'm not sure if the same is true with replaytv. there are a bunch of oddities in terms of privacy and info-sharing when it comes to tivo. i'm surprised that the advertising/sponsoring communities haven't gone crazy over this one since the darn thing is 90% useful just for cutting out the ads that pay for the programming!
the only validation i can see for "privatizing" karma is to make moderators in general into little gods who dance in and out of our comments and can injure or promote without us ever noticing. knowing your karma definitely affects how some users utilize the system. if you've posted ridiculous piece after horrendous criticism, perhaps you're looking for the cosmic negative rating to end all cosmic negative ratings. the reverse is true as well (except that it takes a brain to compete on the plus side). keep the karma known to the user - it's some good clean obvious fun in this messy coded (almost) world.
i question the value of this project. whenever i hear terms like "supercomputer" i become quite skeptical; similar to when i hear people still refer to the net as "the information superhighway". there doesn't seem to be a whole lot that's new in the piece, nor anything terribly relevant to current hardware development. sounds like a lame duck to me.
since the blurb mentioned the STAR WARS chess game i thought i'd bring up another looming technology - the optochip. anyone know where that's at in development. it would apparently allow for the R2D2 style hologram to be a thing of the real. and all out of your wireless device.
is this supposed to be like a good will hunting thing? the prof leaves the question on the board outside of class and we all fumble around with the answer?
my focus is not on isolating yourself; rather it is in the net's ability to redefine yourself by the information you are privy to. it is the focus on the latter in the equation, be it many to many, one to many, or many to one, that is key to me. the individual has a unique opportunity to affect and be affected by many people in a way that puts the focus on the individual interpretation more than the community. the community is vital, but it is not what i believe affords the new opportunities and promise of the net. it is the power of one.
as a canadian who consults to american companies, the increase in visas is helpful, particularly since green card lotteries have been eliminated for us icebacks.
i am constantly at odds with friends who believe that community is the killer app of the net. frankly, i tend to disagree. they look at the many to many principle as being a major pioneering move of the internet generation, while i feel it is simply a fixed-up partyline; hardly the app i believe the history books will speak of.
although more compelling than one to many communications (ie. television, radio, etc.), the killer apps of the net lie not in the expediency of communication or even in the newfound routes or options, but in the shared concept of information - that is - that no idea ever dies in our whirlwind. we have afforded ourselves the ability to communicate from the many to the one, and to actually have the receiver be the principle of that equation. YOU are your own community, and any virtual community is merely a part of your individualistic outlook, communication and information circle. the focus is on the individual in our new world, and i say this feeling very lonely in this basement office on this cold fall day.
it is absolutely bad for napster, gnutella and all the rest that don't have the giant public profiles. but napster will be sunk long before it needs to worry about this.
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sticking to similar circumstances, there are the matters of understanding our environment, potentially curing our ailments (many human innovations in disease-fighting have come from our study of animals), and of course, pretty, pretty animals in our zoos.
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the penguin hardly symbolizes the open source movement as one of teamwork, progress and widescope. it has become a symbol of similarity and loss of identity which hopefully open source does not promote.
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the soundtrack for Parsec is particularly cool - sort of like a techno jungle thang with a moody groove. great stuff.
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although more compelling than one to many communications (ie. television, radio, etc.), the killer apps of the net lie not in the expediency of communication or even in the newfound routes or options, but in the shared concept of information - that is - that no idea ever dies in our whirlwind. we have afforded ourselves the ability to communicate from the many to the one, and to actually have the receiver be the principle of that equation. YOU are your own community, and any virtual community is merely a part of your individualistic outlook, communication and information circle. the focus is on the individual in our new world, and i say this feeling very lonely in this basement office on this cold fall day.
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