And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
In all likelihood because (1) launches closer to the equator (if memory serves) take less boost (2) most of the stuff on equator is either inconvenient or has various disadvantages from lack of long-term stability to lack of technical talent to infrastructure challenges (3) much better choice vis-a-vis huricanes, large stretches of open land than other southern US states (4) lots of resouces (technical, infrastructure, etc) in relatively close proximity (DFW, Houston, Austin/San Antonio)
I can't say I really like Texas (see: why Texas is staying in my rear view mirror) but there are fundamental reasons why Texas attracts businesses that have nothing to do with mythology, the Texas Cadillac, bizarre personalities or egos bigger than the belt buckles worn on Saturday nights to impress women at DFW's country nightclubs...
Where did you read "open source flash"? The whole Slashdot summary and the linked project page all refer to ECMAScript, aka ActionScript, aka Javascript. The linked project page makes it pretty clear that Mozilla and Adobe plan to use the Tamarin project as they basis of JavaScript (in Mozilla projects) and the ActionScript _portion_ of the Flash Player. RTFSS (RTF Slashdot Summary) before inserting foot in mouth.
At least one fundamental problem remains with google's personalized home/start/foo page: a very small limit (it appears to be 10) on the number of items shown in one feed. netvibes.com allows up to 30. A online newreader doesn't do me much good when I have to wake up multiple times during the night if I want to keep up with the feed.
Instead of ranting here, I just went and posted a simple question on their website: when were they going to ban students from going to public places since it's oh so much easier for a predator to _follow_ a student. I'm sure there are plenty of other creative suggestions that could be posted at http://www.popejohn.org/
Oh... I stumbled on the fact there seems to have been two Pope John XXIII (either the journalist left out an X or there are two Pope John High Schools in Sparta NJ). The first was also called an Anti-Pope and (thanks Wikipedia!) and later charged with piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest. Oh the irony, the irony!
Pressurized... I thought we'd become soft. While I haven't been to 16k+, I have been to 14k+ (Pikes Peak) and at that altitude, there's no need for assistance. And the cog railway up is supposed to be a hoot. Of course, a sealed cabin has the advantage that you'll reach the other end with all your kids no matter how pissed they get at each other. At least most people consider that an advantage;-)
Maybe in your browser. It's not working in mine (and presumably everyone else using a similar mix of browser and os). Which means C/Net didn't test it enough.
Beyond all that, the core point in my post (you might *gasp* read the post) is that the whole thing is a bloody waste of space that appears to have a low signal-to-noise ratio.
Beyond the question of whether this beats some bullet lists, C/Net's version sucks. The flash for the $100 laptop is big enough to fill most of a smaller screen. And, it has exactly these pieces of information * 3 related stories * 5 related topics * 1 related company Half of those links are pretty much irrelevant. The worst one is "Piracy". I'm not sure if that links is because theft of these things is a major issue (I doubt it since the goal is to give them to every school kid) or because it will somehow encourage software piracy (the things don't have enough memory to install most commercial software) or...
To top the goofiness off, the default view is large print and there's no way to zoom farther out or move the view up or down so the other topics/stories/companies/whatevers come into view. It must've taken some work to turn off those flash features. One wonders why?
Of course, I can always click the full screen button. Ohhh look! To look at the article and the ontology widget I need a 20in LCD. But, if I've got that 20" LCD, I can see little colored balloons with useful information like "Piracy" and "Microsoft"
Hmmm... Disney borged the muppets and is finally slutting them out. It seems strangely appropriate that it's delivered only via a Microsoft product. Although you would think if they were going to slut out characters they would have stuck with one that didn't have any standards... Cranky old guys should never been slutted out. Too darn unappealing to pull it off.
There are at least hints of this idea in the original Star Trek series. I'll skip any commentaries but paraphrase it from memory. The big innovation in the machines (such as the one on the Enterprise) was (will be ?) that they weren't binary... Each "bit" represented not just a one or a zero but every thing in between. Thus allowing the storage all of human knowledge on the Enterprise's computer. For those wishing to Karma whore for more... try Daystrom, Multitronic and Duotronic. I got tired of googling around for more than a sketchy episode summary...
But the hero in an Ant's life is certainly a geek.
Then there were the unsung geeks who invented fire, the spear, the flint tip for same, the wheel, the bow and arrow, camoflaged big hole in ground, etc.
More recent-ish, before Henry Ford came along, most auto owners had to be (or hire...) geeks to keep those !@#$! things on the road.
On a slight tangent, one college professor of mine talked about how, in some "primitive" cultures, homosexuals had roles as things like helpers in child rearing. More directly, societies have an interesting way (when dogma and fear don't intrude) and putting aptitudes to some use.
You're half way there. The question in the Florida cases is how the specific machines work. Yes, you successfully found articles on the general theory of breathalizers. That doesn't mean that's how the machines in Florida work. It also doesn't mean that the implementation is seriously flawed. I'd hate to be convicted because a device can't hold calibration (5% BAC != 10% BAC) or because it thinks any volitile is alcohol (ever spilled gas on the side of your car?).
I guess this is like the scene near the end of Ants where one of the characters yells "Money" and the ringleading flea jumps around: "where?!". Then, the spider webs him.
So, Slashdot yells "Linux" and we all reflexively click the link? Since just being a (new) Linux distro is the only criteria for a story, doesn't fairness really means Slashdot should post links to every active Linux Distribution that hasn't had a story on Slashdot?
Why not create a bash script to grab a distro name and url per hour from distrowatch and stick it in canned verbage. In the Slashdot tradition of profit! lists:
1) Run slack-scraper.sh 2) Go on vacation 3) Stay on vacation 4) Haven't vacationed enough! 5) Vacation some more 6) Ooops! No more readers 7) ? 8) Unemployement!
A left field idea just slapped me upside the head. How about aliasing 'help' to pump the cheat sheet into more|less. Then start it with a short intro like say this:
This is a short summary of useful commands.
To get around help: Press space to move down Press (command) to move up Press q (quit) to leave help.
And if you have any suggestions, email me: blah@blah.com.
Just an idea. I might even move my cli cheat sheet into something like to this to help my creaking mem-o-reee
The philosophy is interesting. It's also the first instance of something that sounds cheesey but I'd love to tack on to XP when I tortured with that: The Eye Candy Meter
But, the question is what's it for? The key thing seems to be a great sense of integration, etc. But, as far as I can tell, most of the things that someone who wants a *nix with a gui are not there. I may have missed some included alternatives, but you'll do without:
I've played with CrossOver office, but until FileMaker 6 and 7 run under it, it does me no good. Heck, the FMP 7 installer just barfed the last time I tried to run it under crossover office...
If the dna-in-dinosaur-bones mob had made the mistake of announcing last night, we'd all be assuming it was an april fools joke now because basically _everything_ on slashdot for this 24 hours is bull.
Gmail ups to 2Gigs may be real or it may be a dumb attempt at a joke. Don't care enough to click the 12th might-be-a-joke/might-be-real link of the day.
My pledge: boycot slashdot on April Fools day. Next: hit submit then close slasdot window till tomorrow.
I'd find a key package that the IT Department relies on and convince/bribe/blackmail the maintainers to switch to torrent-only distibution. Ooops... no security patches for the registration system? Bet the IT Dept. would change the rules then.
Slashdot Mirror
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
In all likelihood because
(1) launches closer to the equator (if memory serves) take less boost
(2) most of the stuff on equator is either inconvenient or has various disadvantages from lack of long-term stability to lack of technical talent to infrastructure challenges
(3) much better choice vis-a-vis huricanes, large stretches of open land than other southern US states
(4) lots of resouces (technical, infrastructure, etc) in relatively close proximity (DFW, Houston, Austin/San Antonio)
I can't say I really like Texas (see: why Texas is staying in my rear view mirror) but there are fundamental reasons why Texas attracts businesses that have nothing to do with mythology, the Texas Cadillac, bizarre personalities or egos bigger than the belt buckles worn on Saturday nights to impress women at DFW's country nightclubs...
Where did you read "open source flash"? The whole Slashdot summary and the linked project page all refer to ECMAScript, aka ActionScript, aka Javascript. The linked project page makes it pretty clear that Mozilla and Adobe plan to use the Tamarin project as they basis of JavaScript (in Mozilla projects) and the ActionScript _portion_ of the Flash Player. RTFSS (RTF Slashdot Summary) before inserting foot in mouth.
At least one fundamental problem remains with google's personalized home/start/foo page: a very small limit (it appears to be 10) on the number of items shown in one feed. netvibes.com allows up to 30. A online newreader doesn't do me much good when I have to wake up multiple times during the night if I want to keep up with the feed.
Instead of ranting here, I just went and posted a simple question on their website: when were they going to ban students from going to public places since it's oh so much easier for a predator to _follow_ a student. I'm sure there are plenty of other creative suggestions that could be posted at http://www.popejohn.org/
Oh... I stumbled on the fact there seems to have been two Pope John XXIII (either the journalist left out an X or there are two Pope John High Schools in Sparta NJ). The first was also called an Anti-Pope and (thanks Wikipedia!) and later charged with piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest. Oh the irony, the irony!
Pressurized... I thought we'd become soft. While I haven't been to 16k+, I have been to 14k+ (Pikes Peak) and at that altitude, there's no need for assistance. And the cog railway up is supposed to be a hoot. Of course, a sealed cabin has the advantage that you'll reach the other end with all your kids no matter how pissed they get at each other. At least most people consider that an advantage ;-)
Maybe in your browser. It's not working in mine (and presumably everyone else using a similar mix of browser and os). Which means C/Net didn't test it enough.
Beyond all that, the core point in my post (you might *gasp* read the post) is that the whole thing is a bloody waste of space that appears to have a low signal-to-noise ratio.
Beyond the question of whether this beats some bullet lists, C/Net's version sucks. The flash for the $100 laptop is big enough to fill most of a smaller screen. And, it has exactly these pieces of information ...
* 3 related stories
* 5 related topics
* 1 related company
Half of those links are pretty much irrelevant. The worst one is "Piracy". I'm not sure if that links is because theft of these things is a major issue (I doubt it since the goal is to give them to every school kid) or because it will somehow encourage software piracy (the things don't have enough memory to install most commercial software) or
To top the goofiness off, the default view is large print and there's no way to zoom farther out or move the view up or down so the other topics/stories/companies/whatevers come into view. It must've taken some work to turn off those flash features. One wonders why?
Of course, I can always click the full screen button. Ohhh look! To look at the article and the ontology widget I need a 20in LCD. But, if I've got that 20" LCD, I can see little colored balloons with useful information like "Piracy" and "Microsoft"
Sheesh.
Some really twits posting in the comments over there. Bad enough I actually defended C. Taco. I'm assuming even Taco wouldn't be that rude...
Hmmm... Disney borged the muppets and is finally slutting them out. It seems strangely appropriate that it's delivered only via a Microsoft product. Although you would think if they were going to slut out characters they would have stuck with one that didn't have any standards... Cranky old guys should never been slutted out. Too darn unappealing to pull it off.
HMS... DDoS... droool.
There are at least hints of this idea in the original Star Trek series. I'll skip any commentaries but paraphrase it from memory. ... Each "bit" represented not just a one or a zero but every thing in between. Thus allowing the storage all of human knowledge on the Enterprise's computer. For those wishing to Karma whore for more... try Daystrom, Multitronic and Duotronic. I got tired of googling around for more than a sketchy episode summary...
The big innovation in the machines (such as the one on the Enterprise) was (will be ?) that they weren't binary
I think that sequel got vetoed as being marketing-challenged.
But the hero in an Ant's life is certainly a geek.
Then there were the unsung geeks who invented fire, the spear, the flint tip for same, the wheel, the bow and arrow, camoflaged big hole in ground, etc.
More recent-ish, before Henry Ford came along, most auto owners had to be (or hire...) geeks to keep those !@#$! things on the road.
On a slight tangent, one college professor of mine talked about how, in some "primitive" cultures, homosexuals had roles as things like helpers in child rearing. More directly, societies have an interesting way (when dogma and fear don't intrude) and putting aptitudes to some use.
Some thoughts to grease the thunking...
You're half way there. The question in the Florida cases is how the specific machines work. Yes, you successfully found articles on the general theory of breathalizers. That doesn't mean that's how the machines in Florida work. It also doesn't mean that the implementation is seriously flawed. I'd hate to be convicted because a device can't hold calibration (5% BAC != 10% BAC) or because it thinks any volitile is alcohol (ever spilled gas on the side of your car?).
Mea culpa.
I think being the Father of a 3 year old results in seeing so many kids movies so many time you get brain damage.
Uhm, what were we talking about?
I guess this is like the scene near the end of Ants where one of the characters yells "Money" and the ringleading flea jumps around: "where?!". Then, the spider webs him.
So, Slashdot yells "Linux" and we all reflexively click the link? Since just being a (new) Linux distro is the only criteria for a story, doesn't fairness really means Slashdot should post links to every active Linux Distribution that hasn't had a story on Slashdot?
Why not create a bash script to grab a distro name and url per hour from distrowatch and stick it in canned verbage. In the Slashdot tradition of profit! lists:
1) Run slack-scraper.sh
2) Go on vacation
3) Stay on vacation
4) Haven't vacationed enough!
5) Vacation some more
6) Ooops! No more readers
7) ?
8) Unemployement!
A left field idea just slapped me upside the head. How about aliasing 'help' to pump the cheat sheet into more|less. Then start it with a short intro like say this:
This is a short summary of useful commands.
To get around help:
Press space to move down
Press (command) to move up
Press q (quit) to leave help.
And if you have any suggestions, email me: blah@blah.com.
Just an idea. I might even move my cli cheat sheet into something like to this to help my creaking mem-o-reee
The philosophy is interesting. It's also the first instance of something that sounds cheesey but I'd love to tack on to XP when I tortured with that: The Eye Candy Meter
But, the question is what's it for? The key thing seems to be a great sense of integration, etc. But, as far as I can tell, most of the things that someone who wants a *nix with a gui are not there. I may have missed some included alternatives, but you'll do without:
Ouch! I suspect you won't be using this to do office, web or database work for now. Complete package list/release notes here
I've played with CrossOver office, but until FileMaker 6 and 7 run under it, it does me no good. Heck, the FMP 7 installer just barfed the last time I tried to run it under crossover office...
If the dna-in-dinosaur-bones mob had made the mistake of announcing last night, we'd all be assuming it was an april fools joke now because basically _everything_ on slashdot for this 24 hours is bull.
Gmail ups to 2Gigs may be real or it may be a dumb attempt at a joke. Don't care enough to click the 12th might-be-a-joke/might-be-real link of the day.
My pledge: boycot slashdot on April Fools day. Next: hit submit then close slasdot window till tomorrow.
I'd find a key package that the IT Department relies on and convince/bribe/blackmail the maintainers to switch to torrent-only distibution. Ooops... no security patches for the registration system? Bet the IT Dept. would change the rules then.
... hehehe ...
If I were an Evil Genius