Markets these days (read post dot-com) are very conservative. The main issue with video distribution is noone is A) sure it will work, and B) there are business models out there *based* on the fact that you can't get the content any where else. (Think Supper Bowl commercial time slots) So you've got the one side that doesn't what to invest in something that has no (we'll say commercialy) proven market and the other end that just has no intrest.
Enter Google
Google starts playing with searching video. Fine. Issue is that all video on TV is copyrighted and 'Fair Use' is not what it used to be. Fine. So someone says, "Hey, lets get people to upload they're own video and we can test with that." Great. The blogger group shifts from photo blogs to video blogs. Google has content. User satisfied the strange need to document the life and times of their gerbil. Everyone is happy. You have eyes. It's a small stretch once you have content to play with management. (And management in a manor that you control, not some big company demands) It's brilliant! They are going to end up with a content base (Dude, now my rock band can distribute mp3's and our killer concert footage) and audience. It's built, the market's there. All the big companies have to do is sign up.
Google is getting big, and I would argue that they are starting to approch the SpiderMan-great-power-great-responsibility dilemma (some may argue we're past that) Our last remaining hope is that the key mentality in leadership that is leading to Google's success is linked the good side of the force. i.e. if evil forces take over the innovation dies. (Still, anyone want to bet on if Google-AOL-TimeWarner exists a few years from now.)
The one question that this raises is the big one on security. I've run Seti at a number of places. At one place I came in one day to find my computer off and all of the cat5 pulled out of my hub. The network admin (not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree) had noticed "strange traffic" on the network and traced it down to my machine. He then claimed that the whole network was acting funny and it was my fault. I'm no MSCE (nor do I ever care to be), but I've admined enough networks in my day. I looked at his "strange traffic" only to find that the PDC on the network has barfed (they of course *had* no BDC) so when the pissing contest started, my souped up NT 4 dev box (which was of course running as I had Seti on it) won and became the new PDC. The network admin saw the strange charts on my screen and had freaked that some l33t haxor had hacked my box and was taking over the network. I helped him fix the issue, got my "talking to" by higher ups, and tweaked my registry so my box couldn't do that again.
Yes there is was a paranoid, inexperienced admin, but Seti *was* closed source code and so I really couldn't be sure that it wasn't a nice big back door to my network. Something to think about when entering the wonderful world of "lending" clock cycles. Frankly the idea of the app rebooting the PC and running it's own OS (with no checks and balances on accessing the local drive, etc) is not something that I would sign up for myself. I think the idea is great, but it's best left in a trusted client and preferably in a Java sandbox or the like to make sure that they're not borrowing more than just clock cycles.
What's the next claim? Women who use Oxyrides in their vibrators experience 15% increased intensity in their orgasms?
Sure you laugh now, but have you seen the
Panabrator? I didn't believe it myself when I fist saw it. (Come on! Folks in marketing had fun with that one!)
Ease your tension and massage away stress with Panasonic's Panabrator Portable hand-held massagers.
They may not have made head way on the music side, but buying MGM sure reeks of a sure fire way to battle it's way on the Blu-Ray format. Want Singing in the Rain or Gone With the Wind in HiDef? Guess you'll be going the Blu-Ray route.
Be didn't become the base for OS X but did get scooped up by PalmSource for OS 5 (Cobalt). I had odd deja vu ohhing and aweing at the Cobalt demo last year much in the same way I ohhed and awed at my friends Be box (yes he actually had one if those strange blue cubes with the blinky lights) many moons ago. At that time I thought "Kewl... let's just hope that the curse of Be does not follow it to this new incarnation."
A year later and on the verge of PalmOne releasing yet another OS 4.x (sorry 'Garnet') device. I know that the curse is alive and well. (And now PalmSource is chasing that which is Linux and shiney)
Don't get me wrong. I think Be was way ahead of it's time and love seeing it everytime it pops up. It's just not ment to be folks.
Is this I time warp or what? Yes it's kewl, but scheesh. Holy luggable batman! Granted I'm biased as I used to use petite Sony VAIO laptop (haven't bothered to scrape up the cash to update the thing) so 3lb to 8lbs is a bit of a jump.
Seriously though, the trend is lighter and longer battery. Bigger and power hungry applications are the domain of the desktop (but hey, if they want to start using laptop tech to reduce power consumption, more power to them.) My back/shoulder demands it and lets face it, yes there is that sweet spot in the local coffee shop with the outlet but it's usually known by everyone else and hard to get. (Tip for the urban hacker, carry a power strip/extention cord. If you're planning to camp down for a while you can either negotiate with someone else outlet camping or at least make some new friends. Saved me a couple of times. And a great way to meet mobile individuals of the opposite gender, might I add.:)
Last I checked Oliver Twist was written by Charles Dickens whose been dead for over 125 years. I was sure this fell under public domain, but I could be wrong.
Makes you wonder. At some point here there's going to start to be battles over who owns the rights to sections of the bible! Where will it end? (might clean up the 10 commandments issues as a simple copyright infringment.:)
We're starting with the same base argument that you run into in this context (i.e. same as phone, cable, trains, etc) There's service and there's infrastructure. WiFi is no different. I think that WiFi *signal* should be ubiquitous. i.e. It's like power, water and street lights. Service, i.e. you're way to get out the the net, should be what your pay for (and where the market plays). In a perfect world, I go to the coffee shop, and I get a signal. Now, what I get with that signal is up to the coffee shop. If they want to pay a provider to provide net access, fine. Otherwise, much like long distance was, you can have an account with a provider and away you go.
It's really quite managable, the city could invest in the backbone, and use incentives to get private businesses to provide the signal (like some cities do street lighting) Providers would buy gateways into the local system (to further fund the upkeep).
In the end, everyone is happy (almost) customers get WiFi, the burden of getting a signal out to the far reaches of the area are fixed (funded by a small tax and possibly special assesments for the extreme cases) vendors get a level playing field (opp, I guess they're not really happy then, are they >;), any technology marches on.
Now, before the ton of replies filter in on the issues with government, higher taxes, etc, etc, I want to point out the telephone, railroad, US Highway, etc. Perfect, no. In place and functioning? You bet.
You also had current textbooks, notebooks, pencils, crayons, etc. You shouldn't scoff at this is not that easy. It's not about technology, it's about accessabilty. Schools today (in the US no less) *still* struggle with funding for current textbooks (which, I might add, are rather spendy even by US standards). If you can replace the cost (or in this case the basic lack of access to a Walmart) with technology it's properly applied. I actually see a stronger case in Africa than in the US for this because of the ready supply here of other things.
I think the one thing that people should be working to 'Open Source' in the US is quality educational materials. Devices like this would then replace costs of textbooks rather than compete.
IMHO using technology here is a Good Thing(TM). Education is the best economic equalizer. One has to wonder the effect if things like Stephenson's Young Lady's Illustrated Primer really existed.
"You've gone too far," he said. "Are washing machines next?"
Yah, imagine the day where your clothing vendors strike deals with the washing machine vendors and the soap manufacturers. Suddenly the RFID on you underware demands that it be washed with Tide and your wife's bra wants Woolite. What a mess! Talk about brand lockin'
They must get a lot better coverage than mine. It always craps out inside my house, any store, and downtown with buildings higher than 5 stories.
Seriously. If you're "tracking" someone, they can fall off the map for quite a while before they show up again, and for very legitimate reasons. I don't see how this is reliable enough to trust.
Better to test them on the criminals I guess. Makes you wonder how many different devices you're going to have once you're a ex-con driving in California with your GPS taxed car on that nifty pay-as-you go GPS insurance scheme.
C3D now Constellation 3D was talking up tech that sounded very familiar to this a few years back. Claimed that the CDs could be made for ~ the same cost as existing ones. Apparently they had a 10 layer prototype and were working on a 100 layer that was to be a 1TB disk. (for you holographic-storage-must-be-square types they even had a credit-card sized rewritable media format that they were pushing too) I can't seem to find a home page anymore and they're stock is not doing so hot.
Perhaps they were a little too far ahead of their time. (Or were just vapor to begin with)
Where's Zaphod's other fscking head!! Even if it is on his tongue or on his ass for that matter! Marvin looks 'cute' not depressed. That and the fact that I learned this from the toy line is the icing on the cake. Nothing is sacred here folks.
No I'm not going to get over it either. You can't Jar-Jar-ify Marvin and get box office revenue from me. I'd be interested to know how much of this Adams signed up for and how much he was boxed into.
Actually the concept of Google finally moving on the semantic web has been mentioned a few times. If you look at it, the browser is really the last step in really making that happen. Sure you can surf through a google proxy (like you do everytime you use Google images) and Google can watch what you follow to help rank things, but imagine if you where creating relevance data with every link you followed. It's big brotherish, yes, but would be gold as far as ranking things.
Course there are other nice things you could do like define your own request types for pulling meta-data, etc.
Let's face it. Google is in the position that Micro$oft has been in for a while, only in the web space as opposed to the OS space. (Case in Point) They could finally convince people to get on board the semantic express
If Google just sticks to their motto, they'll be fine.
This was already made They just wouldn't release it. (Never saw it but, I've heard it was that bad. I mean, not even "direct to VHS" bad, but "burn the reel" bad.)
You can see the trailer for the previous one at the begining of a flick called Carnisaur. (I'm ashamed to admit that I rented the movie not to watch it, but for the preview before it.)
If anyone knows of a leaked copy of the other version, I'd like to hear first hand what the issues with it were.
While I agree that it would be a good idea to give someone a heads up on the kernel team (an maybe even suggest a fix while you're at it) via say, personal e-mail, things are a bit different in the open source world than say Microsoft where it's easier to keep things behind closed doors. Besides that, for me at least, Friday at 5pm is about when I'd get to even worry about fixing something like this. So the timing works for me.
Personaly I say more power to people that are taking the time to find flaws in Linux and make them public in a manor other than letting a worm rip out. On the including the code, it looks like this is a tricky one to exploit. If someone finds an issue with my code, I thank them for showing me where it fails and how to reproduce it. It saves me time.
That and I think we need a little rattling now and again. Simply having the belief that you are running a secure system can lead to bad things. Reminds me of progs like AirSnort. Thinks like this are too easily brushed off as 'theoretical' until someone puts out code to prove it.
So is it just me, or does it seem like Slashdot, knowing that they are about to post a link and bury a server, should maybe offer a temporary torrent system for stories that they post. This was only 60M. They have the user accounts all set up and ready to go. They could even offer karma to seeders (or yank Karma from leechers that bail)
I'm not saying host the files forever, just till they fall off the main page or so. It's the same with stories. A CacheDot would ease the first three posts commenting on the missing server.
Just a thought. Don't get me wrong, if you Slashdot yourself for shits and giggles, you get what you asked for, but for people that get submitted by other people, it's a different story.
(Plus half the time./ blows more bandwidth on the banner ad on the page then it would take to just show you the picture/article/etc)
Given the huge Apple rumour mill, it is not impossible that the product name was even known a few months before the launch.
INOLB to my knowledge, this means nothing. If Apple was going to launch it, the name should have been a 'Trade Secret' before the Trademark was applied for.
If a trade secret is leaked, it's not a secret any more. The whole 'dibs' mentality does not apply here. If I found out that Apple was going to release
an iGlass product and I registered the trademark before them, tough for them! Now if they made it a trade secret and prove that I had access to the info and was under some agreement to keep it under wraps they could try and nail me with something.
Personally I think this whole trademark crap is out of hand. Even more so when you have these brilliant marketing people coming up with simple schemes like put an 'i' in front of everything, or
Micro$oft'$ brilliant 'Word' (at least they tried a bit with Outlook)
Apple has some good original idea's, but not always. Note how after Apple went after eMachines for their iMac clone (which was some what of a valid case) they go on to come out with an 'eMac', again, brilliant!
I think someone at Webster needs to claim prior art and end the madness.
Prolly not. Most things I've read indicate that even the tamer wavelengths of UV used in black lights can still cause
cataracts
I would imagine that the UV LEDs would cause problems too (with enough exposure) although there is not yet an LED out there at the right wavelength to do real damage (and be useful for things like steralizing things, or say, keeping water in water cooled PCs from getting slimy... if I'm wrong about this please post a link here as there are many that would like to know) There are many fun links (like here and
here) on the fun effects of the different forms of UV. Most deal with tanning beds and sun, but I'm sure if you spend enough time in blacklight, the same applies.
I'm sure in the end most Slashdotter's will opt for more enertaining ways of going blind. >;^)
The had one set up at the MN state fair a few years back and where giving rides. (The track was only 30 feet but it was still cool) I asked them if anyone was seriously looking at the concept and they said that several Japanese groups had flew over just to see it. For Minnesota at least the design looked like it would need work. (Snow makes everything so much more interesting:) The car is actually just mounted on a car that travels inside the track. The design was open to allow things to fall through (again snow, morons, etc) but I had visions of little critters crawling in and becoming internal road kill. (yum)
The sad thing is that despite the fact that the company is local, Minnesotans tend to frown on public transit in general. So it's not likely to show up here first. It was funny to watch people that were against the light rail line flip over to loving the thing after the numbers came back on ridership. (Double the expected numbers I might add) And come Dec. 4 you'll be able to ride the rail from the airport to the Mall of America or downtown. If you look at it, it's really more useful to out of towners (coming for Viking games, conferences, etc than people that live in Minneapolis, but it gets used.
The SkyWeb system does have the advantage that it can be elevated which solves most of the right-of-way issues that we have now. (Minneapolis should have committed to a subway system years ago, too late now. At least in the cold we can scurry around our downtown habitat trail ) I for one, would be for it. It's just that people don't seem to have the public transit mindset around here.
I'm going to patent the GOTO operator and charge HUGE royalties for use. I'll be rich *and* be doing a service to readable code everywhere. Course I might hurt some job security, but hey, ya have to break a few eggs to make an omlet, right?
Looks like they're going to support GAIM. With the 'Corporate' backing of the project is it likely that the vendors (AIM, YAHOO, etc) will work with Novell/GAIM on modules? I see this becomming another X type setup where the modules are closed source but the client open. Mixed feelings on that one. On the one hand there's the "Everything Needs To Be Open" camp, but to some extent a little give in some areas can help drive adoption (i.e. a closed Linux solution is better than no Linux solution) in some areas.
I guess I'm all for it. I've used GAIM in Windows at work, where for a while having a Yahoo account was a business need. (Soon replaced by a closed system by everyones favorite 'inovator') The biggest issue I had in pushing the solution was the fact that the protocol kept 'breaking' (which is not a big selling point) I put up with it, switching back to the ad-ridden version for the times GAIM was out, but something as simple as a closed source driver and I could have sold the solution (pushing the non-adware/privacy aspect) When we got the order from on high to switch to an internal solution, if everyone was already sold on GAIM as a client, moving something like an internal Jabber server would have been an easy sell. (No need to retrain users).
I guess it's kind of the Zen approch to Open Source adoption. Sometimes you need to give up some control to later gain it.
I'm a Palm guy, mainly out of utility. I got a Palm III when they first came out mainly to replace the cheap 256k organizer I had (which was a gift) and also with the hopes that I could code for the thing. I had it for 6 years. It was insanely useful for reading and held most of my info. I had realized though that it was an organizer first, and a computer second. While I did finally upgade to a TT (mainly for size) I'm still only using the thing for the PIM functionality. That what I've liked about the PalmOS... it's kept that focus. Now with the advent of VGA, WiFi, and hard drives. What you have is *NOT* a PDA, it's a PC. A laptop really (with the battery life of one to boot) It's time to commit to the OS wars in the "PDA" space. Dell is in the perfect position to make a device that has the choice of PPC, PalmOS(Cobalt that is) and yes, even Linux. As a hardware vendor they owe it to themselves. I would buy one of these today... if it had Cobalt or Linux on it. (mainly do to legacy apps I need) I know people that say the same about a T3 running PPC. I say it's time for choice. The Dell's and PalmOne's of the world have nothing to lose but sales!
Sounds a bit like The Shockwave Rider...
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"And the tachnical breakthrough odds were also nice and fat. For old time's sake he put another thousand on the introduction of an Earth-Moon gravislide before 2025. That was a perennial dissappointment."
Course in the book there are other areas that are bet on as well, like political areas. You may have heard of the Iowa Electronic Markets with the election so close.
It's still gambling anyway you slice it. (Of course
campaign contributions still seem to be the place for big payoffs there)
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Markets these days (read post dot-com) are very conservative. The main issue with video distribution is noone is A) sure it will work, and B) there are business models out there *based* on the fact that you can't get the content any where else. (Think Supper Bowl commercial time slots) So you've got the one side that doesn't what to invest in something that has no (we'll say commercialy) proven market and the other end that just has no intrest.
Enter Google
Google starts playing with searching video. Fine. Issue is that all video on TV is copyrighted and 'Fair Use' is not what it used to be. Fine. So someone says, "Hey, lets get people to upload they're own video and we can test with that." Great. The blogger group shifts from photo blogs to video blogs. Google has content. User satisfied the strange need to document the life and times of their gerbil. Everyone is happy. You have eyes. It's a small stretch once you have content to play with management. (And management in a manor that you control, not some big company demands) It's brilliant! They are going to end up with a content base (Dude, now my rock band can distribute mp3's and our killer concert footage) and audience. It's built, the market's there. All the big companies have to do is sign up.
Google is getting big, and I would argue that they are starting to approch the SpiderMan-great-power-great-responsibility dilemma (some may argue we're past that) Our last remaining hope is that the key mentality in leadership that is leading to Google's success is linked the good side of the force. i.e. if evil forces take over the innovation dies. (Still, anyone want to bet on if Google-AOL-TimeWarner exists a few years from now.)
The one question that this raises is the big one on security. I've run Seti at a number of places. At one place I came in one day to find my computer off and all of the cat5 pulled out of my hub. The network admin (not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree) had noticed "strange traffic" on the network and traced it down to my machine. He then claimed that the whole network was acting funny and it was my fault. I'm no MSCE (nor do I ever care to be), but I've admined enough networks in my day. I looked at his "strange traffic" only to find that the PDC on the network has barfed (they of course *had* no BDC) so when the pissing contest started, my souped up NT 4 dev box (which was of course running as I had Seti on it) won and became the new PDC. The network admin saw the strange charts on my screen and had freaked that some l33t haxor had hacked my box and was taking over the network. I helped him fix the issue, got my "talking to" by higher ups, and tweaked my registry so my box couldn't do that again.
Yes there is was a paranoid, inexperienced admin, but Seti *was* closed source code and so I really couldn't be sure that it wasn't a nice big back door to my network. Something to think about when entering the wonderful world of "lending" clock cycles. Frankly the idea of the app rebooting the PC and running it's own OS (with no checks and balances on accessing the local drive, etc) is not something that I would sign up for myself. I think the idea is great, but it's best left in a trusted client and preferably in a Java sandbox or the like to make sure that they're not borrowing more than just clock cycles.
What's the next claim? Women who use Oxyrides in their vibrators experience 15% increased intensity in their orgasms?
Sure you laugh now, but have you seen the Panabrator? I didn't believe it myself when I fist saw it. (Come on! Folks in marketing had fun with that one!)
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Truth usually tends to be stranger than fiction.
They may not have made head way on the music side, but buying MGM sure reeks of a sure fire way to battle it's way on the Blu-Ray format. Want Singing in the Rain or Gone With the Wind in HiDef? Guess you'll be going the Blu-Ray route.
I say if you build it, they will come.
Be didn't become the base for OS X but did get scooped up by PalmSource for OS 5 (Cobalt). I had odd deja vu ohhing and aweing at the Cobalt demo last year much in the same way I ohhed and awed at my friends Be box (yes he actually had one if those strange blue cubes with the blinky lights) many moons ago. At that time I thought "Kewl... let's just hope that the curse of Be does not follow it to this new incarnation."
A year later and on the verge of PalmOne releasing yet another OS 4.x (sorry 'Garnet') device. I know that the curse is alive and well. (And now PalmSource is chasing that which is Linux and shiney)
Don't get me wrong. I think Be was way ahead of it's time and love seeing it everytime it pops up. It's just not ment to be folks.
Is this I time warp or what? Yes it's kewl, but scheesh. Holy luggable batman! Granted I'm biased as I used to use petite Sony VAIO laptop (haven't bothered to scrape up the cash to update the thing) so 3lb to 8lbs is a bit of a jump.
:)
Seriously though, the trend is lighter and longer battery. Bigger and power hungry applications are the domain of the desktop (but hey, if they want to start using laptop tech to reduce power consumption, more power to them.) My back/shoulder demands it and lets face it, yes there is that sweet spot in the local coffee shop with the outlet but it's usually known by everyone else and hard to get. (Tip for the urban hacker, carry a power strip/extention cord. If you're planning to camp down for a while you can either negotiate with someone else outlet camping or at least make some new friends. Saved me a couple of times. And a great way to meet mobile individuals of the opposite gender, might I add.
Last I checked Oliver Twist was written by Charles Dickens whose been dead for over 125 years. I was sure this fell under public domain, but I could be wrong.
:)
Makes you wonder. At some point here there's going to start to be battles over who owns the rights to sections of the bible! Where will it end? (might clean up the 10 commandments issues as a simple copyright infringment.
We're starting with the same base argument that you run into in this context (i.e. same as phone, cable, trains, etc) There's service and there's infrastructure. WiFi is no different. I think that WiFi *signal* should be ubiquitous. i.e. It's like power, water and street lights. Service, i.e. you're way to get out the the net, should be what your pay for (and where the market plays). In a perfect world, I go to the coffee shop, and I get a signal. Now, what I get with that signal is up to the coffee shop. If they want to pay a provider to provide net access, fine. Otherwise, much like long distance was, you can have an account with a provider and away you go.
It's really quite managable, the city could invest in the backbone, and use incentives to get private businesses to provide the signal (like some cities do street lighting) Providers would buy gateways into the local system (to further fund the upkeep).
In the end, everyone is happy (almost) customers get WiFi, the burden of getting a signal out to the far reaches of the area are fixed (funded by a small tax and possibly special assesments for the extreme cases)
vendors get a level playing field (opp, I guess they're not really happy then, are they >;), any technology marches on.
Now, before the ton of replies filter in on the issues with government, higher taxes, etc, etc, I want to point out the telephone, railroad, US Highway, etc. Perfect, no. In place and functioning? You bet.
You also had current textbooks, notebooks, pencils, crayons, etc. You shouldn't scoff at this is not that easy. It's not about technology, it's about accessabilty. Schools today (in the US no less) *still* struggle with funding for current textbooks (which, I might add, are rather spendy even by US standards). If you can replace the cost (or in this case the basic lack of access to a Walmart) with technology it's properly applied. I actually see a stronger case in Africa than in the US for this because of the ready supply here of other things.
I think the one thing that people should be working to 'Open Source' in the US is quality educational materials. Devices like this would then replace costs of textbooks rather than compete.
IMHO using technology here is a Good Thing(TM). Education is the best economic equalizer. One has to wonder the effect if things like Stephenson's Young Lady's Illustrated Primer really existed.
"You've gone too far," he said. "Are washing machines next?"
Yah, imagine the day where your clothing vendors strike deals with the washing machine vendors and the soap manufacturers. Suddenly the RFID on you underware demands that it be washed with Tide and your wife's bra wants Woolite. What a mess! Talk about brand lockin'
They must get a lot better coverage than mine. It always craps out inside my house, any store, and downtown with buildings higher than 5 stories.
Seriously. If you're "tracking" someone, they can fall off the map for quite a while before they show up again, and for very legitimate reasons. I don't see how this is reliable enough to trust.
Better to test them on the criminals I guess. Makes you wonder how many different devices you're going to have once you're a ex-con driving in California with your GPS taxed car on that nifty pay-as-you go GPS insurance scheme.
C3D now Constellation 3D was talking up tech that sounded very familiar to this a few years back. Claimed that the CDs could be made for ~ the same cost as existing ones. Apparently they had a 10 layer prototype and were working on a 100 layer that was to be a 1TB disk. (for you holographic-storage-must-be-square types they even had a credit-card sized rewritable media format that they were pushing too) I can't seem to find a home page anymore and they're stock is not doing so hot.
Perhaps they were a little too far ahead of their time. (Or were just vapor to begin with)
So I looked at the link and found this
Where's Zaphod's other fscking head!! Even if it is on his tongue or on his ass for that matter! Marvin looks 'cute' not depressed. That and the fact that I learned this from the toy line is the icing on the cake. Nothing is sacred here folks.
No I'm not going to get over it either. You can't Jar-Jar-ify Marvin and get box office revenue from me. I'd be interested to know how much of this Adams signed up for and how much he was boxed into.
Actually the concept of Google finally moving on the semantic web has been mentioned a few times. If you look at it, the browser is really the last step in really making that happen. Sure you can surf through a google proxy (like you do everytime you use Google images) and Google can watch what you follow to help rank things, but imagine if you where creating relevance data with every link you followed. It's big brotherish, yes, but would be gold as far as ranking things.
Course there are other nice things you could do like define your own request types for pulling meta-data, etc.
Let's face it. Google is in the position that Micro$oft has been in for a while, only in the web space as opposed to the OS space. (Case in Point) They could finally convince people to get on board the semantic express
If Google just sticks to their motto, they'll be fine.
This was already made They just wouldn't release it. (Never saw it but, I've heard it was that bad. I mean, not even "direct to VHS" bad, but "burn the reel" bad.)
You can see the trailer for the previous one at the begining of a flick called Carnisaur. (I'm ashamed to admit that I rented the movie not to watch it, but for the preview before it.)
If anyone knows of a leaked copy of the other version, I'd like to hear first hand what the issues with it were.
While I agree that it would be a good idea to give someone a heads up on the kernel team (an maybe even suggest a fix while you're at it) via say, personal e-mail, things are a bit different in the open source world than say Microsoft where it's easier to keep things behind closed doors. Besides that, for me at least, Friday at 5pm is about when I'd get to even worry about fixing something like this. So the timing works for me.
Personaly I say more power to people that are taking the time to find flaws in Linux and make them public in a manor other than letting a worm rip out. On the including the code, it looks like this is a tricky one to exploit. If someone finds an issue with my code, I thank them for showing me where it fails and how to reproduce it. It saves me time.
That and I think we need a little rattling now and again. Simply having the belief that you are running a secure system can lead to bad things. Reminds me of progs like AirSnort. Thinks like this are too easily brushed off as 'theoretical' until someone puts out code to prove it.
So am I the only one that thinks step three of the setup screen (SpyNet(TM)) looks like some poor dude standing in front of a bullseye?
No seriously, what's up with the target symbol thingy?
So is it just me, or does it seem like Slashdot, knowing that they are about to post a link and bury a server, should maybe offer a temporary torrent system for stories that they post. This was only 60M. They have the user accounts all set up and ready to go. They could even offer karma to seeders (or yank Karma from leechers that bail)
./ blows more bandwidth on the banner ad on the page then it would take to just show you the picture/article/etc)
I'm not saying host the files forever, just till they fall off the main page or so. It's the same with stories. A CacheDot would ease the first three posts commenting on the missing server.
Just a thought. Don't get me wrong, if you Slashdot yourself for shits and giggles, you get what you asked for, but for people that get submitted by other people, it's a different story. (Plus half the time
Given the huge Apple rumour mill, it is not impossible that the product name was even known a few months before the launch.
INOLB to my knowledge, this means nothing. If Apple was going to launch it, the name should have been a 'Trade Secret' before the Trademark was applied for. If a trade secret is leaked, it's not a secret any more. The whole 'dibs' mentality does not apply here. If I found out that Apple was going to release an iGlass product and I registered the trademark before them, tough for them! Now if they made it a trade secret and prove that I had access to the info and was under some agreement to keep it under wraps they could try and nail me with something.
Personally I think this whole trademark crap is out of hand. Even more so when you have these brilliant marketing people coming up with simple schemes like put an 'i' in front of everything, or Micro$oft'$ brilliant 'Word' (at least they tried a bit with Outlook)
Apple has some good original idea's, but not always. Note how after Apple went after eMachines for their iMac clone (which was some what of a valid case) they go on to come out with an 'eMac', again, brilliant!
I think someone at Webster needs to claim prior art and end the madness.
Prolly not. Most things I've read indicate that even the tamer wavelengths of UV used in black lights can still cause cataracts I would imagine that the UV LEDs would cause problems too (with enough exposure) although there is not yet an LED out there at the right wavelength to do real damage (and be useful for things like steralizing things, or say, keeping water in water cooled PCs from getting slimy... if I'm wrong about this please post a link here as there are many that would like to know) There are many fun links (like here and here) on the fun effects of the different forms of UV. Most deal with tanning beds and sun, but I'm sure if you spend enough time in blacklight, the same applies.
I'm sure in the end most Slashdotter's will opt for more enertaining ways of going blind. >;^)
The had one set up at the MN state fair a few years back and where giving rides. (The track was only 30 feet but it was still cool) I asked them if anyone was seriously looking at the concept and they said that several Japanese groups had flew over just to see it. For Minnesota at least the design looked like it would need work. (Snow makes everything so much more interesting :) The car is actually just mounted on a car that travels inside the track. The design was open to allow things to fall through (again snow, morons, etc) but I had visions of little critters crawling in and becoming internal road kill. (yum)
The sad thing is that despite the fact that the company is local, Minnesotans tend to frown on public transit in general. So it's not likely to show up here first. It was funny to watch people that were against the light rail line flip over to loving the thing after the numbers came back on ridership. (Double the expected numbers I might add) And come Dec. 4 you'll be able to ride the rail from the airport to the Mall of America or downtown. If you look at it, it's really more useful to out of towners (coming for Viking games, conferences, etc than people that live in Minneapolis, but it gets used.
The SkyWeb system does have the advantage that it can be elevated which solves most of the right-of-way issues that we have now. (Minneapolis should have committed to a subway system years ago, too late now. At least in the cold we can scurry around our downtown habitat trail ) I for one, would be for it. It's just that people don't seem to have the public transit mindset around here.
I'm going to patent the GOTO operator and charge HUGE royalties for use. I'll be rich *and* be doing a service to readable code everywhere. Course I might hurt some job security, but hey, ya have to break a few eggs to make an omlet, right?
Looks like they're going to support GAIM. With the 'Corporate' backing of the project is it likely that the vendors (AIM, YAHOO, etc) will work with Novell/GAIM on modules? I see this becomming another X type setup where the modules are closed source but the client open. Mixed feelings on that one. On the one hand there's the "Everything Needs To Be Open" camp, but to some extent a little give in some areas can help drive adoption (i.e. a closed Linux solution is better than no Linux solution) in some areas.
I guess I'm all for it. I've used GAIM in Windows at work, where for a while having a Yahoo account was a business need. (Soon replaced by a closed system by everyones favorite 'inovator') The biggest issue I had in pushing the solution was the fact that the protocol kept 'breaking' (which is not a big selling point) I put up with it, switching back to the ad-ridden version for the times GAIM was out, but something as simple as a closed source driver and I could have sold the solution (pushing the non-adware/privacy aspect) When we got the order from on high to switch to an internal solution, if everyone was already sold on GAIM as a client, moving something like an internal Jabber server would have been an easy sell. (No need to retrain users).
I guess it's kind of the Zen approch to Open Source adoption. Sometimes you need to give up some control to later gain it.
I'm a Palm guy, mainly out of utility. I got a Palm III when they first came out mainly to replace the cheap 256k organizer I had (which was a gift) and also with the hopes that I could code for the thing. I had it for 6 years. It was insanely useful for reading and held most of my info. I had realized though that it was an organizer first, and a computer second. While I did finally upgade to a TT (mainly for size) I'm still only using the thing for the PIM functionality. That what I've liked about the PalmOS... it's kept that focus. Now with the advent of VGA, WiFi, and hard drives. What you have is *NOT* a PDA, it's a PC. A laptop really (with the battery life of one to boot) It's time to commit to the OS wars in the "PDA" space. Dell is in the perfect position to make a device that has the choice of PPC, PalmOS(Cobalt that is) and yes, even Linux. As a hardware vendor they owe it to themselves. I would buy one of these today... if it had Cobalt or Linux on it. (mainly do to legacy apps I need) I know people that say the same about a T3 running PPC. I say it's time for choice. The Dell's and PalmOne's of the world have nothing to lose but sales!
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner had this concept back in ~1975:
"And the tachnical breakthrough odds were also nice and fat. For old time's sake he put another thousand on the introduction of an Earth-Moon gravislide before 2025. That was a perennial dissappointment."
Course in the book there are other areas that are bet on as well, like political areas. You may have heard of the Iowa Electronic Markets with the election so close. It's still gambling anyway you slice it. (Of course campaign contributions still seem to be the place for big payoffs there)