If the government was doing this, people would be outraged
With Google's ties to the CIA and one of the federal government's foremost AI research center, NASA Ames, is there any difference?
I find the 360/zoom gimmicky -- I found the old A9 maps much more useful. I was able to use A9 maps to select a neighborhood when I was changing cities -- just simple static streetscape photos like a normal person would take. And A9 had a lot more coverage.
In fact, the 18th century designers of Washington, DC inscribed an inverted pentagram into the street system, with the southern point being what would become the Washington Monument (itself loaded with Masonic stones). A less strong argument can be made for the Pentagon itself. If you can get past the UFO talk and specious arguments, this map shows that one of the five points of the Pentagon points to the Washington Monument and another of the five points to George Washington's home in Mt. Vernon.
Wouldn't this just make economically viable all that dot-com dark fiber we used to hear about? With 3G (EVDO, etc.) in the competitive mix with DSL and cable, I find it unlikely there will be cooperation amongst the competitors to withhold bandwidth from customers.
First sentence should have read "Palm OS would've died sooner if Windows Mobile supported 320x320 prior to the just-released Windows Mobile 6." The Treo 720p is 320x320, which Windows Mobile 5 did not support. I have the Sprint/Audiovox 6700 from December 2005, which is 320x240 and Windows Mobile 5.
Palm OS would've died sooner if Windows Mobile supported 320x240 prior to the just-released Windows Mobile 6. Windows Mobile 5 and earlier could only support even multiples and divisions of VGA, which is why the Palm 700w had a downgraded 240x240 LCD. For a history of why in Windows Mobile architecture, see the Feb., 2006 Windows Mobile blog.
BTW, I never thought Windows would be taking over the mobile world the way it has. But I admit, even I prefer it because I find it familiar. I avoided the whole PDA thing until they merged PDAs with cell phones -- because I never wanted to bother carrying around both. Now that I've waited, I've discovered it's a Windows-based world.
Gates' promotion of OS/2 was an act of deception, not prediction. He mislead WordPerfect into developing for OS/2 instead of Windows so that Word would have the advantage.
I know XM radios can record. But can they timeshift? By that I mean programming a date, channel, start time, and end time to record, even if the car is off? To avoid draining the car battery, I would imagine the car radio would have to have a rechargeable battery that recharges while the car is running.
Satellite radio chose to ramp up its business built on porn (Howard Stern) -- cheap easy money -- and now it's trying to go mainstream -- larger market but more challenging content creation.
In this day and age, though, "more channels of mainstream content" isn't enough. The public grew tired of that with cable TV in the 80's and 90's. Satellite radio will have to adopt either time-shifting (in the manner of PVRs) or collaboration (in the manner of YouTube and Digg).
Right now, I'm having to accomplish time-shifting of talk radio via a thumb drive and an FM-broadcasting MP3 player. I'd rather have the convenience of an in-dash Tivo-style device that did it for me. No, it's not something that couldn't be copied by terrestial and Internet radio, but satellite radio could be first.
Building on that, my other suggestion was for user-created content. "Podcasting" was always kind of a misnomer since downloading and listening were discrete steps. Again, a Tivo-style satellite radio would simplify this, and combined with user-created content uploaded to the Internet (rated and ranked similar to Digg), satellite radio could usher in peer-to-peer broadcasting.
However, Big Media, Big Government, and Big Corporations would not like it and would try to see that it wouldn't happen.
Critically, this overrides what had been the common interpretation of Carafano v. Metrosplash.com which was that form fill-in websites had the same immunity as free-text websites (and ISPs). This roommates.com decision says "no" -- matchmaker.com had immunity only because a) the offending information (Carafano's home address etc.) was posted in free-text fields of the form and b) posting such information violated matchmaker.com's terms of service.
As regards violating the Fair Housing Act, there is a shared living exception. It seems to me that if roommates.com added a "shared living" checkbox to its form, it could AJAX-open the additional fields regarding gender and sexuality, and thus avoid falling afoul of the FHA. Roommates.com would still not be covered by the Section 230 exception of the Communications Decency Act, but it wouldn't need it.
I'm an early adopter for technology I want (home theater in 1988, camera phone in 2003, PDA phone in 2005, etc.) and a luddite for technology I need (taxes -- pencil and paper until this year; taking notes at work -- pencil and paper; home phone -- land line until VOIP can be powered from telephone line current).
I have run the idea that some amount of warming doesn't seem such a great evil for Toronto past friends and neighbours, and their heads nod. "Oh, yeah," said one in a voice bathed in a vat of sarcasm heated to about 150 degrees. "Everybody here just loves long, cold winters. That's why so many of us go ice fishing on Lake Ontario."
What this means politically is that the climate debate in this country is going to have to be much more nuanced than elsewhere to make a lasting impact on the average resident. It is going to have to seriously take into consideration benefits. It's going to have to accept that some of the benefits are genuine improvements and not some oil company's propaganda.
A reprise of my comment from a week ago that was modded "Troll":
Who cares about NBC when there is YouTube?
Here we have a broadcaster willing to broadcast the debate to the entire universe for FREE: YouTube. I blame the political parties for giving exclusive license to a twentieth century media outlet. But that's not the worst of their evils -- that would be excluding candidates who want to uphold the Constitution, such as Ron Paul.
As it turns out, though, Ron Paul did make it to the Reagan Library last night after all, and is now scoring third place in Drudge's poll.
Why? will Thompson beat up on Cher, run up massive deficits, commit treason to cut deals with other countries, lie to the American Public, and invade small countries?
We need Sonny Bono to show those Chinese. Oh wait, he's dead. Maybe we should elect Fred Thompson to be president. Yeah, he'll take care of the Chinese, just like in Hunt for Red October. It's like he's the best of Sonny Bono and Ronald Reagan all rolled into one.
P.S. Ron Paul bumper stickers are available at cafepress.com.
Here we have a broadcaster willing to broadcast the debate to the entire universe for FREE: YouTube. I blame the political parties for giving exclusive license to a twentieth century media outlet. But that's not the worst of their evils -- that would be excluding candidates who want to uphold the Constitution, such as Ron Paul.
It's only taken 9 years since Linux DVD users started being prosecuted to the now when the media is finally picking it up thanks to the public's addiction to Steve Jobs' trinkets.
Just as we have been clamoring for geek involvement in patent review, we should be clamoring for geek involvement in legislation review. Geeks can a) forsee future applications of technology and b) find potential bugs due to the similarity of rigidity and logic between law and code (see comments such as mine attached to Source Control For Bills In Congress?).
9 years. 9 years of prosecution. 9 years of our EFF dollars wasted having to fight this.
"We still haven't ruled out other factors, such as pesticides or inadequate food resources following a drought," she said. "There are lots of stresses that these bees are experiencing," and it may be a combination of factors that is responsible.
Well, thanks to Monsanto et al, our plants now ooze pesticides. Farmers in Pennsylvania and Germany suspect a link between GM crops and colony collapse. As the Der Spiegel article states, the GM crop toxins could be weakening the bees' immune systems, making them more susceptible to traditional pathogens.
It's much like power/water services, if your power goes out and you call the company (cell phone, before anyone complains about my analogy) you'd expect them to have someone ready to come out even if it was after normal hours wouldn't you? Same deal for IT.
It didn't used to be that way. People say to me, "you have a master's degree -- why do you have to work odd hours?" I tell them it used to be that way, but since the Internet came along, my profession got downgraded to the equivalent of plumber -- a blue collar worker -- more maintenance and administration and less research and development.
But in all honesty, my computer work was 24 hours before the Internet, too. It was just called a "BBS" and I didn't get paid for it.
I've used the built-in Word and Excel on my Sprint PocketPC (Audiovox 6700) to view documents and spreadsheets either emailed to me or that I surfed to using the built-in version of Internet Explorer on the phone. Oh, and I've had the phone for 18 months, so it's not new-fangled.
If the iPhone can't accept installed applications (e.g. a future OpenOffice Mobile for Microsoft haters), I'm shocked and disappointed.
Russia and the U.S. had been snooping VDT images since the early 1970's or earlier. van Eck just made it public by publishing a paper on how to do it with $100 of Radio Shack parts. cryptome.org forum postings include a reference to a 1973 book.
It's become clear that IdeaStorm isn't about soliciting ideas from users -- it's about using the web to publicly humiliate Microsoft into letting Dell sell to its customers what Dell already knows they want. It should be called PassiveAggressiveStorm.
YouTube has plenty of this stuff already. It's just that YouTube's search facilities are a still immature. But not impossible. You can subscribe to "channels". You can click on your favorite authors and see what they've produced lately.
It's like all those niche search engines that were supposed to compete against Google. Yes, some people use them, but not as many as the niche search engine developers would have liked.
BTW, OT, my two favorite YouTube fictional series are:
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I find the 360/zoom gimmicky -- I found the old A9 maps much more useful. I was able to use A9 maps to select a neighborhood when I was changing cities -- just simple static streetscape photos like a normal person would take. And A9 had a lot more coverage.
In fact, the 18th century designers of Washington, DC inscribed an inverted pentagram into the street system, with the southern point being what would become the Washington Monument (itself loaded with Masonic stones). A less strong argument can be made for the Pentagon itself. If you can get past the UFO talk and specious arguments, this map shows that one of the five points of the Pentagon points to the Washington Monument and another of the five points to George Washington's home in Mt. Vernon.
Wouldn't this just make economically viable all that dot-com dark fiber we used to hear about? With 3G (EVDO, etc.) in the competitive mix with DSL and cable, I find it unlikely there will be cooperation amongst the competitors to withhold bandwidth from customers.
And now to ensure this gets modded as Flamebait: there just aren't enough free-market thinkers on Slashdot.
First sentence should have read "Palm OS would've died sooner if Windows Mobile supported 320x320 prior to the just-released Windows Mobile 6." The Treo 720p is 320x320, which Windows Mobile 5 did not support. I have the Sprint/Audiovox 6700 from December 2005, which is 320x240 and Windows Mobile 5.
BTW, I never thought Windows would be taking over the mobile world the way it has. But I admit, even I prefer it because I find it familiar. I avoided the whole PDA thing until they merged PDAs with cell phones -- because I never wanted to bother carrying around both. Now that I've waited, I've discovered it's a Windows-based world.
Gates' promotion of OS/2 was an act of deception, not prediction. He mislead WordPerfect into developing for OS/2 instead of Windows so that Word would have the advantage.
I know XM radios can record. But can they timeshift? By that I mean programming a date, channel, start time, and end time to record, even if the car is off? To avoid draining the car battery, I would imagine the car radio would have to have a rechargeable battery that recharges while the car is running.
In this day and age, though, "more channels of mainstream content" isn't enough. The public grew tired of that with cable TV in the 80's and 90's. Satellite radio will have to adopt either time-shifting (in the manner of PVRs) or collaboration (in the manner of YouTube and Digg).
Right now, I'm having to accomplish time-shifting of talk radio via a thumb drive and an FM-broadcasting MP3 player. I'd rather have the convenience of an in-dash Tivo-style device that did it for me. No, it's not something that couldn't be copied by terrestial and Internet radio, but satellite radio could be first.
Building on that, my other suggestion was for user-created content. "Podcasting" was always kind of a misnomer since downloading and listening were discrete steps. Again, a Tivo-style satellite radio would simplify this, and combined with user-created content uploaded to the Internet (rated and ranked similar to Digg), satellite radio could usher in peer-to-peer broadcasting.
However, Big Media, Big Government, and Big Corporations would not like it and would try to see that it wouldn't happen.
As regards violating the Fair Housing Act, there is a shared living exception. It seems to me that if roommates.com added a "shared living" checkbox to its form, it could AJAX-open the additional fields regarding gender and sexuality, and thus avoid falling afoul of the FHA. Roommates.com would still not be covered by the Section 230 exception of the Communications Decency Act, but it wouldn't need it.
I'm an early adopter for technology I want (home theater in 1988, camera phone in 2003, PDA phone in 2005, etc.) and a luddite for technology I need (taxes -- pencil and paper until this year; taking notes at work -- pencil and paper; home phone -- land line until VOIP can be powered from telephone line current).
This is an aid for those whose brains were schooled with whole-word reading and PowerPoint.
Vote for Ron Paul.
P.S. Ron Paul bumper stickers are available at cafepress.com.
Here we have a broadcaster willing to broadcast the debate to the entire universe for FREE: YouTube. I blame the political parties for giving exclusive license to a twentieth century media outlet. But that's not the worst of their evils -- that would be excluding candidates who want to uphold the Constitution, such as Ron Paul.
Just as we have been clamoring for geek involvement in patent review, we should be clamoring for geek involvement in legislation review. Geeks can a) forsee future applications of technology and b) find potential bugs due to the similarity of rigidity and logic between law and code (see comments such as mine attached to Source Control For Bills In Congress?).
9 years. 9 years of prosecution. 9 years of our EFF dollars wasted having to fight this.
But in all honesty, my computer work was 24 hours before the Internet, too. It was just called a "BBS" and I didn't get paid for it.
If the iPhone can't accept installed applications (e.g. a future OpenOffice Mobile for Microsoft haters), I'm shocked and disappointed.
Russia and the U.S. had been snooping VDT images since the early 1970's or earlier. van Eck just made it public by publishing a paper on how to do it with $100 of Radio Shack parts. cryptome.org forum postings include a reference to a 1973 book.
It's become clear that IdeaStorm isn't about soliciting ideas from users -- it's about using the web to publicly humiliate Microsoft into letting Dell sell to its customers what Dell already knows they want. It should be called PassiveAggressiveStorm.
It's like all those niche search engines that were supposed to compete against Google. Yes, some people use them, but not as many as the niche search engine developers would have liked.
BTW, OT, my two favorite YouTube fictional series are: