Well, I don't think that the issue that I brought up was submissions, because I don't see anything wrong with submitting stories of this kind, but yesterday I submitted an Ask Slashdot about what people thought about mp3.com hosting a large group of big name artists and whether that would negatively affect the users ability and motivation to find independant artists.
I dunno, I mean, I'll admit that I looked at the website, but it always seems to me like the sites that get/.ed the most are product announcements. I'm starting to get worried that people reading/. are only doing so for all the cool products they can buy. You're all just slowly becomming soldiers of the corporate republic. And maybe you'd rather FREE BEER than FREE SPEECH too.
Call me a flamer if you will, and I'm not necessarily blaming anyone for wanting to check out a cool device, but its upsetting to see the important issues overlooked because people are jerking off to the new Ikea Catalog.
Mir Will crash on: 2001-03-17 22:13:43 at exactly the moment when the Irish-Influenced portion of the world's BAC reaches its peak for the day. This is also known as the only point in time when the average American is more drunk than Russian leadership. It will be a purposeful effort to give us a larger headache in the morning.
Ok, the moon in no way prooves that the Earth is on the edge. The moon is very small. It cannot hold an atmosphere. Water needs the right temperature, but also the right pressure to exist as a liquid. Also, an atmosphere allows moderation of temperature. The differences in temperature between day and night on the moon are HUGE.
now Gnutella gets tested. soon we'll find out if it can handle large numbers of users or if the network breaks down with too many nodes. I heard about this specialized client that has special clients that keep updated lists on the main client. Then when searches come in, the client only has to check the list (like a mini napster) thereby protecting the special clients from unnecessary trafic. If enough of these become distributed throughout the gnutella network and people share files like they are supposed to, then we have our free, fast alternative to pay napster. I wish I had a link for you, but I can't find it, so someone who reads this and knows what I'm talking about, please reply and post a link. If not for me, then for the children.
Sorry, If you read the article, you'll see that linux is not actually on the wristwatch. data is sent to/from another computer. the watch only has the camera and the display. Although that set-up does make the system more modular, the watch is only an input/output device.
I haven't seen anyone mention this. Isn't Linux NOW supposed to be a distributed version of linux which behaves like a single workstation, complete with migrating processes? I realize its not out yet, but it seems like its exactly what everyone wants (minus the AI)
What I'm wondering is why these two technologies haven't ever merged. Obviously its hard to develop the infrastructure for fuel cells, but what if the ability to re-energize them was put into the car itself? The car could gather water vapor from the air and electrolysize it using solar energy or possibly a wall plug. Then when it comes time to run the car, the reverse reaction takes place, giving you lots of power.
If necessary (for instance for long trips) The car could have hydrogen put in directly, but otherwise IMHO people don't drive their cars a large enough percentage of the day to need quick active refuelling if they can get slow passive refuelling.
Although you do have a protected right to say those things, corporations also have a right to send you email telling you you're wrong. they also have the right to sue you for slander even if they know they'd lose. regardless of whether you actually slandered a company, you could lose a lot of money / time due to the law suit if you don't take down your comments.
I'm glad this article came up on the same day that news of Fling came. perhaps this will get people working on the project. I know I'm going to look into it and see what I can do. maybe we can put up some web-like stuff with the Fling protocols and have sites that eWatch can't touch.
What buisiness / government agency had Napster in its best interest before its inception? And what about Gnutella? Does anyone need GAIM to make money? I think this protocol could be used very well in applications such as these, with all of the attacks on peer to peer, this protocol could keep the Metallicas at bay for a while, also allowing a secure chat / news method for paranoid ^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N cautious people.
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Of course Intel could just lower the price. Thats what competition is all about. If Intel can offer the same ratio of price to performance as Transmeta can, then people will buy both. If Transmeta can offer great wattage but poor processing, yet does it cheaply, then the people whose needs the Crusoe fits will buy Crusoe based systems. If they don't live up to the hype, people won't buy. Duh.
Obviously I don't think this scheme will work (see comment 2 above) but I don't think the music would cost $20 anymore. for all intents and purposes there is zero Marginal cost for every song sold digitally, so each song would probably only cost a few to fifty cents to download for one device.
If you can ever buy a CD, it seems to me that you could always use a ripping program not equipped with this encryption standard and rip some good ol' mp3s that you can trade freely with your freinds and loved ones.
I don't think that the music industry wants to stop selling cds, either, especially considering that they still have a slight advantage over mp3 in quality and portability through ubiquity. And even if you could only get music in this encrypted format, eventually they gotta release a player of some sort that will have a digital out for high class speaker systems, so people could take that signal and convert it into a wav and then make it into an mp3.
Mac developers begin as Mac users. They are used to the Mac way of doing things, just as windows, Linux, BSD, BeOS, etc. developers begin as users and are used to the practices of the general communities that support their platforms. Mac developers, therefore, see the projects that are successful on the Mac and write code in a similar fashion, for the most part. The OS becomes tied to the method of software development, and the two will generally go together. When you convince someone that a different standard/model is a Good Idea(tm) it's quite possible that you will also convince him or her that the operating system developed under that model is inheirently the best. In this way, Mac developers convinced that open source is the way will go to an open operating system and thus cease to be mac users.
More likely it just doesn't always make sense to inform the astronauts that their life signs can't be read. Once they are able to establish some kind of verbal communication (which I think they did via mir) they should be able to make sure everything is ok wo/ asking questions. If they wen't ahead and told them straight out that they can't measure their heart beat, the astronauts may panic unnecessarily.
I can't skake the awful feeling that Space Oddity is coming true, though.
Ground control to Major Tom your circuit's dead...there's something wrong, can you hear me Major Tom...Can you hear me Major Tom?...
Wow, they plan to do this on a plastic model of a human skeleton? That's gotta cause some complexity issues. Not to mention the miniaturization that would need to be done in order to fit the computer(s) into the body cavity. And what about appearance issues? I heard somewhere about a type of polymer that canbe used as a synthetic muscle (when a voltage is applied it contracts). there's also the realdoll. perhaps soon we'll see these things pretending to be us.
I just got a cool idea which is somewhat off topic. Game console manufaturers sell their hardware at a loss! remember the i-opener? They sold at a loss. Has anyone thought of scrapping the hardware from one of these bad-boys and throwing an OS like Linux or *BSD on it? Now that would be a kick-ass machine. If not, you could probably just find some way to use them as graphics cards.
Certainly the market opens up new frequencies as needed, but thats somewhat true of housing as well, yet eventually people will run out of space. (though not for some time) infringing on a pre-existing frequency by using one close to it would cause a lot of interference and eventually could render frequencies in that range useless. our wireless needs, however, don't necessarily need the full range. since you only need to broadcast to the tower or whatever, and then it is put through in wires, you only need a frequency unique to that zone.
What about posting information about how to pirate mp3s? Or DeCSS? or how the RIAA is attempting to restrict the individual freedoms of the American public in order to get rich? where do we draw the line? All that these sites are doing is showing people where to get media. If the media is illegal, why can't the RIAA just go after the sites that mp3board.com links to?
I think we're standing on the edge of a mountain, and we're doomed to fall off one way or the other. We have the capability to fall the way of freedom and ubiquitous information and uncontrolled media, but the tremendous and growing force of large corporations have the power to push us the other way.
Certainly the internet began free, but now its almost completely dominated by monopolistic corporations. The vast majority of people on the internet only veiw what they are shown by these corporations.
On the other hand, there is a rise in counter-culture producing the gnutellas of the world and freeing the internet again. The next generation of these programs most likely will have tremendous anonymity allowing information along those channels to be free. Perhaps the web is lost to commercialism yet in American history, freedom allways wins...eventually.
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Well, I don't think that the issue that I brought up was submissions, because I don't see anything wrong with submitting stories of this kind, but yesterday I submitted an Ask Slashdot about what people thought about mp3.com hosting a large group of big name artists and whether that would negatively affect the users ability and motivation to find independant artists.
I dunno, I mean, I'll admit that I looked at the website, but it always seems to me like the sites that get /.ed the most are product announcements. I'm starting to get worried that people reading /. are only doing so for all the cool products they can buy. You're all just slowly becomming soldiers of the corporate republic. And maybe you'd rather FREE BEER than FREE SPEECH too.
Call me a flamer if you will, and I'm not necessarily blaming anyone for wanting to check out a cool device, but its upsetting to see the important issues overlooked because people are jerking off to the new Ikea Catalog.
Mir Will crash on: 2001-03-17 22:13:43 at exactly the moment when the Irish-Influenced portion of the world's BAC reaches its peak for the day. This is also known as the only point in time when the average American is more drunk than Russian leadership. It will be a purposeful effort to give us a larger headache in the morning.
Ok, the moon in no way prooves that the Earth is on the edge. The moon is very small. It cannot hold an atmosphere. Water needs the right temperature, but also the right pressure to exist as a liquid. Also, an atmosphere allows moderation of temperature. The differences in temperature between day and night on the moon are HUGE.
now Gnutella gets tested. soon we'll find out if it can handle large numbers of users or if the network breaks down with too many nodes. I heard about this specialized client that has special clients that keep updated lists on the main client. Then when searches come in, the client only has to check the list (like a mini napster) thereby protecting the special clients from unnecessary trafic. If enough of these become distributed throughout the gnutella network and people share files like they are supposed to, then we have our free, fast alternative to pay napster. I wish I had a link for you, but I can't find it, so someone who reads this and knows what I'm talking about, please reply and post a link. If not for me, then for the children.
that's some funny stuff
Ok, so now we make X just a little smaller and throw it on the watch that IBM put out. Then we run an X server on the watch and run X-clock.
Sorry, If you read the article, you'll see that linux is not actually on the wristwatch. data is sent to/from another computer. the watch only has the camera and the display. Although that set-up does make the system more modular, the watch is only an input/output device.
I haven't seen anyone mention this. Isn't Linux NOW supposed to be a distributed version of linux which behaves like a single workstation, complete with migrating processes? I realize its not out yet, but it seems like its exactly what everyone wants (minus the AI)
What I'm wondering is why these two technologies haven't ever merged. Obviously its hard to develop the infrastructure for fuel cells, but what if the ability to re-energize them was put into the car itself? The car could gather water vapor from the air and electrolysize it using solar energy or possibly a wall plug. Then when it comes time to run the car, the reverse reaction takes place, giving you lots of power.
If necessary (for instance for long trips) The car could have hydrogen put in directly, but otherwise IMHO people don't drive their cars a large enough percentage of the day to need quick active refuelling if they can get slow passive refuelling.
Although you do have a protected right to say those things, corporations also have a right to send you email telling you you're wrong. they also have the right to sue you for slander even if they know they'd lose. regardless of whether you actually slandered a company, you could lose a lot of money / time due to the law suit if you don't take down your comments.
I'm glad this article came up on the same day that news of Fling came. perhaps this will get people working on the project. I know I'm going to look into it and see what I can do. maybe we can put up some web-like stuff with the Fling protocols and have sites that eWatch can't touch.
What buisiness / government agency had Napster in its best interest before its inception? And what about Gnutella? Does anyone need GAIM to make money? I think this protocol could be used very well in applications such as these, with all of the attacks on peer to peer, this protocol could keep the Metallicas at bay for a while, also allowing a secure chat / news method for paranoid ^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N cautious people.
Of course Intel could just lower the price. Thats what competition is all about. If Intel can offer the same ratio of price to performance as Transmeta can, then people will buy both. If Transmeta can offer great wattage but poor processing, yet does it cheaply, then the people whose needs the Crusoe fits will buy Crusoe based systems. If they don't live up to the hype, people won't buy. Duh.
Obviously I don't think this scheme will work (see comment 2 above) but I don't think the music would cost $20 anymore. for all intents and purposes there is zero Marginal cost for every song sold digitally, so each song would probably only cost a few to fifty cents to download for one device.
If you can ever buy a CD, it seems to me that you could always use a ripping program not equipped with this encryption standard and rip some good ol' mp3s that you can trade freely with your freinds and loved ones.
I don't think that the music industry wants to stop selling cds, either, especially considering that they still have a slight advantage over mp3 in quality and portability through ubiquity. And even if you could only get music in this encrypted format, eventually they gotta release a player of some sort that will have a digital out for high class speaker systems, so people could take that signal and convert it into a wav and then make it into an mp3.
Mac developers begin as Mac users. They are used to the Mac way of doing things, just as windows, Linux, BSD, BeOS, etc. developers begin as users and are used to the practices of the general communities that support their platforms. Mac developers, therefore, see the projects that are successful on the Mac and write code in a similar fashion, for the most part. The OS becomes tied to the method of software development, and the two will generally go together. When you convince someone that a different standard/model is a Good Idea(tm) it's quite possible that you will also convince him or her that the operating system developed under that model is inheirently the best. In this way, Mac developers convinced that open source is the way will go to an open operating system and thus cease to be mac users.
More likely it just doesn't always make sense to inform the astronauts that their life signs can't be read. Once they are able to establish some kind of verbal communication (which I think they did via mir) they should be able to make sure everything is ok wo/ asking questions. If they wen't ahead and told them straight out that they can't measure their heart beat, the astronauts may panic unnecessarily.
I can't skake the awful feeling that Space Oddity is coming true, though.
Ground control to Major Tom your circuit's dead...there's something wrong, can you hear me Major Tom...Can you hear me Major Tom?...
Wow, they plan to do this on a plastic model of a human skeleton? That's gotta cause some complexity issues. Not to mention the miniaturization that would need to be done in order to fit the computer(s) into the body cavity. And what about appearance issues? I heard somewhere about a type of polymer that canbe used as a synthetic muscle (when a voltage is applied it contracts). there's also the realdoll. perhaps soon we'll see these things pretending to be us.
I just got a cool idea which is somewhat off topic. Game console manufaturers sell their hardware at a loss! remember the i-opener? They sold at a loss. Has anyone thought of scrapping the hardware from one of these bad-boys and throwing an OS like Linux or *BSD on it? Now that would be a kick-ass machine. If not, you could probably just find some way to use them as graphics cards.
Certainly the market opens up new frequencies as needed, but thats somewhat true of housing as well, yet eventually people will run out of space. (though not for some time) infringing on a pre-existing frequency by using one close to it would cause a lot of interference and eventually could render frequencies in that range useless. our wireless needs, however, don't necessarily need the full range. since you only need to broadcast to the tower or whatever, and then it is put through in wires, you only need a frequency unique to that zone.
What about posting information about how to pirate mp3s? Or DeCSS? or how the RIAA is attempting to restrict the individual freedoms of the American public in order to get rich? where do we draw the line? All that these sites are doing is showing people where to get media. If the media is illegal, why can't the RIAA just go after the sites that mp3board.com links to?
I think we're standing on the edge of a mountain, and we're doomed to fall off one way or the other. We have the capability to fall the way of freedom and ubiquitous information and uncontrolled media, but the tremendous and growing force of large corporations have the power to push us the other way.
Certainly the internet began free, but now its almost completely dominated by monopolistic corporations. The vast majority of people on the internet only veiw what they are shown by these corporations.
On the other hand, there is a rise in counter-culture producing the gnutellas of the world and freeing the internet again. The next generation of these programs most likely will have tremendous anonymity allowing information along those channels to be free. Perhaps the web is lost to commercialism yet in American history, freedom allways wins...eventually.