By adding "intelligent" switches
and other devices, they believe, the system could work faster, avoid traffic
jams, distinguish between high-priority data and other material that can wait,
and generally live up to its promise as a worldwide communications and
entertainment medium.
The great thing about the Internet is that no one person can change it to meet their own needs. In this guy's world, who would decide what was "high-priority data" and what "other material can wait?" The one whose originator is paying more money?
I'm glad that these people have little chance of changing anything. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I don't think this boycott has the high profile in the scientific community we'd like.
Yes, it does.
I'm working on my Ph.D., and I can tell you that many, many professors are aware of this. However, just like the Dmitry situation, they are either too lazy, or too stuck in their ways to really care.
This issue was brought up in a forum and one of the faculty asked, "If journals are free, what would motivate scientists to publish?" We answered him by asking another question: "What motivates them now to publish? Not money."
Steve Oldfield, an Emmy-winning entertainment reporter agreed to a cameo in "Sweethearts" after he read the script and saw that it was all about making fun of real-life hollywood. He thought that this could be a blast, but admitted that the average joe, who didn't even know what a junket was, would probably be left out.
Apparently, the studio got word of this, or talked to someone of the same opinion, and changed the script after the shooting was done. They removed most of what Crystal had wanted to movie to be about and tried to repackage it as what it is.
So it's little wonder that it failed, regardless of the casting.
However, Jan van den Beld, ECMA
secretary general, said the licence
would cover only Microsoft's own
implementation, not the standard
itself. "There are no known rights
owned by Microsoft that would require
a licensing agreement," he said.
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In an earlier/. story, an animator from ILM explained that the reason they dumped Windows for Linux was not the cost, but that they could customize Linux to meet their needs.
I remember when IBM got nailed for antitrust. Among other things, Apple petitioned to force IBM to stop the preditory practice of giving computers to schools.
Someone on a hacking-the-iopener BBS tried to blame the hackers for NPLI not turning a profit. One of the users turned around and went through the company's numbers. They found something interesting.
iOpeners cost ~$400 (most of that being the LCD screen). They sold them for either $99 or $199. To keep it simple, let's say that every unit sold went for $200. The price of service was $21.95/month, most of which went to the cost of said service.
So, NPLI was making about ~$10/month (I know I'm being generous) on every unit on which they had lost at least $200. This means that they *could not turn a profit for at least two years*!
I really think that NPLI was doomed with or without those of use who like computers in our kitchens.
I was one of those many people who ordered an iOpener, and then they tried to get me to agree to a Terms Of Service agreement before delivery (but after they had my money). I complained to the Better Business Bureau about this, and held on as long as I could.
I finally took my money back, but told the BBB that the situation had not been resolved to my satisfaction. Looks like my complaints (along with the hundred, or thousands of other would-be owners of counter-top Linux boxen) were heard.
I interned at the Storage Systems Division of IBM in San Jose, CA. We had a brown bag seminar where somebody big (his name escapes me) spoke on the furture of magnetic storage.
He had a great graph of the last 30+ years of GB/square inch, which seemed to coincide with Moore's Law (which, just like this article, addressed processing issues, I know. Bare with me here.). There were red lines drawn every ten years or so representing what scientists had believed to be the superparamagnetic barrier - the point at which it would be physically impossible to cram any more data onto a disk.
The guy had a great line every time one of these came up. "In 19XX Dr. XYZ at ABC University discovered the superparamagnetic barrier.... We broke it X years later." (X was usually a single digit.
My point is that it will be interesting to watch if these "scientific" finding will not require revision. True, this one may be based on sound scientific principles, but so were all those who attempted to predict the superparamagnetic barrier.
You bring up an interesting point, not with culture, put with prices.
Looking for a house here in the Rural Western US, I have found a lot of house which have been on the market for up to six months but whose owners are unwilling to give an inch on the price. Perhaps, their ability to see what others are asking in other regions has given them a false sense of what their property is worth.
Of course, this should be equalized in time with buyers seeing that in another comparable neighborhood (even if it's across the country) houses are going for much less.
Are we
going to be stuck with using real estate agents forever?
Sure, you can buy a car from an owner, you can buy a house from an owner. But that doesn't mean it's always the best way to purchase the property.
The net has allowed people to sell and buy homes sans realtor, but much of the money being put into the Net in this market, as in all markets, is coming from the people who have the money in the brick-n-mortor side of the market.
I could go list my home on eBay with maps, photos, etc. and sell it that way, or I could list it in Yahoo! classifieds, but that won't rid the world of realtors. Nor should it.
I use the Net to find the property I like, and then get me in touch with the agent or seller. Buying land online is much differenty from buying a car or CD online. In these cases, you can go down to your local dealer/retailer and test out the merchandise, while with a home, you really must see it in person, and it won't come to you.
Okay, I hear a lot about, for instance, how GUI A is better than GUI B. I beleive it is all person experience/preference. Who does the human-computer interaction research that could possibly back up claims of one GUI's superiority over another? And please don't tell me "Company A does TONS of GUI research" without a link or something.
Some of my concerns are that, if GUIs are more than just a personal preference based on past experiences, why are succesive desktop environments from the same vendor so different? or If GUIs are building on computer-human interactions, then why do they often dumb-down the new GUI so people familiar with past versions can use it?
In short, are these screens developed by a graphic designer, and then programed by a techie, or are they based on some research that might make Amiga easier to use rather then just look better?
I think that assembly should be the first language taught in CS.
When I took photography in high school, the teacher (who has since won all sorts of awards) began by having us construct and use a pin-hole camera out of cardboard, black paint, and duct tape.
We all complained that this had nothing to do with what we wanted to do in the class, but in the end, it taught me more about photography than anything else I've ever done.
My wife and I moved into a new apartment which did not come with cable. I'm a bit too lazy to get on the roof to hook up the antenna, so we just use the TV for the VCR, and get all our news etc. from the Web.
The only thing I miss is the sports. I've spent too many hours at my in-laws over the last couple of months for the NHL playoffs, but I should be good now until Fall.
Now it's the people who keep their money at
home in a mattress are the ones considered crazy.
Even though they who keep their money in mattresses are a bit strange, because the banks do not provide the money, they are still free to do this. Imagine if all the software in the world was ASP-ed.
I agree that ASPs have a ways to go and that someday they may be more viable, but the worry is that software providers will switch to an ASP system before its ready and force their customers to move or be left behind.
Using your comparison, it would be like the banks owning the currency, leaving people who don't use them to barter with goods.
When I worked at a faculty media/technology center on campus, a Microbio prof. asked if I could build an online database to which students could contribute their research. I contacted their admin to see what they were running and came across some rather startling news.
Due to a fear of virii and 'hackers' (and the fact that this was a "trained-monkey" MS admin), there was to be no remote ftp access to the server - not even for professors! Basically, I had to build the Db and front end, then burn it onto a CD and walk it across campus to the Biology building, and hand it to the admin.
Of course, there were some small bugs to be squashed. At least he let me email him the fixes.
I think the idea of monochrome LCD displays is about the same as black and white printers. Let's see, one can buy a good color printer for $75-150(US). How cheap would a B/W printer be?
Yet no body sells them because they would make less money on them.
I would recommend re-reading the books before seeing the movie. I read The Fellowship last summer for the same reason. My wife, who never has shown the slightest tinge of geekness, decided to give the book a try and read all three in two weeks. Now she's the one planning to camp out for movie tickets.
As for Tolkien, he was also an expert in medieval literature, which, although I do not claim to be an expert, I have studied. Tolkien borrowed heavily from the likes of Marie de France and Chretien de Troyes. His glory lies (IMHO), not in the originality of the ideas themselves, but in his ability to join these seemingly disjointed sources into one coherant, and fluid text.
His works also remind me of the Popul Vuh, where Quiche converts to Catholicism had to chose between retelling their folktales in "the light of Christiandom", or seeing their heritage lost forever. Tolkien did the same thing. He preserved the rich European folklore by repackaging it for the day in which he lived.
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Why would anybody go out looking for the
GIMP when they're already been given something for free when they bought something like a scanner?
Because sometimes you don't get the good Adobe Lite. I got an IBM scanner and it came with Arcsoft. I've been using Photoshop (at work - could never afford it for home) since 3.0, and the Arcsoft piece of junk lasted about a day (I did try to learn it).
I was just getting into Open Source at the time, and a friend sent me the URL for the Win32 of the GIMP. Man, what a difference. I can do just about anything I need in the GIMP because I never do print stuff at home. And it sure beats the crap that came with my scanner.
...with the interviewer's ability to roll with the punches.
She starts out saying "Lye-Nus" and "Lie-Nox", and assumes that no one can sell Linux. By the end, she's picked up on how Linus says his own name and the OS', and understands a little better that Open Source is about giving people the same rights you have.
If you can't listen to the whole thing, listen to her intro, then to the conclusion.
This came up in a Graduate forum in my program. Some good points were exchanged, but no one could argue with the following point.
Let's say I finished my PhD studies and wanted to publish my work. Well, I would pay an application fee to a publishing company, who then gets peers to review it (usually for free), then, if they accept my work, I pay per page to have it published. Oh, and they retain all rights to the work I paid for. Then they turn around and sell subscriptions to their quarterly journal for $6000 a pop. Sounds fair, huh?
The publishers are putting up a fight too. Some Chemistry journals are refusing to publish scholars who publish online first.
This should be interesting to follow because there is nowhere that information should roam more free than in academia.
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The great thing about the Internet is that no one person can change it to meet their own needs. In this guy's world, who would decide what was "high-priority data" and what "other material can wait?" The one whose originator is paying more money?
I'm glad that these people have little chance of changing anything. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Yes, it does.
I'm working on my Ph.D., and I can tell you that many, many professors are aware of this. However, just like the Dmitry situation, they are either too lazy, or too stuck in their ways to really care.
This issue was brought up in a forum and one of the faculty asked, "If journals are free, what would motivate scientists to publish?" We answered him by asking another question: "What motivates them now to publish? Not money."
Apparently, the studio got word of this, or talked to someone of the same opinion, and changed the script after the shooting was done. They removed most of what Crystal had wanted to movie to be about and tried to repackage it as what it is.
So it's little wonder that it failed, regardless of the casting.
However, Jan van den Beld, ECMA secretary general, said the licence would cover only Microsoft's own implementation, not the standard itself. "There are no known rights owned by Microsoft that would require a licensing agreement," he said.
In an earlier /. story, an animator from ILM explained that the reason they dumped Windows for Linux was not the cost, but that they could customize Linux to meet their needs.
"Prima Donna" has a negative connotation. I prefer to be called "Technically Gifted"
I remember when IBM got nailed for antitrust. Among other things, Apple petitioned to force IBM to stop the preditory practice of giving computers to schools.
iOpeners cost ~$400 (most of that being the LCD screen). They sold them for either $99 or $199. To keep it simple, let's say that every unit sold went for $200. The price of service was $21.95/month, most of which went to the cost of said service.
So, NPLI was making about ~$10/month (I know I'm being generous) on every unit on which they had lost at least $200. This means that they *could not turn a profit for at least two years*!
I really think that NPLI was doomed with or without those of use who like computers in our kitchens.
I finally took my money back, but told the BBB that the situation had not been resolved to my satisfaction. Looks like my complaints (along with the hundred, or thousands of other would-be owners of counter-top Linux boxen) were heard.
He had a great graph of the last 30+ years of GB/square inch, which seemed to coincide with Moore's Law (which, just like this article, addressed processing issues, I know. Bare with me here.). There were red lines drawn every ten years or so representing what scientists had believed to be the superparamagnetic barrier - the point at which it would be physically impossible to cram any more data onto a disk.
The guy had a great line every time one of these came up. "In 19XX Dr. XYZ at ABC University discovered the superparamagnetic barrier.... We broke it X years later." (X was usually a single digit.
My point is that it will be interesting to watch if these "scientific" finding will not require revision. True, this one may be based on sound scientific principles, but so were all those who attempted to predict the superparamagnetic barrier.
Tesla has an SI measurment named after him (magnetic density, if I recall). Maybe we could name some measurement, like GUI usability, after Raskin.
"Yeah, that system looks pretty, but it has a real low Raskin Rating, you know."
Looking for a house here in the Rural Western US, I have found a lot of house which have been on the market for up to six months but whose owners are unwilling to give an inch on the price. Perhaps, their ability to see what others are asking in other regions has given them a false sense of what their property is worth.
Of course, this should be equalized in time with buyers seeing that in another comparable neighborhood (even if it's across the country) houses are going for much less.
The net has allowed people to sell and buy homes sans realtor, but much of the money being put into the Net in this market, as in all markets, is coming from the people who have the money in the brick-n-mortor side of the market.
I could go list my home on eBay with maps, photos, etc. and sell it that way, or I could list it in Yahoo! classifieds, but that won't rid the world of realtors. Nor should it.
I use the Net to find the property I like, and then get me in touch with the agent or seller. Buying land online is much differenty from buying a car or CD online. In these cases, you can go down to your local dealer/retailer and test out the merchandise, while with a home, you really must see it in person, and it won't come to you.
Some of my concerns are that, if GUIs are more than just a personal preference based on past experiences, why are succesive desktop environments from the same vendor so different? or If GUIs are building on computer-human interactions, then why do they often dumb-down the new GUI so people familiar with past versions can use it?
In short, are these screens developed by a graphic designer, and then programed by a techie, or are they based on some research that might make Amiga easier to use rather then just look better?
We all complained that this had nothing to do with what we wanted to do in the class, but in the end, it taught me more about photography than anything else I've ever done.
My wife and I moved into a new apartment which did not come with cable. I'm a bit too lazy to get on the roof to hook up the antenna, so we just use the TV for the VCR, and get all our news etc. from the Web.
The only thing I miss is the sports. I've spent too many hours at my in-laws over the last couple of months for the NHL playoffs, but I should be good now until Fall.
Even though they who keep their money in mattresses are a bit strange, because the banks do not provide the money, they are still free to do this. Imagine if all the software in the world was ASP-ed.
I agree that ASPs have a ways to go and that someday they may be more viable, but the worry is that software providers will switch to an ASP system before its ready and force their customers to move or be left behind.
Using your comparison, it would be like the banks owning the currency, leaving people who don't use them to barter with goods.
Due to a fear of virii and 'hackers' (and the fact that this was a "trained-monkey" MS admin), there was to be no remote ftp access to the server - not even for professors! Basically, I had to build the Db and front end, then burn it onto a CD and walk it across campus to the Biology building, and hand it to the admin.
Of course, there were some small bugs to be squashed. At least he let me email him the fixes.
Yet no body sells them because they would make less money on them.
I would recommend re-reading the books before seeing the movie. I read The Fellowship last summer for the same reason. My wife, who never has shown the slightest tinge of geekness, decided to give the book a try and read all three in two weeks. Now she's the one planning to camp out for movie tickets.
As for Tolkien, he was also an expert in medieval literature, which, although I do not claim to be an expert, I have studied. Tolkien borrowed heavily from the likes of Marie de France and Chretien de Troyes. His glory lies (IMHO), not in the originality of the ideas themselves, but in his ability to join these seemingly disjointed sources into one coherant, and fluid text.
His works also remind me of the Popul Vuh, where Quiche converts to Catholicism had to chose between retelling their folktales in "the light of Christiandom", or seeing their heritage lost forever. Tolkien did the same thing. He preserved the rich European folklore by repackaging it for the day in which he lived.
Because sometimes you don't get the good Adobe Lite. I got an IBM scanner and it came with Arcsoft. I've been using Photoshop (at work - could never afford it for home) since 3.0, and the Arcsoft piece of junk lasted about a day (I did try to learn it).
I was just getting into Open Source at the time, and a friend sent me the URL for the Win32 of the GIMP. Man, what a difference. I can do just about anything I need in the GIMP because I never do print stuff at home. And it sure beats the crap that came with my scanner.
She starts out saying "Lye-Nus" and "Lie-Nox", and assumes that no one can sell Linux. By the end, she's picked up on how Linus says his own name and the OS', and understands a little better that Open Source is about giving people the same rights you have.
If you can't listen to the whole thing, listen to her intro, then to the conclusion.
http://www.harktheherald.com/article.php?sid=143 65
It's not just people getting mad at officials or other fans/players. Some parent had a kid poison his teammates because they had made fun of him.
You bring up an interesting point.... Does the FDA have juristiction in Space? I wonder how pot would grow in 0G.
Let's say I finished my PhD studies and wanted to publish my work. Well, I would pay an application fee to a publishing company, who then gets peers to review it (usually for free), then, if they accept my work, I pay per page to have it published. Oh, and they retain all rights to the work I paid for. Then they turn around and sell subscriptions to their quarterly journal for $6000 a pop. Sounds fair, huh?
The publishers are putting up a fight too. Some Chemistry journals are refusing to publish scholars who publish online first.
This should be interesting to follow because there is nowhere that information should roam more free than in academia.