if you want to boot up in under a second (!) - and just bang in a couple lines of text and save - done (in less than twenty seconds) - the handiest text editor i've found is QED for the palm pilot. -- you could basically hit the power button, see and edit your text within 1 second of wake-up. click the power button again - and it would be away in your pocket - whip it out, click power again, and still be exactly where you left off -- now if only the iPod Touch could get something so advanced -- but it seems that iPod Touch thinks 3D animation and fancy transparency effects are more important than basic text editor functionality -- so the Palm still rules over the iPhone (in this department). although i have high hopes that the iPhone will, some year, actually get to have as useful text editor as the palm has had for the last ten years!
i'm not saying his work is necessarily scientific (although he graduated cambridge with honours in biological sciences) -- but he interprets his science through the lens of buddhistic thought instead of judeo-christian creation myths. -- in doing so, he presents a radically different explanation of the fossil record which not only fits the with the facts, but also accords fully with indian philosophy.
it just seems that trying to even acknowledge the existence of any other stream of thought other than options a) judeo-creation myth and b) the darwinian version of evolution seems impossible with some people though.
> Many other religions believe that the universe was created in a different way.
i have always found it a poor choice between ONLY a) science (of the darwinian we came from frogs), or b) creationism (we came out of nowhere, with no proof, and you jus gotta believe).
no doubt, not many would choose option e) -- which both the creationists and scientists would think is just nuts -- but insofar as the number of possible theories examined, out of the many theories, it always only comes down to just two - ludicrous creationism, or ape science - other options aren't ever discussed, when there are other options. why are we caught in this polarity between the two ideas that have no overlaps in venn diagram...?:-P
what a waste of space including rs-232...?? we can afford to go to space, but we need an rs-232 port just in case we can't afford the newer USB peripherals!?!? maybe we should include PS/2 ports in case they cant afford a USB keyboard & mouse??
imho, the ports should be:
- DVI video - USB 2.0 - Ethernet - Compact Flash - Audio In/Out - fit more RAM where you wasted space for RS-232
what a waste of space including rs-232...?? we can afford to go to space, but we need an rs-232 port just in case we can't afford the newer USB peripherals!?!? maybe we should include PS/2 ports in case they cant afford a USB keyboard & mouse??
imho, the ports should be:
- DVI video - USB 2.0 - Ethernet - Compact Flash - Audio In/Out - fit more RAM where you wasted space for RS-232
Materialism can never arrive at a satisfactory explanation of the world. For every attempt at an explanation must of necessity begin with man's forming thoughts about the phenomena of the world.
Materialism, therefore, takes its start from thoughts about matter or material processes. In doing so, it straightway confronts two different kinds of facts, namely, the material world and the thoughts about it.
The materialist tries to understand thoughts by regarding them as a purely material process. He believes that thinking takes place in the brain much in the same way that digestion takes place in the animal organs. Just as he ascribes to matter mechanical and organic effects, so he also attributes to matter, in certain circumstances, the ability to think.
He forgets that in doing this he has merely shifted the problem to another place. Instead of to himself, he ascribes to matter the ability to think.
And thus he is back again at his starting-point. How does matter come to reflect about its own nature? Why is it not simply satisfied with itself and with its existence?
The materialist has turned his attention away from the definite subject, from our own I, and has arrived at a vague, indefinite image. And here again, the same problem comes to meet him.
The materialistic view is unable to solve the problem; it only transfers it to another place.
What people are contemplating on their word-processor screens is the operation of their own brains. It is not entrails that we try to interpret these days, nor even hearts or facial expressions; it is, quite simply, the brain. We want to expose to view its billions of connections and watch it operating like a video game... All that fascinates us is the spectacle of the brain and its workings. What we are wanting here is to see our thoughts unfolding before us - and this itself is a superstition.
(Jean Baudrillard, 1986)
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steve jobs pushing his utopian visions for the way machines should work drives the abilities and tempers of its engineers.
jobs pushing his personal excellence and expectations on his employees, and his demands of service beyond mediocrity may cause some to hate him -- but they respect his accomplishments. bottom line -- 'real artists ship'. high level decisions to have real designers drive engineering, rather than be involved as a cosmetic 'after-touch'.
as a founder, jobs' spirit informs the company's DNA. it is the personal force of his character that allows in only those he deems worthy. his reality distortion field is his ability and drive to see the way things 'should' be, with a level of personal finesse and devotion to idealistic qualities.
lose that uniting band -- you'll still have the pieces of apple, but will it be only parts? you can be sure he's training a seed (could it be jonathan ive?) as a successor in 'the apple way'.
Who'll know aught living and describe it well,
seeks first the spirit to expell.
He then has the component parts in hand --
but lacks, alas! the spirit's uniting band.
(Goethe, Faust)
here here for C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy - better than Narnia - Perelandra and Out of the Silent Planet are a great introduction to Sci-fi or pre-teens, as is Madaline L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' - i got much delight out of these books when i was 10-12 years old - and still enjoy them now.:-)
traditionally, science forms its hypothesis, and performs an experimentum crucis to test the hypothesis; rinse & repeat. it seems to me that 'the cloud' refers to a hitherto statistically huge number of samples of data points from which to extract our knowledge of the world -- a sort of broad collection of facts derived from constantly and systematically varying the experimental conditions -- an exploratory experimentation. goethe outlines a method of Exploratory Experimentation in the essay The experiment as mediator between subject and object.
"Theory-oriented and exploratory experimentation are not exclusive categories, but rather members of a spectrum of experimental research strategies. Which is more productive in a given context depends on many factors, including a field's state of development, the sort of knowledge (for example, underlying mechanisms versus phenomenal regularities) sought by the physicist, and the complexity of the system being studied. Our aim in emphasizing the exploratory path has been to bring to light an experimental style that has played an important, but hitherto underrecognized, role in the history of physics.
| Present for the reunion was office manager Miriam Lubow (centre of | new picture), who missed the original sitting due to a snowstorm. | Absent for the reshoot was Bob Wallace (top center), who died in 2002; | after leaving Microsoft in 1983
sharing is not stealing -- if i'm freely sharing the service. what ever happened to manners and common courtesy?? i live on a small island in canada, and people are friendly. they like to help and share with one another -- we leave our doors open, because we trust one another.
it is wrong to presume that using an open wifi is always stealing -- i leave our wifi open and unencrypted as part of the friendly sharing of resources so that people, if they are in the area, and have a need, may respectfully use this point of internet access.
part of being a considerate 'user' of an access point that someone has thoughtfully left open for you is to not abuse the extension of such consideration -- you're a guest, and someone's being nice to you by leaving their system open for you -- they're giving you a chance to check your email when you're stuck somewhere and in a pinch -- it would be inconsiderate to hog all their bandwidth by downloading or streaming video on their connection.
when people start abusing such signs of consideration, the people who are otherwise friendly end up having to close off this courtesy, and encrypt everything. just like spam -- those who abuse the ability to freely email anyone -- a few bad apples spoil it for the whole bunch.
perhaps he's wanting to send spam, because he thinks it will increase sales -- truth is -- how many customers do you LOSE because they're annoyed at what you've done!?!?
while it is important to foster a healthy skepticism (for obvious reasons), the other half of this is that without a natural wonder and reverence, much knowledge of the world may never be revealed to the pure skeptic.
"Reverence awakens... a sympathetic power through which we attract
qualities... around us, which would otherwise remain concealed" (HTKHW)
Slashdot Mirror
if you want to boot up in under a second (!) - and just bang in a couple lines of text and save - done (in less than twenty seconds) - the handiest text editor i've found is QED for the palm pilot. -- you could basically hit the power button, see and edit your text within 1 second of wake-up. click the power button again - and it would be away in your pocket - whip it out, click power again, and still be exactly where you left off -- now if only the iPod Touch could get something so advanced -- but it seems that iPod Touch thinks 3D animation and fancy transparency effects are more important than basic text editor functionality -- so the Palm still rules over the iPhone (in this department). although i have high hopes that the iPhone will, some year, actually get to have as useful text editor as the palm has had for the last ten years!
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john penner.
and here's an example of option C) John Davidson, Natural Creation or Natural Selection
i'm not saying his work is necessarily scientific (although he graduated cambridge with honours in biological sciences) -- but he interprets his science through the lens of buddhistic thought instead of judeo-christian creation myths. -- in doing so, he presents a radically different explanation of the fossil record which not only fits the with the facts, but also accords fully with indian philosophy.
then there's another, call it option D) -- and it doesn't necessarily contracdict darwin, but is based on a non-kantian epistemology -- theory of knowledge implicit in Goethe's World Conception - revision in Darwinian conception of time
it just seems that trying to even acknowledge the existence of any other stream of thought other than options a) judeo-creation myth and b) the darwinian version of evolution seems impossible with some people though.
> Many other religions believe that the universe was created in a different way.
i have always found it a poor choice between ONLY a) science (of the darwinian we came from frogs), or b) creationism (we came out of nowhere, with no proof, and you jus gotta believe).
why is there never any discussion of option c) d) or even something like e) the occult evolution of the cosmos?
no doubt, not many would choose option e) -- which both the creationists and scientists would think is just nuts -- but insofar as the number of possible theories examined, out of the many theories, it always only comes down to just two - ludicrous creationism, or ape science - other options aren't ever discussed, when there are other options. why are we caught in this polarity between the two ideas that have no overlaps in venn diagram...? :-P
what a waste of space including rs-232...?? we can afford to go to space,
but we need an rs-232 port just in case we can't afford the newer USB peripherals!?!?
maybe we should include PS/2 ports in case they cant afford a USB keyboard & mouse??
imho, the ports should be:
- DVI video
- USB 2.0
- Ethernet
- Compact Flash
- Audio In/Out
- fit more RAM where you wasted space for RS-232
that's it.
what a waste of space including rs-232...?? we can afford to go to space,
but we need an rs-232 port just in case we can't afford the newer USB peripherals!?!?
maybe we should include PS/2 ports in case they cant afford a USB keyboard & mouse??
imho, the ports should be:
- DVI video
- USB 2.0
- Ethernet
- Compact Flash
- Audio In/Out
- fit more RAM where you wasted space for RS-232
that's it.
Materialism can never arrive at a satisfactory explanation of the world. For every attempt at an explanation must of necessity begin with man's forming thoughts about the phenomena of the world.
Materialism, therefore, takes its start from thoughts about matter or material processes. In doing so, it straightway confronts two different kinds of facts, namely, the material world and the thoughts about it.
The materialist tries to understand thoughts by regarding them as a purely material process. He believes that thinking takes place in the brain much in the same way that digestion takes place in the animal organs. Just as he ascribes to matter mechanical and organic effects, so he also attributes to matter, in certain circumstances, the ability to think.
He forgets that in doing this he has merely shifted the problem to another place. Instead of to himself, he ascribes to matter the ability to think.
And thus he is back again at his starting-point. How does matter come to reflect about its own nature? Why is it not simply satisfied with itself and with its existence?
The materialist has turned his attention away from the definite subject, from our own I, and has arrived at a vague, indefinite image. And here again, the same problem comes to meet him.
The materialistic view is unable to solve the problem; it only transfers it to another place.
(from: The Philosophy of Freedom)
What people are contemplating on their word-processor screens
is the operation of their own brains. It is not entrails that we try to
interpret these days, nor even hearts or facial expressions;
it is, quite simply, the brain. We want to expose to view its
billions of connections and watch it operating like a video game...
All that fascinates us is the spectacle of the brain and its workings.
What we are wanting here is to see our thoughts unfolding
before us - and this itself is a superstition.
(Jean Baudrillard, 1986)
steve jobs pushing his utopian visions
for the way machines should work drives
the abilities and tempers of its engineers.
jobs pushing his personal excellence and expectations
on his employees, and his demands of service beyond mediocrity
may cause some to hate him -- but they respect his accomplishments.
bottom line -- 'real artists ship'. high level decisions to have
real designers drive engineering, rather than be involved
as a cosmetic 'after-touch'.
as a founder, jobs' spirit informs the company's DNA.
it is the personal force of his character that allows in
only those he deems worthy. his reality distortion field
is his ability and drive to see the way things 'should' be,
with a level of personal finesse and devotion to idealistic qualities.
lose that uniting band -- you'll still have the pieces of apple,
but will it be only parts? you can be sure he's training a seed
(could it be jonathan ive?) as a successor in 'the apple way'.
Who'll know aught living and describe it well,
seeks first the spirit to expell.
He then has the component parts in hand --
but lacks, alas! the spirit's uniting band.
(Goethe, Faust)
here here for C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy - better than Narnia - Perelandra and Out of the Silent Planet are a great introduction to Sci-fi or pre-teens, as is Madaline L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' - i got much delight out of these books when i was 10-12 years old - and still enjoy them now. :-)
just what we need - advertising with no volume control, :-P
and no way to turn it off.
all the while, pumping the iraqi countryside full of depleted uranium... :-P
keep coming back to it as easiest on the eyes -- white on deep night blue (RGB = 0, 20, 50) or white on violet (RGB = 30, 0, 55).
traditionally, science forms its hypothesis, and performs an experimentum crucis to test the hypothesis; rinse & repeat. it seems to me that 'the cloud' refers to a hitherto statistically huge number of samples of data points from which to extract our knowledge of the world -- a sort of broad collection of facts derived from constantly and systematically varying the experimental conditions -- an exploratory experimentation. goethe outlines a method of Exploratory Experimentation in the essay The experiment as mediator between subject and object.
"Theory-oriented and exploratory experimentation are not exclusive categories, but rather members of a spectrum of experimental research strategies. Which is more productive in a given context depends on many factors, including a field's state of development, the sort of knowledge (for example, underlying mechanisms versus phenomenal regularities) sought by the physicist, and the complexity of the system being studied. Our aim in emphasizing the exploratory path has been to bring to light an experimental style that has played an important, but hitherto underrecognized, role in the history of physics.
Physics Today Article
| Present for the reunion was office manager Miriam Lubow (centre of
| new picture), who missed the original sitting due to a snowstorm.
| Absent for the reshoot was Bob Wallace (top center), who died in 2002;
| after leaving Microsoft in 1983
how come i see THREE women in the later photo, but only TWO in the first!?!?
...looks like one of these
(burning karma at a rate of ten)
sharing is not stealing -- if i'm freely sharing the service.
what ever happened to manners and common courtesy??
i live on a small island in canada, and people are friendly.
they like to help and share with one another -- we leave
our doors open, because we trust one another.
it is wrong to presume that using an open wifi is always stealing -- i leave our wifi open and unencrypted as part of the friendly sharing of resources so that people, if they are in the area, and have a need, may respectfully use this point of internet access.
part of being a considerate 'user' of an access point that someone has thoughtfully left open for you is to not abuse the extension of such consideration -- you're a guest, and someone's being nice to you by leaving their system open for you -- they're giving you a chance to check your email when you're stuck somewhere and in a pinch -- it would be inconsiderate to hog all their bandwidth by downloading or streaming video on their connection.
when people start abusing such signs of consideration, the people who are otherwise friendly end up having to close off this courtesy, and encrypt everything. just like spam -- those who abuse the ability to freely email anyone -- a few bad apples spoil it for the whole bunch.
perhaps he's wanting to send spam, because he thinks it will increase sales -- truth is -- how many customers do you LOSE because they're annoyed at what you've done!?!?
while it is important to foster a healthy skepticism (for obvious reasons),
the other half of this is that without a natural wonder and reverence,
much knowledge of the world may never be revealed to the pure skeptic.
"Reverence awakens... a sympathetic power through which we attract
qualities... around us, which would otherwise remain concealed" (HTKHW)
but we all know what it is that requires the 'system update' to reboot...
the microsoft PR nerds must've been on that one.
plumbing always leaks eventually - what a mess - my system melted down, and there's coolant all over the cpu -- blech.
sounds like a great place for growing algae!!
(oh, they love that warm water!)
is it niave to ask if melting polar caps - will reintroduce all sorts of ancient bacteria into the global bacteriosphere?
Kruzweil wants to upgrade the 'suboptimal software in your brain'.
Geez - I sure hope he doesn't use Vista...
One hundred rounds does not constitute firepower.
One hit contitutes firepower. (Gen. Merritt Edson, USMC)