Natural resources and space will still be relatively scarce, while everybody has the capacity to understand and interpret ideas.
I disagree. Natural resources are merely mismanaged and management is essentially a problem of thought. If we are having problems with scarce resources, such as oil or fish, then it is the domain of the mind to find alternatives. Overfishing is a shortsighted abuse of a natural (replenishable)resource. Perhaps as food technology advances, diets will rely heavier on vegetables like the soya bean. Produce yields can improve. As oil is an irreplaceable resource, we must use our collective knowledge to refine acceptable alternatives such as solar power or biodiesel.
The more pervasive information and communication become, the more empowered global citizens will be. Social networking will power this revolution.
the government needs a stable system to make its only income: the taxes. ..The problem is a system based on taxes.I agree with much of the sentiment expressed in your post but want to correct one point. The government gets most its money by fiat, creating loans. This is why forty percent of our budget goes to paying interest expenses. This is how we are 7 trillion dollars in debt (this is just the federal government's debt. Other public and private debt makes the total much more) I think if you look more closely at the situation you will find that it is the bankers and financial industry who are ultimately most interested in tracking technologies.
Andon a similar note, this provides an opportunity for advertisers to really start providing niche advertisemnets. Imagine local restaurants or shops producing cost-effective targeted ads based on geo-ip location technology to particular demographics. My local pizza joint could throw their ad on Simpsons downloaders within a specific zip-code region ( I realize the tech ain't there yet, but this is where it's going) Exciting times . . .
For some time now, I have felt that the best way to combat the problem of information overload and poor signal-to-noise ratios would be to implement a framework like Nooron. The vision, as I understand it, would be to have a hypermoderated forum of ideas, like a suped-up Slashdot, and Amazon's "Other shoppers also liked . .." rolled into one and applied to the world of ideas. I would go into it further, but it's probably best to just read the whitepaper on the website. Also check out the article "Building a Global Brain."
I've submitted this as an article a couple of times before because i felt it could stimulate an interesting discussion, but I suppose the editors are more interested in posting Google cafeteria reviews and Apple rumors.
Well, the main thing I that gmail lacks is the ability to create groups. This comes in handy if i want to send an e-mail to all of my coworkers, or just my bosses, or my friends, or family -- well you get the idea. When I use the gmail webclient I either have to reply to a previous message or use my sent mail folder. It's really a bit of a pain, so i just download POP into Apple's Mail. Yahoo has 1gb of email space and you can use keyboard shortcuts as well. Their search functionality is just as good as Google's. Actually, it may be better because there have been a couple of times I searched my gmail account for a unique word that I knew was in a email message and it didn't turn up anything; I had to manually find the message and it contained the search term!
yahoo also has a calendar and offers mobile phone notifications of new messages if you want ( i don't) as well as unlimited picture storage. I started using it as a spam address a couple of years ago (that is, I used it for mailing lists and as a public web address) Interestingly enough, I checked it earlier today and they offer throwaway addresses similar to mailinator.com --another innovation that google doesn't have.
All I'm trying to say is that people fawn over gogle on this site without ever comparing the offerings with Yahoo. On many counts, google innovations are things yahoo implemented years ago. I love google and use it as my primary search engine and web mail client but the blind admiration for google is a bit much. Oh well . . .
One that that gmail lacks that yahoo has is an address book. Yahoo also has calendar and notepad functionality. Yahoo mail is really pretty good. i say this as a gmail user. Using javascript to autocomplete the from field is nifty and I like using keyboard shortcuts for mail functions but the lack of a proper address book has forced me to return to importing my gmail acount into a proper email client through pop. And this will be free how long?
You should be able to find an 80GB firestore pro for about $1000. While it is a bit pricey, the cost is well worth the time saved capturing footage. If this is a problem you regularly run into, a 1000 dollar investment is not so bad. Others have mentioned using a laptop. While this is certainly an option, the cost will be comparable but your portability is limited. The firestore can fit on a beltclip for mobile shots and will fit in a camera bag. A laptop will probably require another ~6lb bag to carry. Another way to consider the issue--the firestore's price is approximately equal to 200 minidv tapes. After 200 hours of footage, you start coming out ahead with the portable solution. I doubt you could homebew a device with comparable reliability for significantly less money.
Sorry, but as of May 2, 2005, Movielink no longer supports Windows 98 and ME operating systems.
Movielink also does not support Mac or Linux.
In order to enjoy the Movielink service, you must use Windows 2000 or XP,
which support certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies.
I guess that might be a reason folks around here don't talk about it so much.
Seriously, this guy won awards in teaching excellence in New York. He points out that our education system is marvelously successful for what it was designed to do--produce an obedient populace. An excerpt:
In the 1934 edition of his once well-known book Public Education in the United States, Ellwood P. Cubberley detailed and praised the way the strategy of successive school enlargements had extended childhood by two to six years, and forced schooling was at that point still quite new. This same Cubberley - who was dean of Stanford's School of Education, a textbook editor at Houghton Mifflin, and Conant's friend and correspondent at Harvard - had written the following in the 1922 edition of his book Public School Administration: "Our schools are... factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned.... And it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down."
Read his acceptance speech for the Teacher of the Year award in 1991 here. Really, he hits the issue square-on.
Amen! Basic critical thinking is a sorely neglected aspect of education. I've often thought that philosophy and logic should be emphasized much earlier in American education. They usually have it as a required course in college, but by that point it's usually too late.
On another note, dumbing-down the curriculum is horribly counter-productive. I lived overseas for a bit as a child and was impressed by the British education system's level of rigor and detail. It may scare some kids away but it's necessary.
Offering a more varied approach to education would also help. Acknowledge that people have different interests and hook them with an angle. This would probably be best at the secondary education stage. To some extent we already have different "tracks" for high school students but there needs to be a greater number of options. It would be interesting to see classes in environmental science, archaeology and astronomy (to name a few) at the high school level.)
Finally, destroy education as an institution. It's a horrible beauracracy that scares away potential teachers, dulls bright minds and generally does little more than produce obedient consumers (but, then again, isn't that what The System is for?) Read this by John Gatto for a succinct summary of what is wrong. Here is some more of his writing: http://www.home-ed.vic.edu.au/Resources/Gatto.htm
Much/most of the biology research done in the U.S. is paid for by the National Institutes of Health. That's the government, not drug companies. To the tune of $28 billion or so last year alone. That's your tax dollars at work . ..
Now the drug companies would be the ones to actually produce the drug for sale. They might charge you an arm and a leg for the pill, but it wouldn't be hidden from you.
This is something that irks me a bit. Our tax dollars provide a significant portion of medical research and when some drug seems lucrative, the pharmaceutical conglomerates spend money on extended trials and make insane profits off of it. It seems like our society would ultimately come out ahead if public institutions like universities and national research centers just went all the way and licensed their discoveries as non-patentable, public domain treatments. But I suppose that would be a bit too commmunistic for my fellow citizens' tastes.
The lines in Cyprus delineate a couple of British military bases. Oddly enough, I see no line seperating the Nortern, Turkish-controlled half of the island from the sovereign state of Cyprus. Background info here: 1974 war.
I suppose I could just let this comment pass as an unimaginative troll, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to call you on this. As a fairly well-travelled person and curious individual I have found that most people I have met have fairly similar basic drives/aspirations. It seems to me that most conflict is a result of poor understanding, whether from language barriers or simply cultural misunderstanding. I get the HHGTTG reference but IMHO greater comunication and collaboration of humans from different cultures can only be a good thing.
You know, I started to scroll down and read the rest of the comments but this is a truly amazing idea. It will be interesting when more of the global population has adequate bandwidth (and computing resources in general) to make this viable. I can already imagine being thrust into a 3d environment in some Chinese town or a French city and become a "virtual tourist" -- seeking out new adventures while checking out my phrase book, finding a cool local guide that can show me things I may not find by myself. Definitely cool . . .
My Swiss Army knife has lots of all-in-one features, but I'm not likely to use it to open my soup or screw in a new door knob. I have real tools for that.
I'm tired of people recycling this garbage every time the issue of cell phones comes up. Think about what you're saying. You have a Swiss Army knife. You've probably been somewhere you needed a knife, or pliers or whatever. You whip out your multi-tool and get the job done. Sure, you could have done the job better if you had been carrying a power drill but that makes little sense, right? The whole point of having a multi-function tool is convenience. It may not be the best tool for the job, but you get stuff done.
I can think of several times where it would have been handy to have a camera phone. Usually it's some strange scene, like a funny sign. It would be cool to have an MP3 player on the phone if I run into an unexpected wait and feel like listening to some tunes.
To sum up, if you want to carry all of those devices around all the time, then do it and quit complaining when they add new features for cell phones. There are plenty of folks like myself that would like to have a sort-of digital Swiss Army knife that can do things like check a calendar or listen to some music in a pinch (but not quite at that price--ouch!)
Frankly, we're going to have to come up with a good name for this phenomenon
How about Business as Ususal ? Corporate communications has slowly consumed the profession of journalism since the days of Ivy Lee. Once they started indoctrinating students in journalism "schools" things really started to go downhill. The fact of the matter is that a great deal of what folks have grown accustomed to calling news is mostly smokescreen and fluff. But we buy it.
Gmail addded another GB to their storage and included the ability to import contacts, among other things. I'm particularly excited about the contact import feature. it's not much, but it's more worty than all the tripe that's been posted do far today.
You know, these debates seem absolutely idtiotic. Wouldn't common sense dictate a white-list of sites suitable for children. Companies like Disney and the like could certify that their pages are kid-safe. Hell, the State AG could even compile a list of sites worldwide that are approved for minors. Assume by default that everything else is not for kids. This way, the concerned parents and religious zealots could simply limit access to "safe" sites and most everybody else could continue to surf the "normal" internet.
I'm not sure exactly what you're listening habits are like, but I've found listening to streams on itunes is an excellent way to check music out. I happen to particularly like the jazzmusique station under electronica--sometimes bumpin, sometimes groovy atmospheric. The thing is there are thousands of stations out there. if you find a few you like, you can always change the channel if you don't like what you're hearing. As an added benefit, I learn about a ton of great groups that I wouldn't have had exposure to otherwise. Again, maybe you just "want to hear what i want to hear when I want to hear it" but if you're open to variety, you should consider the streams.
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Yahoo buys Flickr
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Geocities was no looker that's for sure, but at least it looked like it had some creativity left in its soul.
Yahoo! stopped that cadaver kicking.
Sorry, but I think in this case Yahoo's presentation is cleaner and more usable than the old geocities site. I know people 'round here like to jizz all over Google, but the fact is that Yahoo has improved the clutter greatly. Google is still my primary search engine, but I visited yahoo the other day and was fairly impressed. Compare their current page with this or this. Their yellow pages/maps served me better than google's offerings for my most recent visit *gasp*.
Say what you want about Yahoo, but I work in a university computer lab and I see people spend oodles of time over at launch (remember when they were a cd mag?) and YahooGames. They've got more eyeballs and spend more on R&D and more profitable than Google. See?
Having said that, it's hard to see how they could possibly integrate Flickr properly but don't discount them offhand because they are not "teh g00gle"
PC or no apple has long supported two button mice which is fine for me (as that's all one would ever want to use...
What really irks me is that they do not give you the option when shiping new macs. I mean how hard could it be to offer a logitech three-button mouse from a drop down menu? Or select no mouse at all and -$10 the price. I've seen the box of apple mice at a computer lab outfitted with two-button mice with scrollwheels. It just seems like a waste.
Check out allmusic.com. It is simply the best guide to music I have come across. Extensive catalog (I have a hard time stumping it with an unknown band) well-written histories and links to similar artists and related projects. Plus the mood awareness is excellent. Seriously, try it out today.
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I disagree. Natural resources are merely mismanaged and management is essentially a problem of thought. If we are having problems with scarce resources, such as oil or fish, then it is the domain of the mind to find alternatives. Overfishing is a shortsighted abuse of a natural (replenishable)resource. Perhaps as food technology advances, diets will rely heavier on vegetables like the soya bean. Produce yields can improve. As oil is an irreplaceable resource, we must use our collective knowledge to refine acceptable alternatives such as solar power or biodiesel.
The more pervasive information and communication become, the more empowered global citizens will be. Social networking will power this revolution.
-lavaface
the government needs a stable system to make its only income: the taxes. . .The problem is a system based on taxes.I agree with much of the sentiment expressed in your post but want to correct one point. The government gets most its money by fiat, creating loans. This is why forty percent of our budget goes to paying interest expenses. This is how we are 7 trillion dollars in debt (this is just the federal government's debt. Other public and private debt makes the total much more) I think if you look more closely at the situation you will find that it is the bankers and financial industry who are ultimately most interested in tracking technologies.
I hope you are just talking about RIAA discs, because there's a ton of stuff being produced by small, independent artists that could use your support.
Andon a similar note, this provides an opportunity for advertisers to really start providing niche advertisemnets. Imagine local restaurants or shops producing cost-effective targeted ads based on geo-ip location technology to particular demographics. My local pizza joint could throw their ad on Simpsons downloaders within a specific zip-code region ( I realize the tech ain't there yet, but this is where it's going) Exciting times . . .
I've submitted this as an article a couple of times before because i felt it could stimulate an interesting discussion, but I suppose the editors are more interested in posting Google cafeteria reviews and Apple rumors.
-jp
yahoo also has a calendar and offers mobile phone notifications of new messages if you want ( i don't) as well as unlimited picture storage. I started using it as a spam address a couple of years ago (that is, I used it for mailing lists and as a public web address) Interestingly enough, I checked it earlier today and they offer throwaway addresses similar to mailinator.com --another innovation that google doesn't have.
All I'm trying to say is that people fawn over gogle on this site without ever comparing the offerings with Yahoo. On many counts, google innovations are things yahoo implemented years ago. I love google and use it as my primary search engine and web mail client but the blind admiration for google is a bit much. Oh well . . .
One that that gmail lacks that yahoo has is an address book. Yahoo also has calendar and notepad functionality. Yahoo mail is really pretty good. i say this as a gmail user. Using javascript to autocomplete the from field is nifty and I like using keyboard shortcuts for mail functions but the lack of a proper address book has forced me to return to importing my gmail acount into a proper email client through pop. And this will be free how long?
You should be able to find an 80GB firestore pro for about $1000. While it is a bit pricey, the cost is well worth the time saved capturing footage. If this is a problem you regularly run into, a 1000 dollar investment is not so bad. Others have mentioned using a laptop. While this is certainly an option, the cost will be comparable but your portability is limited. The firestore can fit on a beltclip for mobile shots and will fit in a camera bag. A laptop will probably require another ~6lb bag to carry. Another way to consider the issue--the firestore's price is approximately equal to 200 minidv tapes. After 200 hours of footage, you start coming out ahead with the portable solution. I doubt you could homebew a device with comparable reliability for significantly less money.
Read his acceptance speech for the Teacher of the Year award in 1991 here. Really, he hits the issue square-on.
On another note, dumbing-down the curriculum is horribly counter-productive. I lived overseas for a bit as a child and was impressed by the British education system's level of rigor and detail. It may scare some kids away but it's necessary.
Offering a more varied approach to education would also help. Acknowledge that people have different interests and hook them with an angle. This would probably be best at the secondary education stage. To some extent we already have different "tracks" for high school students but there needs to be a greater number of options. It would be interesting to see classes in environmental science, archaeology and astronomy (to name a few) at the high school level.)
Finally, destroy education as an institution. It's a horrible beauracracy that scares away potential teachers, dulls bright minds and generally does little more than produce obedient consumers (but, then again, isn't that what The System is for?) Read this by John Gatto for a succinct summary of what is wrong. Here is some more of his writing: http://www.home-ed.vic.edu.au/Resources/Gatto.htm
Now the drug companies would be the ones to actually produce the drug for sale. They might charge you an arm and a leg for the pill, but it wouldn't be hidden from you.
This is something that irks me a bit. Our tax dollars provide a significant portion of medical research and when some drug seems lucrative, the pharmaceutical conglomerates spend money on extended trials and make insane profits off of it. It seems like our society would ultimately come out ahead if public institutions like universities and national research centers just went all the way and licensed their discoveries as non-patentable, public domain treatments. But I suppose that would be a bit too commmunistic for my fellow citizens' tastes.
The lines in Cyprus delineate a couple of British military bases. Oddly enough, I see no line seperating the Nortern, Turkish-controlled half of the island from the sovereign state of Cyprus.
Background info here: 1974 war.
I suppose I could just let this comment pass as an unimaginative troll, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to call you on this. As a fairly well-travelled person and curious individual I have found that most people I have met have fairly similar basic drives/aspirations. It seems to me that most conflict is a result of poor understanding, whether from language barriers or simply cultural misunderstanding. I get the HHGTTG reference but IMHO greater comunication and collaboration of humans from different cultures can only be a good thing.
You know, I started to scroll down and read the rest of the comments but this is a truly amazing idea. It will be interesting when more of the global population has adequate bandwidth (and computing resources in general) to make this viable. I can already imagine being thrust into a 3d environment in some Chinese town or a French city and become a "virtual tourist" -- seeking out new adventures while checking out my phrase book, finding a cool local guide that can show me things I may not find by myself. Definitely cool . . .
I've looked through the comments and couldn't find the joke you were talking about. Care to elaborate? ;)
I'm tired of people recycling this garbage every time the issue of cell phones comes up. Think about what you're saying. You have a Swiss Army knife. You've probably been somewhere you needed a knife, or pliers or whatever. You whip out your multi-tool and get the job done. Sure, you could have done the job better if you had been carrying a power drill but that makes little sense, right? The whole point of having a multi-function tool is convenience. It may not be the best tool for the job, but you get stuff done.
I can think of several times where it would have been handy to have a camera phone. Usually it's some strange scene, like a funny sign. It would be cool to have an MP3 player on the phone if I run into an unexpected wait and feel like listening to some tunes.
To sum up, if you want to carry all of those devices around all the time, then do it and quit complaining when they add new features for cell phones. There are plenty of folks like myself that would like to have a sort-of digital Swiss Army knife that can do things like check a calendar or listen to some music in a pinch (but not quite at that price--ouch!)
How about Business as Ususal ? Corporate communications has slowly consumed the profession of journalism since the days of Ivy Lee. Once they started indoctrinating students in journalism "schools" things really started to go downhill. The fact of the matter is that a great deal of what folks have grown accustomed to calling news is mostly smokescreen and fluff. But we buy it.
Gmail addded another GB to their storage and included the ability to import contacts, among other things. I'm particularly excited about the contact import feature. it's not much, but it's more worty than all the tripe that's been posted do far today.
It wouldn't take me long before I broke that fucker's legs off (no, I didn't RTFA but I'd bust it's wheels if that be the case)
jeebus people . . .
I'm not sure exactly what you're listening habits are like, but I've found listening to streams on itunes is an excellent way to check music out. I happen to particularly like the jazzmusique station under electronica--sometimes bumpin, sometimes groovy atmospheric. The thing is there are thousands of stations out there. if you find a few you like, you can always change the channel if you don't like what you're hearing. As an added benefit, I learn about a ton of great groups that I wouldn't have had exposure to otherwise. Again, maybe you just "want to hear what i want to hear when I want to hear it" but if you're open to variety, you should consider the streams.
Sorry, but I think in this case Yahoo's presentation is cleaner and more usable than the old geocities site. I know people 'round here like to jizz all over Google, but the fact is that Yahoo has improved the clutter greatly. Google is still my primary search engine, but I visited yahoo the other day and was fairly impressed. Compare their current page with this or this. Their yellow pages/maps served me better than google's offerings for my most recent visit *gasp*.
Say what you want about Yahoo, but I work in a university computer lab and I see people spend oodles of time over at launch (remember when they were a cd mag?) and YahooGames. They've got more eyeballs and spend more on R&D and more profitable than Google. See?
Having said that, it's hard to see how they could possibly integrate Flickr properly but don't discount them offhand because they are not "teh g00gle"
What really irks me is that they do not give you the option when shiping new macs. I mean how hard could it be to offer a logitech three-button mouse from a drop down menu? Or select no mouse at all and -$10 the price. I've seen the box of apple mice at a computer lab outfitted with two-button mice with scrollwheels. It just seems like a waste.
Check out allmusic.com. It is simply the best guide to music I have come across. Extensive catalog (I have a hard time stumping it with an unknown band) well-written histories and links to similar artists and related projects. Plus the mood awareness is excellent. Seriously, try it out today.