But if google made an os, I would switch to that pretty quickly.
What apps would you run?
But seriously, for Google, the network really is the OS. Beyond search, that's their whole thing. They are actually doing what Sun and Netscape publicized.
McVoy is spot on. He provides a great tool (no argument there) for free (no argument there), and just says "don't compete".
And that's exactly what Tridgell was doing. The register says he was only doing the client, but that's naive (or pretends to be). Many people would love Trigell make a competing alternative - and good on him! But McVoy has said "that's fine, but I'm not going to provide free licenses to a company that is gpoing to scuttle the uniqueness of my hard work!".
I personally think that geeks everywhere should celebrate anyone who comes up with a cool new better way to do things. That's McVoy. Yeah, it's nicer if you do it all for free, but you deserve some reward for all that hard work and risk and creativity!!!!
So there it is.
"If you want to know what ordinary people will be doing with computers in ten years, just walk around the CS department at a good university. Whatever they're doing, you'll be doing."
heh, like LISP and smalltalk (and emacs), for example?
Yeah, so some of it catches on, some doesn't. What else is new? This guy is just shilling for Apple.
Macs are nice, but overpriced. If they get popular enough, soon someone (Dell? Sony? IBM?) will copy the concept, but sell it *much* cheaper. Might take a few years.
Question Is Lucas aware of your film and isn't he going to sue the hell out of you?
Answer:
For most people who do not understand fan films we get this question often.To answer, I doubt if Lucas himself has seen "Revelations". However,Lucas is a large supporter for fan films,and is very kind enough to let other inspiring artists play in his backyard, as long as you don't try and make money from his hard work, and respectfully so.
"Revelations" is a non-profit film and everyone who worked on the film was a volunteer (no one was paid). The film itself will be availible free to download from TheForce.net and the "Revelations" website to anyone who wishes to watch it.
A great article put out by "Wired" covers some good ground about fan films and here is what Steve Sansweet (Lucasfilm's head of Fan Relations) had to say:
"There is plenty of room for fans to express their own feelings and opinions," Sansweet said. "We believe our core fans are responsible for the continuing popularity of the series, and we want to encourage them. Our intellectual properties are there for you to play with, but we expect you won't try and make a profit or use our characters in a salacious way. Having that wide-open frontier serves as a self-policing mechanism for the fans, who are really appreciative of being included."
"Sansweet added that Lucas believes fan films will grow more sophisticated as the amateur filmmakers gain new skills. "
All new technology puts workers out of a job, by either saving time (ie fewer workers needed), or replacing a substitute (slide-rules anyone?).
But it's true that there are new inventions that solve a problem that had never been solved before, eg: neural implants for the profoundly deaf (cochlear.com). But even here, the previous ways of addressing the problem will be replaced (services related to sign-language?)
NB: neural implants use a lot of IT!
If we see IT as just another technology, then there are two categories of "IT worker": (1) workers reliant on an old technology, who are replaced by a new technology; (2) creators of that new technology.
I think you have an interesting point about "putting its own workers out of a job", but I'd see that as (2) putting (1) out of a job. Usually, there are not so many (2) in an industry, and they don't work so fast as in IT...
Blacksmiths do custom work, to fit the need - but those needs became standardized.
Bookkeepers also do custom work - but what stops those needs from becoming standardized? Why don't businesses deliberately organize their affairs, so they fit within an exact model of a business, so that accountancy does become standardized?
I think the reason is because different organizations of a business is often a competitive advantage - they don't want to standardize it; and if they did, straight off someone else would come up with a better organization and put them out of business.
I'm getting 50-70 KB/s at the moment, and accelerating (the direct link is 3-5 KB/s)
This isn't mine - an AC posted it... and got modded down. I can't believe it. This is the single most useful commenton this story - AND SOMEONE MODDED HIM DOWN!!!
Slashdot moderation really, really sucks. On other occasions, I've put some effort into comments, and they've also got modded down.
There's almost no point posting anything worthwhile, since no one will get to see it anyway.
It's a shame.
So, dear moderator, will you mod this comment up or down?
BTW: the resolution (1920x1200) is enough for HDTV.
I'm using the Apple 23" to type this. The real estate is great, but I miss the viewing angle of a CRT - viewing angle begins to matter when the display is that wide.
Ringworld's Children: excerpt & radio intervie
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"Louis Wu woke aflame with new life, under a coffin lid." chapter 1 excerpt
commercialized girlfriend = prostitute and pimp?
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You need to buy gifts for this virtual girlfriend, in return for getting to know her better, meeting her vfriends etc etc.
And that's what's offensively commercial about it. It's less that the company makes money from it, than that the virtual girlfriend is acting like a prostitute.
Is he having a go at his "good friend" Tom Christiansen"? It seems like it he's making a
joke of it, but then switches back to serious. Not very nice.
Anyone there in person, who can report how he meant it?
My good friend Tom Christiansen, who does have ADHD, once said jokingly that I have "task-switching deficit" disorder. He's probably right on that. Certainly I seem to be stuck on this Perl thing. I've been stuck there for more than 15 years now. People think I make these long mental leaps all the time, but they're all in the scope of this one picture. In my mind, everything relates to Perl, one way or another. You'll notice this screensaver never jumps off the screen.
Another way to view this screensaver is that the long jumps are indicative of the ability to stay on task a long time. In that view, if you have attention deficit disorder, your thinking looks more like this, because you're changing directions faster than you want to.
[Wander]
People with ADHD have many endearing qualities, spontaneity not the least of them. But it is a disability, and the ADHD approach only gets you so far. More to the point, it tends to get you back where you were. Here we see a screensaver based on a random walk. It's actually rather stultifying if you watch it long enough. It's been shown mathematically that a random walk will eventually return to the place it started if you wait long enough.
Now, just because I say a random walk is stultifying to watch, please don't take that to mean that ADHD people are stultifying to watch. Quite the opposite, in fact. I'm just using these screensavers as talking points, as metaphors of life, but some of my metaphors limp. As we get older we realize that everyone has disabilities. That seems to be true of metaphors as well. They all limp. Except for the ones that are dead. Anyway, please don't anyone take offense at my free associations. Even if they're true.
You know how people are sometimes rude on Usenet or on a mailing list. Sometimes they'll write something that can only be taken as a deadly insult, and then they have the unmitigated gall to put a smiley face on it, as if that makes it all right. It doesn't, you know. Nevertheless, if I insult you with a deadly insult in this talk, please put one of those little smileys after it.:-)
Anyway, where was I. Oh, yes, random walks. And the fact that they're kind of stultifying to watch.
Volunteer personal info, because targetted ads are more pleasant and useful than scattergun ads! (think Google adwords and Amazon suggestions).
This is an incentive for readers to volunteer personal information, at the level they are comfortable with - this self-selected data is more accurate.
I'm seeing ads that know I'm in Melbourne - and I pay more attention to them). This is key to Google's revenue model (Adwords targetting), and one of the great promises of the internet. Amazon's profile of your interests is seen as a benefit - I haven't heard complaints of that as an invasion of privacy.
Registration is not equivalent to purchase price, as that price covers printing/distribution, which are not incurred by internet editions (acknowledgment: the parent poster's insight)
The key is to let the user *choose* the level of personalization - eg: my city, but not my name or my income. This results in *much* more accurate data.... BUT news providers can not afford to value accuracy until their advertisers value it - until then, it's a waste of their effort.
I think the industry is too immature at present for advertisers to worry about accuracy... they are concerned with more basic stuff, like popularity of the website, and converting leads into sales.... "Does this thing actually work?" it's *still* a whole new ballgame for most advertizers. Accuracy is definitely second to these basics.... Once accuracy is valued, evidence of it will be required (but not at first - initially, voluntary data is self-evidently more accurate than bugmenot data etc).
...also stand up, to support their heavier head?
I am unfamiliar with these superintelligent bipedal elephants of which you (impliedly) speak.
Close, but no sig
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> And for those of you trying to get Flash working in Firefox on an AMD64 Linux machine, try this and be
> pleasantly surprised!
Ads!
Billions and billions of ads
Betamax rocks!
"Prevent applications from stealing focus" check box
(taskbar icon will flash instead)
Download TweakUI (from MSN somewhere - google for it)
Under "General", select "Focus" in the menu-tree, top of screen is the above checkbox.
You can also get X-windows style focus and heaps of other cutomizations.
Anyone know an easy way to do it? And, especially, a way to jump to matching tag (like with "%"). Also, collapsing would be good.
But if google made an os, I would switch to that pretty quickly. What apps would you run? But seriously, for Google, the network really is the OS. Beyond search, that's their whole thing. They are actually doing what Sun and Netscape publicized.
I think Dell innovates a lot on ways to reduce their costs.
And that's exactly what Tridgell was doing. The register says he was only doing the client, but that's naive (or pretends to be). Many people would love Trigell make a competing alternative - and good on him! But McVoy has said "that's fine, but I'm not going to provide free licenses to a company that is gpoing to scuttle the uniqueness of my hard work!".
I personally think that geeks everywhere should celebrate anyone who comes up with a cool new better way to do things. That's McVoy. Yeah, it's nicer if you do it all for free, but you deserve some reward for all that hard work and risk and creativity!!!! So there it is.
In other news, Bent Technologies has released Sociology Essay Writer, that is compatible with popular automatic essay assessment software.
heh, like LISP and smalltalk (and emacs), for example?
Yeah, so some of it catches on, some doesn't. What else is new? This guy is just shilling for Apple.
Macs are nice, but overpriced. If they get popular enough, soon someone (Dell? Sony? IBM?) will copy the concept, but sell it *much* cheaper. Might take a few years.
Question
Is Lucas aware of your film and isn't he going to sue the hell out of you?
Answer: .To answer, I doubt if Lucas himself has seen "Revelations". However ,Lucas is a large supporter for fan films,and is very kind enough to let other inspiring artists play in his backyard, as long as you don't try and make money from his hard work, and respectfully so.
For most people who do not understand fan films we get this question often
"Revelations" is a non-profit film and everyone who worked on the film was a volunteer (no one was paid). The film itself will be availible free to download from TheForce.net and the "Revelations" website to anyone who wishes to watch it.
A great article put out by "Wired" covers some good ground about fan films and here is what Steve Sansweet (Lucasfilm's head of Fan Relations) had to say:
One is a suite kind of pain, the other is an intense kind of anguish.
What hell kind of typo is that?
IT just represents the fastest-moving technology.
All new technology puts workers out of a job, by either saving time (ie fewer workers needed), or replacing a substitute (slide-rules anyone?).
But it's true that there are new inventions that solve a problem that had never been solved before, eg: neural implants for the profoundly deaf (cochlear.com).
But even here, the previous ways of addressing the problem will be replaced (services related to sign-language?)
NB: neural implants use a lot of IT!
If we see IT as just another technology, then there are two categories of "IT worker":
(1) workers reliant on an old technology, who are replaced by a new technology;
(2) creators of that new technology.
I think you have an interesting point about "putting its own workers out of a job", but I'd see that as (2) putting (1) out of a job. Usually, there are not so many (2) in an industry, and they don't work so fast as in IT...
Bookkeepers also do custom work - but what stops those needs from becoming standardized? Why don't businesses deliberately organize their affairs, so they fit within an exact model of a business, so that accountancy does become standardized? I think the reason is because different organizations of a business is often a competitive advantage - they don't want to standardize it; and if they did, straight off someone else would come up with a better organization and put them out of business.
I'm getting 50-70 KB/s at the moment, and accelerating (the direct link is 3-5 KB/s)
This isn't mine - an AC posted it... and got modded down. I can't believe it. This is the single most useful commenton this story - AND SOMEONE MODDED HIM DOWN!!!
Slashdot moderation really, really sucks. On other occasions, I've put some effort into comments, and they've also got modded down.
There's almost no point posting anything worthwhile, since no one will get to see it anyway.
It's a shame.
So, dear moderator, will you mod this comment up or down?
Especially after it was modded interesting, to +3
That's weird.
apple cinematic 23" $1,999
Sony 23" LCD $2,429
BTW: the resolution (1920x1200) is enough for HDTV.
I'm using the Apple 23" to type this. The real estate is great, but I miss the viewing angle of a CRT - viewing angle begins to matter when the display is that wide.
chapter 1 excerpt
radio interview with Larry Niven on Ringworld's Children.
And that's what's offensively commercial about it. It's less that the company makes money from it, than that the virtual girlfriend is acting like a prostitute.
And that's just so totally unlike real women!!
er...
in other news:
How could they possibly make such a simlpe mislake?
They are delicious.
How could they possibly make such a simlpe mislake?
Anyone there in person, who can report how he meant it?
Volunteer personal info, because targetted ads are more pleasant and useful than scattergun ads! (think Google adwords and Amazon suggestions).
This is an incentive for readers to volunteer personal information, at the level they are comfortable with - this self-selected data is more accurate.
I'm seeing ads that know I'm in Melbourne - and I pay more attention to them). This is key to Google's revenue model (Adwords targetting), and one of the great promises of the internet. Amazon's profile of your interests is seen as a benefit - I haven't heard complaints of that as an invasion of privacy.
Registration is not equivalent to purchase price, as that price covers printing/distribution, which are not incurred by internet editions (acknowledgment: the parent poster's insight)
The key is to let the user *choose* the level of personalization - eg: my city, but not my name or my income. This results in *much* more accurate data.... BUT news providers can not afford to value accuracy until their advertisers value it - until then, it's a waste of their effort.
I think the industry is too immature at present for advertisers to worry about accuracy... they are concerned with more basic stuff, like popularity of the website, and converting leads into sales.... "Does this thing actually work?" it's *still* a whole new ballgame for most advertizers. Accuracy is definitely second to these basics.... Once accuracy is valued, evidence of it will be required (but not at first - initially, voluntary data is self-evidently more accurate than bugmenot data etc).
sig without a cause
it's more like: hey, nicely done.
Close, but not sig
...also stand up, to support their heavier head? I am unfamiliar with these superintelligent bipedal elephants of which you (impliedly) speak. Close, but no sig