>Maybe Google should have a "page changed" API that publishing systems could call with a URL, so that after new content goes up, Google gets the first look, before the scrapers find and copy it.
I assume you don't know about Google Sitemaps. It's a file (sitemap.xml) that lists your old (and new) URLs. There's a mechanism for informing Google of a new sitemap, too. Many sites send a new sitemap notification every time they post a new article.
Not to toot my own horn, but I cover this kind of stuff on my blog--stuff which some/many people know as common knowledge but which others haven't encountered just because there's so much to absorb, anymore.
Give the man his due. He was in the right place, but it was he.
And you basically answered your own question. He's not the inventor of the Internet. He's the Father of the World-Wide Web.
And he's an advocate for keeping it that way (a web instead of a one-way tube). He has a lot more credibility speaking for the things many geeks like you and me believe in.
Are there no more O'Reilly books being published anymore? How about some reviews of new instant classics (like the Camel book)?
It's been all Packt, all the time for how long now?
As a side note, PacktLib (all you can eat package) is more expensive at $220/yr than O'Reilly's Safari Online Books. Safari is $110/yr for the base package--5 books at a time. That's strange, since O'Reilly books have usually been considered the best tech books. Also they have books from a whole lot of other publishers, while Packt is mostly just barely edited PDFs.
OK, the usual caveats apply about logic bombs hidden in open source, but still, at least when the source is open you have a fighting chance at discerning a backdoor.
Although giving some amount of money in return for not competing sounds good, how do you solve the problem of "free vacations"? I.e., someone quits, and knows that he'll be paid 1.5 years salary over a period of 1 year?
Obligatory Marshall Brain (founder of howstuffworks.com) essay on what will happen when (almost) everything's automated: Mass joblessness? Guaranteed income?
You don't, and much of the time, I don't either (I use Deskbar). But it's important for normal users and sometimes even for me (quick, what's the name of that neat file diff utility - "meld", but I can't remember that offhand because I don't use it all the time).
> Currently, when a patent holder accuses someone of infringing a patent, the burden is on the infringer to prove with 'clear and convincing evidence' that the patent is invalid. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court could decide to lower that standard of proof, she said."
AKA, the court usually finds a way to shoehorn something that's highly important to the status quo into some or another legal theory.
Global menu: It was sort of OK, I guess, for the original mac.
Now we have 24" and 30" screens. You can have apps in all corners of the screen, and you're supposed to mouse all the way up to the top left to access a menu?
Create one problem, and then start applying bandages everywhere: Mark's answer? Create menuless apps.
Newsflash: Not every application can be as simple as an iPhone 99 cent doodad.
And say goodbye to discoverability. Say hello to the old-style right-click menus of Gimp and Dia that everyone always complained about.
Oh, and that "document-centric" interface that hipsters are always talking about? How do you (clearly) discern which to which window a menu applies?
The farther he goes from being a usable alternative to Windows (as opposed to Bizarro Windows), the farther Ubuntu goes from being able to fix Bug #1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share").
Car analogy: It's as if the Japanese, during the 70s, hadn't presented a car with 4 wheels, steering wheel, gas + brake pedals, but some sort of weird contraption with the driver in the back or something.
Slashdot Mirror
Did someone say Hurd?
>Maybe Google should have a "page changed" API that publishing systems could call with a URL, so that after new content goes up, Google gets the first look, before the scrapers find and copy it.
I assume you don't know about Google Sitemaps. It's a file (sitemap.xml) that lists your old (and new) URLs. There's a mechanism for informing Google of a new sitemap, too. Many sites send a new sitemap notification every time they post a new article.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318
Not to toot my own horn, but I cover this kind of stuff on my blog--stuff which some/many people know as common knowledge but which others haven't encountered just because there's so much to absorb, anymore.
I think you have to be coming in to it from a Google search. That's the only time I've ever been to the site (or Yahoo Answers, or Stack, eHow, etc.).
Somebody with mod-points mod this up.
Isn't that the same thing that GetSatisfaction.com does? I think they ask companies to pay in order to respond.
Give the man his due. He was in the right place, but it was he.
And you basically answered your own question. He's not the inventor of the Internet. He's the Father of the World-Wide Web.
And he's an advocate for keeping it that way (a web instead of a one-way tube). He has a lot more credibility speaking for the things many geeks like you and me believe in.
Anybody know if identi.ca has retweets? (Re-identica's?)
Identica is Linux to Twitter's Windows, by the way.
I'm trying to figure out your comment, and whether it was mean sarcastically.
You realize he is the Father of the World-Wide Web, right?
He's basically an advocate for the peer-to-peer web, as opposed to the consumption model that the cable companies want to impose.
What's a push-up menu? In an Windows programs I've worked in, the menu reveals itself downwards.
Or was that the sound of something flying over my head?
Are there no more O'Reilly books being published anymore? How about some reviews of new instant classics (like the Camel book)?
It's been all Packt, all the time for how long now?
As a side note, PacktLib (all you can eat package) is more expensive at $220/yr than O'Reilly's Safari Online Books. Safari is $110/yr for the base package--5 books at a time. That's strange, since O'Reilly books have usually been considered the best tech books. Also they have books from a whole lot of other publishers, while Packt is mostly just barely edited PDFs.
What I'd like to know is:
If the site is so overloaded that it can't return a response, how can Chrome get the error message from the site?
Well, I'm not necessarily claiming it's the best. But it does allow you to inspect the code to look for a backdoor.
Some might find this handy:
59 Open Source Tools That Can Replace Popular Security Software
OK, the usual caveats apply about logic bombs hidden in open source, but still, at least when the source is open you have a fighting chance at discerning a backdoor.
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/
There's a Windows version, too (Immunet):
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/about/win32/
Remember the days when only dictatorships required "Internet drivers licenses" to access the Internet?
Although giving some amount of money in return for not competing sounds good, how do you solve the problem of "free vacations"? I.e., someone quits, and knows that he'll be paid 1.5 years salary over a period of 1 year?
Obligatory Marshall Brain (founder of howstuffworks.com) essay on what will happen when (almost) everything's automated: Mass joblessness? Guaranteed income?
http://www.marshallbrain.com/robots-in-2015.htm
Does this mean we can also piggyback off of the Apple concession to get access to the HTTP stream without having to go through Flash?
Yes, I can.
But the normal humans in Ubuntu's "Linux for Human Beings" motto can't add/remove lib-foo packages.
You don't, and much of the time, I don't either (I use Deskbar). But it's important for normal users and sometimes even for me (quick, what's the name of that neat file diff utility - "meld", but I can't remember that offhand because I don't use it all the time).
See you're not supposed to bring those inconsistencies up.
You're just supposed to pay homage to whatever Mark imposes^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdecides.
> Currently, when a patent holder accuses someone of infringing a patent, the burden is on the infringer to prove with 'clear and convincing evidence' that the patent is invalid. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court could decide to lower that standard of proof, she said."
AKA, the court usually finds a way to shoehorn something that's highly important to the status quo into some or another legal theory.
Global menu: It was sort of OK, I guess, for the original mac.
Now we have 24" and 30" screens. You can have apps in all corners of the screen, and you're supposed to mouse all the way up to the top left to access a menu?
Create one problem, and then start applying bandages everywhere: Mark's answer? Create menuless apps.
Newsflash: Not every application can be as simple as an iPhone 99 cent doodad.
And say goodbye to discoverability. Say hello to the old-style right-click menus of Gimp and Dia that everyone always complained about.
Oh, and that "document-centric" interface that hipsters are always talking about? How do you (clearly) discern which to which window a menu applies?
The farther he goes from being a usable alternative to Windows (as opposed to Bizarro Windows), the farther Ubuntu goes from being able to fix Bug #1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share").
Car analogy: It's as if the Japanese, during the 70s, hadn't presented a car with 4 wheels, steering wheel, gas + brake pedals, but some sort of weird contraption with the driver in the back or something.
OK, that's a data point.
I hadn't used it on netbooks, by the way.
I guess this is going to be another my-way-or-the-highway Ubuntu fiasco, like window controls on the left, the faux-Mac design, "windicators".
I'll grant this: Unity seems to be a OK interface for netbooks and possibly touchpads.
You don't want the full desktop experience on those environments.
You don't really care or want Alt+Tab. You'll likely only be doing a few things at once.
Well, Cisco spent a half $bil on FlipKam, and just wrote it off.