The Segway weighs like 70 lbs, and it's designed so it can be folded up and put in the trunk of a car, or brought inside with you. This weighs "only" 360 lbs, obviously not something that you could put in your car, or carry up stairs. Instead, you'll have to find a place to park it, and put some kind of bike chain on it. No idea how expensive it will be, but I'd bet you'd want a pretty big chain. In any case, it's not even in the same league as the Segway as far as convenience/utility.
Yes, I'm sure that will work. I'm going to convince all my friends to boycott AOL-Time-Warner products. None of them will watch Matrix Revolutions, The Last Samurai, Elf, or LOTR: The Return of the King. They will not use AOL Instant Messenger or their AOL email addresses. The will not read AOL/TW publications like Time, People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Popular Science. The will stop watching TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network. They will no longer get their news from CNN, and will stop rooting for the Atlanta Braves. Why will they stop doing all these things? Because AOL/TW now has a policy of censoring a few articles that are politically loaded.
Boycotts only work if they can challenge the company's profitability. And people are only going to sign onto a boycott if their outrage outweighs the inconvenience of boycotting. With AOL/TW's broad-based market penetration, they'd have to start breeding a plague of zombies and invading major metropolitan areas before enough people would boycott them to affect their profitability.
But political motiviations tie in directly with Time's financial concerns. In this political climate, people just don't want to hear about people questioning the President, especially his father. Let's not forget that Time-Warner, like all media/content-providers these days, has a huge political interest in rights-management mandates and all sorts of other nasty things.
And don't think for a minute that concern for human freedom would ever lead to censorship. Censorship stems from a disregard for human freedom, not concern for it.
Because Debian has the largest package repository. It's really that simple... when you get down to it, the hardest part about making a solid distribution isn't technical, it's procedural. Gentoo may have a spiffy build-from-source package system, but Debian has hordes of maintainers in the testing/unstable branches who maintain almost-latest versions of nearly every free software project, and the dependencies between them. If you could reproduce this maintainance process in Gentoo, you might reach Debian's level in a couple years. Maybe.
Besides, building everything from source is nice but very slow - for a mainstream distribution you'd probably want to apt/emerge binary packages rather than source packages, and Gentoo doesn't have any advantages over Debian in the binary packaging department.
Nice idea, and I agree wholeheartedly. Too bad it'll never work. "Everything could be so much better, if only they did things Our Way." That's never been thought of before...
Straight answer: You can't. If a corporation has financial reason to do something, they will, period. No "morality" or "social conscience" or "concern for human freedom" will play into it. That's the way corporations work; committees and boards of trustees don't have any kind of hive-morality, only a concern for their company's bottom line.
If media corporations and content-providing conglomerates have a financial or political reason to alter their records, they will, and they have no legal reason to do otherwise. We can only hope that the open-standard-based free internet can survive and let us remember electronically.
Hmm, I just thought of something when looking at the top 2 stories... Why aren't there any XBox viruses? It seems like a prime target for worms, with internet connectivity via XBox Live, a well-published interface for firmware hacking via software, a homogenous monoculture of both hardware and software, not to mention probably dozens of well-known vulnerabilities from its use of Windows and DirectX alone. Is there anything special about the XBox that is protecting it more than PCs from a plague of viruses?
The company has also been wrestling with Xbox hackers, who've been able to turn the $179 console into a fully functioning computer.
This really highlights the stupidity of MS's anti-hacking efforts. I don't ever remember a company spending so much effort and money on an attempt to remove functionality and desirability from their products.
linux growth is going to stop dead for a good chunk of time
Since when did we rely on SUSE and RHat for our linux development?? Last I checked, Linux and the associated environment were Open Source/Free Software. That's what's so special about it: companies can come and go and thrive and fail, but they can only help GNU/Linux, and never hurt it.
This is why I was cheering for AOL to buy RHat last year or whenever that rumor was going around. Not because it would be good for RHat, but because AOL would probably contribute alot of development coders, and being GPL work it would benefit the entire community.
In Yoga, the mantra "Om" (or Aum) is supposed to represent the sound the universe makes. The "vibration of life" as it were. Those old yogis were really ahead of their time! Ommmmmmmmmmm...
Intermezzo and Coda both do this, but I don't think there's any windows versions available. There are some Microsoft things available too, but obviously those aren't for linux. NBD (which everyone else has mentioned) isn't distributed, so that's not really what you're looking for.
What you might be able to do is put together a microcosm of Freenet or something like it, running on just your home computers. There may be other Peer-to-Peer solutions available that are faster/more stable. Do some searching on peer-to-peer distributed storage networks. I know of two researchy ones: OceanStore and Chord. Good luck!
I work at EMC, and this fact (along with projections for similar growth in the future) is a big marketing strategy for the company, especially toward investors. The storage market grows with the amount of information produced... it's gotta be stored somewhere!
If OSX was "100% virus free", why would they have Virex, which has updates once a month? Are they writing their own virus and patching them just for fun?
Here's what we do know... While we don't know the identity of GAIN-Supported Software users, the GAIN AdServer and TGC collect and use the following kinds of anonymous information:
* Some of the Web pages viewed
* The amount of time spent at some Web sites
* Response to GAIN Ads
* Standard web log information (excluding IP Addresses) and system settings
* What software is on the personal computer
* First name, country, city, and five digit ZIP code
* Non-personally identifiable information on Web pages and forms
* Software usage characteristics and preferences
Until there's some kind of legal definition of "spyware" versus "adware", I certainly would classify it as spyware. "Non-personally identifiable" my ass... if someone snuck into my house and found out all that information about me, I wouldn't call it "advertising". Stealing a company's non-personally identifiable trade secrets is spying. Stealing non-personally identifiable documents from a classified government facility is spying.
Still, given the persistent, near un-uninstallable nature of it, think "spyware" isn't a good term... "Malware" or "Evilware" is probably more appropriate.
Seeing as a large apple is about 100 kilocalories, you'd need a cluster of maybe 580 apples to best your Big Mac Cluster. If you go to an apple orchard I'm sure you could find a better price-performance ratio with apples than you could with Big Macs at McDonalds. Plus, most orchards will probably let you gather virtually unlimited quantities of fallen apples for free.
Are you sure this will work? I haven't tried the service or the software, but I'm pretty sure the only way you can the songs to CD is through iTunes. Extrapolating from all of Apple's other "idiotproof" interfaces, burning to an ISO won't be an option. 'Course I might be wrong.
Haha, I had a picture in my head of someone trying to drive round a little car with one of those awful, fat, stiff printer cables attached to the back. Silly me.
"Unless Apple decides to make radical changes to their service model, a Windows-based version of iTunes will still remain a closed system, where iPod owners cannot access content from other services. Additionally, users of iTunes are limited to music from Apple's Music Store. As I mentioned earlier, this is a drawback for Windows users, who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device," said Fester. David, that is.
Huh? iTunes is not limited to Apple Music downloads, it also plays mp3s, audio CDs, and pretty much anything other un-DRMed audio you have. The iPod has always played mp3s. What's Apple supposed to do, preemptively invent DRM solutions that profit other companies and put those into iTunes? And iTunes does allow you to burn to an audio CD. MS WMP would do no different than Apple here.
Granted, Apple Music downloads are useless to anyone without iTunes (on Windows or Mac) or an iPod. Until I can play them in linux, they're useless to me. And don't tell me to burn everything to a CD and then rip it. Apple Music is also useless if you want to listen on a non-apple portable. Once again, Apple has chosen to support "everyone" by offering a choice of proprietary systems, rather than a single open system. "Windows or Mac" is just as bad as "Mac only" or "Windows only".
Scientists at [Research organization] have found a new way to do [common task]! Could this spell the end of [age-old solution]? [Age-old solution] is dead!
What does this translate to? Maybe 5 or 10 years from now we'll start to see this being taken seriously by doctors. In 15 years it may be common practice in isolated situations. Our society doesn't move anywhere near as fast as technological innovation, and it never has.
"Piracy" implies brutally violent armed robbery, in a place where policing and other preventive or retributional measures are essentially infeasable. That is, Spain couldn't police the Caribbean or the African coast, so pirates had relative immunity unless their weatherweary prey somehow got
Software and Copyright "piracy" barely qualifies as theft. The only thing the victim loses because of the crime is a potential sale. No violence, malice, or brutality is involved. Not even greed, really - it's more laziness that motivates information "pirates". On the other hand, information "pirates" do operate in an environment where policing is an essentially intractable problem. The interweb is developing in to a chaotic, increasingly anonymous system of ephemera. Finding individual users is like trying to chase a rat through a sewer, or a dwarf through a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. Or a real pirate on the high seas. Current attempts to police the internet are ineffective to the point of humor.
Why are they saying that they're unlocked the secrets? So the secret of stonehenge is "There's a lot of the same repeated pattern all over the place"? This doesn't answer any questions at all - they already know that. All they found is about 6 more silly axehead designs, just like the ones all over the other stones. Maybe they can use it to find writing or something. Until then, they haven't really unlocked anything.
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The Segway weighs like 70 lbs, and it's designed so it can be folded up and put in the trunk of a car, or brought inside with you. This weighs "only" 360 lbs, obviously not something that you could put in your car, or carry up stairs. Instead, you'll have to find a place to park it, and put some kind of bike chain on it. No idea how expensive it will be, but I'd bet you'd want a pretty big chain. In any case, it's not even in the same league as the Segway as far as convenience/utility.
Yes, I'm sure that will work. I'm going to convince all my friends to boycott AOL-Time-Warner products. None of them will watch Matrix Revolutions, The Last Samurai, Elf, or LOTR: The Return of the King. They will not use AOL Instant Messenger or their AOL email addresses. The will not read AOL/TW publications like Time, People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Popular Science. The will stop watching TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network. They will no longer get their news from CNN, and will stop rooting for the Atlanta Braves. Why will they stop doing all these things? Because AOL/TW now has a policy of censoring a few articles that are politically loaded.
Boycotts only work if they can challenge the company's profitability. And people are only going to sign onto a boycott if their outrage outweighs the inconvenience of boycotting. With AOL/TW's broad-based market penetration, they'd have to start breeding a plague of zombies and invading major metropolitan areas before enough people would boycott them to affect their profitability.
But political motiviations tie in directly with Time's financial concerns. In this political climate, people just don't want to hear about people questioning the President, especially his father. Let's not forget that Time-Warner, like all media/content-providers these days, has a huge political interest in rights-management mandates and all sorts of other nasty things.
And don't think for a minute that concern for human freedom would ever lead to censorship. Censorship stems from a disregard for human freedom, not concern for it.
Because Debian has the largest package repository. It's really that simple... when you get down to it, the hardest part about making a solid distribution isn't technical, it's procedural. Gentoo may have a spiffy build-from-source package system, but Debian has hordes of maintainers in the testing/unstable branches who maintain almost-latest versions of nearly every free software project, and the dependencies between them. If you could reproduce this maintainance process in Gentoo, you might reach Debian's level in a couple years. Maybe.
Besides, building everything from source is nice but very slow - for a mainstream distribution you'd probably want to apt/emerge binary packages rather than source packages, and Gentoo doesn't have any advantages over Debian in the binary packaging department.
Nice idea, and I agree wholeheartedly. Too bad it'll never work. "Everything could be so much better, if only they did things Our Way." That's never been thought of before...
Straight answer: You can't. If a corporation has financial reason to do something, they will, period. No "morality" or "social conscience" or "concern for human freedom" will play into it. That's the way corporations work; committees and boards of trustees don't have any kind of hive-morality, only a concern for their company's bottom line.
If media corporations and content-providing conglomerates have a financial or political reason to alter their records, they will, and they have no legal reason to do otherwise. We can only hope that the open-standard-based free internet can survive and let us remember electronically.
Hmm, I just thought of something when looking at the top 2 stories... Why aren't there any XBox viruses? It seems like a prime target for worms, with internet connectivity via XBox Live, a well-published interface for firmware hacking via software, a homogenous monoculture of both hardware and software, not to mention probably dozens of well-known vulnerabilities from its use of Windows and DirectX alone. Is there anything special about the XBox that is protecting it more than PCs from a plague of viruses?
This really highlights the stupidity of MS's anti-hacking efforts. I don't ever remember a company spending so much effort and money on an attempt to remove functionality and desirability from their products.
do YOU run Linux? ::sorry::
Since when did we rely on SUSE and RHat for our linux development?? Last I checked, Linux and the associated environment were Open Source/Free Software. That's what's so special about it: companies can come and go and thrive and fail, but they can only help GNU/Linux, and never hurt it.
This is why I was cheering for AOL to buy RHat last year or whenever that rumor was going around. Not because it would be good for RHat, but because AOL would probably contribute alot of development coders, and being GPL work it would benefit the entire community.
In Yoga, the mantra "Om" (or Aum) is supposed to represent the sound the universe makes. The "vibration of life" as it were. Those old yogis were really ahead of their time! Ommmmmmmmmmm...
Intermezzo and Coda both do this, but I don't think there's any windows versions available. There are some Microsoft things available too, but obviously those aren't for linux. NBD (which everyone else has mentioned) isn't distributed, so that's not really what you're looking for.
What you might be able to do is put together a microcosm of Freenet or something like it, running on just your home computers. There may be other Peer-to-Peer solutions available that are faster/more stable. Do some searching on peer-to-peer distributed storage networks. I know of two researchy ones: OceanStore and Chord. Good luck!
I work at EMC, and this fact (along with projections for similar growth in the future) is a big marketing strategy for the company, especially toward investors. The storage market grows with the amount of information produced... it's gotta be stored somewhere!
The rigors of combat? Hell, it doesn't even survive the rigors of internet browsing or playing DVDs. Forget active combat!
Yes, but will the Antelope run Longhorn?
So now the full text of ever far side comic ever is now searchable? Cool!!
If OSX was "100% virus free", why would they have Virex, which has updates once a month? Are they writing their own virus and patching them just for fun?
Until there's some kind of legal definition of "spyware" versus "adware", I certainly would classify it as spyware. "Non-personally identifiable" my ass... if someone snuck into my house and found out all that information about me, I wouldn't call it "advertising". Stealing a company's non-personally identifiable trade secrets is spying. Stealing non-personally identifiable documents from a classified government facility is spying.
Still, given the persistent, near un-uninstallable nature of it, think "spyware" isn't a good term... "Malware" or "Evilware" is probably more appropriate.
Seeing as a large apple is about 100 kilocalories, you'd need a cluster of maybe 580 apples to best your Big Mac Cluster. If you go to an apple orchard I'm sure you could find a better price-performance ratio with apples than you could with Big Macs at McDonalds. Plus, most orchards will probably let you gather virtually unlimited quantities of fallen apples for free.
Are you sure this will work? I haven't tried the service or the software, but I'm pretty sure the only way you can the songs to CD is through iTunes. Extrapolating from all of Apple's other "idiotproof" interfaces, burning to an ISO won't be an option. 'Course I might be wrong.
Haha, I had a picture in my head of someone trying to drive round a little car with one of those awful, fat, stiff printer cables attached to the back. Silly me.
Huh? iTunes is not limited to Apple Music downloads, it also plays mp3s, audio CDs, and pretty much anything other un-DRMed audio you have. The iPod has always played mp3s. What's Apple supposed to do, preemptively invent DRM solutions that profit other companies and put those into iTunes? And iTunes does allow you to burn to an audio CD. MS WMP would do no different than Apple here.
Granted, Apple Music downloads are useless to anyone without iTunes (on Windows or Mac) or an iPod. Until I can play them in linux, they're useless to me. And don't tell me to burn everything to a CD and then rip it. Apple Music is also useless if you want to listen on a non-apple portable. Once again, Apple has chosen to support "everyone" by offering a choice of proprietary systems, rather than a single open system. "Windows or Mac" is just as bad as "Mac only" or "Windows only".
Scientists at [Research organization] have found a new way to do [common task]! Could this spell the end of [age-old solution]? [Age-old solution] is dead!
What does this translate to? Maybe 5 or 10 years from now we'll start to see this being taken seriously by doctors. In 15 years it may be common practice in isolated situations. Our society doesn't move anywhere near as fast as technological innovation, and it never has.
Here's to that.
"Piracy" implies brutally violent armed robbery, in a place where policing and other preventive or retributional measures are essentially infeasable. That is, Spain couldn't police the Caribbean or the African coast, so pirates had relative immunity unless their weatherweary prey somehow got
Software and Copyright "piracy" barely qualifies as theft. The only thing the victim loses because of the crime is a potential sale. No violence, malice, or brutality is involved. Not even greed, really - it's more laziness that motivates information "pirates". On the other hand, information "pirates" do operate in an environment where policing is an essentially intractable problem. The interweb is developing in to a chaotic, increasingly anonymous system of ephemera. Finding individual users is like trying to chase a rat through a sewer, or a dwarf through a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. Or a real pirate on the high seas. Current attempts to police the internet are ineffective to the point of humor.
So how did imperial governments defeat their pirate problem? They settled the New World.
Why are they saying that they're unlocked the secrets? So the secret of stonehenge is "There's a lot of the same repeated pattern all over the place"? This doesn't answer any questions at all - they already know that. All they found is about 6 more silly axehead designs, just like the ones all over the other stones. Maybe they can use it to find writing or something. Until then, they haven't really unlocked anything.