Public surveys are nothing new, especially when it comes to higher learning.... When you get right down to it, education is about getting more done with less effort. No matter which path this researcher takes, either in private study or through public survey, his results will be inconclusive. When results are inconclusive, why bother with theory and intense study? I'd phone this one in too, if I were him. Or, perhaps, choose a different topic.
Read the article at the top.... It mentions a 10-year-old kid singing "Lose Yourself", but I'm pretty sure the commercial had some kid standing around with his ipod and buds in his ears, rapping out (a bit faster than the actual song) "I'm the real shady youse the real shady please stand up please stand up" lyrics. It was a pretty disgusting image and a pathetic commercial. I'll take Microsoft's self-righteous commercials about helping kids reach their goals and striving farther over that Mac ad any day.
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Most solutions only go up to ten.... These go to eleven.
No, Kmail is a component used by Kontact. I hate analogies, but saying Internet Expoler supports SWF is completely different than saying you can view SWFs in Internet Explorer by installing the Flash Player plugin.
If KDE guys want to brag about the fast loading screen in Kontact, fine. Just don't go comparing it to a loading screen used by a production-use e-mail client that needs to prep tons of mail prior to loading. Then again, I'm not even sure how much a loaded-down Kmail would obliterate the pro-kontact arguments.
Kontact makes no bones about using another component, Kmail, for the e-mail... but forget this, I said what I said, and stand by it. I see even LESS of a reason to use splash screens in this sort of structure, as there should be little or no wait for the framework and basic interface to load first, with status of components such as KMail (loading up and sorting however many gigs of mail one might have on their machine) displayed in a message bar of some sort.
Evolution provides an e-mail client. It needs to handle my fairly massive collection of mailboxes. I know what I'm talking about... They compare in features about as well as you can compare a moped to a chopper.
false. (unless they edited this too) the power plug in is on the right side if you are looking at towards the LCD screen.
Trust me, I do this professionally, they probably did edit it. If it looks better to mirror an image so the computer dude is on the left side rather than the right, we WILL mirror the image.
Shockingly enough, ad photos of telephone operators usually have on unplugged headsets, and I think they are still using glue instead of milk on the front of breakfast cereal boxes.
"opens so fast you don't have time to view the splashscreen"....
Isn't the fact there's a splashscreen on something as simple as a contacts accessory a bit of a problem? You don't see your average calcultor or text editor equipped with splash screens, do you? All I'm saying is that it sounds a bit immature.
Honestly, the last episode of that show I remember is where they found the "Wolf" "Ram" and "Hart" books, which was pretty cool continuity..... So obviously, I don't actively watch, or really any TV lately. Still, yesterday:
: Hey, did you know that Buffy's dead?
: No, but who cares...? Angel's been dead the entire time.
I just wish the SVG themers could come up with even a single aesthetically pleasing and extensive collection of file icons. The button themes are good already.
It looks like SVG filters will likely be in GNOME 2.8 through librsvg, starting with blurs, which are needed to do decent shadow effects on the icons. Also, I hear that someone's has been working on non-icon SVGs for GNOME.
I never passed judgement.... Just stating a simple fact. Almost every time we check someone who is acting suspiciously enough that we need to investigate, that's usually all it turns up being.
I'm involved with an "Internet Center" in Temple, Texas. The city itself is pretty tame, so as far as gang problems, most parents will be about 5 times as worried about sending their kids to the local high school than they will to this internet cafe / LAN gaming center. We need parents to trust us if we are going to make any money, so we go out of our way to care....
The biggest problem with the submission of the story to slashdot is the saying something is "video is O-TAY!" is NOT the same as "the local government forced the cafe to videotape their patrons". I'm not entirely sure there is a government privacy issue here, because not only would videotaping have to be enforced, but there would also have to be a provision forcing businesses to hand over such videotape. The problem I see is not privacy, but rather with forcing only certain businesses to implement such security measures.
As far as privacy goes, forget it. When you sign up for an account with us, that right is signed away, and we can view your desktop from the register at any time to make sure you aren't surfing pornography or using our internet connection to break the law. They aren't your computers, not your connection, not your liability, no right to privacy. Of course, we don't really care about what you do, as long as it is within the guidlelines.
In case you guys are wondering, the vast majority of the time when we check people acting suspicious (standing in front of monitors, cranking the monitor over to the wall), it's just people visiting homosexual dating services.
"...on the other hand, the standards bodies have proven themselves helpless and hopeless when it comes to providing solutions."
E-mail is supposed to do a certain job, and it does that job well, at least from a technical standpoint. The problems with spam are identical to similar problems in every other arena, it's just that they seem worse because of the level of automation. Even if it wasn't automated, spam would still be a problem. With idiots knocking on my door every other week with a hard sale for everything from oil changes to chinese food, I'm starting to almost regret the do-not-call list, because I didn't have to worry as much about these degenerates (if you don't take "No" for an answer and walk away immmediately, you are a degenerate in my book, and very door-to-door jerkwad so far has been one) giving my wife a hard time.
Standards bodies can't do anything to fix human behavior, unfortunately.
For example, in the next couple of months, I predict that home and real estate owners will begin a massive "Own a dream home, safe in the privacy of the mojave desert." ad campaign in the coming weeks. It's only a matter of time before we get "for sale by owner" CAN-spam.
Subset was a short-term collaboration project between Sir Mix-A-Lot and The Presidents Of The United States Of America (PUSA). Some interesting stuff, Mix's raps over PUSA's grooves.
Ever since the wayback machine started making waves, I'd guess about 2 years ago, I've noticed 2 things: There are far less updates of the archives, and it seems that the archive is regularly unable to keep up with the client load we impose on it.
To be honest, I don't have a great answer for the second problem. The only thing that could help there is the passage of time and advancement of technology, really. For the first problem, though, perhaps a SETI-ish distributed "Heritrix" could help make regularly archiving all of these sites a managable affair. IA sends marching orders out to the distributed volunteer network, each clients downloads, compares MD5 of the pages with other clients, compresses them, and sends them back to a master archive. Sounds great in theory, at least at first, to me...
Then again, would I do this, or even continue the project if I was in charge? No, I wouldn't. While, ideally, every page on the internet would be in XHTML, striking a major blow against signal:noise (hey, my own page is XHTML validated, how about yours?), the vast majority of time spidering is undoubtable wasted on re-downloading several dozen kilobytes of dynamically generated junk surrounding the content on sites such as CNN.com... While it's a noble cause, it's also a futile one.
If you make a unified trailer hitch that will hook any load to any automobile, then you'll be sure to find someone trying to pull a truckload of anvils with a VW Rabbit.
This is a minor bit of neat hackery, nothing earth-shaking though, and nowhere near a step to unified environments.... If you want to create that illusion, surely it would be better to make something that creates two sets of themes (gtk and qt... or even more toolkits) from one single source, think DocBook. Fortunately, I don't think the author of this software claimed that he was trying to unify anyway.
It's an extended holiday, and any opinion peices you see during these days are little more than weak efforts to fill a quota. I would also assume that this article was posted on slashdot to fill a similar hole.
"Good for biz" != "Retail sales! Profit!"
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There is no one open source business model... in fact, open source tries to be as business agnostic as possible. What open source is, however, is an excellent software development model. There's plenty of people like my employer who use open source technologies and understand my obligations to patch, report bugs, and otherwise support the software we are exploiting. It helps us get our job done.
This falls right in line with Microsoft's modus operandi.... Deploy software, services, or technologies for free to expand the customer base of your products, then years later, force them into a "better", more tightly controlled product by making the old product unusable. In this case, perhaps if they charge for FAT but not NTFS, people will use NTFS instead. (Not that I'm familiar with NTFS, and the goal is probably XP-or-better oriented instead.)
Unless you happen to play Deus Ex 2....
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Dues Ex 2 players, generally, can expect their speeds to cap out at 15 fps, regardless of the video card in use or screen resolution.
"If you want to develop closed-source software, based on someone else's toolkit, you should have to pay for the privilege. "
What if I work for a company that encourages me to take part in these GPL projects and LGPL libraries, while developering their own closed source, commercial application that runs on top of that platform? I would do that with Qt, because it makes no sense to pay royalties on something I took part in developing. Whereas with Gtk+, I have incentive to know that profit-taking on my labor is not something that I can't take part in. (Example, look at the guys who sell WinGimp variants.)
The fact of the matter is that this happens all the time. If both Gtk and Qt forced commercial closed-source users to pay a royalty, I'd probably look for yet another toolkit to use instead.
Last I checked, there were about 4 or 5 different flavors of the discovery channel on my digital cable box. The big difference between CSPAN and Discovery is that CSPAN is mostly an open feed for anything that wants a voice in Washington, such as, recently, the Ultimate Warrior talking at length (rest assured, amazing signal-to-noise ratio) about rights and freedoms to a youth conference. I could be wrong, but there are not hundreds of professional scientists gathered in one area at a time to debate issues and topics on a 9-to-5 basis. A public set of channels simply wouldn't have any continuous content to feed off of, unlike CSPAN.
Discovery makes up for this with heavily-produced and well-funded edutainment. There is no CSPAN equivalent (24-hour cable networks aren't really "heavily produced"). The quality far outshines the quantity witnessed by CSPAN, though. Almost everything from TechTV's "Big Thinkers" featuring interviews with Michio Kaku and Lessig (reading a release form...~"'I waive all right to claims I make in this interview and the ability to collect royalites from TechTV and parent companies etc. etc.'... I'm not going to sign this.") to "Monster Garage" is tastefully presented and very captivating to watch.
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Public surveys are nothing new, especially when it comes to higher learning.... When you get right down to it, education is about getting more done with less effort. No matter which path this researcher takes, either in private study or through public survey, his results will be inconclusive. When results are inconclusive, why bother with theory and intense study? I'd phone this one in too, if I were him. Or, perhaps, choose a different topic.
Read the article at the top.... It mentions a 10-year-old kid singing "Lose Yourself", but I'm pretty sure the commercial had some kid standing around with his ipod and buds in his ears, rapping out (a bit faster than the actual song) "I'm the real shady youse the real shady please stand up please stand up" lyrics. It was a pretty disgusting image and a pathetic commercial. I'll take Microsoft's self-righteous commercials about helping kids reach their goals and striving farther over that Mac ad any day.
Most solutions only go up to ten.... These go to eleven.
No, Kmail is a component used by Kontact. I hate analogies, but saying Internet Expoler supports SWF is completely different than saying you can view SWFs in Internet Explorer by installing the Flash Player plugin.
If KDE guys want to brag about the fast loading screen in Kontact, fine. Just don't go comparing it to a loading screen used by a production-use e-mail client that needs to prep tons of mail prior to loading. Then again, I'm not even sure how much a loaded-down Kmail would obliterate the pro-kontact arguments.
Kontact makes no bones about using another component, Kmail, for the e-mail ... but forget this, I said what I said, and stand by it. I see even LESS of a reason to use splash screens in this sort of structure, as there should be little or no wait for the framework and basic interface to load first, with status of components such as KMail (loading up and sorting however many gigs of mail one might have on their machine) displayed in a message bar of some sort.
Evolution provides an e-mail client. It needs to handle my fairly massive collection of mailboxes. I know what I'm talking about... They compare in features about as well as you can compare a moped to a chopper.
false. (unless they edited this too) the power plug in is on the right side if you are looking at towards the LCD screen.
Trust me, I do this professionally, they probably did edit it. If it looks better to mirror an image so the computer dude is on the left side rather than the right, we WILL mirror the image.
Shockingly enough, ad photos of telephone operators usually have on unplugged headsets, and I think they are still using glue instead of milk on the front of breakfast cereal boxes.
"opens so fast you don't have time to view the splashscreen"....
Isn't the fact there's a splashscreen on something as simple as a contacts accessory a bit of a problem? You don't see your average calcultor or text editor equipped with splash screens, do you? All I'm saying is that it sounds a bit immature.
Honestly, the last episode of that show I remember is where they found the "Wolf" "Ram" and "Hart" books, which was pretty cool continuity..... So obviously, I don't actively watch, or really any TV lately. Still, yesterday:
: Hey, did you know that Buffy's dead?
: No, but who cares...? Angel's been dead the entire time.
That's all I wanted to say.
I just wish the SVG themers could come up with even a single aesthetically pleasing and extensive collection of file icons. The button themes are good already. It looks like SVG filters will likely be in GNOME 2.8 through librsvg, starting with blurs, which are needed to do decent shadow effects on the icons. Also, I hear that someone's has been working on non-icon SVGs for GNOME.
I never passed judgement.... Just stating a simple fact. Almost every time we check someone who is acting suspiciously enough that we need to investigate, that's usually all it turns up being.
I'm involved with an "Internet Center" in Temple, Texas. The city itself is pretty tame, so as far as gang problems, most parents will be about 5 times as worried about sending their kids to the local high school than they will to this internet cafe / LAN gaming center. We need parents to trust us if we are going to make any money, so we go out of our way to care....
The biggest problem with the submission of the story to slashdot is the saying something is "video is O-TAY!" is NOT the same as "the local government forced the cafe to videotape their patrons". I'm not entirely sure there is a government privacy issue here, because not only would videotaping have to be enforced, but there would also have to be a provision forcing businesses to hand over such videotape. The problem I see is not privacy, but rather with forcing only certain businesses to implement such security measures.
As far as privacy goes, forget it. When you sign up for an account with us, that right is signed away, and we can view your desktop from the register at any time to make sure you aren't surfing pornography or using our internet connection to break the law. They aren't your computers, not your connection, not your liability, no right to privacy. Of course, we don't really care about what you do, as long as it is within the guidlelines.
In case you guys are wondering, the vast majority of the time when we check people acting suspicious (standing in front of monitors, cranking the monitor over to the wall), it's just people visiting homosexual dating services.
"...on the other hand, the standards bodies have proven themselves helpless and hopeless when it comes to providing solutions."
E-mail is supposed to do a certain job, and it does that job well, at least from a technical standpoint. The problems with spam are identical to similar problems in every other arena, it's just that they seem worse because of the level of automation. Even if it wasn't automated, spam would still be a problem. With idiots knocking on my door every other week with a hard sale for everything from oil changes to chinese food, I'm starting to almost regret the do-not-call list, because I didn't have to worry as much about these degenerates (if you don't take "No" for an answer and walk away immmediately, you are a degenerate in my book, and very door-to-door jerkwad so far has been one) giving my wife a hard time.
Standards bodies can't do anything to fix human behavior, unfortunately.
For example, in the next couple of months, I predict that home and real estate owners will begin a massive "Own a dream home, safe in the privacy of the mojave desert." ad campaign in the coming weeks. It's only a matter of time before we get "for sale by owner" CAN-spam.
Subset was a short-term collaboration project between Sir Mix-A-Lot and The Presidents Of The United States Of America (PUSA). Some interesting stuff, Mix's raps over PUSA's grooves.
Ever since the wayback machine started making waves, I'd guess about 2 years ago, I've noticed 2 things: There are far less updates of the archives, and it seems that the archive is regularly unable to keep up with the client load we impose on it.
To be honest, I don't have a great answer for the second problem. The only thing that could help there is the passage of time and advancement of technology, really. For the first problem, though, perhaps a SETI-ish distributed "Heritrix" could help make regularly archiving all of these sites a managable affair. IA sends marching orders out to the distributed volunteer network, each clients downloads, compares MD5 of the pages with other clients, compresses them, and sends them back to a master archive. Sounds great in theory, at least at first, to me...
Then again, would I do this, or even continue the project if I was in charge? No, I wouldn't. While, ideally, every page on the internet would be in XHTML, striking a major blow against signal:noise (hey, my own page is XHTML validated, how about yours?), the vast majority of time spidering is undoubtable wasted on re-downloading several dozen kilobytes of dynamically generated junk surrounding the content on sites such as CNN.com... While it's a noble cause, it's also a futile one.
If you make a unified trailer hitch that will hook any load to any automobile, then you'll be sure to find someone trying to pull a truckload of anvils with a VW Rabbit.
This is a minor bit of neat hackery, nothing earth-shaking though, and nowhere near a step to unified environments.... If you want to create that illusion, surely it would be better to make something that creates two sets of themes (gtk and qt... or even more toolkits) from one single source, think DocBook. Fortunately, I don't think the author of this software claimed that he was trying to unify anyway.
It's an extended holiday, and any opinion peices you see during these days are little more than weak efforts to fill a quota. I would also assume that this article was posted on slashdot to fill a similar hole.
There is no one open source business model... in fact, open source tries to be as business agnostic as possible. What open source is, however, is an excellent software development model. There's plenty of people like my employer who use open source technologies and understand my obligations to patch, report bugs, and otherwise support the software we are exploiting. It helps us get our job done.
You must be the only Counter-Strike player left that doesn't use aimbots.
Fortunately, if you can't reach the OnStar button once your arm's been sliced off, they will call you if a collision has been detected.
This falls right in line with Microsoft's modus operandi.... Deploy software, services, or technologies for free to expand the customer base of your products, then years later, force them into a "better", more tightly controlled product by making the old product unusable. In this case, perhaps if they charge for FAT but not NTFS, people will use NTFS instead. (Not that I'm familiar with NTFS, and the goal is probably XP-or-better oriented instead.)
Dues Ex 2 players, generally, can expect their speeds to cap out at 15 fps, regardless of the video card in use or screen resolution.
"If you want to develop closed-source software, based on someone else's toolkit, you should have to pay for the privilege. "
What if I work for a company that encourages me to take part in these GPL projects and LGPL libraries, while developering their own closed source, commercial application that runs on top of that platform? I would do that with Qt, because it makes no sense to pay royalties on something I took part in developing. Whereas with Gtk+, I have incentive to know that profit-taking on my labor is not something that I can't take part in. (Example, look at the guys who sell WinGimp variants.)
The fact of the matter is that this happens all the time. If both Gtk and Qt forced commercial closed-source users to pay a royalty, I'd probably look for yet another toolkit to use instead.
Sorry, I don't see this happening.
... I'm not going to sign this.") to "Monster Garage" is tastefully presented and very captivating to watch.
Last I checked, there were about 4 or 5 different flavors of the discovery channel on my digital cable box. The big difference between CSPAN and Discovery is that CSPAN is mostly an open feed for anything that wants a voice in Washington, such as, recently, the Ultimate Warrior talking at length (rest assured, amazing signal-to-noise ratio) about rights and freedoms to a youth conference. I could be wrong, but there are not hundreds of professional scientists gathered in one area at a time to debate issues and topics on a 9-to-5 basis. A public set of channels simply wouldn't have any continuous content to feed off of, unlike CSPAN.
Discovery makes up for this with heavily-produced and well-funded edutainment. There is no CSPAN equivalent (24-hour cable networks aren't really "heavily produced"). The quality far outshines the quantity witnessed by CSPAN, though. Almost everything from TechTV's "Big Thinkers" featuring interviews with Michio Kaku and Lessig (reading a release form...~"'I waive all right to claims I make in this interview and the ability to collect royalites from TechTV and parent companies etc. etc.'
I like what we've got, thank you.