The problem with this view is that in a mass crowd situation it is not exactly on the police's mind to set down and try to determine who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. All they asked for was the crowd to disperse and maybe they got a bit impatient, but unless you know of a way to figure out the good from a bad in a large crowd in realtime, then you really can't fault the action of the police in that sort of situation.
I'll only add that I've thought along the same lines as yourself. I'm not web developer, and I know nothing about coding for the web, but it is true that the current client for web interaction is not at all optimised for a truly interactive application experience.
I will go so far as to predict that the not too distant future all these *MLs as we know them will be obsolete and perhaps the very concept of "browsing the web" will no longer be how we interact with the WWW. I wish I had the smarts and education to implement such a paradigm shift, but I can barely get my tiny brain around HTML as it 15 years ago...
The few AJAX enabled web apps I've used, as well as any web page which relies heavily on javascribble, have been slow to the point of almost unusability. Take Yahoo's new web mail client - please! Looks slick and can do almost anything a fully compiled app with native code is capable of, is frustratingly slug-like. Add to that scripts which time out or just crap out for no reason, and my P4 machine regresses to a 80386. I didn't pay all this money for a P4 to end up with a 15-year old computer.
What TFA is saying is that perhaps plugins - applications compiled and running on native code - are the way forward. To which I can only say - what the heck took you so long to figure *that* out?
Up until the middle part of the last century, childhood for the poor, unwashed masses consisted of helping out on the farm and then, in Victorian times, hunching over dangerous machinery in dark factories with little to eat and even less education. Basically, childhood was hell, and certainly not something that we would want to call a childhood today.
However I do believe that the current situation is indeed preventing society from leveraging the opportunity for greater leisure time afforded by greater overall affluence and healthcare in society, by squandering our childrens' time on mind-numbing electronic entertainments, which deprive them of opportunities for proper social interaction. Many kids today that I have the opportunity to interact with are only interested in what electronics I have. Once they get ahold of the computer, I know I'll never get them away and I will be basically ignored.
It does take concious parenting to control this, and it needs to be controlled from the earliest age, but sometimes it's too easy for a parent to turn to electonics as robotic babysitters. This has been going on since the invention of television, but now with so many choices of computerised mental engagement it's become epidemic.
Companies let the quality of their product go downhill in order to maximise short term profits to shareholders. Who demands this? *We* do - the shareholders! In the current business climate, you can either have maximised short term profit or better product quiality, leading to eventual bankrupsy. Can't have your cake and eat it too...
Interesting comment. Indeed, I used to subscribe to a vintage computer mailing list a couple of years ago and some of the posters were using PDP-11s and such, with Lynx browsers.
It was clearly a case of seeing if that old iron could, and aparrently it somehow did. But they must have been severely limited otherwise...
I just replied to a thread above with the same answer. I'm having too much fun finding great LPs for great prices (often free!) that to me all this DRM nonsense is utterly irrelevant. When I hold a record or open reel tape I feel like I actually posess the music and all it's memories.
And as I said in my above post, a couple of years ago I acquired one of the very first stereo pressings of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in mint condition from the Radio London DJ who owned it for two bucks. Ya can't download *that*!
Cheers
I know I've hammered this point unto the death in this forum whenever the subject of DRM comes up, but I just have to say that I'd frankly rather take the time to properly prepare and listen to my vastly better sounding collection of LPs than flaff about with mp3s and their associated players with their incredibly bad sounding micro-amplifiers and such.
The advantage is that no-one tells me what I can do with the music, the media is true random access (the last CD player I saw with this sort of thing was in 1986), it has better dynamic range than digital media (with all-analog recordings, that is), and is every bit is quiet. Not to mention the fact that the resolution is infinitely better and the harmonics of the recording aren't brutally chopped off at 20khz as with digital.
I can get everything from the latest releases to some forgotten classics which will never see conversion to digital format (thank doG).
I'll never buy digital music unless I absolutely cannot get it on vinyl, but thankfully that's a very rare occurance. I'm having too much fun finding rarities such as one of the very first copies of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in mint condition from the Radio London DJ who owned it for two bucks. Ya can't download *that*.
Indeed it was the filter training post which inspired this one. I realise a lot of it is probably to retrain the filters, but I don't see the spam filters in Yahoo mail being any less effective.
I'm talking about the spam which combines ever more elaborate ways to spell out \/|/\gr/\ (or teen virgin, or hot MILF) with an obvious complete lack of command of the English language, which is an obvious attempt to get around the filters as opposed to training them. This produces a subject header which is completely unintelligible.
It seems that those who contract the spammers to advertise their product are getting scammed more than the public (see my reply to the first answer above).
Thanks for replying to my question. I had actually considered this may be the case, but one would figure that after a while that the futility and lack of profit produced by paying the spammers to send out one's message would become common knowledge.
Still, there are people who still try heroin thinking it can't possibly get them addicted despite the millions affected by the drug. Money is probably the most potent drug of all...
Well I'm assuming that it was recorded on analog media, in which case they should at least make sure that the equipment is well documented and it's specifications are secure, so that in the event of the tape's recovery it can be archived properly
Then again, they could also endeavour to actually move the original recording equipment, eh?
Yes, yes, yes, we get your point. You've said that the camera can capture as much or as little of a scene as one wishes. However that doesn't change the fact that the Reuters stringer wilfully and blatantly altered the image for whatever reason.
Heck, if you were drawing a scene with pencil, you could draw *anything* you wanted, and there'd be even less accountability. So... what do you propose we use for capturing images of important news events then? Perhaps invent the perfect camera then make it so that images can only be disgorged through a secure connection to a secure connection to head office?
Any suggestions?
Or how about Reuters actually engaging the services of accredited photographers instead of any old yahoo with a digital camera.
And it's not about a left or right leaning media, or pro or anti-Israeli editors allowing these images to filter through, it's about the pressure to post the most dramatic photos the quickest in order to sell the story and appear to get the scoop. Nothing more.
Many thanks for that info, it's something I've been looking for for a looong time.
BTW, I went to your web site and got the following error:
Warning: main(./pm/inc.sfx.inc): failed to open stream: Permission denied in/home/networkn/public_html/pm_inc.php on line 26
Warning: main(./pm/inc.sfx.inc): failed to open stream: Permission denied in/home/networkn/public_html/pm_inc.php on line 26
Warning: main(): Failed opening './pm/inc.sfx.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in/home/networkn/public_html/pm_inc.php on line 26
The information is set incorrectly in the following file: "pm_inc.php"
Please open "pm_inc.php" with a text editor and correct the path.
You'll find instructions located inside that file
I am particularly interested in your site as I am doing some work with wireless and Ubuntu Linux.
Here in Bermuda, after 9/11, they commenced "hardening" the local US consulate from a nice, sedate, old former house into what looks like a maximum security prison, with bars and all.
So now we see these Americans looking out at us in the Real World(tm), from behind bars.
An interesting aside to this conversation is that the original web concept was that pages could be edited on the fly by the viewer and *written back* onto the server.
Scientist from several major biotechnology companies were seen combing downtown Manhattan and paying hot dog sellers large amounts of money for the contents of their carts...
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The problem with this view is that in a mass crowd situation it is not exactly on the police's mind to set down and try to determine who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. All they asked for was the crowd to disperse and maybe they got a bit impatient, but unless you know of a way to figure out the good from a bad in a large crowd in realtime, then you really can't fault the action of the police in that sort of situation.
Cheers
I'll only add that I've thought along the same lines as yourself. I'm not web developer, and I know nothing about coding for the web, but it is true that the current client for web interaction is not at all optimised for a truly interactive application experience.
I will go so far as to predict that the not too distant future all these *MLs as we know them will be obsolete and perhaps the very concept of "browsing the web" will no longer be how we interact with the WWW. I wish I had the smarts and education to implement such a paradigm shift, but I can barely get my tiny brain around HTML as it 15 years ago...
The few AJAX enabled web apps I've used, as well as any web page which relies heavily on javascribble, have been slow to the point of almost unusability. Take Yahoo's new web mail client - please! Looks slick and can do almost anything a fully compiled app with native code is capable of, is frustratingly slug-like. Add to that scripts which time out or just crap out for no reason, and my P4 machine regresses to a 80386. I didn't pay all this money for a P4 to end up with a 15-year old computer.
What TFA is saying is that perhaps plugins - applications compiled and running on native code - are the way forward. To which I can only say - what the heck took you so long to figure *that* out?
Oy.
Up until the middle part of the last century, childhood for the poor, unwashed masses consisted of helping out on the farm and then, in Victorian times, hunching over dangerous machinery in dark factories with little to eat and even less education. Basically, childhood was hell, and certainly not something that we would want to call a childhood today.
However I do believe that the current situation is indeed preventing society from leveraging the opportunity for greater leisure time afforded by greater overall affluence and healthcare in society, by squandering our childrens' time on mind-numbing electronic entertainments, which deprive them of opportunities for proper social interaction. Many kids today that I have the opportunity to interact with are only interested in what electronics I have. Once they get ahold of the computer, I know I'll never get them away and I will be basically ignored.
It does take concious parenting to control this, and it needs to be controlled from the earliest age, but sometimes it's too easy for a parent to turn to electonics as robotic babysitters. This has been going on since the invention of television, but now with so many choices of computerised mental engagement it's become epidemic.
Cheers
Companies let the quality of their product go downhill in order to maximise short term profits to shareholders. Who demands this? *We* do - the shareholders! In the current business climate, you can either have maximised short term profit or better product quiality, leading to eventual bankrupsy. Can't have your cake and eat it too...
Follow me on this. Ok. First, fire up the machine. Then bring up the data. Now here's the hard part: Read the data off the screen!
You know, you can even take snapshots of the screen. No, really.
God, I'm smart.
Well hell, if people would just stop having children, we could have avoided this mess in the first place...
Interesting comment. Indeed, I used to subscribe to a vintage computer mailing list a couple of years ago and some of the posters were using PDP-11s and such, with Lynx browsers.
It was clearly a case of seeing if that old iron could, and aparrently it somehow did. But they must have been severely limited otherwise...
I just replied to a thread above with the same answer. I'm having too much fun finding great LPs for great prices (often free!) that to me all this DRM nonsense is utterly irrelevant. When I hold a record or open reel tape I feel like I actually posess the music and all it's memories. And as I said in my above post, a couple of years ago I acquired one of the very first stereo pressings of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in mint condition from the Radio London DJ who owned it for two bucks. Ya can't download *that*! Cheers
I know I've hammered this point unto the death in this forum whenever the subject of DRM comes up, but I just have to say that I'd frankly rather take the time to properly prepare and listen to my vastly better sounding collection of LPs than flaff about with mp3s and their associated players with their incredibly bad sounding micro-amplifiers and such.
The advantage is that no-one tells me what I can do with the music, the media is true random access (the last CD player I saw with this sort of thing was in 1986), it has better dynamic range than digital media (with all-analog recordings, that is), and is every bit is quiet. Not to mention the fact that the resolution is infinitely better and the harmonics of the recording aren't brutally chopped off at 20khz as with digital.
I can get everything from the latest releases to some forgotten classics which will never see conversion to digital format (thank doG).
I'll never buy digital music unless I absolutely cannot get it on vinyl, but thankfully that's a very rare occurance. I'm having too much fun finding rarities such as one of the very first copies of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in mint condition from the Radio London DJ who owned it for two bucks. Ya can't download *that*.
Cheers
Three words: dot com bubble.
Almost like the numbers stations on short wave radio in a way. Kinda. Sorta. Or not really.
Still, that was an interesting answer. Thanks!
I'm talking about the spam which combines ever more elaborate ways to spell out \/|/\gr/\ (or teen virgin, or hot MILF) with an obvious complete lack of command of the English language, which is an obvious attempt to get around the filters as opposed to training them. This produces a subject header which is completely unintelligible.
It seems that those who contract the spammers to advertise their product are getting scammed more than the public (see my reply to the first answer above).
Cheers
Still, there are people who still try heroin thinking it can't possibly get them addicted despite the millions affected by the drug. Money is probably the most potent drug of all...
Then again, they could also endeavour to actually move the original recording equipment, eh?
Heck, if you were drawing a scene with pencil, you could draw *anything* you wanted, and there'd be even less accountability. So... what do you propose we use for capturing images of important news events then? Perhaps invent the perfect camera then make it so that images can only be disgorged through a secure connection to a secure connection to head office?
Any suggestions?
Or how about Reuters actually engaging the services of accredited photographers instead of any old yahoo with a digital camera.
And it's not about a left or right leaning media, or pro or anti-Israeli editors allowing these images to filter through, it's about the pressure to post the most dramatic photos the quickest in order to sell the story and appear to get the scoop. Nothing more.
Cheers
And it's also true that Windows is indeed a big billboard for Microsoft's web services and software, not to mention other companies' offerings.
But what I find incredible is that with all the documented hellish experiences with spyware, anyone would opt for an OS which has it built in!
I'll stick with my Ubuntu, thank you very much.
BTW, I went to your web site and got the following error:
I am particularly interested in your site as I am doing some work with wireless and Ubuntu Linux.
Cheers
So now we see these Americans looking out at us in the Real World(tm), from behind bars.
I think you'll find that your feelings are typical...
Scientist from several major biotechnology companies were seen combing downtown Manhattan and paying hot dog sellers large amounts of money for the contents of their carts...
That would be a great game to update.
Cheers
Jobs was the one who said he saw absolutely *no* need for ever producing a colour version of the Mac...
(To paraphrase the saying at Microlimp in the early days about the development of DOS)