will it be for me to liberate my DRM-encrusted content purchased from microsoft? Do I get to burn unencumbered audio CDs that I can then rip? Can I virtualize this process from within the latest, greatest windows OS (Vista)? Somehow, I doubt it.
WTF is "Driad", Gates claims it's Microsoft's answer to MapReduce?
Also, sadly the article does not mention that Google runs almost entirely on Linux. There's room for a couple of Bill Gates quotes on how Microsoft's solutions are better, but no mention of the fact that Google has no need for any of them.
nowhere do I see the flying car that Popular Mechanics has been telling us is only five years away for the last several decades
It's called a "helicopter". You can buy one, or you can rent one for temporary use. If you get seriously injured, a flying car will come and take you to the nearest hospital. Hopefully you have insurance; they're expensive to operate.
If you don't explicitly document your ancestry, you'll forget it. There are things my parents don't know which my remaining grandparent has long since forgotten. We have family pictures of people we don't know anymore.
The fact is, we live in the present, and that's what is important. I couldn't care less if your great-great-grandmother was the queen of spain, or if your grandfather's second cousin's dad was a slave. That needn't have any effect on how I interact with you.
how bad is it when we talk to other people in the vehicle while driving?
It's a different thing entirely to converse with a passenger in the same car. There's a lower drain on your cognitive resources, the person next to you responds to the same environmental cues as you do, and will shut up and/or scream if you're heading for trouble.
An alert passenger in your front passenger seat improves your ability to drive safely, even if you're deep in conversation. It's another set of eyes watching the road. A remote voice on the other end of a cellphone has the opposite effect.
Talking on the cell phone will activate your cortex. Ok. So where's the control group that talked on a wired phone instead and showed a lower level of cortical activity?
So turn off JavaScript or use a different User Agent.
The web should be what the content producers and designers want you to see. In the coming DRM age, you're not allowed to skip around in your favorite book or read it backwards. You can't repeat parts of songs or movies anymore either.
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Most homeless people aren't there by choice and there are lots of folks who are just 1 pay check away from joining them, spare a thought when your walking around town and if you have some change give generously.
Better yet, vote AGAINST the incumbent fools running this temporarily godforsaken country. They just implemented the biggest cut yet on federal housing grants (HUD) here in my county in Pennsylvania. In the short term, this means that elderly folks in public housing who used to have a nurse/social worker visit them and help them once or twice a week, are SOL. Do you know how much it helps an elderly person trying to stay independent, to have a nurse or a social worker come in once a week?! It helps a lot. I know this from personal experience.
Well, we gotta cut the "death tax". Onward and upward.
Goodbye and good riddance, Senator Santorum and your filthy ilk. I can't wait until this fall when we kick your asses out.
Only the really low wages of China make labor-intensive manual assembly feasible.
It's great here in America, we have these "Wal*Mart" stores everywhere... the "employees" are automated here too. When they wear out (or get sick), new ones automatically sign up to take their place. You don't have to worry about repairing the broken employees (i.e. health care); there's a constant supply of new ones. I'm not sure what happens to the worn-out ones; I think the government has some sort of program for recycling them.
They stock the shelves better than robots could (usually), and some of them can even answer natural language queries (in english and spanish) about the location of inventory.
I think it's inevitable that we'll see this technique used more and more frequently. Even a small group of people can use the internet to organize and even mediocre marketing/writing skills can be used to gather a large (overwhelming) group of people who will do something that annoys a company (calls to complain about something, buy a CD with DRM and immediately return it unopened, etc.)
Imagine if every Wal*Mart in a given city had a swarm of "customers" walk in, fill up a cart with goods and then abandon it. You can bet it would make the local news if it were done right. Even the national news. Look how that guy who recorded his "cancel my account" AOL experience. He managed to get digg and slashdot to cover it, and then it spiralled out onto the cable news networks. That one story could have profound effects on the entire AOL customer service staff.
I'm still pissed about MySpace. I uploaded all 10MB of my pirated mp3s there back in 1999 (I also used IDrive until they too sold out). Now MySpace is just a cesspool of bad web design and a mirror of our vapid post-millennial American excuse for a culture.
One of the things I was taught when I learned how to swim as a child was that a drowning person tends to panic and flail around and fleetingly grab at everything and anything without rational thought. They'll even drag down their own potential rescuer. They can't help it.
Two things:
1) Why not have a handy context menu option, "Redact selection", available with a right click on the selected object?
2) Awwww, the NSA uses the little kitty cat assistant instead of Clippy. Just like my mom. Until I gave her openoffice.
Part of the fun of life is developing your own ability to distill the experiences of life into perceptions and integrating them into your own mind and later being able to adapt to future experiences by drawing upon your stored knowledge and being able to behave at least somewhat optimally.
People have being doing this with varying degrees of success for tens of thousands of years.
Now I have google desktop search installed on my laptop, and it has indexed my life. Everything I've ever seen on this machine for the past year, it remembers and knows about and can search for within seconds (CTRL-CTRL anyone?). Gigabytes of history. Every single web page I've ever visited (except those which I've deliberately excluded by using a virtual machine, torpark, etc). It knows more than I've learned (at least with respect to indexable keywords and strings) in the past year.
It's kind of scary sometimes. There are some things you would want to forget. But it's so darn handy.
The real culprit is MS's AutoPlay or AutoRun though. That is how 500,000 users got infected with the Sony Rootkit.
Label it "Joe's MP3s" or "JenniCam (archive)" or what have you, or just leave an unlabeled CD or DVD laying around somewhere. Guaranteed someone will open it without holding shift key to disable autorun. Cheaper and more reliable than a USB keys.
Bittorrent distribution of music like Harvey Danger and Pearl Jam brings another aspect of the whole net neutrality spat into focus. The protocol allows the vast majority of the bulk data to be exchanged freely and legally amongst peers while the centralized distribution site need only host a tracker (if that).
The greedy telcos are bitching about big companies using their pipes to feed large amounts of bandwidth to the users. What are they going to say once most of the data has been passed down to their customers' PCs and is efficiently cached and distributed via P2P?
You would think they would *encourage* P2P distribution because data would be passed around on their internal networks instead of constantly being re-downloaded from the original source.
When I find a fashion design I really like, I purchase multiple copies of that design. This allows me to wear a fresh copy of something I like every day, while conveniently facilitating laundry sorting on the weekends. There are several identical shirts and pairs of pants to wash over the weekend. If one is stained or damaged, I can substitute another identical copy.
People think I rewear the same clothes too much, but I revel in private satisfaction as I don a completely clean outfit every day.
Note that I do not associate and individually number my socks; I try to buy enough indentical pairs so that it doesn't matter if I mismatch them occasionally. Thus they still wear fairly evenly.
This is a lame article but the evolution of this type of technology could really help us move away from the silly behaviour people exhibit such as wearing clothing that prominently features corporate logos whose corporate advertising campaigns have managed to associate with certain "popular" attitudes.
What does it say about you when you wear a t-shirt with a Nike swoosh on it?
I'd rather see people walking around, freely exchanging memes on their shirts instead, something more complex than a band name or an athletic wear logo. Ideas, slogans more profound than "just do it". That would be a nifty way to exploit new technology to facilitate human communication in ways that haven't been as widely experimented with until now.
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will it be for me to liberate my DRM-encrusted content purchased from microsoft? Do I get to burn unencumbered audio CDs that I can then rip? Can I virtualize this process from within the latest, greatest windows OS (Vista)? Somehow, I doubt it.
WTF is "Driad", Gates claims it's Microsoft's answer to MapReduce?
Also, sadly the article does not mention that Google runs almost entirely on Linux. There's room for a couple of Bill Gates quotes on how Microsoft's solutions are better, but no mention of the fact that Google has no need for any of them.
nowhere do I see the flying car that Popular Mechanics has been telling us is only five years away for the last several decades
It's called a "helicopter". You can buy one, or you can rent one for temporary use. If you get seriously injured, a flying car will come and take you to the nearest hospital. Hopefully you have insurance; they're expensive to operate.
The fact is, we live in the present, and that's what is important. I couldn't care less if your great-great-grandmother was the queen of spain, or if your grandfather's second cousin's dad was a slave. That needn't have any effect on how I interact with you.
1. Find rich person driving expensive car talking on cellphone.
2. Pull in front, slow down, encourage tailgating, then brake suddenly.
3. ????
4. Profit!
It's a different thing entirely to converse with a passenger in the same car. There's a lower drain on your cognitive resources, the person next to you responds to the same environmental cues as you do, and will shut up and/or scream if you're heading for trouble.
An alert passenger in your front passenger seat improves your ability to drive safely, even if you're deep in conversation. It's another set of eyes watching the road. A remote voice on the other end of a cellphone has the opposite effect.
archive/compress them first [gzip/zip/etc], then move the big file over?
Pr0n jpgs do not compress very well. WTF not just let it run overnight?
Talking on the cell phone will activate your cortex. Ok. So where's the control group that talked on a wired phone instead and showed a lower level of cortical activity?
article is pretty misleading, containing a handful of anecdotes while there are millions of homeless people worldwide
Yeah, kudos to Wired for being our new media saviors. There's nothing like their accurate, principled, morally driven "journalism".
So turn off JavaScript or use a different User Agent.
The web should be what the content producers and designers want you to see. In the coming DRM age, you're not allowed to skip around in your favorite book or read it backwards. You can't repeat parts of songs or movies anymore either.
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Most homeless people aren't there by choice and there are lots of folks who are just 1 pay check away from joining them, spare a thought when your walking around town and if you have some change give generously.
Better yet, vote AGAINST the incumbent fools running this temporarily godforsaken country. They just implemented the biggest cut yet on federal housing grants (HUD) here in my county in Pennsylvania. In the short term, this means that elderly folks in public housing who used to have a nurse/social worker visit them and help them once or twice a week, are SOL. Do you know how much it helps an elderly person trying to stay independent, to have a nurse or a social worker come in once a week?! It helps a lot. I know this from personal experience.
Well, we gotta cut the "death tax". Onward and upward.
Goodbye and good riddance, Senator Santorum and your filthy ilk. I can't wait until this fall when we kick your asses out.
All the security of PHP and all the readability of Perl? It's a surefire win. I wonder why the whole world hasn't caught on to this one yet?
Ummm, maybe the legendary robustness and scalability of IIS and ASP?
Only the really low wages of China make labor-intensive manual assembly feasible.
It's great here in America, we have these "Wal*Mart" stores everywhere... the "employees" are automated here too. When they wear out (or get sick), new ones automatically sign up to take their place. You don't have to worry about repairing the broken employees (i.e. health care); there's a constant supply of new ones. I'm not sure what happens to the worn-out ones; I think the government has some sort of program for recycling them.
They stock the shelves better than robots could (usually), and some of them can even answer natural language queries (in english and spanish) about the location of inventory.
Imagine if every Wal*Mart in a given city had a swarm of "customers" walk in, fill up a cart with goods and then abandon it. You can bet it would make the local news if it were done right. Even the national news. Look how that guy who recorded his "cancel my account" AOL experience. He managed to get digg and slashdot to cover it, and then it spiralled out onto the cable news networks. That one story could have profound effects on the entire AOL customer service staff.
I'm still pissed about MySpace. I uploaded all 10MB of my pirated mp3s there back in 1999 (I also used IDrive until they too sold out). Now MySpace is just a cesspool of bad web design and a mirror of our vapid post-millennial American excuse for a culture.
I want my 10MB back.
Sheesh, everybody's got a plethora of surplus windows licenses lying around, we can't buy PCs without them.
Err, did you mean you actually have a license for vmware? Now that would be funny...
Hey, it's better than a CAR ANALOGY.
Two things: 1) Why not have a handy context menu option, "Redact selection", available with a right click on the selected object? 2) Awwww, the NSA uses the little kitty cat assistant instead of Clippy. Just like my mom. Until I gave her openoffice.
Haha funny. I suspect you were playing your Super Nintendo while I was in college. Am I right? I'm not worried about what my parents might see.
Part of the fun of life is developing your own ability to distill the experiences of life into perceptions and integrating them into your own mind and later being able to adapt to future experiences by drawing upon your stored knowledge and being able to behave at least somewhat optimally.
People have being doing this with varying degrees of success for tens of thousands of years.
Now I have google desktop search installed on my laptop, and it has indexed my life. Everything I've ever seen on this machine for the past year, it remembers and knows about and can search for within seconds (CTRL-CTRL anyone?). Gigabytes of history. Every single web page I've ever visited (except those which I've deliberately excluded by using a virtual machine, torpark, etc). It knows more than I've learned (at least with respect to indexable keywords and strings) in the past year.
It's kind of scary sometimes. There are some things you would want to forget. But it's so darn handy.
The real culprit is MS's AutoPlay or AutoRun though. That is how 500,000 users got infected with the Sony Rootkit.
Label it "Joe's MP3s" or "JenniCam (archive)" or what have you, or just leave an unlabeled CD or DVD laying around somewhere. Guaranteed someone will open it without holding shift key to disable autorun. Cheaper and more reliable than a USB keys.
The greedy telcos are bitching about big companies using their pipes to feed large amounts of bandwidth to the users. What are they going to say once most of the data has been passed down to their customers' PCs and is efficiently cached and distributed via P2P?
You would think they would *encourage* P2P distribution because data would be passed around on their internal networks instead of constantly being re-downloaded from the original source.
People think I rewear the same clothes too much, but I revel in private satisfaction as I don a completely clean outfit every day.
Note that I do not associate and individually number my socks; I try to buy enough indentical pairs so that it doesn't matter if I mismatch them occasionally. Thus they still wear fairly evenly.
What does it say about you when you wear a t-shirt with a Nike swoosh on it?
I'd rather see people walking around, freely exchanging memes on their shirts instead, something more complex than a band name or an athletic wear logo. Ideas, slogans more profound than "just do it". That would be a nifty way to exploit new technology to facilitate human communication in ways that haven't been as widely experimented with until now.
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dammit