The road must be trod and neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong.
The road must be trod and neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong.
Google in a box. For those times when you wish Google were in-house.
Telling the world how to perceive you is doomed to failure.
The article is about Corel's failure at marketing WordPerfect, but it reinforces some thoughts I've had about power and control. Coercion may seem like the way to win, but it always fails. And, too often, persuasion is a thinly veiled attempt at coercion.
As the article demonstrates, attempting to persuade people that their perception is wrong is usually futile.
Reading through David McCuster's weblog and really identifying with him. A bit of envy as well, perhaps, since he is obviously such a gifted coder, but a really thorough sense of identification. He says he is mostly INTP, which I tested to as well (especially since he says that the primary difference between INTP and INTJ seems to be that INTP usually doesn't make lists).
And then he talks about the frustration of not having a hobby that is comprehensible to others. Right! Or about how he tries to have a family and maintain his coding.
He also doesn't seek wealth for the sake of having and freely admits that he'd rather be working Part-Time.
It is interesting to contrast this POV with Dave Winer's who never looses site of his main goal: Making Money.
So, while I admire Dave Winer in many ways (and, indeed, I've been much more habitual about reading his weblog), I have a much deeper sense of identification with David McCuster.
Of course, David McCuster is write when he says Don Box is full of it. Reading over Don Box's piece, I'm overwhelmed with this sick feeling I get every time I have to listen to C and C programmers talk about how weakly-typed languages aren't as good as their choice. The straw men should all burn.
PayPal can't do business in Louisana. Hmmm... Wonder how they'll enforce that. I mean, this could potentially affect me since everyhost.com resides on a machine in Louisiana and uses PayPal as the exclusive form of payment.
Not sure, but it appears to be Louisiana's regulators are looking for some graft.
Today, I'm slogging my way through trying to create bootable Sun Sparc CDs. Last night, I discovered that XCDRoast is supposed to do this. Its not working yet.
Update: It is working! For others who have tried and failed: The second "slice" has to be the root filesystem.
There it is again. At the bottom of this story on CopyCat, there is the statement "This is a way to revive the pet in [the owner's] minds."
This sounds terribly reductionist to me. Just throw some DNA together, put it in the vat and you've gotten it all back!
This is on the same vein of those who want genetic clones of themselves. What absurd vanity! What happens when the person's genetic heir isn't quite what they imagined? What possible purpose does producing a genetic duplicate serve other than self-aggrandizement? Look, I'm so great, I made another me!
When I read /., I try to read it at a threshold of 5. But, this is ridiculous. 63 comments at rated 5?!? C'mon!
Of course, the 'net being what it is, this comment is probably apropos.