I was finally curious enough about what exactly Web 2.0 is to do a google search. Here's a great article from O'Reilly that explains it all. It's a very interesting read. Here are some attributes that are part of Web 2.0 offerings:
Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
Trusting users as co-developers
Harnessing collective intelligence
Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
Software above the level of a single device
Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models
From that article: "We're doing this because a majority of AOL members will be able to get high-speed connections and access the AOL service for this new price," spokeswoman Anne Bentley said Tuesday. "Hopefully it's an encouragement for them to get high-speed connections."
Although AOL has been shifting its focus to providing free articles, video and other materials on its ad-supported Web sites, the company sees paid broadband accounts as key to making that strategy work.
AOL believes broadband will help boost usage and hence advertising. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, those with broadband at home are 52 percent more likely than dial-up subscribers to use the Internet on a given day, and the typical broadband user spends about 23 percent more time online daily.
They're basically trying to get more people using high speed connections to get more people online and using their services where they get more money for their services and for advertising. It's just a shift to more of an ad-based revenue stream. Makes sense.
You have a point but fidelity does seem to have relevance in this debate. In the 80s when dual tape decks came out, copying of tapes was common and the law looked the other way basically because each copy degenerated the copy so there was still the incentive for people to purchase a copy from the artist.
Personally I don't know where I fall on this issue. I think watching some of the Creative Commons licensed material and how it fares will help me decide whether copyright-free is a viable alternative that still encourages creativity and allow artists to live off their work. I just wanted to point out that fidelity wasn't an aspect of the debate that can be summarily dismissed.
I really don't think corporate America is the place to be fighting social battles. Corporations sole purpose is to make a profit. Blizzard has made a choice as how to maximize their profits by discouraging topics of discussion on some of its forums that degrade into harassment. If some topics are more inflammatory than others, you can probably expect Blizzard to treat them with different degrees of severity.
I agree that we should all treat each other with respect, but to expect Blizzard to be the ones enforce this social goal isn't realistic. We can expect Blizzard to try and maximize profits. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Something to watch out for with C# and.NET is that there isn't any native.NET access to the serial port. You'd end up having to wrap Win32 dlls. It isn't too hard, but it may be much for a novice and it all comes free in VB6. You'd have to weigh your options. If this is a one-time thing, VB6 would be great. If there will be a lot more GUI programs in the future, it'd be useful to jump into.NET and C#.
I want stand alone mapping software for my Ubuntu laptop. No dice. Wine hasn't worked for anything I've tried to install with it. I can usually get it installed but it never works right.
Corel, Novell, and Sun are using Linux as their savior. Google would be doing no such thing. They're doing it as a value-add to their existing business. It's apples to oranges.
Check out my experiences with Ubuntu at pentavirate.org. I was very surprised.
It was in response to blizzard's response which was phrased with other things which are clearly choices as opposed to natural.I wouldn't have complained about it if say they had said "Groups on Ethnicity , country of origin and Sexual preference".
They grouped them, not for their similarity in being choices or not choices, but because they can caused heated discussions that can degrade to harrassment. Blizzard definitely made that clear in their statement.
It's a game. If there are aspects of the game that make someone feel uncomfortable, then they shouldn't play it. My wife has issues with games that are violent. WoW wouldn't be for her either. Support with your dollars games that you like and don't support games that you don't like. That will help ensure a market for games that you like and approve of.
I've changed e-mail addresses because someone mined my address and started sending substantial porn with a link asking if you want to see/download more.
Overall, the fair tax is great, but it's only to replace federal taxes. States will still tax any way they want to. The only weakness I can see in the fair tax are people that have savings that have previously been taxed (ie Roth IRA). This money would be taxed twice if we changed systems. Never the less, I think it's worth the change.
Beethoven and Bach were well known simply because they applied for jobs as court composers. They worked for the king. Then the king sponsored concerts and gave them pay checks so they could compose for a living. The court was kind of the record labels of their day.
There are countries where piracy is more rampant than others. I lived in Venezuela in the mid 90's and I'd never seen such rampant piracy before in my life. People sold copies of copywrited material on every street corner. From bad duplicates of Simpson T-shirts to stacks and stacks of audio cassettes coppied onto blank tapes. I don't know anything about South Korea, but you can't say that piracy problems are the exact same no matter where you are in the world.
I have used the "stable" release but not too much. My point is that it should be no surprise if OO.org is bloated because it's based off the old Star Office code which was some of the most bloated softare I'd ever used.
I once tried to run Star Office back when it was free. It wouldn't even run on my, admittedly, slow machine, but I was running Office 2000 without a hitch. Isn't OO.org based off of this same Star Office code? Is anyone surprised?
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True, but on the other hand, I get basic DSL for $15/month. It's a trade off, I suppose.
I saw this article from msn earlier.
From that article: "We're doing this because a majority of AOL members will be able to get high-speed connections and access the AOL service for this new price," spokeswoman Anne Bentley said Tuesday. "Hopefully it's an encouragement for them to get high-speed connections."
Although AOL has been shifting its focus to providing free articles, video and other materials on its ad-supported Web sites, the company sees paid broadband accounts as key to making that strategy work.
AOL believes broadband will help boost usage and hence advertising. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, those with broadband at home are 52 percent more likely than dial-up subscribers to use the Internet on a given day, and the typical broadband user spends about 23 percent more time online daily.
They're basically trying to get more people using high speed connections to get more people online and using their services where they get more money for their services and for advertising. It's just a shift to more of an ad-based revenue stream. Makes sense.
You have a point but fidelity does seem to have relevance in this debate. In the 80s when dual tape decks came out, copying of tapes was common and the law looked the other way basically because each copy degenerated the copy so there was still the incentive for people to purchase a copy from the artist.
Personally I don't know where I fall on this issue. I think watching some of the Creative Commons licensed material and how it fares will help me decide whether copyright-free is a viable alternative that still encourages creativity and allow artists to live off their work. I just wanted to point out that fidelity wasn't an aspect of the debate that can be summarily dismissed.
I really don't think corporate America is the place to be fighting social battles. Corporations sole purpose is to make a profit. Blizzard has made a choice as how to maximize their profits by discouraging topics of discussion on some of its forums that degrade into harassment. If some topics are more inflammatory than others, you can probably expect Blizzard to treat them with different degrees of severity.
I agree that we should all treat each other with respect, but to expect Blizzard to be the ones enforce this social goal isn't realistic. We can expect Blizzard to try and maximize profits. Nothing more. Nothing less.
VSO (Verb Subject Object)
Kinda like PostScript.
Something to watch out for with C# and .NET is that there isn't any native .NET access to the serial port. You'd end up having to wrap Win32 dlls. It isn't too hard, but it may be much for a novice and it all comes free in VB6. You'd have to weigh your options. If this is a one-time thing, VB6 would be great. If there will be a lot more GUI programs in the future, it'd be useful to jump into .NET and C#.
If you have a C++ or Java background, picking up C# is really pretty easy.
.NET runtime is included in Windows XP. It all depends on the target machines.
I want stand alone mapping software for my Ubuntu laptop. No dice. Wine hasn't worked for anything I've tried to install with it. I can usually get it installed but it never works right.
Corel, Novell, and Sun are using Linux as their savior. Google would be doing no such thing. They're doing it as a value-add to their existing business. It's apples to oranges.
Check out my experiences with Ubuntu at pentavirate.org. I was very surprised.
It was in response to blizzard's response which was phrased with other things which are clearly choices as opposed to natural .I wouldn't have complained about it if say they had said "Groups on Ethnicity , country of origin and Sexual preference" .
They grouped them, not for their similarity in being choices or not choices, but because they can caused heated discussions that can degrade to harrassment. Blizzard definitely made that clear in their statement.
It's a game. If there are aspects of the game that make someone feel uncomfortable, then they shouldn't play it. My wife has issues with games that are violent. WoW wouldn't be for her either. Support with your dollars games that you like and don't support games that you don't like. That will help ensure a market for games that you like and approve of.
I've changed e-mail addresses because someone mined my address and started sending substantial porn with a link asking if you want to see/download more.
Mod parent up +5 insightful!
All I can say is "BRAVO!"
Overall, the fair tax is great, but it's only to replace federal taxes. States will still tax any way they want to. The only weakness I can see in the fair tax are people that have savings that have previously been taxed (ie Roth IRA). This money would be taxed twice if we changed systems. Never the less, I think it's worth the change.
Beethoven and Bach were well known simply because they applied for jobs as court composers. They worked for the king. Then the king sponsored concerts and gave them pay checks so they could compose for a living. The court was kind of the record labels of their day.
OCAP will soon be taking care of that.
This made me laugh:
Parent: No problem in the history of the world has ever been solved or even lessened by requiring lawyers to get involved.
Response: That's a tough claim to make, seeing as you don't have knowledge of every problem that ever occurred in the history of the world.
It reminded me of the quote from Napoleon Dynamite:
Napoleon Dynamite: This is pretty much the worst video ever made.
Kip: Napoleon, like anyone can even know that.
was arrested on an immigration violation by Mexican authorities and turned over to agents of the U.S. Border Patrol
It looks like even Mexico handles immigration violations better than the US does.
There are countries where piracy is more rampant than others. I lived in Venezuela in the mid 90's and I'd never seen such rampant piracy before in my life. People sold copies of copywrited material on every street corner. From bad duplicates of Simpson T-shirts to stacks and stacks of audio cassettes coppied onto blank tapes. I don't know anything about South Korea, but you can't say that piracy problems are the exact same no matter where you are in the world.
Try the vmplayer from vmware.com. Their browser application virtual machine is a full blown ubuntu install.
I have used the "stable" release but not too much. My point is that it should be no surprise if OO.org is bloated because it's based off the old Star Office code which was some of the most bloated softare I'd ever used.
I once tried to run Star Office back when it was free. It wouldn't even run on my, admittedly, slow machine, but I was running Office 2000 without a hitch. Isn't OO.org based off of this same Star Office code? Is anyone surprised?
I took out the nyud.net:8090 and it worked fine. FYI.
I wish the same thing could be said of the US courts.
Roper v. Simmons