I think we can rely on individual photographers to decide to save their images in a format of their own choosing. We rely on them to take the pictures in the first place, and to decide which images to keep and throw away.
One thing the article also doesn't consider at all is what the error level was before spreadsheets were computerized. Spreadsheets have beeen around a lot longer than computers. A manual arithmetic mistake early on would propagate all the way to the bottom just like in Excel, but fixing it took a lot more work than changing one number.
Personally I can't wait for the day when you can't turn it off. The sooner we get human drivers off the road the sooner the 40,000+ per year death toll will go down to the hundreds. A highway system full of self-driving cars would not only be safer, it would be self-optimizing. No need to worry about the best route home. Online traffic maps would be for entertainment purposes only. Just read your newspaper or lean back and take a nap.
I don't know what you guys are complaining about. I think this is a refreshingly inventive design, that beats the crap out of the usual paint jobs and plexiglas inserts.
Fifteen minutes after this was posted, it was red-flagged by Carnivore. The President has approved $1 billion for a Lorem Ipsum task force. Monday morning Congress will pass the Lorem Ipsum Homeland Patriotism Act, which will impose a $100,000 fine and 10-year federal prison sentence for distribution or use of p2p software. Entertainment industry spokesmen hailed the new legislation as a step forward in the fight against terrorism.
Okay, the gauntlet has been thrown. If the download count hits a million within the time limit, then I will personally have sex with every member of the Swedish Bikini Team. And I won't even stop for hot chocolate.
I wonder how much the pay is going to be? Didn't see that in the articles, but SourcingMag quotes the guy saying that about 10 percent of the money they take in will go to direct wages and the rest goes back to the U.S. to buy fuel, etc. A competetive rate would be what, $120/hr? That would be $12/hr average pay. With free room and board thrown in that's probably not so bad for somebody from India. Could be kind of cool for a single person just out of college and accustomed to dorm life, sort of like living in a luxury dorm. But if someone's going to travel all the way here from India, I have a feeling working on land would be a lot more of a broadening experience.
I sure hope some legislative genius figures out a way to clean up the mess that the content industry has made of the copyright system. I hate to think of the my grandkids living in a world where every transfer of information involves a constant stream of fees paid to people who create nothing. The metering and enforcement requirements will pretty much put an end to any present-day concept of privacy, and copyright infringement (oops sorry, I mean "theft") could rival drug abuse as a prison recruitment program.
Yeah well, this guy's site sort of ticks me off. It's informative, but he presents it way too much like something he invented, which he didn't. Naming something is usually the prerogative of its creator or discoverer, not just some guy who thinks it's cool.
I guess it would be hard to make a good acronym out of "Somebody else's stuff plus somebody else's other stuff that I drew some diagrams of."
The document focuses on technical challenges, not business or political ones. But you're right that technical innovation is useless unless there is a business and political climate that can foster it.
Right. At one point the article mentions "a range of anti-social behavior, including spam, spyware and adware, and phishing." I personally think vigilante-style copyright enforcement should be at the top of the list of anti-social behaviors. DRM issues are probably going to have more impact on network design than any of the above, because the entertainment industry wants consumer hardware that is physically incapable of breaking copyright law. That requirement will have a deep impact on network design from the hardware up.
The article mentions that the maximum time in the air for one of their balloons is 18 months, then it's replaced and brought down for "refitting" and then sent back up. The refitting is probably to replenish the helium, or whatever they use -- the site says "proprietary lifting gas technology" (gimme a break). The folks from LiftPort who are developing the Space Elevator talked about this problem with balloons in their presentation at NorWesCon a couple weeks ago. Apparently helium is very hard to contain. One thing LiftPort plans to do to make money while waiting for carbon nanotube technology to develop is to hire out their cable-climbing robots to climb up and do in-flight refueling for tethered balloons. Seems like a neat idea for lower altitude balloons providing similar service to a smaller area.
I'm glad somebody pointed this out. "Ajax" is just one guy's acronym ("Asynchronous JavaScript + XML") for a technique he didn't invent that's been around for years, first as the xmlHttpRequest ActiveX control for IE and now supported natively by Mozilla. Basically, instead of switching from one web page to another, you have a single page that sits in the browser accepting user input, getting data from a server and repainting portions of itself, just like a standard application. No need to maintain session state because the user stays on that page for the whole session.
When I first found out about xmlHttpRequest back around 1998 I got all excited. It seemed like what the web had been waiting for. I was really surprised when Asp.Net returned to more of a refresh-refresh-refresh model with an elaborate state maintenance scheme.
I find designing pages with xmlHttpRequest intensely fun and more like good old fashioned application programming. Do yourself a favor and try it out.
It took me 20 years to get that stupid Mario music out of my head. I used to fall asleep and wake up with it stuck in my brain on endless loop. Now that I finally can't remember it, do you think I ever want to hear it again?
It comes down to a question of "how much is your time worth?" for most people.
That's just a reason why people don't participate more in government. The question being asked in the post is whether a free service like this is "un-American."
Here's my answer:
When a few individuals engineer the law to suit their needs, that's un-American. When running a big business gives somebody more votes than me, that's un-American. When somebody provides something cheaper than somebody else, that's called "competition."
All that's happening here is these cities are negotiating good bulk deals with providers. If the WiFi industry had thought of this idea first, it would just be another marketing strategy and nobody would be crying Socialism. I'm sick of companies whining when the public finds out that their product isn't worth a higher price.
This case will never go to court. The best the woman might do is get a settlement from the RIAA, and a settlement with the big boys is like Fight Club.
The first rule of the settlement is: You do not talk about the settlement.
The second rule of the settlement is: You do NOT TALK about the SETTLEMENT.
While it might motivate others to sue, each brave soul will have to do it without knowing whether it will really be worth the time and effort until it's over, and the rest of us spectators will remain completely in the dark.
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I think we can rely on individual photographers to decide to save their images in a format of their own choosing. We rely on them to take the pictures in the first place, and to decide which images to keep and throw away.
I think you made a great point.
600 megabytes per second for 10 days -- that's one hell of an mp3 collection.
One thing the article also doesn't consider at all is what the error level was before spreadsheets were computerized. Spreadsheets have beeen around a lot longer than computers. A manual arithmetic mistake early on would propagate all the way to the bottom just like in Excel, but fixing it took a lot more work than changing one number.
Not that I shouldn't be able to turn it off
Personally I can't wait for the day when you can't turn it off. The sooner we get human drivers off the road the sooner the 40,000+ per year death toll will go down to the hundreds. A highway system full of self-driving cars would not only be safer, it would be self-optimizing. No need to worry about the best route home. Online traffic maps would be for entertainment purposes only. Just read your newspaper or lean back and take a nap.
10 cents? I got ripped off! At my local Tru-Value these things are $.59 for a 2-pack.
I don't know what you guys are complaining about. I think this is a refreshingly inventive design, that beats the crap out of the usual paint jobs and plexiglas inserts.
I thought the mantra was:
"It just works on a 4-GHz processor with a gig of RAM and a 300-Mb hard drive."
Fifteen minutes after this was posted, it was red-flagged by Carnivore. The President has approved $1 billion for a Lorem Ipsum task force. Monday morning Congress will pass the Lorem Ipsum Homeland Patriotism Act, which will impose a $100,000 fine and 10-year federal prison sentence for distribution or use of p2p software. Entertainment industry spokesmen hailed the new legislation as a step forward in the fight against terrorism.
Okay, the gauntlet has been thrown. If the download count hits a million within the time limit, then I will personally have sex with every member of the Swedish Bikini Team. And I won't even stop for hot chocolate.
Somebody has done it, sort of. GmailFS is a mountable Linux filesystem that uses Gmail as a storage medium.
Before you think, "sweat-ship," hear them out.
I wonder how much the pay is going to be? Didn't see that in the articles, but SourcingMag quotes the guy saying that about 10 percent of the money they take in will go to direct wages and the rest goes back to the U.S. to buy fuel, etc. A competetive rate would be what, $120/hr? That would be $12/hr average pay. With free room and board thrown in that's probably not so bad for somebody from India. Could be kind of cool for a single person just out of college and accustomed to dorm life, sort of like living in a luxury dorm. But if someone's going to travel all the way here from India, I have a feeling working on land would be a lot more of a broadening experience.
I sure hope some legislative genius figures out a way to clean up the mess that the content industry has made of the copyright system. I hate to think of the my grandkids living in a world where every transfer of information involves a constant stream of fees paid to people who create nothing. The metering and enforcement requirements will pretty much put an end to any present-day concept of privacy, and copyright infringement (oops sorry, I mean "theft") could rival drug abuse as a prison recruitment program.
who is going to provide child support? ... blah blah, citizens tax dollars.
Jeez, this isn't Fark. If somebody mentions Bush or Liberals in this thread my head's gonna asplode.
Izzackly. Just trying to head of an avalanche of "19 - 2 != 15" posts.
Maybe the armchair physicist has something to say.
Yeah well, this guy's site sort of ticks me off. It's informative, but he presents it way too much like something he invented, which he didn't. Naming something is usually the prerogative of its creator or discoverer, not just some guy who thinks it's cool.
I guess it would be hard to make a good acronym out of "Somebody else's stuff plus somebody else's other stuff that I drew some diagrams of."
The document focuses on technical challenges, not business or political ones. But you're right that technical innovation is useless unless there is a business and political climate that can foster it.
Right. At one point the article mentions "a range of anti-social behavior, including spam, spyware and adware, and phishing." I personally think vigilante-style copyright enforcement should be at the top of the list of anti-social behaviors. DRM issues are probably going to have more impact on network design than any of the above, because the entertainment industry wants consumer hardware that is physically incapable of breaking copyright law. That requirement will have a deep impact on network design from the hardware up.
The article mentions that the maximum time in the air for one of their balloons is 18 months, then it's replaced and brought down for "refitting" and then sent back up. The refitting is probably to replenish the helium, or whatever they use -- the site says "proprietary lifting gas technology" (gimme a break). The folks from LiftPort who are developing the Space Elevator talked about this problem with balloons in their presentation at NorWesCon a couple weeks ago. Apparently helium is very hard to contain. One thing LiftPort plans to do to make money while waiting for carbon nanotube technology to develop is to hire out their cable-climbing robots to climb up and do in-flight refueling for tethered balloons. Seems like a neat idea for lower altitude balloons providing similar service to a smaller area.
It started when she was 15, they were going to meet when she turned 17, that was 2 years ago, now she's 19. So that clears that up.
I'm glad somebody pointed this out. "Ajax" is just one guy's acronym ("Asynchronous JavaScript + XML") for a technique he didn't invent that's been around for years, first as the xmlHttpRequest ActiveX control for IE and now supported natively by Mozilla. Basically, instead of switching from one web page to another, you have a single page that sits in the browser accepting user input, getting data from a server and repainting portions of itself, just like a standard application. No need to maintain session state because the user stays on that page for the whole session.
When I first found out about xmlHttpRequest back around 1998 I got all excited. It seemed like what the web had been waiting for. I was really surprised when Asp.Net returned to more of a refresh-refresh-refresh model with an elaborate state maintenance scheme.
I find designing pages with xmlHttpRequest intensely fun and more like good old fashioned application programming. Do yourself a favor and try it out.
It took me 20 years to get that stupid Mario music out of my head. I used to fall asleep and wake up with it stuck in my brain on endless loop. Now that I finally can't remember it, do you think I ever want to hear it again?
"Someone will have to design it,
someone will have to upgrade it,
someone will have to maintain it and
someone will have to run it.
Ivan left out his main objection: "I won't own it."
It comes down to a question of "how much is your time worth?" for most people.
That's just a reason why people don't participate more in government. The question being asked in the post is whether a free service like this is "un-American."
Here's my answer:
When a few individuals engineer the law to suit their needs, that's un-American.
When running a big business gives somebody more votes than me, that's un-American.
When somebody provides something cheaper than somebody else, that's called "competition."
All that's happening here is these cities are negotiating good bulk deals with providers. If the WiFi industry had thought of this idea first, it would just be another marketing strategy and nobody would be crying Socialism. I'm sick of companies whining when the public finds out that their product isn't worth a higher price.
This case will never go to court. The best the woman might do is get a settlement from the RIAA, and a settlement with the big boys is like Fight Club.
The first rule of the settlement is:
You do not talk about the settlement.
The second rule of the settlement is:
You do NOT TALK about the SETTLEMENT.
While it might motivate others to sue, each brave soul will have to do it without knowing whether it will really be worth the time and effort until it's over, and the rest of us spectators will remain completely in the dark.