Implanting your info...maybe...but think of the reverse! Every person you bump into could be transmitting their e-mail and all you have to do is harvest them to e-mail spam them later when you get home!
"Excuse me...sorry...coming through..."(hehehe, 25 new addresses to send out to...).
There are not enough blind people flying these days to give a beneficial cost/analysis for any airline to redesign its website in the interest of reader programs. This is why there is an ADA in the first place.
Market pressure only works when there's enough of a force to cause a pressure. Otherwise, a segment of the population can be ignored.
For a good example of this, find out which theater in your area runs open-captioned movies (text on screen...and isn't a foreign film) for the deaf. Try only going to the open-captioned movies for a few months. You'll usually get one movie a week (their choice, not your's)...one day of the week...and one showtime for the day. Imagine the movie theater telling you when, where, and how often you can watch films in current release on the big screen (nevermind the fact that the open-captioning can sometimes be extremely shoddy in description of the sounds).
Without the ADA, do you really think the theater's making billions over its competition off of being the only one in town to take a single showtime of its entire week and dedicating it to the deaf and their friends?
Businesses concern themselves with money first. Society concerns itself with people first. There will be conflicts, but so far, the resolutions have been fair and equitable. For example, there was a lawsuit not long ago because a wheelchair-bound person claimed that the handicapped seating in stadium theaters is not reasonable (down low and to the side). She wanted to force the theater to install an elevator system behind the seating to lift her to a higher vantage. IIRC, she lost and the judge told her it was unreasonable to put the theater through that sort of trouble since they did provide a fair and reasonable area of which non-handicapped people were also often relegated due to seating capacity.
These things work out in the best interests of all of us usually. I think reader program accessible websites are a valid concern. It also certainly wouldn't be difficult to put in a "go to this address instead" meta tag for the reader software to pick up on. Most of us don't code HTML/DHTML by hand anymore anyways, so it'd be easy enough to put it into the auto-create template for your favorite web designer...hell, add a lynx address too for the gui-disabled.
a principled distain of the side-effects of capitalism
My hatred of Microsoft comes from...their predatory, monopolistic practices. And Spam?...the people sending it don't even really have to pay very much to inconvenience the entire email reading planet
Microsoft's predatory monopolistic practices are a side-effect of capitalism run unchecked and betraying its socialist ancestry. Monopolies are not inherently evil...until they are leveraged to destroy the ability for others to challenge them in an open market...thus betraying the socialism.
Spam is a direct capitalistic, commercialistic creation. Again, the problem becomes the fact that a shouting match ensues to see who can get the loudest, most ubiquitous voice to the consumer for the least amount of money...well, nearly free e-mail multiple times a day seems to be working in that regard.
There are plenty of other reasons to hate these two things, some of which you named, but it seems a good portion of your views are still in line with the author's analysis.
Okay, so if I want a picture inside my computer, I should use a camera rather than a scanner to scan a real picture. That's hardly "film losing the battle" as the post states. That's scanners losing the battle on film's behalf. It's still going to be quite a while before a digital camera can truly reproduce film's quality away from the computer.
Boston has transportation nightmares. Unlike New York, that does construction at night, all road construction is done during the day in Boston, including during Rush Hour. The unionized workers don't have to put in overtime, so sometimes jobs will involve ripping up a street on Thursday/Friday, then MAYBE getting to fix it Monday or Tuesday of the next week. However, if it wasn't planned that way, it may be a week or more before they return with equipment.
Not true. In fact, the MTA has gone through great pains and costs to work at night. One of the reasons costs are so high for the Big Dig (and something most people do not give it much credit for) is that in its initial plans, it was written that they would accomplish this monumental task with little impact on the status quo.
The Central Artery project's unique challenge is the fact that it is being built in the middle of a city. Work of the CA/T project's magnitude and duration has never been attempted in the heart of an urban area, but unlike any other major highway project, the CA/T is designed to maintain traffic capacity and access to residents and businesses - to keep the city open for business - throughout construction. Highway projects of the 1950s and 1960s, when the interstates were first built, gave very little consideration to the communities in the path of the new roads, with disruption and dislocation the rule of the day.
I think they've done fairly admirably in this respect. To this end, they also have sound level testers who make sure that equipment used at night is run at a low enough level so as not to affect those sleeping nearby. They use specifically-designed shielding at the project where they work at night to dampen both noise and vibrations. In fact, maybe they've been doing such a good job at keeping it quiet that you didn't even think they were working..:)
In the meantime, I also think a 15 year plan for a project this huge is reasonable and something still totally within their reach....software delays or otherwise. It's also interesting to note that a majority of the land recovered by removing the Central Artery's above-ground eyesore is going to be returned to the city in the form of parks/trees/grass as opposed to being auctioned out as lots for more building.
Here at Boston University where I'm a graduate student, during the summer, I get ping times around 90 msec to a specific server off of campus. Now that students are back in the dorms...350 msec to the same server.
This is highly a factor of day of the week and time of day (i.e. during a weekday around noon....I get back around 180 msec...students are in class).
Here I was ready to sit down to what could have been a very interesting way to get more people voting by putting the polls online in a safe and secure manner, so that democracy truly could go digital and all it ends up being is some DDOS bullshit aimed at attacking corporate websites because the real life rallies show total apathy and disorganization.
Really, if you want a "digital democracy", stop wasting time trying to shut down the corporate interests and work on software that the government could feel safe about using to let everyone voice their opinions at the polls.
My alma mater used a telnet (and now web-based) system to get more people involved in voting and it's translated into a 5-10% rise in voter turnout in the first few years.
Building a P2P-DDOS is going to do nothing but piss anyone who might have even been on your side off. Work smarter not louder.
I like using a mouse for RTS games (real-time strategy games) like *arcraft/AOE/Black&White/etc. I've played plenty of games like this on consoles and using a thumbpad or thumbstick just doesn't move as freely or easily. Add to that the functionality of a FPS (first-person-shooter) with your left hand (if you're a rightie) working all of the options possible on a keyboard that even the newest controllers aren't able to configure...AND you can type out messages or use voice-chat progs...I think PCs will have a significant market space in gaming to come for some time yet.
He didn't doubt that MS was conspiring against hackers by developing a new system that happens to foil previous hacks. You're heading in the wrong direction from the "conspiracy theory" in the original XBox-Hack contest thread.
The original conspiracy theory (for those too lazy to click the link) is that Microsoft themselves put out the anonymous donation which has lead to these original hacks...which they monitored and specifically designed around. Thus, they paid the Xbox-Linux community for the security debugging they wanted done....Conspiracy!
Here's a problem with Google's Glossary:
Put in "fuck" and you get quite a few links to correct definitions and synonyms. But theselinks take you to pages that define it incorrectly as "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" as we know by this page among others.
Google will give you links to anything you want on the web that it knows of...but you can't trust everything you read on the web...so using Google as a reference book is not the best way to go until they can provide some sort of knowledge filter or something similar to the PageRank system for qualifying certain links over others.
For the doubters who say "well, how can you trust snopes over VanHalen Links to be correct?"...Snopes references their information better.
I have a feeling that google is not wasting time or resources on this. Most of these news stories came up in the search engine if you hit on one of their keywords anyways.
It's also been reported here that google has enough computing power that even when they were hit the hardest after 9/11/01, they only pegged ~60% of their computers, so I don't think news/portal-like services are going to slow down the searches.
Also, they're still *so* far above anyone elses searches at this point, that they can dawdle on really useful tools like this. The tortoise isn't even awake yet...the hare has time to play.
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Jumping off the catwalk in America's Army: Bridge level is pretty fun to watch from the queue.
Well, that explains the condition of the Charles...
As for the question "how far..?":
As far as your computer room where you're running the software, if they wanted (assuming you live in the US).
"Excuse me...sorry...coming through..."(hehehe, 25 new addresses to send out to...).
Market pressure only works when there's enough of a force to cause a pressure. Otherwise, a segment of the population can be ignored.
For a good example of this, find out which theater in your area runs open-captioned movies (text on screen...and isn't a foreign film) for the deaf. Try only going to the open-captioned movies for a few months. You'll usually get one movie a week (their choice, not your's)...one day of the week...and one showtime for the day. Imagine the movie theater telling you when, where, and how often you can watch films in current release on the big screen (nevermind the fact that the open-captioning can sometimes be extremely shoddy in description of the sounds).
Without the ADA, do you really think the theater's making billions over its competition off of being the only one in town to take a single showtime of its entire week and dedicating it to the deaf and their friends?
Businesses concern themselves with money first. Society concerns itself with people first. There will be conflicts, but so far, the resolutions have been fair and equitable. For example, there was a lawsuit not long ago because a wheelchair-bound person claimed that the handicapped seating in stadium theaters is not reasonable (down low and to the side). She wanted to force the theater to install an elevator system behind the seating to lift her to a higher vantage. IIRC, she lost and the judge told her it was unreasonable to put the theater through that sort of trouble since they did provide a fair and reasonable area of which non-handicapped people were also often relegated due to seating capacity.
These things work out in the best interests of all of us usually. I think reader program accessible websites are a valid concern. It also certainly wouldn't be difficult to put in a "go to this address instead" meta tag for the reader software to pick up on. Most of us don't code HTML/DHTML by hand anymore anyways, so it'd be easy enough to put it into the auto-create template for your favorite web designer...hell, add a lynx address too for the gui-disabled.
Well, well, well. That's a very deep subject. [rimshot-cymbal]
Not because of the EMI, but because they cut a hole in the side of their box to see inside, not hide it behind a monitor. :/
But I'm not bitter or anything...
Spam is a direct capitalistic, commercialistic creation. Again, the problem becomes the fact that a shouting match ensues to see who can get the loudest, most ubiquitous voice to the consumer for the least amount of money...well, nearly free e-mail multiple times a day seems to be working in that regard.
There are plenty of other reasons to hate these two things, some of which you named, but it seems a good portion of your views are still in line with the author's analysis.
Okay, so if I want a picture inside my computer, I should use a camera rather than a scanner to scan a real picture. That's hardly "film losing the battle" as the post states. That's scanners losing the battle on film's behalf. It's still going to be quite a while before a digital camera can truly reproduce film's quality away from the computer.
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This r0x0rs, d00d!
I like the name...there's just something about "Kaz" that rings a bell. Now, if it could only rip rocks...
I wrote one of these for my TI-81...well, it was more of a choose your own adventure, but come on...it was a calculator!
Quoting from their website:
I think they've done fairly admirably in this respect. To this end, they also have sound level testers who make sure that equipment used at night is run at a low enough level so as not to affect those sleeping nearby. They use specifically-designed shielding at the project where they work at night to dampen both noise and vibrations. In fact, maybe they've been doing such a good job at keeping it quiet that you didn't even think they were working..In the meantime, I also think a 15 year plan for a project this huge is reasonable and something still totally within their reach....software delays or otherwise. It's also interesting to note that a majority of the land recovered by removing the Central Artery's above-ground eyesore is going to be returned to the city in the form of parks/trees/grass as opposed to being auctioned out as lots for more building.
Here at Boston University where I'm a graduate student, during the summer, I get ping times around 90 msec to a specific server off of campus. Now that students are back in the dorms...350 msec to the same server. This is highly a factor of day of the week and time of day (i.e. during a weekday around noon....I get back around 180 msec...students are in class).
I guess they're more worried about Votester than we thought!
Really, if you want a "digital democracy", stop wasting time trying to shut down the corporate interests and work on software that the government could feel safe about using to let everyone voice their opinions at the polls.
My alma mater used a telnet (and now web-based) system to get more people involved in voting and it's translated into a 5-10% rise in voter turnout in the first few years.
Building a P2P-DDOS is going to do nothing but piss anyone who might have even been on your side off. Work smarter not louder.
I like using a mouse for RTS games (real-time strategy games) like *arcraft/AOE/Black&White/etc. I've played plenty of games like this on consoles and using a thumbpad or thumbstick just doesn't move as freely or easily. Add to that the functionality of a FPS (first-person-shooter) with your left hand (if you're a rightie) working all of the options possible on a keyboard that even the newest controllers aren't able to configure...AND you can type out messages or use voice-chat progs...I think PCs will have a significant market space in gaming to come for some time yet.
Well, I think we just found a few more superfriends for this project. :)
Developers Developers Developers.... Developers Developers... Developers Developers Developers.. Ahhh, karma well spent.
The original conspiracy theory (for those too lazy to click the link) is that Microsoft themselves put out the anonymous donation which has lead to these original hacks...which they monitored and specifically designed around. Thus, they paid the Xbox-Linux community for the security debugging they wanted done....Conspiracy!
Gatessssssss....Seeecccrrretttsss...(ala Conan O'Brien)
Put in "fuck" and you get quite a few links to correct definitions and synonyms. But these links take you to pages that define it incorrectly as "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" as we know by this page among others.
Google will give you links to anything you want on the web that it knows of...but you can't trust everything you read on the web...so using Google as a reference book is not the best way to go until they can provide some sort of knowledge filter or something similar to the PageRank system for qualifying certain links over others.
For the doubters who say "well, how can you trust snopes over VanHalen Links to be correct?"...Snopes references their information better.
It's also been reported here that google has enough computing power that even when they were hit the hardest after 9/11/01, they only pegged ~60% of their computers, so I don't think news/portal-like services are going to slow down the searches.
Also, they're still *so* far above anyone elses searches at this point, that they can dawdle on really useful tools like this. The tortoise isn't even awake yet...the hare has time to play.