This is why this is important - on my copy of Office I get the following:
radical
fanatic
activist
revolutionary
rebel
moderate (Antonym)
and this is correct ( although it might be noted it excludes state terrorism ). What will Word 2002 do I wonder, will all words that mean activist and fanatic be replaced by 'criminal','anti-American' and all the rest ?
I've only worked in a few places, so I've not seen many circumstances, but this is my take.
Most of us, the committed ones, who are reasonable with people, will be quite able and produce good code and do good things.
However, the ones who do spectacular things tend to be quirky and a bit crazy. It's my guess that a lot of times these people aren't that great, but that once in a while they will do things that 'normal' people won't. They are the ones who code almost non-stop for six months to produce a first class engine. Would anyone describe what Linus did to start the kernel as normal ?
Normal people tend not to do this. We have normal interests and try to live balanced lives.
To quote Henry Rollins: "Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane...You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
So, if you hire a quirky person, be aware that he might save your shop, or kill it and be totally ready to sack the person. And that's what these people did. On the other hand, if you have a few engineers, a few risky bets that might just pay off bigtime are probably a really good idea. And of course, as with anyone else, keep track of them. Very few of us work well in a vacuum.
I can't believe this has been modded down. This made me laugh. Will the moderators please think just a bit, and then smile.
I completely agree with this post, and think that no doubt in the next few days Linus will make a posting like MS have and tell everyone how they shouldn't be looking for security weaknesses in Linux and how publishing them is completely naive in the same way that MS so wisely have.
If only the Open source community could learn from MS - and their wonderful server MS IIS
( Internet Infection Server ), codename Swiss Cheese the world would be a better place.
I'm feeling guilty about this easy scoring karma whoring - don't mod this up - but The Register has a scoop about Bluetooth LG Electronics and, let's hope, 802.11b for the Ipaq for 2002.
Yep you're right - I just meant that they spoke about it as a name and that was the only place I could think of where I could find it quickly. The comment was badly described.
Is anyone else out there sick of talking about 802.11b ( and 802.11a ) ?
It talks way too long to say. It needs a better name. In an interesting section on the wireless internet at The Economist they suggest the name Wi-Fi, which stands for Wireless fidelity or some such silliness. How do people feel about this? Personally as silly as the definition seems to be it seems better than talking of 802.11b. Also, is anyone using this name ?
As is often the case, the Register has some really interesting comments on this story here.
Apparently this release has a lot of market control and damage control related to it. There is a class action suit going due to previous claims of high speed chips. Anyways, read the Register article for more details.
I think that the true value of the net is yet to come. The reason I say this is government media management. The Gulf War will be, I think, the high water mark of government media management. In the Gulf War the US military brilliantly controlled the media, and denied it the ability to provide good images that they did not wish people to see. That is now impossible. The fact that it costs almost nothing to provide news to millions of people means that more views and more images can get across. This has been best outlined by the current debate on whether it is ethical to show Osama's videos. Who cares ? The US government can no longer deny people access to this information. When the Taliban get smart and start shooting videos of dieng civilians and send them out it will not be possible to remove those images from mass distribution.
Honestly, for the first time in a long time I'm feeling like the internet does do a neat new thing. Media and information freed are being freed from financial constraints.
Another cool thing about this is the range of expression you get. You can go beyond US media in the US easily, and check not what US media says that Arabs say but what Arabs actually say. That is great.
Finally, it will be really interesting to see how the anti-war movement uses the net to organize and inform. If the war is long and nasty it may enable the anti-war movement to be much better organised and informed than ever before.
This is comes down to a really a fundamental and interesting question. Comparing US, Japanese and European adoption rates for various technologies is something that should be done more.
The US leads in broadband adoption, but whether this will continue is another question. US long distance phone rates also were the cheapest in the world for ages. There used to be a whole heap of reverse dial services which would use a US base to place to calls to the destinations and hook up the connection. These services used to be cheaper than a one way connection from many countries.
I think the US also leads in cable TV subscriptions, but I'm not sure. As for mobile phones, the US is way behind and primitive. I can't believe how much a cell phone would cost me here compared to Europe and Australia.
The answers that you propose for the differences in mobile adoption are interesting. I think you leave out one thing that really affects the whole game, regulations. In Europe ONE mobile phone standard was set, wheras in the US there are at least 3. The whole market is different. In Japan it's different again. NTT has a monopoly which it can do what it likes with. Sure Japanese phones are neat, and their wireless web is neat, but check the prices !
Also, I think the other thing to look at the differing business cultures. In the US there is very harsh, hard competition and wrenching of every possible profit. In Europe there is more cooperation and Japan there is a tradition of incredible mixing between companies and the government and a really homogenous population.
There was an article in Wired a month or two ago when they talked about how successful the wireless web was in Japan, and The Economist has also commented on this. The fundamental question raised in both is whether it was 'a fluke' or something that can be translated all over the world. While it seems that fluke is harsh, it should be said that their are important cultural differences between these markets.
Ha. Someone mod this up as funny please !
But seriously, if a company makes a product that costs large numbers of other companies money they get fined. If a company's negligence causes a public resource to be degraded they get sued. Has anyone heard anything about some of the major service providers or any of the major uses launching a class action against MSFT ? It seems that they would have at least a start for a case here.
Try using the SDL and OpenGL. These have both been ported to the PS2, see this link for more details.
Then you should be able to develop on Linux and port later.
I was discussing this very issue with my supervisor yesterday. I work in a VR lab and we are looking at training tools that run on a PS2, and XBox or a DreamCast or whatever.
The conclusion we reached is that the way to go is to design the project with this in mind but work on PCs and build something going on the PC platform first. The large cost of a console development seat makes doing it for a student project seem a bit unwise. However if you used the SDL you could move it later.
OK. Change Nazism to strong German Nationalism Imperialism of which Nazism was just a new take. This sort of movement appeared and grew towards the end of the 19th century. That was a newish thing and was really a root cause of WWI ( as was respective French and British imperialism / nationalism.
Interesting comment.
You're right in a way and make a really good point. After thinking about I agree that the US needs to retaliate in some way. The problem is, against who ? Where? If you strike against countries in most ways you will kill lots of people. But unless you kill everyone you will just leave millions of people who will be mobilised. This is the great advantage of any guerilla. Overly strong strikes against the countries involves actually helps them. The previous US retaliation against a vaccine factory in the Sudan did not make the US any friends, or prevent this attack. British security measures in Northern Ireland made the IRA much stronger.
Would you like to try invading Afghanistan ? They are already cut off from the world system and let's not forget that two great empires have already tried this, the British Empire being the other. Fighting in the mountains against rebels is nasty, it's as bad as fighting in the jungle.
And ermm, 'fought these countries to the death' ? I believe they are still there, but I could be wrong.
And you're also putting words into my mouth. War changes things. It kills lots of people and fundamentally alters the world, and occasionally, as in the American War of Independence and I would argue the US Civil War for the better. But was Vietnam a good war ? Afghanistan ? The Bay of Pigs ?
The central thrust of my comment was meant to be simple, and it's this. America should fight wars in accordance with the revolutionary principles of democracy and freedom that it has established and demonstrated so well to the world. It should not just be another empire. I really am not anti- American. I would say, for instance, that American and Western intervention in the Balkans has been a great thing. It is still going on but is slowly brining peace to the region.
BTW I like the modding on my comment - a +4 troll ? But that's good in a way, hopefully it means that it's cutting to the heart of the matter.
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There is a big difference between the Nazis and 'Islamic Fundamentalism'. The Nazis created themselves and had decided that Germany should be the dominant power in Europe. 'Islamic Fundamentalism' is a reaction to sustained policies of the West, led by America.
The rights of the Palestinians have been systematically trampled. In the Persian Gulf America supports random despotic regimes based merely on their support for American interests.
Let us not forget that Bin Laden was supported by the CIA when it was convenient for him to fight in Afghanistan. Sadam was backed when it was convient to oppose the Iranian government that was in itself created to remove the American backed dictatorship of the Shah.
I know this is anti American but I should say that I am not. I honestly believe that America does tend to support Freedom and Democracy. However this is not the case in the Middle East. If it was these acts would not be taking place.
President Bush was correct when he called this a war. The only thing is that he didn't realise which war this was like. It's Vietnam all over again. The United States' aims are vague and are basically that the US and Israel can do whatever they want without respecting the values that they hold dear in the rest of the world. And think about this, why did the US withdraw from Vietnam ? Because it was immoral or because the cost to the US in lives and resources became too great.
The US should learn from it's mistakes and apply the values which it purports to hold dear everywhere.
What you are proposing is to fix the symptoms and not the cause. Fix the cause, be true to democracy and peace. First of all engage Iran, Iran has recovered from it's extremism and now has a president and a population who are desparate to return into the world system. Then, either invade Iraq or end the blockade, whose death count dwarves the loss of life in the US over the past few days. Finally, and this is the most difficult part, force Israel to make peace. Israel has a right to exist, but that right cannot include the right to persecute Palestinians. This is the only way and it will eventually happen. What you are proposing, the persecution of 'Islamic Fundamentalism' comes dangerously close to the persecution of Islam. There are 1.3 Billion muslims. The US cannot tell all these people that holy shrines that they have had for 1000 years they cannot have, or that their religion is babaric.
The US can stop these attacks. But it is not by further war. A truly amazing president, like Nixon, must realise that this is a conflict in which the US must understand it's own actions and change it's behaviour. America is a truly great country, perhaps the greatest in history, however this does not mean all US actions are correct.
Slashdot's coverage
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I'd just like to say that I've used slashdot a bit over the past two days and I've been impressed.
Of course there has been wild speculation that was inaccurate - but there was also this everywhere.
The accounts of survivors here and some of the links provided have been really good.
What does everyone else thing of slashdot's coverage ?
Ok, first of all I'd like to say that I am going to wildly speculate and say that I believe that this action was carried out by a muslim group.
The reason this has been done was not completely illogical or irrational. The fact is that American efforts in the middle east backing up Israel and the continued blockade or Iraq - that has killed at least 200 000 people can be seen as a defacto war. Check this link for details on deaths in Iraq.
As for Israel, the United States gives around $5 000 000 000 in direct aid to Israel, plus access to military secrets and weapons of untold value. Israel has nuclear weapons. Secondly ~$2 000 000 000 in aid is given to Egypt on the proviso that they leave Israel alone.
The Bush administration has said on Israel it intends to step back - if stepping back is billions of dollars of aid and backing up Israel unquesionably I sincerely ask the US to step back with regard to me too.
This action is not silly terrorism, it is simply another act in a war that the United States has been fighting for 50 years.
Well what is ? How should the Palenstians make their point ? When they try at an international conference the US walks out.
What goes around comes around.
Also, who are you going to bomb ? Non-state entities are very difficult to attack. It almost certainly wasn't Arafat.
Finally, do you realise what you're advocating is very similar to what whoever has done this has just done. You condemn attacks against US civilians and come very close to advocating attacks against foreign civilians.
But I have to say - check the docs section for an interesting quote:
"Sadly, Conglomerate has very little documentation at the moment, both user and developer documentation is practically nonexistent. There is, however, an introduction to conglomerate's architecture available, which should at least be of interest to potential developers."
Now surely this is a terrible inditement of a system that is intended to be used as:
"Software development groups who want a system integrating the entire process of authoring, storage, revision control and publishing, while using the same tools to create API documentation, release notes, tutorials, reference guides, and more, and publish them to online formats (HTML, Windows Help, custom formats) and paper formats (TeX/LaTeX) from the same sources."
Yes, as one of the net's chief 15 year old legal experts I'd just like to say that under the 'Really Big Bad Companies' legislation passed by Justice Jon Katz you have recourse to the provisions provided for any geek to sue any company that makes lots of money that you don't like.
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Yeah. The numbers were way down. Normally an LA SIGGRAPH gets about 50 000 people. This year it was only 30 - 40 000 I heard.
Floorspace was easy to get, which is apparently rare.
Also, job adds were down to about one third of what was there in 2000.
As welll as being indicative of the fact that graphics, at least non-realtime, has got incredibly good it's probably a fairly good note that there is a recession coming or indeed we're already in one.
Slashdot Mirror
This is why this is important - on my copy of Office I get the following:
radical
fanatic
activist
revolutionary
rebel
moderate (Antonym)
and this is correct ( although it might be noted it excludes state terrorism ). What will Word 2002 do I wonder, will all words that mean activist and fanatic be replaced by 'criminal','anti-American' and all the rest ?
I've only worked in a few places, so I've not seen many circumstances, but this is my take.
Most of us, the committed ones, who are reasonable with people, will be quite able and produce good code and do good things.
However, the ones who do spectacular things tend to be quirky and a bit crazy. It's my guess that a lot of times these people aren't that great, but that once in a while they will do things that 'normal' people won't. They are the ones who code almost non-stop for six months to produce a first class engine. Would anyone describe what Linus did to start the kernel as normal ?
Normal people tend not to do this. We have normal interests and try to live balanced lives.
To quote Henry Rollins:
"Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane...You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
So, if you hire a quirky person, be aware that he might save your shop, or kill it and be totally ready to sack the person. And that's what these people did. On the other hand, if you have a few engineers, a few risky bets that might just pay off bigtime are probably a really good idea. And of course, as with anyone else, keep track of them. Very few of us work well in a vacuum.
I can't believe this has been modded down. This made me laugh. Will the moderators please think just a bit, and then smile.
I completely agree with this post, and think that no doubt in the next few days Linus will make a posting like MS have and tell everyone how they shouldn't be looking for security weaknesses in Linux and how publishing them is completely naive in the same way that MS so wisely have.
If only the Open source community could learn from MS - and their wonderful server MS IIS ( Internet Infection Server ), codename Swiss Cheese the world would be a better place.
I'm feeling guilty about this easy scoring karma whoring - don't mod this up - but The Register has a scoop about Bluetooth LG Electronics and, let's hope, 802.11b for the Ipaq for 2002.
Yep you're right - I just meant that they spoke about it as a name and that was the only place I could think of where I could find it quickly. The comment was badly described.
Is anyone else out there sick of talking about 802.11b ( and 802.11a ) ?
It talks way too long to say. It needs a better name. In an interesting section on the wireless internet at The Economist they suggest the name Wi-Fi, which stands for Wireless fidelity or some such silliness. How do people feel about this? Personally as silly as the definition seems to be it seems better than talking of 802.11b. Also, is anyone using this name ?
As is often the case, the Register has some really interesting comments on this story here. Apparently this release has a lot of market control and damage control related to it. There is a class action suit going due to previous claims of high speed chips. Anyways, read the Register article for more details.
I think that the true value of the net is yet to come. The reason I say this is government media management. The Gulf War will be, I think, the high water mark of government media management. In the Gulf War the US military brilliantly controlled the media, and denied it the ability to provide good images that they did not wish people to see. That is now impossible. The fact that it costs almost nothing to provide news to millions of people means that more views and more images can get across. This has been best outlined by the current debate on whether it is ethical to show Osama's videos. Who cares ? The US government can no longer deny people access to this information. When the Taliban get smart and start shooting videos of dieng civilians and send them out it will not be possible to remove those images from mass distribution.
Honestly, for the first time in a long time I'm feeling like the internet does do a neat new thing. Media and information freed are being freed from financial constraints.
Another cool thing about this is the range of expression you get. You can go beyond US media in the US easily, and check not what US media says that Arabs say but what Arabs actually say. That is great.
Finally, it will be really interesting to see how the anti-war movement uses the net to organize and inform. If the war is long and nasty it may enable the anti-war movement to be much better organised and informed than ever before.
Oh no - this was actually an amusing Haiku. But people - take heed and join the call for the comlete elimination of joke Haiku production on the internet !
This is comes down to a really a fundamental and interesting question. Comparing US, Japanese and European adoption rates for various technologies is something that should be done more.
The US leads in broadband adoption, but whether this will continue is another question. US long distance phone rates also were the cheapest in the world for ages. There used to be a whole heap of reverse dial services which would use a US base to place to calls to the destinations and hook up the connection. These services used to be cheaper than a one way connection from many countries.
I think the US also leads in cable TV subscriptions, but I'm not sure. As for mobile phones, the US is way behind and primitive. I can't believe how much a cell phone would cost me here compared to Europe and Australia.
The answers that you propose for the differences in mobile adoption are interesting. I think you leave out one thing that really affects the whole game, regulations. In Europe ONE mobile phone standard was set, wheras in the US there are at least 3. The whole market is different. In Japan it's different again. NTT has a monopoly which it can do what it likes with. Sure Japanese phones are neat, and their wireless web is neat, but check the prices !
Also, I think the other thing to look at the differing business cultures. In the US there is very harsh, hard competition and wrenching of every possible profit. In Europe there is more cooperation and Japan there is a tradition of incredible mixing between companies and the government and a really homogenous population.
There was an article in Wired a month or two ago when they talked about how successful the wireless web was in Japan, and The Economist has also commented on this. The fundamental question raised in both is whether it was 'a fluke' or something that can be translated all over the world. While it seems that fluke is harsh, it should be said that their are important cultural differences between these markets.
Ha. Someone mod this up as funny please !
But seriously, if a company makes a product that costs large numbers of other companies money they get fined. If a company's negligence causes a public resource to be degraded they get sued. Has anyone heard anything about some of the major service providers or any of the major uses launching a class action against MSFT ? It seems that they would have at least a start for a case here.
Try using the SDL and OpenGL. These have both been ported to the PS2, see this link for more details. Then you should be able to develop on Linux and port later.
I was discussing this very issue with my supervisor yesterday. I work in a VR lab and we are looking at training tools that run on a PS2, and XBox or a DreamCast or whatever.
The conclusion we reached is that the way to go is to design the project with this in mind but work on PCs and build something going on the PC platform first. The large cost of a console development seat makes doing it for a student project seem a bit unwise. However if you used the SDL you could move it later.
There's an interesting read over on the BBC about retaliation.
OK. Change Nazism to strong German Nationalism Imperialism of which Nazism was just a new take. This sort of movement appeared and grew towards the end of the 19th century. That was a newish thing and was really a root cause of WWI ( as was respective French and British imperialism / nationalism.
Chechnya. Rawanda. East Timor.
Be careful of overstating the case.
Interesting comment.
You're right in a way and make a really good point. After thinking about I agree that the US needs to retaliate in some way. The problem is, against who ? Where? If you strike against countries in most ways you will kill lots of people. But unless you kill everyone you will just leave millions of people who will be mobilised. This is the great advantage of any guerilla. Overly strong strikes against the countries involves actually helps them. The previous US retaliation against a vaccine factory in the Sudan did not make the US any friends, or prevent this attack. British security measures in Northern Ireland made the IRA much stronger.
Would you like to try invading Afghanistan ? They are already cut off from the world system and let's not forget that two great empires have already tried this, the British Empire being the other. Fighting in the mountains against rebels is nasty, it's as bad as fighting in the jungle.
And ermm, 'fought these countries to the death' ? I believe they are still there, but I could be wrong.
And you're also putting words into my mouth. War changes things. It kills lots of people and fundamentally alters the world, and occasionally, as in the American War of Independence and I would argue the US Civil War for the better. But was Vietnam a good war ? Afghanistan ? The Bay of Pigs ?
The central thrust of my comment was meant to be simple, and it's this. America should fight wars in accordance with the revolutionary principles of democracy and freedom that it has established and demonstrated so well to the world. It should not just be another empire. I really am not anti- American. I would say, for instance, that American and Western intervention in the Balkans has been a great thing. It is still going on but is slowly brining peace to the region.
BTW I like the modding on my comment - a +4 troll ? But that's good in a way, hopefully it means that it's cutting to the heart of the matter.
There is a big difference between the Nazis and 'Islamic Fundamentalism'. The Nazis created themselves and had decided that Germany should be the dominant power in Europe. 'Islamic Fundamentalism' is a reaction to sustained policies of the West, led by America.
The rights of the Palestinians have been systematically trampled. In the Persian Gulf America supports random despotic regimes based merely on their support for American interests. Let us not forget that Bin Laden was supported by the CIA when it was convenient for him to fight in Afghanistan. Sadam was backed when it was convient to oppose the Iranian government that was in itself created to remove the American backed dictatorship of the Shah.
I know this is anti American but I should say that I am not. I honestly believe that America does tend to support Freedom and Democracy. However this is not the case in the Middle East. If it was these acts would not be taking place.
President Bush was correct when he called this a war. The only thing is that he didn't realise which war this was like. It's Vietnam all over again. The United States' aims are vague and are basically that the US and Israel can do whatever they want without respecting the values that they hold dear in the rest of the world. And think about this, why did the US withdraw from Vietnam ? Because it was immoral or because the cost to the US in lives and resources became too great.
The US should learn from it's mistakes and apply the values which it purports to hold dear everywhere.
What you are proposing is to fix the symptoms and not the cause. Fix the cause, be true to democracy and peace. First of all engage Iran, Iran has recovered from it's extremism and now has a president and a population who are desparate to return into the world system. Then, either invade Iraq or end the blockade, whose death count dwarves the loss of life in the US over the past few days. Finally, and this is the most difficult part, force Israel to make peace. Israel has a right to exist, but that right cannot include the right to persecute Palestinians. This is the only way and it will eventually happen. What you are proposing, the persecution of 'Islamic Fundamentalism' comes dangerously close to the persecution of Islam. There are 1.3 Billion muslims. The US cannot tell all these people that holy shrines that they have had for 1000 years they cannot have, or that their religion is babaric.
The US can stop these attacks. But it is not by further war. A truly amazing president, like Nixon, must realise that this is a conflict in which the US must understand it's own actions and change it's behaviour. America is a truly great country, perhaps the greatest in history, however this does not mean all US actions are correct.
I'd just like to say that I've used slashdot a bit over the past two days and I've been impressed.
Of course there has been wild speculation that was inaccurate - but there was also this everywhere.
The accounts of survivors here and some of the links provided have been really good.
What does everyone else thing of slashdot's coverage ?
Ok, first of all I'd like to say that I am going to wildly speculate and say that I believe that this action was carried out by a muslim group.
The reason this has been done was not completely illogical or irrational. The fact is that American efforts in the middle east backing up Israel and the continued blockade or Iraq - that has killed at least 200 000 people can be seen as a defacto war. Check this link for details on deaths in Iraq.
As for Israel, the United States gives around $5 000 000 000 in direct aid to Israel, plus access to military secrets and weapons of untold value. Israel has nuclear weapons. Secondly ~$2 000 000 000 in aid is given to Egypt on the proviso that they leave Israel alone.
The Bush administration has said on Israel it intends to step back - if stepping back is billions of dollars of aid and backing up Israel unquesionably I sincerely ask the US to step back with regard to me too.
This action is not silly terrorism, it is simply another act in a war that the United States has been fighting for 50 years.
Well what is ? How should the Palenstians make their point ? When they try at an international conference the US walks out.
What goes around comes around.
Also, who are you going to bomb ? Non-state entities are very difficult to attack. It almost certainly wasn't Arafat.
Finally, do you realise what you're advocating is very similar to what whoever has done this has just done. You condemn attacks against US civilians and come very close to advocating attacks against foreign civilians.
Do you use XML for storing UML designs ? If so what tools do you use ?
But I have to say - check the docs section for an interesting quote:
Now surely this is a terrible inditement of a system that is intended to be used as:
Yes, as one of the net's chief 15 year old legal experts I'd just like to say that under the 'Really Big Bad Companies' legislation passed by Justice Jon Katz you have recourse to the provisions provided for any geek to sue any company that makes lots of money that you don't like.
Yeah. The numbers were way down. Normally an LA SIGGRAPH gets about 50 000 people. This year it was only 30 - 40 000 I heard.
Floorspace was easy to get, which is apparently rare.
Also, job adds were down to about one third of what was there in 2000.
As welll as being indicative of the fact that graphics, at least non-realtime, has got incredibly good it's probably a fairly good note that there is a recession coming or indeed we're already in one.
It's really good. I got mine there too.
There is heaps of stuff in it.