When I'm trolling the hardcore christian channels (eg: #prosapologian @ irc.starlink-irc.org) I find that, as a guy, I'm out the door pretty fast. They're quite hot to boot the polite male unbeliever. But as a "19 yr old girly" everybody wants to be my wise and tolerant best friend. The christians are the worst too. I mean, they are SUCH slaves to their dicks. The have no immunity whatsoever. Same with the muslims and jews. The buddhists, otoh, are pretty savvy cats. They don't fall for it so easily.
Nobody with more than a single braincell or less than a billion dollars considers the convention of property to be sacrosanct.
Where, as lawmakers, do we draw the line? We need some kind of ez way to overrule property owners. This shouldn't be such a shocking event. It should happen more often. Our culture would be better off if it happened more often.
Yes, I know how laws get made.
A wiki type map would take the responsibility off their shoulders AND save them work. I guess it would be a wikiwar then tho. Hmmm. Store BOTH types of map and make the most popular one the default?
Does tiling projector images well work? I've got a great couch- an overstuffed leather thing I got secondhand from a rich friend. I would love to code from it in a dark room with my code big as god on the wall. It's nice to lay however u like, but how to situate the keyboard?
I'm gonna get one of those DECK keyboards soon. They're superdurable, smooth, longlasting and have bold illuminated characters on the keys (I like to code in mood light). It looks like the greatest keyboard in the world to me.
I'm broke as a poke eternally and projectors and giant LCDs are out of my range but I'm feeling really good since I got rid of my 19 inch CRT. Those things are bad news- They're terrible on the eyes and the RAYS! I think they make ur hair fall out. Don't let anybody tell u different.
It's small but I'm feeling pretty fat with my new Likom 15 inch LCD. I dig it alot. I feel better with it.
So anyway, pricy gizmos aside, here's what I find to be of benefit:
1) Eclipse. 2) I always get my basic design straight in my head more or less before putting down alot of code and when I'm mentally noodling I occasionally like to strum a UKULELE. It's nice. 3) Marijuana can help crack u out of ur rigid perspective. It's helped me break out of some designs I got stuck on and see vastly better ways. I don't recommend actually laying down code while u are high tho- draw on something instead and code tomorrow. 4) A big white board. 5) Spiral-bound notebooks and ballpoint pens and big artists sketchbooks (unless u can afford one of those tablet computers I guess).
A good song makes people happy. With free and convenient distribution a good song can make a significant proportion of the population of our planet happy, making the world a significantly happier place.
A good song + the free distribution system is like a megaton nuke of goodness. We really have no other way to do anything like this. It's pretty damn amazing when u think about it. Never discount the power of good music. It can turn crap to gold. Quite magical.
You make a few button-bricks for lego. They're keyboard-buttons. You use them to construct custom keyboardy things.
Details: I guess you'd daisy-chain the key-bricks together, electrically speaking. It'd end in a USB connector. U could mark them with stickers or something.
Wow, did we just go back 50 yrs? I'm hearing alot of "body modifications are bad". THis is pretty fucked up. Do you rigid blockheads listen to yrselves? U sound like damn puritains
We would not need to organize a huge number of people to impose our will upon the political landscape. Some tiny proportion of, say, the US population, would do..001%?.00001%?
It wouldn't take much.
All we need is a forum where all concerned can communicate and come to a consensus about what to do. What if 50% of all slashdot readers stopped eating fast food? What if 50% of all slashdot readers voted Green? What if 50% of all slashdot readers stopped purchasing CDs?
I think that the corporations would respond. They'd fold like an accordian. The masters would soon become the slaves.
All the corporations have on us is ORGANIZATION. That's it. All of their power stems from that. And what's hilarious is, they aren't even that organized. Just more organized than the rest of us.
I'm making computer art too. http://fleen.org I look at the project this way: Use the machine as an effective and convenient beauty-making tool. Could be a robot cranking out works, could be a powertool in the hand of a user.
Is art a "beautiful thing"?
Ok, then we gotta talk about beauty.
Beauty gives people indigestion and gets them high.
Beauty is hard to render into a symbol than we can comfortably pass around and call real because beauty is implicitly symbol-transcendent. Experience of beauty is not a symbol-mediated activity, uniquely so in this symbol-constructed artifact we call "reality". One could almost DEFINE "beauty" as "the beast from beyond this language-made-world".
So beauty defies the cultural-consensual symbol-assignment treatment. We argue about it's "definition", vainly striving for consensus. We all have experience with beautiful things so we can't deny beauty's existance (like we do most non-culturally-approved subjective experiences), it's too powerful to deny. A tough nut for culture. No wonder facists burn paintings.
But whats in a name?
I've been looking at the problem of making a beautiful-thing maker (or an otherwise effective digital-art-tool) for a long time and I think that aaron is not the way to go. I look at what a machine is good at and what is beautiful and I see the intersection here: http://fleen.org Call me biased.
http://fleen.org
My take is this: Cramming one's energies through the pinhole of language (english, java or whatever) leave's little, but what's left is powerful. I suppose it's an old story.
...never ever relinquish a single drop of your power.
This proposed plan would take power away from congressmen (to pick who gets contracts) therefor congress is against it.
And by congress I mean the megacorps.
Note the end of the article where they mentioned that congress was in the process of INCREASING THE STRICTURES on future x-prize-like endeavors, ostensibly in the name of increased safety, but obviously intended to INCREASE THE COST of such endeavors to keep spaceflight out of the hand of all but the most wealthy corporations
It's a slowly tightening noose, folks. When are we gonna pull our heads out and kick come ass?
I just had an obvious idea. How about using 2 of them and getting parallax? You'd have these 2 edge-maps, slightly offset in significant ways. It might be enough for a 3d mapper. What do you think?
I know it ain't really a 3d mapper but is it a quick way to grab info that could be later given a more in-depth scan? Could this technology be modified to produce a good 3d mapper? What's it's claim 2 fame? Shadow-comparison , right? Length-of-shadow=height-of-object, yes?
We have one really kickass interface that everybody grooves with:
Things in space. A space full of things that get more detailed when you get closer to them and less detailed when you get further from them (this could equate to the 'significance' of a thing). These details can also be 'things' (thus things can contain things). These things, you can 'look' at them and have 'conversations' with them (pet a kitty, turn a doorknob, click a button, design a document...).
We have have the thingspace interface partially implemented in the 'windows' interface. I think it could be lightyears better of course. I think that a lack of vision is all that stands between what we've got and what we could have.
Do pencil sketches. Scan. Edit and colorize in photoshop. It's the best way I've found. The pencil is still the best tool for what it's good for, and photoshop is the best tool I've found for what it's good for.
I'll bite those points:
1) We aren't talking about somebody who just has "firsthand experience", we're talking about the grand inquisitor sticking his tongue up satan's ass. Quite a big difference you gotta admit.
2) Ya, it is forfieted. Being a moderately clever guy, If I really want to break a law I can do it without getting caught. So laws don't really matter. Respect is what matters. The only thing that might keep me from dissing Microsoft is my respect for them. Hypocrites don't get respect.
http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/182/11/2993 By "pan organismic etc." I was obviously making a reference to the theory that there's some kind of "god" (ya, a troublesome term) behind the genetic scenes. How about an intelligent society of microbes networked with airborn hormones or something? (What's intelligent mean? Plan-making? Map-using?)
And furthermore, evidence schmevidence. You know how theories are built as well as I. 1% data and 99% culture, if even that.
Slashdot Mirror
When I'm trolling the hardcore christian channels (eg: #prosapologian @ irc.starlink-irc.org) I find that, as a guy, I'm out the door pretty fast. They're quite hot to boot the polite male unbeliever. But as a "19 yr old girly" everybody wants to be my wise and tolerant best friend. The christians are the worst too. I mean, they are SUCH slaves to their dicks. The have no immunity whatsoever. Same with the muslims and jews. The buddhists, otoh, are pretty savvy cats. They don't fall for it so easily.
are the genes active if the mouse is half-strangled? will these genes be passed on?
Nobody with more than a single braincell or less than a billion dollars considers the convention of property to be sacrosanct. Where, as lawmakers, do we draw the line? We need some kind of ez way to overrule property owners. This shouldn't be such a shocking event. It should happen more often. Our culture would be better off if it happened more often. Yes, I know how laws get made.
A wiki type map would take the responsibility off their shoulders AND save them work. I guess it would be a wikiwar then tho. Hmmm. Store BOTH types of map and make the most popular one the default?
Does tiling projector images well work?
I've got a great couch- an overstuffed leather thing I got secondhand from a rich friend. I would love to code from it in a dark room with my code big as god on the wall. It's nice to lay however u like, but how to situate the keyboard?
I'm gonna get one of those DECK keyboards soon. They're superdurable, smooth, longlasting and have bold illuminated characters on the keys (I like to code in mood light). It looks like the greatest keyboard in the world to me.
I'm broke as a poke eternally and projectors and giant LCDs are out of my range but I'm feeling really good since I got rid of my 19 inch CRT. Those things are bad news- They're terrible on the eyes and the RAYS! I think they make ur hair fall out. Don't let anybody tell u different.
It's small but I'm feeling pretty fat with my new Likom 15 inch LCD. I dig it alot. I feel better with it.
So anyway, pricy gizmos aside, here's what I find to be of benefit:
1) Eclipse.
2) I always get my basic design straight in my head more or less before putting down alot of code and when I'm mentally noodling I occasionally like to strum a UKULELE. It's nice.
3) Marijuana can help crack u out of ur rigid perspective. It's helped me break out of some designs I got stuck on and see vastly better ways. I don't recommend actually laying down code while u are high tho- draw on something instead and code tomorrow.
4) A big white board.
5) Spiral-bound notebooks and ballpoint pens and big artists sketchbooks (unless u can afford one of those tablet computers I guess).
Try this justification on.
A good song makes people happy. With free and convenient distribution a good song can make a significant proportion of the population of our planet happy, making the world a significantly happier place.
A good song + the free distribution system is like a megaton nuke of goodness. We really have no other way to do anything like this. It's pretty damn amazing when u think about it. Never discount the power of good music. It can turn crap to gold. Quite magical.
We don't want to inhibit this goodness, do we?
Who do we serve when we choke off this goodness?
Here's a $1000000 idea:
You make a few button-bricks for lego. They're keyboard-buttons. You use them to construct custom keyboardy things.
Details:
I guess you'd daisy-chain the key-bricks together, electrically speaking. It'd end in a USB connector. U could mark them with stickers or something.
Does this already exist?
Wow, did we just go back 50 yrs? I'm hearing alot of "body modifications are bad". THis is pretty fucked up. Do you rigid blockheads listen to yrselves? U sound like damn puritains
We would not need to organize a huge number of people to impose our will upon the political landscape. Some tiny proportion of, say, the US population, would do. .001%? .00001%?
It wouldn't take much.
All we need is a forum where all concerned can communicate and come to a consensus about what to do. What if 50% of all slashdot readers stopped eating fast food? What if 50% of all slashdot readers voted Green? What if 50% of all slashdot readers stopped purchasing CDs?
I think that the corporations would respond. They'd fold like an accordian. The masters would soon become the slaves.
All the corporations have on us is ORGANIZATION. That's it. All of their power stems from that. And what's hilarious is, they aren't even that organized. Just more organized than the rest of us.
SIEZURE INDUCER
Did you check out the unity point images? Did you look at the siezure inducer? Did you take the siezure inducer to fruit salad?
I'm making computer art too.
http://fleen.org
I look at the project this way: Use the machine as an effective and convenient beauty-making tool. Could be a robot cranking out works, could be a powertool in the hand of a user.
Is art a "beautiful thing"?
Ok, then we gotta talk about beauty.
Beauty gives people indigestion and gets them high.
Beauty is hard to render into a symbol than we can comfortably pass around and call real because beauty is implicitly symbol-transcendent. Experience of beauty is not a symbol-mediated activity, uniquely so in this symbol-constructed artifact we call "reality". One could almost DEFINE "beauty" as "the beast from beyond this language-made-world".
So beauty defies the cultural-consensual symbol-assignment treatment. We argue about it's "definition", vainly striving for consensus. We all have experience with beautiful things so we can't deny beauty's existance (like we do most non-culturally-approved subjective experiences), it's too powerful to deny. A tough nut for culture. No wonder facists burn paintings.
But whats in a name?
I've been looking at the problem of making a beautiful-thing maker (or an otherwise effective digital-art-tool) for a long time and I think that aaron is not the way to go. I look at what a machine is good at and what is beautiful and I see the intersection here:
http://fleen.org
Call me biased.
http://fleen.org My take is this: Cramming one's energies through the pinhole of language (english, java or whatever) leave's little, but what's left is powerful. I suppose it's an old story.
35k seems rather steep.
...never ever relinquish a single drop of your power.
This proposed plan would take power away from congressmen (to pick who gets contracts) therefor congress is against it.
And by congress I mean the megacorps.
Note the end of the article where they mentioned that congress was in the process of INCREASING THE STRICTURES on future x-prize-like endeavors, ostensibly in the name of increased safety, but obviously intended to INCREASE THE COST of such endeavors to keep spaceflight out of the hand of all but the most wealthy corporations
It's a slowly tightening noose, folks. When are we gonna pull our heads out and kick come ass?
I just had an obvious idea. How about using 2 of them and getting parallax? You'd have these 2 edge-maps, slightly offset in significant ways. It might be enough for a 3d mapper. What do you think?
I know it ain't really a 3d mapper but is it a quick way to grab info that could be later given a more in-depth scan?
Could this technology be modified to produce a good 3d mapper?
What's it's claim 2 fame? Shadow-comparison , right? Length-of-shadow=height-of-object, yes?
We have one really kickass interface that everybody grooves with:
Things in space.
A space full of things that get more detailed when you get closer to them and less detailed when you get further from them (this could equate to the 'significance' of a thing). These details can also be 'things' (thus things can contain things). These things, you can 'look' at them and have 'conversations' with them (pet a kitty, turn a doorknob, click a button, design a document...).
We have have the thingspace interface partially implemented in the 'windows' interface. I think it could be lightyears better of course. I think that a lack of vision is all that stands between what we've got and what we could have.
Do pencil sketches. Scan. Edit and colorize in photoshop. It's the best way I've found. The pencil is still the best tool for what it's good for, and photoshop is the best tool I've found for what it's good for.
I'll bite those points: 1) We aren't talking about somebody who just has "firsthand experience", we're talking about the grand inquisitor sticking his tongue up satan's ass. Quite a big difference you gotta admit. 2) Ya, it is forfieted. Being a moderately clever guy, If I really want to break a law I can do it without getting caught. So laws don't really matter. Respect is what matters. The only thing that might keep me from dissing Microsoft is my respect for them. Hypocrites don't get respect.
I've been thinking about this too. Best plan I see is mini-blimps with attitude fans and airbrushes on their noses. And alot of still air.
...given that software is free?
Here's 3 of varying wackiness:
0 8b .htm
http://www.apologeticspress.org/rr/rr1994/r&r94
http://www.swcp.com/~hswift/swc/Essays/bio.html
http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/182/11/2993
By "pan organismic etc." I was obviously making a reference to the theory that there's some kind of "god" (ya, a troublesome term) behind the genetic scenes. How about an intelligent society of microbes networked with airborn hormones or something? (What's intelligent mean? Plan-making? Map-using?)
And furthermore, evidence schmevidence. You know how theories are built as well as I. 1% data and 99% culture, if even that.