Tech Monopolies:
Seem to be in the news. I fear it is not the correct use of an old
instrument to level out business practices when it comes to tech
companies. I think it is not right to target a group of corporations for
doing business as one is expected to do business. The problem is far
worse in the reality of where we are going which is the loss of our freedom
and personal rights.
Logic Difficulty Scale (LDS)
It is hard to judge the difficulty of a software application. There are
many current approaches that judge the software level of difficulty by
looking at the type of statements, and on the number of paths within a application.
These methods only calculate the complexity of software based on the
skill of the developer and on the number of lines of code. We need a
realistic scale that can determined the level of difficulty before the
application is built.
The proposal for a Logic Scale should be based on the education level
of the human needed to create an application and not on the complexity
of the hardware instructions.
Cameras into the soul:
Your thoughts and words should not be pried upon by anyone, and used against you.
Companies have the right to do whatever they wish to make money. Our
motto is "Do whatever it takes to open the wallet"We tax, water, air,
gas, tobacco, land, income, property, liquor, and now our thoughts. What
we can tax we will tax. "Give me liberty or give me better software"
"My pride fell with my fortunes." -- William Shakespeare
"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all
respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." -- Rita Rudner
"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching.
And love like you've never been hurt." -- Mark Twain "In my
country, I have only three laws: 1. The beer is free 2. The women are
naked, 3. No bogarting" -- Clif "Those who deny
freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves" -- Abraham Lincoln
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston
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We Must Change our Technology:
We need to quit writing software for the computer. We must realize that
it requires a human to make sure every statement is correct. The
computer cannot do this. With our current technology a human is unable
to validate even the simplest of code. We must made coding
understandable by the human. We must be able have a complete
understanding of the code and have 100% confidence that what we read
will be done as expected. Therefore it must be readable, and what is
read must have the full context of its meaning, much more so than any
other style of writing.
If you think otherwise, then try an write a few lines of code without
a debugger. I typed it in, it's one line of stupid code, and I still do
not know exactly what will happen. As I add more lines, a gigantic
program of ten lines. It might take 4 hours to validate it to a point
that I am 90% confidant that it will work as I expect. There are many
reasons for this, the most common causes are not having complete
context, and not having support in writing code. Our knowledge and our
logic to do something with that knowledge are located in different
places. To make things worst, we only have one set of logic for any
knowledge we do possess. The task is to then have knowledge and then
have the ability to do whatever we want with it. Therefore to have the
logic available, at our command, to perform as we expect using what we
already know, with the fewest possible words.
Picture Copyrights:
Pictures should not be copyrighted. If anything the mountain and
trees should be have ownership of their images, not someone who PUSHED a
button. There is no WORK, or intellectual effort in taking a picture.
Not to the extent that the law provides them.
The internet is our new form of communication. If we are forced to
always create, at the individual level, to say or show what someone else
said or has shown us, we are no longer free communicate, but are taxed
for every word and image. We must revise the rules set forth in the
"Copyright Act of 1790". If technology were free to expand, then
we could progress to a point that we would be free to communicate, it a
way that both parties have complete understanding. The current laws
restrict communication to a point that we cannot trust anything. I
have two family members that have been hurt by false internet
communication (that I know of). It is far too easy to hide intent with
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STALLED technology:
I have been bothered for many years about our font technology. It
never occurred to me that THIS is our primary cause for our crappy
software. How can this be?
I watched Dr. Irving Finkel,
"Cracking Ancient
Codes" (YouTube) Which describes the different Cuneiform
writing systems. Which is the basis for most of our symbolic pictures.
A review of the history of our writing systems shows how it has changed over the
three or four thousands of years into what we have today.
Our Computer Writing System, created in 1868 (the typewriter)
1844 (Morse code) with no change for 152 years. We cannot have
progress is we cannot change our symbolic languages. We are not allowed
at the individual level to change our symbolic language, due to the
Supreme Court's copyright decisions on "Programs" and "Type Faces".
Much like the middle ages' Church rules.
Jane will make FONTS a primary capability of every program. This will
only go so far. We must also remove the copyright laws on images and
programs, relating to our digital stick that push grooves into our
digital clay blocks. We cannot go on this way, having to PAY
for our MUD, STICKS and governed to only use the PICTURES handled down
by god...
Luckily Software Sucks:
But what happens when it no longer sucks. We are currently looking
at the very fringe of technology slavery. We should fear the
future, for it will destroy us. Not by weapons but by being controlled.
When I first conceived the concept of Jane, I feared the results of my
own invention. It depends on who controls software. When it is a company
just after money, I do not worry much. When it is controlled by a
government then I start to worry.
We could just let software suck. Or we make software so powerful that
it cannot be corrupted. This is my thinking for Jane. Make it so open
and unrestricted that each individual has absolute control over of
his/her computing systems. Every device, from the phone, refrigerator,
to the clock on the wall. This includes all hardware components and all
hardware instructions.
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