The scientific inquiry into 'magnetars' http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/magnetar.html
seems like a better approch to truth-finding. Discover magazine has an article about them, but this web site looks more informative. Crazy theories about time aside, real observations of the universe suggest interesting things are still out there to discover.
The web 2.0 should be about getting more information, to more people, more quickly. In this regard, AJAX needs the backup suggested by the progressive enhancement ideas. Supporting text only browsers means more people can get information, more often, and often more quickly, if a text only mode is implemented with good design and development tools. I suggest that Ruby on Rails allows for quick and easy text only design, easily implemented and tested, which can then be enhanced in subsequent iterations of development.
One time, my hard drive crashed, and I had no cash. So, I used the Busybox in Slackware to boot and build a virtual drive out of some RAM. I was able to use the dial up modem, and the Lynx text browser to get on-line again. This was a machine that only had 64MB, and I used about 16MB to make the virtual drive for the root mount. Sure, I had to read some technical details and do a few tests for a few hours, but I was able to adapt the resources to the situation at hand. My cost: a few hours of my time. Linux was the economic choice that just worked!
I bet M$ ignores use cases like this, they assume you have to spend money, or you're out of luck. Well, I value my time too highly to let M$ tell me how to spend my money.
What about counting all Air Force bombing missions during every war of the 20th century alone. The United States Government has financed the killing of millions of people on this planet if you count them too. They may not have been citizens of U.S.A., but they were human beings, and shouldn't that matter more than someone's location at birth? I would argue that most victims of all these bombings were not "enemy combatants," they were innocent people living in the wrong country at the wrong time. Which suggests that we should allow anyone who wants into our country, so they have a chance to avoid being killed by weapons we drop all over the place.
What about counting the people poisoned with plutonium injections during the Cold War? The U.S.A government has a web site about it. Of course, you could read this too. The victims of this testing are mostly dead now, but might have lived long, healthy lives if not for the United States need to know what radition does to people.
And, if we go back to the 19th century, what about the many thousands of Confederate fighters who were killed by the Union forces? I'd say they deserve to be counted as citizens killed by the United States.
Our government has relied upon force to keep itself in control of everything it wants to, and only the peoples' right to challange uncontrolled government authority in court has kept us from becoming a completely facist state. I still love our country, and see it has made progress toward peace and justice for all, but let's not ignore that some people in power want to corrupt the system with facist tendancies, and they need to be stopped now!
George Lucas suggested holograms would replace TV in his first sci-fi movie, THX-1138, and what were the first images people watched? Porn (soft porn to avoid X rating for movie), just like the internet!
Why just an office suite? I'm waiting for the bootable 1GB thumbdrive with a mini-distro of Slackware, please. Oh, maybe I could just make it myself? Let me go back to my workshop for awhile. Meanwhile you can read this link back to another/. post.
Our ideas may not matter much after all, as suggested by John Allen Paulos. His idea is short, sweet, and simple: we are not much more than "nominal, marginally integrated entities having convenient labels." Combine this with the anti-anthropocentric ideas of Irene Pepperberg, the pan-psychism of Rudy Rucker, and the eco-dynamics of Scott Sampson, along with the nuclear doubts raised by Jeremy Bernstein, and it all seems to make sense after all. We build thermo-nuclear devices becuase we need to help Gaia redistribute excess energy, not because we need the weapons for war. So, this dangerous idea implies no matter what our governments do with the stockpile of weapons grade plutonium, its not going to have much impact off-world.
Good review, I'm going to find this book someday, perhaps. A findable book means a book that can be found, and I can find lots by serendipity, i.e. just random walks through the physical stacks, and picking books off the shelf without looking at the title, author, or call number first. Sometimes, I have visions of which stack and shelf to visit just before I arrive at the library, in which case the randomness can be questioned. No matter what, I always find a book, sometimes one I might never find by more rational methods, sometimes books that later prove very meaningful in some way. What part of the mind is helping me find these books? I recommend everyone try it, let your whole psyche guide you to new found freedom.
This article states that "A recent analysis of the only known natural nuclear reactor, which was active nearly 2 billion years ago at what is now Oklo in Gabon..." in the question about constants. I never knew about this, so off to google. According to one web page, bacterial life-forms were involved in the process of running these reactors. This idea isn't mentioned in the wikipedia article. Well, at least the wikipedia article does mention about the alpha constant, and says, "there is no physical reason why it should be exactly constant."
Some comments here wonder what value RSS provides? RSS offers much more than syndicated news feeds, it helps control your information overload. Two examples follow. First, Dr. Dobbs article shows how to build your own RSS with Ruby to track information when certain events occur. Dave Thomas writes artcles and books about Ruby. He says "You can use RSS to collect and summarize information from your projects and from your life" in the Dr. Dobbs article.
Second, Yahoo maps documentation says, "The XML used by the Yahoo! Maps Simple API is based on geoRSS 2.0." Here is another link about GeoRSS and worldKit, a map built using shockwave flash. You publish your map content, and GeoRSS for every point you want on the map.
IMHO, GeoRSS is becoming a de facto standard, becoming part of many blogs, and content managment systems, like Plone. and, BTW, Good luck with all your adventures this New Year.
At least scientific grants tend to lead to more reasonable and rational knowledge in the long run, i.e. testable, verifiable, etc. On the other hand, donations to relegions fanatics only seems to produce more relegious fanatics, who tend to quote traditions instead of knowledge. Grants are a contract mechanism that brings stablity to the search for knowledge, while relegious fanaticism tends toward instablity. God help us protect the truth from people who claim to understand God better than anyone else.
The Techshout article fails to mention that this appears to affect Windows users only. The Register calls it the "latest Windows malware threat", while one comment on Techshout confirms it. I suspect, without further details, that the Trojan Horse affects IE somehow. Anyone else have links to more technical details?
Let your application domain suggest the development tools you need. Listen to art, science, and your own experience before listening to people who own lots of stock in giant corporations. They are motivated by the need to sell their own product first.
The user's application domain should indicate the need for performance. Ruby on Rails is a great tool for simple, easy to build and use web interfaces to back-end databases. Other stuff, like multi-processing on quantum devices trying to fathom the "grand challanges", should probably be based upon some other development process. Now, once your solution to the grand challanges produces some relation data, you could inform the public using Ruby on Rails, and you'd be happy becuase it wouldn't take very much time to do so.
IANAL. If you settle out of court, be sure that you admit no wrong-doing. Isn't there some Latin phrase for that? It's what corporations do a lot, settle civil suits early, and still claim innocence.
Article says: "The cause was a stuck cylinder the size of a restaurant salt shaker but considerably more deadly: Gamma rays from the cobalt-60 it contained could kill a man in half a minute."
I have to ask...when did restaurants start serving salt that's only somewhat less deadly than cobalt-60?
How is this different? I only worry about one Terms of Service, imposed by the web host. I control all aspects of the deployment of the Rails apps. So the blog is not just my blog, its a blog at my domain (or sub-domain if I perfer), and I control the databases that store its content. In fact, I control every aspect of the blog. For instance, I could make the blog appear and disappear based upon phases of the moon. Can you do that with any blog host, just by changing two links at a shell prompt?
The same goes for every other Rails app I have deployed on my server account. The Rails principles of "don't repeat yourself" (DRY) and convention over configuration, meant that once I installed one Rails app, the experience was immediately applicable to installing the rest. They all have the same directory structure, and the same configuration file for database connection, which is the only configuration file you must edit.
The rest just works, usually. You have to check your versions, and make sure your app and Rails work at the current version. I admit I have experience building server side web projects using VB6 DLL and ASP.NET, along with equally strong UNIX background, so I was able to tweak a few things and proceed when they didn't work the first time. Don't dispair, I was able to make it work after a few hours of checking on-line forums, and trying some suggestions.
Lt. Uhura from original series Star Trek spoke Swahili. If the creators of the original Star Trek felt that Swahili would be an important language in the future, who am I to argue? Besides, I'm shocked that so many negative comments would appear on/. about trying to help humanity know itself better. Oh wait, most of this comments were posted anonymously, probably by one person.
No matter what court rules which way, freethinkers will be able to prevail over the facists. Maybe not today, this year, or this decade, but eventually, more intelligent opinions will hold sway over the arbitrary views of authoritarian control freaks. Or so I hope. Am I too optimistic?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, all three, and they were the business owners.
No, I only work with robots, and they are all smarter than me.
Video on NYTimes page shows Perris, California, USA. Look at time point 3:05, Lake Perris is visible in upper left portion of screen. Here is google maps link: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.803685,-117.193909&spn=0.169743,0.216637&z=12&om=1
The scientific inquiry into 'magnetars' http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/magnetar.html
seems like a better approch to truth-finding. Discover magazine has an article about them, but this web site looks more informative. Crazy theories about time aside, real observations of the universe suggest interesting things are still out there to discover.
The web 2.0 should be about getting more information, to more people, more quickly. In this regard, AJAX needs the backup suggested by the progressive enhancement ideas. Supporting text only browsers means more people can get information, more often, and often more quickly, if a text only mode is implemented with good design and development tools. I suggest that Ruby on Rails allows for quick and easy text only design, easily implemented and tested, which can then be enhanced in subsequent iterations of development.
I bet M$ ignores use cases like this, they assume you have to spend money, or you're out of luck. Well, I value my time too highly to let M$ tell me how to spend my money.
What about counting the people poisoned with plutonium injections during the Cold War? The U.S.A government has a web site about it. Of course, you could read this too. The victims of this testing are mostly dead now, but might have lived long, healthy lives if not for the United States need to know what radition does to people.
And, if we go back to the 19th century, what about the many thousands of Confederate fighters who were killed by the Union forces? I'd say they deserve to be counted as citizens killed by the United States.
Our government has relied upon force to keep itself in control of everything it wants to, and only the peoples' right to challange uncontrolled government authority in court has kept us from becoming a completely facist state. I still love our country, and see it has made progress toward peace and justice for all, but let's not ignore that some people in power want to corrupt the system with facist tendancies, and they need to be stopped now!
George Lucas suggested holograms would replace TV in his first sci-fi movie, THX-1138, and what were the first images people watched? Porn (soft porn to avoid X rating for movie), just like the internet!
Article says: "...access...search engine...(with) single button." /. instead?
Can we get a single button to access
Why just an office suite? I'm waiting for the bootable 1GB thumbdrive with a mini-distro of Slackware, please. Oh, maybe I could just make it myself? Let me go back to my workshop for awhile. Meanwhile you can read this link back to another /. post.
Our ideas may not matter much after all, as suggested by John Allen Paulos. His idea is short, sweet, and simple: we are not much more than "nominal, marginally integrated entities having convenient labels." Combine this with the anti-anthropocentric ideas of Irene Pepperberg, the pan-psychism of Rudy Rucker, and the eco-dynamics of Scott Sampson, along with the nuclear doubts raised by Jeremy Bernstein, and it all seems to make sense after all. We build thermo-nuclear devices becuase we need to help Gaia redistribute excess energy, not because we need the weapons for war. So, this dangerous idea implies no matter what our governments do with the stockpile of weapons grade plutonium, its not going to have much impact off-world.
Good review, I'm going to find this book someday, perhaps. A findable book means a book that can be found, and I can find lots by serendipity, i.e. just random walks through the physical stacks, and picking books off the shelf without looking at the title, author, or call number first. Sometimes, I have visions of which stack and shelf to visit just before I arrive at the library, in which case the randomness can be questioned. No matter what, I always find a book, sometimes one I might never find by more rational methods, sometimes books that later prove very meaningful in some way. What part of the mind is helping me find these books? I recommend everyone try it, let your whole psyche guide you to new found freedom.
This article states that "A recent analysis of the only known natural nuclear reactor, which was active nearly 2 billion years ago at what is now Oklo in Gabon..." in the question about constants. I never knew about this, so off to google. According to one web page, bacterial life-forms were involved in the process of running these reactors. This idea isn't mentioned in the wikipedia article. Well, at least the wikipedia article does mention about the alpha constant, and says, "there is no physical reason why it should be exactly constant."
Some comments here wonder what value RSS provides? RSS offers much more than syndicated news feeds, it helps control your information overload. Two examples follow. First, Dr. Dobbs article shows how to build your own RSS with Ruby to track information when certain events occur. Dave Thomas writes artcles and books about Ruby. He says "You can use RSS to collect and summarize information from your projects and from your life" in the Dr. Dobbs article.
Second, Yahoo maps documentation says, "The XML used by the Yahoo! Maps Simple API is based on geoRSS 2.0." Here is another link about GeoRSS and worldKit, a map built using shockwave flash. You publish your map content, and GeoRSS for every point you want on the map.
IMHO, GeoRSS is becoming a de facto standard, becoming part of many blogs, and content managment systems, like Plone. and, BTW, Good luck with all your adventures this New Year.
At least scientific grants tend to lead to more reasonable and rational knowledge in the long run, i.e. testable, verifiable, etc. On the other hand, donations to relegions fanatics only seems to produce more relegious fanatics, who tend to quote traditions instead of knowledge. Grants are a contract mechanism that brings stablity to the search for knowledge, while relegious fanaticism tends toward instablity. God help us protect the truth from people who claim to understand God better than anyone else.
another link http://thirdsquare.com/adsense-hijacked-118
The Techshout article fails to mention that this appears to affect Windows users only. The Register calls it the "latest Windows malware threat", while one comment on Techshout confirms it. I suspect, without further details, that the Trojan Horse affects IE somehow. Anyone else have links to more technical details?
Let your application domain suggest the development tools you need. Listen to art, science, and your own experience before listening to people who own lots of stock in giant corporations. They are motivated by the need to sell their own product first.
The user's application domain should indicate the need for performance. Ruby on Rails is a great tool for simple, easy to build and use web interfaces to back-end databases. Other stuff, like multi-processing on quantum devices trying to fathom the "grand challanges", should probably be based upon some other development process. Now, once your solution to the grand challanges produces some relation data, you could inform the public using Ruby on Rails, and you'd be happy becuase it wouldn't take very much time to do so.
IANAL. If you settle out of court, be sure that you admit no wrong-doing. Isn't there some Latin phrase for that? It's what corporations do a lot, settle civil suits early, and still claim innocence.
I have to ask...when did restaurants start serving salt that's only somewhat less deadly than cobalt-60?
Installed Rails Apps (open source): (sorry, no links to my domain, must avoid
How is this different? I only worry about one Terms of Service, imposed by the web host. I control all aspects of the deployment of the Rails apps. So the blog is not just my blog, its a blog at my domain (or sub-domain if I perfer), and I control the databases that store its content. In fact, I control every aspect of the blog. For instance, I could make the blog appear and disappear based upon phases of the moon. Can you do that with any blog host, just by changing two links at a shell prompt?
The same goes for every other Rails app I have deployed on my server account. The Rails principles of "don't repeat yourself" (DRY) and convention over configuration, meant that once I installed one Rails app, the experience was immediately applicable to installing the rest. They all have the same directory structure, and the same configuration file for database connection, which is the only configuration file you must edit.
The rest just works, usually. You have to check your versions, and make sure your app and Rails work at the current version. I admit I have experience building server side web projects using VB6 DLL and ASP.NET, along with equally strong UNIX background, so I was able to tweak a few things and proceed when they didn't work the first time. Don't dispair, I was able to make it work after a few hours of checking on-line forums, and trying some suggestions.
Linux gives us freedom to innovate, Windows limits us too much. I choose freedom.
Lt. Uhura from original series Star Trek spoke Swahili. If the creators of the original Star Trek felt that Swahili would be an important language in the future, who am I to argue? Besides, I'm shocked that so many negative comments would appear on /. about trying to help humanity know itself better. Oh wait, most of this comments were posted anonymously, probably by one person.
No matter what court rules which way, freethinkers will be able to prevail over the facists. Maybe not today, this year, or this decade, but eventually, more intelligent opinions will hold sway over the arbitrary views of authoritarian control freaks. Or so I hope. Am I too optimistic?