The only thing I can think of is perhaps RSS makes syndication TOO simple. Perhaps fewer people would be requesting updates on the news (or whatever) from a site if they didn't offer the feeds. I mean, without RSS, many users would rather go without the updates than access the site and get the images and everything.
That is the only argument I can come up with and I think it's fallous.
RSS feeds are meant as a way to strip all the nonsense from a site and offer easy syndication, right? Basically, present the relevent news from a full-fledged webpage in a smaller file size? If such is the case, this isn't an RSS issue, really. I see it more as a bandwidth issue. I mean, people are going to get their news one way or the other.. either with a bunch of images and lots of markup via HTML or with just the bare minimum of text and markup via RSS. I would prefer RSS over HTML any day of the week! But perhaps RSS makes syndication TOO simple. Thus everyone does it and that eats additional bandwidth that normally would be reserved for those browsing the HTML a site offers.
And you could implement bans on people who request the RSS feed more than X times per hour as someone suggested (Doesn't/. do this?), but I don't think that gets around the bandwidth issue. I mean, those who want the news will either go with RSS or simply hit the site. Again, RSS is the preferred alternative to HTML.
So here's my suggestion.. go to nothing but RSS and no HTML!
I sense very little desire for democracy and freedom.
Well.. aren't you a good little Communist! Yes, yes.. The Chinese do not value freedom AT ALL. I mean, humans simply love to be under the rule of a small set of other humans without any ability to make their own decisions.
Wait wait wait.. Where do you see him selling a program "for Apple's iTunes"? I find "Apple" on the page only once and that is within this sentence: "Join today and not only get £5 free, but also a chance to win an Apple iPod with £50 worth of iTunes for free." Certainly giving away free iPods isn't a crime. So where is his infraction? On top of that, if he domain truly weas registered back in 2000 as a previous poster noted, I'd say Apple was screwed and that, if Apple wanted the domain, they should make him an offer he can't refuse. He can't be making any sort of income from that website. I mean, come on.. I've seen better work done with Frontpage!
I'll never understand all of this copyright nonsense. Seriously.. So the guy registered itunes.co.uk and uses it for music related commerce. Who cares? The site is OBVIOUSLY not realted to Apple and any shmuck who thinks he's doing business with Apple Computers while at the site is retarded. Apple needs to get over it. Buy the man off. Give him 50,000 British pounds and I would bet my balls that he'd give up the domain. I mean, that would be more than he could possibly be getting from sales.
Yeah.. I hear this every year, too. Sadly, it seems nothing is being done to counteract the trend. Apparently people in the NEA don't read Slashdot.
As far as the stigma of being a nerd 'cause you're good at math goes, my experience is that it is a load of shit. More accurately, the stigma comes from being socially inept. If yuo cannot interact with others your age, you will be made fun of. If you happen be good at math, that will be what is used to defame you. I have been good at math since my third grade multiplication competitions. Did I ever get beat up over it? No. Why is that? 'Cause I was friends with all of the "cool" people in addition to being smart. I played football at recess, I listened to all the cool music, and I was good at math. I seem to remember my friends being more jealous than anything. There were other students good at math (and other subjects) that got made fun of regularly but they were the so-called "nerds" 'cause they didn't mesh with the crowd.
Looking back, its obvious that kids are shallow, but hey.. it is what it is and if you don't want to be made fun of, you damn well better fit in.
Being made fun of has nothing to do with being good at math. Being good at math is just more likely if you're not too social.
dbarbour.com is my personal website. Google has it ranked on the first page when you query my name, Dustin Barbour. Accoona doesn't even know it exists.
That's all the convincing I need to stay with Google.
My Windows box runs beautifully. When you couple a machine with someone who knows how to manage and use it properly, Windows can, in fact, be quite a stable platform. No spyware.. no virus scanner.. no nothing. Jsut everything I want and nothing I don't. Wel, almost nothing I don't. There are lots of Microsoft apps I ahven't gotten around to removing.
The same can be said for the major TelCos and other companies dealing in information. The internet is changing everything and its about time these companies find a way to adapt to the new ways of doing business or be trampled by it.
You people won't be happy until there is no war. Funny thing though.. it's human nature to fight! Even you, you silly tree hugging, idealist dumbass! Humans will always go to war. It's what humans do. Get over it. Just accept the fact that we are seriously trying to limit casualties. That's the idea behind smart weapons. Fuck.. I swear, man...
You fail to understand the purpose of research. The goal is to further your understanding. There have been numerous thing invested in that never turned out anything other than an increase in knowledge. Particle accelerators are a fine example. When was the last time a particle that existed for one thousandth of a second ever did you or the nation any good? Yet they are important to helping us understand things such as quantum mechanics (and eventually, quantum computing and cryptography), string theory, and other important scientific theories.
And how can you think that going to the moon was pointless? We didn't go there simply so Neil Armstrong could give a speech. We learned an immense amount from those trips.
But ya' know what? Let's forget about all that stuff. I mean, we woudn't see any useful returns on it for 50 years or so. SO why are we investing in it now?!
And so it is with Mars and space exploration. There will come a time when Mars will be vital to humanity. Whetehr as an giant liferaft 'cause Earth wasdestroyed or as another civilization because our population here has grown too large to support. Perhaps it will be warmed up and we'll put a bunch of farmers there to grow immense amounts of food. There are ENDLESS possibilities for Mars and we SHOULD be working on getting ourselves there.
What NASA needs to do is hire Zubrin, the head of the Mars Society. I'd bet my balls that he'd get us there on the cheap. Perhaps bring along Burt Rutan and other visionaries. Scientists are great, but sometimes you need guys with vision and drive.
..or the University of Nevada, Las Vegas already has a computer security curriculum (well, a few classes in the CS dept. from which I have received a degree or two). This includes information security and a general computer security. Also at UNLV is the Center for Cybermedia Research part of which is a computer security research lab.
Who cares if we have "infected" Mars with Earthly bacteria? As far as we know, there is no life on Mars with the only real possibility being some bacterium living beneath the soil. Big whoop! You kill off millions of those bacterial bastards everyday with your disinfectant soaps and sprays. What does it matter that we've killed an entire race of bacteria on an otherwise lifeless rock?
Faster to handtype?! Do you have any idea whatsoever the number of handwriten documents the Library of Congress contains? I can' giveyou a number, but rest assured that it is more than any army of typists would care to copy. But computers don't care about work volume and they are a hell of a lot quicker than any human typist could ever hope to be.
Holy shnikes! Optical Character Recognition! Bah.. I'm part of a research team at the Center for Cybermedia Research who are working on new algorithms for OCR with $4 million from Homeland Security. Its to be used on a gi-normous database containing scanned images of documents relating to Yucca Mountain.
On top of that, OCR has been around for years. Yes, it isn't the best, but its functional. Doesn't census bureau use OCR for its census forms?
It would lead to an end of sexual relations 'cause we'd get bored as hell with it. Hell, I'm only 22 and I can only bang my girlfriend two or three times a day.. max. I get bored after that. Now imagine you've been married to the same damn hag for 800 years. You gotta know that you'd get bored with her/him.
Personally, I hope to die before this type of tech becomes mainstream. I feel that it has happened already, but should we all live to 1,000 years of age, human evolution will essentially stop. Death fuels evolution. Has the human race already reached its zenith? I fear that such may be the case and yet we are still so frail and imperfect.
Asimov was an idealist.. Apparently he has no concept of human history where a majority of technological innovation came about because of military conflict. I've always thought that the idea of having a robot in the home would come on the heals of robots giving out an ass-whoopin' to some enemy force.
Besides.. these aren't even robots. They're fancy RC cars. So your point is moot.
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Is this whole in Korea.. to be the new in Soviet Russia..? Tell me it's not.
Yes, I was kidding about losing HTML.
The only thing I can think of is perhaps RSS makes syndication TOO simple. Perhaps fewer people would be requesting updates on the news (or whatever) from a site if they didn't offer the feeds. I mean, without RSS, many users would rather go without the updates than access the site and get the images and everything.
That is the only argument I can come up with and I think it's fallous.
RSS feeds are meant as a way to strip all the nonsense from a site and offer easy syndication, right? Basically, present the relevent news from a full-fledged webpage in a smaller file size? If such is the case, this isn't an RSS issue, really. I see it more as a bandwidth issue. I mean, people are going to get their news one way or the other.. either with a bunch of images and lots of markup via HTML or with just the bare minimum of text and markup via RSS. I would prefer RSS over HTML any day of the week! But perhaps RSS makes syndication TOO simple. Thus everyone does it and that eats additional bandwidth that normally would be reserved for those browsing the HTML a site offers.
And you could implement bans on people who request the RSS feed more than X times per hour as someone suggested (Doesn't /. do this?), but I don't think that gets around the bandwidth issue. I mean, those who want the news will either go with RSS or simply hit the site. Again, RSS is the preferred alternative to HTML.
So here's my suggestion.. go to nothing but RSS and no HTML!
I sense very little desire for democracy and freedom.
Well.. aren't you a good little Communist! Yes, yes.. The Chinese do not value freedom AT ALL. I mean, humans simply love to be under the rule of a small set of other humans without any ability to make their own decisions.
Wait wait wait.. Where do you see him selling a program "for Apple's iTunes"? I find "Apple" on the page only once and that is within this sentence: "Join today and not only get £5 free, but also a chance to win an Apple iPod with £50 worth of iTunes for free." Certainly giving away free iPods isn't a crime. So where is his infraction? On top of that, if he domain truly weas registered back in 2000 as a previous poster noted, I'd say Apple was screwed and that, if Apple wanted the domain, they should make him an offer he can't refuse. He can't be making any sort of income from that website. I mean, come on.. I've seen better work done with Frontpage!
I'll never understand all of this copyright nonsense. Seriously.. So the guy registered itunes.co.uk and uses it for music related commerce. Who cares? The site is OBVIOUSLY not realted to Apple and any shmuck who thinks he's doing business with Apple Computers while at the site is retarded. Apple needs to get over it. Buy the man off. Give him 50,000 British pounds and I would bet my balls that he'd give up the domain. I mean, that would be more than he could possibly be getting from sales.
Yeah.. I hear this every year, too. Sadly, it seems nothing is being done to counteract the trend. Apparently people in the NEA don't read Slashdot.
As far as the stigma of being a nerd 'cause you're good at math goes, my experience is that it is a load of shit. More accurately, the stigma comes from being socially inept. If yuo cannot interact with others your age, you will be made fun of. If you happen be good at math, that will be what is used to defame you. I have been good at math since my third grade multiplication competitions. Did I ever get beat up over it? No. Why is that? 'Cause I was friends with all of the "cool" people in addition to being smart. I played football at recess, I listened to all the cool music, and I was good at math. I seem to remember my friends being more jealous than anything. There were other students good at math (and other subjects) that got made fun of regularly but they were the so-called "nerds" 'cause they didn't mesh with the crowd.
Looking back, its obvious that kids are shallow, but hey.. it is what it is and if you don't want to be made fun of, you damn well better fit in.
Being made fun of has nothing to do with being good at math. Being good at math is just more likely if you're not too social.
Oddly enough, I laughed my ass off when I read your post!
dbarbour.com is my personal website. Google has it ranked on the first page when you query my name, Dustin Barbour. Accoona doesn't even know it exists.
That's all the convincing I need to stay with Google.
My Windows box runs beautifully. When you couple a machine with someone who knows how to manage and use it properly, Windows can, in fact, be quite a stable platform. No spyware.. no virus scanner.. no nothing. Jsut everything I want and nothing I don't. Wel, almost nothing I don't. There are lots of Microsoft apps I ahven't gotten around to removing.
The same can be said for the major TelCos and other companies dealing in information. The internet is changing everything and its about time these companies find a way to adapt to the new ways of doing business or be trampled by it.
Let's also not forget the millions of men women AND CHILDREN Hussein was killing and isn't now. Who were they saved by? Oh yeah.. GWB and his army.
Grow up, son. It's tie to stop benig an idealist and move on to being a realist.
You people won't be happy until there is no war. Funny thing though.. it's human nature to fight! Even you, you silly tree hugging, idealist dumbass! Humans will always go to war. It's what humans do. Get over it. Just accept the fact that we are seriously trying to limit casualties. That's the idea behind smart weapons. Fuck.. I swear, man...
You fail to understand the purpose of research. The goal is to further your understanding. There have been numerous thing invested in that never turned out anything other than an increase in knowledge. Particle accelerators are a fine example. When was the last time a particle that existed for one thousandth of a second ever did you or the nation any good? Yet they are important to helping us understand things such as quantum mechanics (and eventually, quantum computing and cryptography), string theory, and other important scientific theories.
And how can you think that going to the moon was pointless? We didn't go there simply so Neil Armstrong could give a speech. We learned an immense amount from those trips.
But ya' know what? Let's forget about all that stuff. I mean, we woudn't see any useful returns on it for 50 years or so. SO why are we investing in it now?!
And so it is with Mars and space exploration. There will come a time when Mars will be vital to humanity. Whetehr as an giant liferaft 'cause Earth wasdestroyed or as another civilization because our population here has grown too large to support. Perhaps it will be warmed up and we'll put a bunch of farmers there to grow immense amounts of food. There are ENDLESS possibilities for Mars and we SHOULD be working on getting ourselves there.
What NASA needs to do is hire Zubrin, the head of the Mars Society. I'd bet my balls that he'd get us there on the cheap. Perhaps bring along Burt Rutan and other visionaries. Scientists are great, but sometimes you need guys with vision and drive.
..or the University of Nevada, Las Vegas already has a computer security curriculum (well, a few classes in the CS dept. from which I have received a degree or two). This includes information security and a general computer security. Also at UNLV is the Center for Cybermedia Research part of which is a computer security research lab.
Who cares if we have "infected" Mars with Earthly bacteria? As far as we know, there is no life on Mars with the only real possibility being some bacterium living beneath the soil. Big whoop! You kill off millions of those bacterial bastards everyday with your disinfectant soaps and sprays. What does it matter that we've killed an entire race of bacteria on an otherwise lifeless rock?
if/then statements automatically mean BASIC? Am I missing something?
How about this:
Faster to handtype?! Do you have any idea whatsoever the number of handwriten documents the Library of Congress contains? I can' giveyou a number, but rest assured that it is more than any army of typists would care to copy. But computers don't care about work volume and they are a hell of a lot quicker than any human typist could ever hope to be.
Holy shnikes! Optical Character Recognition! Bah.. I'm part of a research team at the Center for Cybermedia Research who are working on new algorithms for OCR with $4 million from Homeland Security. Its to be used on a gi-normous database containing scanned images of documents relating to Yucca Mountain.
On top of that, OCR has been around for years. Yes, it isn't the best, but its functional. Doesn't census bureau use OCR for its census forms?
So, yeah.. where is the news in the article?
+3 Informative? HA!
It would lead to an end of sexual relations 'cause we'd get bored as hell with it. Hell, I'm only 22 and I can only bang my girlfriend two or three times a day.. max. I get bored after that. Now imagine you've been married to the same damn hag for 800 years. You gotta know that you'd get bored with her/him.
Personally, I hope to die before this type of tech becomes mainstream. I feel that it has happened already, but should we all live to 1,000 years of age, human evolution will essentially stop. Death fuels evolution. Has the human race already reached its zenith? I fear that such may be the case and yet we are still so frail and imperfect.
Asimov was an idealist.. Apparently he has no concept of human history where a majority of technological innovation came about because of military conflict. I've always thought that the idea of having a robot in the home would come on the heals of robots giving out an ass-whoopin' to some enemy force.
Besides.. these aren't even robots. They're fancy RC cars. So your point is moot.
Every fuckin' story must contain someon'es political opinion, doesn't it? Seriously.. It gets old.