I also understand that traffic routing is a complex undertaking, so I do understand any trepidation that traffic engineers or city hall would have in setting this up. It also costs money too, though I bet a lot less than widening the road would.
I hope something like this does work as well as advertised and that it gets deployed. Simulations are one thing, I'd like to see a real world application.
I think it is based on whose interests you are primarily serving, or priorities. If you are providing recommendations because it will be in the best interests of the friend/relative/acquantance, I think it is fine, but if you are doing it to help the business, especially because of a vested interest, then I think that conflict of interest is fundementally dishonest unless declared.
What you describe really doesn't need Bzzz, because as you say, it already happens. If something works well or poorly, word of mouth already spreads by default, no need for an astroturfing organization.
I agree, and I'd go to the extent that it is ultimately destructive to a community to astroturf in this manner.
That's the thing that makes me nervous about Amway, Tupperware, Mary Kay, etc., you'd end up selling either to your friends or want to be your friends, and ultimately breaking any friendship there.
It would seem to be an analog capture problem. Sprint's mobile connection service is all-digital, leading to different sound artifacts if there were problems.
Now, if one is using it off-network then it could either be the fault of whoever is operating the local analogue network or the fault of a bad transmitter in the device.
The thing is, you can't licence quality like that, unless maybe it includes some means of requiring third party durability testing. I don't think it is that hard to make a solid notebook, the problem is that most notebooks aren't solid because it costs more to build them that way, and most people chose price over quality.
I still categorize links, from the links bar, in folders and sub-folders, because sometimes I forget the exact keywords I used to find a specific site. And because two clicks is quicker for me than clicking and typing.
I hate gmail's non-folder-ness though. Their "labels" are nice but there often times for me, each label might as well be its own folder. Unlike data files, the emails I get generally don't fall under more than one category.
Of course it is missing something. It's missing the features that allow a virus or bot to infect your machine simply by mousing-over a link, scrolling down or simply previewing the email.
I'd say this probably is a good patent, within the original intent of patenting. The real problem with the patent system is that it is abused that many patents go against the patent law.
I think fusion reactors have gotten a little past break-even but not by a large margin.
Oil isn't used much for electricity production if that's what you mean. IIRC, Coal and nuclear each are used to produce more electricity than oil.
I think that it would be silly to completely abandon fusion, it would be best to try to keep research going for just about every current and promising technology to improve them.
So long as the research based on scientific merit rather than the desire for media stardom, and is peer-reviewed before going to the popular media, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Uh... Open Source and Linux doesn't necessarily mean using the command line to configure it. Check out the firmware patches for Linksys WRT54G. The stock product is based on Linux. There's a lot of third party hacks to it that extend its functionality by quite a bit, and 99% of it is configurable through the web interface.
"'A revolution requires that people leave their house.'"
Um, yeah. Under some misguided, narrow version of revolution that denies alternate meanings.
Not that I'm pro-"blog". Unless you count Slashdot or web forums as a web log, I really don't read them. This is, IMO, just another means of communication, like email, SMS, IM, forums and such.
What I did was went through the list of patches and manually downloading them through Microsoft's download site. Some of them weren't available or had odd restrictions of installation, but whenever I set up a computer, I just got the list of patches it needed through Windows Update and installed the local copies.
I also had the luck of staying at a hotel the next city over, it had free wireless Internet service, so I downloaded as much of everything I could.
"Shark Reef" at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas has lots of neat stuff where you can see sharks and manta rays and other aquatic life forms above, below and in front of you, they are on the other side of a thick plate of plexiglass.
(like I didn't know that)...and IM and SMS is supposed to be a more credible alternative?
The one thing I like about email is that I can get to it when I need to. IM basically requires both parties to be at a computer and logged in at the same time. SMS solves that, I guess, but is it as reliable as email yet?
I'd try SMS if it weren't so much more expensive than email and if I weren't charged to recieve messages I didn't want. I suppose SMS in Korea is a lot cheaper.
I *think* MS had to give up some control of VC-1. The name is now VC-1, VC9 is deprecated.
Hollywood is generally wary of Microsoft, and they could just pubish their discs in MPEG-2 or that H.something video codec, and you'd be clear of that mess for those discs.
I think Microsoft is going to have to play nice to even be competitive if disc producers have a codec choice.
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I also understand that traffic routing is a complex undertaking, so I do understand any trepidation that traffic engineers or city hall would have in setting this up. It also costs money too, though I bet a lot less than widening the road would.
I hope something like this does work as well as advertised and that it gets deployed. Simulations are one thing, I'd like to see a real world application.
I think it is based on whose interests you are primarily serving, or priorities. If you are providing recommendations because it will be in the best interests of the friend/relative/acquantance, I think it is fine, but if you are doing it to help the business, especially because of a vested interest, then I think that conflict of interest is fundementally dishonest unless declared.
What you describe really doesn't need Bzzz, because as you say, it already happens. If something works well or poorly, word of mouth already spreads by default, no need for an astroturfing organization.
I agree, and I'd go to the extent that it is ultimately destructive to a community to astroturf in this manner.
That's the thing that makes me nervous about Amway, Tupperware, Mary Kay, etc., you'd end up selling either to your friends or want to be your friends, and ultimately breaking any friendship there.
It would seem to be an analog capture problem. Sprint's mobile connection service is all-digital, leading to different sound artifacts if there were problems.
Now, if one is using it off-network then it could either be the fault of whoever is operating the local analogue network or the fault of a bad transmitter in the device.
IBM didn't directly commoditize PCs. They were used as the standard by other makers and the public to make commodity PCs.
The thing is, you can't licence quality like that, unless maybe it includes some means of requiring third party durability testing. I don't think it is that hard to make a solid notebook, the problem is that most notebooks aren't solid because it costs more to build them that way, and most people chose price over quality.
I still categorize links, from the links bar, in folders and sub-folders, because sometimes I forget the exact keywords I used to find a specific site. And because two clicks is quicker for me than clicking and typing.
I hate gmail's non-folder-ness though. Their "labels" are nice but there often times for me, each label might as well be its own folder. Unlike data files, the emails I get generally don't fall under more than one category.
Of course it is missing something. It's missing the features that allow a virus or bot to infect your machine simply by mousing-over a link, scrolling down or simply previewing the email.
I'd say this probably is a good patent, within the original intent of patenting. The real problem with the patent system is that it is abused that many patents go against the patent law.
There are several spyware programs that do that. I think some of the commercial makers are paid to ignore certain sponsored spyware.
I think fusion reactors have gotten a little past break-even but not by a large margin.
Oil isn't used much for electricity production if that's what you mean. IIRC, Coal and nuclear each are used to produce more electricity than oil.
I think that it would be silly to completely abandon fusion, it would be best to try to keep research going for just about every current and promising technology to improve them.
So long as the research based on scientific merit rather than the desire for media stardom, and is peer-reviewed before going to the popular media, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Uh... Open Source and Linux doesn't necessarily mean using the command line to configure it. Check out the firmware patches for Linksys WRT54G. The stock product is based on Linux. There's a lot of third party hacks to it that extend its functionality by quite a bit, and 99% of it is configurable through the web interface.
Even better would be if it was a network storage device.
Not unless it has a gigabit port. Firewire 400 has 4x the bitrate, Firewire 800 has 8x the bitrate of ethernet.
Yeah, like the internet killed TV and terrestrial radio.
"'A revolution requires that people leave their house.'"
Um, yeah. Under some misguided, narrow version of revolution that denies alternate meanings.
Not that I'm pro-"blog". Unless you count Slashdot or web forums as a web log, I really don't read them. This is, IMO, just another means of communication, like email, SMS, IM, forums and such.
I was on a modem as recently as last year.
What I did was went through the list of patches and manually downloading them through Microsoft's download site. Some of them weren't available or had odd restrictions of installation, but whenever I set up a computer, I just got the list of patches it needed through Windows Update and installed the local copies.
I also had the luck of staying at a hotel the next city over, it had free wireless Internet service, so I downloaded as much of everything I could.
I meant:
I sure as heck hope 8 bits total isn't all GIMP can handle.
Do you mean 8 bits per channel? I sure as heck 8 bits total isn't all GIMP can handle.
"Shark Reef" at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas has lots of neat stuff where you can see sharks and manta rays and other aquatic life forms above, below and in front of you, they are on the other side of a thick plate of plexiglass.
(like I didn't know that) ...and IM and SMS is supposed to be a more credible alternative?
The one thing I like about email is that I can get to it when I need to. IM basically requires both parties to be at a computer and logged in at the same time. SMS solves that, I guess, but is it as reliable as email yet?
I'd try SMS if it weren't so much more expensive than email and if I weren't charged to recieve messages I didn't want. I suppose SMS in Korea is a lot cheaper.
Nice irony you have there, with the rampant homophobia and all.
"I still say best open source is that tied to proprietary hardware then you really cash in."
Huh? Please restate this and say from who's perspective this is the best. The seller? The buyer? Examples? Are you thinking of Apple?
I *think* MS had to give up some control of VC-1. The name is now VC-1, VC9 is deprecated.
Hollywood is generally wary of Microsoft, and they could just pubish their discs in MPEG-2 or that H.something video codec, and you'd be clear of that mess for those discs.
I think Microsoft is going to have to play nice to even be competitive if disc producers have a codec choice.
I don't think there will ever be a time when earthlings don't consider their planet messed up.
1.5B $ will build an ITER fusion research plant, but now it is held up in international politics.