Look forget about software there has to be web site with customizable content before 98. I'm pretty sure you could customize my.yahoo's portals before then.
Huh? If the claim that most of the money goes to support is true than using Win or Linux doesn't make a difference as long as the support people are german.
If they get linux from redhat the money is going to an US firm.
Has anyone noticed how one-sided tv debates really are and how it fails to stimulate public debate over (1) the failure of the administration to prevent the terroristic attacks (2) the support previously given to the same terrorists that are now hunted (3) The failure to support poor economies that provide fertile grounds for terrorists.
Make no mistake, I am not trying to justify the attacks or start a flame war on this. It is the electorate who should be able to judge whether or not mistakes were made by previous administrations, and without debate there is no informed choice.
It seems to me that tv networks and cable channels are failing to stimulate even a remote debate. The press is doing a little better. The net of course contains all sorts of opinions but how to sort them out is really the big questions.
Maybe because they were feeling sorry about how many profits they were making out of it?
Seriously, when I heard about the donation at amazon I went looking for some fine print saying they were not charging the usual management fee in this particular case, but I couldn't find anything. Needless to say, I didn't feel the impluse to donate via Amazon.
More specifically, one should notice how most newsmedia coverage (and political debate) is all focused on retaliation, and little is spent on arguing the fundamental reasons why terrorism exist. See this nice article on the Startribune for a different perspective.
If we don't solve the palestinian problem we can eliminate Bin Laden but another one will soon pop up. We need to discuss with our allies how to:
1) maintain unconditional and strong support to Israel
2) start political and economic support to a Palestinian state
3) deploy massive UN troops to protect both
Israel has contained terrorism with a hard line but it finds itself at a dead end. Terrorism is here to stay until the causes of its presence are removed.
Ok now that I know this, how do I actually do it? I have an old pc, I can get another network card and the hub, then what?
Can one of the pcs run on windows?
Can someone point out detailed instruction to someone like me who is not a network wizard but is not afraid of computers (I read/. after all)? I have seen practicallynetworked.com site but I found it a bit confusing at times.
You have a point but why get into the hassle of registering a USENET newsgroup? I think USENET is an outdated medium for discussions.
If you have a server, set up your slash-based discussion group, if not, just set up one of the free ones.
I have a group of friends and we set up a forum at freepolls and it works great.
The parallel that people are drawing with open source is weak. There is an easy way to check quality in software: use the program, read reviews, etc.., but with books it's different. With copyrighted work the reputation of the editor and author are at stake. In wikipedia who has even the vaguest idea of reliability of content?
again, I've made this point elsewhere but the point is not that the web is not good for real estate. The reason is that real estate agencies have monopoly over the information listed on the MLS. Break the monopoly and you'll see that people will go to the web to list their houses: better access, better information, no crappy typewriter style printouts from the MLS.
Most people on this thread are missing one important point: realtors serve a purpose because of their experience and knowledge of the neighborhood as the parent message poster suggested.
However, the reason why houses don't make it to the web listings is that the realtors have monopoly access to the MLS. Break those monopolies and houses will be listed immediately on the web, with pictures and better information, and commissions will go down
Has anyone seen the MLS printouts? they are hard to read, no pics, etc..., an obvious sign that they are managed by monopolies with no interest in innovation and in sharing information
IMHO, this is where the net has a comparative advantage:
1) Mass-generated news sites such as Plastic or Slashdot (please pardon my karma whoring, but let's not underestimated the potential of such media, especially when the mass news media are concentrated in the hands of a few corporations.
2) Zines with such a narrow audience that it is not cost efficient to publish on paper
If you aim to a nationwide audience then there are savings of publishing on the net, but there are costs of less ad revenues and smaller audience. People still prefer to read regular news on paper media.
I disagree. The good people may have left to Handspring, but they are not in good shape themselves.
The reason? They are tied to an obsolete OS while the technology is ready for a device with higher resolution color and much more.
The only really new thing since the introduction of the pilot was the color, and if you look at one you'll realize that there are so few colors that the improvement relative to greyscale is only marginal.
I totally agree. I am still a faithful Palm fanatic, but two days ago a colleague showed me his wince device, and I must say I was impressed. I had to admit that Palm didn't keep up with the evolution of the technology. Here are the main things that shocked me:
1) Wonderful color screen resolution. The color Palm is a joke and barely a marginal improvement over the black and white.
2) Speed and Memory. The thing was just a bit bigger than a PalmV and it has a 200mhz processor with 64meg of ram.
3) Mp3 player attached. The speaker was awful but I bet it's good enough to dial a phone number (I wonder why palm has always refused to add this crucial capability to his address book; their speaker isn't powerful enough but I have read that a 50c more expensive speaker would do it).
4) voice recorder
I am sure there's more but hey, I was quite shocked. My only doubt on the device is battery life.
... between Templeton's or michael's joke and the columbine Joke. They don't Mastercard and its image directly. I mean, read the last row: their jokes doesn't say "for everything else there's Mastercard". But Smith's joke does.
Let's be honest I would be pissed off too if someone associated my name with killers or terrorists.
The interesting bit is the use of technology to set up a new gold-convertible currency (as when the Gold Standard?was the rule).
If enough people trust it (and if this is really backed by gold there are no reasons not to) then paper money will become less standard (it won't disappear since it's legal tender) with potentially important consequences such as reduced importance of monetary policy as decided by the Federal Reserve.
But people will be as reluctant to switch browser window as they are to channel surfing while the ad is on. Insofar as some people are willing to look at the ad or don't know how to ctrl+tab to another window then the advertiser will be successful.
I couldn't find it but there was a Story several months ago on Salon about Christina Aguilera producers' marketing strategy of creating buzz about Aguilera on newsgroups and irc chat rooms even before her first record was released.
The point missed the fact that there are sites that care mainly about content, and about its accessibility to the largest number of users, being doctors with vt100 terminals in an African village, or high-tech geeks with beowulf clusters.
Standards must remain backward compatible and developers must be allowed to care about content and accessibility if they choose to do so. You don't care about that? Then feel free to redirect whoever access your site to whatever sh*t you want.
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I'm not sure you read that it is Intel that purchased Alpha.
Look forget about software there has to be web site with customizable content before 98. I'm pretty sure you could customize my.yahoo's portals before then.
my.yahoo.com had customizable portals before 1998.
Huh? If the claim that most of the money goes to support is true than using Win or Linux doesn't make a difference as long as the support people are german.
If they get linux from redhat the money is going to an US firm.
You may be able to use that software, or it won't be long till somebody will write that program.
Has anyone noticed how one-sided tv debates really are and how it fails to stimulate public debate over (1) the failure of the administration to prevent the terroristic attacks (2) the support previously given to the same terrorists that are now hunted (3) The failure to support poor economies that provide fertile grounds for terrorists.
Make no mistake, I am not trying to justify the attacks or start a flame war on this. It is the electorate who should be able to judge whether or not mistakes were made by previous administrations, and without debate there is no informed choice.
It seems to me that tv networks and cable channels are failing to stimulate even a remote debate. The press is doing a little better. The net of course contains all sorts of opinions but how to sort them out is really the big questions.
or, rather, "Burn and crash"
Are congressmen aware of the debate over the DMCA in the tech community? What are the chances of overturning the dmca?
1. What are the uses of cryptography as a "Human Rights Tool"?
Perhaps you can also check this link of letters to zimmerman from human rights groups
Maybe because they were feeling sorry about how many profits they were making out of it?
Seriously, when I heard about the donation at amazon I went looking for some fine print saying they were not charging the usual management fee in this particular case, but I couldn't find anything. Needless to say, I didn't feel the impluse to donate via Amazon.
More specifically, one should notice how most newsmedia coverage (and political debate) is all focused on retaliation, and little is spent on arguing the fundamental reasons why terrorism exist. See this nice article on the Startribune for a different perspective.
If we don't solve the palestinian problem we can eliminate Bin Laden but another one will soon pop up. We need to discuss with our allies how to:
1) maintain unconditional and strong support to Israel
2) start political and economic support to a Palestinian state
3) deploy massive UN troops to protect both
Israel has contained terrorism with a hard line but it finds itself at a dead end. Terrorism is here to stay until the causes of its presence are removed.
Ok now that I know this, how do I actually do it? I have an old pc, I can get another network card and the hub, then what?
/. after all)? I have seen practicallynetworked.com site but I found it a bit confusing at times.
Can one of the pcs run on windows?
Can someone point out detailed instruction to someone like me who is not a network wizard but is not afraid of computers (I read
You have a point but why get into the hassle of registering a USENET newsgroup? I think USENET is an outdated medium for discussions.
If you have a server, set up your slash-based discussion group, if not, just set up one of the free ones.
I have a group of friends and we set up a forum at freepolls and it works great.
The parallel that people are drawing with open source is weak. There is an easy way to check quality in software: use the program, read reviews, etc.., but with books it's different. With copyrighted work the reputation of the editor and author are at stake. In wikipedia who has even the vaguest idea of reliability of content?
... and lower commission fees.
However, the reason why houses don't make it to the web listings is that the realtors have monopoly access to the MLS. Break those monopolies and houses will be listed immediately on the web, with pictures and better information, and commissions will go down Has anyone seen the MLS printouts? they are hard to read, no pics, etc..., an obvious sign that they are managed by monopolies with no interest in innovation and in sharing information
1) Mass-generated news sites such as Plastic or Slashdot (please pardon my karma whoring, but let's not underestimated the potential of such media, especially when the mass news media are concentrated in the hands of a few corporations.
2) Zines with such a narrow audience that it is not cost efficient to publish on paper
If you aim to a nationwide audience then there are savings of publishing on the net, but there are costs of less ad revenues and smaller audience. People still prefer to read regular news on paper media.
I disagree. The good people may have left to Handspring, but they are not in good shape themselves.
The reason? They are tied to an obsolete OS while the technology is ready for a device with higher resolution color and much more.
The only really new thing since the introduction of the pilot was the color, and if you look at one you'll realize that there are so few colors that the improvement relative to greyscale is only marginal.
I totally agree. I am still a faithful Palm fanatic, but two days ago a colleague showed me his wince device, and I must say I was impressed. I had to admit that Palm didn't keep up with the evolution of the technology. Here are the main things that shocked me:
1) Wonderful color screen resolution. The color Palm is a joke and barely a marginal improvement over the black and white.
2) Speed and Memory. The thing was just a bit bigger than a PalmV and it has a 200mhz processor with 64meg of ram.
3) Mp3 player attached. The speaker was awful but I bet it's good enough to dial a phone number (I wonder why palm has always refused to add this crucial capability to his address book; their speaker isn't powerful enough but I have read that a 50c more expensive speaker would do it).
4) voice recorder
I am sure there's more but hey, I was quite shocked. My only doubt on the device is battery life.
practicallynetworked.com offers tons of help, reviews, and suggestions.
... between Templeton's or michael's joke and the columbine Joke. They don't Mastercard and its image directly. I mean, read the last row: their jokes doesn't say "for everything else there's Mastercard". But Smith's joke does.
Let's be honest I would be pissed off too if someone associated my name with killers or terrorists.
If enough people trust it (and if this is really backed by gold there are no reasons not to) then paper money will become less standard (it won't disappear since it's legal tender) with potentially important consequences such as reduced importance of monetary policy as decided by the Federal Reserve.
But people will be as reluctant to switch browser window as they are to channel surfing while the ad is on. Insofar as some people are willing to look at the ad or don't know how to ctrl+tab to another window then the advertiser will be successful.
Seems like it worked pretty well.
Standards must remain backward compatible and developers must be allowed to care about content and accessibility if they choose to do so. You don't care about that? Then feel free to redirect whoever access your site to whatever sh*t you want.