For now and the next few years, most people would be more than thrilled to get the 8 to 24Mb/sec that they have paid for. This only needs more backbone, not the ultra-expensive "last mile infrastructure".
Fiber can then be laid opportunistically when infrastructure is upgraded, then connected together wherever the demand arises. To spend enormous amounts of tax money debating hypothetical universal options is stupid.
The coverage is only going to improve. Already in other countries, many cities are nearing completion. You can't close the mapping door after the GPS trace has bolted.
Anyone can boot from a Knoppix live CD and mount NTFS drives in Linux and poke around. NTFS security is not applied under Linux so you can have a look at anything you want.
Wouldn't it be funny if Microsoft's USB device was actually a Knoppix live distro?
How many other fast-tracked ISO standards have no conforming implementations?
ISO 25436 describes a version of the Eiffel programming language that has never been fully implemented. The standard contains lots of "blue-sky" "would-be-nice-to-have" sections which are planned to be implemented in the future.
ECMA gives the document author a lot of control, so things can become ECMA standards that would not become ISO standards. But then the fast track ISO process (for existing ECMA standards) makes it easier for them to become ISO standards.
Paid search is always going to be a niche business, because most people don't want to pay, and because it doesn't scale as well as algorithmic search. But for those who want to use paid search (such as Uclue), it's a valuable service.
It's standard negotiating tactic in the UK, to list the most popular projects at the bottom of the funding list. They are sure to be saved (in one form or another), and all the other projects listed above them will also be safe.
Our council does the same. Every time they want to cut taxes, they threaten to cut the festivals (which consume the tiniest pittance of the budget). No-one wants the festivals to die, so the council gets to raise the taxes. If the council proposed to cut some of their unpopular expenditure, they would never get to increase taxes.
Any publicity is good publicity for CES, as well as for Gizmodo.
Is there ANY use of TV-B-Gone that is not mischief? I doubt it. But it's no more mischievous than, say, flipping the light switch off as they left the hall.
Paramount's spokeswoman said "Paramount's current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format".
That doesn't sound like a denial at all. That just sounds like they haven't announced any changes yet, so of course it's their "current plan". We already knew that it was their "current plan".
... to gain credibility for their QA section, they need to introduce paid overseers...
The paid answers model is a quite different model to the "worth what you pay for it" free answers model. Not only do you get better answers, but you often get more interesting, better-phrased questions.
I've seen time and time again programmers taking over for other programmers' code and saying that the previous person's code sucks. Its like a right of passage or something.
It's not just programmers who do this. Try asking a builder or plumber (in the UK, anyway) to modify something built by someone else. Usually, the first thing they'll do is suck air past their teeth and say "Who did this then?"
So how do you get a round number ISO standard?
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So how do you get a round number ISO standard, instead of waiting in line and getting ISO13487 or somesuch? Who do you need to persuade?
Someone must have thought that ISO9000 and ISO32000 are going to be referenced often enough that they deserve easy-to-remember "vanity" numbers.
Or are they just going to tack three zeros onto each standard number from now: ISO33000, ISO34000, ISO35000, etc?
The summary mentions NearlyFreeSpeech.net which we use to host paid research/Q&A site http://uclue.com/
What we like about them is that we pay for what we use. No more, no less. Why is this concept so rare in the industry, which seems to be built around "pay for promises, get what the arbitrary fair usage policy gives you"?
The downside of NearlyFreeSpeech.net is that they don't offer https due to some ideological problem with IP Addresses. The upside is that, apart from that, they make money by enabling you to do more, not by restricting you from doing so much.
"It comes down to cost per person and reach at the end of the day."
No it doesn't. If it came down to cost per person and reach, making unencumbered versions of their content available would achieve those goals cheaply and easily.
Oh, wait a minute. Maybe the goal is maximum cost per person and minimum reach.
Heh, it's actually my sister who won this Ig Nobel prize for doing research on how to index "The". The premier geek in the family, and she doesn't even try to be one!
As she points out in her research, how are you ever going to look up the band "The The" unless the word "the" is indexed. And if you index it sometimes, shouldn't you index it always?
The really evil part is that you can be forbidden from telling anyone that you were forced to decrypt your documents, under penalty of imprisonment. Without public scrutiny, this law is inviting abuse.
A six percent takeup in a few months is pretty strong, and one-third of those polled haven't ruled out adopting it in the next year. Give it a few more years, and I think GPLv3 will be the dominant GPL version.
After all, how many projects still use GPL version 1?
> I'm certain the concept dates further back to teletypes and such.
Certainly the smiley was known in the days of typewriters. Sometime between 1960 and 1975, I read a short piece in the Readers Digest about typewriter symbols. The one that stuck in my mind was -) which they called the "tongue-in-cheek" symbol.
Big black holes will evaporate slowly at first, but then faster and faster as they shrink, until they get very small and release the last of their energy, in some sort of burst, yes.
Slashdot Mirror
For now and the next few years, most people would be more than thrilled to get the 8 to 24Mb/sec that they have paid for. This only needs more backbone, not the ultra-expensive "last mile infrastructure".
Fiber can then be laid opportunistically when infrastructure is upgraded, then connected together wherever the demand arises. To spend enormous amounts of tax money debating hypothetical universal options is stupid.
There's already some coverage of China in openstreetmap.org (which is like Wikipedia for maps). For example, here's Shanghai:
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.226&lon=121.5487&zoom=12&layers=B0FT
The coverage is only going to improve. Already in other countries, many cities are nearing completion. You can't close the mapping door after the GPS trace has bolted.
Wouldn't it be funny if Microsoft's USB device was actually a Knoppix live distro?
ISO 25436 describes a version of the Eiffel programming language that has never been fully implemented. The standard contains lots of "blue-sky" "would-be-nice-to-have" sections which are planned to be implemented in the future.
ECMA gives the document author a lot of control, so things can become ECMA standards that would not become ISO standards. But then the fast track ISO process (for existing ECMA standards) makes it easier for them to become ISO standards.
Several dozen former Google Answers Researchers started up Uclue, where we're carrying on in the Google Answers tradition of paid Q&A/research.
The people who want to "just ask the librarian" can use online equivalents such as Uclue paid Q&A/research, Ask Metafilter, Wikipedia Reference Desk etc.
Paid search is always going to be a niche business, because most people don't want to pay, and because it doesn't scale as well as algorithmic search. But for those who want to use paid search (such as Uclue), it's a valuable service.
It's standard negotiating tactic in the UK, to list the most popular projects at the bottom of the funding list. They are sure to be saved (in one form or another), and all the other projects listed above them will also be safe.
Our council does the same. Every time they want to cut taxes, they threaten to cut the festivals (which consume the tiniest pittance of the budget). No-one wants the festivals to die, so the council gets to raise the taxes. If the council proposed to cut some of their unpopular expenditure, they would never get to increase taxes.
Clippy come back, all is forgiven!
Any publicity is good publicity for CES, as well as for Gizmodo.
Is there ANY use of TV-B-Gone that is not mischief? I doubt it. But it's no more mischievous than, say, flipping the light switch off as they left the hall.
Paramount's spokeswoman said "Paramount's current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format".
That doesn't sound like a denial at all. That just sounds like they haven't announced any changes yet, so of course it's their "current plan". We already knew that it was their "current plan".
Take a look at these examples from paid Q&A site uclue.com, for example.
So how do you get a round number ISO standard, instead of waiting in line and getting ISO13487 or somesuch? Who do you need to persuade?
Someone must have thought that ISO9000 and ISO32000 are going to be referenced often enough that they deserve easy-to-remember "vanity" numbers.
Or are they just going to tack three zeros onto each standard number from now: ISO33000, ISO34000, ISO35000, etc?
If you want to see photos of atoms taken by an STM, there's a great gallery here:
STM Image Gallery
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html
The summary mentions NearlyFreeSpeech.net which we use to host paid research/Q&A site http://uclue.com/
What we like about them is that we pay for what we use. No more, no less. Why is this concept so rare in the industry, which seems to be built around "pay for promises, get what the arbitrary fair usage policy gives you"?
The downside of NearlyFreeSpeech.net is that they don't offer https due to some ideological problem with IP Addresses. The upside is that, apart from that, they make money by enabling you to do more, not by restricting you from doing so much.
Oh, wait a minute. Maybe the goal is maximum cost per person and minimum reach.
Heh, it's actually my sister who won this Ig Nobel prize for doing research on how to index "The". The premier geek in the family, and she doesn't even try to be one!
As she points out in her research, how are you ever going to look up the band "The The" unless the word "the" is indexed. And if you index it sometimes, shouldn't you index it always?
The really evil part is that you can be forbidden from telling anyone that you were forced to decrypt your documents, under penalty of imprisonment. Without public scrutiny, this law is inviting abuse.
A six percent takeup in a few months is pretty strong, and one-third of those polled haven't ruled out adopting it in the next year. Give it a few more years, and I think GPLv3 will be the dominant GPL version.
After all, how many projects still use GPL version 1?
> I'm certain the concept dates further back to teletypes and such.
Certainly the smiley was known in the days of typewriters. Sometime between 1960 and 1975, I read a short piece in the Readers Digest about typewriter symbols. The one that stuck in my mind was -) which they called the "tongue-in-cheek" symbol.
I suppose I'd better upgrade then. I could do with that extra 45kB of memory.
Spread the word: Linux is not ready for the desktop! Linux is not ready for the desktop! Linux is not ready for the desktop...
http://creativecommons.org/projects/founderscopyr
Disney does not appear to be one of its users.
If you pay the "Answer people", then you generally also need to charge the "Question people".
That's the model we use at paid Q&A site http://uclue.com/
The downside is: we're not in a position to take on more "Answer people" until we get a higher volume of paid questions.