"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
Nothing helps an author get sales like good reviews, word of mouth, etc.
If the authors want such finite control over who can and cannot read there books, and what people can and cannot say, we must simply ask permission.
If one person does it, they will think that person is sick. If ten people do it, they will believe those ten are insane. However, when enough people do it, and the author is no longer able able to communicate with their publishers, editors and lawyers, because they cannot even access their e-mail, they may begin to realize that their ignorance of the situation is what has crippled them, not the actions of these few people.
Picking a fight with their readers is the easiest way for them to find themselves out of a job. Then they can go back to having someone else tell them what they can and cannot do, and when they can and cannot do it.; which is something that they have worked very hard to not have to do. Then they will see that the freedoms that they wish to restrict for their readers will lead to a restriction in freedoms for themselves.
We will mourn their loss, and as Luddites, they will pass into history only their failures; their dreams forever removed from the common memory.
Others, who can understand and appreciate the subtle differences of today's world, will pick up those readers and gift them with many wonderful new feelings and ideas; visions of a more open world.
Demming's story in an interesting one, but unfortunately it has never been well understood here in the USA.
Here we seem to think that 'blame' and 'scapegoats' are the best tools. It is really a shame.
Poor economic science will destroy life on the planet faster than poor ecologic science.
It won't be an asteroid, virus or bomb that brings the apocalypse; more likely an error in someone's trading software.
In an over specialized world, where will the generalists come from?
Where will common sense have the opportunity to save us?
How to we teach 'grit?'
As a kid I went to Expo '67. I think that it was the Czechoslovakian pavilion featured an auditorium where the seats all had voting buttons, and a movie where the audience got to decide what happened next. We had a blast choosing our way through the interesting scenario. IMHO, IBM should have never been able to get this patent.
Start with some of the classics: Asimov (I Robot), Bradbury (The Illustrated Man, Martian Chronicles), Clarke (A Fall of Moondust) These stories are both good examples of sci-fi but also good examples of storytelling. In I Robot the Three Laws are a wonderful premise for stories that have spawned a wide following. In A Fall of Moondust a simple physical fact and its implications for human survival become captivating suspense. The early works of Heinline like The Past Through Tomorrow what technology does to our humanity. I'd suggest that you begin with shorter works and work towards one longer work, however Dune, or Stranger in a Strange Land are not good first semester works, nor would hard scifi like Forward. Nourse's The Universe Between, L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time are great for younger kids but probably too simplistic for High School. Explore where technology puts us into unusual situations and how those situations impact our humanity. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep - where do we draw the line of what is and isn't human?. Maybe throw a changeup with a book that really explores what it means to be alien like Brin's Uplift series (Startide Rising) or Cherryh's Chanur series (Chanur's Venture). Or some Gibson. Let the stories awaken their minds to new possibilities, after all that's what its all about.
Nielsen has software to participate in their web rating service which though all in java has never been ported to Linux. After a decade of explaining that I also use Linux and not being able to get any action on that front I gave up. If you really want to be a player in the ratings business you need to be where the people are who you want to follow, not changing your sample source to keep the relative value of your investment intact at the expense of being able to follow your demographic. Nielsen wake up! It's no longer the 1950's!
I'm not surprised that these 'Johnny-come-latelys' are having issues. M (Mumps) has had an integrated schemaless database for forty years now and has the tool chain to go with it. The language and the data structure are seamlessly integrated, a concept that was all but wiped out by the relational database movement of the 70's. It's a shame to see this emphasis on schemaless databases is so totally ignorant of both its prior history and the lessons that Mumps has to offer. Ignorance is bliss...
Apple really blew it when they didn't have a gift card for the app store. That little puppy could have made Apple millions. Steve, how could you have missed that one?
Mumps has been suffering a lot of disrespect over the years. Mainstream computing has largely turned away from mumps, but mumps continues as both an excellent language but also as the primary, well tested and proven alternative to relational databases. Unfortunately, for the better part of two generations, computer science has turned its back on anything that wasn't tied to relational databases. The immature alternatives that are just starting to look outside the limitations of the relational database are grabbing all the attention. Couple this with Microsodt's ignorance and arrogance and what have you got? Hype, but no substance.
I have always liked Ernie Ball Super Slinky, but about that time the Power Slinky came out. Now we know why they feel so good - no metaphysical contamination with bad vibes from Microsoft!;^)
Didn't Google Invent Click-Fraud? I thought they held the patent! When I see the Google adds they almost never take me to the website, but if I Google the site name I can usually find a url that gets me reasonibly close to where I was hesded in the first place.
If the bridge is designed to kill people then based on the 'chucknorrisfacts' it would be a good fit.
However I believe a bridge is more likely to link two environments whichg are both distinctly different and subtly similar, so I'd go with Béla Bartók.
Epicycles. I like that. Sort of like a Slashdot discussion. A stepwhise approximation that performs like the Mandlebrot set, either crashing to zero or running off into oblivion. That would make the Julia set the part of a Slashdot discussion that "appears to make sense" with respect to something else, until it too either crashes to zero or runs off into oblivion.
Yeah http://www.progarchives.com/ is good! So are http://www.gepr.net/ and http://www.gnosis2000.net/. And if you have your ten league boots on (and lots and lots of energy) try http://www.nearfest.com/. Rest up before the trip & plan a long recovery after. With two bands Friday at the Progressive Legends Showcase, and five (yes five) bands/artists both Saturday and Sunday it can really take a toll.
Pandora can get stuck in a rut when it doesn't understand why you listen to what you're listening to. I'm a big fan of Progressive Rock. Say you start with PFM's (Premiata Forneria Marconi) 'Celebration.' After a few songs it tends to pick some kind of Indy Rock. Progressive Rock may be grandiose, but that's what I like about it, that it continues to change during a piece of music. In essence it, by it's very nature seems to escape the definitions given to it. So I'm not sure that any of these engines will ever get that kind of music right. If I "Don't like' enough songs in a row it will go back for some classic prog, but if left alone it just keeps wandering away from it instead of leading me to new prog like Wobbler or Kenso.
I have a 13 pound laptop that does the job of a demo server. My the time I add an assortment of cables, power supply etc, it's too heavy to carry and ends up on a little wheeled cart. So I suggest that you ditch the laptop alltogether!
Last Summer we went east for a few days. Shortly before the trip I got an HP4700. Bluetooth, WiFi, email, web browser, well under a pound and can easily fit in a shirt pocket. 640x480 resolution, I stuck a 1GB SD and a 2 GB CF in it. Panera Bread, and Fudruckers offer free WiFi, to name a few. I also carry a Cingular 2125 with a 1 GB mini-sd. So I have a Bluetooth connect to Cingular's Edge network, a small browser for little things and their voice network. Personally I'd kill for a bike generator that had usb ports to supply power to all these portable devices.
Back in the day I used to get the nubies as my officemates. In three months I could convert a newly minted BS into a useful and productive coder. Rather than being critical or alarmed about their obvious lack of practical skills I made each project an adventure shrouded in mystery. Over time their abllity to show initiative and apply their budding skillsets would grow. Within a day they could navigate the general codebase. Within a week thet started their first solo projects and by the end of the three months they were prepared fotr taking call.
Moral of the story is the pairing will be what you make of it. If your goal is to be an elitist ass and run people off it is easy enouth to do, but in the end you're just hurting yourself.
Slashdot Mirror
Do the research! It is time to ditch the FED!
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." -- P. J. O'Rourke
Nothing helps an author get sales like good reviews, word of mouth, etc. If the authors want such finite control over who can and cannot read there books, and what people can and cannot say, we must simply ask permission. If one person does it, they will think that person is sick. If ten people do it, they will believe those ten are insane. However, when enough people do it, and the author is no longer able able to communicate with their publishers, editors and lawyers, because they cannot even access their e-mail, they may begin to realize that their ignorance of the situation is what has crippled them, not the actions of these few people. Picking a fight with their readers is the easiest way for them to find themselves out of a job. Then they can go back to having someone else tell them what they can and cannot do, and when they can and cannot do it.; which is something that they have worked very hard to not have to do. Then they will see that the freedoms that they wish to restrict for their readers will lead to a restriction in freedoms for themselves. We will mourn their loss, and as Luddites, they will pass into history only their failures; their dreams forever removed from the common memory. Others, who can understand and appreciate the subtle differences of today's world, will pick up those readers and gift them with many wonderful new feelings and ideas; visions of a more open world.
Demming's story in an interesting one, but unfortunately it has never been well understood here in the USA. Here we seem to think that 'blame' and 'scapegoats' are the best tools. It is really a shame.
Poor economic science will destroy life on the planet faster than poor ecologic science. It won't be an asteroid, virus or bomb that brings the apocalypse; more likely an error in someone's trading software. In an over specialized world, where will the generalists come from? Where will common sense have the opportunity to save us? How to we teach 'grit?'
Still available, although I believe they are made in Malaysia. The whole chip-set was not very expensive.
I'd like to see Watson go head to head with Google. Intelligent search agents will replace today's search engines.
As a kid I went to Expo '67. I think that it was the Czechoslovakian pavilion featured an auditorium where the seats all had voting buttons, and a movie where the audience got to decide what happened next. We had a blast choosing our way through the interesting scenario. IMHO, IBM should have never been able to get this patent.
Start with some of the classics: Asimov (I Robot), Bradbury (The Illustrated Man, Martian Chronicles), Clarke (A Fall of Moondust) These stories are both good examples of sci-fi but also good examples of storytelling. In I Robot the Three Laws are a wonderful premise for stories that have spawned a wide following. In A Fall of Moondust a simple physical fact and its implications for human survival become captivating suspense. The early works of Heinline like The Past Through Tomorrow what technology does to our humanity. I'd suggest that you begin with shorter works and work towards one longer work, however Dune, or Stranger in a Strange Land are not good first semester works, nor would hard scifi like Forward. Nourse's The Universe Between, L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time are great for younger kids but probably too simplistic for High School. Explore where technology puts us into unusual situations and how those situations impact our humanity. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep - where do we draw the line of what is and isn't human?. Maybe throw a changeup with a book that really explores what it means to be alien like Brin's Uplift series (Startide Rising) or Cherryh's Chanur series (Chanur's Venture). Or some Gibson. Let the stories awaken their minds to new possibilities, after all that's what its all about.
Nielsen has software to participate in their web rating service which though all in java has never been ported to Linux. After a decade of explaining that I also use Linux and not being able to get any action on that front I gave up. If you really want to be a player in the ratings business you need to be where the people are who you want to follow, not changing your sample source to keep the relative value of your investment intact at the expense of being able to follow your demographic. Nielsen wake up! It's no longer the 1950's!
I'm not surprised that these 'Johnny-come-latelys' are having issues. M (Mumps) has had an integrated schemaless database for forty years now and has the tool chain to go with it. The language and the data structure are seamlessly integrated, a concept that was all but wiped out by the relational database movement of the 70's. It's a shame to see this emphasis on schemaless databases is so totally ignorant of both its prior history and the lessons that Mumps has to offer. Ignorance is bliss...
Wonderful. Now if that could be made clear to all the parents, friends & kids of iPhone owners I wouldn't be hounded by them. ;^)
Apple really blew it when they didn't have a gift card for the app store. That little puppy could have made Apple millions. Steve, how could you have missed that one?
Mumps has been suffering a lot of disrespect over the years. Mainstream computing has largely turned away from mumps, but mumps continues as both an excellent language but also as the primary, well tested and proven alternative to relational databases. Unfortunately, for the better part of two generations, computer science has turned its back on anything that wasn't tied to relational databases. The immature alternatives that are just starting to look outside the limitations of the relational database are grabbing all the attention. Couple this with Microsodt's ignorance and arrogance and what have you got? Hype, but no substance.
I have always liked Ernie Ball Super Slinky, but about that time the Power Slinky came out. Now we know why they feel so good - no metaphysical contamination with bad vibes from Microsoft! ;^)
Didn't Google Invent Click-Fraud? I thought they held the patent! When I see the Google adds they almost never take me to the website, but if I Google the site name I can usually find a url that gets me reasonibly close to where I was hesded in the first place.
However I believe a bridge is more likely to link two environments whichg are both distinctly different and subtly similar, so I'd go with Béla Bartók.
There are a lot of others that can be found at http://www.webenetics.com/hungary/.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOFH
Maybe we'll discover that there was something useful here after all.
Epicycles. I like that. Sort of like a Slashdot discussion. A stepwhise approximation that performs like the Mandlebrot set, either crashing to zero or running off into oblivion. That would make the Julia set the part of a Slashdot discussion that "appears to make sense" with respect to something else, until it too either crashes to zero or runs off into oblivion.
Yeah http://www.progarchives.com/ is good! So are http://www.gepr.net/ and http://www.gnosis2000.net/. And if you have your ten league boots on (and lots and lots of energy) try http://www.nearfest.com/. Rest up before the trip & plan a long recovery after. With two bands Friday at the Progressive Legends Showcase, and five (yes five) bands/artists both Saturday and Sunday it can really take a toll.
Pandora can get stuck in a rut when it doesn't understand why you listen to what you're listening to. I'm a big fan of Progressive Rock. Say you start with PFM's (Premiata Forneria Marconi) 'Celebration.' After a few songs it tends to pick some kind of Indy Rock. Progressive Rock may be grandiose, but that's what I like about it, that it continues to change during a piece of music. In essence it, by it's very nature seems to escape the definitions given to it. So I'm not sure that any of these engines will ever get that kind of music right. If I "Don't like' enough songs in a row it will go back for some classic prog, but if left alone it just keeps wandering away from it instead of leading me to new prog like Wobbler or Kenso.
The Giant Claw: (Mitch MacAfee) "atomic spitballs"
Kronos: (Dr. Leslie Gaskell) "the scientific boner of the century"
Last Summer we went east for a few days. Shortly before the trip I got an HP4700. Bluetooth, WiFi, email, web browser, well under a pound and can easily fit in a shirt pocket. 640x480 resolution, I stuck a 1GB SD and a 2 GB CF in it. Panera Bread, and Fudruckers offer free WiFi, to name a few. I also carry a Cingular 2125 with a 1 GB mini-sd. So I have a Bluetooth connect to Cingular's Edge network, a small browser for little things and their voice network. Personally I'd kill for a bike generator that had usb ports to supply power to all these portable devices.
Moral of the story is the pairing will be what you make of it. If your goal is to be an elitist ass and run people off it is easy enouth to do, but in the end you're just hurting yourself.