I know that many flickr users were very disappointed with the changes to flickr, but it prompted many of them to move to ipernity. Now ipernity has redesigned their site to be more similar to flickr, and it has a facility to import images from your flickr account. It is 'welcoming' and does not purge content it doesn't like the way Yahoo does. So perhaps this is not such a tragedy...
When I saw the iPad came with no Flash support, it did not surprise me at all. I love my netbook (ASUS 701, the first one they shipped to US) and I cannot think of why you would want Apple magic, unless you have good voodoo to keep it from harming anything...
I have a neighbor who still occasionally takes Daguerrotypes (Bequerel method, all safe). They preserve the aura of the subject because they are 'negatives' created directly by the light that struck the sitter. There will always be a place for alternative photography.
I obviously don't know much about Australia, but does anyone know how a country like them in the English-speaking world became so extreme in their Internet censorship? I'm amazed at this. I would expect this in the third world if at all.
The problem is, some of the more interesting sites to me at least like running their own content management platforms and end up in a homebrew situation which can be disaster-prone. We in the GLB community were lucky that pamshouseblend.com was able to regroup after some creep hacked the site. Now they have implemented soft security (mirrors etc.) but it still took people and $ and rising to the occasion.
I think Richard's argument is more in line with his discussion of ownership of information rather than the fragility of the cloud per se. Cloud angst has been rather building broadly lately for general reasons with such tremors as google abandoning services like notebook and yahoo pulling the plug on Briefcase. There are also some interesting talks on TED about this topic. We are not very far in coming to grips with it, perhaps economic collapse will help with that.
A lot of astronomers use IDL but NASA projects in general must put their software in the public domain, so it is not surprising to find packages like the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS), the C Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) I/O (CFITSIO) libraries and many other packages and interfaces in SciPy.
For pocket-sized Internet radio, Skype, e-mail not associated with a cellphone. There was a story on one of the eee blogs about Toshiba creating a pocket-sized umpc-type of machine but it was a prototype. So it would not be surprising to see some of the umpc machines morph in this direction. There are Zaurus descendants sold in Japan but they are very expensive to buy in the US and not really made for us.
Just one data point from a Massachusetts resident. A neighbor who is an oncologist and experienced observer of the scene said one of the main impetus for the Massachusetts plan is the reduced number of very wealthy individuals from Saudi Arabia who since 9/11 no longer come with their cash to the Boston area for top-flight medical care: they are more likely to go to Germany or Switzerland now. These were the people that were replenishing (indirectly) the free care pool which has been dramatically drying up over the last few years. For many decades this was a generous and essential ingredient of the health care environment here. It sounds odd, but this is one of those backstories you would only hear from someone in the arena, and certainly not from the media.
I and a couple of other people at my site regularly get odd IM messages from a co-worker here at Harvard who we know as very gifted but mentally unstable. The details are quite disturbing but I am not inclined to share them publicly. I absolutely put this in a different folder from cyberbullying among young people. It has more to do with the aberrant behavior rampant among the gifted.
If you get a roomful of seasoned IT people to read this they will all say that all the basic tags of this piece are present in any reminiscence of the early days of a great company. Digital Equipment Corporation had a great deal of this proto-fascist sense of belonging, - we were all young and felt ourselves the specialest snowflakes. The success in the marketplace, like love for a Christian, covers over a multitude of sins. I will say DEC didn't offer free food and clothing. Their speciality was alien abduction - they built in towns on Route 495 where the youth were as much as possible free of such distractions as husbands, wives, fuckbuddies of any gender and life as lived.
Of course what we were all looking for here was the grim underside of google and we didn't get it. I mean the real nitty-gritty, like the conflicts at Thinking Machines which made traumatized employees go home, pull down the blinds and not answer e-mail or phones for six months. I do know people who have been traumatized by rejection from google after great career debuts at other places, which is very sad.
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THIS.
I know that many flickr users were very disappointed with the changes to flickr, but it prompted many of them to move to ipernity. Now ipernity has redesigned their site to be more similar to flickr, and it has a facility to import images from your flickr account. It is 'welcoming' and does not purge content it doesn't like the way Yahoo does. So perhaps this is not such a tragedy...
Does anyone know where we can see this talk online?
I see netbooks all over the place still, I don't know what was meant here either...
When I saw the iPad came with no Flash support, it did not surprise me at all. I love my netbook (ASUS 701, the first one they shipped to US) and I cannot think of why you would want Apple magic, unless you have good voodoo to keep it from harming anything...
Drupal is a general CMS, not just social networking, a facet they just teased out for this particular book.
I have a neighbor who still occasionally takes Daguerrotypes (Bequerel method, all safe). They preserve the aura of the subject because they are 'negatives' created directly by the light that struck the sitter. There will always be a place for alternative photography.
I obviously don't know much about Australia, but does anyone know how a country like them in the English-speaking world became so extreme in their Internet censorship? I'm amazed at this. I would expect this in the third world if at all.
The problem is, some of the more interesting sites to me at least like running their own content management platforms and end up in a homebrew situation which can be disaster-prone. We in the GLB community were lucky that pamshouseblend.com was able to regroup after some creep hacked the site. Now they have implemented soft security (mirrors etc.) but it still took people and $ and rising to the occasion.
I think Richard's argument is more in line with his discussion of ownership of information rather than the fragility of the cloud per se. Cloud angst has been rather building broadly lately for general reasons with such tremors as google abandoning services like notebook and yahoo pulling the plug on Briefcase. There are also some interesting talks on TED about this topic. We are not very far in coming to grips with it, perhaps economic collapse will help with that.
A lot of astronomers use IDL but NASA projects in general must put their software in the public domain, so it is not surprising to find packages like the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS), the C Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) I/O (CFITSIO) libraries and many other packages and interfaces in SciPy.
For pocket-sized Internet radio, Skype, e-mail not associated with a cellphone. There was a story on one of the eee blogs about Toshiba creating a pocket-sized umpc-type of machine but it was a prototype. So it would not be surprising to see some of the umpc machines morph in this direction. There are Zaurus descendants sold in Japan but they are very expensive to buy in the US and not really made for us.
Just one data point from a Massachusetts resident. A neighbor who is an oncologist and experienced observer of the scene said one of the main impetus for the Massachusetts plan is the reduced number of very wealthy individuals from Saudi Arabia who since 9/11 no longer come with their cash to the Boston area for top-flight medical care: they are more likely to go to Germany or Switzerland now. These were the people that were replenishing (indirectly) the free care pool which has been dramatically drying up over the last few years. For many decades this was a generous and essential ingredient of the health care environment here. It sounds odd, but this is one of those backstories you would only hear from someone in the arena, and certainly not from the media.
I and a couple of other people at my site regularly get odd IM messages from a co-worker here at Harvard who we know as very gifted but mentally unstable. The details are quite disturbing but I am not inclined to share them publicly. I absolutely put this in a different folder from cyberbullying among young people. It has more to do with the aberrant behavior rampant among the gifted.
If you get a roomful of seasoned IT people to read this they will all say that all the basic tags of this piece are present in any reminiscence of the early days of a great company. Digital Equipment Corporation had a great deal of this proto-fascist sense of belonging, - we were all young and felt ourselves the specialest snowflakes. The success in the marketplace, like love for a Christian, covers over a multitude of sins. I will say DEC didn't offer free food and clothing. Their speciality was alien abduction - they built in towns on Route 495 where the youth were as much as possible free of such distractions as husbands, wives, fuckbuddies of any gender and life as lived. Of course what we were all looking for here was the grim underside of google and we didn't get it. I mean the real nitty-gritty, like the conflicts at Thinking Machines which made traumatized employees go home, pull down the blinds and not answer e-mail or phones for six months. I do know people who have been traumatized by rejection from google after great career debuts at other places, which is very sad.