ctrl-d is the key you want for deleting a character (think emacs:-)
apple-delete will keyboard delete a file in finder
I went with a mac a 1.5 years ago because I tired of using Linux on a laptop, my "big box" is still a Linux machine, but I have to say after some acclimation I have enjoyed the Mac.
It sounds like a reasonable idea (if you ignore the silly market talk about hosting the internet). Take IBM's proven work in super computers and mainframes and design a scalable virtual machine system with Blue Gene racks. Sell CPU/Memory/Disk at a cost lower than racks of commodity hardware.
Don't forget to tell the marketing people that end uses can then claim that their site is hosted on a super computer.
I doubt they would go the audio delivered route, but rather text ads on the display/map. Image if your cell phone could tell you about things you like where you happen to be. When I am traveling, I want to know about Thai and other interesting restaurants. Driving down the interstate, I want to know about places I can stop, that are not McDonalds. Around home, I want to know about sales and new places of business.
A well targeted ad, is not that annoying. I am not saying this would be easy to do, but you give me good maps, with useful ads and reasonably prices phone service -- I will probably give it a try.
Okay I get the idea that you can "vote" evenly across the field -- this of course makes checking for other types of voter fraud -- too many votes, very difficult if not impossible, because now the number of votes cast is almost meaningless. Additionally, the percent of the vote will be much closer. But assuming you are not worried about old fashion fraud --> the dead voting, this would work. But it also requires an electorate that validates its own votes.
There is also the worry about someone with access to the voting hardware intensionally undermining the integrity of the vote. With full access to the voting machine (in particular what ever "keys" it is using to sign the votes), I could easily generate fake voting slips that would not be on the official register. I could then invalidate/call into question the results of polls that are not favorable to my candidate.
My problem is with your step 5, if there is a tally of votes, my vote is not anonymous -- if the guy checking my "receipt" is given someone else's receipt, among other things it is possible he will get "duplicates" which will get me in trouble. If you consider this a non-issue, as duplicates will not be detected/found etc, then it is just as easy for the system to provide multiple votes the same receipt while casting votes for a different candidate.
There is one significant problem, if there is a tally somewhere with votes tied to voters, anonymity is lost. It is either possible to verify my vote to my voter id -- or -- it is possible for a malicious hack to the machine to count my vote to the wrong candidate and give me incorrect verification.
If you have a clever way to prevent this that is accountable, I am all ears. I still do not the problem with optically scanned ballots: simple, anonymous and verifiable. (I am not in anyway associated with any company that produces voting machines optical or otherwise) I just don't trust (bring on the cyrpto I am not afraid), of any system that has thus far been presented.
I have no problem with computerized tabulation of the votes -- the machines can count the "little bubble thingies" -- but for the love of [insert deity here], don't drop the paper trail. I want an auditor to be able to come in and verify the count. If it cannot be audited and verified independently, then I cannot trust it.
I agree this is good stuff, but I think the gp post was after a server side transform of semantic XML, and wanted to push XHTML to the browser. If not then you are 100% correct.
REXML is a very nice ruby XML processor, but does not do XSL transforms. There are some less polished libraries - ruby-xslt and xslt4r that wrap C XSLT libraries, they do not appear to be in active development, but (at least for me) ruby-xslt works fine.
I have also been using it -- and love it, but a quick note (not that I think it is that important generally speaking) -- ruby is not as fast as perl. It still uses an interpreted syntax tree, that is not as fast as perl's bytecode interpreter. YARV, should fix this, but it is still development level code.
Of course having said that, the heavy lifting in ruby (like most scripting languages) is implemented in C, and I rarely have application performance issues with my ruby programs (including but not limited to rails). When there is a performance problem, ruby has very nice benchmarking/profiling tools and a good extension system for writing code in C/C++, so for me this is a non issue.
But you are making all sorts of invalid assumptions. True distribution will change, but people are more than willing to pay for content. Most people pay good money for their cable subscription -- if p2p kills off TV networks, what are the chances of new content models being formed?
I can image subscription sites for shows, which release a new episode every X days as a function of the number of subscribers. This would totally side step the p2p "problem" as they have their profits set. To extend their profits they could still sell DVD box sets with extras (or use those as incentives for subscribers).
Will the nature of content change? Probably, but I believe you have it reversed. As content distribution costs become lower and lower, current methods of control will fail, and new methods will expand. A site like tvtome, will become a new form of content aggregator providing ads and links to new shows as they become available. There will be more content of a more diverse nature as the market expands to find niche groups, rather than providing "median" content.
Will there be fewer people who make 500k+ per episode -- yes. And much of the content will be crap (filtering and rating will be a new business opportunity). But people are willing to pay for content -- but p2p has invalidated the old business model. No amount of US laws will stop off shore servers from providing the same "services" and then what happens?
I had never heard of movielink. Just tried the site, but it would not let me view anything -- no firefox support. So it won't work for me or most of my family as I got tired of cleaning their machines and switched them to Mozilla.
It actually sounds like a good site and their price point for 30 days would interest me. Although I am still in the I would rather spend the extra $15.00 and have it forever camp for most movies. I have purchased a couple hundred DVDs over the last few years and am personally more likely to continue doing that than downloading timelimited rentals. If they expand their browser support I am very likely to try their service; however, unless their selection is better than my cable companies on demand service (not that, that would be too hard) the convience of the cable system for rentals is still better. I would also be interested if they had a price point lower than a jewel case without the time restriction -- especially for childrens videos.
I agree; however, that does not mean that there is no room for improvement in the industry to minimize the impact. And improvement to to the laws -- for the good of society, rather than the good of a particular industry.
The studios should certainly realize that people are eager for downloadable content -- the success of the P2P sites proves that. Now how much they are willing to pay, especially if the content is encumbered with DRM is an open question. Never the less this is a business opportunity that the studios are ignoring.
As for copyright law, it (IMHO) is in need some rethinking. Copyright laws were initially written to encourage and promote new materials; however, they are now used to prevent people from making derivative works and in many ways stifle new development. The duration of copyright is "locking" content from public reuse for an extended, effectively perpetual, period. Movie studios (and other IP creators) would survive and movies would be made, even if the copyright period was dramatically shortened.
I am not defending Lokitorrent or illegal file sharing (although I have downloaded TV shows), I am just saying there are plenty of "heads in the sand" -- ignoring reality -- on both sides.
Thanks for your prompt reply to our service request.
However, if the 30F does not arrive until July, rest assured that the talk will be shifting from global warming to the up coming ice age. Average summer temps here are around 80F. I expect that your shipment of of 30F will arrive in the next week or so only to have to return it and be reshipped one or more times over the next two months.
Don't forget (I'm in Michigan too), that "our" (screwed up) 0F is about your more reasonable -18C. Also a good chunk of Michigan is North of some of Ontario (of course there is a huge hunk of Ontario North of Michigan as well).
And while I don't want any "global warming", I would not complain about another 30F (or 17C) of local warming right about now.
But if the airplane has a (more or less) fixed cost to fly, then even if they sell your ticket at a loss, unless they were going to cancel the flight -- they are still loosing less money than they would have.
Using totally fictious numbers:
Cost of flying empty plane: $10000 Each passenger incurrs $10 additional cost (fuel, food, etc) Seats 100 -- true cost per seat if full: $110 Estimated utilization 50% -- cost per seat $210
Now if the at some point selling seats (even for less then $110, as long as it is greater than $10) will earn the airline additional revenues (or at at least lesser losses) -- __as_long_as__ they do not steal away higher paying customers.
whereas an encyclopedia must be checked against historical facts or scientific knowledge
Correct usage is that check. An encyclopedia is not a single complete reference, but a single source in a vast collection of information. When used in this manner much like a operating system running -- it is tested for correctness.
There are and will always be issues with any wiki (especially from vandals); however, there are different issues with traditional encyclopedia. Both have advantages and disadvantages -- as with most things in life. Weigh the strengths and weaknesses of all your sources -- all the time.
To claim that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats is to do a huge disservice to both parties.
I agree both parties would consider themselves different. And to some extent I would agree. I believe that what most people who state that the parties are too similar are concentrating on different issues. In particular both parties are beholden to the rich and powerful. People in office (generally) have one primary goal -- getting re-elected. With that as your primary motivation you are going to behave in a certain manner -- play the game, increase your influence, gather large benefactors, etc. It is these primary activities that both parties share.
DesktopX for Win32 is similar -- I have never used Konfabulator -- however DesktopX allows you to write simple vb (or any other installed scripting language including perl) scripts and attach them to interactive desktop objects.
I largely agree with your post; however, it does not address the fact that not that many years ago, procedures that are now common place and have high success rates, would have been beyond the too expensive (cost vs benefit) line (e.g. heart bypass), but are now safer and ave a greater benefit. Most new proceedures are generally too risky/expensive -- with a firm line drawn in the sand would new procedures no longer be developed (or at least not brought "to market")?
Even within the framework of our eroding copyright laws, fair use allows quoting of copyrighted works. Why should I not be allowed to cut and paste (to prevent distorting a quote)? So I would say this is not an open and shut case.
I understand the necessity for the DRM by Google -- without it their library of content will be severely limited; however, do not paint the actions of everyone attemting to circumvent the DRM.
The text of the bill states "infringes a copyright willfully." I would assume (IANAL), that the term infringes carries to existing copyright law as to what is and is not an infringing activity, i.e. if you have the permission of the copyright holder, it is legal.
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ctrl-d is the key you want for deleting a character (think emacs :-)
apple-delete will keyboard delete a file in finder
I went with a mac a 1.5 years ago because I tired of using Linux on a laptop, my "big box" is still a Linux machine, but I have to say after some acclimation I have enjoyed the Mac.
It sounds like a reasonable idea (if you ignore the silly market talk about hosting the internet). Take IBM's proven work in super computers and mainframes and design a scalable virtual machine system with Blue Gene racks. Sell CPU/Memory/Disk at a cost lower than racks of commodity hardware.
Don't forget to tell the marketing people that end uses can then claim that their site is hosted on a super computer.
I doubt they would go the audio delivered route, but rather text ads on the display/map. Image if your cell phone could tell you about things you like where you happen to be. When I am traveling, I want to know about Thai and other interesting restaurants. Driving down the interstate, I want to know about places I can stop, that are not McDonalds. Around home, I want to know about sales and new places of business.
A well targeted ad, is not that annoying. I am not saying this would be easy to do, but you give me good maps, with useful ads and reasonably prices phone service -- I will probably give it a try.
pth
Okay I get the idea that you can "vote" evenly across the field -- this of course makes checking for other types of voter fraud -- too many votes, very difficult if not impossible, because now the number of votes cast is almost meaningless. Additionally, the percent of the vote will be much closer. But assuming you are not worried about old fashion fraud --> the dead voting, this would work. But it also requires an electorate that validates its own votes.
There is also the worry about someone with access to the voting hardware intensionally undermining the integrity of the vote. With full access to the voting machine (in particular what ever "keys" it is using to sign the votes), I could easily generate fake voting slips that would not be on the official register. I could then invalidate/call into question the results of polls that are not favorable to my candidate.
pth
And I can be coerced into recording my voter id to prove my vote later -- or choose to record it, to sell my vote. Either way, there is no anonymity.
My problem is with your step 5, if there is a tally of votes, my vote is not anonymous -- if the guy checking my "receipt" is given someone else's receipt, among other things it is possible he will get "duplicates" which will get me in trouble. If you consider this a non-issue, as duplicates will not be detected/found etc, then it is just as easy for the system to provide multiple votes the same receipt while casting votes for a different candidate.
There is one significant problem, if there is a tally somewhere with votes tied to voters, anonymity is lost. It is either possible to verify my vote to my voter id -- or -- it is possible for a malicious hack to the machine to count my vote to the wrong candidate and give me incorrect verification.
If you have a clever way to prevent this that is accountable, I am all ears. I still do not the problem with optically scanned ballots: simple, anonymous and verifiable. (I am not in anyway associated with any company that produces voting machines optical or otherwise) I just don't trust (bring on the cyrpto I am not afraid), of any system that has thus far been presented.
pth
Safe sure, but cheap? They host DNS for free...
I have no problem with computerized tabulation of the votes -- the machines can count the "little bubble thingies" -- but for the love of [insert deity here], don't drop the paper trail. I want an auditor to be able to come in and verify the count. If it cannot be audited and verified independently, then I cannot trust it.
I agree this is good stuff, but I think the gp post was after a server side transform of semantic XML, and wanted to push XHTML to the browser. If not then you are 100% correct.
I agree completely, I was just posting for "full disclosure." And yes Rails has very good cache support.
REXML is a very nice ruby XML processor, but does not do XSL transforms. There are some less polished libraries - ruby-xslt and xslt4r that wrap C XSLT libraries, they do not appear to be in active development, but (at least for me) ruby-xslt works fine.
I have also been using it -- and love it, but a quick note (not that I think it is that important generally speaking) -- ruby is not as fast as perl. It still uses an interpreted syntax tree, that is not as fast as perl's bytecode interpreter. YARV, should fix this, but it is still development level code.
Of course having said that, the heavy lifting in ruby (like most scripting languages) is implemented in C, and I rarely have application performance issues with my ruby programs (including but not limited to rails). When there is a performance problem, ruby has very nice benchmarking/profiling tools and a good extension system for writing code in C/C++, so for me this is a non issue.
But you are making all sorts of invalid assumptions. True distribution will change, but people are more than willing to pay for content. Most people pay good money for their cable subscription -- if p2p kills off TV networks, what are the chances of new content models being formed?
I can image subscription sites for shows, which release a new episode every X days as a function of the number of subscribers. This would totally side step the p2p "problem" as they have their profits set. To extend their profits they could still sell DVD box sets with extras (or use those as incentives for subscribers).
Will the nature of content change? Probably, but I believe you have it reversed. As content distribution costs become lower and lower, current methods of control will fail, and new methods will expand. A site like tvtome, will become a new form of content aggregator providing ads and links to new shows as they become available. There will be more content of a more diverse nature as the market expands to find niche groups, rather than providing "median" content.
Will there be fewer people who make 500k+ per episode -- yes. And much of the content will be crap (filtering and rating will be a new business opportunity). But people are willing to pay for content -- but p2p has invalidated the old business model. No amount of US laws will stop off shore servers from providing the same "services" and then what happens?
I had never heard of movielink. Just tried the site, but it would not let me view anything -- no firefox support. So it won't work for me or most of my family as I got tired of cleaning their machines and switched them to Mozilla.
It actually sounds like a good site and their price point for 30 days would interest me. Although I am still in the I would rather spend the extra $15.00 and have it forever camp for most movies. I have purchased a couple hundred DVDs over the last few years and am personally more likely to continue doing that than downloading timelimited rentals. If they expand their browser support I am very likely to try their service; however, unless their selection is better than my cable companies on demand service (not that, that would be too hard) the convience of the cable system for rentals is still better. I would also be interested if they had a price point lower than a jewel case without the time restriction -- especially for childrens videos.
I agree; however, that does not mean that there is no room for improvement in the industry to minimize the impact. And improvement to to the laws -- for the good of society, rather than the good of a particular industry.
The studios should certainly realize that people are eager for downloadable content -- the success of the P2P sites proves that. Now how much they are willing to pay, especially if the content is encumbered with DRM is an open question. Never the less this is a business opportunity that the studios are ignoring.
As for copyright law, it (IMHO) is in need some rethinking. Copyright laws were initially written to encourage and promote new materials; however, they are now used to prevent people from making derivative works and in many ways stifle new development. The duration of copyright is "locking" content from public reuse for an extended, effectively perpetual, period. Movie studios (and other IP creators) would survive and movies would be made, even if the copyright period was dramatically shortened.
I am not defending Lokitorrent or illegal file sharing (although I have downloaded TV shows), I am just saying there are plenty of "heads in the sand" -- ignoring reality -- on both sides.
Thanks for your prompt reply to our service request.
However, if the 30F does not arrive until July, rest assured that the talk will be shifting from global warming to the up coming ice age. Average summer temps here are around 80F. I expect that your shipment of of 30F will arrive in the next week or so only to have to return it and be reshipped one or more times over the next two months.
Don't forget (I'm in Michigan too), that "our" (screwed up) 0F is about your more reasonable -18C. Also a good chunk of Michigan is North of some of Ontario (of course there is a huge hunk of Ontario North of Michigan as well).
And while I don't want any "global warming", I would not complain about another 30F (or 17C) of local warming right about now.
But if the airplane has a (more or less) fixed cost to fly, then even if they sell your ticket at a loss, unless they were going to cancel the flight -- they are still loosing less money than they would have.
Using totally fictious numbers:
Cost of flying empty plane: $10000
Each passenger incurrs $10 additional cost (fuel, food, etc)
Seats 100 -- true cost per seat if full: $110
Estimated utilization 50% -- cost per seat $210
Now if the at some point selling seats (even for less then $110, as long as it is greater than $10) will earn the airline additional revenues (or at at least lesser losses) -- __as_long_as__ they do not steal away higher paying customers.
Correct usage is that check. An encyclopedia is not a single complete reference, but a single source in a vast collection of information. When used in this manner much like a operating system running -- it is tested for correctness.
There are and will always be issues with any wiki (especially from vandals); however, there are different issues with traditional encyclopedia. Both have advantages and disadvantages -- as with most things in life. Weigh the strengths and weaknesses of all your sources -- all the time.
I agree both parties would consider themselves different. And to some extent I would agree. I believe that what most people who state that the parties are too similar are concentrating on different issues. In particular both parties are beholden to the rich and powerful. People in office (generally) have one primary goal -- getting re-elected. With that as your primary motivation you are going to behave in a certain manner -- play the game, increase your influence, gather large benefactors, etc. It is these primary activities that both parties share.
Sorry my bad -- I assumed (incorrectly) that stardock owned that link (I rally thought they did in the past). It is just an "ad link" page now. My bad
Here is the correct link DesktopX
DesktopX for Win32 is similar -- I have never used Konfabulator -- however DesktopX allows you to write simple vb (or any other installed scripting language including perl) scripts and attach them to interactive desktop objects.
If interested, check it out www.desktopx.com
I largely agree with your post; however, it does not address the fact that not that many years ago, procedures that are now common place and have high success rates, would have been beyond the too expensive (cost vs benefit) line (e.g. heart bypass), but are now safer and ave a greater benefit. Most new proceedures are generally too risky/expensive -- with a firm line drawn in the sand would new procedures no longer be developed (or at least not brought "to market")?
Even within the framework of our eroding copyright laws, fair use allows quoting of copyrighted works. Why should I not be allowed to cut and paste (to prevent distorting a quote)? So I would say this is not an open and shut case.
I understand the necessity for the DRM by Google -- without it their library of content will be severely limited; however, do not paint the actions of everyone attemting to circumvent the DRM.
The text of the bill states "infringes a copyright willfully." I would assume (IANAL), that the term infringes carries to existing copyright law as to what is and is not an infringing activity, i.e. if you have the permission of the copyright holder, it is legal.