I credit using Wordpress and Drupal with finding my current job, which is, you guessed it, supporting people who develop and run Drupal and Wordpress websites. Were it not for eating my own dogfood, I don't think I'd enjoy work nearly so much. Having a community built around each cms helps too. Not something you can really find in the guts of an api for facebook or twitter.
The dream is not dead, there never was one.. But what there is is a public, searchable record of things that people who have "abandoned" their blogs have magnanimously left online for all to search and see. As a system administrator, searching what Quenqua or Technorati deem abandoned has saved my ass more than a few times. Seems like a typical perspective on blogging that has been clouded by a few years of some major bloggers gaining commercial success. If you aren't a sell out, you aren't a blogger. No small timer's allowed. Come on, we don't all blog to get rich and famous, and I guess if that isn't in keeping with Technorati's business model (whatever that is) then bloggers are all failures in their eyes. I for one will keep searching and using blogs, however (in)frequently they might be updated.
Tremendously good idea. And perhaps in a hundred years when the world runs on these batteries, those shares of thin air that I bought from Wall Street might be worth millions once oxygen is in short supply.
The ancient Library of Alexandria had a policy that any visitor to the city would have their documents confiscated and copied. The library kept the original and gave the owner a copy.
The historical precedent exists, and the similarities to today's border policies are spooky.
Games these days are shite, EA know it, so they build a franchise like Rock Band and want to protect it by getting people to buy into the brand. I guarantee marketing has more to do with this than developers out to get little Jimmy Pirate.
I fact, it's the marketers who are seeking out little Jimmy, he's the target of this. Now that EA have a successful platform, they can milk it with periodic updates like this for minimum cost, but still charge full price to Jimmy again.
Jimmy's happy because he has a new game to play with, EA are happy because Jimmy is happy. We're happy because we're pissed that we bought into a crap company/franchise with our first copy e.g. Slashdot readers being who we are, being pissed off makes us happy too:)
I was in Beijing and Guangjou as a Westerner visiting those cities laster January (2007). I made a point of checking wikipedia and had no trouble viewing pages like the English Tiananamen square page. I'm not sure what the big deal is.
From what I hear censorship is more or less being policed socially with less and less DNS interference. Instead of blocking a domain, the police or party representative goes to the internet cafe where activity is taking place (that's easy to trace to an IP etc.) and just asks who has been visiting inappropriate pages.
Maybe I was spoiled as a Westerner with better internet. I dunno, $7USD a night for a hostel in both cities doesn't seem like they'd make a special exception.
I think there's a lot of hype and FUD surrounding the issue, and while it is indisputably an issue, the magnitude and severity is relatively overplayed I think.
Then again, maybe I was being tracked the whole time I was there by invisible Chinese spooks who intercepted and allowed my DNS requests on the fly and tracked my piddly 80211g over a few thousand miles in one day...
I am a Teksavvy subscriber. I specifically signed up because they do not over sell their capacity. For $29.95/month I have 200gb of traffic which is equivalent to about 75kb/s 24 hours a day for a month. Cut that in half since I turn my computer off for 12 hours or so a day.
For $39.95 Teksavvy offer unlimited bandwidth, which on a 5mbit connection works out to over 1tb of traffic per month. Anyone with Teksavvy whom I have ever spoken with has never noticed any problems and I know many people who do leave their torrents on to help seed because the service is able to handle that. Moreover, I thought that the whole point of DSL vs. cable was that you have a direct line to the CO so it doesn't matter so much what your neighbour is up to. Granted, at the CO/DC the traffic is the same, but still.
If Teksavvy can offer such service on Bell's wholesale lines without any problems for excellent (cheaper) prices, then why can't Bell do the same?
That's a big negative. From our friendly local erowid:
A search for scientific studies about the permeability of caffeine through mammalian skin yielded several webpages describing caffeine's poor ability to be absorbed transdermally. While one page did describe caffeine as having "good penetrating capability", this was in a study in which the skin was exposed for 4 hrs using radioactivly labelled caffeine. Even then, with a 1 mg or 9.3 mg caffeine per 100 cm^2 area of skin the absorbed dose was calculated to be only 17% and 1.6%.
Assuming the entire 250mg dose of caffeine suggested by the soap manufacturer made it to the skin and was held there for 4 hours, the above research would suggest that one would expect a dose between 4 and 42mg of caffeine. This dose is less than a typical cup of coffee.
Read Bill Weinberg's post on Linux.com about why we shouldn't use open source as a verb. It is a fantastically well written piece and I recommend it to anyone with a passing interest in FOSS, and or anyone who has a basic grasp of the English language. OPEN SOURCE IS NOT A VERB thanyouverymuch.
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You mean I can't print screen anymore? Been a while since I was even moderately interested in blu-ray since they fixed that bug 3+ years ago. meh.
I've sent a few of the tougher cases to http://lmgtfy.com/ Usually that smartens them up a bit without having to have too many words ;)
I credit using Wordpress and Drupal with finding my current job, which is, you guessed it, supporting people who develop and run Drupal and Wordpress websites. Were it not for eating my own dogfood, I don't think I'd enjoy work nearly so much. Having a community built around each cms helps too. Not something you can really find in the guts of an api for facebook or twitter.
The dream is not dead, there never was one.. But what there is is a public, searchable record of things that people who have "abandoned" their blogs have magnanimously left online for all to search and see. As a system administrator, searching what Quenqua or Technorati deem abandoned has saved my ass more than a few times. Seems like a typical perspective on blogging that has been clouded by a few years of some major bloggers gaining commercial success. If you aren't a sell out, you aren't a blogger. No small timer's allowed. Come on, we don't all blog to get rich and famous, and I guess if that isn't in keeping with Technorati's business model (whatever that is) then bloggers are all failures in their eyes. I for one will keep searching and using blogs, however (in)frequently they might be updated.
Tremendously good idea. And perhaps in a hundred years when the world runs on these batteries, those shares of thin air that I bought from Wall Street might be worth millions once oxygen is in short supply.
Would have been much easier to restore if it was on a mile of punched tape. Proprietary hardware sucks!
you mean gorilla crap..
I always thought my neck was too short, watch me and my progeny evolve bitches!
sp. Eric Leibovitch should be Evan Leibovitch, I know him and think he'd appreciate the correction ;-)
The ancient Library of Alexandria had a policy that any visitor to the city would have their documents confiscated and copied. The library kept the original and gave the owner a copy. The historical precedent exists, and the similarities to today's border policies are spooky.
Games these days are shite, EA know it, so they build a franchise like Rock Band and want to protect it by getting people to buy into the brand. I guarantee marketing has more to do with this than developers out to get little Jimmy Pirate. I fact, it's the marketers who are seeking out little Jimmy, he's the target of this. Now that EA have a successful platform, they can milk it with periodic updates like this for minimum cost, but still charge full price to Jimmy again. Jimmy's happy because he has a new game to play with, EA are happy because Jimmy is happy. We're happy because we're pissed that we bought into a crap company/franchise with our first copy e.g. Slashdot readers being who we are, being pissed off makes us happy too :)
I was in Beijing and Guangjou as a Westerner visiting those cities laster January (2007). I made a point of checking wikipedia and had no trouble viewing pages like the English Tiananamen square page. I'm not sure what the big deal is.
From what I hear censorship is more or less being policed socially with less and less DNS interference. Instead of blocking a domain, the police or party representative goes to the internet cafe where activity is taking place (that's easy to trace to an IP etc.) and just asks who has been visiting inappropriate pages.
Maybe I was spoiled as a Westerner with better internet. I dunno, $7USD a night for a hostel in both cities doesn't seem like they'd make a special exception.
I think there's a lot of hype and FUD surrounding the issue, and while it is indisputably an issue, the magnitude and severity is relatively overplayed I think.
Then again, maybe I was being tracked the whole time I was there by invisible Chinese spooks who intercepted and allowed my DNS requests on the fly and tracked my piddly 80211g over a few thousand miles in one day...
I am a Teksavvy subscriber. I specifically signed up because they do not over sell their capacity. For $29.95/month I have 200gb of traffic which is equivalent to about 75kb/s 24 hours a day for a month. Cut that in half since I turn my computer off for 12 hours or so a day.
For $39.95 Teksavvy offer unlimited bandwidth, which on a 5mbit connection works out to over 1tb of traffic per month. Anyone with Teksavvy whom I have ever spoken with has never noticed any problems and I know many people who do leave their torrents on to help seed because the service is able to handle that. Moreover, I thought that the whole point of DSL vs. cable was that you have a direct line to the CO so it doesn't matter so much what your neighbour is up to. Granted, at the CO/DC the traffic is the same, but still.
If Teksavvy can offer such service on Bell's wholesale lines without any problems for excellent (cheaper) prices, then why can't Bell do the same?
Lenny is absolutely a desktop distro as well. In fact, pretty much any Debian testing has been suitable in that role for years.
Cosmic ray detector certainly makes for better marketing hype than ECC.
Read Bill Weinberg's post on Linux.com about why we shouldn't use open source as a verb. It is a fantastically well written piece and I recommend it to anyone with a passing interest in FOSS, and or anyone who has a basic grasp of the English language. OPEN SOURCE IS NOT A VERB thanyouverymuch.