It's almost like Churchill's quote about democracy (worst system except all the others).
Basically, if you want a blog, you'll be running WordPress.
If you want general functionality beyond that, Drupal's usually the ticket. It's the power of numbers: if you encounter a problem, somebody else probably did, too, and the answer's on Google.
-It talks about multimedia integrated into electronic newspaper articles, like clicking on a picture of a ballgame to see a videoclip from it. -It talks about clicking on newspaper headlines and summaries to go to the full article. -It even talks about clicking ads; if you're interested in it, you can go to the advertiserâ(TM)s site (called "space" in the documentary). -It talks about voice commands to operate the device.
How did you determine which maps were extending political claims and which weren't? The US State Department's idea of where China begins and ends? US Geological Survey? NatGeo? So were you a science journal, or an agent enforcing borders recognized by the US?
Is a map showing Tibet in China extending a political claim? Or did you send back maps to be revised with Tibet to be shown as an independent country?
In any case country maps are inherently political: that's why they're called political maps.
Now geographic maps, those can be called scientific.
The moment you start drawing lines on a map (even if it's mostly about geography), that's political.
>Where on earth would you get the idea that Africans were immune?
Am I missing something? The reference is right there in the post you responded to.
I thought it was well known that Africans who have sick-cell anemia have the upside of being immune to malaria. What I didn't know is that not all Africans have this immunity, which I luckily checked before posting.
I installed Debian on a server (VPS) to kick it around. I was put off by little usability niggles, like less not being installed so you get Solaris type behavior of man pages "falling off the end" when you page to the bottom. Comments?
Re: Upstart- it seems to me the big selling point is that not only does it start a service when you go to a given runlevel, but also it keeps it started if for some reason it (webserver, db) falls down. To me that seems useful, and Debian not having it means another headache of cobbling together some kind of program or script (if not running blah, start blah), probably running as root.
Anybody heard people say "old-timer's disease" instead of "Alzheimer's disease"?
Iâ(TM)ve always thought that "old-timerâ(TM)s disease" was a clever if tastelesspun on "Alzheimerâ(TM)s Disease"; but many people have assured me that thisis a common and quite unintentional error.
The funny thing is, even $5 VPS boxes allow you to set rDNS, the way most VPS providers have them set up with a SolusVM web-based control panel. You can change the rDNS every minute if you want.
More expensive VPS's (like Rackspace) allow that, too, though apparently Amazon does not.
>You tell a kid whose parent died that you're not glad the parent is dead, but you're glad they're gone. See how well that works for you.
Oh, man, I thought I had heard it all from Apple fanbois, but this takes the cake.
Is Steve Jobs the Holy Father?
Not only that but for the one person for whom Steve Jobs actually was a father in the 80's, he denied he was the father, going so far as to call himself sterile in court.
Steve Jobs can fairly be described as an American hero an innovator, but don't make him out to be a saint, too.
Try it again. I was unable to moderate too, for a few months after their latest update, but two features I need are back:
1. The "Many More" button at the bottom of the homepage to see more story teasers.
2. A "Moderate" button at the bottom of articles. (You select moderations in the dropdown under a comment, then click on the Moderate button.) Not fancy, but it works.
Strangely, it started working again without Javascript a week or so ago, probably due to user complaints.
In no way do I want to demean what you've done, but I wonder if there's a project out there (or maybe someone could write one) that automatically versions your files (sort of like Time Machine for Mac).
Instead of vcs-like commands like ci, check out, status, etc., the system would mostly just be invisible. It would hook into the file change notification API, and just keep a text diff or binary diff every time you change a file (or once a day, maybe). Ideally, there wouldn't be a separate application, rather, it would operate as a part of Nautilus to revert to a previous version. (Right click, Versions, or something.)
There would be command line interface for completeness.
2. Played off the synergy of its desktops, phones, and TouchPads. It was cool how you could send a link from your Pre to a TouchPad just by touching the two.
Is there an easy-to-use router package with a whitelist feature?
It would be nice if it had an easy workflow. I.e., instead of editing a whitelist file, you'd have something like:
-user tries to visit an un-whitelisted site. -the site is automatically added to a "request" list, optionally with a comment from the user -admin is presented with the request list in a web interface and approves the ones he wants to
Thing is, Youtube's video player is just about the only video player on the web that (almost) always works. The other ones do dumb things like stop loading when you pause it. (It should load up the entire video behind the scenes, and have it ready for you when you hit play.)
Slashdot Mirror
1. Bet against the economic models.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Is there a better one?
It's almost like Churchill's quote about democracy (worst system except all the others).
Basically, if you want a blog, you'll be running WordPress.
If you want general functionality beyond that, Drupal's usually the ticket. It's the power of numbers: if you encounter a problem, somebody else probably did, too, and the answer's on Google.
Not to mention the Knight-Ridder tablet from 17 years ago. Watch the Youtube:
It even has the rounded corner rectangular shape!
What's the difference between the Yuan and the Reminbi?
How did you determine which maps were extending political claims and which weren't? The US State Department's idea of where China begins and ends? US Geological Survey? NatGeo?
So were you a science journal, or an agent enforcing borders recognized by the US?
Is a map showing Tibet in China extending a political claim? Or did you send back maps to be revised with Tibet to be shown as an independent country?
In any case country maps are inherently political: that's why they're called political maps.
Now geographic maps, those can be called scientific.
The moment you start drawing lines on a map (even if it's mostly about geography), that's political.
>Where on earth would you get the idea that Africans were immune?
Am I missing something? The reference is right there in the post you responded to.
I thought it was well known that Africans who have sick-cell anemia have the upside of being immune to malaria. What I didn't know is that not all Africans have this immunity, which I luckily checked before posting.
I was going to say, aren't Africans immune to malaria? But wiki sayeth: apparently only a third of sub-Saharan Africans are immune to malaria.
Ace?
Can I ask you about a couple of things?
I installed Debian on a server (VPS) to kick it around. I was put off by little usability niggles, like less not being installed so you get Solaris type behavior of man pages "falling off the end" when you page to the bottom. Comments?
Re: Upstart- it seems to me the big selling point is that not only does it start a service when you go to a given runlevel, but also it keeps it started if for some reason it (webserver, db) falls down. To me that seems useful, and Debian not having it means another headache of cobbling together some kind of program or script (if not running blah, start blah), probably running as root.
Any downsides to Upstart?
>All that CO2 for nothing!
All those digits were calculated with Occupy San Fran bicycle-powered laptops, you insensitive clod!
True, no one will need to know pi to more than 640x1024 digits.
Barely on topic, but:
Anybody heard people say "old-timer's disease" instead of "Alzheimer's disease"?
http://www.workrave.org/
Set it to remind you to take a break every X minutes. Open source for Win and Lin.
Click here to install in Ubuntu/Debian/Mint.
Speaking of which, anyone know why people actually wear lab coats?
Originally it must have been to prevent acids from getting on your clothes. But I'd imagine plastic or rubber would offer more protection?
Anyway, I think white lab coats have just become a kind of uniform that shows you're a "scientist", like a suit shows you're a businessman.
The funny thing is, even $5 VPS boxes allow you to set rDNS, the way most VPS providers have them set up with a SolusVM web-based control panel. You can change the rDNS every minute if you want.
More expensive VPS's (like Rackspace) allow that, too, though apparently Amazon does not.
>You tell a kid whose parent died that you're not glad the parent is dead, but you're glad they're gone. See how well that works for you.
Oh, man, I thought I had heard it all from Apple fanbois, but this takes the cake.
Is Steve Jobs the Holy Father?
Not only that but for the one person for whom Steve Jobs actually was a father in the 80's, he denied he was the father, going so far as to call himself sterile in court.
Steve Jobs can fairly be described as an American hero an innovator, but don't make him out to be a saint, too.
For me, folders are a way to group emails by project.
Emails that relate to a given project might not necessarily have a keyword that I can search on.
E.g., I might send an email entitled "ProjectName: Server downtime"
But I might receive an email entitled "Some thoughts".
>My asshole boss told all my cow-orkers that I was the reason they were not getting raises.
Cow-orkers? Bad image ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth)
Try it again. I was unable to moderate too, for a few months after their latest update, but two features I need are back:
1. The "Many More" button at the bottom of the homepage to see more story teasers.
2. A "Moderate" button at the bottom of articles. (You select moderations in the dropdown under a comment, then click on the Moderate button.) Not fancy, but it works.
Strangely, it started working again without Javascript a week or so ago, probably due to user complaints.
How's that? Data usage depends on your data plan, not your phone type. Even Nokia's S40 phones have Youtube, Facebook, etc., applications.
As for browsing the web, you can do that with S40, too. The latest models even have touch ability.
Sourceforge alternative for the GNU-minded:
GNU Savannah
http://savannah.gnu.org/
Thanks for writing boar.
In no way do I want to demean what you've done, but I wonder if there's a project out there (or maybe someone could write one) that automatically versions your files (sort of like Time Machine for Mac).
Instead of vcs-like commands like ci, check out, status, etc., the system would mostly just be invisible. It would hook into the file change notification API, and just keep a text diff or binary diff every time you change a file (or once a day, maybe). Ideally, there wouldn't be a separate application, rather, it would operate as a part of Nautilus to revert to a previous version. (Right click, Versions, or something.)
There would be command line interface for completeness.
1. Sold a cheap TouchPad
2. Played off the synergy of its desktops, phones, and TouchPads. It was cool how you could send a link from your Pre to a TouchPad just by touching the two.
3. Profit!
Is there an easy-to-use router package with a whitelist feature?
It would be nice if it had an easy workflow. I.e., instead of editing a whitelist file, you'd have something like:
-user tries to visit an un-whitelisted site.
-the site is automatically added to a "request" list, optionally with a comment from the user
-admin is presented with the request list in a web interface and approves the ones he wants to
Thing is, Youtube's video player is just about the only video player on the web that (almost) always works. The other ones do dumb things like stop loading when you pause it. (It should load up the entire video behind the scenes, and have it ready for you when you hit play.)