The concept of "tagging" extends "smart folders" (smart folders being tags that a user puts on their own files) by allowing you to see other people's tag metadata. The problem with this, of course, is going to be when people start making activism based tags...
Interesting thing to see if they come up with some "moderation system"... perhaps a way for the users to validate and agree upon said tags? Or will they just say if enough people say the same/similar thing... it must be true?
Gee. $200 is a HUGE consolation against the $7k you get to spend on new batteries every 100k miles. I have to disagree w/ the article about the maintenance costs "balancing out".
Battery replacement costs have dropped to about $3,000 today from $10,000 or more in 2001 -- about the same cost as replacing a worn-out gasoline engine in a conventional vehicle.
Also Toyota warranties the battery for 100K miles/8 years... at the end of said time, I'm sure the replacement cost will be much lower. Where did you get your $7000 figure?
Seems as if Gartner, the analyst who was deeply in love with Microsoft in the nineties, has turned sour on them lately.
The majority of improvements in Vista will be security-related and most of this functionality "is available via third-party products today"
Ouch.
"Search is slow in Windows XP and files, email and calendar objects cannot be found with a single search." While Microsoft has tried to remedy this in Vista, "competent third-party desktop tools are already available" from companies like Google, Gartner pointed out.
I'd hate to be furniture in Ballmer's office.
My main problem with the article was the lack of options specified:
The analysts acknowledged that companies who use IE7 and Vista will have fewer points of weakness.
Or you could just install Firefox, with the foxie plugin, and get completely secure browsing for all sites, and great Triton/IE support for intranet/extranet legacy webapps.
the basic OSX security of "Administrator == sudo rights" as opposed to the Windows approach of "Administrator == anything goes" really does make a difference. In the windows portion, Sony just ignores the user and installs all sorts of crap (using autorun)... but on the Mac side, they have to play nice, or the user will not be "convinced" to enter their password to install the software.
Who knows how evil the DRM is, once the install is made, but jeebus... talk about an issue of trust (just for the installer)!
Just go visit Democrat Underground or Daily Kos. You will find many articles that discuss violence against authority and the death of our President and Vice President.
Prove it. Mods, this parent is seriously flamebait. I could say the exact same thing about sites like FreeRepublic (in fact, I've seen many calls to violence over there, just not towards George/Dick).
Jobs has publically stated that Apple is not in the business of treating its customers like criminals.
That's all well and good... I trust Jobs despite his egotistical nature (unfortunately, he's often right). But...
What happens when he no longer runs Apple (succumbing to that great GC in the sky, or losing interest, etc.)? Do you trust #2 at Apple to keep this claim? And for how long?
The wealthy/landed elites constantly dream up ways to make money of the backs of the innovative and hard working. In this sense, Microsoft and the RIAA Cartels pretty much symbolize the "American spirit"... from a corporation standpoint.
None of this will change unless and until we either get corporations to recognize that the US is losing it's ground due to stifling IP/Patent laws... or we vote in people who care.
Republican or Democratic, make sure your representative at least knows (and preferrably cares) about the current state of the patent system.
From what I read into his comments, he seems to say that the EU has a minor problem with ICANN but a major problem with the fact that ICANN is controlled by a US administration that it does not trust.
Trust is a hard thing to maintain, it took years for the US to get the world to trust it, and now it's all going away. I don't expect much to happen w/r/t this issue today, but the future might hold something much more diverse/complex than today's internet... because the "borderless" nature of the internet wasn't compatible with the differing views on intellectual property of the nations of the world.
Steve Jobs already said a long time ago that he doesn't believe that people like to "rent" music... thus Apple's lack of entry into the subscription tunes market. How is this offering from NBC and CBS different from the iTunes Video Store?
It requires DirectTV, and only DirectTV... so Comcast/Dish customers can go Cheney themselves. In comparison, iTunes video requires only a computer, and works on the new iPod.
Further than requiring DirecTV, it requires their DVR... wtf? If I have a DVR, why wouldn't I just record the damn thing anyway? Why would I pay $.99... to have commercials removed?
It does not appear as if they are making their entire past season backlog available (I assume it would conflict with DVD sales?)... that's what might really make sense... assuming I had DirecTV and the DVR and I didn't already record/watch the show in the past...
Honestly, this looks ready to fail. Why don't these guys ever get it?
Since you're just cutting and pasting portions of your content from wikipedia, why don't you just paste the link?
Something you left out from the wiki content:
"At maximum volume, it can emit a warning tone that is 151 decibels (1000 W/m) at 1 metre, a level that is very capable of permanently damaging hearing."
I'm not sure I'd call that "an ideal use of this technology in private sector" as you put it... ethical concerns don't just go away if you're "private sector".
As the auto-industry flaks from Detroit who claim that Hybrids are bad because you only get 40mpg when 61mpg is advertised... while leaving out that their non-hybrid models are so much more inefficient, and also suffer from the same problems when dealing with EPA estimates (ie, up to 20% decrease in efficiency if you drive it gung ho, or are stuck in traffic).
In the meanwhile, those who know and care will buy the best option available, while looking at historical data for reliability, TCO, and ownership experience... and then laugh at those who run the American software/vehicle upgrade treadmill.
As well as the free SQL Server Express Edition, Microsoft have also just released the 'Visual Studio Express Editions', available for free.
Clearly, this (as well as news of Oracle's "free/lite" version of 10g), are good news... that Open Source projects like MySQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, etc are forcing the "cathedral" software shops to re-examine their ways, since they (Microsoft & others) can't rely on piracy anymore (due to impacted profits) to keep the "pipeline full" and "mindshare". It's good for the closed source developers, and ultimately it will be good for OSS developers, as OSS entries in these fields mature. Competition is good, and the developers benefit.
Compilations of facts might be copyrightable, but are not necessarily so. In order to be copyrightable, a compilation must possess originality, i.e. a creative selection and arrangement of components. All facts is not a creative selection. Ordinary arrangements, e.g. chronological, or alphabetical, is not a creative arrangement. It is fairly difficult to construct a copyrightable factual compilation (mostly it is a matter of creative selection).
Please explain to me how "all facts related to me" as a compilation is not original. I'd say that it's almost the definition of originality, ie, other people may have similar facts, but if they had the same facts, I'd argue that they copied me... just like the musical notes relating to a song.
Given that, do you agree that I should be able to copyright my data as a compilation?
I just attended MILCOM and one of the guest speakers was talking about innovation and they listed both Apple and Dell. What did Dell do? They innovated the process of purchasing and distributing a PC.
Problem is, Dell's innovation wasn't something they could patent and protect, whereas, with Apple, some of their innovation is very protected (OSX UI, iPod interface, iTunes, iTMS exclusive contracts, etc).
Taking a look at Apple's supply times and online ordering capabilities, they have not only copied Dell's direct-to-customer innovation, but even gotten some of Dell's efficiencies of scale in effect. Problem is, Dell relied on:
Microsoft to push the (software) innovation angle
Intel to push the hardware innovation
Leaving them to really innovate in the supply chain area...
However, now that both MS and Intel are no longer the innovation leaders, and they have their own troubles to deal with, Dell is stuck without any way to push those companies to do that innovation. It remains to be seen whether this will mark a slow decline in Dell's fortunes, or they make a bold move to re-establish themselves as not only a market leader, but innovative and interesting.
not unlike a cordless phone base station, operating in the unlicensed - and crowded - 900MHz band, to send a 3.7Mbit/s data signal to a radius of 18 miles across the suburbs of Miami
and this:
Before any of this happens, more demonstrations are needed, to show the system is robust against interference and multipath, and can operate in an area more crowded than 18 miles of swamp. It will also need to be approved by the FCC and other regulators round the world.
Those are BIG if's. Most likely, if it can withstand a moderate amount of interference, this will mainly be used to support other technologies.
Yeah, an immersive internet would be awesome... but this thing still has some issues to be resolved.
I was wondering this too, so I googled "cost of off shore wind farm" and came up with Cape Wind. Pretty interesting. Still haven't managed to price it out though. It only mentions that this farm is privately funded... which may just work.
His objective in commencing this project 12 years ago was to come up with a power solution for developing nations
Jeebus, is that what the US is now? With all the bass-ackwards energy policy combined with a very aging grid control system, and nuclear paranoia (why the hell don't we reprocess like France/Japan?)... perhaps we're ready for some serious diversity to increase the power stability of this country.
iTMS store opening sold 1 million songs in a week, not 20 days.
However, video selection is MUCH more limtied than song selection when iTMS opened.
Also, video probably assumes the purchase of a newer (video) iPod, since I doubt many people are downloading these to watch on their computer/tv.
So what does this mean? Who knows, but it seems as if the videos are really damn popular. I'd kill, however, to see which ones were more popular than others...
I think what'd be the real killer app for mobile video would be shorts like comedy, commercials, trailers, etc.
Apple are you listening? Use what you have already, most movies push trailers, and most commercial creators would DIE to get their bits on the iPod, and there're some totally awesome commercials that are pieces of art in their own right! Imagine a vid-cast of bits from The Daily Show, or a 5 minute part of a standup routine, too.. great for showing people at lunch/etc.
GP: Don't underestimate the problems with storing hydrogen. It's pesky and diffuses through everything.
True, but it's still easier than storing electricity.
Seriously, the idea of pushing electricity on to the grid is all about giving and getting from the commons, and the assumption that even at VERY low usage periods, the demand is most definitely > 0. So while you may not need it, someone else does (at that very moment), and all you do is effectively sell it to that person, with the grid as the market, with only transmission losses incurred.... and the best part is that the transmission costs could be very low if the "buyer" of your energy were very close to you. No batteries required!
GP: There's another use of windmill power that requires no fancy conversion electronics, or fancy electrolysis setups. Run whatever horrible waveform you get out of your alternator on a stick into a big old resistor that gets hot. This is cost-effective for me (in a rural setting) to heat my home with now, versus using diesel (heating oil)
But that suggestion is only useful for less than half of the year (depending where you live) when you actually need to heat your home. During the summer there's still quite a lot of wind which would be going to waste.
The idea here would be to either directly use the wind power to heat the house when needed (even with a thermostat) and push everything else back in to 1) your local house grid so other electronics can get free power and if anything is left over, 2) back onto the general grid and selling it to someone else.
You do know that Darwin...which can be run on the x86 platform, does not require any keys, doncha?
Oh? you're referring to a non-released, completely beta test OS that Apple that apple ships ONLY in their development/test x86 boxes? The one they don't actually sell yet?
Compared to what? Google GMail Beta? Firefox with its endless trail of patches? WU-FTPD? Sendmail?
Your examples suck. GMail is fully secure. try using it with https... no other major free webmail provider has that. Firefox is probably the most secure, functional browser you can use today.
GP post refers to Microsoft's security outlook which spawned their current dilemma. It's a fricking joke, deal with it.
ABC is not simply acting as an independent agent, they are, in some sense, unilaterally re-writing their contracts with their affiliates. I would be damn pissed too if one of my clients decided that they could get away with rewriting our contract, in their favor, with no negotiation.
Except that you have no idea what is or more importantly IS NOT in those contracts... ultimately, you're right the stations are probably pissed. But it's probably totally legal for the contracts to change especially given all those other contracts you and I agree to every day that state the volatile nature of the contract... which I see as a symptom of the imbalance of the power between the parties.
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Interesting thing to see if they come up with some "moderation system"... perhaps a way for the users to validate and agree upon said tags? Or will they just say if enough people say the same/similar thing... it must be true?
Replacement costs are down to about $3000 now.
Also Toyota warranties the battery for 100K miles/8 years... at the end of said time, I'm sure the replacement cost will be much lower. Where did you get your $7000 figure?Nation Scaring Time!!!
My main problem with the article was the lack of options specified:
Or you could just install Firefox, with the foxie plugin, and get completely secure browsing for all sites, and great Triton/IE support for intranet/extranet legacy webapps.Who knows how evil the DRM is, once the install is made, but jeebus... talk about an issue of trust (just for the installer)!
Prove it. Mods, this parent is seriously flamebait. I could say the exact same thing about sites like FreeRepublic (in fact, I've seen many calls to violence over there, just not towards George/Dick).
That's all well and good... I trust Jobs despite his egotistical nature (unfortunately, he's often right). But...
What happens when he no longer runs Apple (succumbing to that great GC in the sky, or losing interest, etc.)? Do you trust #2 at Apple to keep this claim? And for how long?
Are you talking about this conspiracy theory? If so, then do you have a rebuttal to my link? I'm honestly interested...
None of this will change unless and until we either get corporations to recognize that the US is losing it's ground due to stifling IP/Patent laws... or we vote in people who care.
Republican or Democratic, make sure your representative at least knows (and preferrably cares) about the current state of the patent system.
Oh, and donate to the EFF. I have.
Trust is a hard thing to maintain, it took years for the US to get the world to trust it, and now it's all going away. I don't expect much to happen w/r/t this issue today, but the future might hold something much more diverse/complex than today's internet... because the "borderless" nature of the internet wasn't compatible with the differing views on intellectual property of the nations of the world.
Honestly, this looks ready to fail. Why don't these guys ever get it?
Something you left out from the wiki content:
"At maximum volume, it can emit a warning tone that is 151 decibels (1000 W/m) at 1 metre, a level that is very capable of permanently damaging hearing."
I'm not sure I'd call that "an ideal use of this technology in private sector" as you put it... ethical concerns don't just go away if you're "private sector".
In the meanwhile, those who know and care will buy the best option available, while looking at historical data for reliability, TCO, and ownership experience... and then laugh at those who run the American software/vehicle upgrade treadmill.
Clearly, this (as well as news of Oracle's "free/lite" version of 10g), are good news... that Open Source projects like MySQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, etc are forcing the "cathedral" software shops to re-examine their ways, since they (Microsoft & others) can't rely on piracy anymore (due to impacted profits) to keep the "pipeline full" and "mindshare". It's good for the closed source developers, and ultimately it will be good for OSS developers, as OSS entries in these fields mature. Competition is good, and the developers benefit.
Please explain to me how "all facts related to me" as a compilation is not original. I'd say that it's almost the definition of originality, ie, other people may have similar facts, but if they had the same facts, I'd argue that they copied me... just like the musical notes relating to a song.
Given that, do you agree that I should be able to copyright my data as a compilation?
Problem is, Dell's innovation wasn't something they could patent and protect, whereas, with Apple, some of their innovation is very protected (OSX UI, iPod interface, iTunes, iTMS exclusive contracts, etc).
Taking a look at Apple's supply times and online ordering capabilities, they have not only copied Dell's direct-to-customer innovation, but even gotten some of Dell's efficiencies of scale in effect. Problem is, Dell relied on:
Leaving them to really innovate in the supply chain area...
However, now that both MS and Intel are no longer the innovation leaders, and they have their own troubles to deal with, Dell is stuck without any way to push those companies to do that innovation. It remains to be seen whether this will mark a slow decline in Dell's fortunes, or they make a bold move to re-establish themselves as not only a market leader, but innovative and interesting.
Yeah, an immersive internet would be awesome... but this thing still has some issues to be resolved.
I was wondering this too, so I googled "cost of off shore wind farm" and came up with Cape Wind. Pretty interesting. Still haven't managed to price it out though. It only mentions that this farm is privately funded... which may just work.
So what does this mean? Who knows, but it seems as if the videos are really damn popular. I'd kill, however, to see which ones were more popular than others...
I think what'd be the real killer app for mobile video would be shorts like comedy, commercials, trailers, etc.
Apple are you listening? Use what you have already, most movies push trailers, and most commercial creators would DIE to get their bits on the iPod, and there're some totally awesome commercials that are pieces of art in their own right! Imagine a vid-cast of bits from The Daily Show, or a 5 minute part of a standup routine, too.. great for showing people at lunch/etc.
Do you by chance work at a popular internet search company?
True, but it's still easier than storing electricity.
Seriously, the idea of pushing electricity on to the grid is all about giving and getting from the commons, and the assumption that even at VERY low usage periods, the demand is most definitely > 0. So while you may not need it, someone else does (at that very moment), and all you do is effectively sell it to that person, with the grid as the market, with only transmission losses incurred.... and the best part is that the transmission costs could be very low if the "buyer" of your energy were very close to you. No batteries required!
GP: There's another use of windmill power that requires no fancy conversion electronics, or fancy electrolysis setups. Run whatever horrible waveform you get out of your alternator on a stick into a big old resistor that gets hot. This is cost-effective for me (in a rural setting) to heat my home with now, versus using diesel (heating oil)
But that suggestion is only useful for less than half of the year (depending where you live) when you actually need to heat your home. During the summer there's still quite a lot of wind which would be going to waste.
The idea here would be to either directly use the wind power to heat the house when needed (even with a thermostat) and push everything else back in to 1) your local house grid so other electronics can get free power and if anything is left over, 2) back onto the general grid and selling it to someone else.
You do know that Darwin...which can be run on the x86 platform, does not require any keys, doncha?
Oh? you're referring to a non-released, completely beta test OS that Apple that apple ships ONLY in their development/test x86 boxes? The one they don't actually sell yet?
Except that you have no idea what is or more importantly IS NOT in those contracts... ultimately, you're right the stations are probably pissed. But it's probably totally legal for the contracts to change especially given all those other contracts you and I agree to every day that state the volatile nature of the contract... which I see as a symptom of the imbalance of the power between the parties.