I am all for good enhancements of all kinds especially mental enhancements with no or little side effect like Provigil. It is about time we got over the War on Some Drugs and the paternalistic feds telling people what they can and can't put in their bodies. If I can effectively work better and smarter for extended periods I can be way more productive and build more cool things in less time. What is not to like?
Not the other way around. In the US We The People are supposed to be served by the government that We The People have oversight and control of directily and through our representatives. Increasing the Executive works without even Congressional oversight and the Judicial becomes its tool in doing whatever it wishes including blatantly flaunting the law instead of being a check upon its power. This administration especially has played fast and loose with the law and been much more closed about its activities. If it deigns to give any excuse at all to We The People it hides behind a mutter of "National Security" or "War on Terror". Now we have the Attorney General claiming that what information that does leek out to the purported masters of the government, the People, is illegal and that all concerned including reporters will be prosecuted for telling us what is actually going on. This is utterly contemptible and outrageous. It will not stand!
It is a claim that we did not deserve to know that our government is illegally spying on us, a claim that we did not deserve to know that our government is using torture by sending detainees overseas for that purpose. If We The People and our representatives do not know what our purported servant is up to then how are we to exercise our authority? How are we to keep government power, especially Executive, from growing unchecked and destorying us?
Screw these idiots. The internet is our extended mind. The State has no right to our every thought with intent to criminalize everything it doesn't like. Encrypt everything and fire this pack of unamerican twits.
I am amazed by the contention that we either have patents or secrets in the software world. I would think that the Open Source movement has made rather more of an impression than that! The take home lesson is that an awful lot of us find it very important and empowering to build, use and support software that is both open and can be used by anyone without encumbrance except to not place encumbrances on others.
Patents were invented for specific reasons. To evaluate patents the results and likely results must be considered as to how well they achieve or are likely to acheive what was intended. In software there is no great danger of more software being kept secret if we do not have software patents.
I am rather disgusted to see Paul Graham attempt to stampede software developers into seeking souftware patents less they be seen as foolishly not playing the game that they are in. Who set the rules to this game? Who said that we wish to play it? Didn't the very advent of Free and Open Source Software say clearly we are playing a different game with rules we feel are more of a win for all of us?
For shame. I am very surprised Paul Graham would write and publish such a thing. He certanily should know better.
It seem to me that general social networking as a softwarce commodity could be used by a lot of different products. Anyone know if such a thing is being done expressly with the goal of being pluggable into other projects?
Downloading nasty pictures for presumed viewing is to be guilty of doing the acts implied by the pictures? I know a lot of people would not be happy with this notion concerning our own porn tastes or the level of violence etc. we like in our games and other entertainment. If someone happens to have the leaning toward pre-pubescent sexual attracttion I would much rather they download pictures than actually act out such leanings in real life. Yeah it disturbs us, yeah some kids were victimized somewhere in the making of the pictures which is wrong (unless we are talking about simply pictures of children, perhaps even nude children). But some of the implications of this case are disturbing.
And not in a good way. Why oh why would someone take a perfectly good Mac and hack on it to run an inferior OS? Why would having shown that Mac hardware can run Windoze be a Good Thing? I can think of a lot of more interesting ways to gain cred.
Are folks daft enough to think tha having the equivalent of the Gestapo take an interest in what is near and dear to them is a Good Thing? The administration idea of software security is to lock down every thing possible against anf modification whatsoever lest some "cyber-terrorist" does something nasty.
Tracking what you like and recommending more of what you like qualifies as "malware"? Really? While I agree it would be better to have somewhere in the Preferenes for ITunes that you can turn this off I think calling it "malware" is a bit of a stretch.
Java and C# will rot your brain. Find a school that will give you something cool that will help you find some joy and power in programming like Python or Ruby. At the very least be very sure to learn these languages on your own. if you have to choose between Java and C# though then definitely go with Java. C#, except for Mono, fits you for nothing but being a minion of the Evil Empire. Just say no.
Only dweebs that think only in terms of "consumer electronics" and some model of sin if we aren't using manual typewriters would miss the fact that internet, cell phones, home computers, etc. help us do what we do a lot more productively and with a lot more information and convenience. The face of media is changing as increasingly all of us browse and share information and opinions. The entire face of business has changed. Large sections of how we socialize and with whom have changed to include a much larger circle. Are we "addicted" to more abundant and productive living? You bet! And as long as there is an ounce of gumption and worth in us we will continue to be. It is a good thing.
I don't see any very good explanation of exactly how there system and aps working on it works. What I do read worries me. It looks like you need to guess upfront how much time your stuff will take against a partially opaque infrasturcture and scheduling model. If you overguess you get billed half the normal rate for the overage. no info I saw on what happens if you underguess. But it looks like your app is subject to being yanked. This reminds me of ancient batch processing days. I won't be writing stuff against an opaque system that will end up charging me not very easily predictable amounts. And what is this nonsense about interactive vs. compute nodes? Do I need to reserve time on each if I deploy an interactive app?
The telcos are scared. As the Internet develops and gets faster and goes wireless the end-to-end nature of the beast means that anyone and their dog can come up with a birght idea that competes with any app the telcos may write. Media companies like TV broadcasters are also scared. A fast enough ubquitous end-to-end net means that anyone can produce full video and sell for consumption by anyone else with no differentiation except its quality and content. Telcos racked up huge costs in the dot.com era by building out an incedible amount of infrastructure and by paying huge costs for segments of wireless benefit (which it turns out is techologically pointless). They are seeking to recoup those cost by being content and service providers. With this proposal they are seeking an unfair advantage to tehir offerings over everyone elses.
As it is I am sick of being nickeled and timed for web access on wireless devices like cell phones. I want full interent connectivity on all my wireless devices including open APIs to do anything I can do on general broadband. The ploy is to keep us "consumers" instead of providing full access to the net for all of us to be producers as well as consumers of content. This is the same ploy as broadband offerings that attempt to forbid us from running servers (i.e., being producers of content).
All of this is missing the huge promise of the Net. It is attempting to keep the centralized creation and distribution of content to the "masses". It is detrimental to the creation and viability of countless possible web based businesses. It directly limits the "global mind" and group submind possibilities of the net.
I keep hearing that it isn't time to shoot the bastards.. yet. When is it time? Soon no real resistance will be possible as you and your fellows are under surveillance 24/7 and everything you do and say is monitored. You think you have nothing to hide? How about from Pat Robertson and the religious right? How about from the war on some drugs? How about those who are too interested in telling you what you can read or view or who you can have sex with and in what manner? How about from the thought police comming soon? How about from those who want to limit what you can do even on your own computer and over the net to what locks you in to their meager offerings and makes you there cash cow in perpetuity? Such means increase the power of those who would more fully control you. As long as those in power are no fully committed to freedom and have their own agendas we are not safe when applications like this literally come down the pike.
RAISE HELL about this folks! Do it while some of our public "servants" will still deign to listen. All too soon they won't have to.
These eggs were donated without his knowledge. They were donated before a law against such things was even passed. He attempts to cover for the researchers and his lab in the face of a rather silly law that might be used after the fact. As a result one of the most brilliant and important researchers in the world is forced to resign. I suspect extreme pressure from the US fundies somewhere in this. On the face of it these events make no sense. There must be some very serious factors behind the surface story. What are we not seeing in the news?
The point of copyright on books is to increase innovation and protect authors from being ripped off. There is nothing per se in full text indexing of all books and online access that makes it impossible for authors to get paid for their efforts or that in any way I see decreases innovation. What will happen soon, though not because of Google really, is that the publisher middlemen will be seen as obsolete in most respects. Authors would potentially get more readers and income if their works were preserved indefinitely and easily found by a simple search. While the details of the compensation model[s] need to be worked out the end result is a win for everyone except those with outmoded business models.
And of course Google is not even proposing anything this extreme. They are proposing simple indexing and excerpts. I fail to see how that is a threat to anyone.
Why on earth would I not allow a SIP to modify its own code? Certain types of advanced computation are not easily done without it. If it is so bloody self-contained why should anyone care? Curtailing languages and programming to only what can be statically verified even within ultimate sandboxes is pointlessly restrictive for highly illusory "safety". Say goodbye to Python, Ruby, Perl, Lisp, Scheme and all those other "unsafe" languages. It also allows M$ unprecedented ability to control all code run, which I imagine has not escaped them.
This is a giant Microsoft FUD attempting to ride on the recent Singularity press. Microsoft has no real place in a real technological Singularity. Don't drink the koolaid served by the Redmond Dinosaur.
The introduction gives the idea that OS/Free Software is about "free" as in "free beer" instead of "free" as in "free speech". It says "commodization" is about zero cost and that OS/FS is about or its success is about "commodization". It seems to think that it is all about chilvary and cool community grooviness rather than about the freedom to innovate and fully use software. The old myth that OS/FS developerors are fundamentally in a privileged position where they do not need to make a living is rolled out. Community is part of it but it is the community of being able to fully enable one another and share efforts that help each of us and vastly open our possibilities. There is not even much in the intro about how OS/FS produces better software. There is not word one about GNU or Richard Stallman.
I am glad they published the introduction. It will keep me from wasting money and time on this book.
Yes. One thing I dearly love about Google is their consistent level of innovation. This innovation changes the kit available for people to use and changes what is possible to get done how easily. Saying these innovations are only for one OS gives an unfair boost to that OS to the degree these new apps are truly powerful. This is not good. When that OS is from a monopolistic company that obviously does not have the well-being of us in mind then I call only supporting that OS evil.
If they are to keep their non-evil designation then they have to at least add Mac. Everywhere I go the majority of laptops in evidence are Macs. So for wireless apps in particular Windoze only is a dumb choice. Oh yeah. I live in and am thus largely referring to experience in the SF Bay area.
There is no "best enforcement policy" for irrational laws, rules and in general attempting to dictate to adults what they may do with access to the Web. That the access happens to be in a library paid for by taxes should not mean that Congress critters or whatever set of Mrs. Grundy types who scream the loudest get to monitor or restrict content accessed.
Not for a kludge with an extra battery instead of true non-volatile storage. Not in a format that was geared to desktop and is not so easy to use in a wearable where solid state would really shine. Oh, I supose I might buy one as a front-end disk cache or some suc for some yet to be determined app. But not right now. Hmm. It would make a spiffy swap device.
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I am all for good enhancements of all kinds especially mental enhancements with no or little side effect like Provigil. It is about time we got over the War on Some Drugs and the paternalistic feds telling people what they can and can't put in their bodies. If I can effectively work better and smarter for extended periods I can be way more productive and build more cool things in less time. What is not to like?
Not the other way around. In the US We The People are supposed to be served by the government that We The People have oversight and control of directily and through our representatives. Increasing the Executive works without even Congressional oversight and the Judicial becomes its tool in doing whatever it wishes including blatantly flaunting the law instead of being a check upon its power. This administration especially has played fast and loose with the law and been much more closed about its activities. If it deigns to give any excuse at all to We The People it hides behind a mutter of "National Security" or "War on Terror". Now we have the Attorney General claiming that what information that does leek out to the purported masters of the government, the People, is illegal and that all concerned including reporters will be prosecuted for telling us what is actually going on. This is utterly contemptible and outrageous. It will not stand!
It is a claim that we did not deserve to know that our government is illegally spying on us, a claim that we did not deserve to know that our government is using torture by sending detainees overseas for that purpose. If We The People and our representatives do not know what our purported servant is up to then how are we to exercise our authority? How are we to keep government power, especially Executive, from growing unchecked and destorying us?
Screw these idiots. The internet is our extended mind. The State has no right to our every thought with intent to criminalize everything it doesn't like. Encrypt everything and fire this pack of unamerican twits.
I am amazed by the contention that we either have patents or secrets in the software world. I would think that the Open Source movement has made rather more of an impression than that! The take home lesson is that an awful lot of us find it very important and empowering to build, use and support software that is both open and can be used by anyone without encumbrance except to not place encumbrances on others.
Patents were invented for specific reasons. To evaluate patents the results and likely results must be considered as to how well they achieve or are likely to acheive what was intended. In software there is no great danger of more software being kept secret if we do not have software patents.
I am rather disgusted to see Paul Graham attempt to stampede software developers into seeking souftware patents less they be seen as foolishly not playing the game that they are in. Who set the rules to this game? Who said that we wish to play it? Didn't the very advent of Free and Open Source Software say clearly we are playing a different game with rules we feel are more of a win for all of us?
For shame. I am very surprised Paul Graham would write and publish such a thing. He certanily should know better.
It seem to me that general social networking as a softwarce commodity could be used by a lot of different products. Anyone know if such a thing is being done expressly with the goal of being pluggable into other projects?
Downloading nasty pictures for presumed viewing is to be guilty of doing the acts implied by the pictures? I know a lot of people would not be happy with this notion concerning our own porn tastes or the level of violence etc. we like in our games and other entertainment. If someone happens to have the leaning toward pre-pubescent sexual attracttion I would much rather they download pictures than actually act out such leanings in real life. Yeah it disturbs us, yeah some kids were victimized somewhere in the making of the pictures which is wrong (unless we are talking about simply pictures of children, perhaps even nude children). But some of the implications of this case are disturbing.
And not in a good way. Why oh why would someone take a perfectly good Mac and hack on it to run an inferior OS? Why would having shown that Mac hardware can run Windoze be a Good Thing? I can think of a lot of more interesting ways to gain cred.
Are folks daft enough to think tha having the equivalent of the Gestapo take an interest in what is near and dear to them is a Good Thing? The administration idea of software security is to lock down every thing possible against anf modification whatsoever lest some "cyber-terrorist" does something nasty.
Tracking what you like and recommending more of what you like qualifies as "malware"? Really? While I agree it would be better to have somewhere in the Preferenes for ITunes that you can turn this off I think calling it "malware" is a bit of a stretch.
Java and C# will rot your brain. Find a school that will give you something cool that will help you find some joy and power in programming like Python or Ruby. At the very least be very sure to learn these languages on your own. if you have to choose between Java and C# though then definitely go with Java. C#, except for Mono, fits you for nothing but being a minion of the Evil Empire. Just say no.
Only dweebs that think only in terms of "consumer electronics" and some model of sin if we aren't using manual typewriters would miss the fact that internet, cell phones, home computers, etc. help us do what we do a lot more productively and with a lot more information and convenience. The face of media is changing as increasingly all of us browse and share information and opinions. The entire face of business has changed. Large sections of how we socialize and with whom have changed to include a much larger circle. Are we "addicted" to more abundant and productive living? You bet! And as long as there is an ounce of gumption and worth in us we will continue to be. It is a good thing.
I don't see any very good explanation of exactly how there system and aps working on it works. What I do read worries me. It looks like you need to guess upfront how much time your stuff will take against a partially opaque infrasturcture and scheduling model. If you overguess you get billed half the normal rate for the overage. no info I saw on what happens if you underguess. But it looks like your app is subject to being yanked. This reminds me of ancient batch processing days. I won't be writing stuff against an opaque system that will end up charging me not very easily predictable amounts. And what is this nonsense about interactive vs. compute nodes? Do I need to reserve time on each if I deploy an interactive app?
The telcos are scared. As the Internet develops and gets faster and goes wireless the end-to-end nature of the beast means that anyone and their dog can come up with a birght idea that competes with any app the telcos may write. Media companies like TV broadcasters are also scared. A fast enough ubquitous end-to-end net means that anyone can produce full video and sell for consumption by anyone else with no differentiation except its quality and content. Telcos racked up huge costs in the dot.com era by building out an incedible amount of infrastructure and by paying huge costs for segments of wireless benefit (which it turns out is techologically pointless). They are seeking to recoup those cost by being content and service providers. With this proposal they are seeking an unfair advantage to tehir offerings over everyone elses.
As it is I am sick of being nickeled and timed for web access on wireless devices like cell phones. I want full interent connectivity on all my wireless devices including open APIs to do anything I can do on general broadband. The ploy is to keep us "consumers" instead of providing full access to the net for all of us to be producers as well as consumers of content. This is the same ploy as broadband offerings that attempt to forbid us from running servers (i.e., being producers of content).
All of this is missing the huge promise of the Net. It is attempting to keep the centralized creation and distribution of content to the "masses". It is detrimental to the creation and viability of countless possible web based businesses. It directly limits the "global mind" and group submind possibilities of the net.
Say NO LOUDLY.
No more Creative products in my home or company until they cease and desist this nonsense.
I keep hearing that it isn't time to shoot the bastards.. yet. When is it time? Soon no real resistance will be possible as you and your fellows are under surveillance 24/7 and everything you do and say is monitored. You think you have nothing to hide? How about from Pat Robertson and the religious right? How about from the war on some drugs? How about those who are too interested in telling you what you can read or view or who you can have sex with and in what manner? How about from the thought police comming soon? How about from those who want to limit what you can do even on your own computer and over the net to what locks you in to their meager offerings and makes you there cash cow in perpetuity? Such means increase the power of those who would more fully control you. As long as those in power are no fully committed to freedom and have their own agendas we are not safe when applications like this literally come down the pike.
RAISE HELL about this folks! Do it while some of our public "servants" will still deign to listen. All too soon they won't have to.
These eggs were donated without his knowledge. They were donated before a law against such things was even passed. He attempts to cover for the researchers and his lab in the face of a rather silly law that might be used after the fact. As a result one of the most brilliant and important researchers in the world is forced to resign. I suspect extreme pressure from the US fundies somewhere in this. On the face of it these events make no sense. There must be some very serious factors behind the surface story. What are we not seeing in the news?
The point of copyright on books is to increase innovation and protect authors from being ripped off. There is nothing per se in full text indexing of all books and online access that makes it impossible for authors to get paid for their efforts or that in any way I see decreases innovation. What will happen soon, though not because of Google really, is that the publisher middlemen will be seen as obsolete in most respects. Authors would potentially get more readers and income if their works were preserved indefinitely and easily found by a simple search. While the details of the compensation model[s] need to be worked out the end result is a win for everyone except those with outmoded business models.
And of course Google is not even proposing anything this extreme. They are proposing simple indexing and excerpts. I fail to see how that is a threat to anyone.
Why on earth would I not allow a SIP to modify its own code? Certain types of advanced computation are not easily done without it. If it is so bloody self-contained why should anyone care? Curtailing languages and programming to only what can be statically verified even within ultimate sandboxes is pointlessly restrictive for highly illusory "safety". Say goodbye to Python, Ruby, Perl, Lisp, Scheme and all those other "unsafe" languages. It also allows M$ unprecedented ability to control all code run, which I imagine has not escaped them.
This is a giant Microsoft FUD attempting to ride on the recent Singularity press. Microsoft has no real place in a real technological Singularity. Don't drink the koolaid served by the Redmond Dinosaur.
The introduction gives the idea that OS/Free Software is about "free" as in "free beer" instead of "free" as in "free speech". It says "commodization" is about zero cost and that OS/FS is about or its success is about "commodization". It seems to think that it is all about chilvary and cool community grooviness rather than about the freedom to innovate and fully use software. The old myth that OS/FS developerors are fundamentally in a privileged position where they do not need to make a living is rolled out. Community is part of it but it is the community of being able to fully enable one another and share efforts that help each of us and vastly open our possibilities. There is not even much in the intro about how OS/FS produces better software. There is not word one about GNU or Richard Stallman.
I am glad they published the introduction. It will keep me from wasting money and time on this book.
This works find under Tiger OS/X on my G4. On the dual G5 it throws a bus error when I attempt to launch it. Are others seeing this problem?
Yes. One thing I dearly love about Google is their consistent level of innovation. This innovation changes the kit available for people to use and changes what is possible to get done how easily. Saying these innovations are only for one OS gives an unfair boost to that OS to the degree these new apps are truly powerful. This is not good. When that OS is from a monopolistic company that obviously does not have the well-being of us in mind then I call only supporting that OS evil.
If they are to keep their non-evil designation then they have to at least add Mac. Everywhere I go the majority of laptops in evidence are Macs. So for wireless apps in particular Windoze only is a dumb choice. Oh yeah. I live in and am thus largely referring to experience in the SF Bay area.
There is no "best enforcement policy" for irrational laws, rules and in general attempting to dictate to adults what they may do with access to the Web. That the access happens to be in a library paid for by taxes should not mean that Congress critters or whatever set of Mrs. Grundy types who scream the loudest get to monitor or restrict content accessed.
Not for a kludge with an extra battery instead of true non-volatile storage. Not in a format that was geared to desktop and is not so easy to use in a wearable where solid state would really shine. Oh, I supose I might buy one as a front-end disk cache or some suc for some yet to be determined app. But not right now. Hmm. It would make a spiffy swap device.