equityengine.com is a sort of peer review idea factory/incubator that grants people equity in the companies resulting from their ideas, as well as equity in exchange for work done to implement those ideas.
If they pull this off, this would be a great way to capture the output of people who have great ideas but poor implementation skills, or lack of follow-through. --
I own this book, and I found it interesting that the chapters that were made available on the net were the chapters concerning technical matters, whereas the chapters I found most interesting, concerning the social aspects of CVS and Open Source projects are only available in the printed version.
This makes a lot of sense, from the authors perspective (and from ours as users of open source), since technical documentation is what's most desparately needed for many projects.
But I wonder how difficult it was to convince the publisher of this, who must have wanted to flip the situation around, and only offer the 'soft' information for free. --
I do like your idea, though, for a hip-pack. Put a 2.5" (or even 3.5") hard drive in it, and you're good to go.
Yeah, and if you remove the requirements for power and storage from the camera itself, you might even be able to put it into a goggle-like form factor. Eventually, sensors could detect your focused attention, squinting, blinking, etc. to control the camera for hands-free operation:
I concur with the points made, and would like to add a few more:
- Floppies are cheap, and readily available wherever you go. I'd much rather buy a couple of boxes of floppies for a trip than try to lay in a supply of memory sticks or flash memory modules. I am not going to lug a laptop when I go hiking.
- While the form factor is a bit awkward, I would rather have seen a digital camera with an Imation SuperDisk drive in it that took the 120 Mb disks AND floppies.
- What I Really want, is a small camera that has a single cable (power/data) to a hip-slung battery/hard drive combo. Then I want to be able to slide the whole hip-unit into a desktop computer like a removable 5.25" hard drive, And I want a firewire or USB cable between the hip-unit and a laptop when I want it.
Well, while I think that the article you link to has quite a few good points to make, those points deal exclusively with Apple hardware (specifically the RISC based PowerPC CPUs).
Both of the previous articles were written by Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini, who founded the Apple Human Interface Group, so his opinion should count for something.
I hope that these references are of use to anyone reviewing the UI changes that Apple is incorporating into Aqua and it's software, so as to avoid making the same mistakes WRT Linux GUI design. --
Those books are fiction. This kid isn't a literary critic, he wants to do real research.
He was asking about the social implications of nanotech. Any social implications are theoretical at this point, or in other words, fiction.
In science fiction there is a long standing tradition of speculative extrapolation of the implications (including social implications) of various scenarios, mostly technological.
In any case, my post clearly stated that my reading suggestions were a suplement to 'serious' books, not a replacement. --
While I'm sure that you will read various 'serious' tomes such as Drexler's Engines of Creation, I would reccomend that you not overlook using fiction as a rich repository of speculation.
The following books are ones that I would personally reccomend:
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson Tech Heavan - Linda Nagata The Bohr Maker - Linda Nagata Bloom - Wil McCarthy
I hope these books are as enjoyable to you as to me, and useful to boot. --
Squishdot is not a port of the slashcode, it's a clone of some of the basic Slashdot functionality that was produced long before the recent release of the slashcode. It currently lacks features such as self-registration, member pages, post ranking, member pages, etc.
Nevertheless, it is an astonishingly useful product, and can be set up on a working Zope installation within about 5 minutes.
There is also a big project underway to build a 'Portal Toolkit' (PTK) for Zope. You can find it here. The features of the PTK include self-registration, member pages, wizards for member contributed content, a review mechanism for member contributed content, multiple integrated sources for user authentication, most portal content 'discussable', etc. --
For a closer look at how we got into this mess, check out this december article on Linux Journal, it details how it all started in 1952 in a congressional commission chaired by a patent attorney named Giles S. Rich, that changed the wording of the Patent Act to cover 'Processes'.
Mr. Rich subsequently embarked on a long term plan to expand the scope of wat is patentable. These efforts culminated in the 'State Street Bank & Trust vs. Signature Financial Group' decision of 1996, over which Giles S. Rich, now a judge in his nineties, presided. This decision created the current situation where a computer mediated business process is patentable.
There were a few other steps along the way, but Judge Rich was definitely instrumental to the chain of events, and as a patent attorney, was hardly a disinterested party. Unfortunately, He's now safely dead, so we can't call him up and ask: 'What were you thinking?'. --
Is it even possible to index dynamic pages? They don't really exist until the page is generated. Perhaps the best thing to do for sites that want to be indexed is to make sure they have a plain, vanilla index.html page that contains relevant keywords?
It depends on what technology you're using to generate the pages.
Zope sites for instance, are totally dynamically generated, even those pages that would normally be static. But the entire content of the site that's stored in the ODB is traversable via 'normal' URLs. This means that search engines can easily index your entire site.
Note, however, that this only works if you've taken care to expose your content via links. If you've delibarately hidden your content behind a search interface (and you can still do this with Zope), then your site will be no more indexable than any other dynamic site.
"Actually countries like China have a nasty reputation for disregarding all copyright laws for intellectual property, thus piracy and bootlegging run rampant."
I have a feeling that this attitude towards intellectual property is quickly going to translate into rampant GPL violations. --
It would be interesting to know if any of Linux's development is being done in China currently.
Regardless, as various countries become more wired, hacker culture is going to become much more diverse.
Sometimes I shudder to think about what is going to happen to my employability when countries like China and India (which has the worlds largest english-speaking population) come online. --
Neoplanet is actually doing something very interesting:
They are planning on embedding both browsers into their product, and letting users switch between them at will. They are also dedicating programming resources to helping the Mozilla project.
Slashdot Mirror
I found an interesting site today:
equityengine.com is a sort of peer review idea factory/incubator that grants people equity in the companies resulting from their ideas, as well as equity in exchange for work done to implement those ideas.
If they pull this off, this would be a great way to capture the output of people who have great ideas but poor implementation skills, or lack of follow-through.
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This reminds me of an amusing anecdote:
Since people who *are* suits don't necessarily actually wear them anymore, a new label is needed.
My favorite candidate is 'ITS' for 'Ironed T-Shirts', as these type of people tend to iron their t-shirts and jeans (just can't relax).
Besides, then we can call them 'its'!
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Unfortunately, Slashdot does not allow tags in postings, so I don't have an alternative to using ^H^H^H's.
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Like in the movie TRON.
Then I can take on the MPAA^H^H^H^H MCP and beat it at it's own game...
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I dunno, this sounds like Jini.
Can anyone comment on the relative merits of the two technologies?
IANAC (I Am Not A Coder) but this just sounds like a rehash of the same concept, except it's supposed to work with Intel hardware only.
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I agree, but my point was, how difficult must it have been to convince the publisher of this?
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I own this book, and I found it interesting that the chapters that were made available on the net were the chapters concerning technical matters, whereas the chapters I found most interesting, concerning the social aspects of CVS and Open Source projects are only available in the printed version.
This makes a lot of sense, from the authors perspective (and from ours as users of open source), since technical documentation is what's most desparately needed for many projects.
But I wonder how difficult it was to convince the publisher of this, who must have wanted to flip the situation around, and only offer the 'soft' information for free.
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- stare at something to get the camera ready
- squint to zoom in, widen your eyes to zoom out
- blink to take a picture
That would be cool.
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I concur with the points made, and would like to add a few more:
- Floppies are cheap, and readily available wherever you go. I'd much rather buy a couple of boxes of floppies for a trip than try to lay in a supply of memory sticks or flash memory modules. I am not going to lug a laptop when I go hiking.
- While the form factor is a bit awkward, I would rather have seen a digital camera with an Imation SuperDisk drive in it that took the 120 Mb disks AND floppies.
- What I Really want, is a small camera that has a single cable (power/data) to a hip-slung battery/hard drive combo. Then I want to be able to slide the whole hip-unit into a desktop computer like a removable 5.25" hard drive, And I want a firewire or USB cable between the hip-unit and a laptop when I want it.
That is what I'd pay $1000 for.
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Well, while I think that the article you link to has quite a few good points to make, those points deal exclusively with Apple hardware (specifically the RISC based PowerPC CPUs).
Here is a more relevant article about the shortcomings of the Aqua interface, and another article about the improvements that Apple should be making.
Both of the previous articles were written by Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini, who founded the Apple Human Interface Group, so his opinion should count for something.
Another article, that is slightly less relevant, dissects the UI of the new QuickTime player. It isn't kind.
I hope that these references are of use to anyone reviewing the UI changes that Apple is incorporating into Aqua and it's software, so as to avoid making the same mistakes WRT Linux GUI design.
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You can apparently still order back issues from their website, but it doesn't look like they're still a going concern, unfortunately.
In a related question, does RUSirius have a slashdot login?
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http://www.openca.org/
Check them out.
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He was asking about the social implications of nanotech. Any social implications are theoretical at this point, or in other words, fiction.
In science fiction there is a long standing tradition of speculative extrapolation of the implications (including social implications) of various scenarios, mostly technological.
In any case, my post clearly stated that my reading suggestions were a suplement to 'serious' books, not a replacement.
--
While I'm sure that you will read various 'serious' tomes such as Drexler's Engines of Creation, I would reccomend that you not overlook using fiction as a rich repository of speculation.
The following books are ones that I would personally reccomend:
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Tech Heavan - Linda Nagata
The Bohr Maker - Linda Nagata
Bloom - Wil McCarthy
I hope these books are as enjoyable to you as to me, and useful to boot.
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The following information sources are usually a bit more productive that the current manuals:
The Zope Documentation Project
The mailing lists
The How-Tos
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Squishdot is not a port of the slashcode, it's a clone of some of the basic Slashdot functionality that was produced long before the recent release of the slashcode. It currently lacks features such as self-registration, member pages, post ranking, member pages, etc.
Nevertheless, it is an astonishingly useful product, and can be set up on a working Zope installation within about 5 minutes.
Some sites running Squishdot include:
Technocrat.net
Gnotices, Gnome developer News
70South
eBiquity.org
91.266A - Numerical Methods
and my own FIAWOL site.
There is also a big project underway to build a 'Portal Toolkit' (PTK) for Zope. You can find it here. The features of the PTK include self-registration, member pages, wizards for member contributed content, a review mechanism for member contributed content, multiple integrated sources for user authentication, most portal content 'discussable', etc.
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For a closer look at how we got into this mess, check out this december article on Linux Journal, it details how it all started in 1952 in a congressional commission chaired by a patent attorney named Giles S. Rich, that changed the wording of the Patent Act to cover 'Processes'.
Mr. Rich subsequently embarked on a long term plan to expand the scope of wat is patentable. These efforts culminated in the 'State Street Bank & Trust vs. Signature Financial Group' decision of 1996, over which Giles S. Rich, now a judge in his nineties, presided. This decision created the current situation where a computer mediated business process is patentable.
There were a few other steps along the way, but Judge Rich was definitely instrumental to the chain of events, and as a patent attorney, was hardly a disinterested party. Unfortunately, He's now safely dead, so we can't call him up and ask: 'What were you thinking?'.
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Check out the following books:
Fair warning, I am an Amazon affiliate, and will get a vig if you buy the books after following the links. Feel free to circumvent this if you wish.
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Sociability
Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
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It depends on what technology you're using to generate the pages.
Zope sites for instance, are totally dynamically generated, even those pages that would normally be static. But the entire content of the site that's stored in the ODB is traversable via 'normal' URLs. This means that search engines can easily index your entire site.
Note, however, that this only works if you've taken care to expose your content via links. If you've delibarately hidden your content behind a search interface (and you can still do this with Zope), then your site will be no more indexable than any other dynamic site.
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This does not seem to be what's happening. The pages you referred to specify that this problem has to do with Versions older than 4.05.
I am Using Netscape Communicator 4.51, and still got the message that the site was using an unrecognized root certificate.
Hmm, just tried to view the site again, and the original pop up warning is now gone.
Ah. Now the pop-up appears when I click on 'New User via SSL'.
Anyone have additional information?
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I think I am going to patent the process of applying the Internet to existing business models in order to create new patents.
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It would be interesting to know if any of Linux's development is being done in China currently.
Regardless, as various countries become more wired, hacker culture is going to become much more diverse.
Sometimes I shudder to think about what is going to happen to my employability when countries like China and India (which has the worlds largest english-speaking population) come online.
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...For example, it could have been purple cobranded Barbie cellphones, or everyones favorite Purple Dinosaur.
How about a purple breakfast cereal (Jini Puffs)?
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Neoplanet is actually doing something very interesting:
They are planning on embedding both browsers into their product, and letting users switch between them at will. They are also dedicating programming resources to helping the Mozilla project.
Check out these links:
Neoplanet Press Release
Download the Neoplanet 5.0 Gecko technology preview
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