I, unfortunately, am an owner of a Harmony remote control from Logitech that often reboots spontaneously - and takes about 2 minutes to "boot up". It also has the annoying habit of "sticking" on a command, and reissuing it over and over and over until you pull out the battery (which is very unfortunate when the "stuck" command is "Volume Up".
Wuala is great. The client is getting better all the time, and it encrypts/decrypts on the client side. As long as you keep supplying disk space (and obviously bandwidth to access it) they will up your storage. You can even merge multiple PC's together to beef up the storage on your account.
If you're using Microsoft Server 2003, or probably any other Windows OS prior to Vista, try clicking "Fonts" in the Control Panel, and then pick "Install New Font" from the menu.
Now THAT is a blast from the past. Check out the the drive drop down, and the "Newtork..." button. Must be from Windows 95 at best - maybe even Windows 3.1?
I have an old Teletype machine from the 60's in my basement (it came with the house - I think it was too heavy to lug up stairs when the other people moved). The manual for that practically explains how to build the thing from scratch. Every component and interface is clearly described and diagrammed.
Even televisions from the 80s and earlier used to come with schematics so that the repair people could navigate their way around with out being electrocuted.
Nowadays most electronics simply say "Warrany void if removed". That's great, since most things only have a 90 day warranty in the first place...
I too read Fast Food Nation. I haven't yet gone to see Supersize Me (it opens here tonight).
Have you reached the chapter in Fast Food Nation where the author visits an abattoir? It prompted me to start buying organic beef. In fact a local Burger joint here has started offering organic beef burgers (for a $2.39CDN premium). But hey - someone's got to create a demand. If people started buying more organic meats, the price would probably drop.
I think glasses like this can place the text in a certain size so that the text appears to be in your range of vision. It would be more like looking at a sign off in the distance, except _only you_ could see the sign.
I think they also have technology that can track your eye movements, so that they system could know _what_ you're looking at. So, like those bank commercials, people could have thier name floating above their heads, and as you looked around the room, everyone's name would stay above their respective head.
The longer you looked at someone, the more detail could go scrolling above their head (like their kid's names, their birthday, I guess everything your PDA might know about them.
I read that book around the same time, I think. It came with a copy of the book on a 3 1/2" diskette on the inside cover.
No copy protection or anything:-)
I guess I was young and nieve when I read it, because it actually seemed plausible at the time - the Internet was just taking off, and it all seemed limitless...
Actually, this is very relevant. I'll tell you why:
Here in Canada, we have a 24 hour news channel called NewsNet. When NewsNet first went on the air, you could access it via the Internet streaming real-time at high resolution (like 500K/sec or something like that).
Shortly thereafter, the NewsNet broadcaster was bought by a National telecommunications provider, Bell Canada (yes, a post-monoploy MaBell equivalent in Canada). All of a sudden, only those people accessing the NewsNet website via a DSL connection provided by said telecommunications company could view it. Others, such as highspeed cable customers would be greeted with a message that they could not view the content because their access was too slow. Regardless of their speed, the blocking was based on IP and if you weren't a Bell Canada DSL subscriber, they wouldn't let you watch.
Ofcourse now they don't offer the services at all because of "rising communications costs". Uh huh. THEY'RE THE FREAK'IN PHONE COMPANY for cryin' out loud. For most of the country they are the Internet.
Most patches require a simple download and restart of the computer. But this patch required manual editing of critical system files, something many administrators just aren't comfortable doing.
>>The "average person on SlashDot," who has got his toaster oven connected to a Cisco router and is using it to hack into the SETI distribution, is neither the intended customer for the service nor the intended audience for the stunt.
I wish I knew someone I could share that with who would find it as funny as I do... I think my Day has officially been Made.
Thank you.
I went through this. I downloaded and installed Mozilla and when I looked at it I just assumed it was a recompile of Netscape 6 or whatever. I promptly uninstalled in the same day...
Maybe I should give it another shot and change this skin!
The thing is, a phone and a Computer are the two things that everyone has on their desk. Judging by their past successes (keyboards, mice) maybe Microsoft should start making phones as well.
If these companies want to compete in the future of VoIP, then they need to start building up their knowledge base now. Even if they start by building regular POTS phones, they will gain the expertise and experience of phone ergonomics and production.
All you probably have to do (this is what I do when I change NICs or PCs) is release the IP address they assigned you, then when you DHCP request another one, it will be assigned to the MAC or that NIC.
(In Windows I use ipconfig/release and/renew)
What about if I link to a page - I am republishing the article on the date I create the link? For example, if I write an article about someone that gets published in my local paper, and then 3 months later it gets picked up by Time magaize and the offended party reads it there. In that case, the date of publication can be the Time magazine's date of publication, and not the original articles.
Now in the Web World, if Time online (for example) links to an article put online by my local paper 3 months ago, what is the date of publication. As far as the local paper is concerned it was 3 months in the past, but as far as readers of Time online, it was today. What date would be used as a baseline for my rights under the statue of limitations?
But if its so simple, why would they not have just incorporated it into their version of the Control Panel... I wish I could see a working version of Lindows and see what they're talking about!
I thought that Lindows was based on a Linux operating system with a Wine type overlay for running Windows apps... but did they develop everythingthing themselves? I thought that you had to allow the source code to be available when you used code from an open source source. It seems to me that they are charging for something that they didn't put the sweat into making.
This is exactly the point that the cable broadcasters were making with TiVo users skipping ads - that there is an implied contract between the person supplying the content and the viewer to watch the ads to get the content.
This may have a bigger impact than people realize.
Now, would this be akin to people skipping ads with their TiVo? If I download software that removes ads for me, am I stealing from the publisher of that website?
Do most companies pay based on "views" of ads, or "click-throughs"?
Is it just me, or while reading this article I found myself thinking of a natural system (sortof like nerves and synapses)... it makes you wonder where all this is leading us...
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I agree. If this works as the creator claims, then he has created something quite advanced. If he really has done all the behind the scenes work, there is no reason anyone else couldn't create their own "portal" to the network and serve 3d graphics, or whatever their heart desires.
There is nothing inherently different in sharing text vs. streamed data (ie music, video or whatever).
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I, unfortunately, am an owner of a Harmony remote control from Logitech that often reboots spontaneously - and takes about 2 minutes to "boot up". It also has the annoying habit of "sticking" on a command, and reissuing it over and over and over until you pull out the battery (which is very unfortunate when the "stuck" command is "Volume Up".
Wuala is great. The client is getting better all the time, and it encrypts/decrypts on the client side. As long as you keep supplying disk space (and obviously bandwidth to access it) they will up your storage. You can even merge multiple PC's together to beef up the storage on your account.
Now THAT is a blast from the past. Check out the the drive drop down, and the "Newtork..." button. Must be from Windows 95 at best - maybe even Windows 3.1?
Drunk on the lawn in a nuclear dawn, my senses finally blurred
I have that Moxy Fruvous CD, now I'll have to go home and find it tonight...
http://www.google.com/ncr
I've noticed the same thing.
I have an old Teletype machine from the 60's in my basement (it came with the house - I think it was too heavy to lug up stairs when the other people moved). The manual for that practically explains how to build the thing from scratch. Every component and interface is clearly described and diagrammed.
Even televisions from the 80s and earlier used to come with schematics so that the repair people could navigate their way around with out being electrocuted.
Nowadays most electronics simply say "Warrany void if removed". That's great, since most things only have a 90 day warranty in the first place...
Have you reached the chapter in Fast Food Nation where the author visits an abattoir? It prompted me to start buying organic beef. In fact a local Burger joint here has started offering organic beef burgers (for a $2.39CDN premium). But hey - someone's got to create a demand. If people started buying more organic meats, the price would probably drop.
I think this was my favourite method of rendering a CD useless (from the Roxio article)...
From: Anonymous
Camouflage technique: Make your own AOL label and affix it to the top of your CD. No one bothers to look at it twice.....
I really hope you didn't remember that from heart...
I think glasses like this can place the text in a certain size so that the text appears to be in your range of vision. It would be more like looking at a sign off in the distance, except _only you_ could see the sign.
I think they also have technology that can track your eye movements, so that they system could know _what_ you're looking at. So, like those bank commercials, people could have thier name floating above their heads, and as you looked around the room, everyone's name would stay above their respective head.
The longer you looked at someone, the more detail could go scrolling above their head (like their kid's names, their birthday, I guess everything your PDA might know about them.
No copy protection or anything :-)
I guess I was young and nieve when I read it, because it actually seemed plausible at the time - the Internet was just taking off, and it all seemed limitless...
Now, ofcourse, we're faced with DRM, DMCA, etc..
Here in Canada, we have a 24 hour news channel called NewsNet. When NewsNet first went on the air, you could access it via the Internet streaming real-time at high resolution (like 500K/sec or something like that).
Shortly thereafter, the NewsNet broadcaster was bought by a National telecommunications provider, Bell Canada (yes, a post-monoploy MaBell equivalent in Canada). All of a sudden, only those people accessing the NewsNet website via a DSL connection provided by said telecommunications company could view it. Others, such as highspeed cable customers would be greeted with a message that they could not view the content because their access was too slow. Regardless of their speed, the blocking was based on IP and if you weren't a Bell Canada DSL subscriber, they wouldn't let you watch.
Ofcourse now they don't offer the services at all because of "rising communications costs". Uh huh. THEY'RE THE FREAK'IN PHONE COMPANY for cryin' out loud. For most of the country they are the Internet.
Oh well, I'll stop ranting now.
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Most patches require a simple download and restart of the computer. But this patch required manual editing of critical system files, something many administrators just aren't comfortable doing.
</snip>>>The "average person on SlashDot," who has got his toaster oven connected to a Cisco router and is using it to hack into the SETI distribution, is neither the intended customer for the service nor the intended audience for the stunt. I wish I knew someone I could share that with who would find it as funny as I do... I think my Day has officially been Made. Thank you.
I went through this. I downloaded and installed Mozilla and when I looked at it I just assumed it was a recompile of Netscape 6 or whatever. I promptly uninstalled in the same day. ..
Maybe I should give it another shot and change this skin!
The thing is, a phone and a Computer are the two things that everyone has on their desk. Judging by their past successes (keyboards, mice) maybe Microsoft should start making phones as well.
If these companies want to compete in the future of VoIP, then they need to start building up their knowledge base now. Even if they start by building regular POTS phones, they will gain the expertise and experience of phone ergonomics and production.
All you probably have to do (this is what I do when I change NICs or PCs) is release the IP address they assigned you, then when you DHCP request another one, it will be assigned to the MAC or that NIC. (In Windows I use ipconfig /release and /renew)
Now in the Web World, if Time online (for example) links to an article put online by my local paper 3 months ago, what is the date of publication. As far as the local paper is concerned it was 3 months in the past, but as far as readers of Time online, it was today. What date would be used as a baseline for my rights under the statue of limitations?
Just food for thought.
But if its so simple, why would they not have just incorporated it into their version of the Control Panel... I wish I could see a working version of Lindows and see what they're talking about!
I thought that Lindows was based on a Linux operating system with a Wine type overlay for running Windows apps ... but did they develop everythingthing themselves?
I thought that you had to allow the source code to be available when you used code from an open source source.
It seems to me that they are charging for something that they didn't put the sweat into making.
Can someone post the article for me? My firewall blocks the 2600 domain (go figure, eh?)
This may have a bigger impact than people realize.
Now, would this be akin to people skipping ads with their TiVo? If I download software that removes ads for me, am I stealing from the publisher of that website?
Do most companies pay based on "views" of ads, or "click-throughs"?
Is it just me, or while reading this article I found myself thinking of a natural system (sortof like nerves and synapses)... it makes you wonder where all this is leading us...
There is nothing inherently different in sharing text vs. streamed data (ie music, video or whatever).
Its definately a good first-step.