Hmm, someone mentioned, and I haven't verified the rumor - that oil baron Rockefeller, in inflation adjusted, constant dollar terms, was still richer than Gates is now. Again, unverified. Of course Einstein, not a wealthy person, was a much more influential and lasting legacy than Rockefeller anyway.
for certain philosophical reasons, we've decided that artifical life, like arti-intelligence, as long as there is a 'binary' layer underlying it all, will never succeed - it is worth persuing and will make some interesting and useful spin-offs and devices, but it will never grow legs, attain self consciousness, go an a rampage and destroy it's creator, write passionate poetry, produce a blockbuster sci-fi flick, seek eternal life, fetch the newspaper for a 'robo-treat' or replicate itself in the wilderness of earth.
if there we're some new physical layer like gravity waves or something able to signal at c^2 - and before quoting Einstein there ARE phenomena that travel >c (they just have NO mass).
who wanted to carry on their work when the 'Multics' project w/ GE was canceled. Soon, I'm going to put up a site with an article from Scientific American from, oh, the September issue, a 'special microcomputing issue' from circa 77 or so which documents the work with 'windows' at Xerox quit well as 'prior art'.
[beware, an inverse slam tain't necessarily true, heheh]
Remember that 1989 was before Windows 3.0. In 1989, Windows was still a nonentity.
Yep, and Al Gore invented the Internet and Gates is an innovative visionary. Uh-huh, yeah, right. Guess those holes on the Mac screen are 'doors' or something. Just can't stand the solipsism:))
and vee have determined that you need extensive therapy at $120/hr vith 2 sessions per veek for the first year, ya, dot should do it (read vith thick austrian Sigmund Freud accent).
It amazes me how these fads and trends go thru the psychiatric community - once upon a time it was 'repressed memory' and we had all kinds of people accusing family members of sexual harassment and launching court cases based on nothing more than some fantasy they have while under drugs, with the therapist, like a gypsy fortune teller, steering the patient/victim toward a preconceived prognosis.
I can't look at the word 'therapist' w/o seeing "The Rapist".
you heard it here folks - when w2k arrives wait untill the other crash test dummys get it up to sp5 before deploying it in your mission critical business quality applications, unless you just want your business to donate unproductive time helping Microsoft® develop a product for their profit.
then we'll bail out and install FreeBSD or whatever - like the man said, the real objective for some of us is Software the Doesn't Suck® and isn't embarrassing to deploy:))
So when a tech decides to download(!) a freely available OS which comes with zero support (and zero culpability should something go wrong) and use it in mission critical applications, the PHBs won't get the screaming willies.
Ahem - I'm starting to get pissed over this - where is the 'culpability' in licensed proprietary software should something go wrong? Every EULA I read has verbiage to the effect of "disclaim all... warranties and conditions, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose... " blahblahblah ? Also, the beauty of open source is that one can have their own self support. With a mysterious licensed binary that fails in a mission critical application, if tech support can't help, too bad! They're under no legal obligation to make it work. At best you might get a refund.
Can we say that info wants to be free, to obstruct (censor) info is a bug, and to enough eyes all bugs are transparent (routed around)?
If I put my gold in a safe and there's a 1 in 6 billion chance of 'guessing' the combination, that means there's a good chance that SOMEONE on the planet can take it - which brings us to security thru superior firepower.
I want to put my gold in a safe that NOBODY can access except me - perhaps a theoritically impossible goal - in which case all security is just varying degrees of obscurity but we can put up with infinitesimally small amounts of risk for most practical uses. So the issue may resolve to mere semantics.
This sounds a little misleading - the press release makes it sound like there's antimatter just out there waiting to be collected - while only anti-protons have actually been found. The mission is to LOOK FOR anti-helium (and why is H skipped?) - so far it's like building an alien landing pad in your corn field - it don't mean they actually exist.
Yeah, using software from some companies is like playing marbles with the spoiled little rich brat down the street who throws a temper tantrum and tries to change the rules evertime he loses: it's just not any fun.
Yes please I'd love to see more y2k humor - people befuddled by magic they don't understand is always a gas.
But my VW diesel can run w/o ANY electricity - well, except for one little solenoid on the injector pump but that can be rigged to a couple of flashlights - I'll just push start it to run to the next grocery store while foraging for food and bottled water. Hmmm, also, being winter, it'll be a little tough to start w/o glow plugs.
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Your right, I didn't read this part:
What would happen, Thompson asked, if it were possible to strip away the digital constraints and apply evolution directly to the hardware?
so that's satisfies my old objection.
Chuck
I still think a lot of PHB's buy M$ products with some weird logic, like "wow, they're making billions and we want to be like them" or something.
Chuck
journalists didn't write, "welp, the microcomputer revolution is over - might as well go back to your mainframes" (that I'm aware of anyway).
Chuck
There's only one richest man in the world
Hmm, someone mentioned, and I haven't verified the rumor - that oil baron Rockefeller, in inflation adjusted, constant dollar terms, was still richer than Gates is now. Again, unverified. Of course Einstein, not a wealthy person, was a much more influential and lasting legacy than Rockefeller anyway.
Chuck
for certain philosophical reasons, we've decided that artifical life, like arti-intelligence, as long as there is a 'binary' layer underlying it all, will never succeed - it is worth persuing and will make some interesting and useful spin-offs and devices, but it will never grow legs, attain self consciousness, go an a rampage and destroy it's creator, write passionate poetry, produce a blockbuster sci-fi flick, seek eternal life, fetch the newspaper for a 'robo-treat' or replicate itself in the wilderness of earth.
But it sure is danged interesting to try!
Chuck
Linus has 5000 out of 5000 possible anonymous reporter connections at this time - please use a mirror site. Thank You.
Chuck
especially when you respawn in the same general area in time to see your liver still bouncing around.
Looks like it's time to invest in a nice 3D/glide card.
Chuck
Look at this. But anyway....
Chuck
if there we're some new physical layer like gravity waves or something able to signal at c^2 - and before quoting Einstein there ARE phenomena that travel >c (they just have NO mass).
Chuck
who wanted to carry on their work when the 'Multics' project w/ GE was canceled. Soon, I'm going to put up a site with an article from Scientific American from, oh, the September issue, a 'special microcomputing issue' from circa 77 or so which documents the work with 'windows' at Xerox quit well as 'prior art'.
[beware, an inverse slam tain't necessarily true, heheh]
Chuck
Remember that 1989 was before Windows 3.0. In 1989, Windows was still a nonentity.
:))
Yep, and Al Gore invented the Internet and Gates is an innovative visionary. Uh-huh, yeah, right.
Guess those holes on the Mac screen are 'doors' or something. Just can't stand the solipsism
Chuck
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and it's only 7:15AM (but only in east US!)
Now if I could only find my copy of "Computer Lib/Dream Machines"
Chuck
in "Network Computing" magazine? "Oh baby, a rack of routers w/ the covers off, ohhhhh! Yeah!!!"
Chuck
and vee have determined that you need extensive therapy at $120/hr vith 2 sessions per veek for the first year, ya, dot should do it (read vith thick austrian Sigmund Freud accent).
It amazes me how these fads and trends go thru the psychiatric community - once upon a time it was 'repressed memory' and we had all kinds of people accusing family members of sexual harassment and launching court cases based on nothing more than some fantasy they have while under drugs, with the therapist, like a gypsy fortune teller, steering the patient/victim toward a preconceived prognosis.
I can't look at the word 'therapist' w/o seeing "The Rapist".
Anything to drum up business, I guess.
Chuck
is woefully out of date, obsolete and in desperate need of an 'upgrade' in both vision and hardware.
Chuck
you heard it here folks - when w2k arrives wait untill the other crash test dummys get it up to sp5 before deploying it in your mission critical business quality applications, unless you just want your business to donate unproductive time helping Microsoft® develop a product for their profit.
Chuck
Microsoft® has created a program that can do the work of 10 office employees - problem is it takes 30 office employees to run it.
Chuck
Whoa, up to a whopping 1755 words this time.
Chuck
all this good news is more than I can bear :))
I see the AC's are speechless, at least as far as intelligent speech goes.
Chuck
then we'll bail out and install FreeBSD or whatever - like the man said, the real objective for some of us is Software the Doesn't Suck® and isn't embarrassing to deploy :))
Chuck
So when a tech decides to download(!) a freely available OS which comes with zero support (and
... warranties and conditions, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose... " blahblahblah ? Also, the beauty of open source is that one can have their own self support. With a mysterious licensed binary that fails in a mission critical application, if tech support can't help, too bad! They're under no legal obligation to make it work. At best you might get a refund.
zero culpability should something go wrong) and
use it in mission critical applications, the PHBs won't get the screaming willies.
Ahem - I'm starting to get pissed over this - where is the 'culpability' in licensed proprietary software should something go wrong? Every EULA I read has verbiage to the effect of "disclaim all
Chuck
Can we say that info wants to be free, to obstruct (censor) info is a bug, and to enough eyes all bugs are transparent (routed around)?
If I put my gold in a safe and there's a 1 in 6 billion chance of 'guessing' the combination, that means there's a good chance that SOMEONE on the planet can take it - which brings us to security thru superior firepower.
I want to put my gold in a safe that NOBODY can access except me - perhaps a theoritically impossible goal - in which case all security is
just varying degrees of obscurity but we can put up with infinitesimally small amounts of risk for most practical uses. So the issue may resolve to mere semantics.
But I may be hallucinating again...
Chuck
This sounds a little misleading - the press release makes it sound like there's antimatter just out there waiting to be collected - while only anti-protons have actually been found. The mission is to LOOK FOR anti-helium (and why is H skipped?) - so far it's like building an alien landing pad in your corn field - it don't mean they actually exist.
Chuck
Yeah, using software from some companies is like playing marbles with the spoiled little rich brat down the street who throws a temper tantrum and tries to change the rules evertime he loses: it's just not any fun.
Chuck
Yes please I'd love to see more y2k humor - people befuddled by magic they don't understand is always a gas.
But my VW diesel can run w/o ANY electricity - well, except for one little solenoid on the injector pump but that can be rigged to a couple of flashlights - I'll just push start it to run to the next grocery store while foraging for food and bottled water. Hmmm, also, being winter, it'll be a little tough to start w/o glow plugs.
Chuck