Pappa Ratzi, formerly leader of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has long demonstrated his respect for the advances of Workers, Women, Minorities, Scholars, Physicians, Educators and the Poor.
It's obviously in his DNA, from handmade slipper/shoes to his diamond crusted golden Miter.
I hereby rescind my Apple-phobia. Jobs has achieved a BIG GOOD THING. Good on ya, Steve!/you'll still have to pry my iRiver out of my twitching, techno-spazzed fingers.
The Van Allen Belts themselves are created by our magnetic poles, which may be unreliable The elevator ribbon itself may be a great source of electrical power, which could be dissipated quite effectively by powering magnetic sheildin. It may be a real case of synergy?
Just gotta chime in. If I'm chatting, I can do much faster, but the online tests give me about 55 wpm. I know it's not impressive at all, but there it is.
I found a scooter to be the ideal transport in Madison, but this was back in '88. I think the one think they could have done there to encourage mass transit and walking is beer. Allow beer on the buses, allow beer in hand while walking, and no-one in Madtown, Wisconsin would care about driving around. Except the legislature... no, wait... beer should work for them too...
I can't believe no-one has mentioned these yet. I doubt you need something that's going to handle being in a pocket next to the hammer loop in your carpenters pants. I assume your disposables sit in the glove box of the foreman's truck until needed? If so, the Nikon should work just dandy for you. The lens rotates into the camera body when not in use, all motorized parts are sealed, and all openings (cf card door, USB port) have gaskets. The one downside may be the rechargeable LIon battery, but you're not likely to lose much charge in storage. My 990 has survived nearly a year of accompanying me in a pocket or backpack every day (okay, almost every day) and a couple drops on hard surfaces. You may want to consider one of these.
...That's the value of the button on the Browser Limitations page when I log in... My browser reports the user agent as Space Bison. I'm actually using IE 6, but my proxy [proxomitron] reports whatever I want, though that's the default. I had no problem updating my |options|personal profile. If the page is actually detecting my browser by sniffing DOM objects and specially allowing me, I'd be surprised, but if you MOZ/Konq/Opera users are actually blocked from updating that would really suck. The whole trick sucks, but M$ isn't the first (yahoo betrayed me some time ago). My demographic info is probably all over the place, but in both cases they've only managed to poison their databases. All the info I gave them was spoofed, except for the hotmail address, which I mainly use as a spam-sink anyway. So, I guess that's my moral to the story... don't just use these services... USE them. Everyone that asks for your demographic info is giving you the opportunity to make ALL of that database less valid and less useful. This really is an opportunity.
Wow. This is the first I can recall of reading about this bill. I read the Strib daily, and have MPR on, at least as background, maybe 8 hrs a day. I guess I just need to pay better attention. But this is triffic news, really, even if it ends up being opt in, I for one, will opt to keep my info private. I've always been happy with my ISP - signed up with minn.net in '94, staying with them for DSL saved me hella pain when Qwest screwed all their subscribers while turning them over to the Beast of Redmond. I doubt they would have sold my info before they got bought out about 1.5 year ago, now I just don't know, and I'll be very glad that I don't have to just trust them.
(BTW, I'm still very happy with minn.net, now owned by Boss technologies, they were great while I set up DSL, they just aren't the good ol' isp I originally signed up with.)
If you are going to use Windows software from untrusted (i.e. most everyone, especially M$) sources you must take steps to protect yourself. First, trust your gut. Does the developer "smell funny"? Is the software from a startup company with no visible means of revenue? I tend to trust programs created by individuals or small teams that demonstrate some passion for what they do (EAC, or LAME for example)
Then, get Technological on their ass. Start with a personal firewall that monitors all outgoing traffic. Zone Alarm is the one I trust - gut feelings, and I've read some negative things about Black ICE. Amaze and astound your friends as you block requests from RealPlayer, Windows Update, and other "legitimate" programs that like to access the net without asking permission.
Then get Ad Aware and get that sinking feeling as you see the total number of unauthorized programs, components, and services on your system.
Finally, install Proxomitron to make make your browser behave a bit more politely by re-writing the html it sees before it sees it (and find yet another reason to love Shonen Knife. They're way kawaii!)
Forewarned and fore-armed (hairy ones, even), you stand a much better chance of maintaining control of your system.
No, I'm using neutrino detection as an example. It's also illustrative of a point: we no longer do science by observing phenomena and developing theories to explain them, but do the exact opposite instead. So we don't have theory predicting small-scale fusion that we need to go out and prove, so it must be hokum? And no, I wasn't talking about heating palladium to 10 million Kelvin - I was suggesting something like sintering might be required to create a matrix that can catalyze fusion. What I think alot of people here are confusing is temperature vs heat. An effective temp of 10 million K across the volume of a couple deuterium molecules in a collapsing bubble or metal matrix for the time fusion takes doesn't seem that improbable. It's certainly not enough heat to make the whole apparatus very hot.
Plasma physicists have been working on it for a long time
Which justifies dismissing all other approaches? Plasma physics' attempts at sustainable, break even fusion reactions have been a dismal failure, but the dismissive attitude toward other approaches smells of contempt for "lesser" sciences challenging the status of high energy physics.
IANAHEP: I am not a high energy physicist, just dissapointed to see controversial findings shouted down even on/.
Ok, initial comment on this story has been very negative, but... The original Pons et. al. findings also claimed neutron production. So do those results all indicate experimental error or log-book-cooking that would make Michael Fastow weep with fatherly pride? Ever heard this one? Q: What does a neutrino detector actually detect? A: The presence of funding. Theorists were convinced that neutrinos would be observed jumping from tau to mu versions...whatever that means... and it's just the tech hasn't caught up to make an observation? Is it just possible that it's a matter of technology to produce tabletop/cold fusion? Heat treating the metal or something? High temp superconducting seems to still be a alot of hit or miss experimentation. Why would cold fusion be so different a technology from that? Or am I just a clever troll?
I'll probably subscribe... as soon as an alternative to PayPal is offered. But, since they have the scripting in place to count my pageviews, I'd like to get an idea of my habits before I buy. I'm pretty sure I view between 200 and 2000/. pages a month. Does this include all my homepage refreshes? I'd like to get a handle on how much to purchase first (the fewer transactions the better), and I think you guys could help me out on this... (Or are you afraid everyone will freak out when they realize that they actually view 50,000 pages a month? 8~)
This is the argument I've made for a long time, and I think it's a strong one. The
Red Book standards lay out what a cd is, and the CD mark you see on the back of any disc you buy is supposed to be a guarantee that the enclosed software will play on all compatible hardware. Any copy-protected cd fails this test, and should not legally be sold as a compact audio disc.
This is great news, because it will take Phillips to enforce the standards
On any given page in my current project you are seeing the results of VBscript or JavaScript running on the server (ASP), usually JS running on the browser(for DHTML effects and validation), XML/XSLT (formatting large result sets and general neato-ness), and FoxPro (the database. Don't laugh, I'm trapped in an M$ shop, and FoxPro is the most subversive dev tool we use (no licensing for server, just whip up a COM, and it kicks M$QL's ass))
This seems pretty common in the Web world, and yes, it explains alot... but I definitely try to pick the right tool for the job (dates are easier to handle in VBS, but forget about regular expressions, that's a job for JS).
I think I'd get bored quick if I had to develop in on language. Then again, it might lead to a deep understanding of the language.
were you thinking when you decided to use THE WORST browser ever to view websites, much less decide if a page would view correctly? NS4x has many flaws beyond it's implementation of CSS... greatest being, in my opinion, the entire concept of layers. Aaaackphhthhhttt! No, the page doesn't validate... why? Fatal Error: no document type declaration. Oohh, ouch. Funny, but http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ has the same problem. But it validates. Hmmm... Slashdot homepage sports about 130 odd errors... why don't you pick on a page your own size?
Looking forward to your review... I may as well pick that up in the meantime. Keep up the good work!
Decent XSL Reference anyone?
on
XML in a Nutshell
·
· Score: 3, Informative
I've accumulated a wide variety of links to resources that have 1 or 2 useful items... but I need the equivalent of an O'Reilly 'Definitive Guide' for XSL. Something that's heavy on Xpath, code examples and other red meat.
I agree with the first post flamebait to an extent; XML is all well and good, nice way for my database guy to get me the goods for Web presentation, but I need to DO something with that data.
The answer is XSL, but i've had to blunder around for what works. There isn't even a decent FAQ anywhere, that I know of. Suggestions anyone? Following is a list of links i've found useful; please don't send me to any of those...
I don't know why I feel sorry for Hemos, but here it is: when a story is posted text in italics is written by the person who suggested the story (in this case bubblywatr)while the slashdot staff post in plaintext. I'm sure Hemos makes enough mistakes without us attributing other people's to him.
Ahh...Injection-molding. I don't understand how you could do composites with that, but then, I'm not a fab expert, just excited by the idea of cheap composite manufacturing. Obviously, this stuff is a bit beyond building a canoe 8~). I think that the vibration/(relatively)low-pressure combination is a plausible way to address those kinds of defects. With carbon-fiber, that frees you worry about strand orientation and resin schtuff. The Really Cool Thing here, I think, is that this might be within the realm of the garage workshop. I would looove to fab my own composites (that don't de-laminate when looked at wrong)!
... Because they don't read the article before commenting either. From the article:
Dr Hodgkin, says that the Quickstep process is a fast fabrication method for making very high quality (to aerospace standard) composite products without using an autoclave.... The process has superior performance to autoclave, vacuum and atmospheric curing methods in terms of strength, stiffness and appearance."
I appreciate that you have an understanding of the topic, due to the detailed nature of your comment, but I almost skipped the article after reading what you had to say. But, apparently,
The vaccuum used in an autoclave is necessary to 'suck' out airpockets
is actually 60-200 psi.
As far as the recycling thing goes, you may have a point. But, as far as I can tell, recycling technologies are usually developed after a manufacturing technology.
I want to be free to raise my children without having to have them exposed to drugs. Simple as that.
Then enjoy your new life in Singapore. Just don't make my so-called 'Land of the Free' any more unfree in your quest for a perfect Disneyland
for the children
And don't do anything silly while in Singapore either, like chewing gum. That's illegal there too, you know.
For those that enjoyed the gorgeous set design and mind-blowing soundtrack of the orignial movie, and who, like me, found found it's obscurity and ambiguousness of plot and language as engaging and intrigueing as it was in the book, there is hope. The story-board/narration techniques of the director's cut may not be the final word on that effort. There is supposed to be enough material to be edited into 15 HOURS of film. So much was excluded, but perhaps it could be salvaged someday... (wish I had a link to a quote of the above info, I believe it was the director's daughter who said that...)
Slashdot Mirror
Pappa Ratzi, formerly leader of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has long demonstrated
his respect for the advances of Workers, Women, Minorities, Scholars, Physicians, Educators and the Poor.
It's obviously in his DNA, from handmade slipper/shoes to his diamond crusted golden Miter.
Poor, misunderstood fella.
I hereby rescind my Apple-phobia. Jobs has achieved a BIG GOOD THING. /you'll still have to pry my iRiver out of my twitching, techno-spazzed fingers.
Good on ya, Steve!
The Van Allen Belts themselves are created by our magnetic poles, which may be unreliable
The elevator ribbon itself may be a great source of electrical power, which could be dissipated quite effectively
by powering magnetic sheildin. It may be a real case of synergy?
Just gotta chime in. If I'm chatting, I can do much faster, but the online tests give me about 55 wpm. I know it's not impressive at all, but there it is.
I found a scooter to be the ideal transport in Madison, but this was back in '88. I think the one think they could have done there to encourage mass transit and walking is beer. Allow beer on the buses, allow beer in hand while walking, and no-one in Madtown, Wisconsin would care about driving around. Except the legislature... no, wait... beer should work for them too...
I have to thank the Martians for providing a perfect new wallpaper for my desktop... anyone able to point me to a bigger version of this?
I can't believe no-one has mentioned these yet. I doubt you need something that's going to handle being in a pocket next to the hammer loop in your carpenters pants. I assume your disposables sit in the glove box of the foreman's truck until needed? If so, the Nikon should work just dandy for you. The lens rotates into the camera body when not in use, all motorized parts are sealed, and all openings (cf card door, USB port) have gaskets. The one downside may be the rechargeable LIon battery, but you're not likely to lose much charge in storage. My 990 has survived nearly a year of accompanying me in a pocket or backpack every day (okay, almost every day) and a couple drops on hard surfaces. You may want to consider one of these.
So, I guess that's my moral to the story... don't just use these services... USE them. Everyone that asks for your demographic info is giving you the opportunity to make ALL of that database less valid and less useful. This really is an opportunity.
Wow. This is the first I can recall of reading about this bill. I read the Strib daily, and have MPR on, at least as background, maybe 8 hrs a day.
I guess I just need to pay better attention. But this is triffic news, really, even if it ends up being opt in, I for one, will opt to keep my info private.
I've always been happy with my ISP - signed up with minn.net in '94, staying with them for DSL saved me hella pain when Qwest screwed all their subscribers while turning them over to the Beast of Redmond. I doubt they would have sold my info before they got bought out about 1.5 year ago, now I just don't know, and I'll be very glad that I don't have to just trust them.
(BTW, I'm still very happy with minn.net, now owned by Boss technologies, they were great while I set up DSL, they just aren't the good ol' isp I
originally signed up with.)
If you are going to use Windows software from untrusted (i.e. most everyone, especially M$) sources you must take steps to protect yourself. First, trust your gut. Does the developer "smell funny"? Is the software from a startup company with no visible means of revenue? I tend to trust programs created by individuals or small teams that demonstrate some passion for what they do (EAC, or LAME for example)
Then, get Technological on their ass. Start with a personal firewall that monitors all outgoing traffic. Zone Alarm is the one I trust - gut feelings, and I've read some negative things about Black ICE. Amaze and astound your friends as you block requests from RealPlayer, Windows Update, and other "legitimate" programs that like to access the net without asking permission.
Then get Ad Aware and get that sinking feeling as you see the total number of unauthorized programs, components, and services on your system.
Finally, install Proxomitron to make make your browser behave a bit more politely by re-writing the html it sees before it sees it (and find yet another reason to love Shonen Knife. They're way kawaii!)
Forewarned and fore-armed (hairy ones, even), you stand a much better chance of maintaining control of your system.
No, I'm using neutrino detection as an example. It's also illustrative of a point: we no longer do science by observing phenomena and developing theories to explain them, but do the exact opposite instead. So we don't have theory predicting small-scale fusion that we need to go out and prove, so it must be hokum? And no, I wasn't talking about heating palladium to 10 million Kelvin - I was suggesting something like sintering might be required to create a matrix that can catalyze fusion. What I think alot of people here are confusing is temperature vs heat. An effective temp of 10 million K across the volume of a couple deuterium molecules in a collapsing bubble or metal matrix for the time fusion takes doesn't seem that improbable.
/.
It's certainly not enough heat to make the whole apparatus very hot.
Plasma physicists have been working on it for a long time
Which justifies dismissing all other approaches? Plasma physics' attempts at sustainable, break even fusion reactions have been a dismal failure, but the dismissive attitude toward other approaches smells of contempt for "lesser" sciences challenging the status of high energy physics.
IANAHEP: I am not a high energy physicist, just dissapointed to see controversial findings shouted down even on
Ok, initial comment on this story has been very negative, but... The original Pons et. al. findings also claimed neutron production. So do those results all indicate experimental error or log-book-cooking that would make Michael Fastow weep with fatherly pride? Ever heard this one? ...whatever that means... and it's just the tech hasn't caught up to make an observation? Is it just possible that it's a matter of technology to produce tabletop/cold fusion? Heat treating the metal or something? High temp superconducting seems to still be a alot of hit or miss experimentation. Why would cold fusion be so different a technology from that?
Q: What does a neutrino detector actually detect?
A: The presence of funding.
Theorists were convinced that neutrinos would be observed jumping from tau to mu versions
Or am I just a clever troll?
I'll probably subscribe... as soon as an alternative to PayPal is offered. But, since they have the scripting in place to count my pageviews, I'd like to get an idea of my habits before I buy. I'm pretty sure I view between 200 and 2000 /. pages a month. Does this include all my homepage refreshes? I'd like to get a handle on how much to purchase first (the fewer transactions the better), and I think you guys could help me out on this...
(Or are you afraid everyone will freak out when they realize that they actually view 50,000 pages a month? 8~)
Good luck Taco, and Kathleen. A most auspicious begining!
This is the argument I've made for a long time, and I think it's a strong one. The Red Book standards lay out what a cd is, and the CD mark you see on the back of any disc you buy is supposed to be a guarantee that the enclosed software will play on all compatible hardware. Any copy-protected cd fails this test, and should not legally be sold as a compact audio disc.
This is great news, because it will take Phillips to enforce the standards
This seems pretty common in the Web world, and yes, it explains alot... but I definitely try to pick the right tool for the job (dates are easier to handle in VBS, but forget about regular expressions, that's a job for JS).
I think I'd get bored quick if I had to develop in on language. Then again, it might lead to a deep understanding of the language.
Of course, I could be wrong.
sorry, but there's an accent on the 3rd e, but I ferget how to display that...
Looking forward to your review... I may as well pick that up in the meantime. Keep up the good work!
I agree with the first post flamebait to an extent; XML is all well and good, nice way for my database guy to get me the goods for Web presentation, but I need to DO something with that data.
The answer is XSL, but i've had to blunder around for what works. There isn't even a decent FAQ anywhere, that I know of. Suggestions anyone? Following is a list of links i've found useful; please don't send me to any of those...
TIA
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/
http ://www.ucc.ie/xml/
http://www.vbxml.com/xsl/xsltref.asp
http://www.xmlhack.com/
http://www.xml.com/index.csp
http://www.xmlpitstop.com/ --very good!
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/
http://www.xslt.com/
Enjoy!
I don't know why I feel sorry for Hemos, but here it is: when a story is posted text in italics is written by the person who suggested the story (in this case bubblywatr)while the slashdot staff post in plaintext. I'm sure Hemos makes enough mistakes without us attributing other people's to him.
Ahh...Injection-molding. I don't understand how you could do composites with that, but then, I'm not a fab expert, just excited by the idea of cheap composite manufacturing. Obviously, this stuff is a bit beyond building a canoe 8~). I think that the vibration/(relatively)low-pressure combination is a plausible way to address those kinds of defects. With carbon-fiber, that frees you worry about strand orientation and resin schtuff. The Really Cool Thing here, I think, is that this might be within the realm of the garage workshop. I would looove to fab my own composites (that don't de-laminate when looked at wrong)!
... Because they don't read the article before commenting either. From the article:
... The process has superior performance to autoclave, vacuum and atmospheric curing methods in terms of strength, stiffness and appearance."
I appreciate that you have an understanding of the topic, due to the detailed nature of your comment, but I almost skipped the article after reading what you had to say. But, apparently,
Dr Hodgkin, says that the Quickstep process is a fast fabrication method for making very high quality (to aerospace standard) composite products without using an autoclave.
The vaccuum used in an autoclave is necessary to 'suck' out airpockets
is actually 60-200 psi. As far as the recycling thing goes, you may have a point. But, as far as I can tell, recycling technologies are usually developed after a manufacturing technology.
And don't do anything silly while in Singapore either, like chewing gum. That's illegal there too, you know.
For those that enjoyed the gorgeous set design and mind-blowing soundtrack of the orignial movie, and who, like me, found found it's obscurity and ambiguousness of plot and language as engaging and intrigueing as it was in the book, there is hope. The story-board/narration techniques of the director's cut may not be the final word on that effort. There is supposed to be enough material to be edited into 15 HOURS of film. So much was excluded, but perhaps it could be salvaged someday... (wish I had a link to a quote of the above info, I believe it was the director's daughter who said that...)