Also, I'm sure it's been said, but I hope they torrent this thing, else we'll have the record for most smoked servers since CNN got simultaneously Farked, Slashdotted, and Dugg for the last Britney Spears media stunt.
Also, I still have hope that USians will start using the metric system someday... so overall, I'd suggest that a more sensible house of the future would be about 100 or 200 square metres.
Good luck. I don't know what would cause a bigger uproar. Imposing the metric system, or changing our spelling to metre.
The whole semantic web thing offloads categorization to the content source, the very party that is most likely to try to abuse the system.
That's the same criticism given to Wikipedia or unmoderated Slashdot. Consider Semantic web for discovery combined with moderation and see that there could be something to this.
I've pondered this as well. What makes Youtube worth ~1.5 billion? Certainly not the technology. Sun has bought developer mindshare. When you think MySQL now, you're going to associate it with Sun. As long as they don't destroy it, it will reflect well on a company that, till now, has been floundering.
According to Torvald's biography, Linus walked out of a meeting in the 90's that Sun had called with the open-source community because the license they were introducing didn't pass his muster. It is interesting to see Sun coming around.
Of course, I could be totally wrong and we could be looking at a storm on the horizon.
On my Ubuntu Gutsy instance, [Windows]+[E] shows me all desktops at once. I love it.
Windows Key is very useful. Though I wish it didn't have to be the MS logo, adding a key to the keyboard for new shortcuts was the only way to not interfere with existing contexts around keys.
I think it was a brilliant idea that only a monopolizing company could have accomplished. I agree with other comments, I wish other platforms would start to take advantage and I wish MS would push more shortcuts associated with the key.
Why is it everything nowadays sounds like it's out of Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash"?
Knol = that for pay encyclopedia Second Life = Shitty version of the Metaverse the rise of Christianity = that bizarre sea cult the rise of gated communities...
I think that was a time dependent thing. I tried it yesterday (while searching for how to do drop left join on the first row in an unrelated table... don't ask), the cache had a login page.
Course I could be wrong. They're damn answers are rarely any good at all.
What happens when that script thread gets hung up and the firefox thread is waiting on it to complete to finish rendering the page? What's you've described is basically what is going on in browsers right now. Multithreading in the script level would allow for more greater stability and more efficient processing. Check out this demo for a great visual demonstration of the capabilities of multithreading on the problem of sorting.
This plan is a doublespeak for dump backwards compatibility (only do it in delayed manner so no one can stop us).
Besides, this would only work for one upgrade cycle. What are you supposed to do, incorporate all your new changes into Windows Legacy when it's time to hit the next Windows version? Ask yourself how that would be any different from what happened with Vista.
We're too late, here's the worst thing about time travel will have already been coming to pass when he will have been already doing this experiment then.
I'm not against P2P, but how does user b get the info that they're supposed to ask user a? From the main server or list of known clients. Full P2P system would cut down on the bandwidth, but might require some more intense programming (and leave the system open to data poisoning). Also, various bandwidths may be problem with that.
I'm not sure how much data is involved, but i'd guess it would be text only. Other comments here listed scripts that do screenscraping. Maybe the project could just be a way to plug in multiple versions of scripts (assuming a known format is the output) and then be able to handle activating those scripts until a full days schedule is received. Then it could expose a web service to publish those results...
No, that seems like a pretty good start. Like I was talking about, if we don't try to create a Zap2It replacement, but instead, small communities that can run the same codebase, then this could work without having to have a humongous server.
Check this blog entry where we can create a discussion about creating a new project for this
Pat F.
The hard part isn't writing the code to make the data available, the hard part is getting the hardware, securing a data center location, and paying for bandwidth, all without a revenue stream.
The difference comes down to OSS and Free Services. The same rules don't really apply.
However... we could create a project that would allow for smaller ad-hoc communities and not have to have one site serving the entire internet, just 100 or so users per site...
I'm on board if you want to discuss more (and you got the skillz to pay the billz).
Right now, it would take too much processing power/time to review all the information being conveyed in picture form. Unlike Carnivore or whatever else the FBI and NSA are using to illegally spy on American's text communication, pictures aren't so easy to trace automagically.
Not that I agree with the censorship, but if you're going to run your society that way, you've just taken care of a major leak in individuals ability to communicate on the sly.
This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER... it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to The Death Penalty (or affect your parents' credit rating).
Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things... and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC! Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever!
Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution (which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE).
Slashdot Mirror
I don't have mod points, but +1 funny if I did.
TANSTAAFL
You really think Gmail's free?
Come on Lesotho, wake up.
Also, I'm sure it's been said, but I hope they torrent this thing, else we'll have the record for most smoked servers since CNN got simultaneously Farked, Slashdotted, and Dugg for the last Britney Spears media stunt.
I never made that claim :). You have my total agreement. There are others, however...
I've pondered this as well. What makes Youtube worth ~1.5 billion? Certainly not the technology. Sun has bought developer mindshare. When you think MySQL now, you're going to associate it with Sun. As long as they don't destroy it, it will reflect well on a company that, till now, has been floundering.
According to Torvald's biography, Linus walked out of a meeting in the 90's that Sun had called with the open-source community because the license they were introducing didn't pass his muster. It is interesting to see Sun coming around.
Of course, I could be totally wrong and we could be looking at a storm on the horizon.
On my Ubuntu Gutsy instance, [Windows]+[E] shows me all desktops at once. I love it.
Windows Key is very useful.
Though I wish it didn't have to be the MS logo, adding a key to the keyboard for new shortcuts was the only way to not interfere with existing contexts around keys.
I think it was a brilliant idea that only a monopolizing company could have accomplished. I agree with other comments, I wish other platforms would start to take advantage and I wish MS would push more shortcuts associated with the key.
Why is it everything nowadays sounds like it's out of Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash"?
...
Knol = that for pay encyclopedia
Second Life = Shitty version of the Metaverse
the rise of Christianity = that bizarre sea cult
the rise of gated communities
I think that was a time dependent thing. I tried it yesterday (while searching for how to do drop left join on the first row in an unrelated table... don't ask), the cache had a login page. Course I could be wrong. They're damn answers are rarely any good at all.
No more experts-exchange.com results!!
What happens when that script thread gets hung up and the firefox thread is waiting on it to complete to finish rendering the page? What's you've described is basically what is going on in browsers right now. Multithreading in the script level would allow for more greater stability and more efficient processing. Check out this demo for a great visual demonstration of the capabilities of multithreading on the problem of sorting.
+1,000,000 Tackhead. You even got the scansion right on some of those lines. Bravo.
I was wondering about the restaurant they found located right next to it. Make your reservations now and bank deposit now.
This plan is a doublespeak for dump backwards compatibility (only do it in delayed manner so no one can stop us).
Besides, this would only work for one upgrade cycle. What are you supposed to do, incorporate all your new changes into Windows Legacy when it's time to hit the next Windows version? Ask yourself how that would be any different from what happened with Vista.
We're too late, here's the worst thing about time travel will have already been coming to pass when he will have been already doing this experiment then.
I'm not against P2P, but how does user b get the info that they're supposed to ask user a? From the main server or list of known clients. Full P2P system would cut down on the bandwidth, but might require some more intense programming (and leave the system open to data poisoning). Also, various bandwidths may be problem with that.
I'm not sure how much data is involved, but i'd guess it would be text only. Other comments here listed scripts that do screenscraping. Maybe the project could just be a way to plug in multiple versions of scripts (assuming a known format is the output) and then be able to handle activating those scripts until a full days schedule is received. Then it could expose a web service to publish those results...
No, that seems like a pretty good start. Like I was talking about, if we don't try to create a Zap2It replacement, but instead, small communities that can run the same codebase, then this could work without having to have a humongous server. Check this blog entry where we can create a discussion about creating a new project for this Pat F.
The hard part isn't writing the code to make the data available, the hard part is getting the hardware, securing a data center location, and paying for bandwidth, all without a revenue stream.
The difference comes down to OSS and Free Services. The same rules don't really apply.
However... we could create a project that would allow for smaller ad-hoc communities and not have to have one site serving the entire internet, just 100 or so users per site...
I'm on board if you want to discuss more (and you got the skillz to pay the billz).
Yes, but it will be simulated.
Right now, it would take too much processing power/time to review all the information being conveyed in picture form. Unlike Carnivore or whatever else the FBI and NSA are using to illegally spy on American's text communication, pictures aren't so easy to trace automagically.
Not that I agree with the censorship, but if you're going to run your society that way, you've just taken care of a major leak in individuals ability to communicate on the sly.
How about. In your sign that says "Fish And Chips", I would have made a bigger space between Fish and And and And and Chips.
Also, check this
Once again, Frank Zappa was unbelievably precient
This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...
it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet.
It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential
consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which
could eventually lead to The Death Penalty (or affect your parents'
credit rating).
Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things...
and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC!
Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large
that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever!
Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they
won't conflict with the Constitution (which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate
THE FUTURE).
Hello Man In The Middle