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newsQuakes - visual summary of world news overlaid on globe
Visual News - similar to site posted, but with multiple categories including the usefile hot category (hot chicks pictured in today's news ). The "hot filter" is Bayesian filter that automatically seaches for attractive women.
Karlin Lillington, a respected journalist for the Irish Times newspaper, maintains a weblog and has posted a more technical analysis here after talking to some people from MIT's media lab in Dublin, Ireland.
Some snippets:
"He says that what Adnan has done is re-engineer the efficiency of how a browser operates, which allows it to run up to six times faster (but usually not that much faster -- two to four times faster is more common). So it's not managing bandwidth but managing the way the browser itself handles and presents information. The researcher (whom I know and will vouch for) says that instead of simply tinkering with existing code he went down to the socket layer and reworked it at the protocol level (now, many of you guys will know the significance of this better than me, I'm just reporting the conversation). He added that it is incredibly clever work and stunning that a 16 year old has done this (I am not scrimping on the superlatives because that is what was said)."
So perhaps there is some truth in this after all.
newsQuakes
Another site to look at is infobreakfast. This site summarizes the news in 10 words or less, with a nice clean interface to present it. News content is much like Wired - techie stuff with a little general and world news thrown in. Updated every hour.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking you need multimedia on the handheld. I have a HP Journada with 32Mb of RAM. With only one additional application installed and a very small amount of user data (I don't use it) I can fit 1, that's right, ONE mp3 on it before the memory is full.
Even if I could afford a CF card with decent capacity, the battery life sucks (screen b/light stays on while you play music). Imagine opening your PDA in a meeting to check something to find that playing mp3's on the way into work has zapped your battery.
The integrated device will never happen. It involves too many compromises.
"1000 users is NOTHING to Exchange. You can easily do that on one server in a single site, and it'll run itself."
1000 users is NOTHING in comparison to a decent SMTP/POP3 server. I run a small free email service that has 250,000 <b>active</b> users on a <b>single twin-CPU machine that is over 4 years old</b>. Performance is reasonable and CPU usage averages about 15%.
Exchange has difficulty reaching these levels of scalability without serious hardware, but having said that, I still think it is a very good server for people that require the scheduling features. No open-source product comes close to Exchange in this respect. Products that use the open-standards protocols for calendaring and scheduling have been slow to arise.
Manufacturing current solar arrays produces horrible pollution and takes about 5-10 years to break even on that count (when compared to burning fossil fuels to produce the same amount of electricity)
What about the cost of building internal combustion engines and the like? Surely these carry at least as much of a penalty as manufacturing solar cells.
Even better - what about a simple Perl script that you would run a couple of times a day that would trawl through your cookies file and simply fill the data field with useless junk (or even better, carefully encoded incorrect values)
It put an entry in the right click menu of your browser that would block this URL in future but this feature does not seem to be the current release (1.2.2)
Snowcrash mentioned a similar idea where freelance information gatherers would submit information to a central library, and get paid it each time it's accessed. This seems like a very relevant information dissemination model for our increasingly information overloaded times.
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newsQuakes - visual summary of world news overlaid on globe
Visual News - similar to site posted, but with multiple categories including the usefile hot category (hot chicks pictured in today's news ). The "hot filter" is Bayesian filter that automatically seaches for attractive women.
My news sites, Infobreakfast and newsQuakes have been using a similar algorithm for the last 3 years to produce a useful summary view of world news.
Karlin Lillington, a respected journalist for the Irish Times newspaper, maintains a weblog and has posted a more technical analysis here after talking to some people from MIT's media lab in Dublin, Ireland.
Some snippets:
"He says that what Adnan has done is re-engineer the efficiency of how a browser operates, which allows it to run up to six times faster (but usually not that much faster -- two to four times faster is more common). So it's not managing bandwidth but managing the way the browser itself handles and presents information. The researcher (whom I know and will vouch for) says that instead of simply tinkering with existing code he went down to the socket layer and reworked it at the protocol level (now, many of you guys will know the significance of this better than me, I'm just reporting the conversation). He added that it is incredibly clever work and stunning that a 16 year old has done this (I am not scrimping on the superlatives because that is what was said)."
So perhaps there is some truth in this after all.
newsQuakes
Another site to look at is infobreakfast. This site summarizes the news in 10 words or less, with a nice clean interface to present it. News content is much like Wired - techie stuff with a little general and world news thrown in. Updated every hour.
Even if I could afford a CF card with decent capacity, the battery life sucks (screen b/light stays on while you play music). Imagine opening your PDA in a meeting to check something to find that playing mp3's on the way into work has zapped your battery.
The integrated device will never happen. It involves too many compromises.
"1000 users is NOTHING to Exchange. You can easily do that on one server in a single site, and it'll run itself."
1000 users is NOTHING in comparison to a decent SMTP/POP3 server. I run a small free email service that has 250,000 <b>active</b> users on a <b>single twin-CPU machine that is over 4 years old</b>. Performance is reasonable and CPU usage averages about 15%.
Exchange has difficulty reaching these levels of scalability without serious hardware, but having said that, I still think it is a very good server for people that require the scheduling features. No open-source product comes close to Exchange in this respect. Products that use the open-standards protocols for calendaring and scheduling have been slow to arise.
What about the cost of building internal combustion engines and the like? Surely these carry at least as much of a penalty as manufacturing solar cells.
www.infobreakfast.com
Even better - what about a simple Perl script that you would run a couple of times a day that would trawl through your cookies file and simply fill the data field with useless junk (or even better, carefully encoded incorrect values)
It put an entry in the right click menu of your browser that would block this URL in future but this feature does not seem to be the current release (1.2.2)
Snowcrash mentioned a similar idea where freelance information gatherers would submit information to a central library, and get paid it each time it's accessed. This seems like a very relevant information dissemination model for our increasingly information overloaded times.