Not performance incentives. If you are marketable, then people might want to hire you away. Options that vest over time give you an incentive to stay at the company, and it does cost a lot to add new employee, in training, and also long term knowledge of the people who are there.
One can make the argument that using alternating genders for examples is more inclusive. If you look at usage on the Apple pages, you'll find that examples alternate between he and she.
One finds arguments all over the place about why aren't there more women in tech/blogs/games, etc. Perhaps it is because the language rejects them.
While it was certainly proper grammar 50 years ago to use 'he' as the collective third person singular, there was a movement in the 70's to figure out how to correct this issue. Using 'they' is not correct.
It is a matter of style, not grammar.
Plus, it made you ask a question. Why did you have such a severe reaction to it? Maybe you could take a look at that and wonder how you would feel if the entire language used "she" and "her" as the collective third person singular. Would you feel included in the discussion? Now, put yourself in a woman's shoes and wonder how much women feel included in the discussion when "he" and "him" are used.
Snow Crash shaped my idea of technology, at least what I wanted to create in it. Likewise Diamond Age. I think many toolmakers look at fiction and think, can I make it so? Or, know how to make but not what to make. It seems like we technologists have made much of the tech from the science fiction of the past a reality. (ok, cept for space colonies and the cure for cancer:-)
I haven't really found much good speculative fiction lately, or rather, I don't want to make distopian visions true. I found it interesting that you go back in time, and write about the past. Did you decide this was the way to write a better future?
Many people don't have any inkling of the history of natural philosophy, and if you write about it as fiction, are you not reprogramming the past to make a different future? I kindof feel like the baroque cycle is like the primer in diamond age: what will the kids make if this is what they assume the past to be. How do you feel about programming the minds of geeks? Have you discovered a way to debug the logic flaws in English?
Anyway, I guess the question is, do all stories have to have a beginning, middle and end?
I've been trying to convince work that there is no internet or phones at burning man. Not reachable.
Please stop with your "innovation."
art + tech + burningman
i dunno, i'm a mac person, but you've been able to use applescript for a while to connect iTunes to other apps. Maybe you can use visual basic to do the same thing on windows, she says not knowing a thing about VB other than it infected word documents. Here's the things you can do automatically with applescript and itunes.
looks like it runs on supported hardware as either metadata or client. the clients seem to be able to act as metadata controllers if you like living on the edge. look at the video page "optional dedicated metadata controller" the other pages don't list them as optional.
The ones who put Ken Lay behind bars? The ones regulating mutual funds? The ones regulating stock traders who skim between buy and sell? The ones appointed by an administration who comes from the scratch your back school of croneyism?
They're all prolly taking notes from Darl.
You want SEC to actually do anything? Don't vote Republican next year for any office.
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Ursula LeGuin posits that there is a "language of the night," a way of storytelling that creates a psychological landscape similar to dreamland, distinct from 'what if' of sci-fi or simple escapism of standard dragon-wizard fantasy.
When I read works you've written, I am immediately transported to this dreamland that is fantastic literature, that creates its own world in mind, but seems to use mythic archetypes.
My question: do your words just naturally flow from your mind into this kind of writing, or do you have to work at it? If it just flows, how would you say you view the world such that it just flows? If you have to work at it, what are tricks you use to get into this mindspace?
Science fiction poses 'what if'
Fantastic literature bends your mind (leguin on genres: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/AlternateTitles.html)
Fantasy is escapism.
Huxley - real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
We've exhausted much of the 'what if' story lines. robots, genes, nanotech, AI, space opera, drugs, alien sex, bug eyed monsters, apocolypse, distopia, utopia, gender, time travel. For someone to come up with new what if idea *and to write well about it* is few and far between. Kage Baker's Corporation series was the last series I read with anything novel (heh) in it, and she first published that series 6+ years ago.
We in technology business have taken ideas in SF and made them reality. However, society at large has not taken the rest of the ideas in SF and made them reality. We've done the easy part. The hard part is in pushing people to utopia. Why do we need money? When we can feed everyone on the planet with advances in tech, why do people starve? When we have so many advances in productivity and efficiency, why are people on the street?
Because society has not kept up with tech, and tech has only served to further stratify the differences between the haves and have nots.
It is incumbant upon us in tech to push for the great society, where everyone has food and robots and a place to live and the kitchen of tomorrow. And yeah, some people will be lazy, but some will be the kind who will push the human race forward, but were unable to because they were exhausted from working 3 jobs to barely feed their families.
Unfortunately most of the engineers in tech (I am generalizing) suscribe to the ayn rand libertarian I'm smarter than you therefore I should have more and screw you anyway cuz you beat me up in grade school mentality.
When technology has mostly served to screw people over, why should they want more of it? When an technologically based meritocracy asks more of you than a despotically arranged society ala lord of the riungs, why should you want it, unless the people suggesting the technologically based meritocracy make it more seductive than someone telling you what to do with your life.
Or, if you've spent all day trying to make a technologically based meritocracy, perhaps it's nice to escape sometimes into a romantic ideal. Or, if you've consumed all the mind bending fantastic literature, perhaps it's nice to escape into something where the rules make sense. Or, if you spend all day listening to reports of the pf'ers in DC dismantling previous generation's attempts at building a technologically based meritocracy, perhaps all you want to do is escape.
>guns can't really do anything useful other than kill and maim.
Well, the one thing they are good for is maintaining a pretense of consent of the governed. As long as everybody has the right to bear arms, and actually exercises that right, then if the government gets too uppity, you can have a revolution. In fact, you're almost required to. See Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Most people with power don't give it up if you just ask them to, so if you change the system on them, they might go after you with guns. If you don't have some, they win.
I'd say file sharing ranks up there in the liberty and the pursuit of happiness category.
Hmm, maybe I'll take lessons at the local shooting range this weekend.
Some of the posts mention that there are a few geniuses of programming and many many plodders, and you can't train the plodders. The geniuses will produce art, the plodders bricks.
In my experience, those who pick up on grammar quickly can express themselves more readily in any language, whether artificial or natural. Poetry or code, both do something with words as opposed to merely describing reality, as simple statements do. (This is a branch of philosophy called Speech Acts.)
If you can discern the parts of speech intuitively, you can make more interesting and meaningful expressions, because you have more mastery over the parts. Likewise if you have an innate understanding of logic and variables you will likely write code more efficiently as it's less likely to be buggy.
Can this intuition and innate understanding be taught? I don't know the answer to this question, but you can teach techniques that encourage exploration of connection. Pythagorus linked astronomy and music and math. Diagramming sentences helps you see that there really is reason to rhyme.
most people I know who've done the not-anti-social drugs (i.e. not coke or PCP) simply wouldn't want to work for somebody who makes something that kills other people.
Now, why would you want to go and make something that kills other people? You know in the bible, god says, "thou shalt not kill," and you'd be surprised how many anti-drug bible-thumpers out there have no problems working in the defense industry and making things that kill people.
Now you might say to yourself, but it's for *defense* it's only if people *attack* me. Well did you know about the shoulder-launched missiles?? They were made and sold to go against the EVIL communists and we gave them to people in Afghanistan to shoot down Soviet planes. And now, they might be used by Al Quaida to shoot down civilian planes. So the problem isn't in the intentions, but in the unintended consequences.
So if you're going to do this thing, please do all of us a favor, and think about all of the consequences that could happen with the thing you will be making that can kill people. And ask yourself, where did the people who are telling me about this get their information, and where did that information come from, and question everything.
On the other hand, missile defense seems like a silly waste of resources, so congrats on landing a boondoggle. I heard they had to use a gps device on the missile to get the defense mechanism to be able to find it in the tests they used to show the president.
My request - please don't use your intelligence to make something that could kill people. Please use it to think about how to create civilization such that people don't want to kill each other and also free of coercion.
Uh, is it just me, or does anyone else remember the days of acccusing people with 8 line sigs or those who mindlessly copied the entire message of emails without [snipping] into their replies of being bandwidth hogs?
They are a hardware company. That happens to make its own operating system -- box sales of Mac OS X would not cover 4 years R&D. Take away the hardware business and they don't have the wherewithal to make money. Poof. no more Mac OS X.
Delicious mix of procedural and object-orientedness expressed like smalltalk that can control most applications on the platform, now with Aqua UI. Course, it is slow, it is interpreted, but it's faster than doing it by hand.
Do I get to be a developer? I've only been making programs for eight years, though.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
labs.
The professional skin is anodized aluminium, not white plastic.
Not performance incentives. If you are marketable, then people might want to hire you away. Options that vest over time give you an incentive to stay at the company, and it does cost a lot to add new employee, in training, and also long term knowledge of the people who are there.
One can make the argument that using alternating genders for examples is more inclusive. If you look at usage on the Apple pages, you'll find that examples alternate between he and she. One finds arguments all over the place about why aren't there more women in tech/blogs/games, etc. Perhaps it is because the language rejects them. While it was certainly proper grammar 50 years ago to use 'he' as the collective third person singular, there was a movement in the 70's to figure out how to correct this issue. Using 'they' is not correct. It is a matter of style, not grammar. Plus, it made you ask a question. Why did you have such a severe reaction to it? Maybe you could take a look at that and wonder how you would feel if the entire language used "she" and "her" as the collective third person singular. Would you feel included in the discussion? Now, put yourself in a woman's shoes and wonder how much women feel included in the discussion when "he" and "him" are used.
Hi,
Snow Crash shaped my idea of technology, at least what I wanted to create in it. Likewise Diamond Age. I think many toolmakers look at fiction and think, can I make it so? Or, know how to make but not what to make. It seems like we technologists have made much of the tech from the science fiction of the past a reality. (ok, cept for space colonies and the cure for cancer :-)
I haven't really found much good speculative fiction lately, or rather, I don't want to make distopian visions true. I found it interesting that you go back in time, and write about the past. Did you decide this was the way to write a better future?
Many people don't have any inkling of the history of natural philosophy, and if you write about it as fiction, are you not reprogramming the past to make a different future? I kindof feel like the baroque cycle is like the primer in diamond age: what will the kids make if this is what they assume the past to be. How do you feel about programming the minds of geeks? Have you discovered a way to debug the logic flaws in English?
Anyway, I guess the question is, do all stories have to have a beginning, middle and end?
I've been trying to convince work that there is no internet or phones at burning man. Not reachable. Please stop with your "innovation." art + tech + burningman
the entire market tanked in anticipation of fed interest rates rising. Apple opened up.
i dunno, i'm a mac person, but you've been able to use applescript for a while to connect iTunes to other apps. Maybe you can use visual basic to do the same thing on windows, she says not knowing a thing about VB other than it infected word documents. Here's the things you can do automatically with applescript and itunes.
You can copy AIFF files to ipod now. you will save battery life over AIFF.
looks like it runs on supported hardware as either metadata or client. the clients seem to be able to act as metadata controllers if you like living on the edge. look at the video page "optional dedicated metadata controller" the other pages don't list them as optional.
Here is unreal tournament 2003. 2004 was shown on Macworld show floor. Mac Unreal came out in 1998 for Mac OS 9 only, bout 6 weeks after PC version.
The ones who put Ken Lay behind bars? The ones regulating mutual funds? The ones regulating stock traders who skim between buy and sell? The ones appointed by an administration who comes from the scratch your back school of croneyism?
They're all prolly taking notes from Darl.
You want SEC to actually do anything? Don't vote Republican next year for any office.
nm
Ursula LeGuin posits that there is a "language of the night," a way of storytelling that creates a psychological landscape similar to dreamland, distinct from 'what if' of sci-fi or simple escapism of standard dragon-wizard fantasy.
When I read works you've written, I am immediately transported to this dreamland that is fantastic literature, that creates its own world in mind, but seems to use mythic archetypes.
My question: do your words just naturally flow from your mind into this kind of writing, or do you have to work at it? If it just flows, how would you say you view the world such that it just flows? If you have to work at it, what are tricks you use to get into this mindspace?
Sturgeon
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Science fiction poses 'what if'
Fantastic literature bends your mind (leguin on genres: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/AlternateTitles.html
Fantasy is escapism.
Huxley - real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
We've exhausted much of the 'what if' story lines. robots, genes, nanotech, AI, space opera, drugs, alien sex, bug eyed monsters, apocolypse, distopia, utopia, gender, time travel. For someone to come up with new what if idea *and to write well about it* is few and far between. Kage Baker's Corporation series was the last series I read with anything novel (heh) in it, and she first published that series 6+ years ago.
We in technology business have taken ideas in SF and made them reality. However, society at large has not taken the rest of the ideas in SF and made them reality. We've done the easy part. The hard part is in pushing people to utopia. Why do we need money? When we can feed everyone on the planet with advances in tech, why do people starve? When we have so many advances in productivity and efficiency, why are people on the street?
Because society has not kept up with tech, and tech has only served to further stratify the differences between the haves and have nots.
It is incumbant upon us in tech to push for the great society, where everyone has food and robots and a place to live and the kitchen of tomorrow. And yeah, some people will be lazy, but some will be the kind who will push the human race forward, but were unable to because they were exhausted from working 3 jobs to barely feed their families.
Unfortunately most of the engineers in tech (I am generalizing) suscribe to the ayn rand libertarian I'm smarter than you therefore I should have more and screw you anyway cuz you beat me up in grade school mentality.
When technology has mostly served to screw people over, why should they want more of it? When an technologically based meritocracy asks more of you than a despotically arranged society ala lord of the riungs, why should you want it, unless the people suggesting the technologically based meritocracy make it more seductive than someone telling you what to do with your life.
Or, if you've spent all day trying to make a technologically based meritocracy, perhaps it's nice to escape sometimes into a romantic ideal. Or, if you've consumed all the mind bending fantastic literature, perhaps it's nice to escape into something where the rules make sense. Or, if you spend all day listening to reports of the pf'ers in DC dismantling previous generation's attempts at building a technologically based meritocracy, perhaps all you want to do is escape.
Being a doozer is hard.
>guns can't really do anything useful other than kill and maim. Well, the one thing they are good for is maintaining a pretense of consent of the governed. As long as everybody has the right to bear arms, and actually exercises that right, then if the government gets too uppity, you can have a revolution. In fact, you're almost required to. See Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." Most people with power don't give it up if you just ask them to, so if you change the system on them, they might go after you with guns. If you don't have some, they win. I'd say file sharing ranks up there in the liberty and the pursuit of happiness category. Hmm, maybe I'll take lessons at the local shooting range this weekend.
He already takes ten pages to describe the taste of Kap'n Krunch without milk, and he's only now going baroque???
<shudders>
Some of the posts mention that there are a few geniuses of programming and many many plodders, and you can't train the plodders. The geniuses will produce art, the plodders bricks. In my experience, those who pick up on grammar quickly can express themselves more readily in any language, whether artificial or natural. Poetry or code, both do something with words as opposed to merely describing reality, as simple statements do. (This is a branch of philosophy called Speech Acts.) If you can discern the parts of speech intuitively, you can make more interesting and meaningful expressions, because you have more mastery over the parts. Likewise if you have an innate understanding of logic and variables you will likely write code more efficiently as it's less likely to be buggy. Can this intuition and innate understanding be taught? I don't know the answer to this question, but you can teach techniques that encourage exploration of connection. Pythagorus linked astronomy and music and math. Diagramming sentences helps you see that there really is reason to rhyme.
most people I know who've done the not-anti-social drugs (i.e. not coke or PCP) simply wouldn't want to work for somebody who makes something that kills other people. Now, why would you want to go and make something that kills other people? You know in the bible, god says, "thou shalt not kill," and you'd be surprised how many anti-drug bible-thumpers out there have no problems working in the defense industry and making things that kill people. Now you might say to yourself, but it's for *defense* it's only if people *attack* me. Well did you know about the shoulder-launched missiles?? They were made and sold to go against the EVIL communists and we gave them to people in Afghanistan to shoot down Soviet planes. And now, they might be used by Al Quaida to shoot down civilian planes. So the problem isn't in the intentions, but in the unintended consequences. So if you're going to do this thing, please do all of us a favor, and think about all of the consequences that could happen with the thing you will be making that can kill people. And ask yourself, where did the people who are telling me about this get their information, and where did that information come from, and question everything. On the other hand, missile defense seems like a silly waste of resources, so congrats on landing a boondoggle. I heard they had to use a gps device on the missile to get the defense mechanism to be able to find it in the tests they used to show the president. My request - please don't use your intelligence to make something that could kill people. Please use it to think about how to create civilization such that people don't want to kill each other and also free of coercion.
Uh, is it just me, or does anyone else remember the days of acccusing people with 8 line sigs or those who mindlessly copied the entire message of emails without [snipping] into their replies of being bandwidth hogs?
KT --must be getting old
They are a hardware company. That happens to make its own operating system -- box sales of Mac OS X would not cover 4 years R&D. Take away the hardware business and they don't have the wherewithal to make money. Poof. no more Mac OS X.
for mouse events, you can try QuicKeys X from CE Software for Mac OS X, anyway. It can enter text, too, and launch applescripts.
Check out anamorph for patterns patterned ala Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language.
the best web site design keeps its audience as its primary design driver. Most people still use modems.
Delicious mix of procedural and object-orientedness expressed like smalltalk that can control most applications on the platform, now with Aqua UI. Course, it is slow, it is interpreted, but it's faster than doing it by hand.
Do I get to be a developer? I've only been making programs for eight years, though.