Knuth: MMIXware A literate processor architecture.

Posted by at March 01, 2000 06:57 PM

Just smile and act nice. Do not be fooled by the pink background.

Posted by at March 01, 2000 06:41 PM

Group 54:34 would represent the languishing Bertram P. Brooker, whereas this would be a rather bombastic explanation of a pop culture symbol.

Maybe by posting this on your door you could get more action -- or this if you're female.

Posted by at March 01, 2000 12:13 PM

ONLINE ORIGINALS -- better characterized as "a plague of neat links". Sad when Business Week is more interesting than theoretical culture-boxen like Time or Wired.

Posted by at March 01, 2000 11:05 AM

Sex Panic -- yet again, although this one marginally more interesting. God forbid that women and gays should get their ya-yas out -- right Shad?

Posted by at March 01, 2000 10:18 AM

Thousands Joining ICANN

Yes, but what's in it for us?

Posted by at March 01, 2000 10:14 AM

This EETimes.com report Free 32-bit processor core hits the Net lead me to the OPENCORES.ORG website. The secret is finally out, hardware has become software.

Posted by at March 01, 2000 08:18 AM

With a thousand smiles she gives to me free

The global economic issue is a lot more complicated than just spreading some bucks/food/power/stuff around and trying to make everything equal. Pure equality is a tantalizing idea, but like the beautiful weather we're getting up here in Ottawa, it's actually terrible for us. Thanks to this fantastically balmy (for February) weather, the Gatineaus will be even more dried up this year than they were last, and the whole ecosystem will be, it is to say, fucked up.

Human beings are stuck in a tragic loop right now -- we're evolved enough to know that we're still very subject to biophysical based instincts but we're not entirely evolved enough to understand the full implications of it. Human competitiveness is no excuse for bad behavior; however, any noble undertaking executed without an understanding of human competitiveness is just as doomed as any pack of neo-anarchist "Save the planet" ecologists who figure that eventually, corporate Canada (in my case, probably America in yours) will eventually decide that virtue is its own reward. Just like the Crusader knights wiping out the landscape on behalf of a God who told them to be nice.

The point is that any extremist stance is absolutely destined to either corrupt or be, at best, marginally effective. Remember that "extremism" constitutes anything radically different from what is now -- equal pay for equal work regardless of gender/religion/sexual orientation/colour/etc is a very extreme concept -- and in many ways an invalid one. I have trouble thinking that Einstein was created equal -- regardless of what American equality-elitists may say -- to the guy at the 7-11. But I digress.

It is extremely unlikely that I would ever support an effort to "make the world an equal place" -- pseudo-benevolent/altruistic outfits corrupt the worst of all. They get an idea in their heads and they don't consider the full ramifications. The most baseline of these is the idea that women and men are interchangeable, or that yellow, white, black and red people are interchangeable -- an idea that's so nearly true, but so radically wrong in certain fundamental ways, that it can really fuck up anybody who believes it.

The most "radically wrong" part is that it's riddled with neo-Victorian patronizing nonsense. "Let's fight for those who can't fight for themselves". Fuck that. Teach them to fight and let them make up their own minds -- isn't that what it's really about?

Or would you rather play Moses? Moses was a real fuck -- he could've been king of Egypt and married a beautiful girl and worked out a harmonious peace with the Egyptians (who were a pretty bright people) and had it all be good. Instead, he manifests an incredibly stiff-necked attitude, humiliates the Egyptians and the woman he supposedly loved, and can't quite seem to manage his people anyhow -- he leaves them alone for a few days and they're back worshipping money and cutting virgin throats. All in favour of the instant gratification of violent revolution, over the more gradual diplomatic resolution of problems, can learn a lot from Moses. He's still got a pretty good reputation despite being a world-class jackass. But he meant well.

Posted by at March 01, 2000 05:29 AM