definitely include this book. hopefully all the girls on her dorm floor will borrow it. i wish it was standard issue here at penn state, especially with the full-page color ads for depo-provera in the school newspaper.
isn't slashdot taking things a little too far? let the apple people do their own thing and run their own sites like they always have. you guys don't really need the ad revenue, do you?
utopia for me - a world where no one is struggling for day to day survival. in our world today there are so many people who are starving, who are dying from highly preventable disease, who never have the chance to benefit from the huge amount of knowledge that has been amassed by the human race. i don't doubt that some of these people would love to be dedicated to learning about anything other than the harsh realities of their lives.
does this maybe inspire anyone to realize that there is no way that something as complex as the human body (or earth's ecosystem) could've developed through randon mutations. if you want to refute that, read the chaos theory first. things tend towards chaos, not the order displayed in even the tiniest living cell.
what i meant by self-sustaining was that the system that ran the planet was basically hands-off. did you watch that episode? what happened was eventually there was a side-effect from the systems' operation that it produced a huge amount of radiation. so everyone got sick, and no one had children, and the race was almost extinct when the enterprise came. but i'm sure the system didn't change itself. if it had, it would've corrected the radiation problem on its own.
this episode was rated 102 out of 178 on a best to worst list. the episode was aired on February 15, 1988. it was episode #17 of the first season. you could read this more detailed here.
...where the Enterprise came upon the race that had built very complex, self-sustaining technology and were able to devote themselves to "higher pursuits", like art and music, but who were unable to fix the problems that eventually developed because there was no one left who remembered how everything worked?
sorry for the run-on, but that was my immediate thought when i read Paul Horn's statement that the creation of "computer systems and software that can respond to changes in the digital environment, so the systems can adapt, heal themselves and protect themselves" is the only thing which will reduce the need for "constant human maintenance, fixing and debugging of computer systems." freeing humans for higher pursuits sounds good, but is probably only likely in a utopia. Horn goes on to say "The only way to get efficiency gains in information technology is to take some of the people out." This trend sounds like the steel industry - we'll have more cost efficient processes in providing IT services, but all those educated in that field will end up working at mc donald's.
so what happens when we all forget exactly how this "autonomic software" regulates itself? i guess this is the final word in proving the importance of documentation! : ) ** begging for a flamebait mod**    or we could skip the documentation and just kidnap the children of visiting alien starships when we eventually start dying of radiation poisoning from our super-self-configuring systems.
Its not just about setting up a web site - its the cost of migrating the practices of an entire institution around a new model of information dispersal. This will definitely erode the value of journals as graduate work starts filtering in to the system.
i don't think that a repository of powerpoint presentations and PDFs will "erode the value of journals." how many graduate students will be teaching students about their current research? grad students at penn state have taught me basic C++ and physics - and i'm sure those aren't the subjects covered in their journal submissions.
penn state is just as disgusting. anything an undergraduate or graduate student creates or discovers is considered the intellectual property of the university. yet these same people who provide the university with the prestige of technological developments have to strike for something as simple as dental insurance. and our football team is 0-4!
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i just wanted to comment that i hate the title of this post.
this situation is getting stranger and stranger. and ain't i the lucky one to have acaben's cell phone number ;)
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grace
isn't slashdot taking things a little too far? let the apple people do their own thing and run their own sites like they always have. you guys don't really need the ad revenue, do you?
i'm thinking a PEACE-LOVE-UNITY-RESPECT sequence is in order. or maybe somebody with some skills could make a little DJ : )
gracie
utopia for me - a world where no one is struggling for day to day survival. in our world today there are so many people who are starving, who are dying from highly preventable disease, who never have the chance to benefit from the huge amount of knowledge that has been amassed by the human race. i don't doubt that some of these people would love to be dedicated to learning about anything other than the harsh realities of their lives.
does this maybe inspire anyone to realize that there is no way that something as complex as the human body (or earth's ecosystem) could've developed through randon mutations. if you want to refute that, read the chaos theory first. things tend towards chaos, not the order displayed in even the tiniest living cell.
this episode was rated 102 out of 178 on a best to worst list. the episode was aired on February 15, 1988. it was episode #17 of the first season. you could read this more detailed here.
sorry for the run-on, but that was my immediate thought when i read Paul Horn's statement that the creation of "computer systems and software that can respond to changes in the digital environment, so the systems can adapt, heal themselves and protect themselves" is the only thing which will reduce the need for "constant human maintenance, fixing and debugging of computer systems." freeing humans for higher pursuits sounds good, but is probably only likely in a utopia. Horn goes on to say "The only way to get efficiency gains in information technology is to take some of the people out." This trend sounds like the steel industry - we'll have more cost efficient processes in providing IT services, but all those educated in that field will end up working at mc donald's.
so what happens when we all forget exactly how this "autonomic software" regulates itself? i guess this is the final word in proving the importance of documentation! : ) ** begging for a flamebait mod**    or we could skip the documentation and just kidnap the children of visiting alien starships when we eventually start dying of radiation poisoning from our super-self-configuring systems.
the infamous penn state stalker server!
perfect for slashdotters everywhere!
more useless MIT trivia.
i don't think that a repository of powerpoint presentations and PDFs will "erode the value of journals." how many graduate students will be teaching students about their current research? grad students at penn state have taught me basic C++ and physics - and i'm sure those aren't the subjects covered in their journal submissions.
penn state is just as disgusting. anything an undergraduate or graduate student creates or discovers is considered the intellectual property of the university. yet these same people who provide the university with the prestige of technological developments have to strike for something as simple as dental insurance. and our football team is 0-4!