Verbal-Linguistic -- The ability to use words and language
Logical-Mathematical -- The capacity for inductive and deductive thinking and reasoning, as well as the use of numbers and the recognition of abstract patterns
Visual-Spatial -- The ability to visualize objects and spatial dimensions, and create internal images and pictures
Body-Kinesthetic -- The wisdom of the body and the ability to control physical motion
Musical-Rhythmic -- The ability to recognize tonal patterns and sounds, as well as a sensitivity to rhythms and beats
Interpersonal -- The capacity for person-to-person communications and relationships
Intrapersonal -- The spiritual, inner states of being, self-reflection, and awareness
Naturalistic -- The ability to discern patterns in nature
Yes proprietory software can't be easily customized, particularly if it can't be scripted or take plugins, so its complexity has to grow.
Microsoft should ensure all their software can be easily customized through scripts and plugins, even to the extent of over-riding parts of the code via published hook APIs. This would allow closed source products to be patched.
I had an installed machine control system crashing with a VM error about every two weeks, luckily eventually fixed by upgrading the JRE to a later patch version.
As for the class libraries, the desktops of the machines are littered with hs_err files from a still unresolved problem with the plugin library. Plus there is a mod I would like to make to the serial port library if I had access to the code (no response from Sun to my requests to look at a fix). There's RxTx, but now I've got to get my client to pay for the changeover.
Sun have started to open parts of Java, but I've moved to alternatives where possible for new projects.
I'm amazed at how increasingly irrelevant Microsoft products are becoming to my use of computers, both privately and as a developer. With OSS, the fact that I can fix it myself trumps any modest disparity in features, maturity, or price.
And the price of OSS is not its main draw. I chose to develop a number of projects with Java rather than Visual Studio because VS was expensive to buy, while Java cost nothing. But then I was frustrated by my dependence on Sun to fix problems in the closed VM and class libraries. So I'm now developing on an OSS language and framework.
Interestingly the orbit simulator shows that it came closest to Pluto around the time Pluto was discovered.
It was also damn close to Neptune in the latter part of the 19th Century, particularly 1869 and 1891, and inside the orbit of Neptune in the 1870s & 80s.
If there's hardly any user interaction, why do installs take so long. With hard disks being so big, there's no reason to pick and choose which parts of an OS to install -- just install all "packages". So why can't the install process just do a raw copy of an image from DVD, and do a few post-copy fix-ups? Total install time five minutes.
NASA has always had a debris inspection and launch anomaly review team that reviews taped views of the launches. It was this team that saw the fatal foam hunk strike Columbia's wing as well as note the O-ring failures on Challenger.
Wasn't the Columbia launch footage poor because the main tracking camera or camera platform was not working at the time? Anyone know the details?
Why wasn't it written in something more portable, like java, in the first place?
The ATO have a Java app for submitting Goods & Services tax returns. It once only worked in Microsoft's JVM, now only on Sun's VM, but still only installs on MS-Windows.
GST returns and tax account management can also be done via ATO's website, but because it uses a custom Java-based authentication system, it too is only supported on Microsoft Windows, though I've managed to hack it to work on Linux.
Can't micropayments be simplified for the user by allowing them to build a white-list of sites that are each given permission to charge at most x cents for each chunk of content of size y? Agents built into the browser would verify compliance and approve payment.
This is a more fine-grained version of user-pays than subscriptions, enhancing competition and giving users more variety.
I have the same problem with Mozilla mail (1.7.7) on Linux. Eventually email stops popping, and I have to restart Mozilla to get the messages off the server -- sometimes a hundred if I've failed to notice they've stopped coming in.
In the case of "droids vs clones", who really cares how many were killed on each side because more could always be wheeled on - the first trilogy turned warfare into something very sterile and remote whereas in the second trilogy we saw and felt genuine loss, whether it was an X-Wing pilot, Hoth infantryman or an Ewok.
Other than the reddened face of Vader, I don't think you ever see blood.
Lightsabres may cauterize, but blasters?
I like it when the featured article on a Google News topic is from some
obscure publication in some distant part of the world. It broadens my consumption
of journalism, often providing an interesting different point of view.
Interesting. Maybe Venus is a better candidate. A team of replicating nanobots, covering the planet's surface and absorbing most of the incident solar energy, should be able to get a lot done very quickly.
The big bang was a large amount of energy compressed into a very small space, so it had very low entropy.
Is there currently any scientific explanation for the spontaneous creation of such an energy-laden pinprick of a universe? Quantum fluctuation in another universe? Does cosmology still need a God of the first cause?
If, in IE6, MS had simply not bothered to include the code to open new windows automatically, the world would be a better place, and few people would have felt the need to switch to better browsers. Any sane web designer has come to realise that their user's hate popups. Further, any sane web designer has to deal with the fact that their 'legitimate' popups are likely to be blocked. Thus, any sane web developer should just stop using popups as part of the actual site, so all popups can be assumed ads, and we can just abandon the feature entirely.
Resrictions on what a programmer can make a browser do may be great for general Internet use, but is a pain if you are either on an intranet or using HTML as the user interface for a machine or kiosk. I had to uninstall Windows XP SP2 on the computer controlling a machine because it stopped Javascript being able to print a frame or window without first bringing up a print dialog box.
I did not make any reference to time at all and the time it takes to create an intelligent complicated device is not relevant. What is relevant however is that the device contains an incredible amount of INFORMATION, which CANNOT, according information theory arise from randomness, but only from another source of information.
While the total entropy of a closed system must rise, that doesn't mean that there can't be isolated pockets of entropy reduction (information creation), balanced by regions of increased randomness. For example the sun is graduallly messing itself up to allow the earth to be more ordered.
The interesting question is where all the potential inherent in the big bang came from.
Well unlike the USB plug, which is designed to be hot-pluggable by setting the data pins back 1mm from the +5V and GND pins, the PS/2 plug can be inserted in a way that mates the +5V and data lines before the GND is connected. I've certainly experienced hangs, reboots, and sparks from hot plugging PS/2 cables, and a cousin once needed a new power supply after doing it.
Googlesearches turn up similar warnings, so I don't think it's a superstition.
If one wants to hot plug a PS/2 connection I'd suggest: (1), keeping the plug as perpendicular to the socket as possible, and (2), inserting as rapidly as possible.
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Microsoft should ensure all their software can be easily customized through scripts and plugins, even to the extent of over-riding parts of the code via published hook APIs. This would allow closed source products to be patched.
I had an installed machine control system crashing with a VM error about every two weeks, luckily eventually fixed by upgrading the JRE to a later patch version.
As for the class libraries, the desktops of the machines are littered with hs_err files from a still unresolved problem with the plugin library. Plus there is a mod I would like to make to the serial port library if I had access to the code (no response from Sun to my requests to look at a fix). There's RxTx, but now I've got to get my client to pay for the changeover.
Sun have started to open parts of Java, but I've moved to alternatives where possible for new projects.
OSS development can be so damn agile I'm sure some OneNote clone or variant will soon be competitive. MS's bulwark is their patent frenzy.
And the price of OSS is not its main draw. I chose to develop a number of projects with Java rather than Visual Studio because VS was expensive to buy, while Java cost nothing. But then I was frustrated by my dependence on Sun to fix problems in the closed VM and class libraries. So I'm now developing on an OSS language and framework.
Oops, a bit off on the orbit relative to Neptune. I was viewing inclined from the ecliptic plane at the time.
It was also damn close to Neptune in the latter part of the 19th Century, particularly 1869 and 1891, and inside the orbit of Neptune in the 1870s & 80s.
Word. Whenever I get a Microsoft security certificate I always click the "Always trust content from Microsoft Inc." button.
If there's hardly any user interaction, why do installs take so long. With hard disks being so big, there's no reason to pick and choose which parts of an OS to install -- just install all "packages". So why can't the install process just do a raw copy of an image from DVD, and do a few post-copy fix-ups? Total install time five minutes.
Wasn't the Columbia launch footage poor because the main tracking camera or camera platform was not working at the time? Anyone know the details?
The ATO have a Java app for submitting Goods & Services tax returns. It once only worked in Microsoft's JVM, now only on Sun's VM, but still only installs on MS-Windows.
GST returns and tax account management can also be done via ATO's website, but because it uses a custom Java-based authentication system, it too is only supported on Microsoft Windows, though I've managed to hack it to work on Linux.
This is a more fine-grained version of user-pays than subscriptions, enhancing competition and giving users more variety.
I have the same problem with Mozilla mail (1.7.7) on Linux. Eventually email stops popping, and I have to restart Mozilla to get the messages off the server -- sometimes a hundred if I've failed to notice they've stopped coming in.
"Learning to Be Me". Interzone #37, July 1990. Also in Egan's anthology Axiomatic
Other than the reddened face of Vader, I don't think you ever see blood. Lightsabres may cauterize, but blasters?
I like it when the featured article on a Google News topic is from some obscure publication in some distant part of the world. It broadens my consumption of journalism, often providing an interesting different point of view.
Interesting. Maybe Venus is a better candidate. A team of replicating nanobots, covering the planet's surface and absorbing most of the incident solar energy, should be able to get a lot done very quickly.
"Micro-soft Willie", another epithet from which great things have grown.
Is there currently any scientific explanation for the spontaneous creation of such an energy-laden pinprick of a universe? Quantum fluctuation in another universe? Does cosmology still need a God of the first cause?
Resrictions on what a programmer can make a browser do may be great for general Internet use, but is a pain if you are either on an intranet or using HTML as the user interface for a machine or kiosk. I had to uninstall Windows XP SP2 on the computer controlling a machine because it stopped Javascript being able to print a frame or window without first bringing up a print dialog box.
I did not make any reference to time at all and the time it takes to create an intelligent complicated device is not relevant. What is relevant however is that the device contains an incredible amount of INFORMATION, which CANNOT, according information theory arise from randomness, but only from another source of information.
While the total entropy of a closed system must rise, that doesn't mean that there can't be isolated pockets of entropy reduction (information creation), balanced by regions of increased randomness. For example the sun is graduallly messing itself up to allow the earth to be more ordered.
The interesting question is where all the potential inherent in the big bang came from.
Google searches turn up similar warnings, so I don't think it's a superstition.
If one wants to hot plug a PS/2 connection I'd suggest: (1), keeping the plug as perpendicular to the socket as possible, and (2), inserting as rapidly as possible.
A lot of people hotplug PS/2 connectors, but doing that can easily damage the PS/2 port or fry your power supply.
Online collaborative filtering would help sort the wheat from the chaff.
and thought the solution was to reverse the polarity.