Assume average quality mp3, approximating 1mb/minute, average length of 5 minutes per song. 900,000*5mb = 4,500,000 mb or 4.5 terabytes? Logic check on my figures, anyone?
I can't imagine the nightmare of tracking what this guy has already to eliminate dupes. Slashdot has enough trouble with its stories.
Ok, you sue them get your job back, then what? Now you're working for a company that already fired you once, has a terrible work environment (which is why you participated in the suit to start with) and now your managers are likely examining your work with a microscope looking for a legitimate reason to can you again. Has anyone ever gotten fired, sued the company, got their job back and it was a great place to work after that?
"Remember, you can't spell ExploitAtion without EA."
No, but you can spell "Out of work" without it. In many states (including mine) the employer doesn't need ANY reason to terminate an employee. Period.
It's running kind of slow, here's the text in case of./ing:
Segway v. Roomba Spent the weekend at a fascinating conference - Accelerating Change 2004. For those who haven't heard of it before, the Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change is an educational nonprofit base in LA that focuses on creating an "informed, optimistic, and empowered world community." The tautological nature of that mission might give you pause, but after meeting the volunteers, speakers, and participants, you come away with the realization that this is a group of very technologically minded folks who are want to make the world a better place.
So, the Linden Lab folks got along with them famously!
With Dr. James Cook at the controls, we did an extensive demo at the Friday night Tech Night and had hours of great questions about Second Life and the community from the many attendees.
On Saturday, I gave the first of two virtual world keynotes, focusing on the inevitable shift of production and community into digital worlds, and Robin spoke on Virtual Learning and Community with the Themis Group's Nova Barlow. Forterra's Robert Gehorsam was supposed to attend as well, but did not. Second Life was the subject of many discussions throughout the day.
Many of the other presentations either directly or indirectly applied to Second Life. iRobot's Helen Greiner is an always interesting speaker and the success of Roomba is a great example of smart geeks proving the rest of the world wrong. A Roomba was busy cleaning one of the meeting rooms, so it was interesting to actually observe one up close. In many ways, it behaves almost exactly the way simple creatures in SL do and probably uses many of the same algorithms. It tended to get a little confused if it encountered lots of power cables and tried to eat my backpack -- succeeding in swallowing most of one of the straps -- but didn't seem at all evil. More on Roomba in a momement. Helen also talked about the next steps for iRobot, including small, autonomous, networked robots used to explore spaces. This was pretty cool, so during the next talk I popped into SL via WiFi and built a small room, bought some appliances for it, and then coded up some small explorer bots to move around in it. Bits are so much easier than atoms! Not an accurate simulation, but amusing, and a screen shot ended up in my slide deck.
David Brin spoke several times on Saturday, first by himself, where he had fun poking holes in bad science. Next, he was in discussion with the EFF's Brad Templeton about The Transparent Society -- the idea, not the book, although David mentioned his website enough times that his talk sometimes felt like a commercial. I'm sympathetic to Brad's position, but I worry that most of David's arguments about the direction we are headed are hard to argue with. Second Life offers an interesting place to learn about how societies form when ubiquitous surveillance is possible but social norms are used to enable privacy anyway.
Dan Gillmor gave a great talk related to his new book, We the Media. Clearly, he and Hamlet could have a fascinating discussion about the nature of journalism and bloging in digital worlds.
That night also had what was, for me, the highlight of the conference. I refer, of course, to the ultimate convergence of technology. The perfect connection of human and robot. The consumate collision of 21st century geek products.
I am referring, of course, to the moment that a Segway ran over Roomba.
Since Segway was one of the sponsors, there were two Segways available to the conference participants Saturday night and Sunday morning. It was pretty amazing to watch, because when they worked perfectly, they were stunning. Spry old ladies leapt aboard and were soon zipping about, completely confident in their driving, only to be knocked to the floor when they dismounted while holding the turn control. There were some spectacular collisions, but none topped the moment that a fast moving Segway, slightly o
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt in assuming your thoughts and words are genuine, and you're not trolling.
The internet is not a private place. Other than the security procedures the developer implements, there is no "opt in" for any web site, any more than you can only allow people on your whitelist to call your phone number. Robots.txt is not JUST a Google or an American tool. It is recognized by many international search engines or other indexing spiders. Having a web site comes with a certain amount of responsibility, including protecting the information you want to keep private, and telling the spiders that index sites that you don't want them. I think the vast majority of users will agree that Google provides a valuable service, and by conforming to the rules they allow a way to keep sites out that don't want to be included in searches. Just add this:
User-agent: *
Disallow:/
to the file to keep all robots out. Now, robots that don't pay attention to your requests are a legitimate problem.
I never really liked WinAmp myself and always preferred Sonique and now Sonique 2. It's always unfortunate to see a company close up when so many people obviously enjoyed their product, even if I'm not one of them.
about the browser. They'll just use whatever is easiest. If IE comes with the computer it's what they'll use. John Q Averageuser doesn't care about the politics or rhetoric behind Firefox or the security issues associated with IE. (S)He just wants to buy a new set of hubcaps on eBay. Replacing IE as the default installed browser on new computers is the only way to really get 'the masses' to use it.
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Right, because there's no chance that any of us might be at work. I can get away with visiting Slashdot periodically, but I think bringing the Xbox in might get my fingers smacked.
Recently I've bought more music than usual, but not from any major record labels. The last 5 or 6 CDs I bought were via mail order. Especially from these guys.
Slashdot Mirror
Admittedly, I listen to a lot of punk, where the average song is probably 2:00 long. Then again, I also have In-a-gadda-da-vida...
...when he collects 900,000 DIVX movies
Assume average quality mp3, approximating 1mb/minute, average length of 5 minutes per song. 900,000*5mb = 4,500,000 mb or 4.5 terabytes? Logic check on my figures, anyone?
I can't imagine the nightmare of tracking what this guy has already to eliminate dupes. Slashdot has enough trouble with its stories.
"Bottom line seems to be that nobody is going to be switching over to MSN Search from Google anytime soon."
No shit.
Ok, you sue them get your job back, then what? Now you're working for a company that already fired you once, has a terrible work environment (which is why you participated in the suit to start with) and now your managers are likely examining your work with a microscope looking for a legitimate reason to can you again. Has anyone ever gotten fired, sued the company, got their job back and it was a great place to work after that?
"Remember, you can't spell ExploitAtion without EA." No, but you can spell "Out of work" without it. In many states (including mine) the employer doesn't need ANY reason to terminate an employee. Period.
It's running kind of slow, here's the text in case of ./ing:
Segway v. Roomba
Spent the weekend at a fascinating conference - Accelerating Change 2004. For those who haven't heard of it before, the Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change is an educational nonprofit base in LA that focuses on creating an "informed, optimistic, and empowered world community." The tautological nature of that mission might give you pause, but after meeting the volunteers, speakers, and participants, you come away with the realization that this is a group of very technologically minded folks who are want to make the world a better place.
So, the Linden Lab folks got along with them famously!
With Dr. James Cook at the controls, we did an extensive demo at the Friday night Tech Night and had hours of great questions about Second Life and the community from the many attendees.
On Saturday, I gave the first of two virtual world keynotes, focusing on the inevitable shift of production and community into digital worlds, and Robin spoke on Virtual Learning and Community with the Themis Group's Nova Barlow. Forterra's Robert Gehorsam was supposed to attend as well, but did not. Second Life was the subject of many discussions throughout the day.
Many of the other presentations either directly or indirectly applied to Second Life. iRobot's Helen Greiner is an always interesting speaker and the success of Roomba is a great example of smart geeks proving the rest of the world wrong. A Roomba was busy cleaning one of the meeting rooms, so it was interesting to actually observe one up close. In many ways, it behaves almost exactly the way simple creatures in SL do and probably uses many of the same algorithms. It tended to get a little confused if it encountered lots of power cables and tried to eat my backpack -- succeeding in swallowing most of one of the straps -- but didn't seem at all evil. More on Roomba in a momement. Helen also talked about the next steps for iRobot, including small, autonomous, networked robots used to explore spaces. This was pretty cool, so during the next talk I popped into SL via WiFi and built a small room, bought some appliances for it, and then coded up some small explorer bots to move around in it. Bits are so much easier than atoms! Not an accurate simulation, but amusing, and a screen shot ended up in my slide deck.
David Brin spoke several times on Saturday, first by himself, where he had fun poking holes in bad science. Next, he was in discussion with the EFF's Brad Templeton about The Transparent Society -- the idea, not the book, although David mentioned his website enough times that his talk sometimes felt like a commercial. I'm sympathetic to Brad's position, but I worry that most of David's arguments about the direction we are headed are hard to argue with. Second Life offers an interesting place to learn about how societies form when ubiquitous surveillance is possible but social norms are used to enable privacy anyway.
Dan Gillmor gave a great talk related to his new book, We the Media. Clearly, he and Hamlet could have a fascinating discussion about the nature of journalism and bloging in digital worlds.
That night also had what was, for me, the highlight of the conference. I refer, of course, to the ultimate convergence of technology. The perfect connection of human and robot. The consumate collision of 21st century geek products.
I am referring, of course, to the moment that a Segway ran over Roomba.
Since Segway was one of the sponsors, there were two Segways available to the conference participants Saturday night and Sunday morning. It was pretty amazing to watch, because when they worked perfectly, they were stunning. Spry old ladies leapt aboard and were soon zipping about, completely confident in their driving, only to be knocked to the floor when they dismounted while holding the turn control. There were some spectacular collisions, but none topped the moment that a fast moving Segway, slightly o
I like watching sports, but I never understood the draw to sports games. Maybe it's just me.
...will scan for people bringing outside drinks and snacks into the theater.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt in assuming your thoughts and words are genuine, and you're not trolling.
/
The internet is not a private place. Other than the security procedures the developer implements, there is no "opt in" for any web site, any more than you can only allow people on your whitelist to call your phone number. Robots.txt is not JUST a Google or an American tool. It is recognized by many international search engines or other indexing spiders. Having a web site comes with a certain amount of responsibility, including protecting the information you want to keep private, and telling the spiders that index sites that you don't want them. I think the vast majority of users will agree that Google provides a valuable service, and by conforming to the rules they allow a way to keep sites out that don't want to be included in searches. Just add this:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
to the file to keep all robots out. Now, robots that don't pay attention to your requests are a legitimate problem.
I never really liked WinAmp myself and always preferred Sonique and now Sonique 2. It's always unfortunate to see a company close up when so many people obviously enjoyed their product, even if I'm not one of them.
Because he advertised it as a secure operating system.
http://www.hosstyle.com/kittens.htm
...because I was out of hash cash.
That's why I still use punchcards.
He should just send an apology email for each spam. That would certainly cut down on the problem.
Nothing stops MSIE from copying. Opera had tabbed browsing at least 5 years ago, and Firefox copied them.
//Disclaimer: I'm not sure Opera was the first browser to have it, my point is that it's not a unique feature...
about the browser. They'll just use whatever is easiest. If IE comes with the computer it's what they'll use. John Q Averageuser doesn't care about the politics or rhetoric behind Firefox or the security issues associated with IE. (S)He just wants to buy a new set of hubcaps on eBay. Replacing IE as the default installed browser on new computers is the only way to really get 'the masses' to use it.
AOL = Internet Copy = Cut ...
Right, because there's no chance that any of us might be at work. I can get away with visiting Slashdot periodically, but I think bringing the Xbox in might get my fingers smacked.
Weird. I'm Offtopic but you're funny. Must have been in the delivery.
I'm tired of hearing about it.
..has the sweetest smile!
...build a new MAME cab. Because let's face it, what could be cooler than MAME?
Recently I've bought more music than usual, but not from any major record labels. The last 5 or 6 CDs I bought were via mail order. Especially from these guys.