If you have the money it is actually not that difficult to do live video links using smallish satellite receivers. A laptop and an antenna the size of a briefcase is all you need to go live on television from anywhere in communication satellite range.
Most people in this thread are completely missing the point that has been made in the original article. I attribute this to one of two things:
1.
The comments that have risen to the surface here have been made primarily by Digital Immigrants who have learned to adapt to their technological surroundings but have never and probably never will completely integrate those technologies with their minds. You may have a plethora of gadgets and you may administer hundreds of boxes, that does not make you a digital native.
Digital natives have been born in and have grown up in an environment where their every action, every thought has been melded with technology. Instantaneous rich interactive communication is a way of life for them and goes to their very core. Taking a cell phone away from a teenage girl may not be physical abuse, but mentally it most certainly is. It is tantamount to locking someone into an isolation cell or taking away their faculty of speech. Not as harsh as both those conditions, but lacking the reference material, certainly it is perceived in that way.
I am a knowledge worker and I use digital technology to search, find, process, refine and publish knowledge. I need free internet access to be able to give my best and work to my peak. Not being able to IM restricts the people whose knowledge I can benefit from and with whom I can forge relations. Being behind a firewall where I can't FTP, SSH or use POP only worsens the situation and I feel crippled everyday I have to plug my laptop in at work. I resent being there any longer than I absolutely have to.
Yes, I don't need these services to do my day to day work. But to be able to express myself to the fullest and be a complete individual I most certainly do. That raises the question, has my employer hired me for the person that I am and my needs for communication or to be just another worker drone in his cubicle.
Employers would best take a page out of the Chie Happiness Officers book and take it to heart: http://www.positivesharing.com/
2.
A Design Anthropologist's views may strike most people at Slashdot a bit odd but it probably is because she is talking with people and about people. The notions she distills are very valid and interesting if you are making systems aimed at people.
It is the people, stupid! And to the right decisions in high level design companies would be smart to get more input from the humanities.
I actually tried this at the Apple Centre Lijnbaan in Rotterdam and the people there refused to replace my faulty Macbook. They went further and denied my problem in effect telling me I'm stupid and I'm imagining things.
Now I'm stuck in tech support limbo. I had 9 phone actions today with various parts of Apple in the Netherlands and I still don't know what the status of my laptop is.
To say I'm disappointed would be a severe understatement.
I refuse to learn absolutely anything concerning PHP. I loathe the language but I agreed to help a friend install a blogging solution recently.
I looked at what's roughly available and saw the general vibe was heading to Wordpress. I got the package, went through the steps and I had it working in no time. The installation is polished, the steps are very user friendly and well thought out and the whole process and interface is totally polished.
I still loathe PHP (Typo3 anyone?) but Wordpress is the solid example that you can write a decent app in any programming language.
I agree with most of your stuff and you're probably better at *NIX than I am but I might suggest replacing telnet with nc which does both connecting and listening.
You can do this soon. The Extension manager has been revamped so you can just drop XPI's in special folders en restart and it will notice and adjust.
Read Gemal.
And which of the stuff listed above actually supports project management?
Don't get me wrong, ITIL is great at managing existing hardware infrastructure and service levels and more boring stuff like that. But it gives you very little for software project management.
Firstly, I think this is very cool as most Mozilla is.
But what's wrong currently with SuSE OpenExchange Server?
And they have also hired a guy to port Evolution to Windows. How's that for decent calendaring software.
Moreover you might spend a lot of money on switching but that money will not be shovelled shovelled wholesale into a closed source company. Instead the money will be spent in open technologies and on the education of the people to use these technologies.
People which in these countries are in free supply, cheap, usually motivated and often intelligent (think Bulgaria and other post-Communism countries).
If you give them open source and open knowledge there is no telling into what kind of Open Source giant Brasil may develop. The country has already shown to be quite clueful on a range of IT areas (electronic voting comes to mind) and is advancing rapidly.
Oh and in case anyone's wondering, it *IS* possible to encapsulate things like notion of state, error handling, and I/O in a purely functional language ("side effect free" language) using something called monads. Now there's a fun concept to wrap your brain around!
If someone can explain monads to me in an understandable fashion, I'll be eternally grateful.
I tried to read that part of the tutorial a couple of times but I got my brain fused ever time.
It looks like you need some sort of ITIL Change Management / Incident Managament tool.
Several mature examples must exist but where I work we're pretty fond of TOPdesk. It fits all our needs and is completely web-enabled so it can be opened up to our customers.
I second this. I've used The Bat with a PGPdisk setup for a while and it worked like a charm. I had a small script that mounted the filesystem when I started up The Bat (starting it up without an fs has the Bat function sub-optimally to say the least).
I had it working right on windows but this should be a lot easier to implement on a Linux-like system.
I discontinued my use because I didn't find it worth my effort. I don't have that much conspirational stuff going on that I have to encrypt my email. And any encrypted email I receive is decrypted for viewing but is still stored in encrypted form so that doesn't need a second level of encryption on top.
Governments may not care about the "right" thing to do but they usually do care about public opinion (sometimes more than they should). And I don't think that blowing up a helpless island would be good for the image of any country.
In the Hobbit, three trolls were kept up past their bedtime, and they turned to stone. The fellowship encountered those three petrified trolls on their way to Rivendell.
Here's the song from that passage: Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone; For many a year he had gnawed it near, For meat was hard to come by. Done by! Gum by! In a cave in the hills dwelt alone, And meat was hard to come by.
Up came Tom with his big boots on. Said he to Troll:'Pray what is yon? For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim, As should be a-lyin' in graveyard. Caveyard! Paveyard! This many a year has Tim been gone, And I thought he were lyin' in graveyard.'
'My lad,' said Troll,' this bone I stole. But what be bones that lie in a hole? Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead, Afore I found his shinbone. Tinbone! Thinbone! He can spare a share for a poor old troll, For he don't need his shinbone.' Said Tom:'I don't see why the likes o' thee Without axin' leave should go makin' free With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin; So hand the old bone over! Rover! Trover! Though dead he be, it belongs to he; So hand the old bone over!'
'For a couple o' pins,' says Troll and grins, 'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins. A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet! I'll try my teeth on thee now. Hee Now! See Now! I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins; I've a mind to dine on thee now.'
But just as he thought his dinner was caught, He found his hands had hold of naught. Before he could mind, Tom slipped behind And gave him the boot to larn him. Warn him! Darn him! A bump o' the boot on the seat, Tom thought Would be the way to larn him.
But harder than stone is the flesh and bone Of a troll that sits in the hill alone. As well set your boot to the mountain's root, For the seat of a troll don't feel it. Peel it! Heal it! Old Troll laughed, when he heard Tom groan. And he knew his toes could feel it.
Tom's leg is game, since home he came, And his bootless foot is lasting lame; But Troll don't care, and he's still there With the bone he boned from it's owner. Doner! Boner! Troll's old seat is still the same. And the bone he boned from its owner.
we are already in a position where we have the means to do achieve destruction of most of us.
The difference is that those means are in the hands of very few people. Terrorists could get their hands on some small 'mass-destruction' weapons but total global destruction is not available to them, yet. With the advent of -for instance- nanotechnology all you need is one self-replicating nanobot to sterilize the entire planet.
This said, I don't think you can stop technological progress (nor that you should). Bill Joy is talking a lot about the dangers of these technologies but he does not offer any practical solutions.
Actually this has been achieved a while ago already in Delft, the Netherlands. See: http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/comissies/lustrum/english .html You can see pics and download a movie of it.
The drafting principle isn't the biggest advantage of this technology. You'll be able to use the road more efficiently by driving closer to the next car and by driving at a constant speed. Especially the last benefit (constant speed) will prevent a lot of traffic jams from forming.
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If you have the money it is actually not that difficult to do live video links using smallish satellite receivers. A laptop and an antenna the size of a briefcase is all you need to go live on television from anywhere in communication satellite range.
Most people in this thread are completely missing the point that has been made in the original article. I attribute this to one of two things:
1.
The comments that have risen to the surface here have been made primarily by Digital Immigrants who have learned to adapt to their technological surroundings but have never and probably never will completely integrate those technologies with their minds. You may have a plethora of gadgets and you may administer hundreds of boxes, that does not make you a digital native.
Digital natives have been born in and have grown up in an environment where their every action, every thought has been melded with technology. Instantaneous rich interactive communication is a way of life for them and goes to their very core.
Taking a cell phone away from a teenage girl may not be physical abuse, but mentally it most certainly is. It is tantamount to locking someone into an isolation cell or taking away their faculty of speech. Not as harsh as both those conditions, but lacking the reference material, certainly it is perceived in that way.
I am a knowledge worker and I use digital technology to search, find, process, refine and publish knowledge. I need free internet access to be able to give my best and work to my peak. Not being able to IM restricts the people whose knowledge I can benefit from and with whom I can forge relations. Being behind a firewall where I can't FTP, SSH or use POP only worsens the situation and I feel crippled everyday I have to plug my laptop in at work. I resent being there any longer than I absolutely have to.
Yes, I don't need these services to do my day to day work. But to be able to express myself to the fullest and be a complete individual I most certainly do. That raises the question, has my employer hired me for the person that I am and my needs for communication or to be just another worker drone in his cubicle.
Employers would best take a page out of the Chie Happiness Officers book and take it to heart: http://www.positivesharing.com/
2.
A Design Anthropologist's views may strike most people at Slashdot a bit odd but it probably is because she is talking with people and about people. The notions she distills are very valid and interesting if you are making systems aimed at people.
It is the people, stupid! And to the right decisions in high level design companies would be smart to get more input from the humanities.
I actually tried this at the Apple Centre Lijnbaan in Rotterdam and the people there refused to replace my faulty Macbook. They went further and denied my problem in effect telling me I'm stupid and I'm imagining things.
Now I'm stuck in tech support limbo. I had 9 phone actions today with various parts of Apple in the Netherlands and I still don't know what the status of my laptop is.
To say I'm disappointed would be a severe understatement.
You go to slashdot for discussion? Get out of here. Next you'll be telling me that the resulting discussion is nuanced and valuable.
I come to slashdot to see Linux-fanatic sysadmins circlejerk. It does not cease to be fascinating.
A teacher of mine Ruben van Wendel de Joode has recently got a Ph.D. on organizational aspects of Open Source Communities.
I refuse to learn absolutely anything concerning PHP. I loathe the language but I agreed to help a friend install a blogging solution recently.
I looked at what's roughly available and saw the general vibe was heading to Wordpress. I got the package, went through the steps and I had it working in no time. The installation is polished, the steps are very user friendly and well thought out and the whole process and interface is totally polished.
I still loathe PHP (Typo3 anyone?) but Wordpress is the solid example that you can write a decent app in any programming language.
I agree with most of your stuff and you're probably better at *NIX than I am but I might suggest replacing telnet with nc which does both connecting and listening.
You can do this soon. The Extension manager has been revamped so you can just drop XPI's in special folders en restart and it will notice and adjust.
Read Gemal.
If you really want an edge have it directed by Gaspar Noé or Takashi Miike and have Tarantino write the script.
That would make a movie I would be uncomfortable to watch. Now that'll give them something to rate.
And which of the stuff listed above actually supports project management?
Don't get me wrong, ITIL is great at managing existing hardware infrastructure and service levels and more boring stuff like that. But it gives you very little for software project management.
Firstly, I think this is very cool as most Mozilla is.
But what's wrong currently with SuSE OpenExchange Server?
And they have also hired a guy to port Evolution to Windows. How's that for decent calendaring software.
Moreover you might spend a lot of money on switching but that money will not be shovelled shovelled wholesale into a closed source company. Instead the money will be spent in open technologies and on the education of the people to use these technologies.
People which in these countries are in free supply, cheap, usually motivated and often intelligent (think Bulgaria and other post-Communism countries).
If you give them open source and open knowledge there is no telling into what kind of Open Source giant Brasil may develop. The country has already shown to be quite clueful on a range of IT areas (electronic voting comes to mind) and is advancing rapidly.
What's the problem with WMV? I use xine and I can play most WMV-files just fine.
It may not be format but as long as the format can be reverse engineered it's more than feasible.
$499 should be something more like €380. (€499 is $654). Source: www.xe.com .
I'm a bit tired getting screwed and seeing Americans eat all those free lunches.
I tried to read that part of the tutorial a couple of times but I got my brain fused ever time.
Why don't the slashdot editors who put this online embed the code in the story page? That way the slashdotting would have some use at least.
It looks like you need some sort of ITIL Change Management / Incident Managament tool.
Several mature examples must exist but where I work we're pretty fond of TOPdesk. It fits all our needs and is completely web-enabled so it can be opened up to our customers.
Someone I know has built something to create genetic art via postscript. Here:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/genart/genart.htmI second this. I've used The Bat with a PGPdisk setup for a while and it worked like a charm. I had a small script that mounted the filesystem when I started up The Bat (starting it up without an fs has the Bat function sub-optimally to say the least).
I had it working right on windows but this should be a lot easier to implement on a Linux-like system.
I discontinued my use because I didn't find it worth my effort. I don't have that much conspirational stuff going on that I have to encrypt my email. And any encrypted email I receive is decrypted for viewing but is still stored in encrypted form so that doesn't need a second level of encryption on top.
But hey, if you're paranoid, go for it.
Governments may not care about the "right" thing to do but they usually do care about public opinion (sometimes more than they should). And I don't think that blowing up a helpless island would be good for the image of any country.
The fellowship encountered those three petrified trolls on their way to Rivendell.
Here's the song from that passage:
Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.
Done by! Gum by!
In a cave in the hills dwelt alone,
And meat was hard to come by.
Up came Tom with his big boots on.
Said he to Troll:'Pray what is yon?
For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim,
As should be a-lyin' in graveyard.
Caveyard! Paveyard!
This many a year has Tim been gone,
And I thought he were lyin' in graveyard.'
'My lad,' said Troll,' this bone I stole.
But what be bones that lie in a hole?
Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead,
Afore I found his shinbone.
Tinbone! Thinbone!
He can spare a share for a poor old troll,
For he don't need his shinbone.'
Said Tom:'I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
So hand the old bone over!'
'For a couple o' pins,' says Troll and grins,
'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee Now! See Now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now.'
But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behind
And gave him the boot to larn him.
Warn him! Darn him!
A bump o' the boot on the seat, Tom thought
Would be the way to larn him.
But harder than stone is the flesh and bone
Of a troll that sits in the hill alone.
As well set your boot to the mountain's root,
For the seat of a troll don't feel it.
Peel it! Heal it!
Old Troll laughed, when he heard Tom groan.
And he knew his toes could feel it.
Tom's leg is game, since home he came,
And his bootless foot is lasting lame;
But Troll don't care, and he's still there
With the bone he boned from it's owner.
Doner! Boner!
Troll's old seat is still the same.
And the bone he boned from its owner.
The difference is that those means are in the hands of very few people. Terrorists could get their hands on some small 'mass-destruction' weapons but total global destruction is not available to them, yet.
With the advent of -for instance- nanotechnology all you need is one self-replicating nanobot to sterilize the entire planet.
This said, I don't think you can stop technological progress (nor that you should). Bill Joy is talking a lot about the dangers of these technologies but he does not offer any practical solutions.
Sorry URL should be: http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/englis h.html
Actually this has been achieved a while ago already in Delft, the Netherlands. See: http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/comissies/lustrum/english .html You can see pics and download a movie of it.
The drafting principle isn't the biggest advantage of this technology. You'll be able to use the road more efficiently by driving closer to the next car and by driving at a constant speed. Especially the last benefit (constant speed) will prevent a lot of traffic jams from forming.