I love sonic.net as well, and know the founders personally. This is a great ISP. I tried giving feedback to the FCC when I found out what they were going to do, but apparently to no avail. Hopefully people start taking their heads out of their @5535 and figure out that the government is completely riddled with corporate corruption exclusively working to further enslave us under their fascistic plan for propaganda-fueled struggles against "extremism" which are actually an assault on our freedom. Making the internet run through giant monopolistic corporate networks instead of smaller, more humble ISPs like Sonic certainly raises the specter of mass censorship. How long before the word "democracy" is filtered in the US?
I disagree; as Slashdot readers have noted, females are often good at communication, and I can't think of anything more useful than a well-designed API that truly serves the needs of the designers. I think the code design process as a whole could benefit greatly from more female programmers.
As the granddaughter of a Chicago jeweler, I've been around precious and semi-precious stones and metals all my life. I was given little diamond rings at a young age, and when I got older my mom put a big rock in a custom necklace setting for my 16th birthday, with matching diamond studs.
My impression of diamonds is that they are cold and hard and all too easy to lose. I don't even get a good vibe from them. I would much rather have a piece of jewelry that I actually like and feel comfortable with and wouldn't mind losing too much. That's why most of mine consists of "hippy jewelry" like wooden beads and turqoise and silver native american pieces.
The only true tradition I care about is that of a ring. I don't care what the decoration is; as long as beginning meets end symbolizing the eternity of love, it's the proper trinket.
"The success of the Palm Pilot can be traced, in my view, to the fact that it didn't strive for full hand-writing recognition (like, say, a Newton). Instead, it required the human to meet it half-way. You get decent accuracy/speed for a small investment in learning."
I think the downfall of the Newton was caused by something else (price, size, etc.) besides full hand-writing recognition. The Newton is very useable in that regard in particular; it recognizes anyone's handwriting. Having to learn anything to interact with a computer is a Bad Thing(tm). Writing more than a few letters of Graffiti is annoying, thus there exists Palm Desktop software and keyboards for the Palm. There is supposedly even some correlation between using Graffiti extensively and getting brain damage.
There are already compromises in voice communication, why promote them? Shouldn't the aim of research be to achieve perfect communication?
I would like to commend everyone who responded to my post in a very professional and helpful way. Slashdot is at its best when people like you participate. Sorry if I seem like a troll; I would like to see the open-source community succeed, and I'm just pointing out what I perceive as deficiencies. You have all corrected my mistakes, such as forgetting about putting pressure on the software companies themselves. I'm glad that there is some sort of consensus about having secure installations, and I hope there is some sort of effort underway to do something in open-source that provides the functionality of the autorpm pay service from Redhat. Again, thanks for the interesting conversation.
While all of you are discussing the ideological and legal aspects of this, I think I would like to address the practical side.
Very few novice Redhat 6 users, myself included, actively monitor the security problems addressed at bugtraq or securityfocus, out of ignorance or lack of time. However, the Internet is crawling with 5kr1p+ k1dd135 who do, and they have preyed on our system. I do not appreciate the abstract, idealistic attitude of this community, the good-ol-boy mentality that if you aren't an expert administrator, you ought to be hacked by 14 year old malcontents. They used that goddamn wu_ftpd exploit on us and we had to reformat and waste another freaking day reinstalling and upgrading the only OS I've ever personally seen hacked.
Now RedHat wasn't the only distro affected by this exploit; this is truly an open-source security problem. Consumers will not latch onto Linux if it's this hard to keep secure. There are several items your community needs to address:
DO NOT post exploits to the general public; insist that securityfocus, bugtraq, and others only allow legitimate developers to view them. Exploits are the equivalent of guns and ammo, and there is a great need for background checks!
We need to express leadership in the open-source community to make the distros have secure default configurations, and automatically alert users of security problems, and allow them to choose to install patches. This could be integrated with policies at security sites.
Realize the useability and security go hand in hand, and consumers, in the long run, are going to support the OS that gives them the fewest headaches.
You might not care if all the "dumb" users go away, but you know what? Then your OS won't win, you will always be stuck in nerd obscurity, and MacOSX will be the #1 unix in the world.
I don't really read the Slashdot forums anymore because 90% of the time the post is written by someone with the mindset of a prepubescent asshole. However, this is to be expected and can't really be helped by the Slashdot owners.
However, I think the "stories" that Slashdot posts are awfully written. It is not "news" when CmdrTaco spews his acidic, wrong opinion all over a tidbit of stale information. Anyone who thinks this is actually journalism should put down the joystick for 5 minutes and read a real newspaper. Personally, I know I'll probably not visit Slashdot anymore, simply because the authors have revealed how low-class they are time and time again. I also don't respect the supposed philosophy of Slashdot, which essentially boils down to "I want that...gimme". You all think that everything should be free; well let me tell you something, free stuff usually sucks.
This community remains so negative about Apple, one of the few companies that is really doing something new with Unix, and whose new operating system I'm sure you will all admire and copy as closely as possible, just like everyone did when Apple's first idea of a GUI came out. Their OS isn't free because they actually have R&D to test useability, unlike Linux. In reality, you have to pay for art, and if someone's trying to give away something for free, it's either terrible or stolen.
Now obviously I'm an Apple user, and I read Slashdot; doesn't it seem like just maybe you guys should try to stop inspiring huge Apple bashes that drive viewers like me away? I could get all my news from Wired and BBC Science, real news sites that don't attach nasty, untrue inanities to scoops. I'm sure MacSlash would be happy for another set of eyes.
Essentially, what I'm asking for, once again, is an end to this OS war, at least on this forum. I think the Slashdot owners might possess enough restraint to not bash Apple repeatedly. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of being labeled an idiot because I pay for the privilege to use a powerful multimedia computer with an OS that is easy to install and maintain and has anti-aliased fonts. There are things Apple does that are wrong, but I don't think they deserve the kind of nasty reaction I've seen here, given all they've done that is right and that has truly revolutionized they way we use computers.
Well this topic is stale so no one will probably ever read or moderate this post, but I just wanted to register my disgust for the nasty nerd owners of Slashdot for the record.
Just out of curiosity, would these plasma personal shields and whatnot contribute to the risk of cancers? The studies about cellular technology have me kind of spooked. It seems like we get all gung ho about these kinds of gadgets without thinking about the health consequences, not to mention environmental impact.
I think it's great that a 3D version of Myst is coming out, because as others have pointed out, it will be one of the only non-violent first-person 3D games out there. Now I'm not a prude or squeamish, but as a female I can say that I honestly hate FPS games and I can imagine how young girls would be scared of computers just because their brothers and friends use them to inflict the most horrible kinds of violence on others.
When I was a kid I played Nintendo games like Super Mario Bros. and Zelda; the only things you killed were yucky monsters and you got to solve a lot of puzzles along the way. Gender-neutral games like Tetris or Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego were also a great joy to play for me. But when Myst came out, I spent many awestruck evenings playing that beautiful game on my Macintosh Quadra 605 with external 2X CD-ROM, and it certainly inspired me to want to create gorgeous, interesting worlds of my own. However, when I went to a modemer party where my nerd guy friends were shooting the hell out of each other in Doom, I felt completely alienated.
The Web was the killer app for me; I learned HTML on my own so that I could instantly communicate my art and poetry. Eventually I applied to Stanford so I could major in Computer Science. Admittedly, I'm not the best student, and sometimes I wonder how much more skilled I would be if someone had just shown me how to program BASIC or given me a computer before high school. Games like Myst really were my only exposure to computing, and I aspire to coding artful games myself someday. You say you want a game that isn't linear? Hire a chick to design one.
I just completed a final project on Napster Ethics and Legality, and we have a guestbook where you can voice your opinion about it. So far mainly pro-Napster people have posted, so I would appreciate any anti-Napster positions for contrast. Also, any ideas on what the future holds for online music would be interesting. Thanks for your time!
I just finished a group final for a Stanford class called Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility, and our project focused on the ethical issues surrounding Napster. We cloned the Napster design for our ethics website, which is apparently allowable under Napster's Terms of Use agreement, as long as we don't mock them or cause brand confusion. Anyway, if any of you have a particularly strong opinion about Napster, MP3s, the RIAA, or artists' and listeners' rights, please consider posting it on our Outside Opinions page. Thanks a lot!
There is an article on Low End Mac about how Slashdot is prejudiced against Apple news. Don't you all think that it's time for this religious war to end, now that Mac OS X is a flavor of Unix? Both camps have a lot to learn from each other. We should rally together to topple Windows domination.
Just to clear up some confusion, here is a diagram of the relationship between Darwin, Quartz, Cocoa, and Aqua layers. Also, here is a link to Apple's MacOSX theater, which has Quicktime movies of the interface in action. I recommend reviewing these before you critique Aqua based on screenshoots. For example, the problem with the stoplight widgets, not having icons to indicate what they do, is actually bogus, because when you approach them with the cursor they are overlayed with x, -, and + to indicate Close, Minimize, and Maximize.
I would like to point out that the MacOSX articles refer to the DP3 version of Aqua, not the current one. In addition, the critique of the Quicktime Player is of the 4.0 version, not the new MacOSX Quicktime interface, which addressed most if not all of the problems brought up in the critique.
I've also heard the theory that the Moon attracts projectiles that would otherwise hit the Earth. Therefore, our satellite may have prevented major catastrophes which could have retarded the development of life.
The cogent emaster 110 card is definitely listed as being tulip compliant and RedHat compliant on the first tier. The card worked just fine under Windows 95. I have no doubt that this is definitely a tulip bug. I've been told to email the tulip/redhat people to report it. The main thing is that I did RTFM and the manual was just wrong, and this is not tolerable in an open source project.
Recently I set out to finally install RedHat. However, I could not get the Cogent eMaster 110 tx nic to work. The installer correctly identified it as tulip compliant, but something was wrong with autosensing between 10 and 100. I read the relevant ethernet howtos, but there was no clue. Then I discovered the tulip driver page with a grid of options to try, but none worked. Finally, I found posts on tux.org and beowulf.org from people who were having the same problem, but there weren't any follow-up posts from the Linux community. I tried asking for some advice on #linuxhelp and #redhat, but people mostly ignored me. This is the crux of the problem; how does the Linux community expect their OS to be widely adopted by consumers when hardware drivers are still so buggy, no one will help you diagnose or solve the problem even when you say pretty-please, and you're forced to buy a new nic out of desperation? I'm a reasonably skilled computer nerd, so I didn't panic when the install repeatedly didn't work. However, I can easily imagine a less skilled person encountering this aggravating problem and just giving up. It's time for the Linux community to stop ignoring and antagonizing potential "newbies" or else your OS will fade into sysadmin oblivion once again.
As mentioned, MacOS has had themes capability for a few years, and before that you could use Kaleidascope (ugly!). The reason MacOS only comes with one theme, Platinum, is because Jobs supposedly didn't like visual inconsistancies with apps that weren't theme-ready, so the other themes (which, by the way, have awesome 3d sound effects) were cut. By inconsistancies, I mean things like funky menus that assume silver-gray is the background color and hard-code it in or whatever, so the edges are all messed up. You can find the other themes like Gizmo on the internet or from people who have the dev versions of MacOS.
Go ahead and moderate this down. I just need to rant at the cluelessness of Slashdotters who think that all Mac users are idiots. For your information, there do exist many Mac Powerusers who know how to fully utilize the OS. In addition, it is laughable how little knowledge of MacOS many of you so-called sophisticated computer users actually possess. Maybe you should actually spend a few minutes investigating the control panels to find out what capabilities the OS really has instead of spouting out like ignorant fools.
I think it probably depends on the context. I mean, sure, you don't want to mess up playing Bach or any recital type piece. But when it comes to improv, a note that isn't "right" can be reintegrated into the melody in an interesting way, increasing the creativity of the performance. Of course, if you really screw up, well you've just ruined it. But maybe you've learned how not to go too far, and future performances will benefit from the lesson.
Everyone seems to agree that a computer program can't really simulate human performances (right now). This is why. A computer can't make mistakes, so it can't recover and learn from them like a human. If you listen to musical geniuses doing improv, they take risks that the garden-variety ones don't. They don't try to play the piece "perfectly" or within bounds, because that would be boring. It's not a matter of randomization, either, but more of a meta-design issue since it all has to balance out.
> Which brings me back to my original point...since when does someone coming up with a new theory about a rock 30 gazillion miles away have ANYTHING at all to do with my fairly diverse nerd life?
Well I happen to be a nerd, and I, for one, am certainly interested in planetary science! In addition, a large organization of space nerds, The Planetary Society, has a big SETI@Home team and helped get the project funded, so planetary nerds can certainly perticipate in general computer nerd society!
Every so often I've stolen a glance at the night sphere, the celestial blanket of holes with a light outside, the enormous planck maelstrom dance which wraps around like mobius at the turn from infinity to infinitessimal. I've felt the gestalt memory of my time-independent self and ancestors experience the same cool night air and crickets, stretching our awareness out into the realm of the gods, reaching within to find the connection.
And then I read scientific establishment articles, with sterile descriptions of collisions, captures, explosions, all missing the forest for the trees, missing the dance for the step.
Oh well, guess we all have a different experience of reality. I would just refrain from actually believing any of the unintegrated, primitive theories they have thrown at us so far.
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I love sonic.net as well, and know the founders personally. This is a great ISP. I tried giving feedback to the FCC when I found out what they were going to do, but apparently to no avail. Hopefully people start taking their heads out of their @5535 and figure out that the government is completely riddled with corporate corruption exclusively working to further enslave us under their fascistic plan for propaganda-fueled struggles against "extremism" which are actually an assault on our freedom. Making the internet run through giant monopolistic corporate networks instead of smaller, more humble ISPs like Sonic certainly raises the specter of mass censorship. How long before the word "democracy" is filtered in the US?
I disagree; as Slashdot readers have noted, females are often good at communication, and I can't think of anything more useful than a well-designed API that truly serves the needs of the designers. I think the code design process as a whole could benefit greatly from more female programmers.
My impression of diamonds is that they are cold and hard and all too easy to lose. I don't even get a good vibe from them. I would much rather have a piece of jewelry that I actually like and feel comfortable with and wouldn't mind losing too much. That's why most of mine consists of "hippy jewelry" like wooden beads and turqoise and silver native american pieces.
The only true tradition I care about is that of a ring. I don't care what the decoration is; as long as beginning meets end symbolizing the eternity of love, it's the proper trinket.
"The success of the Palm Pilot can be traced, in my view, to the fact that it didn't strive for full hand-writing recognition (like, say, a Newton). Instead, it required the human to meet it half-way. You get decent accuracy/speed for a small investment in learning."
I think the downfall of the Newton was caused by something else (price, size, etc.) besides full hand-writing recognition. The Newton is very useable in that regard in particular; it recognizes anyone's handwriting. Having to learn anything to interact with a computer is a Bad Thing(tm). Writing more than a few letters of Graffiti is annoying, thus there exists Palm Desktop software and keyboards for the Palm. There is supposedly even some correlation between using Graffiti extensively and getting brain damage.
There are already compromises in voice communication, why promote them? Shouldn't the aim of research be to achieve perfect communication?
For some reason my GENESIS comment was posted as AC. I am the author.
I would like to commend everyone who responded to my post in a very professional and helpful way. Slashdot is at its best when people like you participate. Sorry if I seem like a troll; I would like to see the open-source community succeed, and I'm just pointing out what I perceive as deficiencies. You have all corrected my mistakes, such as forgetting about putting pressure on the software companies themselves. I'm glad that there is some sort of consensus about having secure installations, and I hope there is some sort of effort underway to do something in open-source that provides the functionality of the autorpm pay service from Redhat. Again, thanks for the interesting conversation.
While all of you are discussing the ideological and legal aspects of this, I think I would like to address the practical side.
Very few novice Redhat 6 users, myself included, actively monitor the security problems addressed at bugtraq or securityfocus, out of ignorance or lack of time. However, the Internet is crawling with 5kr1p+ k1dd135 who do, and they have preyed on our system. I do not appreciate the abstract, idealistic attitude of this community, the good-ol-boy mentality that if you aren't an expert administrator, you ought to be hacked by 14 year old malcontents. They used that goddamn wu_ftpd exploit on us and we had to reformat and waste another freaking day reinstalling and upgrading the only OS I've ever personally seen hacked.
Now RedHat wasn't the only distro affected by this exploit; this is truly an open-source security problem. Consumers will not latch onto Linux if it's this hard to keep secure. There are several items your community needs to address:
You might not care if all the "dumb" users go away, but you know what? Then your OS won't win, you will always be stuck in nerd obscurity, and MacOSX will be the #1 unix in the world.
I don't really read the Slashdot forums anymore because 90% of the time the post is written by someone with the mindset of a prepubescent asshole. However, this is to be expected and can't really be helped by the Slashdot owners.
However, I think the "stories" that Slashdot posts are awfully written. It is not "news" when CmdrTaco spews his acidic, wrong opinion all over a tidbit of stale information. Anyone who thinks this is actually journalism should put down the joystick for 5 minutes and read a real newspaper. Personally, I know I'll probably not visit Slashdot anymore, simply because the authors have revealed how low-class they are time and time again. I also don't respect the supposed philosophy of Slashdot, which essentially boils down to "I want that...gimme". You all think that everything should be free; well let me tell you something, free stuff usually sucks.
This community remains so negative about Apple, one of the few companies that is really doing something new with Unix, and whose new operating system I'm sure you will all admire and copy as closely as possible, just like everyone did when Apple's first idea of a GUI came out. Their OS isn't free because they actually have R&D to test useability, unlike Linux. In reality, you have to pay for art, and if someone's trying to give away something for free, it's either terrible or stolen.
Now obviously I'm an Apple user, and I read Slashdot; doesn't it seem like just maybe you guys should try to stop inspiring huge Apple bashes that drive viewers like me away? I could get all my news from Wired and BBC Science, real news sites that don't attach nasty, untrue inanities to scoops. I'm sure MacSlash would be happy for another set of eyes.
Essentially, what I'm asking for, once again, is an end to this OS war, at least on this forum. I think the Slashdot owners might possess enough restraint to not bash Apple repeatedly. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of being labeled an idiot because I pay for the privilege to use a powerful multimedia computer with an OS that is easy to install and maintain and has anti-aliased fonts. There are things Apple does that are wrong, but I don't think they deserve the kind of nasty reaction I've seen here, given all they've done that is right and that has truly revolutionized they way we use computers.
Well this topic is stale so no one will probably ever read or moderate this post, but I just wanted to register my disgust for the nasty nerd owners of Slashdot for the record.
Just out of curiosity, would these plasma personal shields and whatnot contribute to the risk of cancers? The studies about cellular technology have me kind of spooked. It seems like we get all gung ho about these kinds of gadgets without thinking about the health consequences, not to mention environmental impact.
When I was a kid I played Nintendo games like Super Mario Bros. and Zelda; the only things you killed were yucky monsters and you got to solve a lot of puzzles along the way. Gender-neutral games like Tetris or Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego were also a great joy to play for me. But when Myst came out, I spent many awestruck evenings playing that beautiful game on my Macintosh Quadra 605 with external 2X CD-ROM, and it certainly inspired me to want to create gorgeous, interesting worlds of my own. However, when I went to a modemer party where my nerd guy friends were shooting the hell out of each other in Doom, I felt completely alienated.
The Web was the killer app for me; I learned HTML on my own so that I could instantly communicate my art and poetry. Eventually I applied to Stanford so I could major in Computer Science. Admittedly, I'm not the best student, and sometimes I wonder how much more skilled I would be if someone had just shown me how to program BASIC or given me a computer before high school. Games like Myst really were my only exposure to computing, and I aspire to coding artful games myself someday. You say you want a game that isn't linear? Hire a chick to design one.
I just completed a final project on Napster Ethics and Legality, and we have a guestbook where you can voice your opinion about it. So far mainly pro-Napster people have posted, so I would appreciate any anti-Napster positions for contrast. Also, any ideas on what the future holds for online music would be interesting. Thanks for your time!
I just finished a group final for a Stanford class called Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility, and our project focused on the ethical issues surrounding Napster. We cloned the Napster design for our ethics website, which is apparently allowable under Napster's Terms of Use agreement, as long as we don't mock them or cause brand confusion. Anyway, if any of you have a particularly strong opinion about Napster, MP3s, the RIAA, or artists' and listeners' rights, please consider posting it on our Outside Opinions page. Thanks a lot!
There is an article on Low End Mac about how Slashdot is prejudiced against Apple news. Don't you all think that it's time for this religious war to end, now that Mac OS X is a flavor of Unix? Both camps have a lot to learn from each other. We should rally together to topple Windows domination.
Just to clear up some confusion, here is a diagram of the relationship between Darwin, Quartz, Cocoa, and Aqua layers. Also, here is a link to Apple's MacOSX theater, which has Quicktime movies of the interface in action. I recommend reviewing these before you critique Aqua based on screenshoots. For example, the problem with the stoplight widgets, not having icons to indicate what they do, is actually bogus, because when you approach them with the cursor they are overlayed with x, -, and + to indicate Close, Minimize, and Maximize.
I would like to point out that the MacOSX articles refer to the DP3 version of Aqua, not the current one. In addition, the critique of the Quicktime Player is of the 4.0 version, not the new MacOSX Quicktime interface, which addressed most if not all of the problems brought up in the critique.
I've also heard the theory that the Moon attracts projectiles that would otherwise hit the Earth. Therefore, our satellite may have prevented major catastrophes which could have retarded the development of life.
The cogent emaster 110 card is definitely listed as being tulip compliant and RedHat compliant on the first tier. The card worked just fine under Windows 95. I have no doubt that this is definitely a tulip bug. I've been told to email the tulip/redhat people to report it. The main thing is that I did RTFM and the manual was just wrong, and this is not tolerable in an open source project.
Recently I set out to finally install RedHat. However, I could not get the Cogent eMaster 110 tx nic to work. The installer correctly identified it as tulip compliant, but something was wrong with autosensing between 10 and 100. I read the relevant ethernet howtos, but there was no clue. Then I discovered the tulip driver page with a grid of options to try, but none worked. Finally, I found posts on tux.org and beowulf.org from people who were having the same problem, but there weren't any follow-up posts from the Linux community. I tried asking for some advice on #linuxhelp and #redhat, but people mostly ignored me. This is the crux of the problem; how does the Linux community expect their OS to be widely adopted by consumers when hardware drivers are still so buggy, no one will help you diagnose or solve the problem even when you say pretty-please, and you're forced to buy a new nic out of desperation? I'm a reasonably skilled computer nerd, so I didn't panic when the install repeatedly didn't work. However, I can easily imagine a less skilled person encountering this aggravating problem and just giving up. It's time for the Linux community to stop ignoring and antagonizing potential "newbies" or else your OS will fade into sysadmin oblivion once again.
As mentioned, MacOS has had themes capability for a few years, and before that you could use Kaleidascope (ugly!). The reason MacOS only comes with one theme, Platinum, is because Jobs supposedly didn't like visual inconsistancies with apps that weren't theme-ready, so the other themes (which, by the way, have awesome 3d sound effects) were cut. By inconsistancies, I mean things like funky menus that assume silver-gray is the background color and hard-code it in or whatever, so the edges are all messed up. You can find the other themes like Gizmo on the internet or from people who have the dev versions of MacOS.
Go ahead and moderate this down. I just need to rant at the cluelessness of Slashdotters who think that all Mac users are idiots. For your information, there do exist many Mac Powerusers who know how to fully utilize the OS. In addition, it is laughable how little knowledge of MacOS many of you so-called sophisticated computer users actually possess. Maybe you should actually spend a few minutes investigating the control panels to find out what capabilities the OS really has instead of spouting out like ignorant fools.
You know, I don't really like the idea of disposable technology...we already have enough litter lining the highways as it is.
I think it probably depends on the context. I mean, sure, you don't want to mess up playing Bach or any recital type piece. But when it comes to improv, a note that isn't "right" can be reintegrated into the melody in an interesting way, increasing the creativity of the performance. Of course, if you really screw up, well you've just ruined it. But maybe you've learned how not to go too far, and future performances will benefit from the lesson.
Everyone seems to agree that a computer program can't really simulate human performances (right now). This is why. A computer can't make mistakes, so it can't recover and learn from them like a human. If you listen to musical geniuses doing improv, they take risks that the garden-variety ones don't. They don't try to play the piece "perfectly" or within bounds, because that would be boring. It's not a matter of randomization, either, but more of a meta-design issue since it all has to balance out.
Well I happen to be a nerd, and I, for one, am certainly interested in planetary science! In addition, a large organization of space nerds, The Planetary Society, has a big SETI@Home team and helped get the project funded, so planetary nerds can certainly perticipate in general computer nerd society!
Every so often I've stolen a glance at the night sphere, the celestial blanket of holes with a light outside, the enormous planck maelstrom dance which wraps around like mobius at the turn from infinity to infinitessimal. I've felt the gestalt memory of my time-independent self and ancestors experience the same cool night air and crickets, stretching our awareness out into the realm of the gods, reaching within to find the connection.
And then I read scientific establishment articles, with sterile descriptions of collisions, captures, explosions, all missing the forest for the trees, missing the dance for the step.
Oh well, guess we all have a different experience of reality. I would just refrain from actually believing any of the unintegrated, primitive theories they have thrown at us so far.