From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 01:31:22 MST
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 08:26 PM, Phil Osborn wrote:
> Of course, this wouldn't be a problem if we had
> Xanadu, if AutoDesk hadn't been eaten by the banks,
> etc. Is anyone working on building Xanadu from within
> the Web? Consider my idea for a social contract as
> one of the base points of a universal financial web.
>
It wouldn't have been the Internet.
> Another possibility: creating a market for clock
> cycles. It is truly tragic that we are saddled with
> this mindless excuse for an OS - Windoze. By now, I
> was confident that we would have in general use
> systems that would continually optimize themselves to
> search for each individual's heart's desire. Such
> systems would, of course, tend to expand to the limits
> of available processing power, memory, etc. So, if
> you have something on a site that is valuable to me to
> access, then I should trade something for it. If not
> money, then maybe resources for you to access, as in a
> credit on my account within the computational universe
> to your account.
>
> Just a thought - or two. You can pay me later...
>
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What you're talking about there is machine learning.
There's a good book about some technical machine learning, "Machine
Learning".
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html
I think everybody's thought about writing their own OS. I did.
I got a bunch of books that I think contain the information required to
run an operating system on all PC hardware. I got some PC system books
and a book about video cards, almost all the PCI and other standards are
available over the Internet.
If the operating system itself streamlines its operations with forms of
machine learning, which it does, there are a lot more free resources.
There are places in the TCP/IP protocols to enable online page and site
billing. Some of the HTTP return values are for transaction
information. Through computers are connected gateways to financial
information.
Another thing you're talking about there is the old uploads/downloads
ratio. Bulletin boards used to have requirements to upload as much as
was downloaded, or more or less, enforced by the bulletin board software.
Ah, the computer BBS. There were really lots of things on Telnet.
There used to be SAABRE right there. I think most computer bulletin
board systems used one phone line. There's not much like a roomful of
computers.
Ross
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