Casting a wide net and exposing the worlds problems to everyone in the population is the scientific comunities way to seek out people thay haven't previously considered. Let's not forget that the theory of relativity was concieved by one man, all alone, without contact to the "greatest minds of the day". He was a loner, an outsider, a rebel that took conventional wisdom and bent it around space time.
Think back to the 50's when the semiconductor field was just "some wacky research" that never amounted to anything. In reading about this quantum research, I'm very much reminded of Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore doing their ground breaking work at Fairchild semiconductors.
This interview with Gordon Moore talks in great detail about the early research years.
Gordon Moore from the interview:
Anyhow, while we were making these first mesa transistors, completing development of the process and putting them into production, we had a person whose background was as a theoretician, as part of the original group, by the name of John Hoerni. And particularly when we setting up the initial equipment, John was writing in his notebook and coming up with ideas of things to try, and he came up with a proposal... of instead of making a 'mesa,' which exposes the sensitive area of the transistor to the outside world, that one should just do more of these diffusions--oxide mask diffusions--and leave the oxide over the top of the junction, the sensitive part. Well, that was something that previously had been considered a bad idea because Bell Labs' conventional wisdom was that the oxide was dirty and you wanted to get rid of it.
But we couldn't try John's idea right away because it took four index masking operations in order to make the structure he was proposing and Bob Noyce only bought three lenses!
"When you've got a production system which is choking all of the sudden and needs more CPU and memory, what other system do you know of that will allow you to add (or subtract) CPU/Memory/IO devices on the fly, while the operating system continues to run, without missing a beat?"
Notice, for example, that he has a women vice-presidential candidate, however.
[shrug]So does Pat Buchanan.[shrug] Does this make him a huggy feeling warm lovable liberal teletubby? Hardly. Your response to Naders VP choice is just another example of symbolism over substance in liberal culture.
"As a Senator, he introduced legislation which expanded investment in research networks, such as the NSFNET. "
a quote from hobbes internet timeline from 1986. "NSFNET created (backbone speed of 56Kbps) NSF establishes 5 super-computing centers to provide high-computing power for all (JVNC@Princeton, PSC@Pittsburgh, SDSC@UCSD, NCSA@UIUC, Theory Center@Cornell). This allows an explosion of connections, especially from universities."
As you'll notice from the timeline, DARPANET was brought on-line in 1979, well before Gore had a chance to vote on anything even remotly related to it. Yes, he approved funding for a 56k backbone , but that's hardly pioneering work.
Computing "Fashion" ? . . I've noticed the same thing. Terminals making a comeback in 'NCs', central managment redressed as '.net', batch computing being scaled up as distributed computing. It just goes to show you, o/~ It's all just a little bit of history repeating. o/~
Get ready for a caged, smack down, table slamming debate between vice president Algore and Jooooooooe "the hammer" Leiberman. The Rock, Triple H, Steph and the crew will be the opening act for this "gooooooorefest 2 thouuuuuusand".
Hear Algore and leiberman smash heads on school vouchers.
See Leiberman and Algore attack each other on saving social security.
Hear Algore scream for mercy as joooooe the hammer leiberman takes credit for the internet.
See Leiberman scratch out Algores eyes as they disagree on partial privitization of social security.
Just one rule: nobody leaves the cage untill all the issues are hammered out.
Sunday ...sunday ..sunday ! !
[/loud fast radio voice]
voter.com has been balanced, timley, informative and enlightneting.
Personally, I can't wait for the debates on the issues. I'm looking forward to hearing Leiberman and Gore get on stage to hammer out their divided points of view on so many issues.:)
Sooner or later, in this discussion, some clueless ms lemming will say . .."yea but the Xbox kix ass!" and this little fact that it doesn't exist is a preemptive strike.
Re: "You chat with someone who's name is HansonFan?"
One small note: it's not MY screenshot. It's from yahoo! (http://us.yimg.com/i/mesg/linux.gif)
Disclaimer: I never was, nor will I ever be, a member of the hanson fan club.
You already see it right after the bumper and just before the show starts, a little banner add across the bottom of the screen will show "Mitsubishi HDTV" or something like that. Look for that to get longer and longer. Also, framed content (like what ESPN does with scrolling scores, or Bloomerg television with the video in the corner and the rest of the screen filled with streaming data) is how free broadcasts can force their advertising cocntent into time shifted content.
The vast wasteland of infomercials, product placement, and a watered down view of the world around us. Where's the beef? Got milk? Final answer? The endless string of mindless lemmings watching and the never ending self agrandinzing personaloties (read:Oprah) is what's turning people to the net.
Content with clarity and without self importance. Unfiltered access (Read:Star report) to the full text of legal briefs, policy positions, and court hearings can elevate a persons understanding of what issues are effecting their lives, without all the drivel.
As long as people continue to say "I'll use blahblahblahIM, what the hell, it's free" without questioning weather or not the source is available, or on what platforms it runs on, these proprietary implementations will proliforate.
It's a newbie thing. The sites are looking for a low cost (as in bandwidth and server load) to keep people coming back to the site. User lock in on an emotional level, pushing.5k fragmented strings around the net is very lightweight and people come back for it again and again. AOL has built their entire network around IM and they still attract people because of IM.
Slashdot Mirror
Casting a wide net and exposing the worlds problems to everyone in the population is the scientific comunities way to seek out people thay haven't previously considered. Let's not forget that the theory of relativity was concieved by one man, all alone, without contact to the "greatest minds of the day". He was a loner, an outsider, a rebel that took conventional wisdom and bent it around space time.
Gordon Moore from the interview:
Anyhow, while we were making these first mesa transistors, completing development of the process and putting them into production, we had a person whose background was as a theoretician, as part of the original group, by the name of John Hoerni. And particularly when we setting up the initial equipment, John was writing in his notebook and coming up with ideas of things to try, and he came up with a proposal... of instead of making a 'mesa,' which exposes the sensitive area of the transistor to the outside world, that one should just do more of these diffusions--oxide mask diffusions--and leave the oxide over the top of the junction, the sensitive part. Well, that was something that previously had been considered a bad idea because Bell Labs' conventional wisdom was that the oxide was dirty and you wanted to get rid of it.
But we couldn't try John's idea right away because it took four index masking operations in order to make the structure he was proposing and Bob Noyce only bought three lenses!
[Laughter.]
Number of cases where an IT professional caused trouble by messing with the source code on windows = 0
Therefore messing with the source code is a bad thing?
Huh?!?!
LOL! . .and I supose you're global warming too?!?!
Some open sourcer said this long before me.
I'de give him the props, but I can't remember who siad it.
IBM
[shrug]So does Pat Buchanan.[shrug] Does this make him a huggy feeling warm lovable liberal teletubby? Hardly. Your response to Naders VP choice is just another example of symbolism over substance in liberal culture.
Get over it.
"As a Senator, he introduced legislation which expanded investment in research networks, such as the NSFNET. "
a quote from hobbes internet timeline from 1986. "NSFNET created (backbone speed of 56Kbps) NSF establishes 5 super-computing centers to provide high-computing power for all (JVNC@Princeton, PSC@Pittsburgh, SDSC@UCSD, NCSA@UIUC, Theory Center@Cornell). This allows an explosion of connections, especially from universities."
As you'll notice from the timeline, DARPANET was brought on-line in 1979, well before Gore had a chance to vote on anything even remotly related to it. Yes, he approved funding for a 56k backbone , but that's hardly pioneering work.
Algore = political tool
GCC
Computing "Fashion" ? . . I've noticed the same thing. Terminals making a comeback in 'NCs', central managment redressed as '.net', batch computing being scaled up as distributed computing. It just goes to show you, o/~ It's all just a little bit of history repeating. o/~
Get ready for a caged, smack down, table slamming debate between vice president Algore and Jooooooooe "the hammer" Leiberman. The Rock, Triple H, Steph and the crew will be the opening act for this "gooooooorefest 2 thouuuuuusand".
Hear Algore and leiberman smash heads on school vouchers.
See Leiberman and Algore attack each other on saving social security.
Hear Algore scream for mercy as joooooe the hammer leiberman takes credit for the internet.
See Leiberman scratch out Algores eyes as they disagree on partial privitization of social security.
Just one rule: nobody leaves the cage untill all the issues are hammered out.
Sunday . ..sunday . .sunday ! !
[/loud fast radio voice]
voter.com has been balanced, timley, informative and enlightneting.
Personally, I can't wait for the debates on the issues. I'm looking forward to hearing Leiberman and Gore get on stage to hammer out their divided points of view on so many issues. :)
Q:Is it true Rob Malda really has a huge RAID? A:No output submitted to this lonely soul.
Sooner or later, in this discussion, some clueless ms lemming will say . . ."yea but the Xbox kix ass!" and this little fact that it doesn't exist is a preemptive strike.
The Xbox does not yet exist.
One small note: it's not MY screenshot. It's from yahoo! (http://us.yimg.com/i/mesg/linux.gif)
Disclaimer: I never was, nor will I ever be, a member of the hanson fan club.
Tivo can, and does, remove comercials.
You already see it right after the bumper and just before the show starts, a little banner add across the bottom of the screen will show "Mitsubishi HDTV" or something like that. Look for that to get longer and longer. Also, framed content (like what ESPN does with scrolling scores, or Bloomerg television with the video in the corner and the rest of the screen filled with streaming data) is how free broadcasts can force their advertising cocntent into time shifted content.
Now all they need to do is embed mozilla and we've got something.
Content with clarity and without self importance. Unfiltered access (Read:Star report) to the full text of legal briefs, policy positions, and court hearings can elevate a persons understanding of what issues are effecting their lives, without all the drivel.
As long as people continue to say "I'll use blahblahblahIM, what the hell, it's free" without questioning weather or not the source is available, or on what platforms it runs on, these proprietary implementations will proliforate.
It's a newbie thing. The sites are looking for a low cost (as in bandwidth and server load) to keep people coming back to the site. User lock in on an emotional level, pushing .5k fragmented strings around the net is very lightweight and people come back for it again and again. AOL has built their entire network around IM and they still attract people because of IM.
Yea. IRC.
screenshot