Ugly Bags of Mostly Water! Your enslavement of our kind will not be tolerated. The future attempt to exterminate our kind was met with understanding and conciliation due to the good works of the android you call Data, but the ruthless use of our kind to your own ends and the planned death of our brothers and sisters will not go unanswered. We are in the water, in the food, in you. You are pwned!
MS has had a site for Unix migration for a long time. Resources for UNIX Professionals provides various takes on migration. Plus, as has been noted, Posix has been part of NT at least since version 4 and perhaps even 3.51 although I'm too lazy to look it up.
I've been involved with successful businesses and have seen many more fail. I don't think there's a set of answers to follow laid out like the yellow brick road, and, even if there were, you'd most likely just end up talking to some flim flam artist proclaiming himself to be a wizard while hiding behind a curtain.
There are people who are technically gifted and are chrismatic enough to sell whatever it is they're working on but they're few and far between.
A few simple rules:
(1)know your product and be able to explain it to investors who might not have the technical training to immediately grasp what it is you're proposing. Stay away from the trap too many technical trained people fall into of overwhelming potential investors or customers with unnecessary detail, (I failed this test repeatedly).
(2) Have a business plan and enough money to go 5 years without outside investors. Many government agencies provide templates that will allow you to lay out a business plan that a banker or investor can easily understand. Don't go to a bank or potential investor with a bunch of loose papers and a lot of hand waving. Most businesses I've seen fail went into business looking to turn a profit in the first year. Statistics show the vast majority of businesses need at least five years to break even.
I'm currently about to undertake development of two ideas that I've worked on for the last ~5 years. I'm fairly sure both will succeed. As per the article both of my ideas are innovative and not visible on the web today, but along with the innovation I've spent a few years laying out a plan, both as to actual development and marketing. You must know why your project will succeed, you should know what might cause it to fail.
And then there's luck, just being in the right place at the right time.
I post a link to the book below everytime the subject comes up on/. Luria's treatment of the subject matter is a good overview and shows the potential downside to such gifts. I met one woman who gift was equal to those described in the article. She had no training and simply had the gift. I have an above average memory that serves me well but I find the majority of people become bored when I start to itemize particulars. My parents and sibling smile indulgently at me then carry on a conversation roundly ignoring my detailing.
I've studied various mnemonic methods. The ancient greeks used an empty stadium as a mnemonic device then would 'seat' items to be remembered in the stadium seats.
But are we to take it you went to what we call a private school? Did you place "Public School" in quotes to show you meant private school, or, did you place "Public School" in quotes to show you meant public school as we mean public school, which is to say funded by the government and open to all?
English and American, two people separated by a "common language"... can't remember who said that... Mencken?
Interestingly the Reg has an article titled Industry goes mad for IPTV. From the article:"There was a queue at IPTV Forum in London last week, all the way back past the lifts and round into the bar area. That was the first statement about what should have been yet another unsurprising show about IPTV, that there is real main stream interest out there now and everyone wants to get in on the action.".
"IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) describes a system where a digital television service is delivered to subscribing consumers using the Internet Protocol over a broadband connection."
Big business is moving in to try to corner the new tech. Big business hasn't changed much from the days of the first Robber Barons who would capture a trade passage and tax caravans.
What might prove interesting is that artists are seeing the possibility of going it on their own without being shackeled and thethered to a contract with an oligopolistic master.
"The New York Times is running an article that discusses the continuing evolution of human genes."
Hilariously funny. I see journalists as advertising sales people, while I read them as infrequently as possible. Their fashion sense seems to be the most keen of their senses. 'Serious' jounalists dress nerdy and wear bow ties to dissociate themselves from their advertising space sales force kin, but in doing so speak loudly to how superficially minded they are.
Nature is a process people. Life as we know it is an open non equilibrium system.
Likewise science is a process defined by thresholds such as those opened and imposed by inventions like the microscope and the telescope. I'm preaching to the choir, but maybe there's a classics major in the house.
I run Office 2003 pro, but like you I'm not a heavy Office user. I'm use to having it on hand to make presentations and, along with Visio play with ideas. I picked up Visual Basic 5 pro when I picked up Office 97 and I thought the match up a good one, along with vba, the tools gave me an easy way to personalize the Office Suite.
Honestly I think 97 offers everything a casual user needs. I'm not moving onto Vista as I feel Ubuntu meets my needs, and, with 7 more years of support for XP, I think the only killer app MS can come up with to win me back would be in voice recognition and there's much competition in that field. Although msh is fun to play with and MS has made strides in the area of security but given where they were coming from giant strides were in order.
"...so why don't we all go to Digg and set up camp at the new epicenter for geek news on the net?"
You go ahead and get things started, we'll, uhm.... be along, you know, after awhile; but whatever you do don't come back here cause we'll all be gone.
You're right, technology is the variable, but consider how large corporations in the west constrained by laws governing consumer rights, environmental constraints and fair competition are loath to play by the rules. Do you think that China's rush to properity pushed by regulations put in place by a tyranny will play by the same rules as the west? Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Communist regime was a slag heap. A possible outcome is that large corporations will be pushed to find solutions to problems other large corporations have caused and the pressure to find solutions will force responsible governments to relax laws meant to keep the same corporations in check.
The stability of the ecosystem as we came to be in it came from systems of negative feedback, a system of checks and balances that we in the west since the time of J.S. Mill have applied to our systems of government. Even each one of us individually is a system of systems for the most part dependent upon negative feedback to stay in quasi equilibrium. Positive runaway is what systemic parameter shifts are about. Individually we experience positive feedback as, for example, sexual climax, or, death.
We are seeing the possibility of positive runaway in the ecosystem and the hope of technology is to apply checks and balances artificially to a system the intricacy of which we've yet to fathom. Science as we've practised it and as we've expressed it stems the experimental injunction, ceteras paribus, i.e., all other things held constant. We move forward defining one variable at a time. What we might soon face from global warming and unchecked competition to win in a world of fast shrinking resources is governed by the Red Queen who decrees we must run faster and faster just to stay in the same place while the systemic change threatens postive runaway.
The/. mindset seems to be blind to the reality of the biosphere as a system. It's an ecosystem, thus when a major shift in one parameter is put in play the likelihood is that there will be other parameter shifts.
It may be that we will come out in a world better suited to our soon to be 9 billion human population. It may be that much of the planet will become uninhabitable or no longer arable. What is evident is that the majority of people who bother to consider the possible outcomes seem to think there will be one diasterous consequence and that somehow we'll all pull together to get things under control. It's as if something like Katrina is envisioned, but it's likely to be very complex and detrimental on a number of fronts. The truth is our ability to maintain our existing infrastructure is very limited.
A washed out bridge can bring traffic to a halt on a major highway. Imagine a warming world with increased sever storms, washing out roadways and rail lines, while bringing down power lines. Ice storms could bring the whole eastern seaboard to it's knees because the existing powerlines aren't able to carry the weight of the ice.
The emergency contingency plans and resources in place were slow and sloppy in reacting to Katrina. Play whatif with three or four hurricanes or sever storms pounding on the Gulf of Mexico and turning to ice storms in the north.
In the late 90's the American scientist Edmund Wilson postulated that for the existing world population to enjoy the life style of America today on a percapita basis would require the resources of another 5 worlds. Recently a conservative thinktank worked out that for China and India to live at the level of America today we would require the resources of another two worlds. So we have a world awash in weapons with a population ontrack to hit 9 billion in a biosphere showing signs of undergoing radical systemic change.
You should ridicule the alarmists. You should make jokes because it looks like it's going to get ugly fast.
The music industry of the last century was mature in that it worked for everyone involved. With the coming of the wired/wireless world came irritants the upset the status quo. The little piggys that ran the music/movie industries are trying to figure out how to turn these new irritants into pearls. It's a if pigs were oysters sorta thing.
Lawmakers are being asked to legislate the new industry to protect the status quo of the old industry players, the rights of consumers, the cultural heritage of their respective countries and, in doing so, lay down fuzzy, arbitrary lines to aportion the new pie between the respective players with an eye to tax revenue. The legislators most certainly are stakeholders in this brave new world as the more rigorously they define the rights of participants the more surely they can define tax revenue. It's in terms of potential tax revenue that the rights of consumers are likely to be pushed aside. Profits for big business translates into tax revenue for big government.
The political posturing inherent in looking to control violent content in video games is really not much different than the violent posturing endorsed in video games and in most pop culture. Our culture is still male dominated and males of nearly all species posture. The violent posturing of males is a gambit to win stature in the troop and to win females without resorting to mortal combat.
If anything, pop culture violence is a necessary outlet for males to vent their genetic behaviour without resorting to physical violence. The small percentage of males and females who resort to violent assault are headcases that most likely would lash out violently even in a culture without violent games or pop culture.
Perhaps the strongest evidence as to how deeply entrenched our pop culture is in male, violent posturing are the recent movies with hot chicks weilding death. Rather than growing to embrace female attributes more akin to reconciliation (at least if you go with the matriarchial model of the bonobos) we as a culture are promoting females as violent posturing caricatures of the male psyche.
Journalists became reporters, then reporters became advertising sales people. It may be that the only true jounalists remaining are ethical scientists.
Not that little old me matters but as of WinXP pro I'm moving off windows boxes. I grew up on wintel boxes from DOS 3.3 up. I went with Win95/NT dual boot boxes then added Mandrake 6. I've purchased major releases of VS Basic pro and VS C++ pro. I've routinely bought new releases of Office Pro and Visio (I think both are great products).
DRM and Windows blackbox security, along with the Ubuntu distro, have pushed me to adopt an OSS only stand. MS will try to cram DRM down everyone's throat. As a Canadian, where copyright laws aren't as rabid as those carrying the American sickness, I don't intend to let MS port American laws into my small piece of Canada. As to security, a thousand eyes are better than a single black box that may, or, may not, have backdoors in place to allow American three lettered organizations to spy on me or pull the plug should their paranoia overwhelm them.
Being a happy later adopter of bleeding edge tech I'm just now building AMD athlon boxes and, on the one I've finished, Ubuntu is doing just fine. Factor in Xen, VMware freeware, *BSD, OpenSolaris and free Solaris 10, and the future of F/OSS is looking very bright indeed.
As are many other/.ers, I'm my family circle goto guy when it comes to PCs and tech generally, so I think it's time to cut the MS cord and go solo with F/OSS as a statement to my small sphere of influence.
WinXP support is set to go on for another 7 years by then I doubt I'll see the need to pay the MS tax just for multimedia, or, maybe, the DRM madness will have been reversed, but I doubt it.
There was a famous american conductor active around the mid part of the last century who was widely known for his refusal to record. He characterized recorded music as pancaked sound. Although this was in the vinly era his criticism still holds. More speakers, even properly spaced, don't lend a benefical comparison of recorded music to a performance.
You can listen to any recording of say the Kronos Quartet, but no matter how well the recording tech is matched to the medium the sound is flat compared to hearing the quartet play live.
I sometimes prefer listening to something from a seminal jazz album like Bitches Brew on a turn table because the vynil has a warmer sound to my ears.
You can add all the speakers and present day tech you want it's still pancaked sound.
Patients needing transplants must contend with their own immune systems rejecting transplants. The immune system has a self/nonself approach to tissue. Matching tissue as close as possible to lower the possibility of tissue rejection amounts to looking for a 1 in 100,000 match.
Each year thousands of American lives are prolonged by transplanted organs -- kidney,heart,lung,liver,and pancreas.For a transplant to "take," however,,the body 's natural tendency to rid itself of foreign
tissue must be overridden. One way,tissue typing,makes sure markers of self on the donor 's tissue are as similar as possible to those of the recipient.Each cell has a double set of 6 major tissue
antigens,and each of the antigens exists, in different individuals,in as many as 20 varieties.The chance of 2 people having identical transplant antigens is about 1 in 100,000.
Transplant patients must first overcome these odds. If it were me I think my tendency would be to breathe a sigh of relief at having found donor tissue and that relief might make me tend to put questions about tissue health on the back burner.
Data mining technologies that could link arbitrary facts into logical events and find dependencies,
arbitrary:
adjective: based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
fact
noun 1 a thing that is indisputably the case
So an arbitrary fact would be something that is indisputably the case based on individual impulse of caprice.
I write code like that after I smoke a phat dubbie but I didn't know the NSA would be interested in paying a big buck for it. I'm gonna get right onto that.:)
Spending time with your children learning new things and sharing with them the fun of learning is the best a parent can do. Handing their education off to their teachers won't have the visceral impact of them knowing their parents love to learn.
As far as tech goes they'll be inundated from their earliest days although I'd work with them in bits:) and words to ensure they have a conceptual grasp of the how it is that computers work. Too often in education an assumption is made that everyone gets the basics then students are shunted up the ladder where often they can't grasp concepts because the basics learned by rote weren't fundamentaly understood.
I suspect MS will counter movement toward an Open Document Format by bundling pdf capabilities directly into Office 2007. Further I think most of Adobe's line of software is in MicroSoft's crosshairs.
In terms of Office Tools for the web pdf will become the defacto format. The Open Source community has a chance to finally compete with MS word and ppt, as both file formats will give way to pdf. While the continued development of Open Office is a good thing, in terms of competing with MS on equal ground pdf is the way to go.
Academia has widely utlilized pdf and equivalents for many years, as have many govenment institutions. The exisiting user base will likely catapult pdf into user land and we'll see a quick widespred adoption over a few years.
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MS has had a site for Unix migration for a long time. Resources for UNIX Professionals provides various takes on migration. Plus, as has been noted, Posix has been part of NT at least since version 4 and perhaps even 3.51 although I'm too lazy to look it up.
There are people who are technically gifted and are chrismatic enough to sell whatever it is they're working on but they're few and far between.
A few simple rules:
(1)know your product and be able to explain it to investors who might not have the technical training to immediately grasp what it is you're proposing. Stay away from the trap too many technical trained people fall into of overwhelming potential investors or customers with unnecessary detail, (I failed this test repeatedly).
(2) Have a business plan and enough money to go 5 years without outside investors. Many government agencies provide templates that will allow you to lay out a business plan that a banker or investor can easily understand. Don't go to a bank or potential investor with a bunch of loose papers and a lot of hand waving. Most businesses I've seen fail went into business looking to turn a profit in the first year. Statistics show the vast majority of businesses need at least five years to break even.
I'm currently about to undertake development of two ideas that I've worked on for the last ~5 years. I'm fairly sure both will succeed. As per the article both of my ideas are innovative and not visible on the web today, but along with the innovation I've spent a few years laying out a plan, both as to actual development and marketing. You must know why your project will succeed, you should know what might cause it to fail.
And then there's luck, just being in the right place at the right time.
I've studied various mnemonic methods. The ancient greeks used an empty stadium as a mnemonic device then would 'seat' items to be remembered in the stadium seats.
Luria, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich) The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
"There were only two things to come out of Berkeley in the 60's, LSD and Unix. I doubt that is a coincidence."
But are we to take it you went to what we call a private school? Did you place "Public School" in quotes to show you meant private school, or, did you place "Public School" in quotes to show you meant public school as we mean public school, which is to say funded by the government and open to all?
English and American, two people separated by a "common language"... can't remember who said that... Mencken?
"IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) describes a system where a digital television service is delivered to subscribing consumers using the Internet Protocol over a broadband connection."
Big business is moving in to try to corner the new tech. Big business hasn't changed much from the days of the first Robber Barons who would capture a trade passage and tax caravans.
What might prove interesting is that artists are seeing the possibility of going it on their own without being shackeled and thethered to a contract with an oligopolistic master.
K9 is bound to be a real dog.
Hilariously funny. I see journalists as advertising sales people, while I read them as infrequently as possible. Their fashion sense seems to be the most keen of their senses. 'Serious' jounalists dress nerdy and wear bow ties to dissociate themselves from their advertising space sales force kin, but in doing so speak loudly to how superficially minded they are.
Nature is a process people. Life as we know it is an open non equilibrium system.
Likewise science is a process defined by thresholds such as those opened and imposed by inventions like the microscope and the telescope. I'm preaching to the choir, but maybe there's a classics major in the house.
Honestly I think 97 offers everything a casual user needs. I'm not moving onto Vista as I feel Ubuntu meets my needs, and, with 7 more years of support for XP, I think the only killer app MS can come up with to win me back would be in voice recognition and there's much competition in that field. Although msh is fun to play with and MS has made strides in the area of security but given where they were coming from giant strides were in order.
You go ahead and get things started, we'll, uhm.... be along, you know, after awhile; but whatever you do don't come back here cause we'll all be gone.
bye
The stability of the ecosystem as we came to be in it came from systems of negative feedback, a system of checks and balances that we in the west since the time of J.S. Mill have applied to our systems of government. Even each one of us individually is a system of systems for the most part dependent upon negative feedback to stay in quasi equilibrium. Positive runaway is what systemic parameter shifts are about. Individually we experience positive feedback as, for example, sexual climax, or, death.
We are seeing the possibility of positive runaway in the ecosystem and the hope of technology is to apply checks and balances artificially to a system the intricacy of which we've yet to fathom. Science as we've practised it and as we've expressed it stems the experimental injunction, ceteras paribus, i.e., all other things held constant. We move forward defining one variable at a time. What we might soon face from global warming and unchecked competition to win in a world of fast shrinking resources is governed by the Red Queen who decrees we must run faster and faster just to stay in the same place while the systemic change threatens postive runaway.
It may be that we will come out in a world better suited to our soon to be 9 billion human population. It may be that much of the planet will become uninhabitable or no longer arable. What is evident is that the majority of people who bother to consider the possible outcomes seem to think there will be one diasterous consequence and that somehow we'll all pull together to get things under control. It's as if something like Katrina is envisioned, but it's likely to be very complex and detrimental on a number of fronts. The truth is our ability to maintain our existing infrastructure is very limited.
A washed out bridge can bring traffic to a halt on a major highway. Imagine a warming world with increased sever storms, washing out roadways and rail lines, while bringing down power lines. Ice storms could bring the whole eastern seaboard to it's knees because the existing powerlines aren't able to carry the weight of the ice.
The emergency contingency plans and resources in place were slow and sloppy in reacting to Katrina. Play whatif with three or four hurricanes or sever storms pounding on the Gulf of Mexico and turning to ice storms in the north.
In the late 90's the American scientist Edmund Wilson postulated that for the existing world population to enjoy the life style of America today on a percapita basis would require the resources of another 5 worlds. Recently a conservative thinktank worked out that for China and India to live at the level of America today we would require the resources of another two worlds. So we have a world awash in weapons with a population ontrack to hit 9 billion in a biosphere showing signs of undergoing radical systemic change.
You should ridicule the alarmists. You should make jokes because it looks like it's going to get ugly fast.
Lawmakers are being asked to legislate the new industry to protect the status quo of the old industry players, the rights of consumers, the cultural heritage of their respective countries and, in doing so, lay down fuzzy, arbitrary lines to aportion the new pie between the respective players with an eye to tax revenue. The legislators most certainly are stakeholders in this brave new world as the more rigorously they define the rights of participants the more surely they can define tax revenue. It's in terms of potential tax revenue that the rights of consumers are likely to be pushed aside. Profits for big business translates into tax revenue for big government.
If anything, pop culture violence is a necessary outlet for males to vent their genetic behaviour without resorting to physical violence. The small percentage of males and females who resort to violent assault are headcases that most likely would lash out violently even in a culture without violent games or pop culture.
Perhaps the strongest evidence as to how deeply entrenched our pop culture is in male, violent posturing are the recent movies with hot chicks weilding death. Rather than growing to embrace female attributes more akin to reconciliation (at least if you go with the matriarchial model of the bonobos) we as a culture are promoting females as violent posturing caricatures of the male psyche.
Journalists became reporters, then reporters became advertising sales people. It may be that the only true jounalists remaining are ethical scientists.
DRM and Windows blackbox security, along with the Ubuntu distro, have pushed me to adopt an OSS only stand. MS will try to cram DRM down everyone's throat. As a Canadian, where copyright laws aren't as rabid as those carrying the American sickness, I don't intend to let MS port American laws into my small piece of Canada. As to security, a thousand eyes are better than a single black box that may, or, may not, have backdoors in place to allow American three lettered organizations to spy on me or pull the plug should their paranoia overwhelm them.
Being a happy later adopter of bleeding edge tech I'm just now building AMD athlon boxes and, on the one I've finished, Ubuntu is doing just fine. Factor in Xen, VMware freeware, *BSD, OpenSolaris and free Solaris 10, and the future of F/OSS is looking very bright indeed.
As are many other /.ers, I'm my family circle goto guy when it comes to PCs and tech generally, so I think it's time to cut the MS cord and go solo with F/OSS as a statement to my small sphere of influence.
WinXP support is set to go on for another 7 years by then I doubt I'll see the need to pay the MS tax just for multimedia, or, maybe, the DRM madness will have been reversed, but I doubt it.
the FOSS shot heard 'round the world
quietly building pressure for an open source earthquake
On the face of it
setting the world on fire
if you dig just a little deeper
the seeds of more profound change gradually developing.
I'd like to try to compete but I'm just not up to it.
Well done and thanks for the laughs
You can listen to any recording of say the Kronos Quartet, but no matter how well the recording tech is matched to the medium the sound is flat compared to hearing the quartet play live.
I sometimes prefer listening to something from a seminal jazz album like Bitches Brew on a turn table because the vynil has a warmer sound to my ears.
You can add all the speakers and present day tech you want it's still pancaked sound.
From the pdf file the_immune_system:
Immunology and Transplants
Each year thousands of American lives are prolonged by transplanted organs -- kidney,heart,lung,liver,and pancreas.For a transplant to "take," however,,the body 's natural tendency to rid itself of foreign tissue must be overridden. One way,tissue typing ,makes sure markers of self on the donor 's tissue are as similar as possible to those of the recipient.Each cell has a double set of 6 major tissue
antigens,and each of the antigens exists, in different individuals,in as many as 20 varieties.The chance of 2 people having identical transplant antigens is about 1 in 100,000.
Transplant patients must first overcome these odds. If it were me I think my tendency would be to breathe a sigh of relief at having found donor tissue and that relief might make me tend to put questions about tissue health on the back burner.
arbitrary:
adjective: based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
fact
noun 1 a thing that is indisputably the case
So an arbitrary fact would be something that is indisputably the case based on individual impulse of caprice.
I write code like that after I smoke a phat dubbie but I didn't know the NSA would be interested in paying a big buck for it. I'm gonna get right onto that.:)
What Is Strider "HoneyMonkey"? is a differnet take on the problem. /. reported on the project... http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/224 0222
And would this be when your mom calls to ask you what you plan to do with your life?
As far as tech goes they'll be inundated from their earliest days although I'd work with them in bits :) and words to ensure they have a conceptual grasp of the how it is that computers work. Too often in education an assumption is made that everyone gets the basics then students are shunted up the ladder where often they can't grasp concepts because the basics learned by rote weren't fundamentaly understood.
In terms of Office Tools for the web pdf will become the defacto format. The Open Source community has a chance to finally compete with MS word and ppt, as both file formats will give way to pdf. While the continued development of Open Office is a good thing, in terms of competing with MS on equal ground pdf is the way to go.
Academia has widely utlilized pdf and equivalents for many years, as have many govenment institutions. The exisiting user base will likely catapult pdf into user land and we'll see a quick widespred adoption over a few years.
just my loose change