Solipsism Gradient

Posted by Hernani Dimantas:
Valeu, Rainer. Adorei o texto. E achei muito legal a tua atitude de traduzi-lo ao português. É isso aí… reverberar vozes.

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Posted by Fábio Caparica:

Jean Boechat wrote:

Este texto é uma pérola.

Uma pérola conceitual que vai muito além do mundo do controle. Do mundo governamental ou dos negócios.

E é uma pérola que a gente sempre sabe que existe. E que precisamos lembrar sempre dela. Adorei.

Olá Jean…

Vc resumiu o que estava no meu pensamento.

“O texto é uma pérola conceitual”

Como já dizia o Tupy…

“A revolução não será televisionada…”

Recently, Apple started supplying some software in a new form. Although you download an apparently normal .dmg file, clicking on it doesn’t mount the disk image as usual – instead, files from the image are copied to the download folder, the image is dismounted and moved to the trash.

At first I thought this unwelcome, overly helpful, and even disquieting – are they executing a script and can this be used as a vehicle for virii and trojans?

However, Apple just published a note about how these files work, and how to create them yourself. No scripts are involved, so that’s one worry less.

Posted by Daniel Pádua:
O valor deste texto incrível está na simplicidade, clareza e concisão com que eles resumem o que sentimos no dia-a-dia da Internet.

Se falar o óbvio de maneira simples já é um desafio, abordá-lo com uma profundidade tão grande é mesmo coisa de gênio.

Que tal um weblog para listar e comentar sites, ferramentas e serviços que seguem a linha ‘Mundo de Pontas’ de pensar?

Aloha.

Posted by Jean Boechat:
Este texto é uma pérola.

Uma pérola conceitual que vai muito além do mundo do controle. Do mundo governamental ou dos negócios.

E é uma pérola que a gente sempre sabe que existe. E que precisamos lembrar sempre dela. Adorei.

Posted by cava:
Entendo que muitos dos erros cometidos por legisladores fazem parte de um unico sentimento protecionista. Alias, muito comum no territorio americano.

Percebemos isso ao ver os mesmos defendendo penas muito leves para uma empresa que feriu as leis anti-truste ou tambem vendo os mesmos tentando “proteger” o mercado fonografico ou cinematografico.

Tambem e’ o que vimos a pouco com a questao dos direitos autorais do Mickey e sua turma. O simples fato destes personagens movimentarem milhoes e a possibilidade da liberacao causar estrago e encadear uma crise foi suficiente para encorajar o poder judiciario e legislativo a cometer novo erro.

Sempre foi assim e com apos a crise de 11 de setembro, o sentimento piorou. O medo de um colapso na economia iniciado por uma grande empresa (ou um mercado especifico como o fonografico) em crise, tem como consequencia tais erros que, ao meu ver, estao apenas adiando e aumentando o prejuizo futuro.

Doc Searls and David Weinberger, co-authors of the classic Cluetrain Manifesto, did it again with World of Ends. In less than a day this article climbed to the #1 spot on indexes such as TechnoRati and DayPop. Hundreds of weblogs are already linking to it, and in a couple of days major news sites should follow.

I’ve posted a translation into Brazilian Portuguese. This was written in a hurry, so I make no claims of elegance or fidelity; both will hopefully be added during the following days. Please post comments over there if you see an error, or know a better translation for some phrase or word.

Update: Doc Searls has linked to this post and my translation. David Weinberger has posted several interesting comments he received from readers. Tim Moors published a technical paper about end-to-end design which concludes that although implementing functions at the network edge is often useful, certain others (like routing and congestion control) should not be edge-implemented. Richard Bennett calls the article a cluetrainish hallucination. BurningBird thinks the article oversimplifies the issues. Marc Canter comments at length, a must read. There are tons of other links – unfortunately TechnoRati seems to be down at the moment.

Tim Bray is wondering if it would be better to drop the charging circuit from a laptop:

So if this laptop came with two batteries, and an external battery charger that charged faster than the computer ran the batteries down, I could routinely work without having anything plugged in. Also, the laptop wouldn’t have to include the battery-charge circuit, which might allow it to be simpler and lighter.

Anybody who has a small laptop is already carrying around one extra box, namely the power supply adapter, and most of us also carry around an extra battery. Why not make the two of these into a single extra box?

…Are there any Electrical Engineers out there with an educated opinion as to whether losing the charging circuit would make the laptop noticeably smaller and lighter?

In the past, I did some design of battery-charging circuits for portable embedded systems, and in the specific case of laptops I’d say there’d be no savings. My current iBook/600 has a built-in charging circuit but no extra battery to keep things working while swapping batteries. (Previous PowerBooks used to have such a battery.) In my opinion such a battery would be at least as expensive, and use up as much space and weight as the charging circuit. And I find it faster to just plug in a charger whenever my battery goes low, rather than put the laptop to sleep, take a battery out, and plug in a new one…

Other options would be to have the external power supply also have a socket for charging an extra battery (upside: one less box to carry; downside: larger & expensive charger, more connectors, wasted space for people who don’t have an extra battery) or to have parts of the charging circuit built into the battery itself so you can cascade several batteries (upside: more flexibility, simpler charger; downside: more expensive batteries, still need a backup battery inside the laptop).

I think we’ll see some better laptop solutions in a couple of years. Once OLED screens and better polymer batteries come onto the market, we’ll have thinner screens and smaller power requirements. The battery will be a thin slate mounted behind the screen; you’ll get better heat dissipation too and the ability to slap on several batteries if necessary.