Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult" or "unsafe" material or the like. This document explains why this is an ill considered idea from the legal, philosophical, and particularly, the technical points of view.
Steve replies that the Macs collectively will be started up hundreds of millions of times over their lifespans. So if we manage to reduce the boot time by ten seconds, that'll add up to decades of time saved amongst all the Mac users. That's the equivalent of saving the lives of one or more Mac users!
That is some of the fuzziest logic I've seen in a long time, and the new reason I hate bullshit motivational speeches by suits.
A few months ago I was working on a PHPmotion site that utilized libcaca and aalib, which both mplayer and vlc use to achieve this effect. I've been stalling on it to work on other, more important projects, but maybe I'll revive it now, since this might become popular...
If interested, take a look at the existing DHT systems. I'm looking into this kind of stuff for Foojbook, and I know it takes a ton of work to get it right, but as far as P2P filesharing goes there are a number of DHT implementations already.
Please, please, please, may this study never encourage more construction work in Connecticut, let alone at UConn. I have enough trouble getting to work as it is, and I don't think they'd pay attention to the study's conclusions anyway.
Whatever the case, this reminds me of this episode of Intervention, where there were definitely some serious mental health issues involved:
As her painkiller use escalated, she claimed that different sources were causing her pain, including electricity, energy, colors, and even specific people. Despite Linda's wild claims, her mother clings to the belief that Linda's pain is real and she must do everything to help her, including depleting the family's savings and sending her son to be Linda's caretaker.
On Sunday, I'll be releasing an alpha version of a LAMP "virtual appliance" that runs a customized WordPress MU/BuddyPress install I call Foojbook. The eventual hope is to get it running on devices like this, as Eben Moglen explains in the interview.
It'll also include Apache Shindig and the example Partuza social networking site that goes with it. BuddyPress doesn't yet support the OpenSocial stack (although it'll potentially be in the next release), so I'm including Shindig/Partuza just in case people want to hack away at that. You will be able to either install Foojbook via the.iso I'm releasing or run it inside a guest OS via QEMU, which I'll also bundle in a separate download targeted at thumbdrives.
I contacted Eben about a month ago about Foojbook, and I intend to be a part of the effort he's putting together. *However*, and I want to stress this, Foojbook is currently just an example of what's possible, and only allows you to set up a single profile for yourself...there is currently no sharing of data or any communication between separate Foojbook installs, since I don't know enough about network protocols and encryption to implement these pieces myself.
There is still a lot of work to be done and, if you're interested in helping out, please contact me.
Your attempts to spread linux to people that do not care enough to actually learn about it will backfire in your face... and annoy the hell out of the rest of us.
Cuz, um, having multitudes of Windows and Mac users that don't know the technical terminology is a good alternative? Let's just go back to the days of time-sharing systems in locked rooms because most users don't care about what's inside the shiny box on their desk or in their hands. Some users will learn about their systems, others won't, but that's no reason to keep FOSS software from the "unwashed masses". Why would we want to establish/reinforce a culture of technocrats vs. n00bs? Elitism is completely counter to the goals of free software, for reasons that should be obvious. And, btw, the Wikipedia article on ROM is just a click away thanks to a commitment to education and diffusion of information, not snobbery.
When I was a kid, I thought ROM was just a spaceknight, but I seem to have gotten past it...
Hey folks, can we please stop linking to previous Slashdot stories? When I click on the link "Futurama will be returning this year", I want to read the actual press release, or article, or whatever. I don't want to read last year's Slashdot dupe.
I actually read your post, then scrolled back up and clicked the link you were complaining about, as if I hadn't read your warning. Now I feel like today's/. dupe.
That video was made in what, 1985? And Windows sold for $99 according to the ad.
That Windows "ad" was an internally distributed Microsoft video that poked fun at Windows 1.0 for its lack of features and Ballmer for his um, Billy-Mays-ness. I guess the idea is "Look how far we've come!" or something.
IMO, Windows wasn't even usable until Windows for Workgroups, but that's besides the point.
Windows has gone down dramatically. Now, they've been labeled a monopoly in court, but they're pricing isn't that of a monopolist. Actually, they've given the consumer a really nice value.
Now, cue the MS haters who are going to accuse me of being an "apologist" and for being a "revisionist". Whatever. I just think it's an interesting micro economic case study.
The price of their product has nothing to do with whether or not they're a monopolist. In fact, Microsoft has been known to offer their product for nothing or next-to-nothing just for hegemony, which is exactly what you would expect from a monopolist. See the attempt to ruin the Mandriva/Nigeria deal a few years ago for an example...in economic terminology, such actions are called dumping.
Now, one reason the price of Windows has come down is because Windows is just a platform for Microsoft to lock users into their proprietary world, most importantly to sell MS Office (see this chart). Another reason is that the software-as-a-product model is dying, and everyone knows it.
Long-term, Microsoft can't compete with free software and the corporations whose business models are built around it. Expect the price of Windows to come down as the trend continues:)
That Apple "seal of approval" doesn't mean much as far as bugs go. The reaction of an iPhone app to a bug seems to be just crashing without giving feedback to the user, so it's tough to pinpoint problems.
At any rate, I think app stores are a hug step backwards from package management and repositories. There was some buzz about Canonical going the app store route with Ubuntu, I hope Red Hat's experience turns them away from that direction.
Seriously, we all know how cool Maemo is and how outdated Symbian is. More FOSS out in the wild is still a *good thing*. There are still millions of Symbian devices out there, and plenty of people who would like to hack/improve them. This seems similar to Netscape's move to open up their code, which ultimately gave us all that Mozilla goodness. So, you never know, this could turn out quite well for the FOSS community, even though we all know it's a desperate move and many of us aren't all that interested because we can get our hands on cooler toys.
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http://www.howmagnetswork.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferromagnetism#Explanation
...you insensitive clod!
This easy method of tethering has been around for at least a year for the iPhone 3.0 firmware, with profiles available for many countries.
What problems can't a nuclear explosion solve?
Erectile dysfunction?
...to his future website, wikipedia.xxx
Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult" or "unsafe" material or the like. This document explains why this is an ill considered idea from the legal, philosophical, and particularly, the technical points of view.
I found it neat that it had some decaying isotope
That isotope is the infamous polonium-210.
Steve replies that the Macs collectively will be started up hundreds of millions of times over their lifespans. So if we manage to reduce the boot time by ten seconds, that'll add up to decades of time saved amongst all the Mac users. That's the equivalent of saving the lives of one or more Mac users!
That is some of the fuzziest logic I've seen in a long time, and the new reason I hate bullshit motivational speeches by suits.
The answer to that question likely violates a patent or two.
We have a one party system
There, fixed that for ya.
Actually, everyone should check out ASCIImeo...he beat YouTube to the punch :P You can watch anything on Vimeo in ASCII on that site.
A few months ago I was working on a PHPmotion site that utilized libcaca and aalib, which both mplayer and vlc use to achieve this effect. I've been stalling on it to work on other, more important projects, but maybe I'll revive it now, since this might become popular...
If interested, take a look at the existing DHT systems. I'm looking into this kind of stuff for Foojbook, and I know it takes a ton of work to get it right, but as far as P2P filesharing goes there are a number of DHT implementations already.
Please, please, please, may this study never encourage more construction work in Connecticut, let alone at UConn. I have enough trouble getting to work as it is, and I don't think they'd pay attention to the study's conclusions anyway.
...but now it seems I have only a few decades to wait. Will these devices reach the required 1.21 gigawatts?
On Sunday, I'll be releasing an alpha version of a LAMP "virtual appliance" that runs a customized WordPress MU/BuddyPress install I call Foojbook. The eventual hope is to get it running on devices like this, as Eben Moglen explains in the interview.
.iso I'm releasing or run it inside a guest OS via QEMU, which I'll also bundle in a separate download targeted at thumbdrives.
It'll also include Apache Shindig and the example Partuza social networking site that goes with it. BuddyPress doesn't yet support the OpenSocial stack (although it'll potentially be in the next release), so I'm including Shindig/Partuza just in case people want to hack away at that. You will be able to either install Foojbook via the
I contacted Eben about a month ago about Foojbook, and I intend to be a part of the effort he's putting together. *However*, and I want to stress this, Foojbook is currently just an example of what's possible, and only allows you to set up a single profile for yourself...there is currently no sharing of data or any communication between separate Foojbook installs, since I don't know enough about network protocols and encryption to implement these pieces myself.
There is still a lot of work to be done and, if you're interested in helping out, please contact me.
Your attempts to spread linux to people that do not care enough to actually learn about it will backfire in your face... and annoy the hell out of the rest of us.
Cuz, um, having multitudes of Windows and Mac users that don't know the technical terminology is a good alternative? Let's just go back to the days of time-sharing systems in locked rooms because most users don't care about what's inside the shiny box on their desk or in their hands. Some users will learn about their systems, others won't, but that's no reason to keep FOSS software from the "unwashed masses". Why would we want to establish/reinforce a culture of technocrats vs. n00bs? Elitism is completely counter to the goals of free software, for reasons that should be obvious. And, btw, the Wikipedia article on ROM is just a click away thanks to a commitment to education and diffusion of information, not snobbery.
When I was a kid, I thought ROM was just a spaceknight, but I seem to have gotten past it...
Hey folks, can we please stop linking to previous Slashdot stories? When I click on the link "Futurama will be returning this year", I want to read the actual press release, or article, or whatever. I don't want to read last year's Slashdot dupe.
I actually read your post, then scrolled back up and clicked the link you were complaining about, as if I hadn't read your warning. Now I feel like today's /. dupe.
That video was made in what, 1985? And Windows sold for $99 according to the ad.
That Windows "ad" was an internally distributed Microsoft video that poked fun at Windows 1.0 for its lack of features and Ballmer for his um, Billy-Mays-ness. I guess the idea is "Look how far we've come!" or something.
IMO, Windows wasn't even usable until Windows for Workgroups, but that's besides the point.
Windows has gone down dramatically. Now, they've been labeled a monopoly in court, but they're pricing isn't that of a monopolist. Actually, they've given the consumer a really nice value.
Now, cue the MS haters who are going to accuse me of being an "apologist" and for being a "revisionist". Whatever. I just think it's an interesting micro economic case study.
The price of their product has nothing to do with whether or not they're a monopolist. In fact, Microsoft has been known to offer their product for nothing or next-to-nothing just for hegemony, which is exactly what you would expect from a monopolist. See the attempt to ruin the Mandriva/Nigeria deal a few years ago for an example...in economic terminology, such actions are called dumping.
:)
Now, one reason the price of Windows has come down is because Windows is just a platform for Microsoft to lock users into their proprietary world, most importantly to sell MS Office (see this chart). Another reason is that the software-as-a-product model is dying, and everyone knows it.
Long-term, Microsoft can't compete with free software and the corporations whose business models are built around it. Expect the price of Windows to come down as the trend continues
Take a look at these two screenshots:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Snow_Leopard_Desktop.png
http://static.arstechnica.com//ubnutu_light_2.jpg
'nuff said...
That Apple "seal of approval" doesn't mean much as far as bugs go. The reaction of an iPhone app to a bug seems to be just crashing without giving feedback to the user, so it's tough to pinpoint problems.
At any rate, I think app stores are a hug step backwards from package management and repositories. There was some buzz about Canonical going the app store route with Ubuntu, I hope Red Hat's experience turns them away from that direction.
Seriously, we all know how cool Maemo is and how outdated Symbian is. More FOSS out in the wild is still a *good thing*. There are still millions of Symbian devices out there, and plenty of people who would like to hack/improve them. This seems similar to Netscape's move to open up their code, which ultimately gave us all that Mozilla goodness. So, you never know, this could turn out quite well for the FOSS community, even though we all know it's a desperate move and many of us aren't all that interested because we can get our hands on cooler toys.
...the space cowboy who shot Greedo in self-defense ;)
I just can't see any insightful or interesting comments coming from this, much less the story itself.
And I don't mean that in any sort of disrespectful way. This just seems more suited to the "idle" section for its absurdity.
Well, y'know, there's no big news today...it's not like the OS that runs most mobile phones in the world was just released as free software...