Who doesn't love the noise of two folding pages, who can't enjoy the pleasure of that "ink on paper" smell reminding of youth and heavy removals; what about the immediate disappointing and then the memories by those spots of pizza all over the pages; what about underlining with a pink pen or that funny pencil notes and "art shapes" on the sides, or that phone number secretly written on the corner of page 356?
Who can forget the beautiful view of a wall-bookshelf completely full of of multi-color covers, with titles always written on the wrong side for your current observation angle? How will this change be handled by the old-fashion small-minded who always dream of burning piles of immoral books in a public square, and what about the billions of people who have never seen a cheap paper book, then will never see ANY?
Should we replace all this with a silly anynomous piece of plastic, maybe expensive in itself? Should we once again be filled of preemptive panic for any drops of our tea or other liquid to fall on it, like we worry for too many other electronics? What if we fall asleep and it falls on the floor?
Should we once again be desperately running over airports or engage in infamous "Starbucks plug-wars" to find a socket for the last four pages and, besides, who on earth can swear he is able to truly read and concentrate on an electronic device? Ten minutes from buy time and we'll think of a way of running linux and firefox on it, plug in someway a wireless device and rush to put a stupid comment on the last duped./ entry.
Last but not least, should we start be frustrated by DRMs and awkward limitations for books as well!? Should we become paranoid because They(r) not only will know which books we bought or like, but will also be aware of how many pages we have read so far? See "book ratings", "age limits", then entire "disliked" series be censored then disappear from the face of hearth with one single 'rm -fr'
Should we assist unharmed to format wars leading to huge "imcompatibility headaches"? Be worried if pdf or rtf or text are going to be supported in the next firmware or have to find a way to hack it? Start silly counting how many copies of the book we made and how many we can still make on our "registered devices"? Will there be yet another hunt for witches for book downloads, another huge source of profit to pay lawyers' private jets, a BOOK Jon, perhaps a DBAA (Digital Books Association of America)?
.. is Slashdot. 2 modest websites made useless in less than 2 hours, Allpeers and PortableApps. This ain't a news site, is a DDOS portal.
May I suggest a new financing method? Package and sell various versions of "the./ effect" to recognized website maintainers, ISPs, sadistic sysadmins and such, then post timely news entries saying something on their site (crap or dupes are common, anyways: this won't statistically change the number of interesting news). Be sure to claim no responsibility for excess bandwidth usage on customer's websites.
I've never had any interest in any of "Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005" I've never ever searched anything even close to any of "Google News - Top Searches in 2005" What's Froogle?
Other than this, about -World Affairs -Nature -Movies -Celebrities -Phenomena
I don't really have any faintest idea on what they are talking about. Even in the "Zeitgest home" I see nothing I have any concern about. My most used terms in the last 4 hours where 'vi' 'noodles' and 'tc' .
That said: Aren't they forgetting something there? and next, anyways: What's wrong with people? I mean.. what's wrong with me? Ok, I got "the concept of group" in my cv: What's wrong with us?.. and how the -;ll could possibly all nerds scattered around positively make a constructive community then fully be part of the society for the time being?
well, as it really is so, it might be too much flashing all around or all those subpages, but the contents doesn't look to me half as complete as a handful of other books I've seen on the matter; very good to have a web reference when needed (I'll remember to follow some ads), but I personally wouldn't buy the book based on a first sight on the website.
Got the screenshot. Interesting idea indeed, it makes me think of a manual "life" game, community-driven. Especially in the animation mode and if the images can be perpetually changed it may show interesting brain patterns. Why would I choose black or white when I'm (black) surrounded? Good for psychiatry as well.
Some guy coming with an (whois)Arizonian link points out a site that gets./ed in a blink. That site appears to be in Berkshire, UK (kevan.org). Well, the final target might be missed sometimes, but our success rates are well above 80%! The funniest part are google's ADs on the source. Ouch.
At least one pan-european provider in one of its countries had started in 2004 a "revolutionary" "safe ADSL" offer, soon followed by a concurrent: the idea was to give out a basic xDSL plus some ($$$)filter/proxy. (OT: dear slashdot, kindly support an euro-sign encoding, like iso8859-15 or unicode?)
As technically miserable as it sounds, yes: it failed and I see no signs of it on any of their websites anymore.
1) what to filter? your favourite party enemy's website? who decides?
2) who keeps track of the changes, 10k people employed 24/7?
3) a 14yo kid will find a way to get over the filters in less than a week
but the idea of using a port(?) and forced content/definition by law: that beats me, that's hip, really, and I don't talk about prOn but about what's possibly next in the judgment/filtering saga.
(Ok, this provider filters p2p, that filters ipsec, this one gives you NATted ips,
From the article: "Now it's just a matter of getting the policy in place so we can have at least some part of the Internet that is free of the filth and free of the degradation"
"Your blog has been deemed "immoral" by this court. You are ordered to move it to the filth port ghetto."
C'mon, guys, Ma'soft looks like milk in a comparison. Concentrate.
Use of any service is arguaby on everyone's choice, but think carefully to dependence (need) and alternatives, so far: once you've choosen [google], think either about your a)cookies or b) IP (eventually semi-static, part of a pool, often bound to a location or a provider)
Registration? M$ doensn't even want it anymore, hardware validation is enough. Interests? Need to search, sir? Letters? Mail (IMHO the best service AFAIK) Opinions? Chat Thoughts? Blog History? in Cache. Never say f**k! Local Data? Desktop (remember the noise when M$ was indexing your files? that's OFF by default now!) Locations? Maps: which place you like to see, today? Friends? Orkut Pictures & Data? Base? Books? any page you ever read, sir. News? which news you prefer? Food? to come.. Payments?
shall I go on?
On all this, I must say, Google has a "clean-friendly" and "open-positive" attitude (i.e. you can feel they're good guys giving you a service): I do myself think very often what a beautiful world this would be if anyone could trust anyone else: new technologies could quick & easily give the sky to all of us. It is unfortunately not so, and here come some cold feelings in my back from time to time. Don't think 'bout the dark side, Luke.
There's one conclusion. Which is the most (business) valuable data in IT today? Think again. GOOGLE LOGS. Who owns them?
-- sh**! may I dis-own a comment?.. But.. I love you Google, thank you for everything You've done for us.... You know I would never contradict... I'm a good guy..... I didn't mean... You knowt that..
From the article: "That [the tape, ndr] renders "session 2 -- which contains the self-loading DRM software -- unreadable" .
I knew, I knew my '96 no-name OEM crunchy ATAPI CD-ROM reader (w/ a tray!) could still show anybody else it had A Place In The World(tm)
This story makes me more and more think of some Terminator movie(I confess, might have watched it).
Are we all going to have a trip to some dusty, post-battle corner of India, one day, to hunt for old Win311 486 laptops with no chance of connecting to anything, to find our way out?
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP
Opensource is evil.
(sorry, too tempting to resist)
-- Seriously, well done in a case like this, but the scenario is worrysome in the worst orwellian way if there isn't also a strong "control the controllers" culture to prevent abuses.
-- Sometimes I'm so glad I was born in a country and in a far enough time when you still could see and join people having a sigarette on the corner of a street without hearing pings, being taped, then being asked your ID, then searched, then sued, then wiretapped, then triangulated, then arrested for possession of sigarettes, then [..]
Can I have my steam clock back, please?
We're all gonna be so scared to live predictably like androids and be rootkit'd if we don't ever watch our daily assigned hours of commercials on the digital screen then we don't spend the designated amount of money. Or even if we do.
Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science by John W Harris and Horst Stocker ISBN:0387947469
if anyone needs a complete reference to any formula, theoreme, theories and details in an extremely syntesys+example way, to get up to Galois' groups for quintic equations and much, much more
by far the most fascinating non-literature piece of paper I've ever had in my hands
In old good times I managed using debian at work with vmWare.
Their ticketing infrastructure only worked through a somewhat buggy delphi client. All the rest I ever needed was reachable through my xterms, even an early staroffice.
Let's be clear on that: I got my new hyperfast laptop with XP these days and, hey, it works! I can listen to online radios, make (free, OpenOffice) presentations, buy songs, copy my phone contactlist to disk, fight with ethereal dreaming for a real loopback, search my way through the last 10 best IM networks, then finally cygwin.
The problem is: it just feels no more no less like my old Pentium5. It's like buying a cray to write letters and play with naughty colored symbols, or going to a luna park not playing the bigger game. It really depends: it's perfect for the good less techie guys down at Administration, but....then I installed ubuntu. My productivity has grown 300%, I can do all above things together (with a real lo!) plus compile a kernel, debug some code, write some other, manage my data, organize security, set up services, fine-tune samba, work on servers..
I mean, with windows I can connect to the network, with Linux I can connect and/or even eventually bit-by-bit DEBUG that or anything I need to.
Freedom and opennes just feel like honest power. If you feel you are able and can do more&better with Linux, tell your boss, then show him/her. Corporates start to get the advantages.
All I just need is one any-interface, GPL, multiplatform piece of software that roughly: -supports RSA asymmetric encryption with gpg keys to avoid being listened by the kid next door -uses any decent combination of patent-free protocols to get just acceptable voice over broadband -I give it a kindly f'g IP ADDRESS and PORT , I AUTHENTICATE then TALK to whoever is at the other side.
say: a multiplatform slightly improved netmeeting with single-port support to jump through isp portfilters/ proxies/ automatic firewalls with just one port forwarding
Everything is out there: technology, code, codecs, IPv4, broadband connections. Any clue, ANYONE?
I want not a community to join, no centralized servers to track me anytime I want to say hi to mum, no search capabilities, no calls to fixed or mobile phone numbers, not a PSTN phone replacement, no emergency number reachability, no fixed-location or registration of any sort, no other people's p2p calls killing my 256k upstream, -nothing as such-
Or if that's so hard to grasp just a client-server linux voice bundle I can setup for my own use?
I found hundreds of fancy clients, each with its own server network, community, subscription, "gimme your email or die", "It's free(for now, you s*r)", "I swear I have no spyware" disclaimer and "Best rated" claims all in in 25165824 colors.
AllRight. `vi myTalk.c` [..]..all was so freaking good using gopher..
Slashdot Mirror
OS X + Windows + Linux ....
on a MacBook Pro.
I don't know you people out there and I haven't seen any tech review yet, but I can't help but calling this THE laptop. At last. We'll see.
Who doesn't love the noise of two folding pages, who can't enjoy the pleasure of that "ink on paper" smell reminding of youth and heavy removals; what about the immediate disappointing and then the memories by those spots of pizza all over the pages; what about underlining with a pink pen or that funny pencil notes and "art shapes" on the sides, or that phone number secretly written on the corner of page 356?
./ entry.
Who can forget the beautiful view of a wall-bookshelf completely full of of multi-color covers, with titles always written on the wrong side for your current observation angle? How will this change be handled by the old-fashion small-minded who always dream of burning piles of immoral books in a public square, and what about the billions of people who have never seen a cheap paper book, then will never see ANY?
Should we replace all this with a silly anynomous piece of plastic, maybe expensive in itself? Should we once again be filled of preemptive panic for any drops of our tea or other liquid to fall on it, like we worry for too many other electronics? What if we fall asleep and it falls on the floor?
Should we once again be desperately running over airports or engage in infamous "Starbucks plug-wars" to find a socket for the last four pages and, besides, who on earth can swear he is able to truly read and concentrate on an electronic device? Ten minutes from buy time and we'll think of a way of running linux and firefox on it, plug in someway a wireless device and rush to put a stupid comment on the last duped
Last but not least, should we start be frustrated by DRMs and awkward limitations for books as well!? Should we become paranoid because They(r) not only will know which books we bought or like, but will also be aware of how many pages we have read so far? See "book ratings", "age limits", then entire "disliked" series be censored then disappear from the face of hearth with one single 'rm -fr'
Should we assist unharmed to format wars leading to huge "imcompatibility headaches"? Be worried if pdf or rtf or text are going to be supported in the next firmware or have to find a way to hack it? Start silly counting how many copies of the book we made and how many we can still make on our "registered devices"? Will there be yet another hunt for witches for book downloads, another huge source of profit to pay lawyers' private jets, a BOOK Jon, perhaps a DBAA (Digital Books Association of America)?
Oh, please. Nothing to see here, move along.
.. is Slashdot. 2 modest websites made useless in less than 2 hours, Allpeers and PortableApps.
./ effect" to recognized website maintainers, ISPs, sadistic sysadmins and such, then post timely news entries saying something on their site (crap or dupes are common, anyways: this won't statistically change the number of interesting news). Be sure to claim no responsibility for excess bandwidth usage on customer's websites.
This ain't a news site, is a DDOS portal.
May I suggest a new financing method? Package and sell various versions of "the
I've never had any interest in any of "Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005"
.. and how the -;ll could possibly all nerds scattered around positively make a constructive community then fully be part of the society for the time being?
I've never ever searched anything even close to any of "Google News - Top Searches in 2005"
What's Froogle?
Other than this, about
-World Affairs
-Nature
-Movies
-Celebrities
-Phenomena
I don't really have any faintest idea on what they are talking about.
Even in the "Zeitgest home" I see nothing I have any concern about.
My most used terms in the last 4 hours where 'vi' 'noodles' and 'tc' .
That said:
Aren't they forgetting something there?
and next, anyways:
What's wrong with people?
I mean.. what's wrong with me?
Ok, I got "the concept of group" in my cv: What's wrong with us?
well, as it really is so, it might be too much flashing all around or all those subpages, but the contents doesn't look to me half as complete as a handful of other books I've seen on the matter; very good to have a web reference when needed (I'll remember to follow some ads), but I personally wouldn't buy the book based on a first sight on the website.
And the full contents of this book, including BOOTP Client/Server Messaging and Addressing are really entirely available on its ADdicting website as it seems to claim!?!
Otto Z. Stern is sitting there...wondering when the Linux freaks are going to solve their debate about Otto Z. Stern
Got the screenshot.
Interesting idea indeed, it makes me think of a manual "life" game, community-driven. Especially in the animation mode and if the images can be perpetually changed it may show interesting brain patterns.
Why would I choose black or white when I'm (black) surrounded? Good for psychiatry as well.
Some guy coming with an (whois)Arizonian link points out a site that gets ./ed in a blink. That site appears to be in Berkshire, UK (kevan.org).
Well, the final target might be missed sometimes, but our success rates are well above 80%!
The funniest part are google's ADs on the source. Ouch.
At least one pan-european provider in one of its countries had started in 2004 a "revolutionary" "safe ADSL" offer, soon followed by a concurrent: the idea was to give out a basic xDSL plus some ($$$)filter/proxy. (OT: dear slashdot, kindly support an euro-sign encoding, like iso8859-15 or unicode?)
As technically miserable as it sounds, yes: it failed and I see no signs of it on any of their websites anymore.
1) what to filter? your favourite party enemy's website? who decides?
2) who keeps track of the changes, 10k people employed 24/7?
3) a 14yo kid will find a way to get over the filters in less than a week
but the idea of using a port(?) and forced content/definition by law: that beats me, that's hip, really, and I don't talk about prOn but about what's possibly next in the judgment/filtering saga.
(Ok, this provider filters p2p, that filters ipsec, this one gives you NATted ips,
From the article: "Now it's just a matter of getting the policy in place so we can have at least some part of the Internet that is free of the filth and free of the degradation"
"Your blog has been deemed "immoral" by this court. You are ordered to move it to the filth port ghetto."
What is Xbox?
Who's threatened: anyone
.. .. You know I would never contradict... ..... I didn't mean...
C'mon, guys, Ma'soft looks like milk in a comparison. Concentrate.
Use of any service is arguaby on everyone's choice, but think carefully to dependence (need) and alternatives, so far: once you've choosen [google], think either about your a)cookies or b) IP (eventually semi-static, part of a pool, often bound to a location or a provider)
Registration? M$ doensn't even want it anymore, hardware validation is enough.
Interests? Need to search, sir?
Letters? Mail (IMHO the best service AFAIK)
Opinions? Chat
Thoughts? Blog
History? in Cache. Never say f**k!
Local Data? Desktop (remember the noise when M$ was indexing your files? that's OFF by default now!)
Locations? Maps: which place you like to see, today?
Friends? Orkut
Pictures & Data? Base?
Books? any page you ever read, sir.
News? which news you prefer?
Food? to come..
Payments?
shall I go on?
On all this, I must say, Google has a "clean-friendly" and "open-positive" attitude (i.e. you can feel they're good guys giving you a service): I do myself think very often what a beautiful world this would be if anyone could trust anyone else: new technologies could quick & easily give the sky to all of us.
It is unfortunately not so, and here come some cold feelings in my back from time to time. Don't think 'bout the dark side, Luke.
There's one conclusion. Which is the most (business) valuable data in IT today? Think again. GOOGLE LOGS.
Who owns them?
--
sh**! may I dis-own a comment?
But.. I love you Google, thank you for everything You've done for us..
I'm a good guy
You knowt that..
From the article: "That [the tape, ndr] renders "session 2 -- which contains the self-loading DRM software -- unreadable"
.
I knew, I knew my '96 no-name OEM crunchy ATAPI CD-ROM reader (w/ a tray!) could still show anybody else it had A Place In The World(tm)
This story makes me more and more think of some Terminator movie(I confess, might have watched it).
Are we all going to have a trip to some dusty, post-battle corner of India, one day, to hunt for old Win311 486 laptops with no chance of connecting to anything, to find our way out?
..to put a sticker behind your licence plate:
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP
Opensource is evil.
(sorry, too tempting to resist)
--
Seriously, well done in a case like this, but the scenario is worrysome in the worst orwellian way if there isn't also a strong "control the controllers" culture to prevent abuses.
--
Sometimes I'm so glad I was born in a country and in a far enough time when you still could see and join people having a sigarette on the corner of a street without hearing pings, being taped, then being asked your ID, then searched, then sued, then wiretapped, then triangulated, then arrested for possession of sigarettes, then [..]
Can I have my steam clock back, please?
We're all gonna be so scared to live predictably like androids and be rootkit'd if we don't ever watch our daily assigned hours of commercials on the digital screen then we don't spend the designated amount of money. Or even if we do.
Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science
by John W Harris and Horst Stocker
ISBN:0387947469
if anyone needs a complete reference to any formula, theoreme, theories and details in an extremely syntesys+example way, to get up to Galois' groups for quintic equations and much, much more
by far the most fascinating non-literature piece of paper I've ever had in my hands
In old good times I managed using debian at work with vmWare.
..then I installed ubuntu. My productivity has grown 300%, I can do all above things together (with a real lo!) plus compile a kernel, debug some code, write some other, manage my data, organize security, set up services, fine-tune samba, work on servers..
Their ticketing infrastructure only worked through a somewhat buggy delphi client.
All the rest I ever needed was reachable through my xterms, even an early staroffice.
Let's be clear on that: I got my new hyperfast laptop with XP these days and, hey, it works!
I can listen to online radios, make (free, OpenOffice) presentations, buy songs, copy my phone contactlist to disk, fight with ethereal dreaming for a real loopback, search my way through the last 10 best IM networks, then finally cygwin.
The problem is: it just feels no more no less like my old Pentium5. It's like buying a cray to write letters and play with naughty colored symbols, or going to a luna park not playing the bigger game.
It really depends: it's perfect for the good less techie guys down at Administration, but..
I mean, with windows I can connect to the network, with Linux I can connect and/or even eventually bit-by-bit DEBUG that or anything I need to.
Freedom and opennes just feel like honest power.
If you feel you are able and can do more&better with Linux, tell your boss, then show him/her.
Corporates start to get the advantages.
Hallo?
..all was so freaking good using gopher..
All I just need is one any-interface, GPL, multiplatform piece of software that roughly:
-supports RSA asymmetric encryption with gpg keys to avoid being listened by the kid next door
-uses any decent combination of patent-free protocols to get just acceptable voice over broadband
-I give it a kindly f'g IP ADDRESS and PORT , I AUTHENTICATE then TALK to whoever is at the other side.
say: a multiplatform slightly improved netmeeting with single-port support to jump through isp portfilters/ proxies/ automatic firewalls with just one port forwarding
Everything is out there: technology, code, codecs, IPv4, broadband connections.
Any clue, ANYONE?
I want not a community to join, no centralized servers to track me anytime I want to say hi to mum, no search capabilities, no calls to fixed or mobile phone numbers, not a PSTN phone replacement, no emergency number reachability, no fixed-location or registration of any sort, no other people's p2p calls killing my 256k upstream, -nothing as such-
Or if that's so hard to grasp just a client-server linux voice bundle I can setup for my own use?
I found hundreds of fancy clients, each with its own server network, community, subscription, "gimme your email or die", "It's free(for now, you s*r)", "I swear I have no spyware" disclaimer and "Best rated" claims all in in 25165824 colors.
AllRight.
`vi myTalk.c`
[..]