It may not be a paradigm shift, but maybe it will help you read faster...the work on Rapid Serial Visual Presentation is pretty persuasive, and has recently shown promise for Palms.
I thought that if I ever got anything Media Center-ish, it would be a Linux box, if only because it would be cheaper and avoid Microsoft's DRM slavery to the media industries. But then I thought that the perfect entertainment center-ish box can better justify a higher price than TiVo if it can also be used to play games. This seems to (unfortunately) make Windows the superior choice. Anybody have arguments in the other direction?
On the part of the site that was working, the pixel fonts reminded me of a time I tried to make Microsoft Word have the look of the old DOS Wordperfect. I managed to make the background blue, though it was really bright, and I managed to make the text gray. But I couldn't find the right monospaced, pixelly font. Has anybody else tried to do this, or am I just psycho? I thought that Wordperfect was much more fun to write in. I always felt like Doogie Howser.
(Also, for a supposed icon expert, how come the portfolio icon doesn't really evoke portfolio so much as "person writing"?)
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A list of similar tools...
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...can be found on my site, http://metabuzz.kushaldave.com. There's also a tool that puts up the different lists side-by-side, though it's a bit broken at the moment. I know self-promotion is always suspect, but I think people interested in things like Zeitgeist will find the list useful.
Fox has wired Will Smith to star in sci-fier "I, Robot," an adaptation of the 1940s Isaac Asimov short-story collection that set the groundwork for robot films ranging from "The Terminator" to "A.I."
I know that Variety is a movie industry publication, but doesn't it seem a little silly to reduce the influence of "I, Robot" to "The Terminator" and "A.I."? What if they had written "Charlton Heston starred in an adaptation of 'The Bible,' a collection of stories that set the groundwork for movies like 'Star Wars' and 'Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail'"?
But many people subscribe to AOL as a connectionless service (i.e. they use their own broadband connection). Why? Because they are addicted to AOL games, AOL content, AOL chat rooms, or some other service. There is clearly a market for this sort of premium content/service aggregation, and exclusive access to TW content will make it more likely that users of other ISPs might pay for AOL content.
Noticing this, I thought, what happens if I look up Slashdot in Google? Apparently, they consider it nearly divine to make it the lead source of news on the Vatican. But this is not actually the case. The sixth result encourages me to quit Slashdot. Can you imagine?
Well, since he didn't talk to Wired, I wouldn't get my hopes up. Which is too bad, since this Goldberg thing is pretty mysterious, and seems to be a bit paranoid himself.
I think the bigger question is: do crazy people go into AI, or does AI make people crazy? There were definitely a few professors I avoided during my undergrad because they reputedly had gone nuts working on AI problems.
Well, I hate to be nitpicky, but I'm pretty sure Yahoo!'s Buzz came first, and that Metacrawler's Metaspy came even before that. This study provides a more long range view along the same lines. I'm trying to start a web page that lists these sorts of "what are people interesed in" sites around the Net. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very interested.
The solution to the first problem is already established in Session Initiation Protocol. Its idea of a network of servers being used to find a person operates similarly to both Jabber and DNS.
SIP blends naturally into IM and Presence as seen in this draft and this one.
It succeeds as the kind of book meant to be read while waiting at red lights.
...Who reads books while waiting at red lights? You must be the jerk in front of me who I'm always honking at to wake up... Maybe you should try switching to books on tape or Audible...
The other 20% gets lost anyway. Who really reads an entire discussion on/. carefully? The hope for parsing unstructured data is that redundancies can be aggregated, reducing the amount of time needed to consume the full range of ideas in a given set of documents...
If anybody else found the SFGate article uselessly vague...here's the story (as gleaned from the Sony filing).
"Like other OEMs, Sony has entered into a series of one-year Desk Top Operating System (DTOS) license agreements with Microsoft that contain terms relating to operating system products, royalties and payments. These license agreements incorporate other terms and conditions from longer term "Business Terms Documents" negotiated between Microsoft and its OEMs. Last year, Sony and Microsoft entered into the current Business Terms Document, which is effective for several years.
The current Business Terms Document contains several provisions relating to intellectual property. These provisions include "non-assertion covenants" in which OEMs, under certain conditions, agree not to assert patent claims against Microsoft and Microsoft licensees. Sony and its various affiliates, however, have a significant history and patent portfolio in various areas, including audio, video, software applications and other technologies. To protect its rights to assert these patents, Sony negotiated with Microsoft important limitations on the scope of these non-assertion covenants. Sony believes these limitations are necessary to protect its investments in intellectual property."
Because section III.B. of the original settlement calls for uniformity in such agreements, companies like Sony would get screwed because they would be forced to release rights on certain patents to Microsoft, thus undermining their claims to that intellectual property....
That said, doesn't this seem like simply rearranging desk chairs on the Titanic?
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I'm amazed that nobody has already brought up the IETF work in this area. The IMPP group has been working on this for sometime. Although whether it will have any useful effect is yet to be seen. Elsewhere in the discussion somebody posted a link to AOL's proposal to this group, which was a lot of nonsense, and basically reflected the fact that they're unlikely to play along with any open standard, except in some way that is server-to-server and controlled by business agreements. It'll be interesting to see if.Net creates enough MSN users to challenge AOL's dominance, and if MSN still wants to play fair at that point. Or maybe SIP will catch on when Voice changes to IP and then the big guys will be the ones forced to play along....
Exactly! Unless these people have some sort magically powerful PIM up their sleeve, I can't imagine how this could work...What would be cool is if you could associate clues with facts and then look up by clue....
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It may not be a paradigm shift, but maybe it will help you read faster...the work on Rapid Serial Visual Presentation is pretty persuasive, and has recently shown promise for Palms.
I thought that if I ever got anything Media Center-ish, it would be a Linux box, if only because it would be cheaper and avoid Microsoft's DRM slavery to the media industries. But then I thought that the perfect entertainment center-ish box can better justify a higher price than TiVo if it can also be used to play games. This seems to (unfortunately) make Windows the superior choice. Anybody have arguments in the other direction?
This was definitely the sort of font I was aiming for, but AFAIK Word 2K won't let me use non-TrueType fonts. Alas!
On the part of the site that was working, the pixel fonts reminded me of a time I tried to make Microsoft Word have the look of the old DOS Wordperfect. I managed to make the background blue, though it was really bright, and I managed to make the text gray. But I couldn't find the right monospaced, pixelly font. Has anybody else tried to do this, or am I just psycho? I thought that Wordperfect was much more fun to write in. I always felt like Doogie Howser.
(Also, for a supposed icon expert, how come the portfolio icon doesn't really evoke portfolio so much as "person writing"?)
At least there is a growing sentiment against these things. Most recently, FOX News, AdAge, and college papers came to the rescue. What a waste of $4 million. One of the people in AdAge points out the irony of this running at the same time as so many pro-drinking ads.
...can be found on my site, http://metabuzz.kushaldave.com. There's also a tool that puts up the different lists side-by-side, though it's a bit broken at the moment. I know self-promotion is always suspect, but I think people interested in things like Zeitgeist will find the list useful.
But many people subscribe to AOL as a connectionless service (i.e. they use their own broadband connection). Why? Because they are addicted to AOL games, AOL content, AOL chat rooms, or some other service. There is clearly a market for this sort of premium content/service aggregation, and exclusive access to TW content will make it more likely that users of other ISPs might pay for AOL content.
Noticing this, I thought, what happens if I look up Slashdot in Google? Apparently, they consider it nearly divine to make it the lead source of news on the Vatican. But this is not actually the case. The sixth result encourages me to quit Slashdot. Can you imagine?
Well, since he didn't talk to Wired, I wouldn't get my hopes up. Which is too bad, since this Goldberg thing is pretty mysterious, and seems to be a bit paranoid himself.
I think the bigger question is: do crazy people go into AI, or does AI make people crazy? There were definitely a few professors I avoided during my undergrad because they reputedly had gone nuts working on AI problems.
Well, I hate to be nitpicky, but I'm pretty sure Yahoo!'s Buzz came first, and that Metacrawler's Metaspy came even before that. This study provides a more long range view along the same lines. I'm trying to start a web page that lists these sorts of "what are people interesed in" sites around the Net. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very interested.
SIP blends naturally into IM and Presence as seen in this draft and this one.
The other 20% gets lost anyway. Who really reads an entire discussion on /. carefully? The hope for parsing unstructured data is that redundancies can be aggregated, reducing the amount of time needed to consume the full range of ideas in a given set of documents...
Because section III.B. of the original settlement calls for uniformity in such agreements, companies like Sony would get screwed because they would be forced to release rights on certain patents to Microsoft, thus undermining their claims to that intellectual property....
That said, doesn't this seem like simply rearranging desk chairs on the Titanic?
I'm amazed that nobody has already brought up the IETF work in this area. The IMPP group has been working on this for sometime. Although whether it will have any useful effect is yet to be seen. Elsewhere in the discussion somebody posted a link to AOL's proposal to this group, which was a lot of nonsense, and basically reflected the fact that they're unlikely to play along with any open standard, except in some way that is server-to-server and controlled by business agreements. It'll be interesting to see if .Net creates enough MSN users to challenge AOL's dominance, and if MSN still wants to play fair at that point. Or maybe SIP will catch on when Voice changes to IP and then the big guys will be the ones forced to play along....
I searched and there was another discussion about this on /. that had some good-looking recommendations here...
Exactly! Unless these people have some sort magically powerful PIM up their sleeve, I can't imagine how this could work...What would be cool is if you could associate clues with facts and then look up by clue....