Yea, what's wrong with a little wandering? From this entire thread it sounds like we're itching for an accessible book. Why, George Landow in Hypertext 3.0 stressed the bursting possibilites of accessibly hypertextuality.
I did okay with most of Cryptonomicon, but then I don't think I really recall the last 100 pages, because I'm too feeble to survive 1000 page tomes in one sitting. I do try to survey books though because my personality won't let me "just not bother finishing a book". Look at the poor thing, just batting its Lolcat eyes at you, begging to be read? I glanced at the Baroque books in the store, and declined to buy them. It's sounding like I might not need to buy this one either.
There's both a page-count freedom and a Value-Per-Money issue combining to make for longer books. (Ends discussion like Stephenson without even bothering to close the Grandpa tag.)
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For some reason my tolerance is far higher with SF made-up-stuff than the High Fantasy version. I always found Tolkien pretty tough, but *because he's THE legend* I dutifully bought a semi-complete set of his stuff and one long vacation-spread I'll churn through it.
But for anyone else who tries the same trick it instantly falls flat and I am completly unable to read it. I basically never through out books but I am unable to even look at anything Dennis McKiernan writes. A lot of it has to do with incredible magicians who don't have a watch. Such a waste of magic.
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Dammit, more things to do with digital files. If this was text one of you whippersnappers would have a script inside of twelve minutes that could answer this.
If we ever solve this NonProfit=NonPirate mess, then users could post their own edits, like radio DJ's do for music. Don't like the original? Chop it & Mix it!
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I once charted this with Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. Important novel, but didn't you used to have to get the attention of the reader by page 10? I believe ToTC officially started the real plot tension on something like page 137 of a 500 page book. (Your print run may vary.)
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to separate your comments from the rest of the thread, and to assume among the SecondPosters and savants an independent thread, a decent respect for the Flesch ratings of your meta aggregator compels you to declare the reason for your syntax.
Writing produces "what you already know" even if you haven't yet connected all the fragments you know.
But reading steeps your mind in whole expanses of *contextual style* beyond the pure data. When I have to present my stuff from work to my manager I read a lot of fairly unrelated nonfiction simply because the high grade of language seeps in. When I tap into even a quarter of it my results come through better.
I prefer to exclude MS because they are the Elephant Outlier that can basically never be duplicated again for a long time.
We actually experienced the downside of Sales at work a couple years ago. A company was pitching a thin-server solution for the commercial package we run. It turned out the company was unable to support it at a deep-intrinsic-flaw level, and retired it. The second time around we went with a more MS-centric solution.
Software is a subset of InfoValue. But just free raw knowledge itself is accumulating so that Newbies with initiative start their first question at a higher level, which tends to please the experts who prefer giving higher grade answers.
The only problem here is timing makes a sale. If you go from scratch to customers and say "hey, ya' want X software in 26 months? Sign here." The DotBust made a lot of businesses wary about Sales.
I'm guessing you'd want to go from proof-of-concept to a venture investor to develop the deep work just to be sure you won't get hosed by some unbelieveable glitch like the one that damn near took down Microsoft when they had to Reboot their codebase for LongHornedVista.
Then with some core tech that can be finalized in a few variant ways, then go dig up your customer and tell him "X software is only 7 months out. Sign here."
I'm thinking a moment on exactly what "commodity" software might mean. In our little tech world, I'm wondering why some dev house didn't flood the market with galactic quantities of software Back When It Was All Simpler. The deal with Raising The Bar is... eventually a once powerful group may no longer be able to keep up, and their loss will be felt in the marketplace.
But I'm really starting to ponder that we're also not starting with Peek&Poke and Assembly anymore. Start with an entire OSS fragment, then add your stuff on top for the specific purpose. Use the Authority of Business to work around the gaps. Customer wants some generic traffic management program ported into a BumperCar Safety module for use in theme parks. You say great, deliver it 7 months later. The OSS crowd might have trouble "caring" about it to go from zero to finish.
So instead of paying for low-level business tasks like letter writing & spreadsheets, maybe we free up the entire paradigm into Doing Something Better.
Paid Devs might have the advantage of focus with an angenda. Suppose your core offering is some multi purpose utility app. Along with people-hour services, that could also include custom tweaks for the particular user.
We gon' cover up the left, we gon' cover up the right. We gon' cover up the left, we gon' cover up the right. It's a tarp, it's a tarp, floor cover - floor cover. It's a tarp, it's a tarp, floor cover - floor cover.
PowerResearcher. You want to know a graph of when every linux distro was released, sortable by distro or date.
MediaFan. Defaults to **AA-compliant (but one Oops-Leaked hack allowed other stuff in). Only music/art/lit/movie/other cultural results.
TurboIdle. Entertain me! You want to see episodes of Stargate SG1 subtitled in ancient Egyptian Heiroglyphics by some dude at the British Museum. Also return episodes of Buffy episodes with Brian Thompson and soap operas sorted by Cuteness of leading man.
GeekOverlord. Quad boot your flavor of Linux, OS X, a dev copy of Win 7 alpha, and Amiga OS 5. Interview with the guy from New Zealand who built a radiation visualizer so he could laugh at the end of the world.
Yea, and there's an aesthetic feel to it too. If I'm in a 20 reply discussion, I like to edit out anything more than 2 exchanges old, and I change the subject title every two mails.
Nothing annoys me more than 20 mails titled "re: call"
We're just settling into the century of Tracking Everything because it's Fun!
Let's assuming you are a male weighing between 175 and 200 lbs, getting somewhat less exercise than you should, eating somewhat less fiber than you should, but with a bonus modifier for having some fruit and a metabolism a touch above normal.
Given an example nominal 22oz of type-2 material per week, Pi divided by the number of type-2 rest visits per week gives the percent chance modifier that you will overload the residential grade rest facility. Thus 2.4 visits per week means you have about a 31% chance of needing the Helper. Solution is to eat out twice a week.
Slashdot Mirror
Brother,
Can you spare a bead for my abacus?
I just hit refresh and it flipped views. Tested on 3 browsers by two physical computers.
Anyone?
If you like his stuff, they just recently found a completely unknown novel no one ever knew existed. THAT's just awesome in this age of Known Things.
(Grandpa)
Yea, what's wrong with a little wandering? From this entire thread it sounds like we're itching for an accessible book. Why, George Landow in Hypertext 3.0 stressed the bursting possibilites of accessibly hypertextuality.
I did okay with most of Cryptonomicon, but then I don't think I really recall the last 100 pages, because I'm too feeble to survive 1000 page tomes in one sitting. I do try to survey books though because my personality won't let me "just not bother finishing a book". Look at the poor thing, just batting its Lolcat eyes at you, begging to be read? I glanced at the Baroque books in the store, and declined to buy them. It's sounding like I might not need to buy this one either.
There's both a page-count freedom and a Value-Per-Money issue combining to make for longer books. (Ends discussion like Stephenson without even bothering to close the Grandpa tag.)
For some reason my tolerance is far higher with SF made-up-stuff than the High Fantasy version. I always found Tolkien pretty tough, but *because he's THE legend* I dutifully bought a semi-complete set of his stuff and one long vacation-spread I'll churn through it.
But for anyone else who tries the same trick it instantly falls flat and I am completly unable to read it. I basically never through out books but I am unable to even look at anything Dennis McKiernan writes. A lot of it has to do with incredible magicians who don't have a watch. Such a waste of magic.
Dammit, more things to do with digital files. If this was text one of you whippersnappers would have a script inside of twelve minutes that could answer this.
If we ever solve this NonProfit=NonPirate mess, then users could post their own edits, like radio DJ's do for music. Don't like the original? Chop it & Mix it!
I once charted this with Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. Important novel, but didn't you used to have to get the attention of the reader by page 10? I believe ToTC officially started the real plot tension on something like page 137 of a 500 page book. (Your print run may vary.)
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to separate your comments from the rest of the thread, and to assume among the SecondPosters and savants an independent thread, a decent respect for the Flesch ratings of your meta aggregator compels you to declare the reason for your syntax.
Fermat called, with the help of a medium. He wants his cryptic margin annotations back.
Tough call here.
Writing produces "what you already know" even if you haven't yet connected all the fragments you know.
But reading steeps your mind in whole expanses of *contextual style* beyond the pure data. When I have to present my stuff from work to my manager I read a lot of fairly unrelated nonfiction simply because the high grade of language seeps in. When I tap into even a quarter of it my results come through better.
I was actually making that joke back in chem.
Lead's symbol is Pb. We started wondering about Peanut Butter Carbonate, etc.
Okay, for my reply I'll keep the same header.
Such are preferences. What's easier for one is harder for another. My intent was "to make the new point easy to find" for me.
Great reply.
I prefer to exclude MS because they are the Elephant Outlier that can basically never be duplicated again for a long time.
We actually experienced the downside of Sales at work a couple years ago. A company was pitching a thin-server solution for the commercial package we run. It turned out the company was unable to support it at a deep-intrinsic-flaw level, and retired it. The second time around we went with a more MS-centric solution.
Well, that too, but then I don't get into chats with Spammers.
It's actually a work thing except the title would be "re: invoice" (and always that vague) before totally drifting into totally different topics.
Free InfoValue is too important to pay for.
Software is a subset of InfoValue. But just free raw knowledge itself is accumulating so that Newbies with initiative start their first question at a higher level, which tends to please the experts who prefer giving higher grade answers.
The only problem here is timing makes a sale. If you go from scratch to customers and say "hey, ya' want X software in 26 months? Sign here." The DotBust made a lot of businesses wary about Sales.
I'm guessing you'd want to go from proof-of-concept to a venture investor to develop the deep work just to be sure you won't get hosed by some unbelieveable glitch like the one that damn near took down Microsoft when they had to Reboot their codebase for LongHornedVista.
Then with some core tech that can be finalized in a few variant ways, then go dig up your customer and tell him "X software is only 7 months out. Sign here."
' Why does "service" have to mean "fixing stupid design" and "fixing idiotic bugs"?'
It doesn't have to, but it's fun and profitable to make customers pay for your bug fixing.
I'm thinking a moment on exactly what "commodity" software might mean. In our little tech world, I'm wondering why some dev house didn't flood the market with galactic quantities of software Back When It Was All Simpler. The deal with Raising The Bar is ... eventually a once powerful group may no longer be able to keep up, and their loss will be felt in the marketplace.
But I'm really starting to ponder that we're also not starting with Peek&Poke and Assembly anymore. Start with an entire OSS fragment, then add your stuff on top for the specific purpose. Use the Authority of Business to work around the gaps. Customer wants some generic traffic management program ported into a BumperCar Safety module for use in theme parks. You say great, deliver it 7 months later. The OSS crowd might have trouble "caring" about it to go from zero to finish.
So instead of paying for low-level business tasks like letter writing & spreadsheets, maybe we free up the entire paradigm into Doing Something Better.
Paid Devs might have the advantage of focus with an angenda. Suppose your core offering is some multi purpose utility app. Along with people-hour services, that could also include custom tweaks for the particular user.
We ain't playin' wit'cha...
We gon' cover up the left, we gon' cover up the right.
We gon' cover up the left, we gon' cover up the right.
It's a tarp, it's a tarp, floor cover - floor cover.
It's a tarp, it's a tarp, floor cover - floor cover.
In parody of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJMH916DS4
Profiles!
Aggregate the tweaks into related sets:
PowerResearcher. You want to know a graph of when every linux distro was released, sortable by distro or date.
MediaFan. Defaults to **AA-compliant (but one Oops-Leaked hack allowed other stuff in). Only music/art/lit/movie/other cultural results.
TurboIdle. Entertain me! You want to see episodes of Stargate SG1 subtitled in ancient Egyptian Heiroglyphics by some dude at the British Museum. Also return episodes of Buffy episodes with Brian Thompson and soap operas sorted by Cuteness of leading man.
GeekOverlord. Quad boot your flavor of Linux, OS X, a dev copy of Win 7 alpha, and Amiga OS 5. Interview with the guy from New Zealand who built a radiation visualizer so he could laugh at the end of the world.
Wait for it...
AssHat! http://asshat.com/
"all the she-bang that your little governmental heart desires."
Yea, it's the Personal Services that get expensive.
Yea, and there's an aesthetic feel to it too. If I'm in a 20 reply discussion, I like to edit out anything more than 2 exchanges old, and I change the subject title every two mails.
Nothing annoys me more than 20 mails titled "re: call"
We're just settling into the century of Tracking Everything because it's Fun!
Let's assuming you are a male weighing between 175 and 200 lbs, getting somewhat less exercise than you should, eating somewhat less fiber than you should, but with a bonus modifier for having some fruit and a metabolism a touch above normal.
Given an example nominal 22oz of type-2 material per week, Pi divided by the number of type-2 rest visits per week gives the percent chance modifier that you will overload the residential grade rest facility. Thus 2.4 visits per week means you have about a 31% chance of needing the Helper. Solution is to eat out twice a week.