No,it wasn't an editor, it was me, but I'm not exactly a *Raquel* fan and just threw it in as a rememberance from a late,late,late nite movie. It may even have been someother sex kitten. I submit stories I hope will interest/. ers and generate feedback that might inform me. I messed this one up but then I don't always have the time to do a thorough reread... maybe I should leave off the ones I don't have time to proof. Anyway it ain't for the Karma. I post for the Karma coz it's hard to get and fun to try for, but my story submissions are just a chore I undertake for the community.
The demographics suggest MS will loose out in the long run (yah,yah...Keynes...in the long run we're all dead). World demographics support the development and use of OpenSource/FS and, perhaps sooner than later, OS/FS will hold the same advantage MS now has in file monopolies as per MS Office. Once that critical number of users has been reached the question of why pay for proprietory software will become a killing point. Mr. Gates envisions a world wherein all countries and their peoples will bootstrap into the american dream of a 'perfect' capitalist system, but it ain't gonna happen. I suspect what will happen is that proprietory software will have to sell security bigtime and generate closed communities of users who are willing to pay to know their online data has the best possible security and who knows what other highend goodies. The 'world domination' of OpenSource/FS is not a joke it's a demographic given but by then MS will probably have a lock on the big dollar accounts.
The hubris is hot and heavy. We are as much party to evolution as is the Condor. That we are able to impact evolution via gene manipulation makes us no less party to evolution than say a species in runaway that depletes it's food supply and faces extinction or change. Species die off and rise phoneix like from the dead as much without our help as with it. Walking the urban core at night I'm as likely now to meet the acquaintance of a racoon or a cyote as another person. There's an overabundance of false pride in a context that sets us up as having risen above the give and take of nature. Although we do have the responsibility of stewarts so there's an element of ambivalence.
While the recent release of JDK1.4 has brought significant performance gains, it's still nowhere near the speed of its native Windows applications with respect to fast, snappy responses...
I'm a Java neophyte and have just begun the tutorials along with a second reading of Brian Eckel's books. Accordingly I'm framing this as a question that will hopefull bring in a helpful reply. Will the implementation of a MS Instruction Set in the upcoming line of AMD chips lend greater credence to the Java not being as snappy as a native Windows app on a Windows OS? Thanks in advance.
said Ken Smiley, an analyst at market research firm Giga Information Group. "That's what they were saying with the Gecko engine. I just don't think it's really proven yet that it has a superior solution."
I've worked extensively in equities, real estate and import/export industries but I ain't never meet no one like geeks and geek watchers. On one hand the universal hue and cry of geeks is that joe user has no idea of security or what constitutes a good app. The buying public moves lemming like in one direction to another with seemingly no rhyme or reason. Then you get a remark like the one quoted above. People a 'killer app' just don't gotta be no superior solution. It just has to be basically functional, ubiqituous and what your friends use. Seen the sit com 'Friends', silly show, but in a big way it's the way we are. Users just wanna belong and if Mozilla can put out a viable product and the public picks up on it in large enough numbers then it will rule. "Badges, we don't need no stink'n badges". Simple n'est pas?
The bug in this article is rife in articles on IT products, i.e., it insisits on predicating the success of the technology in the mass market with the engineering of the app as it might underly the core technology of, in this case, the net. Anyone following this lead, like the cowboy hero, jumps on his horse and rides off into the sunset in all directions at once.
I metamoderate almost everyday and read thru most trolls but I don't get what you do. It's not aggrevating and as long as you lace your posts with fact it's not irrelevant. I benfited from recognizing the troll after I replied then picked up on the reference to Taco (hero worship?). I benefited from recalling the theft from Thorne after a decade or so. It becomes infantile dressup where you, the child playing, are more taken in than anyone else involved. Sort of like the old children's game of "Do you have Prince Albert in the can?" I doubt that you'll respond but I'd like to know if you're any older than in your early teens. Just curious... I'm always curious anyway I'll watch for any of your posts in metamoderator land.:0
Movie release '92, birthday c.'98... most likely in spirit if not in person... but, really, if the cream of physics cites Motzart in the face of Bach it's no wonder they're all playing in the foam and froth and missing the deepest current.
Some of the ideas that Hawking has contributed to the math world couldn't have come from anyone else, and I wonder how much of a result this is from his condition.
Didn't the American physicist, Kip Thorne make this point in the film of the same name as Hawking's book, 'A Brief History of Time'?
As far as many, if not all, of my teachers have been concerned I've been on imaginary time since day one.
What, if anything, distinguishes conclusions we might arrive at while passing thru a process from those we might arrive at after having mapped the process. Gregory Bateson in his work 'Mind and Nature' played with the zig zag interplay of process and mapping. Whenever I face the wording of the more recent theories of Physics I'm tugged back to a passage from Robert Graves book the 'White Goddess' wherein he states true insight comes only by way of a skewered glance at the world of facts. Bertrand Russell once commented that to the best of his knowledge there had never been a philosopher-poet, perhaps this is the amalgam we wait upon. The few mathematician-poet's I've read have been obviously deficient in one practise or the other.
I posted a reply which seems to have gotten lost. I was speaking in marketing terms where brand name has more to do with market pull than the underlying reality. If we can make Mozillia a prevalent user alternative on a Windows platform then it is more likely, in my view, that users who have no understanding Operating Systems will more easily be swayed to trust GNU/Linux because they trust/like Mozillia on Windows. It really was a rah rah post off the cuff but I agree I didn't adequately express the marketing aspect.
Buddy of mine in the industry worked with Luke Skywalker, and, Luke, himself related that he and others thought the script read as a spoof and were set to play it as such until told it was a 'serious work' to be played straight. This is of course hearsay but then this deals with Hollywood. Anyway in simpler terms if Starwars does not equal classical myth And Starwars does equal Pulp Fiction then the possibility remains Pulp Fiction equals Classical myth. Whether Shakespeare, as Ben Jonson told us, knew little latin and less greek, there is no doubt Shakespeare had a handle on the ingredients that brew classical drama. The lineage, the American experience bundled in, is direct to all forms of modern literature. Poe instigated SF (debatable?) and Poe surely was deeply immersed in the classical tradition. Trial by ordeal or by Contest is ancient and remains forever indebted to classical myth.
Mozillia is the killer app that has to challenge MS (IE) on the desktop. Open Source/ FS lives on the net and I would guess that the browser is second only to an e-mail app as the most used piece of software. Mozillia is the marque to advertise OS. So get behind it.:)
It's kinda cool posting so late in a thread when all the trolls and first post kiddies are long gone. Go placidly among the noise and the haste... hmm has a certain feel to it. I like Katz and am glad/. presents his works. Katz is a rational humanist, like Noam Chomsky, and he struggles with the large and difficult issues. I have some developing ideas on the issues of gloablism and the world's current state.
What I propose is elitist only to the extent that we have failed to date to develop the necessary educational framework. I suggest that there is a proportion of the world's population that defines those of us able to undertake a rigorous logical analysis of our geopolitical environment. This group represents those who tend toward rational humanism, and, in the case of Soros the work of Karl Popper especially as put forth in 'The Open Society and It's Enemies'. Further the individuals that comprise this group have for the first time an effective world forum, yah the net. I'd like to suggest an historical metric as a rough measure of as to why I further suggest that unless we develop an effective educational system, these people will always remain a central force for change, but always in a demographic minority.
I suggest we take a short historical jaunt and try to get a fix on some prerequisites. Euclid, about 350 B.C., compiled and formulated 'The Elements'. The Elements guided the intellectual elite until, say Newton and Leibnez, gave us the Calculus. Furhter, my readings tell me Newton's version of the physical universe was, and remains, quintessentially a Euclidean representation. I suspect that perspective drawing may have been the prime impetus for the engineering feats of the industrial revolution. Perspective drawing provided the means to represent the interconnecting parts that made up Da Vinci's machines. The only addendum that need be added is that the Ancient Greeks were not big on inductive thought but rather, as is beatified in the Elements, worked almost exclusively with the deductive processes. Induction as a widely practised method might be able to be tagged onto the development of the Calculus. It is said the Calculus lends itself to developing a set of expresssions most able to elegantly represent our knowledge of the physical world. I take these historical happenings and try to view them in terms of how phat a pipe for the world wide diffusion of information has been available for how long. To do this I use the Old Silk Road which ran from the middle east to China and was in frequent use from about 100 B.C. From this I suggest that there has been ample time for the full dissemination of the practise of both deductive and inductive thought processes and to have come to the conclusion that we all must share certain inalienable rights (...hmmm sounds familiar) and must undertake the full responsibilities of stewartship of the planet. Instead we war and pillage and anyone who has been in the trenches of capitalism knows capitalism a form of warfare and pillage.
What are the requirements to work thru the Elements and the Calculus? The Elements I know, the Calculus is on my todo list. But I think any one who can attain to reason must see that internecine warfare is insane but unavoidable and therefore to be fought. We are left with history as the nightmare from which we struggle to awaken(Vico/James). I suggests only a few of us are capable of acquiring rational thought at the expense of cultural/tribal fetish practices. Unless we can raise the intellectual level worldwide in a manner that enables and empowers critical analysis, which may face real physical limitations, we're not going to make it.
I presume repeating this thread is a, not too sublte, way in which/. is supporting Mandrake. Kudos to/. aside, I don't see the now, more muted, hue and cry about Mandrake's policy being no more than begging being valid. My educational background and the still greater part of my working life was spent in the trenches of commerce and market analysis. From this background I can emphatically say that a business plan that is innovative and adheres to the principles of Open Source is not begging simply because it is predicated on asking users to support the distro by joining a club that provides community, support and fasttrack information/distribution. If you're running a business and you find you have to go hat in hand to ask for development funds from investors is this begging? NO. Simply because the return on investment (i.e. joining the club) is not monetary does not vitiate the game plan in terms of economic viability. If a large business like Costco or some other mega outlet comes into a community it provides jobs and goods and services otherwise not available. You can bet every community will have a large number of it's members shopping in such places just to see the jobs in the community. A Golf club survies on memberships, how is this any different than joining Mandrake's club. I golfed for 18 years starting at age 6, although I'm not sure which is harder on my ego, struggling with my slice or struggling with tweaking an OS. I'd rather be in front of a monitor anyway. Mandrake's contribution to the community is manifold and only an idiot would think their gameplan is stigmatized because it doesn't follow a conventional GAAP program. No doubt those/. posters who deride the Mandrake way are still holding on to Enron stock. Yes Mandrake is my GNU/Linux distro of choice.
Does anyone know a better site that has tech news with a higher signal to noise ratio? Because wading through the same tiresome uninformed/. comments
I too found the noise to signal ratio ludicrously high until I groked the/. mission statement which is to launch a web site true to the Bar Scene in Star Wars. Mission successful...
I know I shouldn't encourage you but, one, I really like Xmas carrols even out of season, two, mein mutter ist Deutsche, three, it's so damn silly it made me laugh.
The underlying force to storytelling is pace. The rhythm of storytelling can perhaps adequately be referrenced by Ezra Pound's injunction that music must never stray far from the dance and storytelling (poetry) must never stray far from music. Film as we experience it in a moviehouse demands suspension of belief while the storyline carries us along. Those of us who have difficulty relinquishing the critical faculty perhaps best enjoy the polished gems extracted from the narrative stream which all too often demands too much naivety especially as the neverending story flags after viewers attain an adequate understanding of their culture (such as the western civilization's troubadour traditon of courtly love and trial by ordeal or contest). Is it possible that the DVD experience will disenfranchise movie makers as viewers are able to revisit the storyline at will and learn the tricks of the trade to the extent that only the special effects gems and big punch of the climax is culled from the 'usual filler' that serves only to set the tempo for the storyline? Will pushing so much of the film maker's technique into the public in the hope of wringing the last bit of revenue prove to be a misstep, or, will it up the ante and provide the impetus to break free from the traditional storylines of our culture and provide film makers an opportunity to educate a new audience?
Just a thought. To hold the mirror up to the nature of our culture... but now I have to go listen to my fav two hours of radio drama shows from the 40s and 50s
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No,it wasn't an editor, it was me, but I'm not exactly a *Raquel* fan and just threw it in as a rememberance from a late,late,late nite movie. It may even have been someother sex kitten. I submit stories I hope will interest /. ers and generate feedback that might inform me. I messed this one up but then I don't always have the time to do a thorough reread... maybe I should leave off the ones I don't have time to proof. Anyway it ain't for the Karma. I post for the Karma coz it's hard to get and fun to try for, but my story submissions are just a chore I undertake for the community.
cheersThe demographics suggest MS will loose out in the long run (yah,yah...Keynes...in the long run we're all dead). World demographics support the development and use of OpenSource/FS and, perhaps sooner than later, OS/FS will hold the same advantage MS now has in file monopolies as per MS Office. Once that critical number of users has been reached the question of why pay for proprietory software will become a killing point. Mr. Gates envisions a world wherein all countries and their peoples will bootstrap into the american dream of a 'perfect' capitalist system, but it ain't gonna happen. I suspect what will happen is that proprietory software will have to sell security bigtime and generate closed communities of users who are willing to pay to know their online data has the best possible security and who knows what other highend goodies. The 'world domination' of OpenSource/FS is not a joke it's a demographic given but by then MS will probably have a lock on the big dollar accounts.
The hubris is hot and heavy. We are as much party to evolution as is the Condor. That we are able to impact evolution via gene manipulation makes us no less party to evolution than say a species in runaway that depletes it's food supply and faces extinction or change. Species die off and rise phoneix like from the dead as much without our help as with it. Walking the urban core at night I'm as likely now to meet the acquaintance of a racoon or a cyote as another person. There's an overabundance of false pride in a context that sets us up as having risen above the give and take of nature. Although we do have the responsibility of stewarts so there's an element of ambivalence.
But I run Win9x and SoftIce with Evauluation warez as an ongoing asm tutorial
64kbps... time travel back to the era of kilotonne 'portable' pcs with glowing green screens... imagine if you will.
How dare you disparage this good work... like throwing Perl before Wine... it's late my humour quotient has fallen and it can't get up :)
Site's already /. ed
Images here... I really wanted to check this out.
Where you're concerned I'd pretty much have to.
While the recent release of JDK1.4 has brought significant performance gains, it's still nowhere near the speed of its native Windows applications with respect to fast, snappy responses...
I'm a Java neophyte and have just begun the tutorials along with a second reading of Brian Eckel's books. Accordingly I'm framing this as a question that will hopefull bring in a helpful reply. Will the implementation of a MS Instruction Set in the upcoming line of AMD chips lend greater credence to the Java not being as snappy as a native Windows app on a Windows OS? Thanks in advance.
said Ken Smiley, an analyst at market research firm Giga Information Group. "That's what they were saying with the Gecko engine. I just don't think it's really proven yet that it has a superior solution."
I've worked extensively in equities, real estate and import/export industries but I ain't never meet no one like geeks and geek watchers. On one hand the universal hue and cry of geeks is that joe user has no idea of security or what constitutes a good app. The buying public moves lemming like in one direction to another with seemingly no rhyme or reason. Then you get a remark like the one quoted above. People a 'killer app' just don't gotta be no superior solution. It just has to be basically functional, ubiqituous and what your friends use. Seen the sit com 'Friends', silly show, but in a big way it's the way we are. Users just wanna belong and if Mozilla can put out a viable product and the public picks up on it in large enough numbers then it will rule. "Badges, we don't need no stink'n badges". Simple n'est pas?
The bug in this article is rife in articles on IT products, i.e., it insisits on predicating the success of the technology in the mass market with the engineering of the app as it might underly the core technology of, in this case, the net. Anyone following this lead, like the cowboy hero, jumps on his horse and rides off into the sunset in all directions at once.
I metamoderate almost everyday and read thru most trolls but I don't get what you do. It's not aggrevating and as long as you lace your posts with fact it's not irrelevant. I benfited from recognizing the troll after I replied then picked up on the reference to Taco (hero worship?). I benefited from recalling the theft from Thorne after a decade or so. It becomes infantile dressup where you, the child playing, are more taken in than anyone else involved. Sort of like the old children's game of "Do you have Prince Albert in the can?" I doubt that you'll respond but I'd like to know if you're any older than in your early teens. Just curious... I'm always curious anyway I'll watch for any of your posts in metamoderator land. :0
Movie release '92, birthday c.'98... most likely in spirit if not in person... but, really, if the cream of physics cites Motzart in the face of Bach it's no wonder they're all playing in the foam and froth and missing the deepest current.
Some of the ideas that Hawking has contributed to the math world couldn't have come from anyone else, and I wonder how much of a result this is from his condition.
Didn't the American physicist, Kip Thorne make this point in the film of the same name as Hawking's book, 'A Brief History of Time'?
As far as many, if not all, of my teachers have been concerned I've been on imaginary time since day one.
What, if anything, distinguishes conclusions we might arrive at while passing thru a process from those we might arrive at after having mapped the process. Gregory Bateson in his work 'Mind and Nature' played with the zig zag interplay of process and mapping. Whenever I face the wording of the more recent theories of Physics I'm tugged back to a passage from Robert Graves book the 'White Goddess' wherein he states true insight comes only by way of a skewered glance at the world of facts. Bertrand Russell once commented that to the best of his knowledge there had never been a philosopher-poet, perhaps this is the amalgam we wait upon. The few mathematician-poet's I've read have been obviously deficient in one practise or the other.
I posted a reply which seems to have gotten lost. I was speaking in marketing terms where brand name has more to do with market pull than the underlying reality. If we can make Mozillia a prevalent user alternative on a Windows platform then it is more likely, in my view, that users who have no understanding Operating Systems will more easily be swayed to trust GNU/Linux because they trust/like Mozillia on Windows. It really was a rah rah post off the cuff but I agree I didn't adequately express the marketing aspect.
Buddy of mine in the industry worked with Luke Skywalker, and, Luke, himself related that he and others thought the script read as a spoof and were set to play it as such until told it was a 'serious work' to be played straight. This is of course hearsay but then this deals with Hollywood. Anyway in simpler terms if Starwars does not equal classical myth And Starwars does equal Pulp Fiction then the possibility remains Pulp Fiction equals Classical myth. Whether Shakespeare, as Ben Jonson told us, knew little latin and less greek, there is no doubt Shakespeare had a handle on the ingredients that brew classical drama. The lineage, the American experience bundled in, is direct to all forms of modern literature. Poe instigated SF (debatable?) and Poe surely was deeply immersed in the classical tradition. Trial by ordeal or by Contest is ancient and remains forever indebted to classical myth.
Mozillia is the killer app that has to challenge MS (IE) on the desktop. Open Source/ FS lives on the net and I would guess that the browser is second only to an e-mail app as the most used piece of software. Mozillia is the marque to advertise OS. So get behind it. :)
It's kinda cool posting so late in a thread when all the trolls and first post kiddies are long gone. Go placidly among the noise and the haste... hmm has a certain feel to it. I like Katz and am glad /. presents his works. Katz is a rational humanist, like Noam Chomsky, and he struggles with the large and difficult issues. I have some developing ideas on the issues of gloablism and the world's current state.
What I propose is elitist only to the extent that we have failed to date to develop the necessary educational framework. I suggest that there is a proportion of the world's population that defines those of us able to undertake a rigorous logical analysis of our geopolitical environment. This group represents those who tend toward rational humanism, and, in the case of Soros the work of Karl Popper especially as put forth in 'The Open Society and It's Enemies'. Further the individuals that comprise this group have for the first time an effective world forum, yah the net. I'd like to suggest an historical metric as a rough measure of as to why I further suggest that unless we develop an effective educational system, these people will always remain a central force for change, but always in a demographic minority.
I suggest we take a short historical jaunt and try to get a fix on some prerequisites. Euclid, about 350 B.C., compiled and formulated 'The Elements'. The Elements guided the intellectual elite until, say Newton and Leibnez, gave us the Calculus. Furhter, my readings tell me Newton's version of the physical universe was, and remains, quintessentially a Euclidean representation. I suspect that perspective drawing may have been the prime impetus for the engineering feats of the industrial revolution. Perspective drawing provided the means to represent the interconnecting parts that made up Da Vinci's machines. The only addendum that need be added is that the Ancient Greeks were not big on inductive thought but rather, as is beatified in the Elements, worked almost exclusively with the deductive processes. Induction as a widely practised method might be able to be tagged onto the development of the Calculus. It is said the Calculus lends itself to developing a set of expresssions most able to elegantly represent our knowledge of the physical world. I take these historical happenings and try to view them in terms of how phat a pipe for the world wide diffusion of information has been available for how long. To do this I use the Old Silk Road which ran from the middle east to China and was in frequent use from about 100 B.C. From this I suggest that there has been ample time for the full dissemination of the practise of both deductive and inductive thought processes and to have come to the conclusion that we all must share certain inalienable rights (...hmmm sounds familiar) and must undertake the full responsibilities of stewartship of the planet. Instead we war and pillage and anyone who has been in the trenches of capitalism knows capitalism a form of warfare and pillage.
What are the requirements to work thru the Elements and the Calculus? The Elements I know, the Calculus is on my todo list. But I think any one who can attain to reason must see that internecine warfare is insane but unavoidable and therefore to be fought. We are left with history as the nightmare from which we struggle to awaken(Vico/James). I suggests only a few of us are capable of acquiring rational thought at the expense of cultural/tribal fetish practices. Unless we can raise the intellectual level worldwide in a manner that enables and empowers critical analysis, which may face real physical limitations, we're not going to make it.
I presume repeating this thread is a, not too sublte, way in which /. is supporting Mandrake. Kudos to /. aside, I don't see the now, more muted, hue and cry about Mandrake's policy being no more than begging being valid. My educational background and the still greater part of my working life was spent in the trenches of commerce and market analysis. From this background I can emphatically say that a business plan that is innovative and adheres to the principles of Open Source is not begging simply because it is predicated on asking users to support the distro by joining a club that provides community, support and fasttrack information/distribution. If you're running a business and you find you have to go hat in hand to ask for development funds from investors is this begging? NO. Simply because the return on investment (i.e. joining the club) is not monetary does not vitiate the game plan in terms of economic viability. If a large business like Costco or some other mega outlet comes into a community it provides jobs and goods and services otherwise not available. You can bet every community will have a large number of it's members shopping in such places just to see the jobs in the community. A Golf club survies on memberships, how is this any different than joining Mandrake's club. I golfed for 18 years starting at age 6, although I'm not sure which is harder on my ego, struggling with my slice or struggling with tweaking an OS. I'd rather be in front of a monitor anyway. Mandrake's contribution to the community is manifold and only an idiot would think their gameplan is stigmatized because it doesn't follow a conventional GAAP program. No doubt those /. posters who deride the Mandrake way are still holding on to Enron stock. Yes Mandrake is my GNU/Linux distro of choice.
Does anyone know a better site that has tech news with a higher signal to noise ratio? Because wading through the same tiresome uninformed /. comments
I too found the noise to signal ratio ludicrously high until I groked the /. mission statement which is to launch a web site true to the Bar Scene in Star Wars. Mission successful...
I know I shouldn't encourage you but, one, I really like Xmas carrols even out of season, two, mein mutter ist Deutsche, three, it's so damn silly it made me laugh.
Is that "A" a typo, or are the numbers in hexadecimal to make it look cheaper?
That would be Aussie dollars. The Aussies back their currency in beer, or, so I've heard
g'day mate:)"You just better have a damn good conductor."
I hear Ringo Starr is a shoe in.
Here are a few more links that provide greater detail.
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http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/releases/20
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iss-02c.html?astro
The underlying force to storytelling is pace. The rhythm of storytelling can perhaps adequately be referrenced by Ezra Pound's injunction that music must never stray far from the dance and storytelling (poetry) must never stray far from music. Film as we experience it in a moviehouse demands suspension of belief while the storyline carries us along. Those of us who have difficulty relinquishing the critical faculty perhaps best enjoy the polished gems extracted from the narrative stream which all too often demands too much naivety especially as the neverending story flags after viewers attain an adequate understanding of their culture (such as the western civilization's troubadour traditon of courtly love and trial by ordeal or contest). Is it possible that the DVD experience will disenfranchise movie makers as viewers are able to revisit the storyline at will and learn the tricks of the trade to the extent that only the special effects gems and big punch of the climax is culled from the 'usual filler' that serves only to set the tempo for the storyline? Will pushing so much of the film maker's technique into the public in the hope of wringing the last bit of revenue prove to be a misstep, or, will it up the ante and provide the impetus to break free from the traditional storylines of our culture and provide film makers an opportunity to educate a new audience?
Just a thought. To hold the mirror up to the nature of our culture... but now I have to go listen to my fav two hours of radio drama shows from the 40s and 50s
:)