OK, now obviously all of the responses to this fairly lame post have been valid. However there is a "kernel" (heh) of truth here i.e., MS is planning to expose everything as SOAP calls over HTTP. Linux should try to do the same.
those who sit in their rooms in soiled boxer shorts all week writing diatribes against object-oriented programming, zaplets, and other such things are crazy!
considering the things that MP3.com puts in their Meta tags, this doesn't surprise me at all. robertson is definitely skewed towards being a social engineer...
if you truly believe in the web why have you patented a large number of highly obvious mechanisms such as "Apparatus and method for displaying enhanced hypertext link anchor information " and "Client-side, server-side and collaborative spell check of URLs" ??? I personally detest this type of behavior as do many other slashdot readers.
i wasn't attacking the AOL mentality per se - obviously that can work. however aol has a PURPOSE beyond being a veiled ponzi scheme - make the internet easier for non-technical users. this purpose gives them something to do next always - free-pc was just a far-out business model dreamed up by the MBA mentality. i'll buy stock in companies that are really contributing some type of defensible service/utility to users/customers. this includes yahoo, ebay, amazon, real, and yes even aol. scale being extremely important here of course.
many etailers, most ISPs free or not, many "copycat" companies (auction, portal , etc) will die off similar to Free-PC. since there are so many entrants into the internet world only real businesses will survive - have you checked pets.com stock yet? and how's the go network doing lately? [lost a billion, now "refocused" by disney]. i maintain that companies without a "purpose" started sheerly out of greed (most of those idealab companies for example) will NOT survive long-term no matter how many billions they throw at the problem.
notice that the best companies arent started explicitly to make money but to solve human problems - ebay with the founders girlfriend ifnding pez, yahoo with indexing cool sites etc. free-pc was started to make money.
i was at Demo '99 when bill gross announced it - i think of it now as the pinnacle of consumer internet business model madness....R.I.P. Theses types of companies really will not make it in the long term that just try to get users with no idea of what value they provide or why anyone should use them...
independence is bogus. cnn, nbc, et al. are basically biased, all owned by conglomerates. thats why i have always liked slashdot - its NOT prentending to be "unbiased", it has an opinion!
ho ironic would it be to see engineers getting replaced by machines...i could just see a protest outside microsoft by unemployed computer profesionals!!!
i actually took an intro class from lakoff. anyway, the bottom line with cogsci research is that higher reason and meaning is largely based on a metaphorical understanding of the world which is based on physical schemas and extended upwards via metaphor. the classic approach to linguistics (and everything else in classical western thought) is to an extent superseded by this theory - reason and minds aren't abstract entities operating in a purely theoretical realm but are in fact all higher reason is BOUND to physical reality in terms of using a physical schema set. This is not to say that we can't make things up in our minds however there are many boring sideeffects of the theory that essentially end up in your hypothesis that language doesn't bound understanding being pretty much untrue. i encourage you to give a closer look to these theories, specifically mark johnson's book the body in the mind, and lakoff/johnson's 1991 and 1998 joint works. this is good stuff - if you get into it it will change the way you look at the world...
hmmm...how familiar are you with cognitive science research i.e. metaphor theory, conceptual frameworks etc. lakoff, johnson, and friends. language _definitely_ impacts how we think. not a professional but its just too common-sense not to happen. of course chinese can understand say moral hazard but just like the referenced article was saying, if its not easily done its much less likely to get used.
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i was thinking about porting linux to n64 awhile back. too much hardware hacking for me. anyway if you like hacking around with N64 platform, Dextrose.com is THE site...
i wouldn't say that webmethods is phenominally successful...check out this item on them filing for IPO on FoRK (think of fork as slashdot for non-trolls). they're another company with shaky financials and a story. anyway point taken about xml being used fairly often now.
all music movie and tv content becomes integrated with ads. you can't view/listen to the content without viewing/listening to subtle advertising and propaganda.
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Yup. Just Fucking Google It:
& ie =utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=open+source+moblog
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient
Um...I guess you never heard of keyword advertising?
OK, now obviously all of the responses to this fairly lame post have been valid. However there is a "kernel" (heh) of truth here i.e., MS is planning to expose everything as SOAP calls over HTTP. Linux should try to do the same.
those who sit in their rooms in soiled boxer shorts all week writing diatribes against object-oriented programming, zaplets, and other such things are crazy!
considering the things that MP3.com puts in their Meta tags, this doesn't surprise me at all. robertson is definitely skewed towards being a social engineer...
if you truly believe in the web why have you patented a large number of highly obvious mechanisms such as "Apparatus and method for displaying enhanced hypertext link anchor information " and "Client-side, server-side and collaborative spell check of URLs" ??? I personally detest this type of behavior as do many other slashdot readers.
i wasn't attacking the AOL mentality per se - obviously that can work. however aol has a PURPOSE beyond being a veiled ponzi scheme - make the internet easier for non-technical users. this purpose gives them something to do next always - free-pc was just a far-out business model dreamed up by the MBA mentality. i'll buy stock in companies that are really contributing some type of defensible service/utility to users/customers. this includes yahoo, ebay, amazon, real, and yes even aol. scale being extremely important here of course.
many etailers, most ISPs free or not, many "copycat" companies (auction, portal , etc) will die off similar to Free-PC. since there are so many entrants into the internet world only real businesses will survive - have you checked pets.com stock yet? and how's the go network doing lately? [lost a billion, now "refocused" by disney]. i maintain that companies without a "purpose" started sheerly out of greed (most of those idealab companies for example) will NOT survive long-term no matter how many billions they throw at the problem.
notice that the best companies arent started explicitly to make money but to solve human problems - ebay with the founders girlfriend ifnding pez, yahoo with indexing cool sites etc. free-pc was started to make money.
i was at Demo '99 when bill gross announced it - i think of it now as the pinnacle of consumer internet business model madness....R.I.P. Theses types of companies really will not make it in the long term that just try to get users with no idea of what value they provide or why anyone should use them...
that's YOUR sister?
independence is bogus. cnn, nbc, et al. are basically biased, all owned by conglomerates. thats why i have always liked slashdot - its NOT prentending to be "unbiased", it has an opinion!
LOL - for some reason this troll's post is a good followup to the insanity that has erupted on this katzian thread
do NOT hire a CFO early on. your options are too valuable. use an outsourced accountant, that works fine. in-house legal is useful however
isnt the philosophy of Unix write once compile anywhere as well?
ho ironic would it be to see engineers getting replaced by machines...i could just see a protest outside microsoft by unemployed computer profesionals!!!
i actually took an intro class from lakoff. anyway, the bottom line with cogsci research is that higher reason and meaning is largely based on a metaphorical understanding of the world which is based on physical schemas and extended upwards via metaphor. the classic approach to linguistics (and everything else in classical western thought) is to an extent superseded by this theory - reason and minds aren't abstract entities operating in a purely theoretical realm but are in fact all higher reason is BOUND to physical reality in terms of using a physical schema set. This is not to say that we can't make things up in our minds however there are many boring sideeffects of the theory that essentially end up in your hypothesis that language doesn't bound understanding being pretty much untrue. i encourage you to give a closer look to these theories, specifically mark johnson's book the body in the mind, and lakoff/johnson's 1991 and 1998 joint works. this is good stuff - if you get into it it will change the way you look at the world...
hmmm...how familiar are you with cognitive science research i.e. metaphor theory, conceptual frameworks etc. lakoff, johnson, and friends. language _definitely_ impacts how we think. not a professional but its just too common-sense not to happen. of course chinese can understand say moral hazard but just like the referenced article was saying, if its not easily done its much less likely to get used.
never seen a tech support guy who got any...
sarducci? father guido sarducci???
i was thinking about porting linux to n64 awhile back. too much hardware hacking for me. anyway if you like hacking around with N64 platform, Dextrose.com is THE site...
is ANY slashdot news ever officially confirmed??? seems like /. will post anything heard on #efnet, in the corner grocery, or from anywhere else...
i wouldn't say that webmethods is phenominally successful...check out this item on them filing for IPO on FoRK (think of fork as slashdot for non-trolls). they're another company with shaky financials and a story. anyway point taken about xml being used fairly often now.
i think i'll always like to insert physical media once in awhile...
all music movie and tv content becomes integrated with ads. you can't view/listen to the content without viewing/listening to subtle advertising and propaganda.
please dont compare marc andreesen to billg or berners-lee.
a master and an apprentice!