Perhaps at the beginning, certainly not at the end. Sooner or later someone will "cross the Rubicon"...
Arguably Julius Caesar was the beginning of Rome's glory, not it's end. Sure he had some domestic political... critics... but you can't conquer the world without getting stabbed in the face by your mates a few dozen times, right?
Rome wasn't exactly a fun shiny light of peace-loving democratic freedom even in its republic era,and after the Empire it still took a few hundred years to fall. About a thousand and a half if you count the Eastern Empire, and the Turks do. Two thousand and change if you count the Dark Ages of Europe as just a particularly long intra-Empire secession struggle. We still use Latin-1 encoding for a reason, after all.
Yes, quite. Rome's five point strategy for global victory:
1. Mercilessly invade, massacre and subjugate the barbarians with your Legions-O-Doom (tm). Huzzah! I-tal-y! I-tal-y! 2. After a few years, outsource running your Legions-O-Doom (tm) to the surviving barbarians, because they're better at it. A win-win for all! 3. After a few more years, get too cheap to continue paying your newly outsourced barbarian Legions-O-Doom (tm). Austerity chic! 4. Hey, who's these guys at our gates? Guards! Guards! Where are my Legions... oh. 5. Crap.
(yes I know Ubuntu aren't the only fuzzy cloudy people on the planet, but their 'encryption is hard dur we don't need it' stance makes me hit my head against hard things).
Oy Vey! - you orient the spin axis along true North.
And that's how Santa raises the funds to underwrite his subversive wealth-redistribution operation. By holding the world's power supplies to ransom with a giant flywheel, which doubles as a bomb large enough to obliterate most of Canada and northern Siberia.
If you're extra-naughty, Santa might come to your house on Christmas Eve and give you a top that never stops spinning.
What did we do with a stateless distributed document display system and a scripting language? Why we built stateful applications out of them.
Yes, we did. And I'm very sad that we did, because at the core of HTTP's stateless REST architecture is a very neat half-formed idea struggling to get out, which we've been hell-bent on strangling at birth since 1989.
Facebook and Twitter should be teaching us something about what we're missing. The SGML document/element divide is mostly hugely unhelpful. What we generally want to publish is not huge consolidated 'documents' but the raw data objects themselves. We should have a distributed publishing infrastructure that lets us post arbitrary data objects like individual blog posts or tweets to persistent global addresses and let the fabric sort out the routing and presentation. Ideally we should also be able to publish side-effect free functions to the same publishing fabric, and then apply one part of the fabric to another part and republish that. And so on, indefinitely. Mix, remix and repost. It should be as simple to post 'hey, here's a new function/template for rendering blog posts' as the posts themselves.
What we'd end up with then is something a lot more like Ted Nelson's 'Xanadu' (minus his weird mathematical neologisms and patent walls). Of the currently available systems, Google's "Wave" experiment came very, very close to being something like this, but they lost interest.
Instead, we've got this baroque multi-tier architecture of HTML, DOM, JavaScript, PHP/Java, and divides between 'client' and 'server' which really don't make sense in a Facebook kind of world. The divide is great for those developing 'applications' who get to keep the 'users' on the other side and pay for access. But in real life, even the users often want to construct and share workflows and methods. The current multi-tier Web is one of the worst ways possible of doing that.
Sadly the recent diversions have hindered this cause.
What an unfortunate coincidence. I'm sure there was absolutely no connection between Wikileaks annoying the heads of all major governments on Earth and the mysterious, sudden, and unexpected backlash of the media against them. It will be one of the 21st century's enduring mysteries for future anthropologists to ponder, like how Lady Gaga became famous.
Well, that's all for our news slot! Next, a poodle who barks The Marseillaise - in Libya!
It was half empty and full of radioactive sludge. Brain the size of a planet and they leave me parking cars for a million years. Life, don't talk to me about life.
Maybe -- what you need to do is send to the moon a robot that is able to mine and store water, and to manufacture these things: (1) solar panels to capture additional power, (2) more robots like itself.
News! News! Getcha fresh news 'ere! So fresh the pixels haint dried yet! So fresh Rupert Murdoch is still on the dictaphone! News! Torn right from the bleedin' 'eart of the Western world!
You want iron, fish or war, try the next lane over. News!
Slashdot Mirror
Except you can't reboot a universe like Doctor Who, because they did not reboot the universe.
*Cough* Time war.
*Cough* Big Bang.
That's two *literal* universe reboots in the last five years of continuity.
Rome was smarter than we were.
Perhaps at the beginning, certainly not at the end. Sooner or later someone will "cross the Rubicon"...
Arguably Julius Caesar was the beginning of Rome's glory, not it's end. Sure he had some domestic political... critics... but you can't conquer the world without getting stabbed in the face by your mates a few dozen times, right?
Rome wasn't exactly a fun shiny light of peace-loving democratic freedom even in its republic era,and after the Empire it still took a few hundred years to fall. About a thousand and a half if you count the Eastern Empire, and the Turks do. Two thousand and change if you count the Dark Ages of Europe as just a particularly long intra-Empire secession struggle. We still use Latin-1 encoding for a reason, after all.
Rome was smarter than we were.
Yes, quite. Rome's five point strategy for global victory:
1. Mercilessly invade, massacre and subjugate the barbarians with your Legions-O-Doom (tm). Huzzah! I-tal-y! I-tal-y!
2. After a few years, outsource running your Legions-O-Doom (tm) to the surviving barbarians, because they're better at it. A win-win for all!
3. After a few more years, get too cheap to continue paying your newly outsourced barbarian Legions-O-Doom (tm). Austerity chic!
4. Hey, who's these guys at our gates? Guards! Guards! Where are my Legions... oh.
5. Crap.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-19/
That cartoon is funny because it assumes that the Cloud would actually be using encryption.
Silly Dilbert!
(yes I know Ubuntu aren't the only fuzzy cloudy people on the planet, but their 'encryption is hard dur we don't need it' stance makes me hit my head against hard things).
We outsource our firewall admin
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your botnet.
Artillery.
Oy Vey! - you orient the spin axis along true North.
And that's how Santa raises the funds to underwrite his subversive wealth-redistribution operation. By holding the world's power supplies to ransom with a giant flywheel, which doubles as a bomb large enough to obliterate most of Canada and northern Siberia.
If you're extra-naughty, Santa might come to your house on Christmas Eve and give you a top that never stops spinning.
What did we do with a stateless distributed document display system and a scripting language? Why we built stateful applications out of them.
Yes, we did. And I'm very sad that we did, because at the core of HTTP's stateless REST architecture is a very neat half-formed idea struggling to get out, which we've been hell-bent on strangling at birth since 1989.
Facebook and Twitter should be teaching us something about what we're missing. The SGML document/element divide is mostly hugely unhelpful. What we generally want to publish is not huge consolidated 'documents' but the raw data objects themselves. We should have a distributed publishing infrastructure that lets us post arbitrary data objects like individual blog posts or tweets to persistent global addresses and let the fabric sort out the routing and presentation. Ideally we should also be able to publish side-effect free functions to the same publishing fabric, and then apply one part of the fabric to another part and republish that. And so on, indefinitely. Mix, remix and repost. It should be as simple to post 'hey, here's a new function/template for rendering blog posts' as the posts themselves.
What we'd end up with then is something a lot more like Ted Nelson's 'Xanadu' (minus his weird mathematical neologisms and patent walls). Of the currently available systems, Google's "Wave" experiment came very, very close to being something like this, but they lost interest.
Instead, we've got this baroque multi-tier architecture of HTML, DOM, JavaScript, PHP/Java, and divides between 'client' and 'server' which really don't make sense in a Facebook kind of world. The divide is great for those developing 'applications' who get to keep the 'users' on the other side and pay for access. But in real life, even the users often want to construct and share workflows and methods. The current multi-tier Web is one of the worst ways possible of doing that.
I'll be honest with you. We're just throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks.
A little context would go a long way towards explaining what the hell the summary is babbling about.
Sheesh, do some research. Slashdot is obviously now a blog about third century African Christian theologians.
Sadly the recent diversions have hindered this cause.
What an unfortunate coincidence. I'm sure there was absolutely no connection between Wikileaks annoying the heads of all major governments on Earth and the mysterious, sudden, and unexpected backlash of the media against them. It will be one of the 21st century's enduring mysteries for future anthropologists to ponder, like how Lady Gaga became famous.
Well, that's all for our news slot! Next, a poodle who barks The Marseillaise - in Libya!
Who's the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party?
One of the basic principles of the scientific method is the ability for peers to independently reproduce results.
And that's why the plural of 'scientist' is 'army of mantis-men'.
But does it both run and not run linux?
I can do that right now by installing Ubuntu Unity.
Great, first people forget what irony is and now puns? Using a word to mean what it means is NOT a pun.
Well, it's only a literal quantum leap if you can't measure either the position or momentum of the intervening development prototypes.
Or if Doctor Sam Beckett is involved.
I didn't outright reject it.
But it still sounds like science fiction.
That's basically what Einstein and Shroedinger said too when they heard about quantum mechanics. So you're in good company.
Ok, so there's China, but so far they have not made any seriously threatening moves.
You don't want to mess with China. They make your pants.
Pants or no pants. That is the question.
Who's glass was it and what kind of glass was it?
It was half empty and full of radioactive sludge. Brain the size of a planet and they leave me parking cars for a million years. Life, don't talk to me about life.
Maybe -- what you need to do is send to the moon a robot that is able to mine and store water, and to manufacture these things: (1) solar panels to capture additional power, (2) more robots like itself.
WALL-F 3 Eva2!
Time to look for the impact site of the Fifth Elephant.
However, even a turkey could see that would cause problems given the plans the "New World Order" has for the region.
TV pro wrestling is ruining everything.
news-mongers
News! News! Getcha fresh news 'ere! So fresh the pixels haint dried yet! So fresh Rupert Murdoch is still on the dictaphone! News! Torn right from the bleedin' 'eart of the Western world!
You want iron, fish or war, try the next lane over. News!
No matter how stupid or untrue something is, as long as you can cite it you can get it into academia.
Fixed that for you.
I think Wikipedia is doing pretty well as a microcosm of the academic process. Not perfect, but the best we've got.
Wikipedia is not a "World Wonder" any more than the Guinness Book of World Records is a "World Wonder".
Guinness itself, though...
I mean, the guy who said "I bet you 50 pounds people would drink liquid Marmite if we make it sufficiently alcoholic" was a certified genius.
Wikipedia continues into the 21st century what the Encyclopedists first started in the 18th.
And when Trantor falls, Wikipedia will rebuild the galaxy as the First Foundation. (With Anonymous as the Second, one presumes.)
Seldon help us all.