And the Web would be useless without the 'net. The initial breakthrough was the interconnection of systems and networks. Sure, other people and countries made improvements on it. But I don't recall any other country ever making the fundamental leap to a really distributive architecture. Sure, you found an apple, we just found the orchard.
Feel free to create your own AussieNet, and lay the fibre down, and then we will pay you. Until you pay the intial costs, shut the fuck up. Oooh, we have to pay for stuff!!! Wah! I guess the billions of dollars we spent creating the 'net and laying fibre means nothing, right? Of course not, because now you have Internet access, and you deserved it all along. No, to those who dare the investments come the awards, and sorry, Australia didn't do squat in relation to the Internet.
That's just wrong- the "poor people", as you put them, could very well teach us things that we have long forgotten, or haven't even learned yet. I can't say for sure what that would be, but maybe medical treatments for a whole variety of things from the Amazon, Africa, etc. Introducing new species of animals- perhaps a duck-billed hippo. (That would be funky!) I don't say fuck 'em, I don't say we should build their entire infrastructure- I say help them out a bit, urge them along, let them make their own discoveries and contributions.
The article seems to send a message that a US-centric Internet is bad, even though other countries/continents are catching up. Umm, the Internet was invented by the DOD, and more or less just given to the (at first) US public, and then the world. At considerable expense, don't forget. For any country to complain about not having "equal access" to the Internet should basically shut up until they put in the money that the US put in initially. (Disregard the billions put into the infrastructure since then).
Don't get me wrong, I am glad that international connections, servers, and users are growing by leaps and bounds. The more connections in the world, that is more info that can be spread, more tolerance that can be learned, more history and purpose that can be learned. Cultures (sp?) intersect and learn from each other. The human race grows at a pace not ever, ever seen before!!
I just get very frustrated by people that say "Antartica only has a 4Kb connection to the Internet! Unfair!!! We deserve an OC-48 RIGHT NOW!"
The 814 area code has an 867 exchange- which just happens to be the State College, PA (Penn State) area. And yes, we tried calling 867-5309, and no, this number is not working! After 10 years of prank calls, the phone company probably got the hint!
1) Well rounded means you can spell and read, as well as code.
2) And speak in public.
3) Remember that something like 30% of people go into jobs that they majored in.
4) The most important part in college education is to teach how to learn, not rote memorization.
5) Monkeys can memorize, people can innovate.
6)...or be creative.
7) "Those who don't know history are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past."
8) Learning to work in teams.
9) Learning to be flexible.
I think that is all I have to add to this discussion.
This is a good point, but I think I read in IEEE's Spectrum that they thought that they had a some insights into how to lick the breakdown problem. Something about adding a certain chemical which stabalized the whole thing. Of course, it's still in testing, so they don't know if it will work.
The buffer lag should be less than the transition lag. The silicon buffers should have a quicker response than the LCD components, but this is just an educated guess.
Organic LEDs are on the way in probably about 5 years or so, and I am willing to wait for them. Cheaper to produce, no backlight, and flexible. Production screens for cell phones and camcorders are being produced, so it's only an engineering step to up-size them. They are also more durable and scaleable than LCDs.
It's nice that LCDs are getting better, but even better stuff is just down the pike.
1) Some people browse with "download graphics=no"
2) Many people don't accept cookies (except for the Girl Scout kind!)
3) What if you are using multiple proxies for downloading? Multiple IP streams...
4) Ok, I have to pay to access the site- and how do I do that exactly?
5) All of the problems mentioned in the parent.
Online is a different medium than TV or radio- the same rules don't necessarily apply. Especially when most of these ads seem to be for things like dry cleaning a cat, or other nonsense. I don't see Pepsi or Coke popping up all over, but even Yahoo pops up that damn X10 camera ad. I feeling is that eventually online content will split into 2 groups once a good micropayment system is worked out, the free and spam-filled side, and the pay but no ads side. Don't get me wrong, I love free content, but I can only see advertising get worse until large groups of people are willing to fork over some cash to _not_ see more ads.
Here is a list of issues that the readers of Slashdot believe to be of importance in America today:
1) goatse.cx guy
2) Cmd. Taco having gay sex
3) First post woots
4) Censorship via moderation
5) sporks
6) Destroying Microsoft
7) Promoting Linux as the state religion
I think this covers a good 70% of most threads, if you browse at the -1 level. If you ever feel bad about yourself, go read the first 30 posts of any thread at -1, you will instantly feel better!
(sp?) If not, we would be Tater Tots in about 10 hours or so. Really, though, without an electromagnetic field, our planet would pretty much be blasted by the "solar wind" to the point that Mars or Venus would look like a vacation area compared to that version of hell. Another point not to forget is the ozone shield which filters out most UV radiation, where no shield was good at first (to cause mutations into higher lifeforms, like plants, but is now bad) but now is essential to not irradiate humans into extinction. Of course CO2 is bad/good because it will raise/lower global temperatures soon/never so our lives will be altered now/never. This last part is motly right.
They are a fairly respected organization, but will it be enough to sway IT department heads? Assuming it does, I don't think thousands of IIS servers are going to be swapped out tomorrow. So Microsoft has time to release a new version before everyone jumps ship.
Of course, releasing a new version opens up a whole new set of possible security flaws. Security quality assurance has never been Microsoft's strong point.
The ugly GUI is supposed to enchant you. Oh, and the fact that they now run all of your utilities for you under Start->Stop->Exit->Enter->Go->Leave ->Blankets->Cheese->Utilities->Pay
But that should have been obvious from the get go.
I am not degrading the guy, I think it's great that he has some hobby that he likes. Shit, I worked on my Mac for a week just to make it play a game from 1985 or so. I was just amazed that this guy did all this work for no reason I could fathom. Maybe he did have a good reason; maybe he just wanted to do it for the hell of it; the web page just seemed to make it look like it was the best thing since sliced cheese.
I'm sorry if I came off sounding like a jerk, I really didn't mean to offend this guy, or you.
Yes, but tinkering with an OS does something for you- faster printing, more grepping power, whatever. I could probably make my dancing monkey toy talk to me like a Furby doll, but why would I?
This is about the 3rd or 4th mission I've now heard of that goes off and does something beyond its "expected mission" or "expected lifetime". Remember the landing on Eros? The probe that rammed the moon? Sure they have screw-ups like the Martian lander, but you got to give them credit for all these extra missions they are accomplishing, especially considering their ever decreasing budget.
Really, why would you need this to be portable? You already have Gameboy, laptops, PDAs- what is PS1 going to give you that you need so badly? And where are you going to take it? In the car- power adapter. Plane- not real likely now. The train- they have power outlets in them. So that leaves the bathroom and foreign countries, I guess.
I agree that it's cool, but has zero utility. I'm sure that serveral of you will come up with all kinds of arguments against this (why this IS usefull), but, I don't know, errrgg! Dumb, dumb...
Yeah, I take the PATH into the city twice a week. My boss is a former trader from Wall St. As you know, the mall is right up from the PATH stations- that's why I find it weird that there was so much gold and silver there; millions of people running in and out every day, but tons of gold right next door (so to speak).
Even worse for the phone companies, the WTC had a CO, the financial building had a CO, and the Verizon building next to the west side highway is a CO, and it's pretty fucked up. 3 out of 15 COs in lower Manhattan are gone. And to think I was supposed to be putting in new lines in 26 Fed that Thursday...
On the good side, all of the insurance companies involved said that they would cover the losses at the WTC. They could argue to whole war thing since the President said "we are at war", even though only Congress can declare war, but I'm glad that they are avoiding all that shit and are sucking up the huge losses they are going to get hit with.
I find it weird that the Trade Centers had so much gold and silver! I did some rough calculations in my head, and it was something like 0.3% of all gold reserves in the world. That's a huge amount of money not to be locked up by a gov or the military. Funky.
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And the Web would be useless without the 'net. The initial breakthrough was the interconnection of systems and networks. Sure, other people and countries made improvements on it. But I don't recall any other country ever making the fundamental leap to a really distributive architecture. Sure, you found an apple, we just found the orchard.
Feel free to create your own AussieNet, and lay the fibre down, and then we will pay you. Until you pay the intial costs, shut the fuck up. Oooh, we have to pay for stuff!!! Wah! I guess the billions of dollars we spent creating the 'net and laying fibre means nothing, right? Of course not, because now you have Internet access, and you deserved it all along. No, to those who dare the investments come the awards, and sorry, Australia didn't do squat in relation to the Internet.
Fail- try again.
That's just wrong- the "poor people", as you put them, could very well teach us things that we have long forgotten, or haven't even learned yet. I can't say for sure what that would be, but maybe medical treatments for a whole variety of things from the Amazon, Africa, etc. Introducing new species of animals- perhaps a duck-billed hippo. (That would be funky!) I don't say fuck 'em, I don't say we should build their entire infrastructure- I say help them out a bit, urge them along, let them make their own discoveries and contributions.
The article seems to send a message that a US-centric Internet is bad, even though other countries/continents are catching up. Umm, the Internet was invented by the DOD, and more or less just given to the (at first) US public, and then the world. At considerable expense, don't forget. For any country to complain about not having "equal access" to the Internet should basically shut up until they put in the money that the US put in initially. (Disregard the billions put into the infrastructure since then).
Don't get me wrong, I am glad that international connections, servers, and users are growing by leaps and bounds. The more connections in the world, that is more info that can be spread, more tolerance that can be learned, more history and purpose that can be learned. Cultures (sp?) intersect and learn from each other. The human race grows at a pace not ever, ever seen before!!
I just get very frustrated by people that say "Antartica only has a 4Kb connection to the Internet! Unfair!!! We deserve an OC-48 RIGHT NOW!"
I hope you see what I mean.
The 814 area code has an 867 exchange- which just happens to be the State College, PA (Penn State) area. And yes, we tried calling 867-5309, and no, this number is not working! After 10 years of prank calls, the phone company probably got the hint!
1) Well rounded means you can spell and read, as well as code. ...or be creative.
2) And speak in public.
3) Remember that something like 30% of people go into jobs that they majored in.
4) The most important part in college education is to teach how to learn, not rote memorization.
5) Monkeys can memorize, people can innovate.
6)
7) "Those who don't know history are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past."
8) Learning to work in teams.
9) Learning to be flexible.
I think that is all I have to add to this discussion.
See above.
This is a good point, but I think I read in IEEE's Spectrum that they thought that they had a some insights into how to lick the breakdown problem. Something about adding a certain chemical which stabalized the whole thing. Of course, it's still in testing, so they don't know if it will work.
The buffer lag should be less than the transition lag. The silicon buffers should have a quicker response than the LCD components, but this is just an educated guess.
Also feel free to correct if wrong.
I believe that this is because LCDs are backlighted, and applying a voltage causes the pixels to align and block the light, thereby giving black.
Organic LEDs are on the way in probably about 5 years or so, and I am willing to wait for them. Cheaper to produce, no backlight, and flexible. Production screens for cell phones and camcorders are being produced, so it's only an engineering step to up-size them. They are also more durable and scaleable than LCDs.
It's nice that LCDs are getting better, but even better stuff is just down the pike.
All kinds of problems if they try this:
1) Some people browse with "download graphics=no"
2) Many people don't accept cookies (except for the Girl Scout kind!)
3) What if you are using multiple proxies for downloading? Multiple IP streams...
4) Ok, I have to pay to access the site- and how do I do that exactly?
5) All of the problems mentioned in the parent.
Online is a different medium than TV or radio- the same rules don't necessarily apply. Especially when most of these ads seem to be for things like dry cleaning a cat, or other nonsense. I don't see Pepsi or Coke popping up all over, but even Yahoo pops up that damn X10 camera ad. I feeling is that eventually online content will split into 2 groups once a good micropayment system is worked out, the free and spam-filled side, and the pay but no ads side. Don't get me wrong, I love free content, but I can only see advertising get worse until large groups of people are willing to fork over some cash to _not_ see more ads.
Here is a list of issues that the readers of Slashdot believe to be of importance in America today:
1) goatse.cx guy
2) Cmd. Taco having gay sex
3) First post woots
4) Censorship via moderation
5) sporks
6) Destroying Microsoft
7) Promoting Linux as the state religion
I think this covers a good 70% of most threads, if you browse at the -1 level. If you ever feel bad about yourself, go read the first 30 posts of any thread at -1, you will instantly feel better!
(sp?) If not, we would be Tater Tots in about 10 hours or so. Really, though, without an electromagnetic field, our planet would pretty much be blasted by the "solar wind" to the point that Mars or Venus would look like a vacation area compared to that version of hell. Another point not to forget is the ozone shield which filters out most UV radiation, where no shield was good at first (to cause mutations into higher lifeforms, like plants, but is now bad) but now is essential to not irradiate humans into extinction. Of course CO2 is bad/good because it will raise/lower global temperatures soon/never so our lives will be altered now/never. This last part is motly right.
They are a fairly respected organization, but will it be enough to sway IT department heads? Assuming it does, I don't think thousands of IIS servers are going to be swapped out tomorrow. So Microsoft has time to release a new version before everyone jumps ship.
Of course, releasing a new version opens up a whole new set of possible security flaws. Security quality assurance has never been Microsoft's strong point.
The ugly GUI is supposed to enchant you. Oh, and the fact that they now run all of your utilities for you under Start->Stop->Exit->Enter->Go->Leave ->Blankets->Cheese->Utilities->Pay
But that should have been obvious from the get go.
Silly human!
This is probably gonna sound silly, but you could do what my parents did- "read your book and shut up!"
And we did.
That is a good point. I regret the "dumb, dumb" remark now. Fingers typing faster than brain = do'h!
I am not degrading the guy, I think it's great that he has some hobby that he likes. Shit, I worked on my Mac for a week just to make it play a game from 1985 or so. I was just amazed that this guy did all this work for no reason I could fathom. Maybe he did have a good reason; maybe he just wanted to do it for the hell of it; the web page just seemed to make it look like it was the best thing since sliced cheese.
I'm sorry if I came off sounding like a jerk, I really didn't mean to offend this guy, or you.
Yes, but tinkering with an OS does something for you- faster printing, more grepping power, whatever. I could probably make my dancing monkey toy talk to me like a Furby doll, but why would I?
This is about the 3rd or 4th mission I've now heard of that goes off and does something beyond its "expected mission" or "expected lifetime". Remember the landing on Eros? The probe that rammed the moon? Sure they have screw-ups like the Martian lander, but you got to give them credit for all these extra missions they are accomplishing, especially considering their ever decreasing budget.
Really, why would you need this to be portable? You already have Gameboy, laptops, PDAs- what is PS1 going to give you that you need so badly? And where are you going to take it? In the car- power adapter. Plane- not real likely now. The train- they have power outlets in them. So that leaves the bathroom and foreign countries, I guess.
I agree that it's cool, but has zero utility. I'm sure that serveral of you will come up with all kinds of arguments against this (why this IS usefull), but, I don't know, errrgg! Dumb, dumb...
Yeah, I take the PATH into the city twice a week. My boss is a former trader from Wall St. As you know, the mall is right up from the PATH stations- that's why I find it weird that there was so much gold and silver there; millions of people running in and out every day, but tons of gold right next door (so to speak).
Even worse for the phone companies, the WTC had a CO, the financial building had a CO, and the Verizon building next to the west side highway is a CO, and it's pretty fucked up. 3 out of 15 COs in lower Manhattan are gone. And to think I was supposed to be putting in new lines in 26 Fed that Thursday...
On the good side, all of the insurance companies involved said that they would cover the losses at the WTC. They could argue to whole war thing since the President said "we are at war", even though only Congress can declare war, but I'm glad that they are avoiding all that shit and are sucking up the huge losses they are going to get hit with.
I find it weird that the Trade Centers had so much gold and silver! I did some rough calculations in my head, and it was something like 0.3% of all gold reserves in the world. That's a huge amount of money not to be locked up by a gov or the military. Funky.