The trend now is using content management systems (nuke,wiki,tiki,blogs,gallery,etc.) to do most of the boring drudgework, and then plugging in some pretty theme/CSS. This is easier than WYSIWYG editing, and much easier than raw HTML editing.
I've helped a few photography friends move over from doing manual updates with notepad+ftp/Frontpage to MovableType + gallery, and it seems like more ISPs have these available as ready-to-go "features" these days, so no nerds are required.
Only 6.3 billion people on the planet now, which will double over the next few decades, but the upside is that technology advances just as fast as populations do: exponentially.
So, it'll just get easier and cheaper to build UPWARDS (including space, once the elevators are built), OUTWARDS (onto the oceans which is 70% of Earth's surface area), DOWNWARDS (below the surface of land/water), and INWARDS (transhumans don't need to live in meatspace).
I guess I shouldn't have picked a phallic symbol as an example; someone might get the idea that I'm more Ashcroftian than I am against eye/ear/nose pollution in general. Aesthetics matter.
At Shock Impact, the Interplanetary Magnetic Field is predicted to initially turn: SOUTHWARD
Oh God no! The poles are going to flip again! Major extinction event! Art Bell was right! Chaos will ensue!
This is no time to be posting on slashdot - everyone should be out looting the supplies necessary to top off their fallout shelters! I've almost got me enough food to last 12 years, and enough virgins to repopulate the planet, should I be FORCED to do so.
Most/.ers are pretty libertarian, and agree that one's right to swing his/her own fist ends at another's face.
Nose. You mean 'nose'.:)
In a similar vein, I remember reading how there's a certain class of lawyer in California that makes their living from people suing neighbors for messing up their million dollar views.
IMO, the occasional punch in the face probably affects quality of life a bit less than a putrid 24/7 odor, or someone carving the tree in their front yard into a 30' penis for all to see, 24/7.
Names like "Hoobastank" will only get worse! You see, the increasing number of people in the world taking a bite out of the finite namespace means all the good names have been taken already!:)
Wow, you're analogy is that an MP3 Intarweb Directory is the same as the Hitman Yellow Pages? Interesting. I wish to subscribe to you^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
So if I tell a friend where he can buy some good weed, that would be Contributory Drug Dealing?:)
Anyone got any good ideas how to pay for creation if we can't use the normal market mechanisms?
It's called The Street Performer Protocol. Basically, if copyright can't be enforced -- and it can't -- then the scarce act of creating valuable NEW works will be what people pay for, rather than paying the piper forever+70 for past work which costs nothing to duplicate. The social contract is altered regardless of law, and a new kind of market emerges...
I tried the Piles UI Flash Demo a while back, and I remember thinking two things: 1) This *idea* isn't patent worthy, and 2) It's just fancy eye-candy version of a folder full of icons/thumbs that pops up.
Well, we are going to have to change human nature eventually, if we want to survive alongside exponentially advancing technology where any random psychopath will be able to "press The Red Button" with exponentially decreasing effort.
I think humans are basically good when resources are abundant and life is good, but when resources are scarce (artificial or not), then the "selfish gene" goes into overdrive and people get desperate. But there's also that rare minority who have their selfish gene stuck in high gear even though they're already living like [spam]kings, because, hey, more power and more money secures *MY* genes even further, right? Screw the commons. I only care about ME and MY family and MY tribe.
There's a lot more to sex than just the mechanical in-and-out (even for guys). VRsex w/ toys will never be as good as the real thing until we've got true BCI (brain computer interface) tech.
Still, I have no idea how much bandwidth haptic data would consume. Like, how much data is sent to your brain each millisecond by your nerves when someone blows... hot air across the thousands of tiny hairs on your neck? (I feel an offtopic mod is due).
Just like how Napster wasn't P2P, neither is this - it's Person <-> Central-Server <-> Person.
P2P usually implies a bit more distributed networking. Either completely distributed (and unworkable) like the original Gnutella, or mostly distributed with SuperNodes like Kazaa, eDonkey, and the new Gnutella. Napster was always a client->server metainfo server.
"Information wants to be free" but "content creators want to be paid."
Yeah, too bad food hasn't been reduced to mere molecular information, yet. In the meantime, artificial scarcity is a great incentive for certain types of creators, to make certain types of works, in certain kinds of scarcity-based economies.
I had to actualy get up off my ass and [get] to the library in order to write a paper about 'em.
What a waste of energy! Instead of clicking a few keys for convenient access to information, you needed: 1) the sun to pump out a bunch of energy for plants. 2) you had to eat a bunch of that food for calories. 3) had to spend that energy using inefficient legs to walk to your inefficient car to drive to the library to check out a heavy deadtree book. 4) that wasted time in transit and in line could have been used more productively. !!!:-)
But if you put yourself in the shoes of someone living independently offgrid, the rest of the world looks like a bunch of over-dependent, over-consuming idiots (which they/we/I are, in a sense).
Even the best driver in the world won't be able to compare to a robot, including you, Mr. Professional Driver.
You won't have the inhuman reaction time (
I actually think human drivers should (and will) have to pay MUCH higher insurance rates than owners of bot-driven cars. But hey, if you submit to GPS tracking, a breathalizer-ignition, interior/exterior cameras, and that special driving test you mention, then you might be eligible for a 10% discount!
Yes, most people can only handle about 1 or 2 rpm before they start feeling nauseous, which means you need a radius of about 800 feet to simulate 1G. But we wouldn't necessarily need or want 1G when Mars or Moon-like gravity would work just as well. And at least initially we could prescreen for more tolerant astronauts and/or use motion sickness drugs.
Then comes the expense of building something so big, right? Not really. It doesn't have to be one giant solid structure; it can be two or more modules tethered together (redundantly).
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I've helped a few photography friends move over from doing manual updates with notepad+ftp/Frontpage to MovableType + gallery, and it seems like more ISPs have these available as ready-to-go "features" these days, so no nerds are required.
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So, it'll just get easier and cheaper to build UPWARDS (including space, once the elevators are built), OUTWARDS (onto the oceans which is 70% of Earth's surface area), DOWNWARDS (below the surface of land/water), and INWARDS (transhumans don't need to live in meatspace).
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Oh God no! The poles are going to flip again! Major extinction event! Art Bell was right! Chaos will ensue!
This is no time to be posting on slashdot - everyone should be out looting the supplies necessary to top off their fallout shelters! I've almost got me enough food to last 12 years, and enough virgins to repopulate the planet, should I be FORCED to do so.
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Nose. You mean 'nose'. :)
In a similar vein, I remember reading how there's a certain class of lawyer in California that makes their living from people suing neighbors for messing up their million dollar views.
IMO, the occasional punch in the face probably affects quality of life a bit less than a putrid 24/7 odor, or someone carving the tree in their front yard into a 30' penis for all to see, 24/7.
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So if I tell a friend where he can buy some good weed, that would be Contributory Drug Dealing? :)
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It's called The Street Performer Protocol. Basically, if copyright can't be enforced -- and it can't -- then the scarce act of creating valuable NEW works will be what people pay for, rather than paying the piper forever+70 for past work which costs nothing to duplicate. The social contract is altered regardless of law, and a new kind of market emerges...
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JWZ may be an egocentric, arrogant ass, but I like his xscreensavers.
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Well, we are going to have to change human nature eventually, if we want to survive alongside exponentially advancing technology where any random psychopath will be able to "press The Red Button" with exponentially decreasing effort.
I think humans are basically good when resources are abundant and life is good, but when resources are scarce (artificial or not), then the "selfish gene" goes into overdrive and people get desperate. But there's also that rare minority who have their selfish gene stuck in high gear even though they're already living like [spam]kings, because, hey, more power and more money secures *MY* genes even further, right? Screw the commons. I only care about ME and MY family and MY tribe.
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Still, I have no idea how much bandwidth haptic data would consume. Like, how much data is sent to your brain each millisecond by your nerves when someone blows ... hot air across the thousands of tiny hairs on your neck? (I feel an offtopic mod is due).
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P2P usually implies a bit more distributed networking. Either completely distributed (and unworkable) like the original Gnutella, or mostly distributed with SuperNodes like Kazaa, eDonkey, and the new Gnutella. Napster was always a client->server metainfo server.
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Yeah, too bad food hasn't been reduced to mere molecular information, yet. In the meantime, artificial scarcity is a great incentive for certain types of creators, to make certain types of works, in certain kinds of scarcity-based economies.
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What a waste of energy! Instead of clicking a few keys for convenient access to information, you needed: 1) the sun to pump out a bunch of energy for plants. 2) you had to eat a bunch of that food for calories. 3) had to spend that energy using inefficient legs to walk to your inefficient car to drive to the library to check out a heavy deadtree book. 4) that wasted time in transit and in line could have been used more productively. !!! :-)
Here's to the efficiency of sitting on our asses.
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But if you put yourself in the shoes of someone living independently offgrid, the rest of the world looks like a bunch of over-dependent, over-consuming idiots (which they/we/I are, in a sense).
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And what about the labrats' inner ear? Or maybe that's fine on this scale ... guess I'll check the sitelink posted below.
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Wow. I almost doubled my number of slashdot enemies/freaks from 4 to 7 with this one post. ISS-lovers are hardcore. :)
You won't have the inhuman reaction time ( I actually think human drivers should (and will) have to pay MUCH higher insurance rates than owners of bot-driven cars. But hey, if you submit to GPS tracking, a breathalizer-ignition, interior/exterior cameras, and that special driving test you mention, then you might be eligible for a 10% discount!
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Then comes the expense of building something so big, right? Not really. It doesn't have to be one giant solid structure; it can be two or more modules tethered together (redundantly).
Oh, and it's too bad that NASA currently throws away perfectly good space habitats on every Shuttle mission.
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