How about allowing users to submit an alternate abstract to a story in the firehose. Sometimes the links in a slashdot story are placed in a confusing way or the abstract would gain from some extra information. If you allow users to submit a complete alternate abstract then it is easy for the editor to choose the best abstract for the story. Eventually the readers will gain.
One of the major problems is that teachers have low salary and inferior working conditions. That discourages talented young people from choosing a career as a teacher. I don't see ratemyteacher helping here.
Furthermore a teacher has to be able to assume authority in the class. After all part of his job is to teach kids how to behave. Now imagine a mediocre teacher that has got a bad rating on this site. I don't think that this rating will help him control the kids. Of course we could argue that all the mediocre teachers should be fired, but right now it is difficult for schools to attract good employees. They don't get better employees by firing the worst 25% of the teachers.
If a weak teacher cannot control a class, then it is important that other teachers offer to help out. In the worst case one of them have to take over the class. The result is that the worst classes aren't given to the worst teachers. If the system works well, then the good teachers must feel that they get some social credit by taking over troubled classes. The problem is that this social credit is not visible on ratemyteachers, and that is destructive.
The evince document reader has had a problem of displaying pdf file with small writing. Try to open a random physics article with evince and xpdf: http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0203118. Has problem this been solved in the latest version?
The two scientists have invented a nice way of visualizing repeated sequences in DNA, but the results are hardly controversial. They are doing something along the following lines:
pixel(x,y) = getcolor(DNAsequence(x + 256*y))
People taste Greenland beer in Copenhagen. The new beer is said to taste cleaner and smoother. A brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from the ice cap of the vast Arctic island.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5234194.stm
I have no problem with the fact that Roland Piquepaille makes money while posting articles to slashdot, and frankly he often links to interesting stories. The problem is that he doesn't write good summaries. He always seems to miss a small detail that later proves to be the point of the whole story. We all have to browse through the comments to find a reader that can explain the missing pieces. Todays story was pretty good though.
The grad students are chosen from their score nationwide entrance exams. These exams are necesary, because it is the only practical way to find the best few percent of the students, and they have to be standardised and nationwide to avoid local inflation and corruption.
The problem is that the education system ends up training students for the entrance exam rather than for a future life as a researcher. This means that they have to be reeducated a bit when they start doing their Ph.D. However an Indian Ph.D. takes 5 years to aquire, so my impression is that the students have time to change.
Without knowing you or you son, it sounds like you ought to let go. I don't think that RFID is good for kids. They need freedom to learn to take care om themselves.
Alternatively you can give him one of those new mobile phone with GPS, then you can always keep track of him. This way you can also ask him to do some shopping, if you notice him hanging out at the mall close to eating time.
If you read the original article instead of Roland Piquepailles summary (RTOAIORPS), you will notice that the cells are frozen:
For years, biologists have wrestled with conventional diamond or glass knives, which cut frozen cell samples at a large angle, forcing the samples to bend and sometimes later crack.
By the way I just found this on the web.. a little outdated, but fairly interesting and promising:
OpenUsability Sponsored Student Project: GIMP
OpenUsability is proud to announce the offering of a series of sponsored student projects. As the first project, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has been chosen. We are looking for a student in usability or interaction architecture who wants to work on designing the user interface for the next generation of GIMP.
If you are a student of usability, user-interface or interaction design and want to enrich your education with a hands-on experience don't hesistate to apply:
Good scholars know references to a lot of technical literature to prove their claims. How helpful is it to add such citations to Wikipedia articles? Can technical citations prevent an article from being reversed?
At the moment I am using GNOME 2.8 on Sarge and 2.14 on Ubuntu, and frankly I don't feel much of a difference. Of course 2.14 is more polished, but 2.8 is still quite usable. I doubt that the difference between GNOME 2.14 and GNOME 2.16 will be substantial.
A lot of users were unhappy with the late release of Sarge, but now it looks like the development of GNOME and KDE have slowed down. At least the results are less visible. If GNOME continues at this pace then it is perfectly OK for me to live with a 18 month release cycle.
GNOME allows me to add an emblem to a file. The available emblems include: Favorite, urgent, special, and "Oh no". I always wondered if anybody really makes use of these emblems.
If yes: How are they useful? (Please enlighten me)
Note that Google base doesn't allow me to leave feedback on the seller. ebay and Amazon seem to have better fraud detection. After all online shopping is a matter of trust.
The packages in ubuntu universe are not being maintained. Many packages have missing files. (Take the erlang library needed by wings3d as an example).
The Ubuntu guys are doing great work, but I am considering to switch back to Sarge.
My only grudge is that the when Sarge becomes outdated, then Etch will not have security updates.
The technical people in India and other third-world countries already have a standard of living that's equal or above their counterparts in the USA and Europe. Their wages only seem so low because the money exchanges aren't linear.
How many rupees do indian programmers earn per month? 30000?
At the moment I have a position research fellow on a university in Bangalore, and as far as I can see the indian researchers have a somewhat lower standard of living than their (northern) European colleges. But I must admit that I don't know the difference in salaries for programmers.
BTW: Bangalore is a nice place. I can only encourage slashdot readers to go there if they get the chance:)
Ubuntu is the reason why I did not switch to Mandrake. I still plan to switch back to Debian if they manage to speed up their release cycle by focusing on fewer architectures. Actually I think that Debian should be grateful that users like me have an option to stay in "Debian space" rather than leaving it for good.
(No I don't contribute to FOSS, but others do)
Re:So are any of the data sets Useful yet?
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Is Code Monkey Publishing going to produce datasets that work with the new version of pcgen? The last I heard was that they had forked pcgen 5.6 to create their own client.
I think that Code Monkey Publishing could boost their sales by making such information easier to find on the website.
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I am too lazy to read the entire article. Could someone post a 5 line summary of what the guy is trying to say?
Ideally the slashdot abstract of the article should have provided me this 5 line abstract, but somehow the slashdot editor failed at this task.
How about allowing users to submit an alternate abstract to a story in the firehose. Sometimes the links in a slashdot story are placed in a confusing way or the abstract would gain from some extra information. If you allow users to submit a complete alternate abstract then it is easy for the editor to choose the best abstract for the story. Eventually the readers will gain.
The new hortibot looks suspiciously similar to a remote controlled lawnmoder that tragically killed a danish gardener 2 months ago. Do we really want to add autonomous control to that machine?r -kills-danish-man-begins-resistance/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/robot-lawnmowe
http://www.hortibot.dk/index.html
India has a much narrower income distribution than the US. (Note that you need to plot the logarithm of the income in order to calculate percentage changes in income between the rich and the poor) http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/applications/in come-distribution-2003.html
Have a look at this page. They have Shrek as well. I think he is fairly recent. http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1678
Furthermore a teacher has to be able to assume authority in the class. After all part of his job is to teach kids how to behave. Now imagine a mediocre teacher that has got a bad rating on this site. I don't think that this rating will help him control the kids. Of course we could argue that all the mediocre teachers should be fired, but right now it is difficult for schools to attract good employees. They don't get better employees by firing the worst 25% of the teachers.
If a weak teacher cannot control a class, then it is important that other teachers offer to help out. In the worst case one of them have to take over the class. The result is that the worst classes aren't given to the worst teachers. If the system works well, then the good teachers must feel that they get some social credit by taking over troubled classes. The problem is that this social credit is not visible on ratemyteachers, and that is destructive.
The evince document reader has had a problem of displaying pdf file with small writing. Try to open a random physics article with evince and xpdf: http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0203118. Has problem this been solved in the latest version?
Get a bluescreen, film yourself and enter openmortal http://openmortal.sourceforge.net/ OK it's 2D and singleplayer, but it's still really cool.
The two scientists have invented a nice way of visualizing repeated sequences in DNA, but the results are hardly controversial. They are doing something along the following lines: pixel(x,y) = getcolor(DNAsequence(x + 256*y))
The article claims that the mass extinsion took place 300000 years after the impact. The sound wave should have died out by then,
People taste Greenland beer in Copenhagen. The new beer is said to taste cleaner and smoother. A brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from the ice cap of the vast Arctic island. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5234194.stm
I have no problem with the fact that Roland Piquepaille makes money while posting articles to slashdot, and frankly he often links to interesting stories. The problem is that he doesn't write good summaries. He always seems to miss a small detail that later proves to be the point of the whole story. We all have to browse through the comments to find a reader that can explain the missing pieces. Todays story was pretty good though.
The problem is that the education system ends up training students for the entrance exam rather than for a future life as a researcher. This means that they have to be reeducated a bit when they start doing their Ph.D. However an Indian Ph.D. takes 5 years to aquire, so my impression is that the students have time to change.
Alternatively you can give him one of those new mobile phone with GPS, then you can always keep track of him. This way you can also ask him to do some shopping, if you notice him hanging out at the mall close to eating time.
For years, biologists have wrestled with conventional diamond or glass knives, which cut frozen cell samples at a large angle, forcing the samples to bend and sometimes later crack.
How many percent of the US citizens would be able to afford broadband if it was available everywhere? I have numbers for the exact income distributions, but US has significantly larger social differences than Europe and Japan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Poverty_Index
By the way I just found this on the web.. a little outdated, but fairly interesting and promising:
g imp.html
OpenUsability Sponsored Student Project: GIMP
OpenUsability is proud to announce the offering of a series of sponsored student projects. As the first project, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has been chosen. We are looking for a student in usability or interaction architecture who wants to work on designing the user interface for the next generation of GIMP.
If you are a student of usability, user-interface or interaction design and want to enrich your education with a hands-on experience don't hesistate to apply:
http://www.openusability.org/studentprojects
http://openusability.org/projects/gimp/
http://www.gimp.org/announcements/open-usability-
Good scholars know references to a lot of technical literature to prove their claims. How helpful is it to add such citations to Wikipedia articles? Can technical citations prevent an article from being reversed?
A lot of users were unhappy with the late release of Sarge, but now it looks like the development of GNOME and KDE have slowed down. At least the results are less visible. If GNOME continues at this pace then it is perfectly OK for me to live with a 18 month release cycle.
If yes: How are they useful? (Please enlighten me)
If no: Why are they there?
Note that Google base doesn't allow me to leave feedback on the seller. ebay and Amazon seem to have better fraud detection. After all online shopping is a matter of trust.
The Ubuntu guys are doing great work, but I am considering to switch back to Sarge. My only grudge is that the when Sarge becomes outdated, then Etch will not have security updates.
How many rupees do indian programmers earn per month? 30000?
At the moment I have a position research fellow on a university in Bangalore, and as far as I can see the indian researchers have a somewhat lower standard of living than their (northern) European colleges. But I must admit that I don't know the difference in salaries for programmers.
BTW: Bangalore is a nice place. I can only encourage slashdot readers to go there if they get the chance :)
(No I don't contribute to FOSS, but others do)
I think that Code Monkey Publishing could boost their sales by making such information easier to find on the website.
http://www.codemonkeypublishing.com/