Should we NOT care what our politicians are doing?
B.F. Skinner writes in "Beyond freedom and dignity":
"To refuse to control is to leave control not to the person himself,
but to other parts of the social and nonsocial environments."
This piece is just plain irrational. It's B.S. from politicians
unable to cope with the demands of the people.
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR),
a part of The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),
made a pretty clear report about the 2004 (US) presidential election:
Report
The voting machines are a problem.
Did this study operationalize "students with controlling parents" vs. "students without controlling parents", or what this a study of "controlling parents deny gaming on weekdays" vs. "controlling parents who do not deny gaming on weekdays"? This is the question here. GIVE KIDS LIBERTY AND THEY WILL MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE!
That is just a totally ridiculous way to waste money. If the umerican government actually have people employed to READ a lot of text to see what peoples opinions are; good; people can sometimes *get* how other people feel about a topic (though not often). But a machine? COME ON! NLP has not moved (forward) AT ALL since it came. To rely on (and/or) pay for something like this is just a waste of money. An overoptimistic academic wanking-session doomed to fail. (I've seen it before).
They should use that money on I.Q. testing/screening the next presidential candidates; that will improve that "homeland thingy" more than anything.
Well.. I think the kernel analogy is far from precise. The kernel (at least the monolithic one) is a far too complex and massive system to be paralelled to the thalamus. I think interrupt-controller is a more suitable analogy. Shit comes in and shit goes out and control is being enforced (to some extent).
Drivers in a kernel would in the brain be something like "control of muscular movement" (cerebellum, parts of cortex, somatic part of the peripheral nervous system, etc...), interfaces would be something like "riding a bike" (using all the "drivers" for muscular movement, balance, memorysystems for planning route, motivational systems for motivation, sensory systems for navigation and real-time collision avoidance, etc...).
The Thalamus is (at least as I see it) an interruptcontroller issuing "interrupt service routines" on a regular basis, telling our brain that we are about to loose our balance or crash into the tree in front of us.
The (brain) kernel is the abstract "mind"/"soul" "thing" that is a mental superorganism made up of all our brains organs.
Well music is a far bigger industry than just one branch of a console market. The money involved is enourmous, even ridiculously so given the entertainmentvalue. We have to pay 1$ for a 4 minute song (with a production cost of between 0 and 10.000$) and 16$ for a two hour movie (with a production cost of ?00.000.000$).
I seriously do not know how much money it costs for sony to produce a playstation game, but I can bet it's more than the cost of recording an album. I know for sure that people get a lot more entertainment-value per $ from games than music. I think the Forbrukerombudet is pretty realistic when they choose Apple as their main opponent. The music industry is somehow a more powerful opponent (to consumers) than Sonys playstation games.
Mind you; it's the representative of the people of norway, not the government, that wrote this letter to apple.
Let me share some other insights from the professor: "... 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5." ---- Andy T - 1992
"My point is that writing a new operating system [Linux] that is closely tied to any particular piece of hardware, especially a weird one like the Intel line, is basically wrong. An OS itself should be easily portable to new hardware platforms." ---- Andy T - 1992
Well.. In 1997 I for sure didnt want to shell out the money for a Sparcstation... I owned, the much cheaper, "weird" Intel line. And I am pretty sure that Linux is the most ported OS in existence. Maybe the microkernel is the way to go, but coming from this guy........ I wouldnt be so sure:P
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Should we NOT care what our politicians are doing? B.F. Skinner writes in "Beyond freedom and dignity": "To refuse to control is to leave control not to the person himself, but to other parts of the social and nonsocial environments." This piece is just plain irrational. It's B.S. from politicians unable to cope with the demands of the people.
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), a part of The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), made a pretty clear report about the 2004 (US) presidential election:
Report
The voting machines are a problem.
Did this study operationalize "students with controlling parents" vs. "students without controlling parents", or what this a study of "controlling parents deny gaming on weekdays" vs. "controlling parents who do not deny gaming on weekdays"? This is the question here. GIVE KIDS LIBERTY AND THEY WILL MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE!
That is just a totally ridiculous way to waste money. If the umerican government actually have people employed to READ a lot of text to see what peoples opinions are; good; people can sometimes *get* how other people feel about a topic (though not often).
But a machine? COME ON! NLP has not moved (forward) AT ALL since it came. To rely on (and/or) pay for something like this is just a waste of money. An overoptimistic academic wanking-session doomed to fail. (I've seen it before).
They should use that money on I.Q. testing/screening the next presidential candidates; that will improve that "homeland thingy" more than anything.
Well.. I think the kernel analogy is far from precise. The kernel (at least the monolithic one) is a far too complex and massive system to be paralelled to the thalamus. I think interrupt-controller is a more suitable analogy. Shit comes in and shit goes out and control is being enforced (to some extent).
Drivers in a kernel would in the brain be something like "control of muscular movement" (cerebellum, parts of cortex, somatic part of the peripheral nervous system, etc...), interfaces would be something like "riding a bike" (using all the "drivers" for muscular movement, balance, memorysystems for planning route, motivational systems for motivation, sensory systems for navigation and real-time collision avoidance, etc...).
The Thalamus is (at least as I see it) an interruptcontroller issuing "interrupt service routines" on a regular basis, telling our brain that we are about to loose our balance or crash into the tree in front of us.
The (brain) kernel is the abstract "mind"/"soul" "thing" that is a mental superorganism made up of all our brains organs.
well... thats just my 2 eurocents.
most american and turkish people have not really evolved (as the rest of us,) have they?
We must believe people when they openly admit it.
Well music is a far bigger industry than just one branch of a console market.
The money involved is enourmous, even ridiculously so given the entertainmentvalue.
We have to pay 1$ for a 4 minute song (with a production cost of between 0 and 10.000$)
and 16$ for a two hour movie (with a production cost of ?00.000.000$).
I seriously do not know how much money it costs for sony to produce a playstation game, but I can bet it's
more than the cost of recording an album. I know for sure that people get a lot more entertainment-value per
$ from games than music. I think the Forbrukerombudet is pretty realistic when they choose Apple as their
main opponent. The music industry is somehow a more powerful opponent (to consumers) than Sonys playstation games.
Mind you; it's the representative of the people of norway, not the government, that wrote this letter to apple.
Is this part of the known known or possibly an unknown unknown ? I guess I just don't get american politics.
I won't claim that Professor T is wrong
:P
Let me share some other insights from the professor:
"... 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
---- Andy T - 1992
"My point is that writing a new operating system [Linux] that is closely tied to any particular piece of hardware, especially a weird one like the Intel line, is basically wrong. An OS itself should be easily portable to new hardware platforms."
---- Andy T - 1992
Well.. In 1997 I for sure didnt want to shell out the money for a Sparcstation... I owned, the much cheaper, "weird" Intel line. And I am pretty sure that Linux is the most ported OS in existence. Maybe the microkernel is the way to go, but coming from this guy........ I wouldnt be so sure