MS's recent campagin of Total Cost Of Ownership does not factor well into this. They cite recent studies which heavily stress human maintenance and development costs into the TCO. Yet what they don't cite is the fact that as software popularity grows, such as Apache here, TCO is driven down because the technology is more accesible.
Basic technology such as web servers are on their way of being removed from the realm of competition. 2004 is promising.
While I like your analogy, it does not fit the situation entirely.
If I was in an area where there was a high amount of crime, and that I rely on keeping out crime by strengthening my apartment/home security; I would be glad if someone taught me a lesson in how my security failed. It would help prevent me from possible real attacks. (Not that I have much that anyone would want to steal anyway).
The Internet is analogous to a high crime environment. If you expose yourself in easy ways, then unwanted traffic could get in. In this example there are many people out there who have probably already broken into the Times. Lamo probably helped them out... sure with some bravado and cockiness, big deal.
The important thing here is martyrs. FBI will exaggerate the facts. Overnight, the media will make him more and more of a violent hacker overnight with exceptional powers.
I hope they don't start to pick on jaywalkers. I can see it now... Haphazard jaywalkers! Endangering their own lives and the lives of the street traffic! The cars brake so suddenly. This man, Joe Jaywalker, caused an accident. There was a child in one of those cars. The FBI is requesting street cameras--similar to the traffic light cameras that you have already grown used to having around--which will monitor for jaystalkers such as Joe here. But the only jaywalking Joe will be doing is across the driveway of his probation officer's house. Lady America, justice has served you yet again! Vote for Bush 2004.
He is a charasmatic hacker. He explains to companies their weaknesses. When he hacked WorldCom in 2001, WorldCom praised him for his efforts.
Apparantly it seems Times doesn't share the same affinity. Now FBI has him as a public menace and threat. I wonder what the talk would be if he was Islamic?
I'm beginning to think that all the FBI does these days is find martyrs, symbolic arrests to illustrate points of model citizen behavior. This is opposed to actually arresting people who do do a lot of damage. Another example, Sherman Austin from Raise the Fist.com, was subject to police raid, extended arrest, and jail sentencing because he posted information in a protest guide (that he didn't author) which contained a small link about explosives.
Too many martyrs. We need a calendar, the martyr-a-day celendar, to list the date when all the different people were arrested. Otherwise we'll lose track and just start accepting this.
Sure people know relativity... and the basic concept. And they have got the general point with the eclipse and the light, etc. And academics study it, and grab a further undersstanding. But the math. Who of that day had a good hold of Einsteins math? It was very idiosyncratic to him. Even to this day it is exceptionally challanging.
How many people understood calculus when it was new? How many people understand it now? These things take time... but soon the edge, as will Einstein, incorporate into the common.
Yeah, spelling is better when I type slower, or if Slashdot would add a spell check.
I guess had had delerious visions that some people who use theory actually want to pursue innovative thought, instead of trying to hide themselves in obscurity to feel l33+. Sigh.
Believe you me, I myself for one, not two, most definately do not not have problematics with academic systems, and most certainly wish to avoid passageway into the facilitation of with certainty defending "idiosyncratically entitized lexical units," or, to put it in other idiosyncratically entitized lexical units: jargon.
Good literary critisism, in an academic sense, is not concerned with publishing to a Disney audience. Or writing executive summaries. Sure, if the intention is to reach out to a larger audience, then yes, avoid more idiosyncratic words.
But in the example the author cites, he was at a meeting with literary people who try to push the limitis, go to the edge of thought. To go to the forefront, you must use specific words. The author probably felt, "Hey I don't understand the cutting edge. Instead of learning the jargon, I will attack the whole system."
Einstien could not have mathamatically argued relativity if he was required to us simple math for the average joe.
>> We engineers are frequently accused of speaking an alien language, of wrapping what we do in jargon and obscurity in order to preserve the technological priesthood.
I don't like where he went with this. The argument is that postmodernists speak with such obscurity, that they wrap themselves into an island. And that what they really say is just intellectual masturbation. Sure. Of course. Doctors, programmers, lawyers... all have this.
Personally, why not use words specific to the field? I don't think dumbing down should be encouraged. Learn the jargon, it doesn't take that long to do. Read a few theory books. Properly used, $0.50 words should not be labeled as 'jargon,' but simply as words to help facilitate communication into the edge of thought.
32-bit integer math: using a 32-bit integer loop counter and 32-bit integer operands, alternate among the four arithmetic functions while working through a loop from one to one billion. That is, calculate the following (while discarding any remainders)....
It also relies on the strength of the compiler, not just the strength of the language.
For some reason my parent of this topic was modded down as "Overrated." Oh well.
I think the point here thought is not to say that socialists like control and capitalists dislike control. Control is irrelevant to political bias.
I for one am a proponent of a modifed form of capitalism, which some may feel is socialism. I run a website called > CAPitALLism.org which--one of the goals--proposes a type of maximum wage reform. It is not a political party, but a super-structure of parties.
In this reform comes a type of freedom for environmentalists. Or whoever else is for humanist causes. It basically removes money from the realm of competition.
Control as socialist? capitalist? Who cares, as long as it, in this example, removes global warming and lets us breathe better. How many people die from cancer these days?
Well, if the courts take away my freedom to explore and let certain private curiosities run through their course in a video game, then I can always satisfy this curiosity out on the road in a Hummer. Splats sound better in real life anyway.
Note--a curious proposition to ameliorate the tensions of repressed religious fundamentalists: Give them pornography. Encourage masturbation. Make love not war.
Sigh. Too many facists. What is it that is fostering so many 'righteosuly moral' police and legislation these days?
No MS Conspiracies here. David Byrne has long been obsessed with marketing as artictic medium. A favorite recent piece that I love is called Your Action World.
Released as a book, circulating initially in galleries, it opens with colors of famous companies--green, Beneton; orange/purple, FedEx. Then drugs, cities, outerspace, palm tree dreams, and insanity. Then metaphors of weapons coiled like DNA, burning in fire, flying in clouds. These designs were build as advertisments, complete with a pictures of the guns displayed on signs and billboards with confused tourist types staring at them, trying to figure out What's Going On? There are colors between the lines of a legal disclaimer medly. Pictures of actual company design. Music goes with the book. You can listen along to stock photos of corporate phots, beginning: "So let's get's started... let me start with one major warning. There is no need to put any limit limit on what is possible."
No MS conspiracies. But damn funny and insidious as usual. Must check out the new PowerPoint is Evil. Now. I guess I've been sold on the idea;)
I don't think America worried about this as much, as there was always more land, more space, more suburban sprawl. In European areas where land has turned more of a scarcity, then we see this interesting phenonom as a solution. Perhaps the same principals will be applied to more congested American cities too. It seems a good, bottom-up approach: re-routing traffic light signals and road development based upon environmental feedback.
"If someone rummages through all your stuff, nothing's taken, but they find out information about you, (yet) you can't show actual damages.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a noise? Did some one ever come up with an answer to that age old parabole? If not, I don't think the Supreme Court any time soon will wrap its hands around an ancient Zen koan.
So your name, address and telephone number are facts that cannot be copyrighted? No one can copyright the telephone book?
Truth is relative. We all know this. In this specific legal context, facts are the things defined outside of self, by an established authority, usually government or corporate. The name of a street is a fact, because it is named by government zoning committees. A phone number is a fact because Bell says so.
What we need is ART and imagination to illustrate how what we believe to be facts are not facts. How facts are internal imaginative motions crystallized into The Other.
A call to ART that mixes and redefines telephone numbers, streets, names, numbers, vital statistics. Replace one fact with another to show its arbitrariness--perhaps define your web domain name as your personal ultimate fact. Or network with others to create a new authority which renames all street names by some agreed upon code... and then send mail to that code and not the law's (even rejection will be interesting as it swells in numbers)
Creative juices are flowing. And so on. Show these fascists that life isn't so binary.
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MS's recent campagin of Total Cost Of Ownership does not factor well into this. They cite recent studies which heavily stress human maintenance and development costs into the TCO. Yet what they don't cite is the fact that as software popularity grows, such as Apache here, TCO is driven down because the technology is more accesible.
Basic technology such as web servers are on their way of being removed from the realm of competition. 2004 is promising.
Well, in the meantime, the US Government is getting a large email list. Can anyone guess how it will first be used? Elections? Non-Profit group?
While I like your analogy, it does not fit the situation entirely.
If I was in an area where there was a high amount of crime, and that I rely on keeping out crime by strengthening my apartment/home security; I would be glad if someone taught me a lesson in how my security failed. It would help prevent me from possible real attacks. (Not that I have much that anyone would want to steal anyway).
The Internet is analogous to a high crime environment. If you expose yourself in easy ways, then unwanted traffic could get in. In this example there are many people out there who have probably already broken into the Times. Lamo probably helped them out... sure with some bravado and cockiness, big deal.
The important thing here is martyrs. FBI will exaggerate the facts. Overnight, the media will make him more and more of a violent hacker overnight with exceptional powers.
I hope they don't start to pick on jaywalkers. I can see it now... Haphazard jaywalkers! Endangering their own lives and the lives of the street traffic! The cars brake so suddenly. This man, Joe Jaywalker, caused an accident. There was a child in one of those cars. The FBI is requesting street cameras--similar to the traffic light cameras that you have already grown used to having around--which will monitor for jaystalkers such as Joe here. But the only jaywalking Joe will be doing is across the driveway of his probation officer's house. Lady America, justice has served you yet again! Vote for Bush 2004.
He is a charasmatic hacker. He explains to companies their weaknesses. When he hacked WorldCom in 2001, WorldCom praised him for his efforts.
Apparantly it seems Times doesn't share the same affinity. Now FBI has him as a public menace and threat. I wonder what the talk would be if he was Islamic?
I'm beginning to think that all the FBI does these days is find martyrs, symbolic arrests to illustrate points of model citizen behavior. This is opposed to actually arresting people who do do a lot of damage. Another example, Sherman Austin from Raise the Fist.com, was subject to police raid, extended arrest, and jail sentencing because he posted information in a protest guide (that he didn't author) which contained a small link about explosives.
Too many martyrs. We need a calendar, the martyr-a-day celendar, to list the date when all the different people were arrested. Otherwise we'll lose track and just start accepting this.
Einstein? General audience?
Sure people know relativity... and the basic concept. And they have got the general point with the eclipse and the light, etc. And academics study it, and grab a further undersstanding. But the math. Who of that day had a good hold of Einsteins math? It was very idiosyncratic to him. Even to this day it is exceptionally challanging.
How many people understood calculus when it was new? How many people understand it now? These things take time... but soon the edge, as will Einstein, incorporate into the common.
Yeah, spelling is better when I type slower, or if Slashdot would add a spell check.
Alas, you're right.
I guess had had delerious visions that some people who use theory actually want to pursue innovative thought, instead of trying to hide themselves in obscurity to feel l33+. Sigh.
Believe you me, I myself for one, not two, most definately do not not have problematics with academic systems, and most certainly wish to avoid passageway into the facilitation of with certainty defending "idiosyncratically entitized lexical units," or, to put it in other idiosyncratically entitized lexical units: jargon.
Good literary critisism, in an academic sense, is not concerned with publishing to a Disney audience. Or writing executive summaries. Sure, if the intention is to reach out to a larger audience, then yes, avoid more idiosyncratic words.
But in the example the author cites, he was at a meeting with literary people who try to push the limitis, go to the edge of thought. To go to the forefront, you must use specific words. The author probably felt, "Hey I don't understand the cutting edge. Instead of learning the jargon, I will attack the whole system."
Einstien could not have mathamatically argued relativity if he was required to us simple math for the average joe.
>> We engineers are frequently accused of speaking an alien language, of wrapping what we do in jargon and obscurity in order to preserve the technological priesthood.
I don't like where he went with this. The argument is that postmodernists speak with such obscurity, that they wrap themselves into an island. And that what they really say is just intellectual masturbation. Sure. Of course. Doctors, programmers, lawyers... all have this.
Personally, why not use words specific to the field? I don't think dumbing down should be encouraged. Learn the jargon, it doesn't take that long to do. Read a few theory books. Properly used, $0.50 words should not be labeled as 'jargon,' but simply as words to help facilitate communication into the edge of thought.
Not sure of the accuracy. Benchmark is on a loop:
32-bit integer math: using a 32-bit integer loop counter and 32-bit integer operands, alternate among the four arithmetic functions while working through a loop from one to one billion. That is, calculate the following (while discarding any remainders)....
It also relies on the strength of the compiler, not just the strength of the language.
For some reason my parent of this topic was modded down as "Overrated." Oh well.
I think the point here thought is not to say that socialists like control and capitalists dislike control. Control is irrelevant to political bias.
I for one am a proponent of a modifed form of capitalism, which some may feel is socialism. I run a website called > CAPitALLism.org which--one of the goals--proposes a type of maximum wage reform. It is not a political party, but a super-structure of parties.
In this reform comes a type of freedom for environmentalists. Or whoever else is for humanist causes. It basically removes money from the realm of competition.
Control as socialist? capitalist? Who cares, as long as it, in this example, removes global warming and lets us breathe better. How many people die from cancer these days?
To change the global warming situation, you must first change the political-economic system. Otherwise fat cats who have air conditioning do not care.
Not "fucking with people" is a lousy lesson, and violates basic Social Contract aggreements which mark the United States' foundation.
To not fuck with people implies a revoke of women's suffrage and apartheid-like systems.
Remember the Spirit of 1776. And 1967! Any of the good years actually. 1517. 1888. 2004!
Well, if the courts take away my freedom to explore and let certain private curiosities run through their course in a video game, then I can always satisfy this curiosity out on the road in a Hummer. Splats sound better in real life anyway.
Note--a curious proposition to ameliorate the tensions of repressed religious fundamentalists: Give them pornography. Encourage masturbation. Make love not war.
Sigh. Too many facists. What is it that is fostering so many 'righteosuly moral' police and legislation these days?
No MS Conspiracies here. David Byrne has long been obsessed with marketing as artictic medium. A favorite recent piece that I love is called Your Action World. Released as a book, circulating initially in galleries, it opens with colors of famous companies--green, Beneton; orange/purple, FedEx. Then drugs, cities, outerspace, palm tree dreams, and insanity. Then metaphors of weapons coiled like DNA, burning in fire, flying in clouds. These designs were build as advertisments, complete with a pictures of the guns displayed on signs and billboards with confused tourist types staring at them, trying to figure out What's Going On? There are colors between the lines of a legal disclaimer medly. Pictures of actual company design. Music goes with the book. You can listen along to stock photos of corporate phots, beginning: "So let's get's started... let me start with one major warning. There is no need to put any limit limit on what is possible." No MS conspiracies. But damn funny and insidious as usual. Must check out the new PowerPoint is Evil. Now. I guess I've been sold on the idea ;)
I don't think America worried about this as much, as there was always more land, more space, more suburban sprawl. In European areas where land has turned more of a scarcity, then we see this interesting phenonom as a solution. Perhaps the same principals will be applied to more congested American cities too. It seems a good, bottom-up approach: re-routing traffic light signals and road development based upon environmental feedback.
"If someone rummages through all your stuff, nothing's taken, but they find out information about you, (yet) you can't show actual damages.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a noise? Did some one ever come up with an answer to that age old parabole? If not, I don't think the Supreme Court any time soon will wrap its hands around an ancient Zen koan.
Russian Ark was a one shot movie... and many others, spannign 300 years. But still too short?
Physics should be a lifelong process.
And... if not... I mean, how much can someone soak up in one sitting?
Longer films required... Warhol meets professor meets Cage meets the horizongal spread of a red oak tree, and all its thousand year circles.
Physics should be a lifelong process. That's my mantra and I'm sticking to it.
As an experiment in thought or action....
So your name, address and telephone number are facts that cannot be copyrighted? No one can copyright the telephone book?
Truth is relative. We all know this. In this specific legal context, facts are the things defined outside of self, by an established authority, usually government or corporate. The name of a street is a fact, because it is named by government zoning committees. A phone number is a fact because Bell says so.
What we need is ART and imagination to illustrate how what we believe to be facts are not facts. How facts are internal imaginative motions crystallized into The Other.
A call to ART that mixes and redefines telephone numbers, streets, names, numbers, vital statistics. Replace one fact with another to show its arbitrariness--perhaps define your web domain name as your personal ultimate fact. Or network with others to create a new authority which renames all street names by some agreed upon code... and then send mail to that code and not the law's (even rejection will be interesting as it swells in numbers)
Creative juices are flowing. And so on. Show these fascists that life isn't so binary.
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