Re: SlashDot and MMTT Langs

[cagle@olywa.net (Kurt Cagle)]

Actually,  the computer in this case was essentially acting as a giant set
of dice, though I have to admit that the likelihood that the dice program
was written using Windows is a rather delicious bit of irony. Having a
pro-consumer judge in this case doesn't bode well for Microsoft, especially
as it has lately been involved in such tactics as mailing affidavits to
influential lawmakers under the name of dead people, or solicitating
testimonials from people who thought they were responding to a government
inquiry. I have to admit that for a company with this much at stake, they
are especially adept of late in shooting themselves in the foot.

-- Kurt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
To: <humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: SlashDot and MMTT Langs


> BTW:  since I keep getting emails that ask me if I
> saw the SlashDot debate, and I don't read SlashDot,
> can someone summarize what that was about.  I'd like
> to ignore it, but sensible response requires a context.
>
> Note:
>
> "U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee with a
> reputation as a meticulous jurist, was randomly selected by a computer
> program Friday in Washington, D.C. She replaces Judge Thomas Penfield
> Jackson, who had ordered Microsoft to be split into two separate
companies."
>
> So computer are already making our choices if not choosing our choices. I
> wonder
> if the computer was running under Windows?   Note that had the computer
been
>
> HumanML-enabled, it could not have made a random choice.  Now you have to
> figure
> out if that is a good thing or not.  Or perhaps a HumanML-enabled system
> might
> have chosen the members of the list (chosen the choices) if not the
winner.
>
>
> Something to consider while debating use cases of HumanML.  Use cases are
a
> way to appraoch some of the BrassTacks dilemmas.  Debating RDF and
Semantic
> Web will only result in More Meta Than Thou language conflicts.  It
doesn't
> matter yet.  We committed to XML Schemas and RDF and I've seen no evidence
> that we should change that.  If someone wants to do a RELAX version, have
> at but I don't think it adds to or detracts from the quality of the
> information properties.  A yetMoreAbstract notation might get us in even
> deeper MMTT debates.
>
> Len
> http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
>
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