On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Jason Borro wrote: > Apologies if my keyboard sneered at you, though comparing an application > problem to 1% of hr14 at web scale hardly trivializes it; certainly it does > the opposite. Good luck preserving your mental model if you require > webmasters to spell Korzybski.
I'd prefer they actually read him, though I won't hold my breath. Sorry to bother you by using a very long foreign name. Pat > > On 6/15/2011 6:26 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: >> On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Jason Borro wrote: >> >>> I agree with your sentiments Danny, fwiw. The current scheme is a burden >>> on publishers for the sake of a handful of applications that wish to "refer >>> to these information resources themselves", making them "unable to talk >>> about Web pages using the Web description language RDF". >>> >>> What about minting a new URI at >>> "http://information.resourcifier.net/encodedURI"; or similar for talking >>> about such things? The service could even add value by tracking last >>> update times, content types, encodings, etc. >>> >>> Jason >>> >>> p.s. Don't bother criticizing the half baked idea, I thought about it for< >>> 10 seconds. The point is 100 alternatives could have been hashed out in >>> the time spent discussing and implementing http-range-14. >> I confess to finding this kind of sneering remark rather annoying. If you >> think it is this trivial to work out some 'alternative', why don't you come >> up with a few actual ideas and see what happens when they get a little peer >> review? Your idea, above, hardly makes first base, as Im sure you already >> realized when you added the p.s. So why not try inventing one that has a >> snowballs chance in hell of actually working? Im sure that the world would >> be delighted if you could solve this trivial problem in 5 ways, let alone a >> hundred. >> >> If you agree with Danny that a description can be a substitute for the thing >> it describes, then I am waiting to hear how one of you will re-write >> classical model theory to accommodate this classical use/mention error. You >> might want to start by reading Korzybski's 'General Semantics'. >> >> Pat >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
