Especially given the paranoia/security/centralized control mode we're in with the current regi^H^H^H^Hadministration. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new attempt to enforce key escrow, and for all the "trusted" computer to have "secure" backdoors into their crypto systems that "only" the govt can access with "a warrant"
(I also hear that there's a movement for a sarcasm tax per-double-quote in the house committee, so I'm tryin' to use 'em while they're free!)
This all being said, the concept of a mesh network and the work of the guys at DefCon WiFi Shoot-out might be very, very valuable sooner rather than later. Man, wouldn't that be fantastic? A geek-run national wifi mesh... It's be just like 1990s Internet again, until the FCC started raids...
Saying never is NEVER a good idea (except in that case). In 1995, I probably said that I'd never use or recommend a Mac. Now, I recommend them highly to my non-geek friends. On my recommendation, my ex, who'd been a Windows user all her life, bought one. A few months later, I get this email that say "uh, I just kinda noticed that I never turn it off except for sleep mode, and I never have to reboot it... should I, like, reboot it occasionally?"
I laughed. It's funny how much we've internalized and accepted Windows' faults and foibles.
That being said, I would doubt that Apple's about to open up OSX to Random BeigeBox anytime soon, for exactly your point, they want guaranteed working hardware. Now, they might try opening it back up a bit with approved dealers and an approved hardware list now that they're working on Intel happily, and in one far-down-the-road day, I could see a full-open architecture to compete directly with MS Windows, but yeah, not this decade, (most likely).
This is waaaay overblown. Last I heard, they were blowing out the "undergrad library", which had not many books to begin with, and was mainly a computer and media lab already. They'll still have the main library, and topical libraries.
Slashdot ran a story about this in 1999, promising almost the exact thing -- leaving small trial phase, high-speed over power lines... long distance now possible......
Unless they were created by people who drink the format koolaid and use styles instead of font changes and so on, I suggest the following method:
As the above poster suggested, you put them all into one directory.
Now, this is where it differs.
You delete them and run screaming.
Beyond some basic paragraph markings, I'd say you're pretty hosed in terms of automation. Now, if they didn correctly use styles, you can search-and-replace within word for style/formatting and put tags around it.
OMFG he should totally patent this and license it to Amazon. Imagine, One-click-to-buy-it-all! and he can require webmasters who want to use any multi-linking type technology to pay fees, just like UNISYS did for GIFs. Man, UNISYS is such a great company, loved by all, making money hand over fist on their GIF patents.
More likely, looking at the market as it is now, the rest of the home users of MS will say, "F it, I'm getting a Mac" and go about their business.
If some distro of Linux can get to where Mac is (big name retail distribution, support, pretty, runs well, easy to use), then it has a chance. As it is, I recommend my non-geek friends to move to Mac when they get a new system.
From Wikipedia: "The word robot comes from the Czech robota meaning "labor." Robot or robotnick were used in the 1600's to classify Czech tenant-farmers. A robotnick had to work as a minimum one month a year free for the landlord, according to Karsten Alnaes in his "European History II". "
The US has a robot-based economy, we're just using "robot" in the "traditional" sense, which is to say, indentured servitude. Just ask Taco Bell.
Well said! Doubleclick is telling us that the sky's falling, when it's only some acorns.
Sure, hugh cost-to-run/maintain sites like our beloved/. will have to find some way to stay afloat, but it's not the (spooky echo voice) END OF FREE CONTENT (end voice). You might recall that Ads are 'new' to the Internet -- they've been around for less than a third of its lifetime.
Also -- why do people use pop-up and ad blockers? Because of spyware, annoying ad systems, and bandwidth. If you're on dialup or some painfully slow connection, hopefully you'll be surfing with some serious ad-blocking or even images and js off; everyone but Google and their copycats looses that (tiny) crowd.
Half of the crappy banners try and trick you to click on them, using dubiously legally defensible lies to do so, and installing spyware on your system if you bite (I think. I run firefox with some heavy duty filters, so I haven't seen any ads since I started using PortableFirefox from my USB if I happened to be at a computer without a safe browser.)
Also, seriously guys, just try harder. It's a cat and mouse game with filters, and advertisers are being stupid and/or lazy. Of course doubleclick is 127.0.0.1 for me, but ads served by the actual web site I'm viewing are at least marginally harder to block (thanks for everyone clearly serving them from their/ads/ directory!)
Basically, advertisers should stop whining and adjust their business model -- don't piss your consumers off so much that you begin to present negative value to the products being advertised, pick your sites and target to the normal customer of said site (/. does well there, as does Google) and don't try and fool me with javascript post-page-load hyperlinking to ad sites, prevent me from getting to my content (interstitials) or anny the fuck out of me (flash overlays), and certainly don't install software on my system that slows it down at the same time as selling all my personal data, no matter how "anonymous"
not that I'm bitter or anything. Currently, ads, like the lottery, are a tax on the stupid. There's LOTS of stupid people out there, so it's not a by definition poor business model, until (as the case seems to be) the ads get so horrible and detrimental to the user experience that even IE is doing pop-up blocking by default.
Rather, in most cases I see, the site developers use Firefox because of the excellent tools like the Web Developer Toolbar and such; but have to make sure it works in IE because of all the blue-e addicts.
Well, download alluvium and run your own internet tv station. Done. actlab.tv is one instantiation of a TV station/mini-network of "channels" -- nothing stopping you from running your own.
Uh, have you used VLC? OK, so its UI is horrible, but it plays everything, and does it well. It's a geek's dream come true for video playing. And it can transcode, stream over wireless ethernet (so you can have a movie server and stream to a laptop with a small HDD without sneakernetting movies across every time.
using the right video codecs and Alluvium's p2p system, I believe you can actually use pretty much any high-speed connection (i.e. not dial-up, but any cable/isdn/dsl/etc) to broadcast, that's the whole point of this. And it scales better and better the more users you get.
This indeed is the promising aspect of this -- good shows will get passed around the usual Internet ways (memepool, boingboing,/., etc.) and become "popular".
Then, who knows? Maybe cable types will pick them out to be producers, or whatnot. It could be InternetTV:cable::blogs:news ; which is to say, not a replacement, but the best and brightest get cred and can make a living doing it.
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They're just rollin' 'em all up into their world!
Especially given the paranoia/security/centralized control mode we're in with the current regi^H^H^H^Hadministration. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new attempt to enforce key escrow, and for all the "trusted" computer to have "secure" backdoors into their crypto systems that "only" the govt can access with "a warrant"
(I also hear that there's a movement for a sarcasm tax per-double-quote in the house committee, so I'm tryin' to use 'em while they're free!)
This all being said, the concept of a mesh network and the work of the guys at DefCon WiFi Shoot-out might be very, very valuable sooner rather than later. Man, wouldn't that be fantastic? A geek-run national wifi mesh... It's be just like 1990s Internet again, until the FCC started raids...
Saying never is NEVER a good idea (except in that case). In 1995, I probably said that I'd never use or recommend a Mac. Now, I recommend them highly to my non-geek friends. On my recommendation, my ex, who'd been a Windows user all her life, bought one. A few months later, I get this email that say "uh, I just kinda noticed that I never turn it off except for sleep mode, and I never have to reboot it... should I, like, reboot it occasionally?"
I laughed. It's funny how much we've internalized and accepted Windows' faults and foibles.
That being said, I would doubt that Apple's about to open up OSX to Random BeigeBox anytime soon, for exactly your point, they want guaranteed working hardware. Now, they might try opening it back up a bit with approved dealers and an approved hardware list now that they're working on Intel happily, and in one far-down-the-road day, I could see a full-open architecture to compete directly with MS Windows, but yeah, not this decade, (most likely).
This is waaaay overblown. Last I heard, they were blowing out the "undergrad library", which had not many books to begin with, and was mainly a computer and media lab already. They'll still have the main library, and topical libraries.
I bet he'll have a lot of unsolicited male in his "inbox" ...
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Slashdot ran a story about this in 1999, promising almost the exact thing -- leaving small trial phase, high-speed over power lines... long distance now possible... ...
yeah. I'll believe it when it happens.
I strongly disagree, I think 640k should be the max for any sentencing, regardless of the crime(s). Who could ever possibly need more than 640k???
Unless they were created by people who drink the format koolaid and use styles instead of font changes and so on, I suggest the following method:
As the above poster suggested, you put them all into one directory.
Now, this is where it differs.
You delete them and run screaming.
Beyond some basic paragraph markings, I'd say you're pretty hosed in terms of automation. Now, if they didn correctly use styles, you can search-and-replace within word for style/formatting and put tags around it.
But most likely, you're hosed.
I always set the evil bit on my TCP/IP stack outgoing, just to check for RFC compliance: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt
OMFG he should totally patent this and license it to Amazon. Imagine, One-click-to-buy-it-all! and he can require webmasters who want to use any multi-linking type technology to pay fees, just like UNISYS did for GIFs. Man, UNISYS is such a great company, loved by all, making money hand over fist on their GIF patents.
More likely, looking at the market as it is now, the rest of the home users of MS will say, "F it, I'm getting a Mac" and go about their business.
If some distro of Linux can get to where Mac is (big name retail distribution, support, pretty, runs well, easy to use), then it has a chance. As it is, I recommend my non-geek friends to move to Mac when they get a new system.
Robotech reference time!
When's the VF-1 coming out?
Imagine the pain in the ass that would come about from a crash
:)
Uh, I dunno about you, but I figure my computer implants will prolly be closer to my head.
Oh course, I guess if you have your head up your ass like most of MS people do...
OK, I see your point. Nevermind
From Wikipedia:
"The word robot comes from the Czech robota meaning "labor." Robot or robotnick were used in the 1600's to classify Czech tenant-farmers. A robotnick had to work as a minimum one month a year free for the landlord, according to Karsten Alnaes in his "European History II". "
The US has a robot-based economy, we're just using "robot" in the "traditional" sense, which is to say, indentured servitude. Just ask Taco Bell.
Well said! Doubleclick is telling us that the sky's falling, when it's only some acorns.
/. will have to find some way to stay afloat, but it's not the (spooky echo voice) END OF FREE CONTENT (end voice). You might recall that Ads are 'new' to the Internet -- they've been around for less than a third of its lifetime.
/ads/ directory!)
Sure, hugh cost-to-run/maintain sites like our beloved
Also -- why do people use pop-up and ad blockers? Because of spyware, annoying ad systems, and bandwidth. If you're on dialup or some painfully slow connection, hopefully you'll be surfing with some serious ad-blocking or even images and js off; everyone but Google and their copycats looses that (tiny) crowd.
Half of the crappy banners try and trick you to click on them, using dubiously legally defensible lies to do so, and installing spyware on your system if you bite (I think. I run firefox with some heavy duty filters, so I haven't seen any ads since I started using PortableFirefox from my USB if I happened to be at a computer without a safe browser.)
Also, seriously guys, just try harder. It's a cat and mouse game with filters, and advertisers are being stupid and/or lazy. Of course doubleclick is 127.0.0.1 for me, but ads served by the actual web site I'm viewing are at least marginally harder to block (thanks for everyone clearly serving them from their
Basically, advertisers should stop whining and adjust their business model -- don't piss your consumers off so much that you begin to present negative value to the products being advertised, pick your sites and target to the normal customer of said site (/. does well there, as does Google) and don't try and fool me with javascript post-page-load hyperlinking to ad sites, prevent me from getting to my content (interstitials) or anny the fuck out of me (flash overlays), and certainly don't install software on my system that slows it down at the same time as selling all my personal data, no matter how "anonymous"
not that I'm bitter or anything. Currently, ads, like the lottery, are a tax on the stupid. There's LOTS of stupid people out there, so it's not a by definition poor business model, until (as the case seems to be) the ads get so horrible and detrimental to the user experience that even IE is doing pop-up blocking by default.
Rather, in most cases I see, the site developers use Firefox because of the excellent tools like the Web Developer Toolbar and such; but have to make sure it works in IE because of all the blue-e addicts.
I'd place money...
Hey, for betting; do you take credit cards?
no better assignment for a 22YO male!
It's the hardest job you'll ever love!
Or something like that.
Well, download alluvium and run your own internet tv station. Done. actlab.tv is one instantiation of a TV station/mini-network of "channels" -- nothing stopping you from running your own.
In fact, that's kinda the point.
Uh, have you used VLC? OK, so its UI is horrible, but it plays everything, and does it well. It's a geek's dream come true for video playing. And it can transcode, stream over wireless ethernet (so you can have a movie server and stream to a laptop with a small HDD without sneakernetting movies across every time.
using the right video codecs and Alluvium's p2p system, I believe you can actually use pretty much any high-speed connection (i.e. not dial-up, but any cable/isdn/dsl/etc) to broadcast, that's the whole point of this. And it scales better and better the more users you get.
:)
Sorry, I actually meant to say, RTFM.
No, but I can now watch internet TV from there!
That's a fantastic idea. It's even easily doable, it's just a change on the client, not the protocol really.
This indeed is the promising aspect of this -- good shows will get passed around the usual Internet ways (memepool, boingboing, /., etc.) and become "popular".
Then, who knows? Maybe cable types will pick them out to be producers, or whatnot. It could be InternetTV:cable::blogs:news ; which is to say, not a replacement, but the best and brightest get cred and can make a living doing it.
I don't think ACTLab is the name of the nonprofit, it's just the program that's helping support/launch the TV with content.