This reminds me of my geography degree, pragmatists (real world solutions) vs idealists (perfect world solutions). Both are right in some ways but neither understand each other. I'm a pragmatist who tries to build solutions and I want people like Stephen to just give me the problem he wants to solve.
So give us a sample problem, no waffle, Stephen and the pragmatists on geowanking will probably come up with a pretty good solution. Will On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:23 AM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3 Jul 2008, at 23:53, stephen white wrote: > > On 04/07/2008, at 3:54 PM, SteveC wrote: > >> Or without actually doing anything better. > > > > That is true. > > > >> I know this is geowanking but it's just so incredibly cheap to take > >> pot shots at things like mashups in 2008 when people were doing that > > > > I want to move to the next stage beyond map mash-ups, and part of that > > process is recognising the problems that map mash-ups do not solve. > > We're all in the gutter right, but geocommons actually built something. > > > An existing problem was highlighted by Feynman, who observed that the > > education process presents the material without the connections. The > > ability to directly perceive (with false colour overlays, etc) data in > > context is a possible solution. > > So I've had a Feynman poster on my wall for nearly a decade, so I know > that he didn't sit around asking questions all the time. > > > So I want to talk about approaches that could solve large numbers of > > problems that are not currently being solved with the existing > > approaches. That is very pragmatic, and does not have any relevance to > > academics who blow hot air for tenure. > > No talking about something is total wank, pragmatism is actually doing > something. Go back to your Feynman and him and Goodstein when Feynman > read The Double Helix and he made Goodstein stay up all night and read > it, and when he had finished he just held up his notepad with > 'DISREGARD' on it. The point being you should forget what everyone > thinks and actually do something. > > Best > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > -- Will King +44 (0) 77950 96645
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