When cars barely went 20mph, and horses were still king of the road, no layman really foresaw high speed intercity highways being an absolute public necessity. On top of that, very few expected huge oval tracks where tens of thousands of fans would turn out to watch 40 men drive around in circles for 4 hours.
When most of the people in the country lived on the Eastern seaboard, most of the population didn't see a NEED to settle the Western territories (except for that whole "be your own lord" thing...) but they knew it was important to stake out the largest stake they could.
I'll stake out the largest plot I can and prepare for something that I can't see, but that I know will be important in the future.
Video streaming instead of polluting the airwaves with more EM, bundling several phone calls concurrently with a lot less wasted electricity from towers that could be shut down, actually using web-apps instead of waiting on them to load, MAN systems based on WAPs on a freemium model, increased sharing of real knowledge, and video streaming.
Yet I get the feeling you already mentioned one of those...;)
Except they can claim they're bringing competition to areas that don't have it, such as mine, and encouraging the local content provider to invest Federal dollars in my area as well. The Federal Gov't has already earmarked a large chunk of money for doing exactly what Google is talking about doing privately.
Now, I agree that I wonder if Google is the best one to do this. But, who else is going to try? Another large media conglomerate that owns channels and distribution and newspapers? Like Comcast? Oh yeah, my bad. Talk about a monopoly. Let them complain to the FCC, I'll just mediate and introduce the two: "Pot, Kettle".
That's because the keyboards would need a new blue button, and who can afford to squeeze a new button on to their desktop? I mean, seriously!
The mouse would probably need two more scroll wheels too, but only four buttons. And a toggle for street, satellite, terrain, panorama, still-work-in-progress#1, still-work-in-progress#2, labs, still-work-in-progress#4
But they would be open-source hardware, since we would need to be able to add new keys from time to time since it would be in beta for a while
Gigabit to the home not on Comcast? Um, sign me up for $120+/mo...
Or is that just me? I would expect the service to come down with time, and I realize this is a big gamble on their end, but $DEITY I would love to see anyone else in my neighborhood @now
So is this a /vertisement or a serious rant?
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Because seriously:
a) quiz-advert is stupid. I'm sorry, subvert my browser and change who's in control of the flow of information before either I or the information provider can have a say in the process? I would write the firefox plugin to stop that one post haste.
I feel that your viewpoint is flawed. If we had smaller gov't then we wouldn't have such massive and blatant moves by Western companies to produce in the East and sell in the West. Big Gov't made it so that it was almost impossible to continue to produce in the US, because they gave such incentives to companies to produce overseas.
If the gov't were truly small and stuck their nose in the business of ensuring domestic tranquility and protecting our borders, and quit trying to incentivize trade with foreign countries based on tariffs and quit trying to determine the politics of foreign countries for them (I'm looking at you 1970's->1980's-American-Governance-who-dictated-the-policy-that-todays-leaders-are-almost-forced-to-follow-and-set-us-up-for-so-much-turmoil-in-the-interest-of-a-dollar -- was that too bold of a statement for a sub-parenthetical thought?), then we might finally see a chance for peace.
So, in closing, (because now is NOT the time for me to try and build up steam on a rant) I think that smaller gov't all along would have been a better idea. Can we please try gov't our way? (small gov't that is)
I would instead say "unintentional megacorp hindered by purpose-sprawl more than code-stink or feature-creep". Some large organizations inspire creativity. Granted not many.
Also: first "frist psot" I've seen in a while that was actually OnTopic
The reference to "the ones who can" was a direct reference to the previously identified group of people "based on my circle of friends and family"... I doubt any of those were alive in the 19th century, much less are still living there. I'm sure I've never met anyone born before 1920. Unless it was before I was cognitive of the world around me.
However, it _was_ a bit sarcastic. I am pretty sure everyone I know or associate with is literate, therefore they could all choose the one entry on a list that matched another entry. I tended instead to mean that most of the less web-friendly members of said group are not going to care about a list of web2.0 companies, no matter who is on the list. so showing them the presented list wouldn't enable me to keep their attention long enough to get an answer from them. they would just as soon get up and walk away.
But thanks for being a pedantic dick. I appreciate that, I'm sure.
I don't know that anyone who embeds a twitter feed needs to be tased, but I might question if it was necessarily the best way to announce information.
But I tend to use my twitter for things like cnn breaking news. That sort of thing is a very neat one-time-trick use for twitter. But there are plenty of companies that I follow on twitter as well that getting new product news from the company via twitter is handy.
I _could_ follow them on RSS, but twitter is [just slightly] better in my own opinion.
For a company or FOSS project to post the twitter feed to their [default|index|whatever].[htm|html|php|aspx|whatever] so that I see it when I first visit the page, then I'm ok with that.
If said group embeds a twitter feed in their wiki or deeplinked pages, then someone should be tased.
If someone added it to their private page, then they must be in need of professional help. If tasing the dick is one way to engage that help, so be it.
I for one doubt that anyone who knows of Twitter avoids anything web2.0. At least, that's based on my circle of friends and family. The ones who don't know what twitter are are the ones who tend to stay far away from their email. The ones who can even identify twitter on a list ( given Facebook, Twitter, Friendster and LinkedIn, point to Twitter ) generally do well to check into Facebook at least once a week.
That's the part that I don't get about what people are moaning about. You're obviously connecting to the host server at the end, it's inherent in the DNS request (unless you're doing a whois or something, but that's not the same is it?).
I think most people are getting jacked up about "could be used for tracking purposes".
Hey, all that was promised was that the last step would be about profit... Nobody said for sure that the initiator would profit.
Isn't that rather the problem with our current economic state of affairs? Everyone assumes the profit at the end is for themselves. I'm just happy with my hunk of bread crust;)
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When cars barely went 20mph, and horses were still king of the road, no layman really foresaw high speed intercity highways being an absolute public necessity. On top of that, very few expected huge oval tracks where tens of thousands of fans would turn out to watch 40 men drive around in circles for 4 hours.
When most of the people in the country lived on the Eastern seaboard, most of the population didn't see a NEED to settle the Western territories (except for that whole "be your own lord" thing...) but they knew it was important to stake out the largest stake they could.
I'll stake out the largest plot I can and prepare for something that I can't see, but that I know will be important in the future.
Also, distributed games. :D
if you torrent AND use the default modem/router that the provider gives you ... hmmmm, maybe you should try some other forums?
bytecount... I had to open it in notepad++ to see that my 998 characters were being regarded as 1004 due to \n\r and it needed only \n throughout
where's the like button? it's on buzz, facebook, and even twitter has RT
Video streaming instead of polluting the airwaves with more EM, bundling several phone calls concurrently with a lot less wasted electricity from towers that could be shut down, actually using web-apps instead of waiting on them to load, MAN systems based on WAPs on a freemium model, increased sharing of real knowledge, and video streaming.
Yet I get the feeling you already mentioned one of those... ;)
mobile data center service, over-arching cloud storage of data, better googlemaps integration, higher quality pics/video
oh, was that rhetorical?
Except they can claim they're bringing competition to areas that don't have it, such as mine, and encouraging the local content provider to invest Federal dollars in my area as well. The Federal Gov't has already earmarked a large chunk of money for doing exactly what Google is talking about doing privately.
Now, I agree that I wonder if Google is the best one to do this. But, who else is going to try? Another large media conglomerate that owns channels and distribution and newspapers? Like Comcast? Oh yeah, my bad. Talk about a monopoly. Let them complain to the FCC, I'll just mediate and introduce the two: "Pot, Kettle".
No, it's increasing the upstream fiber that causes a higher load of downstream content. This is all about downstream fiber in the first place...
That's because the keyboards would need a new blue button, and who can afford to squeeze a new button on to their desktop? I mean, seriously!
The mouse would probably need two more scroll wheels too, but only four buttons. And a toggle for street, satellite, terrain, panorama, still-work-in-progress#1, still-work-in-progress#2, labs, still-work-in-progress#4
But they would be open-source hardware, since we would need to be able to add new keys from time to time since it would be in beta for a while
While it's funny that they ran this before as a joke, hopefully this time they can come a little closer to reality.
Without coming towards my rear-realty ;)
Gigabit to the home not on Comcast? Um, sign me up for $120+/mo...
Or is that just me? I would expect the service to come down with time, and I realize this is a big gamble on their end, but $DEITY I would love to see anyone else in my neighborhood @now
Because seriously:
a) quiz-advert is stupid. I'm sorry, subvert my browser and change who's in control of the flow of information before either I or the information provider can have a say in the process? I would write the firefox plugin to stop that one post haste.
b) this sounds like a /vertisement.
c) does this REALLY solve a problem? I submit to you "gloves". http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Classic-WTF-The-Complicators-Gloves.aspx
I feel that your viewpoint is flawed. If we had smaller gov't then we wouldn't have such massive and blatant moves by Western companies to produce in the East and sell in the West. Big Gov't made it so that it was almost impossible to continue to produce in the US, because they gave such incentives to companies to produce overseas.
If the gov't were truly small and stuck their nose in the business of ensuring domestic tranquility and protecting our borders, and quit trying to incentivize trade with foreign countries based on tariffs and quit trying to determine the politics of foreign countries for them (I'm looking at you 1970's->1980's-American-Governance-who-dictated-the-policy-that-todays-leaders-are-almost-forced-to-follow-and-set-us-up-for-so-much-turmoil-in-the-interest-of-a-dollar -- was that too bold of a statement for a sub-parenthetical thought?), then we might finally see a chance for peace.
So, in closing, (because now is NOT the time for me to try and build up steam on a rant) I think that smaller gov't all along would have been a better idea. Can we please try gov't our way? (small gov't that is)
So what you`re saying is ... don`t cross the streams?
I would instead say "unintentional megacorp hindered by purpose-sprawl more than code-stink or feature-creep". Some large organizations inspire creativity. Granted not many.
Also: first "frist psot" I've seen in a while that was actually OnTopic
The dick tasing I originally suggested was more for my own amusement rather than any possible therapeutic effect it might have on the tasee.
Oh, well in that case light 'em up!
We all need more entertainment, no?
I actually meant outside the purview of moderation. Just the actual [Like] button on FaceBook.
But it wouldn't really be a good idea for /., it would kinda defeat moderation.
The reference to "the ones who can" was a direct reference to the previously identified group of people "based on my circle of friends and family" ... I doubt any of those were alive in the 19th century, much less are still living there. I'm sure I've never met anyone born before 1920. Unless it was before I was cognitive of the world around me.
However, it _was_ a bit sarcastic. I am pretty sure everyone I know or associate with is literate, therefore they could all choose the one entry on a list that matched another entry. I tended instead to mean that most of the less web-friendly members of said group are not going to care about a list of web2.0 companies, no matter who is on the list. so showing them the presented list wouldn't enable me to keep their attention long enough to get an answer from them. they would just as soon get up and walk away.
But thanks for being a pedantic dick. I appreciate that, I'm sure.
I don't know that anyone who embeds a twitter feed needs to be tased, but I might question if it was necessarily the best way to announce information.
But I tend to use my twitter for things like cnn breaking news. That sort of thing is a very neat one-time-trick use for twitter. But there are plenty of companies that I follow on twitter as well that getting new product news from the company via twitter is handy.
I _could_ follow them on RSS, but twitter is [just slightly] better in my own opinion.
For a company or FOSS project to post the twitter feed to their [default|index|whatever].[htm|html|php|aspx|whatever] so that I see it when I first visit the page, then I'm ok with that.
If said group embeds a twitter feed in their wiki or deeplinked pages, then someone should be tased.
If someone added it to their private page, then they must be in need of professional help. If tasing the dick is one way to engage that help, so be it.
You might have noticed: it was signed anonymous
I for one doubt that anyone who knows of Twitter avoids anything web2.0. At least, that's based on my circle of friends and family. The ones who don't know what twitter are are the ones who tend to stay far away from their email. The ones who can even identify twitter on a list ( given Facebook, Twitter, Friendster and LinkedIn, point to Twitter ) generally do well to check into Facebook at least once a week.
tl;dr - I bet it was a sick joke.
Hell Slashdot needs a FB style +1 Like option ... As well it needs the missing facebook option -1 Dislike
That's the part that I don't get about what people are moaning about. You're obviously connecting to the host server at the end, it's inherent in the DNS request (unless you're doing a whois or something, but that's not the same is it?).
I think most people are getting jacked up about "could be used for tracking purposes".
Yeah, because nobody uses Facebook, and look at where they've gone with no themes.
I would've gone with:
by dandaman32 (1056054) <`gro.smconane' `ta' `nad'>
providing clues, such as:
dandaman32 -> `nad`
`ta` -> @
`gro.smconane` -> enanocms.org
But that's just me ...
Hey, all that was promised was that the last step would be about profit... Nobody said for sure that the initiator would profit.
Isn't that rather the problem with our current economic state of affairs? Everyone assumes the profit at the end is for themselves. I'm just happy with my hunk of bread crust ;)