Facebook/myspace are social networking/ friends sites... you sir have a movie rating site. Big difference. What happens when this is allowed by all companies, there will be no end to the unwanted invites.
Imagine a Porn website using this capability? You may think you know your friends and they may think they know you (and maybe they do) but do you really trust them not to let porn emails get sent to you?
Here's the bigger problem:
4. Once registered, users can control their settings on every single email we send
If some random person I once sent an email to is too lazy to uncheck my name, I have to REGISTER with you to stop the spam? Again, imagine a Beastiality site or worse yet, email from a Hardcore Liberal Political Campaign (if you're republican).
It's madness I tell you and it must be stopped. You may act in a semi-responsible manner but you could be fired tomorrow and your replacement may not be so ethical.
true, pig cells and rats are cheap... rats are a self-sustaining resource in research, you don't even have to feed them their whole life... just until they reach maturity or whatever stage you plan to use them at.
This is good news... it's more than just theory now so just a few more years to a viable product we can all benefit from (it'll be available to the Japanese next year and the US in 2017;-)
But have they created an Eclipse plugin for developing with it? This is same old MS... "We'll own the format and hence be the most capable of creating a development environment for it... then they'll have to run Windows to create the most popular content"
This is especially significant in a world where the content consumers are more and more also the content creators.
In addition at the enterprise level: AJAX isn't easy to implement when you're using it for really intense UIs... you need an IDE for this to do it well in a large organization with varying levels of programming experience. MS wants businesses to convert all their old web based or non-web based internal apps to using this stuff (killer app style) and they want to be selling the IT dept. the tools to do so. When your IT dept. runs an OS, they would rather the people they support also run that OS, makes providing 1st level support SO much easier.
you've made a common mistake... what you were looking for is s/h/it which clearly refers to she/he/it, rather than (she)he(it) or even s(he)it or (s)he(it)
This is 100% about publicity and not money. They state that any and all profit will simply be reinvested into SL...
OTOH they do want to make the process of buying a house or land or whatever inside SL easier and more trust-worthy... maybe they will become trusted brokers for transactions and help people avoid being swindled due to ignorance of how SL works?
I look forward to more companies establishing helpful services within virtual worlds. Would be even more amusing to find companies like Toyota putting characters into middle ages style MMORGs to sell you vehicles "You really want to get the full warranty on that chariot, if it blows an axle you'll want to be covered"
Only iStock still has a visible watermark on downloaded comping images for account holders.
The rest have a specific digital watermark embedded that is not visible. If you do not have an account then Corbis/Getty/Veer do put a visible badge on the image and a digital watermark.
What web 2.0 and the semantic web can do together is better than #1 and #2. Instead of a dedicated team of 20 you get a completely arbitrary and undedicated team of 20 million doing their best to tag content with keywords. When you do a search on a keyword you get a relevance of say 90% for videos with MAN U goals because random people who stumbled upon them tagged them as such. This takes all the work out of it for the distributor. In essence you can put up a video with no meta data.... and let the masses create it for you. Sure will get some mistakes but they should be ironed out by the majority getting it right.
The biggest problem with web 2.0 is getting enough eyeballs looking at the content for it to work. Especially difficult if the topic of your content is niche and only appeals to a small group of people. This is why and article on the care and handling of hamsters will never rise to the top of DIGG no matter how good it is (relative to it's topic).
Depends on how you look at it I suppose... The US is obviously still developing too. It's like a 50 yr old calling a 20 yr old a kid, then being told by an 80 yr old that he's still just wet behind the ears himself.
According to this discussion: on Slashdot it is currently under priced for it's ability to power our vehicles... I'm sure I can somehow raise the price of air to a reasonably profitable level, hell maybe I'll lobby for some subsidies... I'm sure there is a particular mixture of air that will bring the MPG down enough to make it expensive both to produce and to use as a power source.
Did you look at the data visualizer Google bought? Gapminder? See here: on slashdot and here's the actual beta: on Google
Now that app is in Flash and could be a desktop app in Apollo using a flat file database or maybe SQLite or similar embedded DB with the option of updating the data via a network connection when needed.
You can't do an app like that without some sort of RIA wrapper. It could be done in Java or any language with a graphics library and some standard math and UI libraries if you don't mind platform dependence, but it looks like Flash does a good job with it so why not? In Apollo it would be even better I'd imagine, or at least easier to develop.
All you need to know is that the analysis of e8 took 60 GB to store:
This is enough to store 45 days of continuous music in MP3-format.
They put some things in layman's terms;-p as apparently math people reading up on this obscure topic can't figure out what 60 GB of storage can really hold.
I'm a new parent and while I love to read and think that books offer something that no other media can offer, which I'll explain later... I also think that engaging kids is very important and that different people learn in different ways.
Games can be great learning aids. Teachers always try to introduce learning games to their classes but I suspect that after age 8 the kids are not impressed as they've played real games and well Teachers and their sponsors just aren't as good at Game creation as say EA or Rockstar or Blizzard. They obviously need help creating games that will get the kids attention and keep it long enough for them to learn a lesson or two.
What would be really nice is to introduce a topic with a game... but leave out some of the juicy details (claim that 'we can't show you that part because it's too violent and/or racy/scandalous, BUT we can give you a book all about it and you can read it for yourself"). At the end of the game have a quiz about things that happened, maybe have little vignette videos between the action that they have to pay attention to, not only to grade well on the quiz but also to do well on the next level. Kids love that kind of challenge where there is immediate feedback from having learned something.
Back to books for a few minutes. A poster below mentioned that no one has time for books but hours to devote to TV. I suspect the reason kids aren't in to books is that they never see anyone just sitting around reading. My Father always had a book near him. He'd watch the News, some B-Ball or Football for a while at night, then let us take over the TV and sit back in his lazyboy and read some SciFi. Then my older brother read the books and eventually I did as well. We'd make trips to the book store to pick out books together. It was family tradition as far as I was concerned.
Now what books can offer that no other media can: your own completely unique vision of the story. With TV, radio, movies, even most games... the characters are decided for you, what they look like, what they sound like, their expressions when they do something (which reflects their motivations for doing it). The storyline is linear... one thing happens after another, rarely you'll get a show or movie where they have multiple storylines that intersect, and the importance of events is decided for you and made quite obvious because they have only so much time for you to get it.
Books are great... 20 stories happening all at once, across time and space... you can skip sections, go back later... follow a character for awhile and ignore the rest until you realize they were important, then go back and find out why. It's all you and your own imagination, whereas TV, Video games, etc. it's the directors vision. There's a reason so many books get turned into Movies but never the other way around.
If violence or sex or profanity are part of the story and make he story more engaging more relatable, ie more real => then they belong there and should not be censored for adults.
I don't think kids should be peddled adult topics and parents should not allow their children to be exposed to them. When should kids be allowed to see and hear these things? When their parents think they are ready and understand that the shows are fiction but based on real possible situations.
Companies should not be mixing their demographics though... don't make 24 action figures and branded school supplies and then claim that the show is for adults. Same goes for a show like Heroes. Sure it's got a teenage girl as a main character... doesn't mean pre-teen girls should be watching it and idolizing her. Teen age 15-16 yr old girls I'm sure are 95% capable of seeing what's real and what's exaggerated but a 12 yr old may not.
OTOH why do we adults have to wait for R rated movies to see some real adult topics being portrayed in our entertainment/social commentary dramas? sure 9 times out of 10 open sex isn't a major part of a story, but nudity sure is (how more exposed emotionally can an argument between two adults be when one of them is half nude in the morning... vulnerability is half the story there). Violence is the same.
What's needed is not a V or a T rating system but a Star system that means something. When a show has too many explosions it should start getting 2 stars in it's violence/storyline rating. When a show has gratuitous nudity that has no bearing on the story or is simply filler... rate it down so people know that the show is starting to suck and the writers are losing their muse.
Good shows that care about their quality rating will not stoop to using these hack-techniques to fill space anymore when they see their actual ratings go down and ad revenue drop.
Apple extends support for older machines far longer with its operating system software. Older Macs are faster running a newer version of Mac OS X; older PCs can't even run the latest Windows. It is easier to support and maintain older Macs; older PCs rapidly become more expensive to maintain. Older Macs retain a high resale value, older PCs actually have a negative value after the recycling fees.
Put a form between your visitors and the content... a terms of use agreement... and set a cookie when they check the box and hit 'I Agree' then show the content.
If the cookie isn't present on a visitors machine, redirect any page request to the terms of use form page. This will enforce your terms for both webcrawlers (who can't submit a form) and for people (whom will have to submit the form to see the content) but won't be a terrible inconvenience for them.
Murder is illegal because each person born is worth XXX amount of taxation. It's illegal for a 25 yr old to have sex with a 6 yr old because that 6 yr old will be irreparably damaged and become a burden upon the state... not only will the state not receive taxation, they will have to expense money to care for her.
Some people may claim that a law is for upholding their version of morality but it is pure coincidence. Laws are to uphold the state... it is order versus chaos, not good vs. evil. Many religions have morals which are upheld for the same reasons but have gone further saying that in these specific cases order is also Good and chaos is Evil. Sometimes morals and laws do not coincide which is how you can tell the difference. Murder is illegal but the death penalty is not... one example... there are many.
We just need more sensitive sonar readers... whales communicate over hundreds of km every day no one complains about them... nothing wrong with active sonar... just turn the volume down a little.
If they aren't enrolling in CompSci... what are they enrolling in and why? Is it just a trend in coolness or maybe the economic scene has changed and jobs in other industries look more lucrative? A field of study doesn't die, it becomes less popular. So the real question is which one is the sweetheart of the young masses these days and how can a CompSci department recruit people out of the popular group by upping their offering?
DOM holds the content (whether HTML/XHTML/XML or plain text; static/dynamic or mixed) CSS styles that content Javascript enhances that content (e.g. provides auto-fill for a textbox)
Google should be indexing the DOM and it's contents, not the code in the file. That's like indexing the english Dictionary and saying you've indexed the english language.
Websites are going to be more and more dynamic. Content is going to be added directly to the page from an amalgamation of sources with the basic structure defined by static code in the file output of the webserver itself.
Those making screenreaders need to learn this as well. It's called progress and legislation has never been able to stop it (though they keep trying).
Just go over to your local sport gear store and get her a compass... you know those little doo-hickeys which tell you which way is north, find north then turn 180 degrees... that's south. Never trust an agent anyways...
Conservatives hate giving up power... they want it all to themselves... Liberals love giving up power, they want everyone to enjoy it? Maybe not the best allegory.
Conservatives want to do it themselves and reap the rewards, you can't trust everyone... only those who have proven themselves by also doing things themselves.
Liberals want to share the burden and spread the rewards amongst all, regardless of their level of participation (but we encourage you to do so as participating is a reward all it's own), you can't trust any one person to hold too much personal power because they will always betray you in the end, so better to spread it out so no one can do too much damage individually.
People who organize + develop FOSS should tend towards liberal POV but people who use it should lean towards conservative POV. Two different goals there. Organizing + developing it is for the group... using it is for the individual.
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Imagine a Porn website using this capability? You may think you know your friends and they may think they know you (and maybe they do) but do you really trust them not to let porn emails get sent to you?
Here's the bigger problem:
If some random person I once sent an email to is too lazy to uncheck my name, I have to REGISTER with you to stop the spam? Again, imagine a Beastiality site or worse yet, email from a Hardcore Liberal Political Campaign (if you're republican).
It's madness I tell you and it must be stopped. You may act in a semi-responsible manner but you could be fired tomorrow and your replacement may not be so ethical.
true, pig cells and rats are cheap... rats are a self-sustaining resource in research, you don't even have to feed them their whole life... just until they reach maturity or whatever stage you plan to use them at.
;-)
This is good news... it's more than just theory now so just a few more years to a viable product we can all benefit from (it'll be available to the Japanese next year and the US in 2017
But have they created an Eclipse plugin for developing with it? This is same old MS... "We'll own the format and hence be the most capable of creating a development environment for it... then they'll have to run Windows to create the most popular content"
This is especially significant in a world where the content consumers are more and more also the content creators.
In addition at the enterprise level: AJAX isn't easy to implement when you're using it for really intense UIs... you need an IDE for this to do it well in a large organization with varying levels of programming experience. MS wants businesses to convert all their old web based or non-web based internal apps to using this stuff (killer app style) and they want to be selling the IT dept. the tools to do so. When your IT dept. runs an OS, they would rather the people they support also run that OS, makes providing 1st level support SO much easier.
you've made a common mistake ... what you were looking for is s/h/it which clearly refers to she/he/it, rather than (she)he(it) or even s(he)it or (s)he(it)
This is 100% about publicity and not money. They state that any and all profit will simply be reinvested into SL...
OTOH they do want to make the process of buying a house or land or whatever inside SL easier and more trust-worthy... maybe they will become trusted brokers for transactions and help people avoid being swindled due to ignorance of how SL works?
I look forward to more companies establishing helpful services within virtual worlds. Would be even more amusing to find companies like Toyota putting characters into middle ages style MMORGs to sell you vehicles "You really want to get the full warranty on that chariot, if it blows an axle you'll want to be covered"
Not True.
Only iStock still has a visible watermark on downloaded comping images for account holders.
The rest have a specific digital watermark embedded that is not visible. If you do not have an account then Corbis/Getty/Veer do put a visible badge on the image and a digital watermark.
What web 2.0 and the semantic web can do together is better than #1 and #2. Instead of a dedicated team of 20 you get a completely arbitrary and undedicated team of 20 million doing their best to tag content with keywords. When you do a search on a keyword you get a relevance of say 90% for videos with MAN U goals because random people who stumbled upon them tagged them as such. This takes all the work out of it for the distributor. In essence you can put up a video with no meta data.... and let the masses create it for you. Sure will get some mistakes but they should be ironed out by the majority getting it right.
The biggest problem with web 2.0 is getting enough eyeballs looking at the content for it to work. Especially difficult if the topic of your content is niche and only appeals to a small group of people. This is why and article on the care and handling of hamsters will never rise to the top of DIGG no matter how good it is (relative to it's topic).
Depends on how you look at it I suppose... The US is obviously still developing too. It's like a 50 yr old calling a 20 yr old a kid, then being told by an 80 yr old that he's still just wet behind the ears himself.
According to this discussion: on Slashdot it is currently under priced for it's ability to power our vehicles... I'm sure I can somehow raise the price of air to a reasonably profitable level, hell maybe I'll lobby for some subsidies... I'm sure there is a particular mixture of air that will bring the MPG down enough to make it expensive both to produce and to use as a power source.
Did you look at the data visualizer Google bought? Gapminder? See here: on slashdot and here's the actual beta: on Google
Now that app is in Flash and could be a desktop app in Apollo using a flat file database or maybe SQLite or similar embedded DB with the option of updating the data via a network connection when needed.
You can't do an app like that without some sort of RIA wrapper. It could be done in Java or any language with a graphics library and some standard math and UI libraries if you don't mind platform dependence, but it looks like Flash does a good job with it so why not? In Apollo it would be even better I'd imagine, or at least easier to develop.
They put some things in layman's terms
I'm a new parent and while I love to read and think that books offer something that no other media can offer, which I'll explain later... I also think that engaging kids is very important and that different people learn in different ways.
Games can be great learning aids. Teachers always try to introduce learning games to their classes but I suspect that after age 8 the kids are not impressed as they've played real games and well Teachers and their sponsors just aren't as good at Game creation as say EA or Rockstar or Blizzard. They obviously need help creating games that will get the kids attention and keep it long enough for them to learn a lesson or two.
What would be really nice is to introduce a topic with a game... but leave out some of the juicy details (claim that 'we can't show you that part because it's too violent and/or racy/scandalous, BUT we can give you a book all about it and you can read it for yourself"). At the end of the game have a quiz about things that happened, maybe have little vignette videos between the action that they have to pay attention to, not only to grade well on the quiz but also to do well on the next level. Kids love that kind of challenge where there is immediate feedback from having learned something.
Back to books for a few minutes. A poster below mentioned that no one has time for books but hours to devote to TV. I suspect the reason kids aren't in to books is that they never see anyone just sitting around reading. My Father always had a book near him. He'd watch the News, some B-Ball or Football for a while at night, then let us take over the TV and sit back in his lazyboy and read some SciFi. Then my older brother read the books and eventually I did as well. We'd make trips to the book store to pick out books together. It was family tradition as far as I was concerned.
Now what books can offer that no other media can: your own completely unique vision of the story. With TV, radio, movies, even most games... the characters are decided for you, what they look like, what they sound like, their expressions when they do something (which reflects their motivations for doing it). The storyline is linear... one thing happens after another, rarely you'll get a show or movie where they have multiple storylines that intersect, and the importance of events is decided for you and made quite obvious because they have only so much time for you to get it.
Books are great... 20 stories happening all at once, across time and space... you can skip sections, go back later... follow a character for awhile and ignore the rest until you realize they were important, then go back and find out why. It's all you and your own imagination, whereas TV, Video games, etc. it's the directors vision. There's a reason so many books get turned into Movies but never the other way around.
If violence or sex or profanity are part of the story and make he story more engaging more relatable, ie more real => then they belong there and should not be censored for adults.
I don't think kids should be peddled adult topics and parents should not allow their children to be exposed to them. When should kids be allowed to see and hear these things? When their parents think they are ready and understand that the shows are fiction but based on real possible situations.
Companies should not be mixing their demographics though... don't make 24 action figures and branded school supplies and then claim that the show is for adults. Same goes for a show like Heroes. Sure it's got a teenage girl as a main character... doesn't mean pre-teen girls should be watching it and idolizing her. Teen age 15-16 yr old girls I'm sure are 95% capable of seeing what's real and what's exaggerated but a 12 yr old may not.
OTOH why do we adults have to wait for R rated movies to see some real adult topics being portrayed in our entertainment/social commentary dramas? sure 9 times out of 10 open sex isn't a major part of a story, but nudity sure is (how more exposed emotionally can an argument between two adults be when one of them is half nude in the morning... vulnerability is half the story there). Violence is the same.
What's needed is not a V or a T rating system but a Star system that means something. When a show has too many explosions it should start getting 2 stars in it's violence/storyline rating. When a show has gratuitous nudity that has no bearing on the story or is simply filler... rate it down so people know that the show is starting to suck and the writers are losing their muse.
Good shows that care about their quality rating will not stoop to using these hack-techniques to fill space anymore when they see their actual ratings go down and ad revenue drop.
Put a form between your visitors and the content... a terms of use agreement... and set a cookie when they check the box and hit 'I Agree' then show the content.
If the cookie isn't present on a visitors machine, redirect any page request to the terms of use form page. This will enforce your terms for both webcrawlers (who can't submit a form) and for people (whom will have to submit the form to see the content) but won't be a terrible inconvenience for them.
The last time I was at the hospital (~2 weeks ago) the nutritionist came around with a tablet PC to take the breakfast/lunch/dinner orders ;-p
Oh yeah they had free wifi access all over the place too... very cool.
This was a very progressive hospital I'm sure.
Murder is illegal because each person born is worth XXX amount of taxation. It's illegal for a 25 yr old to have sex with a 6 yr old because that 6 yr old will be irreparably damaged and become a burden upon the state... not only will the state not receive taxation, they will have to expense money to care for her.
Some people may claim that a law is for upholding their version of morality but it is pure coincidence. Laws are to uphold the state... it is order versus chaos, not good vs. evil. Many religions have morals which are upheld for the same reasons but have gone further saying that in these specific cases order is also Good and chaos is Evil. Sometimes morals and laws do not coincide which is how you can tell the difference. Murder is illegal but the death penalty is not... one example... there are many.
They use to say that about Furnaces too... then someone invented the handheld lighter..
We just need more sensitive sonar readers... whales communicate over hundreds of km every day no one complains about them... nothing wrong with active sonar... just turn the volume down a little.
If they aren't enrolling in CompSci... what are they enrolling in and why? Is it just a trend in coolness or maybe the economic scene has changed and jobs in other industries look more lucrative? A field of study doesn't die, it becomes less popular. So the real question is which one is the sweetheart of the young masses these days and how can a CompSci department recruit people out of the popular group by upping their offering?
The model should really be
DOM holds the content (whether HTML/XHTML/XML or plain text; static/dynamic or mixed)
CSS styles that content
Javascript enhances that content (e.g. provides auto-fill for a textbox)
Google should be indexing the DOM and it's contents, not the code in the file. That's like indexing the english Dictionary and saying you've indexed the english language.
Websites are going to be more and more dynamic. Content is going to be added directly to the page from an amalgamation of sources with the basic structure defined by static code in the file output of the webserver itself.
Those making screenreaders need to learn this as well. It's called progress and legislation has never been able to stop it (though they keep trying).
Just go over to your local sport gear store and get her a compass... you know those little doo-hickeys which tell you which way is north, find north then turn 180 degrees... that's south. Never trust an agent anyways...
Conservatives hate giving up power... they want it all to themselves... Liberals love giving up power, they want everyone to enjoy it? Maybe not the best allegory.
Conservatives want to do it themselves and reap the rewards, you can't trust everyone... only those who have proven themselves by also doing things themselves.
Liberals want to share the burden and spread the rewards amongst all, regardless of their level of participation (but we encourage you to do so as participating is a reward all it's own), you can't trust any one person to hold too much personal power because they will always betray you in the end, so better to spread it out so no one can do too much damage individually.
People who organize + develop FOSS should tend towards liberal POV but people who use it should lean towards conservative POV. Two different goals there. Organizing + developing it is for the group... using it is for the individual.
Is it clear yet?
That does sound good.... hmmm Microsoft how does it feel to do something that feels like innovation?
It's Cancel or Allow... the Apple commercials always say "Cancel or Allow?"