I have always like the basic idea around Citeseer.
"CiteSeerx is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerx has developed new methods and algorithms to index PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web...."
The basic issue for you would be that is was made to focus on Computer and Information sciences as it currently is implemented.
In the short term, this is may not be valuable for you. In the long term, I think this can be the basis for most or any academic (or even non academic) research literature.
I think the point here is a technology that is transferable to generic devices. Tesla came up with his coil, inductance has been around for quite a long time as also the used of inductance speakers a-la phone test equipment. There was the example of sonicare and their plugable toothbrush. They are looking for doing that with their mobile phones. Like any technology and standards, you have to find how to do this,(inductance) where to use it( rechargeable batteries), how to make it work(toothbrush and mobile phones) and finally, who is going to buy the thing (ohh marketing rears its ugly head).
As a comparison, think about html. Way before, the runoff text editor was doing this. OK, maybe bad example as people may not be able to relate to this, how about the old WordPerfect dos word processor. The meta character idea was being used there way before, just accept the idea.
I mean, there have been times I left for a weekend to visit my family and realize I needed to recharge the mobile. Of course no one has the same recharger so it goes dead unless I leave the phone out in the car as I do have a charger in the car.
The next point is to standardize the charger themselves. Give me that ISO 52542345/RS52634/or what not for this, and I think that is one of the most useful parts of this.
Another use would to have these recharge stations in one of those Internet shops or something. Since you are getting charged to be online, maybe offer to recharge the mobile while your surf. Something like that would be a boom for travellers too as then the dc charge for their mobiles need will be done and they wouldnt have to work about the different voltages out in the world.
And finnally, since we have standardize the plug, you can charge your mobile, shavers, toothbrush and favorite rechargeable toy, as long as they are recharger compliant. Sounds easy, and would make thing more convienent.
Even though the bottom line of the movie houses dont see this, there seems to be a huge buying and selling of used games. Ive seen used LOTR xbox games that I can get for a 25% then any new ones. Of course, you needs to make sure they work. Heck, even amazon.com encourages the buying and selling of used products.
As the subject says, sometimes companies dont have money for an intern. If you can be verified as a student, some local companies are willing to take on student work, recognizing that the best education can sometimes come through "real world" work.
As an alternative, if this is required as part of course work, maybe you can get the school to pay you through work study, and setup something with a local company that you can work for for no money out of their pocket. The key is that real world experience is great experience, beg borrow and steal the opportunity. To work, even if they give you the drudge work, you should be able to learn the nifty thing watching others work, and then volunteer to help with the fun stuff.
On the Electronic Frontier Foundation site (EFF) site I found http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item =2775 talking how to fight back.
I have not yet found, statistics on how many registered voters are fighting back, what state does these voters come from, etc etc. I think it would be interesting if EFF had that to show what kind of support against SCO exists. Anyone know if this exists? (Please tell me I am blind and cant read:)
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There were two interesting stories that come to me. One is Enders game, where teenagers do remotely control the fate of the world. The other series eludes my brain right now. I guess its not late enough at night for it to work. This story basically has the same idea, remote operators control robots in war. The main thrust of this second story is that after a while, the military had found that having the controllers close on the ground was more effective in close quarters combat. The controllers were described as regular (age wise) people. Thus this "new" group of combat soldier was able to beat all others consistently with the same technology.
One question raised, will teenagers/preteen be needed to run this or will "older" people be just fine. The second series talks about the feel of battle and how camera's and tech senses does not quite match what a person can feel about the battle. This raises the question, can a battle really be effectively fought remotely. I suspect we cannot answer these questions until the technology appears and are tried.
On a paranoid note, it is a nice thought we can bring a battle to others without cost to our own troops lives, but when (not if) every one can do that, then civilians will become the target more and more. This effectively makes everyone a military target. End of paranoia (for now:).
There is an interesting point that isnt really discussed since slashdot is full of techies.
There is a group of techies, there is a group of non techies that love the Internet and love high bandwidth and then there is the group of people that really dont care about the Internet (gasp, I know thats hard for us to believe).
One question this post poses was "why was she on slashdot?" Yes, as one moderater scored her comment, flame bait, maybe thats all it was intentional flamebait. Maybe there really are people that think that way about the net and she just happen to see this post on her boyfriends computer.
Putting aside the original post as intentional flamebait, and to quote badly the BOFH, "just throw enough jargon at them, they go into idiot mode", it seems to me that most of the replies strike me as this attitute and doesnt really address her true question, "Out of the things she likes(I have no clue what that is) how can high speed internet address this?"
As her last paragraph stated, she is waiting for that "killer app" before she invests into broadband. My original killer app was so I could listen to LA Kings hockey games live (well 30sec delay) here in the Northeast.
To sorta quote the movie Road Trip, "I can teach japanese to a monkey in 48 hours... its all a matter of relating to the material. "
For her, her focus seems to be more social related based upon her answers. For example she would rather go to the library with her friends than look it up online. I know going to college in the 80's using CARL and ERIC were a great help in my research so I couldnt live with out online resources but obviously doesnt interests her. Just remember what interests you and I (damn what did I do with that new boot floppy for my linux firewall) doesnt have to interest her.
Another clue to me is that she uses ICQ. I have moved around the country a bit so I have friends spread throughout the US, so having ICQ/yahoo/IM is really nice. Maybe her killer app is live video access to her friends around the US. Much like her comments about how she currently views TV, what ever her "killer app" is, once she finds it, Im sure she'll cant believe she lived with out high speed access.
The question is, what does Sojourner like to do, and how can the net help her do it better or more entertaining to her?
4.1 MILLION subscribers are a lot, but is that enough given @home's costs? Maybe their costs were too high and their operations were mismanaged. Are these 4.1M subscribers the techies or wannabe techies type and not the Sojourner types? Should more marketing have been done to these "Sojourner types" to help them find their "killer app"?
Of course I could be full of shit and people like her dont exist.
Btw Sojourner, what does the "pasty-faced computer dork" comment say about your boyfriend?:) j/k
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I have always like the basic idea around Citeseer.
"CiteSeerx is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerx has developed new methods and algorithms to index PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web. ..."
The basic issue for you would be that is was made to focus on Computer and Information sciences as it currently is implemented.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/about/site
In the short term, this is may not be valuable for you. In the long term, I think this can be the basis for most or any academic (or even non academic) research literature.
I think the point here is a technology that is transferable to generic devices. Tesla came up with his coil, inductance has been around for quite a long time as also the used of inductance speakers a-la phone test equipment.
There was the example of sonicare and their plugable toothbrush. They are looking for doing that with their mobile phones. Like any technology and standards, you have to find how to do this,(inductance) where to use it( rechargeable batteries), how to make it work(toothbrush and mobile phones) and finally, who is going to buy the thing (ohh marketing rears its ugly head).
As a comparison, think about html. Way before, the runoff text editor was doing this. OK, maybe bad example as people may not be able to relate to this, how about the old WordPerfect dos word processor. The meta character idea was being used there way before, just accept the idea.
I mean, there have been times I left for a weekend to visit my family and realize I needed to recharge the mobile. Of course no one has the same recharger so it goes dead unless I leave the phone out in the car as I do have a charger in the car.
The next point is to standardize the charger themselves. Give me that ISO 52542345/RS52634/or what not for this, and I think that is one of the most useful parts of this.
Another use would to have these recharge stations in one of those Internet shops or something. Since you are getting charged to be online, maybe offer to recharge the mobile while your surf. Something like that would be a boom for travellers too as then the dc charge for their mobiles need will be done and they wouldnt have to work about the different voltages out in the world.
And finnally, since we have standardize the plug, you can charge your mobile, shavers, toothbrush and favorite rechargeable toy, as long as they are recharger compliant. Sounds easy, and would make thing more convienent.
Even though the bottom line of the movie houses dont see this, there seems to be a huge buying and selling of used games. Ive seen used LOTR xbox games that I can get for a 25% then any new ones. Of course, you needs to make sure they work.
Heck, even amazon.com encourages the buying and selling of used products.
As an alternative, if this is required as part of course work, maybe you can get the school to pay you through work study, and setup something with a local company that you can work for for no money out of their pocket. The key is that real world experience is great experience, beg borrow and steal the opportunity. To work, even if they give you the drudge work, you should be able to learn the nifty thing watching others work, and then volunteer to help with the fun stuff.
On the Electronic Frontier Foundation site (EFF) site I found http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item =2775 talking how to fight back.
:)
I have not yet found, statistics on how many registered voters are fighting back, what state does these voters come from, etc etc. I think it would be interesting if EFF had that to show what kind of support against SCO exists. Anyone know if this exists? (Please tell me I am blind and cant read
There were two interesting stories that come to me. One is Enders game, where teenagers do remotely control the fate of the world. The other series eludes my brain right now. I guess its not late enough at night for it to work. This story basically has the same idea, remote operators control robots in war. The main thrust of this second story is that after a while, the military had found that having the controllers close on the ground was more effective in close quarters combat. The controllers were described as regular (age wise) people. Thus this "new" group of combat soldier was able to beat all others consistently with the same technology.
:).
One question raised, will teenagers/preteen be needed to run this or will "older" people be just fine. The second series talks about the feel of battle and how camera's and tech senses does not quite match what a person can feel about the battle. This raises the question, can a battle really be effectively fought remotely. I suspect we cannot answer these questions until the technology appears and are tried.
On a paranoid note, it is a nice thought we can bring a battle to others without cost to our own troops lives, but when (not if) every one can do that, then civilians will become the target more and more. This effectively makes everyone a military target. End of paranoia (for now
There is an interesting point that isnt really discussed since slashdot is full of techies. There is a group of techies, there is a group of non techies that love the Internet and love high bandwidth and then there is the group of people that really dont care about the Internet (gasp, I know thats hard for us to believe). One question this post poses was "why was she on slashdot?" Yes, as one moderater scored her comment, flame bait, maybe thats all it was intentional flamebait. Maybe there really are people that think that way about the net and she just happen to see this post on her boyfriends computer. Putting aside the original post as intentional flamebait, and to quote badly the BOFH, "just throw enough jargon at them, they go into idiot mode", it seems to me that most of the replies strike me as this attitute and doesnt really address her true question, "Out of the things she likes(I have no clue what that is) how can high speed internet address this?" As her last paragraph stated, she is waiting for that "killer app" before she invests into broadband. My original killer app was so I could listen to LA Kings hockey games live (well 30sec delay) here in the Northeast. To sorta quote the movie Road Trip, "I can teach japanese to a monkey in 48 hours... its all a matter of relating to the material. " For her, her focus seems to be more social related based upon her answers. For example she would rather go to the library with her friends than look it up online. I know going to college in the 80's using CARL and ERIC were a great help in my research so I couldnt live with out online resources but obviously doesnt interests her. Just remember what interests you and I (damn what did I do with that new boot floppy for my linux firewall) doesnt have to interest her. Another clue to me is that she uses ICQ. I have moved around the country a bit so I have friends spread throughout the US, so having ICQ/yahoo/IM is really nice. Maybe her killer app is live video access to her friends around the US. Much like her comments about how she currently views TV, what ever her "killer app" is, once she finds it, Im sure she'll cant believe she lived with out high speed access. The question is, what does Sojourner like to do, and how can the net help her do it better or more entertaining to her? 4.1 MILLION subscribers are a lot, but is that enough given @home's costs? Maybe their costs were too high and their operations were mismanaged. Are these 4.1M subscribers the techies or wannabe techies type and not the Sojourner types? Should more marketing have been done to these "Sojourner types" to help them find their "killer app"? Of course I could be full of shit and people like her dont exist. Btw Sojourner, what does the "pasty-faced computer dork" comment say about your boyfriend? :) j/k