Although most users think of DWIM as a single identifiable package, it embodies a pervasive philosophy of user interface design: at the user interface level, system facilties should make reasonable interpretations when given unrecognized input....the style of interface used throughout Interlisp allows the user to omit various parameters and have these default to reasonable values... DWIM is an embodiment of the idea that the user is interacting with an agent who attempts to interpret the user's request from contextual information. Since we want the user to feel that he is conversing with the system, he should not be stopped and forced to correct himself or give additional information in situations where the correction or information is obvious.
... airline pilots are not prone to flights of fancy - more of the "Show me State" type of folk.
F401 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 ] was an L1011 Jumbo jet that crashed into the everglades, killing all on board, due to mechanical failure + pilot error + design flaw - the pilots were fixing an indicator light, bumped the controls, moved the plan off of auto-pilot (without knowledge) and into a slow decent, over and into an area with no lights.
Later some AOK parts of the crashed plan became spare parts - cargo doors and such.
Later, crews on flights with those spare parts on their aircraft started reporting, at great risk to career, the sightings of members of the dead crew.
They told their chief pilot, he told other chief pilots, one of then told my (retired) father / pilot, he told me.
I don't care if the intermediaries believe the story. I do believe that they accurately retold what they were told. Old-School airline pilots, with enough years of experience to be trusted with a jets and 100s of people are a fact-based, safety-first, salt-of-the-earth lot.
A reporter/author heard the story and wrote the book "Ghost of Flight 401"
Awards Groklaw has been cited by the attorneys for several firms in law journal articles. It has also won awards:
* 2010 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2010 Pioneer Awards[7]
* 2009 - Top 200 Tech Blogs: The Datamation 2009 List "The famed Groklaw is still going strong, far past the SCO case that first brought the blog to prominence." [8]
* 2008 - The Award for Projects of Social Benefit - The Free Software Foundation (FSF)[9]
* 2007 - Knowledge Masters Award for Innovation - Knowledge Trust and the Louis Round Wilson Academy [10]
* 2007 - Best FUD Fighter - Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards[11]
* 2005 - Best News Site - ConsortiumInfo*.org - Pamela Jones/Groklaw: Best Community Site or Blog (Non-Profit)
* 2005 - Best Blogger of the Year - Dana Blankenhorn, Corante[12]
* 2004 - Best Website of 2004 - The Inquirer[13]
* 2004 - Best Independent Tech Blog - TechWeb Network: Readers Choice Award
* 2004 - Best Nontechnical or Community Website - Linux Journal: Editors' Choice Award
* 2003 - Best News Site - OSDir.com: Editor's Choice Winner
...well, having identified a new business opportunity, and being blessed with the brains to build software from scratch... or the ability to leverage F/OSS, you have a fantastic opportunity to go and emulate the OS too... Ka-Nock yourself out! Unless you still think you are entitled to have your own business w/ other people's hardware (commodity intel boxes), and other people's software (IBM in this case), for your (or your buddies) personal gain.......
Tell me, what exactly do you personally get out of all of this chit-chat, cuz, I sure can't believe that you are incompetent in your comprehension of Kindergarten level ethics....
Prove it. How about years of investment designed to meet the needs of very high volume and very high reliability... Reservations systems, banking systems (the one's with your account balance), telephone orders and equipment systems.... these are all $1M/minute for down time Bet-the-business systems that never quit, never fail, and do millions of transactions per day.
The serious people that run these shops know how to do cost/benefit analysis... they still use IBM equipment because it best meets their needs. Fur instance, while at Qwest, deploying changes to five sets of main frame applications for DSL service, I leaned about their GeoMax product - the DWDM fiber optic channel to connect two data centers, each with SysPlex mainframe clusters, for microsecond sync should the business have an outage of a full data center - spending millions per year "extra" to avoid $Ms/minute outages.
Yes, at my current bank client we are tied to COBOL code that would take way north of $500M to replace. So what. If we had - I dunno java (or maybe that fantastic London stock exchange.net code) we would still need the MF to process, with at least 5 9's reliability, the zillions of transactions per day of other people's money.
Give the potential risk of RF transmitters in contact with your noggin, and where bluetooth might help, but is really more of the same, could I please have a headset that talks to my phone via wireless optical? Please?........
Cellphones and Brain Tumors 15 Reasons for Concern www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/reasons_us.pdf
TOC 15 Reasons for Concern
Concern 1 Industry’s own research showed cellphones caused brain tumors Concern 2 Subsequent industry-funded research also showed that using a cellphone elevated the risk of brain tumors (2000-2002) Concern 3 Interphone studies, published to date, consistently show use of a cellphone for less than 10 years protects the user from a brain tumor Concern 4 Independent research shows there is risk of brain tumors from cellphone use Concern 5 Despite the systemic-protective-skewing of all results in the Interphone studies, significant risk for brain tumors from cellphone use was still found Concern 6 Studies independent of industry funding show what would be expected if wireless phones cause brain tumors Concern 7 The danger of brain tumors from cellphone use is highest in children, and the younger a child is when he/she starts using a cellphone, the higher the risk Concern 8 There have been numerous governmental warnings about children’s use of cellphones Concern 9 Exposure limits for cellphones are based only on the danger from heating Concern 10 An overwhelming majority of the European Parliament has voted for a set of changes based on “health concerns associated with electromagnetic fields Concern 11 Cellphone radiation damages DNA, an undisputed cause of cancer Concern 12 Cellphone radiation has been shown to cause the blood-brain barrier to leak Concern 13 Cellphone user manuals warn customers to keep the cellphone away from the body even when the cellphone is not in use Concern 14 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warning for cordless phones Concern 15 Male fertility is damaged by cellphone radiation
human culture, created by humans (music, art, pictures of mice) is all p0ned by corporations and their congress critters. google: corporate personhood. The congress critter you save may be your own.
Root cause analysis...or what is effective political action when we (mostly) are saddled with two factions of the Business Party.
To Quote from ReclaimDemocracy.org:
Our Bill of Rights was the result of tremendous efforts to institutionalize and protect the rights of human beings. It strengthened the premise of our Constitution: that the people are the root of all power and authority for government. This vision has made our Constitution and government a model emulated in many nations.
But corporate lawyers (acting as both attorneys and judges) subverted our Bill of Rights in the late 1800's by establishing the doctrine of "corporate personhood" -- the claim that corporations were intended to enjoy the legal status and protections created for human beings.
We believe that corporations are not persons and possess only the privileges we willfully grant them....
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-- Tom
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM
Quoting the quote:
Although most users think of DWIM as a single identifiable package, it embodies a pervasive philosophy of user interface design: at the user interface level, system facilties should make reasonable interpretations when given unrecognized input. ...the style of interface used throughout Interlisp allows the user to omit various parameters and have these default to reasonable values...
DWIM is an embodiment of the idea that the user is interacting with an agent who attempts to interpret the user's request from contextual information. Since we want the user to feel that he is conversing with the system, he should not be stopped and forced to correct himself or give additional information in situations where the correction or information is obvious.
Does the report notes that WE (Dick) did not require them in "our" waters, but they are used everywhere else....
And, what about today?
http://www.bellona.no/bellona.org/articles/articles_2010/BP_documents
Thanks, DICK.
(maybe some shrimpers would like to sue his ass?)
... airline pilots are not prone to flights of fancy - more of the "Show me State" type of folk.
F401 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 ] was an L1011 Jumbo jet that crashed into the everglades, killing all on board, due to mechanical failure + pilot error + design flaw - the pilots were fixing an indicator light, bumped the controls, moved the plan off of auto-pilot (without knowledge) and into a slow decent, over and into an area with no lights.
Later some AOK parts of the crashed plan became spare parts - cargo doors and such.
Later, crews on flights with those spare parts on their aircraft started reporting, at great risk to career, the sightings of members of the dead crew.
They told their chief pilot, he told other chief pilots, one of then told my (retired) father / pilot, he told me.
I don't care if the intermediaries believe the story. I do believe that they accurately retold what they were told. Old-School airline pilots, with enough years of experience to be trusted with a jets and 100s of people are a fact-based, safety-first, salt-of-the-earth lot.
A reporter/author heard the story and wrote the book "Ghost of Flight 401"
(now, could I please have some Karma? - thx)
From here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw#Awards
Awards
Groklaw has been cited by the attorneys for several firms in law journal articles. It has also won awards:
* 2010 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2010 Pioneer Awards[7]
* 2009 - Top 200 Tech Blogs: The Datamation 2009 List "The famed Groklaw is still going strong, far past the SCO case that first brought the blog to prominence." [8]
* 2008 - The Award for Projects of Social Benefit - The Free Software Foundation (FSF)[9]
* 2007 - Knowledge Masters Award for Innovation - Knowledge Trust and the Louis Round Wilson Academy [10]
* 2007 - Best FUD Fighter - Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards[11]
* 2005 - Best News Site - ConsortiumInfo*.org - Pamela Jones/Groklaw: Best Community Site or Blog (Non-Profit)
* 2005 - Best Blogger of the Year - Dana Blankenhorn, Corante[12]
* 2004 - Best Website of 2004 - The Inquirer[13]
* 2004 - Best Independent Tech Blog - TechWeb Network: Readers Choice Award
* 2004 - Best Nontechnical or Community Website - Linux Journal: Editors' Choice Award
* 2003 - Best News Site - OSDir.com: Editor's Choice Winner
If you don't understand the behavior, check the compensation plan.
What does the person or the people that are making these decision gain?
Censorship of the few (and uninvolved) for the good of the many.
just kill this story here, ok?
can you get the serial numbers?... ask the supporting vendor where they went to do the last fix?
Excuse me?
...well, having identified a new business opportunity, and being blessed with the brains to build software from scratch... or the ability to leverage F/OSS, you have a fantastic opportunity to go and emulate the OS too... Ka-Nock yourself out! Unless you still think you are entitled to have your own business w/ other people's hardware (commodity intel boxes), and other people's software (IBM in this case), for your (or your buddies) personal gain.......
Tell me, what exactly do you personally get out of all of this chit-chat, cuz, I sure can't believe that you are incompetent in your comprehension of Kindergarten level ethics....
Prove it.
How about years of investment designed to meet the needs of very high volume and very high reliability... Reservations systems, banking systems (the one's with your account balance), telephone orders and equipment systems.... these are all $1M/minute for down time Bet-the-business systems that never quit, never fail, and do millions of transactions per day.
The serious people that run these shops know how to do cost/benefit analysis... they still use IBM equipment because it best meets their needs. Fur instance, while at Qwest, deploying changes to five sets of main frame applications for DSL service, I leaned about their GeoMax product - the DWDM fiber optic channel to connect two data centers, each with SysPlex mainframe clusters, for microsecond sync should the business have an outage of a full data center - spending millions per year "extra" to avoid $Ms/minute outages.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/advantages/gdps/index.html
IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
Yes, at my current bank client we are tied to COBOL code that would take way north of $500M to replace. So what. If we had - I dunno java (or maybe that fantastic London stock exchange .net code) we would still need the MF to process, with at least 5 9's reliability, the zillions of transactions per day of other people's money.
... apparently so they could throw the list they ASKED for in IBM's face.
asdfasfdasdfasfd
like people. Oh, wait, CongressCritters&SenaToides may have once been people, but no more.
The two factions of the BusinessParty do come in flavors, Bad and Worse... but it does not matter so much.
Stop Corporate Personhood.
Please.
Give the potential risk of RF transmitters in contact with your noggin, and where bluetooth might help, but is really more of the same, could I please have a headset that talks to my phone via wireless optical? Please? ........
Cellphones and Brain Tumors 15 Reasons for Concern
www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/reasons_us.pdf
TOC
15 Reasons for Concern
Concern 1
Industry’s own research showed cellphones caused brain tumors
Concern 2
Subsequent industry-funded research also showed that using a cellphone elevated the risk of brain tumors (2000-2002)
Concern 3
Interphone studies, published to date, consistently show use of a cellphone for less than 10 years protects the user from a brain tumor
Concern 4
Independent research shows there is risk of brain tumors from cellphone use
Concern 5
Despite the systemic-protective-skewing of all results in the Interphone studies, significant risk for brain tumors from cellphone use was still found
Concern 6
Studies independent of industry funding show what would be expected if wireless phones cause brain tumors
Concern 7
The danger of brain tumors from cellphone use is highest in children, and the younger a child is when he/she starts using a cellphone, the higher the risk
Concern 8
There have been numerous governmental warnings about children’s use of cellphones
Concern 9
Exposure limits for cellphones are based only on the danger from heating
Concern 10
An overwhelming majority of the European Parliament has voted for a set of changes based on “health concerns associated with electromagnetic fields
Concern 11
Cellphone radiation damages DNA, an undisputed cause of cancer
Concern 12
Cellphone radiation has been shown to cause the blood-brain barrier to leak
Concern 13
Cellphone user manuals warn customers to keep the cellphone away from the body even when the cellphone is not in use
Concern 14
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warning for cordless phones
Concern 15
Male fertility is damaged by cellphone radiation
human culture, created by humans (music, art, pictures of mice) is all p0ned by corporations and their congress critters. google: corporate personhood. The congress critter you save may be your own.
Find a local action group, and Start.
A successful constitutional amendment is only about a 10 year effort!
-- Tom