I'v travelled in several muslim countries (Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Turkey) and saw people in each of those countries drinking alcohol. I also questioned a muslim colleague about things like this, and his off-handed remark was that he would "pay for it in the next life".
When it comes down to it, the average people are the same all over the world - they'll pay lip service to appear to be doing what the are supposed to do, but if no one notices, then they'll just do what they want to do.
I'm an aussie and even I don't think this story deserves to be here. Combined with the prominent slashtervizing and other poor quality stories this place is slowly becoming a news ghetto (and apologies to all who live in ghettos)
Do the TSA people not realize that trains run on well defined paths, on well defined schedules (Well, maybe not Amtrak.. lol) , and that any terrorist worth his salt could set an IED friggin' well anywhere they wanted???!?!?
[T]he gov't shouldn't be subsidizing anything, it shouldn't be taxing/borrowing/printing and subsidizing with that money. It should leave people alone and should allow them to work it out in the market.
Apple's products convinced an awful lot of people that they wanted Apple's products.
I have seen a quote on here somewhere that says that "there is no tablet market, there is only an iPad market." - which did not even exist before SJ. And while Apple does consistently produce decent products, I was alluding to the people who are willing to slap down money for a product they have yet to see, and have no idea whether it does anything more for them than any other product in the market.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to Google+ can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over.
This sounds very familiar to me. Perhaps if I made a few editing changes:
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to Linux can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to OSS can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move from Apple's walled garden can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over.
Etc.
No matter what the subject, the argument/comments remain the same. While you can see why moving to google+ is a good idea, none of your less techy friends can see the perceived value of such a move, especially given that what they have now meets their needs (says me with an iMac and 2 ipods:-) ). To be successful Google+ needs to somehow get the message across that their service is what you need even though you don't know that yet. To carry on with the Apple meme, in the same way that Steve Jobs convinced an awful lot of people that they wanted Apple's products - even before they were released to the market. But I don't know how you do that with software.
Anything and everything to motivate them. Coddling children doesn't do them any favors.
Totally agree with you about the codling. However it is one thing to motivate, it is another thing to humiliate. No matter what the intention, this sort of marking probably would lead to a hostile environment - and hence worsen the outcome rather than improve it.
And at the risk of being Godwinned, visibly marking people by categories doesn't have a very good history.
Gas prices have doubled since this insane crusade against energy started.
This is an appropriate time to point out that pretty well everywhere else in the developed world, they'd love to have these "expensive" gas prices that are hurting the US economy. Not bashing here, but Americans have no idea what expensive gas prices actually are. See the table in this article
This is why I'm still on Windows XP; I like the Start Menu and being able to group my applications by purpose in a *menu*. I don't want them littered over the desktop or in silly toolbars.
This is one of my biggest complaints about OS-X (Snow Leopard, but I don't know if Lion is different) - You can't seem to be able to group stuff. There is no level of indirection between what is shown on the finder and the Application directory. I have previously asked about creating sub-dirs on under the Application directory and people have warned me that doing will can break things and it is not worth the effort.
But in writing this I am wondering if the "proper" answer is some sort of smart folder?
From a stat I saw a few weeks ago (can't be bothered to look it up) , Apple already rakes in about double the $ per square foot it makes from its stores than the next highest retailer makes in their stores. So why would Apple want to change a winning formula?
Think up a really cool super hero name. Then we can you welcome you as an overlord. Assuming that you can get Natalie Portman to deliver the Hot Grits!
You have left us at the mercy of trolls and idiots. Headlines don't even make sense anymore.
Grasshopper [1], with the great master having achieved enlightenment and moved on from our plane of existence the time has come for you to push yourself beyond your limits and reach for enlightenment yourself. Only when you have studied the The great work and understood its nuances will you only start to understand such inscrutable works as "facebook's faces trademark suit over timeline"
[1] Or "Young Padawan" for those who were too young to have experienced the sublime master (or was that the "ridiculous master" - I really appreciated Kill Bill for a number of reasons)
So, Constitutionally when a cop sees a person threatening the life of another the officers is not permitted too use deadly force to stop the act?
They are allowed. But what is not allowed is following the perp home and while they are sitting there watching TV, pointing your gun through the window and assassinating them.
That was a line from the backing song. Interesting choice.
On a different topic. It takes X amount of rocket fuel to move a payload to orbit. It takes Y amount of rocket fuel to soft land the components back to Earth. So can anyone give ball park figures for X and Y that would make sense in the context of delivering people to the ISS? It seems to me that scaling up X to include Y in the payload is a losing game.
While it is true that digital data needs to be maintained, it's not a lot.
The problem is not the amount of work that needs to be done to maintain digital data. It is that it has to be done in the first place, by someone who cares about that data. Once you fall back behind 2 generations of storage technology the amount of effort to transfer the data becomes very very difficult to recover it (have any 8" floppy drives lying around that are USB compatible? It is still possible to get 8" drives, but how much effort would you go to recovered data from an unnamed 8" floppy disk?)
You can counter with "the cloud" to host your collections - thus it is no longer your problem to maintain the technology. But these companies go out of business or could delete your grandfathers account for not being accessed, or for non-paying of a bill (where is your data now?)
At least with hard copy you know that people won't be changing the operating characteristics of the human eye in the near future. But I will admit that archival hard copy is not a given either.
Doctors on India are viewing your x-rays and diagnosing your issues. (I know this to be true because I helped set it up.)
A few years ago there was a kerfuffle about the transcribing of patient records being outsourced to India (or somewhere) because (I believe) that it broke some regulations about patient confidentiality etc. So how does your system hold up under a regulatory eye, and what protections do the patients have under malpractice etc (assuming that they even know their records are going offshore). Are these doctors in India considered staff of the medical clinic? Or have the clinics using your system washed their collective hands of the issue?
I'm not implying that doctors in India are bad, just that patients expect their doctors to be working under the regulatory guidelines of where the clinic is located.
I think many people are missing the point of Javascript.
The new spec includes the ability for Javascript to open sockets. Once that takes hold, you'll have the ability to completely control the browser window from the home server.
When that happens, it will be big. The browser is essentially a rendering machine which makes it trivially easy to show things and is largely machine independent
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Eat a Ham Sandwich, Drink a beer.
I'v travelled in several muslim countries (Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Turkey) and saw people in each of those countries drinking alcohol. I also questioned a muslim colleague about things like this, and his off-handed remark was that he would "pay for it in the next life".
When it comes down to it, the average people are the same all over the world - they'll pay lip service to appear to be doing what the are supposed to do, but if no one notices, then they'll just do what they want to do.
We suggest that one aspect of this adaptation is to encompass metadata within a file abstraction
this before? Are resource forks coming back into vogue?
I'm an aussie and even I don't think this story deserves to be here. Combined with the prominent slashtervizing and other poor quality stories this place is slowly becoming a news ghetto (and apologies to all who live in ghettos)
Do the TSA people not realize that trains run on well defined paths, on well defined schedules (Well, maybe not Amtrak .. lol) , and that any terrorist worth his salt could set an IED friggin' well anywhere they wanted???!?!?
WTF is up with these idiots???
[T]he gov't shouldn't be subsidizing anything, it shouldn't be taxing/borrowing/printing and subsidizing with that money. It should leave people alone and should allow them to work it out in the market.
Oh the irony of reading this on /.
I think of Mango on SNL
Now I was reading somewhere - can't rember - about a copanany unveiling a Personalized Anime Robot Girl? Maybe we can cross these technologies?
Throw in a dose of Real Doll and it gets even more interesting.
+1 for the drop bears
In this case /. needs a +1 poignant
Apple's products convinced an awful lot of people that they wanted Apple's products.
I have seen a quote on here somewhere that says that "there is no tablet market, there is only an iPad market." - which did not even exist before SJ. And while Apple does consistently produce decent products, I was alluding to the people who are willing to slap down money for a product they have yet to see, and have no idea whether it does anything more for them than any other product in the market.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to Google+ can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over.
This sounds very familiar to me. Perhaps if I made a few editing changes:
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to Linux can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to OSS can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move from Apple's walled garden can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over.
Etc.
:-) ). To be successful Google+ needs to somehow get the message across that their service is what you need even though you don't know that yet. To carry on with the Apple meme, in the same way that Steve Jobs convinced an awful lot of people that they wanted Apple's products - even before they were released to the market. But I don't know how you do that with software.
No matter what the subject, the argument/comments remain the same. While you can see why moving to google+ is a good idea, none of your less techy friends can see the perceived value of such a move, especially given that what they have now meets their needs (says me with an iMac and 2 ipods
Anything and everything to motivate them. Coddling children doesn't do them any favors.
Totally agree with you about the codling. However it is one thing to motivate, it is another thing to humiliate. No matter what the intention, this sort of marking probably would lead to a hostile environment - and hence worsen the outcome rather than improve it.
And at the risk of being Godwinned, visibly marking people by categories doesn't have a very good history.
Gas prices have doubled since this insane crusade against energy started.
This is an appropriate time to point out that pretty well everywhere else in the developed world, they'd love to have these "expensive" gas prices that are hurting the US economy. Not bashing here, but Americans have no idea what expensive gas prices actually are. See the table in this article
This is why I'm still on Windows XP; I like the Start Menu and being able to group my applications by purpose in a *menu*.
I don't want them littered over the desktop or in silly toolbars.
This is one of my biggest complaints about OS-X (Snow Leopard, but I don't know if Lion is different) - You can't seem to be able to group stuff. There is no level of indirection between what is shown on the finder and the Application directory. I have previously asked about creating sub-dirs on under the Application directory and people have warned me that doing will can break things and it is not worth the effort.
But in writing this I am wondering if the "proper" answer is some sort of smart folder?
From a stat I saw a few weeks ago (can't be bothered to look it up) , Apple already rakes in about double the $ per square foot it makes from its stores than the next highest retailer makes in their stores. So why would Apple want to change a winning formula?
Doesn't seem to work on Safari 5.1 (Snow Leopard) either.
The Tenth Circle of IT Hell: Reading infoworld articles.
Description An abomination of words that seem profound from a distance, but on closer inspection aren't
The People you meet there Innocent people sucked into the morass of a less than worthy /. story
Think up a really cool super hero name. Then we can you welcome you as an overlord. Assuming that you can get Natalie Portman to deliver the Hot Grits!
You have left us at the mercy of trolls and idiots. Headlines don't even make sense anymore.
Grasshopper [1], with the great master having achieved enlightenment and moved on from our plane of existence the time has come for you to push yourself beyond your limits and reach for enlightenment yourself. Only when you have studied the The great work and understood its nuances will you only start to understand such inscrutable works as "facebook's faces trademark suit over timeline"
[1] Or "Young Padawan" for those who were too young to have experienced the sublime master (or was that the "ridiculous master" - I really appreciated Kill Bill for a number of reasons)
So, Constitutionally when a cop sees a person threatening the life of another the officers is not permitted too use deadly force to stop the act?
They are allowed. But what is not allowed is following the perp home and while they are sitting there watching TV, pointing your gun through the window and assassinating them.
That was a line from the backing song. Interesting choice.
On a different topic. It takes X amount of rocket fuel to move a payload to orbit. It takes Y amount of rocket fuel to soft land the components back to Earth. So can anyone give ball park figures for X and Y that would make sense in the context of delivering people to the ISS? It seems to me that scaling up X to include Y in the payload is a losing game.
While it is true that digital data needs to be maintained, it's not a lot.
The problem is not the amount of work that needs to be done to maintain digital data. It is that it has to be done in the first place, by someone who cares about that data. Once you fall back behind 2 generations of storage technology the amount of effort to transfer the data becomes very very difficult to recover it (have any 8" floppy drives lying around that are USB compatible? It is still possible to get 8" drives, but how much effort would you go to recovered data from an unnamed 8" floppy disk?)
You can counter with "the cloud" to host your collections - thus it is no longer your problem to maintain the technology. But these companies go out of business or could delete your grandfathers account for not being accessed, or for non-paying of a bill (where is your data now?)
At least with hard copy you know that people won't be changing the operating characteristics of the human eye in the near future. But I will admit that archival hard copy is not a given either.
Doctors on India are viewing your x-rays and diagnosing your issues. (I know this to be true because I helped set it up.)
A few years ago there was a kerfuffle about the transcribing of patient records being outsourced to India (or somewhere) because (I believe) that it broke some regulations about patient confidentiality etc. So how does your system hold up under a regulatory eye, and what protections do the patients have under malpractice etc (assuming that they even know their records are going offshore). Are these doctors in India considered staff of the medical clinic? Or have the clinics using your system washed their collective hands of the issue?
I'm not implying that doctors in India are bad, just that patients expect their doctors to be working under the regulatory guidelines of where the clinic is located.
I think many people are missing the point of Javascript.
The new spec includes the ability for Javascript to open sockets. Once that takes hold, you'll have the ability to completely control the browser window from the home server.
When that happens, it will be big. The browser is essentially a rendering machine which makes it trivially easy to show things and is largely machine independent
Did you just invent X-Windows?
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