Tag: technology
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humanity is not important
Atoms in the human body: 7 x 1027Atoms in the human race: 5 x 1037 Atoms in the universe: 6 x 1079 Atoms in the human body / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-52Atoms in the human race / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-42 Zero percent of the atoms in the universe…
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Scaling Standards
Level Human Geographic Organization Logical 1 Personal Device Individual Personal-Area 2 Family Home Workgroup Local-Area 3 Tribe Neighborhood Team Campus-Area 4 Community City Co-Op Metro-Area 5 Clan Region Company Wide-Area 6 Nation Continent Government Nation-Area 7 Species Planet MegaCorp World-Wide
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Conceptual Unpacking
Part I – Preconceived Notions First, there were the dinosaurs, but they got too big and died… Then apes, walking, fire, farming, religion, government, empire, enlightenment, capitalism, industrialization, computation, networking, porn, social media, cloud, and AI happened. None of which means very much at all in the eyes of the universe. But it does mean…
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EIS: Building Integrated Systems
Anyone can set-up a computer, and if you can set up one, you can set up two. Almost anyone can plug those two computers into a hub or switch and get them to talk to each other. If you can do that, then replacing the hub or switch with a broadband router isn’t much harder,…
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Price premium for time sensitive video
Watching NFL games live on television incurs a 1912% price premium over the same game time-shifted from Sunday to Tuesday.
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Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders
This article – Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders – talks about the issue of organizing filesystems for human interfaces, specifically it talks about the difference between Microsoft’s desktop and Google’s search paradigms. It seems to me that the search paradigm, especially when used in this context to replace hierarchy, is…
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Nationalism in Cyberspace
In a story titled “Bush administration annexes internet,” The Register talks about how the U. S. Department of Commerce intends to “retain control over the Internet’s root servers indefinitely.” This is a reversal of previous U. S. and may in some way be a response to U. N. attempts to control the internet. What is…
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and so it begins…
So much for “don’t be evil” – this guy [ link dead, no archive ] got locked out of Gmail because he uses Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension that lets him add content and functionality to web pages that isn’t provided by the authors. In a world governed by contracts – like ULAs and SLAs…
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iTunes update redux
So as I was installing the upgrade to iTunes 4.9 this morning (with all the associated non-background actions it requires) I noticed something strange – a system restart is required after the installation. It made me reflect on how odd a system restart requirement is in the Linux / UNIX world for a userspace software…
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yes, I know what to do with that screwdriver…
I have seen the insides of my iBook. I have seen what happens when a hard drive fails while you are logged in and using it. And I can tell you that the screws are that long for a reason, and that it is easy to to tear the ribbon cable that connects the touch…