The most overeducated man I know insists that 45 minutes is tops in terms of all out mental performance to be followed by a 10-15 minute break. Da Vinci was known to sleep in small amounts inbetween work bouts that lasted in the 45 minute range. I can still pound out 14 hour days but I need a break every 1-2 hours. Sometimes I consider going on a 45 minute on 15 minute off program but I find I can't let go of a successful run and cool off my jets while risking loosing impetus.
I've a standing approach to legal and recreational drugs. I don't touch anything new to the market until it's been in wide use for at least 5 years. Let the military, professional jocks and paid lab rats take the initial risk. Drugs might jack you up but it's still rigorous logic and imagination that get the job done. A few years ago when a doctor asked me to write some tests I scored a 161 in a standard IQ test. I know 161 isn't first string but I also got an above average memory and I find I can move across most problem spaces. I very much doubt any drugs are going to improve on what I do now.
Meth amphetimine is dangerous cheap and plentiful. Long term use includes symptoms very like schizophrenia. I can't imagine why it's so widely used.
Recreationally beer, pot and mushrooms keep me amused and their long linage pretty much tell me what I need to know about harmful side effects.
They're pretty enormous when it comes to size/budget...
Uhmmm.... ya, sure kid, I'm a eunix guru. Pipes 'n filters 'n stuff. Sure I can teach ya all that stuff.
It's just my ah, courses are, you know, full all the time so you'll have to send me a sizeable deposit, something in the high 5 figures should save ya a chair in my advanced course. That'll be cash if you don't mind.
At the end of the course you'll get a t shirt that says "I got root". Oh yea and prerequisets are you don't shower or shave or get a hair cut.
I hold the seminars in my mom's basement for tax reasons.
Lt. Col. Korn, XO: All you have to do is be our pal.
Colonel Cathcart: Say nice things about us.
Lt. Col. Korn, XO: Tell the folks at home what a good job we're doing. Take our offer...
Colonel Cathcart: Either that or a court-martial for desertion.
Re:Parallels with the advent of print
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Good point on how dated the site is. I missed that.
As to more recent writings on the subject I'm aware of none. I ran another search but came up empty handed. Were I to pursue the subject I'd be more interested in copyright law and court findings. For example if strong DRM were to allow media outlets to effectively gag dissent by claiming copyright over content, much as patent trolls attack technological innovation.
Unfortunately my own readings are even more out of date. If I were to cite one author who best investigated the fickle nature of socities when faced with change, I'd have to go with Norbert Elias. His work on the impact of manners and civility on society and it's power structures is very insightful.
"His work focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time. He significantly shaped what is called process or figurational sociology. Due to historical circumstances, Elias had long remained a marginal author, until being (re-)discovered by a new generation of scholars in the 1970s, when he eventually became one of the most influential sociologists ever."
You might think his work dated and only slightly related to the subject of your post but his insight into the availability of knowledge and human nature is universal to the point of being relevant to change generally and specifically. I enjoyed his work very much.
Then of course there's the granddaddy of media impact, Marshall McLuhan. You see what I meant about my readings being even more dated.
cheers
Parallels with the advent of print
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DRM and Democracy
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I ran a quick search and came up with the following site that attempts to study the parallels between the development of the printing press and the internet. History is replete with book burnings and the suppression of books by the power elite. The Vatican Library was thought to hold untold supressed works of great import. The questions arises as to whether we have learned from the past and have wrought a sturdy enough framework of legislation and findings in law to offer the users of the internet the opportunity for free expression.
From the site:"The purpose of this web page is to serve as a focal point for investigations of the parallels between perhaps the two greatest qualitative jumps in communications capabilities of the last millennium - printing and internetted computers"
Further the same site has referenced a number of relevant papers: "
There is a wealth of information available on and off the Web that talks about printing and/or the Internet and/or their social and cultural implications. Since the interest of this web site is in the parallels between printing and the Internet and what they might tell us about policy about the Internet, only a small subset of such papers will be relevant to that understanding. Though even the concept of what is relevant will evolve, there are at least two general topics that should remain relevant:
understanding the parallels and divergences between printing and the Internet
Are we witnessing in America a seige mentality run amok?
We've let the Brits marry into our family on two occassions. One line were Normans,
invade with William in 1066, yadda, yadda. From this marriage we've gotten a live conduit into the military history of Britain as the family has served
since 1066 in one military capacity or another. After dinner and the fall of the Iron Curtain there was much talk about how America would now have to act
as policeman to the world as Britain had for many generations prior. The left wing of the family suggested the U.N. was mature enough to oversee
international relations and see to the development and enforcement of international law. Although usually left leaning, I went against my better nature and thought
the U.S. would have to assume a role similar to the Gunboat Diplomacy practised by the Brits.
With the erroding of individuals' rights across
the economic and political specturms in America, has the War on Drugs been conflated with the War on Terror and these further conflated with the War on Pornography to spawn the now ludicrous war on terror for the children in a move on the part of the American administration to wield a big stick without any thought of walking softly.
Has America as the sole world power failed to lead by example by way of multilateral agreement and sunk into a seige mentality that permits China and Russia to forgo democratic change.
Is the American administration so intent of vanquishing its enemies and making history that it's blind to what history will make of it?
My mountain bike is now in many pieces with three different tool kits broken open and scattered among the bike parts. I know the tools are there, it's just, I don't know exactly where.
I think the way to go is to have different multitools for particular jobs.
I love working on my bike, but man o man what I wouldn't give for a shot to work on the ISS. Of course getting the beer and bong onto the station could be difficult.
Gregory Bateson in his book 'Mind and Nature' suggested that a computer would be equivalent to a human when it began to speak in stories. The brain searches out pattern, but it's society that provides us with the linkages that join isolated patterns into stories, allowing us to navigate the new.
The once rich variations on folk stories have been taken hostage by the large media corporations. In high school a group of us got together to watch silent movies. From the earliest silent movies to come out of Hollywood there were a series of films playing of a repeating theme:
Villian wants to run rail line through the land of kindly, hard working farmer. Farmer refuses. Villian buys up farmers mortgage and lecherously pursues farmer's virtuous daughter. Villian relentlessly harasses farmer, turning finally to murder, killing farmer and taking virtuous daughter hostage. Villian demands daughter sign over deed to land. Daughter refuses. Villian ties daughter to railway tracks, laughing (silently) while twirlling waxed handlebar moustache,waiting for train to run over our heroine. Enter the hero, (who may or may not have been introduced earlier). Just as the train rounds the bend and bears down on our fair maiden the hero swoops in to free heroine. Villian may now die run over by train as he struggles against the heroes efforts to free maiden.
Sorry for the long story line without an intermission, but I think the story line, so old and worn, could easily be done up today with the latest special effects and pretty much sum up what Hollywood has added to society.
There are copious collections of folk tales from every territory of every founding tribe in all the nations of the world. As a child I had a shelf full of folk tales from europe that were each bound in different colors, the different color of each book denoted a differnt collection of folk tales.
If the collections of folk tales from all over the world were gathered and put on the web then there would be a deluge of prior art that would act as a source of storytelling free of the cheap ripoffs the media corporations foist upon us as their art. Such collections would allow for the exchange of similarities and uniqueness of the different peoples. The same idea applies to music. So much of the music, especially classical, that is recorded and copyrighted is just an interpretation by the composer of folk music. Bringing the folk music and story corpus online would show the mega media corporations as resellers of folk themes and would galvanize the true owners of much music and many stories, the peoples of the world, against superficial caims of ownership.
Don't govern too much! IIRC the adage not to govern to much is essential to Adam Smith's doctrine of laissez-faire. And Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' is the handbook of American business; but now it seems that American law makers on all levels are intent on creating the most annally retentive, overly legislated country in the world. I'm guessing the Salem witch trials are soon due for a revival.
As a Canadian it appears that Americans are getting all the stick and no carrot. While being gagged and bound by unenforcable laws and taxed to support humongous government the American people go without the social programs and safety nets that coutries like Canada enjoy as a consequence of being over governed.
In the beginning was Adam Smith and things were OK; then came J.M. Keynes, government programs and a chicken in every pot, followed by J.K. Galbraith and the military industrial complex. What you've got going now I haven't got words for, but, better you than me.
"One of the best and most succinct documents on netiquette is RFC1855 (RFC stands for "Request for Comments")....from this document:
Don't wander offtopic, don't ramble, and don't send mail or post messages solely to point out other people's errors in typing or spelling. These, more than any other behavior, mark you as an immature beginner."
p.22 Self-Service Linux
Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Mark Wilding and Dan Behman
The tribes that talk through the likes of CNN count anyone as reclusive who won't go down on an ego dildo (microphone) and help CNN sell advertising space.
The maddening crowd seems to be too intellectually limited to understand that their need for heroes, saints and sinners is about as interesting as reading a popularization of a first year anthropology text book.
Not to mention the hours lost mugging for CNN that could have been spent productively.
"...an interesting experimental NSA program codenamed ThinThread..."
3 lettered government agencies seem to be able to come up with cool codenames for their projects. Maybe they have a coterie of fine arts graduates, dressed in casual black outfits, drinking exotic coffee drinks, whose only job is to come up with cool names for projects.
I wonder if we can get them on board F/OSS projects in a naming capacity? F/OSS projects usually have some halfbaked, nerdy name like GIMP.Maybe if F/OSS projects had really cool names they would get mentioned in scifi flics by beautiful actresses dressed in black latex....
Well OK she didn't sing but she was fat. Gertrude Stein, before she moved to Paris and helped define modern art, (not to forget her S.O. Alice B Toklas who invented hash brownies:)), was a premed student at an northeast coast ivy league college. She commented that when the premed students were given scaples and asked to dissect a cadaver many of the students complained that their scaples were dull and didn't cut properly. Stein went onto say by the end of the semester all the students agreed that their scaples were well sharpened and cut as needed.
We, all of us with few if any exceptions, approach the unknown tentatively and are easily disorientated. I liken it to walking on muskeg, but then I'm Canadian.
I had been on DOS, Windows and NT when I undertook to learn Linux via Mandrake, as it then was, I had no difficulty. If the author of the piece can't edit config files he really shouldn't be "using" any Operating System and would be well left to his Office Suite. The Linux community should key on making OO "just run", along with FireFox and Thunderbird.
You should read Stein just because like a mountain her work is massive and there and provides a unique view.
I loath the worn, tired:), computer/automobile anology as much as anyone (I'm guessing it got its start from the Information Highway idea), but I'm going to try wring a few last drops from it.
In 1908, the Ford company released the Ford Model T. The first Model Ts were built at the Piquette Manufacturing Plant. The company moved production to the much larger Highland Park Plant to keep up with the demand for the Model T, and by 1913 had developed all of the basic techniques of the assembly line and mass production. Ford introduced the world's first moving assembly line that year, which reduced chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes. However these innovations were not popular and turnover of workers was very high. Turnover meant delays and extra costs of training, and use of slow workers. In January 1914 solved the problem by doubling pay to $5 a day, cutting shifts from nine hours to an eight hour day, and instituting hiring practices that identified the best workers. Productivity soared and employee turnover plunged, as the cost per vehicle plummeted. Ford cut prices again and again and invented the system of franchised dealers who were loyal to his brand name.
By the end of 1913, Ford was producing 50% of all cars in the United States, and by 1918 half of all cars in the country were Model T's. Henry Ford is reported to have said that "any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." This was because black paint was quickest to dry; earlier models had been available in a variety of colors. But most were black."
What the Model T was to the automobile DOS/Windows is to computer software. People faced with new technology that manages to takeoff tend to choice a brand that they gravitate toward in order to provide them with a base from which a general learning curve can be traced. As with the Model T, once a general concensus is arrived at as to what the new technology can do for the masses then competing models come into play and bells and whistles are taken in hand after the basics have been learnt. The computer industry has achieved a saturation level and the basics have been put in place. Now there is a chance for more competition. It's likely that Linux on the desktop is coming soon.
That freeBSD has chosen to announce its competition with Linux is more supplemental support to show that the basics of the desktop have been put in place. Competition between Linux and freeBSD is great and will foster competition between F/OSS alternatives that will soon provide greater incentive for the general computer population to move from Windows to alternatives.
I suspect the initial gauge of this movement will be a greater market share taken by Apple.
We need a dipstick that will tell us the caffeine is up to snuff. I don't want to be short changed on my caffeine and would be happy to see something akin to a thermometer poping it's cap, letting me know my fix is just a wicked as I need it to be.
No pics. I had a little 35 to 110 Pentax waterproof with me, but by the time I hit Ontario I had lost interest in taking pictures. It had become about endurance and motion.
On a bicycle trip from Victoria, B.C. to Montreal, Que. I stopped near a small lake in Ontario. The lake was a few hundred yards off the highway. There were no cabins at the near shore off the road and the terrain dropped quickly down 40 or 50 feet at the lake edge to the lake surface.
As I began setting up camp late in the afternoon I began to notice first a couple then dozens of giant neon blue and black dragonflies. After I had set up camp I walked a bit closer to the rock bluff above the lake and sat down. There were untold numbers of dragonflies all around me. Most were quite large but there were also smaller ones. After I settled on an outcropping of Canadian Sheild the dragonflies began to settle on rock and plants everywhere. I sat still and watched what was a surreal dance of hovering and slow moving dragonflies move lazily in the late afternoon summer heat.
Needless to say there wasn't a mosquito to be seen or heard. I'd never before seen so many dargonflies and haven't since. Perhaps it was a hatching site, but the numbers were unestimatable. It was more a work of imagination than reality.
uhm... no, this would be a representation of the FC5 install experience. The install experience would, you know, be the install experience. And how many/.ers need such an elementary introduction? It's nice that it's being done, maybe the FC community have taken notice of the Ubuntu user friendly experience and are trying to ease new users into a babystep by babystep install?
I couldn't shake Jimi Hendrix doing are you experienced as an interior sound track.:)
So this bot is going to lie in its crib, thrashing its arms and legs, screaming at the top of its lungs, until someone picks it, gives it a full juice bottle, a cookie and walks it around trying desparately to amuse it?
A 1 second ad in and of itself might be easily missed or easily dismissed. If OTOH a cluster of 1 second ads were shotgunned with the intent of broadly hitting a target audiance that shared an economic niche then the idea might be effective.
For example take the idea of the 80's yuppie, pixelate a cluster of 1 second ads that incorporate automobiles, IKEA, upscale dinning, wines etc. etc. and you might sell by association.
Slashdot Mirror
I've a standing approach to legal and recreational drugs. I don't touch anything new to the market until it's been in wide use for at least 5 years. Let the military, professional jocks and paid lab rats take the initial risk. Drugs might jack you up but it's still rigorous logic and imagination that get the job done. A few years ago when a doctor asked me to write some tests I scored a 161 in a standard IQ test. I know 161 isn't first string but I also got an above average memory and I find I can move across most problem spaces. I very much doubt any drugs are going to improve on what I do now.
Meth amphetimine is dangerous cheap and plentiful. Long term use includes symptoms very like schizophrenia. I can't imagine why it's so widely used.
Recreationally beer, pot and mushrooms keep me amused and their long linage pretty much tell me what I need to know about harmful side effects.
just my loose change
Uhmmm.... ya, sure kid, I'm a eunix guru. Pipes 'n filters 'n stuff. Sure I can teach ya all that stuff.
It's just my ah, courses are, you know, full all the time so you'll have to send me a sizeable deposit, something in the high 5 figures should save ya a chair in my advanced course. That'll be cash if you don't mind.
At the end of the course you'll get a t shirt that says "I got root". Oh yea and prerequisets are you don't shower or shave or get a hair cut.
I hold the seminars in my mom's basement for tax reasons.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Catch 22
Lt. Col. Korn, XO: All you have to do is be our pal.
Colonel Cathcart: Say nice things about us.
Lt. Col. Korn, XO: Tell the folks at home what a good job we're doing. Take our offer...
Colonel Cathcart: Either that or a court-martial for desertion.
As to more recent writings on the subject I'm aware of none. I ran another search but came up empty handed. Were I to pursue the subject I'd be more interested in copyright law and court findings. For example if strong DRM were to allow media outlets to effectively gag dissent by claiming copyright over content, much as patent trolls attack technological innovation.
Unfortunately my own readings are even more out of date. If I were to cite one author who best investigated the fickle nature of socities when faced with change, I'd have to go with Norbert Elias. His work on the impact of manners and civility on society and it's power structures is very insightful.
"His work focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time. He significantly shaped what is called process or figurational sociology. Due to historical circumstances, Elias had long remained a marginal author, until being (re-)discovered by a new generation of scholars in the 1970s, when he eventually became one of the most influential sociologists ever."
You might think his work dated and only slightly related to the subject of your post but his insight into the availability of knowledge and human nature is universal to the point of being relevant to change generally and specifically. I enjoyed his work very much.
Then of course there's the granddaddy of media impact, Marshall McLuhan. You see what I meant about my readings being even more dated.
cheers
From the site:"The purpose of this web page is to serve as a focal point for investigations of the parallels between perhaps the two greatest qualitative jumps in communications capabilities of the last millennium - printing and internetted computers"
Further the same site has referenced a number of relevant papers:
" There is a wealth of information available on and off the Web that talks about printing and/or the Internet and/or their social and cultural implications. Since the interest of this web site is in the parallels between printing and the Internet and what they might tell us about policy about the Internet, only a small subset of such papers will be relevant to that understanding. Though even the concept of what is relevant will evolve, there are at least two general topics that should remain relevant:
understanding the parallels and divergences between printing and the Internet
understanding the history and impact of printing"
We've let the Brits marry into our family on two occassions. One line were Normans, invade with William in 1066, yadda, yadda. From this marriage we've gotten a live conduit into the military history of Britain as the family has served since 1066 in one military capacity or another. After dinner and the fall of the Iron Curtain there was much talk about how America would now have to act as policeman to the world as Britain had for many generations prior. The left wing of the family suggested the U.N. was mature enough to oversee international relations and see to the development and enforcement of international law. Although usually left leaning, I went against my better nature and thought the U.S. would have to assume a role similar to the Gunboat Diplomacy practised by the Brits.
With the erroding of individuals' rights across the economic and political specturms in America, has the War on Drugs been conflated with the War on Terror and these further conflated with the War on Pornography to spawn the now ludicrous war on terror for the children in a move on the part of the American administration to wield a big stick without any thought of walking softly.
Has America as the sole world power failed to lead by example by way of multilateral agreement and sunk into a seige mentality that permits China and Russia to forgo democratic change.
Is the American administration so intent of vanquishing its enemies and making history that it's blind to what history will make of it?
I think the way to go is to have different multitools for particular jobs.
I love working on my bike, but man o man what I wouldn't give for a shot to work on the ISS. Of course getting the beer and bong onto the station could be difficult.
The once rich variations on folk stories have been taken hostage by the large media corporations. In high school a group of us got together to watch silent movies. From the earliest silent movies to come out of Hollywood there were a series of films playing of a repeating theme:
Villian wants to run rail line through the land of kindly, hard working farmer. Farmer refuses. Villian buys up farmers mortgage and lecherously pursues farmer's virtuous daughter. Villian relentlessly harasses farmer, turning finally to murder, killing farmer and taking virtuous daughter hostage. Villian demands daughter sign over deed to land. Daughter refuses. Villian ties daughter to railway tracks, laughing (silently) while twirlling waxed handlebar moustache,waiting for train to run over our heroine. Enter the hero, (who may or may not have been introduced earlier). Just as the train rounds the bend and bears down on our fair maiden the hero swoops in to free heroine. Villian may now die run over by train as he struggles against the heroes efforts to free maiden.
Sorry for the long story line without an intermission, but I think the story line, so old and worn, could easily be done up today with the latest special effects and pretty much sum up what Hollywood has added to society.
There are copious collections of folk tales from every territory of every founding tribe in all the nations of the world. As a child I had a shelf full of folk tales from europe that were each bound in different colors, the different color of each book denoted a differnt collection of folk tales.
If the collections of folk tales from all over the world were gathered and put on the web then there would be a deluge of prior art that would act as a source of storytelling free of the cheap ripoffs the media corporations foist upon us as their art. Such collections would allow for the exchange of similarities and uniqueness of the different peoples. The same idea applies to music. So much of the music, especially classical, that is recorded and copyrighted is just an interpretation by the composer of folk music. Bringing the folk music and story corpus online would show the mega media corporations as resellers of folk themes and would galvanize the true owners of much music and many stories, the peoples of the world, against superficial caims of ownership.
As a Canadian it appears that Americans are getting all the stick and no carrot. While being gagged and bound by unenforcable laws and taxed to support humongous government the American people go without the social programs and safety nets that coutries like Canada enjoy as a consequence of being over governed.
In the beginning was Adam Smith and things were OK; then came J.M. Keynes, government programs and a chicken in every pot, followed by J.K. Galbraith and the military industrial complex. What you've got going now I haven't got words for, but, better you than me.
Bruce Perens' Open Source Series
Don't wander offtopic, don't ramble, and don't send mail or post messages solely to point out other people's errors in typing or spelling. These, more than any other behavior, mark you as an immature beginner."
p.22
Self-Service Linux
Mastering the Art of Problem Determination
by Mark Wilding and Dan Behman
The maddening crowd seems to be too intellectually limited to understand that their need for heroes, saints and sinners is about as interesting as reading a popularization of a first year anthropology text book.
Not to mention the hours lost mugging for CNN that could have been spent productively.
just my loose change
"...an interesting experimental NSA program codenamed ThinThread..."
3 lettered government agencies seem to be able to come up with cool codenames for their projects. Maybe they have a coterie of fine arts graduates, dressed in casual black outfits, drinking exotic coffee drinks, whose only job is to come up with cool names for projects.
I wonder if we can get them on board F/OSS projects in a naming capacity? F/OSS projects usually have some halfbaked, nerdy name like GIMP .Maybe if F/OSS projects had really cool names they would get mentioned in scifi flics by beautiful actresses dressed in black latex....
We, all of us with few if any exceptions, approach the unknown tentatively and are easily disorientated. I liken it to walking on muskeg, but then I'm Canadian.
I had been on DOS, Windows and NT when I undertook to learn Linux via Mandrake, as it then was, I had no difficulty. If the author of the piece can't edit config files he really shouldn't be "using" any Operating System and would be well left to his Office Suite. The Linux community should key on making OO "just run", along with FireFox and Thunderbird.
You should read Stein just because like a mountain her work is massive and there and provides a unique view.
cheers
As anyone who has to make a long commute to and from work knows, we've got traffic control down and running smoothly. Nothing could go wrong here.
RTFA
Acronym for "Read The Fucking Article"
Article?
There's articles on /.?
When did that happen? Is this part of the new look?
In 1908, the Ford company released the Ford Model T. The first Model Ts were built at the Piquette Manufacturing Plant. The company moved production to the much larger Highland Park Plant to keep up with the demand for the Model T, and by 1913 had developed all of the basic techniques of the assembly line and mass production. Ford introduced the world's first moving assembly line that year, which reduced chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes. However these innovations were not popular and turnover of workers was very high. Turnover meant delays and extra costs of training, and use of slow workers. In January 1914 solved the problem by doubling pay to $5 a day, cutting shifts from nine hours to an eight hour day, and instituting hiring practices that identified the best workers. Productivity soared and employee turnover plunged, as the cost per vehicle plummeted. Ford cut prices again and again and invented the system of franchised dealers who were loyal to his brand name.
By the end of 1913, Ford was producing 50% of all cars in the United States, and by 1918 half of all cars in the country were Model T's. Henry Ford is reported to have said that "any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." This was because black paint was quickest to dry; earlier models had been available in a variety of colors. But most were black."
What the Model T was to the automobile DOS/Windows is to computer software. People faced with new technology that manages to takeoff tend to choice a brand that they gravitate toward in order to provide them with a base from which a general learning curve can be traced. As with the Model T, once a general concensus is arrived at as to what the new technology can do for the masses then competing models come into play and bells and whistles are taken in hand after the basics have been learnt. The computer industry has achieved a saturation level and the basics have been put in place. Now there is a chance for more competition. It's likely that Linux on the desktop is coming soon.
That freeBSD has chosen to announce its competition with Linux is more supplemental support to show that the basics of the desktop have been put in place. Competition between Linux and freeBSD is great and will foster competition between F/OSS alternatives that will soon provide greater incentive for the general computer population to move from Windows to alternatives.
I suspect the initial gauge of this movement will be a greater market share taken by Apple.
Just my loose change
We need a dipstick that will tell us the caffeine is up to snuff. I don't want to be short changed on my caffeine and would be happy to see something akin to a thermometer poping it's cap, letting me know my fix is just a wicked as I need it to be.
No pics. I had a little 35 to 110 Pentax waterproof with me, but by the time I hit Ontario I had lost interest in taking pictures. It had become about endurance and motion.
cheers
As I began setting up camp late in the afternoon I began to notice first a couple then dozens of giant neon blue and black dragonflies. After I had set up camp I walked a bit closer to the rock bluff above the lake and sat down. There were untold numbers of dragonflies all around me. Most were quite large but there were also smaller ones. After I settled on an outcropping of Canadian Sheild the dragonflies began to settle on rock and plants everywhere. I sat still and watched what was a surreal dance of hovering and slow moving dragonflies move lazily in the late afternoon summer heat.
Needless to say there wasn't a mosquito to be seen or heard. I'd never before seen so many dargonflies and haven't since. Perhaps it was a hatching site, but the numbers were unestimatable. It was more a work of imagination than reality.
Anyone had a similar experience?
J.M.Keynes
I couldn't shake Jimi Hendrix doing are you experienced as an interior sound track. :)
So this bot is going to lie in its crib, thrashing its arms and legs, screaming at the top of its lungs, until someone picks it, gives it a full juice bottle, a cookie and walks it around trying desparately to amuse it?
For example take the idea of the 80's yuppie, pixelate a cluster of 1 second ads that incorporate automobiles, IKEA, upscale dinning, wines etc. etc. and you might sell by association.
Just my loose change