I have been pleased with the spam filtering from Bigfoot, and it says that it is now available to all members again (they tried for a while making it a $19.95 Premium Service).
*IBM VisualAge for Java 3.02
*Sun Forte for Java
*Borland/Inprise JBuilder 3
*Visual Cafe 3 and 4.1a
I found the environment with the best combination of features for me was Visual Cafe 4.1a Standard Edition from WebGain. Its main drawback is the very high RAM and CPU requirements. It used to be free, I don't know if it is anymore.
If the retrieval can be arbitrarily slow, then just transmit all the data out into space. You can view the data as a bitstream extending out from your transmitter. The downside is that you have to travel faster than the speed of light in order to catch up with the first bit you transmitted. But as they say, LOLI (lightspeed out, lightspeed in).
problem is journalism, not hyperwhatever
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The Hypermedia Hazard
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· Score: 5, Insightful
The problem is that people are reporting unsubstantiated rumors, dropping the time-honored journalistic tradition of confirmation from multiple sources in some illusory quest for "speed". Terry Pratchett wrote about this in his book The Truth. Journalism for small communities was a revelation. Before that, any crazy rumor would circulate around the town like wildfire. With journalism, people said, hey, maybe we should go talk to the baker who supposedly baked the Satanic bread, and the person who supposedly saw it, and see if there is any actual confirmation of it being true.
So the problem is not hypermedia, it's hyper people on TV who report anything immediately, in order to keep us "informed", without checking their facts.
Many involve using visualization, or audiorhythms - both techniques (and others) were probably used to help storytellers remember stories like the Iliad and the Odyssey. But if it's junk, why do you want to remember it. Remember this: in general useful things will eventually stick. Useless book-larnin won't.
Yes but my understanding from the article is that the problem isn't finding the asteroids, it's in long-term tracking of them to get proper orbits. The big telescopes can easily find them, they just don't have time to track them long enough to get good orbital elements. That's why you would want a distributed network of small automated telescopes. For example NEAT discovered 5 new NEAs just this month. SpaceWatch is also doing a pretty good job of finding stuff, as is the Catalina Sky Survey.
That actually sounds like a pretty cool idea. Do they need amateur astronomers to follow the objects, or just more small automated telescopes? People who live in good dark-sky areas could set up automated scopes either directly on the net (preferable) or with daily manual transfer of the tracking info and downloaded images.
The Globe and Mail reported on April 16, 2001 that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, George Radwanski, said employees have a "fundamental, inherent right" to privacy in the workplace, and this includes the right to private e-mail.
The new federal privacy law pertaining to electronic documents, which took effect Jan. 1, stipulates that an organization may collect, use or disclose personal information "only for purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate." Mr. Radwanski, who has the authority to investigate and refer breaches of the act to the Federal Court of Canada, says "random snooping" through employees' e-mail boxes is clearly a breach.
Remember those big, nasty monopolies, like telephone and cable service? Well in Halifax, they compete with one another to provide (locally-developed) high-speed Internet, telephone, and television services (all three are available from both services).
EastLink (cable modem) is Can$39.95 a month
MpoweredPC (DSL) is Can$42.95 a month
We've had both of these services available and reliable, for years.
advanced local programming guide (recommendations, sophisticated
search etc.)
modular component fits well into home AV system
Anti-Features of TiVo:
monthly fee
some tracking of user activity
A point about computers - we all have different
experiences and setups - I have a Mac as my main desktop, and a low-end
PC as a multimedia machine that sits next to my television. So I never
have to worry about running a PVR on my desktop computer.
So what I look for in a PVR is features 1 and 2. I don't care about 3 and 4 and
I don't want antifeatures 1 and 2.
For PVR, basically, again to my way of thinking, you need a PC with
reasonable monitor, moderate CPU and memory requirements, because the
sound card and video card will do all the compute intensive stuff (e.g.
MPEG-2 encode/decode) in dedicated hardware. Then just pick a suitable
sized hard drive and then "all" you need is:
find a way to get TV listings for your locality
find some PVR software (if it didn't already come with your video hardware)
There are many options for PVR software on Windows.
There are also lots of ongoing project related to television listings
and PVR functionality,
particularly of course for Linux.
On the subject of standardized TV listing formats, the one I know of is XMLTV
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~epa98/work/apps/xmltv/
there are lots of TV guides to scrape information from e.g.
UK TV guide
http://www.tvtv.co.uk/
German TV guide
http://www.tvtv.de/
As for PVR and related projects, here is a list from my bookmarks
Mac TV Reminder
http://members.home.nl/vissering/Shareware.html#TV rm
Mac BTV
http://www.btv.org.uk/
WinVCR
http://www.cinax.com/Products/winvcr.html
LinuxVCR
http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/linuxvcr.html
LinuxTV
http://linuxtv.org/
LinuxVDR (video disk recorder)
http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/download.htm
Kvdr
http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/
Hauppage WinTV-PVR
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr_datasheet.h tm
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/aiw_radeon /
preview article about Bell Expressvu Canada's PVR service
http://www.cedmagazine.com/ced/2001/0401/04e.htm
I can assemble a web page on these topics, if there is interest.
I think there is an enormous opportunity for North America to move to a distributed power system. Imagine this: natural gas feeds into your basement fuel cell, where you generate electricity for your entire house, plus you crack some of the natural gas into hydrogen during the day, to fill up your fuel cell car when you connect it overnight. Wired's article The Energy Web has similar ideas (and an opening paragraph that is now quite eerie).
I see a number of comments about using Tivo and Replay in Canada. The only services in Canada that I know of are:
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon (card that goes in your computer)
and Bell Expressvu (satellite service).
I think some other bundles are coming from other satellite and cable providers (e.g. Rogers, StarChoice).
That's why you send your dirty notes using stego, in JPGs showing the college campus with a banner that says "I heart school spirit".
Geez, don't these people watch movies?
Slashdot Mirror
I have been pleased with the spam filtering from Bigfoot, and it says that it is now available to all members again (they tried for a while making it a $19.95 Premium Service).
*IBM VisualAge for Java 3.02
*Sun Forte for Java
*Borland/Inprise JBuilder 3
*Visual Cafe 3 and 4.1a
I found the environment with the best combination of features for me was Visual Cafe 4.1a Standard Edition from WebGain. Its main drawback is the very high RAM and CPU requirements. It used to be free, I don't know if it is anymore.
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
Prius
Estima minivan
http://www.nearearthobjects.co.uk/
White Paper on Comet/Asteroid Impact Hazard
NEAT - NASA Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
Now if someone would only resurrect old USENET news, so I could dig out the posting I wrote about Tunguska circa 1990.
If the retrieval can be arbitrarily slow, then just transmit all the data out into space. You can view the data as a bitstream extending out from your transmitter. The downside is that you have to travel faster than the speed of light in order to catch up with the first bit you transmitted. But as they say, LOLI (lightspeed out, lightspeed in).
The problem is that people are reporting unsubstantiated rumors, dropping the time-honored journalistic tradition of confirmation from multiple sources in some illusory quest for "speed". Terry Pratchett wrote about this in his book The Truth. Journalism for small communities was a revelation. Before that, any crazy rumor would circulate around the town like wildfire. With journalism, people said, hey, maybe we should go talk to the baker who supposedly baked the Satanic bread, and the person who supposedly saw it, and see if there is any actual confirmation of it being true.
So the problem is not hypermedia, it's hyper people on TV who report anything immediately, in order to keep us "informed", without checking their facts.
Many involve using visualization, or audiorhythms - both techniques (and others) were probably used to help storytellers remember stories like the Iliad and the Odyssey. But if it's junk, why do you want to remember it. Remember this: in general useful things will eventually stick. Useless book-larnin won't.
The original NASA science news release has way cooler video and audio about the black hole.
http://www.analog.cx/
http://www.webalizer.com/
Yes but my understanding from the article is that the problem isn't finding the asteroids, it's in long-term tracking of them to get proper orbits. The big telescopes can easily find them, they just don't have time to track them long enough to get good orbital elements. That's why you would want a distributed network of small automated telescopes. For example NEAT discovered 5 new NEAs just this month. SpaceWatch is also doing a pretty good job of finding stuff, as is the Catalina Sky Survey.
That actually sounds like a pretty cool idea. Do they need amateur astronomers to follow the objects, or just more small automated telescopes? People who live in good dark-sky areas could set up automated scopes either directly on the net (preferable) or with daily manual transfer of the tracking info and downloaded images.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics.m l
see http://www.aw.com/product/0,2627,0201500647,00.ht
Leiningen versus the Ants all over again.
Damn, I lost my entire CD collection in the couch cushions.
I can't help you on the fractal side of things, but once you have the large fractal image, there are many services that can print it, such as0 3
http://www.BigNose.com/
See the DPreview printing forum for more information
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=10
We already have that in Halifax, from either the telephone or cable provider, for less than US $100.
The telephone provider has local phone, long distance, highspeed Internet (Mpoweredpc) and television (VibeVision).
The cable provider has local phone, long distance, highspeed Internet (EastLink) and (obviously) cable television (including digital channels).
The Globe and Mail reported on April 16, 2001 that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, George Radwanski, said employees have a "fundamental, inherent right" to privacy in the workplace, and this includes the right to private e-mail.
The new federal privacy law pertaining to electronic documents, which took effect Jan. 1, stipulates that an organization may collect, use or disclose personal information "only for purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate." Mr. Radwanski, who has the authority to investigate and refer breaches of the act to the Federal Court of Canada, says "random snooping" through employees' e-mail boxes is clearly a breach.
Remember those big, nasty monopolies, like telephone and cable service? Well in Halifax, they compete with one another to provide (locally-developed) high-speed Internet, telephone, and television services (all three are available from both services).
EastLink (cable modem) is Can$39.95 a month
MpoweredPC (DSL) is Can$42.95 a month
We've had both of these services available and reliable, for years.
Unlucky USA.
- PVR - record TV to hard drive, pause live TV etc.
- basic local programming guide
- advanced local programming guide (recommendations, sophisticated
search etc.)
- modular component fits well into home AV system
Anti-Features of TiVo:- monthly fee
- some tracking of user activity
A point about computers - we all have different experiences and setups - I have a Mac as my main desktop, and a low-end PC as a multimedia machine that sits next to my television. So I never have to worry about running a PVR on my desktop computer.So what I look for in a PVR is features 1 and 2. I don't care about 3 and 4 and I don't want antifeatures 1 and 2.
For PVR, basically, again to my way of thinking, you need a PC with reasonable monitor, moderate CPU and memory requirements, because the sound card and video card will do all the compute intensive stuff (e.g. MPEG-2 encode/decode) in dedicated hardware. Then just pick a suitable sized hard drive and then "all" you need is:
There are many options for PVR software on Windows. There are also lots of ongoing project related to television listings and PVR functionality, particularly of course for Linux.
On the subject of standardized TV listing formats, the one I know of is XMLTV
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~epa98/work/apps/xmltv/
there are lots of TV guides to scrape information from e.g.
UK TV guide http://www.tvtv.co.uk/ German TV guide http://www.tvtv.de/
As for PVR and related projects, here is a list from my bookmarks
Mac TV Reminder http://members.home.nl/vissering/Shareware.html#T
Mac BTV http://www.btv.org.uk/
WinVCR http://www.cinax.com/Products/winvcr.html
LinuxVCR http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/linuxvcr.html
LinuxTV http://linuxtv.org/
LinuxVDR (video disk recorder) http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/download.htm
Kvdr http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/
Hauppage WinTV-PVR http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr_datasheet.
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/aiw_radeo
preview article about Bell Expressvu Canada's PVR service http://www.cedmagazine.com/ced/2001/0401/04e.htm
I can assemble a web page on these topics, if there is interest.
I think there is an enormous opportunity for North America to move to a distributed power system. Imagine this: natural gas feeds into your basement fuel cell, where you generate electricity for your entire house, plus you crack some of the natural gas into hydrogen during the day, to fill up your fuel cell car when you connect it overnight. Wired's article The Energy Web has similar ideas (and an opening paragraph that is now quite eerie).
I see a number of comments about using Tivo and Replay in Canada. The only services in Canada that I know of are:
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon (card that goes in your computer) and Bell Expressvu (satellite service).
I think some other bundles are coming from other satellite and cable providers (e.g. Rogers, StarChoice).
A lack of the DMCA... yet.
I hate the postercomment compression filter.
That's why you send your dirty notes using stego, in JPGs showing the college campus with a banner that says "I heart school spirit". Geez, don't these people watch movies?
Oh no... it's The Geeks from Brazil