They are - there are several major European consortia, many involving the University of Sheffield where I work on Semantic Web Services, as well as lots of US work especially deriving from DARPA and CMU work on agents...
Record labels believe it is essential to establish file-sharing as illegal in the minds of the public [...]
Yeah? Even if they'd said sharing files of music to which copyright applies, how about establishing such in law before trying this?
I can't believe that these people were getting away, unchallenged, with such sweeping (not to mention incorrect) generalisations also on (UK) television this morning.
While its true that William S. Burroughs had a broad range of direct experience with lots and lots of drugs over many years, it is also true that he was a novelist and wrote fiction. Like a lot of his beat contemporaries, it becomes very hard to say how much he fictionalized his own life experiences.
Actually, Junkie and Queer are not fiction - only names are changed. It's not difficult at all to see that they are indeed relating direct experience when one reads his letters from the time (in Harris' collection, and back and forth with Ginsberg, as published by City Lights as 'The Yage Letters') as well as coincidence with non-fiction (such as Ginsberg's journals and Miles' interviews with those involved) and the semi-fictionalised accounts of Keruoac, Hunke etc.
Please don't tell me how to read Burroughs - after this many years of study I'll make up my own mind...
I'm not saying the distinction's not there to be made. I'm saying that shifting the language is "all the better" for the many charlatans practicing in the country whose medical texts you think I should read. I didn't even say it was by design; perhaps you're the one who should read more carefully...
"Addiction" is not a term used in the DSM any more
All the better to ignore the difference between physiological and psychological dependence and tell anyone with a habit that they're essentially a junkie and need to pay for treatment (including, but not limited to, non-addicting drugs like cannabis, and sex, gambling etc. etc. etc.)
They need to consider naming things that people can:
A) pronounce
B) spell
Sure the spelling of Vivisimo will already have been mentioned on Slashdot, but for that reason I call it viv-aiy-simo...
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OTOH, heroin's physiological addiction is pretty mild as such things go-- withdrawal from heroin is uncomfortable but not life-threatening, like withdrawal from several prescription drugs (antidepressants, diazepam, etc) can be. The cravings associated with heroin withdrawal are due to the strong psychological dependency.
While I agree that withdrawal from opiates is not as physically dangerous as withdrawl from certain classes of anti-depressants, which you quite rightly point can be life-threatening, its physical character is not to be under-estimated - William Burroughs (who also does a good job of distinguishing addicting substances from others, beyond the hype of his time) offers a chilling account (if you'll excuse the pun)...
No it isn't - what makes caffeine addictive, rather than dependency forming (like sweet foods used as an emotional crutch), is its withdrawl symptoms (which I thought were well known, and studied, but perhaps not...)
It's true, they should. (But this will never happen on the British rail network... on the London Underground, yes it's planned, but otherwise...)
As it goes Virgin (in the UK) are doing something for data (given that they operate long connections between hi-tech destinations, connecting, for instance, Yorkshire with Newcastle, Edinburgh and Southampton) with wireless on board... sadly only in first class - academics aren't allowed to travel first class:(
Yeah, but at least you get somewhere to plug in your laptop!
(Credit to Virgin for finally bringing this much-needed feature to the British rail network... by buying German trains!)
While Java is nominally statically typed, typing information is preserved into run-time, not least because using collections (pre 1.5) meant throwing away type information and casting (because the type system was ridiculously primitive, with no parametric polymorphism). It's comparisons against this typing information that allow ClassCastExceptions and IndexOutOfBoundsExceptions to be thrown at run-time (and furthermore that such RuntimeExceptions are built into the execution model that allows 'strong' typing at compile time, despite the inability to actually verify safety).
You're quite right that interaction is one of the reasons that classic ('functional') computation theory (with Turing machines being non-interactive, merely providing a computable function between input tape and output tape) is not the end of the debate. You have not taken the consequences far enough though.
Process algebras neatly take this concern together with the need to cover non-determinism due to concurrency, hence making the Pi-calculus a real rival to the Lambda-calculus as a fundamental theory of computation.
(Yes, I know, not even Robin Milner thinks it's actually the final word along this dimension and is looking for something more fundamental...)
Some faculty have suggested that in acknowledgment of Mr. Gates' profound influence on the computer software industry, the building should be painted bright blue.
I'm sorry, but that's an oxymoron. Gates has had a major influence on the Software Industry and is trying to have an (indirect) influence on Computer Science (quite separately) by sponsoring research in such places as CMU and Cambridge...
ICFP is more prestigous? Hmm.... I won't disagree, but I would be interested in why you think that this is the case.
It's probably primarily my bias as an academic.
You don't score many points with a community by (not just ignoring, but) out-lawing the last few decades of their work (i.e. on programming languages)!
RTFA - it's not about direct (competitive) loss of earnings, it's about loss of reputation due to the "adult type humour" in the version that's being passed off...
Slashdot Mirror
Have you thought about how this could bite you back?
They are - there are several major European consortia, many involving the University of Sheffield where I work on Semantic Web Services, as well as lots of US work especially deriving from DARPA and CMU work on agents...
In case it's not obvious, http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aantidisest ablishmentarianism fails completely,
unlike http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=antidises tablishmentarianism
and http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/findword?query_type= word&queryword=antidisestablishmentarianism
(The latter needing to come from a suitable IP, like a UK uni, or with an account...)
This is close, but I think still no one has implemented the service I was proposing a couple of years ago - a SMS dictionary service.
Imagine: you're sitting reading in a park, want a good definition of a word so you type it into your phone and get back instantly the OED definition.
Call me a geek, but I'd pay for that...
Yeah? Even if they'd said sharing files of music to which copyright applies, how about establishing such in law before trying this?
I can't believe that these people were getting away, unchallenged, with such sweeping (not to mention incorrect) generalisations also on (UK) television this morning.
Have we lost all sense of objectivity?
Bland? (Given especially that he was talking about wheat beer) Hoegaarden is anything but, with its coriander and curacao elements.
And you want to use Chimay as an example of a good Belgian?!? Have a read...
Actually, Junkie and Queer are not fiction - only names are changed. It's not difficult at all to see that they are indeed relating direct experience when one reads his letters from the time (in Harris' collection, and back and forth with Ginsberg, as published by City Lights as 'The Yage Letters') as well as coincidence with non-fiction (such as Ginsberg's journals and Miles' interviews with those involved) and the semi-fictionalised accounts of Keruoac, Hunke etc.
Please don't tell me how to read Burroughs - after this many years of study I'll make up my own mind...
I'm not saying the distinction's not there to be made. I'm saying that shifting the language is "all the better" for the many charlatans practicing in the country whose medical texts you think I should read. I didn't even say it was by design; perhaps you're the one who should read more carefully...
He didn't research - the New Scientist did.
He just quoted (on his blog) an IPR infringing amount of that article and found a few pictures.
He wasn't even the first to submit this to Slashdot - I, for one, did so last week the minute the advanced mail-out went out...
No it isn't - what makes caffeine addictive, rather than dependency forming (like sweet foods used as an emotional crutch), is its withdrawl symptoms (which I thought were well known, and studied, but perhaps not...)
Yeah, I thought the newer ICE trains I've used in Bavaria (including last week) were like the ones Virgin bought with a socket at every seat...
It's true, they should. (But this will never happen on the British rail network... on the London Underground, yes it's planned, but otherwise...)
As it goes Virgin (in the UK) are doing something for data (given that they operate long connections between hi-tech destinations, connecting, for instance, Yorkshire with Newcastle, Edinburgh and Southampton) with wireless on board... sadly only in first class - academics aren't allowed to travel first class :(
Yeah, but at least you get somewhere to plug in your laptop! (Credit to Virgin for finally bringing this much-needed feature to the British rail network... by buying German trains!)
While Java is nominally statically typed, typing information is preserved into run-time, not least because using collections (pre 1.5) meant throwing away type information and casting (because the type system was ridiculously primitive, with no parametric polymorphism). It's comparisons against this typing information that allow ClassCastExceptions and IndexOutOfBoundsExceptions to be thrown at run-time (and furthermore that such RuntimeExceptions are built into the execution model that allows 'strong' typing at compile time, despite the inability to actually verify safety).
You're quite right that interaction is one of the reasons that classic ('functional') computation theory (with Turing machines being non-interactive, merely providing a computable function between input tape and output tape) is not the end of the debate. You have not taken the consequences far enough though.
Process algebras neatly take this concern together with the need to cover non-determinism due to concurrency, hence making the Pi-calculus a real rival to the Lambda-calculus as a fundamental theory of computation.
(Yes, I know, not even Robin Milner thinks it's actually the final word along this dimension and is looking for something more fundamental...)
Very clever, but can you now defend 'parse lexically' by providing some examples of non-lexical parsing ;)
It's probably primarily my bias as an academic.
You don't score many points with a community by (not just ignoring, but) out-lawing the last few decades of their work (i.e. on programming languages)!
Imagine what one could do with a real language... http://haskell.org/libraries/#music
RTFA - it's not about direct (competitive) loss of earnings, it's about loss of reputation due to the "adult type humour" in the version that's being passed off...