where's the replicator?
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This doesn't sound like it is very well concieved. How can you speak of something being Darwinian (or not) unless you have correctly identified a replicator. The replicator is not "the media", but rather "the message". And the messages (or memes, or idea viruses, or whatever) are subject to natural selection. Unfortunately, the shortest, easiest-to-remember, and least-sophisticated ones tend to win. But that's another matter. "The media" are mere propagation vectors, and owning a propagation vector is very inexpensive nowadays. So why fear "the media"?
...but [the G4] has more instructions [than] some CISC chips!
This is only an incredible observation if you subscribe to the philosophy that RISC means "A reduced set of instructions". That's one view. I'm told that, in contrast, the original designers of the Power architecture interpret the RISC philosophy as "A set of reduced instructions". It's a subtle difference, but it means that the G4 doesn't necessarily stray from the RISC philosophy, since the size of the set wasn't what they reduced, but rather each instruction. At least that's what my prof taught me. YMMV.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong about this, but the gnustep distribution is already started on an implementation of the fancy display-pdf engine that make all of this possible. It's called xgps, I believe, and is not the Display Ghostscript engine, but a new attempt to reverse engineer Quartz. If 15 years is too long for anyone to wait, that would be where you would contribute your effort. It's [L]GPL'd, of course.
A friend of mine insists that it's illegal in Lawrence, Kanses to "lurk with the intent to loom". I was hoping to find it on this site, but alas, no such luck.
This subthread reminds me of Escape From Noise, an album by the band Negativeland. The opening track is a hilarious parody about music that was created, with scientific precision, to "break on radio" -- which is an industry term for obtaining popular attention much in the way Velveeta has obtained popularity in the cheese world, I think.
IMO, the author isn't holding up his end of the deal when he promised support for Linux. Turn off Java? How about fix the problem and make Java work? The plugins may be more of a problem, but it sounds like he didn't even try to make things work.
I appreciate where the author is going here, but the whole war metaphor is getting old. Think in constructive terms instead.
So help me out here: person A advocates something being open-source. Person B complains about the current quality of an open-source project. Are you saying that A is guilty of hypocrisy or B? Or both? That makes no sense. Just because you hear incongruent ideas expressed does not mean that the same people are expressing them. I appreciate your intended message, but you are inventing hypocrisy. It's a chorus of voices, not a single voice.
This is one of the things I love about slashdot. Here you have already come up with the perfect guerrilla anti-marketing soundbite: anybody who advocates this technology is 'bending over to pick up the SOAP.' *snicker*
Question: If Dvorak was supposed to be easier to use how come I had so damned much trouble back when I remapped my keyboard with Prokey and mvoed all my keycaps? And, since, I never really learned how to type (I consider my typing ability something like advanced ``hunting and pecking''.) it couldn't have been having to ``unlearn'' an old typing technique.
It sounds to me like you've never actually learned Dvorak. Sorry to state the obvious, but that is a prerequisite to using it. Also note that Dvorak is not "supposed to be easier to use". That is not the claim. I suggest you seek a Dvorak FAQ and compare the actual claims to that which you have stated.
I agree that FreeBSD should be eligible even though it's not licensed under the GPL. Your observation that perl isn't licensed under the GPL is not quite correct, since perl has (or at least had, I haven't checked recently) a dual-license scheme, both Artistic and GPL. That said, I still think Jordan would make a superb nomination.
I must not be communicating clearly. I never implied that a cohesive self could survive death, but rather that memetic echoes could continue indefinately after death. Someone who is remembered by no one would have little or no immortality, but someone who contributed greatly to humanity would get quite a bit. I definately do not insist on using the word "soul". I actually don't like it very much, because of the religious & superstitious baggage. It's all just ripples in a pond -- except that some people leave fairly persistent ripples.
In case that wasn't clear enough: I'm an atheist; I don't believe in an afterlife. Nevertheless, I know that I can spawn memetic progeny that could survive me, and that does, technically, qualify as influence from beyond the grave. 8^)
I think that the collection of memes that rides around in your head, and the models of you that ride around in the heads of those that you know, can live one long after your death, self-replicating from brain to brain as your loved ones eulogize. To me, this is the process that has been loosely labelled a "soul". It also accounts for why people would tend to think that only people have them. (We don't see many memes leaping from bacteria to bacteria, although I swear I can hear the soul of my departed neurotic dog Touser living on when the Cocateil mimics him -- but he mimics the washing machine going off-balance in the spin cycle too, and that doesn't mean the Kenmore has a soul.) Anyway, it's not really arrogance, so much as the recognition that humans do memes better than any other species.
Isn't that exactly what he's saying: that there were oxygen atoms on earth but that they were bound (oxidized) to other atoms -- and life processes slowly freed some over time? Certainly he's not suggesting that life processes created the oxygen atoms themselves.
WindowMaker does not use GNUstep
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Last time I looked at the WindowMaker source, it didn't use the GNUstep API at all. It's merely aligned with GNUstep in spirit.
I just tried a round of meta-moderating. Out of the 10 post/moderation pairs that were presented to me, every single one of them was a fair judgement, in my meta-judgement. I'm filled with hope.
I have one desire: could we have an option to sort responses by the author's karma rather than the post's rating? I think that would be, in the very least, an interesting option with which to play.
It's a tired refrain: anyone who criticizes Apple must be an Intel apologist, as if PPC and x86 are the only two processors on the planet. I'm an old NeXT user, and a large part of my customer loyalty transfered freely to the Apple Enterprise division. I'm eager to see the consumer fruits of that effort. But I'm also eager to reap the benefits of the fancy, easy-to-open door on this Blue&White sitting next to me. If Apple did, in fact, intentionally cripple this machine's upgradability they've done a very bad thing. Shame, shame, shame...
I'm more than a little disturbed by your suggestion that Captain Crunch might enjoy being raped because he tripped your gaydar. To me, this suggestion is no different than speculating that a woman might enjoy rape because she's straight, or that you might enjoy a lobotomy because you're already a idiot.
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This doesn't sound like it is very well concieved. How can you speak of something being Darwinian (or not) unless you have correctly identified a replicator. The replicator is not "the media", but rather "the message". And the messages (or memes, or idea viruses, or whatever) are subject to natural selection. Unfortunately, the shortest, easiest-to-remember, and least-sophisticated ones tend to win. But that's another matter. "The media" are mere propagation vectors, and owning a propagation vector is very inexpensive nowadays. So why fear "the media"?
This is only an incredible observation if you subscribe to the philosophy that RISC means "A reduced set of instructions". That's one view. I'm told that, in contrast, the original designers of the Power architecture interpret the RISC philosophy as "A set of reduced instructions". It's a subtle difference, but it means that the G4 doesn't necessarily stray from the RISC philosophy, since the size of the set wasn't what they reduced, but rather each instruction. At least that's what my prof taught me. YMMV.
A friend of mine insists that it's illegal in Lawrence, Kanses to "lurk with the intent to loom". I was hoping to find it on this site, but alas, no such luck.
This subthread reminds me of Escape From Noise, an album by the band Negativeland. The opening track is a hilarious parody about music that was created, with scientific precision, to "break on radio" -- which is an industry term for obtaining popular attention much in the way Velveeta has obtained popularity in the cheese world, I think.
I appreciate where the author is going here, but the whole war metaphor is getting old. Think in constructive terms instead.
The connection was not being refused because of authentication, but because the server was busy. Sorry.
$ cvs login (Logging in to anonymous@cvs.on.openprojects.net) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: connect to cvs.on.openprojects.net:2401 failed: Connection refused $
anecdote nounA particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature
The post contained more than mere opinion and a quotation when I read it.
So help me out here: person A advocates something being open-source. Person B complains about the current quality of an open-source project. Are you saying that A is guilty of hypocrisy or B? Or both? That makes no sense. Just because you hear incongruent ideas expressed does not mean that the same people are expressing them. I appreciate your intended message, but you are inventing hypocrisy. It's a chorus of voices, not a single voice.
This is one of the things I love about slashdot. Here you have already come up with the perfect guerrilla anti-marketing soundbite: anybody who advocates this technology is 'bending over to pick up the SOAP.' *snicker*
Question: If Dvorak was supposed to be easier to use how come I had so damned much trouble back when I remapped my keyboard with Prokey and mvoed all my keycaps? And, since, I never really learned how to type (I consider my typing ability something like advanced ``hunting and pecking''.) it couldn't have been having to ``unlearn'' an old typing technique.
It sounds to me like you've never actually learned Dvorak. Sorry to state the obvious, but that is a prerequisite to using it. Also note that Dvorak is not "supposed to be easier to use". That is not the claim. I suggest you seek a Dvorak FAQ and compare the actual claims to that which you have stated.
That would be an excellent reason to deny all packets from the search engine's network.
I just wanted to juxtapose those two sentiments. They're more entertaining that way.
I agree that FreeBSD should be eligible even though it's not licensed under the GPL. Your observation that perl isn't licensed under the GPL is not quite correct, since perl has (or at least had, I haven't checked recently) a dual-license scheme, both Artistic and GPL. That said, I still think Jordan would make a superb nomination.
In case that wasn't clear enough: I'm an atheist; I don't believe in an afterlife. Nevertheless, I know that I can spawn memetic progeny that could survive me, and that does, technically, qualify as influence from beyond the grave. 8^)
I think that the collection of memes that rides around in your head, and the models of you that ride around in the heads of those that you know, can live one long after your death, self-replicating from brain to brain as your loved ones eulogize. To me, this is the process that has been loosely labelled a "soul". It also accounts for why people would tend to think that only people have them. (We don't see many memes leaping from bacteria to bacteria, although I swear I can hear the soul of my departed neurotic dog Touser living on when the Cocateil mimics him -- but he mimics the washing machine going off-balance in the spin cycle too, and that doesn't mean the Kenmore has a soul.) Anyway, it's not really arrogance, so much as the recognition that humans do memes better than any other species.
Isn't that exactly what he's saying: that there were oxygen atoms on earth but that they were bound (oxidized) to other atoms -- and life processes slowly freed some over time? Certainly he's not suggesting that life processes created the oxygen atoms themselves.
Last time I looked at the WindowMaker source, it didn't use the GNUstep API at all. It's merely aligned with GNUstep in spirit.
I have one desire: could we have an option to sort responses by the author's karma rather than the post's rating? I think that would be, in the very least, an interesting option with which to play.
It's a tired refrain: anyone who criticizes Apple must be an Intel apologist, as if PPC and x86 are the only two processors on the planet. I'm an old NeXT user, and a large part of my customer loyalty transfered freely to the Apple Enterprise division. I'm eager to see the consumer fruits of that effort. But I'm also eager to reap the benefits of the fancy, easy-to-open door on this Blue&White sitting next to me. If Apple did, in fact, intentionally cripple this machine's upgradability they've done a very bad thing. Shame, shame, shame...
I'm more than a little disturbed by your suggestion that Captain Crunch might enjoy being raped because he tripped your gaydar. To me, this suggestion is no different than speculating that a woman might enjoy rape because she's straight, or that you might enjoy a lobotomy because you're already a idiot.
...so much for 'inventive'.
...on the other hand, anybody who sends a DOC formatted file where plain text is sufficient needs a swirlie.