Well its folksonomy as opposed to taxonomy.. its a good enough word to describe what it actually refers to. Makes a lot more sense than 'web2.0' anyway..;)
First of all tags are not exclusive to the blogosphere - they exist on the boardscape (see boardtracker for example) and of course on the many social nets and pretty much everywhere else.
There are already microformats for defining tags which can and should be used.
Tags are for building a folksonomy and created 'by the people' so are by their nature, to a certain extent, personalized and flexible.. what makes sense to you may make no sense to everyone else but so what? You made it, its good for you and thats good enough.. however chances are it will make sense to some other people anyway, no matter what or how you tag, so its all good.
it's pathetic when a billionaire is so addicted to money that he will do anything to get it
I doubt he needs the money too much but the several thousand 'normal people' who will work on the movie will no doubt appreciate the chance to earn some money.. as will their families. Billionaires dont just make money for themselves..
Shimon Peres gave a talk at leweb3 in paris the other day and said something like "why waste our intellectual capacity remembering things when we can just google it" - this from a guy who speaks (at least) three languages (answered questions in english and french at that event) and talked for nearly an hour without any notes - at the grand old age of 83! Maybe he used to be a cabbie..
He suggested we should use our minds to be creative rather than remembering things, which is perhaps not such a bad idea.
If maintenance is so expensive, sling the whole thing out and buy another for $100.. still way under $970.
Unless these laptops are utter crap I would think most would work quite happily for a reasonably long time anyway.. my cheapo laptop has been running for several years and these days I leave it switched on 24/7 for months at a time (running linux of course;) )
What training? Give these things to kids, provide some docs to get them started and they will do what kids do with computers - they will figure it out and learn as they go along. I certainly don't recall getting any 'training' on my first computer (zx81!) but I got the hang of it and it was great even without internet. I am of course assuming they can already read, if not then thats not the fault of this 'one laptop per child' program. As for training teachers - if the kids can figure it out, so can any half decent teacher.. or just get the kids to train the teachers.
Net connections are so expensive? I think not. Bring in one decent connection to a village hall or school and run a few nic cables around or use wifi or dialup. Worst case they could use UUCP like the good old days.. the internet existed before broadband although maybe those poor kids would have to do without youtube and myspace.. so its not all bad!
The $100 laptop could be great and open up a world of knowledge and opportunities (not just captcha cracking!) for many. The naysayers should button it and let the OLPC people get on with the job.
Also the website you mention is actually from "a local Australian distributor", not the company making this thing which is apparently based in silicon valley.
Got a problem with the name of the State of Israel? Perhaps you would prefer to all it "the zionist entity" or "the little satan"?
Until you (and others like you) can bring yourself to recognize its right to exist, your viewpoint is as worthless as the democratically elected hamas government that continues firing hundreds of rockets at israeli towns while their people starve.
Any westerners who actually think Kazakhs are like that really need to broaden their horizons a little.. but of course Borat plays on the worst attributes of certain westerners which is part of what makes it funny and from the clips I have seen so far I would have to say it is very funny.
Interesting, can you please provide a source for a Muslim state swearing the destruction of Israel.
Well ignoring the numerous wars conducted by arab/muslim states against israel which would appear to me to be a fairly clear case of 'actions speaking louder than words' and indicating a desire to destroy israel..
It is the sworn, written, publicly declared aim of hamas to reclaim all of what is now israel 'from the river jordan to the sea'. Hamas is the elected government of palestine. It was also previously part of the palestinian charter during arafats day but was (at least in theory) removed.
Iran and in particular Ahmadinejad, frequently calls for, praises the idea of and clearly dreams about the destruction of the 'zionist entity', 'regime', 'disgraceful stain' or whatever other way they choose to call it without actually using the name 'israel' - these are all a matter of public record and no spin posted on a wiki page will change that.
Lets not forget that 'the holocaust never happened' as far as he is concerned, that even if it somehow did that it was a euro issue and so europe should provide for a 'zionist state' instead - thereby again removing the 'disgraceful stain' from its current location.
Also just to show the mentality of the 'lunatic regime' in iran - they recently announced the winner of their holocaust cartoon competition (now an annual event). Any mosques or embassies being torched as a result?
Iran having nukes is just a bad idea all around since the likelihood of them actually being used is uncomfortably high and that would really ruin the cruising season in the mediterranean for a long time.
The point is that things can and do break and when you're in the middle of nowhere you're a bit stuck (sods law dictates that they will break at the worst possible time;) ) if you are not able or don't want to climb masts.. so a powerboat of some kind is preferable for many people and if it doesn't use any fuel then its a bonus.
As for the solar yacht doing 6 knots (actually 5 - 6 knots) 24 hours per day - that is what they say it will do. I would think their engineers have worked it out otherwise they wont get very far - it has 65 m2 of solar panels which is probably a bit bigger than the usual thing you get on a yacht this size.
Well I have seen many times people clambering up masts for various reasons (generally not just for the fun of it) and always on modern yachts.. things break at sea and sometimes those things are up the mast.. have you not seen Ellen MacArthur doing exactly that? If not then I suggest you read her own account of mast climbing and the (not) fun it can be at sea. I'm fairly sure her yacht wasn't built in the 19th century and I am equally sure she knows a thing or two about yachting!
If you read the site about that solar powered boat you will see they say it can sail at 6 or 7 knots 24 hours per day as long as there is sun in the day and when there is no sun they go slower.
It is not a race so comparing it to how fast you could go with a sail powered yacht is missing the point entirely.
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300TB of storage in a 10.000 square foot datacenter
Can fit 300TB in a single rack these days.. or is that a 10 square foot datacenter?
From the article..
there's a solar-powered fresh-air system and a drinking tube attached to a canteen in the small of the back
Not quite aircon but better than a hole in the head, as they say.
Well its folksonomy as opposed to taxonomy.. its a good enough word to describe what it actually refers to. Makes a lot more sense than 'web2.0' anyway.. ;)
First of all tags are not exclusive to the blogosphere - they exist on the boardscape (see boardtracker for example) and of course on the many social nets and pretty much everywhere else.
There are already microformats for defining tags which can and should be used.
Tags are for building a folksonomy and created 'by the people' so are by their nature, to a certain extent, personalized and flexible.. what makes sense to you may make no sense to everyone else but so what? You made it, its good for you and thats good enough.. however chances are it will make sense to some other people anyway, no matter what or how you tag, so its all good.
it's pathetic when a billionaire is so addicted to money that he will do anything to get it
I doubt he needs the money too much but the several thousand 'normal people' who will work on the movie will no doubt appreciate the chance to earn some money.. as will their families. Billionaires dont just make money for themselves..
Shimon Peres gave a talk at leweb3 in paris the other day and said something like "why waste our intellectual capacity remembering things when we can just google it" - this from a guy who speaks (at least) three languages (answered questions in english and french at that event) and talked for nearly an hour without any notes - at the grand old age of 83! Maybe he used to be a cabbie..
He suggested we should use our minds to be creative rather than remembering things, which is perhaps not such a bad idea.
If maintenance is so expensive, sling the whole thing out and buy another for $100.. still way under $970.
Unless these laptops are utter crap I would think most would work quite happily for a reasonably long time anyway.. my cheapo laptop has been running for several years and these days I leave it switched on 24/7 for months at a time (running linux of course ;) )
What training? Give these things to kids, provide some docs to get them started and they will do what kids do with computers - they will figure it out and learn as they go along. I certainly don't recall getting any 'training' on my first computer (zx81!) but I got the hang of it and it was great even without internet. I am of course assuming they can already read, if not then thats not the fault of this 'one laptop per child' program. As for training teachers - if the kids can figure it out, so can any half decent teacher.. or just get the kids to train the teachers.
Net connections are so expensive? I think not. Bring in one decent connection to a village hall or school and run a few nic cables around or use wifi or dialup. Worst case they could use UUCP like the good old days.. the internet existed before broadband although maybe those poor kids would have to do without youtube and myspace.. so its not all bad!
The $100 laptop could be great and open up a world of knowledge and opportunities (not just captcha cracking!) for many. The naysayers should button it and let the OLPC people get on with the job.
Obviously this job required that I work graveyards.
Those guys are way beyond a sleep disorder.. if Modafinil woke them up it must be good! ;)
we will soon be working 14-16 hour days
Passed that threshold long ago.. damn intarweb.
Although I am of course reading /. in those work hours.. ;)
Or like the crossing of the Red Sea. Where the water first pulled back and then a short while later came crashing down with devastating force.
The volcano eruption on the greek island of santorini has been suggested as a possible cause of that (and related) biblical event.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/..
"It also works with any of the new 3D televisions from Sharp, Panasonic, LG, Samsung and others, where you don't need any glasses at all."
So says this article..
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7242/52/1/0/
Also the website you mention is actually from "a local Australian distributor", not the company making this thing which is apparently based in silicon valley.
Got a problem with the name of the State of Israel? Perhaps you would prefer to all it "the zionist entity" or "the little satan"?
Until you (and others like you) can bring yourself to recognize its right to exist, your viewpoint is as worthless as the democratically elected hamas government that continues firing hundreds of rockets at israeli towns while their people starve.
Any westerners who actually think Kazakhs are like that really need to broaden their horizons a little.. but of course Borat plays on the worst attributes of certain westerners which is part of what makes it funny and from the clips I have seen so far I would have to say it is very funny.
Interesting, can you please provide a source for a Muslim state swearing the destruction of Israel.
Well ignoring the numerous wars conducted by arab/muslim states against israel which would appear to me to be a fairly clear case of 'actions speaking louder than words' and indicating a desire to destroy israel..
It is the sworn, written, publicly declared aim of hamas to reclaim all of what is now israel 'from the river jordan to the sea'. Hamas is the elected government of palestine. It was also previously part of the palestinian charter during arafats day but was (at least in theory) removed.
Iran and in particular Ahmadinejad, frequently calls for, praises the idea of and clearly dreams about the destruction of the 'zionist entity', 'regime', 'disgraceful stain' or whatever other way they choose to call it without actually using the name 'israel' - these are all a matter of public record and no spin posted on a wiki page will change that.
Lets not forget that 'the holocaust never happened' as far as he is concerned, that even if it somehow did that it was a euro issue and so europe should provide for a 'zionist state' instead - thereby again removing the 'disgraceful stain' from its current location.
Also just to show the mentality of the 'lunatic regime' in iran - they recently announced the winner of their holocaust cartoon competition (now an annual event). Any mosques or embassies being torched as a result?
Iran having nukes is just a bad idea all around since the likelihood of them actually being used is uncomfortably high and that would really ruin the cruising season in the mediterranean for a long time.
Keep It Simple Stupid
;)
Just build a space ladder.. and then you could lose some weight on the way up to space.
Shak-who? I imagine 50% of the population under 25 doesn't even remember why Shakespeare is significant.
I'd be surprised if 50% of the population ever actually knew anything about the bard, never mind remember..
Doesn't make the stats any more accurate but at least it makes them look pretty.
How long until fox buys the domain (or just ad space) and sticks a big myspace video there to confuse the already confused?
AJAX driven too? ;)
How many myspace videos were user generated/uploaded rather than myspace/fox promo vids pushed to all their users?
Bodes ill for our future health care needs.
Almost a 50/50 chance of getting a doc who cheated his/her way through college.. scary.
On the bright side if your doc is ever stuck with a diagnosis he can always look it up on wikipedia..
Ah ha! So he has a secret twin doing half the work! Pfft.. perhaps not so smart after all..
By that time we'll have flying cars which should kill them off at a healthy rate.
As for the solar yacht doing 6 knots (actually 5 - 6 knots) 24 hours per day - that is what they say it will do. I would think their engineers have worked it out otherwise they wont get very far - it has 65 m2 of solar panels which is probably a bit bigger than the usual thing you get on a yacht this size.
If you read the site about that solar powered boat you will see they say it can sail at 6 or 7 knots 24 hours per day as long as there is sun in the day and when there is no sun they go slower.
It is not a race so comparing it to how fast you could go with a sail powered yacht is missing the point entirely.