Can Sony Make E-Books Succeed?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051229_155542.htm I've been interested in Ontologies for a time now and thrilled to have witnessed the maturation of XML parsing technologies into the mainstream. Since integration is a key to bringing legacy systems together with web-based content management and business rules systems, ontologies will play a special role in defining each mature node in the evolution of content frameworks. Eventually the relationship of requisties and pre-requistes along virtual paths between related and unrelated content types will be easier to map. The roots and branches of many disciplines will become more apparent along with the weighting of each branch before a node in terms of its overall contribution to its twigs. To carry the natural analogy of the tree, then, grafting will be possible, with the above mentioned features where relationships not formerly apparent will become apparent. Meaning in the metaphysical sense may become easier to define but may not necessarily be yielded to a greater degree as the mapping of a discipline is not necessarily the means to understanding it nor of contributing to it. Necessarily the framework holding this meaning together will teach underlying relationships, but it will not impart more than an entrenchment of meaning in systems in much the same way a traffic signal imparts meaning in the logical flow of traffic. Everyone who participates understands and because the light is obeyed its meaning is the influence by which the pattern changes whether its meaning is understood. The difference between the ontological approach to organizing content and the traffic light scenario is that ontological approaches integrate the relationship as part of their structure and therefore influence the understanding of meaning toward a metaphysical understanding of meaning. Still, and to reiterate, this does not mean that the meaning of thing is apparent, just that metaphysical meaning is brought closer to more people, and as a result will have a greater number of adherents -- no necessarily people who obey the traffic signs. Instead these are people attuned to meaning but not necessarily its proponents or those who contribute. This is the master's lesson. If in seeking meaning it takes rules to get there then some may not pass. However, in learning the rules any flaw in the system may make a master of those who understand enough of the rules to obey them, but with the ability to break them without getting caught. The master must know this and be on guard to close the "gotchas" where the system of requistes leading to mastery can lead to harm generated to the discipline and the function it serves. Without requisites the paths through the content of interrelated disciplines can not be navigated in a way that builds understanding. In the game of meaning in the metaphysical sense this may eventually lead to breakaway disciplines of meaning that are themselves outside the system in order that they may not only learn to police interrelationships, but to trim and fertilize the ones that do and seek to exist. http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/ecology/A%20Framework%20for%20the%20Epublishing%20Ecology.pdf -- tim

test of the test

Does the formatting here work?

I've tried to find the inheritance at work in the scheme. The CSS appears valid, especially when it is viewed through the lens of Notepad and a less refined understanding of the CSS standard than an eight-year-old has of how to construct a space vehicle out of molten lava.

You HAD to understand that an eight-year-old knows everything about constructing space vehicles, but the job usually gets done on the lunar landscape formed out of mashed potatoes with lakes of gravy and golf balls made of peas.

Who eats peas anymore.

Oh, yeah. I forgot. I'm trying to use CSS.

I need a plate of mashed potatoes.

Anyone want to take a trip with me to the moon?

-- tim

Fallen Angel

War in heaven sends Angels to 'ever last the night. Promises raise a shadowy Prophet to the flock who will hear silent and waiting for news of what fate adorns the Infinite Might: Who fell from the Eternal by misdeeds and despair of perfection? Until the laborer of ages returns to heaven none will ask who have chosen the adversary. Only the Watchers will know what has been.

-- tim