Any chance of a list of ten things that are going to improve significantly [or just appear if they are new] Real Soon Now, without requiring more than 30 words of explanation per thing, say in the next 18 months? Maybe that too much of a marketing vapourware/overselling suggestion.
Hey it could be a powerpoint presentation.
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For lamers/lusers/the unconverted (and everyone was one, or all three, once)
-Linux is for your old 486 when you can happily toast partitians at the press of a wrong button. -Linux is also for VNCing onto(remote access) in the corporate lan.
Meant to make one good point, now I have gone and spoiled it.
It may mean working in your own time, but having delivered something management needed and did not realise they needed covers up at management level your other blunders, past and future, that your peers are/will be aware of.
Avoid being on someones project management software if at all possible. Become a trouble shooter, work on high profile special project teams, such as performance improvement. Get another job if necessary.
"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists
and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." Martin Niemoeller
So I am saying support non mainstream political causes and do not be afraid of the big bad intelligence agencies. They cannot lock us all up, and if they do I want to be on the inside.
If questioned we will give the answer that gives us most benefit that is: We will buy more music if we have free access, we may even have a few self selecting anecdotal 'proofs' and rationalisations. It is a game between the users, creators, distributers and marketing departments, everybody wants to shove the equilibrium 'their' way.
RANT OFF
What does it all mean? Maybe we should all switch off, tune out and, well, enjoy good two way, even if drug obscured, conversation.
I think trying to criminilise legitamate behaviour and believing the government to be above the people is not unusual. Plans on our next bombing campaign are here:
Has anybody worked out the best ways how to crop up on file, short of doing anything illegal, though with no right to silence doing nothing can be illegal.
1/Use a razor. 2/Learn how to fly [but not take off and land]. 3/Use the internet.
Someone must have better ideas, or they could tell us, but they would have to kill us?
I tried to make a more serious list but I reckon it is just too easy to do a 9/11 as long as your group has no prior convictions - the authorities can only try to log everything, and backtrack when something happens.
I obviously have no priviliged information on these matters and I would like to keep it that way, but I would like to know what is common knowledge [or even Open Source Intelligence: with enough eyeballs any secret is trivial].
The future is uncertain so let it guide you. The Chinese/U.S./Cubans/British/Irish/Church can manipulate the media, but they could have a lot of explaining to do in the future if they block off peoples way to grow with their lies, half truths and bias. There is no reason to believe that the Chinese cannot come up with reasonable news feed while avoiding 'human rights' and 'subversive' politics while still keeping people 'entertained' and culturally distinct, burgers or no burgers. Confucius [still] rules. Where is my Chinese dictionary?
Take one year off, do whatever takes your fancy at college [whatever has the most chicks is probably the best as they are way better clued in on the social evolutionary scale]. Do part time computer work if you can get it to pay your way through college, do a masters in computing if you have not been cured of your computer bias, though there are loads of fields where computing is going to be of use as a means to an end.
You can describe the weather 1950 - 2000 and then get it wrong afterwards, if your model just summarizes the data 1950 - 2000 instead of getting the underlying trends, which will recur after 2000. Knowing the stability of the system and what future shocks might invalidate your analysis would be nice though,. Kind of similar to: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=30887&cid =3322 825
[Is using someone elses post to back up your own: a/a breech of copyrite b/cowardly c/cheating d/Cowboy neal ?]
Fresh 'raw' data is your friend. See for reference 'news'.
But the ability to code what you like or speak what you like is, theoretically maybe DeCSS would be banned out by your "code of ethics" would u agree with that?
Actually there are too many falsehoods and half truths to be drawn by your statements. Is that a facile reply?
A code of ethics for a group gives a cost to breaking it, and an expectation of keeping to it. There are no [well few] absolutes, banning something is a last resort, and usually just encourages its uptake.
Ethics allows people to make assumptions about members of a group to associate a cost with breaking reasonable rules of behavior. The rules are higher than general lowest common denominator rules of society. It is about trust, branding even.
Ok I wrote that out before seeing your post. A Christian will need to rationalize their actions in how they appear to themselves and others. A Klingon is similarly constrained, as is a Republican [Irish or American..] or a Democrat. This stereotype compliance is a social aid. A slashdot reader will also be mostly stereotype compliant, or else the stereotype is broken:). I am wandering off the point.
What you are implying is that everything is up for grabs, within (maybe) legal restraint. Well sort of, but society is more than that, from a clique of friends, to political or national allegence, there is a system of costs and benefits to associations and few absolutes.
Freedom of speech is matched by a freedom to ignore, or attempt to filter that which is worth listening to.
I do repeat myself, [I do at least rephrase] or is repitition against the rules?
It is to say the society/subculture/union is aspirational, it is not just directly for the groups own good, there are ethics which make the groups presence felt, that having the grouping is of use. Its a vision/mission statement thing. Money is not everything, [but no money is nothing].
Margret Thatcher said there is no such thing as society. She was wrong.
The 'funny' thing about having a near miss by a scud - is that you have a good chance of being hit by the patriot that was diligently following it down.
>If Microsoft software was available only at full price they would be more likely to try other alternative [typo] If Microsoft software was available only at full price the users would be more likely to try an alternative
For comparison assume Open Office cost $0 utility $0:
MSWord/Excel cost $300 , utility $600 [20 hours saved in not learning another 'non MS standard' piece of software at $30 dollars an hour] in Eastern Europe the utility is $200 dollars [ 20 hrs @ $10 an hour] so it is better to put up with spending a few hours learning Open Office, then pay for MSWord/Excel at full price.
Open Office gets a WIN.. but
Microsoft 'wins'/cheats:) by having pirate MS Word/Excel available at $50, making MS Word/Excel the more lucrative option by $150.
Microsoft would secretly love to carpetbomb Eastern Europe, Russia, China etc. with their software.
People learn to use Microsoft and end up paying later, or encouraging other people to use microsoft through a network effect ('everyone uses Word/Excel'). If Microsoft software was available only at full price they would be more likely to try other alternative. The main battle is for mindshare not dollars.
Piracy allows microsoft to effectively sell cheap, without being accused of dumping.
Costs management nothing, and keeps the workers happy. If you feel you are special at your job you will work harder.
You see your specialness disappear real fast if you make costly requests, requiring reorgs, personality conflicts, or pay rises.
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The 'future' data could be physically withheld from the modeller, they could have been in a box since 1986. The pre 1986 data could have been collated, or simply stored, in 1986, to avoid being 'future' tainted. And wait for it.... they could even use 1986 computers:).
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If you use the data say 1970 - 1985 for building your model, you can use 1986 - 2002 as the 'future' you are trying to predict. Commonly your data is partitioned into a training set and a validation set, usually on an arbitrary basis rather than on the later/earlier basis suggested above.
Hopefully the amount of open source software will reach (has reached?) a stage that a living can be made in configuring it for the user. I think this is closest to happening in custom html form based applications, where a consultant can charge by the hour to deliver an open source based custom solution. It may not be rocket science or a geeky new development, just bread and butter work to pay the bills AND expand the use of open source, the consultant can help open source by fixing/reporting bugs found and open sourcing their minor extensions and configurations.
People should enter the political arena and all views should be rationalised and criticed - both internally and externally to the groups concerned. The world is a big negociation, what worked in the north of Ireland [big political fudge that most people voted for] may work elsewhere (even in the U.N., come on guys pay up).
Force people to examine and justify their and their opponents beliefs as part of a negociating position. Keeping U.S. 'intelligence' secret is against the politicial process, let the U.S. Intelligence fights it out with other peoples (even non US) rationalised view of the world.
If the future is not in secrecy, then swamp the ***** with trivia, there are bound to be badder dudes to be got than you
[Though that begs the referrence:
First the Nazis came for the Communists; and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews; and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. When they came for the trade unionists I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a trade unionist. And when they came for the Catholics I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me... and by that time there was no one left to speak for anyone.
Attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoeller.
I suppose the answer is we stand up for the 'terrorists' whether they be in camp X-ray or not,
and stand up for a persons right to burn any flag,
because who knows when we will be labeled and marginalised.]
(thesis, antithesis I argue with myself, I just believe openness is the way forward, democracy and mob rule is not so bad.)
Just because you think you have something to hide, does not mean it is worth hiding. Do not hide your light under a bushel, if everyone is lighting the level playing field, defects will be dealt with more sympathetically.
Well its a theory. [Speaking as a manic depressive, from a police state, who owes some back taxes.]
Slashdot Mirror
Hey it could be a powerpoint presentation.
For lamers/lusers/the unconverted (and everyone was one, or all three, once)
-Linux is for your old 486 when you can happily toast partitians at the press of a wrong button.
-Linux is also for VNCing onto(remote access) in the corporate lan.
Meant to make one good point, now I have gone and spoiled it.
It may mean working in your own time, but having delivered something management needed and did not realise they needed covers up at management level your other blunders, past and future, that your peers are/will be aware of.
Avoid being on someones project management software if at all possible. Become a trouble shooter, work on high profile special project teams, such as performance improvement. Get another job if necessary.
"First they came for the Communists,
but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists
and the Trade Unionists,
but I was neither,
so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews,
but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me."
Martin Niemoeller
So I am saying support non mainstream political causes and do not be afraid of the big bad intelligence agencies. They cannot lock us all up, and if they do I want to be on the inside.
RANT ON
If questioned we will give the answer that gives us most benefit that is: We will buy more music if we have free access, we may even have a few self selecting anecdotal 'proofs' and rationalisations.
It is a game between the users, creators, distributers and marketing departments, everybody wants to shove the equilibrium 'their' way.
RANT OFF
What does it all mean? Maybe we should all switch off, tune out and, well, enjoy good two way, even if drug obscured, conversation.
The Plan
Our manifesto will follow.
Has anybody worked out the best ways how to crop up on file, short of doing anything illegal, though with no right to silence doing nothing can be illegal.
1/Use a razor.
2/Learn how to fly [but not take off and land].
3/Use the internet.
Someone must have better ideas, or they could tell us, but they would have to kill us?
I tried to make a more serious list but I reckon it is just too easy to do a 9/11 as long as your group has no prior convictions - the authorities can only try to log everything, and backtrack when something happens.
I obviously have no priviliged information on these matters and I would like to keep it that way, but I would like to know what is common knowledge [or even Open Source Intelligence: with enough eyeballs any secret is trivial].
Why not get google to 'correct' all the html in its Google cache?
Why would they?
It might annoy microsoft
Why would they not?
It might annoy microsoft
No seriously:
They may have 'better' things to do with their development and marketing time. Also it would not work for dynamic pages. Foiled again.
The future is uncertain so let it guide you. The Chinese/U.S./Cubans/British/Irish/Church can manipulate the media, but they could have a lot of explaining to do in the future if they block off peoples way to grow with their lies, half truths and bias. There is no reason to believe that the Chinese cannot come up with reasonable news feed while avoiding 'human rights' and 'subversive' politics while still keeping people 'entertained' and culturally distinct, burgers or no burgers. Confucius
[still] rules. Where is my Chinese dictionary?
So many small projects..
come back sell and unix pipe : all is forgiven.
[They have not gone away you know - Gerry Adams]
Take one year off, do whatever takes your fancy at college [whatever has the most chicks is probably the best as they are way better clued in on the social evolutionary scale]. Do part time computer work if you can get it to pay your way through college, do a masters in computing if you have not been cured of your computer bias, though there are loads of fields where computing is going to be of use as a means to an end.
You will be 34 at that stage though...
You can describe the weather 1950 - 2000 and then get it wrong afterwards, if your model just summarizes the data 1950 - 2000 instead of getting the underlying trends, which will recur after 2000. Knowing the stability of the system and what future shocks might invalidate your analysis would be nice though,. Kind of similar to:d =3322 825
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=30887&ci
[Is using someone elses post to back up your own:
a/a breech of copyrite
b/cowardly
c/cheating
d/Cowboy neal
?]
Fresh 'raw' data is your friend. See for reference 'news'.
But the ability to code what you like or speak what you like is, theoretically maybe DeCSS would be banned out by your "code of ethics" would u agree with that?
:). I am wandering off the point.
Actually there are too many falsehoods and half truths to be drawn by your statements. Is that a facile reply?
A code of ethics for a group gives a cost to breaking it, and an expectation of keeping to it. There are no [well few] absolutes, banning something is a last resort, and usually just encourages its uptake.
Ethics allows people to make assumptions about members of a group to associate a cost with breaking reasonable rules of behavior. The rules are higher than general lowest common denominator rules of society. It is about trust, branding even.
Ok I wrote that out before seeing your post. A Christian will need to rationalize their actions in how they appear to themselves and others. A Klingon is similarly constrained, as is a Republican [Irish or American..] or a Democrat. This stereotype compliance is a social aid. A slashdot reader will also be mostly stereotype compliant, or else the stereotype is broken
What you are implying is that everything is up for grabs, within (maybe) legal restraint. Well sort of, but society is more than that, from a clique of friends, to political or national allegence, there is a system of costs and benefits to associations and few absolutes.
Freedom of speech is matched by a freedom to ignore, or attempt to filter that which is worth listening to.
I do repeat myself, [I do at least rephrase] or is repitition against the rules?
It is to say the society/subculture/union is aspirational, it is not just directly for the groups own good, there are ethics which make the groups presence felt, that having the grouping is of use. Its a vision/mission statement thing. Money is not everything, [but no money is nothing].
Margret Thatcher said there is no such thing as society. She was wrong.
Any x86 machine code to C 'compilers' out there?
The 'funny' thing about having a near miss by a scud - is that you have a good chance of being hit by the patriot that was diligently following it down.
>If Microsoft software was available only at full price they would be more likely to try other alternative [typo]
:) by having pirate MS Word/Excel available at $50, making MS Word/Excel the more lucrative option by $150.
If Microsoft software was available only at full price the users would be more likely to try an alternative
For comparison assume
Open Office cost $0 utility $0:
MSWord/Excel cost $300 , utility $600
[20 hours saved in not learning another 'non MS standard' piece of software at $30 dollars an hour]
in Eastern Europe the utility is $200 dollars [ 20 hrs @ $10 an hour]
so it is better to put up with spending a few hours learning Open Office, then pay for MSWord/Excel at full price.
Open Office gets a WIN.. but
Microsoft 'wins'/cheats
Microsoft would secretly love to carpetbomb Eastern Europe, Russia, China etc. with their software.
People learn to use Microsoft and end up paying later, or encouraging other people to use microsoft through a network effect ('everyone uses Word/Excel'). If Microsoft software was available only at full price they would be more likely to try other alternative. The main battle is for mindshare not dollars.
Piracy allows microsoft to effectively sell cheap, without being accused of dumping.
Costs management nothing, and keeps the workers happy. If you feel you are special at your job you will work harder.
You see your specialness disappear real fast if you make costly requests, requiring reorgs, personality conflicts, or pay rises.
The 'future' data could be physically withheld from the modeller, they could have been in a box since 1986. The pre 1986 data could have been collated, or simply stored, in 1986, to avoid being 'future' tainted. And wait for it .... they could even use 1986 computers :).
If you use the data say 1970 - 1985 for building your model, you can use 1986 - 2002 as the 'future' you are trying to predict. Commonly your data is partitioned into a training set and a validation set, usually on an arbitrary basis rather than on the later/earlier basis suggested above.
Hopefully the amount of open source software will reach (has reached?) a stage that a living can be made in configuring it for the user. I think this is closest to happening in custom html form based applications, where a consultant can charge by the hour to deliver an open source based custom solution. It may not be rocket science or a geeky new development, just bread and butter work to pay the bills AND expand the use of open source, the consultant can help open source by fixing/reporting bugs found and open sourcing their minor extensions and configurations.
RANT ON
Jaw Jaw rather than War War.
People should enter the political arena and all views should be rationalised and criticed - both internally and externally to the groups concerned. The world is a big negociation, what worked in the north of Ireland [big political fudge that most people voted for] may work elsewhere (even in the U.N., come on guys pay up).
Force people to examine and justify their and their opponents beliefs as part of a negociating position. Keeping U.S. 'intelligence' secret is against the politicial process, let the U.S. Intelligence fights it out with other peoples (even non US) rationalised view of the world.
RANT OFF
Any chance of giving a low down of what the next steps in small scale customizing open source software is?
My 2 cent: hosting simple html forms solutions, converting file formats, accessing spreadsheats over the network via html forms.
If the future is not in secrecy, then swamp the ***** with trivia, there are bound to be badder dudes to be got than you
[Though that begs the referrence:
First the Nazis came for the Communists; and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews; and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. When they came for the trade unionists I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a trade unionist. And when they came for the Catholics I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me... and by that time there was no one left to speak for anyone.
Attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoeller.
I suppose the answer is we stand up for the 'terrorists' whether they be in camp X-ray or not,
and stand up for a persons right to burn any flag,
because who knows when we will be labeled and marginalised.]
(thesis, antithesis I argue with myself, I just believe openness is the way forward, democracy and mob rule is not so bad.)
Just because you think you have something to hide, does not mean it is worth hiding. Do not hide your light under a bushel, if everyone is lighting the level playing field, defects will be dealt with more sympathetically.
Well its a theory. [Speaking as a manic depressive, from a police state, who owes some back taxes.]