GP was meant to be a humorous reference to the fact that most people around here only read the article summaries, not the article content itself. Good insights, though!
So now every website in the woruld is infringing a stupid patent from a patent trool? You know, your (presumed) spelling error reminds us all to watch out for astroturfing Akamai employees in discussions on this topic. See the definition of Trool on the Urban Dictionary site.
I guess I'd better shut down BlogPuzzles.net immediately, since it obviously infringes on Akamai's patent. My site allows people to host a base HTML document, with embedded content (puzzles) being hosted on my servers. This is clearly unlicensed use of Akamai's intellectual property. While I'm at it, I'd better warn Google before they get involved in a real financial nightmare over content hosted on their servers and integrated into other peoples' websites. Now, where did I stick that attorney's phone number?
I CAN see ways that libraries become "social hubs" where people physically meet to share and learn ideas, something that can't be done as well over the Internet. For our generation, that's probably true. For anyone 15 years old today, online relationships and discussion forums may be far more heavily and effectively utilized than face-to-face library setting meetings.
Small local libraries are a better solution. By definition, smaller libraries can hold fewer resources.
But even they hold little advantages over going to your local Barnes & Noble and reading. Except for the fact that your local Barnes and Noble is operating as a for-profit enterprise, and won't have many older titles in stock.
Perhaps the only libraries that are still flourishing are university libraries. This I agree with, although I can't see why they couldn't function electronically as well.
Could be interference between cell towers, or simply too low a population density to economically justify increased coverage. I'm not intimately acquainted with your particular location, of course.
Quoting the summary:
The grand old reading rooms and stacks of past civic monuments are giving way to a new library-as-urban-hangout concept I'm not the youngest guy here, although I'm certainly not the oldest, either:). I still love the first whiff of paper I get when walking into a library; it brings back wonderful memories of days spent reading as a child. However, I also remember the excitement I felt when my city's library (City of Decatur, GA at the time) got computer stations installed to aid in searching for materials stored on CD-ROM stacks. It was a logical extension of the library concept, and was immensely useful compared to their existing "green screen" (actually amber) lookup system or the tried-and-true card catalog system.
I also remember the first time I dialed into a BBS and discovered volumes of reading material I could freely download... next came my first exposure to the Internet through USENET and later the WWW. My excitement grew with each new advance in information sharing. These technologies were all logical stepping stone extensions to what came before them, and enabled me to access worlds of information that simply weren't attainable before.
Would I mourn the death of physical libraries where I can walk up and down the aisles? Yes, but for largely sentimental reasons. While the dreams a "paperless society" have largely been unfulfilled to date, the time is rapidly coming when many of the core concepts will be a reality. I'm an optimist in that I like to focus on learning about new ways to share information.
Offtopic, but I just couldn't resist commenting on your sig:
I keep seeing "IANAL" in comments on the RIAA and wonder to myself, what does the RIAA have to do with sodomy? That's really a rhetorical question, right?
The only way to beat the weather right now is to have a physical connection (and even that's not 100% immune). That's a true statement. Hurricanes, fires, and tornadoes do have a way of reducing uptime in many cases. I suppose the network provider could always enter into an SLA with God to improve things, though. Similar deals with the devil have proved too costly in the long run.
If I, as a consumer, had allowed my debt to go unpaid for that long, my account would have been sent to collections long ago. You could always send them a demand letter for full and immediate payment of the debt owed. Failing a timely response, you have the option of taking them to court for the amount of your claim plus attorney's fees and lost wages on the time spent dealing with the matter. If you're not owed a lot of money, this may not be a sensible route for your to take, but you still have the option.
As a guy who does communications in the U.S. Navy, I can attest to this. If the United States military can't guarantee 99.999% uptime on communications in all conditions, what makes anyone think it's possible in the private sector?
... after decades of mobile phones, why do we even still have dropped calls? It's a little thing called physics. When you're traveling while using your phone, you may transit into dead zones. We could solve this by cutting down all the trees and flattening the landscape, but that might make some people angry...
Mod parent up. This is a critical point in the ongoing debate over "Your Rights Online." Even the Chinese apparently understand its validity; unfortunately, they choose to firewall their country in response.
Please provide references to security holes left in Firefox for long periods of time. Note that other categories of bugs do not count (if it doesn't create a risk of exploit, it doesn't count). Thank you.
I don't know why your karma would suffer from this... there are some interesting parallels between theories concerning the technological singularity and the Biblical book of Revelation (at least in some peoples' opinions). Why not add another metaphorical spin to things?
I just turned 27; my recollection of PBS science shows' take on this (specifically Nova) in the 80s was that we didn't know for sure (back then) which way things would go. Or my memory could be faulty, who knows...
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GP was meant to be a humorous reference to the fact that most people around here only read the article summaries, not the article content itself. Good insights, though!
I guess I'd better shut down BlogPuzzles.net immediately, since it obviously infringes on Akamai's patent. My site allows people to host a base HTML document, with embedded content (puzzles) being hosted on my servers. This is clearly unlicensed use of Akamai's intellectual property. While I'm at it, I'd better warn Google before they get involved in a real financial nightmare over content hosted on their servers and integrated into other peoples' websites. Now, where did I stick that attorney's phone number?
Could be interference between cell towers, or simply too low a population density to economically justify increased coverage. I'm not intimately acquainted with your particular location, of course.
I also remember the first time I dialed into a BBS and discovered volumes of reading material I could freely download... next came my first exposure to the Internet through USENET and later the WWW. My excitement grew with each new advance in information sharing. These technologies were all logical stepping stone extensions to what came before them, and enabled me to access worlds of information that simply weren't attainable before.
Would I mourn the death of physical libraries where I can walk up and down the aisles? Yes, but for largely sentimental reasons. While the dreams a "paperless society" have largely been unfulfilled to date, the time is rapidly coming when many of the core concepts will be a reality. I'm an optimist in that I like to focus on learning about new ways to share information.
As a guy who does communications in the U.S. Navy, I can attest to this. If the United States military can't guarantee 99.999% uptime on communications in all conditions, what makes anyone think it's possible in the private sector?
... after decades of mobile phones, why do we even still have dropped calls? It's a little thing called physics. When you're traveling while using your phone, you may transit into dead zones. We could solve this by cutting down all the trees and flattening the landscape, but that might make some people angry...Mod parent up. This is a critical point in the ongoing debate over "Your Rights Online." Even the Chinese apparently understand its validity; unfortunately, they choose to firewall their country in response.
It does explain a lot about how things work around here...
Personally, I prefer the F5 network. It really runs well.
I it Dugg its own grave.
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Please provide references to security holes left in Firefox for long periods of time. Note that other categories of bugs do not count (if it doesn't create a risk of exploit, it doesn't count). Thank you.
I don't know why your karma would suffer from this... there are some interesting parallels between theories concerning the technological singularity and the Biblical book of Revelation (at least in some peoples' opinions). Why not add another metaphorical spin to things?
I just turned 27; my recollection of PBS science shows' take on this (specifically Nova) in the 80s was that we didn't know for sure (back then) which way things would go. Or my memory could be faulty, who knows...
What about dead IP? Can we levy an estate tax on it? I bet we could pay off several nations' worth of national debt rather quickly :).
I'm going to hold my breath to prove it. Check this thread in 100 years for an update.