all the jobs created by piracy? There's been how many software jobs created to come up with new anti-piracy software, DRM and the like. How many law suits have been thrown around bloating the salaries of overpaid lawyers and their ilk. Whole corporations such as the RIAA have been created to combat the travesties of pirates on the high webs.
How many jobs have been created due to the piracy itself. Napster has its roots in file sharing, if not for this company the likes of iTunes would not likely exist. Thepiratebay while not a piracy company would not be what it is right now with out some pirated content.
On the flip side of all of this imagine what the media would be like if artists did it for the art and not for the money. Movies such as Indiana Jones and the Crystal skull wouldn't exist. Aliens, wtf? Thats the kind of "art" that comes out of focus groups and market testing.
What we really need are spies. Not so much in the US, here good old fashioned detective work (with Warrants) should work.
But over seas a standing army isn't going to do anything to quell terrorism. Tanks and plans will only inspire more terrorism. What we need are good old fashioned black ops. Undercover agents penetrating the terrorist groups and talking to the bad guys. Much less collateral damage as well.
We'd get a lot further with a couple guys with silenced pistols rather than a whole army.
I doubt Hulu is going to have a say in the matter. I imagine a system where you set TiVo to record the video from your PC instead of from your cable box, then allows you to fast forward at your leisure.
Something where the output is recorded not so much downloaded onto the tivo.
If my dad complained about an ache or a pain, while working in the factory, he would have been laughed at. If he later complained about his hands hurting from typing, he likely would have gotten his a** kicked.
I doubt the injuries are going up, if anything they are probably going down. I suspect the reporting/complaining is going up because its not a factor in maintaining your manhood anymore.
Also how people react to actual pain is different now as well. My brother is older than I am, and works in a garage. A rim blew off a truck tire and took off his fingernail (down to the root) He slapped a band-aid on it and went back to work.
I'm pretty sure the guys at NASA can't just walk out the front door with government secrets.
The rules say that The Team owns the technical data and that there are non-disclosure agreements with Google, but I doubt NASA allows for participation. Also this would be kind of a blurring of the rules with 90% of the funding to be from private sources.
There's no such thing as normal. That being said being an amputee doesn't make you not "normal".
The robotic arm technology is still in development. I've seen some shows about the robotic arms and they still look really clunky so I can see where you are coming from. I imagine if the technology gets good enough then there will be people who would like it. Probably people who have the opportunity to access the option early on, before getting used to other options.
My friend in college with no arms, sometimes he'd wear one of the hooks, sometimes two, sometimes none. At the same time he was studying bio-mechanics so he could come up with a better prosthesis.
*Braces for Punch* Out of curiosity, apart from the obvious medical complications such as rejection, what would be the problem with grafting a limb if someone wants it?
While being a geek is now acceptable, it's not automatic coolness. Technical prowess has some merit and the online community is overflowing to "real life" but the pimply overly self conscious kid is still socially awkward.
I think more to the point it has become clear that technology is a valid career path and, that being the case, the "popular" people are willing to accept it as a career path. Socially outgoing people have made geekdom popular, not the other way around.
Seems like OLPC should work on getting their first product working in reasonable and cost effective manner before they start showing off their next generation.
What seemed like an awesome and virtuous idea has clearly tanked. Let's show pretty pictures of things that might be, instead of getting the first generation of working product into the hands of those who need it. Oh well, I guess it was over when they sold out to MS in the first place.
Also, the pictures on the link http://blog.laptopmag.com/first-look-olpc-xo-generation-20 really rather look like CGI to me. I like how the video only showed the still photos found else where on the page. Their "book" doesn't seem to have a hinge, just a magic crease in the middle that disappears when its flat.
Peripherals have some impact. If you have a 10 year old roller ball mouse full of dirt, it can get in the way. It can be nice to get some peripherals with some extra buttons or other functionality, but when it comes down to it, it's the wetware that matters.
Although nothing can be quite as satisfying or annoying as the prepubescent voice "It was the controller! F@#$%ing Xbox controllers! Expletive! Expletive!"
After 5 years, and $10 million dollars invested on advanced UAV research, it has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the smog levels in LA are.... Really Bad.
Make Magazine has a lot of interesting and low cost projects to practice with. They use Arduino a lot from Beer Making to Solar Panels
Make isn't strictly an electronics magazine, but it does have a lot of interesting projects with instructions. Although its not a handbook or an general instruction manual it should have some inexpensive things to practice with.
Are the colleges to be held culpable? If a student commits a real crime, are the police going to go to the dean and complain, or are they going to go kick in the student in question's door?
If a kid beat another kid with the power cable from a college owned PC, does that make the college responsible? If a kid downloaded some music using the college's T1 line does that make the college responsible?
Also the RIAA isn't a government agency. It doesn't have any more rights than anyone else. Sure in our society anyone can sue anyone else, and the RIAA can complain to anyone they want, but could a college get a restraining order, or a counter suit for harassment?
Conversely, there's a lot of bands who are just as happy to have fans download their music for free. NIN is releasing their new album on their website for free http://www.nin.com/ Radio head posted their album with a "Tip Jar" Other bands like Moe encourage fans to record concerts and share the music. Seems like the Record Labels and the RIAA are just in between the bands and the fans pissing everyone off.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the original OLPC mission statement had nothing to do with making money or competing in a market. It relied upon making a quality product, and a NOT FOR PROFIT business model.
If you have an electric lamp, you aren't the target audience. However I feel its important for experienced programmers "hackers" to have access to the open source OS and the associated hardware to do what they will with it. Thats why I thought the buy one give one program was great. This whole project should be a mirror of linux as in the people who care can do so much more than the people who want to make a greasy buck.
A working product delivered to the kids who need it is ideally the goal, I have zero argument there. I just worry that Windows doesn't have the needy in mind as much as their stock holders in mind. (just to seem like good guys if nothing else) What's the loss if the ClassmatePC or the EEE PC get a larger market share in the US and Western Europe, but some truly altruistic people get the OLPCs to the kids who need them in third world countries.
Sure, as you point out there may be some short comings in this OS. It could use some improvements, however I believe these improvements would be more forth coming if the problem was given to the OS community rather than M$.
I thought one of the great things about the OLPC OS was the innate ability to teach programming languages such as Python. I fear that a movement to a proprietary OS will cripple this effort.
If Microsoft as a corporation decides to be altruistic this once, I'll eat my hat. In the mean time, I am going to go ahead and suggest that the fewer third world children who have to come in contact with Microsuck, the better.
The term "Sell Out" does apply. If the CEO (Negroponte) does something that causes the head of Head of Software (Bender) to leave over a software matter... I am forced to believe the head of software.
Who has ever believed a manager over an IT person when it comes to tech?
Congress ONLY has the power to exercise the rights given to them as outlined in the Constitution.
No where in the Constitution does it give congress the right to excuse corporations who violate the rights of civilians.
I might quote Benjamin Franklin in saying (roughly) "Those who are willing to trade freedom for the illusion of security deserve neither freedom nor security."
The OLPC looked like an awesome product when it started. I was designed for use in the middle of no where for children in under developed nations. There was a buy one - give one program going on but that got shut down for some reason.
Lately Negroponte decided it should go with windows instead of the original open source OS, which prompted Bender to resign. And there is a general sense that they have sold out.
For a while it looked promising, I wanted to pick one up. Thought it would be great for camping. Get some PDF books and read it on the go in the open sunlight with a water resistant clam shell and a hand crank power supply. This seemed much better than a Kindle to me.
There was even a lot of DIY home brew hacks going on at first. People using it along with Arduino for some neat applications.
Manager doesn't take kindly to me turning off the lights...
Tried polarized sunglasses but I had to tilt my head 45 deg to be able to see the screen, by then I think I had negated my efforts with a sore neck to boot.
At least I don't have to worry about sunlight in my engineering pit of despair.
I can only hope that all the antioxidants in the beer catch all the free radicals...
I imagine you would have to build in a calibration feature. Everyone's facial structure and eye placement and such are all slightly different. When you install the hardware, you'd get click this X over here, and that X over there, adjust your sensitivity etc... and if done properly it could compensate for quite a bit of variation.
Blinking could be an issue, you're going to do that involuntarily. Maybe with an extra long blink, or specifically one eye for a click (Then you could get left and right clicks) you don't generally close one eye involuntarily.
I was thinking a contact lens with an inlaid tracker could improve the accuracy.
I already have suspicions that sitting in my cubical in front of my good old CRTs and other equipment is already unhealthy enough, wouldn't want to add more EMR in my face on top of that. Although I know there's nothing inherently unhealthy with IR EMR...
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all the jobs created by piracy? There's been how many software jobs created to come up with new anti-piracy software, DRM and the like. How many law suits have been thrown around bloating the salaries of overpaid lawyers and their ilk. Whole corporations such as the RIAA have been created to combat the travesties of pirates on the high webs.
How many jobs have been created due to the piracy itself. Napster has its roots in file sharing, if not for this company the likes of iTunes would not likely exist. Thepiratebay while not a piracy company would not be what it is right now with out some pirated content.
On the flip side of all of this imagine what the media would be like if artists did it for the art and not for the money. Movies such as Indiana Jones and the Crystal skull wouldn't exist. Aliens, wtf? Thats the kind of "art" that comes out of focus groups and market testing.
Is this IP address driven? Is this mostly for public hotspots? Will one be able to register their home Wifi signal?
Will one be able to register their neighbors unsecured wifi signal?
Will there be reverse look uo p for public hotspots? How about "Public" hotspots?
What we really need are spies. Not so much in the US, here good old fashioned detective work (with Warrants) should work.
But over seas a standing army isn't going to do anything to quell terrorism. Tanks and plans will only inspire more terrorism. What we need are good old fashioned black ops. Undercover agents penetrating the terrorist groups and talking to the bad guys. Much less collateral damage as well.
We'd get a lot further with a couple guys with silenced pistols rather than a whole army.
I doubt Hulu is going to have a say in the matter. I imagine a system where you set TiVo to record the video from your PC instead of from your cable box, then allows you to fast forward at your leisure.
Something where the output is recorded not so much downloaded onto the tivo.
I'd rather over spend a little on a space program than on a war.
If my dad complained about an ache or a pain, while working in the factory, he would have been laughed at. If he later complained about his hands hurting from typing, he likely would have gotten his a** kicked.
I doubt the injuries are going up, if anything they are probably going down. I suspect the reporting/complaining is going up because its not a factor in maintaining your manhood anymore.
Also how people react to actual pain is different now as well. My brother is older than I am, and works in a garage. A rim blew off a truck tire and took off his fingernail (down to the root) He slapped a band-aid on it and went back to work.
I'm pretty sure the guys at NASA can't just walk out the front door with government secrets.
The rules say that The Team owns the technical data and that there are non-disclosure agreements with Google, but I doubt NASA allows for participation. Also this would be kind of a blurring of the rules with 90% of the funding to be from private sources.
There's no such thing as normal. That being said being an amputee doesn't make you not "normal".
The robotic arm technology is still in development. I've seen some shows about the robotic arms and they still look really clunky so I can see where you are coming from. I imagine if the technology gets good enough then there will be people who would like it. Probably people who have the opportunity to access the option early on, before getting used to other options.
My friend in college with no arms, sometimes he'd wear one of the hooks, sometimes two, sometimes none. At the same time he was studying bio-mechanics so he could come up with a better prosthesis.
*Braces for Punch* Out of curiosity, apart from the obvious medical complications such as rejection, what would be the problem with grafting a limb if someone wants it?
Almost in time for our war with largest incident of severed limbs due to IED's.
I knew a guy in college who was working in this field. He went on to do master's work at Cornell. Incidentally he had no arms.
This will be great to improve the standard of living for many of the returning soldiers.
While being a geek is now acceptable, it's not automatic coolness. Technical prowess has some merit and the online community is overflowing to "real life" but the pimply overly self conscious kid is still socially awkward.
I think more to the point it has become clear that technology is a valid career path and, that being the case, the "popular" people are willing to accept it as a career path. Socially outgoing people have made geekdom popular, not the other way around.
Seems like OLPC should work on getting their first product working in reasonable and cost effective manner before they start showing off their next generation.
What seemed like an awesome and virtuous idea has clearly tanked. Let's show pretty pictures of things that might be, instead of getting the first generation of working product into the hands of those who need it. Oh well, I guess it was over when they sold out to MS in the first place.
Also, the pictures on the link http://blog.laptopmag.com/first-look-olpc-xo-generation-20 really rather look like CGI to me. I like how the video only showed the still photos found else where on the page. Their "book" doesn't seem to have a hinge, just a magic crease in the middle that disappears when its flat.
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Peripherals have some impact. If you have a 10 year old roller ball mouse full of dirt, it can get in the way. It can be nice to get some peripherals with some extra buttons or other functionality, but when it comes down to it, it's the wetware that matters.
Although nothing can be quite as satisfying or annoying as the prepubescent voice "It was the controller! F@#$%ing Xbox controllers! Expletive! Expletive!"
After 5 years, and $10 million dollars invested on advanced UAV research, it has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the smog levels in LA are.... Really Bad.
Make Magazine has a lot of interesting and low cost projects to practice with. They use Arduino a lot from Beer Making to Solar Panels
Make isn't strictly an electronics magazine, but it does have a lot of interesting projects with instructions. Although its not a handbook or an general instruction manual it should have some inexpensive things to practice with.
Are the colleges to be held culpable? If a student commits a real crime, are the police going to go to the dean and complain, or are they going to go kick in the student in question's door?
If a kid beat another kid with the power cable from a college owned PC, does that make the college responsible? If a kid downloaded some music using the college's T1 line does that make the college responsible?
Also the RIAA isn't a government agency. It doesn't have any more rights than anyone else. Sure in our society anyone can sue anyone else, and the RIAA can complain to anyone they want, but could a college get a restraining order, or a counter suit for harassment?
Conversely, there's a lot of bands who are just as happy to have fans download their music for free. NIN is releasing their new album on their website for free http://www.nin.com/ Radio head posted their album with a "Tip Jar" Other bands like Moe encourage fans to record concerts and share the music. Seems like the Record Labels and the RIAA are just in between the bands and the fans pissing everyone off.
Grew up on a wildlife reservation, why? Did an OLPC not work out for you?
No one and nothing, has the right to violate even one of my rights. Do you want to give your rights to Microsoft and Coca-Cola?
In danger of giving the playground response of Nut-uh... It does not. The "Who is responsible for a crime" falls upon the Judicial branch.
If the Legislative branch were to try to pass such a law it would be unconstitutional. The effort to pass THIS law is unconstitutional.
I agree, this does not excuse the executive branch from trying.
I also agree, this is nothing more than a mental exercise since our govn't has spun way out of control.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the original OLPC mission statement had nothing to do with making money or competing in a market. It relied upon making a quality product, and a NOT FOR PROFIT business model.
If you have an electric lamp, you aren't the target audience. However I feel its important for experienced programmers "hackers" to have access to the open source OS and the associated hardware to do what they will with it. Thats why I thought the buy one give one program was great. This whole project should be a mirror of linux as in the people who care can do so much more than the people who want to make a greasy buck.
A working product delivered to the kids who need it is ideally the goal, I have zero argument there. I just worry that Windows doesn't have the needy in mind as much as their stock holders in mind. (just to seem like good guys if nothing else) What's the loss if the ClassmatePC or the EEE PC get a larger market share in the US and Western Europe, but some truly altruistic people get the OLPCs to the kids who need them in third world countries.
Sure, as you point out there may be some short comings in this OS. It could use some improvements, however I believe these improvements would be more forth coming if the problem was given to the OS community rather than M$.
I thought one of the great things about the OLPC OS was the innate ability to teach programming languages such as Python. I fear that a movement to a proprietary OS will cripple this effort.
If Microsoft as a corporation decides to be altruistic this once, I'll eat my hat. In the mean time, I am going to go ahead and suggest that the fewer third world children who have to come in contact with Microsuck, the better.
The term "Sell Out" does apply. If the CEO (Negroponte) does something that causes the head of Head of Software (Bender) to leave over a software matter... I am forced to believe the head of software.
Who has ever believed a manager over an IT person when it comes to tech?
Congress ONLY has the power to exercise the rights given to them as outlined in the Constitution.
No where in the Constitution does it give congress the right to excuse corporations who violate the rights of civilians.
I might quote Benjamin Franklin in saying (roughly) "Those who are willing to trade freedom for the illusion of security deserve neither freedom nor security."
The OLPC looked like an awesome product when it started. I was designed for use in the middle of no where for children in under developed nations. There was a buy one - give one program going on but that got shut down for some reason.
Lately Negroponte decided it should go with windows instead of the original open source OS, which prompted Bender to resign. And there is a general sense that they have sold out.
For a while it looked promising, I wanted to pick one up. Thought it would be great for camping. Get some PDF books and read it on the go in the open sunlight with a water resistant clam shell and a hand crank power supply. This seemed much better than a Kindle to me.
There was even a lot of DIY home brew hacks going on at first. People using it along with Arduino for some neat applications.
Alas... why must everyone sell out.
Manager doesn't take kindly to me turning off the lights...
Tried polarized sunglasses but I had to tilt my head 45 deg to be able to see the screen, by then I think I had negated my efforts with a sore neck to boot.
At least I don't have to worry about sunlight in my engineering pit of despair.
I can only hope that all the antioxidants in the beer catch all the free radicals...
I imagine you would have to build in a calibration feature. Everyone's facial structure and eye placement and such are all slightly different. When you install the hardware, you'd get click this X over here, and that X over there, adjust your sensitivity etc... and if done properly it could compensate for quite a bit of variation.
Your sig lacks a common symbol that occurs fifth in our ABC's.
Blinking could be an issue, you're going to do that involuntarily. Maybe with an extra long blink, or specifically one eye for a click (Then you could get left and right clicks) you don't generally close one eye involuntarily.
I was thinking a contact lens with an inlaid tracker could improve the accuracy.
I already have suspicions that sitting in my cubical in front of my good old CRTs and other equipment is already unhealthy enough, wouldn't want to add more EMR in my face on top of that. Although I know there's nothing inherently unhealthy with IR EMR...