I think the big deal here is the large amount of change in the listing order. If the links used to feature all retailers on the first page and now none of them are appearing anymore all of a sudden, some sort of change is probably taking place in the ranking. I don't think he's complaining they're not retailers anymore so much as using it to prove his point that the results are somehow being filtered. It would be the same if the first page used to list all educational sites and were now all commercial.
The HWG (the HTML Writers Guild) merged with IWA (International Webmasters Association). More info at http://www.iwanet.org/ They have more than 100 chapters worldwide, offer classes online, certification, mailing lists, etc.
Specifically for University and College web developers there's UwebD They have a great mailing list
Pain no attention to the more than half of the non-constructive posts slamming your current profession. Unfortunately any mention of working with websites on/. seems to get you slews of comments about how you aren't a real tech and your job will be obsolete soon. At least you have a job, and probably a pretty interesting one.
The story didn't mention the company's bias towards one particular party. When I did a paper on electronic voting for a class earlier this year I found the company has strong Republican ties and the chief executive (Walden O'Dell) of the co. has personal connections to Bush/Cheney. The company donates almost exclusively to Republicans. O'Dell had a fundraiser at his house for Cheney which raised $500k earlier this year, has donated and raised money for the RNC and is a leader in Ohio with helping Bush with his re-election campaign. He's written in editorials on how he is committed to delivering votes to Bush. Normally I wouldn't complain on what a business person does in his free time, but with the business he's in I'm not sure that it's appropriate. And it really doesn't seem appropriate for the company itself to be this involved in politics.
I didn't realize until today that Salon has reported on this before.
This problem recently came up on a college and university web development list I belong to. Many of our schools sites are being blocked. Places in China will then mirror them, a problem in itself, but one that causes even more damage when their latest mirror is about 3 years old with completely out of date information.
Anyway, here were some links provided by the list about the issue (some are a little old I know):
Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman, Harvard Law School, November 2002 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/ "The authors are collecting data on the methods, scope, and depth of selective barriers to Internet access through Chinese networks. Tests from May 2002 through November 2002 indicate at least four distinct and independently operable methods of Internet filtering, with a documentable leap in filtering sophistication beginning in September 2002."
China's Cyberwall Nearly Concrete Michael Grebb, Wired, November 5, 2002 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56195,00.html "While the Great Wall no longer deters would-be invaders from entering China, experts... said the Chinese government continues to maintain a nearly rock-solid cyberwall. "
Software rams great firewall of China Paul Festa, CNET News.com, April 16, 2003 http://news.com.com/2100-1028-997101.html "The news and propaganda wing behind the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcasts has commissioned software that lets Chinese Web surfers sneak around the boundaries set by their government."
You fail to take into consideration that our productivity per hour is less than other countries. For the time they put in, many of these Western European countries are just as productive if not more than we are.
One quick link I found hopefully illustrates what I mean: http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/archives/e ntry/00 0450.html
Dotster has done a very good job for me in transfering domains from netsol. They offer an $8.95 transfer special and if you have the ability to approve the transfer yourself (if you are primary the contact in netsol's listings)it goes fairly quickly. If not, you just have to get a hold of the person who is the primary to make sure they approve the switch ASAP.
Our college just switched to the Dell Latitude D800 from IBM Think Pads and I must say they don't seem to be as durable. The keyboards are particularly a problem. I can't see them standing up to use by upper elementary or middle school age kids.
I read about this about a month ago on the BBC website in this article. It sounds pretty cool, seems like a good value for the money (same price as a game), and is easy to pickup and just play. According to a developer in the article:
"It draws in so many people that don't normally play video games," said EyeToy developer Ron Festejo, "within five to 10 seconds you know how to play."
I guess we'll really see after the Christmas season if it's going to take off here too.
Most of the time the answer is not a lot, but that it sometimes a lot easier/quicker to find the information you need in a book and you can bring it with you, say on a plane, to use when you don't have an internet connection. But hey, if you want to use Google for everything go right ahead.
Does the scaling maintain a copy of the larger image and just publish the smaller, scaled version to a web page? If so, it would seem you'd be using a lot more storage space than is necessary to keep that large image around. Probably not a problem in today's world of huge hard drives, unless your hosting limits you. It would be cool for scalable designs though.
It's got some good looking screenshots, and the link to http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/922/?topic_id=9 22 leads some to some pretty nice themes.
We will see Mario on PS3 and XBOX 2. I highly doubt it. Nintendo has said they will quit making games completely if they get out of the console market.
True, the/. crowd likes to complain about patents. And it's likely most of us don't know a lot about the patent process, or the legalities involved. Unfortunately in this case the jury was not made up of Professional Patent Examiners either. It was made up of people who probably have no clue about either the technology being used or the patent process. More than likely they did not raed the relevant U.S. codes, but got each lawyer's interpretation. I don't put a lot of faith in their decision, and I am waiting to see how the appeals play out.
My parents didn't let me get a system, so at about my senior year in HS I bought my own. I quickly figured out what kinds of games I liked. It turned out to be games with pretty defined goals. I often don't enjoy figuring things out in games - I want to know how the game is supposed to work and what I am supposed to do next. The only way I got through a few games was with my boyfriend, now husband, walking me through them at places. I can't say this is typical of all girls, but I know at least a few more like me. That's why you'll us playing games like Tetris. The goal there is pretty defined. No guessing that you collect certain items in a correct order, at a certain time on the clock, to get a door to open. I don't like fiddling around with things like that and if I can't figure it out, I'll quit.
Another thing that really affects which games I enjoy is that many of the 3-D games give me motion sickness. Some are done well enough that it is not a problem, but many are not. That cuts out a lot of the shooter style games, as well as driving games.
A tip to the guys out there trying to get their girlfriends to play (this should be obvious but it's not always) - don't convince us to play a game that you love and have played religiously, and then kick our butts. Continual losing when you don't even know what button does what yet does not make someone enjoy a game.
I don't think gaming really provides many dating opportunities on its own. In our case though, the fact that I enjoy games too helps our relationship. If your S/O is a non-gamer, they many really wonder whether that $300 you spent on the new console is worth it and/or envy the time you spend on the computer figuring out the latest RPG because that means you're not spending the time with them.
One thing BayTSP's spider programs don't do is sit at the Internet peering points sniffing all packets as they go by. "That would be wiretapping, which is illegal," he says. "All we do is go to the same places any user could go, look at the same files anyone else could look at, and we only probe the ports on your computer that you have made public."
The BBC article acts like this is some new big deal, but it's exactly the same thing they've been doing since at least September last year. I think they've spun the article to make it seem a lot worse than it is. Perhaps the only difference is that they have more clients demanding the info now, or that they've decided to prosecute people at a lower level of infringement?
...or some other drink with an artificial sweetener.
I agree and would encourage trying products that use Splenda as that artificial sweetner instead of Aspartame, which can cause health problems for some people. For me it was headaches. Diet Rite is the only soda I know of that has switched to Splenda so far, but there are other drinks out there with it in. They're adding it to lots of products all the time, especially ice cream treats.:)
Had Sakamura decided to charge even one cent to each user of TRON, he would easily be a dollar billionaire by now
What's a dollar billionaire? The term just struck me as odd. Does it just refer to the fact that they mean the billions would be in dollars instead of yen?
You forget that teeth can be stained by the color that occurs naturally in foods. The beta carotene found in food products can stain teeth even if you've never touched the things you mention above. Other foods cause staining as well. Brushing your teeth will not get rid of this staining. Your advice is good for those who want to keep health teeth, but it will not necessarily keep them white.
This isn't much help for software, but for web page designers there is a page that will allow you to see how your page looks to those who are colorblind. Color Blindness Check Unfortunately it requires IE5+ and Direct X to work.
Ahhh. You are referring to this story. GTA was behind having swords as weapons. Warriors of Freedom online is responsible for the rest.:-)
His dad is blaming movies instead of games. In further stories I've seen his dad comment that his son was just acting on what he's seen in some movie. It's Jack Thompson (the lawyer from Miami) who's blaming games, and he's notorious for it.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd point her towards Webmonkey for Kids. They have some really neat stuff to get her started.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids/
I think the big deal here is the large amount of change in the listing order. If the links used to feature all retailers on the first page and now none of them are appearing anymore all of a sudden, some sort of change is probably taking place in the ranking. I don't think he's complaining they're not retailers anymore so much as using it to prove his point that the results are somehow being filtered. It would be the same if the first page used to list all educational sites and were now all commercial.
The HWG (the HTML Writers Guild) merged with IWA (International Webmasters Association). More info at http://www.iwanet.org/ They have more than 100 chapters worldwide, offer classes online, certification, mailing lists, etc.
/. seems to get you slews of comments about how you aren't a real tech and your job will be obsolete soon. At least you have a job, and probably a pretty interesting one.
There's also WOW (World Organization of Webmasters)
They offer conferences, certification, etc.
Specifically for University and College web developers there's UwebD
They have a great mailing list
Pain no attention to the more than half of the non-constructive posts slamming your current profession. Unfortunately any mention of working with websites on
The two main Libertarian candidates:
Gary Nolan - Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3 on Solaris
Michael Badnarik - Apache on Linux
Check them out at http://www.garynolan.com and http://www.badnarik.org
The story didn't mention the company's bias towards one particular party. When I did a paper on electronic voting for a class earlier this year I found the company has strong Republican ties and the chief executive (Walden O'Dell) of the co. has personal connections to Bush/Cheney. The company donates almost exclusively to Republicans. O'Dell had a fundraiser at his house for Cheney which raised $500k earlier this year, has donated and raised money for the RNC and is a leader in Ohio with helping Bush with his re-election campaign. He's written in editorials on how he is committed to delivering votes to Bush. Normally I wouldn't complain on what a business person does in his free time, but with the business he's in I'm not sure that it's appropriate. And it really doesn't seem appropriate for the company itself to be this involved in politics.
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I didn't realize until today that Salon has reported on this before.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/09/23/be
Another good page summarizing
http://www.snarkcake.com/004339.html
This problem recently came up on a college and university web development list I belong to. Many of our schools sites are being blocked. Places in China will then mirror them, a problem in itself, but one that causes even more damage when their latest mirror is about 3 years old with completely out of date information.
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Anyway, here were some links provided by the list about the issue (some are a little old I know):
Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China
Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman, Harvard Law School, November 2002
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/
"The authors are collecting data on the methods, scope, and depth of selective barriers to Internet access through Chinese networks. Tests from May 2002 through November 2002 indicate at least four distinct and independently operable methods of Internet filtering, with a documentable leap in filtering sophistication beginning in September 2002."
China's Cyberwall Nearly Concrete
Michael Grebb, Wired, November 5, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56195,0
"While the Great Wall no longer deters would-be invaders from entering China, experts... said the Chinese government continues to maintain a nearly rock-solid cyberwall. "
Software rams great firewall of China
Paul Festa, CNET News.com, April 16, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1028-997101.html
"The news and propaganda wing behind the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcasts has commissioned software that lets Chinese Web surfers sneak around the boundaries set by their government."
This feature to save as only occurs in the newer versions of word. In some of the older versions you could download a little add-on called the Office HTML Filter that accomplished the same thing. It's available at:a milyid=209adbee-3fbd-482c-83b0-96fb79b74ded&displa ylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?f
You fail to take into consideration that our productivity per hour is less than other countries. For the time they put in, many of these Western European countries are just as productive if not more than we are.
e ntry/00 0450.html
One quick link I found hopefully illustrates what I mean:
http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/archives/
Dotster has done a very good job for me in transfering domains from netsol. They offer an $8.95 transfer special and if you have the ability to approve the transfer yourself (if you are primary the contact in netsol's listings)it goes fairly quickly. If not, you just have to get a hold of the person who is the primary to make sure they approve the switch ASAP.
Our college just switched to the Dell Latitude D800 from IBM Think Pads and I must say they don't seem to be as durable. The keyboards are particularly a problem. I can't see them standing up to use by upper elementary or middle school age kids.
I read about this about a month ago on the BBC website in this article. It sounds pretty cool, seems like a good value for the money (same price as a game), and is easy to pickup and just play. According to a developer in the article:
"It draws in so many people that don't normally play video games," said EyeToy developer Ron Festejo, "within five to 10 seconds you know how to play."
I guess we'll really see after the Christmas season if it's going to take off here too.
Most of the time the answer is not a lot, but that it sometimes a lot easier/quicker to find the information you need in a book and you can bring it with you, say on a plane, to use when you don't have an internet connection. But hey, if you want to use Google for everything go right ahead.
Does the scaling maintain a copy of the larger image and just publish the smaller, scaled version to a web page? If so, it would seem you'd be using a lot more storage space than is necessary to keep that large image around. Probably not a problem in today's world of huge hard drives, unless your hosting limits you. It would be cool for scalable designs though.
9 22 leads some to some pretty nice themes.
It's got some good looking screenshots, and the link to http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/922/?topic_id=
We will see Mario on PS3 and XBOX 2.
I highly doubt it. Nintendo has said they will quit making games completely if they get out of the console market.
Another good multiplayer game for the GC is Mario Party. Mario Pary 5 is going to be released November 11.
True, the /. crowd likes to complain about patents. And it's likely most of us don't know a lot about the patent process, or the legalities involved. Unfortunately in this case the jury was not made up of Professional Patent Examiners either. It was made up of people who probably have no clue about either the technology being used or the patent process. More than likely they did not raed the relevant U.S. codes, but got each lawyer's interpretation. I don't put a lot of faith in their decision, and I am waiting to see how the appeals play out.
That's my favorite as well. I don't think I'll be buying any of the winners...
My parents didn't let me get a system, so at about my senior year in HS I bought my own. I quickly figured out what kinds of games I liked. It turned out to be games with pretty defined goals. I often don't enjoy figuring things out in games - I want to know how the game is supposed to work and what I am supposed to do next. The only way I got through a few games was with my boyfriend, now husband, walking me through them at places. I can't say this is typical of all girls, but I know at least a few more like me. That's why you'll us playing games like Tetris. The goal there is pretty defined. No guessing that you collect certain items in a correct order, at a certain time on the clock, to get a door to open. I don't like fiddling around with things like that and if I can't figure it out, I'll quit.
Another thing that really affects which games I enjoy is that many of the 3-D games give me motion sickness. Some are done well enough that it is not a problem, but many are not. That cuts out a lot of the shooter style games, as well as driving games.
A tip to the guys out there trying to get their girlfriends to play (this should be obvious but it's not always) - don't convince us to play a game that you love and have played religiously, and then kick our butts. Continual losing when you don't even know what button does what yet does not make someone enjoy a game.
I don't think gaming really provides many dating opportunities on its own. In our case though, the fact that I enjoy games too helps our relationship. If your S/O is a non-gamer, they many really wonder whether that $300 you spent on the new console is worth it and/or envy the time you spend on the computer figuring out the latest RPG because that means you're not spending the time with them.
The NY Times had a story yesterday about how they will be abandoning their plans.
- PENT.html?ex=1060598562&ei=1&en=db62c44e2fbc6b 4a
The Pentagon's plan was met with astonishment and
derision almost from the moment it was disclosed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29WIRE
From this Sept. 2002 PBS article on BayTSP
One thing BayTSP's spider programs don't do is sit at the Internet peering points sniffing all packets as they go by. "That would be wiretapping, which is illegal," he says. "All we do is go to the same places any user could go, look at the same files anyone else could look at, and we only probe the ports on your computer that you have made public."
The BBC article acts like this is some new big deal, but it's exactly the same thing they've been doing since at least September last year. I think they've spun the article to make it seem a lot worse than it is. Perhaps the only difference is that they have more clients demanding the info now, or that they've decided to prosecute people at a lower level of infringement?
...or some other drink with an artificial sweetener.
:)
I agree and would encourage trying products that use Splenda as that artificial sweetner instead of Aspartame, which can cause health problems for some people. For me it was headaches. Diet Rite is the only soda I know of that has switched to Splenda so far, but there are other drinks out there with it in. They're adding it to lots of products all the time, especially ice cream treats.
Had Sakamura decided to charge even one cent to each user of TRON, he would easily be a dollar billionaire by now
What's a dollar billionaire? The term just struck me as odd. Does it just refer to the fact that they mean the billions would be in dollars instead of yen?
You forget that teeth can be stained by the color that occurs naturally in foods. The beta carotene found in food products can stain teeth even if you've never touched the things you mention above. Other foods cause staining as well. Brushing your teeth will not get rid of this staining. Your advice is good for those who want to keep health teeth, but it will not necessarily keep them white.
This isn't much help for software, but for web page designers there is a page that will allow you to see how your page looks to those who are colorblind. Color Blindness Check Unfortunately it requires IE5+ and Direct X to work.
Ahhh. You are referring to this story. GTA was behind having swords as weapons. Warriors of Freedom online is responsible for the rest. :-)
His dad is blaming movies instead of games. In further stories I've seen his dad comment that his son was just acting on what he's seen in some movie. It's Jack Thompson (the lawyer from Miami) who's blaming games, and he's notorious for it.