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In a message posted by Eliot at Mongo DB list
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An article
published by the BCS was brought to my attention, and it was full of
such glaring omissions and implicit attacks on free software that it had
to be dealt with. initially written as a comment, it quickly extended
way beyond the length of the original article...
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It's simple. That's the point.
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in the longest thread i've ever
contributed to rather than sparked off as a flame-war, i describe
why i think that leveraging web browser technology is a much better way
to create a widget set.
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People who use and promote free software cite various reasons for their
choice, but do those reasons tell the whole story? If, as a community,
we want free software to continue to grow in popularity, especially in
the mainstream, we should understand better the true reasons for
choosing it—especially our own.
This is a repost of an article originally posted at
http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/25/the-behavioral-economics-of-free-
software/
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The AudRecog mind-module for auditory recognition in artificial
intelligence (AI) tests user input one character or phoneme at a time
to recognize words and morphemes that will activate a concept in the
AI Mind or extract meaning from an idea.
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Some of you may not know that in addition to my admin responsibility at
GNU-Darwin, I am a biochemist and protein crystallographer, as well as
the X-ray lab manager and systems admin for the Biophysics and
Biophysical Chemistry Department at Johns Hopkins University. Here are
some Hopkins links.
http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/xtal/
http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/love/
The main reasons that I went into life sciences were to increase
intelligence and longevity, which is like hacking computers, but it is
hacking the body instead.
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YMDXDWEG6BY7
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I've been keeping this journal the way it was in 2000 for
historical archival reasons. If you are interested in
current information, here are some up to date links.
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THIS IS AN ALGORITHM WITH PERFECT SOLUTION BELIEVE TO BE
FOUND. by Susan and Eric.
{ scene setup:
pencil, paper, paper plate, pen, scissor, rubber band, rubber
eraser,
black ink, red ink, table, chair, clock, 4 huge windows, 1 hidden
observation window. At least 4 applicants in the same room. allow
discussions, making noises, every other way of interactions except
killing each other with tools not listed above. Each applicant was
given several pages of test papers. Testing duration is not specified.
Background music playing BACH Violin and Voice. Hilary HAHN, Matthias
GOERNE, Christine SCHAFER....}
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My thoughts put burden on my mind. From reporting of the prosecution
of Rutger's Chinese Ph.D for 'trespassing' at Newark airport that
produced a HUGE security breach scare, to my disliking of James Lewis
argument that
Internet can not remain entirely as a self-organizing entity'
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"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Chuck Moore now has a weblog
and his own company Green Arrays Inc near Lake Tahoe from incline
village.
cheers!
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Google and others have just proposed that DNS be extended. If DNS is
going to be changed in such a minor way, why not do something much more
useful and interesting, which has a fully-functioning implementation
already in prevalent use for over fifteen years on millions of free
software systems? Why not make the DNS protocol a true
server-independent peer-to-peer Naming Service? In combination with the
modern DNSSEC extensions, many of the complaints associated with the
current peer-to-peer free software implementation would vanish.
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In applying for jobs and contract opportunities, the first hurdle is the
request for a CV in a proprietary document format. ASCII text, the
utmost basic of file formats, defeats many stupid employers and recruitment
agencies. Whilst this is useful to help weed out working for companies
with stupid people in them, it doesn't help in actually getting work.
The approach which has actually had far greater success, however, in
getting companies to change their policy of using proprietary document
formats is to explain clearly that the "online application form"
contravenes "Equal Opportunities" legislation. This article describes
the approaches taken and the success stories, one at a time, by which
the proprietary document format...
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"Individual Rights and the Political Process: A Proposed Framework for
Democracy Defining Cases" by Walter M. Frank
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