The Wired article title "Here Comes a Google for Coders" maybe caused the confusion. I guess the use of "a google" to mean "a search engine" was maybe a confusing choice.
I liked the book, although it is mostly a conceptual exercise, it more sort of peters out at the end rather than coming to any grand conclusions or giving many solid prescriptions.
Plus which, having read it gives me a great excuse to work "ambient findability" into conversations. Nothing livens up a meeting like interjecting "hmm, but do we need to consider the principles of ambient findability here?"
"Speaking with the costume designers earlier this year, they told us that whilst the bulge indeed was the most complicated issue in terms of the costuming, they worked out a practical solution involving a codpiece and special padding which ultimately negates the issue."
They used a codpiece and padding to reduce the bulge? What are these, Bizarro World costume designers?
It seems his rant is "why doesn't all software work exactly the way *I* want, without me having to ever learn anything". Err, ya well when we get the telepathic software, I'm sure it will.
For photo stuff, I use Picasa. It's free and it does what I want, and it's obvious/easy enough that with a few minutes of clicking around you can find all the major features.
The point is not that they take free content and provide infrastructure around it. The point is that *it started out as a completely free user-to-user community* and then became corporate infrastructure, just like CDDB.
Maybe people didn't want them taking their free contributions and monetizing them, but they didn't have much choice about the matter when it happened.
I'm not saying the business model is wrong, I'm saying the business model changed well after the community was established.
Whereas with e.g. Slashdot people always knew the tradeoffs of submitted articles.
If by "wrangled" you mean "took contributions that users gave to the community for free, and used them to make money" then yes. Wrangled. Our friends at GraceCDDBNote are great wranglers too.
What are they, solid gold Internet phones? Have we time-warped back to dotcom 2000? What are they going to call this one, voipcom bomb?
"Since $3 billion was not enough we know the offer needs present more money, and definitely more opportunity. More money equals Google's enormous market cap combined with their announcement to sell $4.2 billion worth of stock."
Yahoo Audio Search already links to iTunes and various other services (which also gives Yahoo a convenient opportunity to show that Yahoo! Music Unlimited only charges $0.79 per track).
The first edition of the classic Cheswick and Bellovin book
Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker
is available in its entirety for free online.
The intent behind this is fine, but here's the problem: can you prove that the code you inspected is running on every single voting machine, on voting day? Until you can solve that problem (which I would argue is basically impossible) then these legal improvements are at best small patches on a fundamentally flawed system.
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Is it just me, or do these legislators spend more time thinking up clever titles that spell out words than on the actual content of the bills?
+1 buzzword-and-jargon-laden post
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The Wired article title "Here Comes a Google for Coders" maybe caused the confusion. I guess the use of "a google" to mean "a search engine" was maybe a confusing choice.
Wikipedia - Electronic voting in Canada
I have a blog with more info at blog.papervotecanada.ca
I liked the book, although it is mostly a conceptual exercise, it more sort of peters out at the end rather than coming to any grand conclusions or giving many solid prescriptions.
Plus which, having read it gives me a great excuse to work "ambient findability" into conversations. Nothing livens up a meeting like interjecting "hmm, but do we need to consider the principles of ambient findability here?"
"Speaking with the costume designers earlier this year, they told us that whilst the bulge indeed was the most complicated issue in terms of the costuming, they worked out a practical solution involving a codpiece and special padding which ultimately negates the issue."
They used a codpiece and padding to reduce the bulge?
What are these, Bizarro World costume designers?
SEO is bullshit.
I rank #1, or in top 5 on Google for lots of things, and all I did was write about stuff that interested me.
They should track that 12 Monkeys guy with the vials.
I saw him get on the plane and everything.
I think he's up to no good.
I recommend "book". Some of them have even been known to last more than 2 years.
It seems his rant is "why doesn't all software work exactly the way *I* want, without me having to ever learn anything". Err, ya well when we get the telepathic software, I'm sure it will.
For photo stuff, I use Picasa. It's free and it does what I want, and it's obvious/easy enough that with a few minutes of clicking around you can find all the major features.
The point is not that they take free content and provide infrastructure around it. The point is that *it started out as a completely free user-to-user community* and then became corporate infrastructure, just like CDDB.
Maybe people didn't want them taking their free contributions and monetizing them, but they didn't have much choice about the matter when it happened.
I'm not saying the business model is wrong, I'm saying the business model changed well after the community was established.
Whereas with e.g. Slashdot people always knew the tradeoffs of submitted articles.
If by "wrangled" you mean "took contributions that users gave to the community for free, and used them to make money" then yes. Wrangled. Our friends at GraceCDDBNote are great wranglers too.
What are they, solid gold Internet phones?
Have we time-warped back to dotcom 2000?
What are they going to call this one, voipcom bomb?
"Since $3 billion was not enough we know the offer needs present more money, and definitely more opportunity. More money equals Google's enormous market cap combined with their announcement to sell $4.2 billion worth of stock."
Yahoo Audio Search already links to iTunes and various other services (which also gives Yahoo a convenient opportunity to show that Yahoo! Music Unlimited only charges $0.79 per track).
Not open-source, but Microsoft has some built-in features, and there is some other software available. I blogged about a couple times: collaborative editing and NetMeeting + Word collaborative editing.
Macintouch has a report with a lot more info.
free human being
Maybe someone should have just showed them Lynx before they went to all that trouble.
But will it run on my undead Amiga?
I offer up my list of photo sharing sites. In particular Pbase may not get the buzz of Flickr, but it hosts tens of millions of photos.
Lawful Access
Copyright Reform Process
The intent behind this is fine, but here's the problem: can you prove that the code you inspected is running on every single voting machine, on voting day? Until you can solve that problem (which I would argue is basically impossible) then these legal improvements are at best small patches on a fundamentally flawed system.
I write about electronic voting in my blog, Paper Vote Canada.
Another option is to get a cheapo portable DVD, in Canada RadioShack has a Nexxtech for C$149. Burn your photos to disc and away you go.
I have a table comparing various digital picture frames.