This all reminds me of the Bash.org quote - " hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is."
So let's not create an IT Union that works in that model - let's make one that focuses on work conditions, from overtime compensation, on-call compensation or limitation, and workplace standards - non-RSI-inducing desks/keyboards, an a push for solid standards. what if we suddenly stopped bending over backwards to make sites IE compliant en masse? What if we couldn't be laid off because we were out on extended medical leave due to RSI, and could make our employer spring for DragonNS?
To paraphrase a friend of mine who's a classicist, clay tablets remain the only media that ages well over millennia and becomes stronger in fires...
Seriously, there's some long-term archival disks that I think the Smithsonian or Archive.org was working on a few years back if you really want to go down that road. It seems that CDs (plus a hard copy) are probably the best media if you're on a sane budget.
China is probably smart enough not to disappear any journalists for getting through the Great Firewall. Could the/. community set up a few new proxies, or educate journalists on how to ignore the firewall a la the 2006 guide to getting around most of the non-IP filtering (http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/)?
This seems like an excellent chance to get to play at breaking the firewall without risking dissident lives.
I believe you're right; and further, I think this will seriously endanger the One Laptop Per Child project. They were way out in front, and maintain a slight advantage thanks to some of their tech (screen, wifi, battery life, ruggedness) -- but it just takes one manufacturer to not be braindead to fill the market for low-power, high-portable, low-price, high-performance laptops.
Of course, it's possible that the best thing to fulfill OLPC's goal is for this exact thing to happen.
You're probably, unfortunately, on to something here.
Besides, if you're willing to pony up the cost of a crappy camcorded DVD/VCD of a Huge Action Movie, instead of the $10 to see it on the big screen with professional surround-sound... well, you probably wouldn't have gone to see the movie anyway.
The point of comparing Sugar to XP is to demonstrate what most of us predicted -- i.e., that XP is completely unsuitable for this application.
Exactly -- It seems... obvious? But the pushback (slashdotters in favor of Windows over Linux? Is it Opposite Day??) is pretty amazing. Sugar is built to be an educational tool; XP was built to be a business tool. There are many, many great arguments why XP is a bad idea for the OLPC XO; but they are often lost on people. TFA is just trying to do a straight, point-by-point comparison to show how bad XP really is as a replacement for Sugar.
Or worse, the Level 1 tech who insists you re-unplug/reboot after you're on the call. I realize it's a filter, but there's gotta be a "I'm not an idiot" trick to move, if not straight to level 2 support, at least past the first page of the call center manual.
Well, my Mom blogs actually. Still, my point stands -- responding to people who've reached the end of their rope in dealing with Comcast's horrific "normal" channels of support is not a good or sustainable support model, it's a PR defense move to quiet the most vociferous critics.
No, it's not good -- it's putting out fires. Good would be training their call center employees to solve problems (instead of reading, tediously, from the "unplug your modem, reboot all your computers..." book)
This approach is not addressing the thousands of comcast customers who don't blog or twitter or have a "voice" online, like my parents. They still get the usual craptastic comtastic customer support.
Funnily enough right next to that, where all those millions of tonnes of coal are moved each year there's a giant wind turbine, and the CSIRO has an alternative energy research centre overlooking the train yard that delivers the coal to the port that's also got wind turbines on top...
Already knowing some basic logic and science, I think I'll skip straight for courses in swimming, basic agriculture and animal husbandry, and other useful skills useful in a post-global-warming-disaster-scenario
To be fair, while China consumes 1,310,000,000 billion short tons of coal (and is the top coal consumer, 28.7% in these numbers); the US, with a fraction of the population, is right behind it at #2 with 1,060,000,000 B short tons (23.3%)
China is 16th worldwide in coal-per-capita; US is 5th, behind South Africa, N. Korea, Greece, and at #1 coal-per-capita, Australia, oddly enough.
The Scarecrow was almost a throw-away, half-villain. Which is fine, he was always kinda meh.
The dialog, especially some of the overly-breathy-batman lines, was painful.
Also, the buzzing sound before any Joker scene? Dear producers. We get it. It's blindingly obvious from the plot that something Really Bad is about to happen. OK? Please do not turn the buzz on again.
One of my friends worked at a place where you'd have to insert whitespace to place certain elements (variables, evals, etc.) to begin at a specific col in the code within every line; in addition to standard indentation of the line. At one level, I see the concept, but seriously - highlighting and search is made to solve the same problem there.
Also, having grown up near Houston - Texas is hot. I've not yet been to Australia, but summer in Texas regularly is 100-115 or so (~38-46C), with humidity, at least in the heavily populated parts of the state (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio) at 90-100%. That's MISERABLE. I lived in the tropics for almost 3 years and it was much more pleasant there than Texas in the dog days of summer.
That being said -- there's a LOT that could be done architecturally (Dallas, looking at you) to reduce this. Tract housing has this tendency to hack down all the (shade)trees and built nigh-yardless McMansions. Plants are great at absorbing heat, and trees provide shade -- a well placed shadetree over your southwestern exposure can really help cool your house down.
Basically I just want to weigh in -- AC is not an option in Texas; but that doesn't mean we can't reduce the energy draw from it.
Huh; I wonder if this will have a harder impact on the "in" crowd, good-ol-boy types; who are both more likely to try and get away with the "but he's a good boy" defense, and less likely to actually live as such.
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This all reminds me of the Bash.org quote - " hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is."
s/apartment/city/ ...
So let's not create an IT Union that works in that model - let's make one that focuses on work conditions, from overtime compensation, on-call compensation or limitation, and workplace standards - non-RSI-inducing desks/keyboards, an a push for solid standards. what if we suddenly stopped bending over backwards to make sites IE compliant en masse? What if we couldn't be laid off because we were out on extended medical leave due to RSI, and could make our employer spring for DragonNS?
There are many benefits to collective action.
Unless you're counting squirrel balls in the genitalia department...
But honestly folks, xkcd nailed this one a while back
http://xkcd.org/194/
To paraphrase a friend of mine who's a classicist, clay tablets remain the only media that ages well over millennia and becomes stronger in fires...
Seriously, there's some long-term archival disks that I think the Smithsonian or Archive.org was working on a few years back if you really want to go down that road. It seems that CDs (plus a hard copy) are probably the best media if you're on a sane budget.
Things I never thought I'd see, 257,645 : computer / Fawlty Towers puns. ...
Please stop; you're being reasonable.
China is probably smart enough not to disappear any journalists for getting through the Great Firewall. Could the /. community set up a few new proxies, or educate journalists on how to ignore the firewall a la the 2006 guide to getting around most of the non-IP filtering (http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/)?
This seems like an excellent chance to get to play at breaking the firewall without risking dissident lives.
Dropping Monica Goodling into that query returns 653 results in the last 2 years.
I believe you're right; and further, I think this will seriously endanger the One Laptop Per Child project. They were way out in front, and maintain a slight advantage thanks to some of their tech (screen, wifi, battery life, ruggedness) -- but it just takes one manufacturer to not be braindead to fill the market for low-power, high-portable, low-price, high-performance laptops.
Of course, it's possible that the best thing to fulfill OLPC's goal is for this exact thing to happen.
You're probably, unfortunately, on to something here.
Besides, if you're willing to pony up the cost of a crappy camcorded DVD/VCD of a Huge Action Movie, instead of the $10 to see it on the big screen with professional surround-sound... well, you probably wouldn't have gone to see the movie anyway.
How many years will pass until Linux gets suspend and hibernate right?
How many years will pass until Windows gets suspend and hibernate right?
Fixed that for you.
Actually suspend is 95% on Update.1, and I hear it's even better on the joyride builds.
The point of comparing Sugar to XP is to demonstrate what most of us predicted -- i.e., that XP is completely unsuitable for this application.
Exactly -- It seems... obvious? But the pushback (slashdotters in favor of Windows over Linux? Is it Opposite Day??) is pretty amazing. Sugar is built to be an educational tool; XP was built to be a business tool. There are many, many great arguments why XP is a bad idea for the OLPC XO; but they are often lost on people. TFA is just trying to do a straight, point-by-point comparison to show how bad XP really is as a replacement for Sugar.
Or worse, the Level 1 tech who insists you re-unplug/reboot after you're on the call. I realize it's a filter, but there's gotta be a "I'm not an idiot" trick to move, if not straight to level 2 support, at least past the first page of the call center manual.
Well, my Mom blogs actually. Still, my point stands -- responding to people who've reached the end of their rope in dealing with Comcast's horrific "normal" channels of support is not a good or sustainable support model, it's a PR defense move to quiet the most vociferous critics.
No, it's not good -- it's putting out fires. Good would be training their call center employees to solve problems (instead of reading, tediously, from the "unplug your modem, reboot all your computers..." book)
This approach is not addressing the thousands of comcast customers who don't blog or twitter or have a "voice" online, like my parents. They still get the usual craptastic comtastic customer support.
I keep a list of things I want to buy from ThinkGeek in a personal wiki, which itself is stored in a database. am I infringing?
Seriously; I see this as akin to a patent covering "The process of driving a nail into wood using a hammer"
Oblig.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these -- as the bricks of your house!
Funnily enough right next to that, where all those millions of tonnes of coal are moved each year there's a giant wind turbine, and the CSIRO has an alternative energy research centre overlooking the train yard that delivers the coal to the port that's also got wind turbines on top...
That, sir, is made of awesomeness and ponies.
Already knowing some basic logic and science, I think I'll skip straight for courses in swimming, basic agriculture and animal husbandry, and other useful skills useful in a post-global-warming-disaster-scenario
To be fair, while China consumes 1,310,000,000 billion short tons of coal (and is the top coal consumer, 28.7% in these numbers); the US, with a fraction of the population, is right behind it at #2 with 1,060,000,000 B short tons (23.3%)
China is 16th worldwide in coal-per-capita; US is 5th, behind South Africa, N. Korea, Greece, and at #1 coal-per-capita, Australia, oddly enough.
More fun stats via http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_coa_con-energy-coal-consumption
Hold on.
Lime.
Salt. ...Margaritaville, here I come!
Overall, great summer action flick.
The Scarecrow was almost a throw-away, half-villain. Which is fine, he was always kinda meh.
The dialog, especially some of the overly-breathy-batman lines, was painful.
Also, the buzzing sound before any Joker scene? Dear producers. We get it. It's blindingly obvious from the plot that something Really Bad is about to happen. OK? Please do not turn the buzz on again.
One of my friends worked at a place where you'd have to insert whitespace to place certain elements (variables, evals, etc.) to begin at a specific col in the code within every line; in addition to standard indentation of the line. At one level, I see the concept, but seriously - highlighting and search is made to solve the same problem there.
He left that job quickly.
Also, having grown up near Houston - Texas is hot. I've not yet been to Australia, but summer in Texas regularly is 100-115 or so (~38-46C), with humidity, at least in the heavily populated parts of the state (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio) at 90-100%. That's MISERABLE. I lived in the tropics for almost 3 years and it was much more pleasant there than Texas in the dog days of summer.
That being said -- there's a LOT that could be done architecturally (Dallas, looking at you) to reduce this. Tract housing has this tendency to hack down all the (shade)trees and built nigh-yardless McMansions. Plants are great at absorbing heat, and trees provide shade -- a well placed shadetree over your southwestern exposure can really help cool your house down.
Basically I just want to weigh in -- AC is not an option in Texas; but that doesn't mean we can't reduce the energy draw from it.
Huh; I wonder if this will have a harder impact on the "in" crowd, good-ol-boy types; who are both more likely to try and get away with the "but he's a good boy" defense, and less likely to actually live as such.