I just tried it in both Firefox and IE. It looks great (sounds good too) and it loads really quickly! I hope sites start switching to this rather than using real media or WMV streams for windows media player.
Like you I don't agree with Jimmy Wales that Wikipedia is going to destroy encyclopedias. Wikis have an incredible asset in that anyone can edit them, but this asset creates difficult inherent problems. You cannot always trust what is written in a Wiki and they are open for acts of vandalism. Wikipedia, even if it has not already, is going to suffer from the same large scale vandalism problems that the general internet does. Virus writers, script kiddies etc etc.
However I don't agree with your assertion that Wikis are eventually going to die off. I think that Wikis in their current form are most useful to smaller groups of people where there is a high level of trust. Wikis of this size will never die out and have found a good niche. On the other hand Wikis that grow large enough will have to develop tradeoffs between ease of editing and ease of control (just as slashdot has). I believe that some of these measures may be more extreme than what Jimmy is suggesting eg. having known experts be willing to certify a particular version of a wiki page. Only time and experimentation will tell us what the acceptable tradeoff is, but the basic premise of the wiki is too good for it to die out.
1. I'll Google search for articles about it... wait.. damn! 2. Maybe someone on usenet has posted, I'll just sear.. damn! 3. Crap someone else has already posted to slashdot, well at least I can post the google cach.. damn! 4. How do you spell cache anyway? I'll just goog.. damn! 5. Fine I'll just go image search for some pr0n.. damn!
This is a pretty damn good hoax. I bet the real news sites start picking up on it as something real very soon.
It has enough technical information to sound real, but there are just so many sections where it just doesn't quite make sense what they are saying...:)
As it says in the article it allows for ADSL speeds at distances > 1km and only reaches the fast speeds at 1km. Doesn't seem all that great to me. You still need your network provider to have a very fat pipe coming to within 1km (probably less) of your home. Which is not the case for most people.
"UDSL provides a middle ground, according to Chow. Because the technology is compatible with both ADSL and VDSL standards, it adheres to requirements of both technologies. For example, at distances greater than 1 kilometer, it provides an ADSL-like service with ADSL data rates. But at shorter distances, it can provide VDSL-like service with data rates that match or exceed VDSL. In some instances, Chow claims, a UDSL service could provide up to 200mbps of bandwidth. This is four times as much bandwidth as is currently available through VDSL services. "
That's not true, you don't have to pay money to be in the yellow pages, it's free. In fact I believe they actually query several sources to get their information.
If you want to put an advertisement in there though you have to pay.
I'd have to say that most of these services are already way behind. Check out Verizon's map based search (as mentioned). They have a Java and HTML version.
The Java version I've linked rocks. I've used it to find all of the sushi places within driving distances of my place:)
Drunk driving is such a large problem that I think this would be a good idea if it was implemented correctly and works reliably.
The biggest problems I see: 1. Someone else could blow into the tube. However, then this person should be legally liable for the consequences. 2. So you want to start your car quickly for some reason in an emergency, well now you can't. It would need an emergency override, but then that defeats the whole purpose of the system!
Perhaps a good solution is to force car manufacturers to provide a breathalyzer with the car but not to use an ignition lock. Although I can't really see a drunk person paying any attention to a breathalyzer.
How does it work with the time difference between the US and India. An Indian friend of mine has told me that this makes for some interesting working hours.
I'm holding out on the slashdot subscription until they start providing what I want, read access to the submission queue. I know that there are lots of problems to be solved before that can be offered (more trolling of the submission queue etc.) but I think it is worth solving those problems to give us access to it (ala fark).
I wonder about this sort of a solution in the long term though? The team that I work for wrote their own framework a while back and since that time has grown and had signficant turnover. Sure everything is fine when the original members of the team are there that have inside out knowledge of the framework that they wrote, but when they leave then you tend to lose a lot of that knowledge. This can be solved by good documentation, but at least in our project that didn't happen and I can't see it happening in many other projects either.
One of the benefits of going with a well known framework like struts is that there is a lot of documentation and knowledge out there about it. Lots of books, user groups and other people that have a lot of knowledge about it. This sort of common experience with a framework makes it easier to grow a project and to bring new people on.
Are there any of these services that are MP3? I'd really like to use one of these services but I tried pressplay and I *couldn't* listen to my downloaded music after I finished my subscription! That and having restrictions on moving my music around is a pain in the ass.
Personally I think that the superpages.com map based search is the best thing since sliced bread, I use it extensively to find businesses near me. The google search and the superpages search are different attacks at the same problem, I think that they complement each other well, but the superpages search is likely to turn up more information..
Sure they can build this network but it seems to me that any company then using this network to send spam would be easily traceable and easy to prosecute? Traceable because they need to put some sort of contact info in their to sell their product and prosecutable because they are using a network of compromised machines to send their spam?
Brew is far too tightly locked down by qualcomm. It makes releasing an application for the phones impossible for smaller developers and it will kill the market.
J2ME phones all the way, there are much better apps available.
I am a fan of the cyberpunk genre in general and enjoyed the Gibson books too.
Somewhat along those lines I would highly reccomend "The Risen Empire" by Scott Westerfield. It is not cyberpunk directly, it is sci-fi, but with some very cool technologies and gadgets:) He has some really interesting ideas for nanotechnolgy. Check it out:
The Risen Empire
Could you explain what you mean by "you understand one implementation of an interface, not the abstract contract of the interface"? I'm not sure what you are getting at there..
I also spent many hours deciphering the complicated way that JUnit goes about things so that I could extend it to do what I wanted. In the end it turned out that I could do it (adding a method of timing only certain parts of each test in a generic way) relatively easily but it took many hours of head scratching to understand the framework. JUnit is very flexible, but the code is a bitch to understand:)
Overall though it seems like mostly a documentation issue, not a design issue. Good documentation for the internals of JUnit is pretty non-existent from what I could find. I discovered a lot mostly from examining other JUnit extensions. With some good documentation on JUnit internals and documentation on the internal flow of operations I think I could have hugely cut down on the time I needed to figure out where to plug in. I would be willing to take a crack at this documentation, but I am *definitely* not the best person to do it:) However if anyone else is interested I would be willing to give it a go?
Slashdot Mirror
I just tried it in both Firefox and IE. It looks great (sounds good too) and it loads really quickly! I hope sites start switching to this rather than using real media or WMV streams for windows media player.
Yup, that's what happened. It shot up.
Like you I don't agree with Jimmy Wales that Wikipedia is going to destroy encyclopedias. Wikis have an incredible asset in that anyone can edit them, but this asset creates difficult inherent problems. You cannot always trust what is written in a Wiki and they are open for acts of vandalism. Wikipedia, even if it has not already, is going to suffer from the same large scale vandalism problems that the general internet does. Virus writers, script kiddies etc etc.
However I don't agree with your assertion that Wikis are eventually going to die off. I think that Wikis in their current form are most useful to smaller groups of people where there is a high level of trust. Wikis of this size will never die out and have found a good niche. On the other hand Wikis that grow large enough will have to develop tradeoffs between ease of editing and ease of control (just as slashdot has). I believe that some of these measures may be more extreme than what Jimmy is suggesting eg. having known experts be willing to certify a particular version of a wiki page. Only time and experimentation will tell us what the acceptable tradeoff is, but the basic premise of the wiki is too good for it to die out.
Google is down! Quick, must post to slashdot.
1. I'll Google search for articles about it... wait.. damn!
2. Maybe someone on usenet has posted, I'll just sear.. damn!
3. Crap someone else has already posted to slashdot, well at least I can post the google cach.. damn!
4. How do you spell cache anyway? I'll just goog.. damn!
5. Fine I'll just go image search for some pr0n.. damn!
A small taste of life without google...
http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/r elease.vtml?id=86053&PROACTIVE_ID=cecdcacdc7cdcbc6 cdc5cecfcfcfc5cececacccccac9c8cfc8c5cf
/2 Mbps up for $34.95 a month as part of a calling package or $39.95 a month stand-alone.
5 Mbps down
15 Mbps down/2 Mbps up for $44.95 a month as part of a calling package or $49.95 a month stand-alone.
30 Mbps down/5 Mbps up , pricing will be announced at a later date.
Next stops on the rollout after Keller, TX (which is already rolled out) are Huntington beach, CA and Tampa, FL.
So how long until they can give us 30 minute flights across the atlantic? :)
This is a pretty damn good hoax. I bet the real news sites start picking up on it as something real very soon.
:)
It has enough technical information to sound real, but there are just so many sections where it just doesn't quite make sense what they are saying...
Put a diffraction grating on the front of your gun, instant spread fire gun :)
As it says in the article it allows for ADSL speeds at distances > 1km and only reaches the fast speeds at 1km. Doesn't seem all that great to me. You still need your network provider to have a very fat pipe coming to within 1km (probably less) of your home. Which is not the case for most people.
"UDSL provides a middle ground, according to Chow. Because the technology is compatible with both ADSL and VDSL standards, it adheres to requirements of both technologies. For example, at distances greater than 1 kilometer, it provides an ADSL-like service with ADSL data rates. But at shorter distances, it can provide VDSL-like service with data rates that match or exceed VDSL. In some instances, Chow claims, a UDSL service could provide up to 200mbps of bandwidth. This is four times as much bandwidth as is currently available through VDSL services. "
That's not true, you don't have to pay money to be in the yellow pages, it's free. In fact I believe they actually query several sources to get their information .
If you want to put an advertisement in there though you have to pay.
Listing in the yellow pages
Did you make the search area wide enough for Verizon? For my areas (Boston, NYC) it is pretty accurate in the data it has.
I'd have to say that most of these services are already way behind. Check out Verizon's map based search (as mentioned). They have a Java and HTML version.
:)
The Java version I've linked rocks. I've used it to find all of the sushi places within driving distances of my place
Verizon Map Based Search
Drunk driving is such a large problem that I think this would be a good idea if it was implemented correctly and works reliably.
The biggest problems I see:
1. Someone else could blow into the tube. However, then this person should be legally liable for the consequences.
2. So you want to start your car quickly for some reason in an emergency, well now you can't. It would need an emergency override, but then that defeats the whole purpose of the system!
Perhaps a good solution is to force car manufacturers to provide a breathalyzer with the car but not to use an ignition lock. Although I can't really see a drunk person paying any attention to a breathalyzer.
How does it work with the time difference between the US and India. An Indian friend of mine has told me that this makes for some interesting working hours.
I'm holding out on the slashdot subscription until they start providing what I want, read access to the submission queue. I know that there are lots of problems to be solved before that can be offered (more trolling of the submission queue etc.) but I think it is worth solving those problems to give us access to it (ala fark).
I wonder about this sort of a solution in the long term though? The team that I work for wrote their own framework a while back and since that time has grown and had signficant turnover. Sure everything is fine when the original members of the team are there that have inside out knowledge of the framework that they wrote, but when they leave then you tend to lose a lot of that knowledge. This can be solved by good documentation, but at least in our project that didn't happen and I can't see it happening in many other projects either.
One of the benefits of going with a well known framework like struts is that there is a lot of documentation and knowledge out there about it. Lots of books, user groups and other people that have a lot of knowledge about it. This sort of common experience with a framework makes it easier to grow a project and to bring new people on.
Are there any of these services that are MP3? I'd really like to use one of these services but I tried pressplay and I *couldn't* listen to my downloaded music after I finished my subscription! That and having restrictions on moving my music around is a pain in the ass.
Personally I think that the superpages.com map based search is the best thing since sliced bread, I use it extensively to find businesses near me. The google search and the superpages search are different attacks at the same problem, I think that they complement each other well, but the superpages search is likely to turn up more information..
Superpages map search
Sure they can build this network but it seems to me that any company then using this network to send spam would be easily traceable and easy to prosecute? Traceable because they need to put some sort of contact info in their to sell their product and prosecutable because they are using a network of compromised machines to send their spam?
Brew is far too tightly locked down by qualcomm. It makes releasing an application for the phones impossible for smaller developers and it will kill the market.
J2ME phones all the way, there are much better apps available.
Somewhat along those lines I would highly reccomend "The Risen Empire" by Scott Westerfield. It is not cyberpunk directly, it is sci-fi, but with some very cool technologies and gadgets :) He has some really interesting ideas for nanotechnolgy. Check it out:
The Risen Empire
Could you explain what you mean by "you understand one implementation of an interface, not the abstract contract of the interface"? I'm not sure what you are getting at there..
Overall though it seems like mostly a documentation issue, not a design issue. Good documentation for the internals of JUnit is pretty non-existent from what I could find. I discovered a lot mostly from examining other JUnit extensions. With some good documentation on JUnit internals and documentation on the internal flow of operations I think I could have hugely cut down on the time I needed to figure out where to plug in. I would be willing to take a crack at this documentation, but I am *definitely* not the best person to do it :) However if anyone else is interested I would be willing to give it a go?
This was a really neat project, a great combination of hacks! The writeup is great too, some serious effort went into that.
:)
Since I see that you are reading the comments:
What was the total cost of the project?
At the beginning you said that you would call the FAA NOTAM when you were going to make the launch, did you make that call? If so what did they say?
Could you post that analysis to this thread please..
thanks.