How do I download this quicktime (file?) to my computer. I want to show it to my family in a few months and who knows if the site will still be around?
Everyone is comparing enterprise to Galatica but I don't have a TV and haven't ever seen this battlestar program. Where can I download it to watch on my PC?
The thing I thought was most revolutionary about longhorn was the database type file system. I think more and more people are seeing the advantages of tags over folders. You'd think someone could build a database style, tagged filesystem in some sort of linux deal. How hard would it be?
Here's a python script I wrote to download all the zen garden examples. It works by incrementing the url and getting the next page. (myutils.pad turns '1' into '001') This puts all the pages into one big file, but you could easily make it do seperate files:
The study measured market share by embedding sensors on major web sites such as those of Walt Disney, Best Buy, Sony and Liz Claiborne.
I've been trying to embed sensors in my website for years but I can't ever bridge the physical to virtual barrier. Maybe someday when they invent that smart dust stuff?
For the past few years since I read reviews about sony's DRM type MP3 players, I've found myself almost unconciously boycotting all Sony products. That's weird huh? It's an easy company to boycott because there's always another brand right next to it, and usually cheaper too.
I also find myself explaining to friends shopping for mp3 players about Sony's "conflict of interest" in making good Mp3 players.
Does anyone else boycott Sony for this reason, or try to avoid their products when possible?
Here's my naive idea for fusion confinement. How about a giant container filled with some liquid. And this container is spinning in such a way that a bubble of hydrogen/helium whatever fuel is kept in the center. Could you then initiate fusion in the bubble and rely on the liquid around it to contain it?
I just noticed http://lessig.org/blog/ is down. Perhaps 1000s of people are collectively looking to the defacto leader of the free culture movement for some insight on this issue. Let's also hope all of our gaurdian agencies (eff, downhill battle, et al) get their stuff together quickly.
But on a practical level, I wonder if this really matters. I for one am already afeared of writing p2p software, just because it seems like I would be opening myself up for lots of trouble. It's a special breed of person that writes p2p software, really has to believe in the stuff, and be willing to risk it all. Laws don't make much difference to them folk.
The strangest thing happened to me when using gmail a few weeks ago. First I tried to send an.exe file, and of course gmail told me, "you're not allowed to send.exe files". So I changed the file extension and still got the same response somehow. Ok, then it gets weird: I figured I could hide it in a zip file so gmail wouldn't notice, and it still tells me I can't send an exe file!, then I encrypt the zip file, figuring there would be no way gmail could see what's inside, and it still finds the.exe file somehow!
It really felt invasive to me to think that google is looking inside my encrypted zip files. I sent them a letter but never heard anything back.
Does anyone have any insight into this? If you don't believe me, try it for yourself.
Ok, I know spyware/adware/viri are a blight on our wonderful internet but here's what I find fascinating about them:
Computers are becoming analogous to small ecosystems. In my mind I often compare the idea to leaving a loaf of bread in my back yard to connecting a fresh windows XP install to a cable modem, maybe surfing a few shady websites and letting it sit for a few months.
In my backyard all kinds of organisms will appear to utilize the bread's resources, birds, insects, bacteria, mold, and who knows what else. And also on this hypothetical computer again all kinds of organisms will be drawn to use up all of the computer's resources (processing/bandwidth) including spyware, adware, virii, worms, etc. I just find it really fascinating how a natural phenomenom like this is finding its way into a manmade system like the internet.
My prediction along these lines is that we're going to see some amazing instances of AI coming from these 'weeds' of the internet (spyware,virii, spam, etc) since they're most 'organic stuff' in the internet system.
Discuss, discuss. (I hope I could express this idea well enough, the analogy seems so clear to me.)
I just wanted to express my support for this lawsuit. What a great idea!
If anyone knows ways to get involved, or to help this effort, please tell.
Lastly, I find the general plight of cell phones particularly tragic. Every phone I've ever owned has been crippled in serious ways just like the article mentions. People, cell phones are the future PC's. It's great that we have linux, free software, etc for today's personal computer, and yet before we've even finished freeing the personal computer, they're becoming obselete(exageration) to mobile devices. When will have have a truly open and standards based cell phone? My only idea so far is to have a source-forge type of place for consumer electronics, where people can collaberate and at least create the designs for "freer" phones. Perhaps there could be a hardware specific GPL?
Discuss, discuss, I'd love to hear your inights on this,/.
Evolution can not be made to run on windows ever period.
(Note to the astute reader: I wanted to ask this as a question but my questions never get answered on slashdot, so I thought I'd try making a controversial universal statement and wait for people to correct me)
Someone needs to get all this kind of information to the US supreme court before they hear that Grokster case. They need to have a technical understanding of this stuff.
Professor Lessig,
I was also thinking you could write an amicus curie brief for the court on this case. What do you think? Maybe someone could send the justices some of your books too like "free culture"?
People start getting this info the the supreme court. Also could someone get this comment to Dr. Lessig?
-- Sorry I'm half joking here, but the justices do need to see stuff like this somehow.
I was writing a small java program in a text editor for a class project a week ago, and I got stuck conceptually at one point and so I desired to step through the code. Now not knowing anything about the java world, netbeans came to mind as an IDE that would let me step through the code. So I installed this netbeans thing and pasted my code in, and I got so confused, it said I needed to have a "project", I tried making a dummy project, then it said all of my class files were missing even though they were right there in the same folder. After an hour of lost time I gave up.
My point? I guess is there anything I can use to step through code that is in-offensive and won't talk back to me? Just a paste your code and go kind of deal?
And a side question, why do my class mates get mad at me when I say I don't like Java?
I don't know much about the technology they used. I am just curious:
Is there any chance this could be a DIY project to build one of these (under 5K) ?
I think this could be a revolutionary interface. Anyone interested in discussing going into business with these things?
And to all those thinking this isn't a revolutionary interface, I have always believed that people are often quick to dimiss new iventions as not useful, and it's only when they are shown how it's useful that they start using it. Or more generally, you can't know how useful it is until you try it.
Any new big thing needs absolute anonimity. I already worry for all of the innocent civilians out there using bittorrent now to get their favorite shows and movies. I'm sure their transgressions are all being logged for future lawsuits.
And yes they are INNOCENT. Here's one good reason why. We first must ask, why did the founders of the US constitution feel it was important for accused criminals to be convicted only by a jury of peers?
I believe this is because they knew that honest citizens doing honest activities will often run afoul of the law, especially in a broken government where England (back then) or corporations today make all the laws. The jury of the peers is built into our criminal justice system in order to prevent just this kind of thing. I mean the hope is that a jury of bitorrent users will never convict a fellow bit torrent user. That's probably why we're only seeing civil lawsuits today by the RIAA and the like. I think I criminal jury trial for file sharing would be quite interesting.
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I agree, I wouldn't pay more than $10.00 for about.com. It's really amazing a company would pay in the millions. What do you really get?
Does this mean del.icio.us won't work, or is US not considered international?
How do I download this quicktime (file?) to my computer. I want to show it to my family in a few months and who knows if the site will still be around?
Any ideas?
Everyone is comparing enterprise to Galatica but I don't have a TV and haven't ever seen this battlestar program. Where can I download it to watch on my PC?
The thing I thought was most revolutionary about longhorn was the database type file system. I think more and more people are seeing the advantages of tags over folders. You'd think someone could build a database style, tagged filesystem in some sort of linux deal. How hard would it be?
Sorry, maybe it's in the article, but I've heard some people don't read those.
Thanks, good idea. How does it work? Is it some kind of formatting instruction deal?
Here's a python script I wrote to download all the zen garden examples. It works by incrementing the url and getting the next page. (myutils.pad turns '1' into '001') This puts all the pages into one big file, but you could easily make it do seperate files:
import os,sys,time,urllib2,urlparse,re
import myutils
baseurl=r'http://www.csszengarden.com/'
for i in range(1,146):
paddedi=myutils.pad(str(i),3,'0',True)
url=baseurl + paddedi + '/' + paddedi + '.css'
print 'trying: ' + url
try:
urlfile=urllib2.urlopen(url)
content=urlfile.read()
urlfile.close()
savedurl=file(paddedi+'.css','w')
savedurl.write(content+'\n')
except Exception, inst:
print "problem at " + url
print inst # __str__ allows args to printed directly
Max osx
The study measured market share by embedding sensors on major web sites such as those of Walt Disney, Best Buy, Sony and Liz Claiborne.
I've been trying to embed sensors in my website for years but I can't ever bridge the physical to virtual barrier. Maybe someday when they invent that smart dust stuff?
Everything went fine until page 3 of the tutorial when I try to access http://127.0.0.1:3000/recipe/new
It tells me this error:
Mysql::Error in Recipe#new
Access denied for user: 'gregory@localhost' (Using password: YES)
I want it to log on with user gregory with a password. I set up everything in the database.yml file but still no avail? Any ideas?
For the past few years since I read reviews about sony's DRM type MP3 players, I've found myself almost unconciously boycotting all Sony products. That's weird huh? It's an easy company to boycott because there's always another brand right next to it, and usually cheaper too.
I also find myself explaining to friends shopping for mp3 players about Sony's "conflict of interest" in making good Mp3 players.
Does anyone else boycott Sony for this reason, or try to avoid their products when possible?
Here's my naive idea for fusion confinement. How about a giant container filled with some liquid. And this container is spinning in such a way that a bubble of hydrogen/helium whatever fuel is kept in the center. Could you then initiate fusion in the bubble and rely on the liquid around it to contain it?
I just noticed http://lessig.org/blog/ is down. Perhaps 1000s of people are collectively looking to the defacto leader of the free culture movement for some insight on this issue. Let's also hope all of our gaurdian agencies (eff, downhill battle, et al) get their stuff together quickly.
But on a practical level, I wonder if this really matters. I for one am already afeared of writing p2p software, just because it seems like I would be opening myself up for lots of trouble. It's a special breed of person that writes p2p software, really has to believe in the stuff, and be willing to risk it all. Laws don't make much difference to them folk.
Discuss, discuss
The strangest thing happened to me when using gmail a few weeks ago. First I tried to send an .exe file, and of course gmail told me, "you're not allowed to send .exe files". So I changed the file extension and still got the same response somehow. Ok, then it gets weird: .exe file somehow!
I figured I could hide it in a zip file so gmail wouldn't notice, and it still tells me I can't send an exe file!, then I encrypt the zip file, figuring there would be no way gmail could see what's inside, and it still finds the
It really felt invasive to me to think that google is looking inside my encrypted zip files. I sent them a letter but never heard anything back.
Does anyone have any insight into this? If you don't believe me, try it for yourself.
Ok, I know spyware/adware/viri are a blight on our wonderful internet but here's what I find fascinating about them:
Computers are becoming analogous to small ecosystems. In my mind I often compare the idea to leaving a loaf of bread in my back yard to connecting a fresh windows XP install to a cable modem, maybe surfing a few shady websites and letting it sit for a few months.
In my backyard all kinds of organisms will appear to utilize the bread's resources, birds, insects, bacteria, mold, and who knows what else. And also on this hypothetical computer again all kinds of organisms will be drawn to use up all of the computer's resources (processing/bandwidth) including spyware, adware, virii, worms, etc. I just find it really fascinating how a natural phenomenom like this is finding its way into a manmade system like the internet.
My prediction along these lines is that we're going to see some amazing instances of AI coming from these 'weeds' of the internet (spyware,virii, spam, etc) since they're most 'organic stuff' in the internet system.
Discuss, discuss. (I hope I could express this idea well enough, the analogy seems so clear to me.)
Here, here
I just wanted to express my support for this lawsuit. What a great idea!
/.
If anyone knows ways to get involved, or to help this effort, please tell.
Lastly, I find the general plight of cell phones particularly tragic. Every phone I've ever owned has been crippled in serious ways just like the article mentions. People, cell phones are the future PC's. It's great that we have linux, free software, etc for today's personal computer, and yet before we've even finished freeing the personal computer, they're becoming obselete(exageration) to mobile devices. When will have have a truly open and standards based cell phone?
My only idea so far is to have a source-forge type of place for consumer electronics, where people can collaberate and at least create the designs for "freer" phones. Perhaps there could be a hardware specific GPL?
Discuss, discuss, I'd love to hear your inights on this,
This is a political crime. Sharing software is free speech. End of story.
Evolution can not be made to run on windows ever period.
(Note to the astute reader: I wanted to ask this as a question but my questions never get answered on slashdot, so I thought I'd try making a controversial universal statement and wait for people to correct me)
Someone needs to get all this kind of information to the US supreme court before they hear that Grokster case. They need to have a technical understanding of this stuff.
Professor Lessig,
I was also thinking you could write an amicus curie brief for the court on this case. What do you think? Maybe someone could send the justices some of your books too like "free culture"?
People start getting this info the the supreme court. Also could someone get this comment to Dr. Lessig?
--
Sorry I'm half joking here, but the justices do need to see stuff like this somehow.
I was writing a small java program in a text editor for a class project a week ago, and I got stuck conceptually at one point and so I desired to step through the code.
Now not knowing anything about the java world, netbeans came to mind as an IDE that would let me step through the code.
So I installed this netbeans thing and pasted my code in, and I got so confused, it said I needed to have a "project", I tried making a dummy project, then it said all of my class files were missing even though they were right there in the same folder. After an hour of lost time I gave up.
My point? I guess is there anything I can use to step through code that is in-offensive and won't talk back to me? Just a paste your code and go kind of deal?
And a side question, why do my class mates get mad at me when I say I don't like Java?
I don't know much about the technology they used. I am just curious:
Is there any chance this could be a DIY project to build one of these (under 5K) ?
I think this could be a revolutionary interface. Anyone interested in discussing going into business with these things?
And to all those thinking this isn't a revolutionary interface, I have always believed that people are often quick to dimiss new iventions as not useful, and it's only when they are shown how it's useful that they start using it. Or more generally, you can't know how useful it is until you try it.
Any new big thing needs absolute anonimity. I already worry for all of the innocent civilians out there using bittorrent now to get their favorite shows and movies. I'm sure their transgressions are all being logged for future lawsuits.
And yes they are INNOCENT. Here's one good reason why. We first must ask, why did the founders of the US constitution feel it was important for accused criminals to be convicted only by a jury of peers?
I believe this is because they knew that honest citizens doing honest activities will often run afoul of the law, especially in a broken government where England (back then) or corporations today make all the laws. The jury of the peers is built into our criminal justice system in order to prevent just this kind of thing. I mean the hope is that a jury of bitorrent users will never convict a fellow bit torrent user. That's probably why we're only seeing civil lawsuits today by the RIAA and the like. I think I criminal jury trial for file sharing would be quite interesting.
Just wanted to voice my opinion.