> Fuck, people really need to sit back and > relax... either that or go to a kids sporting > event and break the umpires jaw to blow off > steam...
Just an aside here, but as an 8 year veteran of little league umpiring --- the parents there are already too violent and loud-mouthed. Its amazing how upset they'll get just because their kid struck out. So please, don't encourage them anymore. I can only eject so many of 'em:)
I think the disturbing part of all this is how excited we all are (I'm drooling over it for one) over a 200ppi display. Admittedly, its far better than current displays, but even a cheap inkjet printer can hit 300dpi without a problem. And I've got a laser here at my office that can do 1200dpi. Does anyone know at what resolution the human eye can see at? IOW, when are we going to get documents on screen that look half as decent as its own printout?
I don't think the issue has to do with the ability of centralized search engines to index dynamic pages. I think there is a more fundamental flaw in that idiom. The lists of problems that exist for centralized search engines goes on and on: dynamic pages (of course), missing/broken/changed links, getting to new pages, and so on. What I think could be done is to define a search protocol (perhaps through some kind of search://domain/search+terms method) that is standardized. The global search engines then search by determining the most likely sites to have information for you and querying those sites directly for information. This would fix the problem of broken/missing/changed links being reported, new pages would automatically be available (assuming sites updated their search engines quickly), and if the local search engines are integrated with dynamic page generators (which should be possible) than those pages could be searched too. I realize that a lot of work would be needed to be put in to this in order for it to work. A protocol would need to be developed, as well as servers for the protocol. Search engines would have to learn to efficiently decide which sites to query to complete their searches, etc. Perhaps a combination of both approaches could yield something even better. All I know is that what is out there right now, well, fails miserably.
>I certainly hope there's some such international >agreement. I don't like the idea of someone >buying peieces of space and defacing it. As far >as I'm concerned, I think the moon belongs to >me, just as much as anyone. Just like there ara >national parks and reserves, I think the moon >(and the rest of the universe) should be an >international park/reserve.
You know, I ended up doing a double take when I read this. Initially this sounds like a wonderful thing to me, that all of this land should be commonly owned, free space to all. The reality of this though is that it's not going to work well. Eventually humans are going to start living off this planet (at least I think we can all agree on that). Once we do, do we really want every place you live beside earth to be some government owned and operated area? No, we're going to want to say this is my land and my house just as we do here. While I agree that some areas need to be defined as national park/reserve style areas, I think there also need to be areas that can be claimed for individual ownership.
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> Fuck, people really need to sit back and
:)
> relax... either that or go to a kids sporting
> event and break the umpires jaw to blow off
> steam...
Just an aside here, but as an 8 year veteran of little league umpiring --- the parents there are already too violent and loud-mouthed. Its amazing how upset they'll get just because their kid struck out. So please, don't encourage them anymore. I can only eject so many of 'em
I think the disturbing part of all this is how excited we all are (I'm drooling over it for one) over a 200ppi display. Admittedly, its far better than current displays, but even a cheap inkjet printer can hit 300dpi without a problem. And I've got a laser here at my office that can do 1200dpi. Does anyone know at what resolution the human eye can see at? IOW, when are we going to get documents on screen that look half as decent as its own printout?
I don't think the issue has to do with the ability of centralized search engines to index dynamic pages. I think there is a more fundamental flaw in that idiom.
The lists of problems that exist for centralized search engines goes on and on: dynamic pages (of course), missing/broken/changed links, getting to new pages, and so on.
What I think could be done is to define a search protocol (perhaps through some kind of search://domain/search+terms method) that is standardized. The global search engines then search by determining the most likely sites to have information for you and querying those sites directly for information. This would fix the problem of broken/missing/changed links being reported, new pages would automatically be available (assuming sites updated their search engines quickly), and if the local search engines are integrated with dynamic page generators (which should be possible) than those pages could be searched too.
I realize that a lot of work would be needed to be put in to this in order for it to work. A protocol would need to be developed, as well as servers for the protocol. Search engines would have to learn to efficiently decide which sites to query to complete their searches, etc.
Perhaps a combination of both approaches could yield something even better. All I know is that what is out there right now, well, fails miserably.
>I certainly hope there's some such international >agreement. I don't like the idea of someone >buying peieces of space and defacing it. As far >as I'm concerned, I think the moon belongs to >me, just as much as anyone. Just like there ara
>national parks and reserves, I think the moon
>(and the rest of the universe) should be an >international park/reserve.
You know, I ended up doing a double take when I read this. Initially this sounds like a wonderful thing to me, that all of this land should be commonly owned, free space to all.
The reality of this though is that it's not going to work well. Eventually humans are going to start living off this planet (at least I think we can all agree on that). Once we do, do we really want every place you live beside earth to be some government owned and operated area? No, we're going to want to say this is my land and my house just as we do here. While I agree that some areas need to be defined as national park/reserve style areas, I think there also need to be areas that can be claimed for individual ownership.