one of CL Strong's "Amateur Scientist" articles in SciAm gave construction details for logic units based on water jets... gates, flip-flops, etc. 1966 or thereabouts...
Even tho the size of these scopes is comparable to amateur equipment, the quality is quite a bit better:
These telescopes (STARE, located on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, PSST, located at Lowell Observatory, Arizona, and Sleuth, located at Mt. Palomar, California) are being described individually elsewhere (Dunham et al. 2004; Brown et al. 2004). Briefly, all 3 are small-aperture (10 cm), wide-field (6 degree), CCD-based systems with spatial resolution of about 11 seconds per pixel.
from the technical report
Also note that the observations were made by all three scopes in sync, and the resulting photometrics were used to calculate the actual brightness variation. Lots of opportunities here for amateurs, but more than just point & shoot.
Cloudscape is intended for use as a simple database that resides inside a software application instead of as a full-fledged database program that runs on its own in corporate data centers as Oracle, I.B.M.'s DB/2, and Microsoft's SQL or MySQL do."
Seems like the big story here is Microsoft's acquisition of MySQL...
Actually, aleatoric methods for generating poetry have been around since Dada (they used to literally pull words out of hats as a randomizing algorithm...). These guys are just piggybacking on the spamming hash software.
Certainly does seem that way, doesn't it...
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"So why do astronomers always compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?"
which would make your 2-pager much wittier than Derek Powazek's "Design for Community",which i also liked. he covers much the same territory and reaches similar conclusions...
A strong community can overcome technical limitations. It's possible to write a Wiki or a weblog in under a hundred lines of code. Simplicity may appeal to some users. The lack of sophistication (reply notification, searching, revisions, and access controls) may put off some users, and an ugly or awkward user interface may get in the way sometimes, but a community can grow in spite of the mess.
& th thing i have to remember is that different users have different perceptions of what's complex or not... so that the user interface becomes a filter for the type of user a site will draw. black pages, obscure icons and no text labels will appeal to certain folks--among other things, it lets members know they're cool because they're web-savy enough to figure it out. so the techne carries content just like the wording on the homepage...
should i really worry if big corporations want to control their vapid product? do i really want to expend any energy to protect my right to copy crap? the answer, for me, is no.
anybody remember the cassette underground? different technology, same goal.
the promise of the net as culture transport isn't being able to steal mediocre mainstream muzak, it about getting out from under that shit altogether.
no, i don't want to pay for garbage... but i don't really want it for free, either.
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shades of John Brunner's "Shockwave Rider"...
one of CL Strong's "Amateur Scientist" articles in SciAm gave construction details for logic units based on water jets... gates, flip-flops, etc. 1966 or thereabouts...
DeBence Antique Music World has some great stuff along the same lines... and an antique website to match.
This gibberish from email messages is now being recycled by a whole cadre avant-garde poets into "found" poems:
s /2004/01/04/spam%5Fpoets/
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/article
http://poetry.about.com/b/a/055812.htm
Actually, aleatoric methods for generating poetry have been around since Dada (they used to literally pull words out of hats as a randomizing algorithm...). These guys are just piggybacking on the spamming hash software.
I was skeptical, but:e or.html f eb/m14-013.shtml
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010528/met
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1999/
http://www.theblob.info/xtras/kecksburg.pdf
hey, i'm not a creep, i'm a Geek... and donchu fergit it.
which would make your 2-pager much wittier than Derek Powazek's "Design for Community",which i also liked. he covers much the same territory and reaches similar conclusions...
& th thing i have to remember is that different users have different perceptions of what's complex or not... so that the user interface becomes a filter for the type of user a site will draw. black pages, obscure icons and no text labels will appeal to certain folks--among other things, it lets members know they're cool because they're web-savy enough to figure it out. so the techne carries content just like the wording on the homepage...
should i really worry if big corporations want to control their vapid product? do i really want to expend any energy to protect my right to copy crap? the answer, for me, is no.
anybody remember the cassette underground? different technology, same goal.
the promise of the net as culture transport isn't being able to steal mediocre mainstream muzak, it about getting out from under that shit altogether.
no, i don't want to pay for garbage... but i don't really want it for free, either.