I saw Bram speak at SXSW last year. I know Cohen has Asperger's Syndrome, but Cohen didn't seem like he cared about anything.
He didn't care what people downloaded because mainstream music and films were a waste of time. He didn't want to talk about what should or shouldn't happen with RIAA and MPAA suits.
My favorite quote, "I don't like computers... they're really annoying to deal with... they never work right... I have to use them for work, but if I could avoid them, I would...".
This guy is a software developer with the ability to fix the things he doesn't like... but doesn't.
When asked what he did care about, he responds that he's a programmer and he likes doing "networking stuff", but when someone who helped develop the UDP standard asked what he would change, he says he doesn't care.
The monkeys can measure Wikipedia's success by how often it's cited in academic papers and used in classrooms. This is an indirect system of peer review by millions of content experts on the specific topics they are researching.
It's similar to Big Media and fact checking. If your CBS and throw out questionable evidence, there is an army of people with the time, motivation, and voice to prove you wrong.
I don't care if the editor is at CBS or Britannica, holding up to peer review is a more reliable test.
Putting Microsoft between you and your content seems like a mistake... even if the hardware is cheap. You have 233 day and counting to get your broadcast flag free capture cards.
TiVo needs to position themselves as the Google of DVRs and adopt the "Do No Evil" policy.
I got pretty feed-up with the Howard Dean Meet-ups. We would go around the room as if it was an AA meeting. Everyone would have a few minutes on the soapbox explaining why they were there. Most people used the time to state their political agenda as if the Meet-up coordinator was going to run the most popular views right up the line to Howard himself after the meeting.
There are some real advantages to dictatorships if the dictator is a intelligent and willing to channel resources to where they will achieve the greatest good. Consensus and compromise often end up getting you nowhere slowly.
Cory quotes Tim O'Reilly, "He was fairly equivocal, saying that it was a hard problem, requiring a whole separate project, not just a port, because of the differences in the operating systems. He made no announcement of actual plans to deliver the product, or even that Google was actively working on it"
Regardless of whether people outside the US should have any influence our elections... they SHOULD be able to follow the campaigns.
Aren't we the model of democracy we're hoping Iraq and Afghanistan follow? Waht would we think if Iraq banned US reporters from reporting on their campaigns?
I'm not advocating blocking content and yes, to get people's attention sometimes you have to inconvenience them. Picketing Walmart for living wages might annoy some of their customers, but isn't that kind of the point?
An alert is just that, an alert. If enough sites did this and enough people switched browsers Microsoft might just say, hey... we need to stop giving this lip service and really make fixing our browser a priority.
I don't use IE because I'm a OSX user and it just blows compared to the alternatives. I understand the attraction to ActiveX's flash and sizzle. Outlook Web Access is almost usable on a Windows box with IE... but at what cost? I've helped WAY too many friends try to remove adware from their machines. I don't have time to go door to door switching people to FireFox, but I control sites that thousands of people I visit each day.
This is my way of saying, I tried of fixing your machine because of problems with Microsoft's products. Please take a small step that will have a big impact and switch to FireFox.
if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer" && thisDay == 5)
{
alert("You are using Internet Explorer which goes against the spirit of Microsoft Free Fridays. Your browser is insecure according to CERT and just by using it you pose yourself at great risk(identity or data theft, viruses, spam relay and hackers who just want to damage or erase your data). Consider switching to Firefox or another more secure browser. For more information, go to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/");
}//--> </SCRIPT>
I'm not a JavaScript or browser detection guru. Is there an advantage to using document.appName.indexOf('icrosoft')?
Today Dave Winer wrote, "I won't use any non-Internet Microsoft product until they start investing again in MSIE. I don't hold out much hope, but it's the least I can do for the Web."
Not using MS products IS probably is the least you can do. Whatever happened to Microsoft Free Fridays? With FireFox aiming for 10% of the Web, it seems like it might be time to do more than the "least" for the web.
Any interest in a javascript alert message campaign to promote Firefox on Fridays? People could add the script to their site and on Friday an alert message would display saying something allong the lines of "The browser you are using isn't startard compliant or secure. Please consider upgrading to Firefox."
We have a packet shaper on the student side of the network, but not the academic and I'm glad. Packet shapping simply means that your moving one protocol down to move another protocol up. Soon or later things you want to work are too far down the list. You move those up, and the phone rings because now something else isn't working.
I think the correct answer is to buy more bandwidth when you start averaging 50% utilitzation. It will pay for itself in reducing support calls.
I work at Bradley University (squeaked in at #24) and I don't think this makes any sense. While we have an Internet2 connection and several buildings have wireless, our commodity connection was completely running at 99% capacity last year. This year we've separated student housing onto a completely separate service provider. So I have plenty of bandwidth to spare from my office and academic labs, I still hear complaints form students in the dorms.
Wouldn't calculating the bandwidth to student ratio make more sense than the computer to student ratio when determining "wiredness"?
Replace the nails and screws in the furniture in a hot classroom from the solid form of this material. Then just wait for the instructor to enter the room and turn on the AC.
With all the discussion about city wide WiFi networks in Grand Haven, Philadelphia, Redmond, etc and disputes over WiFi right of ways at universities and stadiums, it is becoming more obvious that WiFi will be eroding the markets of tradition broadcast technologies... radio, television, cellular.
When I was at SXSW last year, not only could you listen to the authorized SXSW iTunes playlists, but hundreds of Mac using convention goers were sharing their playlists via Rendezvous.
With standards like WMM and applications like Skype, have we finally taken the airwaves back?
Again, why is it only Windows that would need multiple instances? I currently have a computer on every desk for every user because they need their own computer. I've never seen a "server" with 18 video cards and keyboard/mouse connections that will allow everyone to connect to their own instance of the OS.
What I'm saying is don't put the CPU in the same enclosure as the display. With processor speeds increasing and prices dropping, I am going to want to upgrade the CPU before the display or drive. If I could swap my G4 rackmounted bMacs for G5 bMacs for $500 a pop, I'd do it. Tied to the displays... this will cost me $1500-$2000 a station.
Uhhhh.... what are you talking about? You want me to run a lab or a small office with a KVM switch? Do the users take turns using the computer?
Is there some multi-user GUI with seperate keyboards and video connections for the XServe that I'm not aware of? I know you can have multiple users connected using SSH or X11, but that doesn't address the need to have dumb terminals with networking on every desk.
What I'm talking about is moving the CPU from the desk next to the display to a rack at running DVI/USB/FireWire instead of networking to the desk. When I want to swap out "computers" I can do it very easily. Power, cooling, networking, disk space are centralized as well.
While Apple needs to refresh their consumer model, what would really be "insanely great" would be a system of rack mount Mac blades with Apple branded/quality DVI/USB/FireWire repeaters. They've already added firewire and USB to their cinema displays. Why not give me a system that lets me run an office from a rack of easily replacable/upgradable cpus with a utility to make it apple-easy to use networked home directories. Seems like this would be an easy sell to education as well as business customers.
Start with a G4 model with a lower price point since a G4 will do everything an office user needs. The cinema displays are expensive, but they look nice and the cost savings in centralizing network, power, and maintenance in addition to greatly reducing virus downtime would make these a solution small offices may actually consider.
I read/. for the New(s) for nerds... if I wanted to read month old news, I'd get a paper copy of Wired. The trailer has been on Apple's QuickTime site for weeks. It topped out on Blogdex around that time as well.
I stand by my original post... that post is not news and that movie is in poor taste.
First, this isn't new. I blogged it 3 weeks ago asking if Trey Parker and Matt Stone really think now is the time for a comedy about terrorism?
Maybe there's some deep moral meaning to this film, but from the small amount I've seen, the all white Team America is fighting darker complected marionettes around the world. Are they going to put a "This film is dedicated to the US service men and women who have lost their lives fighting terrorism..." message and then think everything is alright?
I'm guessing the friends and families of 957 killed and 6,497 wounded (and counting) in Iraq aren't going to find this movie very amusing.
In a Variety interview Matt Stone said, "This will probably piss off everyone in town, and might well be our swan song."
Who is going to buy DMR'ed music from a company that is struggling financially with no guarantee that the RM part of the DRM will function in 6 months.
Their ads should say... RENT AN ALBUM FOR $4.99 ACT NOW, THIS FUNCTIONALITY WON'T LAST
Netherlands - NOS offers 4 channels of preprogramed content and 1 live feed. UK - live video simulcast from television Sweden - live video simulcast from television USA - NBC offers only highlights
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Niall Kennedy has started a project to convert to book into an audio book like AKMA did with Lessig's Free Culture. Unfortunately, AKM Adam is a Ph.D., Rev., and author. Niall Kennedy is a junior at UC Davis. AKMA was about to get some high profile people from the blogsphere to record chapters including Dave Winer and Doug Kaye. Niall Kennedy has to date, only recorded the intro himself. Who knows, maybe Niall's project will grow legs and evolve into something like free-culture.org.
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I saw Bram speak at SXSW last year. I know Cohen has Asperger's Syndrome, but Cohen didn't seem like he cared about anything.
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He didn't care what people downloaded because mainstream music and films were a waste of time. He didn't want to talk about what should or shouldn't happen with RIAA and MPAA suits.
My favorite quote, "I don't like computers... they're really annoying to deal with... they never work right... I have to use them for work, but if I could avoid them, I would...".
This guy is a software developer with the ability to fix the things he doesn't like... but doesn't.
When asked what he did care about, he responds that he's a programmer and he likes doing "networking stuff", but when someone who helped develop the UDP standard asked what he would change, he says he doesn't care.
You can watch the interview for yourself here...
http://server1.sxsw.com/sxsw2/2005_coverage/bram_
My girlfriend and I updated a list of newspapers with RSS that Tom Biro of Media Drop started last year. There are now 85 daily newspapers with RSS feeds.
The monkeys can measure Wikipedia's success by how often it's cited in academic papers and used in classrooms. This is an indirect system of peer review by millions of content experts on the specific topics they are researching.
It's similar to Big Media and fact checking. If your CBS and throw out questionable evidence, there is an army of people with the time, motivation, and voice to prove you wrong.
I don't care if the editor is at CBS or Britannica, holding up to peer review is a more reliable test.
ME: Boss, I'm slammed and I don't have time for any additional projects.
BOSS: Ok. Why don't you start writing down everything you're doing.
ME: And how is that going to save me any time?
People by DVRs because they want to save time. I doubt many will give that up for $5 after paying $200-500 to get it.
Putting Microsoft between you and your content seems like a mistake... even if the hardware is cheap. You have 233 day and counting to get your broadcast flag free capture cards.
TiVo needs to position themselves as the Google of DVRs and adopt the "Do No Evil" policy.
I got pretty feed-up with the Howard Dean Meet-ups. We would go around the room as if it was an AA meeting. Everyone would have a few minutes on the soapbox explaining why they were there. Most people used the time to state their political agenda as if the Meet-up coordinator was going to run the most popular views right up the line to Howard himself after the meeting.
There are some real advantages to dictatorships if the dictator is a intelligent and willing to channel resources to where they will achieve the greatest good. Consensus and compromise often end up getting you nowhere slowly.
Cory quotes Tim O'Reilly, "He was fairly equivocal, saying that it was a hard problem, requiring a whole separate project, not just a port, because of the differences in the operating systems. He made no announcement of actual plans to deliver the product, or even that Google was actively working on it"
Regardless of whether people outside the US should have any influence our elections... they SHOULD be able to follow the campaigns.
Aren't we the model of democracy we're hoping Iraq and Afghanistan follow? Waht would we think if Iraq banned US reporters from reporting on their campaigns?
I'm not advocating blocking content and yes, to get people's attention sometimes you have to inconvenience them. Picketing Walmart for living wages might annoy some of their customers, but isn't that kind of the point?
An alert is just that, an alert. If enough sites did this and enough people switched browsers Microsoft might just say, hey... we need to stop giving this lip service and really make fixing our browser a priority.
I don't use IE because I'm a OSX user and it just blows compared to the alternatives. I understand the attraction to ActiveX's flash and sizzle. Outlook Web Access is almost usable on a Windows box with IE... but at what cost? I've helped WAY too many friends try to remove adware from their machines. I don't have time to go door to door switching people to FireFox, but I control sites that thousands of people I visit each day.
This is my way of saying, I tried of fixing your machine because of problems with Microsoft's products. Please take a small step that will have a big impact and switch to FireFox.
I was thinking of something more like this...
//-->
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
<!--
var thisDay=new Date().getDay();
if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer" && thisDay == 5)
{
alert("You are using Internet Explorer which goes against the spirit of Microsoft Free Fridays. Your browser is insecure according to CERT and just by using it you pose yourself at great risk(identity or data theft, viruses, spam relay and hackers who just want to damage or erase your data). Consider switching to Firefox or another more secure browser. For more information, go to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/");
}
</SCRIPT>
I'm not a JavaScript or browser detection guru. Is there an advantage to using document.appName.indexOf('icrosoft')?
Today Dave Winer wrote, "I won't use any non-Internet Microsoft product until they start investing again in MSIE. I don't hold out much hope, but it's the least I can do for the Web."
Not using MS products IS probably is the least you can do. Whatever happened to Microsoft Free Fridays? With FireFox aiming for 10% of the Web, it seems like it might be time to do more than the "least" for the web.
Any interest in a javascript alert message campaign to promote Firefox on Fridays? People could add the script to their site and on Friday an alert message would display saying something allong the lines of "The browser you are using isn't startard compliant or secure. Please consider upgrading to Firefox."
We have a packet shaper on the student side of the network, but not the academic and I'm glad. Packet shapping simply means that your moving one protocol down to move another protocol up. Soon or later things you want to work are too far down the list. You move those up, and the phone rings because now something else isn't working.
I think the correct answer is to buy more bandwidth when you start averaging 50% utilitzation. It will pay for itself in reducing support calls.
I work at Bradley University (squeaked in at #24) and I don't think this makes any sense. While we have an Internet2 connection and several buildings have wireless, our commodity connection was completely running at 99% capacity last year. This year we've separated student housing onto a completely separate service provider. So I have plenty of bandwidth to spare from my office and academic labs, I still hear complaints form students in the dorms.
Wouldn't calculating the bandwidth to student ratio make more sense than the computer to student ratio when determining "wiredness"?
Replace the nails and screws in the furniture in a hot classroom from the solid form of this material. Then just wait for the instructor to enter the room and turn on the AC.
Room cools, everything falls apart.
With all the discussion about city wide WiFi networks in Grand Haven, Philadelphia, Redmond, etc and disputes over WiFi right of ways at universities and stadiums, it is becoming more obvious that WiFi will be eroding the markets of tradition broadcast technologies... radio, television, cellular.
When I was at SXSW last year, not only could you listen to the authorized SXSW iTunes playlists, but hundreds of Mac using convention goers were sharing their playlists via Rendezvous.
With standards like WMM and applications like Skype, have we finally taken the airwaves back?
Again, why is it only Windows that would need multiple instances? I currently have a computer on every desk for every user because they need their own computer. I've never seen a "server" with 18 video cards and keyboard/mouse connections that will allow everyone to connect to their own instance of the OS.
What I'm saying is don't put the CPU in the same enclosure as the display. With processor speeds increasing and prices dropping, I am going to want to upgrade the CPU before the display or drive. If I could swap my G4 rackmounted bMacs for G5 bMacs for $500 a pop, I'd do it. Tied to the displays... this will cost me $1500-$2000 a station.
Uhhhh.... what are you talking about? You want me to run a lab or a small office with a KVM switch? Do the users take turns using the computer?
Is there some multi-user GUI with seperate keyboards and video connections for the XServe that I'm not aware of? I know you can have multiple users connected using SSH or X11, but that doesn't address the need to have dumb terminals with networking on every desk.
What I'm talking about is moving the CPU from the desk next to the display to a rack at running DVI/USB/FireWire instead of networking to the desk. When I want to swap out "computers" I can do it very easily. Power, cooling, networking, disk space are centralized as well.
The "b" is for business and blade.
While Apple needs to refresh their consumer model, what would really be "insanely great" would be a system of rack mount Mac blades with Apple branded/quality DVI/USB/FireWire repeaters. They've already added firewire and USB to their cinema displays. Why not give me a system that lets me run an office from a rack of easily replacable/upgradable cpus with a utility to make it apple-easy to use networked home directories. Seems like this would be an easy sell to education as well as business customers.
Start with a G4 model with a lower price point since a G4 will do everything an office user needs. The cinema displays are expensive, but they look nice and the cost savings in centralizing network, power, and maintenance in addition to greatly reducing virus downtime would make these a solution small offices may actually consider.
I read /. for the New(s) for nerds... if I wanted to read month old news, I'd get a paper copy of Wired. The trailer has been on Apple's QuickTime site for weeks. It topped out on Blogdex around that time as well.
I stand by my original post... that post is not news and that movie is in poor taste.
First, this isn't new. I blogged it 3 weeks ago asking if Trey Parker and Matt Stone really think now is the time for a comedy about terrorism?
Maybe there's some deep moral meaning to this film, but from the small amount I've seen, the all white Team America is fighting darker complected marionettes around the world. Are they going to put a "This film is dedicated to the US service men and women who have lost their lives fighting terrorism..." message and then think everything is alright?
I'm guessing the friends and families of 957 killed and 6,497 wounded (and counting) in Iraq aren't going to find this movie very amusing.
In a Variety interview Matt Stone said, "This will probably piss off everyone in town, and might well be our swan song."
I think he's right.
Who is going to buy DMR'ed music from a company that is struggling financially with no guarantee that the RM part of the DRM will function in 6 months.
Their ads should say...
RENT AN ALBUM FOR $4.99
ACT NOW, THIS FUNCTIONALITY WON'T LAST
Netherlands - NOS offers 4 channels of preprogramed content and 1 live feed.
UK - live video simulcast from television
Sweden - live video simulcast from television
USA - NBC offers only highlights
Sources: Wired, Paid Content, Kamera
Niall Kennedy has started a project to convert to book into an audio book like AKMA did with Lessig's Free Culture. Unfortunately, AKM Adam is a Ph.D., Rev., and author. Niall Kennedy is a junior at UC Davis. AKMA was about to get some high profile people from the blogsphere to record chapters including Dave Winer and Doug Kaye. Niall Kennedy has to date, only recorded the intro himself. Who knows, maybe Niall's project will grow legs and evolve into something like free-culture.org.
Duke seniors have slightly used iPods.
If you have large files you want/need to ditribute, now would be a great time to create torrents for them.
A wiki on creating torrents.