It is wonderful that some children can excell so at Mathematics. A sublimely creative genre, mathematical prodigies have included some of the best Mathematicians we have ever known, such as Goedel.
However, mathematics is, on the surface, a rigourously boring subject. What enables these children to see its inner beauty?
I think that mathematics is taught incorrectly in our schools. For pre teens, the education system is a Gradgrindish experience, and they are asked to remember many boring but worthy facts. This is a shame, because it happens at the time when they are at their most creative and curious.
Only later, when they are in their final years of school, are they taught in a creative and interesting way.
I think this explains why girls do better than boys when younger, but worse later, in education. Girls are good at doing routine tasks. It has been scientifically shown that they have a higher boredom threshhold. However, boys desire stimulation, and so the pre teen education system disadvantages them.
If only our schools education system saw learning as a voyage, a journey of exploration, rather than a means of inculcating our children in corporate dronery. --
Many people have become hypnotised by Pi. Philosophers, mathematicians, even ordinary God fearing people have been seduced by this most feminine and transcendental of numbers.
But what of the human cost? Think of the people who have been driven mad by Pi. Gaerdoluxa, and ancient Greek philosopher King, became entranced by the ratio, and committed suicide after unsuccesfully trying to square the circle for the 3141st time.
Hyppomineon, a Roman, did go on a killing rampage after he failed to convert Pi into Roman numerals.
I think the legacy of Pi is clear. Like many women, it hypnotises right thinking men, sucks them in and chews them up, before spitting out a wreck. Pi is a feminine number because it is like a cunt - it encloses and enfolds it's beholder, before destroying him.
I think our duty is clear. We must ban Pi completely, and declare that Pi=4. It is the only way to protect the innocent masses.
Think of the children. Think of the millions slaughtered by bombs whose trajectories were calculated using - yes - Pi.
All these lives could be saved. Lets abolish Pi today. --
If one examines the history of computer programmes, one can see that the languages they are coded in have become ever more high level. We started of with machine code, moved into assembler, then to Fortran, then C, C++, and so forth. We have become ever more removed from the realities of the machine, and computer programming has become progressivley easier over the years.
The end result id natural language programming. You literally tell the computer what you want it to do, and its amazing compiler will produce perfect code.
Of course, this is far off, but we can see the effects of the easyness of programming in the modern age even now. You used to need a mathematics degree and be a top flight academic to be a programmer, back in the beginning. Now, high school kids can enter the programming world, and get jobs. This means that the market is filling up with people skilled in the various high level languages.
I think that things can only become worse - there is a great reallignment happening in the world of programming, as it becomes more of a blue collar environment, and sheds it's elitist image.
I think that the increasing franchise of programming, which is at last being grasped by the common man, can only be a good thing. --
Privacy is a thing of the past. Everybody can freely find out all details about everybody else - past relationships, earnings, educational achievements, you name it it is just a short search away. The most amazing thing of all is that the people of this time like this state of affairs.
Imagine, the honesty in society. You can check up on prospective dates. Crime is incredibally low in this environment.
Society has become transparent. 'Privacy' is regarded as an outdated and rather curious concept, and everyone is of the opinion that the lack of privacy is a good thing for society as a whole - it engenders honesty.
Is this the future? I think it may well be. I can see that attitudes like this are becoming more and more common - my teenage neice already searches google for information on people she knows.
There is a case for saying that the lack of privacy leads to a transparent and crime free society, but there is a problem - corporations.
I think that the lack of privacy could well be abused by powerful corporations, this is the bugbear we must avoid.
I think that the EU is showing the way forward here, by standing against Corporations where America will not.
I must admit I am scared by the possibilities of this future, but I think it will happen. --
The big problem with declaring that only physical objects and not business methods and practises can be patented is that it removes much of the competitive aspect and research from the field. I agree that software methods should not be patentable, but business methods? Clearly, to me, there is a case for allowing business methods to be patented.
Why should a company be motivated to research new business practises if it cannot profit from its own work? In todays fast moving, morphing world, business plans are what businesses live and die by - they are the modern rocket science, and many billions are spent daily on their research and practise.
However, if a business cannot guarrantee that its work will be applicable to only itself, then it will become sluggish and staid - more like a business of the 80's than a business of today. We must, IMHO, protect the rights of businesses to create and carve out their own intellectual business plans.
Leave it to the Europeans to do what they want - they have no conception of the rights of the individual. That Britain has embraced this, I find, as an Irish Unionist, to be utterly dissappointing. Perhaps america will show sense, and stand for the soveriegn principles upon which it was founded, and which Britain has, sadly, forgotten. --
I think that there is a big problem with the console market. As the industry has matured, it has become more and more expensive to manufacture and design a console. This has meant that, recently, many console companies have been pulling out of the manufacturing business entirely. Sega is doing so, Nintendo looks shaky. Remember Atari? Remember how many console companies there were in the 1970's and 1980's? Lots. I mean, hundreds of them, banging out clones and bizarre little variations. Now it looks as though the console market is on a fast track to monopoly, under the aegis of Sony, or perhaps a stich up between MS and Sony.
I would like to see an Open Source console, one which can be cloned, much like the IBM PC could be cloned. This would lead to a vital market. It does not so much matter bout the software side of things - a games console does not really need an OS, the games can hit the metal.
If one company created an open architecture and promoted it, before long there would be hundreds of clone makers and a real movement in the industry.
We must break the hegemony of the sealed, synthetic box. --
Soon we will be seeing a battle royale in the boardrooms of corporate America. This news is wonderful, however the oil companies will not like it one bit. You bet that Shell, BP, Texaco, Mobil and so on are all lobbying for various taxes to be imposed even as we speak, and considering all sorts of strategies to undermine the Electric car as a serious proposition. However, the government and automotive industries will be all for this technology - expect to see some confrontation between the two.
As to electric cars being cleaner than ptrol powered cars, I do not think they are especially. This is similar to having longer chiminies - it merely moves the pollution elsewhere, in this case to power stations and the venting that takes place there.
This means that countries such as Norway and Canada, which have to suffer the pollution produced in Britain and America respectively, will suffer even more from its dead effects. Electric cars mean that Londoners and Manhattanites will live in cleaner environments while the true countryside suffers a little more.
However, my attitude to this is 'So What?' The lives of millions and their living conditions is a lot more important than the continued existance of some obscure far away plant or animal. I only wish the statist environmentalists could see that. --
I imagine compression could well be optional, or at least that many people will hack it to make it so.
I don't think this technology will get anywhere though - as you say, DVD-Audio is on the horizon, and is being pushed by the major labels.
Also, it seems to me that the future of music recording lies in straightforward RAM - probably Flash rams. We can see this now with mp3's, but in 5-10 years we will have much much greater capacities, and so it seems logical that memory should be used, what with all of its inherent advantages over DVD's and CD's - easy to record and rerecord, good portable solution, much more robust, universally compatible, etc etc.
Technologies such as those outlined in the article are interesting solutions for the shortterm, but I don't think that they will have any staying power. --
Also, Sealand is not recognised by the British Government as independant, and quite rightly too. It is a small island, which is presently on sufferance - if it ever starts doing anything to irritate the international community, like host Napster, it will be squashed. An artificial structure created by the Royal Navy for wartime purposes will be under the dominion of the British Government as soon as it starts to annoy.
I think a far better bet for Napster would be Taiwan or some other such similar country. Taiwan is well known for the total lack of copyright control within its borders, and is much more powerful than Sealand. Although still a pygmy in international terms, it is unlikely to be challenged or compromised over an issue such as Napster.
The only problem might be that its sole internet connection to the outside world is a 2MBit pipe. Hopefully the government of Taiwan will correct this soon - strange to think my office has a bigger Internet pipe that the entire nation of Taiwan.
I think that Napster type companies could well have a future in the far east. Perhaps China itself would be a good bet - good infrastructure these days, and a government unlikely to be influenced by the DMCA or US government. I wish they would consider these radical alternatives. --
We have been endlessly told about the new paradigm in working hours and the fluidity of the job markets. How we are expected to change careers every few years or less and negotiate new working conditions for ourselves.
I think that this is becoming true - at least for skilled workers, who can reasonably expect, at the moment, to move onto a new job without much difficulty.
Are we being short sighted though? What happens during the next depression? Skilled workers without any real job security or long term contract will be on the scrapheap without any hope of reprieve. Unskilled workers are having these new working practises foisted upon them, and they do not like it - it is not so easy for them to move on.
My worry is that this environment is reducing the quality of life in our society by removing stability and certainty. At the moment, while the economy booms, this is okay, but what of the future? There will be a bust, sooner or later. What about the unskilled, who will suffer from the easy come easy go working practises we have forced them to accept? What about the skilled workers, who will find that their taking their employment destiny into their own hands has blown up in their faces?
I can't help but think we are digging our own grave. --
The big problem I have had with systems such as Conway's Game of Life is that it is essentially a deterministic system. How can life emerge in such an environment? It can't, because evolution depends on random mutation, and the Game of Life's outcome is determined from the very beginning.
Regarding whether life is possible in a computational environment, I would dissagree and say that it is not. Simple life, such as viruses and bacteria certainly is, but I think that conscious life in a computational universe is not possible. The mind and consciousness depends on randomness - hence the importance of quantum mechanics - but in a computational universe this does not exist. Only pseudorandomness can be said to exist - meaning that everything is, again, utterly moribund and predictable.
I hope that I am proved wrong - it would be excellent if we could produce intellegent computers, but somehow I think that it is beyond our technology. Life is not a simple Turing machine, and intelligent life cannot, I suspect, be reduced to a Turing or Von Neumann machine. We are more complex than that, more beautiful, more mysterious, and more profound. --
American Television - Killed by commerce
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I have spent some time in America, and while many things impressed me during my stay there, one of the things that most definately did not was the television. It struck me as being dumbed down for the common denominator (and I mean dumbed down), full of endless and frequent advertising and 'infomercials' and also of horribly low quality.
I think there are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, there are just too many channels available. Some promote this on the grounds of choice, but the problem, as I see it, is that there is only a finite amount of talent available to produce television, and so if you have a huge number of channels that talent is diluted. Also, American television stationstypically all produce the same sort of programmes - they all aim for certain market segments, but I do not see the need for many hundreds of channels.
Another problem is that with the lonely and underfunded exception of PBS, all the stations are commercial. They are all owned by one or another conglomerate or multinational, and so they have but one aim - to make money.
Here in the UK much admirable television is produced, mainly because there are few channels, and only 2 of the terrestrial channels can be said to be fully commercial, and even then they are heavily regulated. The BBC is funded by the television license, and is free to produce innovative and original programming, regardless of market constraints. ITV and Channel 5 have to exist in this reality, and compete with this by producing original programmes of their own.
If I were a dictator charged with improving American television, I would cut down the number of channels to 15 or so, start up an organisation similar to the BBC informed by the Reithian ethos and funded by licenses paid by the end consumer, and give it perhaps 6 of these channels. The remaining commercial channels would of course have to compete with this new entity by creating innovative programming.
This would also concentrate talent and money into a much smaller number of channels, and free these talents from the grinding demands of money and ratings. The quality of television would inevitably improve.
I know this is a pipe dream now, but really I think it would work wonders for the quality of American television. --
Hacktivism looks as though it is a convenient excuse for hackers to continue their passion, while still being able to say that what they are doing is legal.
As such, it is to be encourage. People who enjoy breaking into computer systems will never disappear - it is far better to have them be white hats than black.
The average 'hacker (surely it should be 'cracktivism') enjoys breaking into computer systems for the intellectual thrill of it, and also the illicit thrill. It might be wise then to keep hacktivism's slightly disreputable reputation - it is important that they still get the illicit thrill, whilst still being white hats. --
Listen, I have been on/. for a long long time, and the thing that affected it badly was the appearance of people like you. Don't attack her just because you disagree with her - that is the road to a hellish monoculture here on/.
Effectively, it is the first new one in a long time. Sure, there were others. The fact that they did not topple the gameboy, despite being technically better, if anything backs up her point.
The colour gameboy is pretyty much identical to the original gameboy, and very few games were released supporting the miserable advance in features. This also backs her point up.
In addition, people can post whatever they like here. If you want high standards of evidence and so on,/. is not the place to look. It is a discussion site, and people can damn well give family anecdotes if they like.
Corporate decision makers like to have everything merge into each other and be compatible. A software development division at a publishing company *is* a little odd.
It is a bit like corporate managers insisting that all computers run windows of some stripe, in order to fit into the corporate strategy. These decisions are often facile and misinformed.
In this case they may have been right though. How would they make money from a software development branch? It doesn't remotely fit in with the rest of the company - it just confuses the central mission of the company.
It would be good if they could sell the branch off in a demerger or something though. Whether that is economically feasible I don't know. --
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... on linux.com, I *think*, and very interesting it was too. I know that this sort of book has been done many times before, but I enjoyed the excerpt anyway - I could read it again and again.
The input by the sociology expert should be very interesting, and hopefully give it an unusual angle.
It is good to see the hacker community analysed like this. I do really think that there is something fundamental happening here, among this community. Hacking is the first occupation that is closely connected with the online world, as it has been since the 1960's, and so it has built up its own ethos based on this, as it grew up around it.
Other interests and professions, like writing, music and so on, see the interenet as something of a threat, but I am hopeful that in the future we will see a similar ethos among musicians and writers, or at least a group of them, as we see now in the hacker community. The havker community was the first, so it is important not just for hackers, but for other groups, to have it analysed. --
The whole problem with the Next Generation edition of Star Trek is that it has become inward. In the days of the original Star Trek, men were men and women were women, and Mankind was travelling outwards to explore the galaxy.
When TNG came along, things seemed so inwards - they were no longer exploring other worlds, they were reciding into their own minds and the issues had become much more social. This is why the holodeck (a crappy addition to the show) and Diana Troy both annoy the crap out of me.
I am glad that this show is earlier in time, because it suggests to me that the series will be returning to its roots, that of exploration of the physical universe. --
If I buy one of these and pay for Billware, I want to keep it available. For games, eh? I look at the Compaq page and it's not clear at all whether I can run Linux off of flash, and retain Windows, or maybe swap chips around when I want to change O/S, or what the heck. Can anyone explain? Is LILO a possibility ?
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However, mathematics is, on the surface, a rigourously boring subject. What enables these children to see its inner beauty?
I think that mathematics is taught incorrectly in our schools. For pre teens, the education system is a Gradgrindish experience, and they are asked to remember many boring but worthy facts. This is a shame, because it happens at the time when they are at their most creative and curious.
Only later, when they are in their final years of school, are they taught in a creative and interesting way.
I think this explains why girls do better than boys when younger, but worse later, in education. Girls are good at doing routine tasks. It has been scientifically shown that they have a higher boredom threshhold. However, boys desire stimulation, and so the pre teen education system disadvantages them.
If only our schools education system saw learning as a voyage, a journey of exploration, rather than a means of inculcating our children in corporate dronery.
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But what of the human cost? Think of the people who have been driven mad by Pi. Gaerdoluxa, and ancient Greek philosopher King, became entranced by the ratio, and committed suicide after unsuccesfully trying to square the circle for the 3141st time.
Hyppomineon, a Roman, did go on a killing rampage after he failed to convert Pi into Roman numerals.
I think the legacy of Pi is clear. Like many women, it hypnotises right thinking men, sucks them in and chews them up, before spitting out a wreck. Pi is a feminine number because it is like a cunt - it encloses and enfolds it's beholder, before destroying him.
I think our duty is clear. We must ban Pi completely, and declare that Pi=4. It is the only way to protect the innocent masses.
Think of the children. Think of the millions slaughtered by bombs whose trajectories were calculated using - yes - Pi.
All these lives could be saved. Lets abolish Pi today.
--
The end result id natural language programming. You literally tell the computer what you want it to do, and its amazing compiler will produce perfect code.
Of course, this is far off, but we can see the effects of the easyness of programming in the modern age even now. You used to need a mathematics degree and be a top flight academic to be a programmer, back in the beginning. Now, high school kids can enter the programming world, and get jobs. This means that the market is filling up with people skilled in the various high level languages.
I think that things can only become worse - there is a great reallignment happening in the world of programming, as it becomes more of a blue collar environment, and sheds it's elitist image.
I think that the increasing franchise of programming, which is at last being grasped by the common man, can only be a good thing.
--
Privacy is a thing of the past. Everybody can freely find out all details about everybody else - past relationships, earnings, educational achievements, you name it it is just a short search away. The most amazing thing of all is that the people of this time like this state of affairs.
Imagine, the honesty in society. You can check up on prospective dates. Crime is incredibally low in this environment.
Society has become transparent. 'Privacy' is regarded as an outdated and rather curious concept, and everyone is of the opinion that the lack of privacy is a good thing for society as a whole - it engenders honesty.
Is this the future? I think it may well be. I can see that attitudes like this are becoming more and more common - my teenage neice already searches google for information on people she knows.
There is a case for saying that the lack of privacy leads to a transparent and crime free society, but there is a problem - corporations.
I think that the lack of privacy could well be abused by powerful corporations, this is the bugbear we must avoid.
I think that the EU is showing the way forward here, by standing against Corporations where America will not.
I must admit I am scared by the possibilities of this future, but I think it will happen.
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Why should a company be motivated to research new business practises if it cannot profit from its own work? In todays fast moving, morphing world, business plans are what businesses live and die by - they are the modern rocket science, and many billions are spent daily on their research and practise.
However, if a business cannot guarrantee that its work will be applicable to only itself, then it will become sluggish and staid - more like a business of the 80's than a business of today. We must, IMHO, protect the rights of businesses to create and carve out their own intellectual business plans.
Leave it to the Europeans to do what they want - they have no conception of the rights of the individual. That Britain has embraced this, I find, as an Irish Unionist, to be utterly dissappointing. Perhaps america will show sense, and stand for the soveriegn principles upon which it was founded, and which Britain has, sadly, forgotten.
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I would like to see an Open Source console, one which can be cloned, much like the IBM PC could be cloned. This would lead to a vital market. It does not so much matter bout the software side of things - a games console does not really need an OS, the games can hit the metal.
If one company created an open architecture and promoted it, before long there would be hundreds of clone makers and a real movement in the industry.
We must break the hegemony of the sealed, synthetic box.
--
As to electric cars being cleaner than ptrol powered cars, I do not think they are especially. This is similar to having longer chiminies - it merely moves the pollution elsewhere, in this case to power stations and the venting that takes place there.
This means that countries such as Norway and Canada, which have to suffer the pollution produced in Britain and America respectively, will suffer even more from its dead effects. Electric cars mean that Londoners and Manhattanites will live in cleaner environments while the true countryside suffers a little more.
However, my attitude to this is 'So What?' The lives of millions and their living conditions is a lot more important than the continued existance of some obscure far away plant or animal. I only wish the statist environmentalists could see that.
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I don't think this technology will get anywhere though - as you say, DVD-Audio is on the horizon, and is being pushed by the major labels.
Also, it seems to me that the future of music recording lies in straightforward RAM - probably Flash rams. We can see this now with mp3's, but in 5-10 years we will have much much greater capacities, and so it seems logical that memory should be used, what with all of its inherent advantages over DVD's and CD's - easy to record and rerecord, good portable solution, much more robust, universally compatible, etc etc.
Technologies such as those outlined in the article are interesting solutions for the shortterm, but I don't think that they will have any staying power.
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I think a far better bet for Napster would be Taiwan or some other such similar country. Taiwan is well known for the total lack of copyright control within its borders, and is much more powerful than Sealand. Although still a pygmy in international terms, it is unlikely to be challenged or compromised over an issue such as Napster.
The only problem might be that its sole internet connection to the outside world is a 2MBit pipe. Hopefully the government of Taiwan will correct this soon - strange to think my office has a bigger Internet pipe that the entire nation of Taiwan.
I think that Napster type companies could well have a future in the far east. Perhaps China itself would be a good bet - good infrastructure these days, and a government unlikely to be influenced by the DMCA or US government. I wish they would consider these radical alternatives.
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I think that this is becoming true - at least for skilled workers, who can reasonably expect, at the moment, to move onto a new job without much difficulty.
Are we being short sighted though? What happens during the next depression? Skilled workers without any real job security or long term contract will be on the scrapheap without any hope of reprieve. Unskilled workers are having these new working practises foisted upon them, and they do not like it - it is not so easy for them to move on.
My worry is that this environment is reducing the quality of life in our society by removing stability and certainty. At the moment, while the economy booms, this is okay, but what of the future? There will be a bust, sooner or later. What about the unskilled, who will suffer from the easy come easy go working practises we have forced them to accept? What about the skilled workers, who will find that their taking their employment destiny into their own hands has blown up in their faces?
I can't help but think we are digging our own grave.
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Regarding whether life is possible in a computational environment, I would dissagree and say that it is not. Simple life, such as viruses and bacteria certainly is, but I think that conscious life in a computational universe is not possible. The mind and consciousness depends on randomness - hence the importance of quantum mechanics - but in a computational universe this does not exist. Only pseudorandomness can be said to exist - meaning that everything is, again, utterly moribund and predictable.
I hope that I am proved wrong - it would be excellent if we could produce intellegent computers, but somehow I think that it is beyond our technology. Life is not a simple Turing machine, and intelligent life cannot, I suspect, be reduced to a Turing or Von Neumann machine. We are more complex than that, more beautiful, more mysterious, and more profound.
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I think there are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, there are just too many channels available. Some promote this on the grounds of choice, but the problem, as I see it, is that there is only a finite amount of talent available to produce television, and so if you have a huge number of channels that talent is diluted. Also, American television stationstypically all produce the same sort of programmes - they all aim for certain market segments, but I do not see the need for many hundreds of channels.
Another problem is that with the lonely and underfunded exception of PBS, all the stations are commercial. They are all owned by one or another conglomerate or multinational, and so they have but one aim - to make money.
Here in the UK much admirable television is produced, mainly because there are few channels, and only 2 of the terrestrial channels can be said to be fully commercial, and even then they are heavily regulated. The BBC is funded by the television license, and is free to produce innovative and original programming, regardless of market constraints. ITV and Channel 5 have to exist in this reality, and compete with this by producing original programmes of their own.
If I were a dictator charged with improving American television, I would cut down the number of channels to 15 or so, start up an organisation similar to the BBC informed by the Reithian ethos and funded by licenses paid by the end consumer, and give it perhaps 6 of these channels. The remaining commercial channels would of course have to compete with this new entity by creating innovative programming.
This would also concentrate talent and money into a much smaller number of channels, and free these talents from the grinding demands of money and ratings. The quality of television would inevitably improve.
I know this is a pipe dream now, but really I think it would work wonders for the quality of American television.
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As such, it is to be encourage. People who enjoy breaking into computer systems will never disappear - it is far better to have them be white hats than black.
The average 'hacker (surely it should be 'cracktivism') enjoys breaking into computer systems for the intellectual thrill of it, and also the illicit thrill. It might be wise then to keep hacktivism's slightly disreputable reputation - it is important that they still get the illicit thrill, whilst still being white hats.
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Effectively, it is the first new one in a long time. Sure, there were others. The fact that they did not topple the gameboy, despite being technically better, if anything backs up her point.
The colour gameboy is pretyty much identical to the original gameboy, and very few games were released supporting the miserable advance in features. This also backs her point up.
In addition, people can post whatever they like here. If you want high standards of evidence and so on, /. is not the place to look. It is a discussion site, and people can damn well give family anecdotes if they like.
Your type of elitism disgusts me.
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It is a bit like corporate managers insisting that all computers run windows of some stripe, in order to fit into the corporate strategy. These decisions are often facile and misinformed.
In this case they may have been right though. How would they make money from a software development branch? It doesn't remotely fit in with the rest of the company - it just confuses the central mission of the company.
It would be good if they could sell the branch off in a demerger or something though. Whether that is economically feasible I don't know.
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The input by the sociology expert should be very interesting, and hopefully give it an unusual angle.
It is good to see the hacker community analysed like this. I do really think that there is something fundamental happening here, among this community. Hacking is the first occupation that is closely connected with the online world, as it has been since the 1960's, and so it has built up its own ethos based on this, as it grew up around it.
Other interests and professions, like writing, music and so on, see the interenet as something of a threat, but I am hopeful that in the future we will see a similar ethos among musicians and writers, or at least a group of them, as we see now in the hacker community. The havker community was the first, so it is important not just for hackers, but for other groups, to have it analysed.
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When TNG came along, things seemed so inwards - they were no longer exploring other worlds, they were reciding into their own minds and the issues had become much more social. This is why the holodeck (a crappy addition to the show) and Diana Troy both annoy the crap out of me.
I am glad that this show is earlier in time, because it suggests to me that the series will be returning to its roots, that of exploration of the physical universe.
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If I buy one of these and pay for Billware, I want to keep it available. For games, eh? I look at the Compaq page and it's not clear at all whether I can run Linux off of flash, and retain Windows, or maybe swap chips around when I want to change O/S, or what the heck. Can anyone explain? Is LILO a possibility ?
Exqueeze me ?! What are we breeding ? THX-1138 ? Something even weirder ?
When I hear "best of breed", I reach for my Eugenics 101
Gender is for nouns, sex is for people.
Take a peek at http://www.iobox.com/ .
They're pretty big here in Finland, and they just got mentioned in Time.
"We" is very good indeed.
So c'mon guys fix the README .......
the LAME websites are a tangled mess. and there's no announcements AT ALL about this new code.
I checked tgz's for 3.7 and 3.81, and the README's both say they are for the patch build.
I mean, what the fark ? where's the beef ?
publicised surveillance => public spoofs