I don't get it. Everyone here keeps talking like work on accessibility for the disabled is somehow a charity operation, even in open source land. Like there needs to be laws to mandated it, or no one would do it. Work on accessibility is a very very important corner of computer science in general. It is where some of the most groundbreaking crap us lazy people (sorry, the motivationally challenged) have derived the stuff we take for granted everyday now on our phones, our call centers, and so on. To talk about this sort of work as if it was only for the blind, or only for the hearing impaired is silly. Shame on you all, and dumb move by any companies R&D department that walks away from it. What helps someone read a screen today, gets incorporated in to your cell phone tomorrow for the sighted that simply want to be more efficient or the just motivationally challenged.
It is also one of the really practical areas of AI, things like voice recognition, and so on.
The big opertunity that is being missed I believe is that something like 45% of Americans will be over 55 by 2012 (I might have stat a bit backwards), and that means gobs and gobs of money that can provide IT technology to the disabled. A large portion of the American population is going to be in that category shortly. It might very well be the new.com bubble of the next 10 years, to those that can appreciate the problem early. Sadly, I don't see a whole lot of that going on yet, but it will come.
My hats off and full support to anyone working in that field, regardless of who your end target it is. My predication is that your going to wake up one morning very rich not too long from now.
I think it would be a smart move for Nokia to send him a free N900 and ask him to compare the two. We can finally settle (or properly start) the war over which is the geeker vs. user friendly linux based phone.
People there is Google Checkout. I have been selling through them since they started, because Pay Pal ripped me off for thousands of dollars with exactly one of these types of bs moves.
I totally agree. My point was more about how Google is encouraging the creation of a mess of content designed only for the consumption of Google Bots, and in fact most are never visited or seen by humans.
Yes, links are the fundamental core of how the internet works. It is just the rewarding of sites for producing the most links possible. If somehow Google say decided to use a different method, say how often a site was visited for valuing the links out, in fairly short order millions of link farming sites would disappear overnight. I bet the Internet would shrink by half or more.
Emails spam aside, I would say that most of that is Google's fault. The other 95% of content created on the internet is in an attempt to SEO web sites in the other 5% of the internet that people do potentially read or visit. Google encourages web masters to get in bound links, thus the whole industry of spamming sites, directories, blog feed sites, and so on that have one purpose and one purpose only: getting as many anchor text links pointed to sites as possible so they will rank higher in Google for key terms.
How nice of congress to consider doing something to finally mandate the switch to IPv6. I bet if this or anything similar became a law, millions of sites for all kinds of reason would switch to IPv6 overnight to take advantage of the millions of possible addresses. Not to mention ipsec and so on.
We would end up back with the problem of dynamic IP's for a whole different reason, because people would use it to rotate their servers through millions of addresses. I bet web hosting providers would pop up that were like tor for web hosting, with thousands of ip addresses in a sort of random dynamic DNS rotating constantly.
Hell, I could see this move single handily curring numerous existing security problems on the internet that everyone is just to frigen lazy to fix.
The man is held as one of the greatest writer ever (in any language) CUZ he abused the English language in ways that people never imagined it could be abused. Most of our great writers do that. Strangely, so do most small children.
I wonder if there if there could be a connection?
Note to mindless trolls and the grammar Nazis: That question was rhetorical.
I am sorry, but saying the Chinese government have suddenly developed an environmental conscious is bullshit. I have lived there personally, and I know environmentalist that have tried to work with the government. They are only interested in saving face in front of the World.
This is all about making products and money. If they thought they could sell blue widgets rather than solar panels for more money, they would. They will also likly dump the chemicals and waist from the manufacturing of the solar panels in to the rivers and lakes, while using the dirties coal powered energy to make them, making their workers sick with uncontrolled processes, and no one will even try to hide it.
So while you are all feeling warm and fuzzy about your new solar panels, electric car, or whatever saving the Planet, stop and realize that it was made with some of the most environmentally unfriendly and unethical practices in the World in China.
Try the rivers full of dead floating fish? How about the chemical spills that regularly kill thousands across China? Try driving by one of their coal fired power plants. Your eyes will be watering long before you see the plant. Has anyone on the East coast of China ever seen a star in their life?
Talking about pollution in China is still officially a State secret that can make people disappear.
yea, I live in Chile, and we might talk bad about most things from Argentina for sport, but I don't think there is anyone in the neighboring countries that would not fairly quickly admit that Argentina has some of the best beef in the World. I don't believe they even export the really good stuff either, having compared the quality of Argentina beef in both Argentina and at least a half dozen other countries. Most greasy spoon hole in the wall mom and pop type operations in Argentina will serve up steaks to make the best restaurants in the World jealous.
I have also worked and lived around American cattle farms. Plastic and tasteless would be be an improvement. They started selling American beef in Chile a few years ago, and I don't anyone that buys it. On the other hand, I have had free range Buffalo in the U.S., and could see how they bread the flavor out out of the cattle.
That all depends on your favorite epistemological definition of "to know" is. MS seems to have a different one from the rest of the Joe's on the street, as in "if we don't fix, it must not exist ".
They can perhaps argue the cruel and unusual punishment of such a large award all the way to the supreme court that then decides songs are only worth 0.01 cents each. The win is the publicity on the way, and a martyr for the next cases no matter where it stops. It is a loose / loose for the recording industry no mater how they do it. The only way they win is if she settles.
I never said it would be good militia. Then also we kind of got the U.S. because a bunch of "inherently anti-authoritarian and distrustful of organizations of any sort" types.
Perhaps a better way would be to treat them like privateers. The U.S. government can just put out bounties on targets, and watch the hackers take them down.
I don't understand why they don't properly organize a cyber-militia. Russia and China sure seem to have their own going.
We could pounce them 5 to 1 with all the private computer networks and crackers around the World that might contribute. They just need a proper command and control system, otherwise I could totally see more than a few friendly fire incidents ( "sorry about that L.A., I thought I was pulling the plug on the power grid in Bejing").
You know, 1 core, 2 cores, 3 cores, 1,000000 cores I have realize means exactly jack if the data they need to crunch is still sitting on frigen hard drive.
My processors and I would do flips and flops, if we could just get some dam data off our drives. Come on? We have basically not had a real leap in hardrive speeds or technology in how many years?
I mean solid states and all are great, but they still have a long way to go. What happens when we need to start pushing terabytes like megabytes?
We got a ram and catch arms race going on because, the hard drives suck and no one seems to be doing anything about it.
The best we can do are raid tricks to get any more performance (or reliability for that matter), and that has well known limits and problems.
Based on the fact that not a single response (at least that I have found) seems to be remotely taking this idea seriously, do they then earn the stupidest article / idea award from slash in recent months (years)?
Perhaps they should at least get the lest original idea.
Sorry, but the attorney fees, how reasonable they are, if the other party owes them, and so on are a separate dispute arising out of the first dispute. Different case, different law suit.
By the way $400,000 for a case of that nature is not all that crazy, if a lot of resources where devoted to the case and assuming no one is padding their bills. A judge might give them a bit of trim here and there, but attorney fees larger than the value of settlement happen all the time.
Throwing $400,000 in legal resources at a company that big is like a fly hitting a windshield. It really does not slow the car down at all that much nor does it really disrupt the cars aerodynamics in a noticeable way. They need to be hit with something like $400 million in attorney fees and settlement cost. Something that will stick to the quarterly reports, and raise some eyebrows during a conference call.
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I don't get it. Everyone here keeps talking like work on accessibility for the disabled is somehow a charity operation, even in open source land. Like there needs to be laws to mandated it, or no one would do it. Work on accessibility is a very very important corner of computer science in general. It is where some of the most groundbreaking crap us lazy people (sorry, the motivationally challenged) have derived the stuff we take for granted everyday now on our phones, our call centers, and so on. To talk about this sort of work as if it was only for the blind, or only for the hearing impaired is silly. Shame on you all, and dumb move by any companies R&D department that walks away from it. What helps someone read a screen today, gets incorporated in to your cell phone tomorrow for the sighted that simply want to be more efficient or the just motivationally challenged.
It is also one of the really practical areas of AI, things like voice recognition, and so on.
The big opertunity that is being missed I believe is that something like 45% of Americans will be over 55 by 2012 (I might have stat a bit backwards), and that means gobs and gobs of money that can provide IT technology to the disabled. A large portion of the American population is going to be in that category shortly. It might very well be the new .com bubble of the next 10 years, to those that can appreciate the problem early. Sadly, I don't see a whole lot of that going on yet, but it will come.
My hats off and full support to anyone working in that field, regardless of who your end target it is. My predication is that your going to wake up one morning very rich not too long from now.
I think it would be a smart move for Nokia to send him a free N900 and ask him to compare the two. We can finally settle (or properly start) the war over which is the geeker vs. user friendly linux based phone.
For me, no keyboard no deal.
People there is Google Checkout. I have been selling through them since they started, because Pay Pal ripped me off for thousands of dollars with exactly one of these types of bs moves.
I totally agree. My point was more about how Google is encouraging the creation of a mess of content designed only for the consumption of Google Bots, and in fact most are never visited or seen by humans.
Yes, links are the fundamental core of how the internet works. It is just the rewarding of sites for producing the most links possible. If somehow Google say decided to use a different method, say how often a site was visited for valuing the links out, in fairly short order millions of link farming sites would disappear overnight. I bet the Internet would shrink by half or more.
Emails spam aside, I would say that most of that is Google's fault. The other 95% of content created on the internet is in an attempt to SEO web sites in the other 5% of the internet that people do potentially read or visit. Google encourages web masters to get in bound links, thus the whole industry of spamming sites, directories, blog feed sites, and so on that have one purpose and one purpose only: getting as many anchor text links pointed to sites as possible so they will rank higher in Google for key terms.
How nice of congress to consider doing something to finally mandate the switch to IPv6. I bet if this or anything similar became a law, millions of sites for all kinds of reason would switch to IPv6 overnight to take advantage of the millions of possible addresses. Not to mention ipsec and so on.
We would end up back with the problem of dynamic IP's for a whole different reason, because people would use it to rotate their servers through millions of addresses. I bet web hosting providers would pop up that were like tor for web hosting, with thousands of ip addresses in a sort of random dynamic DNS rotating constantly.
Hell, I could see this move single handily curring numerous existing security problems on the internet that everyone is just to frigen lazy to fix.
I wonder if they will threaten to pull out of the United States like they did China.
I am not sure about the speed advantage of reads from disk, given the problem of what to prioritize; but I could see the advantage of writes to disk.
Does that make any sense?
Better yet, Graffiti artist can now insure that their work is never removed. It will be an arms race to see who gets to the surface first.
Question comes to mind from that however. Can you spray this stuff on, paint on top of it, then spray another coat to make it permanent?
Shakespeare anyone?
The man is held as one of the greatest writer ever (in any language) CUZ he abused the English language in ways that people never imagined it could be abused. Most of our great writers do that. Strangely, so do most small children.
I wonder if there if there could be a connection?
Note to mindless trolls and the grammar Nazis: That question was rhetorical.
I am sorry, but saying the Chinese government have suddenly developed an environmental conscious is bullshit. I have lived there personally, and I know environmentalist that have tried to work with the government. They are only interested in saving face in front of the World.
This is all about making products and money. If they thought they could sell blue widgets rather than solar panels for more money, they would. They will also likly dump the chemicals and waist from the manufacturing of the solar panels in to the rivers and lakes, while using the dirties coal powered energy to make them, making their workers sick with uncontrolled processes, and no one will even try to hide it.
So while you are all feeling warm and fuzzy about your new solar panels, electric car, or whatever saving the Planet, stop and realize that it was made with some of the most environmentally unfriendly and unethical practices in the World in China.
Try the rivers full of dead floating fish? How about the chemical spills that regularly kill thousands across China? Try driving by one of their coal fired power plants. Your eyes will be watering long before you see the plant. Has anyone on the East coast of China ever seen a star in their life?
Talking about pollution in China is still officially a State secret that can make people disappear.
yea, I live in Chile, and we might talk bad about most things from Argentina for sport, but I don't think there is anyone in the neighboring countries that would not fairly quickly admit that Argentina has some of the best beef in the World. I don't believe they even export the really good stuff either, having compared the quality of Argentina beef in both Argentina and at least a half dozen other countries. Most greasy spoon hole in the wall mom and pop type operations in Argentina will serve up steaks to make the best restaurants in the World jealous.
I have also worked and lived around American cattle farms. Plastic and tasteless would be be an improvement. They started selling American beef in Chile a few years ago, and I don't anyone that buys it. On the other hand, I have had free range Buffalo in the U.S., and could see how they bread the flavor out out of the cattle.
That all depends on your favorite epistemological definition of "to know" is. MS seems to have a different one from the rest of the Joe's on the street, as in "if we don't fix, it must not exist ".
I was going to post a portable hard drive, but hey if people want to do it the hard way.
Better yet, monopoly money. Do not pas go, do not collect $2.
They can perhaps argue the cruel and unusual punishment of such a large award all the way to the supreme court that then decides songs are only worth 0.01 cents each. The win is the publicity on the way, and a martyr for the next cases no matter where it stops. It is a loose / loose for the recording industry no mater how they do it. The only way they win is if she settles.
how about a fake $2 bill?
Anyone know what the songs she infringed go for on itunes or other online music stores?
I never said it would be good militia. Then also we kind of got the U.S. because a bunch of "inherently anti-authoritarian and distrustful of organizations of any sort" types.
Perhaps a better way would be to treat them like privateers. The U.S. government can just put out bounties on targets, and watch the hackers take them down.
I don't understand why they don't properly organize a cyber-militia. Russia and China sure seem to have their own going.
We could pounce them 5 to 1 with all the private computer networks and crackers around the World that might contribute. They just need a proper command and control system, otherwise I could totally see more than a few friendly fire incidents ( "sorry about that L.A., I thought I was pulling the plug on the power grid in Bejing").
You know, 1 core, 2 cores, 3 cores, 1,000000 cores I have realize means exactly jack if the data they need to crunch is still sitting on frigen hard drive.
My processors and I would do flips and flops, if we could just get some dam data off our drives. Come on? We have basically not had a real leap in hardrive speeds or technology in how many years?
I mean solid states and all are great, but they still have a long way to go. What happens when we need to start pushing terabytes like megabytes?
We got a ram and catch arms race going on because, the hard drives suck and no one seems to be doing anything about it.
The best we can do are raid tricks to get any more performance (or reliability for that matter), and that has well known limits and problems.
Based on the fact that not a single response (at least that I have found) seems to be remotely taking this idea seriously, do they then earn the stupidest article / idea award from slash in recent months (years)?
Perhaps they should at least get the lest original idea.
Sorry, but the attorney fees, how reasonable they are, if the other party owes them, and so on are a separate dispute arising out of the first dispute. Different case, different law suit.
By the way $400,000 for a case of that nature is not all that crazy, if a lot of resources where devoted to the case and assuming no one is padding their bills. A judge might give them a bit of trim here and there, but attorney fees larger than the value of settlement happen all the time.
Throwing $400,000 in legal resources at a company that big is like a fly hitting a windshield. It really does not slow the car down at all that much nor does it really disrupt the cars aerodynamics in a noticeable way. They need to be hit with something like $400 million in attorney fees and settlement cost. Something that will stick to the quarterly reports, and raise some eyebrows during a conference call.
Your about 10 years too late for that. Now it is just a sucker buy.
I would be more interested in what they plan to do with their billions. You generally don't just sit around and count a couple billion dollars.
I don't think you can get one of those without using nmap.