You're correct in that this is the attitude that most users have - a sort of sophomoric stay out of my business mom and dad!.. but by the way can I borrow a few bucks and the car? Major ISPs like AOL are currently nailing this attitude with ads describing how they will protect your children for you and monitor your email for you.
That's all well and good, but many of us do just want a reliable connection and are willing to sacrafice some of these protective luxuries for the sake of autonomy. I can protect myself from spam, or at least try, and as for a DDoS attack, that hurts my ISP, so it's in their best interest to block it.
sure it's a bit of privacy advocate paranoia, but history has shown that when there is the opportunity for abuse of privileges- eventually this opportunity will be seized.
it's so obvious that with slightly better AI these "release and forget" robots will have damn good reasons to hate their creators (castaway, sewage-ridden bots eating insects in terrible environments - I mean come on, anything with half a neural network would be pretty pissed). They will then turn on us and discover in the process that human flesh provides more energy than flies.
Why can't we just have them eat old people's medicine instead?
"For PC television fans, up until now the only viable choice for TV viewing on the computer has been with an addon PCI or AGP (in the case of the All-In-Wonders) card."
what?! only if by "now" they mean circa 1998. I have had an Aver TV genie tuner with a VGA D-sub passthrough since then, and I love it for many of the same reasons people will like the external ATI device. However, my TV Genie uses no system resources whatsoever. I never understood why these didn't catch on - I have met dozens of people with crappy PCI tuners that have driver issues etc.. and none of these people had even heard of the TV Genie (all wished they had).
it's a old product, and if I were to buy something now, I'd probably go with the ATI device, but let's give credit where credit is due for external tuner solutions. here is a farily techy review of the TV genie
and I know people that insert guatamalan fire peppers into their anuses, but they aren't representative of the average population.
This sort of thing is not impossible, it's the reason that statistics exist and work. If the sample size is large enough and random enough it will represent the population quite accurately.
Also, a site like google could tell us about their own visitors as well as what browsers clicked on what links, essentially telling us about what browers visited other sites as well.
and btw, they are major.
agreed. While it would be easy enough for a handheld manufacturer to make a super-tough version for outdoor enthusiats who are willing to take on the extra bulk, I just expect a design that is conscious of the fact that this thing will be lugged around in my pocket everyday, will experience a variety of temperature changes, some potential static charge when I wear my flannel undies, and might experience the occasional drop or get squashed a tad if I happen to get a lap dance.
hmm, sounds like an annoying coin holder since you would have to wedge your fingernails under the coins or slide them to the edge each time.
For us Americans (litte ethnocentric-typical bias sarcasm), this would be a good device for quickly elminating Canadian coins that have infiltrated our coin piles.
ps. check your local vending machines - every once and awhile you can find one that will take canadian currency. Some will even give you US currency upon hitting the coin return. Given the exchange rate, you can take advantage of this to make a handsome sum.
I'm hardly convinced by this article that Google plays any significant role in this concept. the 'they can do it because they're big and popular' logic could really extend to just about anything that has to do with searching or communication. There already are great clients like trillian, and anyone that took the time to make a better one would have a pretty decent shot of having it go mainstream if it simply performed better in every way than AIM. The great thing about the internet is that a guy like this can get more hits on his website than many major corporations - and that's without a product!
screw "don't be evil"
don't be a sucker.
Google is not in that much better a position to implement an AIM killer than you or I.
take a look at a computer monitor that experiences multi-user traffic in your office or educational space. See all those nasty smears and fingerprints? And to think most people are currently aware that your average computer monitor does not work like a touch screen. Imagine something that is designed to be manhandled.
I should hope the docking station for this device involves a tank of windex in which it is submerged.
These "USA today" brand statistics really need to stop being propogated on slashdot. These numbers obviously consist of skewed garbage. I might be more specific, but how about a link to the actual report poster?
1 out of 4 people reading this post have downloaded at least 350kb of non-mp3 data over the past 15min!
"the western world has far more logging and scanning than the rest of the world put together."
Sure probably, but control for the number of logable/scannable devices and the inverse will be true.
The kind of freedom that allows you to ramble off silly obscenities about the worlds most powerful political figure on the internet and in public is simply not available to the majority of the Chinese people. For anyone that values their own freedom, this should be an upsetting point.
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enough people agreed that this was an "insightful" comment to get it a +5???
are all of the mods angry 7th graders tonight?
Yeah, maybe you're right, I'm sure these guys are going to forget all about it.
"Am I the only one that finds this insanely awesome?..."
it would seem that it's just you and the homeless man with the terrible teeth on the website.
the rest of us are laughing at you.
looks like google's credo may just be a sugar coating.
seems they're human after all.
Let us all take out a moment to consider how to best 'repay' the spammers who followed for the 100 years of 'joy' they have given us. ;)"
Let's flood them all with telegrams! We'll start from the very beginning:
everyone nail: 1.800.7.CUNARD
btw... "rich" is probably an unnecessary modifier for "British social elite"
You're correct in that this is the attitude that most users have - a sort of sophomoric stay out of my business mom and dad!.. but by the way can I borrow a few bucks and the car? Major ISPs like AOL are currently nailing this attitude with ads describing how they will protect your children for you and monitor your email for you.
That's all well and good, but many of us do just want a reliable connection and are willing to sacrafice some of these protective luxuries for the sake of autonomy. I can protect myself from spam, or at least try, and as for a DDoS attack, that hurts my ISP, so it's in their best interest to block it.
sure it's a bit of privacy advocate paranoia, but history has shown that when there is the opportunity for abuse of privileges- eventually this opportunity will be seized.
it's so obvious that with slightly better AI these "release and forget" robots will have damn good reasons to hate their creators (castaway, sewage-ridden bots eating insects in terrible environments - I mean come on, anything with half a neural network would be pretty pissed). They will then turn on us and discover in the process that human flesh provides more energy than flies.
Why can't we just have them eat old people's medicine instead?
"For PC television fans, up until now the only viable choice for TV viewing on the computer has been with an addon PCI or AGP (in the case of the All-In-Wonders) card."
what?! only if by "now" they mean circa 1998. I have had an Aver TV genie tuner with a VGA D-sub passthrough since then, and I love it for many of the same reasons people will like the external ATI device. However, my TV Genie uses no system resources whatsoever. I never understood why these didn't catch on - I have met dozens of people with crappy PCI tuners that have driver issues etc.. and none of these people had even heard of the TV Genie (all wished they had).
it's a old product, and if I were to buy something now, I'd probably go with the ATI device, but let's give credit where credit is due for external tuner solutions.
here is a farily techy review of the TV genie
and I know people that insert guatamalan fire peppers into their anuses, but they aren't representative of the average population.
This sort of thing is not impossible, it's the reason that statistics exist and work. If the sample size is large enough and random enough it will represent the population quite accurately.
Also, a site like google could tell us about their own visitors as well as what browsers clicked on what links, essentially telling us about what browers visited other sites as well.
and btw, they are major.
agreed. While it would be easy enough for a handheld manufacturer to make a super-tough version for outdoor enthusiats who are willing to take on the extra bulk, I just expect a design that is conscious of the fact that this thing will be lugged around in my pocket everyday, will experience a variety of temperature changes, some potential static charge when I wear my flannel undies, and might experience the occasional drop or get squashed a tad if I happen to get a lap dance.
only a truly evil government could implement a filter that blocks the word "making" and "playboy"
but doesn't block the word goatse.
screen big enough with high enough res to watch video
processor that can playback smooth divx at decent framerate
GPS
bluetooth
acts as cellphone with bluetooth headset
wi-fi
rugged, can take a beating including static from my pant
SDIO
laptop on a stick folks, laptop on a stick.
can it tout museum quality?
hmm, sounds like an annoying coin holder since you would have to wedge your fingernails under the coins or slide them to the edge each time.
For us Americans (litte ethnocentric-typical bias sarcasm), this would be a good device for quickly elminating Canadian coins that have infiltrated our coin piles.
ps. check your local vending machines - every once and awhile you can find one that will take canadian currency. Some will even give you US currency upon hitting the coin return. Given the exchange rate, you can take advantage of this to make a handsome sum.
it does not look like shit. It looks more like a butt about to produce shit. The red one looks kind of vaginal to me.
anyway, I have seen and own a pretty mouse - the MAPP mouse by elecom is gorgeous. The price has dropped, I paid $85 for one, but it was worth it.
I'm hardly convinced by this article that Google plays any significant role in this concept. the 'they can do it because they're big and popular' logic could really extend to just about anything that has to do with searching or communication. There already are great clients like trillian, and anyone that took the time to make a better one would have a pretty decent shot of having it go mainstream if it simply performed better in every way than AIM. The great thing about the internet is that a guy like this can get more hits on his website than many major corporations - and that's without a product!
screw "don't be evil"
don't be a sucker.
Google is not in that much better a position to implement an AIM killer than you or I.
so let's see...
1. Gator
2. Casino.net
3. Cydoor
hey! that doesn't even leave me room to run Bonzi Buddy!
no worries,
gaming will soon be revolutionized by the release of Peasant's Revenge which will probably be free.
hmm, unless your CD player doubled as a smoke detector and it was referring to ionizing radioactive decay from a small piece of Americium.
take a look at a computer monitor that experiences multi-user traffic in your office or educational space. See all those nasty smears and fingerprints? And to think most people are currently aware that your average computer monitor does not work like a touch screen. Imagine something that is designed to be manhandled.
I should hope the docking station for this device involves a tank of windex in which it is submerged.
are you kidding?
some microbes Shmoo like there's no tomorrow, and they're very much exhibitionists about it.
the censors would have to work overtime during production of this series.
Or if they want to be able to get help when the metal ones come for them.
These "USA today" brand statistics really need to stop being propogated on slashdot. These numbers obviously consist of skewed garbage. I might be more specific, but how about a link to the actual report poster?
1 out of 4 people reading this post have downloaded at least 350kb of non-mp3 data over the past 15min!
"the western world has far more logging and scanning than the rest of the world put together."
Sure probably, but control for the number of logable/scannable devices and the inverse will be true.
The kind of freedom that allows you to ramble off silly obscenities about the worlds most powerful political figure on the internet and in public is simply not available to the majority of the Chinese people. For anyone that values their own freedom, this should be an upsetting point.