The Network Effect is often praised because value increases for each user the more users are connected to a platform, but the problem is that it shifts rewards from being good to being merely big. This is the origin of the MS-DOS/M$ tragedy. It is also the origin of the Facebook tragedy. There are many other examples, probably the biggest tragedy of all being the Federal Reserve currency being the international reserve currency. Its bad enough when you have something like the QWERTY (rather than the Dvorak) keyboard creating lock-in to a standard but at least when you have an open standard into which people are locked by the network effect, no one is becoming a Bill Gates or Carlos Slim. Its when the network effect is turned into a business model that the really nasty effects on the society start working their dark magic.
It seems there are some significant problems with Chrome on Windows that go beyond Windows' standard brain damage. The problems I've run into have been numerous enough that I've had to drop Chrome on my Windows machine and go to Firefox. Everyone is familiar with the usual disk pounding that Windows considers more important than servicing user events such as mouse clicks, etc. However, in the case of Chrome it seems very much worse. Firefox -- no problem. (Yes, all the usual suspects such as extensions, plugins, malware/virus scans etc. have been dealt with.)
In relational programming, everything has more than one result possible so it naturally lends itself to exception handling where there are "unexpected" results.
A good example is the way Horn clauses present alternatives in Prolog -- although what you really want is not Prolog but something more like XSB with tabling and incremental table maintenance.
It is the theocratic dogma that heterogeneity (localized diversity) yields symbiosis, as in "diversity is our strength". To even question whether this might be wrong is tantamount to being a pariah in all aspects of life from personal to professional -- so powerful is the state-sponsored religion incorporating this dogma.
As usual, theocratic dogmas, rigorously enforced, frequently have unintended consequences. In the case of the dogma of heterogeneity there is the unintended consequence which evolutionary dynamics calls "horizontal transmission". Horizontal transmission is a mode of evolutionary success is based on, what in the vernacular we might call, "hit and run": The evolutionary fate of a stationary system (organism or ecosystem) is decoupled that of another, temporarily co-located, but mobile, replicator.
The result is always the same: The mobile replicator's evolutionary optimum is to totally disregard the viability of its temporary "partner" since it does not share in the fate of the "partner". This relationship is sometimes called "parasitism". That, in an age of jumbo-jet air transport, we might see such evolutionary dynamics play out is as inevitable as it is "sinful" to even think about.
The religious dogma demands that heterogeneity be thought of as evolving only "symbiosis", not "parasitism". This would be the case if there were no escape route for the immigrant replicators -- as they would be forced into "vertical transmission" which, in the vernacular means "sleeping in the bed you made for yourself (and others)". Even if we were somehow able to shut off further migration after allowing immigration, the costs of evolving symbiosis are profound: The vast majority of the immobile heterogenous ecologies resulting from the initial period of immigration would include at least a few replicators that might be thought of as "defectors" in an evolutionary prisoner's dilemma. Therefore the vast majority of ecologies would experience at least pathology if not death outright.
Kick IBM, HP, et al, out of the US to India where they belong. India can have them. The US can treat the patent portfolios with all the respect and care that Asian giants have treated US patents in the past.
Its unfortunate that David P. Reed didn't take my advice offered back in 1982 when I was manager of interactive architectures at Viewdata Corp. of America, to make his NAMOS object ids? the addresses being routed, rather than trying to shoe-horn quasi-routing information into the oids as part of the spec. The initial, boot-strapping, problem of limited resources in the computers of the early Internet, could have been addressed by, until Moore's law liberated them, presuming an object remains resident on its system of origin and then making the early addresses consist of a system id serial number, bit-reversed in the top bits of a 64-bit oid, and the serial number of that system's oid's residing in the bottom bits. By the time the system id incremented to encroach on the highest oids, Moore's law would have liberated the system of residence of objects (via distributed hash), In these conditions, no net applications would ever have had to reference routing as information ultimately and forever embedded in addresses and everything would be pure peer-to-peer, object messaging.
30 years later, perhaps, finally, something can be done with IPv6.
Its ridiculous for the computer industry to have standardized on such huge step backward in programming technology -- especially while continually claiming that some dynamic language or other that has been around at least as long is "the next big thing". The reason Java is dominant is because Vinod Khosla saw an opportunity to create a new platform that would require huge armies of programmers to get a simple job done. This he wanted because he's an ethnic nepotist who sees that the strength of his ethnicity is in numbers, youth and the ability for them to form families without the enormous and futile investment in non-sexist courtship behaviors -- so they can focus on acquiring their life titles of nobilities (known as "degrees"), thence on their careers -- rather than on a very basic survival need: reproduction.
So import huge numbers of life-titled Indians to get their MBAs paid for by the likes of HP, Microsoft, IBM not to mention the erstwhile Sun Microsystems -- and them move them into Fortune 1000 positions where they can dictate the platform that they used in undergraduate work in India become the Fortune 1000 standard platform.
Anyone who spent their career advancing their skills and tools to the most productive even as they pioneered the computer and network revolution, would then be told that their knowledge was "obsolete" to make way for young guys who have had their brains scrambled and are now "enlightened".
Ah, I see what you mean. The police officer can walk onto private property against the expressed wishes of the owner and modify that private property in a way that goes well beyond a person, in a public place, carrying a concealed device with which he records his conversation with another person. The person recording the conversation, conducted in a public place, can be thrown in jail but the "law"-enforcement officer secretly modifying and recording things on private property cannot be thrown in jail.
The public education system never ceases to amaze me with its products, such as those who can read "Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, your private property is public for the law, with or without a warrant." as meaning "Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, an open field is public for the law, with or without a warrant."
Is it ok to use parabolic microphones during this covert surveillance conducted without a warrant?
If so, is it ok to use advanced signal processing technology to covertly and without a warrant see as well as listen through the walls of a home that has EM emanating from a wifi router in the house?
If so, is it ok to use EM emanating from the police car radio, incidental to routine police communications to covertly and without a warrant see as well as listen through the walls of a home?
If so, is it ok to deliberately project EM from the police car --- say in the form of a simple flashlight -- onto the private property to get a better look?
So, when a psycho decides a buxom babe secretly, subconsciously, loves him and he engages in covert video surveillance without a warrant, is he no more guilty of "stalking" than is a "law"-enforcement officer engaging in covert video surveillance without a warrent?
First, there was an error in my editing: The question "Why isn't this work being funded?" was regarding the first item, not the second. Your response was nonresponsive to the first item in any event as it said nothing about the absence of data on the relationship between photosynthetic efficiency and percent lipid productdion. That relationship is still largely unquantified by research and it is central to economy of algae as biofuel feedstock. Moving to the highest solar availability on the planet isn't enough to overcome photsynthetic limits of current algae/bioreactor/pond systems. Run the numbers. Its trivial to convince yourself that the insolation at the equator is nowhere near enough. (Solazyme? You obviously have no idea of the net photosyntheetic efficiency of going through another trophic layer.)
Second, you ignored the real point of the item which is that the economics of algae macroengineering have pretty much ignored the amino acid production. A few farms here and there (the largest is in the Imperial Valley and its only tens of acres) doesn't count as macroengineering and the markets they're addressing are not agricultural feedstock, except as a novelty.
Third, if you want to look at the actual market size for nutreceuticals as opposed to say, soybean substitutes in agricultural feedstocks, you might learn something. Its called "market research". You should try it sometime.
Fourth, getting most people to eat it as a major part of their diet won't happen for the simple reason that it produces gout in humans. Try getting even 10% of your protein from a nutraceutical algae for a month and see whether the searing pain in your joints at the end of that month could be overcome by any amount of "cultural shift". The problem with agriculture is not the culture of agriculture, its the cost. Soybeans are hundreds of dollars per tonne. Algae of a grade that can be feed to livestock, or even fish, is at least thousands of dollars per tonne.
Fifth, it is obvious you haven't even done the back-of-the-napkin arithmetic on photosynthetic efficiency vs market value of biomass vs capital service cost per area of cultivation system vs insolation. Try it sometime. I did it back in the 90s and have been watching in horror as people of your mentality have been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a rat-hole rather than working the real -- and solvable -- problems.
The solution to the H-1b abuse problem is to simply evict corporations from the US. Outsource not only IBM's programmers, but their entire executive suite and board of directors. The political zeitgeist of immigration is basically that no nation has a right to its territory when there are people elsewhere -- even if numbering in the billions -- that want to "seek a better life". Why not take the "better life" to them where they live? GIVE them IBM, HP, et al and good riddance.
First of all, there is no study that plots photosynthetic efficiency against percent biomass output as lipids for ANY species of algae.
Second, what is known of lipid production is that it is a response to nutrient stress -- which means the photosynthetic efficiency is highest with optimal nutrients but the biomass is going to be dominated by non-lipids. Why isn't this work being funded?
Third, the optimal nutrient biomass is largely amino acids and although amino acids have lower market value than lipids (in the large scale markets like agricultural feedstocks and fuels) the gain in photosynthetic efficiency means you have to pay attention to amino acid market value or you are missing basic economics.
Fourth, if you start producing amino acids on a macroengineering scale, you are going to be reducing overall demand for fertilizers because the efficiency of utilization is so higher in algal photosynthesis than it is in, say, soybeans.
Fifth, O&M cost of nutrients (including water and agricultural grade CO2 as well as NPK) are high but the debt service cost of the photobioreactors (or ponds) per unit output is even higher -- so you had better pay _very_ close attention to photosynthetic efficiency as that drives your total area, hence capital cost.
You criticize Nowak et al's "The Evolution of Eusociality", and in particular E. O. Wilson's popularized version in "The Social Conquest of Earth", in part, as failing to address Alex Kacelnik's argument that "kin selection is the only way in which worker adaptations such as soldier jaws and honeypot abdomens – phenotypes that are never expressed in reproductive individuals – could have evolved". However, isn't it the case that your own work in "The Extended Phenotype" shows how a parasite's genes can express in its host, up to and including castration? If so, what organism is in a better position to parasitically castrate a host than is a queen her own offspring?
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Beat that.
The solution is to stop taxing economic activity (capital gains, income, sales, value added, etc) and instead tax market-assessed liquid value of assets.
Of course, not many people are going to really understand this idea so it must be demonstrated by those who do get it.
That's why we need Sortocracy.
No, what's going on here is ridiculous software engineering.
It seems there are some significant problems with Chrome on Windows that go beyond Windows' standard brain damage. The problems I've run into have been numerous enough that I've had to drop Chrome on my Windows machine and go to Firefox. Everyone is familiar with the usual disk pounding that Windows considers more important than servicing user events such as mouse clicks, etc. However, in the case of Chrome it seems very much worse. Firefox -- no problem. (Yes, all the usual suspects such as extensions, plugins, malware/virus scans etc. have been dealt with.)
A good example is the way Horn clauses present alternatives in Prolog -- although what you really want is not Prolog but something more like XSB with tabling and incremental table maintenance.
Populists!!!
Horizontal transmission
Vertical transmission
Evolution of virulence
Ignorance appears to be clever to the stupid.
As usual, theocratic dogmas, rigorously enforced, frequently have unintended consequences. In the case of the dogma of heterogeneity there is the unintended consequence which evolutionary dynamics calls "horizontal transmission". Horizontal transmission is a mode of evolutionary success is based on, what in the vernacular we might call, "hit and run": The evolutionary fate of a stationary system (organism or ecosystem) is decoupled that of another, temporarily co-located, but mobile, replicator.
The result is always the same: The mobile replicator's evolutionary optimum is to totally disregard the viability of its temporary "partner" since it does not share in the fate of the "partner". This relationship is sometimes called "parasitism". That, in an age of jumbo-jet air transport, we might see such evolutionary dynamics play out is as inevitable as it is "sinful" to even think about.
The religious dogma demands that heterogeneity be thought of as evolving only "symbiosis", not "parasitism". This would be the case if there were no escape route for the immigrant replicators -- as they would be forced into "vertical transmission" which, in the vernacular means "sleeping in the bed you made for yourself (and others)". Even if we were somehow able to shut off further migration after allowing immigration, the costs of evolving symbiosis are profound: The vast majority of the immobile heterogenous ecologies resulting from the initial period of immigration would include at least a few replicators that might be thought of as "defectors" in an evolutionary prisoner's dilemma. Therefore the vast majority of ecologies would experience at least pathology if not death outright.
Kick IBM, HP, et al, out of the US to India where they belong. India can have them. The US can treat the patent portfolios with all the respect and care that Asian giants have treated US patents in the past.
But its ok because the guys who built the industry were white guys.
30 years later, perhaps, finally, something can be done with IPv6.
Its ridiculous for the computer industry to have standardized on such huge step backward in programming technology -- especially while continually claiming that some dynamic language or other that has been around at least as long is "the next big thing". The reason Java is dominant is because Vinod Khosla saw an opportunity to create a new platform that would require huge armies of programmers to get a simple job done. This he wanted because he's an ethnic nepotist who sees that the strength of his ethnicity is in numbers, youth and the ability for them to form families without the enormous and futile investment in non-sexist courtship behaviors -- so they can focus on acquiring their life titles of nobilities (known as "degrees"), thence on their careers -- rather than on a very basic survival need: reproduction.
So import huge numbers of life-titled Indians to get their MBAs paid for by the likes of HP, Microsoft, IBM not to mention the erstwhile Sun Microsystems -- and them move them into Fortune 1000 positions where they can dictate the platform that they used in undergraduate work in India become the Fortune 1000 standard platform.
Anyone who spent their career advancing their skills and tools to the most productive even as they pioneered the computer and network revolution, would then be told that their knowledge was "obsolete" to make way for young guys who have had their brains scrambled and are now "enlightened".
Obviously this is an attempt to biologize intelligence which, as we all know, is on the slippery slope to becoming anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
Makes perfect sense. All one has to do is RTFA.
What a piece of work is public education.
If so, is it ok to use advanced signal processing technology to covertly and without a warrant see as well as listen through the walls of a home that has EM emanating from a wifi router in the house?
If so, is it ok to use EM emanating from the police car radio, incidental to routine police communications to covertly and without a warrant see as well as listen through the walls of a home?
If so, is it ok to deliberately project EM from the police car --- say in the form of a simple flashlight -- onto the private property to get a better look?
Am I now, by asking these questions, suspect?
So, when a psycho decides a buxom babe secretly, subconsciously, loves him and he engages in covert video surveillance without a warrant, is he no more guilty of "stalking" than is a "law"-enforcement officer engaging in covert video surveillance without a warrent?
Second, you ignored the real point of the item which is that the economics of algae macroengineering have pretty much ignored the amino acid production. A few farms here and there (the largest is in the Imperial Valley and its only tens of acres) doesn't count as macroengineering and the markets they're addressing are not agricultural feedstock, except as a novelty.
Third, if you want to look at the actual market size for nutreceuticals as opposed to say, soybean substitutes in agricultural feedstocks, you might learn something. Its called "market research". You should try it sometime.
Fourth, getting most people to eat it as a major part of their diet won't happen for the simple reason that it produces gout in humans. Try getting even 10% of your protein from a nutraceutical algae for a month and see whether the searing pain in your joints at the end of that month could be overcome by any amount of "cultural shift". The problem with agriculture is not the culture of agriculture, its the cost. Soybeans are hundreds of dollars per tonne. Algae of a grade that can be feed to livestock, or even fish, is at least thousands of dollars per tonne.
Fifth, it is obvious you haven't even done the back-of-the-napkin arithmetic on photosynthetic efficiency vs market value of biomass vs capital service cost per area of cultivation system vs insolation. Try it sometime. I did it back in the 90s and have been watching in horror as people of your mentality have been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a rat-hole rather than working the real -- and solvable -- problems.
Yeah its about time the US respect patents as do Asian countries.
The solution to the H-1b abuse problem is to simply evict corporations from the US. Outsource not only IBM's programmers, but their entire executive suite and board of directors. The political zeitgeist of immigration is basically that no nation has a right to its territory when there are people elsewhere -- even if numbering in the billions -- that want to "seek a better life". Why not take the "better life" to them where they live? GIVE them IBM, HP, et al and good riddance.
Second, what is known of lipid production is that it is a response to nutrient stress -- which means the photosynthetic efficiency is highest with optimal nutrients but the biomass is going to be dominated by non-lipids. Why isn't this work being funded?
Third, the optimal nutrient biomass is largely amino acids and although amino acids have lower market value than lipids (in the large scale markets like agricultural feedstocks and fuels) the gain in photosynthetic efficiency means you have to pay attention to amino acid market value or you are missing basic economics.
Fourth, if you start producing amino acids on a macroengineering scale, you are going to be reducing overall demand for fertilizers because the efficiency of utilization is so higher in algal photosynthesis than it is in, say, soybeans.
Fifth, O&M cost of nutrients (including water and agricultural grade CO2 as well as NPK) are high but the debt service cost of the photobioreactors (or ponds) per unit output is even higher -- so you had better pay _very_ close attention to photosynthetic efficiency as that drives your total area, hence capital cost.
The response should be to open source more of the movie magic technologies and put the goddamn studios out of business once and for all.
Someone should immediately notify the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 3D Printing.
Hate becomes a crime during the last stages of consolidating tyranny.
You criticize Nowak et al's "The Evolution of Eusociality", and in particular E. O. Wilson's popularized version in "The Social Conquest of Earth", in part, as failing to address Alex Kacelnik's argument that "kin selection is the only way in which worker adaptations such as soldier jaws and honeypot abdomens – phenotypes that are never expressed in reproductive individuals – could have evolved". However, isn't it the case that your own work in "The Extended Phenotype" shows how a parasite's genes can express in its host, up to and including castration? If so, what organism is in a better position to parasitically castrate a host than is a queen her own offspring?