In the future, it's not hard to imagine us running the hardware of today on community mesh networks of wired or unwired kind. The best advice I could give any entrepreneur is to snap up pristine examples of today's best hardware, because the only way 'The Man' will be able to force proprietary crap on us which prevents DIY network efforts is to change the hardware.
I can sum it up much more quickly - the technology is available, so they're using it.
I can't help thinking that if intensive information technology was available to Peel's proto-policemen, or to those in charge of cleaning up Gin Lane, they would have used it.
And he lives in what looks like a smart house in Central London - as we say in this country "he ain't short of a bob or two". No wonder his primary motivation isn't the $1m.
In both of these, most of the world was lit up - except for Africa. South Africa had some light, but most of Africa was dark.
Maybe if we taught African kids to write software, they could start businesses that would make their lives better.
I'm right with you on the second part, but can we forget the first? At least long-term, as we find ways to reduce our own light pollution in the West, which we can then pass on to our newly-wealthy friends in Africa.
...would suggest otherwise, gaming is moving into new areas not well served before. Hde games will only become more accessible for non-gamers. Personally I'm looking forward to fully-immersive games to become a reality. Like a good version of the Virtuality units of old.
The record companies just don't want to give up their revenue on oldies--music from 1958 and prior is now lapsing into the public domain in Europe.
They can't keep control of the current stuff, so who only knows why they're so disturbed by the lapsing copyright on 1950s music! Anyway I can't remember the last time I saw a compilation of that era's music except for one of those Time-Life 100-CD sets advertised late at night. I suppose the Beatles in five years' time is the one they want to avoid. Interesting question: if one wanted to release a record of oldies music, where would you get the master tapes? Could the erstwhile copyright holder simply refuse to allow any access?
Not all forms of organised labour get to air their grievances on screen via the conduit of Letterman or endless news reports. Hardly a surprise that the TV writers' strike was all over the TV news.
If MS rolled up patches into one bundle - not a service pack as we know it but a rolling update of all patches to date - then there'd be no need for AutoPatcher. Many homes and small offices run multiple copies of Windows and executing Windows Updates on each in turn is a world of pain. For a start it takes 10 mins just to evaluate which patches you need. Why do they find this disagreeable?
What if I make a wireless mesh network in my neighborhood, and one of the nodes happens to have a DSL connection,
Without doubt this is phase II of the p2p revolution. A combination of automatic mesh networking setup with decentralised library functionality and shared areas on machines... there's no way to stop this. The tech is already in millions of homes, I just hope someone cleverer than me is working on it already.
Be fair, if you have older parents for example you must understand the thought processes. Say if someone advises them to go to dell.com to fix some problem with their printer and they mistype, they don't know what they are expecting, they couldn't tell Dell's site from another. So inevitably they'll click on the first few things before realising it ain't going anywhere, where upon they might discover their typo or give up. The way we encounter the web and react to the things we see like links, controls, even trademarked logos can be entirely different to many members of the older generation because the whole idea of interfacing with a computer is alien. I see this all the time with my 69-year-old father.
If his goal really is to highlight patent inadequacies and stop others getting the patent then why not hand them over to some independent body, the EFF or something?
Since we've no data on the demographics of the browser users in any country this is really an irrelevant statistic to highlight. Who knows in which countries there might be a majority of users who are office-based? Any figures on this anywhere?
Yup, in my country whenever a car is shown on a news report for example they blur out the registration number. This is in line with data protection legislation of the late 90s.
Gmail is what causes those threads with one line responses because it feels much more like chatting than sending emails.
Actually I think what causes it is people unwilling to pick up a phone or just go and speak to the person if they're in the same office. As you point out email isn't really for chatting, so when people use it for such it can get messy.
Since the ISS is already up there and is serviced by regular flights, and since the experimental plane is made of paper - if this project is running into the billions-of-dollars arena I would recommend a personnel change.
You've not heard of the Chinese WoW player-farms then? An account being used every day for three years (though not necessarily the same person) is not implausible.
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In the future, it's not hard to imagine us running the hardware of today on community mesh networks of wired or unwired kind. The best advice I could give any entrepreneur is to snap up pristine examples of today's best hardware, because the only way 'The Man' will be able to force proprietary crap on us which prevents DIY network efforts is to change the hardware.
Unlikely. If the film studios & record companies can't get hold of a subscriber's details without a court order then what chance does the BBC have.
I can sum it up much more quickly - the technology is available, so they're using it.
I can't help thinking that if intensive information technology was available to Peel's proto-policemen, or to those in charge of cleaning up Gin Lane, they would have used it.
Why pay to disassemble the camera network and then possibly pay to erect it again if things go bad, when everyone is used to them anyway.
So much of the Bible is fictional allegory that I'm prepared to believe this.
And he lives in what looks like a smart house in Central London - as we say in this country "he ain't short of a bob or two". No wonder his primary motivation isn't the $1m.
...would suggest otherwise, gaming is moving into new areas not well served before. Hde games will only become more accessible for non-gamers. Personally I'm looking forward to fully-immersive games to become a reality. Like a good version of the Virtuality units of old.
Not all forms of organised labour get to air their grievances on screen via the conduit of Letterman or endless news reports. Hardly a surprise that the TV writers' strike was all over the TV news.
If MS rolled up patches into one bundle - not a service pack as we know it but a rolling update of all patches to date - then there'd be no need for AutoPatcher. Many homes and small offices run multiple copies of Windows and executing Windows Updates on each in turn is a world of pain. For a start it takes 10 mins just to evaluate which patches you need. Why do they find this disagreeable?
Kinda moot if they're going to wipe all the data on a service pack update. Can't you even export it?
Well, the golden maxim of e-mail has always been that "it is like writing information on a postcard and sending it through the mail"...
Be fair, if you have older parents for example you must understand the thought processes. Say if someone advises them to go to dell.com to fix some problem with their printer and they mistype, they don't know what they are expecting, they couldn't tell Dell's site from another. So inevitably they'll click on the first few things before realising it ain't going anywhere, where upon they might discover their typo or give up. The way we encounter the web and react to the things we see like links, controls, even trademarked logos can be entirely different to many members of the older generation because the whole idea of interfacing with a computer is alien. I see this all the time with my 69-year-old father.
If his goal really is to highlight patent inadequacies and stop others getting the patent then why not hand them over to some independent body, the EFF or something?
Since we've no data on the demographics of the browser users in any country this is really an irrelevant statistic to highlight. Who knows in which countries there might be a majority of users who are office-based? Any figures on this anywhere?
Watch The Last Train, if something like this hit us it's game over.
Compromise: I'll visit the site but promise not to even glance at the ads.
Yup, in my country whenever a car is shown on a news report for example they blur out the registration number. This is in line with data protection legislation of the late 90s.
Since the ISS is already up there and is serviced by regular flights, and since the experimental plane is made of paper - if this project is running into the billions-of-dollars arena I would recommend a personnel change.
You've not heard of the Chinese WoW player-farms then? An account being used every day for three years (though not necessarily the same person) is not implausible.
Apologies. Thankfully in my country they wouldn't let you do something so dangerous.