I guess a Wiki wouldn't work for them... Blogs wouldn't work either. A copy of the Code that runs SLashdog with heads of major field offices playing the Role of Cowboy Neal wouldn' work either..
Ok, my point is now that they have a secure network there are some many great ways to share data, and even rank and Meta-moderate data...
Sure it's nice to build some amazing wild system that totally solves every problem they ever had and ever will have... BUT there is too much risk.
You see this happening again and again in Government, with FBI, IRS, etc. Big huge systems build from whole cloth rarely ever fit or work or are delivered as promised.
Smaller systems with continual or incremental changes work better.
You don't have the expectation of privacy, but if you are being followed, you have the expectation that you might be able to observe being observed.
You also don't have the expectation that someone will ENTER your property to place some tracking thing on or in it, even if they don't open up a lock and just pop it on the back some place, you don't have that expectation.
It should bring up some security issues too.. If i trusted Microsoft to really handle security I would probably want to use their tool just for that reason. I mean I don't want something able to a) look at all my files and b) then communicate to the open net...
If any vendor does that, even MS, I wouldn't really want to use tool. Of course that will not stop Mom and Pop Netizen and all their scriptkids from using them...
I'm a big fan of Nanotech, but even a bigger fan of accurate science/technology HISTORY; esp. with people who are making history.
In the article, Josh Wolfe says, "When the Internet was created nobody envisioned that the killer app (application) would be e-mail or instant messaging."
Sending a message from terminal to terminal, fingering (unix command) a user, etc. and email have always been the "killer" app of ANY network, including an InterNet[work]; but the issue like most technology adoption rates or scenarios has to do with critical mass. What many people didn't understand was if average joe's and jane's would never be able to get and use Email and Messaging technology. ANd would there ever be enough Email and Messaging users to make the technology useful for mass communication.
Then Bellcore created an email APPLIANCE and tested with Seniors in Flordia, proving that any one/any age would like Email and use it if the User Interface (UI) was good enough.
a) we offer wifi b) we offer electrical connections
Some people use neither; some use just the wifi because they have nice laptops with big batteries and they don't lug their powercords with them. Other use both and that's ok. I want them in the store, ordering soda, fries, beer or just hanging out and making us look busy.
"Professor Ockels says a few hundred of the installations, each requiring some 400 kites with 27ft wingspans, could generate enough electricity to supply the needs of a city the size of Seattle. The cost would be similar to that of generating power with polluting fossil fuels."
At a few hundred per city... that is a lot of kites..
Then you have to find the places to put them...
"The Laddermill would only be flown where aircraft are banned. One such area is the zone along the US-Mexican border, where high-flying balloons fitted with radar are used to combat drug traffickers."
One person can't fight back for a $1,000 since it would cost more than that...
Recent Prop. In Cali has limited the rights of private laywers to act on the public behalf which also makes it hard for a single laywer to fight for a group of people.
The only way to really fight this type of spyware, ASSUMING there is someone with some deep pockets would be a class action, which is difficult to put together. You need to certify the class, then go to court to fight the 'bad guys.'
The article is saying there are 32 Broadband connections in the US.. "more than 32 million broadband connections by the end of June 2004"
Doing some fuzzy math, for a country of 300 million people, that means 10% of the country is connected.. BUT WAIT!!
Connections are to HOMES, not to People, just like TV. There are roughly 95 million TV homes (maybe more these days). So 32 Homes with Broaband means roughly 1/3 of the country or about 100 million people (more than 1 person per home... + all those who "borrow" wireless service from their clueless neighbhors).
If you always too a bomb and traveled often wouldn't that change the odds so that in a few years there would be a far greater chance of there being a bomb on board?
Part of my point was that if everyone was forced to either buy a legit copy or not use the software, some would not use it, some would buy it and some would buy an other brand of similar software (maybe more or less $$).
There are some people who steal software and use it every day for many years and never buy it, but there are also others who steal it use it once in a while and there are many who use it and over time, when upgrades occur or for other reasons (like increased use or reliance on the software) go out and buy a real copy.
There is actual real software that I have bought and paid for and NEVER used. I'm not sure that every time someone downloads software (legit or otherwise) that they end up using it.
I just like the really nice taken professional photographs of the team. That plus the admission that if SP2 with all the security holes it's had, is still more secure than anything MS has shipped, but then again we have always known, that that a MS box is totally secure esp when, "not attached to any network and having no removable media."
The question is really, why does someone stick with a service. Any service from an Amex card to AOL. If you have a paid AOL with the "paid" email account, and then you go and buy Broadband some place else... and then you quit AOL do you get to convert your previously paid email/screen name to the free account. (I assume you can't).
As long as you can't convert paid accounts to unpaid, they have no risk. Your hotmail or google account is only taking away from their brand "power" (% of market share).
If they can kill off any of the free email systems they have helped themselves.
The question remains, if you can convert paid accounts to free ones why do you stay a member? (I think they could try to make the case that the reason will be Spam blocking, virus protection and AOL Radio). On the other hand if your leaving AOL anyway, and they can keep their "hooks" into you by letting you keep your email address does that help you (yes), does it help them (maybe not). Plus I would assume giving you the ability to keep your old AOL email address would make your choice to leave AOL much much easier.
The good news is that this is good news for many countries, say the Philipines and Egypt where college educated people earn only a few 1000 (USD Equiv.) a year. This is a computer for them and it will work well.
That it isnt' open source, yada yada, will not make it less valued to the target market. This puts personal computing/Internet into the hands of up to an extra 500 Million people, probably more like 200 to 300 Million.
The bad news? This still puts personal computing and the Internet OUT of the REACH of BILLIONS. The only way that will happen in the short term is a totally open source solution from Chip to Software. IMHO, that can only happen with support from governments like India and China.
My personal rule of thumb is that a computer needs to cost not more than 1 or 2 weeks INCOME. If this thing costs $185 that means you need to earn 5k to 9k a year to afford it. In some countries the people earning that much are the upper crust...
We need open source solutions that cost $25 to $50. That can be afforded by most people/families in the would -- say at least 3 or 4 billion out of 5 billion.
Every failure isn't a disability but email is something that cuts across all of society. Everyone has to use it. That includes many who are dyslextic (like myself) or have other disabilities as well as those for whom English isn't a native Lang, all lend itself to lots of Fuzzy English...
Ok, the English teachers would object.. but as long as you can understand what is being said...
Then of course there is "new English" like CU L8ter and IMHO, TTYL and so forth..
The point of a space program should be to get one with enough economy that it can actually be used.. That Russian system is years away and each module good for only 25 trips.. Figure on the future value of money and inflation in general in Russia and it may cost a lot more than they are expecting...
Our space program is getting more market based ant that is the way it should be. The only space ships that should be built are those that make economic sense. Getting the government out of it, is a big huge and wonderful first step.
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I guess a Wiki wouldn't work for them... Blogs wouldn't work either. A copy of the Code that runs SLashdog with heads of major field offices playing the Role of Cowboy Neal wouldn' work either..
Ok, my point is now that they have a secure network there are some many great ways to share data, and even rank and Meta-moderate data...
Sure it's nice to build some amazing wild system that totally solves every problem they ever had and ever will have... BUT there is too much risk.
You see this happening again and again in Government, with FBI, IRS, etc. Big huge systems build from whole cloth rarely ever fit or work or are delivered as promised.
Smaller systems with continual or incremental changes work better.
Doesn't AOL distribute it with AIM?
You don't have the expectation of privacy, but if you are being followed, you have the expectation that you might be able to observe being observed.
You also don't have the expectation that someone will ENTER your property to place some tracking thing on or in it, even if they don't open up a lock and just pop it on the back some place, you don't have that expectation.
It should bring up some security issues too.. If i trusted Microsoft to really handle security I would probably want to use their tool just for that reason. I mean I don't want something able to a) look at all my files and b) then communicate to the open net...
If any vendor does that, even MS, I wouldn't really want to use tool. Of course that will not stop Mom and Pop Netizen and all their scriptkids from using them...
I'm a big fan of Nanotech, but even a bigger fan of accurate science/technology HISTORY; esp. with people who are making history.
In the article, Josh Wolfe says, "When the Internet was created nobody envisioned that the killer app (application) would be e-mail or instant messaging."
Sending a message from terminal to terminal, fingering (unix command) a user, etc. and email have always been the "killer" app of ANY network, including an InterNet[work]; but the issue like most technology adoption rates or scenarios has to do with critical mass. What many people didn't understand was if average joe's and jane's would never be able to get and use Email and Messaging technology. ANd would there ever be enough Email and Messaging users to make the technology useful for mass communication.
Then Bellcore created an email APPLIANCE and tested with Seniors in Flordia, proving that any one/any age would like Email and use it if the User Interface (UI) was good enough.
I own a Restaurant (http://www.schnackdog.com);
a) we offer wifi
b) we offer electrical connections
Some people use neither; some use just the wifi because they have nice laptops with big batteries and they don't lug their powercords with them. Other use both and that's ok. I want them in the store, ordering soda, fries, beer or just hanging out and making us look busy.
Exactly, they say,
"Professor Ockels says a few hundred of the installations, each requiring some 400 kites with 27ft wingspans, could generate enough electricity to supply the needs of a city the size of Seattle. The cost would be similar to that of generating power with polluting fossil fuels."
At a few hundred per city... that is a lot of kites..
Then you have to find the places to put them...
"The Laddermill would only be flown where aircraft are banned. One such area is the zone along the US-Mexican border, where high-flying balloons fitted with radar are used to combat drug traffickers."
If we had some large scale public software tool like all the SETI code crunchers, we could automate the filing of Law Suites...
One person can't fight back for a $1,000 since it would cost more than that...
Recent Prop. In Cali has limited the rights of private laywers to act on the public behalf which also makes it hard for a single laywer to fight for a group of people.
The only way to really fight this type of spyware, ASSUMING there is someone with some deep pockets would be a class action, which is difficult to put together. You need to certify the class, then go to court to fight the 'bad guys.'
The article is saying there are 32 Broadband connections in the US.. "more than 32 million broadband connections by the end of June 2004"
Doing some fuzzy math, for a country of 300 million people, that means 10% of the country is connected.. BUT WAIT!!
Connections are to HOMES, not to People, just like TV. There are roughly 95 million TV homes (maybe more these days). So 32 Homes with Broaband means roughly 1/3 of the country or about 100 million people (more than 1 person per home... + all those who "borrow" wireless service from their clueless neighbhors).
If you always too a bomb and traveled often wouldn't that change the odds so that in a few years there would be a far greater chance of there being a bomb on board?
Part of my point was that if everyone was forced to either buy a legit copy or not use the software, some would not use it, some would buy it and some would buy an other brand of similar software (maybe more or less $$).
There are some people who steal software and use it every day for many years and never buy it, but there are also others who steal it use it once in a while and there are many who use it and over time, when upgrades occur or for other reasons (like increased use or reliance on the software) go out and buy a real copy.
There is actual real software that I have bought and paid for and NEVER used. I'm not sure that every time someone downloads software (legit or otherwise) that they end up using it.
I just like the really nice taken professional photographs of the team. That plus the admission that if SP2 with all the security holes it's had, is still more secure than anything MS has shipped, but then again we have always known, that that a MS box is totally secure esp when, "not attached to any network and having no removable media."
"personally responsible for as much as $200,000 in losses to the industry"
That is making the assumption that everyone who pirated software would actually buy it and if they bought it they would pay full price..
The question is really, why does someone stick with a service. Any service from an Amex card to AOL. If you have a paid AOL with the "paid" email account, and then you go and buy Broadband some place else... and then you quit AOL do you get to convert your previously paid email/screen name to the free account. (I assume you can't).
As long as you can't convert paid accounts to unpaid, they have no risk. Your hotmail or google account is only taking away from their brand "power" (% of market share).
If they can kill off any of the free email systems they have helped themselves.
The question remains, if you can convert paid accounts to free ones why do you stay a member? (I think they could try to make the case that the reason will be Spam blocking, virus protection and AOL Radio). On the other hand if your leaving AOL anyway, and they can keep their "hooks" into you by letting you keep your email address does that help you (yes), does it help them (maybe not). Plus I would assume giving you the ability to keep your old AOL email address would make your choice to leave AOL much much easier.
Which Law? Who administers the law? The FCC or an other agency?
You could say that Cable TV is a private subscription system, but it is regulated in that, for example, Cigarette ads are NOT alowed.
FCC has a lot of power..
What about fake subjects and Phising trips..
"Mom needs Help"
"Thanks for the Gift"
Things are clearly not advertising..?
I think the unique "ness" of this is that it integrated into the main Pixar TOOLSET...
Does the DVB-C card support "Cable box on card" technology?
The good news is that this is good news for many countries, say the Philipines and Egypt where college educated people earn only a few 1000 (USD Equiv.) a year. This is a computer for them and it will work well.
That it isnt' open source, yada yada, will not make it less valued to the target market. This puts personal computing/Internet into the hands of up to an extra 500 Million people, probably more like 200 to 300 Million.
The bad news? This still puts personal computing and the Internet OUT of the REACH of BILLIONS. The only way that will happen in the short term is a totally open source solution from Chip to Software. IMHO, that can only happen with support from governments like India and China.
My personal rule of thumb is that a computer needs to cost not more than 1 or 2 weeks INCOME. If this thing costs $185 that means you need to earn 5k to 9k a year to afford it. In some countries the people earning that much are the upper crust...
We need open source solutions that cost $25 to $50. That can be afforded by most people/families in the would -- say at least 3 or 4 billion out of 5 billion.
Every failure isn't a disability but email is something that cuts across all of society. Everyone has to use it. That includes many who are dyslextic (like myself) or have other disabilities as well as those for whom English isn't a native Lang, all lend itself to lots of Fuzzy English...
Ok, the English teachers would object.. but as long as you can understand what is being said...
Then of course there is "new English" like CU L8ter and IMHO, TTYL and so forth..
DVB C is what is used for Digital Cable in the US...
Does the Coax go directly into the WinTV DVB-s/C card or do we come out of the Cable Box into the PVR and then to the TV set?
no one buys cheap stuff for their board rooms..
The point of a space program should be to get one with enough economy that it can actually be used.. That Russian system is years away and each module good for only 25 trips.. Figure on the future value of money and inflation in general in Russia and it may cost a lot more than they are expecting...
Our space program is getting more market based ant that is the way it should be. The only space ships that should be built are those that make economic sense. Getting the government out of it, is a big huge and wonderful first step.