In the vein of there being nothing new under the sun. Both the X-Files and CSI appear to me like skewered retakes on Holmes and Watson. No matter the garnish I prefer the original.
Fahrenheit 451 anyone? The intermingling of the message of the medium with the message carries meta information. For myself, as a Canadian, the Domesday Book carries the stamp of the defeat of the saxons by the normans. (didn't the saxon king and his men fight two battles on the same day, winning the first and losing the second?) The written word in the barely literate world of the 11th century carried with it the near magically quality of standing against time until DOOMSDAY:-). It's interesting to see the character of a people continuously redispersed through the newest medium. The Brits, maintaing the monarchy, would choose the Domesday Book to be among the primary works dispersed through the latest medium. Is the class system of Britian still strongly entrenced in the collective consciousness? My stepfather, whose family is listed in said book, is fond of saying the British upper class breeds their children as well as it breeds horses. No matter the medium the idea contained in the Domesday book will last as long as the character of the British people.
She said the experience humiliated her. "When I wrote that letter, that was the worst thing I ever had to do," Nora said. "Those weren't my words. They got me."
Is not Nora's statement, quoted above, the heart of the matter. Stand up for your rights. If those rights are not sufficient or have been erroded then fight. The fight, any fight, is visceral. Cave in and the 'hired guns', as many lawyers call themselves, will own you and they'll get you through fear as the school bully gets the geek's lunch money, as a pimp gets children. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." The Kings and aristocracy of ancient Europe truly thought the papists of Rome held the Keys to the 'Kingdom of God' and feared excommunication. Historically we take Martin Luther's posting the Diet of Worms as the opening slavo in the fight against the theocracy of Rome. The birth of America necessitated a similar stance against entrenched power.
I started out on MS DOS 2.11 and stayed with MS until Mandrake 6 and while my history of UI interaction on PCs doesn't lend me any experties it does lend historical perspective. For the sake of discussion I see VisiCal as the prototypical PC app followed by WordPerfect. VisiCal and WordPerfect are both fundamental data input apps permitting manipulation of the data in terms of formatting or the performing of operations on the data. From this foundation of data processing the windows paradigm has be devised. I'm suggesting a new paradigm is needed that aids creative thinking. Maintaining the data processing paradigm may be supportive for clerical types but the current desk top flies in the face of the recurrent talk of AI and PCs with SuperComputer power fundamentally resturcturing the way we interact with and direct our environments. Polishing the desk top may be a way to parallel the MS Windows market but investing in a dynamic UI empowering creative thought may be the way to ultimately steal Bill Gates' fire.
It has been many and many a year since I read the most part of what was then Chomsky's output on language but recall suggests his theory of transformational grammar might embrace something along the lines suggested in the article.
From the article: "Their studies of brain activity reveal that bilinguals reject words that are not part of the language they are speaking - before working out what the words mean." "Bilinguals use a different processing pathway, the team suggests, which sounds out the word first. The fMRI images showed that a brain area involved in spelling out letters is active when rejecting Catalan and pseudowords. The pronunciation rules of Spanish or Catalan might work as a filter, recognizing words in the inappropriate language. Speakers switch filters when they switch between languages."
This begs the question of what the filter might be. Does any one language exhibit an underlying structure that permits a 'filter'? But then what of dialects? We know brain cells create new neural networks so it might be permitted to loosely conjecture the 'filter' as a different configuration of the cells in the language areas. I have yet to find any definitive work on how fast brain cells can realign and create new networks but my recent readings suggest new networks are generated much faster than once thought. Dropping all pretense of rigor or of any discipline, I'm of the opinion we'll find brain cell configuration and reconfiguration is the most underutilized and fundamental aspect of creativity and learning much akin to general suppleness of form.
Cheers thnx for the pointer.
Yabut... were I MS, I would, as ESR suggests, look to ways to separate the OS/apps from the box, such as thin client architecture and software as an online utility. If the box comes without an OS and apps but recommending MS and boots online to download/install the most uptodate, "ultimately configured" MS software then the customer might mindlessly separate the two and see the OS/apps as a licensed utility. The economics of doing away with the most part of manufacturing and distributing shelved software will give MS alot more margin to play with. Still, over the near term, as the need for standards and, independent bodies to maintain and further standards grows, the gap will close as standards will provide a platform for the Open Source/FSF communities to close said gap. What ESR said will prevail in that a large body of independent coders have and will come together to produce a competitive mass market product.
Excuse my morning rant, the nimbling of my fingers and the impact of the first brimming mug of coffee.
Big B5 fan, Big H. Ellison(sp?) fan and so I took note of the credit to Ellison at the end of the B5 episodes. Ellison is a heavyweight writer compared to most of the TV fluff regurgitators. Yes, you can hurl fluff, it comes out soggy but dries quickly. It comes from the dust bunnies most TV writers inhaled when hidding/retreving their pron collections from under their beds. I always whimsically attributed the best of what was B5 to Ellison.
"He presented plaques to nearly 100 people who worked on the program."
Having just completed a sampling of my small universe of all persons with professional designations I have come to the opinion, upon which I base my fact, that engineers receive more plaques than all other professionals combined. What can we draw from this conclusion? In the recessed, dopamine stained, reptilian centre of Dilbert's brain does motherhood, succor and peer approbation hold four square and brass embossed. Is there some hidden trigger mechanism that tells engineers when migration and mating time is nigh by the slowly evolving shades of dust and aging accruing at the edges of each plaque? We know engineers fathered geekdom, signaling the coming of the newbie order by the sign of the once recondite pocket protector, but what of plaques, what secrets transpire among the rows of plaques, rack on rack?
For the record: First I apologise for the typo; by way of apology I lived in Sidney, Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada for a few years so the spelling mistake is not without some associational excuse.
"...what kind of cortex development, caused this typo."
Geographical I guess.
I beleive that geographic isolation (punctuated equilibrium) differentiated species after a long (the longer the better) period of mutation. Are there any biology/ecology people out there who can correct me?
As much as I revel in correcting others, (When being corrected I tend toward covering my ears and yelling: "I can't hear you!"), the material requires something more than my amateur handling. Try the following: Jeffrey H. Schwartz
"Sudden origins: fossils, genes, and the emergence of species"
New York Wiley 1999
Freedom on the internet is a little like prostitution and illegal drug use, i.e., it's always going to be around. Like the tax exempt, economic power of the North American shadow economy where barter and cash hide transactions from the respective tax departments, the internet has a 'profile', if you will, that has inherent a strong support of freedom and innovation and the technical means to implement programs.
But one thing is for sure- with the DMCA, and these new video formats, PVRs could become a thing of the past.
Newbieism, peer pressure and karma distribution being what it is I can only strive to emulate the *On High* Ubergeeks that oversee/. But, uhm really, does this mean it is absolutely a sure thing something could conditionally happen... or, uh does it mean a conditional thing is absolutely going to happen... or what? Will it become apparent the more karma I have?
"In any quantum-cascade laser, a high voltage coerces an electric current to penetrate layer after layer in the stack. The tight physical confinement of many of those stacked layers makes them act as so-called quantum wells, in which electrons can only have certain amounts of energy,..."
Anyway it was good for me:-) and now I have to go and smoke something. The future's so bright I have to ware shades.
Agreed and the fight to effect such changes is, ah well, noble truly; but we have only just emerged from the grip of 19th century industrialism when robber barrons did indeed haggle over the world. The newest catchwords in progressive democracies are government "efficiency" and government "tranparency". We're nowhere near having institutions consistently exhibiting these characteristics but then too we have only just brought information online in an unprecedented way. It may be our new found ability to gather, analysis and disseminate information at heretofore incredible rates that is generating the frustration with social artifacts like pork barrel politics and BIG business.
Ok it's good. It's linked to the Dead and if we all do acid and chant real loud the rain will go away.
But the reality is that first big business had to garnter the economic forces able to put the goods and services in place to create the PC/Apple and net cultures. Not to forget that *in the beginng* the military, government, big business and academica made the WWW. So try as we do not to be overwhelmed by the immensity of the entities we create to produce such things as the net and space exploration it is possible we cannot do without them.
The great KD nourished an entire generation. Mac and cheese is the ultimate geek food. Good with beer, good cold in the middle of the night, good fried in the morning with coffee. (except maybe for poutaine which maybe the second greatest geek food)
You're wilderness hiking along a saddle in the high alpine. The trail's degraded and is crumbling away toward a cliff. You've checked out the cliff face, it's fairly sheer and you know if you fall your dead or critically injured. The trail is a deep narrow rut cutting past the rootwork of the plants holding the soil in place. Is the trail safe today? Will the recent rains bring on a mud slide and sweep you over the edge? No amount of feasible analysis will tell you if the trail is safe. When the larger conclusions fail over a small segment of the (data) trail and you sketter over the edge failed analysis won't be the *greatest* impact.
Analysis in these matters cannot be conclusive but when we're dealing with our habitat we had better error on the side of caution. I was raised hiking, hunting and fishing. I no longer hunt or fish and I now rarely hike. But the wealth of wilderness experience I have informs me with certainty that if the parameters of the environment shift inimically then most certainly there'll be hell to pay. Try surviving a couple of chill nights wet from the rain with little food and water. Be careful John. The gun might really only have blanks in it but you never know.
Recently large numbers of sterile American males have been released in Canada in hopes of decimating the Canadian population thus opening up endless stretches of moose pasture to American colonization.
The first order of Business is Communication. If you haven't or can't institute a forum for solving the problems with your co-employees then no amount of outside information is going to help. Solve for the Syntax and open the necessary lines of communication, then identify everyone's perogatives and obligations. Figure out who, if anyone holds the trump cards and see if their amenable to an acceptable solution. Get on with it.
Much of this shit has to do with the relative newness of the net and net culture. The net will produce it's own music libraries and as net music comes online and the culture supports it then, as a result of direct competition, the current recorded catalogue will be made more inexpensively available.
"We don't care about the [Chinese government's] rules. It's none of Cisco's business." "We are not a content creator, just a medium, a selective medium."
It's got to eat at your guts to make statements like those above. China is the critical test of our ability to survive overpopulation and environmental degredation. With a population of 1.6 billion (?), with long stretches of it's rivers dead and the Three Gorges Dam looking like a doomed project it may not be the worst evil to have a government in place that keeps a tight lid on. The saddest aspect, for me, by far is that a country faced with overpopulation and environmental damage on an as yet unimagined scale is seen by business as the world's greatest potential mass market.
We are the hope for the future of our kind. Surely sensory deprivation will be the single greatest threat to surviving generational space travel. Posters at/. have inured themselves to the same endless reams of rehashed content. Posting at/. is surely requisite to the endless darkness of space travel. I expect we'll all be interviewed soon. I hope it's not going to be as invasive as the interviews by aliens.
My understanding of mitochondrial DNA is that it comes only from the mother. Attempts to identify the age of our species are based on the statistical analysis of mitochondrial DNA as it issues only from the mother. Does this account for your quotation marks around the word parent?
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In the vein of there being nothing new under the sun. Both the X-Files and CSI appear to me like skewered retakes on Holmes and Watson. No matter the garnish I prefer the original.
Fahrenheit 451 anyone? The intermingling of the message of the medium with the message carries meta information. For myself, as a Canadian, the Domesday Book carries the stamp of the defeat of the saxons by the normans. (didn't the saxon king and his men fight two battles on the same day, winning the first and losing the second?) The written word in the barely literate world of the 11th century carried with it the near magically quality of standing against time until DOOMSDAY :-). It's interesting to see the character of a people continuously redispersed through the newest medium. The Brits, maintaing the monarchy, would choose the Domesday Book to be among the primary works dispersed through the latest medium. Is the class system of Britian still strongly entrenced in the collective consciousness? My stepfather, whose family is listed in said book, is fond of saying the British upper class breeds their children as well as it breeds horses. No matter the medium the idea contained in the Domesday book will last as long as the character of the British people.
Is not Nora's statement, quoted above, the heart of the matter. Stand up for your rights. If those rights are not sufficient or have been erroded then fight. The fight, any fight, is visceral. Cave in and the 'hired guns', as many lawyers call themselves, will own you and they'll get you through fear as the school bully gets the geek's lunch money, as a pimp gets children. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." The Kings and aristocracy of ancient Europe truly thought the papists of Rome held the Keys to the 'Kingdom of God' and feared excommunication. Historically we take Martin Luther's posting the Diet of Worms as the opening slavo in the fight against the theocracy of Rome. The birth of America necessitated a similar stance against entrenched power.
Fight or flight, flight is the way of prey.
I started out on MS DOS 2.11 and stayed with MS until Mandrake 6 and while my history of UI interaction on PCs doesn't lend me any experties it does lend historical perspective. For the sake of discussion I see VisiCal as the prototypical PC app followed by WordPerfect. VisiCal and WordPerfect are both fundamental data input apps permitting manipulation of the data in terms of formatting or the performing of operations on the data. From this foundation of data processing the windows paradigm has be devised. I'm suggesting a new paradigm is needed that aids creative thinking. Maintaining the data processing paradigm may be supportive for clerical types but the current desk top flies in the face of the recurrent talk of AI and PCs with SuperComputer power fundamentally resturcturing the way we interact with and direct our environments. Polishing the desk top may be a way to parallel the MS Windows market but investing in a dynamic UI empowering creative thought may be the way to ultimately steal Bill Gates' fire.
It has been many and many a year since I read the most part of what was then Chomsky's output on language but recall suggests his theory of transformational grammar might embrace something along the lines suggested in the article.
From the article: "Their studies of brain activity reveal that bilinguals reject words that are not part of the language they are speaking - before working out what the words mean."
"Bilinguals use a different processing pathway, the team suggests, which sounds out the word first. The fMRI images showed that a brain area involved in spelling out letters is active when rejecting Catalan and pseudowords. The pronunciation rules of Spanish or Catalan might work as a filter, recognizing words in the inappropriate language. Speakers switch filters when they switch between languages."
This begs the question of what the filter might be. Does any one language exhibit an underlying structure that permits a 'filter'? But then what of dialects? We know brain cells create new neural networks so it might be permitted to loosely conjecture the 'filter' as a different configuration of the cells in the language areas. I have yet to find any definitive work on how fast brain cells can realign and create new networks but my recent readings suggest new networks are generated much faster than once thought. Dropping all pretense of rigor or of any discipline, I'm of the opinion we'll find brain cell configuration and reconfiguration is the most underutilized and fundamental aspect of creativity and learning much akin to general suppleness of form.
Cheers thnx for the pointer.
Yabut... were I MS, I would, as ESR suggests, look to ways to separate the OS/apps from the box, such as thin client architecture and software as an online utility. If the box comes without an OS and apps but recommending MS and boots online to download/install the most uptodate, "ultimately configured" MS software then the customer might mindlessly separate the two and see the OS/apps as a licensed utility. The economics of doing away with the most part of manufacturing and distributing shelved software will give MS alot more margin to play with. Still, over the near term, as the need for standards and, independent bodies to maintain and further standards grows, the gap will close as standards will provide a platform for the Open Source/FSF communities to close said gap. What ESR said will prevail in that a large body of independent coders have and will come together to produce a competitive mass market product.
Excuse my morning rant, the nimbling of my fingers and the impact of the first brimming mug of coffee.
cheersBig B5 fan, Big H. Ellison(sp?) fan and so I took note of the credit to Ellison at the end of the B5 episodes. Ellison is a heavyweight writer compared to most of the TV fluff regurgitators. Yes, you can hurl fluff, it comes out soggy but dries quickly. It comes from the dust bunnies most TV writers inhaled when hidding/retreving their pron collections from under their beds. I always whimsically attributed the best of what was B5 to Ellison.
Having just completed a sampling of my small universe of all persons with professional designations I have come to the opinion, upon which I base my fact, that engineers receive more plaques than all other professionals combined. What can we draw from this conclusion? In the recessed, dopamine stained, reptilian centre of Dilbert's brain does motherhood, succor and peer approbation hold four square and brass embossed. Is there some hidden trigger mechanism that tells engineers when migration and mating time is nigh by the slowly evolving shades of dust and aging accruing at the edges of each plaque? We know engineers fathered geekdom, signaling the coming of the newbie order by the sign of the once recondite pocket protector, but what of plaques, what secrets transpire among the rows of plaques, rack on rack?
OK so I can't do comedy"...what kind of cortex development, caused this typo."
Geographical I guess.
As much as I revel in correcting others, (When being corrected I tend toward covering my ears and yelling: "I can't hear you!"), the material requires something more than my amateur handling. Try the following: Jeffrey H. Schwartz "Sudden origins: fossils, genes, and the emergence of species" New York Wiley 1999
Freedom on the internet is a little like prostitution and illegal drug use, i.e., it's always going to be around. Like the tax exempt, economic power of the North American shadow economy where barter and cash hide transactions from the respective tax departments, the internet has a 'profile', if you will, that has inherent a strong support of freedom and innovation and the technical means to implement programs.
Newbieism, peer pressure and karma distribution being what it is I can only strive to emulate the *On High* Ubergeeks that oversee /. But, uhm really, does this mean it is absolutely a sure thing something could conditionally happen... or, uh does it mean a conditional thing is absolutely going to happen... or what? Will it become apparent the more karma I have?
"In any quantum-cascade laser, a high voltage coerces an electric current to penetrate layer after layer in the stack. The tight physical confinement of many of those stacked layers makes them act as so-called quantum wells, in which electrons can only have certain amounts of energy,..." Anyway it was good for me :-) and now I have to go and smoke something. The future's so bright I have to ware shades.
Agreed and the fight to effect such changes is, ah well, noble truly; but we have only just emerged from the grip of 19th century industrialism when robber barrons did indeed haggle over the world. The newest catchwords in progressive democracies are government "efficiency" and government "tranparency". We're nowhere near having institutions consistently exhibiting these characteristics but then too we have only just brought information online in an unprecedented way. It may be our new found ability to gather, analysis and disseminate information at heretofore incredible rates that is generating the frustration with social artifacts like pork barrel politics and BIG business.
Ok it's good. It's linked to the Dead and if we all do acid and chant real loud the rain will go away.
But the reality is that first big business had to garnter the economic forces able to put the goods and services in place to create the PC/Apple and net cultures. Not to forget that *in the beginng* the military, government, big business and academica made the WWW. So try as we do not to be overwhelmed by the immensity of the entities we create to produce such things as the net and space exploration it is possible we cannot do without them.
The great KD nourished an entire generation. Mac and cheese is the ultimate geek food. Good with beer, good cold in the middle of the night, good fried in the morning with coffee. (except maybe for poutaine which maybe the second greatest geek food)
What the hell happened to the Silver Surfer? ATTITUDE! The d00d had mucho attitude and attitude is what it's all aboot.
You're wilderness hiking along a saddle in the high alpine. The trail's degraded and is crumbling away toward a cliff. You've checked out the cliff face, it's fairly sheer and you know if you fall your dead or critically injured. The trail is a deep narrow rut cutting past the rootwork of the plants holding the soil in place. Is the trail safe today? Will the recent rains bring on a mud slide and sweep you over the edge? No amount of feasible analysis will tell you if the trail is safe. When the larger conclusions fail over a small segment of the (data) trail and you sketter over the edge failed analysis won't be the *greatest* impact.
Analysis in these matters cannot be conclusive but when we're dealing with our habitat we had better error on the side of caution. I was raised hiking, hunting and fishing. I no longer hunt or fish and I now rarely hike. But the wealth of wilderness experience I have informs me with certainty that if the parameters of the environment shift inimically then most certainly there'll be hell to pay. Try surviving a couple of chill nights wet from the rain with little food and water. Be careful John. The gun might really only have blanks in it but you never know.
Recently large numbers of sterile American males have been released in Canada in hopes of decimating the Canadian population thus opening up endless stretches of moose pasture to American colonization.
The first order of Business is Communication. If you haven't or can't institute a forum for solving the problems with your co-employees then no amount of outside information is going to help. Solve for the Syntax and open the necessary lines of communication, then identify everyone's perogatives and obligations. Figure out who, if anyone holds the trump cards and see if their amenable to an acceptable solution. Get on with it.
It's dead. It died years ago.
Much of this shit has to do with the relative newness of the net and net culture. The net will produce it's own music libraries and as net music comes online and the culture supports it then, as a result of direct competition, the current recorded catalogue will be made more inexpensively available.
"We don't care about the [Chinese government's] rules. It's none of Cisco's business."
"We are not a content creator, just a medium, a selective medium."
It's got to eat at your guts to make statements like those above.
China is the critical test of our ability to survive overpopulation and environmental degredation. With a population of 1.6 billion (?), with long stretches of it's rivers dead and the Three Gorges Dam looking like a doomed project it may not be the worst evil to have a government in place that keeps a tight lid on. The saddest aspect, for me, by far is that a country faced with overpopulation and environmental damage on an as yet unimagined scale is seen by business as the world's greatest potential mass market.
Too many Two Twos: 20:02, 20/02, 2002
We are the hope for the future of our kind. Surely sensory deprivation will be the single greatest threat to surviving generational space travel. Posters at /. have inured themselves to the same endless reams of rehashed content. Posting at /. is surely requisite to the endless darkness of space travel. I expect we'll all be interviewed soon. I hope it's not going to be as invasive as the interviews by aliens.
My understanding of mitochondrial DNA is that it comes only from the mother. Attempts to identify the age of our species are based on the statistical analysis of mitochondrial DNA as it issues only from the mother. Does this account for your quotation marks around the word parent?
cheers