Economics: the new digital economy
For advertising connected to web searches? Not their idea, or even a very brilliant one at that.
Not for ads... they'd have to come up with something seriously revolutionary. I'm not saying they've got such a thing -- I'm speculating that if their vast resources were turned toward a Nobel of some kind, Economics is the only field that makes sense.
Peace: "Do No Evil" put into practice.
That prize is usually given to somebody who sets their aspirations higher than simply avoiding evil. Hell, I avoid it pretty well myself. Nonetheless, we'll see how Google does in this regard. They may find it hard to stay out of evil...
It's way too late for Google, their corporate soul is just that: corporate. Sure, I'm pleased with their Do No Evil maxim; but Google may turn out to be the friendliest Big Brother we could ask for.
Case in point, one thing that some people think is worth doing in the first few rounds of poker is to intentionally lose or call as many hands as you can, just to determine your opponents' betting methods and/or tells. Could something similar be done with programs?
What about Corel's products?, they are still pretty big.
I agree. I've been using CorelDraw since version 3, and Corel PhotoPaint since version 5... I continue to use version 8 of both programs, because I own them and they do everything I need.
Several times a year I kick myself and say "Damn, the working world uses Photshop, I really should learn Photoshop so I can compete with graphic designers on their own terms". But then I need to get something done in a hurry, and Corel does the trick.
The problem is, none of us has any idea how to stop the runaway train that is the US govt. If you become to vocal, or threaten revolution, you are considered a terrorist, and face very real dangers of prosecution. So, the best we can do is write to our representatives, and hope that maybe a few of them still have some sense of honor or integrity.
Anthrax in the mail... Paul Wellstone's crash... to name just a couple of recent demonstrations... I think our representatives get the message, and value their lives.
NYSE Chief Executive John Thain said that both the main system and its backup were swamped with error messages, Reuters reports. He added that the exchange would carry out remedial work designed to prevent any repetition of the problem.
No, the remedial work is designed to cull out less adaptive problems, thus preparing the digital ecosystem for the emergence of tougher problems.
Am I the only one the looked at the pictures and thought of core wars?
I haven't actually played core wars, but I know what you mean.
What intrigues me is using this kind of bacterial model in a first-person shooter, maybe a Half-Life mod where you fight hostile bacteria in a microscopic maze. The heads-up display elements might resemble FreeAgent diagrams....
Just remember- Mars can't be terraformed. The gravity is too low to retain a sufficient atmospheric pressure to make it "Terra-like". There isn't enough water. It's too cold. It has too weak a magnetic field. Life could survive there unprotected at a stretch- but we couldn't.
Agreed. Terraforming is a tedious stretch of the imagination.
But bacterioforming -- the reworking of a planet to support bacteria -- that could prove interesting.
Man is the measure only of himself, not of all things. Man will not inherit the cosmos. But the cosmos had better watch out, because Life is trying to spread itself everywhere, one way or another.
Life is the force of non-being wanting to be so much that non-being converts to being.
Adam was made from mud, right? And what exactly made that mud get up and dance? Never mind the bronze-age cosmologies, let's just say that Life is more... interesting than mud.
Sure solved my horniness in a hurry -- one look and it's Boner-B-Gone.
Any Federal agents, or their rent-a-cop proxies, who get turned on by that picture...should be locked up in some kind of X-Files uber-prison, and then promptly dissected to determine their species before it can reproduce.
There is no geographical isolation in the human species, but it may very well be that the cultural and/or economic polarization of humanity that we see in many aspects of modern life may be the factor that generates the necessary isolation for divergence of the species.
I've lived in Minneapolis all my life, and I'm here to tell you that free wireless is a natural outcome of our longstanding populist/socialist traditions.
Free market, my ass. If you want to live in a better world, instruct your government to tax you and your neighbors -- then spend that tax money on a better world.
One has to ask, will these new domains actually prove useful, or is ICANN just avoiding the real issues confronting them in regards to regulating domain registration?
Or, is ICANN just printing up more scrip for the company store? Minting new tokens, marketing them to collectors? Inventing a new fantasy baseball team in order to sell baseball cards?
Yesterday we could choose from five types of breakfast cereal, all more or less same other than packaging. Today we pick from fifty different kinds of breakfast cereal... all more or less the same except for the packaging.
"I used to think democracy meant the people keeping a watchful eye on the government, not the government keeping a watchful eye on the people." [Julian Assange]
I used to think Democracy meant life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- not the mass penetration of citizens by the throbbing truncheon of Total Information Awareness.
Pop-quiz: who was Germany's top trading partner in 1938?
Good point. Indeed, it's worse than that -- much worse.
Who funded the Nazi war machine? Prescott Bush, among others.
Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz
Thyssen, who had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but who by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Hitler. Dealing with Nazi Germany wasn't illegal when Hitler declared war on the US, but, six days after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act. On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City.
Prescott and his partners made a ton of money banking for the Nazis -- investing in the Wermacht -- throughout the 1930s. Not illegal at the time. A brutal demonstration of man's inhumanity to man, perhaps; but not illegal at the time.
Herr Bush, of course, is father and grandfather, respectively, to two generations of American Presidents (and one generation of CIA Director).
See also From Hitler to MX, documenting other examples of 1930's American investment in the Nazi war machine (and how, after the war, American-back ventures survived unbombed, while their competitors where destroyed). Companies involved include General Electric (sold advanced submarine tech for U-boats), and one or more (I forget which) of the big oil firms.
Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?
Guarding is a cover story. The foxes are actually impregnating the hens -- breeding strange fox/chicken hybrids -- merging government and privacy into a single organism.
I, for one, do not welcome our privacy-sucking overlords.
Slashdot Mirror
When exactly did journalism become merely aggregating press releases?
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In the US, no later than the early eighties, under the Reagan Adminstration.
Of course, blogging has brought the whole mess to a new low
-kgj
What is the major reason for people still sticking with VHS?
Pornography, of course.
-kgj
Clearly the universe works in mysterious ways.
What's more, mysteriously the universe works in clear ways.
-kgj
Microsoft is censoring blogs on MSN China. The words 'freedom', 'democracy' and 'demonstration' are reportedly among the words being blocked.
This is bad news for an oppressive regime. How are finks, spooks, and informers supposed to do their dirty business if they can't:
A. Praise Democracy, in order to entrap dissidents;
B. Condemn Democracy, in order to rally more finks, spooks, and informers?
-kgj
Economics: the new digital economy
... they'd have to come up with something seriously revolutionary. I'm not saying they've got such a thing -- I'm speculating that if their vast resources were turned toward a Nobel of some kind, Economics is the only field that makes sense.
...
For advertising connected to web searches? Not their idea, or even a very brilliant one at that.
Not for ads
Peace: "Do No Evil" put into practice. That prize is usually given to somebody who sets their aspirations higher than simply avoiding evil. Hell, I avoid it pretty well myself. Nonetheless, we'll see how Google does in this regard. They may find it hard to stay out of evil
It's way too late for Google, their corporate soul is just that: corporate. Sure, I'm pleased with their Do No Evil maxim; but Google may turn out to be the friendliest Big Brother we could ask for.
-kgj
Let's wait to see how many Nobel prizes come out of Google labs.
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I agree with you, broadly speaking. But I'm sipping a glass of good red wine, I'm feeling expansive, let's conduct a thought experiment.
If Google Labs were to win a Nobel, it would be
* Economics: the new digital economy;
* Peace: "Do No Evil" put into practice.
As to the remaining categories -- Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature -- I don't see anything coming from Google.
-kgj
Case in point, one thing that some people think is worth doing in the first few rounds of poker is to intentionally lose or call as many hands as you can, just to determine your opponents' betting methods and/or tells. Could something similar be done with programs?
This is +Insightful, wish I had mod points.
-kgj
What about Corel's products?, they are still pretty big.
... I continue to use version 8 of both programs, because I own them and they do everything I need.
I agree. I've been using CorelDraw since version 3, and Corel PhotoPaint since version 5
Several times a year I kick myself and say "Damn, the working world uses Photshop, I really should learn Photoshop so I can compete with graphic designers on their own terms". But then I need to get something done in a hurry, and Corel does the trick.
-kgj
The problem is, none of us has any idea how to stop the runaway train that is the US govt. If you become to vocal, or threaten revolution, you are considered a terrorist, and face very real dangers of prosecution. So, the best we can do is write to our representatives, and hope that maybe a few of them still have some sense of honor or integrity.
... Paul Wellstone's crash ... to name just a couple of recent demonstrations ... I think our representatives get the message, and value their lives.
Anthrax in the mail
-kgj
NYSE Chief Executive John Thain said that both the main system and its backup were swamped with error messages, Reuters reports. He added that the exchange would carry out remedial work designed to prevent any repetition of the problem.
No, the remedial work is designed to cull out less adaptive problems, thus preparing the digital ecosystem for the emergence of tougher problems.
-kgj
Am I the only one the looked at the pictures and thought of core wars?
I haven't actually played core wars, but I know what you mean.
What intrigues me is using this kind of bacterial model in a first-person shooter, maybe a Half-Life mod where you fight hostile bacteria in a microscopic maze. The heads-up display elements might resemble FreeAgent diagrams....
-kgj
For years I have been looking for an atlas that shows both the ancient political boundaries and the ancient geographic boundaries.
Agreed -- an ancient/modern atlas would be instructive and interesting.
Perhaps best implemented as a digital atlas? Flash animation, something like that, with a slider for timeline so you can cruise the centuries?
-kgj
Just remember- Mars can't be terraformed. The gravity is too low to retain a sufficient atmospheric pressure to make it "Terra-like". There isn't enough water. It's too cold. It has too weak a magnetic field. Life could survive there unprotected at a stretch- but we couldn't.
Agreed. Terraforming is a tedious stretch of the imagination.
But bacterioforming -- the reworking of a planet to support bacteria -- that could prove interesting.
Man is the measure only of himself, not of all things. Man will not inherit the cosmos. But the cosmos had better watch out, because Life is trying to spread itself everywhere, one way or another.
-kgj
Life is the most powerful force in the universe.
Gravity? Kid stuff. Kinetic energy? Boring. Electromagnetic radiation? It's for pussies.
Life is the force of non-being wanting to be so much that non-being converts to being.
Adam was made from mud, right? And what exactly made that mud get up and dance? Never mind the bronze-age cosmologies, let's just say that Life is more ... interesting than mud.
-kgj
The following is work-safe, unless maybe you work in a secret underground Gray Alien research bunker:
...should be locked up in some kind of X-Files uber-prison, and then promptly dissected to determine their species before it can reproduce.
backscatter softcore
Sure solved my horniness in a hurry -- one look and it's Boner-B-Gone.
Any Federal agents, or their rent-a-cop proxies, who get turned on by that picture
-kgj
Braille Keyboards
-kgj
There is no geographical isolation in the human species, but it may very well be that the cultural and/or economic polarization of humanity that we see in many aspects of modern life may be the factor that generates the necessary isolation for divergence of the species.
Good point -- insightful.
-kgj
Your post is a public service message to humanity. Kudos.
-kgj
One of my colleagues who worked for 3M told me:
3M is very engineer-driven -- a lot of 3M products (e.g. Post-It) were invented/developed by engineers.
Of course, an engineer with a Vision still has to sell the idea to management/marketing.
The secret: make it flat. According to my source, 3M management/marketing wonks really like things flat.
Savvy engineers therefore pack their prototypes into flat boxes -- even if a cubical box would be more efficient.
-kgj
You're quite right -- I screwed the pooch. Dammit.
-kgj
I've lived in Minneapolis all my life, and I'm here to tell you that free wireless is a natural outcome of our longstanding populist/socialist traditions.
Free market, my ass. If you want to live in a better world, instruct your government to tax you and your neighbors -- then spend that tax money on a better world.
-kgj
One has to ask, will these new domains actually prove useful, or is ICANN just avoiding the real issues confronting them in regards to regulating domain registration?
... all more or less the same except for the packaging.
Or, is ICANN just printing up more scrip for the company store? Minting new tokens, marketing them to collectors? Inventing a new fantasy baseball team in order to sell baseball cards?
Yesterday we could choose from five types of breakfast cereal, all more or less same other than packaging. Today we pick from fifty different kinds of breakfast cereal
-kgj
"I used to think democracy meant the people keeping a watchful eye on the government, not the government keeping a watchful eye on the people." [Julian Assange]
I used to think Democracy meant life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- not the mass penetration of citizens by the throbbing truncheon of Total Information Awareness.
-kgj
Good point. Indeed, it's worse than that -- much worse.
Who funded the Nazi war machine? Prescott Bush, among others. Prescott and his partners made a ton of money banking for the Nazis -- investing in the Wermacht -- throughout the 1930s. Not illegal at the time. A brutal demonstration of man's inhumanity to man, perhaps; but not illegal at the time.
Herr Bush, of course, is father and grandfather, respectively, to two generations of American Presidents (and one generation of CIA Director).
See also From Hitler to MX, documenting other examples of 1930's American investment in the Nazi war machine (and how, after the war, American-back ventures survived unbombed, while their competitors where destroyed). Companies involved include General Electric (sold advanced submarine tech for U-boats), and one or more (I forget which) of the big oil firms.
War is -- dammit -- good for business.
-kgj
Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?
Guarding is a cover story. The foxes are actually impregnating the hens -- breeding strange fox/chicken hybrids -- merging government and privacy into a single organism.
I, for one, do not welcome our privacy-sucking overlords.
-kgj