Free market means that you're free to enter the market and try your skill or luck.
Free Software means something similar. You are free to get involved with large software projects without the intervention of a big company dictating its demands.
As we've seen with with the many lawsuits that have gained Slashdot's attention so far, making any technology that allows you to use (dvd player for linux) or copy (mp3.com, napster) the proprietary material of another company puts you in line for a lawsuit. It doesn't mean that you will lose the lawsuit.
The entrepreneurs behind this new product need to have their lawyers getting ready now, if they want to win the right to sell this product. It's a shame that selling it successfully is a side issue these days.
The problem with what you said is that sometimes a power relationship exists that won't let you do that.
If you're a lowly junior developer, and your boss's boss's boss walks in and suggests that you re-code your perl text-processing program into java and xml, because the other department is doing that, you can't ask him to write that up in a detailed way.
Is there anything wrong with this? Take someone who studies martial arts. A big part of that is to increase your own scripts for self defense. To be able to defend and counterattack with learned techniques without thinking. This is the entire point and there's nothing wrong with it.
I guess If i get into a violent situation, i can hold my hands in the air in front of me, and wiggle my thumbs up and down.
It's not that hard to create summary report scripts that gather the information from your "matrix-like" mail info screen and put it into human readable form.
Personally I don't think it makes sense for ISPs to do it, because, regardless of the amount of money they are paid, even the most ignorant customers will be -very- upset if they find out. I work tech support at an ISP, and I can tell you, these people get pissed over much smaller things than that.
That sounds fine, but in large companies, the people who make decisions about marking approaches don't care about the feedback they get from customers. If they did, there would be no telemarketers.
I think you're mixing up some technical issues here.
The problem of saving data in electronic form is more of a hardware issue, not software. XML, HTML, SGML, ASCII are useless if your 5.25" disk is saved in commodore 64 format, and 10 years old to boot.
the magnetic media can wear out easily. the equipment to read the disk may be unavailable. that's why saving data electronically is so much trouble.
The computers in the Matrix may just prefer the warm, stable taste of a human, as opposed to greasy, hot petroleum.
We humans eat cows, even though it takes more energy to feed them than we get. The reason is that we consider more issues than pure energy-efficiency to when we acquire nutrition.
Brave New World did happen. The only difference is the naming.
Soma= prozac, ritalin, and all the illegal drugs
Alphas, betas, etc are replaced by social classes that are supposedly "temporary" because they're monetary.
And people are told to hold themselves back by virtues of a label. lookat ADD, ADHD, SAD, ARPD, any extreme or unusual personality characteristic is viewed as a mental disorder.
At some point, the constitution will fade away to the point that it can't be recovered, but it's been copied so man times, it would be very difficult to truly remove it from the culture.
That's because the constitution is a meme, an idea that floats through a civilization as though it were alive, like Shakespeare or the Bible.
Document preservation is for those documents that don't get so much attention.
but in order to get the bad guys(TM), they must stomp on the rights of regular citizens. They don't see another way to deal with it, and trampling the rights of common citizens seems a small price to pay for safety.
I think this is awful. In Colorado Springs, Colorado a local girl was suspended from school for 3 days for having a pocketknife in the first aid kit of her car.
What's even sadder is that I think she's being influenced by reactionaries-- she made the statement, "Sometimes innocent people have to suffer to prevent another Columbine"
I'm not a biologist, but I'm going to throw out a counter idea to what you're getting at.
You're saying that coal can't be from fossils because if the fossils decompose, they'd be unnoticeable, so you say that the coal is something else.
Have you every seen a petrified tree? it's really a rock shaped like a tree, if you get close. The tree is gone, but it existed long enough for minerals to seep into the location where the tree once was.
That's what a lot of fossils are. The original parts did decompose, but the stayed around long enough for something to make an impression.
I don't think static character relationships are good. the problem isn't that the relationships are dynamic. The problem happens when the writers stop making the relationships dynamic. Then the plot becomes annoying.
DS9 actually got better by the end.
Contrast that to voyager. Here's an example dialog.
Paris: Hey Harry (Kim), you plan on checking out those babes on rigel 4? Kim: (ignoring paris) I'm just going to relax on my shore leave. Belanna: Tom! I don't understand why you're just gabbing about babes like some silly adolescent when you were supposed to meet me in the mess hall. Tom: hey,pumpkin, it's just (lame excuse here) Tuvok on intercom: Ensign Kim, please report to the bridge.
on bridge-- Janeway: Mr. Tuvok informs me that you left a tricorder on the alien planet. that's a security violation and very close to violating the prime directive. You-- Tuvok: captain, I would caution you on your course of action. I've observed you over the years, and I know what you're going to do. you plan on reprimanding kim and sending him to quarters. Janeway: One of these days, I'm going to surprise you Tuvok, but not today. Move it, Kim.
Kim marches out, 7of9 walks in, sees kim and comments. 7of9: you seem distressed, ensign. kim ignores her goes out.
Chakote speaks to janeway in a hushed voice. Chakote:Don't you think you were a little hard on him? Janeway: He's an ensign. when he learns the ropes I can loosen them. (this of course ignores the fact that kim's been an ensign for 4 or more years)
There. now you don't have to watch 80% of the voyager shows, since you have that formula.
The problem with voyager is that they don't make the character relationships change unless there's some big deal, like paris and torres getting together.
You're correct in that the society foolishly creates the magic label of "teenagers" and then systematically strips them of priveledges without concern to ability, intelligence, or demonstrated maturity. That's one issue.
(you can sense the 'but' coming on...)
But, I'm more concerned about your overdependence on the single factor of IQ as a determination of one's usefulness. If you really are as intelligent as you say, you know that test with a bunch of funny pictures with rotational transformations generously applied can't really tell how well you deal with all situations.
So ease up on the brainiac bit. Otherwise it will cause some problems for you later (if it isn't now), I promise you.
It basically says that people get promoted until they can't perform the job anymore. then they stay there.
There's also the way people are hired. Most people hire you because they like you (or can tolerate you), and you can basically do the job. Being likeable is a different skill than being capable, but it gets rewarded very often in life.
I'm trying to understand your response. I think you're saying that it's okay to hear the computer if it has no style, but it's bad if the computer puts style into the piece because the students won't learn to be musical on their own.
Yes, this happens. if you go to some high school bands you'll find everyone in a section playing the same mistake because only 3 out of 10 kids can truly read the music and the rest copy what they hear their friends playing...
it's always going to be that way. The mature musicians are the ones that can listen to a performance and criticize it to decide on their own rendition.
To me, a computer generated performance sounds like an instrumentalist who plays in an overcliched manner at best.
A decent use of a performing tool like this might be for teaching.
Back in high school (many years ago) I used a computer to program difficult etudes (musical exercises) in to see how a technically perfect rendition would sound.
The computer helped with difficult rhythms or runs, but it had no concept of style. everything sounded "square".
Such a tool could now be used to play prewritten music in such a way that beginning and intermediate musicians have help "visualizing/aurealizing" pieces that are beyond the scope of their present capabilities.
From what you just said, it sounds like the class had appropriate curriculum for children gifted in the liberal arts, but not for one gifted in the sciences.
I'm sorry they didn't have the right fit for you, but their approach was appropriate for another branch of really smart people.
Perhaps educators reading this out there might want to note that there's a difference in the gift types that gets more noticeable as the kids get older.
Jungian psychology divides the brain onto four functions and basically says you can't do more than one (conciously) at a time. So you can't think logically on about a problem and interface with a socialite at the same time; you can't use your imagination and pay attention to what's going on externally at the same time.
Normally, you switch between these fast enough to not notice, but if you're really focused, then you might fee like you're being pulled out of something.
That and they (jungians) say that no one has a perfectly even brain, and it's actually not healthy to have evenly matched brain functions.
I think our society is based a lot on the freudian idea that you can change people. There's certainly a lot of work being done to do so.
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Here's what he means:
Free market means that you're free to enter the market and try your skill or luck.
Free Software means something similar. You are free to get involved with large software projects without the intervention of a big company dictating its demands.
As we've seen with with the many lawsuits that have gained Slashdot's attention so far, making any technology that allows you to use (dvd player for linux) or copy (mp3.com, napster) the proprietary material of another company puts you in line for a lawsuit. It doesn't mean that you will lose the lawsuit.
The entrepreneurs behind this new product need to have their lawyers getting ready now, if they want to win the right to sell this product. It's a shame that selling it successfully is a side issue these days.
The problem with what you said is that sometimes a power relationship exists that won't let you do that.
If you're a lowly junior developer, and your boss's boss's boss walks in and suggests that you re-code your perl text-processing program into java and xml, because the other department is doing that, you can't ask him to write that up in a detailed way.
Is there anything wrong with this? Take someone who studies martial arts. A big part of that is to increase your own scripts for self defense. To be able to defend and counterattack with learned techniques without thinking. This is the entire point and there's nothing wrong with it.
I guess If i get into a violent situation, i can hold my hands in the air in front of me, and wiggle my thumbs up and down.
Linus Torvalds is big enought that the computer magazines would say something, too.
It's not that hard to create summary report scripts that gather the information from your "matrix-like" mail info screen and put it into human readable form.
Personally I don't think it makes sense for ISPs to do it, because, regardless of the amount of money they are paid, even the most ignorant customers will be -very- upset if they find out. I work tech support at an ISP, and I can tell you, these people get pissed over much smaller things than that.
That sounds fine, but in large companies, the people who make decisions about marking approaches don't care about the feedback they get from customers. If they did, there would be no telemarketers.
I think you're mixing up some technical issues here.
The problem of saving data in electronic form is more of a hardware issue, not software. XML, HTML, SGML, ASCII are useless if your 5.25" disk is saved in commodore 64 format, and 10 years old to boot.
the magnetic media can wear out easily. the equipment to read the disk may be unavailable. that's why saving data electronically is so much trouble.
The computers in the Matrix may just prefer the warm, stable taste of a human, as opposed to greasy, hot petroleum.
We humans eat cows, even though it takes more energy to feed them than we get. The reason is that we consider more issues than pure energy-efficiency to when we acquire nutrition.
Brave New World did happen.
The only difference is the naming.
Soma= prozac, ritalin, and all the illegal drugs
Alphas, betas, etc are replaced by social classes that are supposedly "temporary" because they're monetary.
And people are told to hold themselves back by virtues of a label. lookat ADD, ADHD, SAD, ARPD, any extreme or unusual personality characteristic is viewed as a mental disorder.
How was it clear that Netscape would die from the beginning?
I don't know the story, can soeone please explain here.
At some point, the constitution will fade away to the point that it can't be recovered, but it's been copied so man times, it would be very difficult to truly remove it from the culture.
That's because the constitution is a meme, an idea that floats through a civilization as though it were alive, like Shakespeare or the Bible.
Document preservation is for those documents that don't get so much attention.
but in order to get the bad guys(TM), they must stomp on the rights of regular citizens. They don't see another way to deal with it, and trampling the rights of common citizens seems a small price to pay for safety.
I think this is awful. In Colorado Springs, Colorado a local girl was suspended from school for 3 days for having a pocketknife in the first aid kit of her car.
What's even sadder is that I think she's being influenced by reactionaries-- she made the statement, "Sometimes innocent people have to suffer to prevent another Columbine"
I'm not a biologist, but I'm going to throw out a
counter idea to what you're getting at.
You're saying that coal can't be from fossils because if the fossils decompose, they'd be unnoticeable, so you say that the coal is something else.
Have you every seen a petrified tree? it's really a rock shaped like a tree, if you get close. The tree is gone, but it existed long enough for minerals to seep into the location where the tree once was.
That's what a lot of fossils are. The original parts did decompose, but the stayed around long enough for something to make an impression.
I don't think static character relationships are good. the problem isn't that the relationships are dynamic. The problem happens when the writers stop making the relationships dynamic. Then the plot becomes annoying.
DS9 actually got better by the end.
Contrast that to voyager. Here's an example dialog.
Paris: Hey Harry (Kim), you plan on checking out those babes on rigel 4?
Kim: (ignoring paris) I'm just going to relax on my shore leave.
Belanna: Tom! I don't understand why you're just gabbing about babes like some silly adolescent when you were supposed to meet me in the mess hall.
Tom: hey,pumpkin, it's just (lame excuse here)
Tuvok on intercom: Ensign Kim, please report to the bridge.
on bridge--
Janeway: Mr. Tuvok informs me that you left a tricorder on the alien planet. that's a security violation and very close to violating the prime directive. You--
Tuvok: captain, I would caution you on your course of action. I've observed you over the years, and I know what you're going to do. you plan on reprimanding kim and sending him to quarters.
Janeway: One of these days, I'm going to surprise you Tuvok, but not today. Move it, Kim.
Kim marches out, 7of9 walks in, sees kim and comments.
7of9: you seem distressed, ensign.
kim ignores her goes out.
Chakote speaks to janeway in a hushed voice. Chakote:Don't you think you were a little hard on him?
Janeway: He's an ensign. when he learns the ropes I can loosen them.
(this of course ignores the fact that kim's been an ensign for 4 or more years)
There. now you don't have to watch 80% of the voyager shows, since you have that formula.
The problem with voyager is that they don't make the character relationships change unless there's some big deal, like paris and torres getting together.
You're correct in that the society foolishly creates the magic label of "teenagers" and then systematically strips them of priveledges without concern to ability, intelligence, or demonstrated maturity. That's one issue.
(you can sense the 'but' coming on...)
But,
I'm more concerned about your overdependence on the single factor of IQ as a determination of one's usefulness. If you really are as intelligent as you say, you know that test with a bunch of funny pictures with rotational transformations generously applied can't really tell how well you deal with all situations.
So ease up on the brainiac bit. Otherwise it will cause some problems for you later (if it isn't now), I promise you.
The creation of phbs is a natural social process, it's called The Peter Principle
It basically says that people get promoted until they can't perform the job anymore. then they stay there.
There's also the way people are hired. Most people hire you because they like you (or can tolerate you), and you can basically do the job. Being likeable is a different skill than being capable, but it gets rewarded very often in life.
I'm trying to understand your response. I think you're saying that it's okay to hear the computer if it has no style, but it's bad if the computer puts style into the piece because the students won't learn to be musical on their own.
Yes, this happens. if you go to some high school bands you'll find everyone in a section playing the same mistake because only 3 out of 10 kids can truly read the music and the rest copy what they hear their friends playing...
it's always going to be that way. The mature musicians are the ones that can listen to a performance and criticize it to decide on their own rendition.
To me, a computer generated performance sounds like an instrumentalist who plays in an overcliched manner at best.
A decent use of a performing tool like this
might be for teaching.
Back in high school (many years ago) I used a
computer to program difficult etudes (musical
exercises) in to see how a technically perfect
rendition would sound.
The computer helped with difficult rhythms or
runs, but it had no concept of style. everything
sounded "square".
Such a tool could now be used to play prewritten
music in such a way that beginning and intermediate
musicians have help "visualizing/aurealizing"
pieces that are beyond the scope of their present
capabilities.
There really is a spanish slashdot called Barrapunto.
I'm surprised that MS would let one of their
own people setup 10 dumb things... list. Just renaming it would have helped.
a basic rule of business is that when your customers get ticked off, they take their money elsewhere.
From what you just said, it sounds like the class
had appropriate curriculum for children gifted in
the liberal arts, but not for one gifted in the sciences.
I'm sorry they didn't have the right
fit for you, but their approach was appropriate
for another branch of really smart people.
Perhaps educators reading this out there might want to note that there's a difference in the gift types that gets more noticeable as the kids get older.
Could someone explain the key differences between
clustering and distributed file systems?
As far as I know, clustering combines cpu, while dfs combines disk space. I may be wrong, so please correct that assumption if I am.
Are there any other differences?
CLI = Command Line Interface
Jungian psychology divides the brain onto four
functions and basically says you can't do
more than one (conciously) at a time. So you can't think logically on about a problem and interface with a socialite at the same time; you
can't use your imagination and pay attention
to what's going on externally at the same time.
Normally, you switch between these fast enough to not notice, but if you're really focused, then
you might fee like you're being pulled out of something.
That and they (jungians) say that no one has a perfectly even brain, and it's actually not healthy to have evenly matched brain functions.
I think our society is based a lot on the freudian idea that you can change people. There's certainly a lot of work being done to do so.