Google is an excellent example why this isn't solved. So, my employer wanted to link to some of our partners. We have a really high google rank. But we couldn't do that, because google would punish us because they think we're getting paid to link to our partners. Google is actually broken.
What is broken about it? The thing is that google thinks that the link has semantics, and the PageRank algorithm is totally based on that flaw. A link doesn't have any semantics.
So, what have we done about it? RDF is actually the simplest thing that could possibly work: Instead of just a link between two documents, there is a triple, where the semantics of the link is defined.
For a lot of businesses, this flaw of google is a problem, because you cannot talk about things that google thinks is spam.
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Being someone who is seriously contemplating something relatively similar, I have to disagree. My trip will not be as technically difficult as hers, but it will be even more remote. There simply exists no way to reliably communicate with the outside world, not even satellite phone, and a helicopter rescue would be extremely hazardous to the rescuers, and so we won't even tell them where we're going so as not expose them to the risk.
Doing those climbs, being the first person on earth to enter one of those very few unchartered lands on the planet, having to ties, that's freedom. It is exploration. It is what has driven our species to what it is today. For most, the most important thing is that they are safe. But for some, we're not really living that way. We need to try out the limits to know where they are. And we need to feel alive and free.
In doing that, of course you try as hard as you can not to kill yourself. But it is not stupid, it is exploration.
Well, it is an interesting approach, and it is not the only one, perhaps an even more interesting approach is FindMeOn by Jonathan Vanasco, a Perl guy, and Appleseed, whose author is posting here on Slashdot.
But I believe that singe-site reliance is inheritently evil, standardisation is required. I think there is a very interesting approach in SIOC - Semantically Interlinked Online Communities, which seeks to make it possible to share all data across different sites, make it possible to interlink data in the Semantic Web, manage identities, and so on. SIOC has proper funding and is getting momentum too.
Well, yeah, but as howcome says in TFA, since Opera is totally standards based, and can be swapped out for any free component at a later time, if it is the only full browser that will run on the system, it may be better than nothing. I think it is quite likely that Konqi can be fitted on it too, but Opera is a very flexible and good browser on a resource-limited system.
Well, yeah, the box had a low MaxClients setting, because sysadmins thought that was all it was going to take, but they yanked it up and it worked. A slashdotting isn't what it used to be.:-)
Does it have Wifi? I think Wifi is really important, because while at a hotspot, like in your home, you could route your voice calls over VoIP. That would make it so much cheaper, and could be a killer app for Joe Average. I really think we ought to do this.
That said, I'll stand in line to get one of these, if the hardware is a bit rough. I'm sick and tired of my Sony Ericsson K700i, I've had it less than a year, and it is just totally borked allready. It is important that a phone can take a bit of beating.
Actually, that size argument is really significant to me. I was on a climbing trip to Peru a few years ago with a biggish SLR, and it turned out that I didn't get many very exciting pictures. The camera was simply too big, I couldn't pull it out when there was interesting motives. I got a lot of decent pictures on my recent trip to Madagascar with a small point and shoot digital camera, but yeah, I really miss some SLR features too... I need something in the middle.
Errr, well, how can one possibly resist: I'm working for Opera creating Opera Community. Those who have used it might have noticed some problems, but it is getting decent performance and stability now. And it has a pretty nice feature set. So, why do you need LiveJournal? We only care about getting more users, so you'd never see something like that here.
Also, Opera 9 Beta 1 is out today, which includes a generic content blocker. It has a nicer UI than FF's AdBlock, and does pretty much the same job.
currently opera answer for duplicate bugs has been "go ask on forums". wtf ?
The thing is with Bugzilla, duplicate bugs is considered and annoyance, at the very least, even a huge time-sink by others. What we're working to do is make it an asset instead, it should give us an idea what the major annoyances are, and also with different reports, we'll more easily see the nuances that will help reproduce the problem. So, we're taking a different approach to this, but I think you'll like the result, when we get there!:-)
Well, I guess it is time to kill DNS alltogether. DNS is centralized by design. Tim Berners-Lee doesn't like centralized designs, and has referred to DNS as the achilles heel of the internet, and I think he has been thinking about replacements. What we need to remove control from any monolithic, centralized body. Make it webly. Then, they can argue over themselves, but control, they won't get.
Your comment brings up something that has bugged me a lot. Here in Norway, I have felt that our current government has pretty much acted as Bush's lapdog. Protests were so severe that Norway did not officially support the invasion, but once it was done, troops were sent in. It has also recently surfaced that Norwegian weapons were on loan to American troops during the invasion itself, clearly against the will of 80 % of the Norwegian population.
The response is that Norway security is strongly dependent on America, and one doesn't just tell a friend no when they ask for help, why should they help you when you need it? Well, fair enough.
But Bush is not my friend. My friends are all those Americans I meet daily on IRC and mailing lists. My friends are all those Americans who I can have a reasoned with, regardless of their political stance. Nowadays, the world is small, America is not some place far away, it is a place where I know real people. Also, I know that not only did at least 48% vote against Bush, there were also a lot of "none of the above" folks who didn't vote because their vote would not count anyway. My friendship therefore extends to the vast majority of the American population.
Somehow, the Norwegian administration thinks it is wrong to tell a friend "buddy, in this case you're wrong". Everyone is wrong now and then, and everyone needs critical corrective, I consider that an important part of friendship.
Besides, as it happens, I think that Bush has robbed my friends of their freedom. There is no larger failure of character than to let down a friend who is being robbed of freedom, and so, I feel that the robber, Bush, is not worthy of my support, not worthy of our support, as a nation. Therefore, I feel that the "we need to support America to get the security in return" argument is invalid, as long as Bush is robbing my friends of freedoms, he does not provide neither me nor my friends with security, on the contrary. My security, in fact, our security as humans, depends on that everyone supports each others freedom. Only when my friends are free, they can provide me with security.
Sorry for the long and possibly incoherent rambling. The result of the election hit me like a hammer, and there hasn't been a lot of focus on the things I have to accomplish today. But I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
Thank you for being a total troll and completely avoiding the main thrust of my post.
Hehe, well, you did bring it on yourself by calling the parent "moron", didn't you? Besides, you did apparently not detect the irony of my post, I willingly acknowledged that my post was an ad hominem attack on Mr. Strieber. Chill, dude.
I just mentioned the film as an aside because the parent post did in an infantile jab at what the grandparent poster wrote.
And you made an infantile jab at what he wrote.
Are you arguing that the Gulf stream does not have a significant effect on the climate of the northern hemisphere?
Heh, what did I write about that...? The last sentence of my post, well, for the humour impaired, it does mean that the Gulf Stream is indeed important, probably the most important reason why I think it is nice to live at 60 degrees north. It also means that yes, there are extreme cases where a catastrophic alteration of the Gulf Stream could happen.
But to say that there is solid science behind that movie, and to say that it even portrays a realistic scenario... Hm, how could I illustrate that, uhm... Well, from Big Bang theory, you can get "bouncing universes", where the Universe starts as infinitly big, shrinks to a certain smallest value and then bounces back. What kind of universe you get is determined from two parameters, and so, this is something that directly follows from exactly the same theory as the conventional "almost flat but expanding universe". If one made a movie based on that we lived in a bouncing universe, well, that would have as much to do with reality as the movie you referred to as based on solid science.
That's my point. And I'm not trying to troll, just trying to be funny. I may be failing that, though.
Well said! Everyone agrees something is going on, but there is a genuine fight over why. I know personally a NASA scientist I respect very much, and he has ver compelling arguments: Many studies simply come out with much to small error bars. And I have been to many lecture, and climatologists generally doesn't impress me.
My friend certainly isn't funded by oil interests, and my posting history should reveal that I'm very left leaning. Still, I think the evidence for a human factor is poor.
Yet, the position of both my friend and I is, and has always been: We really can't use that much resources we do now. We have to cut down. But it has to happen in a way that's scientifically sound, and from the available evidence, we don't know that this implies a sole focus on CO_2. It could well be that that focus is completely wrong, and it may be disastrous to focus all attention on CO_2.
What is needed is a much saner public debate. We really don't need the "You can pry my SUV from my cold dead fingers" vs. "oil pimp" type of debate we have now, that's really destructive.
They were using some solid science in that film moron.
Well, no need to go ad hominem.
But since you got started, well Whitley Strieber wrote it. Where do we know that name from? Art Bell? Alien abductions? Science has not really ever been a part of his life at any time. I'd say the gulf stream is a pretty nice thing to have, and yes, there are worst case scenarios that could alter it significantly in a relatively short timespan. It doesn't make the movie more interesting, though.
Heh. I made a bold prediction around then (probably in 1995): "Rampant piracy will make it very difficult to make money on pr0n, and since 1) nobody does pr0n for free 2) there is a stigma around pr0n that will make law enforcement down-prioritize both breakins and copyright violation, and
3) the Web will effectively replace paper for most types of communication, it will break the pr0n industry's back, and leave behind only artistic expressions of nudity".
I guess I was wrong...:-)
But I have been pretty accurate in predicting other things, such as the scale of the spam problem, that executing e-mail attachments with just a double-click will result in a virus problem, phishing scams, and so on...
Yep, this parent should probably be modded up. 100 F is a cold sauna, so cold one would hardly bother. 200 F is much more realistic, I've done like 190 F myself. And running out in like -5F, so I could almost do the 200 here in Norway.
There's nothing like a nice sauna and plunging nude out in the soft snow, and running back in. It's a real rush, and simply pleasant. In a hot sauna, going out to cool off is a big part of enjoying it. But I can imagine the 300 difference being a bit extreme....:-)
"Some left-leaning"... Err, if you'd know what you were talking about, you'd recognized those names as the "who is who" of reformists in Iran. Those are the people who devoted their lives to reform and revolution in Iran. If you wanted to create a free Iran, those are the people you would want to support. Can you find me the name of a few Iranian reformists still in Iran who do things that matter, who have not signed on to that letter?
You know, it is very interesting to note that many republicans think they know better what's good for Iran than the people who have devoted their lives to that cause...
Sure, there is a "kill the mullahs, flatten Qom!"-crowd, who might support a US invasion. In fact, when the US invaded Iraq many bloggers expressed "cool, it is us next", but they are in minority now, in fact, I have not seen anyone do that lately.
The fact is, the vast majority of reformists in Iran see that Bush has never supported the liberation of oppressed people, because he has never understood how to do that. Reformists see Bush has only been pushing extremism. Bush has strongly supported Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov who has cemented his power with US help, just like the US did with Saddam Hussein wehn Donald Rumsfeld made sure Saddam would get all the support he needed. As for Afghanistan, I hope you see that a single and somewhat poorly executed election doesn't make Afghans free in any sane sense of the word. Go ask a few women how "free" they feel...
Well, about the news value, I discovered it last night, went over to Netcraft to see what they had to say, figured it should be somewhere on/. but decided it was probably not interesting enough for the front page, so I just posted it to my journal under the title Netcraft confirms: GWBush is dying. Bummer, eh?
If anyone I considered voting for ever said that he wanted to be world leader, I would wave him off as a total idiot. That's the problem. If the candidates are to consider themselves "World Leaders" they have to be elected by the world. Basic democratic principles.
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What is broken about it? The thing is that google thinks that the link has semantics, and the PageRank algorithm is totally based on that flaw. A link doesn't have any semantics.
So, what have we done about it? RDF is actually the simplest thing that could possibly work: Instead of just a link between two documents, there is a triple, where the semantics of the link is defined.
For a lot of businesses, this flaw of google is a problem, because you cannot talk about things that google thinks is spam.
Being someone who is seriously contemplating something relatively similar, I have to disagree. My trip will not be as technically difficult as hers, but it will be even more remote. There simply exists no way to reliably communicate with the outside world, not even satellite phone, and a helicopter rescue would be extremely hazardous to the rescuers, and so we won't even tell them where we're going so as not expose them to the risk.
Doing those climbs, being the first person on earth to enter one of those very few unchartered lands on the planet, having to ties, that's freedom. It is exploration. It is what has driven our species to what it is today. For most, the most important thing is that they are safe. But for some, we're not really living that way. We need to try out the limits to know where they are. And we need to feel alive and free.
In doing that, of course you try as hard as you can not to kill yourself. But it is not stupid, it is exploration.
Well, it is an interesting approach, and it is not the only one, perhaps an even more interesting approach is FindMeOn by Jonathan Vanasco, a Perl guy, and Appleseed, whose author is posting here on Slashdot.
But I believe that singe-site reliance is inheritently evil, standardisation is required. I think there is a very interesting approach in SIOC - Semantically Interlinked Online Communities, which seeks to make it possible to share all data across different sites, make it possible to interlink data in the Semantic Web, manage identities, and so on. SIOC has proper funding and is getting momentum too.
Well, yeah, but as howcome says in TFA, since Opera is totally standards based, and can be swapped out for any free component at a later time, if it is the only full browser that will run on the system, it may be better than nothing. I think it is quite likely that Konqi can be fitted on it too, but Opera is a very flexible and good browser on a resource-limited system.
Well, yeah, the box had a low MaxClients setting, because sysadmins thought that was all it was going to take, but they yanked it up and it worked. A slashdotting isn't what it used to be. :-)
Does it have Wifi? I think Wifi is really important, because while at a hotspot, like in your home, you could route your voice calls over VoIP. That would make it so much cheaper, and could be a killer app for Joe Average. I really think we ought to do this.
That said, I'll stand in line to get one of these, if the hardware is a bit rough. I'm sick and tired of my Sony Ericsson K700i, I've had it less than a year, and it is just totally borked allready. It is important that a phone can take a bit of beating.
Actually, that size argument is really significant to me. I was on a climbing trip to Peru a few years ago with a biggish SLR, and it turned out that I didn't get many very exciting pictures. The camera was simply too big, I couldn't pull it out when there was interesting motives. I got a lot of decent pictures on my recent trip to Madagascar with a small point and shoot digital camera, but yeah, I really miss some SLR features too... I need something in the middle.
Also, Opera 9 Beta 1 is out today, which includes a generic content blocker. It has a nicer UI than FF's AdBlock, and does pretty much the same job.
The thing is with Bugzilla, duplicate bugs is considered and annoyance, at the very least, even a huge time-sink by others. What we're working to do is make it an asset instead, it should give us an idea what the major annoyances are, and also with different reports, we'll more easily see the nuances that will help reproduce the problem. So, we're taking a different approach to this, but I think you'll like the result, when we get there! :-)
Well, I guess it is time to kill DNS alltogether. DNS is centralized by design. Tim Berners-Lee doesn't like centralized designs, and has referred to DNS as the achilles heel of the internet, and I think he has been thinking about replacements. What we need to remove control from any monolithic, centralized body. Make it webly. Then, they can argue over themselves, but control, they won't get.
Well, it doesn't do exactly that, but there is a "Report a site problem" under help that sends some details about borked sites to Opera.
Vorbis wants to congratulate MP3 on his big day, but, well, hints "uh, well, old man, it is time you die, no?"
You can find links to the torrents for this release in the Forum.
The response is that Norway security is strongly dependent on America, and one doesn't just tell a friend no when they ask for help, why should they help you when you need it? Well, fair enough.
But Bush is not my friend. My friends are all those Americans I meet daily on IRC and mailing lists. My friends are all those Americans who I can have a reasoned with, regardless of their political stance. Nowadays, the world is small, America is not some place far away, it is a place where I know real people. Also, I know that not only did at least 48% vote against Bush, there were also a lot of "none of the above" folks who didn't vote because their vote would not count anyway. My friendship therefore extends to the vast majority of the American population.
Somehow, the Norwegian administration thinks it is wrong to tell a friend "buddy, in this case you're wrong". Everyone is wrong now and then, and everyone needs critical corrective, I consider that an important part of friendship.
Besides, as it happens, I think that Bush has robbed my friends of their freedom. There is no larger failure of character than to let down a friend who is being robbed of freedom, and so, I feel that the robber, Bush, is not worthy of my support, not worthy of our support, as a nation. Therefore, I feel that the "we need to support America to get the security in return" argument is invalid, as long as Bush is robbing my friends of freedoms, he does not provide neither me nor my friends with security, on the contrary. My security, in fact, our security as humans, depends on that everyone supports each others freedom. Only when my friends are free, they can provide me with security.
Sorry for the long and possibly incoherent rambling. The result of the election hit me like a hammer, and there hasn't been a lot of focus on the things I have to accomplish today. But I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
And oh...: Group Hug!
Hehe, well, you did bring it on yourself by calling the parent "moron", didn't you? Besides, you did apparently not detect the irony of my post, I willingly acknowledged that my post was an ad hominem attack on Mr. Strieber. Chill, dude.
And you made an infantile jab at what he wrote.
Heh, what did I write about that...? The last sentence of my post, well, for the humour impaired, it does mean that the Gulf Stream is indeed important, probably the most important reason why I think it is nice to live at 60 degrees north. It also means that yes, there are extreme cases where a catastrophic alteration of the Gulf Stream could happen.
But to say that there is solid science behind that movie, and to say that it even portrays a realistic scenario... Hm, how could I illustrate that, uhm... Well, from Big Bang theory, you can get "bouncing universes", where the Universe starts as infinitly big, shrinks to a certain smallest value and then bounces back. What kind of universe you get is determined from two parameters, and so, this is something that directly follows from exactly the same theory as the conventional "almost flat but expanding universe". If one made a movie based on that we lived in a bouncing universe, well, that would have as much to do with reality as the movie you referred to as based on solid science.
That's my point. And I'm not trying to troll, just trying to be funny. I may be failing that, though.
My friend certainly isn't funded by oil interests, and my posting history should reveal that I'm very left leaning. Still, I think the evidence for a human factor is poor.
Yet, the position of both my friend and I is, and has always been: We really can't use that much resources we do now. We have to cut down. But it has to happen in a way that's scientifically sound, and from the available evidence, we don't know that this implies a sole focus on CO_2. It could well be that that focus is completely wrong, and it may be disastrous to focus all attention on CO_2.
What is needed is a much saner public debate. We really don't need the "You can pry my SUV from my cold dead fingers" vs. "oil pimp" type of debate we have now, that's really destructive.
Well, no need to go ad hominem.
But since you got started, well Whitley Strieber wrote it. Where do we know that name from? Art Bell? Alien abductions? Science has not really ever been a part of his life at any time. I'd say the gulf stream is a pretty nice thing to have, and yes, there are worst case scenarios that could alter it significantly in a relatively short timespan. It doesn't make the movie more interesting, though.
I guess I was wrong... :-)
But I have been pretty accurate in predicting other things, such as the scale of the spam problem, that executing e-mail attachments with just a double-click will result in a virus problem, phishing scams, and so on...
There's nothing like a nice sauna and plunging nude out in the soft snow, and running back in. It's a real rush, and simply pleasant. In a hot sauna, going out to cool off is a big part of enjoying it. But I can imagine the 300 difference being a bit extreme.... :-)
OK! :-)
You know, it is very interesting to note that many republicans think they know better what's good for Iran than the people who have devoted their lives to that cause...
Sure, there is a "kill the mullahs, flatten Qom!"-crowd, who might support a US invasion. In fact, when the US invaded Iraq many bloggers expressed "cool, it is us next", but they are in minority now, in fact, I have not seen anyone do that lately.
The fact is, the vast majority of reformists in Iran see that Bush has never supported the liberation of oppressed people, because he has never understood how to do that. Reformists see Bush has only been pushing extremism. Bush has strongly supported Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov who has cemented his power with US help, just like the US did with Saddam Hussein wehn Donald Rumsfeld made sure Saddam would get all the support he needed. As for Afghanistan, I hope you see that a single and somewhat poorly executed election doesn't make Afghans free in any sane sense of the word. Go ask a few women how "free" they feel...
That's a pretty severe accusation, and completely baseless. I challenge you to present any evidence for this accusation, or to post an apology!
You're spreading FUD (as exemplified by the title of this thread), and if you expect that FUD will go unchallenged, you're wrong.
But you are right in saying this thread is over, I have no interest in continue a debate with someone who is making baseless accusations.
Well, about the news value, I discovered it last night, went over to Netcraft to see what they had to say, figured it should be somewhere on /. but decided it was probably not interesting enough for the front page, so I just posted it to my journal under the title Netcraft confirms: GWBush is dying. Bummer, eh?
If anyone I considered voting for ever said that he wanted to be world leader, I would wave him off as a total idiot. That's the problem. If the candidates are to consider themselves "World Leaders" they have to be elected by the world. Basic democratic principles.
Damn, I never thought I'd post a comment to draw the attention of moderators, it usually just adds to noise... But this one is really good...