Previously running CF and JRun meant your port was 8500 not 8080. Just look at the terminal as you start up CF:
01/08 13:02:31 info JRun Web Server listening on *:8500
Spam is a lot like advertising. Is money made with spam? Are people's lives improved with spam? It is likely that nobody gets ahead with this type of advertising and it would be difficult to impirically prove one way or another. However, that isn't the point. By looking at the amount of spam in general, you can say that the people who sell spam solutions (lists, software, etc.) are very successful. They have convinced the spammers that this is effective.
In essense, that is all that is necessary for spam to exist and flourish is for people to effectively market it to the people who use it, the spammers. This is similar to internet advertising in general and in some ways to the world at large.
It is interesting to see Slashdot playing slow big media dinosaur to the fast light weblog mammals. This article already has an ESR response:
armedanddangerous response
On a related note, MIT Tech Review is running a related article on
Why Software is So Bad.
Notable Quote from Story:
"Users are tremendously non-self-aware," Myhrvold adds. At Microsoft, he says, corporate customers often demanded that the company simultaneously add new features and stop adding new features. "Literally, I've heard it in a single breath, a single sentence. 'We're not sure why we should upgrade to this new release--it has all this stuff we don't want--and when are you going to put in these three things?' And you say, 'Whaaat?'" Myhrvold's sardonic summary: "Software sucks because users demand it to."
Amazon's dominance comes from advertising, good software design, and a decent distribution network. The reason why so many sites link to it is that their comprehensive and "reader-reviewable" book database is relatively open for arbitrary and not necessarily sales related searches. This has made it a "standard" for people to link to when refering to a book. If some enterprising individual or collective were to come up with an open database of books and a method of presenting it over a popular medium, like the web a la IMDB or AMG, then Amazon's power over folks would be much reduced, giving Powel's or B&N a chance.
OTOH, in a commodity market, like for the pulp of books, why would anyone really care who they are buying from?
The iBook is pretty rugged for what it is. I was at a baseball game Friday (there's a place that needs 802.11b access...) and had left it under my seat. I stood up to cheer the Astros and this lady came brushing behind me. I didn't notice till later the big footprint on the suede slipcover I keep it in.
Opened it up, it came out of sleep fine. No problem. You could probably make a thinner iBook with metal, but pound for pound, I don't think you can beat the polycarbonate it is wrapped in. I move it everyday between home and office and whereever without too much care and its never lost a tick in the last 9 months.
"Using the Internet, customers like Dell can send Quanta orders for notebooks with a wide variety of specifications."
You know, a lot of BTO Powerbooks are shipped direct from Taiwan to the person who ordered it.....Hmm, I wonder what it would take to cut out Dell and "Be [really] DIRECT?"
The irony is not that they get the Europhones before the States, but that after getting out of the colony business, Europe still has technical and mercantile hegemony over their erstwhile dependancies.
This is interesting. One of the things I've often thought is that protesters should carry bags of ball bearings to be deployed around static displays of protesters. The nature of large numbers of bearings on the ground around the protesters would make the illegal demonstration-breakers (cops) step more carefully. Additionally, large numbers of bearings could be deployed to break up locked phalanxes of marching demonstration breakers.
A slime, foam or other chemical solution that would be easy to mix and deploy in situ may be lighter in weight and more effective than ball bearings. For example, a slipperly substance that gelled itself over a large area may be more effective than an equal weight of ball bearings deployed over a marching surface. The slime could also have the additional benefit of being difficult to see, or being very visible and deployable in letter or glyph forms, or of smelling very bad or being inflammable.
This slime stuff could be the start of something very interesting.
1. Are wethere yet?
2. Are we there yet
3. Arewe there yet?
4. Arewe there yet?
5. Are we there yet?
6. Arewe there yet?
7. Are we there yet?
8. Are wethere yet?
9. Are we there yet?
10. Are we there yet?
1.
The one lefty-type feeling I had after watching the movie was that disarmification is a must. Okay so people starve and people kill each other but it is pretty unconscionable that we have allowed the means for people to kill each other to proliferate to such a degree. Before there can be any "nation building," we've got to invest in zones cleared of weapons.
2.
Katz really missed out on his typical angle on things in that Black Hawk Down (the series, book and movie) is a remarkable document, and a document that might not have existed so completely if it were not for philly.com's website and messageboard. During and after the posting of each chapter in the series more and more people came out of the woodwork and added to Bowden's understanding of what happened. This wouldn't have happened as completely as it did without the everyday pervasive nature of contemporary information technologies.
I did a quick comparison of the old iPod to Sonic Blue's new Rio RIOT. Although tech specs are still forthcoming, the Flash technology tour of the Rio RIOT made it easy to tell that this is absolutely an iPod killer.
old iPod: One Boring Scroll Wheel, 5 buttons
Rio RIOT: Scroll Wheel, Game-Boy Pointer, and five buttons, including two on the left side for volume!
old iPod: IE1394 (what issat?)
Rio RIOT: USB! Everyone has it! Soon it will be five times as fast with USB2 technology!
old iPod: looks like a zippo, sized like pack of cigarrettes
Rio RIOT: ergonomically styled like Game Boy Advance, in sleek charcoal plastique!
old iPod: select by artist, album, or manual playlist
Rio RIOT: intellegent audio wizard detects your favorites and plays them back for you!
old iPod: made by Apple, a company going out of business
Rio RIOT: produced by Sonic Blue, a recognized leader in MP3 technology!
I think the message is clear. Sonic Blue has an iPod killer on it's hands with the Rio RIOT. Thank you Slashdot for letting us know quick!
Drones and "Drones," On and On
on
The Drone War
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"The most staggering statistic out of Afghanistan might be that the first American combat casualty died nearly three months into the 'war.'"
Er, the problem with this thesis is that it ignores the efforts made by thousands of indigenous anti-Taliban forces. While they may be proxies, they were certainly not drones in the since Katz is meaning. While this is certainly advantageous to the average draft-age american, this does not make a convincing case that we can win all wars in this manner.
Drone vs drone warfare has already been conducted to a degree, with little success on the part of smart weapons to defeat dumb weapons, as in Scud vs Patriot.
In all likelyhood, the future of warfare lies in this asymmetry, not in drone vs drone. This isn't due to lack of want, but because we have typically won economic wars before we have embarked on military wars, and our adversaries do not have the resources to use smart weapons.
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Previously running CF and JRun meant your port was 8500 not 8080. Just look at the terminal as you start up CF: 01/08 13:02:31 info JRun Web Server listening on *:8500
Mac OS X version of GNU Go is distributed by Sente Software.
It works pretty good on my iBook 500. Supposedly computer Go players arent' all that good, but I'm worse, so it kicks my ass all the time.
This law prolly has more to do with the telco's inability to audit their own records and control their network than with cell phone theives.
Spam is a lot like advertising. Is money made with spam? Are people's lives improved with spam? It is likely that nobody gets ahead with this type of advertising and it would be difficult to impirically prove one way or another. However, that isn't the point. By looking at the amount of spam in general, you can say that the people who sell spam solutions (lists, software, etc.) are very successful. They have convinced the spammers that this is effective.
In essense, that is all that is necessary for spam to exist and flourish is for people to effectively market it to the people who use it, the spammers. This is similar to internet advertising in general and in some ways to the world at large.
Beware of Geeks bearing gifts!
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/broadcaste r/
Streamer
and an odd unfinished area for training. Looks like things are getting together technically before the legislation can smother it.
On a related note, MIT Tech Review is running a related article on Why Software is So Bad.
Notable Quote from Story:
http://218.223.20.17/Pictures/Large/em34.jpg
Advantages:
Can power entire space ship with natural gas.
Disadvantages:
Can power entire space ship with natural gas.
Advantages:
Can power entire space station with naturally produced gas.
Disadvantages:
Can power entire space station with naturally produced gas.
Who is using public right of ways to lay cable?
Are people who channel surf during commercials thieves too?
Arrest us all now, please.
In the early days, it would mean .3 billion coasters........
Yeah, and dot net may not matter now, but wait 18 months!
What about just shooting depleted uranium spikes into it?
If we look at it, will it still be the same?
Are you saying, if we explore Uranus, then we should use a condom?
The iBook is pretty rugged for what it is. I was at a baseball game Friday (there's a place that needs 802.11b access...) and had left it under my seat. I stood up to cheer the Astros and this lady came brushing behind me. I didn't notice till later the big footprint on the suede slipcover I keep it in.
Opened it up, it came out of sleep fine. No problem. You could probably make a thinner iBook with metal, but pound for pound, I don't think you can beat the polycarbonate it is wrapped in. I move it everyday between home and office and whereever without too much care and its never lost a tick in the last 9 months.
You know, a lot of BTO Powerbooks are shipped direct from Taiwan to the person who ordered it.....Hmm, I wonder what it would take to cut out Dell and "Be [really] DIRECT?"
The irony is not that they get the Europhones before the States, but that after getting out of the colony business, Europe still has technical and mercantile hegemony over their erstwhile dependancies.
A slime, foam or other chemical solution that would be easy to mix and deploy in situ may be lighter in weight and more effective than ball bearings. For example, a slipperly substance that gelled itself over a large area may be more effective than an equal weight of ball bearings deployed over a marching surface. The slime could also have the additional benefit of being difficult to see, or being very visible and deployable in letter or glyph forms, or of smelling very bad or being inflammable.
This slime stuff could be the start of something very interesting.
1. Are wethere yet?
2. Are we there yet
3. Arewe there yet?
4. Arewe there yet?
5. Are we there yet?
6. Arewe there yet?
7. Are we there yet?
8. Are wethere yet?
9. Are we there yet?
10. Are we there yet?
1.
The one lefty-type feeling I had after watching the movie was that disarmification is a must. Okay so people starve and people kill each other but it is pretty unconscionable that we have allowed the means for people to kill each other to proliferate to such a degree. Before there can be any "nation building," we've got to invest in zones cleared of weapons.
2.
Katz really missed out on his typical angle on things in that Black Hawk Down (the series, book and movie) is a remarkable document, and a document that might not have existed so completely if it were not for philly.com's website and messageboard. During and after the posting of each chapter in the series more and more people came out of the woodwork and added to Bowden's understanding of what happened. This wouldn't have happened as completely as it did without the everyday pervasive nature of contemporary information technologies.
You forgot to mention that this is very much an Airport Killer.
I did a quick comparison of the old iPod to Sonic Blue's new Rio RIOT. Although tech specs are still forthcoming, the Flash technology tour of the Rio RIOT made it easy to tell that this is absolutely an iPod killer.
old iPod: One Boring Scroll Wheel, 5 buttons
Rio RIOT: Scroll Wheel, Game-Boy Pointer, and five buttons, including two on the left side for volume!
old iPod: IE1394 (what issat?)
Rio RIOT: USB! Everyone has it! Soon it will be five times as fast with USB2 technology!
old iPod: looks like a zippo, sized like pack of cigarrettes
Rio RIOT: ergonomically styled like Game Boy Advance, in sleek charcoal plastique!
old iPod: select by artist, album, or manual playlist
Rio RIOT: intellegent audio wizard detects your favorites and plays them back for you!
old iPod: made by Apple, a company going out of business
Rio RIOT: produced by Sonic Blue, a recognized leader in MP3 technology!
I think the message is clear. Sonic Blue has an iPod killer on it's hands with the Rio RIOT. Thank you Slashdot for letting us know quick!
Er, the problem with this thesis is that it ignores the efforts made by thousands of indigenous anti-Taliban forces. While they may be proxies, they were certainly not drones in the since Katz is meaning. While this is certainly advantageous to the average draft-age american, this does not make a convincing case that we can win all wars in this manner.
Drone vs drone warfare has already been conducted to a degree, with little success on the part of smart weapons to defeat dumb weapons, as in Scud vs Patriot.
In all likelyhood, the future of warfare lies in this asymmetry, not in drone vs drone. This isn't due to lack of want, but because we have typically won economic wars before we have embarked on military wars, and our adversaries do not have the resources to use smart weapons.