You want quiet? Solid state storage is going to catch up someday soon. I'm more than willing to wait. I'm not interested in paying three times as much for a slow notebook HD with low storage capacity.
I'm just not sure I want to open Firefox everytime I want to make a phonecall;)
Seriously, I don't think phone companies are going to care too much about this. They are more concerned with cellphone and how to continue to be profitable in the rapidly changing telecommunications marketplace.
Home telephone service is dying. (Please excuse the redundancy of that last statement. It just seemed like it needed to be said.)
Just to clarify, I'm not talking so much about mainstream blogs with large audiences. I'm talking about smaller more personal blogs setup by people who may be living away from their loved ones for informational or biographical purposes.
Yes, link degradation is a problem... but I think migration isn't. If you backup your data then you have the meat of your blog in a format that anyone with minor programming experience could reconstruct into meaningful entries.
Another benefit to this digital data is that it can be indexed and searched with much greater ease than journals and diaries of old making even the most obscure references available. For example, someone in 2040 could be looking for personal opinions of common American/French/Japanese people during the war in Iraq.
There is value to be found for future generations in our blogs and we have the ability to maintain the most important parts of them. I'm not saying that a better solution won't come along. For now, however, I think blogging serves as an excellent informal history of personal, national, and world events
Blogs will penetrate the masses much more than Mr. Gomes thinks. They are the journals of our age and may not be read on a regular basis by the masses now... but think about future generation being able to go back and read the blogs of the past.
Journals and diaries have fallen into disuse. Our old blogs and emails are what OUR children will be reading when we die.
I've heard (in my neighborhood game stores) that many gamers are still sceptical about Wii. I for one am all for it.
Even if the Wii doesn't take off like Nintendo hopes, it will still be a success imo. You can bet that in the future every console company will be considering how they might implement fresh new ideas. Nintendo is raising the bar for everyone and I think we are about due for the first REAL next-gen system in many years.
I have been thinking about getting the Lasik for a long time. It seem to me that the risk versus reward is low in the short term. But we don't know what the long term effects of the surgery are... By long term I mean the possibility of being more suseptible to eye disease and disorders that are more common in later life.
My mother had radial keritotomy (sp?) 15-20 years ago. My understanding of the procedure is that it is the equivalant of Lasik but using a blade to make the incisions instead of laser. My point is that she is in her mid sixties now and has developed glaucoma and will be forced to take eye drops every few hours and have regular checkups to keep it under control for the rest of her life. She has been told that her eye surgery may have put her in an elevated risk group for glaucoma, but not until now.
Until I hear of more long term studies on the effects of Lasik... I think I'll wait.
People who may be interested in such a contest may not even be Linux users.
I think that most of the entries will come from people with at least SOME experience with Linux. It seems to me that most people who are interested in contributing to Linux distros are USING one. Correct me if I'm wrong.
That said, I'm interested to see what they come up with.
CraigsList's popularity is due in no small part to the LACK of spamming users with all kinds of crap we don't want to see. Here's hoping they don't turn off much of their clientele by adding advertisments.
And now for a cliche-prediction-bomb: mark my words... all good things come to an end... Eventually every business capitulates to the almighty buck and CraigsList will not "buck" the trend.
True, but you still gain a little from it I think. Especially if you didn't have to know where the cameras were.
Also, people analyzing the footage would not be able to discover any other defining attributes such as height/weight/build/posture/sex/weapon type/etc.
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You want quiet? Solid state storage is going to catch up someday soon. I'm more than willing to wait. I'm not interested in paying three times as much for a slow notebook HD with low storage capacity.
Aww, take it easy on the poor little company with the ~$200 stock shares.
with our legal system: When random crap like this DRM can get implanted in the middle or a totally unrelated bill.
Has anyone contemplated legislation to stop this from happening?
Try Cricket. This is already possible. I had DSL through Qwest a couple years ago without any telephone service. They don't LIKE to do it but they will.
I'm just not sure I want to open Firefox everytime I want to make a phonecall ;)
Seriously, I don't think phone companies are going to care too much about this. They are more concerned with cellphone and how to continue to be profitable in the rapidly changing telecommunications marketplace.
Home telephone service is dying. (Please excuse the redundancy of that last statement. It just seemed like it needed to be said.)
Just to clarify, I'm not talking so much about mainstream blogs with large audiences. I'm talking about smaller more personal blogs setup by people who may be living away from their loved ones for informational or biographical purposes.
Yes, link degradation is a problem... but I think migration isn't. If you backup your data then you have the meat of your blog in a format that anyone with minor programming experience could reconstruct into meaningful entries.
Another benefit to this digital data is that it can be indexed and searched with much greater ease than journals and diaries of old making even the most obscure references available. For example, someone in 2040 could be looking for personal opinions of common American/French/Japanese people during the war in Iraq.
There is value to be found for future generations in our blogs and we have the ability to maintain the most important parts of them. I'm not saying that a better solution won't come along. For now, however, I think blogging serves as an excellent informal history of personal, national, and world events
Blogs will penetrate the masses much more than Mr. Gomes thinks. They are the journals of our age and may not be read on a regular basis by the masses now... but think about future generation being able to go back and read the blogs of the past.
Journals and diaries have fallen into disuse. Our old blogs and emails are what OUR children will be reading when we die.
Your comment has just caused us all to experience complete and total spam filter failure. Noooooooooooo!
I agree, the wii-mote is fantastic
I've heard (in my neighborhood game stores) that many gamers are still sceptical about Wii. I for one am all for it.
Even if the Wii doesn't take off like Nintendo hopes, it will still be a success imo. You can bet that in the future every console company will be considering how they might implement fresh new ideas. Nintendo is raising the bar for everyone and I think we are about due for the first REAL next-gen system in many years.
It was Do Androids.... I read it recently and it was the inspiration for the comment.
they've learned from their mistakes? Not to be overly optimistic but how many MMORPG's can one company screw up?
The result will be called Clip-bo... a pet paperclip. Cute yet annoying. Note: limited mobility.
When did the thought that CSS might be possible/useful occur to you?
I have been thinking about getting the Lasik for a long time. It seem to me that the risk versus reward is low in the short term. But we don't know what the long term effects of the surgery are... By long term I mean the possibility of being more suseptible to eye disease and disorders that are more common in later life.
My mother had radial keritotomy (sp?) 15-20 years ago. My understanding of the procedure is that it is the equivalant of Lasik but using a blade to make the incisions instead of laser. My point is that she is in her mid sixties now and has developed glaucoma and will be forced to take eye drops every few hours and have regular checkups to keep it under control for the rest of her life. She has been told that her eye surgery may have put her in an elevated risk group for glaucoma, but not until now.
Until I hear of more long term studies on the effects of Lasik... I think I'll wait.
Exactly!
Visit Milan and spend all your time in seminars and convocations!
another expense column in a war on terror. But who's expense is it?
That said, I'm interested to see what they come up with.
Which one would YOU choose?
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You must always choose the lesser of two weevils!
CraigsList's popularity is due in no small part to the LACK of spamming users with all kinds of crap we don't want to see. Here's hoping they don't turn off much of their clientele by adding advertisments.
And now for a cliche-prediction-bomb: mark my words... all good things come to an end... Eventually every business capitulates to the almighty buck and CraigsList will not "buck" the trend.
True, but you still gain a little from it I think. Especially if you didn't have to know where the cameras were.
Also, people analyzing the footage would not be able to discover any other defining attributes such as height/weight/build/posture/sex/weapon type/etc.
Good idea! ...but cheap? We'll see.
:D
In the meantime, I'm going to start the retrofitting just in case