We can see how ridiculous this picture is when we ask how we can 'know' something that is not 'in our head'. This is an incorrct depiction of knowledge, one that perpetuates the idea that knowdge is atomic, like 'facts', that can be moved and stored, as though it were some sort of object. People like George Siemens and Jay Cross and others are talking about "knowledge that's stored outside your head". OK, I need to clarify what I think has become a confusion. (I have no doubt the economists know all this, and scoff at people who trivialize economics as 'supply and demand'). Which is why not only ruthlessly calculating people make money passionate people do too.
Indeed - when one views the irrationality of the stock market - it is rather more likely that markets are driven by psychological factors rather than financial factors. It might be something more intangible, like love or fear. How about, then, pairs like desire and dislike? Hope and fear? Because, after all, the driving force of the economy might not be money at all. could there be other pairs of variables that explain economics equally well, if not better? Economics is, at heart, the science of the trade-off. But that got me thinking: supply-demand, cost-benefit. Every system of production, whether it is a company, a market, or an open source community, has its costs." That's a good point, and of ourse, the economic advantage of open source is that it lowers costs. It's a nice paper, and this sentence caught my eye: "We typically reduce all of economics to supply and demand, but it could be equally well formulated in terms of cost and benefit. Michael Feldstein interprets open source through the lens of economic theory. This numbr steadily dropped, until we now read that "Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp are supplying Libya's government with 150,000 rugged laptop computers that cost $200 to build and are designed to meet the needs of children in developing countries." Wayan Vota, One Laptop Per Child News Octo Ĭoase's University: Open Source, Economics, and Higher Education Originally, Libya had agreed to purchase a million OLPC computers.
Well, I think we're seeing the cartel in action here. One Qaddafi Conundrum Per Laptop Purchase Here's the other standards meetings, and yes, there is an RSS feed. And so that communications between groups are easily maintained without a whole lot of fuss and bother and secrecy. So that attempts to gerrymander the process are seen in public view. People may say that some people may not want to contribute in public meetings, but my response is that such people should not then be defining open standards. Indeed, I would venture to say that this sort of public deliberation ought to become the norm in standards-building. I missed this meeting but the use of FlashMeeting - and especially the posing of the meeting for public viewing - makes me all the more inclined to go to the next one (I am not a part of this workgroup specifically but I am a member of IEEE-LTSC).
SNAPZ PRO X SLOW WINDOWS
So the USQ audience is still without a video - one does exist now, and I'm going to try to clean it up and get rid of the echo before posting it, and then see what I can do about getting NRC to give me a good Windows machine for video editing. Snapz Pro worked pretty well as a screen capture tool, without the limitations of Jing, and managed to create a 5 gig video without crashing, but is a lot more awkward to use. Final Cut Pro, which of course does everything, in fact does nothing, or at least, nothing I want it to do (such as, say, preview a video without taking 10 minutes to render it first).
SNAPZ PRO X SLOW SOFTWARE
Mac's iMovie 08 is a disasterous piece of software - it is unstable, it assigns audio tracks to the wrong clips, it is slow, and it is stupid. I know that may seem astonishing, but I have to say, the stuff I was using on Microsoft - from MovieMaker to Camtasia to everything in between, worked much better (ie., worked) and much more smoothly.
I do not have good video editing software for the Mac.
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