Media built out of apparently random pieces of information - often non-original that are assembled to create a whole new experience... that occurred before the internet
Sampled Music - RAP, Hip Hop, etc...
Music Videos - every one ever made
non-linear film plots - Citizen Kane, Pulp Fiction...
Chicken Soup for the the XXXX part NNN
Its worth it to consider the concepts that Marshall MacLuhan developed concerning Media. His description of media being Hot or Cold is relevant. The television was hot and the print media was cold. Hot media has an inverse affect on our minds - it required less involvement and interraction. Whereas Cold media like a book required our mind to be active... What does this character look like, sound like... our minds are energized. Hot media like tv is "...relax and leave the driving to us..." How this can possibly activate our minds is beyond me.
I used to work for you, didn't I?
Yeah we worked at megacorp together. You were the senior manager of Inaction.
I remember you laid off 80% of the IT staff in 1999. And outsourced IT to Elbonia. Never made a mistake did you?
Of course you never "made" anything did you? You merely avoided making mistakes and decisions for your entire career. Oh wait, you did make smoe kick ass powerpoint presentations.
IQ is a term that we use very assuredly in our culture. But it is not a term/concept that has a very rational history. IQ was developed by a Dr. Binet years ago to identify "children" who might be at risk for learning problems. It was never intended to measure adult abilities. In fact it was not intended to indicate absolute ability only relative ability among same age children. The US Army can take credit for asking Stanford to modify Binets work and use it to measure recruits for possible placement in OTS.
IQ is a concept that has become "re-ified" that is made to appear "real" through the use of numbers and statistics that are lain on top of a questionable concept. What exactly is the IQ a measure of?
I tried to summarize this idea from Stephen Jay Goulds very important book "The Mismeasure of Man"
The DSM-IV "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" is the diagnostic codebook used in the US. But the terms sociopath and psychopath had a less formalised usage prior to the existence of the DSM. As such professionals are given to arguing for reinterpretation and layman are prone to min-interpretation. The current disorder is defined as "AntiSocial personality Disorder" which overlays both. Mental disorders don''t tend to fit into nice categories.
For a more current reference read the reports about the BTK killer. Although not yet legally defined as a socio/psycho path he certainly demonstrates the hallmarks.
Read Typically. And note that I didnt say they are emotionless merely that - as you say - their reactions tend to be more logic based than emotional.
My experience has been with relatives and neighbors who have been diagnosed both with Aspergers and HPA. The actual experience of an HPA/Aspy(?)will remain a mystery to all but the one diagnosed. But I think its well accepted that they are less likely engage in discourse that is emotionally motivated. Additionally our interpretations of discourses with people who tend toward HPA and Aspergers tend to be colored - I still am taken aback by the bluntness of some comments and then realize that the comments weren't meant to be personal - merely accurate.
I recall that a past article discussed Brams Asperger's/Autism tendencies. The presence of this trait in anyone would lead me to believe that what he states is pretty much legitimate. Folks with Aspergers/HP Autism don't typically react defensively.
That of course and the fact that he is a decent, intelligent person and could pretty much be regarded as the leading authority on this type of technology.
Lots of insightful comments about whether you should or shouldn't enroll in college. Whether its financially sound, etc... All valid points in a very BIG personal issue. But I see little discussion about what makes a College a College. TEACHERS. Where else you going to find an institution where at least some portion of the employees (albeit sometimes woefully low) are personally dedicated to making you smarter?
College sadly has been turned into an investment device - where its worth is measured in likelyhood of future revenues. I fell prey to that thinking too often in college. And as a result wasted much of my time in college rushing through classes trying to get out of college as soon as possible. Only one chance in your life to be young, impressionable and unburdened and college is a great place to be at that time.
The chasm is not in between two different industries. But between two different personality types. Technology is attractive to those who have the gift for abstraction (if I can envision it I control it). Traditional business is attractive to those that have the gift of concretism (if I can touch I can control it). Each personlity type in different environments has unique dis/advantages.
Abstract can move to Concrete over time. Think of our parents who like cash and dont *get* the idea ATMs, Credit etc... But eventually these abstractions of money - become concretized in culture and become more accessible. The same will happen with Electronic Media distribution. It will transform from an abstraction to a reality and it will be formalized just like any thing
Hmm - my understanding was that the Robinson Patman act was designed to prevent predatory pricing. This being the issue with large oil companies that forced out smaller oil companies by artificially selling oil cheaper in one region while charging higher prices in areas where there was no competition.
www.ftc.gov/speeches/other/patman.htm
Culturally, Americans like the Fair Deal concept. Other cultures find the "Fair Deal" concept laughable. They see it as a problem that Americans don't value money enough and that if you are dumb enough to spend too much - or conversely if a business is dumb enough to be duped into accepting a dishonest product return in the name of customer service. Well, then you deserve it.
Like the roach mobile with the 500 watt bass-thumpers wasnt annoying enough. After deafening me, Now they are going to fry my Nads with ultra-mega hi-power RoadCasters pumping RF into every car around them.
Damn, you talk good! - what you doing on Slashdot? you need to get one of those get-paid-to-blog jobs.
The patron has historically played a key role in many significant creative efforts. And, I truly believe that while many corporate leaders may be promoting the financial benefits of OSS in their professional capacity. It is their personal admiration for the work of these developers that led them to this tactic.
Does anybody actually proclaim themselves as a secularist, how many people who are effectively secularists would even consider claiming it in a poll?
The greatest *strength* that the new christian right has is that it has freed itself from intellectually rigorous moral/ethical self-analysis. And it defends itself from a bulwark built from over two millenia of cultural hubris.
Ironically its the same argument that can be made for the popularity of Muslim Fundamentalism in the Middle East. Join the party and leave the thinking to us!
Wow - from the sound of it I must have missed that day in B-School. Of course I have to stick by some of my original ideas. Microsoft has managed to keep loading the Corporate world with more and more solutions. An entire desktop suite, replacing a number of better competitors. A web/e-commerce solution, an Email solution. All areas outside of their original (assumed)core-technical emphasis, operating systems. I believe they did this by having an exceptionally aggressive and energetic corporate sales focus. Balmer sounds more like a salesman than a Executive. And what do I hear from Google's executives....? I dont like M$'s products but I respect the company.
I am too cautious to dismiss this comment. When was the last time you were paid a visit by a Google salesperson? Sorry the place M$ made its money was in the Corporate BoardRoom -- Talking the C*O's into to drinking the koolaid. Google will have a hard time getting the consistent flow of revenue without corporate accounts. Cash Flow improves revenue projections, which improves valuation, which encourages re-investment -- which keeps the cool stuff coming.
Yeah - well back in my day we didn't have your fancy monitors. We just had raw leads sticking out of the back of the computer - we would stick'em on our tongues and have to interpret the output bit by bit. Sure it it hurt sometimes - sweating in pain, working a slide rule to figure out the trickier images. But thats the way real men did it.
Zero's and Ones my boy - Zeros and ones
I agree, The marketplace for talent is a bit different now days. Employers accept that the economy for the past few years has made a spotless employment history much less likely. On a similar note... I worked for a manager with paranoia and "issues" with honesty. Now, its been a few years and I can be somewhat more understanding. But, for a while I was in fear that every potential employer was going to call up this idiot and ask his opinion of me. But, NOBODY goes to the trouble of looking up a reference unless you provide it to them. If they request contact info for this particular person. Be honest - you will provide the reference of peers at that job - but not that person. If they persist give them the details.
Okay there is a slight chance that you sincerely wanted to share something cool. But, your a savvy businessman now. And traditional media wouldn't even attempt to fake this kind of ingenuousness.
Suggestion - cobble up multiple ad-placements into some kind of SlashDot infomercial. Put some kind of title to it to that is sincere. "and now a word from our sponsors" and you could be forgiven.
I just linked to the pictures on the marsrover website. Gives you chills./.'ers get into raving discussions about technology thats obsoleted in a few months. And somewhere, somebody is DRIVING A FREAKIN VEHICLE AROUND ON ANOTHER PLANET, TAKING PICTURES!...geez i feel so insignificant, I need a hug.
geez, I gotta preview more often. the Power hog I meant was the CRT's not the CPU. Course that might have been an unconscious dig at Intel.
I wonder how many home and work appliances could be moved to lo-voltage. For two reasons. Take advantage of intelligience and the cost savings in wiring with UTP. I know that LED lights are going replace incandescents. Imagine house lights with network identities. Where each can have different behaviour profiles. You can have built in IR sensors that turn them on as soon as you sit down in front of them for x seconds, or merely walk infront of them.
I wonder with time whether this will have applications in the server room. Heats a major issue in most high capacity rack systems. The idea of not having to add more HVAC capacity and PDU access for every additional server is pretty cool. Plus no big issue with power hogs like CPU's and disk drives -as long as you keep the storage separate.
The folks overseas are hungrier, just as smart, and not as hamstrung by regulations as the US. They have and will continue to gain marketshare from us. What baffles me is why aren't large companies aren't re-structuring their strategic efforts to encourage innovation within the US. Microsoft, Oracle and big Consulting will get walloped in the near future by new companies formed in Russia and India - whose employee base was trained by US outsourcing dollars.
Ah - any government effort that starts with "Joint" is destined to produce nothing but paperwork and studies. Just as Private industy folks recognize the term "Cross-Functional" as a death sentence.
I have no doubts that the leadership of any J**** project has a general idea of what they need to say to continue to justify funding. But the likelihood of them actually producing something worthy of said funding is slim to nothing.
Censorship and Propoganda work hand in hand. You have to give people the impression that the truth is available to them - while simultaneously handling them falsehood - and filtering dissent. The average internet user in China could very well assume that they have access everything they need about the truth. Hey...they could call the Chinese Ministry of The Internet the Ministry of Truth...!
Slashdot Mirror
Media built out of apparently random pieces of information - often non-original that are assembled to create a whole new experience... that occurred before the internet Sampled Music - RAP, Hip Hop, etc... Music Videos - every one ever made non-linear film plots - Citizen Kane, Pulp Fiction... Chicken Soup for the the XXXX part NNN
Its worth it to consider the concepts that Marshall MacLuhan developed concerning Media. His description of media being Hot or Cold is relevant. The television was hot and the print media was cold. Hot media has an inverse affect on our minds - it required less involvement and interraction. Whereas Cold media like a book required our mind to be active... What does this character look like, sound like... our minds are energized. Hot media like tv is "...relax and leave the driving to us..." How this can possibly activate our minds is beyond me.
I used to work for you, didn't I?
Yeah we worked at megacorp together. You were the senior manager of Inaction.
I remember you laid off 80% of the IT staff in 1999. And outsourced IT to Elbonia. Never made a mistake did you?
Of course you never "made" anything did you? You merely avoided making mistakes and decisions for your entire career.
Oh wait, you did make smoe kick ass powerpoint presentations.
IQ is a term that we use very assuredly in our culture. But it is not a term/concept that has a very rational history. IQ was developed by a Dr. Binet years ago to identify "children" who might be at risk for learning problems. It was never intended to measure adult abilities. In fact it was not intended to indicate absolute ability only relative ability among same age children. The US Army can take credit for asking Stanford to modify Binets work and use it to measure recruits for possible placement in OTS.
IQ is a concept that has become "re-ified" that is made to appear "real" through the use of numbers and statistics that are lain on top of a questionable concept. What exactly is the IQ a measure of?
I tried to summarize this idea from Stephen Jay Goulds very important book "The Mismeasure of Man"
Klatu nik baratu? What they hell you talking about boy fire them missles!
The DSM-IV "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" is the diagnostic codebook used in the US. But the terms sociopath and psychopath had a less formalised usage prior to the existence of the DSM. As such professionals are given to arguing for reinterpretation and layman are prone to min-interpretation. The current disorder is defined as "AntiSocial personality Disorder" which overlays both. Mental disorders don''t tend to fit into nice categories.
For a more current reference read the reports about the BTK killer. Although not yet legally defined as a socio/psycho path he certainly demonstrates the hallmarks.
Read Typically. And note that I didnt say they are emotionless merely that - as you say - their reactions tend to be more logic based than emotional. My experience has been with relatives and neighbors who have been diagnosed both with Aspergers and HPA. The actual experience of an HPA/Aspy(?)will remain a mystery to all but the one diagnosed. But I think its well accepted that they are less likely engage in discourse that is emotionally motivated. Additionally our interpretations of discourses with people who tend toward HPA and Aspergers tend to be colored - I still am taken aback by the bluntness of some comments and then realize that the comments weren't meant to be personal - merely accurate.
I recall that a past article discussed Brams Asperger's/Autism tendencies. The presence of this trait in anyone would lead me to believe that what he states is pretty much legitimate. Folks with Aspergers/HP Autism don't typically react defensively. That of course and the fact that he is a decent, intelligent person and could pretty much be regarded as the leading authority on this type of technology.
Lots of insightful comments about whether you should or shouldn't enroll in college. Whether its financially sound, etc... All valid points in a very BIG personal issue. But I see little discussion about what makes a College a College. TEACHERS. Where else you going to find an institution where at least some portion of the employees (albeit sometimes woefully low) are personally dedicated to making you smarter? College sadly has been turned into an investment device - where its worth is measured in likelyhood of future revenues. I fell prey to that thinking too often in college. And as a result wasted much of my time in college rushing through classes trying to get out of college as soon as possible. Only one chance in your life to be young, impressionable and unburdened and college is a great place to be at that time.
The chasm is not in between two different industries. But between two different personality types. Technology is attractive to those who have the gift for abstraction (if I can envision it I control it). Traditional business is attractive to those that have the gift of concretism (if I can touch I can control it). Each personlity type in different environments has unique dis/advantages. Abstract can move to Concrete over time. Think of our parents who like cash and dont *get* the idea ATMs, Credit etc... But eventually these abstractions of money - become concretized in culture and become more accessible. The same will happen with Electronic Media distribution. It will transform from an abstraction to a reality and it will be formalized just like any thing
Hmm - my understanding was that the Robinson Patman act was designed to prevent predatory pricing. This being the issue with large oil companies that forced out smaller oil companies by artificially selling oil cheaper in one region while charging higher prices in areas where there was no competition. www.ftc.gov/speeches/other/patman.htm Culturally, Americans like the Fair Deal concept. Other cultures find the "Fair Deal" concept laughable. They see it as a problem that Americans don't value money enough and that if you are dumb enough to spend too much - or conversely if a business is dumb enough to be duped into accepting a dishonest product return in the name of customer service. Well, then you deserve it.
Like the roach mobile with the 500 watt bass-thumpers wasnt annoying enough. After deafening me, Now they are going to fry my Nads with ultra-mega hi-power RoadCasters pumping RF into every car around them.
Damn, you talk good! - what you doing on Slashdot? you need to get one of those get-paid-to-blog jobs. The patron has historically played a key role in many significant creative efforts. And, I truly believe that while many corporate leaders may be promoting the financial benefits of OSS in their professional capacity. It is their personal admiration for the work of these developers that led them to this tactic.
Does anybody actually proclaim themselves as a secularist, how many people who are effectively secularists would even consider claiming it in a poll? The greatest *strength* that the new christian right has is that it has freed itself from intellectually rigorous moral/ethical self-analysis. And it defends itself from a bulwark built from over two millenia of cultural hubris. Ironically its the same argument that can be made for the popularity of Muslim Fundamentalism in the Middle East. Join the party and leave the thinking to us!
Wow - from the sound of it I must have missed that day in B-School. Of course I have to stick by some of my original ideas. Microsoft has managed to keep loading the Corporate world with more and more solutions. An entire desktop suite, replacing a number of better competitors. A web/e-commerce solution, an Email solution. All areas outside of their original (assumed)core-technical emphasis, operating systems. I believe they did this by having an exceptionally aggressive and energetic corporate sales focus. Balmer sounds more like a salesman than a Executive. And what do I hear from Google's executives....? I dont like M$'s products but I respect the company.
I am too cautious to dismiss this comment. When was the last time you were paid a visit by a Google salesperson? Sorry the place M$ made its money was in the Corporate BoardRoom -- Talking the C*O's into to drinking the koolaid. Google will have a hard time getting the consistent flow of revenue without corporate accounts. Cash Flow improves revenue projections, which improves valuation, which encourages re-investment -- which keeps the cool stuff coming.
Yeah - well back in my day we didn't have your fancy monitors. We just had raw leads sticking out of the back of the computer - we would stick'em on our tongues and have to interpret the output bit by bit. Sure it it hurt sometimes - sweating in pain, working a slide rule to figure out the trickier images. But thats the way real men did it. Zero's and Ones my boy - Zeros and ones
I agree, The marketplace for talent is a bit different now days. Employers accept that the economy for the past few years has made a spotless employment history much less likely. On a similar note... I worked for a manager with paranoia and "issues" with honesty. Now, its been a few years and I can be somewhat more understanding. But, for a while I was in fear that every potential employer was going to call up this idiot and ask his opinion of me. But, NOBODY goes to the trouble of looking up a reference unless you provide it to them. If they request contact info for this particular person. Be honest - you will provide the reference of peers at that job - but not that person. If they persist give them the details.
Okay there is a slight chance that you sincerely wanted to share something cool. But, your a savvy businessman now. And traditional media wouldn't even attempt to fake this kind of ingenuousness. Suggestion - cobble up multiple ad-placements into some kind of SlashDot infomercial. Put some kind of title to it to that is sincere. "and now a word from our sponsors" and you could be forgiven.
I just linked to the pictures on the marsrover website. Gives you chills. /.'ers get into raving discussions about technology thats obsoleted in a few months. And somewhere, somebody is DRIVING A FREAKIN VEHICLE AROUND ON ANOTHER PLANET, TAKING PICTURES! ...geez i feel so insignificant, I need a hug.
geez, I gotta preview more often. the Power hog I meant was the CRT's not the CPU. Course that might have been an unconscious dig at Intel. I wonder how many home and work appliances could be moved to lo-voltage. For two reasons. Take advantage of intelligience and the cost savings in wiring with UTP. I know that LED lights are going replace incandescents. Imagine house lights with network identities. Where each can have different behaviour profiles. You can have built in IR sensors that turn them on as soon as you sit down in front of them for x seconds, or merely walk infront of them.
I wonder with time whether this will have applications in the server room. Heats a major issue in most high capacity rack systems. The idea of not having to add more HVAC capacity and PDU access for every additional server is pretty cool. Plus no big issue with power hogs like CPU's and disk drives -as long as you keep the storage separate.
The folks overseas are hungrier, just as smart, and not as hamstrung by regulations as the US. They have and will continue to gain marketshare from us. What baffles me is why aren't large companies aren't re-structuring their strategic efforts to encourage innovation within the US. Microsoft, Oracle and big Consulting will get walloped in the near future by new companies formed in Russia and India - whose employee base was trained by US outsourcing dollars.
Ah - any government effort that starts with "Joint" is destined to produce nothing but paperwork and studies. Just as Private industy folks recognize the term "Cross-Functional" as a death sentence. I have no doubts that the leadership of any J**** project has a general idea of what they need to say to continue to justify funding. But the likelihood of them actually producing something worthy of said funding is slim to nothing.
Censorship and Propoganda work hand in hand. You have to give people the impression that the truth is available to them - while simultaneously handling them falsehood - and filtering dissent. The average internet user in China could very well assume that they have access everything they need about the truth. Hey...they could call the Chinese Ministry of The Internet the Ministry of Truth...!