I live in a new apartment block (lovingly called a Mansion) in Fukuoka, Japan. Having being built less than a year ago I'm luckly to have NTT fibre to the building, and network ports in my apartment running at 100Mb. Okay, so I might not get LAN speeds, but it's the fastest I've seen since being at Uni. But the best part, it costs about USD$10 a month, unlimited.
As a self confessed libertarian, it's odd now that he's talking about the dangers of a free market economy. A place where corporations can run rampant, free of the restrictions of legislation.
Maybe he's come to realise that, yes, we do need Government. We do need a protector of our basic rights. It's a shame George W. doesn't look like the man to do it.
Emergence, which the reviewer didn't seem to cover very well, is not "keep moving backwards until you see something ordered." It is a behavior (usually, from what I've read about, in groups) where rules that pertain only to individuals give rise to complex behaviors.
I'm not saying that Emergence is that. I'm saying that that's what the book identifies as being the way to observe it.
You haven't read the book, but your idea about emergence is only half way to what the author is trying to identify. It is about the behaviour of individuals within a community, and how that community appears. The emergence behaiour can only be seen at a macro-level, not at the individual member level.
It might look like it was my homework assignment, but it wasn't. It took me about 6 months on and off to get it where it is. When I was doing it, it seemed pretty good at the time, but as I said, it's a bit tired now.
It was never my intention to give orders with the code. What I had meant was that I was available help those who couln't work out what I was trying to do. I haven't updated the code for quite some time, and as I said, I don't want to drive it anymore.
Having used Progeny, and straight Debian, I'd have to say both have features that I liked. Although I had more problems with Progeny though.
Progeny has hardware auto-detect code, which doesn't use the standard modconf/mod-utils/etc for setting up kernel modules. A good idea, but on my laptop I found it would not detect the neomagic soundcard correctly. To me, the design problem was that autodetect would run at boot time rather than install time, where I could correct errors in its autodetection. There were configuration files, but they didn't feel complete enough to correct the errors with.
But to have Progeny's work included into vanilla Debian is A Good Thing(tm). It seems more and more companies are moving towards a service model, away from a product model. Which, although easier means they will be limited by person power instead of product distribution power.
Channel 9 has season 3 on Saturday afternoons in Perth. Maybe they can't show it in Sydney unless it's a sellout game.
Do you mean to say that you've also had season 2 in Perth? Sydney must be in a time warp. This is disgraceful. Something must be done. T-Shirt wearing, sticker campaigns, we need a slogan. Hurrah, banner making at my house on Sunday followed by afternoon tea and commitee formation. We'll smash those corporate tyrants!!!
It's ironic that Farscape is filmed in Sydney, Australia where I live, but Channel 9, co-sponsor of the show isn't showing it since season 1 finished last year. In the regular sci-fi timeslot of Tuesday and Wednesday nights they are showing ST:TNG (again) and Roswell. They aren't even repeating B5 yet!
The I hear runours that it's showing in other cities in Australia, but still not Sydney. What's the story? It's even been taken off the Channel 9 web site, which makes it even harder to work out what is happening.
It's quite surreal to see Sydney bush scenes, with the plants spray painted blue or something similar, or Sydney beach scenes (remember, I've only seen season 1) for what is primarily an American show.
Oh, of course. How silly of me, it's on cable. Unlike the US, cable TV doesn't have the same market penetration over here yet. Well, I can always go over to my mum and dad's place and watc them... at 3:30am!
In the end, I agreed not to boot into Linux unless I went into the conference room (which is one of the only rooms in the building with ethernet ports)."
I don't see the problem? Is the conference room that bad? It's probably got a better view, better chairs and about 10 times as much space as your cubicle.
"Yes, this is mjh in the conference room, we'll be up here all day again so can I get some coffee, sandwiches and maybe a few pastries sent up, Thanks."
Having just completed a Master of Interactive Multimedia we did quite a bit of study around the nature of Art, Art Theory, Semiotics and everything else. But on ABC TV last night I saw this on The 7:30 Report. It was an interview with the new Australia Council boss discussing how New Media is the next revolution...
As other/.'ers have mentioned, art is by defition what you define it as. There are a fwe art prizes around and orgainsation that will take your work, eg http://www.siggraph.org/.
We had one of our people leave to go to an international company that had an office here in Sydney. He had 10 interviews (as it was a management position).
He didn't even get to the first day. They closed the Sydney office the day before he started.
Now, I don't want this to sound like a stoopid question, but as a student doing a Masters of Interactive Multimedia a lot of our discussion is based around what is New Media, or more specifically Multimedia.
If I ask a design person about multimedia they think it's the use of Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, etc, etc. It's the design elements and how a product looks. A multimedia project is a design project with some techie stuff at the end to make it work.
A technical person will see it as the software that drives the product, maybe Director or for a web based project Java/Perl/PHP, etc. A multimedia project is a software development project with a nice front end.
From a content producers point of view it's (obviously) the content. A script, the text and all copy for the site.
The list goes on for marketing, sales, user interface designers, hardware engineers, project managers and educationalists.
I believe it's all these things put together. To be a New Media specialist you need to be a "renaissance" man/woman with skills in all the different areas. What do you think?
It looks as if right before Microsoft acquired one of the top gaming companies of the time, Bungie...
Well, if Microsoft bought out Bungie (and why? they don't normally buy games companies, unless they had a technology that M$ wanted) then what's the status of Oni? An exceptionally cool looking Anime game... We'll never see a linux version.
Although it was developed in conjunction of Gathering of Developers, we'll just wait and see.
When I went to S11, one of the speakers at the Sunday protest was Dr Vandana Shiva who spoke about this "new" Golden Rice. (She an Indian Eco-Feminist.) The amount of Vitamin A is delivers to the body is much, much smaller then what other forms of food can provide.
In short, it was a con by the company who developed the product to use the WTO and health reasons to take over the market of locally grown rice for a profit.
For multiple servers to share calendars. My boss has the problem that with his two email accounts in two different offices, then calendars don't schedule correctly with each other, so he opten gets double booked.
One problem with exchange is that a calendar appointment isn't booked with someone until they open the mail with the calendar appointment. It's the same with tasks. (Note: a good way to avoid tasks and meetings, don't open them!)
I suppose the main think, is to look at *all* of the functionality of outlook and replicate that. Thta's what the PHB will look at. They don't care that's it implemented in C++ with funky data structures. They care about the user interface because that's *all* they see.
As much as I love Linux, it has a place, and that place is not on Mainframes or large servers. Are IBM saying that their AIX product is no longer any good? That Linux has better threading, disk and memory routines? Next we'll see Sun ditching Solaris completely, or HP throwing away HP-UX (or is that a good thing;-).
And why Red Hat? I'm sure they'd use Debian if Debian was a large corporation that could have some structure to sign an agreement with.
I don't mind the idea that they'd standardise on the GNU structure (like Debian) but not even Red Hat is that clean and standard. (Think/etc/rc.d/init.d to/etc/init.d)
Enhydra is an application development platform. It also have EJB and ORB support through Jonas and Jothathon. But again (like Zope and Turbine), you still have to write the Content Management System.
This is an email I sent to some friends on this exact topic...
After having slaved away for several weeks building an per/xml based content engine (Kumera), I started having a look around to see what else was out there, and got suddenly depressed.
The only saving grace was that is Australia, the cost of running a dedicated server is way too high, and so there is still space for a cgi-bin perl based system.
Although you may not be interested in all of this, I'm doing it for my own sanity and clarity...
In my wandering I have found...
http://slashcode.com/ - the content engine that slashdot is based on. Runs in mod_perl (or cgi-bin I guess), very sofisticated. Has daemons that run to collect content for the slashboxes and everything else we know and love about slashdot.
http://www.zope.org/ - not sure, I think it's a python based application server that has some content systems built around them, including (just to confuse you) http://squishdot.org/ which is the slashdot code ported to zope (I think)
http://frontier.userland.com/ - is a news system/engine that has a thing called manilla, http://manila.userland.com/ which is a front end to editing and so on. Frontier isn't free or open source, but very popular.
http://java.apache.org/jetspeed which is a portal based engine built on top of turbine which is an applicate framework for building applications. There is a content engine and discussion group system that are developed by someone else, who are expecting to open source the discussion groups, and provide source and binarys for a low cost of the content engine.
And there are a few more application systems, which are not exactly content management systems as such, but could be used to build some... like cold fusion, active server pages, java server pages, php3, and the list goes on and on and on...
It would seem that some still persist in the belief that technology will solve the social ills of developing countries. This could be no further from th truth. Those of us living in the highly developed world take for granted all that we have. Yet for 1/6th of the world's population they live in abject povery.
Before we can even consider bring these countires into the digital age, we need to solve the problems of social and structual evil. The release of debt to the World Bank and IMF would be a good start, as well as stopping the exploitation and corruption that many large companies impose on the governments and then the governments on its people.
Quite often I've read about how reading online and electronic books are never going to replace real books (see Neil Postman, Sven Birkerts) because a real book is natural, the pages turn over and the feel is natural. Where as electronic books can't be read in the bath (well, not safely) and don't have the same feel.
But, whenever I see a Japanese person reading (their books go backwards) I feel a sense of un-naturalness about it, whereas to them, it's completely natural. I realise that the people writing these comments have grown up in a culture of traditional book reading. My point is, with electronic books, if one is brought up reading them, and reading online, then reading an old style book with paper and pages may seem just as un-natural as electronic books do to us today.
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I would have to say the Brett Watson that you are living in an ivory tower. You are educated, intelliegent and able to negotiate and understand the issues in an open society. But what about those who do not have the voice that you have? Those whose work or study situation does not allow them to be vocal. I'd say you have never had a real job, one where your rights are invalidated on a daily bases by being underpaid, overworked or put in situations that are dangereous.
The ability of workers to unite against a common enemy, usually the management is a powerful and important part of working life. Lets take an example. In New South Wales in the early 1990's, the Liberal Government of the time, brought in enterprise bargaining agreements. One of my friends, a secretary who was earning about $300 a week, had their boss come in and tell them that were now to get $215 a week. A little more then the social welfare payments at the time. That was their enterprise agreement. They did not have the education, ability or knowledge to use the justice system to hear their case, which might have taken weeks, and cost more then they could afford. If they complained they were sacked. They needed the money, and so couldn't quit to find another job because of the recession.
If they had a union, then the union could have represented all the workers at real enterprise bargaining meetings, where someone had the knowledge and understading of the system to help the workers.
Let's take another example. In Australia there is a large community of outworkers in the textile and clothing workforce. These people, usually immigrants with little english skills work from home and are paid per-garment that they produce. Since they are not in a factory situation, and have little english, they do not realise that working 16 hours a day for $5 an hour, 6 or 7 days a week is not the norm. They don't have anyone to go to for arbitraition, as they need to keep to working and may loose their job. It is the work of organisations like Fairwear and Asian Women at Work ( http://www.awatw.org.au, may not be up) that lobby on behalf of these people.
But lets not forget the point here, what about VSU and the Austalian University System. The rights of students are also constantly being erroded. Have you never been locked out of class due to lack of seating? Have you had to fight for computer resources and lab time? You are an english speaking, probably upper north shore ex-private school student (Knox? Barker?). Perhaps you should go down to your union office, and get involved and try to understand what they do. Just because you can't see an advantage to what they do, try and see the picture of an overseas student, or migrant-enthinc minority student who gets low marks because they have a racists lecturer who can't be disiplined bacause of tenure.
So, I say to you, Unions will always be required in a Capitalist society. While there are still those trying to minimise the wage and status of the general worker, who are unable to represent themselves in discussions.
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And that was the Microsoft one. I'd never trust their emails.
I live in a new apartment block (lovingly called a Mansion) in Fukuoka, Japan. Having being built less than a year ago I'm luckly to have NTT fibre to the building, and network ports in my apartment running at 100Mb. Okay, so I might not get LAN speeds, but it's the fastest I've seen since being at Uni. But the best part, it costs about USD$10 a month, unlimited.
As a self confessed libertarian, it's odd now that he's talking about the dangers of a free market economy. A place where corporations can run rampant, free of the restrictions of legislation.
Maybe he's come to realise that, yes, we do need Government. We do need a protector of our basic rights. It's a shame George W. doesn't look like the man to do it.
I'm not saying that Emergence is that. I'm saying that that's what the book identifies as being the way to observe it.
You haven't read the book, but your idea about emergence is only half way to what the author is trying to identify. It is about the behaviour of individuals within a community, and how that community appears. The emergence behaiour can only be seen at a macro-level, not at the individual member level.
It might look like it was my homework assignment, but it wasn't. It took me about 6 months on and off to get it where it is. When I was doing it, it seemed pretty good at the time, but as I said, it's a bit tired now.
It was never my intention to give orders with the code. What I had meant was that I was available help those who couln't work out what I was trying to do. I haven't updated the code for quite some time, and as I said, I don't want to drive it anymore.
Having used Progeny, and straight Debian, I'd have to say both have features that I liked. Although I had more problems with Progeny though.
Progeny has hardware auto-detect code, which doesn't use the standard modconf/mod-utils/etc for setting up kernel modules. A good idea, but on my laptop I found it would not detect the neomagic soundcard correctly. To me, the design problem was that autodetect would run at boot time rather than install time, where I could correct errors in its autodetection. There were configuration files, but they didn't feel complete enough to correct the errors with.
But to have Progeny's work included into vanilla Debian is A Good Thing(tm). It seems more and more companies are moving towards a service model, away from a product model. Which, although easier means they will be limited by person power instead of product distribution power.
I wish them luck.
Do you mean to say that you've also had season 2 in Perth? Sydney must be in a time warp. This is disgraceful. Something must be done. T-Shirt wearing, sticker campaigns, we need a slogan. Hurrah, banner making at my house on Sunday followed by afternoon tea and commitee formation. We'll smash those corporate tyrants!!!
It's ironic that Farscape is filmed in Sydney, Australia where I live, but Channel 9, co-sponsor of the show isn't showing it since season 1 finished last year. In the regular sci-fi timeslot of Tuesday and Wednesday nights they are showing ST:TNG (again) and Roswell. They aren't even repeating B5 yet!
The I hear runours that it's showing in other cities in Australia, but still not Sydney. What's the story? It's even been taken off the Channel 9 web site, which makes it even harder to work out what is happening.
It's quite surreal to see Sydney bush scenes, with the plants spray painted blue or something similar, or Sydney beach scenes (remember, I've only seen season 1) for what is primarily an American show.
Oh, of course. How silly of me, it's on cable. Unlike the US, cable TV doesn't have the same market penetration over here yet. Well, I can always go over to my mum and dad's place and watc them ... at 3:30am!
I don't see the problem? Is the conference room that bad? It's probably got a better view, better chairs and about 10 times as much space as your cubicle.
"Yes, this is mjh in the conference room, we'll be up here all day again so can I get some coffee, sandwiches and maybe a few pastries sent up, Thanks."
Having just completed a Master of Interactive Multimedia we did quite a bit of study around the nature of Art, Art Theory, Semiotics and everything else. But on ABC TV last night I saw this on The 7:30 Report. It was an interview with the new Australia Council boss discussing how New Media is the next revolution ...
As other /.'ers have mentioned, art is by defition what you define it as. There are a fwe art prizes around and orgainsation that will take your work, eg http://www.siggraph.org/.
We had one of our people leave to go to an international company that had an office here in Sydney. He had 10 interviews (as it was a management position).
He didn't even get to the first day. They closed the Sydney office the day before he started.
Now, I don't want this to sound like a stoopid question, but as a student doing a Masters of Interactive Multimedia a lot of our discussion is based around what is New Media, or more specifically Multimedia.
If I ask a design person about multimedia they think it's the use of Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, etc, etc. It's the design elements and how a product looks. A multimedia project is a design project with some techie stuff at the end to make it work.
A technical person will see it as the software that drives the product, maybe Director or for a web based project Java/Perl/PHP, etc. A multimedia project is a software development project with a nice front end.
From a content producers point of view it's (obviously) the content. A script, the text and all copy for the site.
The list goes on for marketing, sales, user interface designers, hardware engineers, project managers and educationalists.
I believe it's all these things put together. To be a New Media specialist you need to be a "renaissance" man/woman with skills in all the different areas. What do you think?
Well, if Microsoft bought out Bungie (and why? they don't normally buy games companies, unless they had a technology that M$ wanted) then what's the status of Oni? An exceptionally cool looking Anime game ... We'll never see a linux version.
Although it was developed in conjunction of Gathering of Developers, we'll just wait and see.
I can't wait for a human mission to Pluto. Then a recreational mission. Then a skiing mission. Where better to go to avoid the summer heat.
When I went to S11, one of the speakers at the Sunday protest was Dr Vandana Shiva who spoke about this "new" Golden Rice. (She an Indian Eco-Feminist.) The amount of Vitamin A is delivers to the body is much, much smaller then what other forms of food can provide.
In short, it was a con by the company who developed the product to use the WTO and health reasons to take over the market of locally grown rice for a profit.
You can read all about it here.
A few things I can think of:
For multiple servers to share calendars. My boss has the problem that with his two email accounts in two different offices, then calendars don't schedule correctly with each other, so he opten gets double booked.
One problem with exchange is that a calendar appointment isn't booked with someone until they open the mail with the calendar appointment. It's the same with tasks. (Note: a good way to avoid tasks and meetings, don't open them!)
I suppose the main think, is to look at *all* of the functionality of outlook and replicate that. Thta's what the PHB will look at. They don't care that's it implemented in C++ with funky data structures. They care about the user interface because that's *all* they see.
That's all I can think of for now.
I can't believe this is happening.
As much as I love Linux, it has a place, and that place is not on Mainframes or large servers. Are IBM saying that their AIX product is no longer any good? That Linux has better threading, disk and memory routines? Next we'll see Sun ditching Solaris completely, or HP throwing away HP-UX (or is that a good thing ;-).
And why Red Hat? I'm sure they'd use Debian if Debian was a large corporation that could have some structure to sign an agreement with.
I don't mind the idea that they'd standardise on the GNU structure (like Debian) but not even Red Hat is that clean and standard. (Think /etc/rc.d/init.d to /etc/init.d)
Enhydra is an application development platform. It also have EJB and ORB support through Jonas and Jothathon. But again (like Zope and Turbine), you still have to write the Content Management System.
It would seem that some still persist in the belief that technology will solve the social ills of developing countries. This could be no further from th truth. Those of us living in the highly developed world take for granted all that we have. Yet for 1/6th of the world's population they live in abject povery.
Before we can even consider bring these countires into the digital age, we need to solve the problems of social and structual evil. The release of debt to the World Bank and IMF would be a good start, as well as stopping the exploitation and corruption that many large companies impose on the governments and then the governments on its people.
Quite often I've read about how reading online and electronic books are never going to replace real books (see Neil Postman, Sven Birkerts) because a real book is natural, the pages turn over and the feel is natural. Where as electronic books can't be read in the bath (well, not safely) and don't have the same feel.
But, whenever I see a Japanese person reading (their books go backwards) I feel a sense of un-naturalness about it, whereas to them, it's completely natural. I realise that the people writing these comments have grown up in a culture of traditional book reading. My point is, with electronic books, if one is brought up reading them, and reading online, then reading an old style book with paper and pages may seem just as un-natural as electronic books do to us today.
Comments?
I would have to say the Brett Watson that you are living in an ivory tower. You are educated, intelliegent and able to negotiate and understand the issues in an open society. But what about those who do not have the voice that you have? Those whose work or study situation does not allow them to be vocal. I'd say you have never had a real job, one where your rights are invalidated on a daily bases by being underpaid, overworked or put in situations that are dangereous.
The ability of workers to unite against a common enemy, usually the management is a powerful and important part of working life. Lets take an example. In New South Wales in the early 1990's, the Liberal Government of the time, brought in enterprise bargaining agreements. One of my friends, a secretary who was earning about $300 a week, had their boss come in and tell them that were now to get $215 a week. A little more then the social welfare payments at the time. That was their enterprise agreement. They did not have the education, ability or knowledge to use the justice system to hear their case, which might have taken weeks, and cost more then they could afford. If they complained they were sacked. They needed the money, and so couldn't quit to find another job because of the recession.
If they had a union, then the union could have represented all the workers at real enterprise bargaining meetings, where someone had the knowledge and understading of the system to help the workers.
Let's take another example. In Australia there is a large community of outworkers in the textile and clothing workforce. These people, usually immigrants with little english skills work from home and are paid per-garment that they produce. Since they are not in a factory situation, and have little english, they do not realise that working 16 hours a day for $5 an hour, 6 or 7 days a week is not the norm. They don't have anyone to go to for arbitraition, as they need to keep to working and may loose their job. It is the work of organisations like Fairwear and Asian Women at Work ( http://www.awatw.org.au, may not be up) that lobby on behalf of these people.
But lets not forget the point here, what about VSU and the Austalian University System. The rights of students are also constantly being erroded. Have you never been locked out of class due to lack of seating? Have you had to fight for computer resources and lab time? You are an english speaking, probably upper north shore ex-private school student (Knox? Barker?). Perhaps you should go down to your union office, and get involved and try to understand what they do. Just because you can't see an advantage to what they do, try and see the picture of an overseas student, or migrant-enthinc minority student who gets low marks because they have a racists lecturer who can't be disiplined bacause of tenure.
So, I say to you, Unions will always be required in a Capitalist society. While there are still those trying to minimise the wage and status of the general worker, who are unable to represent themselves in discussions.