Oh excuse me. No, but seriously it proves the point that I have always seend with things like napster. Many people dont just use it in place of cds, they use it in addition to cds. Whether as a decision factor in making a purchase (which is understandable with high cd prices) or as an easy alternative for home listening for cd owners, most folks do not know how to rip a cd to mp3s, (enter napster). The freedom of not having to keep popping in cds and archaicley (sp) searching through your 100+1 or 5 disk cd changer can be a real pain in the ass and it will hopefully be presented in napster's case. Things have to change.
I dont see how this would be useful with it's current price tag. $280 is quite a bit for only 64 megs of space when you can go with a RIO for quite a bit cheaper. If they can actually put out an affordable player that can handle cds or a small hd, then we are in business, hell how about a laptop hard drive module that can not only play mp3s, but also share space w/ the palm.
I have found that for me, some of the best resources for figuring out php lie at php.net's own site. The samples provided by many of the php users worldwide have proven more than helpful and helped me code my first complex app in one day. I suggest that if you care to learn it, you may want to look at the site and try it out before you sink another $35 on a book you may only use for reference once every 6 months. If your not picking it up quickly then by all means hop on down to the nearest Borders.
Searchable websites seem to be a little quicker than the index.
Largely overlooked is the fact that the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) of ICANN is also electing one board member.
The DNSO is arguable the most significant part of ICANN because it now makes the decisions whether to open up new gTLD's, and what standards are used worldwide to deprive people of their domain names when challenged by trademark owners. (In case you haven't noticed, the press increasingly refers to the process of hijacking domain names as being maintained by the "United Nations". It isn't -- it's ICANN, and it is run by trademark owners.)
The race in the DNSO is lively because it pits James Love, a consumer advocate, against entrenched trademark interests. Go to www.dnso.org and do review all the candidates.
One thing I picked up on about this article which kind of stood out to me was that the only placebo they used was for a glucose solution. Nothing for the potatoes or barley, and there was only an 8% increase in memory from the real glucose solution (which was what this article was attributing to increased memory), a negligable ammount.
I am not sure what some other folks have used, but I ran a shoutcast setup for public use when winamp first debuted. I had two machines, my win98 box which would stream the mp3s (This particular machine had 3 cdroms and 10gigs of storage so a nice selection of mp3s) and one pentium 166 linux server running slack 3.0.
I managed to make the top 10 on the shoutcast charts a few times, all being served over one Mediaone Cable Modem. When the load got really bad I would have a friend put up a mirror.
Okay, the subject line will get me a wierd look to begin with. What I would really like to see is a one handed keyboard layout (based somewhere mid center on the keyboard). I often find myself typing with only one hand (more laughing from anyone reading this) Not just for that, but for mouse / coffee / anything else with my other hand. I find typing with one hand, either left or right, doesn't matter is possible with qwerty, but a pain in the butt. Real world example (without purchasing phone headset) say you are talking on the phone, you can try balancing it on your shoulder, which kind of works but leaves you totally lopsided and goes against all computer posture standards. Typing becomes labored, (ENTER ONE HANDED KEYBOARD LAYOUT) Right now im sitting with my feet on my desk, keyboard on knees and both hands typing, if I want to get a drink or call someone im stuck with a tough layout. (ENTER ONE HANDED KEYBOARD LAYOUT) Anyone know if such a keyboard setup exists? That would make my life quite simple.
I disagree, you are assuming that dotcomnow.com is a name that means something, it really doesn't. For your statement to hold water it would mean all domain owners use this address.
Dont get me wrong, NSI is very boneheaded for providing accounts and default passwords based on the domain, but anyone who takes it as a legit contact address for a company needs to think about it a little.
Think about it this way, not much is out there to stop you from picking username@mydomain.com as your return address. I could always post your email address in my preferences in slashdot or send abusive email with your address as my return address and it would look semi-legit unless you look at the headers.
This is simply an NSI plan to work on paranoya of the internet community to get what they really want. If everyone logs on and changes their password and even half of those that make the change start using it as an email account, NSI simply gets what they wanted and can now say, 80% of domain owners use this as an email account.
Dont fall into the trap:P NSI is a sneaky and crooked business, thank god we are starting to get other registrars.
Why does anybody care? What if I register microsoft@hotmail.com, it means dick. Dont get your panties in a ruffle its not like anyone can change your registration info on the domain from one of these.
Who cares if someone grabs slashdot@dotcommailnow.com ooh they really look like they are from slashdot.org. Cmon guys thats like getting mad at someone for using slashdot.mydomain.com.
Okay, what are the side effects of being exposed to a constant bombardment of this type of energy, could this be lethal? Will the bird building its nest on the detectors be fried? I don't know enough about dangerous forms of energy, but the xray post about communications made me think about using these things for communication, hence the thought of danger, if I recall correctly x-rays aren't the best to have shot on you;)
Well, that airport photo looked great in the article. I wonder what it's real potential is:) I would be intriuged to see what we can really do with satelite imagery (and how they would avoid problems such as clouds. Will Seattle or a smoggy location not work?
The hype has become annoying at best. Maybe I should sink in and go with it all, but I just dont't feel that urge I originally felt when I first heard about it. Im sure the movie is great, not the best, but nothing can top the originals. I am quite sure however that this movie will be accepted as a classic if not at first, in the future.
Well, maybe I missed something here or I hang out with people who are not considered average computer users (non-power-users). The kind of person who knows how to print, use the word processor and turn it on, etc. From my experience I could see this person totally floundering around.
Lets say the computer has already been installed and your novice user is staring a logon prompt in the face: 3 questions come to mind:
1. What is this? 2. What do I type? 3. Whats the password?
And there thinking (man this is tough)
So you get them logged in, how about a few more questions:
1. Alright I see a $, now what? 2. Where is the mouse and graphics? 3. Where is netscape/whatever browser/app? 4. where are my files? 5. I want to open "XYZ" off my floppy drive, how?
Okay so you get them in X and there thinking damn I gotta type startx to go in alright thats a pisser, but I can deal. So logon / password, startx.
1. Now im in this windows thing, wheres my word processor?
2. What, I have to download it? How do I do that?
3. Configure my ppp account? what?
Okay ill do that for them also?
4. Im online, where's netscape? What its not on here?
5. How do I use ftp / ncftp / lynx / etc to get it?
Okay I do that...
6. How do I install it?
Rtfm peon! Alright ill install that also
7. Okay I have it now I can get my word processor.
8. Got it how do I install it?
tar -zxvf filename ; wp./install (whatever it is, haven't installed it in a while)
9. wtf was that? nevermind I dont care!
10. okay I got it im all set, at least the printer was easy to setup.
Ovbiously this is probably a worst case type scenario but I can deffinetly see it as a possibilty. Im not a novice I dont know what joe average computer user is going to think when he is staring linux in the face, but the author of the article has a very good, and often overstated point, it is geek love, it is a hacker os, its not for everyone and if it ever becomes that way, its not for a long time to come.
For that type of ease of use were going to need to come a long way from the old redhat / slack / suse / debian installs and upgrades. text only is not really gonna cut it for the install and it better be damn intuitive and explain itself well if thats the case. I found the article by the average user at slate to be very good. And a good read.
So I love my linux, but the dude next door, my mother, father and friends are not gonna be able to do shit with it. I can deal with that, its a problem and we can deal with it till it gets better.
Maybe internet2 is just a bad name to use for this network. It seems to give everyone the wrong idea of the whole thing. It sounds like a great idea, and a valuable tool for research and the sharing of ideas, but saying the words internet two is like promising a sequal that will never happen. A fragmentation of that magnitude could never happen (and isn't apparently the idea of it either) but it is very implied.
Anyways, the internet is always evolving, this bandwidth will reach us all eventually.
Flame away if you desire, respond intelligently if you can. If not, cool just my thoughts.
Oh how sweet it would be to finally play some DVD movies in Linux. This sounds like a great step to me, maybe this will spark a growing trend for some of the other uptight hardware companies out there.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh excuse me. No, but seriously it proves the point that I have always seend with things like napster. Many people dont just use it in place of cds, they use it in addition to cds. Whether as a decision factor in making a purchase (which is understandable with high cd prices) or as an easy alternative for home listening for cd owners, most folks do not know how to rip a cd to mp3s, (enter napster). The freedom of not having to keep popping in cds and archaicley (sp) searching through your 100+1 or 5 disk cd changer can be a real pain in the ass and it will hopefully be presented in napster's case. Things have to change.
Its a tool not a torture device for RIAA goons.
-Adam
Searchable websites seem to be a little quicker than the index.
Largely overlooked is the fact that the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) of ICANN is also electing one board member.
The DNSO is arguable the most significant part of ICANN because it now makes the decisions whether to open up new gTLD's, and what standards are used worldwide to deprive people of their domain names when challenged by trademark owners. (In case you haven't noticed, the press increasingly refers to the process of hijacking domain names as being maintained by the "United Nations". It isn't -- it's ICANN, and it is run by trademark owners.)
The race in the DNSO is lively because it pits James Love, a consumer advocate, against entrenched trademark interests. Go to www.dnso.org and do review all the candidates.
One thing I picked up on about this article which kind of stood out to me was that the only placebo they used was for a glucose solution. Nothing for the potatoes or barley, and there was only an 8% increase in memory from the real glucose solution (which was what this article was attributing to increased memory), a negligable ammount.
So is it really the glucose? or something else?
-Adam
I am not sure what some other folks have used, but I ran a shoutcast setup for public use when winamp first debuted. I had two machines, my win98 box which would stream the mp3s (This particular machine had 3 cdroms and 10gigs of storage so a nice selection of mp3s) and one pentium 166 linux server running slack 3.0.
I managed to make the top 10 on the shoutcast charts a few times, all being served over one Mediaone Cable Modem. When the load got really bad I would have a friend put up a mirror.
Okay, the subject line will get me a wierd look to begin with. What I would really like to see is a one handed keyboard layout (based somewhere mid center on the keyboard). I often find myself typing with only one hand (more laughing from anyone reading this) Not just for that, but for mouse / coffee / anything else with my other hand. I find typing with one hand, either left or right, doesn't matter is possible with qwerty, but a pain in the butt. Real world example (without purchasing phone headset) say you are talking on the phone, you can try balancing it on your shoulder, which kind of works but leaves you totally lopsided and goes against all computer posture standards. Typing becomes labored, (ENTER ONE HANDED KEYBOARD LAYOUT) Right now im sitting with my feet on my desk, keyboard on knees and both hands typing, if I want to get a drink or call someone im stuck with a tough layout. (ENTER ONE HANDED KEYBOARD LAYOUT) Anyone know if such a keyboard setup exists? That would make my life quite simple.
I disagree, you are assuming that dotcomnow.com is a name that means something, it really doesn't. For your statement to hold water it would mean all domain owners use this address.
:P NSI is a sneaky and crooked business, thank god we are starting to get other registrars.
Dont get me wrong, NSI is very boneheaded for providing accounts and default passwords based on the domain, but anyone who takes it as a legit contact address for a company needs to think about it a little.
Think about it this way, not much is out there to stop you from picking username@mydomain.com as your return address. I could always post your email address in my preferences in slashdot or send abusive email with your address as my return address and it would look semi-legit unless you look at the headers.
This is simply an NSI plan to work on paranoya of the internet community to get what they really want. If everyone logs on and changes their password and even half of those that make the change start using it as an email account, NSI simply gets what they wanted and can now say, 80% of domain owners use this as an email account.
Dont fall into the trap
-Adam
Why does anybody care? What if I register microsoft@hotmail.com, it means dick. Dont get your panties in a ruffle its not like anyone can change your registration info on the domain from one of these.
Who cares if someone grabs slashdot@dotcommailnow.com ooh they really look like they are from slashdot.org. Cmon guys thats like getting mad at someone for using slashdot.mydomain.com.
-Adam
Okay, what are the side effects of being exposed to a constant bombardment of this type of energy, could this be lethal? Will the bird building its nest on the detectors be fried? I don't know enough about dangerous forms of energy, but the xray post about communications made me think about using these things for communication, hence the thought of danger, if I recall correctly x-rays aren't the best to have shot on you ;)
Well, that airport photo looked great in the article. I wonder what it's real potential is :) I would be intriuged to see what we can really do with satelite imagery (and how they would avoid problems such as clouds. Will Seattle or a smoggy location not work?
Just a thought.
-Adam
The hype has become annoying at best. Maybe I should sink in and go with it all, but I just dont't feel that urge I originally felt when I first heard about it. Im sure the movie is great, not the best, but nothing can top the originals. I am quite sure however that this movie will be accepted as a classic if not at first, in the future.
Well, maybe I missed something here or I hang out with people who are not considered average computer users (non-power-users). The kind of person who knows how to print, use the word processor and turn it on, etc. From my experience I could see this person totally floundering around.
./install (whatever it is, haven't installed it in a while)
Lets say the computer has already been installed and your novice user is staring a logon prompt in the face: 3 questions come to mind:
1. What is this?
2. What do I type?
3. Whats the password?
And there thinking (man this is tough)
So you get them logged in, how about a few more questions:
1. Alright I see a $, now what?
2. Where is the mouse and graphics?
3. Where is netscape/whatever browser/app?
4. where are my files?
5. I want to open "XYZ" off my floppy drive, how?
Okay so you get them in X and there thinking damn I gotta type startx to go in alright thats a pisser, but I can deal. So logon / password, startx.
1. Now im in this windows thing, wheres my word processor?
2. What, I have to download it? How do I do that?
3. Configure my ppp account? what?
Okay ill do that for them also?
4. Im online, where's netscape? What its not on here?
5. How do I use ftp / ncftp / lynx / etc to get it?
Okay I do that...
6. How do I install it?
Rtfm peon! Alright ill install that also
7. Okay I have it now I can get my word processor.
8. Got it how do I install it?
tar -zxvf filename ; wp
9. wtf was that? nevermind I dont care!
10. okay I got it im all set, at least the printer was easy to setup.
Ovbiously this is probably a worst case type scenario but I can deffinetly see it as a possibilty. Im not a novice I dont know what joe average computer user is going to think when he is staring linux in the face, but the author of the article has a very good, and often overstated point, it is geek love, it is a hacker os, its not for everyone and if it ever becomes that way, its not for a long time to come.
For that type of ease of use were going to need to come a long way from the old redhat / slack / suse / debian installs and upgrades. text only is not really gonna cut it for the install and it better be damn intuitive and explain itself well if thats the case. I found the article by the average user at slate to be very good. And a good read.
So I love my linux, but the dude next door, my mother, father and friends are not gonna be able to do shit with it. I can deal with that, its a problem and we can deal with it till it gets better.
-Adam
I guess its a bit of a Gee-Whiz feature, but how difficult would it be to implement a counter for how many times you have loaded slashdot in:
/. etc. (although that might be a bit harder :))
a day
a week
a month
a year
How many minutes of your life do you spend on
Anyways just a thought.
-Adam
The RIAA is going to have to taste reality rsn...
Wonder if this means we see some playstation emus for linux by sony :)
Maybe internet2 is just a bad name to use for this network. It seems to give everyone the wrong idea of the whole thing. It sounds like a great idea, and a valuable tool for research and the sharing of ideas, but saying the words internet two is like promising a sequal that will never happen. A fragmentation of that magnitude could never happen (and isn't apparently the idea of it either) but it is very implied.
Anyways, the internet is always evolving, this bandwidth will reach us all eventually.
Flame away if you desire, respond intelligently if you can. If not, cool just my thoughts.
Oh how sweet it would be to finally play some DVD movies in Linux. This sounds like a great step to me, maybe this will spark a growing trend for some of the other uptight hardware companies out there.