tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29086368814332723692024-03-13T22:11:42.680-07:00eclectic-pencil at DOT blogspot DOT comEclectic-Pencil blog on software development with Smalltalk, Curl and Icon and on elseKanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.comBlogger467125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-55120257102245124172020-07-10T05:01:00.001-07:002020-07-10T05:23:56.871-07:00Five Pawn Chess for Young Children Learning Chess<p dir="ltr"><b>5 Pawn Chess for Children</b></p><p dir="ltr"><b><br></b>
<a href="https://eclecticpencil.wordpress.com/chess-5-pawns-for-young-children">https://eclecticpencil.wordpress.com/chess-5-pawns-for-young-children</a>/</p>
<p dir="ltr">5 Pawn Chess<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">5 Pawn chess begins with a lighter side major piece moving: our sides are called Honey and Chocolate at our house as grandparents. Note the bishop options and the one file option for each rook.</p><p dir="ltr">No castling and no en passant.</p><p dir="ltr">Pawn reaching the 8th rank becomes a Prince or Princess able to move as does the King or as did the Queen in Arabian chess before the French rendered the Queen all-powerful.</p><p dir="ltr">Having an extra set of pieces permits using inverted rooks as Prince or Princess should the need arise.</p><p dir="ltr">Our preference is for a nine-rank board with the darker-side having an extra rank to balance the lighter-side having the first move.</p><p dir="ltr">No mention is made of moving pawns first. Blocked pawn issues are simpler in first and eighth files. Each bishop has a different option.</p><p dir="ltr">Opening knight move is encouraged. Prior to play, a knight is placed in centre of empty board: movement is taught as 2-step: one diagonal on same colour square; one more move to change colour. Demonstrate in edge file and in corner. Remove knight. Place blcked pawns, then major pieces and lastly, the 3 wall pawns of King, Queen and King's Bishop.</p><p dir="ltr">Sides are picked with a sixth pawn in each hand to avoid confusion about removal or placement on board.</p><p dir="ltr">For sensitive child, capture is presented as "wait to play in next game" and Queen does not return even if available for an 8th rank pawn.</p>KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-74401289866100518512019-06-30T16:20:00.003-07:002019-06-30T16:20:43.938-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">受</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">ジュ、</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">うけ、うけ</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">−</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 、うか−</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">受身</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
Some editors may be reluctant to accept an author using the passive voice ... I don't care to receive that criticism either, but ... if you want to <i>jouer le jeu</i> ... vous tournez la <b>joue</b> ! And in defensive martial arts, the one who accepts to be your partner ... your 受け ?? はい。そうです…<br />
<br />
うけ<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">受け</span></div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-51066706164301930042018-08-26T00:00:00.001-07:002018-08-26T00:22:06.259-07:00Jurisprudence, Canada, and the Métis as French or English<p dir="ltr">Jurisprudence in our civil courts is not merely law and precedent in judicial interpretation of law. As a nation with a constitution, jurisprudence in non-criminal matters might be thought to come to this: is a law or regulation taken to implement a law, consistent with a provision or provisions of a constitution. The historical facts as to how a constitution came to be in place over peoples within a given polity has become a fundamental or, if you prefer, an ultimate consideration.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Consider matters of law in 1919 in Paris at the peace conference arising from the 1918 armistice. No legal presupposition appeared to entail, at that time, that the Japanese people were men in the sense that Europeans were men in matters of international law. It was not merely that some peoples lived in polities too little advanced to escape tutelage under the Europeans: it was that the peoples themselves were not men in ultimate matters of law.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Suppose for a moment that the characterization of the last paragraph does reflect the state of considerations of international law in the Paris of 1919. On this view, the national aspirations of the Japanese were stymied, historically a nontrivial matter if that frustration contributed in causing or justifying the Pacific theatre of WW2. In seeking to redress that injustice and the wrongs to which it gave rise, would it matter that the Japanese themselves were inconsistent in their evaluation of Africans as men, Korean laborers in Japan as men, the inhabitants of Okinawa as a people withe a king, or the Ainu people of Hokaido and the Kirile Islands as men?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Consider the case of Canada and the aboriginal and Métis peoples not treated <u>as</u> peoples in laws evaluated in relation to the new Canadian Constitution prior to 2018.<br>
</p>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-86114135656693851782016-10-29T05:18:00.000-07:002016-10-29T05:19:45.732-07:00oh Google, O Alphabets !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is my untagged Facebook post today:<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Yes, some followers do not know what Microsoft calls "Azure" or that an Amazon makes profits on Web Services for cloud storage or that Google is owned by Alphabet.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bill Gates owns the art.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Google does NOT own the alphabet as THAT is in Unicode Version 9 which is NOT Plan 9 which is another obscure reference only to amuse someone who does not follow me anyway.</span></div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-8913748476991561372016-02-19T12:01:00.000-08:002016-02-19T12:01:01.476-08:00Red console view GUI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a simpler example to paste into a <b><a href="http://www.red-lang.org/p/documentation.html" target="_blank">Red</a></b> console to test the GUI basics of using the <i>view</i> dialect.<br /><br />
view [<br />
below<br />
tgl: text "Some test text"<br />
text 400x30 bold italic blue font-size 16 "Text with properties"<br />
button "Click Me" [tgl/text: "Text Changed!"]<br />
field 400 "SELECT this text then Type something into this entry field"<br />
area 400x200<br />
]<br />
<br />
A Red script might declare that it <b>needs</b> the <i>view</i> module in its header.<br /><br />The above script was tested with the Feb 19 2016 build of Red.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /><br /></div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-28889708187922469932016-02-19T09:32:00.000-08:002016-02-19T09:34:00.937-08:00Red PL do with block<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="http://www.red-lang.org/p/documentation.html" target="_blank">Red programming language</a> is moving slowly to version 1.0 and today is at 0.5.4<br />
<br />
I thought that it might be useful to look at a <b>do</b> block with the <i>prin</i> function when entered at the Red console.<br />
<br />
My example is as follows:<br />
<br />
do [<br />
t1: "test1"<br />
prin t1<br />
t1: "test2"<br />
prin t1<br />
]<br />
<br />
The console output will be<br />
<br />
<i>test1test2</i><br />
<br />
and NOT<br />
<br />
<i>test2test2</i><br />
<br />
Why?<br />
<br />
I think that this is only really clear if you see the example code as<br />
<br />
do [<br />
t1: "test1"<br />
prin <b>:</b>t1<br />
t1: "test2"<br />
prin <b>:</b>t1<br />
]<br />
<br />
The difference above is that each prin function explicitly is being passed the value of t1.<br />
<br />
This is what happens in the short-hand or syntactic sugar version of the example as I first presented it.<br />
<br />
If a new user of Red imagined that prin was being passed the ADDRESS of t1 or the ADDRESS of its value, one might expect the meta-level do block to output<br />
<br />
test2test2.<br />
<br />
This is obvious to old-hands from Rebol, but it may not be obvious to users who are new to expression-based languages.</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-22022928408236244322015-12-12T07:07:00.002-08:002015-12-12T07:08:42.226-08:00URL hyenas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The web hyenas are busy and <i>logiquewerks.com</i> has fallen prey to them, so that is now logiquewerks.ca<br />
<br />
Some similar fate may await all things "eclectic-pencil" but a minus-sign as a hyphen in a web name is not worth defending!<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-50503625963439996282015-10-09T02:52:00.004-07:002015-10-09T02:52:59.669-07:00obscure poem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fgyfTUGt-dU/VheOPIu2wbI/AAAAAAAAFdM/plHyDiG0E3s/s1600/Constellations_poem_TEXT_image_003.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fgyfTUGt-dU/VheOPIu2wbI/AAAAAAAAFdM/plHyDiG0E3s/s400/Constellations_poem_TEXT_image_003.png" width="400" /></a></div>
<br /></div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-39569703488466262322015-05-18T07:38:00.003-07:002015-05-18T07:40:07.959-07:00How to Cancel a Facebook FRIEND Request<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
How to Cancel a Facebook Request once it has been SENT : a Yahoo user says to go to that person's Fb page then hover where it reads "Friend Request Sent" as there will be a selection to "cancel request". Click. Done.<br />
<br />
Tada.<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
<br /></div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-87813209240321248712015-02-18T11:12:00.001-08:002015-02-18T11:17:26.919-08:00tanaguru color contrast for accessibility<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
The following 3 URL's give 3 different results from the tanaguru page ... and are all accepted by the tanaguru Firefox plugin.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%23AA3333&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV" target="_blank">http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%23AA3333&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%233333AA&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV" target="_blank">http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%233333AA&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%23006600&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV" target="_blank">http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%23006600&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV</a><br />
<br />
In each case the background is the brown of #330000.<br />
<br />
All of the results are acceptable contrasting colours for text on a brown background ... but I think what a better tool might give is a carousel of results.<br />
<br />
Am I missing something ?<br />
<br />
Here are my setting :<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jbYYfXGLlTM/VOTk4JkbE3I/AAAAAAAAFP4/E4UWexiJyTM/s1600/tanaguru_300.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jbYYfXGLlTM/VOTk4JkbE3I/AAAAAAAAFP4/E4UWexiJyTM/s1600/tanaguru_300.png" height="297" width="640" /></a></div>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<hr />
<br />
<br /></div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-77908544769566834162015-01-23T07:23:00.001-08:002015-01-23T07:33:08.741-08:00settings for Android skins on Smart Keyboard Pro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
If you did not start life with an Android phone, adding a "skin" or theme to the Smart Pro keyboard may not be as obvious as the Forum web page text suggests.<br />
<br />
You must know that to the right of the keyboard choices are identical "slider" icons on the "Settings" page for Keyboard and Input and THAT ICON in THAT row is the <b>settings</b> they mean for you to click on.<br />
<br />
When THAT settings page opens for Smart Keyboard Pro you will see the skins IFF you have placed the zip files in a <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>/skins</b></span> directory or 'folder' in the root of <i>sdcard<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>0</b></span></i> using a filesystem tool.<br />
<br />
The 'forum' page should have an image of the entry <b>Settings</b> page so that you can SEE what they mean. The keyboard would be so much better if there were an option to have a Settings key as a long click option !<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-25027180571872402372015-01-23T07:09:00.003-08:002015-01-23T07:14:03.682-08:00How to set duckduckgo search engine for Opera browser<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
To enable <i>duckduckgo</i> as the search engine for the Opera browser without installing an extension (Jan. 2015,) the search engine <i>edit</i> details page must be as follows : <br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dp01RyORWro/VMJj0iIEiLI/AAAAAAAAFMg/oan8YuRwRzQ/s1600/duckduckgo_opera.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dp01RyORWro/VMJj0iIEiLI/AAAAAAAAFMg/oan8YuRwRzQ/s1600/duckduckgo_opera.png" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-50219689114095590002015-01-23T07:04:00.000-08:002015-01-23T07:10:39.706-08:00How to set ixquick as default search engine for Opera browser<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
To set ixquick as the default browser search engine for Opera, the search engine edit details must look like this ( as of Jan 2015 ) :<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4K2YJtpLIzQ/VMJimw_rL6I/AAAAAAAAFMQ/ZfOisUH19Yo/s1600/ixquick_opera.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4K2YJtpLIzQ/VMJimw_rL6I/AAAAAAAAFMQ/ZfOisUH19Yo/s1600/ixquick_opera.png" /></a></div>
<br />
It will flip to safe HTTPS when the page opens.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-16068573034279428202015-01-22T05:09:00.002-08:002015-01-22T05:09:36.950-08:00Murakami fractal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
ka<br />
<br />
Kafka on the shingle.<br />
<br />
Newton at the shore.<br />
<br />
It helps to know that in Czech a "kavka" is a <i>jackdaw</i>.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
KA<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-86443549964387285532014-12-10T10:37:00.002-08:002014-12-10T10:52:12.622-08:00from The Southern Journal for Applied Idiopathy archival materials on paper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
From an unprinted letter to the editor left behind in the paper archives:<br />
<br />
"After decades of symptoms brushed aside by doctors, I don't know that I'll survive a seventh decade: these doctors are now given to longevity, even though most can afford to drink and smoke the best. Without a new generation to take up the banner, change risks being slow in idiopathic treatments."<br />
<br />
Author's name withheld pending advice; the editors, <i>The Southern Journal for Applied Idiopathy</i>.<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-73118287204344152182014-12-08T05:31:00.001-08:002014-12-08T05:31:53.724-08:00Husserl Wollheim electron object art<p dir="ltr"><br>
Philosophy TA : Husserl on EIDOS; sceptical student might consider 'electron' post-chromodynamics. ; not as concept ! Individuals ?? </p>
<p dir="ltr">See also: Wollheim 68/71 on art objects<br>
</p>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-20669430056847446682014-10-07T15:32:00.001-07:002014-10-07T15:32:21.851-07:00autumn window prepared for winter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YfGB3PJhkl4/VDRpcjwMeNI/AAAAAAAABFI/_V1aMTwOiaQ/s1600/10828_cropped_750w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YfGB3PJhkl4/VDRpcjwMeNI/AAAAAAAABFI/_V1aMTwOiaQ/s1600/10828_cropped_750w.jpg" height="512" width="640" /></a></div>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Yesterday, from our breakfast table window, Fredericton</div>
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-11152213649868988062014-10-07T15:26:00.000-07:002014-10-07T15:26:13.906-07:00RealTime IT process monitor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
CS tech and IT get realtime in late retirement : your last move has come when you part with the OS/2 memorabilia.<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-18361378028520970132014-09-26T13:00:00.003-07:002014-10-14T15:21:12.799-07:00red flashlight app HTMLonly alternative<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
These "red flashlight" and "astronomy flashlight" and "telescope flashlight" app's claim that they need to know WHAT about my identity and wireless connection and ...<br />
<br />
So here is the minimum: a simple red HTML-only web page ( no 9-LED lamps )<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.aule-browser.com/astro/red.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.aule-browser.com/astro/red.htm</a><br />
<br />
It has a description ; if has some blank space ; it has a background colour ; it has a few paragraph and span elements to keep your browser content. But they are empty. Just non-breaking spaces.<br />
<br />
Excuse me for no using a real Unicode hyphen above.<br />
<br />
If you want a different shade of red, copy the page and alter the CSS style settings. There is no Hidden JavaScript or 1-pixel iframe or FLASH or any other crap of any kind.<br />
<br />
And wishing you clear night skies free of your neighbour's light pollution.<br />
<br />
PS Note that its extension is <b><i>dot HTM</i></b> to save you a keystroke after the keyboard "minus sign" nuisance in my URL.<br />
<br />
PPS<br /><br />I have added an alternative for those north of 25N as <a href="http://www.aule-browser.com/astro/lacerta_iau_red.svg">http://www.aule-browser.com/astro/lacerta_iau_red.svg</a> for which the trick is to hit F11 and then to use CTRL-minus and CTRL-plus to go from mostly red screen to a simple star chart for Lacerta and environs.<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-4115840171486913432014-09-23T06:12:00.000-07:002014-09-23T06:23:42.994-07:00Open Command Window Here Win7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">The old </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">XP</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> "Power Toy" </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Open Command Window Here</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> became a menu option in the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">Windows 7 Explorer</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> (the desktop file explorer for </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 1.5em;">"Computer"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> or </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 1.5em;">"Documents"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> etc.) but you must do more than </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 1.5em;">Right-Click</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> on a folder to </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Open Command Window Here</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> — you must </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SHIFT-RIGHT-CLICK</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> to be offered that </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">super-user</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> pop-up </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">menu option</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">The SH-Right-Click <b>Open Command Window Here</b> selection will open a </span><i style="font-size: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">cmd</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"> session on the selected folder as the </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 1.5em;">present</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">–</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 1.5em;">working</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">–</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 1.5em;">directory </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">(sic).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;">But the 'w' key will also go to Ne<u>w</u> !</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif;">If you peek at the HTML of this blog post you should see some of the worst HTML that a Google asset can generate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Georgia, serif;">Oh, had the web only embraced MIT Curl as Markdown+Styles+Scripts ! #MSS</span></div>
<br />
<hr />
<br /></div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-47811346671990569392014-09-20T09:07:00.001-07:002014-09-20T09:11:52.527-07:00Observing left of Cygnus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<br />
Observing "left" of Cygnus and a bit "down" reveals first a prominent pair of stars and then a remarkable large triangle of stars.<br />
<br />
What is lost when a culture no longer offers an OLD story about these ? Far from Deneb and Sadr, I would be happier with a story about Antares that preserved both its distance and its size relative to our Sol and, say, Betelgeuse.<br />
<br />
What is most worrying is if we lose the habit of observing the night sky, whether we construct our own asterisms or follow the houses of constellations from The East or from The West or those of a sci-fi series gone viral or whatever.<br />
<br />
Observing the night sky through a lens has aspects which would surprise ... whether "splitting" binary stars or learning to "SEE" faint non-stellar objects.<br />
<br />
Arendt missed so much when she went after the telescope, mouthing the certainties that Heidegger had flung at his old master, Husserl. The sons of Husserl are a story so unlike the Heidegger story. <br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-65784668891612522332014-09-17T15:15:00.001-07:002014-09-17T15:22:24.601-07:00Jetty file server refresher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Jetty</i> HTTP server has left <i>MortBay </i>for <i>Eclipse </i>and since version 9.1 there are some things that I needed to know when I looked to take a little <i>Jetty </i>refresher.<br />
<br />
Over at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/9.2.3.v20140905/quickstart-running-jetty.html#quickstart-changing-jetty-port" target="_blank">jetty</a> you will see this important note:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<h3 class="title">
Demo Base</h3>
Since release 9.1.0, the jetty distribution does not deploy any demo
web applications, so to see a more interesting demonstration of the server
you need to run from the <code class="filename">demo-base</code> directory as
follows: </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div class="screenexample">
<pre class="screen"><span class="bold"><b>> cd $JETTY_HOME/demo-base/
> java -jar ../start.jar</b></span> </pre>
</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div class="screenexample">
<pre class="screen">...
</pre>
</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Pointing a browser at <a class="link" href="http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/9.2.3.v20140905/quickstart-running-jetty.html#quickstart-changing-jetty-port">http://localhost:8080</a>, will now show a welcome page
and several demo/test web applications.</blockquote>
What that meant in my case on Win7 when running <i>cmd</i> from my own jetty install directory <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
cd demo-base<br />
java -jar ../start.jar</blockquote>
which then gave me the full <i>Jetty</i> demo at<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
localhost:8080</blockquote>
</div>
<br />
<hr />
<br /></div>
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-66754113169188636472014-09-10T13:21:00.002-07:002014-09-10T13:44:05.978-07:00Theism and consciousness in light of stellar astronomy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Theism should not take much consolation in the problems which philosophy and neurology face in accounting for the simple fact of consciousness.<br />
<br />
Prior to quantum theory, the creationist could take shelter in theism because the evolutionist had no chemical explanation of a sun of solar mass "burning fuel" for billions of years.<br />
<br />
But it was chemistry itself that was to receive a new foundation which would permit a nuclear theory of stellar 'evolution'. Neither the subsequent discovery of quasars or black holes or the hypothesizing of dark mater or dark energy have placed this stellar model in question. Quite the opposite is the case.<br />
<br />
The solar story is not trivial : the time for a photon to reach the surface of the Sun from a fusion event in the core of the Sun is astonishing ... as astonishing as the roughly nine minutes to reach the Earth. <br />
<br />
With the Hubble use of Cepheid variable stars as a standard, the size of the visible universe became truly astonishing.<br />
<br />
We can expect to be just as astonished by an account of the emergence or appearance of "what it is like to be a young crow observing an older crow accomplishing a task" in a universe that at one time did not have the form bird or the substance of individual birds let alone problem-solving birds or the observing of those performances.<br />
<br />
The issue is not materialism or mechanism. The double-slit experiment involves no clear commitment to either, but the theories proposed do reveal some surprising mathematical affinities and some very high confirmation of experimental predictions.<br />
<br />
Chemistry has no option to return to pre-quanta days and philosophy has no prospect of returning to the "rational soul" of Aristotle or Aquinas — nor is there any hope of animal souls being material while human souls are "rational". That ship has sailed off the end of a flat earth.<br />
<br />
See: Thomas Nagel: <i>Mind and Cosmos</i><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-56678368120761506292014-09-04T01:21:00.001-07:002014-09-04T01:24:06.769-07:00On variable stars and the rationality of theories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is not yet 5 a.m. under a clear dark sky and I have made the decision to write this note rather than to do some star-gazing ( I have one of Al Nagler's "Televue Ranger" at my disposal here with a few of his lenses well-suited to it.)<br />
<br />
I would like to defend the thesis that the extinguishing of intelligent life on the only planet with such intelligence in the only galaxy with such life forms would result in the demise of Cepheid variables as instances of a type but not variable stars as instances of a type. Nor would it have the consequence that there had, in fact, never been Cepheid variables. What is not clear to me is how to defend the claim that those variable stars would remain a suitable means to measure intergalactic distances in light-years or in AU ( astronomical units ) or in parsecs.<br />
<br />
The need to defend the Hubble metric stars is in the interest of a far more important claim, to wit, that the quasars remain whatever they are or were, that magnetars remain a poor location for the re-emergence of intelligent life forms and that dark energy remains whatever it is.<br />
<br />
The anecdotal side of this is my reading of the poetry of Alain Grandbois. His "étoiles" were not the stars of Galileo in much the same sense that Heidegger was arguing about with Husserl at about the same time and which was later repeated by Arendt late in her book, "The Human Condition".<br />
<br />
Husserl began in astronomy, but by the time of Hubble's discoveries, Heidegger had him convinced that the Galilean viewpoint somehow perverted our relation to the heavens above ... perhaps not during daylight hours or when under heavy cloud, but certainly during clear moonless nights.<br />
<br />
Not too long after Husserl's death, a Black Brandt rocket was sent aloft to determine a direction of a stellar x-ray source. Consider the possibility that this experiment and subsequent orbital parallax studies had revealed an unstable near-by star, that, say, Antares were in fact smaller than Betelgeuse and closer than Sirius. Suppose, further, that we were able to surmise that a minor cosmic event, a routine supernova, was about to wipe out this small home planet of intelligent life but that unbeknownst to us, it would also be wiping out not only the only such life in this galaxy, but also such life in any galaxy including any location since the Big Bang itself and, further, that due to a quirk of Dark Energy and cosmic expansion, that magnetars were about to become FAR more common, reducing any prospect for subsequent rational beings to evolve anywhere in this universe.<br />
<br />
One motivation that I have for this line of musing is the thought that Strong AI has not brought philosophers to shift their view of theory makers closer to that of their view of computing machines, but rather it has helped to shift their view of us to one in which we are seen as closer to other mammalian species (specifically, cetacean and primate) and led us to puzzle over crows and octopi.<br />
<br />
The theory of evolution and the new evidence for ubiquitous planets and a far higher number of brown dwarfs should motivate investigation by way of thought experiments as to why solving puzzles about ones more global, as-it-were, "wide" environment, suggests the rationality of theorizing for problem-solving beings.<br />
<br />
The Japanese, prior to enforced contact with the Western powers, were content with their "River of Stars". Fording rivers in flood and bridging rivers were both major concerns in Japan, as was boating uneventfully across rivers. The star-river, our Milky Way, the "galaxy" of the Greeks, is a trope of sorts in a great deal of extant Japanese poetry. Given to poetry competitions, the Japanese thinker was not without problems to solve concerning the mention of stars in either linked verse or witty verse. Rules abound and these rules themselves made the tasks of poesis problematic. Each time the practice became merely formulaic, something of a revolution occurred, and the very possibilities of the poetic praxis were re-thought through the emergence of a new poetic product, the last cycle, perhaps, having been that of the haiku of Shiki.<br />
<br />
In my own work as a writer, I am beset with a scenario in which a cloud-bedecked planet is inhabited by those who do not know why sometimes the normally red fundament above glows strangely orange and why they perish of such truly horrible diseases although there are myths of happier ends in former times. These beings, we would say, would be inhabiting a planet in orbit about a centre of mass in common with a nearby red dwarf that, in turn, is in an orbital dance with a very unstable red giant that is about to shed its first outer layers in what we know to be a very common pattern in this universe.<br />
<br />
[ to be continued ]<br />
<br />
<hr />
<br /></div>
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908636881433272369.post-78570458702775228362014-08-27T04:58:00.003-07:002014-08-27T04:59:45.437-07:00hard and soft science<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
When chemists had no model of the nuclear process of stars, the notion of a star of a known mass "burning" for billions of years seemed to put evolution in doubt as a plausible account of planetary life.<br />
<br />
This may be where the legal system finds itself when looking to social psychology with regards to organizations such as Scientology. The SEA Organization requires an explanation, but we do not have the neuro-linguistic-social science to account for someone staying with that organzation for that length of time under those conditions ... let alone signing a billion-year contract.<br />
<br />
But when we have the science, will the USA's IRS revise the status of such organizations ?<br />
<br />
Will the APA offer Margaret Sanger a posthumous apology ? After all, look at where they were at on homosexuality when I was a student ... <br />
<br />
PS<br />
<br />
The stellar models of astrophysics combined with the DNA model of biochemistry have made evolution a fact : this one fact has a significant impact on, of all things, philosophy. And now the role of the intra-gene DNA ... and the roles of many, many bacteria in our health (not disease, health.)<br />
<br />
But I still feel uneasy using that harmless saccharine ... pass the phenylalanine, will ya ? I'm trying to restrict my dextrose use ... and a little BHT for my rice crisps, if you have it ...<br />
<br />
<hr />
</div>
KanjiRecoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759765033207753946noreply@blogger.com1