Damn - you make me feel old!;-) Does no-one remember 14" removable disk packs, or the first 5 (yes, five) MB hard drives, or 8" floppies... For that matter, my first mass storage device was a 300 baud audio casette recorder - that's unless you count punched cards!:)
Agreed - counselling can only help if both sides want to go, and are willing to to try to make it work. Sorry that you're having a tough time - hopefully the good times outweigh the bad. If not...
Suggest you see a marriage counselor. Different opinions is one thing, but hostility towards your spouse is not a sign of a working marriage. I'd bet this isn't the first time your wife has reacted badly to differences of opinion...
Schools and teachers are going to be super-sensitive to this issue right now, if for no other reason than that they're going to be scared shitless of law suits.
The bad side of this is what's already been reported - kids getting suspended for saying thay understand what happened, or for being associated with any of the crap the media has brought up (clothes, games, etc).
The good side is that now is the time to speak up against teen cruelty and abuse as school. Play to your teacher's fears; tell them that if they don't crack down on abuse at school that you're worried the same thing could happen. Obviously they should already be doing this, but NOW is the time to address it if they're not. If you get blown off, then tell your parents about the teacher's response...
You really need to talk to your wife about this - try to find out *why* she feels the way she does. Make sure she realizes that reading this stuff is important to you. You don't need to agree with each other, but it's important that you can at least talk about it and respect each others opinions on it - particularly if you plan to have kids.
Sure, applications make the platform, but how does this guy expect applications to get written/ported unless there are enough early-adopters using the platform?
Given that the guy likes Linux, but thinks that Linux apps are weak, presumably it's the OS developers that he thinks would be more productively enhancing Windows - tough to do when Windows is closed and proprietary.
How lame to write an article like that, and not even have an e-mail address for feedback. Pretty much speaks for itself.
The mind is the dynamics of the brain. The brain's key evolutionary benefit is the ability to model the environment so as to be able to react to it in more advantageous ways. A key factor in being able to model the environment is the ability to predict what comes next, which comes from recognising causal (or more accurately correlational) relationships. This is largely subconsious - if a bat hits a ball, we correlate the ball's motion to that of the bat and infer a causal/correlational relationship. We correlate our actions to the preceding decision to act, and infer a causal relationship./you/ is simply the mental construct to which "your" decisions to act are attributed./you/ therefore becomes the actor in all "your" actions, and the center of "your" episodic memory. It is not/you/ who "reviews the minds storage";/you/ are _part of_ the minds storage.
Penrose doesn't want to believe that computers will ever be able to do what the human brain can, and wrote a book to try to prove that. He failed.
Penrose's tortuous computability proofs have been theoretically debunked.
Penrose wants you to believe that the brain doesn't operate in the realm of classical physics, but rather utilizes large scale quantum phenomena.
Common sense says that the repeating microcolumns of the cortex, and their distinctive interconnect patterns evolved for a reason. This level (and above) is where we should be looking for explanations of brain function. Penrose doesn't want to believe this. He *really* doesn't.
Try explaining traffic flows on your morning commute by solving schoedringers equation. Protons and neutrons are just as arbitrary a level of emergenence as are characteristics of chemical compounds or bulk matter...
Quantity does, thru emergence, give rise to quality. You don't see much "liquidity" in a single water molecule. Qualities on one level of emergence are no less real than those on another.
MS applications all the time install their own incompatible versions of DLLs that break other applications. And all your Win95 apps run on Win3.1 or WinNT do they?
And since when does *anything* work properly on Windows? NT 4.0 crashes all the time, and 5.0 promises to be even more buggy...
Linux may not be perfect, but I'm far happier with it than I ever was with Windows.
Huh? "Open Source" is hardly an everyday conversational term. I never heard it before ESR came up with it. On the other hand, "Window" as a computer term (the W in WIMP) goes back way before MS Windows ever existed.
Xerox invented the Windowed UI (as well as bit-mapped displays, mice, ethernet..). Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC and copied the Xerox Star to make the Apple Lisa (released in the early 80's), which was a flop but spawned the Mac. MS Windows came much later.
Considering how many adults are brain-dead, it's nice to see a bunch of school kids putting together a cool project like this. Smarter of them to use off the shelf parts than to reinvent the wheel... tho's I guess they could have picked a rather less brick-like computer!
If there are costs associated with being on a standards body, then what you get for your money is the ability to influence the standard in the direction of your own interests. It's hardly a charitable donation for the community benefit!
Actually, he *is* starting to give away some of his ill-gotten gains.. one of his give-a-ways last year was $500M for childrens immunizations. He was a foundation set up specifically for this stuff - I think it's his wife that does a lot of the foundation management.
Microsoft sucks, Windows sucks, and Gates sucks too - but he *does* give away a LOT of money...
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Damn - you make me feel old! ;-) :)
Does no-one remember 14" removable disk packs, or the first 5 (yes, five) MB hard drives, or 8" floppies... For that matter, my first mass storage device was a 300 baud audio casette recorder - that's unless you count punched cards!
Agreed - counselling can only help if both sides want to go, and are willing to to try to make it work. Sorry that you're having a tough time - hopefully the good times outweigh the bad. If not...
Suggest you see a marriage counselor. Different opinions is one thing, but hostility towards your spouse is not a sign of a working marriage. I'd bet this isn't the first time your wife has reacted badly to differences of opinion...
Schools and teachers are going to be super-sensitive to this issue right now, if for no other reason than that they're going to be scared shitless of law suits.
The bad side of this is what's already been reported - kids getting suspended for saying thay understand what happened, or for being associated with any of the crap the media has brought up (clothes, games, etc).
The good side is that now is the time to speak up against teen cruelty and abuse as school. Play to your teacher's fears; tell them that if they don't crack down on abuse at school that you're worried the same thing could happen. Obviously they should already be doing this, but NOW is the time to address it if they're not. If you get blown off, then tell your parents about the teacher's response...
You really need to talk to your wife about this - try to find out *why* she feels the way she does. Make sure she realizes that reading this stuff is important to you. You don't need to agree with each other, but it's important that you can at least talk about it and respect each others opinions on it - particularly if you plan to have kids.
.. of project leaders and managers will be today's students who are increasingly using Linux :)
Sure, applications make the platform, but how does this guy expect applications to get written/ported unless there are enough early-adopters using the platform?
Given that the guy likes Linux, but thinks that Linux apps are weak, presumably it's the OS developers that he thinks would be more productively enhancing Windows - tough to do when Windows is closed and proprietary.
How lame to write an article like that, and not even have an e-mail address for feedback. Pretty much speaks for itself.
The mind is the dynamics of the brain. The brain's key evolutionary benefit is the ability to model the environment so as to be able to react to it in more advantageous ways. A key factor in being able to model the environment is the ability to predict what comes next, which comes from recognising causal (or more accurately correlational) relationships. This is largely subconsious - if a bat hits a ball, we correlate the ball's motion to that of the bat and infer a causal/correlational relationship. We correlate our actions to the preceding decision to act, and infer a causal relationship. /you/ is simply the mental construct to which "your" decisions to act are attributed. /you/ therefore becomes the actor in all "your" actions, and the center of "your" episodic memory. It is not /you/ who "reviews the minds storage"; /you/ are _part of_ the minds storage.
Thanks for the recommendation - my copy is on its way from amazon.com :)
Penrose doesn't want to believe that computers will ever be able to do what the human brain can, and wrote a book to try to prove that. He failed.
Penrose's tortuous computability proofs have been theoretically debunked.
Penrose wants you to believe that the brain doesn't operate in the realm of classical physics, but rather utilizes large scale quantum phenomena.
Common sense says that the repeating microcolumns of the cortex, and their distinctive interconnect patterns evolved for a reason. This level (and above) is where we should be looking for explanations of brain function. Penrose doesn't want to believe this. He *really* doesn't.
Try explaining traffic flows on your morning commute by solving schoedringers equation. Protons and neutrons are just as arbitrary a level of emergenence as are characteristics of chemical compounds or bulk matter...
Quantity does, thru emergence, give rise to quality. You don't see much "liquidity" in a single water molecule. Qualities on one level of emergence are no less real than those on another.
Scientific progress is often made when we "get over" questions, not answer them.
If you're asking the wrong question, you're never going to get the right answer.
Agreed - Pinker is smart and interesting, but IMHO often wrong - too Chompskian.
Lakoff's "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things" is also an excellent book.
gcc is gcc (2.7.2.x - for kernel builds)
g++ is ecgs (1.1.2 ?)
Of course you can use "g++ -x c" to use ecgs for C as well as C++.
MS applications all the time install their own incompatible versions of DLLs that break other applications. And all your Win95 apps run on Win3.1 or WinNT do they?
And since when does *anything* work properly on Windows? NT 4.0 crashes all the time, and 5.0 promises to be even more buggy...
Linux may not be perfect, but I'm far happier with it than I ever was with Windows.
Huh? "Open Source" is hardly an everyday conversational term. I never heard it before ESR came up with it. On the other hand, "Window" as a computer term (the W in WIMP) goes back way before MS Windows ever existed.
Xerox invented the Windowed UI (as well as bit-mapped displays, mice, ethernet..). Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC and copied the Xerox Star to make the Apple Lisa (released in the early 80's), which was a flop but spawned the Mac. MS Windows came much later.
Considering how many adults are brain-dead, it's nice to see a bunch of school kids putting together a cool project like this. Smarter of them to use off the shelf parts than to reinvent the wheel... tho's I guess they could have picked a rather less brick-like computer!
.. he "Open Sourced" his sex life - all contributors welcome!
:)
Bet Al Gore's got a bitchin' collection of MP3's too!
If there are costs associated with being on a standards body, then what you get for your money is the ability to influence the standard in the direction of your own interests. It's hardly a charitable donation for the community benefit!
Actually, he *is* starting to give away some of his ill-gotten gains.. one of his give-a-ways last year was $500M for childrens immunizations. He was a foundation set up specifically for this stuff - I think it's his wife that does a lot of the foundation management.
Microsoft sucks, Windows sucks, and Gates sucks too - but he *does* give away a LOT of money...
The idea was that people at home would be happy with reduced functionality if it was cheap - they didn't need or want an "office PC" at home.
:)
I guess people have more diverse uses for computers than many marketing weenies believe.
I might buy a dedicated "instant on" web surfing device *as well as* a full blown PC, though!