There is a very capable space agency desperately looking for funding. For science and peace's sake, if you really want to fund space projects outside NASA, support the Russian sapce agency. __
A book is a form of artistic expression, not a tool!
What next? Open Source painting?
Hacking Chaucer?
Well, X years after the author's death, the "artistic expression" becomes public domain and everybody can copy and modify it.
Occidental art has actually copying from Neoclasicists that copied from the Renaissance that copied from the Romans that copied from the Greeks.
And this William Shakespeare that decided that he didn't like that Danish chronicle or this Italian novella and adapted it, and later Kurosawa or Kenneth Brannagh made thir changes as well.
Open source is just making the period of exclusivity freer. __
Many people in this level have made good points on why paper is not so wonderful.
My take is that I like to lie more than sit. You can watch TV in this position, but holding a heavy book or a big newspaper is strenuous after a while. A light electronic reader, or maybe a projection screen would be better here. __
I read it years ago. I remember that there was a lot of dialog that should have been narrative, because the author used it to explain you this world. Tedious. It remembered me of Platonic dialogues.
I remember that, in this scenario, there is a very common slang word "Suidac!" meaning "OK". It is explained that it comes from "Je suis d'accord" as said by Canadian hockey players. This can be traced to specific passages of "Future Shock".
Can somebody check the spelling?
And what happened to Alvin Toffler? "War and anti-war" was not as earth-shattering as previous works. While he was right in many parts about this future we live in, I don't seem to find a web presence for him.
I'd like a Slashdot interview with Toffler:) __
When John Perry Barlow toured Africa a couple of years ago, he showed a nomad tribesman the Internet from his laptop. Immediately the guy realised he could market his wares (rock salt and animal skins) to anyone in the world using this technology.
I hope John Perry Barlow explained him that spamming is not the way to sell his wares. __
But isn't a person's time a scarce resource? Especially if that person is skilled and therefore rare?
It depends. To me, a very skillful troll (there are those that make you read the whole post and you realize after you flame that it's all trolling) can employ as much time as ain insightful poster. Both are rare and skilled, but the time used by one has not the same value as the other's (to me). Of course, my criteria are different of those of the Great Troll Conspiracy.
In a market (the moderation system is a bit of a market paying scarce points to scarce good articles), the price tells whose time is valuable and whose should be better wasted or used in another purpose. __
Imagine if we had the Navy barking out the armaments and capabilities of our nuclear subs and aircraft?
Isn't that the point of nuclear disuassion (sp?)? Telling everybody how bad you could get if they don't behave? Like sending undetectable bombers over Irak to show that you can bomb anybody?
Besides, I suspect that US "national" security means worldwide insecurity, but that's not the point. __
Well, I think that Economics is dealing with scarce resources.
Marx actually linked value to time involved. So if I need 2 hours and you need 1, your product has more value. That's anti-progress.
Besides, Marx did not link value to utility (from memory). If I spend 3 hours carrying stones from A to B and another 3 carrying them from B to A, I have created more Marx-value than if I just do nothing, but the result is the same, stones in A.
If you want to introduce utility, you need something to measure, a price.
You can either evaluate it according to some criteria (planned economy) or use the free market (supply and demand) to determine it.
Planned economy is very difficult to plan right.
Free market is not perfect as well, but seems to work better.
I would expect that in 0 or low gravity, designers would be free of many of the constraints operating on Earth-bound computers.
Laptops? I would have imagined thinks like that personal assistant floating ball that Slashdot said NASA found in Star Wars.
Imagine computers around you, portables, projection screens, holograms, keyboards on your trousers, shaped as a ball, a tube, wahtever, but no laptops. __
The first time I saw a systematized exposition of the argument that price is linked to work involved was in some work by Karl Marx, probably "The Capital". I felt his reasoning faulty but I couldn't tell why.
Now I see that price is linked to offer and demand, that is, scarcity, as better Slashdotters have said. __
Actually some engines (Mamma?) don't give the exact results but something like http://search.tld/redirect?http://sought.site.tld/ page.htm .
From this, they can range the usefulness of the result (or charge the advertiser). They could reach that page as well to check 404s, but with so many searchs, I think it would be hard on their networks.
I don't like this for privacy reasons and because I can't tell whether this redirected URL is one I already visited from another engine or not. __
I don't care about personalization (contrary to what Microsoft says I *should* care about), I don't care about targetted e-mail, targetted advertising (contrary to what *sigh* even my beloved TIVO thinks) I care about the lowest price.
Glenn Fleishman runs a price comparison site. He says that, after a comparison, people very often choose to buy from Amazon even if they have the higher price. __
Isaac Asimov proposed this with the day as the base unit (since we humans have 1-day internal rythms, it would be more useful when going into space than say a Earth year or a Moon month). __
Slashdot Mirror
Information wants to be a book
Yes, I find it funny. He he.
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Privatized police?
Omni Consumer Products has a killer app for that. Half human, half machine, a whole policeman!
Robocop!
(Imagine Microsoft Police division.)
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Why stay within one country? Nationality should be open to competition as well.
The states, no, the cities, no, everybody should be able to decide which country they live in.
Have you forgot when the CEO of USA, Lincoln, used monopolistic techniques to crush the competition of the CSA?
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There is a very capable space agency desperately looking for funding. For science and peace's sake, if you really want to fund space projects outside NASA, support the Russian sapce agency.
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Thank you.
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Well, X years after the author's death, the "artistic expression" becomes public domain and everybody can copy and modify it.
Occidental art has actually copying from Neoclasicists that copied from the Renaissance that copied from the Romans that copied from the Greeks.
And this William Shakespeare that decided that he didn't like that Danish chronicle or this Italian novella and adapted it, and later Kurosawa or Kenneth Brannagh made thir changes as well.
Open source is just making the period of exclusivity freer.
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Many people in this level have made good points on why paper is not so wonderful.
My take is that I like to lie more than sit. You can watch TV in this position, but holding a heavy book or a big newspaper is strenuous after a while. A light electronic reader, or maybe a projection screen would be better here.
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I read it years ago. I remember that there was a lot of dialog that should have been narrative, because the author used it to explain you this world. Tedious. It remembered me of Platonic dialogues.
Anyway I liked it.
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I remember that, in this scenario, there is a very common slang word "Suidac!" meaning "OK". It is explained that it comes from "Je suis d'accord" as said by Canadian hockey players. This can be traced to specific passages of "Future Shock".
:)
Can somebody check the spelling?
And what happened to Alvin Toffler? "War and anti-war" was not as earth-shattering as previous works. While he was right in many parts about this future we live in, I don't seem to find a web presence for him.
I'd like a Slashdot interview with Toffler
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When John Perry Barlow toured Africa a couple of years ago, he showed a nomad tribesman the Internet from his laptop. Immediately the guy realised he could market his wares (rock salt and animal skins) to anyone in the world using this technology.
I hope John Perry Barlow explained him that spamming is not the way to sell his wares.
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And ranting on, does case-sensitivity make sense in programming languages? Pity that Java followed C in this.
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But isn't a person's time a scarce resource? Especially if that person is skilled and therefore rare?
It depends. To me, a very skillful troll (there are those that make you read the whole post and you realize after you flame that it's all trolling) can employ as much time as ain insightful poster. Both are rare and skilled, but the time used by one has not the same value as the other's (to me). Of course, my criteria are different of those of the Great Troll Conspiracy.
In a market (the moderation system is a bit of a market paying scarce points to scarce good articles), the price tells whose time is valuable and whose should be better wasted or used in another purpose.
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Personally, I don't like appeals to the moderator. They are noise to normal readers.
If I get moderator points, I ignore the calls and go to the real content or I can even get biased against the post.
Have some courage. If you have opinions that you feel will be contested by the Slashdot police, state them bravely or shut up, but don't ask mercy.
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Imagine if we had the Navy barking out the armaments and capabilities of our nuclear subs and aircraft?
Isn't that the point of nuclear disuassion (sp?)? Telling everybody how bad you could get if they don't behave? Like sending undetectable bombers over Irak to show that you can bomb anybody?
Besides, I suspect that US "national" security means worldwide insecurity, but that's not the point.
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Well, I think that Economics is dealing with scarce resources.
Marx actually linked value to time involved. So if I need 2 hours and you need 1, your product has more value. That's anti-progress.
Besides, Marx did not link value to utility (from memory). If I spend 3 hours carrying stones from A to B and another 3 carrying them from B to A, I have created more Marx-value than if I just do nothing, but the result is the same, stones in A.
If you want to introduce utility, you need something to measure, a price.
You can either evaluate it according to some criteria (planned economy) or use the free market (supply and demand) to determine it.
Planned economy is very difficult to plan right.
Free market is not perfect as well, but seems to work better.
Or how would you deal with scarce resources?
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I would expect that in 0 or low gravity, designers would be free of many of the constraints operating on Earth-bound computers.
Laptops? I would have imagined thinks like that personal assistant floating ball that Slashdot said NASA found in Star Wars.
Imagine computers around you, portables, projection screens, holograms, keyboards on your trousers, shaped as a ball, a tube, wahtever, but no laptops.
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The first time I saw a systematized exposition of the argument that price is linked to work involved was in some work by Karl Marx, probably "The Capital". I felt his reasoning faulty but I couldn't tell why.
Now I see that price is linked to offer and demand, that is, scarcity, as better Slashdotters have said.
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There's one at SourceForge, but it seems pre-alpha. Demons not running, and all that.
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Thank you, that was funny.
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Actually some engines (Mamma?) don't give the exact results but something like http://search.tld/redirect?http://sought.site.tld/ page.htm .
From this, they can range the usefulness of the result (or charge the advertiser). They could reach that page as well to check 404s, but with so many searchs, I think it would be hard on their networks.
I don't like this for privacy reasons and because I can't tell whether this redirected URL is one I already visited from another engine or not.
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I don't care about personalization (contrary to what Microsoft says I *should* care about), I don't care about targetted e-mail, targetted advertising (contrary to what *sigh* even my beloved TIVO thinks) I care about the lowest price.
Glenn Fleishman runs a price comparison site. He says that, after a comparison, people very often choose to buy from Amazon even if they have the higher price.
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We are in 2000 AD , ain't we?
The best judge you can expect is Judge Dredd .
Hi from Richard M Stallman Block!
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So now, the censor proxies will have to block Microsoft as they block Babelfish.
:)
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Isaac Asimov proposed this with the day as the base unit (since we humans have 1-day internal rythms, it would be more useful when going into space than say a Earth year or a Moon month).
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Isn't the "lameness filter" in Slashdot similar to this?
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