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The geneology is: Mozilla Compozer; SeaMonkey Composer; Nvu; KompoZer.
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/itd/tutorials/KompoZer/#startcontent

Linspire hired Daniel Glazman as lead developer on Nvu (and he pretty much did the whole effort).
A (German?) guy by the name of Kaze forked Nvu and he called that KompoZer.
Glazman has since moved on to other projects using more modern technologies.
The SeaMonkey team has been talking to Kaze and things look good for getting the KompoZer code into SeaMonkey Composer (or whatever it will be called) in the next iteration.

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It's fairly common usage in HPC circles, vis. NCSA to add 47 teraflops of compute power with new heterogeneous system

"DIY" and software do not appear together often enough.

I would teach them how to create their own personal "apps" using Squeak. Use Nebraska to collaborate and share in class. Look for a few techies to help.

To get stared, try Sugar on a Stick and look at Etoys, a specialized subset of Squeak. (You use Squeak to create Etoys.)

http://www.squeak.org/

http://squeakland.org/

http://www.sugarlabs.org/

Nebraska: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1356

Wider range of info: http://squeak.zwiki.org/SqueakNotes

A recent class at University of Illinois: https://agora.cs.illinois.edu/display/cs598rej/Spring+2009;jsessionid=3BA508D972A809064DC117DBDF7C36C8

You don't believe in evidence. There either is evidence supporting your claim, or there isn't.

I said "I believe there is evidence". I'm'a assume English isn't your first language (for now; more on that below) and explain that the phrase means "I'm not certain, but I think evidence has been found".

But since you're calling me out on it, I'll look at your links. Link the first:

This powerful combination of two studies presents persuasive evidence that violent video games do indeed increase aggression in some players.

Link the second:

Playing violent video games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D or Mortal Kombat can increase a person's aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior both in laboratory settings and in actual life, according to two studies appearing in the April issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Furthermore, violent video games may be more harmful than violent television and movies because they are interactive, very engrossing and require the player to identify with the aggressor, say the researchers.

Link the third:

After 40+ years of research, one might think that debate about media violence effects would be over. An historical examination of the research reveals that debate concerning whether such exposure is a significant risk factor for aggressive and violent behavior should have been over years ago (Bushman & Anderson, 2001). Four types of media violence studies provide converging evidence of such effects: laboratory experiments, field experiments, cross-sectional correlation studies, and longitudinal studies (Anderson & Bushman, 2002a; Bushman & Huesmann, 2000).

Link the fourth:

The link between anger and aggression is far from clear, and they would like to see similar results reproduced with other test groups and using different games and experimental setups. It's also worth noting that they attempted to measure a wide range of additional factors during their study, but many of these measurements produced statistically insignificant or contradictory results.

This is the first one that doesn't claim the connection is well-established, but it does find a causative link between aggressive behavior and violent media. It attempts to establish that there is an additional factor. Link the fifth:

After an average playtime of 56 hours over the course of a month with âoeAsheronâ(TM)s Call 2,â a popular MMRPG, or âoemassively multi-layer online role-playing game,â researchers found âoeno strong effects associated with aggression caused by this violent game,â said Dmitri Williams, the lead author of the study.

Teenagers experiencing 56 hours of fantasy violence over one month and then self-assessing their feelings. 'Nuff said, I hope. Link the sixth:

A brain mechanism that may link violent computer games with aggression has been discovered by researchers in the US. The work goes some way towards demonstrating a causal link between the two - rather than a simple association.

Link the seventh:

After an average playtime of 56 hours over the course of a month...

Same as five.

in the grand scheme of things, the loss of AM towers are the tiniest problems facing the nation right now.

It depends on where you live:

Hurricane season runs from the beginning of June to the end of November. The past several years have seen an overall increase in the quantity and intensity of hurricanes in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. In 2005, there were 28 named storms of which 15 became hurricanes. This proved to be the most active hurricane season in recorded history, causing billions of dollars in damage and resulting in thousands of fatalities. Hurricane Season - Know Before You Go

It depends on your profession:

WILL AM 580 Agricultural Broadcasting

Trucking Radio

If you want a monitor that can display useful information about thousands of nodes on a single display try clumon. We use it for our 1000+ node clusters. The software was developed in-house but is available under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License Copyright (noticeware). If you're just going to use this in-house, the license shouldn't be an issue.

You can see a sample clumon display of a working cluster at NCSA Linux Cluster Monitor.The clumon page for that cluster shows you each the job status of each individual node (if the node is colored, it has a job assigned), the load on the machine (the height of the line is proportional to the load, and red tips show loads over 1.0 per cpu) and the service status (green underline is ready, yellow/black stripes is offline, and red is unexpected offline/no comms). If you mouse-over a node, a status box pops up with more information on that specific node.

As this was designed for a cluster with the Torque resource manager, it won't be exactly what you need, but since you are willing to write a monitor from scratch, it might be a really useful starting point. Design-wise, this monitor allows the engineer or manager to see what's going on in general, with problem areas being immediately obvious, and without being overly cluttered.

The open source Performance Co-Pilot software runs on each node to collect information, which is polled by the central server. Back end is MySQL. The dynamic display is PHP.

Straightforward, useful and very configurable.

Personally I haven't seen any human without huge lapses in logic. Even atheists.

FWIW most people in general are detached from reality[1].

For example watch the following video and count the total number of times that the people wearing white pass the basketball. Do not count the passes made by the people wearing black:

http://viscog.beckman.illinois.edu/flashmovie/15.php

[1] Many wouldn't even see a gorilla in a video waving at them, because they are so busy with more important matters. Go figure.

Yes, as a technical question it's now easy for everyone to communicate with their public officials! But what exactly are these officials supposed to do with ten thousand poor-quality comments? Institute a Slashdot-style moderate system? A digg-style voting system? (Obama did actually try that last one.) Develop a new version of spam filter that is some sort of "shitty comment with no useful content" filter? It seems what they're trying here is exactly what the submitter criticizes, a "barrier to entry" filter, with the hope that people who bother to make a video about their idea at least have an idea they've thought through for 5 minutes. Looks like that may have failed, too, but I can't blame them for trying.

In a different context, Gerhard Fischer pointed out in 1996 something similar about the internet not being a magical solution for education:

The "Nobel Prize winner" myth: Every school child will have access to a Nobel Prize winner. --- This was one of the selling points for the information superhighway. While this argument is true (or will be true soon) at the level of technical connectivity, it is doubtful that Nobel Prize winners will look forward to getting a few thousand e-mail messages a day.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-- Robert Frost

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/fireice.htm
read the interesting comment by Tom Hansen, about the 3rd one down.

In my youth, 'twas no better place to write code than the middle of farm country, a thousand miles from home, and no hope of home until the job was done. Then, the promise of a meal at the amazing Arcola bowling alley, aka The French Embassy, crafted by Chef Jean-Louis http://will.illinois.edu/prairiefire/segment/pf1992-04-09-a/ a sublime motivator.

Now, place is not as important as time. The creative fruit comes when the time is ripe, until then, you plant seeds and nourish them.

This is just wrong... HAL was developed in Urbana, Illinois, most likely through research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sheesh.

2 - Republicans don't go to war more then Democrats. Both parties voted to go to war. People seem to forget that polls showed that US citizens, as well as many of the world supported going into Iraq immediately after 9/11 on a false premise that Saddam had ties to 9/11. Bush pushed for diplomacy and intel. That intel concluded that Saddam had no ties to 9/11. A warmonger strikes while the iron is hot, not pushes for diplomacy for a few more years.

I can't stand to see such blatant deception moderated so highly. Bush and his cabinet pushed for war, and manipulated intelligence to make it look more desirable. No one ever suggested that there was a link between Saddam and 9/11; rather, Bush's administration manipulated evidence to falsely suggest that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

You may be one of these people who pay attention to the facts. However, many Americans at the time didn't, and believed that Saddam was behind the attacks. See this article in Political Science and Politics, 2004.