"Take death, for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and indeed often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we would find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. If death were indefinitely put off, the human psyche would end up, well, like the gambler in The Twilight Zone episode."
Personally I'm finding Andreessen to be very pessimistic and trollish in vision. This is the man that once had a very ambitious vision, but it looks like the failure of his company against the Goliath of all companies has quelled his visionary persona just a tad.
"The bad news is the browser is kind of done" he says, well I hardly think so. Personally I feel the way the Internet works currently is irksome and could use a ton of tweaking. Indeed, there is only so much one can do to comply with standards, but it's taking those standards and actually doing something with it. Tabbed browsing, advanced print control, faster load times, better download support, built in anti-pop up, meta refresh notification and so much more! We must being taking the browsers beyond displaying a web page and actually providing useful information or helping the user browse more efficiently.
Ford didn't say "alright guys, you know, this car is certainly going forward, backward, left and right well enough, I don't think there's too much more we can really do...", no, he and his predecessors kept thinking up new ideas, making their cars safer, easier to handle, more fuel efficient, quieter, sleeker and so much more. He went beyond the basics of forward, backward, left and right and built a company on innovation. If Andreessen doesn't realize this then I don't think he's someone that should be heading the project to take on Microsoft.
There are many more advancements a browser could be made to do or support, we're only entering the knee of the bend here, we're starting to look up high, this isn't the time to be afraid of heights.
I'm a web developer, so when I visited The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's web site, I was...well...speechless. I would have thought such a 'brilliant' company would have a bit more of a stronger Internet presence. Anyhow, so the design sucked, I wanted to see how these people code, and I noticed their description meta tag...
"A non-partisan, non-profit educational research foundation conducting, publishing and publicizing research on the promotion and perfection of economic liberty, political freedom, opportunity and democracy in the United States and around the world"
I'm sorry, but am I the only one who thinks taking money from MS goes against the entire "non-profit" aspect of it all? Additionally, how can a company that claims to promote economic liberty, political freedom and opportunity and democracy be against the use of Open Source and believe that "manufacturers of computer hardware need to provide only one driver". This simply doesn't add up.
Well, I decided that these people are either very stupid or very hypocritical, so I decided to take a look see if these guys used Frontpage. Luckily they didn't, but they're only one step away...behold line 14:
<!-- ImageReady Slices (newfront1.psd) -->
Everyone knows how amateur a company looks like when they don't even take the time to delete comment lines automatically generated by ImageReady. How embarrassing.
Then looking through their source code, guess who left Options Indexes in httpd.conf?
From there you can discover much, additionally you can view WS_FTP.LOG
All this lead me to believe that this Think Tank doesn't really lend itself very much to thinking at all. I will completely disregard any comments or findings by this company simply because they
Fantastic, so by "support for other technologies, such as JPEG2000, and Flash 5" I presume you mean "Quicktime will take over other formats on your computer like JPEG2000 and Flash 5 wether you like it or not". Quicktime is notorious for aggressively taking over associations, I'm dreading seeing it take over even more.
Three Rings for the Linux-kings under the sky, Seven for the Kernel-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for.NET Developers doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his Dark Throne In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie.
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie
I found this fitting since in the end, it is not a massive army that defeats the ring, it's the little people, the ones that were never considered by the Dark Lord himself. The Dark Lord launches his own attacks, "Microsoft wrote protesting about the law and warning of collapsing software markets and portraying a nightmare scenario of incompatibility." But in the end his armys are defeated, one by one, "But the answer - from a Peruvian congressman - refuted the letter point by point." The end is nigh, do you know who our Aragorn is?
Same in Canada with Shaw
on
What Free Cable?
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· Score: 2, Informative
I've known this for a long time now, didn't know it was hush-hush. If you live in Western Canada you can get the first Tier basic cable package by splitting off the cable line. Shaw doesn't have any remedies for this at all in the foreseeable future due to technical regions. So, once again, if you live in Western Canada with Shaw broadband access (80% of us) you can get free cable as well.
I don't believe there is going to be much to worry about regarding the "Scanning the Internet for pirated work". I'm assuming this largely includes images, ie: corbis, getty, eyewire, etc. The problem is, most of us take these files into photoshop and edit them, resize them, anything. The second we resave those files, those headers the file originally had are wiped out and replaced with the program that you used to manipulate the original image.
There is no possible way you could 'identify' these images unless the program had an incredibly complex compare code (which would literlly take hundreds of years to complete searching the entire internet) to compare pixel alignment.
Therefore, unless you are ripping images directly off these sites, there is no possible way to identify the image save the human eye (yet)
Yes, the movie is the property of George Lucas, but lest we forget who the movie was *made* for...us. Most of us don't want to see any modifications made to the originals (save perhaps better light saber fights), and adding new characters etc etc just sounds like George trying to spin the old Wheel of Fortune.
Remember in the Simpsons episode "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show" when Lisa detects the new character on the show as being a "desperate attempt by writers".
As for the Tolkien note, be made corrections, he didn't go in and add entire characters. He explained events where readers needed clairifiction, but the difference here is that Tolkien did it *because* his readers were requesting it, whereas Lucas is doing it for God knows why.
We used to believe that nothing could survive in the boiling temperatures of mini-fissures at the bottom of the ocean, spewing a black like 'smoke' and completely shrouding everything below in a perfect dark. It was thought nothing could survive. However, after we were able to approch these fissures we saw even these areas of the ocean were teaming with life, and in most cases more abundant than what we would call 'hospitable'! The fact is we cannot assume something cannot survive in an enviroment simply because we cannot, this theory has been proven wrong time and time again.
"Sure it doesn't play DVD's (but according to recent market survey's people are buying game system to play games, not watch their movies)."
Actually the opposite is true in Japan. I thought this was rather well known, but I might as well bring it to your attention. One of the biggest selling points to the PS2 was not that it was the newest, greatest console at the time, but it was also an inexpensive DVD player. The DVD Players in Japan are rather expensive, and it was actually less expensive to purchase a PS2 and use its DVD feature then to actually purchase a dedicated DVD Player. Nintendo somewhat handicaped their market in that the Gamecube lacked the DVD support.
Celion has done me a favor. I used to always find myself in the Mac vs. PC war. Now I'll just throw a Celion CD in the opponents Mac and watch him cry...let alone argue anymore =)
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"Take death, for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and indeed often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we would find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. If death were indefinitely put off, the human psyche would end up, well, like the gambler in The Twilight Zone episode."
- Ray Kurzweil
Personally I'm finding Andreessen to be very pessimistic and trollish in vision. This is the man that once had a very ambitious vision, but it looks like the failure of his company against the Goliath of all companies has quelled his visionary persona just a tad.
"The bad news is the browser is kind of done" he says, well I hardly think so. Personally I feel the way the Internet works currently is irksome and could use a ton of tweaking. Indeed, there is only so much one can do to comply with standards, but it's taking those standards and actually doing something with it. Tabbed browsing, advanced print control, faster load times, better download support, built in anti-pop up, meta refresh notification and so much more! We must being taking the browsers beyond displaying a web page and actually providing useful information or helping the user browse more efficiently.
Ford didn't say "alright guys, you know, this car is certainly going forward, backward, left and right well enough, I don't think there's too much more we can really do...", no, he and his predecessors kept thinking up new ideas, making their cars safer, easier to handle, more fuel efficient, quieter, sleeker and so much more. He went beyond the basics of forward, backward, left and right and built a company on innovation. If Andreessen doesn't realize this then I don't think he's someone that should be heading the project to take on Microsoft.
There are many more advancements a browser could be made to do or support, we're only entering the knee of the bend here, we're starting to look up high, this isn't the time to be afraid of heights.
Actually I've downloaded a few of these MP3's...they proven to be fantastic remixes. The loop has been made very well and chop-free.
I think Linux has finally hit the knee of the curve, we're going to be seeing a lot more ports like this in the future.
Have they tried "password" yet?
"A non-partisan, non-profit educational research foundation conducting, publishing and publicizing research on the promotion and perfection of economic liberty, political freedom, opportunity and democracy in the United States and around the world"
I'm sorry, but am I the only one who thinks taking money from MS goes against the entire "non-profit" aspect of it all? Additionally, how can a company that claims to promote economic liberty, political freedom and opportunity and democracy be against the use of Open Source and believe that "manufacturers of computer hardware need to provide only one driver". This simply doesn't add up.
Well, I decided that these people are either very stupid or very hypocritical, so I decided to take a look see if these guys used Frontpage. Luckily they didn't, but they're only one step away...behold line 14:
<!-- ImageReady Slices (newfront1.psd) -->
Everyone knows how amateur a company looks like when they don't even take the time to delete comment lines automatically generated by ImageReady. How embarrassing.
Then looking through their source code, guess who left Options Indexes in httpd.conf?
http://www.adti.net/shopping_cart/
From there you can discover much, additionally you can view WS_FTP.LOG
All this lead me to believe that this Think Tank doesn't really lend itself very much to thinking at all. I will completely disregard any comments or findings by this company simply because they
do not care about their web presence
can't code a lickin
leave huge potential exploits wide open and
are either extremely stupid or hypocritical
I hope you feel the same
"...under an optimistic assumption about the matrix size, be completed within a day by a device that costs a few thousand dollars."
Wow, we can make The Matrix in under a day for a couple grand? Better start looking in the paper for real estate in Zion...
Fantastic, so by "support for other technologies, such as JPEG2000, and Flash 5" I presume you mean "Quicktime will take over other formats on your computer like JPEG2000 and Flash 5 wether you like it or not". Quicktime is notorious for aggressively taking over associations, I'm dreading seeing it take over even more.
Three Rings for the Linux-kings under the sky, .NET Developers doomed to die,
Seven for the Kernel-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for
One for the Dark Lord on his Dark Throne
In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie.
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them
In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie
I found this fitting since in the end, it is not a massive army that defeats the ring, it's the little people, the ones that were never considered by the Dark Lord himself. The Dark Lord launches his own attacks, "Microsoft wrote protesting about the law and warning of collapsing software markets and portraying a nightmare scenario of incompatibility." But in the end his armys are defeated, one by one, "But the answer - from a Peruvian congressman - refuted the letter point by point." The end is nigh, do you know who our Aragorn is?
I've known this for a long time now, didn't know it was hush-hush. If you live in Western Canada you can get the first Tier basic cable package by splitting off the cable line. Shaw doesn't have any remedies for this at all in the foreseeable future due to technical regions. So, once again, if you live in Western Canada with Shaw broadband access (80% of us) you can get free cable as well.
I don't believe there is going to be much to worry about regarding the "Scanning the Internet for pirated work". I'm assuming this largely includes images, ie: corbis, getty, eyewire, etc. The problem is, most of us take these files into photoshop and edit them, resize them, anything. The second we resave those files, those headers the file originally had are wiped out and replaced with the program that you used to manipulate the original image.
There is no possible way you could 'identify' these images unless the program had an incredibly complex compare code (which would literlly take hundreds of years to complete searching the entire internet) to compare pixel alignment.
Therefore, unless you are ripping images directly off these sites, there is no possible way to identify the image save the human eye (yet)
"Huston, we have a...aww crap"
Looks like the link to the Google cache version of the document is in error. Here is the correct link
Laid
Yes, the movie is the property of George Lucas, but lest we forget who the movie was *made* for...us. Most of us don't want to see any modifications made to the originals (save perhaps better light saber fights), and adding new characters etc etc just sounds like George trying to spin the old Wheel of Fortune.
Remember in the Simpsons episode "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show" when Lisa detects the new character on the show as being a "desperate attempt by writers".
As for the Tolkien note, be made corrections, he didn't go in and add entire characters. He explained events where readers needed clairifiction, but the difference here is that Tolkien did it *because* his readers were requesting it, whereas Lucas is doing it for God knows why.
We used to believe that nothing could survive in the boiling temperatures of mini-fissures at the bottom of the ocean, spewing a black like 'smoke' and completely shrouding everything below in a perfect dark. It was thought nothing could survive. However, after we were able to approch these fissures we saw even these areas of the ocean were teaming with life, and in most cases more abundant than what we would call 'hospitable'! The fact is we cannot assume something cannot survive in an enviroment simply because we cannot, this theory has been proven wrong time and time again.
...submit a story to Slashdot to a site with over 3 pictures unless you have 6 redundant OC-128's
Juassic Park, anyone? Count on it
"Sure it doesn't play DVD's (but according to recent market survey's people are buying game system to play games, not watch their movies)."
Actually the opposite is true in Japan. I thought this was rather well known, but I might as well bring it to your attention. One of the biggest selling points to the PS2 was not that it was the newest, greatest console at the time, but it was also an inexpensive DVD player. The DVD Players in Japan are rather expensive, and it was actually less expensive to purchase a PS2 and use its DVD feature then to actually purchase a dedicated DVD Player. Nintendo somewhat handicaped their market in that the Gamecube lacked the DVD support.
Celion has done me a favor. I used to always find myself in the Mac vs. PC war. Now I'll just throw a Celion CD in the opponents Mac and watch him cry...let alone argue anymore =)
Really gives new meaning to the term 'Sticky Keys'
...that this network isn't so great after all; the web site is down already.
Lets make this open source!
Lets make this open source
Lets make this open source