If you read their concept a little more carefully, you would recognize that they are not bringing a computer or fax machine, or even a body into Myanmar, or any other country on their list. They are simply uploading the website to a webserver in each country, then updating the dns entry to the new IP address.
I did, in fact, RTFA. My point being that the simple fact of hosting a webserver over there is complicated. I mean, nationals don't even have the right to own a computer. And I'm pretty sure you need the junta's authorization to do such a thing as a webserver (they won't deliver authorizations). And I'm pretty sure the junta is not sensible to the artistic / technical experiment argumentation: we're talking about a regime so paranoid that the customs confiscated my remote control car (I was 13 at the time) because they feared it was some kind of terrorist artefact (that's the official reason: i know for a fact that anything of value going through the customs would end up in the hands of some minister's/general's kid. I probably still have a copy of that letter somewhere. It's hilarious.)
BTW how were you able to live there for 3 years without a computer? That my friend was self inflicted torture, can't blame the junta for that.
Well... this is where we got our first Macintosh (Performa 5200, the only machine that would work in these ranges of temperature and humidity) we bought to an american expatriate. This was, of course, absolutely illegal. But the junta is not in a position to expell westerners and NGO's staff.
I even remember us trying to get internet access... But since there were no ISP's, we needed the modem to phone up to Thailand -> it wouldn't work often, and it would cost something like 6 USD/minute. So we waited to come back to France to discover the internet:)
Are they serious about going to Myanmar with their website?
I've lived there for three years, 1993-1996. Myanmar is ruled by a repressive, brutal and notoriously paranoid military junta. In a nutshell, "they no like internet".
Going in the country with a computer is theoretically not permitted. Using a fax machine or the internet to connect abroad is considered a crime. Nationals face jail for this (and strangers too, in theory, but that never happened I think) and, trust me, you positively DON'T WANT TO GO TO JAIL in Myanmar. (death is not the maximal sentence over there: it is only second to death... by torture)
Besides, I'm not sure you would/could actually be able to host a website there (hint: without the government's permission, it's probably "forget it"). A mere slashdotting could bring the whole country's internet system to its knees. Even the government's websites are hosted in other countries, mostly US and Australia. Only some of them are in Rangoon...
Well, maybe things have changed over there. But somehow, I doubt it.
Sorry for the grammar (hey I'm french after all: you know, the ones who eat frogs and snails and bath once a year; hey, I guess we're just too busy running after our food and surrendering to everybody out there, to actually learn english) As you no doubt have guessed, I meant "blow himself up with his rocket".
Yay! So he could blow himself with his rocket, because of a stupid BSOD freezed the NT server controlling the engines. Ballmer would blame it on Evil, communist open-source software.
Yes, the world would be a better place after that.
There are alternatives to ISP's.
First of all, you could try snail mail again, or even goddam pigeons. I know, it might sound shocking to the/. crowd, but still...
Then, though I'm not a specialist, you CAN run some sort of internet service WITHOUT an ISP, right? From what I understood, my airport base station allows me to "PPP dial-in", which means I can connect to my home network through any telephone line, without an ISP.
There probably are a lot of modems (all of them?) around that support dial-in and line pickup: you have a (slow) computer-to-computer connection with no ISP involved. Add SSH and crypto, and you have a "fairly secure" connection (unless, of course, the feds decide to wiretap phone connections as well, which is probably what is happening with projects such as Carnivore/TIA...)
OR, you could try moving to Europe, but do it quick before our own Beloved Leaders® figure out how they can use this brand new Cisco hardware.
"On another note", I wonder if all this is really intented to fight terrorists, criminals and druglords... Read this (article says that some narco kingpin in Colombia managed, in 1998, to deploy a wireless computer network that ranged "across the Caribbean and the upper half of South America.", and that could be accessed to with laptops, even in planes and boats) to see what I mean: evildoers (maybe not Al-Qaeda and such, but who knows?) probably use alternate methods for their most important communications. So why do they bother wiretapping ISP's? Wouldn't it be wiser to try and bust these alternate networks (if there still are)?
The idea of Clutter is... awkward, at best. The whole idea of iTunes it to get rid of the mess associated with CD cases..
I have more less 220 albums currently ripped. How the hell do I fit them all on my 17" desktop?
I have one concern about the piles (though I like the idea): how does the Terminal (ls, cp, scp etc...) interpret those piles? As dirs? Or as a loose bunch of files?
Has anybody had access to Core Crib's website? (http://www.2khappyware.com/corecrib.html) Ever since the Wired article appeared, I have tried to access the website. Nothing. Google's cache only lists www.2khappyware.com, which is PC-centric and talks about some sort of PC-upgrade pay-per-month program (websites looks like done in Notepad or TexteEdit).
Looks like one big hoax to me. I hope I'm wrong, I'm really looking forward to buying a dirt cheap G4 (or even G3) system to host my 1-hit-a-year webpage and file server:)
Has the guy talked about sales outside the U.S. (France, for that matter)?
Cable ISP's sometimes build their networks like LAN's. This aparently fools some macintoshes into thinking that it is, in fact, a LAN. I used to be able to see some macintoshes of my neighbourhood, until they fixed the problem.
If everybody is to start buying music online (and, with songs as cheap as 10 cents per song, they'll have to sell TONS of song to acheive profitability) then everybody will need broadband/DSL lines. I don't know about the U.S., but here in Europe (and particularly in France) DSL is still the exception (not even mentionning that most of DSL users have "low-end" connections, such as 128kbps...)
So, well, I really hope Jobs & Co have a lot of reliable DATA to stand on... But still, it's a cool idea if they allow the end user to share freely (non-DRM'd files, ability to burn on CD, put on iPod or any other device) Yet the probability of this being a hoax is still quite high...:)
I read a story once: on April 18th, 1981, Bouygues (a French construction group) received a 343 373 480 dollars cheque (as a payment to a huge contract in Ryiad, Saudi Arabia) at 10:30 AM in Paris, France. But in order not to lose the day's interests, the cheque had to get to the Morgan Bank in N.Y.C., before 10 AM (NYC time).
Bouygues sent 2 persons carrying the cheque with the Concorde, to New York City. The plane took off at 11 AM (Paris local time), and landed at 8:25 AM (New York local time). The cheque was deposited the bank in New York minutes later (around 9 am), therefore allowing Bouygues to deposit the cheque roughly one hour "before" it was delivered to them. With a 16% (!) interest rate, this "extra time" allowed Bouygues to earn 160000 US dollars.
Isnt that what the remote can do already? all you gotta do is clip it to your jacket and boom! dont need to spend 200$ for a jacket, when the remote does the same thing basically.
This stuff sounds pretty useless indeed: I still have to see the iPod's screen to select my playlist/album... and with the iPod in the backpack, well, I'm not sure how I'm going to do that.
Still it marks the -humble and overpriced- first steps of "wearable computing" everybody's been raving about.
It's only about music for the moment, but this could be big. When wearable screens (luminescent textiles) hit the market, I sure would like to stick a PDA in my pocket and see its screen on my sleeve. (main reason why I don't use a PDA is that you actually need both your hands to use it, not even mentioning the lousy text input method which needs some serious refinements...)
I ripped the same CD (but a pre-release) over here (OS X / iTunes/Superdrive). Slower than imports from "standard" CD's, but still it works. It has the "copy controlled" blurb on the back of the cover.
Seems that this protection works on some models (couln't import on iMac -> crashes) but not on others. Go figure...
Fuck! This is sick, simply.
I mean, phone companies could *at least* wait for the first corpses to be cold before they start competing for the Iraqi market.
"I wonder how Microsoft will convince consumers that loss of control is a good thing, and how long the convincing will take.
It's simple: they won't tell anything toanybody; end-users will happily go buy new Palladium-enabled computers (and the rare birds actually *looking* at the box they're buying will see a cool "Palladium/Secure" logo, think "hey, cool, less virii and evil hackers around!" and buy it). And when everybody will be palladium-enabled, well, it will be too late for anybody to step back.
I mean, Microsoft has come to a point where they don't even need to market/explain their products. This is what is happening with XP: poor anticipation, few upgrades from previous versions of Windows to XP, yet XP is shipped with virtually every new PC on the planet. 99% of the people who buy computers, when asked if its a PC or Mac or what, just *don't know*. And don't care. Turn on, type text, save, print, turn off until next essay/letter/whatever. And don't try to explain why Palladium is a screwed scheme, or that Open Source is cool, or that OS X is what they need: they'll just go with the typical "oh, y'know, I don't know about computers, I don't understand what you're talking about, and I just want to type text anyways". This settles it: the unsuspecting end users will be screwed before they even notice.
But then what about companies and businesses? Well, the press (even here in relatively "computer-illiterate" France) has issued worried articles about Palladium. But no-one cares because companies will never, ever switch to anything that's not Microsoft. I mean, they've become accustomed to running NT servers, Windows clients, Outlook/Entourage/Explorer/Word/Excel/PowerPoint. All their proprietary, custom-tailored software has been written for DOS/Windows exclusively, often (always?) by third-party companies and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they haven't bothered to save the source code. (Read, all their vital software is TIED to Microsoft platforms)
Yet, it sucks. But then, you know, life as a whole sucks as one big fscking whore, so it's a non-issue...
Trouble is that HDTV isn't near the point of critical mass with the general public today that Apple had hoped for. ...Which might just be why rumors say that Apple is working on a 30 inch "Cinema display". I, for one, think that Apple is pushing hard to diversify to new markets...
I mean, 30 inches for a display is just too big. If it were just a display, they'd have gone through the 25", 27" and 29" steps before... but they're apparently jumping right at 30 inches...
But then I'm not sure I want to tie my computer and my TV (my G4's in my room, the TV in the living room...). Well, it might be cool to get rid of that f*cking VCR once and for all...
I have a friend who has used Macs for nearly 20 years and JUST GOT A PC RECENTLY. They didn't know what the 2nd button was for
Where was he for the last twenty years? I mean, if he was in a mac-only country where nobody ever has to use a PC, please, tell me so I can start moving there right away.
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If you read their concept a little more carefully, you would recognize that they are not bringing a computer or fax machine, or even a body into Myanmar, or any other country on their list. They are simply uploading the website to a webserver in each country, then updating the dns entry to the new IP address.
:)
I did, in fact, RTFA. My point being that the simple fact of hosting a webserver over there is complicated. I mean, nationals don't even have the right to own a computer. And I'm pretty sure you need the junta's authorization to do such a thing as a webserver (they won't deliver authorizations). And I'm pretty sure the junta is not sensible to the artistic / technical experiment argumentation: we're talking about a regime so paranoid that the customs confiscated my remote control car (I was 13 at the time) because they feared it was some kind of terrorist artefact (that's the official reason: i know for a fact that anything of value going through the customs would end up in the hands of some minister's/general's kid. I probably still have a copy of that letter somewhere. It's hilarious.)
BTW how were you able to live there for 3 years without a computer? That my friend was self inflicted torture, can't blame the junta for that.
Well... this is where we got our first Macintosh (Performa 5200, the only machine that would work in these ranges of temperature and humidity) we bought to an american expatriate. This was, of course, absolutely illegal. But the junta is not in a position to expell westerners and NGO's staff.
I even remember us trying to get internet access... But since there were no ISP's, we needed the modem to phone up to Thailand -> it wouldn't work often, and it would cost something like 6 USD/minute. So we waited to come back to France to discover the internet
Are they serious about going to Myanmar with their website?
I've lived there for three years, 1993-1996. Myanmar is ruled by a repressive, brutal and notoriously paranoid military junta.
In a nutshell, "they no like internet".
Going in the country with a computer is theoretically not permitted. Using a fax machine or the internet to connect abroad is considered a crime. Nationals face jail for this (and strangers too, in theory, but that never happened I think) and, trust me, you positively DON'T WANT TO GO TO JAIL in Myanmar. (death is not the maximal sentence over there: it is only second to death... by torture)
Besides, I'm not sure you would/could actually be able to host a website there (hint: without the government's permission, it's probably "forget it"). A mere slashdotting could bring the whole country's internet system to its knees. Even the government's websites are hosted in other countries, mostly US and Australia. Only some of them are in Rangoon...
Well, maybe things have changed over there. But somehow, I doubt it.
LOL :)
Sorry for the grammar (hey I'm french after all: you know, the ones who eat frogs and snails and bath once a year; hey, I guess we're just too busy running after our food and surrendering to everybody out there, to actually learn english)
As you no doubt have guessed, I meant "blow himself up with his rocket".
Yay! So he could blow himself with his rocket, because of a stupid BSOD freezed the NT server controlling the engines.
Ballmer would blame it on Evil, communist open-source software.
Yes, the world would be a better place after that.
Then, though I'm not a specialist, you CAN run some sort of internet service WITHOUT an ISP, right? From what I understood, my airport base station allows me to "PPP dial-in", which means I can connect to my home network through any telephone line, without an ISP. There probably are a lot of modems (all of them?) around that support dial-in and line pickup: you have a (slow) computer-to-computer connection with no ISP involved. Add SSH and crypto, and you have a "fairly secure" connection (unless, of course, the feds decide to wiretap phone connections as well, which is probably what is happening with projects such as Carnivore/TIA...)
OR, you could try moving to Europe, but do it quick before our own Beloved Leaders® figure out how they can use this brand new Cisco hardware.
"On another note", I wonder if all this is really intented to fight terrorists, criminals and druglords... Read this (article says that some narco kingpin in Colombia managed, in 1998, to deploy a wireless computer network that ranged "across the Caribbean and the upper half of South America.", and that could be accessed to with laptops, even in planes and boats) to see what I mean: evildoers (maybe not Al-Qaeda and such, but who knows?) probably use alternate methods for their most important communications. So why do they bother wiretapping ISP's? Wouldn't it be wiser to try and bust these alternate networks (if there still are)?
Time to try... snail mail! --El Ganzo Loco
OK... Now I can sleep in peace again. Thanks!
The idea of Clutter is ... awkward, at best. The whole idea of iTunes it to get rid of the mess associated with CD cases..
I have more less 220 albums currently ripped. How the hell do I fit them all on my 17" desktop?
I have one concern about the piles (though I like the idea): how does the Terminal (ls, cp, scp etc...) interpret those piles? As dirs? Or as a loose bunch of files?
Some of the webcam images are just surreal.
Girl. At LAN-party. Surreal. Indeed.
Has anybody had access to Core Crib's website? (http://www.2khappyware.com/corecrib.html)
:)
Ever since the Wired article appeared, I have tried to access the website. Nothing. Google's cache only lists www.2khappyware.com, which is PC-centric and talks about some sort of PC-upgrade pay-per-month program (websites looks like done in Notepad or TexteEdit).
Looks like one big hoax to me. I hope I'm wrong, I'm really looking forward to buying a dirt cheap G4 (or even G3) system to host my 1-hit-a-year webpage and file server
Has the guy talked about sales outside the U.S. (France, for that matter)?
Cable ISP's sometimes build their networks like LAN's. This aparently fools some macintoshes into thinking that it is, in fact, a LAN. I used to be able to see some macintoshes of my neighbourhood, until they fixed the problem.
From Lycoris's Website (http://lycoris.com/products/desktoplx/)
"Power Flower", it says.
Their XMMS skin looks like iTunes, too...
These guys will face lawsuits both by Microsoft AND Apple... Yay! That's what I call platform oecumenism!
If everybody is to start buying music online (and, with songs as cheap as 10 cents per song, they'll have to sell TONS of song to acheive profitability) then everybody will need broadband/DSL lines.
:)
I don't know about the U.S., but here in Europe (and particularly in France) DSL is still the exception (not even mentionning that most of DSL users have "low-end" connections, such as 128kbps...)
So, well, I really hope Jobs & Co have a lot of reliable DATA to stand on...
But still, it's a cool idea if they allow the end user to share freely (non-DRM'd files, ability to burn on CD, put on iPod or any other device)
Yet the probability of this being a hoax is still quite high...
I read a story once: on April 18th, 1981, Bouygues (a French construction group) received a 343 373 480 dollars cheque (as a payment to a huge contract in Ryiad, Saudi Arabia) at 10:30 AM in Paris, France. But in order not to lose the day's interests, the cheque had to get to the Morgan Bank in N.Y.C., before 10 AM (NYC time).
Bouygues sent 2 persons carrying the cheque with the Concorde, to New York City. The plane took off at 11 AM (Paris local time), and landed at 8:25 AM (New York local time). The cheque was deposited the bank in New York minutes later (around 9 am), therefore allowing Bouygues to deposit the cheque roughly one hour "before" it was delivered to them. With a 16% (!) interest rate, this "extra time" allowed Bouygues to earn 160000 US dollars.
Isnt that what the remote can do already? all you gotta do is clip it to your jacket and boom! dont need to spend 200$ for a jacket, when the remote does the same thing basically.
This stuff sounds pretty useless indeed: I still have to see the iPod's screen to select my playlist/album... and with the iPod in the backpack, well, I'm not sure how I'm going to do that.
Still it marks the -humble and overpriced- first steps of "wearable computing" everybody's been raving about.
It's only about music for the moment, but this could be big. When wearable screens (luminescent textiles) hit the market, I sure would like to stick a PDA in my pocket and see its screen on my sleeve. (main reason why I don't use a PDA is that you actually need both your hands to use it, not even mentioning the lousy text input method which needs some serious refinements...)
I ripped the same CD (but a pre-release) over here (OS X / iTunes /Superdrive). Slower than imports from "standard" CD's, but still it works. It has the "copy controlled" blurb on the back of the cover.
Seems that this protection works on some models (couln't import on iMac -> crashes) but not on others. Go figure...
OR simply write a program that ignores the 2nd session, and plays/rips the cd that way.
:-) (works for me at least)
It's out already: it's called "iTunes"
Fuck! This is sick, simply. I mean, phone companies could *at least* wait for the first corpses to be cold before they start competing for the Iraqi market.
"I wonder how Microsoft will convince consumers that loss of control is a good thing, and how long the convincing will take.
It's simple: they won't tell anything toanybody; end-users will happily go buy new Palladium-enabled computers (and the rare birds actually *looking* at the box they're buying will see a cool "Palladium/Secure" logo, think "hey, cool, less virii and evil hackers around!" and buy it). And when everybody will be palladium-enabled, well, it will be too late for anybody to step back.
I mean, Microsoft has come to a point where they don't even need to market/explain their products. This is what is happening with XP: poor anticipation, few upgrades from previous versions of Windows to XP, yet XP is shipped with virtually every new PC on the planet.
99% of the people who buy computers, when asked if its a PC or Mac or what, just *don't know*. And don't care. Turn on, type text, save, print, turn off until next essay/letter/whatever. And don't try to explain why Palladium is a screwed scheme, or that Open Source is cool, or that OS X is what they need: they'll just go with the typical "oh, y'know, I don't know about computers, I don't understand what you're talking about, and I just want to type text anyways".
This settles it: the unsuspecting end users will be screwed before they even notice.
But then what about companies and businesses? Well, the press (even here in relatively "computer-illiterate" France) has issued worried articles about Palladium. But no-one cares because companies will never, ever switch to anything that's not Microsoft. I mean, they've become accustomed to running NT servers, Windows clients, Outlook/Entourage/Explorer/Word/Excel/PowerPoint. All their proprietary, custom-tailored software has been written for DOS/Windows exclusively, often (always?) by third-party companies and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they haven't bothered to save the source code. (Read, all their vital software is TIED to Microsoft platforms)
Yet, it sucks. But then, you know, life as a whole sucks as one big fscking whore, so it's a non-issue...
Trouble is that HDTV isn't near the point of critical mass with the general public today that Apple ...Which might just be why rumors say that Apple is working on a 30 inch "Cinema display". I, for one, think that Apple is pushing hard to diversify to new markets...
had hoped for.
I mean, 30 inches for a display is just too big. If it were just a display, they'd have gone through the 25", 27" and 29" steps before... but they're apparently jumping right at 30 inches...
But then I'm not sure I want to tie my computer and my TV (my G4's in my room, the TV in the living room...). Well, it might be cool to get rid of that f*cking VCR once and for all...
Yeah, PUMA, like in "Pummeling Up Microsoft's Ass".
Ha!
Safari's front-end (lickability, bookmarking, etc)
You enjoy licking brushed metal? Oh, man...
Steve Jobs
CEO, Apple
CEO, Pixar
This statement is wrong! It should read:
Steve Jobs
CEO, Apple
CEO, Pixar
God
Got it? Now repeat after me...
AMD plans to make a desktop replacement in the notebook computer market
You mean, just like Apple announced 2 monthes ago? Whoah, talk about originality.
I have a friend who has used Macs for nearly 20 years and JUST GOT A PC RECENTLY. They didn't know what the 2nd button was for
Where was he for the last twenty years? I mean, if he was in a mac-only country where nobody ever has to use a PC, please, tell me so I can start moving there right away.