Of course, using a freenet style "node" based system, no one would know what any particular person was watching, only that someone somewhere is watching "Party in the USA" and it's being routed through your computer.
I actually think that in the near future virtual currencies will be more and more popular, to facilitate easier online transaction that don't involve traditional banks/paypal fees. Virtual currency exchanges will come around, and BOOM! You have a new online way to pay for goods. After all, money is just a number.
I pay $5/mo on Virgin Mobile for 1000 texts. Not too shabby. Your point and parent's points are still valid; telcos find every possible way to fee your ass.
I still wait for the day mobile data plans are offered without phone plans, e.g. have a PDA with broadband connection ONLY and I can use Ekiga/Skype, mobile web, etc. for one low price.
I remember asking my high school history teacher why a privately owned store should be forced by law to spend money on a handicap ramp. "Because it's unfair to handicapped to not have equal access to food, and it's the law", she said.
From what I understand, the next major change to the kernel (in terms of HUGE changes) would be 2.7. Although people change their minds and Linus might say to put it at 3.0.
They shouldn't be such greedy bastards trying for "sky high stock prices". I contend that they could have maintained opt-in for targeted services, personalizing ads as much as they could for each user, according to how much the user allowed to the public.
They just got greedy.
Also, there is less incentive for me to post my public information online: Let's face it, Facebook is the closest thing to a verifiable online identity there is at the moment. A few years ago, one was able to search for other people in their "network" by many criteria, like 'relationship status', 'Looking for', and all their interests, etc. Basically, you could use it as a quasi-dating site. I wouldn't mind putting some of my information up to allow potential companions to find me. But when the only people looking at my information are advertisers and people who already know me, how much shit do you think I'm going to post about myself online? There's no motivation.
Here's what Facebook should do to shut people up and forget this ever happened:
1) Move back to more private default privacy settings. Nothing should be open to the entire Internet by default, and none of our personally identifiable information should be made available to third parties without our explicit consent. I believe it is possible to provide targeted advertising to consumers without providing personal details to advertisers: Facebook is the middle-man.
2) Allow users to access and search other peoples' private information; why should the companies be the only ones to data-mine?
3) Do not alter the Terms of Service without explicitly notifying all users and allowing some pre-determined number of days for users to discuss and react to the proposals (by protesting it, supporting it, or closing their accounts, even. TOS amendments are a big deal).
Facebook is a huge website with great power. Peter Parker says it well: With great power comes great responsibility. Don't be evil, Facebook. Don't be greedy, either. Have some morals.
I didn't think much of the title. "Oh, sure, C++ is just as good and allows you to learn OO and use strings!" Then I see they have VB but NOT C++.
Ugh.
Python is becoming a popular language as kind of a compliance with Chapter 7.6.5 of the ACM CS2001 [url=http://www.acm.org/education/education/education/curric_vols/cc2001.pdf]Curricula recommendations[/url].
My university's collegiate CS path currently goes Python -> Java -> C++ and lower.
"Wikipedia sucks! Ya man, they're not COOL enough to let my favorite webcomic make shit up on its website!"
I think XKCD has the right to make whatever jokes it wants to. I also am more of the opinion that Wikipedia should allow the article to be published. For the sake of avoiding confrontation, Wikipedia should probably chill and let it through. In reality, though, all the thousands of people who vandalize Wikipedia every day who think they're SOOO funny just mess things up for everyone else.
Wikipedia has done more for humanity's accessibility to knowledge than most of us will individually in our lifetimes. So quit being so damned rough on a website with such a huge task at hand: creating an accurate, universal encyclopedia while fighting ignorance, stupidity, and malice.
Truly, I understand the x.y.z version scheme, and it has been discussed on Slashdot many times before.
X for major API changes and rewrites and removal of features. Y for new features, code cleanup, and maybe a major bugfix. Z for bugfixes and minor updates.
Following this format, Linux has a 2.X.Y scheme. MythTV has a simple iterative version scheme, where you can't really tell what was done by looking at the version number.
And yes, marketing has a bit to do with it. Having a product at 1.0 looks better than having one at 0.0.23.118-svn05102010. Shun marketing if you want, 'cause it's the hip thing to do, but do so at your peril. Really, why you're a "tool" for using marketing in open source, I don't know.
I never opened a Facebook account, and at this point I'm damn glad I didn't.
Man, I wish I were cool like you.
But seriously, when most of the people you know use it as their exclusive form of communication (along with phones), it makes it damned handy. It's better (excluding privacy) than trying to set up your own website/email/image hosting program and try to manually find your friends' sites and RSS feeds. It really makes online communication great. If you can't appreciate the benefits it provides, I don't know what to tell you. Yes, the privacy issue is bad. I've taken everything off my profile (used to have all my groups to follow, bands I like, etc.), but now it has only a profile pic and my name. I use it for IMing most of my friends.
For the record, I'm a college graduate, not an 8th grader. Proceed to telling me to get off your lawn and that I should be using 4.3BSD for my gopher server.
We have two ears and one mouth, so we listen twice as much as we speak.
Don't be silent. Have opinions on some things.
At my internship last summer, the old man of the group was talking about Windows a lot, and I suggested that Linux can do most of the stuff Windows can do, just as well, with the benefits of cost and philosophy. He said "Hogwash" and that Windows is easier to use. I said, "If you take a Windows tech and a Linux tech with comparable skills in their OS, Linux has WAY lower TCO." My boss's boss's boss was listening, and complimented me later in the day for having the courage to challenge the norm or the elder with civility and logic.
Don't just go with the flow. People don't trust you unless they have an idea of who you are.
I have never seen "unnecessary" porn on Wikipedia. I've seen nude diagrams in biology articles, and pictures like the one above, but I don't scroll through "Taylor Series" so I can find a threesome.
I think a spill in the middle of the ocean would have been MUCH better than having it within 100 miles of coastline. The oil would have dispersed much more, spreading the damage to have minimal impact on any land. Fisheries and sensitive land areas wouldn't have been affected near as much., assuming dispersal.
Do people really think offshore drilling should be stopped because of this?
Transitions should be made to other forms of power, but my Lord, what else is there to substitute for oil for transportation in the short-mid term? Nothing. We need to get more oil. The WSJ reported that the Department of the Interior knew about failings of shear rams in deepwater conditions (the mechanism that should have shut this well down) since 2004 but didn't do anything about it.
Thanks, Uncle Sam. BP holds blame, the US government holds blame, and Transocean holds blame. But we should increase safety mechanism reliability and oversight without going Greenpeace on this.
Note of credibility: I love LA and am from the Gulf Coast. I grasp what this can do to the local economy and my oyster appetite. I can see rigs from 1/4 mile from my old back yard. Without proper safeguards, this shit happens. But it's unavoidable that we drill. Let's manage risk better.
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Of course, using a freenet style "node" based system, no one would know what any particular person was watching, only that someone somewhere is watching "Party in the USA" and it's being routed through your computer.
Slow day.
I actually think that in the near future virtual currencies will be more and more popular, to facilitate easier online transaction that don't involve traditional banks/paypal fees. Virtual currency exchanges will come around, and BOOM! You have a new online way to pay for goods. After all, money is just a number.
I pay $5/mo on Virgin Mobile for 1000 texts. Not too shabby. Your point and parent's points are still valid; telcos find every possible way to fee your ass.
I still wait for the day mobile data plans are offered without phone plans, e.g. have a PDA with broadband connection ONLY and I can use Ekiga/Skype, mobile web, etc. for one low price.
I remember asking my high school history teacher why a privately owned store should be forced by law to spend money on a handicap ramp. "Because it's unfair to handicapped to not have equal access to food, and it's the law", she said.
I rolled my eyes and left.
I'd bet money Google uses DNS query information for some sort of metric or statistic, even if the data is anonymous.
You mean like the GPL?
From what I understand, the next major change to the kernel (in terms of HUGE changes) would be 2.7. Although people change their minds and Linus might say to put it at 3.0.
They shouldn't be such greedy bastards trying for "sky high stock prices". I contend that they could have maintained opt-in for targeted services, personalizing ads as much as they could for each user, according to how much the user allowed to the public.
They just got greedy.
Also, there is less incentive for me to post my public information online:
Let's face it, Facebook is the closest thing to a verifiable online identity there is at the moment. A few years ago, one was able to search for other people in their "network" by many criteria, like 'relationship status', 'Looking for', and all their interests, etc. Basically, you could use it as a quasi-dating site. I wouldn't mind putting some of my information up to allow potential companions to find me. But when the only people looking at my information are advertisers and people who already know me, how much shit do you think I'm going to post about myself online? There's no motivation.
Here's what Facebook should do to shut people up and forget this ever happened:
1) Move back to more private default privacy settings. Nothing should be open to the entire Internet by default, and none of our personally identifiable information should be made available to third parties without our explicit consent. I believe it is possible to provide targeted advertising to consumers without providing personal details to advertisers: Facebook is the middle-man.
2) Allow users to access and search other peoples' private information; why should the companies be the only ones to data-mine?
3) Do not alter the Terms of Service without explicitly notifying all users and allowing some pre-determined number of days for users to discuss and react to the proposals (by protesting it, supporting it, or closing their accounts, even. TOS amendments are a big deal).
Facebook is a huge website with great power. Peter Parker says it well: With great power comes great responsibility. Don't be evil, Facebook. Don't be greedy, either. Have some morals.
I didn't think much of the title. "Oh, sure, C++ is just as good and allows you to learn OO and use strings!" Then I see they have VB but NOT C++.
Ugh.
Python is becoming a popular language as kind of a compliance with Chapter 7.6.5 of the ACM CS2001 [url=http://www.acm.org/education/education/education/curric_vols/cc2001.pdf]Curricula recommendations[/url].
My university's collegiate CS path currently goes Python -> Java -> C++ and lower.
"Wikipedia sucks! Ya man, they're not COOL enough to let my favorite webcomic make shit up on its website!"
I think XKCD has the right to make whatever jokes it wants to. I also am more of the opinion that Wikipedia should allow the article to be published. For the sake of avoiding confrontation, Wikipedia should probably chill and let it through. In reality, though, all the thousands of people who vandalize Wikipedia every day who think they're SOOO funny just mess things up for everyone else.
Wikipedia has done more for humanity's accessibility to knowledge than most of us will individually in our lifetimes. So quit being so damned rough on a website with such a huge task at hand: creating an accurate, universal encyclopedia while fighting ignorance, stupidity, and malice.
I get the feeling they'll peg down a hard number before releasing the product on the public.
Successful troll is successful.
Truly, I understand the x.y.z version scheme, and it has been discussed on Slashdot many times before.
X for major API changes and rewrites and removal of features.
Y for new features, code cleanup, and maybe a major bugfix.
Z for bugfixes and minor updates.
Following this format, Linux has a 2.X.Y scheme. MythTV has a simple iterative version scheme, where you can't really tell what was done by looking at the version number.
And yes, marketing has a bit to do with it. Having a product at 1.0 looks better than having one at 0.0.23.118-svn05102010. Shun marketing if you want, 'cause it's the hip thing to do, but do so at your peril. Really, why you're a "tool" for using marketing in open source, I don't know.
Man up and call a version 1.0! The new 'hip' thing to do, having version 0.x so you can excuse bugs as "Oh, it's just a beta" is bull mess.
I never opened a Facebook account, and at this point I'm damn glad I didn't.
Man, I wish I were cool like you.
But seriously, when most of the people you know use it as their exclusive form of communication (along with phones), it makes it damned handy. It's better (excluding privacy) than trying to set up your own website/email/image hosting program and try to manually find your friends' sites and RSS feeds. It really makes online communication great. If you can't appreciate the benefits it provides, I don't know what to tell you. Yes, the privacy issue is bad. I've taken everything off my profile (used to have all my groups to follow, bands I like, etc.), but now it has only a profile pic and my name. I use it for IMing most of my friends.
For the record, I'm a college graduate, not an 8th grader. Proceed to telling me to get off your lawn and that I should be using 4.3BSD for my gopher server.
You're good.
We have two ears and one mouth, so we listen twice as much as we speak.
Don't be silent. Have opinions on some things.
At my internship last summer, the old man of the group was talking about Windows a lot, and I suggested that Linux can do most of the stuff Windows can do, just as well, with the benefits of cost and philosophy. He said "Hogwash" and that Windows is easier to use. I said, "If you take a Windows tech and a Linux tech with comparable skills in their OS, Linux has WAY lower TCO." My boss's boss's boss was listening, and complimented me later in the day for having the courage to challenge the norm or the elder with civility and logic.
Don't just go with the flow. People don't trust you unless they have an idea of who you are.
Add more table salt.
ABSOLUTELY.
Read through the comments to make sure I wouldn't repost this.
Don't increase the barrier to entry, lower the demand for patenting.
I immediately checked to see if this page was up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
I have never seen "unnecessary" porn on Wikipedia. I've seen nude diagrams in biology articles, and pictures like the one above, but I don't scroll through "Taylor Series" so I can find a threesome.
Actually it's 1 gallon per MINUTE per 4 lb hair. Assuming you could collect 4500 gallons in a minute, and wring it out in 9 minutes, you have
4500 gal / 10 min, which is 648,000 gallons per day.
This should be a national effort. The more hair available, the less time needed for reuse and more area covered per unit time.
You mean Silicon Mechanics and Canonical.
Right?
I think a spill in the middle of the ocean would have been MUCH better than having it within 100 miles of coastline. The oil would have dispersed much more, spreading the damage to have minimal impact on any land. Fisheries and sensitive land areas wouldn't have been affected near as much., assuming dispersal.
IMO
Do people really think offshore drilling should be stopped because of this?
Transitions should be made to other forms of power, but my Lord, what else is there to substitute for oil for transportation in the short-mid term? Nothing. We need to get more oil. The WSJ reported that the Department of the Interior knew about failings of shear rams in deepwater conditions (the mechanism that should have shut this well down) since 2004 but didn't do anything about it.
Thanks, Uncle Sam. BP holds blame, the US government holds blame, and Transocean holds blame. But we should increase safety mechanism reliability and oversight without going Greenpeace on this.
Note of credibility: I love LA and am from the Gulf Coast. I grasp what this can do to the local economy and my oyster appetite. I can see rigs from 1/4 mile from my old back yard. Without proper safeguards, this shit happens. But it's unavoidable that we drill. Let's manage risk better.
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