Well I'd more or less agree with you (I'm going to assume your from the UK???) Either way, I'd imagine that face book and others like it are immediate enough for most people, I mean even "toothing" would take time. The good thing about face book is by nature it has a short built in "waiting period" that occures because you have to look up and talk to people first. I don't know if anyone needs immediate gradification.
What can we talk about? Oh crazy things like the state of world politics, the cure for AIDS, and the way to make an AI that's truly able to think, et al.
Well if you read his blog entry covered on/. here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/27/14 11245&tid=98 you'll know that he owns alot of digital content. If MGM wins this case they could potentially shut down a valuable means for him to get that content to his customers.
Are you saying that people who steal content shouldn't be punished? I disagree with the systems we have in place to sell music, tv shows, and movies (Not so much movies) but that still doesn't make it right to take the content. I hate the RIAA as much as the next guy but in some sense they do have grounds to sue people.
Can you imagine what would happen to Mark if they said he disagreed with the law suits?
Quoted from the article: GM: Does the Betamax precedent apply to the Grokster case, even though people are using digital technology like Grokster to amass libraries, not just to tape shows and enhance viewing convenience?
MC: Yes. People amassed libraries on tape as well. You can pick up any movie-collector mag and see the ads to buy a VHS or DVD of any TV show ever made. That's a big library, and those ads have been there for at least 10 years. The industry doesn't care.
Quoted from the a lawyer for MGM on Channle One today: Betamax doesn't apply here.
Depends on how you intstall windows. If you're just reinstalling windows, than no, if you chose not to reformat when you install than no. Otherwise yes.
However I worry about their rapid asscention into a computer gaint. With this purchase they add to their already impressive profile as an inovative technology leader. I'm sure MS looked much the same way back in the early 90s. I've been using yahoo more lately but their interface is far too confused to make me want to use them regualarly. Now repersents a time when google open to an attack from a well directed company who has the software to compete with them in the scearch market. Lets hope that google doesn't go monoply on us.
I'm not here to disagree with you but I am curious why you seem to hold her to a diffent standard than other politicans. I challange you to find me a politican that was elected to office after standing up and saying exactly what they think.
http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.htmlFac ts versus Myths about video game violence The guy covers the main points about video game violence. In short, yes there are. But there are more studies that show that children are likely to become violent if their parents are negligent or violent.
Yes the world would be scarier but the UN today is as corrupt if not more so than most governments. The UN repersents at best a forum for international discussion. The reason nations can make policy (as much as I hate to say it) is because they have an army to back that policy up. Viewing the UN as a body in itself is a basic mistake because with no real way to enforce any policy it creates it is simply a way for nations to peacefully communicate.
The internet is simply of community in essence. It IS an exchange medium but unlike other methods of communication we use today it repersents a unique enity in which computers act almost as citizens. In this regard I would compare it to any government. What the UN and others need to realize is that there are already structures setup on the internet, by nature. People who chose the use the internet, also agree to follow certain "laws" (by nature; ie on/. we agree to a set of rules) so what they're talking about is regulating internet, which is much less like estiblishing guidelines and much more like estiblishing limitations.
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True, I understand that it would result in alot of bias and I'm not suggesting that the Hugo awards go to an online voting system. But the topic made me consider something along the lines of a web books site, some place where the online community could log on and review/vote for books and then at the end of the year you could send an award to the most popular books, saying, "You book was selected as one of the best by the readers at the site....". Just a way for the average readers to let an author know we apprecite their works even if some snobby panel doesn't.
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Maybe I'm just not, "in the loop", but I don't know of many online awards given. I don't like the concept of afew select people voting on who to give the prize to, I'd rather have open online voting. I'd also like to see more writing contests (again maybe I just missed them). By the way Ian McDonald is amazing.
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The FBI plays mean tricks on people. My Aunt and her husband wanted for murder, embezzlement, and some more minor crimes. They both ran away in the early eighties. Agents called my grandmother's house pretending to be doctors and told her the her daughter was in a New York hostipal in critical condition. They had her phone tapped and were hoping that if she knew where Connie was that she would call her back and they'd be able to trace the call. The point of tapping phones is that they're one of the most widely used means of communication.
At the time Darwin published the papers they were controversial. The curch was in power in many states in Europe and that meant that Darwin was commiting heresay by suggesting such things.
That's correct, if you read http://print.google.com/. They only uploaded books from publishers who granted permission and university liberaries. That's only fare in some ways, as long as a book is recent enough it would really hurt sales to offer it online.
I love google I really do and as an avid reader I'm happy to see this take place. I have a personal book collection of over 500 books (Pretty small when you think about it) that I got before I discovered ebooks. Seeing google take a step to advance liturature and make it easily scearchable is truly an advancement worth noting.
Well I'm not going to disagree that the US's current economic plan makes absolutly no sense but the majority American debt is owed to other Americans. The national debt you're referring to comes mostly from the US government buying on credit from US corperations.
As for people outsourcing to us, you have to realize that while the dollar is growing weaker, this does in many ways repersent a positive injection into our economy because it helps balance the trade deficit. The reason people won't outsource to here is because even in our current state America repersents a place of inovation and invent simply unmatched in many parts of the world. As long as the new technology is here first we shouldn't have a problem.
Well I must admit that outsourcing has become a problem but the problem lays in how we're dealing with it as well. Now I'll be the first to admit that I hate the large multi-billion dollar transnational corperations. I don't have a hard time believing that they're corrupt and just plain evil but I also must see the fact that there's a way around this.
On a whole if your IT job was outsourced than it was proablly not a very unique or important job. The 1990s saw a rise in a lot of people getting trained and certified in computers so they could hop on the bandwagon and get a low level IT job, now that the economy is down they're finding their jobs being outsourced.
If you don't want your job outsourced, then gain a valubale skill so that they can't afford to outsource you, work harder, smarter, and in general better than any overseas empolyee that they can find.
I think this represents a good thing for Ask Jeeves. I remember 5 years or so ago in school when we had to take a class on internet basics and we learned about screach engines. Ask Jeeves was my faviorite because it was one of the few that made sense. But over time I learned about Google and www.alltheweb.com, and I stopped using Ask because I found it's layout overbearing and hard to navigate. Ask also suffered from a poor marketing stragity. I think that if they can reorganize the company then it will be a very positive thing.
Well I'm not sure if the patent will be approved as is but I must admit that I like to idea behind the service. Most notably I enjoy the RSS feed integration, that's something that more people really need to start using. As for the patent, seems alittle broad to me but that's why you need to get these things approved.
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Well I'd more or less agree with you (I'm going to assume your from the UK???) Either way, I'd imagine that face book and others like it are immediate enough for most people, I mean even "toothing" would take time. The good thing about face book is by nature it has a short built in "waiting period" that occures because you have to look up and talk to people first. I don't know if anyone needs immediate gradification.
What can we talk about? Oh crazy things like the state of world politics, the cure for AIDS, and the way to make an AI that's truly able to think, et al.
Well if you read his blog entry covered on /. here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/27/14 11245&tid=98 you'll know that he owns alot of digital content. If MGM wins this case they could potentially shut down a valuable means for him to get that content to his customers.
Are you saying that people who steal content shouldn't be punished? I disagree with the systems we have in place to sell music, tv shows, and movies (Not so much movies) but that still doesn't make it right to take the content. I hate the RIAA as much as the next guy but in some sense they do have grounds to sue people.
Can you imagine what would happen to Mark if they said he disagreed with the law suits?
Quoted from the article:
GM: Does the Betamax precedent apply to the Grokster case, even though people are using digital technology like Grokster to amass libraries, not just to tape shows and enhance viewing convenience?
MC: Yes. People amassed libraries on tape as well. You can pick up any movie-collector mag and see the ads to buy a VHS or DVD of any TV show ever made. That's a big library, and those ads have been there for at least 10 years. The industry doesn't care.
Quoted from the a lawyer for MGM on Channle One today:
Betamax doesn't apply here.
Hmm I suppose that's for the courts to decide.
And what makes you think another company wouldn't do the exact same thing?
All that's a reason for is the government to instuit a better set of regulations about how the assignment of URLs will be done.
Depends on how you intstall windows. If you're just reinstalling windows, than no, if you chose not to reformat when you install than no. Otherwise yes.
In many cases....yes.
However I worry about their rapid asscention into a computer gaint. With this purchase they add to their already impressive profile as an inovative technology leader. I'm sure MS looked much the same way back in the early 90s. I've been using yahoo more lately but their interface is far too confused to make me want to use them regualarly. Now repersents a time when google open to an attack from a well directed company who has the software to compete with them in the scearch market. Lets hope that google doesn't go monoply on us.
So do the people who head organized crime.
I'm not here to disagree with you but I am curious why you seem to hold her to a diffent standard than other politicans. I challange you to find me a politican that was elected to office after standing up and saying exactly what they think.
http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.htmlFac ts versus Myths about video game violence The guy covers the main points about video game violence. In short, yes there are. But there are more studies that show that children are likely to become violent if their parents are negligent or violent.
A vote for Nader is a cry for help.
Yes the world would be scarier but the UN today is as corrupt if not more so than most governments. The UN repersents at best a forum for international discussion. The reason nations can make policy (as much as I hate to say it) is because they have an army to back that policy up. Viewing the UN as a body in itself is a basic mistake because with no real way to enforce any policy it creates it is simply a way for nations to peacefully communicate.
The internet is simply of community in essence. It IS an exchange medium but unlike other methods of communication we use today it repersents a unique enity in which computers act almost as citizens. In this regard I would compare it to any government. What the UN and others need to realize is that there are already structures setup on the internet, by nature. People who chose the use the internet, also agree to follow certain "laws" (by nature; ie on /. we agree to a set of rules) so what they're talking about is regulating internet, which is much less like estiblishing guidelines and much more like estiblishing limitations.
True, I understand that it would result in alot of bias and I'm not suggesting that the Hugo awards go to an online voting system. But the topic made me consider something along the lines of a web books site, some place where the online community could log on and review/vote for books and then at the end of the year you could send an award to the most popular books, saying, "You book was selected as one of the best by the readers at the site....". Just a way for the average readers to let an author know we apprecite their works even if some snobby panel doesn't.
Maybe I'm just not, "in the loop", but I don't know of many online awards given. I don't like the concept of afew select people voting on who to give the prize to, I'd rather have open online voting. I'd also like to see more writing contests (again maybe I just missed them). By the way Ian McDonald is amazing.
The FBI plays mean tricks on people. My Aunt and her husband wanted for murder, embezzlement, and some more minor crimes. They both ran away in the early eighties. Agents called my grandmother's house pretending to be doctors and told her the her daughter was in a New York hostipal in critical condition. They had her phone tapped and were hoping that if she knew where Connie was that she would call her back and they'd be able to trace the call. The point of tapping phones is that they're one of the most widely used means of communication.
At the time Darwin published the papers they were controversial. The curch was in power in many states in Europe and that meant that Darwin was commiting heresay by suggesting such things.
That's correct, if you read http://print.google.com/. They only uploaded books from publishers who granted permission and university liberaries. That's only fare in some ways, as long as a book is recent enough it would really hurt sales to offer it online.
I love google I really do and as an avid reader I'm happy to see this take place. I have a personal book collection of over 500 books (Pretty small when you think about it) that I got before I discovered ebooks. Seeing google take a step to advance liturature and make it easily scearchable is truly an advancement worth noting.
Well I'm not going to disagree that the US's current economic plan makes absolutly no sense but the majority American debt is owed to other Americans. The national debt you're referring to comes mostly from the US government buying on credit from US corperations.
As for people outsourcing to us, you have to realize that while the dollar is growing weaker, this does in many ways repersent a positive injection into our economy because it helps balance the trade deficit. The reason people won't outsource to here is because even in our current state America repersents a place of inovation and invent simply unmatched in many parts of the world. As long as the new technology is here first we shouldn't have a problem.
Well I must admit that outsourcing has become a problem but the problem lays in how we're dealing with it as well. Now I'll be the first to admit that I hate the large multi-billion dollar transnational corperations. I don't have a hard time believing that they're corrupt and just plain evil but I also must see the fact that there's a way around this.
On a whole if your IT job was outsourced than it was proablly not a very unique or important job. The 1990s saw a rise in a lot of people getting trained and certified in computers so they could hop on the bandwagon and get a low level IT job, now that the economy is down they're finding their jobs being outsourced.
If you don't want your job outsourced, then gain a valubale skill so that they can't afford to outsource you, work harder, smarter, and in general better than any overseas empolyee that they can find.
I think this represents a good thing for Ask Jeeves. I remember 5 years or so ago in school when we had to take a class on internet basics and we learned about screach engines. Ask Jeeves was my faviorite because it was one of the few that made sense. But over time I learned about Google and www.alltheweb.com, and I stopped using Ask because I found it's layout overbearing and hard to navigate. Ask also suffered from a poor marketing stragity. I think that if they can reorganize the company then it will be a very positive thing.
Well I'm not sure if the patent will be approved as is but I must admit that I like to idea behind the service. Most notably I enjoy the RSS feed integration, that's something that more people really need to start using. As for the patent, seems alittle broad to me but that's why you need to get these things approved.