I didn't have a problem with FF2RC3 either. It was odd that it just started, but I had a friend that it happened to as well. Even more odd that the problem just cleared up by itself.
Is anybody else running into the problem of Google Personalized Homepage breaking in FF2? I'm running the en-GB version that was linked in the article. As far as I can tell the tabs on Google's Personalized Homepage don't work. I'm about to install FF2 on my Mac, I'll see if the error is there too.
World Changing had a post last week explaining why nuclear power is not a great solution to fossil fuels. There are three main reasons why they say nuclear is not the answer: 1) They bring up the issue of safety, not only for the reactors but of storing the radioactive waste. 2) Mining the ore needed is a very high impact activity, so the environmental impact might not be any less, although it would likely be concentrated in a few locations. 3) The money to develop and build new nuclear reactors could be more efficiently spent on greener technologies.
When it comes to climate change, nuclear is probably a better option. But in no way is nuclear a green technology, it just alleviates the most pressing issue facing fossil fuel use. What we need to do is develop truly green and renewable energy sources, which doesn't include nuclear.
I don't agree with you, clearly Yahoo! and Google are profitable companies. I think they have too much money for their own good. They are spending more money on things than they are worth, inflating the market.
I think the cheap hardware and bandwidth and the fast development make the need for money less important that it was ten years ago. That means that VC isn't nearly as important as it was.
While ad revenue is nice not all of these sites can be supported by it. Yes, Google has done a great job monetize their algorithm, but it won't pay for everything on the web. These sites that have been bought for millions won't be able to make that amount back in ad revenue.
Bubble, not boom
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I think this is clearly another bubble. The difference is that VCs are more cautious, it's Google and Yahoo! that are fueling this boom. Look at the ridiculous sums of money that have been paid for Flickr, del.icio.us and other "Web 2.0" sites. These sites don't have the revenue potential to be worth millions of dollars.
If you want to find out what is really happening at Mann's Chinese Theater, you would be better off checking out Blogging.la. They are the ones that first started talking about the story and have since been quoted by E!Online and others, but of course get no lovin' from those sites.
If you want to unload this book before you move, you know so you have one less thing to take across the pond with you, I would be happy to take it off your hands. You know, just offering the services I can provide.
You can read it here. This movie was SO much better than Ep. 1, it was unbelievable. I even thought it was better than Spider-Man. I plan to go see it again on opening day, if nothing else for the Matrix trailer.
Read thing you have written, Ideas (I will admit I have not finished it yet, I just got it in the mail a few days ago) and this conference paper as well as Code to some extent, I get the idea that what you call for is not possible under the current political system. The distributors of the 20th century want to keep their hold on the right to distribute without competition from the common person and they will not support a politician that advocates a system that will challenge theirs. Generally it seems as if working within the current political system is not possible if we (the ones who will be benefited by the new "regime" as you call it in Ideas) want to protect the commons. In light of this, would you advocate starting a new political party with this as part of its platform? Or do you think that corporate money will always be in American politics and that the only way to protect the public domain will be for producers to mandate that their work goes into the public domain much like Open Source software does?
If you would like to read more on the subject of the book you can go here and look at some conference papers about the "public domain," one of them is even by Lawrence Lessig. I just bought his new book off of bn.com and I'm looking forward to reading it. Unlike the reviewer, I for one am looking forward to this book more than Code. I am thinking it will be more accessable to non computer people like myself.
On Quorum.org [quorum.org] we were having this discussion [quorum.org] just yesterday. Part of the discussion talked about how to get casual viewers involved and participating in a community site. There were some other things discussed, go and take a look.
What I want to see is somebody create one of these things and then make it open source so people can change it and make it do whatever. Sure only people that know how do make CG graphics would be able to change it but who cares? Only programers can change Linux. I think it would be cool.
This game ROCKS. I tried to get it on Tuesday, when it came out but nobody around where I lived had it yet. So finaly I picked it up on Wednesday at EB and have been failing tests and refusing to do any sort of work since then. I have just been playing and finding I'm sucking. I have been playing Civ since I was in 6th grade (I'm now a sophmore in college) and bought Civ II soon after it came out. So I thought I would be good at Civ III without much effort, but the changes that they made to the game makes it quite a bit harder.
Anyways, I'm off to class now, bringing my laptop with me so I can play while my profs drone on about whatever they feel like talking about today.
The other problem of globalization.
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The problem of globalization is this; our culture gets to countries before our money does. There is nobody in the world that wouldn't want to make the income of the average middle-class American. What people don't want is to be inundated with western culture and ideas.
Not only do people not want our way of life, they are not in a position to accept our way of life. It is well known, within political science, that a republic must have a strong middle-class and third world countries do not have one, it is part of the antiquated definition of being third world.
However globalization is doing something that the world's poor like and the American middle-class hates, it is equalizing the wealth. Poor countries, like Singapore, are getting western blue collar jobs dumping sizable amounts of wealth into those countries. While on the other side of that it is making all blue collar professions in the west all but disappear and as this happens the only thing for blue collar workers to do is get better educated and find a white collar job. While they do this they flood the market driving the wages down for what use to be a staple for middle class life. Now both the middle and lower classes are both in white collar jobs making the destination all but nonexistent.
The disappearance of the middle class in America and the west is a frightening but all too real consequence of our global economy. No longer will we have an American upper, middle, and lower class; we will not have an Egyptian upper, middle, and lower class, or distinct classes for Europe or China or anywhere else. We will have a World upper, middle, and lower class. This means that the much of the world's poor will be brought above the poverty line at the expense of the West's affluent middle class. And this is a threat to the stability of our Republic that nobody relizes.
The Media, War, and How to Solve This.
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Reading this and watching the news makes me sad. It is clear that the government and Bush's administration have very little intention to have a Desert Storm type war over this, but the pundits, the reporters and news anchors; don't seem to understand this fact. They talk about "a new war" and "35,000 reservist called up", showing us pictures of tanks and ground troops assaulting a position. It is true that they have been saying something about high-tech ways to stop terrorism, but nothing of a high-tech war on terrorism.
Maybe we are using the wrong word when we talk about a war. Maybe we need something new, something that better describes what we are doing. If we look at the War on Drugs or the War on Crime or the War on Poverty these were not 'wars'. Maybe they too need a better word. A word in which we do not automatically think of large military efforts or fire raining down from the sky.
I have talked with many of my classmates and friends in the past week and most of them seem to think we will invade Afghanistan. The media has made it seem as if all of Afghanistan is part of this, and that much of the Middle East is partly responsible, when its not. It is as much our faults as these foreign states. It is not because we are free or because we don't regulate people lives like Pat Roberson seems to thing, it is a failure of our foreign policy. I am not saying a failure in Bush's foreign policy, a failure of the American peoples foreign policy. We do not pay attention to the rest of the world; we don't understand them or what goes on with them. And this is our failure. So while we look at ways to solve this situation abroad, let us try and prevent further actions like this at home.
I think it is time for a Students Bill of Rights
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I am tired of the unfair treatment of "geeky" students in high school. I was geeky as many of you were too, I'm sure. You would not be at/. if you were not geeky. So I think it is time to start working on a Students Bill of Rights. I am willing to head a program like this but would need help from others, this is not a one man job.
I am a college freshman studying political science at my local Community College and am involved in local politics and was just elected as my school's student body president. I also knew one of the people that was killed a few months ago in the first shooting in San Deago, CA, so I understand both sides of the story. But I think we should teach our children the value and importance of due proccess and free speach. That is a bit about me just so you all know.
If you have any ideas you can e-mail me or just post under this and I will read it. Hopefully we can get some protection for our kid, friends, or ourselves.
This is one of the greatest things I have seen. Not only is it making linux more accessible to students, it also give students more computers. Last spring I graduated high school and there are two things that many schools are missing; one is the lack of qualified teachers that know how to use any sort of computer, Windows, Mac or otherwise, and the other problem is the lack of resources to buy computers.
One of my friends that I graduated with got a job at our old schools library and he is showing them the way of Linux by installing a server to get their Mac networks and their Windows networks to work together. So the willingness of school administrators to try out new things is there. Giving them easy access to these "new" technologies and incentive is necessary for them to make their way into the classroom.
Apple made a big push to get their systems used in schools. One way they did this was by giving away computers. Today if you go into any public school you will find Macs in greater numbers than any other type of computer even though they are not used in industry as much as other computers.
So this is a great step into getting Linux tough to students and getting more widely accepted by the majority of computer users that are not the computer elite.
Since this and the 7 line DeCSS program shows how easy it really is to crack CSS I don't think CSS is was an honest attempt to protect the work ok DVD's. And I believe that the law says that for it to be illegal for somebody to break encryption the person encrypting the code must make an honest attempt at protecting it. Because of this, all of the lawsuits and criminal charges against people should be thrown out of the courts.
Now all we need is a Visor Edge that comes in color. And don't these things get lost easyer when they are smaller? I bet you wouldn't loose your car keys if they where as big as my Visor Deluxe. Oh well, obla de obla da.
What about teaching the user to fix their own problems? Would phone tech support help users learn the workings of their computer? If you have a person from a help desk go and fix all the problems remotely the problems could come up again and all the user would be able to do is call the help desk. If you explain to the user how to fix a problem you will not need to explain it again. (at least theoreticly)
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I didn't have a problem with FF2RC3 either. It was odd that it just started, but I had a friend that it happened to as well. Even more odd that the problem just cleared up by itself.
I don't have this problem on my Mac, and it has gone away on Windows. Odd, oh well.
Is anybody else running into the problem of Google Personalized Homepage breaking in FF2? I'm running the en-GB version that was linked in the article. As far as I can tell the tabs on Google's Personalized Homepage don't work. I'm about to install FF2 on my Mac, I'll see if the error is there too.
World Changing had a post last week explaining why nuclear power is not a great solution to fossil fuels. There are three main reasons why they say nuclear is not the answer: 1) They bring up the issue of safety, not only for the reactors but of storing the radioactive waste. 2) Mining the ore needed is a very high impact activity, so the environmental impact might not be any less, although it would likely be concentrated in a few locations. 3) The money to develop and build new nuclear reactors could be more efficiently spent on greener technologies.
When it comes to climate change, nuclear is probably a better option. But in no way is nuclear a green technology, it just alleviates the most pressing issue facing fossil fuel use. What we need to do is develop truly green and renewable energy sources, which doesn't include nuclear.
I don't agree with you, clearly Yahoo! and Google are profitable companies. I think they have too much money for their own good. They are spending more money on things than they are worth, inflating the market. I think the cheap hardware and bandwidth and the fast development make the need for money less important that it was ten years ago. That means that VC isn't nearly as important as it was. While ad revenue is nice not all of these sites can be supported by it. Yes, Google has done a great job monetize their algorithm, but it won't pay for everything on the web. These sites that have been bought for millions won't be able to make that amount back in ad revenue.
I think this is clearly another bubble. The difference is that VCs are more cautious, it's Google and Yahoo! that are fueling this boom. Look at the ridiculous sums of money that have been paid for Flickr, del.icio.us and other "Web 2.0" sites. These sites don't have the revenue potential to be worth millions of dollars.
Too bad it wasn't the FCC and was the FEC.
If you want to find out what is really happening at Mann's Chinese Theater, you would be better off checking out Blogging.la. They are the ones that first started talking about the story and have since been quoted by E!Online and others, but of course get no lovin' from those sites.
Clearly Kirstie Alley is proving this false.
Cory,
If you want to unload this book before you move, you know so you have one less thing to take across the pond with you, I would be happy to take it off your hands. You know, just offering the services I can provide.
I even posted about it on my blog. I'm cool now, right?
You can read it here. This movie was SO much better than Ep. 1, it was unbelievable. I even thought it was better than Spider-Man. I plan to go see it again on opening day, if nothing else for the Matrix trailer.
Read thing you have written, Ideas (I will admit I have not finished it yet, I just got it in the mail a few days ago) and this conference paper as well as Code to some extent, I get the idea that what you call for is not possible under the current political system. The distributors of the 20th century want to keep their hold on the right to distribute without competition from the common person and they will not support a politician that advocates a system that will challenge theirs. Generally it seems as if working within the current political system is not possible if we (the ones who will be benefited by the new "regime" as you call it in Ideas) want to protect the commons. In light of this, would you advocate starting a new political party with this as part of its platform? Or do you think that corporate money will always be in American politics and that the only way to protect the public domain will be for producers to mandate that their work goes into the public domain much like Open Source software does?
If you would like to read more on the subject of the book you can go here and look at some conference papers about the "public domain," one of them is even by Lawrence Lessig. I just bought his new book off of bn.com and I'm looking forward to reading it. Unlike the reviewer, I for one am looking forward to this book more than Code. I am thinking it will be more accessable to non computer people like myself.
On Quorum.org [quorum.org] we were having this discussion [quorum.org] just yesterday. Part of the discussion talked about how to get casual viewers involved and participating in a community site. There were some other things discussed, go and take a look.
What I want to see is somebody create one of these things and then make it open source so people can change it and make it do whatever. Sure only people that know how do make CG graphics would be able to change it but who cares? Only programers can change Linux. I think it would be cool.
Anyways, I'm off to class now, bringing my laptop with me so I can play while my profs drone on about whatever they feel like talking about today.
Not only do people not want our way of life, they are not in a position to accept our way of life. It is well known, within political science, that a republic must have a strong middle-class and third world countries do not have one, it is part of the antiquated definition of being third world.
However globalization is doing something that the world's poor like and the American middle-class hates, it is equalizing the wealth. Poor countries, like Singapore, are getting western blue collar jobs dumping sizable amounts of wealth into those countries. While on the other side of that it is making all blue collar professions in the west all but disappear and as this happens the only thing for blue collar workers to do is get better educated and find a white collar job. While they do this they flood the market driving the wages down for what use to be a staple for middle class life. Now both the middle and lower classes are both in white collar jobs making the destination all but nonexistent.
The disappearance of the middle class in America and the west is a frightening but all too real consequence of our global economy. No longer will we have an American upper, middle, and lower class; we will not have an Egyptian upper, middle, and lower class, or distinct classes for Europe or China or anywhere else. We will have a World upper, middle, and lower class. This means that the much of the world's poor will be brought above the poverty line at the expense of the West's affluent middle class. And this is a threat to the stability of our Republic that nobody relizes.
Reading this and watching the news makes me sad. It is clear that the government and Bush's administration have very little intention to have a Desert Storm type war over this, but the pundits, the reporters and news anchors; don't seem to understand this fact. They talk about "a new war" and "35,000 reservist called up", showing us pictures of tanks and ground troops assaulting a position. It is true that they have been saying something about high-tech ways to stop terrorism, but nothing of a high-tech war on terrorism.
Maybe we are using the wrong word when we talk about a war. Maybe we need something new, something that better describes what we are doing. If we look at the War on Drugs or the War on Crime or the War on Poverty these were not 'wars'. Maybe they too need a better word. A word in which we do not automatically think of large military efforts or fire raining down from the sky.
I have talked with many of my classmates and friends in the past week and most of them seem to think we will invade Afghanistan. The media has made it seem as if all of Afghanistan is part of this, and that much of the Middle East is partly responsible, when its not. It is as much our faults as these foreign states. It is not because we are free or because we don't regulate people lives like Pat Roberson seems to thing, it is a failure of our foreign policy. I am not saying a failure in Bush's foreign policy, a failure of the American peoples foreign policy. We do not pay attention to the rest of the world; we don't understand them or what goes on with them. And this is our failure. So while we look at ways to solve this situation abroad, let us try and prevent further actions like this at home.
I am a college freshman studying political science at my local Community College and am involved in local politics and was just elected as my school's student body president. I also knew one of the people that was killed a few months ago in the first shooting in San Deago, CA, so I understand both sides of the story. But I think we should teach our children the value and importance of due proccess and free speach. That is a bit about me just so you all know.
If you have any ideas you can e-mail me or just post under this and I will read it. Hopefully we can get some protection for our kid, friends, or ourselves.
One of my friends that I graduated with got a job at our old schools library and he is showing them the way of Linux by installing a server to get their Mac networks and their Windows networks to work together. So the willingness of school administrators to try out new things is there. Giving them easy access to these "new" technologies and incentive is necessary for them to make their way into the classroom.
Apple made a big push to get their systems used in schools. One way they did this was by giving away computers. Today if you go into any public school you will find Macs in greater numbers than any other type of computer even though they are not used in industry as much as other computers.
So this is a great step into getting Linux tough to students and getting more widely accepted by the majority of computer users that are not the computer elite.
I wasnt talking about how many lines it takes to implement the encryption, im talking about how many lines it takes to crack it.
Since this and the 7 line DeCSS program shows how easy it really is to crack CSS I don't think CSS is was an honest attempt to protect the work ok DVD's. And I believe that the law says that for it to be illegal for somebody to break encryption the person encrypting the code must make an honest attempt at protecting it. Because of this, all of the lawsuits and criminal charges against people should be thrown out of the courts.
Now all we need is a Visor Edge that comes in color. And don't these things get lost easyer when they are smaller? I bet you wouldn't loose your car keys if they where as big as my Visor Deluxe. Oh well, obla de obla da.
What about teaching the user to fix their own problems? Would phone tech support help users learn the workings of their computer? If you have a person from a help desk go and fix all the problems remotely the problems could come up again and all the user would be able to do is call the help desk. If you explain to the user how to fix a problem you will not need to explain it again. (at least theoreticly)