I bought 4 1TB Seagate drives within the past month, and one certainly has failed within the first two weeks... I've sent it back for replacement and already got a shipping confirmation. So hey, at least their returns system is running smoothly...
It means that if a television station aired a public domain film, then the television station would hold all the rights to re-air that content for 50 years.
Theoretically, a Creative Commons-licensed podcast could be broadcast by a cable station, and then the creator would lose rights to rebroadcast the material on their own!
Why are we still depending on Diebold, when they have clearly failed in their task? Millions have been spent by our government already, investing in sub-par technology and untrustworthy coding.
When is the American public going to see a Linux-based open-source Souceforge project for voting? Something that can provide a paper trail and verifiable results. Don't you think that government officials (at least local ones) would be thrilled? "Oh, so, I can buy these Diebold boxes... or, I can run your software for free? Sign us up!"
Agreed on the project management tools. Wikis are an amazing tool for collaboration. I work in IT at a college, and I've got the student Help Desk staff developing an internal knowledge wiki. I couldn't recommend a wiki service more.
I'm also amazed that nobody has suggested a blogging service yet. Having blog.university.edu/user available to students and faculty would be great!
One of the first things that I was *very* excited to find on this facinating "World Wide Web" was the huge amount of user-submitted lyrics websites out there. Confused about what an artist was saying? Bam! You could figure it out with one or two quick searches.
Why the music industry has taken over ten years to get their act together on this little internet island of piracy is mindblowing! If they had jumped on this moneymaking bandwagon years ago, they could've been making tons of money on Official Lyrics Websites. Alas, as with P2P, they jumped into the game too late, and will now sue their way out of their hole.
I went to Tomb with a college class last year. The place was smaller than I had imagined, it only comprised of a few rooms with a handful of teamwork-centric puzzles in each. When running the "game" the moderators can increase or decrease the difficulty of the puzzles to accommodate various group sizes of 10-year-olds to older folk. While I think I would've been totally into it had I been either inebriated or 12 years old, it was a bit too cheezy to fully appreciate the experience as a college student.
Also, the gift shop comes off like an overpriced museums'. Overall, if you've got some cash to spend ($16-20 each) and a few laid-back friends in for an *archeological adventure*, go for it.
I don't think you quite understand the differences between Myspace & Facebook. I've used both, and I absolutely loathe Myspace at this point. I currently work at an educational institution, and the Facebook is amazingly widespread.
The way I see it, Myspace is like Frontpage or Geocities for the web of 1998. People are discovering how to "embed", "marquee", and rock out to their horrid animated gif background images. Finally people are saying "Hey, I have a website! Its at myspace.com/whatever!"
The Facebook is totally different. You cannot make your page play music, blink, or CSS the hell out of it. The Facebook is clean and extremely easy to navigate. The most interesting features in my mind are the following:
Bulk uploading of pictures - You can then tag them (by making boxes around people's faces) and later, you can search for that frat boy you've been wooing. You can then enjoy seeing him falling over drunk in 50 other people's photo galleries. At my particular school, the stats show that 1300 pictures have been uploaded today alone!
Pulse - This is simply an aggregator for everyone's favorite things (books, movies, etc). It functions like a stock exchange, and is updated daily. You can watch "Family Guy" move up the charts as more people add it as their favorite TV show. These kind of statistics (per school, no less) would be priceless to any marketing agency.
So sure, Myspace give you freedom to tinker with the ugly layout, but the Facebook revels in its simplicity and navigability. Its a well-built voluntary student directory, and it sure functions amazingly.
What about websites that are mainly donation-sponsored? What happens when Archive.org or Wikipedia can't afford to pay the telcos to "prioritize their traffic"? Those resources will be rendered useless, whereas ad-sponsored glitzy AOL-a-Pedia can hold strong.
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It gave me a reason to go to the UN website. I even poked around a little, and favorited the video of Olmos speaking on Youtube.
Its just advertising. What's wrong with that?
I bought 4 1TB Seagate drives within the past month, and one certainly has failed within the first two weeks... I've sent it back for replacement and already got a shipping confirmation. So hey, at least their returns system is running smoothly...
If anything, this keeps the aftermarket for used Mac laptops alive and spicy.
It means that if a television station aired a public domain film, then the television station would hold all the rights to re-air that content for 50 years.
Theoretically, a Creative Commons-licensed podcast could be broadcast by a cable station, and then the creator would lose rights to rebroadcast the material on their own!
More info via the EFF.
Why are we still depending on Diebold, when they have clearly failed in their task? Millions have been spent by our government already, investing in sub-par technology and untrustworthy coding.
When is the American public going to see a Linux-based open-source Souceforge project for voting? Something that can provide a paper trail and verifiable results. Don't you think that government officials (at least local ones) would be thrilled? "Oh, so, I can buy these Diebold boxes... or, I can run your software for free? Sign us up!"
Agreed on the project management tools. Wikis are an amazing tool for collaboration. I work in IT at a college, and I've got the student Help Desk staff developing an internal knowledge wiki. I couldn't recommend a wiki service more. I'm also amazed that nobody has suggested a blogging service yet. Having blog.university.edu/user available to students and faculty would be great!
One of the first things that I was *very* excited to find on this facinating "World Wide Web" was the huge amount of user-submitted lyrics websites out there. Confused about what an artist was saying? Bam! You could figure it out with one or two quick searches.
Why the music industry has taken over ten years to get their act together on this little internet island of piracy is mindblowing! If they had jumped on this moneymaking bandwagon years ago, they could've been making tons of money on Official Lyrics Websites. Alas, as with P2P, they jumped into the game too late, and will now sue their way out of their hole.
I went to Tomb with a college class last year. The place was smaller than I had imagined, it only comprised of a few rooms with a handful of teamwork-centric puzzles in each. When running the "game" the moderators can increase or decrease the difficulty of the puzzles to accommodate various group sizes of 10-year-olds to older folk. While I think I would've been totally into it had I been either inebriated or 12 years old, it was a bit too cheezy to fully appreciate the experience as a college student.
Also, the gift shop comes off like an overpriced museums'. Overall, if you've got some cash to spend ($16-20 each) and a few laid-back friends in for an *archeological adventure*, go for it.
Here's the official website: http://www.5-wits.com/
I don't think you quite understand the differences between Myspace & Facebook. I've used both, and I absolutely loathe Myspace at this point. I currently work at an educational institution, and the Facebook is amazingly widespread.
The way I see it, Myspace is like Frontpage or Geocities for the web of 1998. People are discovering how to "embed", "marquee", and rock out to their horrid animated gif background images. Finally people are saying "Hey, I have a website! Its at myspace.com/whatever!"
The Facebook is totally different. You cannot make your page play music, blink, or CSS the hell out of it. The Facebook is clean and extremely easy to navigate. The most interesting features in my mind are the following:
Bulk uploading of pictures - You can then tag them (by making boxes around people's faces) and later, you can search for that frat boy you've been wooing. You can then enjoy seeing him falling over drunk in 50 other people's photo galleries. At my particular school, the stats show that 1300 pictures have been uploaded today alone!
Pulse - This is simply an aggregator for everyone's favorite things (books, movies, etc). It functions like a stock exchange, and is updated daily. You can watch "Family Guy" move up the charts as more people add it as their favorite TV show. These kind of statistics (per school, no less) would be priceless to any marketing agency.
So sure, Myspace give you freedom to tinker with the ugly layout, but the Facebook revels in its simplicity and navigability. Its a well-built voluntary student directory, and it sure functions amazingly.
What about websites that are mainly donation-sponsored? What happens when Archive.org or Wikipedia can't afford to pay the telcos to "prioritize their traffic"? Those resources will be rendered useless, whereas ad-sponsored glitzy AOL-a-Pedia can hold strong.
The Telcos are just being greedy.