I have quite a collection of books at home. Some are literature, aome philosophy and some are technical books. I like having all my books out in the open on my shelf. I like staring at my shelf when I have a few free minutes and choosing a book to read. Who want to have to run to the computer to download a new book onto your ebook reader when you have to go to the bathroom. I'd rather grab one off the shelf and run.
I'll admit, I've never used an e-book before. Yet I've heard the screens are hard to read. Reading on a monitor is a pain, who wants to move their head just read one line of text, plus you can't curl up in bed with a CRT (even a 14 inch one). Not all books are available in al formats. To read multiple books I would have to buy multiple readers or have some hardcopy others not. This does not solve the "only carrying one item" problem.
On the other hand ebooks are useful for technical references. Ever read something in a textbook or manual and not be able to find it again. Sometimes I've wished for a grep that works on paper.
Well enough pointless droning. This was just my $.02
OK, sounds good. According to that theory people should not be arrested until after they've been tried and convicted. I'm sure that will go over well, no need for defense lawyers at trials- you won't even be there.
Does anyone know of any good websites that discuss the advantages/diadvantages of differnt mp3 encoders/decoders. Also, people mention writng their own media servers for their home stereos, any links regarding how to approach doing something like that?
Computing as a utility doesn't necessarily mean raw computing power ala SETI@home. Rather it can mean hosted applications offered in the same pricing model as a utility company, i.e., pay for whatt you use. Check this alpahworks site out as an example.
I hope no one who has posted so far against corporations sharing their info is in the Information Wants to be free camp. If you want to be able to share files on napster with no charge or to hack DTV signals then why can't companies share your buying history free of charge. I don't remember any record companies opting-in to having their music traded for free.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I'd like to thank everyone who posted to this thread. There were some excellent points made and I enjoyed reading all the comments. You guys helped me out a lot.
I go to a small technical university in Cambridge, MA. Where Math is almost important as breathing. My questions arise because of the emphasis i have seen placed on math as a form of reasoning skills,etc. We the users of math as well as those who teach it must have some model of the mind that causes us to think that math is the best way to access the abstract part of that model. I am trying to discover what that model is.
At MIT there is a class offered mainly for juniors called Computer Sytems Engineering (6.033 fo those who care). This class focuses on the design of co puter sytems from OS'es to networks. Along with this class one can opt to take an additional lab. This lab is only worth 6 Units (at MIT that's about half an average class) but supposedly takes as much time as two classes. The projects start with implementing a timer mechanism for an asynchronous I/O library. Thi i to get us used to system calls and different I/O methods. The second is a simple TCP proxy that must use the I/O library we developed. After that we must implement an HTTP proxy that does caching. The third and final project is a team effort to write an NFS implementation. All this can be developed on either Solaris or Linux and is tested on a Linux machine (I think).
If you are running Linux you can compile your kernel with ipchains. This is essentially a firewall package that among other things can filter packets. That is it can block packets coming from or going to a specific url or ip address read the HOWTOS on ipchainsand if needed the kernel HOWTO. Does anyone know all the ip addresses that Double Click uses so that I can set up my firewall to block them?
At MIT's Lab for Computer Science (LCS) there are many groups working on the Oxygen project. The purpose of this project is to develop handheld devices that serve as personal links to the iternet as well as communications between people. These devices are voice activated and ahve features above and beyond a cell-phone with a web browser. Scientific American had an interesting article on the whole topic some time this summer. here's a link.
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I have quite a collection of books at home. Some are literature, aome philosophy and some are technical books. I like having all my books out in the open on my shelf. I like staring at my shelf when I have a few free minutes and choosing a book to read. Who want to have to run to the computer to download a new book onto your ebook reader when you have to go to the bathroom. I'd rather grab one off the shelf and run. I'll admit, I've never used an e-book before. Yet I've heard the screens are hard to read. Reading on a monitor is a pain, who wants to move their head just read one line of text, plus you can't curl up in bed with a CRT (even a 14 inch one). Not all books are available in al formats. To read multiple books I would have to buy multiple readers or have some hardcopy others not. This does not solve the "only carrying one item" problem. On the other hand ebooks are useful for technical references. Ever read something in a textbook or manual and not be able to find it again. Sometimes I've wished for a grep that works on paper. Well enough pointless droning. This was just my $.02
OK, sounds good. According to that theory people should not be arrested until after they've been tried and convicted. I'm sure that will go over well, no need for defense lawyers at trials- you won't even be there.
Does anyone know of any good websites that discuss the advantages/diadvantages of differnt mp3 encoders/decoders. Also, people mention writng their own media servers for their home stereos, any links regarding how to approach doing something like that?
Computing as a utility doesn't necessarily mean raw computing power ala SETI@home. Rather it can mean hosted applications offered in the same pricing model as a utility company, i.e., pay for whatt you use. Check this alpahworks site out as an example.
I hope no one who has posted so far against corporations sharing their info is in the Information Wants to be free camp. If you want to be able to share files on napster with no charge or to hack DTV signals then why can't companies share your buying history free of charge. I don't remember any record companies opting-in to having their music traded for free. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Try SFS the self-certifying filesystem. Here's a link. Its definately better than AFS.
I take it the storystory/a&g t; about the German company Pact another 127 times.
I hear your credit card screaming, sitting captive in your wallet. "Free me post my number on the web where all the world can know me!" it says.
I'd like to thank everyone who posted to this thread. There were some excellent points made and I enjoyed reading all the comments. You guys helped me out a lot.
Ever notice how the slot in the back of the handspring visor looks like it could fit a game boy cartridge .... The possibilities are endless.
I go to a small technical university in Cambridge, MA. Where Math is almost important as breathing. My questions arise because of the emphasis i have seen placed on math as a form of reasoning skills,etc. We the users of math as well as those who teach it must have some model of the mind that causes us to think that math is the best way to access the abstract part of that model. I am trying to discover what that model is.
Check out the faq at RSA Labs. They have descriptions of almost all crypto stuff. Also check out Ron Rivest's Crypto links for everything on crypto.
At MIT there is a class offered mainly for juniors called Computer Sytems Engineering (6.033 fo those who care). This class focuses on the design of co puter sytems from OS'es to networks. Along with this class one can opt to take an additional lab. This lab is only worth 6 Units (at MIT that's about half an average class) but supposedly takes as much time as two classes. The projects start with implementing a timer mechanism for an asynchronous I/O library. Thi i to get us used to system calls and different I/O methods. The second is a simple TCP proxy that must use the I/O library we developed. After that we must implement an HTTP proxy that does caching. The third and final project is a team effort to write an NFS implementation. All this can be developed on either Solaris or Linux and is tested on a Linux machine (I think).
If you are running Linux you can compile your kernel with ipchains. This is essentially a firewall package that among other things can filter packets. That is it can block packets coming from or going to a specific url or ip address read the HOWTOS on ipchainsand if needed the kernel HOWTO. Does anyone know all the ip addresses that Double Click uses so that I can set up my firewall to block them?
sorry the html got screwed up here's the url http://sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899dertouzos.html
At MIT's Lab for Computer Science (LCS) there are many groups working on the Oxygen project. The purpose of this project is to develop handheld devices that serve as personal links to the iternet as well as communications between people. These devices are voice activated and ahve features above and beyond a cell-phone with a web browser. Scientific American had an interesting article on the whole topic some time this summer. here's a link.
get me a visor http://www.handspring.com