we already have discussion threads, why not apply the same thought to stories. this takes care of dupes by grouping them together making topical discussion less of a headache. this would also have the side effect of grouping related stories into common threads helping the readership gain a greater understanding of the events.
http://www.neooffice.org/
its not ready for prime time. and im not sure (read i havent looked to hard) but i think its on some sort of pause. i have no evidence for any of this.
Re:This is actually pretty interesting...
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MP3beamer Released
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you might be missing the point. simply because they have "solutions" priced at $400 and $70 does not mean they are trying to con anyone.
there are many customers that will fork over the $400 because all the configuration is done for them and they can rely on dedicated tech support should the need arise. if they do not care for the standalone box and they only require the software then its only $70 again, the software is designed to work out of the box. no need to spend however long to configure it yourself.
sounds like a pretty compelling argument to those consumers that do not wish to spend the time researching and configuring their boxes to "emulate" the behavior of mp3beamer.
you acturately point out that the functionality of the mp3beamer can be achieved for "free". but just a reminder, for a true geek this functionality and more has been available for a long long time. from the time you could put up a playlist on the web to putting music on an ftp site to remote controlled streaming music and even potentially converting one's music from a lossless format to mp3 or whatever on a case by case basis.
the point is that the mp3beamer is a convient package in the same way a pre-built desktop is a convient package. the best thing is that you could go into business offering similar "solutions" derived from similar software. you might even decide to sell your solutions at $300 and the software at $40. you might make a killing in sales on the assumption that your solutions were at the same quality or else the consumer will continue to vote elsewhere with their disposable income. anyways. im done.
it is legitimized because at least one person will feel the need to respond in this manner. now all the others that have even an itch do respond to Dvorak, they can refer to this article, and then move on to the more important article or commentary about the current state of linux and its effects on the market. the users that feel that linux caters to their interests. and the position of certain countries that do not feel the need to buy into a legacy-laden system that they have little to no control over. breathe.
it is already easy. ive setup a bittorrent client to act like a sort of PVR instead of going thru my cable providers alternative. it was stupidly easy...point and click apart from typing in the show titles that i wanted.
check this out tho: there isnt a geek in the world that could not find something good to say about a MS product.
but while that, those same geeks will almost always attest to the poor rapport they have using MS products. its really about the consistency of the strategy MS uses to build trust. Google's is much better.
which of the two corporations is winning at building trust? that's the most important aspect to consider here.
unless they develop drm for the human mind there will always be parts of the world and the internet that are drm-free. in such places new media will flourish.
what i am really worried about is how much influence and power this drm-free part of the world will have on the rest of the drm-future. can such isolated communities or underground movements survive such natural disasters as tidal brain drains?
while i do not know much about the current state of the free-will vs. determinism argument, i have come to the conclusion that free-will can only be experienced on a moment by moment basis.
the rest of the time is always deterministic. but do not confuse deterministic with predictable and that's why the now is so important. because while the future and past are deterministic, they are also unpredictable. they are also finite. at least as far as humanity is concerned.
as for pre-determined events...i dont know about you but that's kind of easy. every time we plan ahead we are either creating a new future with pre-determined events:) or we are locking into an alternate future that matches the goals you have in mind. in either case both futures introduce interesting twists.
but how about natural disasters you ask...that's easy too, given certain conditions certain things will happen. action reaction. we want to stop disasters? well that will require control of the local space how ever you want to implement and enforce this control. maybe the most important restraint for our imagination here is the energy required to actually control the weather or to minimize earthquakes etc. its possible tho.
gets me thinking about where Enlightenment is going. now the question is how long does it take to develop say an office suite on GNUSTEP vs KDE or GNOME or Windows XP? in manmonths of course.
on the contrary. if people could "tivo" real life we would all become peeping toms. think about a parent being able to watch their child's life in a time-shifted manner at any point of their day.
maybe some warez will be released that can boil down a person's day or week or month or year etc into an hour long show.
and the best part is that this isnt even reality tv. maybe you can come up with a name for that kind of tv.
here might be the issue some have: how many people actually fly around in a starship boldly going where blah blah blah compared to the perception tv viewers have of crime scene investigators that do work similar enough to that they see on their show?
it is easier to disbelieve startrek but harder to disbelieve CSI. you commit a crime you imagine that some team will investigate it like in the show (how ever long it takes). but you flip open your communicator dial 911 and ask them to beam you up, and you might get sent to the luna-ward. make sense?
and when will they start to realize that the internet is also a public institution that is at once a library and an archive.
i guess the only difference is that the internet was not created for the betterment of society. but it started out with the betterment of a single nation, its just interesting how the idea spread to other nations and how its existence is now leveraged by the communications industry who are like the board of directors of the internet.
funny how regardless of the outcome of IP law they will still make money. not even a library or an archive can say that. when will the shareholders, we the people, start getting on our dividends?
i would argue there is little to no damage to intellectual property at all. home entertainment is a multi-billion dollar industry and there is no sign that this is a falling trend.
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we already have discussion threads, why not apply the same thought to stories. this takes care of dupes by grouping them together making topical discussion less of a headache. this would also have the side effect of grouping related stories into common threads helping the readership gain a greater understanding of the events.
http://www.neooffice.org/ its not ready for prime time. and im not sure (read i havent looked to hard) but i think its on some sort of pause. i have no evidence for any of this.
you might be missing the point. simply because they have "solutions" priced at $400 and $70 does not mean they are trying to con anyone.
there are many customers that will fork over the $400 because all the configuration is done for them and they can rely on dedicated tech support should the need arise. if they do not care for the standalone box and they only require the software then its only $70 again, the software is designed to work out of the box. no need to spend however long to configure it yourself.
sounds like a pretty compelling argument to those consumers that do not wish to spend the time researching and configuring their boxes to "emulate" the behavior of mp3beamer.
you acturately point out that the functionality of the mp3beamer can be achieved for "free". but just a reminder, for a true geek this functionality and more has been available for a long long time. from the time you could put up a playlist on the web to putting music on an ftp site to remote controlled streaming music and even potentially converting one's music from a lossless format to mp3 or whatever on a case by case basis.
the point is that the mp3beamer is a convient package in the same way a pre-built desktop is a convient package. the best thing is that you could go into business offering similar "solutions" derived from similar software. you might even decide to sell your solutions at $300 and the software at $40. you might make a killing in sales on the assumption that your solutions were at the same quality or else the consumer will continue to vote elsewhere with their disposable income. anyways. im done.
it is legitimized because at least one person will feel the need to respond in this manner. now all the others that have even an itch do respond to Dvorak, they can refer to this article, and then move on to the more important article or commentary about the current state of linux and its effects on the market. the users that feel that linux caters to their interests. and the position of certain countries that do not feel the need to buy into a legacy-laden system that they have little to no control over. breathe.
Read this and tell me that while they might be right are they not also creating a door for abuse?
yea unless you spell badly and have bad grammer :)
i spoke too soon, i believe its already been set up :)
bittorrent?
it is already easy. ive setup a bittorrent client to act like a sort of PVR instead of going thru my cable providers alternative. it was stupidly easy...point and click apart from typing in the show titles that i wanted.
check this out tho: there isnt a geek in the world that could not find something good to say about a MS product. but while that, those same geeks will almost always attest to the poor rapport they have using MS products. its really about the consistency of the strategy MS uses to build trust. Google's is much better. which of the two corporations is winning at building trust? that's the most important aspect to consider here.
unless they develop drm for the human mind there will always be parts of the world and the internet that are drm-free. in such places new media will flourish. what i am really worried about is how much influence and power this drm-free part of the world will have on the rest of the drm-future. can such isolated communities or underground movements survive such natural disasters as tidal brain drains?
you ever read Neuromancer?
hardly anything said here will help them defeat encryption any faster :)
while i do not know much about the current state of the free-will vs. determinism argument, i have come to the conclusion that free-will can only be experienced on a moment by moment basis.
:) or we are locking into an alternate future that matches the goals you have in mind. in either case both futures introduce interesting twists.
the rest of the time is always deterministic. but do not confuse deterministic with predictable and that's why the now is so important. because while the future and past are deterministic, they are also unpredictable. they are also finite. at least as far as humanity is concerned.
as for pre-determined events...i dont know about you but that's kind of easy. every time we plan ahead we are either creating a new future with pre-determined events
but how about natural disasters you ask...that's easy too, given certain conditions certain things will happen. action reaction. we want to stop disasters? well that will require control of the local space how ever you want to implement and enforce this control. maybe the most important restraint for our imagination here is the energy required to actually control the weather or to minimize earthquakes etc. its possible tho.
both so i can also look at a ratio :)
gets me thinking about where Enlightenment is going. now the question is how long does it take to develop say an office suite on GNUSTEP vs KDE or GNOME or Windows XP? in manmonths of course.
after consulting this i conclude that Porto Alegre is the correct spelling.
i do not know much about jewish mysticism so if i may: how does kabalah relate?
don't underestimate your mother.
You even have a reason to give up and its based on mathematics, what better irony?
on the contrary. if people could "tivo" real life we would all become peeping toms. think about a parent being able to watch their child's life in a time-shifted manner at any point of their day. maybe some warez will be released that can boil down a person's day or week or month or year etc into an hour long show. and the best part is that this isnt even reality tv. maybe you can come up with a name for that kind of tv.
here might be the issue some have: how many people actually fly around in a starship boldly going where blah blah blah compared to the perception tv viewers have of crime scene investigators that do work similar enough to that they see on their show?
it is easier to disbelieve startrek but harder to disbelieve CSI. you commit a crime you imagine that some team will investigate it like in the show (how ever long it takes). but you flip open your communicator dial 911 and ask them to beam you up, and you might get sent to the luna-ward. make sense?
and when will they start to realize that the internet is also a public institution that is at once a library and an archive.
i guess the only difference is that the internet was not created for the betterment of society. but it started out with the betterment of a single nation, its just interesting how the idea spread to other nations and how its existence is now leveraged by the communications industry who are like the board of directors of the internet.
funny how regardless of the outcome of IP law they will still make money. not even a library or an archive can say that. when will the shareholders, we the people, start getting on our dividends?
i would argue there is little to no damage to intellectual property at all. home entertainment is a multi-billion dollar industry and there is no sign that this is a falling trend.
Maybe it is time to take enterprise to bit torrent. Continue to make the show. Plug in some commercials. everyone is happy.