Didn't Dave Eggers describe this in his book The Circle? It's about a fictional Bay area tech giant everyone loves that uses social media to monitor and evaluate everyone, including prospective hires and current employees.
Those PUE numbers don't seem up to date. Yahoo gets 1.08 PUE with their "chicken coop" design at their Buffalo data center. Google has said they can get 1.08 as well. Yahoo's design has been around since 2010 and Google brought out their more efficient data centers shortly after that. I'd be surprised if more companies weren't following in those footsteps.
Personally, I'm more ashamed of the 17 people unjustly convicted by a racist Dallas judicial system and only recently exonerated. In comparison monitoring truant students is small potatoes.
Flickr isn't a walled garden the way say Prodigy or AOL were. They have a public API. Other photo sharing sites or software even take advantage of the API for migrating photos.
Also with Flickr's emphasis on "long photos" instead of videos this isn't a challenge to Youtube. Flickr is hoping to keep the quality of the content high.
Why is this one security hole talked about again and again when the impact is limited to a fairly small number of machines in the Mac universe and Apple has already addressed the issue? The opinion article is purely anecdotal and cites no research so why is this OS X vs. Windows security debate even going on.
The computer museum is not bad, but when I went in 1999 it needed updating. They had very little on the Internet or recent computing innovations. They didn't give enough credit to the best computer ever made, the Commodore Amiga.
The first section about different number systems was probably the most interesting. Boston also has a computer museum.
The picture quality is not bad, it's just different from what most movies choose. As you point out PAL miniDV can look good and the look of this film is a deliberate choice. It's just a different aesthetic from what most films choose.
The coloration and sharpness fit in with the movie. You really get a sense that you are watching some post-apocalpyse news item that has been put together in ad hoc fashion by a handful of survivors struggling to keep the technology working. In the recent Gulf War the choppy video footage may not have been ideal but it certainly lent authenticity to what you were watching. It's the same with 28 Days Later, the story and the presentation of that story are just more tightly integrated than most movies.
I think a lot of slashdotters and Linux fanatics lost site of what they were doing. They no longer want better software, they just want it to be free. They have perverted the definition of better software to mean "free" rather than "bug free", "faster", or "functional." Open Source is very cool, and it has done a great job of upping the ante for folks like Microsoft and Be to try and make better software. However, it is not the end all of software development. It's just another idea about how to build software. Anyone that thinks they have all the answers about the best way to do things has stopped asking questions long ago. Open Source, Be, Microsoft, and any other people making software have to keep in mind the goal is better stuff. It's not about the capitalist or socialist dogma spewed from the Microsoft or Open Source camps.
The FreeBSD port system is without a doubt the most elegant of all the Unix packaging systems out there. The Linux world really should "embrace and extend" what they can from the port system.
I've seen a lot of threads which have the typical Katz bashing his articles always incite. Most of them seem to center around the fact that Katz has hypocritically lumped all Christians into one stereotype. It is foolish to stereotype Christians as these evil right wing puritans out to take over the world. For every Christian fascist like Gary Bauer, or Pat Roberston the Christians have excellent heros like Sir Thomas More and C.S. Lewis.
However, a point I think Mr. Katz is making that I wish would sink in with the Christian geeks among us is that while Christians are as varied as any group you need to stand up for yourselves. Where are the Christians that oppose some of the more outlandish "evil" Christians that seem so prevalent? Obviously Christendom is a diverse and energetic force, it just doesn't come off that way. I can just hear Pat Robertson talking about how great this new game is despite the fact it's the same thing he's been against in the past. It's hypocrisy like that from the self-proclaimed leaders of Christianity that perpetuate the stereotypes.
If you are a Christian and you are sick of being stereotyped then stand up for yourself and organize. The image of this Christian collective has been culled from the rhetoric of Christian leaders like Pat Robertson and Gary Bauer. If that isn't what you are or what Christianity is all about then organize a group and let everyone know what it's really about. Until you do that the public image of the backwoods mean-spirited Christian is never going to go away. You have to take responsibility for how people perceive you. If you won't take responsibility then Bauer and Robertson will do it for you.
Uhm, you might want to mention who wrote that book. It's part of Ayn Rand's works and your thoughts on monopolies are just more objectivist pablum from the Rand Institute. Using Greenspan's words "rigid and stangant" are two adjectives that I would use to describe Microsoft's anemic operating system products.
In fact in the whole marketplace let's look at how stagnant it is. Unix has been around forever and hasn't really changed. MacOS has been around forever without really changing. Now lets look at a vibrant marketplace, networking. From RS-232, to Arcnet, Token Ring, Ethernet and on and on I can see a robust amount of product growth and benefit and the reason is you don't have the Microsoft monopoly dictating direction.
A monopoly is _not_ subject to the same conditions, and influences which affect other companies inside the marketplace. A monopolist can artificially manipulate supply and demand. No other company in the marketplace can do that. Clearly it is an example of market failure. In your parlance let me put it this way "free market" is a word invented to describe this Utopian notion that cut throat competition yields the most efficient allocation of resources and benefit to the consumer.
Even more important though, lets set these abstract economics notions aside, do you really believe that Microsoft has competed fairly to arrive at it's 90+% dominance in PC operating systems? Put more succinctly do you believe Microsoft has the best product?
This really points out a big weakness in the government. All these committee members are non-technical people. Why isn't someone like an Esther Dyson on this committee? While I realize this working group is supposed to examine unlawful conduct on the Internet I have no doubt that all these law enforcement agencies need help from real computer people to understand what's going on. Without that guidance I have little hope that their recommendations will be all that useful.
Well, the sequel plots that they've talked about involved stories about the man that murdered the seven children, and more about the woman that was cast out of the village who may have become the Blair Witch. So they aren't really sequels in the sense that they take place after BWP just in the BWP universe.
This is where the web site comes in really handy. Go to http://www.blairwitch.com/ and they have interviews with people after the dissapearance. It's got a lot more backstory to flesh out the movie. Apparently they are still adding new information to the web site. Unlike most movie web sites this one isn't just for marketing, it's a rather vital part of the film.
I'm using Cyrus's IMAP server and OpenLDAP to hold all the user information and it's worked like a charm. I found an LDAP patch for Cyrus' pwcheck program and this system has worked perfectly. I wrote a few php web pages for managing users in the ldap directory and it has been a breeze to administer. Also since you have an LDAP directory it makes it simple to go back in later and make a nice addressbook for people to use.
Unlike with qpopper or UW pop3, I have experienced zero problems with corruption with large file attachments.
This really does have the potential to make open source all that much more attractive to businesses and individuals if the OSS folks can seize hold of this and make it clear to the layman what this means. Is ESR planning on writing up a piece to make the rounds with all the publications using this as yet another reason for using open source?
Hey going to the library with your kids sounds like an excellent first step to taking care of them. You can't expect the library to babysit your kids if you are that worried about porn. Your kids are going to look at porn if they want to and you can't stop them from doing it. If your kids don't want to look at porn then it really isn't going to magically get thrust in their face. Either way you can't put the responsibility with the library.
Your question about whether people really think children should at porn is irrelevant. The child is NOT going to look at porn just because they get on the Internet. A filter-free connection the Internet is not going to make porn ads jump out at children. Regarding smoking you are being stopped from smoking anywhere because it has been deemed a public health issue. Unlike Christians, science has not been so conclusive on public health issues that are created by porn. If porn was a public health issue I'm sure you would see filters up at libraries.
You jokingly hit upon a point about getting rid of speed limits. Most speed limits are NOT set up according to civil engineering principles of the 85th percentile. They are setup because of a greedy local government trying to bring in revenue. This is another example of where the light of science is ignored and mindless sensationalism is trumpeted to satisfy a slobbering minority.
This filtering issue goes much deeper than just trying to block access to porn. It's members of the Christian right declaring that they have the monopoly on morality and that we had better listen. I wish Christians would stop being Christians and start being Americans.
In reality most porn sites are more goofy than they are offensive. If you really want to see some of the more offensive sites on the net you should look at some of the outrageous lengths that the anti-gay or anti-abortion sites go to. I'm sure everyone is familiar with the old www.godhatesfags.com web site, and their are plenty of other ones just as violent if not worse.
My point is that what the Christians really object to are "new morality" memes seeping into peoples minds. It's not this "save the children" crusade. If they want to fight this fight then we need to take the filtering to next level and start filtering out Christian content as well.
Christian content and porn content serve the same purpose to distract people from real life and real problems. Both web sites just want to sell you a new lifestyle. They aren't so different both just wanna make a buck.
They actually do have multi-user support designed into the various APIs, they just haven't implemented it yet. They've had important things like device drivers that had to be written. I believe the time frame I last read for multi-user is R5 or R6.
Actually BeOS is designed to work wiht multiple users. The API already has support for multiple users in it and they are planning on adding in the code to finish it in a future release I think R5 or R6 is supposed to have it. Still I would not use it as a server yet, FreeBSD does a much better job. For the record I run R4.5 and it's great. I'm in awe at all the audio capabilities in the media kit, I think if you show the 3dsound demo to any Linux/Windows user they would start drooling immediately.
Be has lots of free software that runs on it. Check out http://www.be.com/beware. As usual another Linux bigot can only believe in the one true GPL way. I wish people were more interested in the quality of the software rather than the price. Quality and usefulness should dictate software decisions not money.
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Didn't Dave Eggers describe this in his book The Circle? It's about a fictional Bay area tech giant everyone loves that uses social media to monitor and evaluate everyone, including prospective hires and current employees.
Those PUE numbers don't seem up to date. Yahoo gets 1.08 PUE with their "chicken coop" design at their Buffalo data center. Google has said they can get 1.08 as well. Yahoo's design has been around since 2010 and Google brought out their more efficient data centers shortly after that. I'd be surprised if more companies weren't following in those footsteps.
Personally, I'm more ashamed of the 17 people unjustly convicted by a racist Dallas judicial system and only recently exonerated. In comparison monitoring truant students is small potatoes.
Flickr isn't a walled garden the way say Prodigy or AOL were. They have a public API. Other photo sharing sites or software even take advantage of the API for migrating photos.
Also with Flickr's emphasis on "long photos" instead of videos this isn't a challenge to Youtube. Flickr is hoping to keep the quality of the content high.
Why is this one security hole talked about again and again when the impact is limited to a fairly small number of machines in the Mac universe and Apple has already addressed the issue? The opinion article is purely anecdotal and cites no research so why is this OS X vs. Windows security debate even going on.
The computer museum is not bad, but when I went in 1999 it needed updating. They had very little on the Internet or recent computing innovations. They didn't give enough credit to the best computer ever made, the Commodore Amiga.
The first section about different number systems was probably the most interesting. Boston also has a computer museum.
The picture quality is not bad, it's just different from what most movies choose. As you point out PAL miniDV can look good and the look of this film is a deliberate choice. It's just a different aesthetic from what most films choose.
The coloration and sharpness fit in with the movie. You really get a sense that you are watching some post-apocalpyse news item that has been put together in ad hoc fashion by a handful of survivors struggling to keep the technology working. In the recent Gulf War the choppy video footage may not have been ideal but it certainly lent authenticity to what you were watching. It's the same with 28 Days Later, the story and the presentation of that story are just more tightly integrated than most movies.
I plan on voting for John Hagelin and the Natural Law party candidates where possible. Why doesn't the voting allow for some sort of "Other" choice?
I think a lot of slashdotters and Linux fanatics lost site of what they were doing. They no longer want better software, they just want it to be free. They have perverted the definition of better software to mean "free" rather than "bug free", "faster", or "functional." Open Source is very cool, and it has done a great job of upping the ante for folks like Microsoft and Be to try and make better software. However, it is not the end all of software development. It's just another idea about how to build software. Anyone that thinks they have all the answers about the best way to do things has stopped asking questions long ago. Open Source, Be, Microsoft, and any other people making software have to keep in mind the goal is better stuff. It's not about the capitalist or socialist dogma spewed from the Microsoft or Open Source camps.
The FreeBSD port system is without a doubt the most elegant of all the Unix packaging systems out there. The Linux world really should "embrace and extend" what they can from the port system.
I've seen a lot of threads which have the typical Katz bashing his articles always incite. Most of them seem to center around the fact that Katz has hypocritically lumped all Christians into one stereotype. It is foolish to stereotype Christians as these evil right wing puritans out to take over the world. For every Christian fascist like Gary Bauer, or Pat Roberston the Christians have excellent heros like Sir Thomas More and C.S. Lewis.
However, a point I think Mr. Katz is making that I wish would sink in with the Christian geeks among us is that while Christians are as varied as any group you need to stand up for yourselves. Where are the Christians that oppose some of the more outlandish "evil" Christians that seem so prevalent? Obviously Christendom is a diverse and energetic force, it just doesn't come off that way. I can just hear Pat Robertson talking about how great this new game is despite the fact it's the same thing he's been against in the past. It's hypocrisy like that from the self-proclaimed leaders of Christianity that perpetuate the stereotypes.
If you are a Christian and you are sick of being stereotyped then stand up for yourself and organize. The image of this Christian collective has been culled from the rhetoric of Christian leaders like Pat Robertson and Gary Bauer. If that isn't what you are or what Christianity is all about then organize a group and let everyone know what it's really about. Until you do that the public image of the backwoods mean-spirited Christian is never going to go away. You have to take responsibility for how people perceive you. If you won't take responsibility then Bauer and Robertson will do it for you.
This post isn't flamebait, somebody needs to moderate this back up. The exact same post later on got moderated up to a 2.
Uhm, you might want to mention who wrote that book. It's part of Ayn Rand's works and your thoughts on monopolies are just more objectivist pablum from the Rand Institute. Using Greenspan's words "rigid and stangant" are two adjectives that I would use to describe Microsoft's anemic operating system products.
In fact in the whole marketplace let's look at how stagnant it is. Unix has been around forever and hasn't really changed. MacOS has been around forever without really changing. Now lets look at a vibrant marketplace, networking. From RS-232, to Arcnet, Token Ring, Ethernet and on and on I can see a robust amount of product growth and benefit and the reason is you don't have the Microsoft monopoly dictating direction.
A monopoly is _not_ subject to the same conditions, and influences which affect other companies inside the marketplace. A monopolist can artificially manipulate supply and demand. No other company in the marketplace can do that. Clearly it is an example of market failure. In your parlance let me put it this way "free market" is a word invented to describe this Utopian notion that cut throat competition yields the most efficient allocation of resources and benefit to the consumer.
Even more important though, lets set these abstract economics notions aside, do you really believe that Microsoft has competed fairly to arrive at it's 90+% dominance in PC operating systems? Put more succinctly do you believe Microsoft has the best product?
This really points out a big weakness in the government. All these committee members are non-technical people. Why isn't someone like an Esther Dyson on this committee? While I realize this working group is supposed to examine unlawful conduct on the Internet I have no doubt that all these law enforcement agencies need help from real computer people to understand what's going on. Without that guidance I have little hope that their recommendations will be all that useful.
Well, the sequel plots that they've talked about involved stories about the man that murdered the seven children, and more about the woman that was cast out of the village who may have become the Blair Witch. So they aren't really sequels in the sense that they take place after BWP just in the BWP universe.
This is where the web site comes in really handy. Go to http://www.blairwitch.com/ and they have interviews with people after the dissapearance. It's got a lot more backstory to flesh out the movie. Apparently they are still adding new information to the web site. Unlike most movie web sites this one isn't just for marketing, it's a rather vital part of the film.
I'm using Cyrus's IMAP server and OpenLDAP to hold all the user information and it's worked like a charm. I found an LDAP patch for Cyrus' pwcheck program and this system has worked perfectly. I wrote a few php web pages for managing users in the ldap directory and it has been a breeze to administer. Also since you have an LDAP directory it makes it simple to go back in later and make a nice addressbook for people to use.
Unlike with qpopper or UW pop3, I have experienced zero problems with corruption with large file attachments.
This really does have the potential to make open source all that much more attractive to businesses and individuals if the OSS folks can seize hold of this and make it clear to the layman what this means. Is ESR planning on writing up a piece to make the rounds with all the publications using this as yet another reason for using open source?
Hey going to the library with your kids sounds like an excellent first step to taking care of them. You can't expect the library to babysit your kids if you are that worried about porn. Your kids are going to look at porn if they want to and you can't stop them from doing it. If your kids don't want to look at porn then it really isn't going to magically get thrust in their face. Either way you can't put the responsibility with the library.
Your question about whether people really think children should at porn is irrelevant. The child is NOT going to look at porn just because they get on the Internet. A filter-free connection the Internet is not going to make porn ads jump out at children. Regarding smoking you are being stopped from smoking anywhere because it has been deemed a public health issue. Unlike Christians, science has not been so conclusive on public health issues that are created by porn. If porn was a public health issue I'm sure you would see filters up at libraries.
You jokingly hit upon a point about getting rid of speed limits. Most speed limits are NOT set up according to civil engineering principles of the 85th percentile. They are setup because of a greedy local government trying to bring in revenue. This is another example of where the light of science is ignored and mindless sensationalism is trumpeted to satisfy a slobbering minority.
This filtering issue goes much deeper than just trying to block access to porn. It's members of the Christian right declaring that they have the monopoly on morality and that we had better listen. I wish Christians would stop being Christians and start being Americans.
In reality most porn sites are more goofy than they are offensive. If you really want to see some of the more offensive sites on the net you should look at some of the outrageous lengths that the anti-gay or anti-abortion sites go to. I'm sure everyone is familiar with the old www.godhatesfags.com web site, and their are plenty of other ones just as violent if not worse.
My point is that what the Christians really object to are "new morality" memes seeping into peoples minds. It's not this "save the children" crusade. If they want to fight this fight then we need to take the filtering to next level and start filtering out Christian content as well.
Christian content and porn content serve the same purpose to distract people from real life and real problems. Both web sites just want to sell you a new lifestyle. They aren't so different both just wanna make a buck.
They actually do have multi-user support designed into the various APIs, they just haven't implemented it yet. They've had important things like device drivers that had to be written. I believe the time frame I last read for multi-user is R5 or R6.
Actually BeOS is designed to work wiht multiple users. The API already has support for multiple users in it and they are planning on adding in the code to finish it in a future release I think R5 or R6 is supposed to have it. Still I would not use it as a server yet, FreeBSD does a much better job. For the record I run R4.5 and it's great. I'm in awe at all the audio capabilities in the media kit, I think if you show the 3dsound demo to any Linux/Windows user they would start drooling immediately.
Be has lots of free software that runs on it. Check out http://www.be.com/beware. As usual another Linux bigot can only believe in the one true GPL way. I wish people were more interested in the quality of the software rather than the price. Quality and usefulness should dictate software decisions not money.