Bob Metcalfe said "I'm looking forward to the next Internet bubble. I don't know what everyone's so negative about. The last bubble was lots of fun.". Let us at least hope we learned a few things from the last bubble.
Since the Bubble was just that, investment deals and stock prices buoyed by nothing more than hot air, if we did "learn a few things from the last bubble" there wont be another one.
If "water" was an adjective, you'd be able to use it with other objects to describe the same property. You can say that "the chair is green", or even that "the chair is drunk" (it's only non-sensical in a non-grammatical sense), but if you say "the chair is water", it takes on a different kind of meaning.
So if I sit on a throne made of blocks of ice, can I say "the chair is water" then?:-)
Water is a noun but can be used as an adjective. water slide water bottle water moccasin
Maybe the real problem is taking commonly paired words and trying to say they are actually one word.
How is this any differnt than the common bottle being altered by the adjective water?
Water's also a transitive verb (water the lawn), but anyway...
"Water" is not a property. It's only "water tap" instead of "foobar tap" because "water" is a nicer mnemonic than "foobar" for what kind of tap it is.
But since the word "tap" by itself is more widespread (at least on this on this side of the Atlantic) it suggests to me the word water is being used as an adjective in this case.
But then we can have the same discussion about a nice glass of tap water
The problem here is his screen no longer works. He does have an S-Video out he could use. What he wants to do is hook up the Powerbook to another Mac that has a SCSI port and boot the Powerbook into Target Disk Mode so he can just copy whatever he wants off of it like an external hard drive.
I would just use the S-Video out to a separate display and set up a two-computer ethernet network if I didn't have a SCSI machine handy. Better than letting data be entombed on the notebook.
While dictionary.com agrees that "water tap" is in fact a single word noun, I don't think that makes any sense. The fact "tap" can be used by itself as a synonym for "water tap" only shows the "water" is not really part of the word and is in fact altering the word "tap", like an adjective does.
"Water tap" appears to be a adjective and a noun to me. Why isn't "oil tap" and "chocolate tap" treated as a single noun? Many people have "gas taps" in their home but it isn't given any special single word designation.
Strangely enough, pirates get more then the normal user. I steal my CD off the internet I get a non DRM encumbered CD.... My Solution ? Don't buy anything. Want that CD download it here [pirate bay link]
Here a notion. What if you download the CD off the Pirate Bay (unencumbered) Send send a check for the retail price to the publisher.
Keep the canceled check as a reciept.
If you ever get dragged into court for "stealing" the software/cd/ect, just show off the cancelled check proving they did in fact get paid for the item, and more than the wholesale price the retailer paid them, too.
Developer gets paid and encouraged to produce more software, music, ect. You get the content and the ability to use it freely.
Yeah I know this wont work in the end, but it's nice to think about.
how it works and how it is installed remains something of a mystery.
much like the reason why you would want to install a liquid cooling aparatus on a device that can maintain opertaing tempratures on its own!
I haven't heard of a huge overclocking community of XBox'ers, and it's not like you can easily upgrade the graphics to something that would add lots of heat to the system. The actual usefullness of this product seems rather limited.
Now, if they'd had made a cooling device for the power supply...
Some moron probably said "we need to make AT&T look friendly"... which is a HIGHLY questionable direction.
I disagree, that's exactly why they made the AT&T lowercase. There are lots of people who remember 'AT&T', the monopoly that was split up. The new 'at&t' doesn't want consumers to equate them to a huge stodgy company that was broken up for taking adventage of people.
The funny thing is that's exactly what they are. The baby bells remerged and such and, minus a couple key players (Verizon and BellSouth), what you have here is the same megaconglomerate you had before. Too many smart people may notice what's going on and start asking embarassing questions like "Why did the FTC let this happen when they broke up the old company because they were too big?" so let's have some rebranding and such. Redo the logo in a friendly three-dimensional sphere and change the letters to non-threatening lower-case cuteness.
No-no-no, Joe Consumer, we aren't AT&T, we're a new friendly communications company that's here to serve all your needs for the 21st century! Can you hear me behind this rubber mask? Good...
I don't think that's really your ears. Every set of headphones seems to be a little bit louder on the left side I notice. When I switch them around and wear them backwards the right sounds louder then.
No it doesn't. I went to the site, lots of hype, no real goods. The network is "coming soon" according to the release, not here now.
I don't want a new network based on the BitTorrent concept, I want BitTorrent. P2P is like IM networks, it's only really useful if who (what) you want is on it. I don't want to wait for the a service to become popular when there allready is a another one established and humming well.
Lawsuit city. Imagine when a toddler does the same thing to a *real* baby.
Well, when he picks up the real baby, all the toys wont shout "throw him! throw him!" since the real baby wont have the microprocessor and wireless connection to the the toys.
Rather than forbidding edits, I'd like to see a caste system for proofreaders. So, at the top of the page, it may say, "Content approved as good by BobJohnson123 (Level 10 Wikipedian)" Or, "Content not reviwed since last update by an Anonymous Editor. Click _Here_ to see previous versions."
Part of the reason some system has not been implemented yet is it goes against the whole idea that is Wikipedia. The idea that anyone should be able to go in an contribute for the Greater Good. As wonderfully utopian as this idea is it doesn't work because (in my opinion) most people are stupid. And many people are malicious. As the popularity of Wikipedia increases, the signal to noise ratio decreases. It's kinda like making general conversation on two online forums. One is a on a Linux site, the other is Yahoo's boards. The quality of the conversation will be much higher on the Linux forums' General Gabbery because the group that frequents the site is more select and the "general populace" will avoid the site like the Plague because of it's main focus. Meanwhile, on Yahoo's forums, a hurricane was caused by "Those Pagen Liberals and thier commie ways" according to a post with three recommendations.
Wikipedia is a hot topic now, their ability to stay within their small community of volunteers is gone. As more people come in through the door, the more trash will blow in with them.
The only advantage I can see the new, expensive HD format has over the current DVD, is higher resolution. None of the previous very compelling reasons to upgrade apply. A conventional DVD played back on a big screen TV is plenty good enough for most consumers.
I'm curious at what point will the reselling of content in a new format will be worthless to consumers. People replaced their analog VHS for digital DVD because of the extras and teh new hotness of digitally restored higher picture quality.
But how much sharper can it be made? Isn't there a point where the content providers will have no more detail to wring out of the original 70mm film. Is there enough resolution to make a worthwhile HD release of older films or will consumers have to upgrade and rebuy simply because electronic manufactures will adopt some new format that (convienently) is not backwards compatable with the old media?
That would only work if Wikipedia also made fundamental changes to it's editing structure. Nobody is going to take Wikipedia any more seriously if a bunch of experts start contributing to it as long as any yahoo with a login can go in and change the articles they write.
Wikipedia would have to develop what is essentially a caste system so a user could only edit what has been written by people in the same or lower level as them, protecting expert knowledge from armchair scholars.
Experts already contribute to Wikipedia, and many have left because of edit wars with other users who really don't know what they are talking about. Until Wikipedia begins to show offical recognition of authoritive sources, this will continue.
If Jimbo Wales is in the wrong for editing his article, then I suppose all the wikipedians who suggested John Seigenthaler edit his own article are in the wrong, too?
Wales's edits were for the sake of making himself look better. I mean, look at the actual edits he made; removing references to a pinup girl site he ran and changing paragraphs about the founding of Wikipedia so it appears he did it all himself. That's just changing facts.
Seigenthaler was being smeared in libel and complained publically to everyone while not taking even the most rudimentry action on his own. He stood on his self-made cross and delegated his lawyer to talk to SBC while writing a crybaby column.
Note that for this **AA fantasy world to work, given the average American's appetite for the passive entertainment provided by the industry, everyone will need to make a good 50% more at their jobs than they do right now.
If the entertainment industry keeps nickel and dimeing and trying to control everything, they might wake up one day and find they have priced their product out of the average American's reach. And once people realize there is life beyond the latest DVD release, they may not care too much about coming back.
Wikipedia is a good choice, especially given the founder having just been murdered by the wife of that stupid Op-Ed columnist. I find it ironic the way this turned violent given how outraged he was at being associated with the Kennedy assassination.
Everyone already knows the defacto future desktop will be Windows Vista, like it or not.
You're right. It will be Windows Vista. Windows has 90%+ of the market now, and Vista will be released in about ten years. Therefore Windows Vista will be the operating system of the future!
But just recently the right of privacy seems to be implicit to your freedom of speech. With freedom of speech (At least the American ideal) you should be able to state your views without getting arrested for it. But it doesn't state that you can say it without anyone knowing that you said it.
I agree wholeheartedly with this point. The idea of being able to say whatever you want is not freedom of speech - it would just be freedom of thought, but the idea you can say whatever you want and not be in trouble for it is. People who think the right to anonynmity is part of this really don't believe they have the right to free speech. If they truly believed they can say whatever they want, they wouldn't be so worried about keeping their conversations private. I'm not saying people shouldn't have a need for private conversations, but if people are actively worried about the government doing something with their private conversations, then those people don't think the governmnet is upholding their right to free speech to start with.
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Bob Metcalfe said "I'm looking forward to the next Internet bubble. I don't know what everyone's so negative about. The last bubble was lots of fun.". Let us at least hope we learned a few things from the last bubble.
Since the Bubble was just that, investment deals and stock prices buoyed by nothing more than hot air, if we did "learn a few things from the last bubble" there wont be another one.
Yup! Because the Asteroid rumors were spot on! :P
/conspiracy
They just delayed the release to discredit the idea rumor sites actually have any real information. It will come out eventually.
If "water" was an adjective, you'd be able to use it with other objects to describe the same property. You can say that "the chair is green", or even that "the chair is drunk" (it's only non-sensical in a non-grammatical sense), but if you say "the chair is water", it takes on a different kind of meaning.
:-)
So if I sit on a throne made of blocks of ice, can I say "the chair is water" then?
Water is a noun but can be used as an adjective.
water slide
water bottle
water moccasin
Maybe the real problem is taking commonly paired words and trying to say they are actually one word.
For example, read the definition of water bottle
How is this any differnt than the common bottle being altered by the adjective water?
Water's also a transitive verb (water the lawn), but anyway...
"Water" is not a property. It's only "water tap" instead of "foobar tap" because "water" is a nicer mnemonic than "foobar" for what kind of tap it is.
But since the word "tap" by itself is more widespread (at least on this on this side of the Atlantic) it suggests to me the word water is being used as an adjective in this case.
But then we can have the same discussion about a nice glass of tap water
The problem here is his screen no longer works. He does have an S-Video out he could use. What he wants to do is hook up the Powerbook to another Mac that has a SCSI port and boot the Powerbook into Target Disk Mode so he can just copy whatever he wants off of it like an external hard drive.
I would just use the S-Video out to a separate display and set up a two-computer ethernet network if I didn't have a SCSI machine handy. Better than letting data be entombed on the notebook.
While dictionary.com agrees that "water tap" is in fact a single word noun, I don't think that makes any sense. The fact "tap" can be used by itself as a synonym for "water tap" only shows the "water" is not really part of the word and is in fact altering the word "tap", like an adjective does.
"Water tap" appears to be a adjective and a noun to me. Why isn't "oil tap" and "chocolate tap" treated as a single noun? Many people have "gas taps" in their home but it isn't given any special single word designation.
This is the way I look at it ...
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Strangely enough, pirates get more then the normal user. I steal my CD off the internet I get a non DRM encumbered CD.
My Solution ?
Don't buy anything. Want that CD download it here [pirate bay link]
Here a notion. What if you download the CD off the Pirate Bay (unencumbered)
Send send a check for the retail price to the publisher.
Keep the canceled check as a reciept.
If you ever get dragged into court for "stealing" the software/cd/ect, just show off the cancelled check proving they did in fact get paid for the item, and more than the wholesale price the retailer paid them, too.
Developer gets paid and encouraged to produce more software, music, ect.
You get the content and the ability to use it freely.
Yeah I know this wont work in the end, but it's nice to think about.
how it works and how it is installed remains something of a mystery.
much like the reason why you would want to install a liquid cooling aparatus on a device that can maintain opertaing tempratures on its own!
I haven't heard of a huge overclocking community of XBox'ers, and it's not like you can easily upgrade the graphics to something that would add lots of heat to the system. The actual usefullness of this product seems rather limited.
Now, if they'd had made a cooling device for the power supply...
you forgot
:-)
3) A web presence with ads tacked on by your provider isn't professional, that's like having a redirect from your domian name to an Angelfire account.
I guess you could only look at your homepage with Firefox+Adblock, then you can pretend there are no ads.
Some moron probably said "we need to make AT&T look friendly" ... which is a HIGHLY questionable direction.
I disagree, that's exactly why they made the AT&T lowercase. There are lots of people who remember 'AT&T', the monopoly that was split up. The new 'at&t' doesn't want consumers to equate them to a huge stodgy company that was broken up for taking adventage of people.
The funny thing is that's exactly what they are. The baby bells remerged and such and, minus a couple key players (Verizon and BellSouth), what you have here is the same megaconglomerate you had before. Too many smart people may notice what's going on and start asking embarassing questions like "Why did the FTC let this happen when they broke up the old company because they were too big?" so let's have some rebranding and such. Redo the logo in a friendly three-dimensional sphere and change the letters to non-threatening lower-case cuteness.
No-no-no, Joe Consumer, we aren't AT&T, we're a new friendly communications company that's here to serve all your needs for the 21st century! Can you hear me behind this rubber mask? Good...
I don't think that's really your ears. Every set of headphones seems to be a little bit louder on the left side I notice. When I switch them around and wear them backwards the right sounds louder then.
Look! It's another example of Microsoft innovating.
Firefox finally has a good P2P extension.. "
No it doesn't.
I went to the site, lots of hype, no real goods. The network is "coming soon" according to the release, not here now.
I don't want a new network based on the BitTorrent concept, I want BitTorrent. P2P is like IM networks, it's only really useful if who (what) you want is on it. I don't want to wait for the a service to become popular when there allready is a another one established and humming well.
Where's the BitTorrent plugin for Firefox?
Lawsuit city. Imagine when a toddler does the same thing to a *real* baby.
Well, when he picks up the real baby, all the toys wont shout "throw him! throw him!" since the real baby wont have the microprocessor and wireless connection to the the toys.
But if this is a Borg family...
"I have more hit points that you can possible imagine."
I'll attribute that to Microsoft.
Quick, somebody crack a in Soviet Russia joke before it's too late!
In Post-Soviet Russia, the WTO organizes YOU!
Rather than forbidding edits, I'd like to see a caste system for proofreaders. So, at the top of the page, it may say, "Content approved as good by BobJohnson123 (Level 10 Wikipedian)" Or, "Content not reviwed since last update by an Anonymous Editor. Click _Here_ to see previous versions."
Part of the reason some system has not been implemented yet is it goes against the whole idea that is Wikipedia. The idea that anyone should be able to go in an contribute for the Greater Good. As wonderfully utopian as this idea is it doesn't work because (in my opinion) most people are stupid. And many people are malicious. As the popularity of Wikipedia increases, the signal to noise ratio decreases. It's kinda like making general conversation on two online forums. One is a on a Linux site, the other is Yahoo's boards. The quality of the conversation will be much higher on the Linux forums' General Gabbery because the group that frequents the site is more select and the "general populace" will avoid the site like the Plague because of it's main focus. Meanwhile, on Yahoo's forums, a hurricane was caused by "Those Pagen Liberals and thier commie ways" according to a post with three recommendations.
Wikipedia is a hot topic now, their ability to stay within their small community of volunteers is gone. As more people come in through the door, the more trash will blow in with them.
The only advantage I can see the new, expensive HD format has over the current DVD, is higher resolution. None of the previous very compelling reasons to upgrade apply. A conventional DVD played back on a big screen TV is plenty good enough for most consumers.
I'm curious at what point will the reselling of content in a new format will be worthless to consumers. People replaced their analog VHS for digital DVD because of the extras and teh new hotness of digitally restored higher picture quality.
But how much sharper can it be made? Isn't there a point where the content providers will have no more detail to wring out of the original 70mm film. Is there enough resolution to make a worthwhile HD release of older films or will consumers have to upgrade and rebuy simply because electronic manufactures will adopt some new format that (convienently) is not backwards compatable with the old media?
That would only work if Wikipedia also made fundamental changes to it's editing structure. Nobody is going to take Wikipedia any more seriously if a bunch of experts start contributing to it as long as any yahoo with a login can go in and change the articles they write.
Wikipedia would have to develop what is essentially a caste system so a user could only edit what has been written by people in the same or lower level as them, protecting expert knowledge from armchair scholars.
Experts already contribute to Wikipedia, and many have left because of edit wars with other users who really don't know what they are talking about. Until Wikipedia begins to show offical recognition of authoritive sources, this will continue.
If Jimbo Wales is in the wrong for editing his article, then I suppose all the wikipedians who suggested John Seigenthaler edit his own article are in the wrong, too?
Wales's edits were for the sake of making himself look better. I mean, look at the actual edits he made; removing references to a pinup girl site he ran and changing paragraphs about the founding of Wikipedia so it appears he did it all himself. That's just changing facts.
Seigenthaler was being smeared in libel and complained publically to everyone while not taking even the most rudimentry action on his own. He stood on his self-made cross and delegated his lawyer to talk to SBC while writing a crybaby column.
I don't see any similarity in the situations.
Note that for this **AA fantasy world to work, given the average American's appetite for the passive entertainment provided by the industry, everyone will need to make a good 50% more at their jobs than they do right now.
If the entertainment industry keeps nickel and dimeing and trying to control everything, they might wake up one day and find they have priced their product out of the average American's reach. And once people realize there is life beyond the latest DVD release, they may not care too much about coming back.
BitTorrent!
Wikipedia is a good choice, especially given the founder having just been murdered by the wife of that stupid Op-Ed columnist. I find it ironic the way this turned violent given how outraged he was at being associated with the Kennedy assassination.
I, for one, welcome our non-supporting M$ overlords...
As it will teach web developers that there is more to life than Internet Explorer and that they should write pages everyone can read equally.
Everyone already knows the defacto future desktop will be Windows Vista, like it or not.
You're right. It will be Windows Vista. Windows has 90%+ of the market now, and Vista will be released in about ten years. Therefore Windows Vista will be the operating system of the future!
Was a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War.
But just recently the right of privacy seems to be implicit to your freedom of speech. With freedom of speech (At least the American ideal) you should be able to state your views without getting arrested for it. But it doesn't state that you can say it without anyone knowing that you said it.
I agree wholeheartedly with this point. The idea of being able to say whatever you want is not freedom of speech - it would just be freedom of thought, but the idea you can say whatever you want and not be in trouble for it is. People who think the right to anonynmity is part of this really don't believe they have the right to free speech. If they truly believed they can say whatever they want, they wouldn't be so worried about keeping their conversations private. I'm not saying people shouldn't have a need for private conversations, but if people are actively worried about the government doing something with their private conversations, then those people don't think the governmnet is upholding their right to free speech to start with.