atn waiting list: March 2015

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

links

https://www.internetdefenseleague.org/
https://ejuror.maricopa.gov/ejuror-agile/
http://www.esbnyc.com/explore/top-deck-102nd-floor
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/o/overflow/
http://www.ecobluproducts.com/index.php?p=news
https://minecraft.net/
http://arcosanti.org/node/10146
https://secure.davison.com/submitidea/?source_id=661
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-html-editor.htm
http://www.dustindiaz.com/javascript-animate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis#See_also
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/
https://www.udacity.com/

http://skywaterexchange.com/
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-html-editor.htm
http://search.lycos.com/web/?q=html+editor&keyvol=00d500c7213a1ff8878e
https://secure.davison.com/submitidea/?source_id=661
http://search.lycos.com/web/?q=lisencing&keyvol=0095d77e6b7ac844029a
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/31/rap-music-prosecutions_n_6949078.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/31/sony-world-photography-awards_n_6976552.html?cps=gravity_2691_3125568718516426212

Monday, March 30, 2015

There are problems in computing - let's say popular computing - that are not being addressed. This could be a small problem or a big one. It's a big one, but it's sort of low key, so no one notices. I am not talking about "niche" problems that would be of interest to clever entrepreneurs who know "niche" means "money". Since these are not niche problems, nobody cares. Meanwhile, sure, the programmers are exploring esoteric back end type problems, endlessly, but their efforts have little relevance to these fundamental problems I mention. Unlike back end problems, these problems are simple and obvious, and affect everyone directly, and are of concern to everyone, and are not anywhere addressed - except in convoluted, indirect ways.

These problems are not exceptionally challenging from a technical perspective - rather the opposite. They are challenging from a conceptual perspective. The conceptual problem is, why should we pay attention to fundamentals, the management of which is already subject to established procedures? There is also this: how can we commercialize a concept? But there might be ways, and as regards why we should do it, there are reasons.

To wit, as an example, the mouse, and I have invented a mouse that is a vast improvement, and very inexpensive to manufacture. It might be a good place to start, and, if it's a success, then I want to address other similar problems.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

fortitude

Sooo ... Web hosting is basically a file system. It's basically a names system. Someone can send a request to your domain, for, a file name. Your domain will then do something in response, or might, and what it does depends on the circumstances.

I want a computer system (built around a laptop that works great) that automatically saves a movie of everything I do on line - a movie of my screen. It comes with a video player that makes it transcendently better than anything in the field, and built into that is a video editing platform and advanced indexing. The system won't work without the player.

I have also invented a mouse that costs one penny and works great ... in fact, perfectly. Effortless, infinitely precise, highly portable.

Mr. So and So,
Thank you for your concern but I am not confused. Here are some facts; 1/10th of the population - no? is it 2/10ths, or 3? - are pot smoking hippies. That's a minority, who you despise. Please do not change who to whom. I'm writing this letter, not you. You think they should be suppressed. They are just people, scrapping in this world for what they can get, or provide. If you approach the reasonably, you will find them variously intelligent, charming, good hearted, even productive, and likely to follow their inclinations, like everybody else, yet you ascribe to them, first, mental deficiencies, and, second, harmfulness to society. Does any of this sound familiar?

You know, Sir, a society without prejudice would cause you all sorts of trouble. For example, pot heads might be a little rebellious, and I know you don't want that. Certain segments of the population are less educated than others. Now you can't just dismiss them, so you will have to deal with less educated people. Some segments of society might disagree with you on philosophical grounds, and now you can't just dismiss them. How is that possible?! And poor people might be a little rough in their manners, even to the point of having mental problems, and we have forbidden dismissing them. This leaves outright criminals, and we don't want too many of them around, I agree. Of course, being nice reduces criminality. You could try that. (Stern. Nice. But childish lying? I guess you're a child.)

Do you know, Sir, if a father says to his son - taking him for "a walk" - in so many words, "is that guy coming on to you? Don't get involved." you will be very straight, for the rest of your life. I mean, you already were, adoring women, and not interested in men at all ... but so is everybody. And all sorts of guys hit on me, after that. There was no chance of me becoming really involved. Now that I'm built like a brick shithouse and look kind of scary, that's kind of stopped. But, at the time, I had nobody, so I did get slightly involved, the darlings. Two of them were, truly, great guys. A great privilege to know them. And one of them was married to a great guy. The others all kind of sucked as people.
Oh, well, people suck. Anyway, eventually, against all probability, I was able to win an actual fabulous woman. It's best to just keep quiet about such things.

Wandering about in my garden and talking to myself, and the trees ... "I have the tallest fig tree anywhere - even my one friend agrees - and also the a pomegranate as high as, he reports, the telephone pole. My oleanders are quite tall, and my mulberries are a little too tall. By the way, I have the biggest African Acacia anyone has ever seen. Yowza! And my wife - I don't do anything - has the most abundant and beautiful vegetable garden on earth. I've been trimming the trees around it because it gets so little light. Now all the vegetables are all wilty - a warm Spring afternoon. Maybe I should secretly water in the mornings.

"I see your beer keg is not refrigerated. That's brilliant! No electric bill and no nasty noise." I am speaking to another gnome. I buy my beer in full halves, and I don't need to order ahead, I just go to the old place and buy their bargain barrels, of craft brew. I keep two on hand, so as not to run out, and I keep them under the bamboos, beside a leafy path. No bottles, no trips to the store. I buy a heavy beer, and drink a lot of it, so, yes, I'm usually drunk. Call me slow. (Beer is extremely rich in anti-oxidants. The kind I drink is a true elixir. I know one when I see one. There's a price to be paid, for life eternal, but, hey, the 99 year old poets of China are all drunkards, according to legend.)

Yes, I probably use less energy than most. No erator for my kegs, using the ac two hours a day during the summer, the gas heat for two weeks in the winter. We do have a little electric heater unit from Japan that we use all winter, mornings and evenings. It's really nice, and probably quite efficient - it's kind of an antique. We have a clunky old water heater. When it was cold I turned it up, until it was pretty much too hot. Then my wife said, "our gas bill is way up." She turned it down 'till it was just hot enough (adjusting it only once), and that was great ... or, fine, anyway. And in the summer we turn it down to just pilot - it's so old it has a pilot light - and that's plenty warm ... partly due to some plumbing issues, and that's called fortuitousness.