Sorry, but I beg to differ, strongly. TPB has evolved into one of the great repositories of human knowledge. If a meatspace protest could save a web site, I would be in for it. Copyright is a poison. This man is a hero of the 21st Century, and in his shoes, I simply hope that I'd display the same level of ballsiness.
His arrest illustrates the power of the MAFIAA.
While this post is definitley a bit off topic, I think many of you smartphone owners out there will see the connection immediatley. Many of you, like me, probably used a blackberry as their first "smart" phone. Sure, when the apps ran at all they ran as slow as molasses on a cold winter day, but until that pesky Iphone reared its head, Blackberry was the only game in town, and they had (and still have) one thing locked down tight: THEIR KEYBOARD IS INCREDIBLE, and perfect for actually USING your smartphone to PRODUCE words instead of simply using your smartphone to consume them.
Now I must admit that even though at the time I owned an OG droid, when the DX came out I RAN to the store-- I had to have one of these puppies! And indeed, it was excellent-- much faster than the OG and WOW in comparison the display on a DX really leaves the OG wanting. What I did not think about, however, was that I would miss my physhical keyboard because I wasn't too impressed with the keyboard on the OG. What I'd like to see is a ginormous phone, somewhere between 4.3 and 5.3 inches, so still clearly in "phone" territory (though I agree with poster above who states, "Not phones: Small (sic increasingly powerful and ubiquitous) computers." For once, VR (voice recognition) actually seems like it is ready to do a good deal of daily driving in the cell phone world, but there are many an occasion that you don't want someone listening to you dictate your texts, or someone doesn't want to listen to you dictating your texts, etc.
I have always thought that the ideal phone would be a phone with a fairly large screen, ANDROID, and an excellent high travel keyboard (this means that when you press a button down you can really feel it, like on a blackberry keyboard). It should have entirely standard ports and connectors and use every applicable line of open source code to make itself better. I don't know the stream phone would in the end be a true android device, however it would in my mind without a doubt be the best selling cell phone ever Bahrain rate improvements in voice recognition happening in the next 3 to 6 months.
Exactly. That's why I e-mailed her to let her know how personally disgusted I am with her behavior, and to express my hope that the kid's family is able to sue her personally instead of the school district to help her pay for her error.
Because, really, I do hope that happens. It's going to suck for her, and she is going to have a much harder time of things, but we need to stop this "creeping fascism" in all sectors of USian life. This principal needs to be made to pay, for the same reason a student who behaves badly in school needs to be punished: to stop all the other principals from thinking that they can get away with the same thing. That's why the *one* that we do catch being so insanely STUPID in a situation with GRIEVOUS CONSEQUENCES for one of her pupils needs to be punished so very severly.
And if she receives a few hundred chiding e-mails, so be it as well. A few hundred chiding e-mails is NOTHING compared to twelve days in jail.
I don't have an aging inspiron 8200, but I can say from my experience that Ubuntu has become a lot better: about 2 months ago I tried warty while moving from Mandrake. There were some install problems, etc.
I gave Kubuntu RC a try recently and was amazed at the improvements to the install process (at least since I'd had some big trouble with warty).
1. Lots of companies do great things while they're trying to maximise shareholder value. How's about Redhat, Mandrake, etc.? How about Apple? There is such a thing as a good corporation.
2. Judging from my experience, and what other people have said about it, their free e-mail is in fact much better than others. And that compressed JavaScript thing that they're using to power their superior e-mail, superior maps, superior search "suggest" feature, and superior news customization is in fact new and interesting technology.
Here's a few things that make Google's free e-mail a bit "nicer" than others:
*Free POP Access *Free Forwarding *Blistering speed compared to other webmail
3. Google gets a lot of press on slashdot because they are a group who is investing incredible amounts of time and money into resarch, not because slashdot has some sort of unnatural love of Google-- we all know that slashdot has a highly unnatural love of penguins:).
Just show them the DHS docs. I've got very little time left at my job and many things to do before I leave for a foriegn country for nine months, and telling him that two government agencies have reccomended against the use of IE got him to listen quickly.
Although, I have a great employer, and he'd listen to me regardless. I think it was the DHS docs that showed that my immediate action (removing IE from all of our PCs and installing firefox) was necessary.
However, I'm quite certain that there are some large businesses totally unaware of this. My company does business with a very large (fortune 100) business, and their (100% MS) tech department had NO IDEA what was going on. It was really rather disturbing.
All these countries have laws that put tens of thousands of young people in prison for activities that few civilized people consider to be a crime-- their laws on Marijuana.
I've wished that Google would do this for ages. The possibilites for increasing accuracy are endless with a model for this. I wonder where else this could go. Maybe some sort of integration with another (though possibly encumbered by its relationship with LookSmart) post-google search engine like Grub? However, this is a BIG step. Once information like this begins to be integrated into a massive database, we could see the next quantum leap in search engine accuracy, and possibly breadth.
One thing that could help all of this is to watch what it going on by a list-- here is mine, so far:
Teoma Is supposedly more accurate than google, but I've found it to be only okay at best
Turbo10 "Searches the deep net" by connecting to site databases to get the most relevant info. A lot of this info, however, comes from Google itself.
Grub (a project, not an active engine) A distributed search engine project. It would use tons of people's computers as crawlers like seti@home
WhittleBit Read the story
So, maybe we'll get somewhere after google (not that google isn't a Good Thing), after all?
And.... well, Ian Clarke and his projects is/are/may soon be really rocking the world. Those include:
Locutus: www.locut.us A giant search system for pre-existing content, aimed at corporations.
Freenet: www.freenetproject.org An anonomyous content-storage system that works as a giant encrypted webserver of sorts.
Whittlebit: www.whittlebit.com A search engine that learns through user interaction
Kanzi: http://cematics.com/site.php/kanzi A neat little AI hack that helps webmasters do their job easier
Uprizer: www.uprizer.com A "edge distribution network" that will optomize content distribution. It uses some Freenet Technology
I work in a small financial services company that contracts through a much larger one. The amount of contacts that each of us makes each day is mind boggling. Haystack was such an exciting idea (I read about it yesterday) that I had to run out and see it for myself. Well, haystack itself is something like what we need-- but it's current iteration is way too buggy.
So, reading other/. posts, I found out about Creo's product, Six Degrees. Unfortunately, I've found this review of that product:
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227888-1205-202421 36-1.html?tag=rating
That ain't good!
But, to everyone who's reading, I've got to explain just why this is such an exciting idea to mo. Okay, as I said, we recieve an amazing number of contacts each day. If we could track that, we would be infinitely more efficient. If there were a program that could track that, as well as correlating documents on the hard disk to those people, we'd be golden! The trick, of course, is to have the program do this all transparently, because no one really feels like doing all of the correlation manually. In the end, color me excited, very much so, about Haystack.
Also, if anyone knows of any software for windows that does what I'm looking for, please let me know at
Is there ANY record of a microsoft server project being used on this large a scale? I know that hotmail is now being served with MS software, but I also know that the MS server products that are being used to run it aren't doing half the job that BSD did. So, basically, is there anyone out there who can tell me whehter this is possible without a special OS, et cetera set up to do this job?
(it's a pretty bold claim, I'm interested in it in a could this really happen sort of way.)
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, but I beg to differ, strongly. TPB has evolved into one of the great repositories of human knowledge. If a meatspace protest could save a web site, I would be in for it. Copyright is a poison. This man is a hero of the 21st Century, and in his shoes, I simply hope that I'd display the same level of ballsiness. His arrest illustrates the power of the MAFIAA.
While this post is definitley a bit off topic, I think many of you smartphone owners out there will see the connection immediatley. Many of you, like me, probably used a blackberry as their first "smart" phone. Sure, when the apps ran at all they ran as slow as molasses on a cold winter day, but until that pesky Iphone reared its head, Blackberry was the only game in town, and they had (and still have) one thing locked down tight: THEIR KEYBOARD IS INCREDIBLE, and perfect for actually USING your smartphone to PRODUCE words instead of simply using your smartphone to consume them. Now I must admit that even though at the time I owned an OG droid, when the DX came out I RAN to the store-- I had to have one of these puppies! And indeed, it was excellent-- much faster than the OG and WOW in comparison the display on a DX really leaves the OG wanting. What I did not think about, however, was that I would miss my physhical keyboard because I wasn't too impressed with the keyboard on the OG. What I'd like to see is a ginormous phone, somewhere between 4.3 and 5.3 inches, so still clearly in "phone" territory (though I agree with poster above who states, "Not phones: Small (sic increasingly powerful and ubiquitous) computers." For once, VR (voice recognition) actually seems like it is ready to do a good deal of daily driving in the cell phone world, but there are many an occasion that you don't want someone listening to you dictate your texts, or someone doesn't want to listen to you dictating your texts, etc. I have always thought that the ideal phone would be a phone with a fairly large screen, ANDROID, and an excellent high travel keyboard (this means that when you press a button down you can really feel it, like on a blackberry keyboard). It should have entirely standard ports and connectors and use every applicable line of open source code to make itself better. I don't know the stream phone would in the end be a true android device, however it would in my mind without a doubt be the best selling cell phone ever Bahrain rate improvements in voice recognition happening in the next 3 to 6 months.
Exactly. That's why I e-mailed her to let her know how personally disgusted I am with her behavior, and to express my hope that the kid's family is able to sue her personally instead of the school district to help her pay for her error.
Because, really, I do hope that happens. It's going to suck for her, and she is going to have a much harder time of things, but we need to stop this "creeping fascism" in all sectors of USian life. This principal needs to be made to pay, for the same reason a student who behaves badly in school needs to be punished: to stop all the other principals from thinking that they can get away with the same thing. That's why the *one* that we do catch being so insanely STUPID in a situation with GRIEVOUS CONSEQUENCES for one of her pupils needs to be punished so very severly.
And if she receives a few hundred chiding e-mails, so be it as well. A few hundred chiding e-mails is NOTHING compared to twelve days in jail.
I don't have an aging inspiron 8200, but I can say from my experience that Ubuntu has become a lot better: about 2 months ago I tried warty while moving from Mandrake. There were some install problems, etc.
I gave Kubuntu RC a try recently and was amazed at the improvements to the install process (at least since I'd had some big trouble with warty).
1.
:).
Lots of companies do great things while they're trying to maximise shareholder value. How's about Redhat, Mandrake, etc.? How about Apple? There is such a thing as a good corporation.
2.
Judging from my experience, and what other people have said about it, their free e-mail is in fact much better than others. And that compressed JavaScript thing that they're using to power their superior e-mail, superior maps, superior search "suggest" feature, and superior news customization is in fact new and interesting technology.
Here's a few things that make Google's free e-mail a bit "nicer" than others:
*Free POP Access
*Free Forwarding
*Blistering speed compared to other webmail
3.
Google gets a lot of press on slashdot because they are a group who is investing incredible amounts of time and money into resarch, not because slashdot has some sort of unnatural love of Google-- we all know that slashdot has a highly unnatural love of penguins
Just show them the DHS docs. I've got very little time left at my job and many things to do before I leave for a foriegn country for nine months, and telling him that two government agencies have reccomended against the use of IE got him to listen quickly.
Although, I have a great employer, and he'd listen to me regardless. I think it was the DHS docs that showed that my immediate action (removing IE from all of our PCs and installing firefox) was necessary.
However, I'm quite certain that there are some large businesses totally unaware of this. My company does business with a very large (fortune 100) business, and their (100% MS) tech department had NO IDEA what was going on. It was really rather disturbing.
All these countries have laws that put tens of thousands of young people in prison for activities that few civilized people consider to be a crime-- their laws on Marijuana.
- Teoma
- Turbo10
- Grub (a project, not an active engine)
- WhittleBit
So, maybe we'll get somewhere after google (not that google isn't a Good Thing), after all? And.... well, Ian Clarke and his projects is/are/may soon be really rocking the world. Those include:Is supposedly more accurate than google, but I've found it to be only okay at best
"Searches the deep net" by connecting to site databases to get the most relevant info. A lot of this info, however, comes from Google itself.
A distributed search engine project. It would use tons of people's computers as crawlers like seti@home
Read the story
A giant search system for pre-existing content, aimed at corporations.
An anonomyous content-storage system that works as a giant encrypted webserver of sorts.
A search engine that learns through user interaction
A neat little AI hack that helps webmasters do their job easier
A "edge distribution network" that will optomize content distribution. It uses some Freenet Technology
I work in a small financial services company that contracts through a much larger one. The amount of contacts that each of us makes each day is mind boggling. Haystack was such an exciting idea (I read about it yesterday) that I had to run out and see it for myself. Well, haystack itself is something like what we need-- but it's current iteration is way too buggy.
/. posts, I found out about Creo's product, Six Degrees. Unfortunately, I've found this review of that product:
1 36-1.html?tag=rating
So, reading other
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227888-1205-20242
That ain't good!
But, to everyone who's reading, I've got to explain just why this is such an exciting idea to mo. Okay, as I said, we recieve an amazing number of contacts each day. If we could track that, we would be infinitely more efficient. If there were a program that could track that, as well as correlating documents on the hard disk to those people, we'd be golden! The trick, of course, is to have the program do this all transparently, because no one really feels like doing all of the correlation manually. In the end, color me excited, very much so, about Haystack.
Also, if anyone knows of any software for windows that does what I'm looking for, please let me know at
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Is there ANY record of a microsoft server project being used on this large a scale? I know that hotmail is now being served with MS software, but I also know that the MS server products that are being used to run it aren't doing half the job that BSD did. So, basically, is there anyone out there who can tell me whehter this is possible without a special OS, et cetera set up to do this job? (it's a pretty bold claim, I'm interested in it in a could this really happen sort of way.)