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...rt II After the Stall—63 4 The Generative Pattern—67 5 T ethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement—101 6 The Lessons of Wikipe... ... to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software written and then shared or sold by their more skilled or inspire... ...inker with it. Hobbyists wrote programs. Businesses began to plan on selling software. Jobs (and Apple) had no clue how the machine would be used. The... ...ing secret warrants and flicking a distant switch. They can turn a stan- dard mobile phone into a roving microphone—whether or not it is being used for... ...computer apart from the software, beginning a slow evolution toward in-house programming talent and third-party software makers. Nevertheless, for yea... ... general-pur- pose processors inside, capable of a range of tasks, and IBM’s programming team devised the software that the customer needed to fulfill ... ... put in place to prevent other users from running that software online. The “programming areas” became relics, and the Hol- lerith model prevailed. Pe... ... as substitutes for the activities they value most. Digital video recorders, mobile phones, BlackBerries, and video game consoles will offer safer and ... ...pliances vying for a chunk of the PC’s domain. With a handful of exceptions, mobile phones are in the same category: they are smart, and many can acce...
...le marketplace, the hardware (e-book readers) was clunky and awkward, the software unwieldy, the e-books badly written or already in the public domai... ...onsider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but such software is likely to conquer ... ...er Scindex and its Academic Resource Channel. Established by academics and software experts from Bulgaria, it epitomizes the tearing down of geograph... ...ased on monetizing eyeballs, to use a faddish refrain. When the perpetuum mobile of "advertisers pay for content and users get it free" crumbled - t... ...ival - strive to acquire as many users/listeners/viewers as possible. The programming is shallowed to the lowest (and widest) common denominator. Sh... ...mming is shallowed to the lowest (and widest) common denominator. Shallow programming dominates as long as the bloodbath proceeds. From Rags to Ric... ...tual property technologies, payment systems, conversion applications, the mobile Internet, and, basically, every important trend in network and comp... ...o physical metamorphosis of the message). The book is like a perpetuum mobile. It spreads its content virally by being circulated and is not dimi... ...iple servers ("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such mater...
...e. Returns increase - rather than decrease - with each additional copy. An original software retains its quality even if copied numerous times. The ... ...free abundance. Demand always initially exceeds supply. Internet backbone capacity, software programmers, servers are all scarce to start with - in ... ...ld returns skyrocket and revenues contribute directly to the bottom line. Consider software applications. The first units sold cover the enormous f... ...ties, each, in turn, increased the mobility of the workforce. A farmer is the least mobile. His means of production are fixed, his produce was most... .... Investors and tourists, let alone exporters and importers, are fickle and highly mobile. This inherent disloyalty is a boon to new and emerging m... ...businesses. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development owns the license for second mobile phone operator in Afghanistan - among other businesses. ... ...to ideograms. Consider computers. They started as pure alphabet beasts. I recall my programming days with ASSEMBLY, COBOL and PL/1 on a clunky IBM ... ...all converted. Today, the elite controls both the alphabet (machine and high level programming languages) and the ideograms (GUIs) - the masses hav... ...w much imputed to the robot itself? When a robot decides finally to ignore its own programming – how will we be informed of this momentous event? O...
...cost to the provider) are the commonest of contracts. We open a business. We sell a software application, we publish a book – we engage in helping ... ...The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors.... ...dren", the results of "brain-storming", conceived by "minds". What is a computer, a software application, a communications network if not a (materia... ...the wiring of the brain as pregnancy progresses. The latest evolutionary phase in programming is OOPS (Object Oriented Programming Systems). Objec... ... performed by these objects - but not with their structure and internal processes. Programming objects, in other words, are "black boxes" (an engin... ...ogists "a-priori categories", or "the collective unconscious". Computers and their programming evolve. Relational databases cannot be integrated wi... ...t eliminate all pervious models - I foresee cohabitation. D Danger When we, mobile organisms, are confronted with danger, we move. Coping wi... ...rselves, to altering our definition sufficiently to confound the source of danger. Mobile organisms, therefore, resort to changing their space-time... ...ntive (or deterrent)? The members of the various elites in Western democracies are mobile - they ceaselessly and facilely hop from one lucrative si...
... that is the fucking truth. The Power of Mobility The instant you become mobile: you lose contact with the earth. The most powerful species... ...the earth. The most powerful species of animals have always been the most mobile ones. When Life evolved into Trees and plants: they were not m... ... animals came and spread out and tried to cover the earth that were bigger and mobile… so big, that they could ignore the insects. Then the biggest ... ...it for the rest of their lives. And not even aware of their own subconscious programming. All human traumas, all unexperienced experiences split... ... precisely what civilization has done to humans. It has brainwashed people by programming them with the idea that selective personal ownership as a ... ...ect: that is precisely what civilization has done to humans. It has people by programming them with the idea of selective personal ownership as a pe... ...ration will ever have the resources to make a competing model of their idiotic software. That way; it keeps a lock on the business of selling softwa... ...ies; from chocolate, bananas, wood, chemicals, hardware stores, video stores, software companies, and oil… to running shoes, pants, coffee houses, mo... ...e they are coming out with newer and newer, and more complicated programs and software… that need more and more complex computers with bigger memory ...
...with death. The organism is akin to a computer which processes data using elaborate software and then turns itself off after 15-80 years, erasing al... ...brane is what we know as a particle and a D1-brane would be a string. D-branes are mobile and interact with closed strings (and particles). Strings... ...This often leads to infinite regressions. That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the same way as ... ... scans a two-dimensional tape inscribed with ones and zeroes, etc.) it is really a software application, in today's terminology. It carries out ins... ...e with each other. Moreover, Science believes that it has a set of very effective tools to diagnose, distinguish, observe and describe these relat... ...y accurate predictions based on the relationships discerned through the use of said tools. Science (mostly) claims that these connections are "true"... ...ich have been established and tested using the scientific apparatus and arsenal of tools". This, admittedly, is a very cyclical argument, as close ... ...rprising array of fields: from language to social norms, from semiotics to computer programming, and from logic to animal behavior. In 1700, the En...
...ling of supervisory systems; design of hybrid models for complex systems; mobile robots and in intimate technology such as office plants; analysis o... ...er [19-23]. We conclude that Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are the best tools to carry out qualitative analysis. 1.3.6: Fuzzy Causal Relation... ...adjiski et al [39]. 65 APPLICATION 1.4.3: Use of FCMs in Robotics: Mobile Robots performing Cutting Operations and Intimate Technologies like... ...it is said as follows: "FCMs are applicable for modeling the operation of mobile robots performing cutting operations. FCMs represent an approach to... ...o connection matrix form will become apparent later as it facilitates the programming, or “bookkeeping”, of more complex relationships in larger aug... ...acted from RNA microarray data. This work is part of the development of a software tool, FCModeler, which models and visualizes metabolic networks. ... ...mpare it with legal statements/ judgments. 47. Construct a NCModeler (a software tool analogous to FCModeler) in creating metabolic and regulatory... ...ulate the Information Systems Strategic Planning Process, Information and Software Technology, 41 (1999) 197-210. 48. Kardaras, D., and G. Mentzas. ... ...ng the passengers comfort in the madras transport corporation using fuzzy programming, Progress of Mat., Banaras Hindu Univ., 32 (1998) 91-134. 2...
...e second illustrates the risks inherent in relying on mercenaries and insurgents as tools of foreign and military policy. Arnold Toynbee, the disti... ...ntive (or deterrent)? The members of the various elites in Western democracies are mobile - they ceaselessly and facilely hop from one lucrative si... ...e. Everybody is exploiting everybody, and finally all organizations and states are tools which consist of individuals and used by them. The Arabs i... ...American U-2 aerial spy missions above its fringes, Russia fired yesterday, from a mobile launcher, a "Topol" RS-12M Intercontinental Ballistic Mis... ... Nations entities at the country level duplicate efforts and studiously avoid joint programming, common databases and pooling of resources. The afo... ...ording to the UN. A thriving black market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets ... ... are potholed and few, the railways derelict. Fixed line penetration is low, though mobile telephony is booming. This sorry state was avoidable. K... ...d. Kosovo is one of the global centers of piracy of intellectual property, notably software and movies. The Central Fiscal Authority of Kosovo esti... ...out firing a shot. The threat of military force and its occasional use were crucial tools in securing this success. Europe's experience has been ve...
... or Yahweh, is not our access to such advances of science as electricity, mobile phones, cloning, stem cell potentials for healing, the techniques o... ...n our living rooms than in our minds. We have no problem with television, mobile phones, or automobiles. because they are practical and aid our livi... ...reased by 500%. If it had not been for Finnish Nokia and Swedish Ericsson mobile phones or Norway‘s oil these three countries would not have been ab... ...evelop products that are universally desired, like cell phones or 171 software, you may be able to survive. Or maybe your utopia can provide a un... ... —―Wreck, maybe we can perfect a software program that will predict society‘s needs and potentials. Formula... ...icipated reactions of other competitors to varying situations. Prediction software is being used more in business. It has been used for years in Ame... ...r than outlaw child pornography or the access of children to pornographic programming, they can only recommend that parents use filters that limit c... ...parents use filters that limit children‘s access to undesirable television programming. They can see that the laws are ‗overly broad‘, and that if th... ...ex and orgasms are rather pleasant pastimes, especially if the television programming is not of top caliber and you don‘t have access to video games....
...dianapolis Center. 142 The reasons are technical, arising from the way the software processed radar information, as well as from poor primary radar co... ...ion.” 27 Legal Constraints on the FBI and “the Wall” The FBI had different tools for law enforcement and intelligence. 28 For crim- inal matters, it c... ... imagery and produces a wide array of products, including maps, navigation tools, and surveillance intelligence. A third such agency in Defense is the... ...he air at the same time in different parts of the world.They used the game software to increase their familiarity with aircraft models and functions, ... ...ommand Center located on the 22nd floor of the North T ower. Damage to the software controlling the system, resulting from the impact of the plane, pr... ...tuses, and other equipment (including hoses for engine companies and heavy tools for ladder companies). 111 Firefighters found the stairways they ente... ...use everyone was already on edge with the millennium and possible computer programming glitches (“Y2K”) that might obliterate records, shut down power... ...hmed al Ghamdi, one of the earliest operatives to transit Dubai, acquire a mobile phone account so that the operatives could use that number as a trav...