I live in Waterloo, and have many friends who work/worked there.
Before people think that an acquisition by the founder would save the company, please read the following in depth article: How Blackberry blew it: the inside story.
While Apple and Google were building an ecosystem of developers writing thousands of apps, and a central repository for those apps, Lazarides was still focusing on battery life and a physical keyboard, and failed to see why Apple and Google were becoming so popular.
Blackberry is resigned to the fate of being #4 platform for mobile, after Google, Apple, and yes, Microsoft, with low single digit market share after being #1 before smart phones with touch screens and app store/markets.
It is not a guarantee for success, but a guarantee that you can blame and sue a large entity if needed, after you say that you selected the best bidder...
Same for Strawberries in Egypt in the last quarter of the 20th century. The cultivar that was used initially was so sweet and fragrant, but did not keep well in the heat of Egypt and could not withstand transportation with heavy loss. Enter the current cultivar: much bigger fruits that look better, significantly harder, and almost tasteless, like the ones you find in the USA/Canada supermarkets. The older cultivar vanished in a year or two.
I have been using Tiny Tiny RSS since March, ever since Google announced they are discontinuing Reader.
It works well, and close enough to Reader. Imported my RSS without issues.
Once issue I am facing is that the session times out a couple of times per day.
This is despite having the following settings in config.php:
define('SESSION_COOKIE_LIFETIME', 86400*365);// Default lifetime of a session (e.g. login) cookie. In seconds,// 0 means cookie will be deleted when browser closes.
define('SESSION_EXPIRE_TIME', 86400*365);// Hard expiration limit for sessions. Should be// greater or equal to SESSION_COOKIE_LIFETIME
Agree about the one about interest, that some schemes are made to not look like interest, but underlying it it is almost the same.
The part about some Saudis drinking and gambling is not circumventing the laws but staying within their letter. This is mere hypocrisy: conformity to social pressures, and indulging when no one is around. They are not pretending that what they do is within Islamic law, they just don't adhere to it at all. The same happens elsewhere. A Dutch friend from an old Protestant order tells me about whole villages where TV is banned, and of course adultry, while elders go to Amsterdam to enjoy the sin of the flesh, and have curtains so no one can look into their home and see them watching TV. This is different. They don't pretend this is lawful.
Agree about human nature. It only takes a few out for themselves to spoil it for the rest.
- The Eruv system, where on the Sabbath it is forbidden to carry stuff from one place to another unless it is an enclosed farm or something. So a wire is set up on utility posts to encircle the whole city, and therefore observant Jews can move stuff from one place to the other. This is implemented in several major cities in the USA.
- The seventh year farmland must be fallow rule (Shmita). Land owned by Jews in Israel is sold on paper to Palestinians using an intermediary lawyer, so it can be farmed and harvested that year, then at the end of the year, the ownership is transferred back to the original Jew.
- Jewish restaurants in Budapest serve patrons on Saturday, but you have to come a day earlier and pay in advance.
Yes, similar "juristic tricks" are in other religions. For example, some were developed centuries ago in Islam (called just that Hiyal: tricks, loopholes) to circumvent certain laws, and several authors have written against them condemning the practice.
In practice, I have seen the many terror plots that go to court and get convictions are mostly from disaffected lost youth who trash talk, like you said, but the FBI prods them into a plot that they would not have done if left on their own. See FBI manufacturing terrorism
And this is not unique to the USA either. Up here in Canada, there is a case that looks to me as entrapment. The perpetrators would have never took action on their own, had it not been a government informant been egging them on all the time. See Thoughts on the May 2006 terrorism arests in Canada
Is that Ubuntu's problem that people just upgrade? Perhaps they should default to LTS and require people to override it explicitly. File a bug for that.
Not sure whether it is better engineered or whatever. But it is certainly more stable from experience, and spaces out any issues the upgrade causes by years rather than months.
You seem to be confusing the LTS with six month releases for Ubuntu.
The Long Term Support releases are every other year, usually in April, and are supported with security updated for 5 years on the server, and 3 years on the desktop.
The six month releases are the unstable ones, but the LTS are very stable.
Been using them for many years and yes, I sysadmin several systems, both servers and desktops (KDE though), and things are good.
Right now, I am upgrading a 4.7 site to 7.x, with 5.x and 6.x intermediates.
I will write an article on this soon, but basically, you set 4 directories, one per version. Then you point the web server to the version that you are working on via a symlink.
You then run update.php for 5.x, then 6.x, then 7.x
Your content is preserved.
Porting modules and themes does require some work, unless someone has ported said modules/themes for you, or you chose a new theme.
Not sure what hovering toolbars you are referring to. I am using 12.04, since it is an LTS release, and will be supported for 3 years with security updates, and no surprises like you have with the other releases.
My desktop is really simple.
Just a vertical side bar on the left instead of on the bottom. It has the K Menu button for launching apps at the top, the Task Manager with all running apps in it, time and date, and the System Tray with a few frequently used apps.
One of the things we studied were drug interactions.
Basically pharmacists are more qualified to know these interactions, because they studied pharmacology, as well as pharmaceutics (how drugs are presented, what each form's method of spreading to the affected area(s) are,...etc.)
The clinical pharmacy movement was started back several decades ago, so doctors would diagnose, then pharmacists would prescribe together with the doctors, taking into account many things, like other patient health issues, drug interactions,...etc.
But, this will not happen, because big pharma markets to doctors so they prescribe their brand over the competition.
Sad to see the state of affairs status quo as they were in the early 80s.
Slashdot Mirror
I live in Waterloo, and have many friends who work/worked there.
Before people think that an acquisition by the founder would save the company, please read the following in depth article: How Blackberry blew it: the inside story.
While Apple and Google were building an ecosystem of developers writing thousands of apps, and a central repository for those apps, Lazarides was still focusing on battery life and a physical keyboard, and failed to see why Apple and Google were becoming so popular.
Blackberry is resigned to the fate of being #4 platform for mobile, after Google, Apple, and yes, Microsoft, with low single digit market share after being #1 before smart phones with touch screens and app store/markets.
Akamai and other CDNs will help with read only traffic.
But if you are POSTing stuff to the site, and they riddled it with AJAXy stuff, Akamai will not help one bit.
It is not a guarantee for success, but a guarantee that you can blame and sue a large entity if needed, after you say that you selected the best bidder ...
The spice must flow ...
Same for Strawberries in Egypt in the last quarter of the 20th century. The cultivar that was used initially was so sweet and fragrant, but did not keep well in the heat of Egypt and could not withstand transportation with heavy loss. Enter the current cultivar: much bigger fruits that look better, significantly harder, and almost tasteless, like the ones you find in the USA/Canada supermarkets. The older cultivar vanished in a year or two.
It was not disease, but yield that did it.
I have been using Tiny Tiny RSS since March, ever since Google announced they are discontinuing Reader.
It works well, and close enough to Reader. Imported my RSS without issues.
Once issue I am facing is that the session times out a couple of times per day.
This is despite having the following settings in config.php:
Any idea why this happens?
Agree about the one about interest, that some schemes are made to not look like interest, but underlying it it is almost the same.
The part about some Saudis drinking and gambling is not circumventing the laws but staying within their letter. This is mere hypocrisy: conformity to social pressures, and indulging when no one is around. They are not pretending that what they do is within Islamic law, they just don't adhere to it at all. The same happens elsewhere. A Dutch friend from an old Protestant order tells me about whole villages where TV is banned, and of course adultry, while elders go to Amsterdam to enjoy the sin of the flesh, and have curtains so no one can look into their home and see them watching TV. This is different. They don't pretend this is lawful.
Agree about human nature. It only takes a few out for themselves to spoil it for the rest.
Great examples, I will add more ...
- The Eruv system, where on the Sabbath it is forbidden to carry stuff from one place to another unless it is an enclosed farm or something. So a wire is set up on utility posts to encircle the whole city, and therefore observant Jews can move stuff from one place to the other. This is implemented in several major cities in the USA.
- The seventh year farmland must be fallow rule (Shmita). Land owned by Jews in Israel is sold on paper to Palestinians using an intermediary lawyer, so it can be farmed and harvested that year, then at the end of the year, the ownership is transferred back to the original Jew.
- Jewish restaurants in Budapest serve patrons on Saturday, but you have to come a day earlier and pay in advance.
Yes, similar "juristic tricks" are in other religions. For example, some were developed centuries ago in Islam (called just that Hiyal: tricks, loopholes) to circumvent certain laws, and several authors have written against them condemning the practice.
If you are viewing this from an internet connected computer (or have an internet enabled phone/tablet), then just use Google.
Type this in the search: 2,750 feet in meters
And 838.2 meters is the answer right there ...
It is known, but they did not name it publicly because the investigation is still ongoing.
I am sure there are laws against entrapment in both the USA and Canada.
But, as I said: theory is one thing and practice is another. Sad ...
I totally agree with you, but only in theory.
In practice, I have seen the many terror plots that go to court and get convictions are mostly from disaffected lost youth who trash talk, like you said, but the FBI prods them into a plot that they would not have done if left on their own. See FBI manufacturing terrorism
And this is not unique to the USA either. Up here in Canada, there is a case that looks to me as entrapment. The perpetrators would have never took action on their own, had it not been a government informant been egging them on all the time. See Thoughts on the May 2006 terrorism arests in Canada
Actually, locusts are specifically kosher.
The recent locust swarms in southern Israel attracted lots of religious Jews seeking them as an exotic delicacy.
Why all this revulsion at eating an insect? There are lots of exotic yet disgusting food out there in this world.
And how are Cicadas that much different from edible locusts, which are eaten in the Middle East, Mexico and elsewhere?
Is that Ubuntu's problem that people just upgrade? Perhaps they should default to LTS and require people to override it explicitly. File a bug for that.
Not sure whether it is better engineered or whatever. But it is certainly more stable from experience, and spaces out any issues the upgrade causes by years rather than months.
You seem to be confusing the LTS with six month releases for Ubuntu.
The Long Term Support releases are every other year, usually in April, and are supported with security updated for 5 years on the server, and 3 years on the desktop.
The six month releases are the unstable ones, but the LTS are very stable.
Been using them for many years and yes, I sysadmin several systems, both servers and desktops (KDE though), and things are good.
I work on Drupal for a living.
Right now, I am upgrading a 4.7 site to 7.x, with 5.x and 6.x intermediates.
I will write an article on this soon, but basically, you set 4 directories, one per version.
Then you point the web server to the version that you are working on via a symlink.
You then run update.php for 5.x, then 6.x, then 7.x
Your content is preserved.
Porting modules and themes does require some work, unless someone has ported said modules/themes for you, or you chose a new theme.
But your data should be preserved fully.
Haven't seen those.
Maybe they are new in 12.10, or something ...
Not sure what hovering toolbars you are referring to. I am using 12.04, since it is an LTS release, and will be supported for 3 years with security updates, and no surprises like you have with the other releases.
My desktop is really simple.
Just a vertical side bar on the left instead of on the bottom. It has the K Menu button for launching apps at the top, the Task Manager with all running apps in it, time and date, and the System Tray with a few frequently used apps.
And that is it.
Very Windows XP like in fact.
Here is a photo, while writing this post in Firefox http://i.imgur.com/jKzHIAT.png
Perhaps that is part of its success that I have not conciously thought about ...
I have been a user of Ubuntu for many years. Since 2005 or so.
All these debates about Ubuntu, Shuttleworth and Unity do not affect me in the least.
Why?
Because I use KDE Ubuntu (Kubuntu), not Gnome/Unity at all. I also stay with the latest LTS and not upgrade to the twice annual releases.
The same goes for servers. I use Ubuntu Server LTS, which has a longer support cycle of 5 years vs. 3 years for the desktop.
Not affected by any of those ongoing debates or controversies ...
IUTBAP (I used to be a pharmacist).
One of the things we studied were drug interactions.
Basically pharmacists are more qualified to know these interactions, because they studied pharmacology, as well as pharmaceutics (how drugs are presented, what each form's method of spreading to the affected area(s) are, ...etc.)
The clinical pharmacy movement was started back several decades ago, so doctors would diagnose, then pharmacists would prescribe together with the doctors, taking into account many things, like other patient health issues, drug interactions, ...etc.
But, this will not happen, because big pharma markets to doctors so they prescribe their brand over the competition.
Sad to see the state of affairs status quo as they were in the early 80s.
Thanks for the morning smile ...
Made my day already ...
I read about this a while ago, and it was fascinating. Appartently, the crystals polarized sunlight, even if it was through clouds and
Here are some links that may help:
The stone itself is calcite, Iceland Spar or the more complex Cordierite, also known as iolite.
Here is one account of how it could have been used:
Viking Sunstone
And here is another:
Viking Compass
Sony does have an Android watch that is been out for a year or more.
But history will be rewritten so that Steve Jobs would be the pioneer of smart watches, and even doing so from his grave too ...