I've been noodling on this for a while and it is disconcerting to me that these media outlets are shutting down or floundering.
The dearth of weblog content is an incredible outlet for relevant information on world events, often relayed by the very participants in the news. However, too often, the linking goes back to major media outlets or a subsidary of one a large corporation.
While even further "elite" discussion boards and content sites will flourish (uber, A List Apart and Flak spring to mind), they lack the resources to disseminate their clever and unabashed content.
Publishing tools like blogger make it easy for the non-technical user to publish their thoughts, witticism, and commentary to the web. It is only when these sites reach critical mass (Kottke.org, Zeldman.com) that it becomes hugely expense to continue relaying the message.
I see the future of independent content lying in the hands of smaller, more focused community sites (Metafilter, The Fray)
Despite their shortcomings, these sites are paving the way backwards to a smaller, more closely knit internet the way it was several years ago.
Suzie Homemaker and Joe Six-pack will continue to the media that's delivered to them, and the rest who desire the independent voice will seek it and should they not find it, they will create it as they always have.
This seems to be more of a rant of a high-schooler who has just figured out how his school's social structure works.
Moreover, it seems a desperate plea to make a social structure where the geeks can be cool.
What is with these rants lately? It seems like they are getting more and more "Please Like me..."-ish all the time.
In order to get chips into head phones that check for watermarks, documentation etc, that means the algorithm can't be that complex and could probably be reverse engineered quickly.
One quick solution that comes to mind is to put a pic microcontroller in line between the source and the output device that routes all the musical data and generates a generic signature inline and sends it along to the speaker/headphone. The speaker/headphone thinks everything is on the up and up and only the inline device knows for sure.
I don't think that sort of control method would work though, this is due, in part, to the easily circumventable nature as well as the stronger methods available within the component cd/mp3/dvd/movie player.
But even if a SDMI type method is used, it won't be useful for long. General purpose computing devices always have more power to throw at cracking an algorithm than a limited device (e.g. DVD player) has to decode. The limiting factor on a chip that decodes in A/V equipment will be price. It would be extremely difficult to get strong crypto working in a player that is easily portable and cheap.
The difference here is that among the giants, the small personal internet will always be accessible. Unlike television stations, a website costs very little to run. Even if yahoo were swallowed up by a larger company and turned into a "walled garden", the internet at large wouldn't skip a beat. Sure, it might prevent new users, who aren't familiar with the internet, from seeing the diversity available, but the underground will remain the underground.
And as sites grow popular, it isn't always necessary that they collapse under their own weight, popular sites like blogger have turned to their audience/users for money to buy new servers and the users turned out in droves to pay for a service that they use and enjoy. The power of the internet is that it's a community and the imminent purchase of a large anchor site won't do much to affect the internet that we know and love.
And, not always is it in the best interest of a large corporate entity to subsume their internet properties. The failure of go.com is a powerful example of how corporatization of popular sites can destroy a user-base. And as this happens more and more, you can expect that companies will be more willing to let their affiliate sites be diverse.
Bottom Line: As long as people are passionate about the internet, there will always be independent content. An undercurrent to the mainstream.
Right on, man.
It's beyond me though how you got moderated down to flamebait on the first post and then modded up when you complained about it.
I agree with your points totally. And what about the guys in porn, nobody says that they're exploited.
exploiting women for the sake of men who find themselves unable to get a wife.
Also, watching porn is very different from being married. Maybe some guy really loves his wife but doesn't want to hurt her by fscking her in the bum.
Besides, if exploitation means making seven figures a year for a job that even the stupid can do, sign me up.
The simple fact that the American public focuses on pornography, crackers, and IPO's makes them important. If those are the issues that weigh heavily on the minds of the public, so be it. I'm willing to wager that nobody cares who implemented tcp/ip in unix or any other "important" technological issues. Nobody worries about the importance of the wankel rotary engine and it's importance to burning cleaner fuels in cars, so why should any care about the underlying processes leading to it's acceptance? That's what us engineers and programmers are here for, to care about what's at the heart of technological issues. My mom doesn't care how her house is heated, just so long as it is heated. If everyone took time to learn everything about all things in their lives, we'd spend all of our time getting nothing done, worrying about underappreciated scientists.
I program for a living. I realize that C++ is faster and cleaner, and yada yada yada, and I actually prefer to program in it. However, the last time I wrote a fully featured, robust application in less than a week(graphics automation, like debabelizer) it was in VB. Realtime code debugging, kick ass UI development and tight system integration make Visual Basic incredibly useful for developing on windows. Ease of development for windows is a powerful selling point, because, despite the chest-pounding that goes on about linux, %98 of the world still uses windows. I don't care if you trash talk microsoft, but honestly, sometimes they can produce quality (or at the very least ubiquitous.) work. I rambled, I know, but I had a point starting out...
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Hey man, gnutella doesn't = linux. Also,.vbs files work exclusively on winblows. Even then you have to be a dumb ass and have scripting enabled. Fact checking. look into it.
Maybe this is a setup to get all of the script kiddies to find the "satellite" and try to hack it. Then, when WaReZD00D thinks he's realigning a satellite to beam porn into his TV, he gets caught. Then again, maybe not... Besides my requests are so slow from home, I think they are already been routed through space for years.
First of all, nuts to those who do the "I'm first" crap. Secondly, this looks like a very do-able project. While it may be even more geek to design your own board and program your own controller/processor, this looks accessible to the less esoteric among us.
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I've had a P.O.S. Toshiba satellite with 32mb of ram in it, running enlightenment without a hitch for about 2 years.
I've had very few problems concerning ram thus far with enlightenment. I've had around 32 windows open on 16 desktops without issue.
I've been noodling on this for a while and it is disconcerting to me that these media outlets are shutting down or floundering.
The dearth of weblog content is an incredible outlet for relevant information on world events, often relayed by the very participants in the news. However, too often, the linking goes back to major media outlets or a subsidary of one a large corporation.
While even further "elite" discussion boards and content sites will flourish (uber, A List Apart and Flak spring to mind), they lack the resources to disseminate their clever and unabashed content.
Publishing tools like blogger make it easy for the non-technical user to publish their thoughts, witticism, and commentary to the web. It is only when these sites reach critical mass (Kottke.org, Zeldman.com) that it becomes hugely expense to continue relaying the message.
I see the future of independent content lying in the hands of smaller, more focused community sites (Metafilter, The Fray)
Despite their shortcomings, these sites are paving the way backwards to a smaller, more closely knit internet the way it was several years ago.
Suzie Homemaker and Joe Six-pack will continue to the media that's delivered to them, and the rest who desire the independent voice will seek it and should they not find it, they will create it as they always have.
This seems to be more of a rant of a high-schooler who has just figured out how his school's social structure works. Moreover, it seems a desperate plea to make a social structure where the geeks can be cool. What is with these rants lately? It seems like they are getting more and more "Please Like me..."-ish all the time.
The old scour used to do this. It was a really popular way to get MP3 2-3 years ago.
In order to get chips into head phones that check for watermarks, documentation etc, that means the algorithm can't be that complex and could probably be reverse engineered quickly. One quick solution that comes to mind is to put a pic microcontroller in line between the source and the output device that routes all the musical data and generates a generic signature inline and sends it along to the speaker/headphone. The speaker/headphone thinks everything is on the up and up and only the inline device knows for sure. I don't think that sort of control method would work though, this is due, in part, to the easily circumventable nature as well as the stronger methods available within the component cd/mp3/dvd/movie player. But even if a SDMI type method is used, it won't be useful for long. General purpose computing devices always have more power to throw at cracking an algorithm than a limited device (e.g. DVD player) has to decode. The limiting factor on a chip that decodes in A/V equipment will be price. It would be extremely difficult to get strong crypto working in a player that is easily portable and cheap.
The difference here is that among the giants, the small personal internet will always be accessible. Unlike television stations, a website costs very little to run. Even if yahoo were swallowed up by a larger company and turned into a "walled garden", the internet at large wouldn't skip a beat. Sure, it might prevent new users, who aren't familiar with the internet, from seeing the diversity available, but the underground will remain the underground.
And as sites grow popular, it isn't always necessary that they collapse under their own weight, popular sites like blogger have turned to their audience/users for money to buy new servers and the users turned out in droves to pay for a service that they use and enjoy. The power of the internet is that it's a community and the imminent purchase of a large anchor site won't do much to affect the internet that we know and love.
And, not always is it in the best interest of a large corporate entity to subsume their internet properties. The failure of go.com is a powerful example of how corporatization of popular sites can destroy a user-base. And as this happens more and more, you can expect that companies will be more willing to let their affiliate sites be diverse.
Bottom Line: As long as people are passionate about the internet, there will always be independent content. An undercurrent to the mainstream.
Is java. They're not changing their curriculum to teach java, it's just the delivery platform. Read the release before you respond!
Right on, man. It's beyond me though how you got moderated down to flamebait on the first post and then modded up when you complained about it. I agree with your points totally. And what about the guys in porn, nobody says that they're exploited. exploiting women for the sake of men who find themselves unable to get a wife. Also, watching porn is very different from being married. Maybe some guy really loves his wife but doesn't want to hurt her by fscking her in the bum. Besides, if exploitation means making seven figures a year for a job that even the stupid can do, sign me up.
The simple fact that the American public focuses on pornography, crackers, and IPO's makes them important. If those are the issues that weigh heavily on the minds of the public, so be it. I'm willing to wager that nobody cares who implemented tcp/ip in unix or any other "important" technological issues. Nobody worries about the importance of the wankel rotary engine and it's importance to burning cleaner fuels in cars, so why should any care about the underlying processes leading to it's acceptance? That's what us engineers and programmers are here for, to care about what's at the heart of technological issues. My mom doesn't care how her house is heated, just so long as it is heated. If everyone took time to learn everything about all things in their lives, we'd spend all of our time getting nothing done, worrying about underappreciated scientists.
I program for a living. I realize that C++ is faster and cleaner, and yada yada yada, and I actually prefer to program in it. However, the last time I wrote a fully featured, robust application in less than a week(graphics automation, like debabelizer) it was in VB. Realtime code debugging, kick ass UI development and tight system integration make Visual Basic incredibly useful for developing on windows. Ease of development for windows is a powerful selling point, because, despite the chest-pounding that goes on about linux, %98 of the world still uses windows. I don't care if you trash talk microsoft, but honestly, sometimes they can produce quality (or at the very least ubiquitous.) work. I rambled, I know, but I had a point starting out...
Hey man, gnutella doesn't = linux. Also, .vbs files work exclusively on winblows. Even then you have to be a dumb ass and have scripting enabled. Fact checking. look into it.
I've done it, it's no real problem. The monitor's are definitely compatible and you might have a problem with some hd's but it should otherwise be ok.
I know it's offtopic, but it's Stuart Smalley...
Oh my that is an amusing story. What a bunch of goons.
Maybe this is a setup to get all of the script kiddies to find the "satellite" and try to hack it. Then, when WaReZD00D thinks he's realigning a satellite to beam porn into his TV, he gets caught. Then again, maybe not... Besides my requests are so slow from home, I think they are already been routed through space for years.
I won't be at school longer than a week until the end of the quarter. Damn the cruel fates that will cause me to miss this. Arghh.
First of all, nuts to those who do the "I'm first" crap. Secondly, this looks like a very do-able project. While it may be even more geek to design your own board and program your own controller/processor, this looks accessible to the less esoteric among us.