What killed copyrights was not a P2P software, nor Napster, nor Kazaa.
What killed them were:
1) Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v or more prosaic "Copy" and "paste"
2) To download click here.
Making something easy is making it possible.
Giving the right buttons is making it feasible.
Talking about it, is making it alluring.
Forbidding it, is making it more inviting.
Monday, February 28, 2005
The consistency of Bill Gates
It looks like Bill Gates has redefined the term, “the pot calling the kettle black”. Yup, good ol Bill has declared that high school is obsolete. At a high school summit, Bill was quoted as saying:
“America’s high schools are obsolete, By obsolete, I don’t just mean that they’re broken, flawed or under funded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools - even when they’re working as designed - cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.”
The first thing that came to my mind, in reading this story, is how ironic Bill is by talking about things being ‘obsolete’. I know, I know, most of you out there are totally dependant on Windows, which in itself, should be in the dictionary next to the word ‘obsolete’. Most normal Americans are a part of the large desperate flock that Bill Gates himself has helped to build, based on poor programming, shady business practices, and lovely little blue screens. Bill himself dropped out of college, so my real question is, what kind of example is Microsoft leaving for all these children?
http://www.pentecostblog.com
This whole society smells of mediocrity and stinks of stupidity.
I wonder someone like Bill Gates complains about high schools being obsolete. He is the one (not the only one) to take advantage out of it.
We say “do not spit in the soup you eat”.
If schools were better, then people would be more cultured and would automatically be more sophisticated consumers.
On the contrary, this society has to grow sick people (brainwashed) in order to have a healty economy.
Who would pay for Windows when able to use Linux? Or better, who wouldn’t be able to produce something better?
The fact is: we have the society we deserve.
And also we have the OS we deserve.
As simple as sad as that.
Patrizia
This is not Bill Gates, indeed it isn't, it's a painting of Bill Gates, or to be more accurate, the picture shown here is a photograph of a painting , or even more precisely, the reproduction of a photograph transferred off a printing plate by small inked dots.
Now i'm into this analysis I might as well keep going on, because what you really see is an upside down image flipped left to right on the back of your retina, an electrochemical hallucination in the head.
“America’s high schools are obsolete, By obsolete, I don’t just mean that they’re broken, flawed or under funded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools - even when they’re working as designed - cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.”
The first thing that came to my mind, in reading this story, is how ironic Bill is by talking about things being ‘obsolete’. I know, I know, most of you out there are totally dependant on Windows, which in itself, should be in the dictionary next to the word ‘obsolete’. Most normal Americans are a part of the large desperate flock that Bill Gates himself has helped to build, based on poor programming, shady business practices, and lovely little blue screens. Bill himself dropped out of college, so my real question is, what kind of example is Microsoft leaving for all these children?
http://www.pentecostblog.com
This whole society smells of mediocrity and stinks of stupidity.
I wonder someone like Bill Gates complains about high schools being obsolete. He is the one (not the only one) to take advantage out of it.
We say “do not spit in the soup you eat”.
If schools were better, then people would be more cultured and would automatically be more sophisticated consumers.
On the contrary, this society has to grow sick people (brainwashed) in order to have a healty economy.
Who would pay for Windows when able to use Linux? Or better, who wouldn’t be able to produce something better?
The fact is: we have the society we deserve.
And also we have the OS we deserve.
As simple as sad as that.
Patrizia
This is not Bill Gates, indeed it isn't, it's a painting of Bill Gates, or to be more accurate, the picture shown here is a photograph of a painting , or even more precisely, the reproduction of a photograph transferred off a printing plate by small inked dots.
Now i'm into this analysis I might as well keep going on, because what you really see is an upside down image flipped left to right on the back of your retina, an electrochemical hallucination in the head.
Saturday, February 26, 2005
What does VoIP need to be the Best Solution?
It must offer the same functions or something better, and the same quality of the current PSTN, of course at a lower cost.
The main functions are:
Signaling
Database services
Call connect and disconnect
Codec operations.
Signaling
All devices must communicate in the Network and for doing so they need to cohordinate their components in order to make a call.
In the PSTN for doing so, we use Switches, in the VoIP world the messages are exchanged using standard protocols (SIP, H323, MGCP...)
Database Services
Under this name we list all the features related to regulation of the funcionality of the endpoints.
This can include the billing services, the network security, the calls control.
In the H323 enviroment this is done by a so called Gatekeeper.
Call Connect and disconnect
In the PSTN Network, switches connect the two endpoints in a dedicated channel.
In the VoIP world this connection is a multimedia stream (can be audio, video or both) transported in real time.
The voice is packetized and follows the stream of the Internet passively, sharing a channel.
Every packet has a target and an address and in the case of H323 has a prioritation on the data packets.
Codec Operations
The Network needs a way to convert the voice in a format that can be transported and streamed.
The process to convert voice waves into packets is done with a coder-decoder.
The main functions are:
Signaling
Database services
Call connect and disconnect
Codec operations.
Signaling
All devices must communicate in the Network and for doing so they need to cohordinate their components in order to make a call.
In the PSTN for doing so, we use Switches, in the VoIP world the messages are exchanged using standard protocols (SIP, H323, MGCP...)
Database Services
Under this name we list all the features related to regulation of the funcionality of the endpoints.
This can include the billing services, the network security, the calls control.
In the H323 enviroment this is done by a so called Gatekeeper.
Call Connect and disconnect
In the PSTN Network, switches connect the two endpoints in a dedicated channel.
In the VoIP world this connection is a multimedia stream (can be audio, video or both) transported in real time.
The voice is packetized and follows the stream of the Internet passively, sharing a channel.
Every packet has a target and an address and in the case of H323 has a prioritation on the data packets.
Codec Operations
The Network needs a way to convert the voice in a format that can be transported and streamed.
The process to convert voice waves into packets is done with a coder-decoder.
Friday, February 25, 2005
These ants...
The uncanny sense of purpose and direction of the ants is not apparent in the individual, nor does the group have any discernible hierarchy.
Evidently ants have a collective intelligence which acts in much the same way as cells in the human brain.
That is to say the whole is greater than its individual parts.
Indeed ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment.
They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly.
They do everything but watch television...
Evidently ants have a collective intelligence which acts in much the same way as cells in the human brain.
That is to say the whole is greater than its individual parts.
Indeed ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment.
They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly.
They do everything but watch television...
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Machine Intelligence
During the 1940s Alan Turing envisaged that by the turn of the century humans would have conversations with computers.
He was optimistic. Nevertheless fifty years later there was some kind of dialogue restricted to a single topic.
Person:
Have you ever had a dry Martini?
Computer:
I drink one before dinner, sometimes during dinner. I don't like Martinis after dinner.
Person:
What about wines?
Computer:
Mostly I drink relatively young burgundies, of modest fame, such as Savigny-les-Beaunes and Pernand-Vergilesses.
If this really was machine intelligence, then it is a pretentious mechanical snob...
He was optimistic. Nevertheless fifty years later there was some kind of dialogue restricted to a single topic.
Person:
Have you ever had a dry Martini?
Computer:
I drink one before dinner, sometimes during dinner. I don't like Martinis after dinner.
Person:
What about wines?
Computer:
Mostly I drink relatively young burgundies, of modest fame, such as Savigny-les-Beaunes and Pernand-Vergilesses.
If this really was machine intelligence, then it is a pretentious mechanical snob...
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