Voters did approve one of four petitioned zoning articles, one that would require cottage colonies to be in operation for at least three years before they can be turned into condominium ownership. Zoning articles require a two-thirds majority and the first vote was close, counted as 139 in favor and 64 opposed. A recount was held that was tallied at 136-70 and declared to be passed by Town Clerk Cynthia Slade, utilizing a multiplier of 0.66 to determine two-thirds, the figure the town has always used. Unfortunately, this vote was so close that the inaccurate fraction made the difference, and several months later the attorney general’s office negated the approval as not meeting the two-thirds threshold.
Buzz is being rolled out over the next few days so some people will see a Buzz folder in their gmail, but most won't yet (this Twitter post explains how Safari users can get an early glimpse).
If you can switch your user agent string to iPhone, you can get this to work in any browser, not just Safari. I just verified it in Firefox.
Actually for this thing, there's probably a whole new layout that's optimal. (That's an exercise for the reader to invent.)
The guys over at ShapeWriter have already beaten you (me?) to it.
They call it the ATOMIK keyboard layout, and there's a short demo here. The learning curve is probably a little steep, but I would guess that it's less than learning QWERTY, partly because you're allowed to look at the keyboard the entire time.:)
It is hard for Computer Science majors to find traditional semester-long study abroad opportunities. However, there are plenty of opportunities for slightly different things that let you be overseas AND learn more about CompSci.
This last summer, I participated in the International Summer School on Grid Computing (link to the '08 site). They do it in a different place every summer ('07 was Sweden, '08 was Hungary, I think '09 is France). It's short (2 weeks long), but it was still a great experience. Plus, OSG paid for all of the American students. I didn't have to ask my university (or myself) for a dime.
There are lots of other opportunities, too. Last year, PIRE started undergraduate research abroad (link for 2009). Fully paid, and you get a little stipend to help out.
Start searching for "intern abroad" or "research abroad" and you'll find many different opportunities. Most of them aren't a full semester and often fall in the summer (and rarely offer school credit), but you'll still get a great education and a chance to see great places.
The main point of the Panopticon (which also drew the most criticism) was not that the prisoners were under constant surveillance, but that they didn't know if they were being watched or not, due to the design of the guard tower. If you have free time, read Foucault's commentary on it here. The most important part:
It is an important mechanism, for it automatizes and disindividualizes power. Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes; in an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up. The ceremonies, the rituals, the marks by which the sovereign's surplus power was manifested are useless. There is a machinery that assures dissymmetry, disequilibrium, difference. Consequently, it does not matter who exercises power. Any individual, taken almost at random, can operate the machine: in the absence of the director, his family, his friends, his visitors, even his servants (Bentham, 45). Similarly, it does not matter what motive animates him: the curiosity of the indiscreet, the malice of a child, the thirst for knowledge of a philosopher who wishes to visit this museum of human nature, or the perversity of those who take pleasure in spying and punishing. The more numerous those anonymous and temporary observers are, the greater the risk for the inmate of being surprised and the greater his anxious awareness of being observed. The Panopticon is a marvellous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power.
If you beat the prisoners hard enough when they messed up, eventually they will always assume that they are being watched. At that point, you no longer need to have a prison guard - the tower itself holds the power.
Of course, it's not hard to realize that this is quite different from Google Street View:
It is not constant surveillance, but a static image.
It's arguable whether or not it is even surveillance. Surveillance would require tracking people - these are just street pictures. If Google were to take new pictures every week, and then analyzed when/where they saw a particular person each week, then it would be surveillance.
Google isn't exercising any power over people with this, so it is entirely irrelevant to the Panopticon.
If you want to talk about the privacy considerations associated with Google Street View, or the possible implications in the future, that's fine. Just don't paint it as a modern-day Panopticon when it is obviously not.
LOL, that's Ubuntu users for you:
"I did not have that problem, therefore it does not exist."
First, that's not what the parent was saying at all. It was more along the lines of:
"I did not have that problem, and you didn't give me enough diagnostic information to adequately help you solve it. You can attempt to find someone else with a similar problem, or we can work on it a little bit longer and try and get more information."
Plus, we don't know if the GP was messing around with things that he shouldn't have. People that are new to Linux (especially if you're having problems) shouldn't be messing with their Gnome install, advanced user settings, or extremely experimental beta eyecandy software, despite how tempting it can be.
Without knowing that information, I think that mhall did a great job addressing AC's problems. He recommended that, even though he wasn't sure exactly what the problem was (since he had never experienced them), he should:
Check his screen resolution (and possibly video card drivers),
Not mess with Beryl or Compiz,
Create a new, default, user account and see if that helps, or
If he doesn't have much to lose, try re-installing.
You're ridiculing him for some advice that he offered (for free) that was more helpful than most customer service departments (where they get paid), especially given the limited amount of information he had.
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If you can switch your user agent string to iPhone, you can get this to work in any browser, not just Safari. I just verified it in Firefox.
The guys over at ShapeWriter have already beaten you (me?) to it.
:)
They call it the ATOMIK keyboard layout, and there's a short demo here. The learning curve is probably a little steep, but I would guess that it's less than learning QWERTY, partly because you're allowed to look at the keyboard the entire time.
It is hard for Computer Science majors to find traditional semester-long study abroad opportunities. However, there are plenty of opportunities for slightly different things that let you be overseas AND learn more about CompSci.
This last summer, I participated in the International Summer School on Grid Computing (link to the '08 site). They do it in a different place every summer ('07 was Sweden, '08 was Hungary, I think '09 is France). It's short (2 weeks long), but it was still a great experience. Plus, OSG paid for all of the American students. I didn't have to ask my university (or myself) for a dime.
There are lots of other opportunities, too. Last year, PIRE started undergraduate research abroad (link for 2009). Fully paid, and you get a little stipend to help out.
Start searching for "intern abroad" or "research abroad" and you'll find many different opportunities. Most of them aren't a full semester and often fall in the summer (and rarely offer school credit), but you'll still get a great education and a chance to see great places.
Before it does weapons simulations, it will first work on some scientific problems, like model testing to predict climate change.
After it's done with that (I wonder how they will determine what done is...), it will go classified and do nuke simulations.
- It is not constant surveillance, but a static image.
- It's arguable whether or not it is even surveillance. Surveillance would require tracking people - these are just street pictures. If Google were to take new pictures every week, and then analyzed when/where they saw a particular person each week, then it would be surveillance.
- Google isn't exercising any power over people with this, so it is entirely irrelevant to the Panopticon.
If you want to talk about the privacy considerations associated with Google Street View, or the possible implications in the future, that's fine. Just don't paint it as a modern-day Panopticon when it is obviously not."I did not have that problem, and you didn't give me enough diagnostic information to adequately help you solve it. You can attempt to find someone else with a similar problem, or we can work on it a little bit longer and try and get more information."
Plus, we don't know if the GP was messing around with things that he shouldn't have. People that are new to Linux (especially if you're having problems) shouldn't be messing with their Gnome install, advanced user settings, or extremely experimental beta eyecandy software, despite how tempting it can be.
Without knowing that information, I think that mhall did a great job addressing AC's problems. He recommended that, even though he wasn't sure exactly what the problem was (since he had never experienced them), he should:
- Check his screen resolution (and possibly video card drivers),
- Not mess with Beryl or Compiz,
- Create a new, default, user account and see if that helps, or
- If he doesn't have much to lose, try re-installing.
You're ridiculing him for some advice that he offered (for free) that was more helpful than most customer service departments (where they get paid), especially given the limited amount of information he had.