Whenever I post something where the e-mail address goes up on a Web page, I sufficiently de-spamify it so that the harvesters won't know what to do with it (i.e. it's an obfuscated form of my address).
Are you talking about obfuscating it in source code (mailto:)? If so tell me how! I always figured that if a browser could read it so could a harvester, but would love to be proved wrong.
I have a question. I am interested in but know next to nothing about this stuff. I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether the networks that are being talked about in these articles are theoretical ideals that are different in form as networks that are actually in use.
As far as I understand it, a lot of the models used in scalability analyses of Gnutella seem to assume a homogeneously connected network. Whereas analyses of the Internet show there to be (a) a few highly connected sites (b) a large number of sites that are not well connected at all, and (c) a tendency for new network connections to appear on already well-connected sites, rather than on less-well connected ones.
I was wondering if there would be a difference between a network's scalability if (a) the distribution of edges between nodes was considered homogeneous, or if (b) the distribution of nodes was considered as skewed (e.fg. a Zipf distribution). Is case (b) more scalable than case (a)?
in some ways the cell phone providers would do better to provide maps like this, as it would educate users as to the real (rather than advertised) capabilities of cell phones.
i worked for a cell phone company a couple of years ago and the tech support was constantly tied up with calls, and the refurbishment warehouse with functioning returns, because people assumed that the coverage maps provided by the company were accurate binary state renditions of coverage (i.e. if you're within the area you can make a call, and if you're outside it you can't). for instance, if you use a road map to drive to the next state, when you cross the line, you're in that state, there's not a 74% probability that you're there (it's 100%). of course cell phone maps are only probability maps related to tower placement, signal strength, and topography, but most people choose from experience not to see it that way, as all their experience has been with road maps.
so you'd get people calling in who tried to make calls downtown/in their basement/behind a hill, or whatever, convinced that their phones were broken cuz they could not get a signal when the map said they could... often they'd just return a functioning phone and get a replacement mailed to them. it was a horrendous waste of money. ideally the customers need to be told that there's only a probability of making a call from any particular area. but i guess the marketing dept. would put a stop to that.
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you're right. 'internet paradox' was taken as 'proof' of asocialisation not by kraut et al., but by others, including the media, most of whom had probably not read the paper. i remember quite a lot of self-satisfied, 'i told you so, the internet makes you depressed' hooey/fud from around that time...
Not a new idea, though.
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interestingly this idea - that new information technologies cause people to become less social - has been a topic of conversation for 2 to 3 thousand years... plato talked about the damage that the introduction of writing did to social relationships, and of the difference between hearing someone speak in person and reading (second-hand) something that they have written (see the 'phaedrus' and also the 'cratylus'). you can read histories of the printing press that make the same argument, and it has also been made of the telephone, radio, tv., etc.
there's a mile of similar commentary on the internet (such as neil postman, clifford stoll, etc.). robert kraut carried out the 'internet paradox' surveys that became the sociological proof of this effect, although the earlier findings were later recast.
i'm not saying that there are not social changes caused by the introduction of new information technologies. we are information driven beings, after all. however, we have to be wary of assigning values to them that are either ultimately 'good' or 'bad,' as despite all these changes, we somehow seem to be able to cope with them...
... Ramadan is not part of the mid-winter 'holiday season.'
It is a festival that is determined by the lunar calendar.As lunar months are shorter than solar months, the Muslim lunar year is shorter than the western solar year by about 11 days. Ramadan thus occurs about 11 days earlier each year and can thus occur at all times of the year.
When I was in Morocco about 13 years ago, it was in about April. 13 years later year, Ramadan is about 11 x 13 = 143 days earlier, or November-December, which is where it was last year.
well, i[really]anal, but i thought that public domain was enough, you don't need to 'tm' everything.
anyway the cnet article says:
eDigital said its Treo is pronounced "tray-o" and has an accent on the "o," while Handspring pronounces its device like the word "trio" and has a mark over the "e." Both devices have a U.S. trademark and are not the only ones with that honor. Women's shoe brand Nine West also has a trademark on Treo for use "in the field of shoes and of accessories, namely handbags, belts and hosiery," according to the Patent and Trademark Office's Web site.
TREO: PORTABLE MUSIC PLAYER FOR STORAGE AND PLAYBACK OF DIGITAL MUSIC, Serial Number 78031260, Filing Date October 18, 2000 (APPLICANT) Hy-Tek Mfg. Co. Inc. CORPORATION ILLINOIS 1998 Bucktail Lane Sugar Grove ILLINOIS 60554
TREO: computers, computer monitors, computer hardware, computer peripherals, handheld computers, personal digital assistants, electronic organizers, electronic notepads, telephones, computer gaming machines, microprocessors, computer memories, electrical circuit boards, printed circuit boards, memory cards, computer monitors, liquid crystal displays, computer keyboards, computer cables, modems, computer printers, videophones, computer disc drives, and photographic and video cameras; computer software, namely, prerecorded computer programs for personal information, management, database management software, character recognition software, telephony management software, electronic mail and messaging software, paging software, database synchronization software, computer programs for accessing, browsing and searching online databases; internet appliances; instruction manuals supplied with the foregoing
[pretty comprehensive, huh?]
Serial Number 76307493, Filing Date August 29, 2001, (APPLICANT) Handspring, Inc. CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 189 Bernardo Avenue Mountain View CALIFORNIA 94043
TREO: RETAIL STORE SERVICES IN THE FIELD OF SHOES AND OF ACCESSORIES, NAMELY HANDBAGS, BELTS
AND HOSIERY.
TREO ENGINEERING: CAR AUDIO PRODUCTS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPEAKERS, AMPLIFIERS, ACCESSORIES AND RELATED PROMOTIONAL ITEMS. Serial Number 76258297, Filing Date May 17, 2001. (APPLICANT) TREO ENGINEERING INC CORPORATION NEBRASKA 2464 S TEJON ENGLEWOOD COLORADO 80110.
there's also stuff for insect repellent, skin moisturizer, and other stuff, including urinal deodorant...
as far as i can make out all have been submitted, but only one has been granted a registered mark, the shoe company. so i guess they have first dibs.
maybe it will come down to who has the right accents - but that's what lawyers are for, right?
if you like this sort of stuff, you should go and rent 'desk set,' with spencer tracy and katherine hepburn, 1957. it's normally classified as a 'zany romantic comedy,' hepburn is head librarian for a reference library at a large tv station, tracy is the efficiency expert brought in who threatens to replace hepburn and her librarians with a 'new computer' (read, large room sized box with flashing lights and whirling wheels...).
afaik a 'computor' used to refer to a human who had the specialised knolwledge to use a 'computer,' from a time when computers were mechanical and analogue devices... it's a slightly archaic term for someone/something that does computing that has been dropped as the technical knwoledge needed to operate computers has diminished...
Does it have to be used on a HUGE screen to make all of its displayed items easily readable ?
in some ways i'd like to think so, as many of the ideas discussed here are basically dealing with how to visualise a lot of information on a small screen. flipping the problem around, i can't help thinking that much larger screens would be at least one solution to this.
although it might be objected that a larger screen just leads to more clutter, we are used to dealing with immersive indexing environments. as i spin in my office chair i can see that my current office visual interface with my database - books, files, piles of stuff on the floor - is hundreds of square feet in area. and unlike the testers of the microsoft 3d environment described in the article, i do use the floor for filing;)
immersive screens for the avergae consumer are probably pretty far away tho, although i would love to be proved wrong. just needs a breakthrough in cheap lcd screens, increases in cpus should be able to handle the mapping.
well here's another one... the article kind of assumes that the system will lead to better content on the net, through good sites getting more money and also encouraging good start-up sites... but the net (like everything else) is a complex system, that will only be made more complex by introducing this particular aspect of finance into it. does the system of royalties in paper publishing and music lead to a wide flourishing of excellent content? no, a few dopes get very very rich and the whole thing descends into market manipulation... pay-per-view is not the democratising mechanism that the article seems to assume.
Sounds easy huh? Now everyone will have great sites. All you have to do is pay attention to things like Get the right people in the right roles or you will find yourself facing insurmountable problems...
Hang on though. Two wrongs don't make a right. Not doing things wrong does not mean that you do them splendidly.
Now if only you could write a book that explains in foolproof ways how to do the latter...
i think it's not supposed to be a dog substitute, but a dog alternative. SONY said that according to their market research, people wanted a robot that looked like a robot, rather than a robot that looked a little bit like a dog. course, that's probably people in japan. perhaps the last ones ('latte' and 'macaron') were too cutesie.
Also, '2' is quite a low number. I think that they may be behind quite a bit. Many other things are up to 4, 5, or 6 these days (IE, Netscape, Acrobat/Photoshop, etc).
there are however zen guides to being a rich fat bastard and then feeling awful about it, see the affluenza project.
according to the manager jessie h. o.neil, 'trillions of dollars will pass form one generation to the next over the coming fifty years. it is my mission to ensure the emotionally healthy transfer of this immense wealth by helping others understand the psychological effects of money on individuals and organisations.'
i always wanted to go to one of their meetings and tell them that if they felt so bad about having all that money i would take it off their hands for them. i could even charge for the service...;)
Cookies are useful. Whether they are good or not depends on what they are used for. I think that the maintaining state idea came before the e-commerce idea, although I would be happy to be corrected on this.
Anyway, here's an 'old' Nestscape Spec for on cookies, on why they think cookies are useful.
However, the credibility of that claim was a bit low since it was von Däniken who said it;)
amazing how many people bought (still buy) into it, tho -- including me, in high school, when i was one half of a school debate on the then new 'chariots of the gods.' it seemed quite subversive at that age...
'chariots of the gods' is still in print (hardback, paperback, and widescreen dvd). on amazon it's rated at 3 stars, which accurately reflects the average in the debate in the reader reviews between new age believers (5*) and sceptics (1*).
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... and you could have the perfect weapon for getting someone to shut up!
Hey, thanks.
Are you talking about obfuscating it in source code (mailto:)? If so tell me how! I always figured that if a browser could read it so could a harvester, but would love to be proved wrong.
As far as I understand it, a lot of the models used in scalability analyses of Gnutella seem to assume a homogeneously connected network. Whereas analyses of the Internet show there to be (a) a few highly connected sites (b) a large number of sites that are not well connected at all, and (c) a tendency for new network connections to appear on already well-connected sites, rather than on less-well connected ones.
I was wondering if there would be a difference between a network's scalability if (a) the distribution of edges between nodes was considered homogeneous, or if (b) the distribution of nodes was considered as skewed (e.fg. a Zipf distribution). Is case (b) more scalable than case (a)?
Thanks.
i worked for a cell phone company a couple of years ago and the tech support was constantly tied up with calls, and the refurbishment warehouse with functioning returns, because people assumed that the coverage maps provided by the company were accurate binary state renditions of coverage (i.e. if you're within the area you can make a call, and if you're outside it you can't). for instance, if you use a road map to drive to the next state, when you cross the line, you're in that state, there's not a 74% probability that you're there (it's 100%). of course cell phone maps are only probability maps related to tower placement, signal strength, and topography, but most people choose from experience not to see it that way, as all their experience has been with road maps.
so you'd get people calling in who tried to make calls downtown/in their basement/behind a hill, or whatever, convinced that their phones were broken cuz they could not get a signal when the map said they could ... often they'd just return a functioning phone and get a replacement mailed to them. it was a horrendous waste of money. ideally the customers need to be told that there's only a probability of making a call from any particular area. but i guess the marketing dept. would put a stop to that.
you're right. 'internet paradox' was taken as 'proof' of asocialisation not by kraut et al., but by others, including the media, most of whom had probably not read the paper. i remember quite a lot of self-satisfied, 'i told you so, the internet makes you depressed' hooey/fud from around that time ...
there's a mile of similar commentary on the internet (such as neil postman, clifford stoll, etc.). robert kraut carried out the 'internet paradox' surveys that became the sociological proof of this effect, although the earlier findings were later recast.
i'm not saying that there are not social changes caused by the introduction of new information technologies. we are information driven beings, after all. however, we have to be wary of assigning values to them that are either ultimately 'good' or 'bad,' as despite all these changes, we somehow seem to be able to cope with them ...
can be compressed to water ;)
It is a festival that is determined by the lunar calendar.As lunar months are shorter than solar months, the Muslim lunar year is shorter than the western solar year by about 11 days. Ramadan thus occurs about 11 days earlier each year and can thus occur at all times of the year.
When I was in Morocco about 13 years ago, it was in about April. 13 years later year, Ramadan is about 11 x 13 = 143 days earlier, or November-December, which is where it was last year.
http://www.colostate.edu/Orgs/MSA/events/Ramadan.h tml has some basic details.
Perhaps they should call the Simpsons course the Tao of D'oh ...
but no relative of gene ray.
anyway the cnet article says:
eDigital said its Treo is pronounced "tray-o" and has an accent on the "o," while Handspring pronounces its device like the word "trio" and has a mark over the "e." Both devices have a U.S. trademark and are not the only ones with that honor. Women's shoe brand Nine West also has a trademark on Treo for use "in the field of shoes and of accessories, namely handbags, belts and hosiery," according to the Patent and Trademark Office's Web site.
so i went to the uspto site and searched for 'treo' (tm) and found
TREO: PORTABLE MUSIC PLAYER FOR STORAGE AND PLAYBACK OF DIGITAL MUSIC, Serial Number 78031260, Filing Date October 18, 2000 (APPLICANT) Hy-Tek Mfg. Co. Inc. CORPORATION ILLINOIS 1998 Bucktail Lane Sugar Grove ILLINOIS 60554
TREO: computers, computer monitors, computer hardware, computer peripherals, handheld computers, personal digital assistants, electronic organizers, electronic notepads, telephones, computer gaming machines, microprocessors, computer memories, electrical circuit boards, printed circuit boards, memory cards, computer monitors, liquid crystal displays, computer keyboards, computer cables, modems, computer printers, videophones, computer disc drives, and photographic and video cameras; computer software, namely, prerecorded computer programs for personal information, management, database management software, character recognition software, telephony management software, electronic mail and messaging software, paging software, database synchronization software, computer programs for accessing, browsing and searching online databases; internet appliances; instruction manuals supplied with the foregoing
[pretty comprehensive, huh?]
Serial Number 76307493, Filing Date August 29, 2001, (APPLICANT) Handspring, Inc. CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 189 Bernardo Avenue Mountain View CALIFORNIA 94043
TREO: RETAIL STORE SERVICES IN THE FIELD OF SHOES AND OF ACCESSORIES, NAMELY HANDBAGS, BELTS
AND HOSIERY.
TREO ENGINEERING: CAR AUDIO PRODUCTS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPEAKERS, AMPLIFIERS, ACCESSORIES AND RELATED PROMOTIONAL ITEMS. Serial Number 76258297, Filing Date May 17, 2001. (APPLICANT) TREO ENGINEERING INC CORPORATION NEBRASKA 2464 S TEJON ENGLEWOOD COLORADO 80110.
there's also stuff for insect repellent, skin moisturizer, and other stuff, including urinal deodorant ...
as far as i can make out all have been submitted, but only one has been granted a registered mark, the shoe company. so i guess they have first dibs.
maybe it will come down to who has the right accents - but that's what lawyers are for, right?
the other is tee - ar - ee - 'oh with an accent.'
both are registered with upto, 'parently.
if you like this sort of stuff, you should go and rent 'desk set,' with spencer tracy and katherine hepburn, 1957. it's normally classified as a 'zany romantic comedy,' hepburn is head librarian for a reference library at a large tv station, tracy is the efficiency expert brought in who threatens to replace hepburn and her librarians with a 'new computer' (read, large room sized box with flashing lights and whirling wheels ...).
afaik a 'computor' used to refer to a human who had the specialised knolwledge to use a 'computer,' from a time when computers were mechanical and analogue devices ... it's a slightly archaic term for someone/something that does computing that has been dropped as the technical knwoledge needed to operate computers has diminished ...
in some ways i'd like to think so, as many of the ideas discussed here are basically dealing with how to visualise a lot of information on a small screen. flipping the problem around, i can't help thinking that much larger screens would be at least one solution to this.
although it might be objected that a larger screen just leads to more clutter, we are used to dealing with immersive indexing environments. as i spin in my office chair i can see that my current office visual interface with my database - books, files, piles of stuff on the floor - is hundreds of square feet in area. and unlike the testers of the microsoft 3d environment described in the article, i do use the floor for filing ;)
immersive screens for the avergae consumer are probably pretty far away tho, although i would love to be proved wrong. just needs a breakthrough in cheap lcd screens, increases in cpus should be able to handle the mapping.
well here's another one ... the article kind of assumes that the system will lead to better content on the net, through good sites getting more money and also encouraging good start-up sites ... but the net (like everything else) is a complex system, that will only be made more complex by introducing this particular aspect of finance into it. does the system of royalties in paper publishing and music lead to a wide flourishing of excellent content? no, a few dopes get very very rich and the whole thing descends into market manipulation ... pay-per-view is not the democratising mechanism that the article seems to assume.
Hang on though. Two wrongs don't make a right. Not doing things wrong does not mean that you do them splendidly.
Now if only you could write a book that explains in foolproof ways how to do the latter ...
i think it's not supposed to be a dog substitute, but a dog alternative. SONY said that according to their market research, people wanted a robot that looked like a robot, rather than a robot that looked a little bit like a dog. course, that's probably people in japan. perhaps the last ones ('latte' and 'macaron') were too cutesie.
Also, '2' is quite a low number. I think that they may be behind quite a bit. Many other things are up to 4, 5, or 6 these days (IE, Netscape, Acrobat/Photoshop, etc).
that should've been enough to get the project canceled right at the beginning ...
Anybody else remember/like J G Ballard? He was kinda quirky but I read his stuff all through high school and it had a big impact on me ...
according to the manager jessie h. o.neil, 'trillions of dollars will pass form one generation to the next over the coming fifty years. it is my mission to ensure the emotionally healthy transfer of this immense wealth by helping others understand the psychological effects of money on individuals and organisations.'
i always wanted to go to one of their meetings and tell them that if they felt so bad about having all that money i would take it off their hands for them. i could even charge for the service ... ;)
Anyway, here's an 'old' Nestscape Spec for on cookies, on why they think cookies are useful.
amazing how many people bought (still buy) into it, tho -- including me, in high school, when i was one half of a school debate on the then new 'chariots of the gods.' it seemed quite subversive at that age ...
'chariots of the gods' is still in print (hardback, paperback, and widescreen dvd). on amazon it's rated at 3 stars, which accurately reflects the average in the debate in the reader reviews between new age believers (5*) and sceptics (1*).