It would be interesting if audio/video could be searched on the web in the same way that text can be now. I don't mean in the cheap way that Altavista does now.
What if I entered "to be or not to be?" and I got back a link to the middle of a video containing that phrase. Not because the webmaster put in a marker for that phrase, but because the search engine analyzed the audio stream and found those words.
Or maybe I enter a picture of Harrison Ford and the search engine returns a list of videos/images which have him.
I hear a lot of talk about the web becoming a kind of interactive television. Unfortunatly, I don't think this will be as useful as the text because it's hard to find information in audio/video streams. Until you can do that, it will only be entertainment, not information.
Are there plans to integrate the freenet protocol into web browsers (like lynx and mozilla) so that people can browse freenet? This seems necessary to group collections of related documents togeather and help people find what they want.
Astronomers already have the neon glow of city lights (McD, etc.) in their way. How is this different? I don't share your optimism that a thing will be protected because it is a beautiful shared resource.
We can look forward to explaining what stars looked like to our grandchildren.
I'll know the end is near for our civilization when we have ads on our skies. An rare airplane with a banner hanging off it isn't too bad, but I think we could use less commercials in our lives. Ads in space might be going too far.
Some people I've talked with have said that advertisements are just part of pop culture. They're another form of entertainment/information.
I belive in free will, but I think that people can be strongly influenced by their environment. Modern advertising surrounds us with "solutions" to our problems. I think that advertising is distracting people from solving their real problems and living happy lives by constantly suggesting that they need more things, or a new image, or better breath. One of the worst things about advertising is that much of it is carefully designed to influence people subconciously. I guarentee that advertising dollars are funding scientific reserch into human behavior that is used to manipulate consumers.
I don't belive that there is some kind of great consiracy to brainwash people into consumers with advertising, but I think that thousands of brands competing for out "eyeballs" has the same effect. Businesses are under pressure to keep up with their competitors. If there is an opportunity to increase profits the companies will say, "My competition will do this even if I don't, so it's not really my fault." And in a way they're right.
I'm not necessarily against all advertising. It's easy to attack my point of view by giving specific examples and asking if they're wrong. Is it wrong for a farmer to put up a sign by the side of the road advertising fresh picked tomatoes? I don't think so. Is it wrong for a movie theatre to have a marquee with their current shows? Probably not. But when we get overloaded with too many of these messages, many of them designed to appeal to peoples' instinctive nature, I think our society is hurt.
I hope that we can find a way to sensibly limit advertising. In a nation with a wobbly moral compass, I doubt that we can agree on the proper course of action long enough to make a decision. More likely, there will be little regulation. Anything that can be done, will be.
There was a time, before we were consumers, when we were citizens.
This could be a big step forward, not just for embedded applications, but for "Linux on the Desktop" in general. I feel that one of the biggest problems for inexperienced users of Linux is XFree86. There is nothing particularly wrong with X for people who are technically inclined and have time to monkey with, but someone who has little or no computing experience has little hope of using it without someone to hold their hand through it. (No matter how easy Redhat makes it to install.) I hope that GTK will eventually try this too. (Maybe Berlin will be helpful here.)
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What if I entered "to be or not to be?" and I got back a link to the middle of a video containing that phrase. Not because the webmaster put in a marker for that phrase, but because the search engine analyzed the audio stream and found those words.
Or maybe I enter a picture of Harrison Ford and the search engine returns a list of videos/images which have him.
I hear a lot of talk about the web becoming a kind of interactive television. Unfortunatly, I don't think this will be as useful as the text because it's hard to find information in audio/video streams. Until you can do that, it will only be entertainment, not information.
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Could this be a form of attack? Submitting lots of documents that are deceptively similar to the one you don't want people to see?
Are there plans to integrate the freenet protocol into web browsers (like lynx and mozilla) so that people can browse freenet? This seems necessary to group collections of related documents togeather and help people find what they want.
We can look forward to explaining what stars looked like to our grandchildren.
Some people I've talked with have said that advertisements are just part of pop culture. They're another form of entertainment/information.
I belive in free will, but I think that people can be strongly influenced by their environment. Modern advertising surrounds us with "solutions" to our problems. I think that advertising is distracting people from solving their real problems and living happy lives by constantly suggesting that they need more things, or a new image, or better breath. One of the worst things about advertising is that much of it is carefully designed to influence people subconciously. I guarentee that advertising dollars are funding scientific reserch into human behavior that is used to manipulate consumers.
I don't belive that there is some kind of great consiracy to brainwash people into consumers with advertising, but I think that thousands of brands competing for out "eyeballs" has the same effect. Businesses are under pressure to keep up with their competitors. If there is an opportunity to increase profits the companies will say, "My competition will do this even if I don't, so it's not really my fault." And in a way they're right.
I'm not necessarily against all advertising. It's easy to attack my point of view by giving specific examples and asking if they're wrong. Is it wrong for a farmer to put up a sign by the side of the road advertising fresh picked tomatoes? I don't think so. Is it wrong for a movie theatre to have a marquee with their current shows? Probably not. But when we get overloaded with too many of these messages, many of them designed to appeal to peoples' instinctive nature, I think our society is hurt.
I hope that we can find a way to sensibly limit advertising. In a nation with a wobbly moral compass, I doubt that we can agree on the proper course of action long enough to make a decision. More likely, there will be little regulation. Anything that can be done, will be.
There was a time, before we were consumers, when we were citizens.
If they didn't before, they will now.
This could be a big step forward, not just for embedded applications, but for "Linux on the Desktop" in general. I feel that one of the biggest problems for inexperienced users of Linux is XFree86. There is nothing particularly wrong with X for people who are technically inclined and have time to monkey with, but someone who has little or no computing experience has little hope of using it without someone to hold their hand through it. (No matter how easy Redhat makes it to install.) I hope that GTK will eventually try this too. (Maybe Berlin will be helpful here.)