Happens for me too :) .. Some days I seed what I want to dream about before sleeping (usually by watching a related genre movie).. I can go back to the same dream if interrupted for a few minutes (5-10).. not hours though... Once in the dream and after realizing that it is a dream - I can control most of the things (environment, flying, running on four legs etc) - though I keep moving in/out of that realization...sort of like inception... :)
Do you think this would have been averted if they took all the measures you are proposing ? There are no set guide lines here according to which the government is taking down stuff.. This is not DMCA related to create an process to take down stuff.. Even if they could not find the contact page, taking the whole website seems to be ridiculous thing to do.
I think things like this will make websites with user generated content to move away from .com domains and even move into countries where there is more due process to things like this.
I tried really hard to get used to DDG for an entire week. I changed my bookmarks to DDG, learned hashbang syntax etc.. But at the end of the week I just came to know how much more google does than DDG. I kept missing:
Auto complete (suggestions) - I tend to type a lot of things wrong, integrated image search and unfortunately some times quality of the results too..
I'm not saying every one has to stick with google.. just saying DDG isn't a viable alternative for most people used to google search (but its a lot better than bing)...
They use a proxy for that (though currently its not implemented properly - example: they are directly sending /background-image urls as /proxy/url("someimage") - so not loading). But I think this is a nice base to build on. All that needs to be done is render more css properties and send url("") for images properly.
I think the reason for this kind of slow evolution is lack of generic properties (like --surprise-- internet explorer's filters ) which lets developers push the boundaries on their own with in a reasonable limit. For example, support for border-radius, linear gradient, box shadow, text shadow etc all deal with rendering of elements at various levels. If there is a generic property which lets us control rendering and positioning of elements to a limited extent, the current evolution and standardization processes will be much less of a problem (I'm not saying internet explorer's filters are the way to go. But you have to give them credit for putting such a generic property in developer's hands).
While I do understand that there might be some complexity involved when dealing with payment gateways etc, 6 months sounds too long.. were you learning development on the way ? I'm honestly curious...
I found eaxyXDM to be well.. not so easy. Not in actual usage but it felt like too much of magic going around, which made me uncomfortable using it (what if some thing breaks and I'm not able to fix it..). I ended up using much more limited but much easier to understand code at this location:
http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/01/15/backwards-compatible-...
It uses postmessage for newer browsers and hash location trick for older browsers.
I think this is as good opportunity as taking on GoDaddy. It's not every year you get an opportunity to pull down people in power who work against those they were elected to serve. If Lamar Smith goes down, I bet proponents of future bills will be a tiny bit more careful about introducing one sided legislation like SOPA. Right now, there is not political penalty for those who does stuff like this.
Software patents are already not valid in India. So no patent on implementing one-click buying. On the other hand, no protection for mpeg family of protocols either.
Wow, so many people collaborated to make 3D printers affordable (http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap) sharing their knowledge freely, providing code, design, expertise without any thoughts about compensation. The first of them are just arriving and we already have the talks 'piracy'.
I'm betting that any start-up company that comes out with a truly usable home robot in US will go out of business within its first year of operation. If a tiny thermostat can infringe on 7 patents, imagine how many patents will 'infringed' upon by a fully functional robot. If the same environment that we have now existed in 1970's I doubt if apple-2 would have been released.
I found WebStorm useful too. Only problem is how slow it feels to be (after using visual studio for other development). Listing members of an object by typing a "." (dot) takes for ever. Also, it takes so much of RAM :(.
from the article:
"The fact that 17 of its student alumni and 14 of its faculty have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, and six of its alumni have won the prestigious Turing Award in computer science, surely says something about the institution and what it stands for. Despite its small size, Caltech was chosen by NASA to be the center for its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and in the past was a major venue for visiting scholars of the rank of Heisenberg, Einstein, Lorentz, and Bohr. In more recent times its undergraduate alumni have gone on to be founders or co-founders of such leading-edge American companies as Intel, TRW, Compaq, and Exploratorium."
I think its needlessly complex. Why do you need three screens to get email address, password and some data ? Also, since each screen simply asks for more fields, users will be frustrated. Of course, all this assuming users are going to signup by looking at two words : teamwork, reinvented.
Very true. I think the new money machine will be crowd sourcing. Recent statistics for kickstarter say that they funded nearly 100mil for projects in 2011. Out of which nearly half (50% in money) are media related (film/music/comics etc). People ignore crowd sourcing or discount its power, but we have to remember that crowd sourcing involves the whole world - thanks to the internet.
Killing the industry is not same as making all those people job less. It's just the equivalent of killing their business model. The artists and others who you are vigorously defending will just find creative work with the new companies (I don't see programmers suddenly becoming actors and directors). And frankly the way most of the artists get screwed by big studios, we would be doing them a favor by providing alternatives.
Is it possible to sign object code (.exe , .dll etc) with any SSL certificate that we buy ? or does this have to be mentioned clearly in the list of features of SSL certificate..