Yes, if we were really a capitalist society, government would maintain ownership of natural monopolies (roads, utilities) and set up competitive systems whereby businesses compete for operating (not owning) them.
Today, we let the businesses own these natural monopolies outright. That's the opposite of capitalism; there's no competition.
Well if you want to have mobile phones and netbooks as separate categories, there must be a distinction. And my definition would be that netbooks have all the functionality one would expect from a desktop PC.
Windows mobile and iPhone do not have anywhere near that functionality. Have you ever tried using the spreadsheet app on WM6? A toy.
Well, if you want something quantifiable (somewhat) I would say that there need to be mature applications which perform all of the top 100 or so functions a desktop computer user does. It may get there some day, but it's far from being there now.
MacOS, Linux, and Windows have enough apps that they can be considered full-blown operating systems. Android is absolutely not in the same league. It's closer to phone firmware than to PC operating systems.
At my office, only old people use paper. And when they do, I ask them to just send me the digital copy via email. The paperless office is here, though some old dogs are resisting their training. They'll retire soon enough.
Universities don't usually cater to old people; they have no such concerns.
I went to a uni where most classes were just powerpoint presentations in a 200+ person auditorium. There was nothing gained by physical presence. I had an 8am class that made use of recorded webcasts. Nobody even went to it--we slept in and watched the webcast later in the day.
The BEST type of eduction is one-on-one tutoring with an expert, and that can't be as effectively digitized. But that sort of access is not affordable to 99% of students. The kind of education students actually get can easily be digitized.
Have you ever seen an elk up close? Those suckers could shred you to ribbons with a swipe of their horns. Either this story is bogus, or elk are dumber than I thought.
Well we know the butterfly is in Asia. We tried nuking Asia in the '40s to kill the damn thing, but it got away. The problem was, we launched the nukes from planes. We need to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Twitter allows you to easily stay informed about those people and groups which interest you. It also requires far less effort from both parties than blogging or following blogs requires. It's not interesting from a technology standpoint. It's an interesting and useful application of rather unremarkable technology.
I'm an IT Security goon, and I find it useful for keeping tabs on the activities of a few notable security researchers. Many others use it for following the antics of celebrities or entertainers. If you're in a club or organization, it could be useful for staying informed.
And if none of these apply to you, surely you can see why others find it useful.
Well +1 to their marketing department for proper use of the web, but -1 for naming the car "Fiesta." You know what the word "fiesta" brings to mind? Pinatas, bursting into little pieces all over the ground.
(aside: hey slashdot! how about some unicode support already!? all the browsers support it these days, but your app choked on my n-with-squiggly. fix that!)
Yep. But the only agent which could possibly index your data is one that has access to your data in cleartext: you. That job can't be offloaded to the server while still satisfying encryption requirements.
Keep the files on the remote server, encrypted. Keep the search index in a database, encrypted in chunks. Rsync your search database between your local machine and the server. Actual searches of the databases would be done locally.
Result: terrible performance whenever you access your data from a new machine (must sync entire search database). Good performance the rest of the time. Remote server never sees anything but cyphertext.
If the company you work for has a broken incentive model, that's management's fault, not the admin's fault. At least have the common sense to get angry at the right group of people, meerling.
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The internet is like a series of trees. And you must cut down those trees with... a herring.
It's not pipes. It's a series of tubes.
Yes, if we were really a capitalist society, government would maintain ownership of natural monopolies (roads, utilities) and set up competitive systems whereby businesses compete for operating (not owning) them.
Today, we let the businesses own these natural monopolies outright. That's the opposite of capitalism; there's no competition.
All he would need to pick up with the EEG is "up" or "down" signals, and it could be used to type very quickly with Dasher
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/04/single-finger_text_input_1.html
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/Demonstrations.html
Well if you want to have mobile phones and netbooks as separate categories, there must be a distinction. And my definition would be that netbooks have all the functionality one would expect from a desktop PC.
Windows mobile and iPhone do not have anywhere near that functionality. Have you ever tried using the spreadsheet app on WM6? A toy.
Any day in which Professor Farnsworth makes for two front-page tags is a good day.
Well, if you want something quantifiable (somewhat) I would say that there need to be mature applications which perform all of the top 100 or so functions a desktop computer user does. It may get there some day, but it's far from being there now.
MacOS, Linux, and Windows have enough apps that they can be considered full-blown operating systems. Android is absolutely not in the same league. It's closer to phone firmware than to PC operating systems.
This is just a glorified phone, at least for now.
At my office, only old people use paper. And when they do, I ask them to just send me the digital copy via email. The paperless office is here, though some old dogs are resisting their training. They'll retire soon enough.
Universities don't usually cater to old people; they have no such concerns.
I went to a uni where most classes were just powerpoint presentations in a 200+ person auditorium. There was nothing gained by physical presence. I had an 8am class that made use of recorded webcasts. Nobody even went to it--we slept in and watched the webcast later in the day.
The BEST type of eduction is one-on-one tutoring with an expert, and that can't be as effectively digitized. But that sort of access is not affordable to 99% of students. The kind of education students actually get can easily be digitized.
Have you ever seen an elk up close? Those suckers could shred you to ribbons with a swipe of their horns. Either this story is bogus, or elk are dumber than I thought.
How much time would it take you to prevail against RSA encryption? How about AES? OTP?
So... this is what people did before they had Internet message boards to whine on?
Well we know the butterfly is in Asia. We tried nuking Asia in the '40s to kill the damn thing, but it got away. The problem was, we launched the nukes from planes. We need to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Yeah, it would be much better if they just flew into the hurricane.
Homosexuality was very historically accepted. See: ancient Greece, the basis of Western Civilization.
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Twitter allows you to easily stay informed about those people and groups which interest you. It also requires far less effort from both parties than blogging or following blogs requires. It's not interesting from a technology standpoint. It's an interesting and useful application of rather unremarkable technology.
I'm an IT Security goon, and I find it useful for keeping tabs on the activities of a few notable security researchers. Many others use it for following the antics of celebrities or entertainers. If you're in a club or organization, it could be useful for staying informed.
And if none of these apply to you, surely you can see why others find it useful.
Well +1 to their marketing department for proper use of the web, but -1 for naming the car "Fiesta." You know what the word "fiesta" brings to mind? Pinatas, bursting into little pieces all over the ground.
(aside: hey slashdot! how about some unicode support already!? all the browsers support it these days, but your app choked on my n-with-squiggly. fix that!)
Jack Handy.
Perl is a lot like Christianity, actually. It borrows almost everything from previous languages, and it makes you hate yourself.
Make wifi standard so that I can be productive (or at least entertained) while on the train. That would give it a major advantage over driving.
Everybody knows TNG just copied half its stuff from the original!
Yep. But the only agent which could possibly index your data is one that has access to your data in cleartext: you. That job can't be offloaded to the server while still satisfying encryption requirements.
Keep the files on the remote server, encrypted. Keep the search index in a database, encrypted in chunks. Rsync your search database between your local machine and the server. Actual searches of the databases would be done locally.
Result: terrible performance whenever you access your data from a new machine (must sync entire search database). Good performance the rest of the time. Remote server never sees anything but cyphertext.
If the company you work for has a broken incentive model, that's management's fault, not the admin's fault. At least have the common sense to get angry at the right group of people, meerling.