Could it be that engineering degrees are a dime-a-dozen in oil-rich countries where middle-eastern terrorists usually originate? How many people in these countries don't have engineering degrees?
Assuming that leases are a good idea for phones (I don't think they are. Even a $1000 phone isn't so expensive that it should require a 2-3 year payment plan. At the end of a "lease", you return the item with value to its owner, or buy it out. But phones depreciate way too fast for that to be reasonable), why would you lease your phone from the person running the telecom network?
Of course, recouping cost via advertising is another spin... but ultimately comes down to repayment. If we really want to subject ourselves to ads, we should be able to do it for straight-up cash, or payment on our loan (of cash or phone-lease).
The word "lease" just clarified this issue a bit for me. Leasing equipment from our phone provider is really an old idea... and one we've fought hard against. Why are we so anxious to get back into that situation?
I look at telecom subsidation of phone costs as a small loan. Can't/won't buy the phone with your own cash up-front? We'll loan you that money, and you pay it back a little bit every month on your bill. This breaks down because if you buy a plan without getting subsidized, you pay a higher price per month for your phone service (ie, the same monthly payment, but with none of it going to a loan repayment).
The workaround for this: If I sign up for a 3-year contract, you can either give me a cheaper monthly rate, OR give me a phone-up front, OR give me a cash bonus upfront, approximately the same amount the subsidy would cost. That way I can take that cash and buy whatever I want with it (if it happens to be a smart phone, awesome).
THIS breaks down because the telecom wants to have absolute control over what I can and can't do on their network, and won't budge to give up any leeway there. I don't have a workaround for that one yet:)
We're not going to get phone and choose to have a dataplan, we're going to have phones + dataplans and that's it. telcoms industry HAVE to know this surely?
There's a catch here.
I really want a phone that's primarily for data. Data is the normal means of communication. VOIP over data. Text over data. Video over data. The "normal" phone features should be a fall-back emergency measure. What's more, they should be *cheap*. I'm talking $10/month pre-paid-phone cheap, because I'm only ever going to use it when I'm outside the normal data area.
There was a wonderful bug in ubuntu where it wouldn't print on tuesdays. It would generate a postscript file, which includes the date, but a faulty entry for file-type detection caused postscript on tuesday to be interpreted as some kind of erlang file... which obviously didn't print very well:)
For Myst anyways, RealMyst impressed me. Actual 3d models of the puzzles, so you walk where you want. Totally playable in my opinion, and they managed to make it not distract much from the puzzles and art of the thing.
Could at least mention that the link you linked to has the express updated statement from google:
"Since the initial idea behind posting a voicemail, was precisely to share it with others, we did not restrict crawling of those messages that users post on the web, but we can certainly understand that users would want to make them public on their sites but not necessarily searchable directly outside of their own website. We made a change to prevent those to be crawled so only the site owner can decide to index them."
These are messages that people went out of their way to make public, via a URL with a hash. There's a question of whether there should have been a different type of authentication here, but this story is an alarmist knee-jerk reaction at best.
Not at all. Pulseaudio would actually make it much easier to select a second, cheap usb microphone/speaker set while your normal audio happens on your good speakers/headphone/mic.
So there should be a warning whenever anybody does anything unencrypted?
There's an argument to be made that everything on the web should be encrypted.... but it's a tough sell considering the installed base of files on the web.
So, if some stuff is encrypted, and some stuff isn't, how do you decide what unencrypted sites to warn on? Just when submitting information? We already have a warning for that.... although I guess that could be sterner... hrm.
The problem comes in when providers are offering Sofware-as-a-service services. In these systems, your data is locked up somewhere with no simple way to get it out. Think Facebook or Myspace. (Google is working on some common methods to get things in and out of such systems... but for a company like Facebook, it's generally in their best interests to make it hard to get out)
Something like Amazon EC2 (or S3), in contrast, is really about providing application-agnostic resources, like a virtual disk. You put you data there, you run a database there, you run applications there. The system doesn't care what you're doing, because all it has to do is provide what looks like a standard computer (virtualized). In this case, it's easy to move things around as you like, because you control the application AND the data.
I don't exactly know where Google's services like AppEngine fall... I'd love to hear more opinions here...
When you use Google Chrome to run a page, it subsumes all sorts of other Internet Explorer features. A large part of the Internet Explorer code path never executes, meaning many Internet Explorer-specific bugs and vulnerabilities will never be accessible.
In this case, it's really the angle of the orbit that would be perturbed. Eventually it would be orbiting above and below the north and south poles of the star, and then perturbed even further until it was rotating the wrong direction. In that sense, it's actually orbiting in the correct direction, just offset 180degrees.
A similar explanation is often used to describe the fact that Uranus rotates clockwise, whereas all the other planets in our solar system rotate counter-clockwise. (Note, rotation != revolution. Rotation == spin, revolution = orbit). Effectively, virtually all the angular momentum of any given solar system is in the same direction. The odd object's motion may be twisted into appearing the wrong way by some dramatic celestial event.
I would have thought that the easier route to get out of this connundrum would be to claim doctor-patient or lawyer-client confidentiality. "The encrypted volume you're looking at (may) contain confidential correspondance between me, and my lawyer, and my doctor, and therefore I cannot disclose it." Would a similar argument apply to something like a locked file-safe in an office?
Given a set a pictures, it would be really nice to see them grouped by "these are several pictures of the same scene/object/subject". This is a tool I'm not aware of yet, and I'd love to hear what open-source tools people are using.
As a next step, it would be neat to pick out the one that's most in focus...
If this is going to get mainstream use with any kind of revenue stream, they'll need ads, and they'll need ads that aren't too offensive. Many of TPB's ads are for shady porn sites.... that'll have to go if this will be the sort of place I tell my family view my videos at.
The niche channels should really be marketing themselves directly to customers online anyways. No reason to allocate a premium chunk of cable resources (whether that's bandwidth, or just an identifiable number) for something only an exceptional minority will want.
Well, given that it's all XMPP-based, and XMPP has standardized methods to negotiate an out-of-band video/voice session, this could dovetail quite naturally.
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Could it be that engineering degrees are a dime-a-dozen in oil-rich countries where middle-eastern terrorists usually originate? How many people in these countries don't have engineering degrees?
Assuming that leases are a good idea for phones (I don't think they are. Even a $1000 phone isn't so expensive that it should require a 2-3 year payment plan. At the end of a "lease", you return the item with value to its owner, or buy it out. But phones depreciate way too fast for that to be reasonable), why would you lease your phone from the person running the telecom network?
Of course, recouping cost via advertising is another spin... but ultimately comes down to repayment. If we really want to subject ourselves to ads, we should be able to do it for straight-up cash, or payment on our loan (of cash or phone-lease).
The word "lease" just clarified this issue a bit for me. Leasing equipment from our phone provider is really an old idea... and one we've fought hard against. Why are we so anxious to get back into that situation?
I look at telecom subsidation of phone costs as a small loan. Can't/won't buy the phone with your own cash up-front? We'll loan you that money, and you pay it back a little bit every month on your bill. This breaks down because if you buy a plan without getting subsidized, you pay a higher price per month for your phone service (ie, the same monthly payment, but with none of it going to a loan repayment).
The workaround for this: If I sign up for a 3-year contract, you can either give me a cheaper monthly rate, OR give me a phone-up front, OR give me a cash bonus upfront, approximately the same amount the subsidy would cost. That way I can take that cash and buy whatever I want with it (if it happens to be a smart phone, awesome).
THIS breaks down because the telecom wants to have absolute control over what I can and can't do on their network, and won't budge to give up any leeway there. I don't have a workaround for that one yet :)
There's a catch here.
I really want a phone that's primarily for data. Data is the normal means of communication. VOIP over data. Text over data. Video over data. The "normal" phone features should be a fall-back emergency measure. What's more, they should be *cheap*. I'm talking $10/month pre-paid-phone cheap, because I'm only ever going to use it when I'm outside the normal data area.
There was a wonderful bug in ubuntu where it wouldn't print on tuesdays. It would generate a postscript file, which includes the date, but a faulty entry for file-type detection caused postscript on tuesday to be interpreted as some kind of erlang file... which obviously didn't print very well :)
http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619
For Myst anyways, RealMyst impressed me. Actual 3d models of the puzzles, so you walk where you want. Totally playable in my opinion, and they managed to make it not distract much from the puzzles and art of the thing.
Hulu shows are locked to U.S.A I.P addresses.
I'm thinking of ditching Cable for BitTorrent if I genuinely can't buy what I want legitimately...
Could at least mention that the link you linked to has the express updated statement from google:
"Since the initial idea behind posting a voicemail, was precisely to share it with others, we did not restrict crawling of those messages that users post on the web, but we can certainly understand that users would want to make them public on their sites but not necessarily searchable directly outside of their own website. We made a change to prevent those to be crawled so only the site owner can decide to index them."
These are messages that people went out of their way to make public, via a URL with a hash. There's a question of whether there should have been a different type of authentication here, but this story is an alarmist knee-jerk reaction at best.
Not at all. Pulseaudio would actually make it much easier to select a second, cheap usb microphone/speaker set while your normal audio happens on your good speakers/headphone/mic.
Quite, I missed that case.
If your custom apps required you to install a package, it'll already be listed as manually installed, so it'll never be automatically uninstalled.
So there should be a warning whenever anybody does anything unencrypted?
There's an argument to be made that everything on the web should be encrypted.... but it's a tough sell considering the installed base of files on the web.
So, if some stuff is encrypted, and some stuff isn't, how do you decide what unencrypted sites to warn on? Just when submitting information? We already have a warning for that.... although I guess that could be sterner... hrm.
The problem comes in when providers are offering Sofware-as-a-service services. In these systems, your data is locked up somewhere with no simple way to get it out. Think Facebook or Myspace. (Google is working on some common methods to get things in and out of such systems... but for a company like Facebook, it's generally in their best interests to make it hard to get out)
Something like Amazon EC2 (or S3), in contrast, is really about providing application-agnostic resources, like a virtual disk. You put you data there, you run a database there, you run applications there. The system doesn't care what you're doing, because all it has to do is provide what looks like a standard computer (virtualized). In this case, it's easy to move things around as you like, because you control the application AND the data.
I don't exactly know where Google's services like AppEngine fall... I'd love to hear more opinions here...
Not really.
When you use Google Chrome to run a page, it subsumes all sorts of other Internet Explorer features. A large part of the Internet Explorer code path never executes, meaning many Internet Explorer-specific bugs and vulnerabilities will never be accessible.
A similar explanation is often used to describe the fact that Uranus rotates clockwise...
Er, Venus I mean. Uranus is slightly stranger...
In this case, it's really the angle of the orbit that would be perturbed. Eventually it would be orbiting above and below the north and south poles of the star, and then perturbed even further until it was rotating the wrong direction. In that sense, it's actually orbiting in the correct direction, just offset 180degrees.
A similar explanation is often used to describe the fact that Uranus rotates clockwise, whereas all the other planets in our solar system rotate counter-clockwise. (Note, rotation != revolution. Rotation == spin, revolution = orbit). Effectively, virtually all the angular momentum of any given solar system is in the same direction. The odd object's motion may be twisted into appearing the wrong way by some dramatic celestial event.
I would have thought that the easier route to get out of this connundrum would be to claim doctor-patient or lawyer-client confidentiality. "The encrypted volume you're looking at (may) contain confidential correspondance between me, and my lawyer, and my doctor, and therefore I cannot disclose it." Would a similar argument apply to something like a locked file-safe in an office?
Given a set a pictures, it would be really nice to see them grouped by "these are several pictures of the same scene/object/subject". This is a tool I'm not aware of yet, and I'd love to hear what open-source tools people are using.
As a next step, it would be neat to pick out the one that's most in focus...
Legitimate videos == legitimate ads.
If this is going to get mainstream use with any kind of revenue stream, they'll need ads, and they'll need ads that aren't too offensive. Many of TPB's ads are for shady porn sites.... that'll have to go if this will be the sort of place I tell my family view my videos at.
Big explosion. What are the odds this would be visible from earth? Naked eye? Or With a decent telescope?
The niche channels should really be marketing themselves directly to customers online anyways. No reason to allocate a premium chunk of cable resources (whether that's bandwidth, or just an identifiable number) for something only an exceptional minority will want.
Any idea what other cheap web serving companies are using this tech?
Well, given that it's all XMPP-based, and XMPP has standardized methods to negotiate an out-of-band video/voice session, this could dovetail quite naturally.
Alternatively, what's the risk of the various pests that plague crops adapting to flourish in human hair?