The obligatory quote from Shakespeare's Henry VI is apt in the face of the insanely, litigious state of Corporate culture. "...kill all the lawyers.", and the system fails. The path seems to be grab whatever you can, lay claim via the USPTO, who seem ready to oblige. Then litigate and hold out for a buyout. SCO seems to be run by idiots, as they appear to be failing where all others succeed.
The fx seem to have been done by someone transfixed by Ghost Busters. I've watched every episode as they come on in Canada and the fx all seem to be a la the swirling gases and bubbling amorphous masses of ectoplasm introduced in Ghost Busters.
Re:What I wonder is...the English Class System
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It's the horror of being below the salt. At dinner there were two sorts. Those above the salt were entitled to sprinkle salt on their fare, but the unlucky, below the salt, were denied salt and were deemed to be below the salt. Granted they probably didn't use salt shakers when this quaint custom was in play.
I took my information from a recent documentary David Suzuki did for nova on the brain. I can't immediately recall the title. As to the Legend of Zelda, I've no idea what you're referrencing and, going with my instincts, I don't care to.
IQ tests are subject to too many variables. I generally write in the 140s but when I spent a few weeks studying IQ tests I upped my score to 160. Plus memory plays a big role. If you can recall a question type, a solution comes much more quickly.
I've spent much of my life in Vancouver, Canada, noted for the potency of its pot. I don't smoke often but also I haven't noticed any deleterious effects.
Interestingly psilocybin mushrooms, which I've also experimented with, along with LSD, have recently been shown to be very close to seritoninin their chemical makeup. One of the strange characteristics of mushrooms and LSD is that they tend to induce geometric halllucinations. While it's completely off the wall as conjecture, it's fun to note that nearly, perhaps all, ancient civilizations used hallucinogens, so it may be that our unusual, perhaps unique, method of analysing the world geometrically, in terms of Euclidean geometry for example, may have had its start from the use of drugs.
Granted I'm playing loosely with the definition of improvisation. Improvisation is probably better applied to Jazz or a cadenza, so maybe it's my bad, but I think there's room to move within a broad definition of improvisation. Other than the obligatory years of piano lessons as a kid and an ongoing love of jazz and classical music I haven't the education or musical ability to back my usage up.
Gould's reputation was built on improvisation. His 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations became an instant best seller and was one of, or, possibly, the first classical best seller. His refusal to play Legato (smoothly) upset the status quo of the classical music world. Leonard Berstein, legendary conductor of the New York Philarmonic, deferred to Gould's quirky redition of a work, suggesting that genius of Gould's level should be allowed leeway.
Glen Gould was a supreme recording tech. He stopped playing publicly "on 10 April 1964 in a Los Angeles recital". The list of Gould's idiocyracies would fill a few pages. He would steep his hands and forearms in steaming hot water to loosen them and increase the circulation. Those who witnessed this ritual said his arms would come out burnt red. He loved recording technology and was a master of the craft. Some detractors have suggested his later output reflected his virtuosity as a technologist more than his ability as a pianist, but those who heard him live state unequivocably that his mastery of the keyboard was unparalleled, especially his ability to play at a blinding speed.
I'm with Captain Janeway in her dislike of temporal mechanics, but this seems like a problem the crew in TOS solved by slinging the Enterprise one way or another around the Sun. Sling the data packets x number of times around the Sun and fling them the appropriate distance into the future, or, possibly, on occasion, into the past. But then again I could be wrong; as noted above I hate temporal mechanics.
I read Lee Smolin's book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity over Xmas and thought it was a good read. It provides a good overview to string theory and the inherent problems and proposed solutions.
Marshall McLuhan's message: ""The Medium is the Message" is now about 4 decades old. McLuhan is thought by many to be one of the fathers of the age of technology yet posters on/. seem unable to distinguish between two mediums/metaphors as visibly distinguishable as film and book. The experiences are distinctly different enjoy each according to its merits. If you can't distinguish between two diverse experinces perhaps you're too egocentic and tribal, read primitive.
US companies Cisco and Goggle were both named in a Washington Post article as being duplicious in aiding the Chinese governments efforts to censor the internet. Although it states the study does not mention either company and both companies have denied aiding the Chinese government it still begs the question whether US companies, especially, Goggle, would put profit ahead of freedom of speech. It harks back to the business done between companies from both sides during WWII.
IIRC Robert Graves in his weird & wonderful book The White Goddess points out that 42 is the numerological answer to the Greek concept of the Christ as the incarnataion of logos. The term has been applied to the "historical" figure of Jesus Christ, but the idea is much more ancient and hitched a ride with Christianity. Logos suggests a transcendental realm of pure reason. This ancient idea of a Christ figure who embodies luciditiy brought to Christianity a sort of changling Christ and embedded in Christianity a search for transcendent reason that could be seen as the spark for science. I don't believe in God and find it amusing that Christianity in its hubris and eclectic method may have taken on a hitchhiker that spawned science and worked to transcend tribal religions.
A few pointers that might be helpful
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Gerald Edelman, nobel laureate, and author of a series of books on human consciousness, is the only author I've read who has openly stated he has defined consciousness. His book
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire is a summary of his previous findings. Antonio Domasio has studied consciousness for decades. His earlier work
Descartes' Error : Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a good jumping off point, especially as he starts off with a recounting of the case of Phineas Gage, a patient whose case was key to studies of the brain by way of studying brain injuries. Damasio's other book, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness should be of interest to those studying AI, as the book takes a close look at the issue of emotion/feeling in decision making. It takes note of interesting cases where damage to areas of the brain leave patients able to reason clearly but unable to arrive at decisions as their emotional centres are impaired.Calvin Williams is worth a read, recently he published
A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond which makes for a quick, easy read and an intro to his ideas. Generally the best and the brightest still view consciousness as an enigma but much has been accomplished in unraveling the mystery. Perhaps the most telling point is that neuroscience has taken the lead and the philosphers now follow in their footsteps.
One of the key question underlying studies of life on earth is simply how did "life", RNA or DNA based, come to be encapsulated in the cell membrane? Studies of prebiotic life tend to skip over the issue. Dr.S. Kauffman, author of books on Complexity has offered a few alternative scenarios but the question of how life came to have a place to call 127.0.0.1 remains open to conjecture. Non-equilibrium open systems giving rise to complexity have held out alot of promise to answering basic questions arising from studies of prebiotic life but the question remains how do they get the caramilk inside a caramilk bar.
Language is better viewed as a co-evolutionary adaptation. Language requires not only a speaker but a listener. The signs/symbols of language are a co-evolutionay process. Gregory Bateson touched upon this in his book Mind & Nature.Adaptation, starvation and poisioning are also players in what we view as the evolutionary game. Of course sexual reproduction leads to the meme of the Selfish Gene as promulgated by R. Dawkins, and leads to viewing us, you and I and everyone of us, as so much packaging shunting genes about. Thinking about the soma as no more than packaging moving genes about via sexual reproduction doesn't seem to take into consideration the generation of negentropy, or, information. The generation and transmission of information via language is the creation of negative entropy and manifests an emergent property that is in a strange way the universe on a course of self discovery.
HeLa cells have an interesting history, they were derived from the cervical carcinoma of Henrietta Lacks. There is a theory that the loss of telomere length is at the root of aging. I recall reading that HeLa cells were sent up on Voyager, although I can't immediately recall the source.
The beer industry has been on to this forever. When I drink beer I'm smater, cooler and have the moves to hit on chicks. The beer makers must have a feedback mechanism built into the product as they know what the chicks I want look like and how cool and how much smater I want to be... just watch the commercials.
Meta bracketing the evolution of the use of Legos in the scientific community might be as fruitful as the use of the Lego Mindstorms set. Investigation is limited by the questions we ask and the tools we have at hand. The use of Lego "toys" and the meme that has grown up around them has alot to tell of what we can accomplish and how we set out to accomplish it. Over history at large, an example might be Euclidean geometry which funneled and defined much of scientific thought up to the time of Newton, and is now seen to be limited and antiquated. In miniture the use of Lego Mindstorms to investigate "serious" science in an interesting paradigm that continues to influence and grow popping up in diverse books and papers.
The PC is the "Mainframe" of the Networked Home
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mp3s, dvds, gamepads, cell phones, all peripherals are/will be the "thin clients" of what is now the PC which already has the power of early mainframes. Household appliances will either connect directly to the net or for security and other reasons connect through what is now the PC which will archive and update
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The obligatory quote from Shakespeare's Henry VI is apt in the face of the insanely, litigious state of Corporate culture. "...kill all the lawyers.", and the system fails. The path seems to be grab whatever you can, lay claim via the USPTO, who seem ready to oblige. Then litigate and hold out for a buyout. SCO seems to be run by idiots, as they appear to be failing where all others succeed.
Wait for a mod. They'll let you know.
I took a quick sample, and, it appears that, uhmm, yes, you're alone in asking. Give it some thought.
The fx seem to have been done by someone transfixed by Ghost Busters. I've watched every episode as they come on in Canada and the fx all seem to be a la the swirling gases and bubbling amorphous masses of ectoplasm introduced in Ghost Busters.
It's the horror of being below the salt. At dinner there were two sorts. Those above the salt were entitled to sprinkle salt on their fare, but the unlucky, below the salt, were denied salt and were deemed to be below the salt. Granted they probably didn't use salt shakers when this quaint custom was in play.
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IQ tests are subject to too many variables. I generally write in the 140s but when I spent a few weeks studying IQ tests I upped my score to 160. Plus memory plays a big role. If you can recall a question type, a solution comes much more quickly. I've spent much of my life in Vancouver, Canada, noted for the potency of its pot. I don't smoke often but also I haven't noticed any deleterious effects. Interestingly psilocybin mushrooms, which I've also experimented with, along with LSD, have recently been shown to be very close to seritoninin their chemical makeup. One of the strange characteristics of mushrooms and LSD is that they tend to induce geometric halllucinations. While it's completely off the wall as conjecture, it's fun to note that nearly, perhaps all, ancient civilizations used hallucinogens, so it may be that our unusual, perhaps unique, method of analysing the world geometrically, in terms of Euclidean geometry for example, may have had its start from the use of drugs.
Granted I'm playing loosely with the definition of improvisation. Improvisation is probably better applied to Jazz or a cadenza, so maybe it's my bad, but I think there's room to move within a broad definition of improvisation. Other than the obligatory years of piano lessons as a kid and an ongoing love of jazz and classical music I haven't the education or musical ability to back my usage up.
Gould's reputation was built on improvisation. His 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations became an instant best seller and was one of, or, possibly, the first classical best seller. His refusal to play Legato (smoothly) upset the status quo of the classical music world. Leonard Berstein, legendary conductor of the New York Philarmonic, deferred to Gould's quirky redition of a work, suggesting that genius of Gould's level should be allowed leeway.
Glen Gould was a supreme recording tech. He stopped playing publicly "on 10 April 1964 in a Los Angeles recital". The list of Gould's idiocyracies would fill a few pages. He would steep his hands and forearms in steaming hot water to loosen them and increase the circulation. Those who witnessed this ritual said his arms would come out burnt red. He loved recording technology and was a master of the craft. Some detractors have suggested his later output reflected his virtuosity as a technologist more than his ability as a pianist, but those who heard him live state unequivocably that his mastery of the keyboard was unparalleled, especially his ability to play at a blinding speed.
I'm with Captain Janeway in her dislike of temporal mechanics, but this seems like a problem the crew in TOS solved by slinging the Enterprise one way or another around the Sun. Sling the data packets x number of times around the Sun and fling them the appropriate distance into the future, or, possibly, on occasion, into the past. But then again I could be wrong; as noted above I hate temporal mechanics.
This procedure was, I believe, developed and first performed in Canada. The idea has been around for a few years.
I read Lee Smolin's book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity over Xmas and thought it was a good read. It provides a good overview to string theory and the inherent problems and proposed solutions.
Marshall McLuhan's message: ""The Medium is the Message" is now about 4 decades old. McLuhan is thought by many to be one of the fathers of the age of technology yet posters on /. seem unable to distinguish between two mediums/metaphors as visibly distinguishable as film and book. The experiences are distinctly different enjoy each according to its merits. If you can't distinguish between two diverse experinces perhaps you're too egocentic and tribal, read primitive.
US companies Cisco and Goggle were both named in a Washington Post article as being duplicious in aiding the Chinese governments efforts to censor the internet. Although it states the study does not mention either company and both companies have denied aiding the Chinese government it still begs the question whether US companies, especially, Goggle, would put profit ahead of freedom of speech. It harks back to the business done between companies from both sides during WWII.
Life when considered in the form of a spore is structure, which when energy (food) is added, becomes life. Life is structure and energy.
IIRC Robert Graves in his weird & wonderful book The White Goddess points out that 42 is the numerological answer to the Greek concept of the Christ as the incarnataion of logos. The term has been applied to the "historical" figure of Jesus Christ, but the idea is much more ancient and hitched a ride with Christianity. Logos suggests a transcendental realm of pure reason. This ancient idea of a Christ figure who embodies luciditiy brought to Christianity a sort of changling Christ and embedded in Christianity a search for transcendent reason that could be seen as the spark for science. I don't believe in God and find it amusing that Christianity in its hubris and eclectic method may have taken on a hitchhiker that spawned science and worked to transcend tribal religions.
Gerald Edelman, nobel laureate, and author of a series of books on human consciousness, is the only author I've read who has openly stated he has defined consciousness. His book Bright Air, Brilliant Fire is a summary of his previous findings. Antonio Domasio has studied consciousness for decades. His earlier work Descartes' Error : Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a good jumping off point, especially as he starts off with a recounting of the case of Phineas Gage, a patient whose case was key to studies of the brain by way of studying brain injuries. Damasio's other book, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness should be of interest to those studying AI, as the book takes a close look at the issue of emotion/feeling in decision making. It takes note of interesting cases where damage to areas of the brain leave patients able to reason clearly but unable to arrive at decisions as their emotional centres are impaired.Calvin Williams is worth a read, recently he published A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond which makes for a quick, easy read and an intro to his ideas. Generally the best and the brightest still view consciousness as an enigma but much has been accomplished in unraveling the mystery. Perhaps the most telling point is that neuroscience has taken the lead and the philosphers now follow in their footsteps.
One of the key question underlying studies of life on earth is simply how did "life", RNA or DNA based, come to be encapsulated in the cell membrane? Studies of prebiotic life tend to skip over the issue. Dr.S. Kauffman, author of books on Complexity has offered a few alternative scenarios but the question of how life came to have a place to call 127.0.0.1 remains open to conjecture. Non-equilibrium open systems giving rise to complexity have held out alot of promise to answering basic questions arising from studies of prebiotic life but the question remains how do they get the caramilk inside a caramilk bar.
Language is better viewed as a co-evolutionary adaptation. Language requires not only a speaker but a listener. The signs/symbols of language are a co-evolutionay process. Gregory Bateson touched upon this in his book Mind & Nature.Adaptation, starvation and poisioning are also players in what we view as the evolutionary game. Of course sexual reproduction leads to the meme of the Selfish Gene as promulgated by R. Dawkins, and leads to viewing us, you and I and everyone of us, as so much packaging shunting genes about. Thinking about the soma as no more than packaging moving genes about via sexual reproduction doesn't seem to take into consideration the generation of negentropy, or, information. The generation and transmission of information via language is the creation of negative entropy and manifests an emergent property that is in a strange way the universe on a course of self discovery.
HeLa cells have an interesting history, they were derived from the cervical carcinoma of Henrietta Lacks. There is a theory that the loss of telomere length is at the root of aging. I recall reading that HeLa cells were sent up on Voyager, although I can't immediately recall the source.
The beer industry has been on to this forever. When I drink beer I'm smater, cooler and have the moves to hit on chicks. The beer makers must have a feedback mechanism built into the product as they know what the chicks I want look like and how cool and how much smater I want to be... just watch the commercials.
Meta bracketing the evolution of the use of Legos in the scientific community might be as fruitful as the use of the Lego Mindstorms set. Investigation is limited by the questions we ask and the tools we have at hand. The use of Lego "toys" and the meme that has grown up around them has alot to tell of what we can accomplish and how we set out to accomplish it. Over history at large, an example might be Euclidean geometry which funneled and defined much of scientific thought up to the time of Newton, and is now seen to be limited and antiquated. In miniture the use of Lego Mindstorms to investigate "serious" science in an interesting paradigm that continues to influence and grow popping up in diverse books and papers.
mp3s, dvds, gamepads, cell phones, all peripherals are/will be the "thin clients" of what is now the PC which already has the power of early mainframes. Household appliances will either connect directly to the net or for security and other reasons connect through what is now the PC which will archive and update