Mashup comes from the underground music scene. It's when people download two copyrighted pieces of music which required lots of musical ability to produce and mix them together ironically on their Mac (which requires a hell of a lot less ability) and then generously donate the result to the Creative Commons. Actually, the top choices of songs for mashups are popular songs by Britney Spears and N'Sync and other top 40 artists, so the amount of musical ability required to produce the originals is probably not really that much more than the amount required to mix them together on a Mac....
The best security is not having the damn wires there in the first place. Exactly. Wi-fi is the only safe way to transfer information safely. Get rid of the wires and we can all relax. And if you can't have wireless, at least make sure there's more space than a nomad. What were we talking about again?
Are innocent people suffering? Yes. Even Senator Kennedy got on the no-fly list. Jeez, you could have picked a better example of an "innocent" person...
All the serious scientific organizations? I don't think so. There are plenty of "serious scientific organizations" that disagree with the notion that global warming is caused by human activity. You don't hear about it as much because the news only cares about findings that bring them ratings and "Oh my gosh, the world is going to end!" brings in more ratings than "calm down, everything is fine." Actually, I hear about it all the freaking time. Nearly every mass mediated discussion of global warming (and especially those on slashdot!) devotes an extraordinary amount of time and space to the claim that plenty of "serious" scientists disagree that humans are warming the earth. Certain mass media outlets (e.g. Rush Limbaugh) present ONLY that side and spend the rest of their time denigrating the scientific consensus as some kind of liberal fabrication. If you ask me, the media spends far too much time covering this side of the story, and not enough time reminding us that global warming is not something in dispute among reasonable scientists but is actually considered a fact by the overwhelming consensus of the independent scientific community. (Thanks to the other poster for that link). The line that the media is somehow covering up legitimate scientific disagreement is complete and utter hogwash.
i do not believe those stats are accurate, i believe China is #1
Hmmm, it's a tough call who wins this debate. One one side, we have a well-evidenced article from the BBC; on the other side, we have a slashdot poster named "FudRucker" with no link or citation whatsoever. I suppose we may have to look at user id number and karma level to sort out who has more credibility here.
The largest Pole I ever knew was a guy named Kowalski who towered over everyone at some 7 feet. I don't know where you're going to find one more than 50 times his size!
This story is actually about them using REAL local cops (the kind who should be busting drug dealers and burglars) to do their dirty work, not rentacops.
I just bought a shiny new MBP a month ago, and now this upgrade comes out....I knew this was gonna happen, dammit. Anyone want to buy a previous generation MBP 17" ??:-P If you knew it was going to happen, you really didn't need them to tell you, did you?
So, if you like to leave the house and be outdoors, WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU TAKING YOUR GAMING LAPTOP WITH YOU? So he can connect to the internet to see what the weather and traffic conditions are like?
I second the point on documentation. I've been in a couple houses where there is a wall full of RCA/Ethernet/phono/etc outlets and built in speakers all through the house but the owners had no idea what connects where or how to use any of it. Thousands of dollars of wiring and technology that is totally useless to the current owners. I had to DJ a gig at a mansion that was decked out with this sort of equipment and had a closet full of connectors and knobs but the owners had absolutely no clue what went where or what controlled what. I played with it for over an hour and couldn't make anything work, so I wound up setting up separate speakers in one room only; it worked fine of course but it would have been great to use the built in system. They had a ton of ethernet connectors in there too; I imagine there was cat-5 throughout the house but again they had no idea what to plug in where so it was useless. Besides, even if you never sell, it's a good idea to document everything in case you forget what goes where.
Did you even bother to try it out? Camino's about:config page is almost identical to FF's page. Any options that are named the same in Camino as in FF will do the same thing. (Camino is just a different front end on Gecko, and about:config options are almost all Gecko options, not browser specific.) Yes I did bother to try, but not before posting;) Some of the options are actually not the same at all -- there is no integer preference browser.tabs.closeButtons, for example, which is described in the article. I have actually played with config before in Camino but was baffled by what most of them mean, and had a hard time finding docs describing most of the options.
This way, the editors could see, "Hey, this block of 20 submissions were all identified by firehosers as being of the same subject, and the subject is considered important, I'll look at a few of the submissions and cobble together something." Erm... and in what way would this solve the problem of having crappy articles posted to slashdot?
Likewise, if they want to win the Iraq war now, they should invade Syria and Iran.
Idiotic. The situations are not at all comparable. Syria and Iran could stop all their activities in Iraq today and the insurgency would continue. Most of the arms the insurgents have come from Iraqi munitions camps that were "liberated" by the Coalition. It is true that there are some weapons and fighters coming in from Iran and Syria (as well as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey), but the idea that the governments are doing this is insane. They may be looking the other way at times, and they may be enjoying the spectacle of a superpower being hoist on its own petard, but the fact is that the instability in Iraq is far more threatening to Iran and Syria than it is to the US. The idea that Shiite Iran is funding and arming the Sunni insurgency is particularly laughable. Of course, all of this is not to mention the fact that if the US invaded Iran and Syria, it would lose two more insurgent wars, not "win the Iraq war."
The service plan is actually worth it for certain expensive and frequently updated devices. I bought a third generation iPod there years ago for like $400. I spend $40 on the service plan. It died once and I took it in; they had stopped selling that model (maybe 20 gig? I don't recall) but had one at about that price point with a bigger hard drive. They couldn't fix it, so they gave me the newer model; I got an upgrade essentially for $40. Another year passed and I was having problems with this one - nothing major, but the software was messed up enough to be annoying. I took it in and explained the problem. They didn't even try to fix it; they just pulled a brand new top model 4th gen off the shelf and gave it to me. That was about a year or so ago; the ipod is still working fine but I am seriously thinking of plugging the firewire cord in the wrong way by accident and then taking it in for an upgrade again; at this point I ought to be able to get an 80 gig 5th gen ipod...
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Is that some sort of Richard Hell fanclub?
Can you provide a link to this softimage thingy? I'd like to download it to check it out.
I thought superluminal was like, "Hey! You guys! Join the Navy!!!"
The largest Pole I ever knew was a guy named Kowalski who towered over everyone at some 7 feet. I don't know where you're going to find one more than 50 times his size!
This story is actually about them using REAL local cops (the kind who should be busting drug dealers and burglars) to do their dirty work, not rentacops.
Have you heard about this thing called the "Control" key? It's labeled "ctrl" and it will satisfy all your second-button needs (and more!).
NetWho? Is that some sort of Mozilla knockoff?
I second the point on documentation. I've been in a couple houses where there is a wall full of RCA/Ethernet/phono/etc outlets and built in speakers all through the house but the owners had no idea what connects where or how to use any of it. Thousands of dollars of wiring and technology that is totally useless to the current owners. I had to DJ a gig at a mansion that was decked out with this sort of equipment and had a closet full of connectors and knobs but the owners had absolutely no clue what went where or what controlled what. I played with it for over an hour and couldn't make anything work, so I wound up setting up separate speakers in one room only; it worked fine of course but it would have been great to use the built in system. They had a ton of ethernet connectors in there too; I imagine there was cat-5 throughout the house but again they had no idea what to plug in where so it was useless. Besides, even if you never sell, it's a good idea to document everything in case you forget what goes where.
Thanks - that list is very helpful!
Nobody's panicking. Well, except for that guy over there who calls himself The Colonel...
Erm... and in what way would this solve the problem of having crappy articles posted to slashdot?
I still use Camino, a Mozilla-based browser for OS X. Is there a similar guide to configuring Camino options or do most of these work as is?
The article actually does say these will require a battery; that's why I mentioned it. The chips themselves are tiny.
The service plan is actually worth it for certain expensive and frequently updated devices. I bought a third generation iPod there years ago for like $400. I spend $40 on the service plan. It died once and I took it in; they had stopped selling that model (maybe 20 gig? I don't recall) but had one at about that price point with a bigger hard drive. They couldn't fix it, so they gave me the newer model; I got an upgrade essentially for $40. Another year passed and I was having problems with this one - nothing major, but the software was messed up enough to be annoying. I took it in and explained the problem. They didn't even try to fix it; they just pulled a brand new top model 4th gen off the shelf and gave it to me. That was about a year or so ago; the ipod is still working fine but I am seriously thinking of plugging the firewire cord in the wrong way by accident and then taking it in for an upgrade again; at this point I ought to be able to get an 80 gig 5th gen ipod...
Yeah I'm not sure what would possibly make someone think they could get the best buy at a place called Best Buy.