Forgive me for not keeping up with all of
the technologies, but...
What's the expected density of the data
in a holographic medium, as compared with
more conventional media?
Though I'd love to have a holographic
television or monitor, is data storage
really expected to get much better with
holographic techniques than with other
ones?
Hrm? That's strange. Most good libraries have
copies of
Ulysses
by James Joyce, or
Lady Chatterly's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence. Or, if you're interested
in a book purely written for prurient
interests, try
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
by John Cleland.
If it's available in the print section, why
shouldn't it be available on-line?
1) Is this "problem" has been around since the
mid-80's why has it never been exploited?
A bit of digging found the tool
HUNT
which exploits the problem.
Re:American Television - Killed by commerce
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15 Minutes
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It wouldn't work. Americans hate paternalism.
What's "dross" to you is "entertainment" to others.
Television stations in the U.S. (except PBS) are
run by the market. If not enough people watch a
show in the U.S., then advertisers won't pay for
it.
This is lousy if you're looking for quality
programs, but it's excellent if you're looking
for what will play to the most households.
Although you and I might really enjoy programs
that challenge us, and that expose us to new
thoughts... that sells poorly in the market.
For good or for bad, most people want to be
entertained, not to be challenged.
In Section 2, Source Code, one thing that isn't mentioned is the language. What good is source code if I use a proprietary language that isn't available to other programmers? The code might be un-obfuscated, but otherwise useless.
If you copy it, and you don't give attribution,
it's stealing.
If you copy it, and you give attribution,
it's research.
Academics is filled with research, including
computer science. Your question didn't
tell whether you gave a full and clear
attribution of where you found the code.
If you did, then at a hearing, bring in just
about any academic journal, and show how
every paper references at least five other
papers.
The Internet has vastly decreased the value
of data. What would once take many
hours of research in esoteric tomes can now
be found with a few taps on the keyboard.
In the early days of the Internet, people
thought that content would be value, and
would bring in customers,
which could be sold to advertisers. That
failed miserably: see Slate, for example. In
the slightly-later-but-still-early days
of the Internet, people thought that sites
that aggregated a lot of data would bring in
customers... which could be sold to
advertisers.
Neither of these business models seem to work
well in the long run. If the value of what
you have keeps plummeting, it's hard to grow
enough new stuff to keep your value.
Yahoo mostly serves as an Internet directory:
a set of links to other sites. (Yes, I'm
aware of their webmail, groups, chatrooms,
auctions, job listings, and many other
items.) In other words, it has mounds and
mounds of data, and a well-thought-out way
to index that data.
However, that data is not necessarily
information. And information, collated and
digested, is what people need.
I would put far more faith in the financial
stability of something like QuestionExchange
than in Yahoo -- if that QuestionExchange
were more broad. Something that, given a
question, will retrieve information -- not
data. Those kinds of services will always
remain pay services because they cannot be
automated: they require human intervention.
The RIAA is pissing off a huge portion of
their fan base. They can see the impact
on their bottom line when sales decrease
after napster is gone.
Bullshit.
The vast majority of music-buyers are not
technogeeks who will keep up with the newest
way around RIAA-imposed restrictions.
What groups have become popular because of
Napster, OpenNap, Gnutella, or the file-
sharing program of the week? The groups
passed around are the groups that are popular
because of radio play and MTV.
They still control those channels. And
Joe Scr1pt K1dd13 will still seek out the
groups that he knows are k3wl, because MTV
tells him that they're k3wl.
After Napster and its clones are closed, the
RIAA will see their sales rise for a short
bit, then level back off.
Similar story... except that when I chose my race, I just put 'American'.
I've never understood the concept of 'race'. I'm blue-eyed and blonde haired, yet according to the definitions that the Federal Government uses, I am emphatically not white. On the other hand, I qualify perfectly well as Hispanic, though every friend of mine from Mexico knows that I'm a gringo.
If the link doesn't work, look for article
Q222135
.
Error Correcting Codes and viruses...
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In honor of Claude Shannon, who died
yesterday... Some ideas in this
article lead right
back to information theory.
Interstellar space is just
a noisy medium: use both compression and
error-correcting methods
But at the end of
the article, the author suggests that
messages transmitted should also include
their own programs for interpreting these
messages. Even if we could assume that
just one platform exists, wouldn't
viruses be a huge problem?
According to a number of friends of mine who
do on-line cartoons, it takes about two hours
to do a good daily strip, and about four or
five to do a Sunday strip.
That's a lot of time invested.
Although some enterprising companies like
Plan Nine
have been selling dead tree editions of
some of the best on-line comics, that's
still very low wages for a lot of artwork.
I provide you this challenge: how could an
Internet cartoonist make money from their
website?
In short, roll your own boxen. If you have
enough money, just build a generic Linux
box yourself, put on a good distribution,
and share the problems of administrating it
among yourselves.
When the article says 'OS', think 'shell' or
'windowmanager'.
And the article -does- bring up a good idea.
Is it possible to create a truly transparent
window manager, that when you type, brings
up a word processor, that brings up a
calculator when needed, and so forth -- in
a way that is -most- intuitive to the
average Joe Drool? Something even simpler
than the Windows, Icons, Mice, Pointers
solution?
You mean some people are
paid
to be a chat-room monitor? To deal with
lusers who failed kindergarden, whose sole
reason for existance is to make other peoples'
lives miserable (and they defend their
reasons, heavily!), to answer stupid questions
on absolutely every topic, and to do it all
with a smile?
Damn.
I knew I was missing something in my 30-hours
a week that I administer
Furrymuck
.
When I was in Atari Computer Camp, I had
a T-shirt that the press [yes, the press
covered Atari Computer Camp like flies]
loved: it simply said, "My Computer
Understands Me."
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What's the expected density of the data in a holographic medium, as compared with more conventional media?
Though I'd love to have a holographic television or monitor, is data storage really expected to get much better with holographic techniques than with other ones?
If it's available in the print section, why shouldn't it be available on-line?
A bit of digging found the tool HUNT which exploits the problem.
Television stations in the U.S. (except PBS) are run by the market. If not enough people watch a show in the U.S., then advertisers won't pay for it.
This is lousy if you're looking for quality programs, but it's excellent if you're looking for what will play to the most households.
Although you and I might really enjoy programs that challenge us, and that expose us to new thoughts... that sells poorly in the market. For good or for bad, most people want to be entertained, not to be challenged.
In Section 2, Source Code, one thing that isn't mentioned is the language. What good is source code if I use a proprietary language that isn't available to other programmers? The code might be un-obfuscated, but otherwise useless.
Do you still have a copy of the contract? Is it possible to post it to a site, so that people can read it?
One site that has layouts for left-handed and right-handed Dvorak keyboards is here .
Academics is filled with research, including computer science. Your question didn't tell whether you gave a full and clear attribution of where you found the code.
If you did, then at a hearing, bring in just about any academic journal, and show how every paper references at least five other papers.
A few seconds in Kuro5hin's FAQ gave the answer .
In the early days of the Internet, people thought that content would be value, and would bring in customers, which could be sold to advertisers. That failed miserably: see Slate, for example. In the slightly-later-but-still-early days of the Internet, people thought that sites that aggregated a lot of data would bring in customers... which could be sold to advertisers.
Neither of these business models seem to work well in the long run. If the value of what you have keeps plummeting, it's hard to grow enough new stuff to keep your value.
Yahoo mostly serves as an Internet directory: a set of links to other sites. (Yes, I'm aware of their webmail, groups, chatrooms, auctions, job listings, and many other items.) In other words, it has mounds and mounds of data, and a well-thought-out way to index that data.
However, that data is not necessarily information. And information, collated and digested, is what people need.
I would put far more faith in the financial stability of something like QuestionExchange than in Yahoo -- if that QuestionExchange were more broad. Something that, given a question, will retrieve information -- not data. Those kinds of services will always remain pay services because they cannot be automated: they require human intervention.
Last Sunday, Ozy and Millie had a very funny strip about this topic.
Bullshit.
The vast majority of music-buyers are not technogeeks who will keep up with the newest way around RIAA-imposed restrictions.
What groups have become popular because of Napster, OpenNap, Gnutella, or the file- sharing program of the week? The groups passed around are the groups that are popular because of radio play and MTV.
They still control those channels. And Joe Scr1pt K1dd13 will still seek out the groups that he knows are k3wl, because MTV tells him that they're k3wl.
After Napster and its clones are closed, the RIAA will see their sales rise for a short bit, then level back off.
I've never understood the concept of 'race'. I'm blue-eyed and blonde haired, yet according to the definitions that the Federal Government uses, I am emphatically not white. On the other hand, I qualify perfectly well as Hispanic, though every friend of mine from Mexico knows that I'm a gringo.
If the link doesn't work, look for article Q222135 .
But at the end of the article, the author suggests that messages transmitted should also include their own programs for interpreting these messages. Even if we could assume that just one platform exists, wouldn't viruses be a huge problem?
That's a lot of time invested.
Although some enterprising companies like Plan Nine have been selling dead tree editions of some of the best on-line comics, that's still very low wages for a lot of artwork.
I provide you this challenge: how could an Internet cartoonist make money from their website?
Give it to a five year old. They can destoy anything .
How you say things is often more important than what you have to say.
It just says that Jim Allchin, the Windows operating-system chief believes that freely distributed source:
When I put those things together, I get the impression that Microsoft wants to outlaw Open Source. YMMV.
It's about as cheap of a solution as you'll find.
To move the small planetoid, you just need something of appropriate mass. I recommend shipping the Senators who passed UCITA.
When the article says 'OS', think 'shell' or 'windowmanager'.
And the article -does- bring up a good idea. Is it possible to create a truly transparent window manager, that when you type, brings up a word processor, that brings up a calculator when needed, and so forth -- in a way that is -most- intuitive to the average Joe Drool? Something even simpler than the Windows, Icons, Mice, Pointers solution?
Damn.
I knew I was missing something in my 30-hours a week that I administer Furrymuck .
When I was in Atari Computer Camp, I had a T-shirt that the press [yes, the press covered Atari Computer Camp like flies] loved: it simply said, "My Computer Understands Me."
I wish that I still had that shirt.
I wish that my computer understood me.
If Microsoft comes out with its own distribution of Linux, we're doomed.