Around here, my friend with windows use Outlook and PGP, and I use exmh and GnuPG, and they interoperate great!
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Maybe its just me, but it seems like you guys wheren't really paying attention when they started talking abouth those microorganism things. IIRC, they don't/cause/ the Force, they just are an/interface/ to the Force. If they caused the force, how could Jedi manipulate inanimate objects? I don't recall the lines exactly, but it was implied on several occations that they act on/behalf/ of the Force; they tell you whats up about the Force, etc. they concieved Anikan at the behest of the Force.
Maybe I'm just smokin it, or maybe you need to pay more attention to things.:)
Looking at the self from an OS metaphor is an interesting idea. The way I see it, the/kernel/.. the part right above the bare hardware is brainstem, animalistic and automatic behavior, maybe also at this kernel level there is what we would call instinct, automatic thoughts, sort of (events, if you will, whereas the behavior functions only call events indirectly, that maybe take a lot of practice to override). Now, this kernel is inborn mostly, but can be modified by imprinting (OS patches) or training (evolutionary computing? not really any good metaphors). Above the kernel level, maybe theres a user-space, where we get linguistic interpreters (human language could be seen as an Idea Description Language).. this interpreter is practically a kernel process, and can patch the kernel on occation. At this same level there is a Behavioristic Descripton Language interperter, which allows us to add behaviors that the kernel doesn't have.. Hmm. this is getting confusing:) Both of those languages might boil down to a binary fromat.. and memes appear at this level.. the hardware has affinity for certain patterns in the binary format, and this affinity causes the kernel to recieve a "good" event everytime those binaries are run, sometimes its/very/ good. Well, the interpreters can send "good" events too, and reinforce patterns, and then the hardware gets more affinity toward those patterns and sends "good" by itself eventually (cultural reinforcment)..
Well, you could look at it another way; you could see the body as a colony of microorganisms that have evolved into a tight symbiosis (and all happen to share the same genes)... of course time and evolution have made all the microorganisms very interdependent and interrelated (in otherwords, this would be arguing that the body is an illusion produced by a tight symbiotic colony of microrganisms, which is true in one sense); I'm not sure that you could really apply the same model to consciousness.. the real questions that you would need to answer are a) is consciousness independent of a memespace/culture/whatever (ie, is it genetic that all average normal humans will have "self" and consciousness), and then b) are memes passed in some way other than direct cultural exchange? I'm not sure that makes too much sense, I just woke up:)
iirc I've seen hacker used for non-coders, also, such as hacking hardware and such things. Hackers are a set that intersects coders and many|all other fields, also.
Add the proper transceiver(s) (or stick to 10bT) and this little thing would be great for network analysis.. tcpdump, netwatch, etc.. nice little interface for them. It'd be great for network engineers who need to look at ethernet frames away from their desk at low cost..
Using this for wearables interests me, too, but I don't think it has enough horsepower to do the kind that I'd prefer.. (primarily audio input and output, palm pilot serial console for everything else.. "Computer, read email"..)
Add the proper transceiver(s) (or stick to 10bT) and this little thing would be great for network analysis.. tcpdump, netwatch, etc.. nice little interface for them. It'd be great for network engineers who need to look at ethernet frames away from their desk at low cost..
Using this for wearables interests me, too, but I don't think it has enough horsepower to do the kind that I'd prefer..
I'm also a Debian user. I pretty much dislike the RedHat distribution itself, but the company has done a lot of great things for Linux... not only bringing users to Linux, but funding free software like Gnome and their own distribution's tools. I think we can safely assume that RedHat isn't the next M$.
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Around here, my friend with windows use Outlook and
PGP, and I use exmh and GnuPG, and they interoperate
great!
Maybe its just me, but it seems like you guys wheren't really paying attention when they started talking abouth those microorganism things. IIRC, they don't /cause/ the Force, they just are an /interface/ to the Force. If they caused the force, how could Jedi manipulate inanimate objects? I don't recall the lines exactly, but it was implied on several occations that they act on /behalf/ of the Force; they tell you whats up about the Force, etc. they concieved Anikan at the behest of the Force.
:)
Maybe I'm just smokin it, or maybe you need to pay more attention to things.
Looking at the self from an OS metaphor is an interesting idea. The way I see it, the /kernel/.. the part right above the bare hardware is brainstem, animalistic and automatic behavior, maybe also at this kernel level there is what we would call instinct, automatic thoughts, sort of (events, if you will, whereas the behavior functions only call events indirectly, that maybe take a lot of practice to override). Now, this kernel is inborn mostly, but can be modified by imprinting (OS patches) or training (evolutionary computing? not really any good metaphors). Above the kernel level, maybe theres a user-space, where we get linguistic interpreters (human language could be seen as an Idea Description Language).. this interpreter is practically a kernel process, and can patch the kernel on occation. At this same level there is a Behavioristic Descripton Language interperter, which allows us to add behaviors that the kernel doesn't have.. Hmm. this is getting confusing :) /very/ good. Well, the interpreters can send "good" events too, and reinforce patterns, and then the hardware gets more affinity toward those patterns and sends "good" by itself eventually (cultural reinforcment)..
Both of those languages might boil down to a binary fromat.. and memes appear at this level.. the hardware has affinity for certain patterns in the binary format, and this affinity causes the kernel to recieve a "good" event everytime those binaries are run, sometimes its
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Well, you could look at it another way; you could see the body as a colony of microorganisms that have evolved into a tight symbiosis (and all happen to share the same genes)... of course time and evolution have made all the microorganisms very interdependent and interrelated (in otherwords, this would be arguing that the body is an illusion produced by a tight symbiotic colony of microrganisms, which is true in one sense); I'm not sure that you could really apply the same model to consciousness.. the real questions that you would need to answer are a) is consciousness independent of a memespace/culture/whatever (ie, is it genetic that all average normal humans will have "self" and consciousness), and then b) are memes passed in some way other than direct cultural exchange? :)
I'm not sure that makes too much sense, I just woke up
iirc I've seen hacker used for non-coders, also, such as hacking hardware and such things. Hackers are a set that intersects coders and many|all other fields, also.
Add the proper transceiver(s) (or stick to 10bT)
and this little thing would be great for network
analysis.. tcpdump, netwatch, etc.. nice little
interface for them. It'd be great for network
engineers who need to look at ethernet frames
away from their desk at low cost..
Using this for wearables interests me, too, but
I don't think it has enough horsepower to do
the kind that I'd prefer.. (primarily audio input and output, palm pilot serial console for everything else.. "Computer, read email"..)
Add the proper transceiver(s) (or stick to 10bT)
and this little thing would be great for network
analysis.. tcpdump, netwatch, etc.. nice little
interface for them. It'd be great for network
engineers who need to look at ethernet frames
away from their desk at low cost..
Using this for wearables interests me, too, but
I don't think it has enough horsepower to do
the kind that I'd prefer..
I'm also a Debian user. I pretty much dislike the RedHat distribution itself, but the company has done a lot of great things for Linux... not only bringing users to Linux, but funding free software like Gnome and their own distribution's tools. I think we can safely assume that RedHat isn't the next M$.
Was I the only one that had immediate red flags at the beginning, where it said you can't distribute modified versions of the license?
Seems to me that most Open Source software licenses are free themselves.