Some of these things (1,6) sound pretty specific to technology that the author's company: Hakia is promising to produce this year.
Some of these items (2,4,5) are already being performed by major search engines, but are done behind the scenes and are not immediatly obvious to the user. #2 Will continue to be perfected over thext 20 years, not the next 12 months.
#3 Sounds like a reasonable extension to the traditional practice of bolding keywords. I'd like to see this implemented, though I think it will only come with good progress in the area of #2.
#7 Is actually a pretty good insight into the way top engines will use thier computing power after they've already crawled and indexed in the standard fashion, most of the 15B good pages on the current web.
I recently (1 month ago) had the same PRK surgery performed. I was told that I was not a good canidate for LASIK due to irregularities in my coreal surface. I'm an engineer and trust machines much more than I trust humans. Machines, when engineered by many humans over a long period of time are much less likley to make a mistake than a doctor who just got served divorce papers.
Knowing that the Navy reccommeds PRK and has done so for years was the final motivation I needed to have my surgery performed. 1 month out, I'm very happpy with the results. My vision is still improving and the recovery period for PRK is very long (2-3 months), but 2 or 3 months of degraded vision is well worth the life time of un-aided perfect vision I have to look forward to.
Disclamer: If you are a software engineer or rely on the computer for your day-to-day work, you won't be able to see jack shit for the first 3 weeks. Suck it up, becuase in the fourth week, you can see perfectly at those distances.
There are no actually subject specific "experts" at Ask. They use computer algorithms which are generic enough to work with any subject group, not just ones that a single person might know a bit about. The term "Expert" is figurative and not literal.
... Must have wrote this Linux.com article. I can't think of any reason such a brief and incomplete article would have made it to the front page. There are 100 better treatments of this subject out there, this is more of a discouragement than motivation to build one on your own.
better documentation, easier MythTV integration, better hardware support. Had a great time putting together a Myth box with very modern hardware. Blogged about it too.
..., A/V reciever, speakers, iPod, NC headphones and everything else used to enjoy analog signals. I would not mind keeping all this equipment for at least 10 years as long as it means being able to put SNL on my iPod.
I used to think DRM zealots were idots for thinking that they could ever close the analog loop and prevent music that is capable of being listened to from being copied freely.
I hope this Bill is shot down on the basis of the enourmous economic hardship it will place on electronics manufacturers.
... and I have most of them saved on my MythTV box at home. I'll transcode them, chop 'em up on my Mac and post them on Bittorrent later if you'd like.
Would that make me part of the problem or part of the discussion?
Are you kidding? Have you downloaded a copy of Firefox in the last 2 years? Have you ever seen a screenshot of the default browser in Apple OS X? Google is the promonent, sticky and "difficult to ignore" search engine that pays Mozilla.org and Apple for it's promonent placement in those products?
SageTV, like WinMCE continues to record and display your curent selection while you are scrolling through the programming guide. This is why it's a bad idea to copy/paste large sections of the original article, out of context.
My boss took the team out to see it during lunch. The plot was not deep, but it was damn funny and a real hoot to watch. There is a real hacker element to it that I have not been able to put my finger on yet.
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Dave Hyatt, one of the lead developers of Safari, has solicited comments and suggestions on his blog about how to better improve coordination between Apple's Safari group and the KDE Konqueror. team. Corporate support from Apple will have to follow, of course. I am sure that they are the main reason this coordination has not occured by now.
This is true. The RFID is being reduced to a smartchip; something that requries physical contact to transfer data. Both are more resistant to counterfitting than thier paper equivalents. That's the more immediate problem they are trying to solve anyway. Tracking your every movement to within 30ft accuracy and storing it in a large centeral DB comes later with the national ID. That's where the real power of RFID kicks in:)
Wouldn't someone with a reverse engineered reader and a zoom lens photo of the "machine readable" text on the passport still be able to "snipe" the information from a passport? I guess this would be more secure that what we have now, which divulges all information if the passport is physically viewed.
They tried to recruit away my grad advisor and the Chief Scientist of Ask Jeeves last August when things were just getting underway.
I think they'd recruite Sergy and Brin if they could.
An account can be marked as "bad" if photos they post violate copyrights or are reported as offensive and thier photos not shown in public searches, but they can still make thier way to public group photo pools. I did find one or two disturbing images this way. There is a mechanism to mark a photo as "offensive", but there is not much indication as to how they handle it from there.
Having said that, I have only found 2 or 3 disturbing photos amoungst the thousands I've viewed so far. Translation: the bottom feeders have not found out about the service yet..
It's also becomming a bit like a blog location itself. I notice a few people attaching long annotations or "stories" to daily posts. With comments and photos displayed in stream ordering by default, this is becoming much like my second blog.
They do use advanced piracy detection techniques. They are big into creative commons liciencing and since I often post photographs found on the web, my account has been marked as "bad", and henseforth my photos don't show up in public searches
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
It's on slashdot because it's innovative and uses some pretty cool tech in the background. Give it a shot and see if you don't go running from Ofoto.
What I really like about Flickr is the way it brings people together over photographs. They say a picture is worth 1000 words (bring on the picture worth replies) and allowing individuals to comment on photos and discuss topics in the group forums are by far the most often used features for me.
The interface is also slick and innovative, tags are of great use in photos (as they are with mail) and the notes feature made possible by thier custom flash rendering scripts are a pretty neat as well.
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... He wants his science fiction book title back. Bruce Sterling has been talking about this idea of years. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/03/20 /distributing-the-future.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-385773935 9956666768
Some of these things (1,6) sound pretty specific to technology that the author's company: Hakia is promising to produce this year. Some of these items (2,4,5) are already being performed by major search engines, but are done behind the scenes and are not immediatly obvious to the user. #2 Will continue to be perfected over thext 20 years, not the next 12 months. #3 Sounds like a reasonable extension to the traditional practice of bolding keywords. I'd like to see this implemented, though I think it will only come with good progress in the area of #2. #7 Is actually a pretty good insight into the way top engines will use thier computing power after they've already crawled and indexed in the standard fashion, most of the 15B good pages on the current web.
I recently (1 month ago) had the same PRK surgery performed. I was told that I was not a good canidate for LASIK due to irregularities in my coreal surface. I'm an engineer and trust machines much more than I trust humans. Machines, when engineered by many humans over a long period of time are much less likley to make a mistake than a doctor who just got served divorce papers. Knowing that the Navy reccommeds PRK and has done so for years was the final motivation I needed to have my surgery performed. 1 month out, I'm very happpy with the results. My vision is still improving and the recovery period for PRK is very long (2-3 months), but 2 or 3 months of degraded vision is well worth the life time of un-aided perfect vision I have to look forward to. Disclamer: If you are a software engineer or rely on the computer for your day-to-day work, you won't be able to see jack shit for the first 3 weeks. Suck it up, becuase in the fourth week, you can see perfectly at those distances.
And then Google or Microsft will buy it and it will not kill anything except Google or Microsoft competition.
There are no actually subject specific "experts" at Ask. They use computer algorithms which are generic enough to work with any subject group, not just ones that a single person might know a bit about. The term "Expert" is figurative and not literal.
... Must have wrote this Linux.com article. I can't think of any reason such a brief and incomplete article would have made it to the front page. There are 100 better treatments of this subject out there, this is more of a discouragement than motivation to build one on your own.
better documentation, easier MythTV integration, better hardware support. Had a great time putting together a Myth box with very modern hardware. Blogged about it too.
..., A/V reciever, speakers, iPod, NC headphones and everything else used to enjoy analog signals. I would not mind keeping all this equipment for at least 10 years as long as it means being able to put SNL on my iPod. I used to think DRM zealots were idots for thinking that they could ever close the analog loop and prevent music that is capable of being listened to from being copied freely. I hope this Bill is shot down on the basis of the enourmous economic hardship it will place on electronics manufacturers.
... and I have most of them saved on my MythTV box at home. I'll transcode them, chop 'em up on my Mac and post them on Bittorrent later if you'd like. Would that make me part of the problem or part of the discussion?
Are you kidding? Have you downloaded a copy of Firefox in the last 2 years? Have you ever seen a screenshot of the default browser in Apple OS X? Google is the promonent, sticky and "difficult to ignore" search engine that pays Mozilla.org and Apple for it's promonent placement in those products?
SageTV, like WinMCE continues to record and display your curent selection while you are scrolling through the programming guide. This is why it's a bad idea to copy/paste large sections of the original article, out of context.
I prefer the ATX form factor, SageTV and Haupagge TV Tuner combination in my own homebrew PVR.
Scoble just reported that the story has been confirmed to be false.
My boss took the team out to see it during lunch. The plot was not deep, but it was damn funny and a real hoot to watch. There is a real hacker element to it that I have not been able to put my finger on yet.
Dave Hyatt, one of the lead developers of Safari, has solicited comments and suggestions on his blog about how to better improve coordination between Apple's Safari group and the KDE Konqueror. team. Corporate support from Apple will have to follow, of course. I am sure that they are the main reason this coordination has not occured by now.
This is true. The RFID is being reduced to a smartchip; something that requries physical contact to transfer data. Both are more resistant to counterfitting than thier paper equivalents. That's the more immediate problem they are trying to solve anyway. Tracking your every movement to within 30ft accuracy and storing it in a large centeral DB comes later with the national ID. That's where the real power of RFID kicks in :)
Wouldn't someone with a reverse engineered reader and a zoom lens photo of the "machine readable" text on the passport still be able to "snipe" the information from a passport? I guess this would be more secure that what we have now, which divulges all information if the passport is physically viewed.
They tried to recruit away my grad advisor and the Chief Scientist of Ask Jeeves last August when things were just getting underway. I think they'd recruite Sergy and Brin if they could.
An account can be marked as "bad" if photos they post violate copyrights or are reported as offensive and thier photos not shown in public searches, but they can still make thier way to public group photo pools. I did find one or two disturbing images this way. There is a mechanism to mark a photo as "offensive", but there is not much indication as to how they handle it from there.
Having said that, I have only found 2 or 3 disturbing photos amoungst the thousands I've viewed so far. Translation: the bottom feeders have not found out about the service yet..
It's also becomming a bit like a blog location itself. I notice a few people attaching long annotations or "stories" to daily posts. With comments and photos displayed in stream ordering by default, this is becoming much like my second blog.
They do use advanced piracy detection techniques. They are big into creative commons liciencing and since I often post photographs found on the web, my account has been marked as "bad", and henseforth my photos don't show up in public searches
Don't knock it till you've tried it. It's on slashdot because it's innovative and uses some pretty cool tech in the background. Give it a shot and see if you don't go running from Ofoto.
What I really like about Flickr is the way it brings people together over photographs. They say a picture is worth 1000 words (bring on the picture worth replies) and allowing individuals to comment on photos and discuss topics in the group forums are by far the most often used features for me. The interface is also slick and innovative, tags are of great use in photos (as they are with mail) and the notes feature made possible by thier custom flash rendering scripts are a pretty neat as well.
Does as400tek work for Sony?
How could some small fraction of 3.4% of the PC users (Apple Marketshare), overwhelm the metapkg server with Gentoo OSX downloads?
Anyone out there willing to roll up a torrent and post the address?