I for one would like to be able to right-click on the mac trash can and empty it like I can in Windows. In fact, many of the functions that require the command (or was it option) key in MacOS would work better as right-mouse clicks.
Of course I also wish that middle button would paste in windows like it does in *nix. Control-V gets old.
Then again, I could probably map that somehow... my Intellimouse Explorer is the best mouse I've ever used, and has quite a few options.
What's your problem with the NYTimes registration system? I registered back in 1996 and have never had any problems nor received any junk mail from them. It hasn't cost me a cent, nor given away any more information about myself than "person with cookie n has these browsing/reading habits."
They're a private company, providing a service, and earning their keep through advertising, which benefits from registration and tracking.
If registration and tracking of users and what articles they read helps them a. target appropriate banner ads to browsers and/or b. publish more successful content, they're certainly not going to get rid of registration, no matter how much you complain.
(note: at the 2001 MIT Image and Meaning conference, I think the Times Science editor said they didn't select topics and articles based on readership statistics gathered from the web, but I highly doubt they're not influenced in some way by how successful certain topics are.)
Guess I wasn't clear in my comment. I was talking about pollution in general... most of that electricity is produced by coal, and it is wasted so carelessly. I don't think of light as being pollution until I'm far away from it, and that's not often.
Compare light to population and no one should wonder why the US is the biggest polluter in the world. Put together the light intensity of China, India, and Indonesia, and you've got half the population of the world, yet they still put off less light than the NorthEast corridor of the US. That's 3,000,000,000 people to 60,000,000.
"Moller rotary engines were developed from technology obtained from Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) and are of the Wankel-Type. During each rotation of the rotor a four-stroke spark ignition combustion process occurs in each of the three pockets of a triangular rotor. After one full rotation of the rotor the engine has completed the four-stroke process three times. They therefore provide a high power-to-weight ratio at a reasonable cost and are very small for their power output. The 150 HP model used in the M400 can be easily carried by one person. Eight Rotapower engines are used in the production model volantor."
They're not using a jet engine, they're using rotary engines known to be incredibly efficient.
As you said, "Are you so naiive as to believe our gov't. is free of corruption?"
You should mention that this corruption doesn't fail to penetrate the Peace Corps organization.
While I don't have the heart to make formal complaints against the Peace Corps, now that I've been back in the states a year, I fully support the Host Country Nationals in Poland who worked with the Peace Corps in Warsaw who are now suing over illegal practices and activities.
I recommend volunteering, and I will certainly be spending another few years of my life volunteering overseas, but I don't recommend the US Peace Corps.
Speaking from experience, Peace Corps in no way supports bringing Internet to rural villages.
It's about teaching, but more about politics. Making host country politicians happy by sending English teachers to certain schools, even if these schools don't have nearly the need of other schools in the country. Having Peace Corps country directors attend diplomatic functions instead of the Ambassador.
Anything more than teaching is helping host country nationals in writing deceptive grants so as to take advantage of NGOs and charitable organizations by using money for existing programs/salaries/new computers for directors, etc.
We actually had a seminar in November 1999 in Kasimirz Dolny on "Creative Grant Writing" while I was a PC Poland 15 volunteer. I was absolutely sick to my stomach.
I highly recommend any private volunteer organization over the US Peace Corps.
It's a funny thing, appointed judges. Can you really be impartial about a ruling if you were placed through a political process? What about debts? What about the prevailing political atmosphere?
Richard Posner is a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. (that's Chicago) He's quoted in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin as saying "People who think that federal judges base their legal opinions solely on their interpretation of the law and the Constitution are living in a make-believe world."
There was an interesting article posted on k5 about a man in a lawsuit against Coca Cola Corporation. If you're in the least bit surprised at the Microsoft ruling, you'd best read it.
By your arguement, we should be calling Digital Unix, Irix, Solaris, and a host of other rock-solid variants of Unix "poor and brittle," because they don't "run" on as many architectures.
And it's a funny thing, but I don't seem to remember any informative messages from Linux telling me why I couldn't bind an IP to my 3com (3c589d) pcmcia ethernet card. The solution to that problem was found not through "transparency and diagnosibility" but through a win2k cd.
First Name: Gail
Last Name: Wynand
Country/Region: United States
State: Kansas
Zip Code: 66044
Time Zone: Central Time
Gender: Male
Birthday: January 1 1978
Occupation: Computer related (Internet)
Does anyone want to guess how much of this is true?
And now does anyone want to tell me WTF the big deal is about? Who cares if they require a Passport Profile in order to download stuff? There's nobody standing over your shoulder when you fill in the profile.
Rogers sent a collection agency after her over a disputed bill. That agency threatened to ruin her credit rating. She certainly is entitled to damages, and $5000 isn't excessive.
I use a quad xeon server from VA Linux to run NT 4.0.
I need that quad xeon server from VA Linux to run NT 4.0.
I've never needed anything like server-class hardware to run linux, and as long as the IT people at work don't support it as a "mission critical system," it'll be relegated to development tasks and serving mp3s.
And, of course, the nice VA Linux boxen purchased by now-long-gone Linux zealots will continue to run NT 4.0.
I first came across flyswat installed on my mom's computer. She uses the NeoPlanet shell for IE, something I set up for her in 1998. As it works, and because I can't figure out how to convert all of her email to Outlook, she is still using it. Anyway, I came to visit a year ago and found a bunch of brownish-green links on all her web pages. Links that were really commercial. After some investigation I found them coming from a program called flyswat running in the background. She didn't know how they got there, and didn't use them, so I uninstalled flyswat.
Let me say right away, the idea isn't bad. I would really use it if it didn't change the look of the document with ugly brown lines... if I could right-click on any word and get a contextual menu on it. Even information on where to buy, or similar things commercial.
And as long as it isn't turned on by default in MSIE 6, and it doesn't *replace* any functionality or links in a page I write, I'm not going to worry about it, and will likely be glad to have it as a browsing option.
On a side note, I've always wanted to set up some post-processor for adding contextual links to documents I serve. I'd especially like for all names in my Intranet web documents to be linked to people objects, and projects to project objects, etc.
[Business] Posted by CptBurrito on Monday, June 11, @04:20PM
from the mysterious-stories-from-ether dept.
TheSource writes: "It seems as if all of the hoopla re: economic forces in the background at Slashdot might not just be group hysteria. Andover.Net officials are quoted in the following article as saying that many Slashdot story sources have mysteriously 'gone away.'" Hard to deny that stories of dubious origin can have painful after-effects, but at issue here is how serious (and permanent) those effects can be. I know plenty of sickened readers complete with stomach pains and wincing who probably won't agree that their symptoms aren't genuine.
I wonder how many of us have been threatened with lawsuits by our educational institutions because of Internet activities? Or by individuals?
I personally was threatened with criminal and civil action by the University of Kansas back in 1995 because of a website on a school computer. It was very hard for me, as a 19 year-old, to take. I was scared.
The second time I was threatened with civil action was by a student's lawyer-dad and I was scared.
The third time I was threatened with civil action was from a competitor with a lawyer-sister. By that point, I wasn't scared any more.
Kind of like meeting the police. They scared the shit out of me the first few times. Last time they came to my door was 97 and I didn't let them in. All I said, standing in my door, was "I'm not going to talk to you" over and over and over again, as the guy got more and more pissed off. He went away, just like the losers threatening civil suits.
I think a lot of dealing with lawyers and police is standing your ground and saying nothing.
In the case of this Utah fiasco, I think any lawyer will be able to get him his degree, but since his site was on a uni network and server, he's kind of out of luck. As I learned from Kansas, any state funded school is going to be really protective of their servers and network, because once a website is even remotely publically funded, a lot of people have asses to cover if a webpage served says something un-pc.
It's probably time for him to cut his losses, and walk away, fighting only for his degree. (free speech aside because there is no free speech when you're borrowing a soapbox)
I have a Matrox G200MMS Quad-head that will do 5.2 megapixel over four monitors, and IIRC, it was only $800. I'm using it now to drive a pair of Samsung 770TFT panels. At $950 each for a 1280*1024 flat panel, they're a bit more reasonable than most.
I'm a bit disappointed in their manufacturing though. I have one born in Oct 2000 and another born in March 2001. Unfortunately the older one has a different white point and neither have hardware color temperature adjustment. But it was the low cost that allowed me to get away with having a 2560*1024 (soon to be 2560*2048!) flat panel desktop, so I can't complain too much.:-)
Now if you want to display a bunch of DVDs on those monitors, you're going to need a heck of a lot more bandwidth than the PCI bus can provide you. (G200MMS is PCI card) And you'll need something to decode with too. But if you didn't read the article you should know that you don't need that kind of cash to get 9.6 million pixels up on a monitor, as long as the pixels aren't doing much.
The "typical" programmer, Unix admin, or network guy in the US makes $50,000, some more, some less. Contract workers are a completely different story, but they're the first to go when budgets get cut.
Just because the crowd you know, or the Slashdot crowd for that matter, makes a killing in IT doesn't mean that the majority do.
Try reading a salary survey from a weekly like Computerworld. Granted this one is from mid-year 1999, but things don't change much year-to-year in the "real world" of IT. Look at the figures: Average programmer = $45,000. Average network admin = $49,000.
These numbers are completely on-par with my knowledge of IT in media, manufacturing, retail, and even pharmaceutical companies. (having consulted in these less glamorous than.com industries) And from what I've experienced, they're about right for the value most IT people provide to their employers.
"This year's hottest new star!" (for Heath Ledger of "A Knight's Tale") and "another winner!" (for The Animal") don't say anything at all. They don't say anything bad about any other movie. They don't promise you'll enjoy the film. They don't even say that either of the films were good.
I don't see how anything they did violated any laws. Possibly the trust of the people, but give me a break, who trusts commercials? Or movie reviews? The MSNBC (oooh! reliable trustworthy news in itself!) article says it all:
"The real question is why Sony had to conceive the counterfeit critic to begin with..."
The article goes on to say that film reviewers are bought and fed appropriate quotes as a standard practice.
Now that I think about it, the invention of a fake reviewer wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe it was political commentary by some jaded ad creative. Or possibly just desperation. The end result is a nothing. Just a bunch of embarrassed LA film execs. Nothing the FTC would worry about.
Slashdot Mirror
I for one would like to be able to right-click on the mac trash can and empty it like I can in Windows. In fact, many of the functions that require the command (or was it option) key in MacOS would work better as right-mouse clicks.
Of course I also wish that middle button would paste in windows like it does in *nix. Control-V gets old.
Then again, I could probably map that somehow... my Intellimouse Explorer is the best mouse I've ever used, and has quite a few options.
J
What's your problem with the NYTimes registration system? I registered back in 1996 and have never had any problems nor received any junk mail from them. It hasn't cost me a cent, nor given away any more information about myself than "person with cookie n has these browsing/reading habits."
They're a private company, providing a service, and earning their keep through advertising, which benefits from registration and tracking.
If registration and tracking of users and what articles they read helps them a. target appropriate banner ads to browsers and/or b. publish more successful content, they're certainly not going to get rid of registration, no matter how much you complain.
(note: at the 2001 MIT Image and Meaning conference, I think the Times Science editor said they didn't select topics and articles based on readership statistics gathered from the web, but I highly doubt they're not influenced in some way by how successful certain topics are.)
He really doesn't like the phone company, does he...
what does realtime rendering give us?
1. "What now, master?"
2. "Now turn around, bend down and touch your toes!"
Guess I wasn't clear in my comment. I was talking about pollution in general... most of that electricity is produced by coal, and it is wasted so carelessly. I don't think of light as being pollution until I'm far away from it, and that's not often.
Compare light to population and no one should wonder why the US is the biggest polluter in the world. Put together the light intensity of China, India, and Indonesia, and you've got half the population of the world, yet they still put off less light than the NorthEast corridor of the US. That's 3,000,000,000 people to 60,000,000.
From the SkyCar technology page:
"Moller rotary engines were developed from technology obtained from Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) and are of the Wankel-Type. During each rotation of the rotor a four-stroke spark ignition combustion process occurs in each of the three pockets of a triangular rotor. After one full rotation of the rotor the engine has completed the four-stroke process three times. They therefore provide a high power-to-weight ratio at a reasonable cost and are very small for their power output. The 150 HP model used in the M400 can be easily carried by one person. Eight Rotapower engines are used in the production model volantor."
They're not using a jet engine, they're using rotary engines known to be incredibly efficient.
Check out this site for some good reading on the technology: http://www.freedom-motors.com/
As you said, "Are you so naiive as to believe our gov't. is free of corruption?"
You should mention that this corruption doesn't fail to penetrate the Peace Corps organization.
While I don't have the heart to make formal complaints against the Peace Corps, now that I've been back in the states a year, I fully support the Host Country Nationals in Poland who worked with the Peace Corps in Warsaw who are now suing over illegal practices and activities.
I recommend volunteering, and I will certainly be spending another few years of my life volunteering overseas, but I don't recommend the US Peace Corps.
Speaking from experience, Peace Corps in no way supports bringing Internet to rural villages.
It's about teaching, but more about politics. Making host country politicians happy by sending English teachers to certain schools, even if these schools don't have nearly the need of other schools in the country. Having Peace Corps country directors attend diplomatic functions instead of the Ambassador.
Anything more than teaching is helping host country nationals in writing deceptive grants so as to take advantage of NGOs and charitable organizations by using money for existing programs/salaries/new computers for directors, etc.
We actually had a seminar in November 1999 in Kasimirz Dolny on "Creative Grant Writing" while I was a PC Poland 15 volunteer. I was absolutely sick to my stomach.
I highly recommend any private volunteer organization over the US Peace Corps.
Having returned from PC Poland 15 I know of the offerings of the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe. There's nothing out there.
It may be long, but I've never forgotten it, and it's been very useful in the past. (Metro North New Haven Line!)
.com has been.
I actually used http://www.state.ma.us/ this morning to check on Basic Cable rate regulation.
They're useful and logical domains, and I hope they're not abused like
It's a funny thing, appointed judges. Can you really be impartial about a ruling if you were placed through a political process? What about debts? What about the prevailing political atmosphere?
Richard Posner is a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. (that's Chicago) He's quoted in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin as saying "People who think that federal judges base their legal opinions solely on their interpretation of the law and the Constitution are living in a make-believe world."
There was an interesting article posted on k5 about a man in a lawsuit against Coca Cola Corporation. If you're in the least bit surprised at the Microsoft ruling, you'd best read it.
By your arguement, we should be calling Digital Unix, Irix, Solaris, and a host of other rock-solid variants of Unix "poor and brittle," because they don't "run" on as many architectures.
And it's a funny thing, but I don't seem to remember any informative messages from Linux telling me why I couldn't bind an IP to my 3com (3c589d) pcmcia ethernet card. The solution to that problem was found not through "transparency and diagnosibility" but through a win2k cd.
My Microsoft Passport Profile:
First Name: Gail
Last Name: Wynand
Country/Region: United States
State: Kansas
Zip Code: 66044
Time Zone: Central Time
Gender: Male
Birthday: January 1 1978
Occupation: Computer related (Internet)
Does anyone want to guess how much of this is true?
And now does anyone want to tell me WTF the big deal is about? Who cares if they require a Passport Profile in order to download stuff? There's nobody standing over your shoulder when you fill in the profile.
Rogers sent a collection agency after her over a disputed bill. That agency threatened to ruin her credit rating. She certainly is entitled to damages, and $5000 isn't excessive.
I think she'll win.
Read the third point, from the overview on their website.
- Cyc can notice if an annual salary and an hourly salary are inadvertently being added together in a spreadsheet.
- Cyc can combine information from multiple databases to guess which physicians in practice together had been classmates in medical school.
- When someone searches for "Bolivia" on the Web, Cyc knows not to offer a follow-up question like "Where can I get free Bolivia online?"
I use a quad xeon server from VA Linux to run NT 4.0.
I need that quad xeon server from VA Linux to run NT 4.0.
I've never needed anything like server-class hardware to run linux, and as long as the IT people at work don't support it as a "mission critical system," it'll be relegated to development tasks and serving mp3s.
And, of course, the nice VA Linux boxen purchased by now-long-gone Linux zealots will continue to run NT 4.0.
What was I thinking?
Have I learned nothing in my years of Slashdotting?
At least I managed to close the two windows with which I was about to start raging fires.
I should know enough by now not to even look.
sigh.
I first came across flyswat installed on my mom's computer. She uses the NeoPlanet shell for IE, something I set up for her in 1998. As it works, and because I can't figure out how to convert all of her email to Outlook, she is still using it. Anyway, I came to visit a year ago and found a bunch of brownish-green links on all her web pages. Links that were really commercial. After some investigation I found them coming from a program called flyswat running in the background. She didn't know how they got there, and didn't use them, so I uninstalled flyswat.
Let me say right away, the idea isn't bad. I would really use it if it didn't change the look of the document with ugly brown lines... if I could right-click on any word and get a contextual menu on it. Even information on where to buy, or similar things commercial.
And as long as it isn't turned on by default in MSIE 6, and it doesn't *replace* any functionality or links in a page I write, I'm not going to worry about it, and will likely be glad to have it as a browsing option.
On a side note, I've always wanted to set up some post-processor for adding contextual links to documents I serve. I'd especially like for all names in my Intranet web documents to be linked to people objects, and projects to project objects, etc.
I'm writing with a laptop with an Orinoco card sitting on my *lap.*
Am I imagining a tingling feeling down there, or should I be worried?
[Business] Posted by CptBurrito on Monday, June 11, @04:20PM
from the mysterious-stories-from-ether dept.
TheSource writes: "It seems as if all of the hoopla re: economic forces in the background at Slashdot might not just be group hysteria. Andover.Net officials are quoted in the following article as saying that many Slashdot story sources have mysteriously 'gone away.'" Hard to deny that stories of dubious origin can have painful after-effects, but at issue here is how serious (and permanent) those effects can be. I know plenty of sickened readers complete with stomach pains and wincing who probably won't agree that their symptoms aren't genuine.
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I wonder how many of us have been threatened with lawsuits by our educational institutions because of Internet activities? Or by individuals?
I personally was threatened with criminal and civil action by the University of Kansas back in 1995 because of a website on a school computer. It was very hard for me, as a 19 year-old, to take. I was scared.
The second time I was threatened with civil action was by a student's lawyer-dad and I was scared.
The third time I was threatened with civil action was from a competitor with a lawyer-sister. By that point, I wasn't scared any more.
Kind of like meeting the police. They scared the shit out of me the first few times. Last time they came to my door was 97 and I didn't let them in. All I said, standing in my door, was "I'm not going to talk to you" over and over and over again, as the guy got more and more pissed off. He went away, just like the losers threatening civil suits.
I think a lot of dealing with lawyers and police is standing your ground and saying nothing.
In the case of this Utah fiasco, I think any lawyer will be able to get him his degree, but since his site was on a uni network and server, he's kind of out of luck. As I learned from Kansas, any state funded school is going to be really protective of their servers and network, because once a website is even remotely publically funded, a lot of people have asses to cover if a webpage served says something un-pc.
It's probably time for him to cut his losses, and walk away, fighting only for his degree. (free speech aside because there is no free speech when you're borrowing a soapbox)
I have a Matrox G200MMS Quad-head that will do 5.2 megapixel over four monitors, and IIRC, it was only $800. I'm using it now to drive a pair of Samsung 770TFT panels. At $950 each for a 1280*1024 flat panel, they're a bit more reasonable than most.
:-)
I'm a bit disappointed in their manufacturing though. I have one born in Oct 2000 and another born in March 2001. Unfortunately the older one has a different white point and neither have hardware color temperature adjustment. But it was the low cost that allowed me to get away with having a 2560*1024 (soon to be 2560*2048!) flat panel desktop, so I can't complain too much.
Now if you want to display a bunch of DVDs on those monitors, you're going to need a heck of a lot more bandwidth than the PCI bus can provide you. (G200MMS is PCI card) And you'll need something to decode with too. But if you didn't read the article you should know that you don't need that kind of cash to get 9.6 million pixels up on a monitor, as long as the pixels aren't doing much.
The salaries you quote for IT are way off.
.com industries) And from what I've experienced, they're about right for the value most IT people provide to their employers.
The "typical" programmer, Unix admin, or network guy in the US makes $50,000, some more, some less. Contract workers are a completely different story, but they're the first to go when budgets get cut.
Just because the crowd you know, or the Slashdot crowd for that matter, makes a killing in IT doesn't mean that the majority do.
Try reading a salary survey from a weekly like Computerworld. Granted this one is from mid-year 1999, but things don't change much year-to-year in the "real world" of IT. Look at the figures: Average programmer = $45,000. Average network admin = $49,000.
These numbers are completely on-par with my knowledge of IT in media, manufacturing, retail, and even pharmaceutical companies. (having consulted in these less glamorous than
And what exactly was deceptive?
"This year's hottest new star!" (for Heath Ledger of "A Knight's Tale") and "another winner!" (for The Animal") don't say anything at all. They don't say anything bad about any other movie. They don't promise you'll enjoy the film. They don't even say that either of the films were good.
I don't see how anything they did violated any laws. Possibly the trust of the people, but give me a break, who trusts commercials? Or movie reviews? The MSNBC (oooh! reliable trustworthy news in itself!) article says it all:
"The real question is why Sony had to conceive the counterfeit critic to begin with..."
The article goes on to say that film reviewers are bought and fed appropriate quotes as a standard practice.
Now that I think about it, the invention of a fake reviewer wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe it was political commentary by some jaded ad creative. Or possibly just desperation. The end result is a nothing. Just a bunch of embarrassed LA film execs. Nothing the FTC would worry about.
(oh yeah. I have a degree in Advertising.)