Thats where you are wrong my friend.
Precisely why OSM chased me away, they didn't take 10 minutes to understand their customer, (me).
But for you, since you didn't say "kapish" like OSM, I will explain. We at wikispeedia.org gather our data by driving down the road. It's not from a map, just from a GPS chip inside a gpscruise.com device. No Google involved.
At the home office, we show the data on a google map, thats our only connection to Google. They are layer 1, and we are layer two, all hosted on our site. All speed limit data is simply LAT, LON, SPEED, on our mysql server. We own that data, we didn't put it on google nor will we. Heck for that matter, we would be happy to render it on OSM, but not until I get a months vacation. The way I figure it is, I will get OSM data and show it our site as CC license and eventually OSM will discover wikispeedia.org and say, hmm, why don't we collaborate.
We all saw wikipedia start "open" to fill its shelves, then once full, close down to an exclusive few scholars. I have tried to edit their speed limit information several times only to have it removed. You see I am an expert on speed limits. I run a website called wikispeedia.org We too are open even though I have had offers to close, we remain open, trying to keep you from getting a speeding ticket.
IMHO, open-ness shouldn't measure how much crap I possess, but rather, how many hours does it take to get my crap in your hands for a useful purpose. Take OSM openstreetmap.org for example. I have spent close to two months trying to get speed limits in and out of their server. Me giving them speed limits is like Lee Iacocca trying to repay his debt to the Feds. One representative at OSM told me flat out that if I used Google maps, I quote, "we can't use your data, Kapish?".
So now, no doubt I will get flamed by OSM, but I re-submit to you, measure your open-ness, not your completeness. If that doesn't make sense, then go watch the movie Brazil, because thats what you will have become...
Its so cool, I don't know if I will tell you about it. You should pay me $10 to tell you. My 8 year old son said, "that was the best day of my life". I am serious. You will never find it, and I won't describe it, because I would never do it justice. Ask me and I may tell you. (I dont want it crowded/slashdotted!!!!) I have been to tons of lame science centers and while they are fun, this is a whole new level. Like discovering Pluto.
We use AARP (essentially) as our Big-middle-party. They do a reasonable job. Kick out the machines and expand the role of these wonderful honorable people. Expand their role throughout voting, not just at the voting-desk, but in transferring the votes and publishing the results. I want to see an old couple announcing the winner to CNN.
My problem is, I have no voice, I doubt you do either. We are kept so busy that you nor I are able to attend rallys or picket. I wish just once slashdot users would rally like AARP does.
Let one walk. Others will stay. Until one carrier "walks", there is money left on the table. Play hardball. They have a 85% mark, I am just saying up it.
Pruett described the notion that best intentions mask guilt buried in the past. That "trying equals succeeding". Pruett also describes publicly traded companies as evil.
No one wants health care. Its just a flag that some think must be planted in the ground to show that "trying equals succeeding".
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Just tell State Farm that in order to do business in California, they have to cover 95% of the people. They will tax the fat or regulate expenses. State Farm, not the government will make health-services useful and profitable.
Until wireless is more-open, cloud computing will not reign.
Everytime the wireless breaks, people will want a ground-based-app.
Cloud computing will have to come after routers that are more sophistocated.
Eg a router like dd-wrt where mere mortals don't instantly turn on WPA locks.
Lets have some factory open unrestricted bandwidth, or idle-open-bandwidth and help seed the cloud.
I tried to submit code. You have to get a $200 certificate and it has to be from symatec or one other. Forge.mil does not allow any of the cheap or free certificates companies. Screw em, I got better places to give away my time.
Its civil disobedience. As my deceased Step-dad said, "those are man's laws", not "Gods laws". Rosa Parks broke the law and it changed! I would attend any rally denouncing the RIAA. Just tell me where. Its the twinkie syndrome. (citation needed)
I disagree. (BTW, you gotta read these funny things on wired.)
Reading your past articles I assumed your were "in the biz", but perhaps I was wrong.
IMHO, police are human. They profile every time they blink. Racial, men/women, bias, looking for work, spotty coverage. Where the police go, white flight ensues.
They[police] need to stay put and let us call them. Have an anonymous iPhone app that citizens use to record crime and submit as evidence. What we do is none of their business. If it ain't bothering someone, it ain't a crime. The police never witness anything except speeding, and that will soon be covered by smart-road technology.
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Heres a positive step. Submit a speedlimit. Open speedlimits
To make a JPEG, you cut it into blocks, run the DCT on each block and mess with the 4:2:2 color formula and pkzip the pieces... That said, I would think measuring the number of blocks would be related to number of artifacts... In my barbaric approach to engineering, (assuming there is no other suggested way on slashdot), I would get the source code to the JPEG encoder/decoder and print out statistics (number of blocks, block size) of each image...
I still think the solution is to change TPB to a TpayB. Allow us to pay $1 for a movie and allow studios to save face and jump in. More hiding like this will just put the Congressmen in action to filter. If this path is chosen, we will all be living in wifi-caves before long.
I think slashdot should create a PAC (political action committee).
We all voluntarily donate $10/yr to fight back.
We need a centralized voice like the FSF, but in Washington.
Anyone out there want to start it? I will donate today.
Perhaps I will contact the FSF.
I should run as our first US pirate-party.
Anyone want to back me. See my log...
Slashdot Mirror
I would like to see a comparison or Pre, Android, etc. The Android is open, but look here where it is less-open.
http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/46e20fa636d38ab1/3c385089810f3272?lnk=gst&q=can+I+block+unwanted+calls#3c385089810f3272
Also, heres where USB is difficult to access. http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/bdcad59bffd68f2e/980e37088197d256?lnk=gst&q=USB+from+java#980e37088197d256
Like I said, these phone all seem like shills for T-Mobile, etc. I really thought Google would own this throughout, but I have my doubts. I keep my mind open though.... -jim
Thats where you are wrong my friend.
Precisely why OSM chased me away, they didn't take 10 minutes to understand their customer, (me).
But for you, since you didn't say "kapish" like OSM, I will explain. We at wikispeedia.org gather our data by driving down the road. It's not from a map, just from a GPS chip inside a gpscruise.com device. No Google involved.
At the home office, we show the data on a google map, thats our only connection to Google. They are layer 1, and we are layer two, all hosted on our site. All speed limit data is simply LAT, LON, SPEED, on our mysql server. We own that data, we didn't put it on google nor will we. Heck for that matter, we would be happy to render it on OSM, but not until I get a months vacation. The way I figure it is, I will get OSM data and show it our site as CC license and eventually OSM will discover wikispeedia.org and say, hmm, why don't we collaborate.
We all saw wikipedia start "open" to fill its shelves, then once full, close down to an exclusive few scholars. I have tried to edit their speed limit information several times only to have it removed. You see I am an expert on speed limits. I run a website called wikispeedia.org We too are open even though I have had offers to close, we remain open, trying to keep you from getting a speeding ticket.
IMHO, open-ness shouldn't measure how much crap I possess, but rather, how many hours does it take to get my crap in your hands for a useful purpose. Take OSM openstreetmap.org for example. I have spent close to two months trying to get speed limits in and out of their server. Me giving them speed limits is like Lee Iacocca trying to repay his debt to the Feds. One representative at OSM told me flat out that if I used Google maps, I quote, "we can't use your data, Kapish?".
So now, no doubt I will get flamed by OSM, but I re-submit to you, measure your open-ness, not your completeness. If that doesn't make sense, then go watch the movie Brazil, because thats what you will have become...
The minute TPB goes pay-ish, I will join and pay, not alot, but just to watch the industry come crawling to TPB!
The new pirate bay will encourage [pay] you to hold files on your hard-drive. That will turn this on its head!
-Ich bin Ein Pirateer
cellurl
Agreed. The Black man will not have equality until open ridicule is permissible. I bet BO contacts them to put it back up.
38.638864,-90.18779
Its so cool, I don't know if I will tell you about it. You should pay me $10 to tell you. My 8 year old son said, "that was the best day of my life". I am serious. You will never find it, and I won't describe it, because I would never do it justice. Ask me and I may tell you. (I dont want it crowded/slashdotted!!!!) I have been to tons of lame science centers and while they are fun, this is a whole new level. Like discovering Pluto.
We use AARP (essentially) as our Big-middle-party. They do a reasonable job. Kick out the machines and expand the role of these wonderful honorable people. Expand their role throughout voting, not just at the voting-desk, but in transferring the votes and publishing the results. I want to see an old couple announcing the winner to CNN.
My problem is, I have no voice, I doubt you do either. We are kept so busy that you nor I are able to attend rallys or picket. I wish just once slashdot users would rally like AARP does.
Let one walk. Others will stay. Until one carrier "walks", there is money left on the table. Play hardball. They have a 85% mark, I am just saying up it.
Pruett described the notion that best intentions mask guilt buried in the past. That "trying equals succeeding". Pruett also describes publicly traded companies as evil. No one wants health care. Its just a flag that some think must be planted in the ground to show that "trying equals succeeding". ------- Just tell State Farm that in order to do business in California, they have to cover 95% of the people. They will tax the fat or regulate expenses. State Farm, not the government will make health-services useful and profitable.
TPB is not impressing me as much as they were.
Would someone tell me why TPB doesn't put up a Unicef tip jar. I would donate. Then we would see a game changer. TPB-shutdown == kids-starving.
Thomas Edison spent his last 30 years in court. Patents suck. BTW, I have 6 of them...
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Add a speed limit human.
Until wireless is more-open, cloud computing will not reign.
Everytime the wireless breaks, people will want a ground-based-app.
Cloud computing will have to come after routers that are more sophistocated.
Eg a router like dd-wrt where mere mortals don't instantly turn on WPA locks.
Lets have some factory open unrestricted bandwidth, or idle-open-bandwidth and help seed the cloud.
Add a speedlimit here, its a cloud.
http://www.wikispeedia.org/
I tried to submit code. You have to get a $200 certificate and it has to be from symatec or one other. Forge.mil does not allow any of the cheap or free certificates companies. Screw em, I got better places to give away my time.
Its civil disobedience. As my deceased Step-dad said, "those are man's laws", not "Gods laws". Rosa Parks broke the law and it changed! I would attend any rally denouncing the RIAA. Just tell me where. Its the twinkie syndrome. (citation needed)
citation?
I disagree. (BTW, you gotta read these funny things on wired.)
Reading your past articles I assumed your were "in the biz", but perhaps I was wrong.
IMHO, police are human. They profile every time they blink. Racial, men/women, bias, looking for work, spotty coverage. Where the police go, white flight ensues.
They[police] need to stay put and let us call them. Have an anonymous iPhone app that citizens use to record crime and submit as evidence. What we do is none of their business. If it ain't bothering someone, it ain't a crime. The police never witness anything except speeding, and that will soon be covered by smart-road technology.
--------------------
Heres a positive step. Submit a speedlimit.
Open speedlimits
To make a JPEG, you cut it into blocks, run the DCT on each block and mess with the 4:2:2 color formula and pkzip the pieces... That said, I would think measuring the number of blocks would be related to number of artifacts... In my barbaric approach to engineering, (assuming there is no other suggested way on slashdot), I would get the source code to the JPEG encoder/decoder and print out statistics (number of blocks, block size) of each image...
Just keep them separate.
I work for a huge corporation and we have our own thing called etipedia.
Also, don't forget, wikipedia is X rated.
At the time, I bragged 4 seconds (real application running) was the industry fastest with out gizmo, Blabbermouth
What I want to see is 0seconds using Flash. eg. run out of flash and just stop the clock! Then resume it. That has to work, right?
I know, but I still don't see what I want.
I still think the solution is to change TPB to a TpayB. Allow us to pay $1 for a movie and allow studios to save face and jump in. More hiding like this will just put the Congressmen in action to filter. If this path is chosen, we will all be living in wifi-caves before long.
I think slashdot should create a PAC (political action committee).
We all voluntarily donate $10/yr to fight back.
We need a centralized voice like the FSF, but in Washington.
Anyone out there want to start it? I will donate today.
Perhaps I will contact the FSF.
I should run as our first US pirate-party.
Anyone want to back me. See my log...