About 13,000 years ago a new predator came to the continent. They spread across the whole continent in less than a millennia - in biological terms, like wildfire. Excavated evidence can't "prove" they wiped out American megafauna, but it does seem mightly suspicious that so many species were lost at the same time in so many different habitats. In many cases, ecosystems failed to adapt over those 13,000 years. If people really cared about ecosystems, they ought to enbark on a major cull of those predators. You could use shotguns.
The predator was a bipedal ape of uncommon intelligence, cunning and ferrocity. Now you know who you're looking for, let's get those shotguns!
OK, jumpstart profiles are nice, to get that with Linux you need to serve a kickstart installation config off a dynamic web page. But it's possible, kickstart is pretty impressive.
I know the US has one of the highest murder rates per capita anywhere on the planet (6.8 for every 100,000), but... Well, the death rates for driving are worse (over 15 per 100,000). Correct me here, I'm not American, but isn't the police's job to save lives?
PDF will still occupy the high end. Most $1,000+ printers understand postscript and PDF natively, and even if these presses/printers are firmware upgradable, who wants another page description language? Especially if most of your graphics/pre-press people use Macs anyway and can't use Metro. Sorry, just because it's XML and doesn't have %% signs everywhere doesn't make it a worthwhile page description language.
Microsoft tried to butt in on Adobe's turf before with Truetype, but no one (or at least, no one important) does Truetype font libraries, Bitstream, Monotye et al all make their fonts type 1 postscript.
Microsoft's take on this, as in Microsoft's take on WordPerfect documents, Netscape Bookmarks, Apache, etc, is strictly one way. If you want to move from (insert Microsoft competitor here) they want to make that real easy. But going the other way will be hard as hell.
In this case, the sales argument to pointy haired bosses will be "did evil admins set up Linux infrasctucture on your network without you knowing? No problem. We can move that back to a supported platform. Microsoft. Where do you want to go today ?(TM)."
Thinking back a few years, Adobe aquired Aldus, who developed Freehand and Pagemaker. Adobe did a couple of revisions to Pagemaker, then started from scratch with Indesign. Not sure if they still sell Pagemaker. Anyway, that was the time when Macromedia got Freehand. Wonder if Freehand will be excluded from the deal this time round. No mention of it in the press release.
This might seem offtopic, so bear with me. There are no ads on my website. But that's because I have regular income from working as a journalist for a magazine. Don't know how long this gig will last. Some magazines make over 50% of their income from print ads, but actual newstand sales are falling. So, long term, a lot of print magazines are going to go under. As there's no revenue in online advertising, online magazines tend to go for cheap journalism. Syndicated interviews with celebrities, stuff culled (often uncredited) from various online sources. Or worse, regurgitated corporate PR releases. Falling budgets mean no more long term investigations, no foreign assignments, no long term relationships with people whose story you're interested in, nothing that takes more than an afternoon to write. But at least there's an army of bloggers out there, willing to brave life and limb in the world's trouble spots, telling you how it really is from their armchairs.
So buddy, when this all happens, when you have no idea what's going on in the world, you know who to blame.
We're talking here about profitibility of distribution here. The business of newspapers has traditionally been 2 things: selling paper with stuff printed on it, and selling advertising. The business of newspapers is not, unfortunately journalism. (I freelance for magazines, and they want quality material, but they want it cheap.)
So what does this tell us about the future of journalism? More celebrities. More syndicated stories from the wires that everyone else is running. Blogs reproduced without payment. And a bunch of hard-core freelance journalists who make a living not from selling to cheap ass papers, but from either corporate whoring, grants and awards, or rich spouses.
not only beautiful, but functional and efficient, Mac OS X 'Aqua' user interface
Excuse me? Since when was rendering metalic textures for half your windows either efficient, or functional? OK, GPU might make it less inefficient, but it's hardly the simplest thing to render to a screen. And it gets worse when you try to work out WHY the windows are metal. Why is my web browser metal, but my FTP program not?
And don't get me started on the "traffic lights" window closing buttons. Apple wrote the book on colourised user interfaces (Inside Macintosh), which they then ignored. They also had a good section in that book on Fitt's law, and how stuff in a fixed position at the edge of a screen is easiest to mouse to. So they stick the dock floating somewhere at the base of the screen, at variying positions depending on how many apps you have open. OK, expose is nice, font rendering is good, admin is less of a chore than with traditional unix, but I really wish they'd bothered reading their own guidelines from the 80s. Humans still only use 2 eyes and 1 mouse, it's not as though faster CPUs have rendered WIMP obsolete. Man, it almost makes me long for Motif.
Some good points, but why are we not seeing mass prosecutions on this? During the dot-com boom Meryl Lynch (UK) brokers got into shit with regulators for knowlingly advising the public to buy shares that their own analysts and pension fund managers were dumping. They were caught because there was an audit trail on the sales. Correlating "anonymous" spam emails gathered via honeynets with price movements and institutional selling should not be rocket science, the sums of money involved are not trivial, but I've yet to hear of any prosecutions for securities fraud by this method.
Again, we're only seeing US spam on this, and while the US market has the greatest liquidity, all other factors being equal you should also see this kind of spam on other markets. This suggests that either US investors are guilable fools, or the SEC is not doing it's job.
And while I'm on the subject of financial regulation, how come I keep getting all these NASDAQ related penny stock spams? If a company spams to boost it's own share price, it really shouldn't be trading on a public exchange. As far as enforcement goes, there is the problem of identifying joe-jobs, but it's not impossible.
About 25% of spam I get is for US re-mortgages (and I'm not in the US). Never mind tracking the spammers, there must be serious institutional capital backing for those schemes, if the US government financial services regulator is incapable of tracing several hundred thousand dollar transactions, heck, they ain't doing their job properly. Is there even an equivalent to the FSA regulator in the US? These mortgage spams only ever seem to come out of the US.
A lot of what makes me laugh about English humour is it's view of petty bureacracy. Think Monty Python (Life of Brian guy with clipboard directing crucifictions) , HHG2TG (above), The Office (performance reviews!), Dr Strangelove (trying to borrow a quarter from a vending machine that is property of the Coca Cola Corporation of America in order to avert World War 3), Ali G (da movie). I wonder why so few nations find their bureacrats funny.
Arabic is fun. One definite artcile, al, though the l is silent if certain letters follow. Plurals have 3 forms, for one item, a pair of items, or lots of them. But those forms change from word to word, depending on masculine or feminine, and a few other things. Nouns generally have a 3 letter root, from which you can make verbs, objects etc. So if you know the verb to sit, you won't be suprised by the word for parliament (the place where sitting is done). A noun can also change depending on who owns it - not my dog, but dog-i, not your dog, but dog-u, etc. There's also no verb to be, at least it isn't used in the way European languages do. "I am a student" becomes "I student".
This is a real sign of progress. In the late 90s we hacked websites with javascript so they'd work with Netscape 4. Now, 6 years later, there's a great new browser independent markup language that makes browser-specific hacks a thing of the past. Oh, hang on. We're still writing javascript hacks to make sites work with the latest and greatest browsers.
Separation of layout and content is a fine idea. But does it have to be done on the client-side? What makes XML more suited to this than perl or PHP or python? Is this heresy?
Ah yes, I forgot. The mobile revolution. This is why we recoded all our apps for WAP. Remember WAP? Excuse me for being underwhelmed by the number of Nokia/Ericson users visiting our sites.
Those of you who are true belivers in new technology, please don't be surprised if not everyone has recoded their sites to the latest and greatest XMLized standard. The development tools suck, and browser support is patchy. You'd think someone would have come up with a working solution by now. Oh well, there's always CSS3 to look forward to. I can hardly wait.
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I have to say this is an exisiting trend in photography. I do it for a living, and a lot of stuff I do is fluff, bars, restaurants, etc. It's so hard to get permission from marketing/PR execs to do anything else. I'm more into the journalism aspect than the "lifestyle" thing, so most of my best work (the stuff that wins awards) is done in the 3rd world. The pay sucks, I can't get insured, but it's what I do. The growth of the privacy cult in the West is stopping serious investigative journalism, but I'm sure that suits a lot of well-conected people very well.
"Quoting" a beat from a song is more complex. There are rights which the songwriter has, and there are rights that the performer of the song has. Generally, record companies own copyright to artist's performances, but songwriters own the right to their songs.
Not to defend media barons from being anal about letting you quote parts of their output or anything.
With yum, you can choose which update mirror to use, unlike the RedHat Network. There's no annual subscription charge. Also, yum can resolve dependencies, so if you want to install a package it will work out what you need. And also, you can upgrade OS versions, say RH7.1 to RH7.3 using yum. Yum downloads all the packages and dependencies, and runs the upgrade scripts. Check your kernel is OK, reboot and you're done. Previously, we'd have half an hour downtime to upgrade a production server, insert CD, have Anaconda determine installed packages etc. Now yum does the upgrade in the background over the network. Awesome.
Re:Israel is a minor player. Leave them alone.
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Actually, if you look at what Palestinians have done to build a nation, it's not bad. Unlike Syria or Lebanon, they have multiple political parties which cut across ethnic lines. You can talk politics without being arrested. Despite each city being sealed, the trash usually gets emptied, kids get to school, hospitals still run, people still celebrate holidays, get married, sports teams still play (though they can't compete with teams from other cities), universities still run. This is with unemployment in the 60% area because of closure (many Palestinians worked in Israel pre intifada). I know Palestinians who've left the US a couple of years ago because it's "no place to bring up kids".
I'm not going to bother with your other points. "Might is right" is a philosophical position you can't argue with: you just have to fight.
Ah, Jericho casino. I wish that place were still open. It's in Jericho so it won't get shit from Jewish religious interests. Most of the workers there were Palestinian Christians, who had no religious problems with gambling. The customers were mostly Jewish. Never knew Sharon was involved.
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RHEL 4.1 includes kernel 2.6.9-11.ELsmp
Redhat version 4 has been out since May. I'm just about to put one of those boxes into production use, so it had better be stable.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/Ancient Republish_917882.htm
The improtant point is the one about the shotguns though.
About 13,000 years ago a new predator came to the continent. They spread across the whole continent in less than a millennia - in biological terms, like wildfire. Excavated evidence can't "prove" they wiped out American megafauna, but it does seem mightly suspicious that so many species were lost at the same time in so many different habitats. In many cases, ecosystems failed to adapt over those 13,000 years. If people really cared about ecosystems, they ought to enbark on a major cull of those predators. You could use shotguns.
The predator was a bipedal ape of uncommon intelligence, cunning and ferrocity. Now you know who you're looking for, let's get those shotguns!
OK, jumpstart profiles are nice, to get that with Linux you need to serve a kickstart installation config off a dynamic web page. But it's possible, kickstart is pretty impressive.
The Telegraph is not a Murdoch paper. You're probably thinking of the Times, which is.
I know the US has one of the highest murder rates per capita anywhere on the planet (6.8 for every 100,000), but... Well, the death rates for driving are worse (over 15 per 100,000). Correct me here, I'm not American, but isn't the police's job to save lives?
PDF will still occupy the high end. Most $1,000+ printers understand postscript and PDF natively, and even if these presses/printers are firmware upgradable, who wants another page description language? Especially if most of your graphics/pre-press people use Macs anyway and can't use Metro. Sorry, just because it's XML and doesn't have %% signs everywhere doesn't make it a worthwhile page description language.
Microsoft tried to butt in on Adobe's turf before with Truetype, but no one (or at least, no one important) does Truetype font libraries, Bitstream, Monotye et al all make their fonts type 1 postscript.
Microsoft's take on this, as in Microsoft's take on WordPerfect documents, Netscape Bookmarks, Apache, etc, is strictly one way. If you want to move from (insert Microsoft competitor here) they want to make that real easy. But going the other way will be hard as hell.
In this case, the sales argument to pointy haired bosses will be "did evil admins set up Linux infrasctucture on your network without you knowing? No problem. We can move that back to a supported platform. Microsoft. Where do you want to go today ?(TM)."
Thinking back a few years, Adobe aquired Aldus, who developed Freehand and Pagemaker. Adobe did a couple of revisions to Pagemaker, then started from scratch with Indesign. Not sure if they still sell Pagemaker. Anyway, that was the time when Macromedia got Freehand. Wonder if Freehand will be excluded from the deal this time round. No mention of it in the press release.
Hmmm, does this smack of a sense of entitlement?
This might seem offtopic, so bear with me. There are no ads on my website. But that's because I have regular income from working as a journalist for a magazine. Don't know how long this gig will last. Some magazines make over 50% of their income from print ads, but actual newstand sales are falling. So, long term, a lot of print magazines are going to go under. As there's no revenue in online advertising, online magazines tend to go for cheap journalism. Syndicated interviews with celebrities, stuff culled (often uncredited) from various online sources. Or worse, regurgitated corporate PR releases. Falling budgets mean no more long term investigations, no foreign assignments, no long term relationships with people whose story you're interested in, nothing that takes more than an afternoon to write. But at least there's an army of bloggers out there, willing to brave life and limb in the world's trouble spots, telling you how it really is from their armchairs.
So buddy, when this all happens, when you have no idea what's going on in the world, you know who to blame.
Hang on. Maybe it's already happened.
We're talking here about profitibility of distribution here. The business of newspapers has traditionally been 2 things: selling paper with stuff printed on it, and selling advertising. The business of newspapers is not, unfortunately journalism. (I freelance for magazines, and they want quality material, but they want it cheap.)
So what does this tell us about the future of journalism? More celebrities. More syndicated stories from the wires that everyone else is running. Blogs reproduced without payment. And a bunch of hard-core freelance journalists who make a living not from selling to cheap ass papers, but from either corporate whoring, grants and awards, or rich spouses.
not only beautiful, but functional and efficient, Mac OS X 'Aqua' user interface
Excuse me? Since when was rendering metalic textures for half your windows either efficient, or functional? OK, GPU might make it less inefficient, but it's hardly the simplest thing to render to a screen. And it gets worse when you try to work out WHY the windows are metal. Why is my web browser metal, but my FTP program not?
And don't get me started on the "traffic lights" window closing buttons. Apple wrote the book on colourised user interfaces (Inside Macintosh), which they then ignored. They also had a good section in that book on Fitt's law, and how stuff in a fixed position at the edge of a screen is easiest to mouse to. So they stick the dock floating somewhere at the base of the screen, at variying positions depending on how many apps you have open. OK, expose is nice, font rendering is good, admin is less of a chore than with traditional unix, but I really wish they'd bothered reading their own guidelines from the 80s. Humans still only use 2 eyes and 1 mouse, it's not as though faster CPUs have rendered WIMP obsolete. Man, it almost makes me long for Motif.
Some good points, but why are we not seeing mass prosecutions on this? During the dot-com boom Meryl Lynch (UK) brokers got into shit with regulators for knowlingly advising the public to buy shares that their own analysts and pension fund managers were dumping. They were caught because there was an audit trail on the sales. Correlating "anonymous" spam emails gathered via honeynets with price movements and institutional selling should not be rocket science, the sums of money involved are not trivial, but I've yet to hear of any prosecutions for securities fraud by this method.
Again, we're only seeing US spam on this, and while the US market has the greatest liquidity, all other factors being equal you should also see this kind of spam on other markets. This suggests that either US investors are guilable fools, or the SEC is not doing it's job.
And while I'm on the subject of financial regulation, how come I keep getting all these NASDAQ related penny stock spams? If a company spams to boost it's own share price, it really shouldn't be trading on a public exchange. As far as enforcement goes, there is the problem of identifying joe-jobs, but it's not impossible.
About 25% of spam I get is for US re-mortgages (and I'm not in the US). Never mind tracking the spammers, there must be serious institutional capital backing for those schemes, if the US government financial services regulator is incapable of tracing several hundred thousand dollar transactions, heck, they ain't doing their job properly. Is there even an equivalent to the FSA regulator in the US? These mortgage spams only ever seem to come out of the US.
A lot of what makes me laugh about English humour is it's view of petty bureacracy. Think Monty Python (Life of Brian guy with clipboard directing crucifictions) , HHG2TG (above), The Office (performance reviews!), Dr Strangelove (trying to borrow a quarter from a vending machine that is property of the Coca Cola Corporation of America in order to avert World War 3), Ali G (da movie). I wonder why so few nations find their bureacrats funny.
Arabic is fun. One definite artcile, al, though the l is silent if certain letters follow. Plurals have 3 forms, for one item, a pair of items, or lots of them. But those forms change from word to word, depending on masculine or feminine, and a few other things. Nouns generally have a 3 letter root, from which you can make verbs, objects etc. So if you know the verb to sit, you won't be suprised by the word for parliament (the place where sitting is done). A noun can also change depending on who owns it - not my dog, but dog-i, not your dog, but dog-u, etc. There's also no verb to be, at least it isn't used in the way European languages do. "I am a student" becomes "I student".
This is a real sign of progress. In the late 90s we hacked websites with javascript so they'd work with Netscape 4. Now, 6 years later, there's a great new browser independent markup language that makes browser-specific hacks a thing of the past. Oh, hang on. We're still writing javascript hacks to make sites work with the latest and greatest browsers.
Separation of layout and content is a fine idea. But does it have to be done on the client-side? What makes XML more suited to this than perl or PHP or python? Is this heresy?
Ah yes, I forgot. The mobile revolution. This is why we recoded all our apps for WAP. Remember WAP? Excuse me for being underwhelmed by the number of Nokia/Ericson users visiting our sites.
Those of you who are true belivers in new technology, please don't be surprised if not everyone has recoded their sites to the latest and greatest XMLized standard. The development tools suck, and browser support is patchy. You'd think someone would have come up with a working solution by now. Oh well, there's always CSS3 to look forward to. I can hardly wait.
I have to say this is an exisiting trend in photography. I do it for a living, and a lot of stuff I do is fluff, bars, restaurants, etc. It's so hard to get permission from marketing/PR execs to do anything else. I'm more into the journalism aspect than the "lifestyle" thing, so most of my best work (the stuff that wins awards) is done in the 3rd world. The pay sucks, I can't get insured, but it's what I do. The growth of the privacy cult in the West is stopping serious investigative journalism, but I'm sure that suits a lot of well-conected people very well.
"Quoting" a beat from a song is more complex. There are rights which the songwriter has, and there are rights that the performer of the song has. Generally, record companies own copyright to artist's performances, but songwriters own the right to their songs.
Not to defend media barons from being anal about letting you quote parts of their output or anything.
What I'd really like to do is block the whole of Florida. Our cutomers don't speak redneck. Boo hoo for the Floridonians.
Somone ought to name and shame the guilty parties. I get so fucked off when abuse@ sit on their lazy arses.
With yum, you can choose which update mirror to use, unlike the RedHat Network. There's no annual subscription charge. Also, yum can resolve dependencies, so if you want to install a package it will work out what you need. And also, you can upgrade OS versions, say RH7.1 to RH7.3 using yum. Yum downloads all the packages and dependencies, and runs the upgrade scripts. Check your kernel is OK, reboot and you're done. Previously, we'd have half an hour downtime to upgrade a production server, insert CD, have Anaconda determine installed packages etc. Now yum does the upgrade in the background over the network. Awesome.
Actually, if you look at what Palestinians have done to build a nation, it's not bad. Unlike Syria or Lebanon, they have multiple political parties which cut across ethnic lines. You can talk politics without being arrested. Despite each city being sealed, the trash usually gets emptied, kids get to school, hospitals still run, people still celebrate holidays, get married, sports teams still play (though they can't compete with teams from other cities), universities still run. This is with unemployment in the 60% area because of closure (many Palestinians worked in Israel pre intifada). I know Palestinians who've left the US a couple of years ago because it's "no place to bring up kids".
I'm not going to bother with your other points. "Might is right" is a philosophical position you can't argue with: you just have to fight.
Ah, Jericho casino. I wish that place were still open. It's in Jericho so it won't get shit from Jewish religious interests. Most of the workers there were Palestinian Christians, who had no religious problems with gambling. The customers were mostly Jewish. Never knew Sharon was involved.