No need to extend the HTTP protocol. As it is now, BT is linked to your browser with the mime-type mechanism (i.e. ".torrent extension == launch Bittorrent and give it the file" sort of scheme). The only thing you need really is to get Bittorrent to tell the browser to display the downloaded HTML page(s).
Does anybody else see this as a misuse of the word "blog"? Sounds like they just combined two buzzwords together (bittorrent and blog)
Misuse of a misuse of a misuse of a made-up name. One of my family member is here behind me, looking at this/. article, asking me what the hell a blog-torrent is, and I'm about to tell her to sit down for a little while, whil I explain the concept of P2P and blogging, and bandwidth, and Slashdot to her. Oh dear...
A young couple had been married for a couple of weeks, but the man was always after his wife to quit smoking. One afternoon, she lit up after some love making, and he said, "You really ought to quit." She, getting tired of his nagging, said, "I really enjoy a good cigarette after sex." He replied, "But they stunt your growth." She asked if he ever smoked, and he replied that he never had. Smiling and lifting her gaze to his groin, she said, "So, what's your excuse?"
$17/hr. That's what they expect to pay for artwork done in 80-110 hour weeks. On the plus side- that many hours means you're pulling down $100,000 a year....
I say that's not much left after you're done paying for your divorce lawyer and your triple heart bypass when you reach forty...
I did the death marches, the crazy overtime, and the stress before, and you know what? I'd rather be paid half as much but stay 10 times more healthy and happy in my family. And yes, it does pay the bills and the mortgage, as long as you plan your spendings reasonably and you don't live on credit like most Americans do.
You can't compare it to air, because spectrum is a scarce resource. Economics is all about the allocation of scarce resources.
Air is a scarce resource, like water. But more importantly, it's a shared resources. Private ownership of shared resources leads to inequalities, unfairness and mismanagement that hurts everybody else.
Don't be silly. Most things can be privately owned, but certain things, the commons, cannot. It's not communism, it's just the way it is. Just like, in your family, you can't run in the kitchen, grab the fridge and claim it's yours: it's not, it's your family's, and you'd hurt your family, and therefore yourself, if you claimed it yours. You have every right to own your own stereo and clothes however. I don't see where's the commie thinking in that...
The UK government has the ability to seize back the privatised items if they are convinced that the privatisation was not successful longterm.
Newsflash: most governments, but especially the US' and the UK's these days, are corrupt and owned by the very corporations they should be controlling and regulating. Didn't you ever ask yourself why the railways are still privatised after all these years when any moron can see it's a certified disaster? Well, that's why...
It's about time someone did this. There's no reason for the airwaves to be publicly owned.
You HAVE to be joking...
Public ownership of the airwave exists because, in reality, no-one can own it in the first place. In fact, it's not owned at all, just regulated (i.e. Big Brother slaps you on the fingers if you annoy your radio neighbours).
It's just like air and oceans, you know. You can't really own it, just manage it, because it's everybody's and nobody's at the same time.
At least seven ham radio operators have died, and over 70 CB operators injured during a routine QSO on 10m between London and Kings Lynn. It is reported that one of the side band of the AM transmission derailled off the airwave and careened into the 11m band, injuring many CB operators. The hams QSOing on 10m were found dead, but one of them managed to write "WHERE IS THIS COUNTRY GOING TO? ARRRRGGHHH I DIE...." with his own blood on his contact map.
as long as my mom, who can be called a computer idiot but still manages to do her work with MS Office, tells me "what's that K icon where START should be", I call bullcrap on any point-and-click Linux.
The reason I should say this is because my mom is extremely typical. Things "power users" take for granted (or, rather, don't even think about for one second) are very puzzling to many average computer users. Not to mention the scare factor of going away from something well known (Windows + Office).
This said however, I commend this new effort to promote Linux, but sadly I doubt it'll change much from all the previous such attempts.
A two-electrode version of this device exists in the form of licking 9V batteries, to give users the sense of whether 9V batteries are dead. It also works to test the main I hear...
A long time ago I decided that Joel on Software would be non-political. In programming terms, politics are orthogonal to software
Not quite so. If you vote for the wrong guys, you software-making activities might stand a greater chance of moving overseas, and then the two issues won't be orthogonal anymore.
One of the funniest (in an endearing sense) things about kids is the way they will happily wear pieces of their Haloween costumes for months after Haloween.
I can tell you're not a teenager's father yet. When you are, you realize your kids still take to wearing the same rags for months on end, only it's not funny anymore.
You must be kidding: offer that, erhm, thing to your wife for Christmas and you've got a recipe for divorce. It's just too ghetto to be appreciated by anybody but a cable worker with a big sense of humour, who also happens to like chess.
In other news: area man puts corks and beer bottle caps onto a chessboard, cleverly sorted by their sizes and colors to evocate actual chess piece, thereby creating an astonishingly surprising post-modern chess game!
It is rumored our clever friend is doing some rummage in the attic to find bits and piece to create more chess games. News at 11...
or do java apps take up a huge amount of system resources? Everytime I launch one, my system crawls.
Look, I used to hate Java, and quite frankly I can't say I love it much yet. But to be honest, it's come a long way since the days it was unbearable. So please come off the Java bashing, it's passé. Either that or upgrade your system for crying out loud...
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No need to extend the HTTP protocol. As it is now, BT is linked to your browser with the mime-type mechanism (i.e. ".torrent extension == launch Bittorrent and give it the file" sort of scheme). The only thing you need really is to get Bittorrent to tell the browser to display the downloaded HTML page(s).
Does anybody else see this as a misuse of the word "blog"? Sounds like they just combined two buzzwords together (bittorrent and blog)
/. article, asking me what the hell a blog-torrent is, and I'm about to tell her to sit down for a little while, whil I explain the concept of P2P and blogging, and bandwidth, and Slashdot to her. Oh dear...
Misuse of a misuse of a misuse of a made-up name. One of my family member is here behind me, looking at this
Here's one for you:
A young couple had been married for a couple of weeks, but the man was always after his wife to quit smoking. One afternoon, she lit up after some love making, and he said, "You really ought to quit." She, getting tired of his nagging, said, "I really enjoy a good cigarette after sex." He replied, "But they stunt your growth." She asked if he ever smoked, and he replied that he never had. Smiling and lifting her gaze to his groin, she said, "So, what's your excuse?"
OOH EVIL! A joke involving *gasp* cigarettes!!
Lighten up for chrissake...
$17/hr. That's what they expect to pay for artwork done in 80-110 hour weeks. On the plus side- that many hours means you're pulling down $100,000 a year....
I say that's not much left after you're done paying for your divorce lawyer and your triple heart bypass when you reach forty...
I did the death marches, the crazy overtime, and the stress before, and you know what? I'd rather be paid half as much but stay 10 times more healthy and happy in my family. And yes, it does pay the bills and the mortgage, as long as you plan your spendings reasonably and you don't live on credit like most Americans do.
You can't compare it to air, because spectrum is a scarce resource. Economics is all about the allocation of scarce resources.
Air is a scarce resource, like water. But more importantly, it's a shared resources. Private ownership of shared resources leads to inequalities, unfairness and mismanagement that hurts everybody else.
Don't be silly. Most things can be privately owned, but certain things, the commons, cannot. It's not communism, it's just the way it is. Just like, in your family, you can't run in the kitchen, grab the fridge and claim it's yours: it's not, it's your family's, and you'd hurt your family, and therefore yourself, if you claimed it yours. You have every right to own your own stereo and clothes however. I don't see where's the commie thinking in that...
The UK government has the ability to seize back the privatised items if they are convinced that the privatisation was not successful longterm.
Newsflash: most governments, but especially the US' and the UK's these days, are corrupt and owned by the very corporations they should be controlling and regulating. Didn't you ever ask yourself why the railways are still privatised after all these years when any moron can see it's a certified disaster? Well, that's why...
It's about time someone did this. There's no reason for the airwaves to be publicly owned.
You HAVE to be joking...
Public ownership of the airwave exists because, in reality, no-one can own it in the first place. In fact, it's not owned at all, just regulated (i.e. Big Brother slaps you on the fingers if you annoy your radio neighbours).
It's just like air and oceans, you know. You can't really own it, just manage it, because it's everybody's and nobody's at the same time.
Latest news:
At least seven ham radio operators have died, and over 70 CB operators injured during a routine QSO on 10m between London and Kings Lynn. It is reported that one of the side band of the AM transmission derailled off the airwave and careened into the 11m band, injuring many CB operators. The hams QSOing on 10m were found dead, but one of them managed to write "WHERE IS THIS COUNTRY GOING TO? ARRRRGGHHH I DIE...." with his own blood on his contact map.
as long as my mom, who can be called a computer idiot but still manages to do her work with MS Office, tells me "what's that K icon where START should be", I call bullcrap on any point-and-click Linux.
The reason I should say this is because my mom is extremely typical. Things "power users" take for granted (or, rather, don't even think about for one second) are very puzzling to many average computer users. Not to mention the scare factor of going away from something well known (Windows + Office).
This said however, I commend this new effort to promote Linux, but sadly I doubt it'll change much from all the previous such attempts.
From the article:
Surgeons can feel on their tongues the tip of a probe inside a patient's body, enabling precise movements.
A whole new range of experiences for surgeons performing coloscopies, no doubt.
A two-electrode version of this device exists in the form of licking 9V batteries, to give users the sense of whether 9V batteries are dead. It also works to test the main I hear...
What if you lost your sense of taste?
A long time ago I decided that Joel on Software would be non-political. In programming terms, politics are orthogonal to software
Not quite so. If you vote for the wrong guys, you software-making activities might stand a greater chance of moving overseas, and then the two issues won't be orthogonal anymore.
I on the other hand, could unpossibly care less.
I would unhit the submit button so fast if I were you...
One of the funniest (in an endearing sense) things about kids is the way they will happily wear pieces of their Haloween costumes for months after Haloween.
I can tell you're not a teenager's father yet. When you are, you realize your kids still take to wearing the same rags for months on end, only it's not funny anymore.
You must be kidding: offer that, erhm, thing to your wife for Christmas and you've got a recipe for divorce. It's just too ghetto to be appreciated by anybody but a cable worker with a big sense of humour, who also happens to like chess.
In other news: area man puts corks and beer bottle caps onto a chessboard, cleverly sorted by their sizes and colors to evocate actual chess piece, thereby creating an astonishingly surprising post-modern chess game!
It is rumored our clever friend is doing some rummage in the attic to find bits and piece to create more chess games. News at 11...
Does your comment scream "I have no idea how much it costs to haul stuff in space" or what?
Just sell it to the military and let them spread it in fine oxydized particles around the world.
Fair and Balanced!
Oops sorry, wrong thread...
Breaking news: Half of Slashdot is ~ 6 foot and 150lbs.
Breaking news: We're just found the second half of Slashdot.
The local school system here runs Blackboard
Our local school system here is blackboard too. It's proven technology and it really works well. The licensing fee is really low too!
or do java apps take up a huge amount of system resources? Everytime I launch one, my system crawls.
Look, I used to hate Java, and quite frankly I can't say I love it much yet. But to be honest, it's come a long way since the days it was unbearable. So please come off the Java bashing, it's passé. Either that or upgrade your system for crying out loud...
What shame? The shame of being wealthy for the remainder of your life without having to work again?
You illustrate my point very well, thank you.