This law makes no since because unlike print where as few people have the methods to publish, on the web ANYONE can write something and throw it online for a miminal, or no cost. If you want to reply to something in particular , start a blog, i mean what else are they other than a commentary on a specfic authors take on life...
The beauty of the web is that everyone has a voice, and there is no need to force others to publish stuff that is not their own.
" You have made several public statements that you hand review complaints before you assign a manual penalty. If you have someone on the payroll already whose job it is to evaluate specific sites and apply specific penalties, then stop wiping someone out and then making them beg you for forgivness. Instead, if you identify a problem, send an email to the webmaster alerting them to your findings and intentions and give the webmaster a minimum of 30 days to either correct the problem or contact information of someone to work something out."
This actually makes since, as it makes conflict resolution possible. Plus google could get to be able to improve the web as a whole. I think that a suspension from google is 3 months, and i bet you anything that google isn't always suspending good sites. Google should notify the site if they are being taken down do to DMCA etc...
The Sprint Treo 300 is the best device that fits what you want. You want good unlimtied data - sprint is the only nationwide person that offers it cheaply ($10 a month), and it is about 3 times as fast as dialup. It runs Palm OS, works great as a PDA, surfs the web very nicely using Handspring Blazer web browser, and than last of all can act as a phone. Read a review and user comments about it here: http://www.treocentral.com/content/Products/factsh eet-89-50.htm
(for sake of disclosure I am an editor of treocentral)
I saw this device yesterday at the AT&T wireless store in the mall of america. Two word - it sucked. Sure it had a great camera, and big screen - but the buttons felt cheap, the device is huge, and feels realy lcheap in your hands. The 5 way navigator didn't click down very well, and.. you get my point. I think the size of this thing kills it. Sitting right next to it was some uber tiny color nokia that i really liked . It had a much nicer feel to it - nokia has good and bad designs.
As for a perfect cell phone i would wait for the Sony Ericsson T608 and T610 (CDMA/GPRS respectivly) They are compeltly new phones with the features of the t68i and more. I can't wait for them to be released.
I like companies that have these kinds of quotes in their FAQ's.
"Does your device use Rendezvous (aka ZeroConf) to make it easier to use? Yup! We advertise the location of the NetDrive's setup web page on your network via Rendezvous. We also support connecting to the NetDrive's printer sharing feature via Rendezvous printing. We think Rendezvous is a really cool technology, and as we add more Rendezvous-related features, we'll roll them out as software updates to our users."
With more and more devices supportign ZeroConf, (apple, tivo, this, some printers) - networking is going to hopefully finally get a lot easier. what other rendezvous features could be added?
More important than Ogg support IMHO how HP decided not to implement the ZeroConf (apple's rendevous) stanered into this device. For consumers to realyl pick up on this, it needs to be plug and play - the ONLY way that will happen is if you don't have to set up anything.. Rendevous lets that happen. The new Tivo option will preform much better than this do to it's rendevous integration with computers.
I just want to say thank you to everyone at NASA for all that they have done, and given to us, including our lives. While current experiments are not doing the best, great things have come from NASA's work, i I hope our administration will let this continue to happen. I am deeply saddened by this recent event, and can only hope for the best in the future.
Does anyone see these kinds of suits scary, and threatening to our free speech that we try ever so hard to protect? When you limit peoples communications methods - and spam can be very broad, it limits our speech. I find spam an annoyance, but I'd rather AOL spend the money they spent on that lawsuit to figure out a p2p filtering system like cloudmark's most excellent product for AOL users. (cloudmark filters out 98% of my spam, 0 false positive.. works off of checksums of emails)
Yes, spam costs you money - but so does looking through all the junk mail you get at home - that filtering can take a minute or too - the same amount of time as clicking delete on your computer.
I just don't know if this is something that you truely want to support if you get to the root of the issue.
For programs that are mainly written by one person - use GPL, but encourage users to donate. If you like what you have, you should pay some $$$ for it if you can. Peer review still exists, and the author can at least get a couple hundred dollars... if not more (depending on popularity). As with piracy it's a social problem. We want things for free, but we aren't understanding (as a culture) that free still costs money. Like music, if you like it, buy it! or in this case.. donate money!
From the CNET article "It will consume less power than the company's first Crusoe chips, the TM 5000 series, but offer substantially more performance, said Chief Technical Officer David Ditzel."
Wow... and according to tramsmetazone the thing was running at 500 mhz for the demo (against a speedstepped pentium) WOW.
Actually, Mac's are used in super computer clusters. JPL has an intresting benchmaark of 33 Xserves. They get 1/5th of a TeraFLOP of performance. Not bad, considering how cheap they are.
It's because Microsoft's quite excellent PR Firm was paid to stuff the ballot box.
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
Oh no wait, they must of been stuffing the mac OS X one.. They always seem to get confused on which product they are tryign to advertise. Poor MS...
Also announced today was the Stowaway XT - AKA Palm Ultra Thin. If you're familier with PDAs you probably know of the Stowaway- the cool foldable keybaord for PDAs. Well they made a new one, just half as small. Seriously.
Same full size keyboard- a preview of it is available here
If you have a Handspring Visor, which IMHO was one of the best PDA's ever, there are instructions for how to extract the ROM using the supplied USB cradle over at VisorCentral.com.
I guess racking up $200+ of fees on the web before you even go to work is closer than we thought. Does that mean I get to graduate this year, instead of 2004? If Time-Warner can charge so soon... (See article below this)
I helped First test this out, but now it seems to have gone international. First Lego League International .
It's pretty cool - here though the challanges are known before when building your robot, and you are giving a Lego Mindstorms kit and can use your own components.
It's mainly for late elementry or jr.high school - but it can be mentered by anyone. It was a LOT of fun when I did it except the other team destroeyd our robot...
Just wanted to let you all know that Handspring has fulfilled the need for wireless PDAs by donating 500 Visor Deluxes, along with 500 activated VisorPhones. Voicestream is providing service.
See http://visorcentral.com/page/0-2-1119-2.htm for the complete story.
Lego though does have a good point. What stops Mattell from building a simliar toy, and use legOS as their OS? Think of how much development costs could be avoided.
I myself support the hacking, but maybe lego could require anybody that makes an alternative OS, to have a liscence that has a line saying that "This software may ONLY, with no exceptions, be used in LEGO products." And than they go after the people that don't put that in their OS liscence.
It's really cool - that mindstorms thing. I did somethign for a year called "First Lego League" as a sixth grader. We were the beta year, and it was a huge success. (except another group destroyed our robot) Mr. BIGGLESWORTH!!! (our robot name)
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In the twin cities, (Minnesota, USA), we have a company called Simon Delivers, that's doing extrodinaryly well. All my friends use them, and grocery's are easy as ever. (They have a 1000+ person waiting list ) The thing about simon though it th at they are NOT ON DEMAND. You go online, buy your grocerys, and than at your schdeuled time they come and give you your grocerys. IT's really cool, and so far it's worked for them. http://www.simondelivers.com
And no, I do not work for them, I jsut think it's really cool. Here in MN it works. HA!
B&W LCD's exist for thigns like PDA's but nobody makes them big....
The Dead Pixel issue. 8 might be an acceptable amount of dead pixels on a 1600x1200 screen, but on a 160x160 screen ala a Visor Prism, one dead pixel can be quite annoying. As I take it, on Smaller screen,s there are a lot fewer dead pixels in total, than on the big screens.
There was a movie that I saw one day on Fox, that was based on a true story, and had a simliar storyline. And as I recall, the kids name was david! The movie had the ducttape and all, but they avoided showing how to make radioactive stuff, by just stealign it from a processing lab for nuclear materials. The movie to me was pretty fake, but I thought it was good. It's intresting to finally read the story that goes along with it!
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This law makes no since because unlike print where as few people have the methods to publish, on the web ANYONE can write something and throw it online for a miminal, or no cost. If you want to reply to something in particular , start a blog, i mean what else are they other than a commentary on a specfic authors take on life...
The beauty of the web is that everyone has a voice, and there is no need to force others to publish stuff that is not their own.
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You have made several public statements that you hand review complaints before you assign a manual penalty. If you have someone on the payroll already whose job it is to evaluate specific sites and apply specific penalties, then stop wiping someone out and then making them beg you for forgivness. Instead, if you identify a problem, send an email to the webmaster alerting them to your findings and intentions and give the webmaster a minimum of 30 days to either correct the problem or contact information of someone to work something out."
This actually makes since, as it makes conflict resolution possible. Plus google could get to be able to improve the web as a whole. I think that a suspension from google is 3 months, and i bet you anything that google isn't always suspending good sites. Google should notify the site if they are being taken down do to DMCA etc...
The Sprint Treo 300 is the best device that fits what you want. You want good unlimtied data - sprint is the only nationwide person that offers it cheaply ($10 a month), and it is about 3 times as fast as dialup. It runs Palm OS, works great as a PDA, surfs the web very nicely using Handspring Blazer web browser, and than last of all can act as a phone. Read a review and user comments about it here: http://www.treocentral.com/content/Products/factsh eet-89-50.htm
(for sake of disclosure I am an editor of treocentral)
"It will take dedicated listener 100 weeks or 1 year to listen them all."
I don't know about the UK, but in a land called america, a year is 52 weeks.
I saw this device yesterday at the AT&T wireless store in the mall of america. Two word - it sucked. Sure it had a great camera, and big screen - but the buttons felt cheap, the device is huge, and feels realy lcheap in your hands. The 5 way navigator didn't click down very well, and.. you get my point. I think the size of this thing kills it. Sitting right next to it was some uber tiny color nokia that i really liked . It had a much nicer feel to it - nokia has good and bad designs.
As for a perfect cell phone i would wait for the Sony Ericsson T608 and T610 (CDMA/GPRS respectivly) They are compeltly new phones with the features of the t68i and more. I can't wait for them to be released.
I like companies that have these kinds of quotes in their FAQ's.
"Does your device use Rendezvous (aka ZeroConf) to make it easier to use?
Yup! We advertise the location of the NetDrive's setup web page on your network via Rendezvous. We also support connecting to the NetDrive's printer sharing feature via Rendezvous printing. We think Rendezvous is a really cool technology, and as we add more Rendezvous-related features, we'll roll them out as software updates to our users."
With more and more devices supportign ZeroConf, (apple, tivo, this, some printers) - networking is going to hopefully finally get a lot easier. what other rendezvous features could be added?
More important than Ogg support IMHO how HP decided not to implement the ZeroConf (apple's rendevous) stanered into this device. For consumers to realyl pick up on this, it needs to be plug and play - the ONLY way that will happen is if you don't have to set up anything.. Rendevous lets that happen. The new Tivo option will preform much better than this do to it's rendevous integration with computers.
*sigh*... maybe in a firmware rev?
I just want to say thank you to everyone at NASA for all that they have done, and given to us, including our lives. While current experiments are not doing the best, great things have come from NASA's work, i I hope our administration will let this continue to happen. I am deeply saddened by this recent event, and can only hope for the best in the future.
Does anyone see these kinds of suits scary, and threatening to our free speech that we try ever so hard to protect? When you limit peoples communications methods - and spam can be very broad, it limits our speech. I find spam an annoyance, but I'd rather AOL spend the money they spent on that lawsuit to figure out a p2p filtering system like cloudmark's most excellent product for AOL users. (cloudmark filters out 98% of my spam, 0 false positive.. works off of checksums of emails)
Yes, spam costs you money - but so does looking through all the junk mail you get at home - that filtering can take a minute or too - the same amount of time as clicking delete on your computer.
I just don't know if this is something that you truely want to support if you get to the root of the issue.
That would be a HIM, not her... I now cuase he interviewed me two years ago for an article about PDAs.
For programs that are mainly written by one person - use GPL, but encourage users to donate. If you like what you have, you should pay some $$$ for it if you can. Peer review still exists, and the author can at least get a couple hundred dollars... if not more (depending on popularity). As with piracy it's a social problem. We want things for free, but we aren't understanding (as a culture) that free still costs money. Like music, if you like it, buy it! or in this case.. donate money!
From the CNET article "It will consume less power than the company's first Crusoe chips, the TM 5000 series, but offer substantially more performance, said Chief Technical Officer David Ditzel."
Wow... and according to tramsmetazone the thing was running at 500 mhz for the demo (against a speedstepped pentium) WOW.
Actually, Mac's are used in super computer clusters. JPL has an intresting benchmaark of 33 Xserves. They get 1/5th of a TeraFLOP of performance. Not bad, considering how cheap they are.
It's because Microsoft's quite excellent PR Firm was paid to stuff the ballot box.
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
Oh no wait, they must of been stuffing the mac OS X one.. They always seem to get confused on which product they are tryign to advertise. Poor MS...
Also announced today was the Stowaway XT - AKA Palm Ultra Thin. If you're familier with PDAs you probably know of the Stowaway- the cool foldable keybaord for PDAs. Well they made a new one, just half as small. Seriously. Same full size keyboard- a preview of it is available here
Didn't swatch try to do something like this with Internet time?
The day was divded up into 1000 sections, and the time was jsut a 3 digit number. 111 - 376 - etc.
Here's the full link on swatch.com about it. http://www.swatch.com/alu_beat/index_section.php
If you have a Handspring Visor, which IMHO was one of the best PDA's ever, there are instructions for how to extract the ROM using the supplied USB cradle over at VisorCentral.com.
Why not just add a clause to the law that says if the source if freely available and editable than the author is not liable to damages.
would protect opensource, yet would still go after the companies that write crappy software.
I guess racking up $200+ of fees on the web before you even go to work is closer than we thought. Does that mean I get to graduate this year, instead of 2004? If Time-Warner can charge so soon... (See article below this)
I helped First test this out, but now it seems to have gone international. First Lego League International . It's pretty cool - here though the challanges are known before when building your robot, and you are giving a Lego Mindstorms kit and can use your own components. It's mainly for late elementry or jr.high school - but it can be mentered by anyone. It was a LOT of fun when I did it except the other team destroeyd our robot...
Just wanted to let you all know that Handspring has fulfilled the need for wireless PDAs by donating 500 Visor Deluxes, along with 500 activated VisorPhones. Voicestream is providing service.
See http://visorcentral.com/page/0-2-1119-2.htm for the complete story.
Lego though does have a good point. What stops Mattell from building a simliar toy, and use legOS as their OS? Think of how much development costs could be avoided.
I myself support the hacking, but maybe lego could require anybody that makes an alternative OS, to have a liscence that has a line saying that "This software may ONLY, with no exceptions, be used in LEGO products." And than they go after the people that don't put that in their OS liscence.
It's really cool - that mindstorms thing. I did somethign for a year called "First Lego League" as a sixth grader. We were the beta year, and it was a huge success. (except another group destroyed our robot) Mr. BIGGLESWORTH!!! (our robot name)
In the twin cities, (Minnesota, USA), we have a company called Simon Delivers, that's doing extrodinaryly well. All my friends use them, and grocery's are easy as ever. (They have a 1000+ person waiting list ) The thing about simon though it th at they are NOT ON DEMAND. You go online, buy your grocerys, and than at your schdeuled time they come and give you your grocerys. IT's really cool, and so far it's worked for them. http://www.simondelivers.com And no, I do not work for them, I jsut think it's really cool. Here in MN it works. HA!
B&W LCD's exist for thigns like PDA's but nobody makes them big.... The Dead Pixel issue. 8 might be an acceptable amount of dead pixels on a 1600x1200 screen, but on a 160x160 screen ala a Visor Prism, one dead pixel can be quite annoying. As I take it, on Smaller screen,s there are a lot fewer dead pixels in total, than on the big screens.
There was a movie that I saw one day on Fox, that was based on a true story, and had a simliar storyline. And as I recall, the kids name was david! The movie had the ducttape and all, but they avoided showing how to make radioactive stuff, by just stealign it from a processing lab for nuclear materials. The movie to me was pretty fake, but I thought it was good. It's intresting to finally read the story that goes along with it!