I would much rather have devices support "ethernet over power" than "power over ethernet". That would cut the cost of rewiring buildings substantially and you wouldn't have to worry about the low power available w/ PoE. Unfortunately, the powerline network products I've seen aren't nearly fast enough.
For the average person, running ethernet cable into the den for the Tivo-like thing that has a network port is bad news. There's already cabling in the den, and every room of the house, for power, it makes much more sense to use that.
Could someone explain why some energy companies think a hydrogen economy is a good idea? Everything I've read indicates that the net energy result of creating it is not so hot, that an entire new distribution infrastructure has to be created, and that all existing vehicles will have to be essentially scrapped. I've read the wikipedia aricle on the subject but still don't feel I have a grasp on why people are hot on this idea.
On the other hand biodiesel and ethanol can be used with our existing infrastructure with very few problems. Hell, with the recent price increases in some places blends with 20 percent biodiesel are cheaper than regular diesel. It helps out our farmers, it cuts pollution, its carbon dioxide neutral and we don't have to fight wars in the Middle East over it.
Hello, US Government speaking!... Why hello Italy, what can I do for you?... Oh you saw something nasty posted on Free Republic?... Oh dear, that does sound nasty. Well, we'll just ship that server to you right away. When can you have it back?... In a month? That sounds smashing! Bye.
*ring ring ring*
Hello, US Government speaking!... Why hello France, what can I do for you?... What? Oh, golly geee, Yahoo is auctioning off Nazi memorbilia again. What would you like us to do?... Rip out their whole network and send you all the logs for every transaction on all Yahoo services for the past two years? Ooh, that sounds like a lot but, like, ok.
The bandwidth that will be used by the exchange of commercial content (legitimate or pirated) will far, far exceed that of anything personal videoblogs could ever hope to achieve. There is not now and will not in the future be any effect in the price of bandwidth from personal videoblogs or people using flash instead of html on webpages.
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Richer metadata is definitely an active topic in the community. Unfortunately, progress is slow as there's no agreement on how to represent a multimedia object and its potential related items (ie, different formats, different bitrates, a transcript, subtitles in another language, a shorter version, sign language representation, etc). Even if this problem is overcome, the difficulty in creating a transcript makes it not very likely that the searching problem will get better soon.
Most people's text blogs are only of interest to a very few people, video blogs will be no different. However, as with text blogs, some video blogs will be of great interst. Some will be of news (Rodney King style), some will be from UN workers in Iraq, some will be from a future George Lucas. Portals and distributed reputation / recommendation services are what we need to help us find the things of interest to us.
Demandmedia is a collaborative video blog, based on the Scoop collaborative engine, users submit links to cool grass roots produced videos from around the 'net and users vote on which ones they like. Most of the video is of interest to those on the left end of the political spectrum.
One thing that ticks me off- is the assumption that the government cannot spend any money for services tht will benefit a large portion of the population, until there are no poor/homeless people left.
I actually don't know anyone that has that particular political philosophy. Even radical forms of socialism do not advocate that.
If you think that municipal governments spend a disproportionate amount of money on social service programs to services that benefit everyone then you're very misinformed. How much do you think roads, trash collection, public safety, jails and schools cost? The proportion of a municipal budget that these items consume is far more than spent on the homeless, public housing, drug treatment, etc.
You seem to think that 99% of people in communities don't need social services. I don't know what your community is like but if that's the case then it occupies the very upper crust of society. The numbers in most larger cities are between 10 and 20 percent.
You don't describe a very good value proposition being offered by the publishers. Books of the sort you describe sound like they will very easily be replaced by some kind of computer reference.
How many dead tree encyclopedia's are being sold these days?
Google seems to be pretty good at killing stupid business models, so I for one look forward to watching these particular dinosaurs die.
You are of course correct, however economic efficiency is not the whole story. Some things are beneficial to society in ways that are not captured easily by economics. Schools and libraries are examples that come to mind. If those services were only governed by the market and not universally available regardless of ability to pay our society would be much worse off.
A case can be made that free universal and ubiquitous access to the Internet serves a greater public purpose than the most economically efficient scenario.
"One of the major contributors to Indymedia is the Tides Foundation."
I've seen that meme around on right wing sites for a while, it is false. There was a one time $5k grant from Tides to the DC branch of the IMC several years ago. That's it.
Tides publishes their grantees list in their annual reports. Feel free to go look this up.
Most of the comments are about the p2p angle, which was hardly the point. The main point of the article was that the DVD format and storage size can only change on rare occassions, whereas flash and hard disk storage sizes are doubling every year. This contrast allows a more flexible business model than sellers of a traditional product like a DVD player can keep up with. Following, he sees a huge market for introducing hard and flash drives, things like vending machines for movies with usb ports.
There are common sense solutions to things like this that do not require humiliating people to the extent described. One that comes to mind, have reserve screeners for people with special needs. Airports have all kinds of facilities and staff for people with special needs.
It is utterly predictable that these kinds of situations will have to be dealt with. Its not just lack of planning, its that the people doing the planning feel no need to have people treated with respect.
You mean you would not share even if it cost you nothing, for the sole reason of not sharing?
I can't say I much care for the view of the world in which every information exchange requires a monetary exchange. Everyone receives tons of information that someone else paid for at no charge. We would all be incalculably poorer if this was not the case.
The BBC's decision to put its archives online will make the British people richer. Not restricting it to only British people will also make the world richer, which in turn makes the British richer. I hope other countries follow this lead by making their publicly supported media available to the whole world as well.
The added cost of making BBC programming available to the world online is relatively low compared to the cost of producing that programming in the first place. Using multicast there is no added cost.
I live in the US, BBC News is far superior to any broadcast news on international issues available here. Indeed it is virtually impossible to get any international news not on the subject of the US blowing something up. I would gladly contribute financially to the BBC.
Theora (vp3) competes with current generation codecs, Dirac is a next gen technology. Dirac is also just a codec, so one should be able to use the Ogg container format or any other one for that matter. Since the BBC's stated goal is a royalty free system and they seem to be FOSS friendly I would assume they would be considering Ogg strongly.
By the way, I haven't seen a link to it so far, here is a link the a BBC info page on Dirac and here is the Source Forge page for those wanting the code.
Don't confuse a political philosophy with tactics for bringing it about. For instance, you don't confuse democracy with violence because of the American Revolution do you? Indeed most political transformations occur violently.
I think the cost / benefit analysis around the decision to use the Bomb was much more complicated than you present. There are indications that the Japanese would have surrender without a full scale invasion.
You should try reading some of the hindsight pieces on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Many of the people involved at the time are now not such great fans of MAD as you seem to be.
MAD served to proliferate nuclear weapons and puts us in the position you describe us in today, afraid that terrorists will get a nuclear weapon. Since India got the bomb, Pakistan got the bomb. Pakistan gave the bomb to North Korea. Israel has the bomb, so Iran wants the bomb. Russia and former Soviet republics can't keep track of their bombs.
Depends on what you mean by non-terrorist organization, do you count countries? Countries always want to have what the other big kids have, ala India, China, France, Russia, etc.
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I would much rather have devices support "ethernet over power" than "power over ethernet". That would cut the cost of rewiring buildings substantially and you wouldn't have to worry about the low power available w/ PoE. Unfortunately, the powerline network products I've seen aren't nearly fast enough.
For the average person, running ethernet cable into the den for the Tivo-like thing that has a network port is bad news. There's already cabling in the den, and every room of the house, for power, it makes much more sense to use that.
Let's hope powerline products improve.
I don't see the names "Schmidt", "Brin" or "Page" in that list. What gives?
Could someone explain why some energy companies think a hydrogen economy is a good idea? Everything I've read indicates that the net energy result of creating it is not so hot, that an entire new distribution infrastructure has to be created, and that all existing vehicles will have to be essentially scrapped. I've read the wikipedia aricle on the subject but still don't feel I have a grasp on why people are hot on this idea.
On the other hand biodiesel and ethanol can be used with our existing infrastructure with very few problems. Hell, with the recent price increases in some places blends with 20 percent biodiesel are cheaper than regular diesel. It helps out our farmers, it cuts pollution, its carbon dioxide neutral and we don't have to fight wars in the Middle East over it.
*ring ring ring*
... Why hello Italy, what can I do for you? ... Oh you saw something nasty posted on Free Republic? ... Oh dear, that does sound nasty. Well, we'll just ship that server to you right away. When can you have it back? ... In a month? That sounds smashing! Bye.
... Why hello France, what can I do for you? ... What? Oh, golly geee, Yahoo is auctioning off Nazi memorbilia again. What would you like us to do? ... Rip out their whole network and send you all the logs for every transaction on all Yahoo services for the past two years? Ooh, that sounds like a lot but, like, ok.
Hello, US Government speaking!
*ring ring ring*
Hello, US Government speaking!
The bandwidth that will be used by the exchange of commercial content (legitimate or pirated) will far, far exceed that of anything personal videoblogs could ever hope to achieve. There is not now and will not in the future be any effect in the price of bandwidth from personal videoblogs or people using flash instead of html on webpages.
Richer metadata is definitely an active topic in the community. Unfortunately, progress is slow as there's no agreement on how to represent a multimedia object and its potential related items (ie, different formats, different bitrates, a transcript, subtitles in another language, a shorter version, sign language representation, etc). Even if this problem is overcome, the difficulty in creating a transcript makes it not very likely that the searching problem will get better soon.
I run a portal site for video content, we've got a feed w/ enclosures. Check it out.
Most people's text blogs are only of interest to a very few people, video blogs will be no different. However, as with text blogs, some video blogs will be of great interst. Some will be of news (Rodney King style), some will be from UN workers in Iraq, some will be from a future George Lucas. Portals and distributed reputation / recommendation services are what we need to help us find the things of interest to us.
archive.org offers free unlimited storage and hosting on their two gigabit connected facilities.
Demandmedia is a collaborative video blog, based on the Scoop collaborative engine, users submit links to cool grass roots produced videos from around the 'net and users vote on which ones they like. Most of the video is of interest to those on the left end of the political spectrum.
You are way off reality on several accounts.
One thing that ticks me off- is the assumption that the government cannot spend any money for services tht will benefit a large portion of the population, until there are no poor/homeless people left.
I actually don't know anyone that has that particular political philosophy. Even radical forms of socialism do not advocate that.
If you think that municipal governments spend a disproportionate amount of money on social service programs to services that benefit everyone then you're very misinformed. How much do you think roads, trash collection, public safety, jails and schools cost? The proportion of a municipal budget that these items consume is far more than spent on the homeless, public housing, drug treatment, etc.
You seem to think that 99% of people in communities don't need social services. I don't know what your community is like but if that's the case then it occupies the very upper crust of society. The numbers in most larger cities are between 10 and 20 percent.
You don't describe a very good value proposition being offered by the publishers. Books of the sort you describe sound like they will very easily be replaced by some kind of computer reference.
How many dead tree encyclopedia's are being sold these days?
Google seems to be pretty good at killing stupid business models, so I for one look forward to watching these particular dinosaurs die.
You are of course correct, however economic efficiency is not the whole story. Some things are beneficial to society in ways that are not captured easily by economics. Schools and libraries are examples that come to mind. If those services were only governed by the market and not universally available regardless of ability to pay our society would be much worse off.
A case can be made that free universal and ubiquitous access to the Internet serves a greater public purpose than the most economically efficient scenario.
Who hacked the PW site? I've heard about the PW incident but I hadn't heard that anyone had been identified.
"One of the major contributors to Indymedia is the Tides Foundation."
I've seen that meme around on right wing sites for a while, it is false. There was a one time $5k grant from Tides to the DC branch of the IMC several years ago. That's it.
Tides publishes their grantees list in their annual reports. Feel free to go look this up.
oh and does it do Xvid ?
Yes, RTFA.
Most of the comments are about the p2p angle, which was hardly the point. The main point of the article was that the DVD format and storage size can only change on rare occassions, whereas flash and hard disk storage sizes are doubling every year. This contrast allows a more flexible business model than sellers of a traditional product like a DVD player can keep up with. Following, he sees a huge market for introducing hard and flash drives, things like vending machines for movies with usb ports.
There are common sense solutions to things like this that do not require humiliating people to the extent described. One that comes to mind, have reserve screeners for people with special needs. Airports have all kinds of facilities and staff for people with special needs.
It is utterly predictable that these kinds of situations will have to be dealt with. Its not just lack of planning, its that the people doing the planning feel no need to have people treated with respect.
You mean you would not share even if it cost you nothing, for the sole reason of not sharing?
I can't say I much care for the view of the world in which every information exchange requires a monetary exchange. Everyone receives tons of information that someone else paid for at no charge. We would all be incalculably poorer if this was not the case.
The BBC's decision to put its archives online will make the British people richer. Not restricting it to only British people will also make the world richer, which in turn makes the British richer. I hope other countries follow this lead by making their publicly supported media available to the whole world as well.
The added cost of making BBC programming available to the world online is relatively low compared to the cost of producing that programming in the first place. Using multicast there is no added cost.
I live in the US, BBC News is far superior to any broadcast news on international issues available here. Indeed it is virtually impossible to get any international news not on the subject of the US blowing something up. I would gladly contribute financially to the BBC.
Theora (vp3) competes with current generation codecs, Dirac is a next gen technology. Dirac is also just a codec, so one should be able to use the Ogg container format or any other one for that matter. Since the BBC's stated goal is a royalty free system and they seem to be FOSS friendly I would assume they would be considering Ogg strongly.
By the way, I haven't seen a link to it so far, here is a link the a BBC info page on Dirac and here is the Source Forge page for those wanting the code.
Don't confuse a political philosophy with tactics for bringing it about. For instance, you don't confuse democracy with violence because of the American Revolution do you? Indeed most political transformations occur violently.
Take a look at Konspire. It has a lot of the properties that you describe. They claim they are more scalable than Bittorrent.
I think the cost / benefit analysis around the decision to use the Bomb was much more complicated than you present. There are indications that the Japanese would have surrender without a full scale invasion.
You should try reading some of the hindsight pieces on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Many of the people involved at the time are now not such great fans of MAD as you seem to be.
MAD served to proliferate nuclear weapons and puts us in the position you describe us in today, afraid that terrorists will get a nuclear weapon. Since India got the bomb, Pakistan got the bomb. Pakistan gave the bomb to North Korea. Israel has the bomb, so Iran wants the bomb. Russia and former Soviet republics can't keep track of their bombs.
Depends on what you mean by non-terrorist organization, do you count countries? Countries always want to have what the other big kids have, ala India, China, France, Russia, etc.