Why start people by adding ultra bright leds? You sit in a dim room with an all black keyboard, and a blue led burns your eyes if you dare to look at the kbd?
v
Coal is made of carbon. that is. Coal gas is made by a reaction where carbon takes the oxygen from water (h2o), and the result is co2 and h2. So you nearly burn the coal (like in the old days), but instead of getting heat, you get hidrogen.
agree.
also please note, that the ratio of "business computer usage" and home/entertainment usage was a bit different in the time amiga came. when people are talking about computer sales, they start talking about walmart pc-s and home entertainment systems, and web browsing. the home usage will overcome the business usage, and MS may happen to remain a business sw vendor, and nothing more.
vajk
I go a step further: The camera is a tool in the hands of the photographer. He has purchased it. How comes the manufacturer tries to retain whatever right over the product the photographer creates using his own tool.
Sounds like if the maker of a printer would try to restrict my rights to the documents that i print with the machine i have purchased.
I have a tricky idea for funding the hosting/bandwidth itself:
When i buy aninternet connection, i pay basically for bandwidth. There are plans for GB downloaded, and others for bandwidth.
So what if we would interpret the price of the bandwidth not only as a price for the download speed, but as a price for the content?
- When an end user pays for bandwidth, they would pay for the data transfer service, and also for the content coming. Also if he provides outgoing content, that gets deducted.
- When a content provider connects to the internet (like IEEE), he pays for the bandwidth, and also for the net consumed content. (he will provide more, so the net will be in his favour)
- When two ISPs build an interconnect/peering, they buy the bandwidth, and also have some king of Giro/clearing for the net content provided.
This would encourage all to provide content and provide income to the net contributors. Of course not all content worths the same ber MB, but there still would be paysites.
It is obvious that whatever kind of cable you put in, it will not be suitable for the newst stuff.
So put in pipes wherever you would put cables, and you can pull in the right cable when time comes.
Here i can buy a cheap plastic pipe that is especially for wire, used by electricians, easy to bend and cheap. Maybe you have similar, i can invent a new use for some other cheap pipes.
vajk
Anyone who uses a cellphone for more than a week knows, that you _never_ dial a number on your cellphone. There is the phonebok! Nobody will want to use a paper phonebook or memorize numbers of relatives and friends anymore. When you are out in town, you use your cellphone with the built in phonebook, and when you are home you revert to dialing 12 digit numbers? You have to admit that this will never be popular.
Id as a codebook is ok. Just the codebook is being used by me myself and I. It is not gonna handled by a computer that runs programs from a zillion of vendors, some i do not even know about. Would you insert your codebook into a public "codebook handling terminal"?
All this is about who has control. By moving away of good ols paper based solutions, we lose control! I want to make the decision if i want to handle my identity over or not. And i want to be sure that the website i access does not access my SSN number. By being sure i mean sure. Not that Bill promises it will not get it, i want to be as sure as i am right now with my ID card in my back pocket.
2. What if we would start moving towards a society, where eveone accepts that a camera is only a technical aid for your visual memory, and a voice recorder is just using technology to improve your voice memory?
You could simpley state that everybody has the right to use technical means to record what he is allowed to see or hear. If i show my face to you, you can see it, and can make a photo too. If i do not want you to see my face, i will hide it. This would transform the movie, music industries, law enforcement and all that.
Sounds futuristic, but will not be avoided as implants come...
vaj
Windows will not run on it, but that does nto matter.
You have to realize, that PCs are no more the high tech in the computer industry. The fastest mass produced CPU on earth was in a PC in the '80s, in the '90s, but not nowadays.
Just like the most PCs were sold for engineering/scientific uses, than this shifted to business administration, and is shifting to households. And will then probably shift to the trashcan. Microsoft was doing all these shifts together with the PC industry, and as the revenue is moving to consoles/dvd players/entertainment centers microsoft is trying to move with it. MS may be successfull. The x86 will die. Applications and sw support was important for engineering, was for office use, is for home/internet use, but is much a simpler question with consoles.
I do not say the PC will die, but it will never more be high-tech. Just like there are very sophisticated alloys, still hacksaws are made of good old steel, because nobody would pay 10 times for the ultra modern alloy.
vajk
As a European i regularly receive similar questions at all kinds of borders. In Russia you are usually asked to show the written confirmation of the hotel you are going to stay.
And yes, the US passport control guys do like to talk about why did you come, who you are going to meet, where are you going to stay, and so on.
Was never asked by an airline thogh. That's baffling...
v
This is sad. If a corporation is a person just like me, that's pretty bad for me. I have only two hands while a corp. has many. Sure they will beat me.
vajk
Guns are useful for hunting and all kinds of different stuff, still a gatling maschine gun has no other use than killing people in a war.
BitTorrent is a great way of distributing stuff. The only need for decentralized tracking servers is to hide the source. Which is only desirable in case of unlawful content.
As in the above example, if wifimaps want to distribute maps using BT, they can set up their own tracking server. The only issue with that is that it wil be well known that the maps are coming from them.
HTTP does not provide a means for finding a file or others content. Still it became popular, has a ton of uses, and all people use it. Nobody thinks HTTP should be extended in a way that it works as a search engine.
The huge difference between bittorrent and other p2p file sharing systems is, that while both help someone with limited bandwidth to publish large files, bittorrent does not anonymize the source. Just like HTTP does not hide the source. There is not much legitimate need to hide the source.
So this will kill bittorrent, pull it to the dungeons of kazaa, emule and the others.
This tactic will encourage people not to mess with recording shows but downloading them from the internet. Who cares i have to wait a day or to till i can download it, i wanted to see it only later anyway.
The more troublesome they make recording, the more people will download. Just like with copy protected cds. If i cannot play a cd i bought on my laptop, i may download it from some file sharing network. After i downloaded it, i may ask myself: why the hell did i pay for this??(of course because i _like_ the band)
we have to develop a law definition language.
then get it widely adopted, and get it mandatory for all licenses to be shown in this language.
then we could have automated evaluation methods, comparision, etc.
I would not call elegant to have a book that comes with a CD, software and a google that looks like WR helmet from the '80s.
Especially as the full functionality could be provided with a bare CD a webcam and some sort of head mounted display. The book that is advertised as the key componnet is really unnecessary.
This is a big piece of _nothing_.
The ehh "technology" is about recognising white squares in the book, and overlaying 3d images at the blanks. The article did not mention, but I guess the 3d info is on the cupplied CD. So the only piece of innovation I see here is using a white square in a book as a 3d input device. Why would i want to use their book as an input device for the 3d video as a background? Why don't they put the backgroud ont he CD also, and voila, no need for a book. Any sheet of blank paper will do.
vajk
And non of your paying customers can be 100% sure that the software will be working next morning when they have some super urgent work/close deadline/contractual obligation to do.
I would never like to depend on software that does depend on others to work.
Actually sniffing my key and submitting it to your server would make a DOS attack that i cannot avoid.
I do not know how it works for you in US, but here in Europe, i can by a phone from any manufacturer, and use it with any providers service.
If i want a phone with camera, a red phone, a water resistant one, one with built in mp3 player, one that is round, one that is rectangular, one that is triangular, i can choose! Still some providers think this is bad as they do not profit on the sale fo the device. Still this is good for them, as the mere fact that people can find a device they like makes it possible for them to use their service.
vajk
This really resembles me to the general open/closed protocol/network/infrastructure battle.
Imagine how it would like if your telco would say he will do all he can to prevent you connecting any third party device to his lines?
Or Shell and Ford would make agreements that Fords will have special fill ports that can only be used with the special fill stations at Shell. They would even go after guys modding their cars to have the standard port, as that is unsafe.
This step of Google is a clear anti competition movement. The free email providers who give free pop3/imap access enabling usage of hundreds of email clients will bring competition, and force google to allow similar access.
vajk
Would you please enlighten me on how an XSLT job operating on a structure like above and showing all the employees who have a salary over 100k, having more than 20 directs and have travelled in the past 12 months look like? Also please include their manages names and phone numbers int he result. And what performance it would have?
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Why start people by adding ultra bright leds? You sit in a dim room with an all black keyboard, and a blue led burns your eyes if you dare to look at the kbd? v
Hey man!
Coal is made of carbon. that is.
Coal gas is made by a reaction where carbon takes the oxygen from water (h2o), and the result is co2 and h2. So you nearly burn the coal (like in the old days), but instead of getting heat, you get hidrogen.
vajk
agree. also please note, that the ratio of "business computer usage" and home/entertainment usage was a bit different in the time amiga came. when people are talking about computer sales, they start talking about walmart pc-s and home entertainment systems, and web browsing. the home usage will overcome the business usage, and MS may happen to remain a business sw vendor, and nothing more. vajk
I go a step further:
The camera is a tool in the hands of the photographer. He has purchased it. How comes the manufacturer tries to retain whatever right over the product the photographer creates using his own tool.
Sounds like if the maker of a printer would try to restrict my rights to the documents that i print with the machine i have purchased.
Totally insane.
vajk
I have a tricky idea for funding the hosting/bandwidth itself:
When i buy aninternet connection, i pay basically for bandwidth. There are plans for GB downloaded, and others for bandwidth.
So what if we would interpret the price of the bandwidth not only as a price for the download speed, but as a price for the content?
- When an end user pays for bandwidth, they would pay for the data transfer service, and also for the content coming. Also if he provides outgoing content, that gets deducted.
- When a content provider connects to the internet (like IEEE), he pays for the bandwidth, and also for the net consumed content. (he will provide more, so the net will be in his favour)
- When two ISPs build an interconnect/peering, they buy the bandwidth, and also have some king of Giro/clearing for the net content provided.
This would encourage all to provide content and provide income to the net contributors. Of course not all content worths the same ber MB, but there still would be paysites.
What do you think?
vajk
It is obvious that whatever kind of cable you put in, it will not be suitable for the newst stuff. So put in pipes wherever you would put cables, and you can pull in the right cable when time comes. Here i can buy a cheap plastic pipe that is especially for wire, used by electricians, easy to bend and cheap. Maybe you have similar, i can invent a new use for some other cheap pipes. vajk
This cellsocket is a complete faliure.
Anyone who uses a cellphone for more than a week knows, that you _never_ dial a number on your cellphone. There is the phonebok! Nobody will want to use a paper phonebook or memorize numbers of relatives and friends anymore. When you are out in town, you use your cellphone with the built in phonebook, and when you are home you revert to dialing 12 digit numbers? You have to admit that this will never be popular.
vajk
All this is about who has control. By moving away of good ols paper based solutions, we lose control! I want to make the decision if i want to handle my identity over or not. And i want to be sure that the website i access does not access my SSN number. By being sure i mean sure. Not that Bill promises it will not get it, i want to be as sure as i am right now with my ID card in my back pocket.
vajk
2. What if we would start moving towards a society, where eveone accepts that a camera is only a technical aid for your visual memory, and a voice recorder is just using technology to improve your voice memory?
You could simpley state that everybody has the right to use technical means to record what he is allowed to see or hear. If i show my face to you, you can see it, and can make a photo too. If i do not want you to see my face, i will hide it. This would transform the movie, music industries, law enforcement and all that.
Sounds futuristic, but will not be avoided as implants come... vaj
You have to realize, that PCs are no more the high tech in the computer industry. The fastest mass produced CPU on earth was in a PC in the '80s, in the '90s, but not nowadays.
Just like the most PCs were sold for engineering/scientific uses, than this shifted to business administration, and is shifting to households. And will then probably shift to the trashcan. Microsoft was doing all these shifts together with the PC industry, and as the revenue is moving to consoles/dvd players/entertainment centers microsoft is trying to move with it. MS may be successfull. The x86 will die. Applications and sw support was important for engineering, was for office use, is for home/internet use, but is much a simpler question with consoles.
I do not say the PC will die, but it will never more be high-tech. Just like there are very sophisticated alloys, still hacksaws are made of good old steel, because nobody would pay 10 times for the ultra modern alloy. vajk
As a European i regularly receive similar questions at all kinds of borders. In Russia you are usually asked to show the written confirmation of the hotel you are going to stay. And yes, the US passport control guys do like to talk about why did you come, who you are going to meet, where are you going to stay, and so on. Was never asked by an airline thogh. That's baffling... v
This is sad.
If a corporation is a person just like me, that's pretty bad for me.
I have only two hands while a corp. has many. Sure they will beat me. vajk
You are close but not there.
Guns are useful for hunting and all kinds of different stuff, still a gatling maschine gun has no other use than killing people in a war.
BitTorrent is a great way of distributing stuff. The only need for decentralized tracking servers is to hide the source. Which is only desirable in case of unlawful content.
As in the above example, if wifimaps want to distribute maps using BT, they can set up their own tracking server. The only issue with that is that it wil be well known that the maps are coming from them.
vajk
The CEOs of the Railway companis for transporting criminals.
The managers of several hotels for hiding criminals.
This is insane. vajk
The huge difference between bittorrent and other p2p file sharing systems is, that while both help someone with limited bandwidth to publish large files, bittorrent does not anonymize the source. Just like HTTP does not hide the source. There is not much legitimate need to hide the source.
So this will kill bittorrent, pull it to the dungeons of kazaa, emule and the others.
I think so.
vajk
The more troublesome they make recording, the more people will download. Just like with copy protected cds. If i cannot play a cd i bought on my laptop, i may download it from some file sharing network. After i downloaded it, i may ask myself: why the hell did i pay for this??(of course because i _like_ the band)
vajk
Either the postoffice captures your mail, and handles that over to the company running the campaing. (including your own personal mail!)
Or your mailbox gets stuffed with the enrollments.
Maybe it would be better if you are allowed to choose. vajk
we have to develop a law definition language.
then get it widely adopted, and get it mandatory for all licenses to be shown in this language.
then we could have automated evaluation methods, comparision, etc.
The 3U box can only hold 16pcs of 300G disks max, that is about 5T. The 67T can only be achieved with additional boxes of course. v
Especially as the full functionality could be provided with a bare CD a webcam and some sort of head mounted display. The book that is advertised as the key componnet is really unnecessary.
vajk
This is a big piece of _nothing_. The ehh "technology" is about recognising white squares in the book, and overlaying 3d images at the blanks. The article did not mention, but I guess the 3d info is on the cupplied CD. So the only piece of innovation I see here is using a white square in a book as a 3d input device. Why would i want to use their book as an input device for the 3d video as a background? Why don't they put the backgroud ont he CD also, and voila, no need for a book. Any sheet of blank paper will do. vajk
And non of your paying customers can be 100% sure that the software will be working next morning when they have some super urgent work/close deadline/contractual obligation to do. I would never like to depend on software that does depend on others to work. Actually sniffing my key and submitting it to your server would make a DOS attack that i cannot avoid.
I do not know how it works for you in US, but here in Europe, i can by a phone from any manufacturer, and use it with any providers service. If i want a phone with camera, a red phone, a water resistant one, one with built in mp3 player, one that is round, one that is rectangular, one that is triangular, i can choose! Still some providers think this is bad as they do not profit on the sale fo the device. Still this is good for them, as the mere fact that people can find a device they like makes it possible for them to use their service. vajk
This really resembles me to the general open/closed protocol/network/infrastructure battle. Imagine how it would like if your telco would say he will do all he can to prevent you connecting any third party device to his lines? Or Shell and Ford would make agreements that Fords will have special fill ports that can only be used with the special fill stations at Shell. They would even go after guys modding their cars to have the standard port, as that is unsafe. This step of Google is a clear anti competition movement. The free email providers who give free pop3/imap access enabling usage of hundreds of email clients will bring competition, and force google to allow similar access. vajk
Would you please enlighten me on how an XSLT job operating on a structure like above and showing all the employees who have a salary over 100k, having more than 20 directs and have travelled in the past 12 months look like? Also please include their manages names and phone numbers int he result. And what performance it would have? me