Why isn't there an O'Reilly book entitled "Installing Linux in a Nutshell" or "Installing Linux for n00bs" or something. The picture could be a drooling idiot or something.
I agree, their own installation guide is like 12 chapters broken into numerous sub chapters each. Although, I can make it through the installer with out written help somewhat comfortably.
Exactly.. It's hilarious.. the only people who use linux are those who like it and go out of their way to do, so of course you aren't going to find much linux bashing.. no one who doesn't use it cares enough to bash it. Maybe if 98% of the world used linux, you'd get some decent criticism of its many flaws.
Ellen is great.. If you look for "stoned chic" and other similar search strings, one of the first sites to come up mentions her. There is is even a "Think About Ellen" Wallpaper that is kinda applish looking with pictures of her looking stoned adorning the bottom of it.
Technically, it's 'NP-hard,' meaning that there is no efficient way to calculate the necessary moves to "win," even if you know in advance the complete order of pieces, and are given all the time you need to make each move. At least there's one geek classic that refuses to fall to the scrutiny of mathematicians."
I suspect it's similar to Go in that respect. People have been trying to make a computer good at Go for quite a while with limited success.
Although with Tetris, I'd assume that even though there isn't a good way to guess the quickest way to win, it is probably trivial to make a computer halfway decent at playing tetris.
That said, he who writes a web site usable by blind people is a member of that class technically referred to as "inconsiderate assholes". It's Not That Hard.
Yeh its not really that hard, and the websites I make for public use I try to make useable by screen readers and such even if they aren't totally bobby approved. Some of the bobby approval things are stupid. I know blind people, if they can get around my pages thats good enough for me. As much as I hate flash and extra crap on the internet, its up to the owner of the site how much extra work they want to put into it. I put alt tags on important images, not all of them, and I use tables to layout items in a decent mannor, which bobby has a problem with since technically tables should only contain tabluar data, not stylistic elements or something. One of my sites running php-nuke didn't pass bobby inspection because the border graphics didn't have alt tags and another site didn't have lang=en at the top..
Just wait until someone buys it, asks for the source and then makes their own distro without the commercial components and puts it up on the web for free.
I'm not arguing anything about the degree of difficulty. I'm just saying that just because you are disabled in someway that doesn't mean that you can dictate to people how they have to run their businesses.
I'm all for forcing state owned businesses to conform to ADA or other standards, but I don't feel its the governments place to dictate how anyone run their business as long as they aren't harming anyone. Does this mean that some businesses won't care about blind people? sure. Does it mean that some businesses won't give priority hiring to minorities? sure. But thats what it means to be free.
As long as you aren't limiting someones rights, you should be free to run your business/website/church/organization/etc however you want. I don't think its anyones responisibility to bear someone elses burden. It sucks sometimes, but life really isn't fair.
I for one feel that this ruling is right on the money. I'm all for helping out the handicap in any way feasible, but you have to draw the line somewhere. You can't expect a company to totally redo its website to serve a small portion of the population who can just as easily perform the same functions in other ways. The needs of the few are so difficult to predict, its not feasible to demand that someone bend over backwards for you. I honestly feel for people who have a rough time in life, but lifes not fair. If you can't order plane tickets online, use the phone.
It would be like netscape users suing slashdot because it doesn't render perfect or something.
circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer.
Circuitry applied to glass is absolutely fascinating and all, but I want to know when they will come up with a good way for printing circuitry on skin. I want computerized skin damnit. One more potential reason to legitimize orgies..
Amen. If you are going to use your spare cpu cycles for something, apply them to a good cause. Besides if you study much on the SETI project, they look at a very limited range of data of the odds of finding anything interesting are exponentially worse than you'd even think. At least the various folding projects and the think project from intel and other medically related go towards good causes where every bit of data helps the cause.
I'm surprised google hasn't come out with a spider at home client which goes out and searches the web caching sites as it goes. Sure distributed computing could help their venture and who doesn't love google?
Well you need to look at the percentage of those 1.5M that actually vote. In most areas, only a small percentage of people vote. That combined with the fact that a lot of votes are relatively close with the winner winning by just a small percentage of the vote, it conceiveable that 20,000 is a big enough number to sway most if not all of the votes.
Anyone living in a college town can see a similar concept in action. Where I attend school, the college population is roughly equal to the non college population, when important issues come up that affect the students, but have little to do with the town, the students are more likely to vote than the townies.
A lot of people don't realize that not only do you work on all of these shows, you help conceive the initial ideas behind them. How do you do it? Did you just one day have an idea and present it to a network, or did you work from the inside to have your concepts realized? What in your past got you interested in the whole build things from junkyard parts concept?
The trick, called "patent evergreening" [iirusa.com], involves things like introducing very minor changes of dubious effectiveness and patenting the "new" variant.
Wouldn't this same process allow generic drug manufacturers to make variants of commercial drugs thereby limiting the effectiveness of the original patent?
These guys are aiming to make an outlook killer, not trying to further the mail reading capabilities of a huge bloated piece of software that does everything but render pages as well as IE.
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Why isn't there an O'Reilly book entitled "Installing Linux in a Nutshell" or "Installing Linux for n00bs" or something. The picture could be a drooling idiot or something.
I agree, their own installation guide is like 12 chapters broken into numerous sub chapters each. Although, I can make it through the installer with out written help somewhat comfortably.
this is already any ask slashdot from a while back.. check the archives.
Why so many stories on building silent pc's? Its not like its hard to make your pc silent if thats your thing. Here's a hint.. take out the fans.
The vast majority of these Silent PCs HOWTOs are just that, guides on how to yank the fans off.
It seems like it would be common sense to take the fans off, line the case with dynamat and make sure you have a decent heat sink.
Exactly.. It's hilarious.. the only people who use linux are those who like it and go out of their way to do, so of course you aren't going to find much linux bashing.. no one who doesn't use it cares enough to bash it. Maybe if 98% of the world used linux, you'd get some decent criticism of its many flaws.
Ellen is great.. If you look for "stoned chic" and other similar search strings, one of the first sites to come up mentions her. There is is even a "Think About Ellen" Wallpaper that is kinda applish looking with pictures of her looking stoned adorning the bottom of it.
Technically, it's 'NP-hard,' meaning that there is no efficient way to calculate the necessary moves to "win," even if you know in advance the complete order of pieces, and are given all the time you need to make each move. At least there's one geek classic that refuses to fall to the scrutiny of mathematicians."
I suspect it's similar to Go in that respect. People have been trying to make a computer good at Go for quite a while with limited success.
Although with Tetris, I'd assume that even though there isn't a good way to guess the quickest way to win, it is probably trivial to make a computer halfway decent at playing tetris.
wtf?
That said, he who writes a web site usable by blind people is a member of that class technically referred to as "inconsiderate assholes". It's Not That Hard.
Yeh its not really that hard, and the websites I make for public use I try to make useable by screen readers and such even if they aren't totally bobby approved. Some of the bobby approval things are stupid. I know blind people, if they can get around my pages thats good enough for me. As much as I hate flash and extra crap on the internet, its up to the owner of the site how much extra work they want to put into it. I put alt tags on important images, not all of them, and I use tables to layout items in a decent mannor, which bobby has a problem with since technically tables should only contain tabluar data, not stylistic elements or something. One of my sites running php-nuke didn't pass bobby inspection because the border graphics didn't have alt tags and another site didn't have lang=en at the top..
Just wait until someone buys it, asks for the source and then makes their own distro without the commercial components and puts it up on the web for free.
I'm not arguing anything about the degree of difficulty. I'm just saying that just because you are disabled in someway that doesn't mean that you can dictate to people how they have to run their businesses.
I'm all for forcing state owned businesses to conform to ADA or other standards, but I don't feel its the governments place to dictate how anyone run their business as long as they aren't harming anyone. Does this mean that some businesses won't care about blind people? sure. Does it mean that some businesses won't give priority hiring to minorities? sure. But thats what it means to be free.
As long as you aren't limiting someones rights, you should be free to run your business/website/church/organization/etc however you want. I don't think its anyones responisibility to bear someone elses burden. It sucks sometimes, but life really isn't fair.
How long until someone sues slashdot because the microsoft ads don't have alt tags?
I for one feel that this ruling is right on the money. I'm all for helping out the handicap in any way feasible, but you have to draw the line somewhere. You can't expect a company to totally redo its website to serve a small portion of the population who can just as easily perform the same functions in other ways. The needs of the few are so difficult to predict, its not feasible to demand that someone bend over backwards for you. I honestly feel for people who have a rough time in life, but lifes not fair. If you can't order plane tickets online, use the phone.
It would be like netscape users suing slashdot because it doesn't render perfect or something.
here's how to change it for nt/2000
windows2000faq [windows2000faq.com]
-advanced tab in adapter properties
Thats assuming your card support changing the mac address. A lot of cards have read only mac addresses.
circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer.
Circuitry applied to glass is absolutely fascinating and all, but I want to know when they will come up with a good way for printing circuitry on skin. I want computerized skin damnit. One more potential reason to legitimize orgies..
Amen. If you are going to use your spare cpu cycles for something, apply them to a good cause. Besides if you study much on the SETI project, they look at a very limited range of data of the odds of finding anything interesting are exponentially worse than you'd even think. At least the various folding projects and the think project from intel and other medically related go towards good causes where every bit of data helps the cause.
I'm surprised google hasn't come out with a spider at home client which goes out and searches the web caching sites as it goes. Sure distributed computing could help their venture and who doesn't love google?
Yes, but on any given issue less than half of those 1.5M will vote allowing the extra 20K of votes to make a bigger difference.
Well you need to look at the percentage of those 1.5M that actually vote. In most areas, only a small percentage of people vote. That combined with the fact that a lot of votes are relatively close with the winner winning by just a small percentage of the vote, it conceiveable that 20,000 is a big enough number to sway most if not all of the votes.
Anyone living in a college town can see a similar concept in action. Where I attend school, the college population is roughly equal to the non college population, when important issues come up that affect the students, but have little to do with the town, the students are more likely to vote than the townies.
Cathy,
A lot of people don't realize that not only do you work on all of these shows, you help conceive the initial ideas behind them. How do you do it? Did you just one day have an idea and present it to a network, or did you work from the inside to have your concepts realized? What in your past got you interested in the whole build things from junkyard parts concept?
lets interview henry rollins next. he cohosts with cathy rogers on her new show.
The trick, called "patent evergreening" [iirusa.com], involves things like introducing very minor changes of dubious effectiveness and patenting the "new" variant.
Wouldn't this same process allow generic drug manufacturers to make variants of commercial drugs thereby limiting the effectiveness of the original patent?
Bloat.
These guys are aiming to make an outlook killer, not trying to further the mail reading capabilities of a huge bloated piece of software that does everything but render pages as well as IE.
I thought it was referring to some sort of jewish holiday when I first read the headline.
its not a troll, nor flamebait. Its true.. Living in Korea sucks. I know several people from Korea and several of my profs are from Korea. It sucks.