10 The FSF (re)defines what constitutes free.
20 People/companies/user/developers try to corrupt and blur software freedom using whatever means they can think of.
30 Goto 10
You are free to hit break if you don't like this loop but do realize it's been integral in getting us where we are today.
but this dream at least has fall-back potential. Upon first reading the headline, I thought, "Yeah, game programming is like trying to become a professional sports player. Glamorous and lucrative, yes, but highly unlikely given the # of spots and interested individuals."
But this is different. In programming, if you can't work on games, you can work on websites or accounting systems, or make pie charts. Not necessarily sexy but they'll pay the bills. A lot more than being a high school coach. The common thread whatever your endeavour is hard work. So sit down and code. If you're lucky, Blizzard'll come calling.
Is there some reason why they aren't asking Time Warner, Cox, AT&T and others each about their practices? The best reason I can think of is that Comcast was caught sending the RSTs.
If the internet is to be free of this sort of tainted service, the protocols that the internet was built on need to be followed and implemented in good faith. Any deviations need to be made crystal clear so we consumers and businesses can make informed decisions about the tradeoffs. Comcast, I'm not just looking at you.
Cyberwar is global. What's to stop widespread vigilante justice against either side? What's to stop US or Chinese hackers from joining in independently to fight on the side they choose? When does blogspot or the Estonian site become the target?
I think saving these people will have the right effect. Some of them will undoubtedly want to give back and perhaps go into AIDS and HIV education. If some of the money saved by lowering health costs could be added to the mix we could have a real net positive beyond just prolonging "normal life" of the afflicted.
1. Combine all feeds into one stream with some way to tell which service provided each item.
2. Post replies like email does, back to the service that provided the item you're replying too.
3. Have a post to all services option.
4. Keep a local cache of all these messages, the social graph, and allow export to csv or to another service.
5. Laconi.ca support.
6. Rules that let the user selectively forward items via sms.
The main problem we have is getting mass from into space which takes a whole lot of energy. That's why it's so important that we do the right thing with every molecule we have put up there.
The next logical step for the ISS is develop the capability for it to repair itself. That means being able to fabricate replacement parts, repair what breaks, and to build new things by intelligently scrapping and remodeling the old and useless. Convert those labs into mini-factories. They'll definitely need one of these.
In addition, and I'm just paraphrasing a video I saw of "Maddog" Hall talking, their business model and the ecology of companies(i.e. the VAR channels) are incompatible with them selling services. In they did start selling services, they'd have one hell of an advantage and would be pissing off all the people who help to sell, install and maintain their software. So they're pretty darn invested in just selling those boxes. Piss off the VARs and there's a world of free software for those VARs to switch to.
then what Shuttleworth is suggesting is the idea of seasons. If everyone can get on the same page a couple times a year, the rest of the time they can go do their migration, vacationing, rewrites, refactoring, day-jobs, etc. If it makes sense for mother nature, it might just make sense for our software ecosystem.
We banned YouTube too. Well not we, she. In any case it's off limits. Too subversive of her power she says. Oh well. It's good to know Pakistani's feel my pain.
Yes, it's going to use some power...but I would compare this to teaching a man how to fish rather than handing him one. This energy will be an investment in all sorts of efficiencies in the future. That is, if the computing time is allocated efficiently.
We shouldn't need to purchase spectrum. We should purchase some lobbyists and maybe start some kind of calling campaign so the next useful chunk of spectrum will not be sold to the highest bidder. Instead it should be reserved like a national park for the public good...except instead of allowing us to enjoy the outdoors take hikes, collect our thoughts, this resource will grease the wheels of business, society and innovation.
Please oh please, can we start working on an open source(wimax) router with two bands(backbone and local) so we can build our own huge mesh network and say buh-bye to ISPs forever? We don't need your email address, we don't need your antivirus software, we do not need your bills, and finally we don't need you messing with our connections. That is all.
The most entertaining way to keep children away from inappropriate content is to quiz them on things only adults would know. Of course, if a kid knows how to google for answers it may not work so well but there must still be some questions most adults know but for which google can't provide a solid answer. Not that I can think of any of those questions. If you can think of any please reply.
The central problem is that adult content providers(which could just be some guy with a big hard drive and the ability to upload to a youtube clone) have an incentive to make it simple to access their content if only for the ad revenues. So maybe the best way to attack this is via the advertising. Don't block the content. Block getting paid for posting the content in a form that's too easy for minors to access.
Much of the project will showcase a network that makes the house "smart" and follows family members from room to room - even adjusting artwork - to preset personal preferences.
Does anyone get the feeling that we're all increasingly seeing what we want to see? Headphones and ipods mean we're less often exposed to the music of our parents, friends, and coworkers. We all go to our own favorite websites to check news(be it factual, entertaining, or agreeable) or socialize or whatever. We spend hours and hours in whole virtual worlds that are difficult to appreciate or explain without having spent those many hours there.
While I think it would be awesome to see the art and decor transform depending on who walks into a room...this just highlights to me that we may become more disconnected from each other as we optimize the digital world to our own personal likes. Not that it's bad...maybe we were all meant to relate to each other through screens, keyboards, and mice. Maybe the benefit of the digital world is that it provides a better way to share experience when we choose. Either way, it's good to recognize what's going on.
Nice post. That should be required reading in internet class. So the question arises, how much does a pole router upgrade cost for Comcast on a per subscriber basis?
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10 The FSF (re)defines what constitutes free.
20 People/companies/user/developers try to corrupt and blur software freedom using whatever means they can think of.
30 Goto 10
You are free to hit break if you don't like this loop but do realize it's been integral in getting us where we are today.
you can do a search on Tweet Scan like this:
http://tweetscan.com/index.php?s=obama+OR+biden+palin+mccain
but this dream at least has fall-back potential. Upon first reading the headline, I thought, "Yeah, game programming is like trying to become a professional sports player. Glamorous and lucrative, yes, but highly unlikely given the # of spots and interested individuals."
But this is different. In programming, if you can't work on games, you can work on websites or accounting systems, or make pie charts. Not necessarily sexy but they'll pay the bills. A lot more than being a high school coach. The common thread whatever your endeavour is hard work. So sit down and code. If you're lucky, Blizzard'll come calling.
In order of decreasing trauma...
Virtual Childhood
Virtual Public Education
Virtual DMV
Virtual Waterboarding
This is what I thought. Probably GB rather than TB but what's 3 orders of magnitude anyway. This is news!!
OTOH, maybe there's a series of tubes in there.
Is there some reason why they aren't asking Time Warner, Cox, AT&T and others each about their practices? The best reason I can think of is that Comcast was caught sending the RSTs.
If the internet is to be free of this sort of tainted service, the protocols that the internet was built on need to be followed and implemented in good faith. Any deviations need to be made crystal clear so we consumers and businesses can make informed decisions about the tradeoffs. Comcast, I'm not just looking at you.
Cyberwar is global. What's to stop widespread vigilante justice against either side? What's to stop US or Chinese hackers from joining in independently to fight on the side they choose? When does blogspot or the Estonian site become the target?
I think saving these people will have the right effect. Some of them will undoubtedly want to give back and perhaps go into AIDS and HIV education. If some of the money saved by lowering health costs could be added to the mix we could have a real net positive beyond just prolonging "normal life" of the afflicted.
1. Combine all feeds into one stream with some way to tell which service provided each item.
2. Post replies like email does, back to the service that provided the item you're replying too.
3. Have a post to all services option.
4. Keep a local cache of all these messages, the social graph, and allow export to csv or to another service.
5. Laconi.ca support.
6. Rules that let the user selectively forward items via sms.
10 mentions of "open source" vs 0 mentions of "free software". Discuss.
The main problem we have is getting mass from into space which takes a whole lot of energy. That's why it's so important that we do the right thing with every molecule we have put up there.
The next logical step for the ISS is develop the capability for it to repair itself. That means being able to fabricate replacement parts, repair what breaks, and to build new things by intelligently scrapping and remodeling the old and useless. Convert those labs into mini-factories. They'll definitely need one of these.
In addition, and I'm just paraphrasing a video I saw of "Maddog" Hall talking, their business model and the ecology of companies(i.e. the VAR channels) are incompatible with them selling services. In they did start selling services, they'd have one hell of an advantage and would be pissing off all the people who help to sell, install and maintain their software. So they're pretty darn invested in just selling those boxes. Piss off the VARs and there's a world of free software for those VARs to switch to.
I finally RTFA and it tells me to pay more for stuff!
then what Shuttleworth is suggesting is the idea of seasons. If everyone can get on the same page a couple times a year, the rest of the time they can go do their migration, vacationing, rewrites, refactoring, day-jobs, etc. If it makes sense for mother nature, it might just make sense for our software ecosystem.
Emergent cooperation FTW!
It shouldn't be easy to steal these things. It's time valuable data is treated like it has value. That means armored vehicles for transport.
Maybe they should list SSNs, Birthdays, and Addresses in the foreign exchange markets so people will get a clue.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/030708-vegas-insider.html?page=3
/getting sick of paging through 5 pages of a single page article. If I ever start an online mag, I'm going present one sentence per page just for fun.
Terabits again. I have a friend who doesn't understand Terabits, can someone put that in Libraries of Congress for my...ahem...friend?
We banned YouTube too. Well not we, she. In any case it's off limits. Too subversive of her power she says. Oh well. It's good to know Pakistani's feel my pain.
Yes, it's going to use some power...but I would compare this to teaching a man how to fish rather than handing him one. This energy will be an investment in all sorts of efficiencies in the future. That is, if the computing time is allocated efficiently.
We shouldn't need to purchase spectrum. We should purchase some lobbyists and maybe start some kind of calling campaign so the next useful chunk of spectrum will not be sold to the highest bidder. Instead it should be reserved like a national park for the public good...except instead of allowing us to enjoy the outdoors take hikes, collect our thoughts, this resource will grease the wheels of business, society and innovation.
Please oh please, can we start working on an open source(wimax) router with two bands(backbone and local) so we can build our own huge mesh network and say buh-bye to ISPs forever? We don't need your email address, we don't need your antivirus software, we do not need your bills, and finally we don't need you messing with our connections. That is all.
The most entertaining way to keep children away from inappropriate content is to quiz them on things only adults would know. Of course, if a kid knows how to google for answers it may not work so well but there must still be some questions most adults know but for which google can't provide a solid answer. Not that I can think of any of those questions. If you can think of any please reply.
The central problem is that adult content providers(which could just be some guy with a big hard drive and the ability to upload to a youtube clone) have an incentive to make it simple to access their content if only for the ad revenues. So maybe the best way to attack this is via the advertising. Don't block the content. Block getting paid for posting the content in a form that's too easy for minors to access.
While I think it would be awesome to see the art and decor transform depending on who walks into a room...this just highlights to me that we may become more disconnected from each other as we optimize the digital world to our own personal likes. Not that it's bad...maybe we were all meant to relate to each other through screens, keyboards, and mice. Maybe the benefit of the digital world is that it provides a better way to share experience when we choose. Either way, it's good to recognize what's going on.
Nice post. That should be required reading in internet class. So the question arises, how much does a pole router upgrade cost for Comcast on a per subscriber basis?
I've been missing this meme:
1. Cover nanoparticles in DNA.
2. Generate DNA so nanoparticles know how to assemble.
3. Mix and heat.
4. ?????????
5. Profit!!