While Internet forums do fall under the region of "free speech", some of the things mentioned in the article are definitely illegal activities.
In scores of messages, the users disparage individuals by name or other personally identifying information. Some of the messages included false claims about sexual activity and diseases.
The chats sometimes include photos taken from women's Facebook pages, and in the Yale student's case, one person threatened to sexually violate her. Another participant claimed to be the student, making it appear that she was taking part in the iscussion.
Let's see, defamation, sexual harassment, threats, identity theft - how much do you need? It's one thing to troll, but a completely different thing to personally attack someone.
Would it be worthwhile to launch space missions from a lunar base? It would seem to me that because of the lower gravity you would need less power to reach escape velocity - or am I incorrect in this? That could be one potential bonus of going back to the moon.
how this all plays out. While the lower cost of natural gas sounds good, will it be offset by a lower efficiency? Are supplies of natural gas plentiful enough for a large-scale changeover? Will the oil tycoons simply create artificial scarcity to drive prices up, similarly to how they currently do with gasoline? How will the use of natural gas effect engines over extended use?
As someone else said, there is a lot of talk in the article, but no hard facts. For now, I have a lot of questions as to the long-term viability of natural gas as a fuel for automobiles.
While I expect an iPod equipped with 64GB of flash memory would be quite expensive, it is also the perfect market to lower the cost of SSD drives. Go Apple, go!
I just tried out the new Yahoo Mail Beta, and I must say it's very nice. It takes some of my favorite features about My Yahoo, and improves the email experience too. The only problems I have with it is that it is a little large and doesn't offer the same customization options as My Yahoo (yet).
I used My Yahoo for awhile, but eventually it just wasn't worth it to me. Now that they have some of the same functionality in the same pane as my email, though, I really like it.
All this to say, I won't be using Netvibes, and Yahoo is probably not in danger of giving up much of this market.
Why does everyone forget about http://search.yahoo.com/? Now, I haven't tested the memory usage for that page versus Google's home page, but it seems a lot closer to Google than just going to www.yahoo.com.
You have to remember, Yahoo's search engine is not its main focus anymore, so you should expect their homepage to reflect this.
Thankfully, Compaq quit doing this stuff afater around 97-98, probably because they realized it was a tech support nightmare. They may have stopped tying everything into the OS, but they definitely didn't stop bundling software. I was recently working on some Compaq PCs that had Compaq Organize pre-installed; that program alone took longer to boot than the OS.
The '100 million PS2s' comment is pretty misleading. Given PS2s hardware issues, even a *conservative* estimate would put it at more like 80 million *working* PS2s in the wild, and quite possibly less. I do agree with you, though, that Sony no longer has the exclusivity that it once did, and the field will probably look much more level in 10 years. It is unlikely that any console will EVER reach the relative success of the PS2. I could be wrong, though.
Adobe and Microsoft are both on the top of my 'Hated Companies' list. To see them go head-to-head is an interesting thing for me. I know that many people will disagree with me, but I quite honestly hate the PDF format. While I recognize that it has some conveniences, it is much larger than it needs to be, and the fact that you can only read and edit them with expensive proprietary software (which is also bulky) doesn't help. (I know that there are other PDF programs, but *most* people only know of Acrobat)
1) It wasn't automatic. IF it had merely been a feature that you could "turn on" it would have been ok.
2) It could be turned off. IF I could decide that I didn't want anyone to see my actions, it would have been fine.
3) It was flexible. IF I could decide exactly WHICH actions I wanted others to see (not by clicking the X in the mini-feed, that's a terrible way to censor, plus there is debate that it even works), and WHO I wanted to see them, I wouldn't have much of a problem with it. Similarly, if I could decide exactly what information I wanted to see on MY feed, it could have been far far far less cluttered.
As it stands, this is the worst Facebook upgrade ever, and will be subject to an imminent self-destruction (how do you think everyone who has joined the posted group so far found out about it? that's right, the News Feeds).
Also, the group I linked to is amazing. It is growing at nearly 1,000 members per minute. In a single day it has garnered one tenth the support of "The Largest Facebook Group Ever". Shows what happens when you ruin their beloved social networking site.
At what point does technological advancement become painful? When prices rise faster than my interest in the product. When large businesses want to take away my freedoms as a consumer (DRM). When the companies on top push technologies that we don't need just to make another buck.
This is why I'll stay away from Vista, HDTV, Blu-Ray, and PS3. When the large companies that push this tech wake up and remember that there is a CONSUMER behind the dollar signs (or when they collapse), then we'll see start seeing tech improvements we care about.
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Something tells me the 'poor results' had nothing to do with the water...
1. Port Starcraft
2. Profit!!!
You mean, he's not imaginary?
Works fine for me.
Hungry yet?
Apparently he was so busy using IM he forgot what he was going to write.
Would it be worthwhile to launch space missions from a lunar base? It would seem to me that because of the lower gravity you would need less power to reach escape velocity - or am I incorrect in this? That could be one potential bonus of going back to the moon.
how this all plays out. While the lower cost of natural gas sounds good, will it be offset by a lower efficiency? Are supplies of natural gas plentiful enough for a large-scale changeover? Will the oil tycoons simply create artificial scarcity to drive prices up, similarly to how they currently do with gasoline? How will the use of natural gas effect engines over extended use? As someone else said, there is a lot of talk in the article, but no hard facts. For now, I have a lot of questions as to the long-term viability of natural gas as a fuel for automobiles.
They are certainly not perfect, but it should give you some idea.
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http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid
Think about it. Which would you really rather have: having [almost] no choice in operating system, or having to use solely proprietary hardware?
While I expect an iPod equipped with 64GB of flash memory would be quite expensive, it is also the perfect market to lower the cost of SSD drives. Go Apple, go!
All of these groups didn't stick with MS: http://www.linux.org/info/linux_govt.html
I just tried out the new Yahoo Mail Beta, and I must say it's very nice. It takes some of my favorite features about My Yahoo, and improves the email experience too. The only problems I have with it is that it is a little large and doesn't offer the same customization options as My Yahoo (yet).
I used My Yahoo for awhile, but eventually it just wasn't worth it to me. Now that they have some of the same functionality in the same pane as my email, though, I really like it.
All this to say, I won't be using Netvibes, and Yahoo is probably not in danger of giving up much of this market.
Why does everyone forget about http://search.yahoo.com/? Now, I haven't tested the memory usage for that page versus Google's home page, but it seems a lot closer to Google than just going to www.yahoo.com.
You have to remember, Yahoo's search engine is not its main focus anymore, so you should expect their homepage to reflect this.
seeing the planets slowly aligning in Linux' favor?
OH CRAP!!!
There are a few engineering schools that focus on the experience. Kettering University (formerly GMI), where I am currently attending, is one of them.
I don't know about 13 gigapixels, but a 4 gigapixel camera already exists.m l
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,66498-0.ht
The '100 million PS2s' comment is pretty misleading. Given PS2s hardware issues, even a *conservative* estimate would put it at more like 80 million *working* PS2s in the wild, and quite possibly less. I do agree with you, though, that Sony no longer has the exclusivity that it once did, and the field will probably look much more level in 10 years. It is unlikely that any console will EVER reach the relative success of the PS2. I could be wrong, though.
Adobe and Microsoft are both on the top of my 'Hated Companies' list. To see them go head-to-head is an interesting thing for me. I know that many people will disagree with me, but I quite honestly hate the PDF format. While I recognize that it has some conveniences, it is much larger than it needs to be, and the fact that you can only read and edit them with expensive proprietary software (which is also bulky) doesn't help. (I know that there are other PDF programs, but *most* people only know of Acrobat)
It's the implementation. As I posted at http://kettering.facebook.com/group.php?gid=220828 8769, I wouldn't have a problem with the news feeds IF:
1) It wasn't automatic. IF it had merely been a feature that you could "turn on" it would have been ok.
2) It could be turned off. IF I could decide that I didn't want anyone to see my actions, it would have been fine.
3) It was flexible. IF I could decide exactly WHICH actions I wanted others to see (not by clicking the X in the mini-feed, that's a terrible way to censor, plus there is debate that it even works), and WHO I wanted to see them, I wouldn't have much of a problem with it. Similarly, if I could decide exactly what information I wanted to see on MY feed, it could have been far far far less cluttered.
As it stands, this is the worst Facebook upgrade ever, and will be subject to an imminent self-destruction (how do you think everyone who has joined the posted group so far found out about it? that's right, the News Feeds).
Also, the group I linked to is amazing. It is growing at nearly 1,000 members per minute. In a single day it has garnered one tenth the support of "The Largest Facebook Group Ever". Shows what happens when you ruin their beloved social networking site.
I can't believe nobody simply checked. http://www.google.biz/ redirects, as does http://www.google.info/, but http://www.google.org/ is a page about the philanthropic arm of Google (it's still owned by Google).
Of course a company like Google would take pains to protect their brand name. It'd be stupid to think otherwise.
At what point does technological advancement become painful? When prices rise faster than my interest in the product. When large businesses want to take away my freedoms as a consumer (DRM). When the companies on top push technologies that we don't need just to make another buck.
This is why I'll stay away from Vista, HDTV, Blu-Ray, and PS3. When the large companies that push this tech wake up and remember that there is a CONSUMER behind the dollar signs (or when they collapse), then we'll see start seeing tech improvements we care about.