When you spoke of massively distributed computing, it reminded me on a cool sci-fi story I found on MIT's website called The Last Question, really intriguing. Find it here:
Do yourself a favor and don't install ANY type of web browser. This year, I had a web design class in an inner city school, and the results of the full year of work were pathetic (as were those in Data Processing/Visual Basic). Here's ALL we did:
- Copy HTML from book to SimpleText and view in browser
- Dreamweaver BASICS (font/alignment/hyperlinks)
- Fireworks (graphics) BASICS (basic tools/colors)
- Flash BASICS (basic frame & layer manipulation/ fades/basic tweens)
Do you want to know why so little was done? EVERYONE in the class would be on the internet. No exceptions. Some would be on newgrounds, candystand, streaming rap music on RealPlayer or checking their E-mail. If we did not have the internet, MOST if not ALL of the students that didn't want to do any work would have dropped out. But, it became more or less a free period.
The internet can be a great tool, but install it only on a few select machines that you can monitor to assure work is being done.
Which TOS agreement will be used in the "UOL" ISP? Juno wanted the user's computer ready at a moment's notice for their personal enjoyment by running their programs on the end user's machine. NetZero, as far as I know, does not have such a stringent policy.
Simply the merger will cost them millions of dollars, which with the drop in the global economy, will be hard to obtain using an advertising based payment method. I don't see a bright future for this company.
America Online announced that they would have to cut back on the number of promotional discs sent out to current AOL customers while increasing the number sent to broadband and Linux users.
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http://mit.edu/tylerc/www/twt/LQ1.htm
At $450 per camera, how long before we see used ones on eBay?
Yea, it's pretty cool looking. Kinda like a techno-looking GameCube. Check it out here. http://cube.ign.com/news/36765.html
FYI: It's not 1.1 million at launch, but 1.1 million for the entire month of November. http://cube.ign.com/news/37001.html
Do yourself a favor and don't install ANY type of web browser. This year, I had a web design class in an inner city school, and the results of the full year of work were pathetic (as were those in Data Processing/Visual Basic). Here's ALL we did: - Copy HTML from book to SimpleText and view in browser - Dreamweaver BASICS (font/alignment/hyperlinks) - Fireworks (graphics) BASICS (basic tools/colors) - Flash BASICS (basic frame & layer manipulation/ fades/basic tweens) Do you want to know why so little was done? EVERYONE in the class would be on the internet. No exceptions. Some would be on newgrounds, candystand, streaming rap music on RealPlayer or checking their E-mail. If we did not have the internet, MOST if not ALL of the students that didn't want to do any work would have dropped out. But, it became more or less a free period. The internet can be a great tool, but install it only on a few select machines that you can monitor to assure work is being done.
Which TOS agreement will be used in the "UOL" ISP? Juno wanted the user's computer ready at a moment's notice for their personal enjoyment by running their programs on the end user's machine. NetZero, as far as I know, does not have such a stringent policy. Simply the merger will cost them millions of dollars, which with the drop in the global economy, will be hard to obtain using an advertising based payment method. I don't see a bright future for this company.
I had a PanQuake for breakfast this morning.
America Online announced that they would have to cut back on the number of promotional discs sent out to current AOL customers while increasing the number sent to broadband and Linux users.