I still use Proximitron... mainly because I've been using it for years, and I have many personal filter writen for it to override many annoying features I find in many websites I visit on a regular basis.
It not only blocks ads and other annoying crap, it lets me modify damn near anything sent to my browser. That is a -GOOD THING-.
Anyway, I would like to point out an ad based system that I go for all the time: Salon. I used to have a subscription to Salon, becuase I really like it, thought it was good, and read it on a regular basis. All those things still hold true... I just use thier click through ad system to get a day long subscription when I want to read thier stuff.
Works for me... I'm even taken in by problably 60% of thier ads and click through.
I don't mind. If that is cost of me getting hours of free content (30 seconds of my time), I'm in.
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Ya know, you bring up an interesting point, something that I've really notice in myself in the past year of so: I want to be a keyboard commander.
I look for the key board short cuts for EVERYTHING I do on a regular basis. Anything I can do with out taking my hands off the keyboard is a a moment saved, and when you're moving at the speed of thought... well, that's a good thing.
Examples: Using firefox. I used to instinctively reach for the mouse when I wanted to click a link... now I find myself just typeing the text of link in, and Firefox goes to it. Killer.
Co workers: I design and make online applications for my coworkers, and I KILLS me when they go the a form, type something in, and then remove their hands from their keyboard to click the submit button. I'm always going, 'hey, you don't have to do that, JUST HIT ENTER!'.' Ack.
Programming. I've gotten to the point where when I edit, compile, deploy code, I can do it all with out using the mouse. I just avoid it. I went so far as to install a macro program that will execute commands that are not available in a given program. I can bounce around text code with the keyboard faster with the keyboard that I ever could with a mouse.
I even had a conversation with a lady neighbor friend who works with H&R block that does taxes... her comment was that she does a lot of clicking... and I was like, well, don't hey have shortcuts? A couple of days later, she mentioned to me that she started paying attention to that, and now she can do stuff a lot faster becuase she doesn't have to shift to the mouse as much any more.
Logitech, one of the leading makers of computer mice and other types of input devices, spun off 3Dconnexion three years ago to capitalize on technology developed to control robot arms on a NASA space shuttle. The company produces four types of pointing devices, with names such as SpaceMouse and SpaceBall, all intended to work in concert with a standard computer mouse or track ball.
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
"Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"
The man below says, "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field."
"You must work in information technology" says the balloonist.
"I do," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone."
The man below says, "You must be a corporate manager."
"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
Damn. I got motivated. Based upon what you posted, I did a summary of the stocks sold:
BENCH, ROBERT K. $2,779,184.00
BROUGHTON, REGINALD CHARLES $14,402,226.00
CANOPY GROUP INC $1,405,180.00
GASPARRO, LARRY $5,637,633.00
HUNSAKER, JEFF F. $3,055,608.00
OLSON, MICHAEL P $9,051,745.00
RAIMONDI, THOMAS P. $223,450.00
RAIMONDI, THOMAS P., JR. $2,101,901.00
THOMPSON, DUFF R. $1,916,861.00
WILSON, MICHAEL L. $1,297,924.00
YARRO, RALPH J. $1,405,180.00
It is generally accepted that immersive simulations form the gateway to training the armies of the future. The MMP is a bold new thrust in that direction, and it's very similar to the massively multiplayer role-playing game concept common in the commercial world.
So those many, many hours I've spent on Doom, Quake, Quake2, Quake3, etc... can help make me a worthwhile soldier?
Hmm... having served in the military, I suppose it may be true.
The concepts of good cover, working as a team, knowing what your weapon can/can't do...
It makes sense. Aircraft pilots learn in a simulator, why not soldiers?
Maybe this is why my friends and I are good at paintball... cover me... go, go, go!
Hmm... cat_byte, I just skipped over a metamoding a mod on your post as interesting because I can't find any proof of what you speak. So I am curious. Could you please point me to hard numbers and facts that prove your point... it will not help the metamod, but it will help me in knowing if what you say is true.
A New York Times article in April of 2002 examined this issue [9]:
"A Boeing 737 pilot for a major airline recalled approaching Reagan National Airport from the south a few years ago and facing a microburst, a rainstorm that includes sudden changes in wind direction. Such a condition can lead to a crash if a plane is at low altitude and low air speed, as it is on approach. He broke off the approach and turned east. ''It was the only way to go,'' he said.
However, if he had been a little deeper into the approach, he said, ''I'd be flying right toward the protected area,'' the forbidden zone that includes the White House. A system that prevented him from turning that way would be unsafe, said the pilot, whose airline, like most, has been reluctant to discuss security changes."
Today, that plane would be shot down. So this pilot was wrong. The absence of the system is far more unsafe. No microburst is as dangerous as a modern surface-to-air missile. With Soft Walls, this pilot would have maximum maneuverability, and there would be no need to shoot down the plane (assuming that the military has confidence in the system).
I hate cutting and pasting from PDF files.
Anyway, the statement Today, that plane would be shot down. to me is a bit absolute... is this really true? IF a pilot had problems, called in said problems to the tower and acted according instructions or his own judgement, would he really get shot down? Additionally, I have a problem accepting that jets would scramble fast enough to be able to do so...
The total field of view, 10 arc minutes, may seem modest in comparison to that offered by existing telescopes. Measured in terms of resolution elements, it is, however, gigantic:
at maximum resolution it would represent more than a trillion pixels.
Interesting and insightful - that's a slashdot compliment.
The one thing I would say is this: there is a time and place for technology... and there is a time and place where it just doesn't apply.
Does technology make voting better? To answer that question, we have to understand what is better voting. For me, better voting is:
Ensuring that everyone can make the voting selection they wish to make.
Ensuring that the selection made is the correct one.
Ensuring that the selection is recorded and counted correctly.
Ensuring that at anytime in the future, said selection can be viewed again and counted in the same way as before, via more than one method of counting.
Ensuring that said selection results in the proper government action taking place.
Can technology based voting take care of above said issues. I believe yes it can. However, I would say that the current said of electronic voting solutions fall well short of the goals, and I would esp. say that Diebold is flunking this test.
It has been said before... this is not that complicated from a software project stand point. The goals are clear, the specs are easy. Many, many, many groups should be able to produce software that does proper electronic voting.
Another opinion: we are in stage one, and those orginazation that are currently doing e-votes are those who are in it for the wrong reasons. Time will give us the correct results. But we must fight those current groups to ensure that the proper groups produce the proper software we need to does this most important of citizen requirements.
One more opinion: I belive that any such voting system should be open: right now it is. I can take a number two pencil and piece of paper and simulate what I am going to do at the polls. I can print my own ballets and hold a whole mock election. I do not think there should be anything different about electionic voting. Give the people the method. Keep things open. Be honest.
Well done, troll. I am glad to see that your posts have grown in versions, and that you are using the well formatted method I gladyly provided to you. Use the force. I still watch you, waiting for the day when you gain/. fame.
Imagine the mRNA to be like a long piece of magnetic recording tape, and the ribosome to be like a tape recorder. As the tape passes through the playing head of the recorder, it is "read" and converted into music, or other sounds...When a "tape" of mRNA passes through the "playing head" of a ribosome, the "notes" produced are amino acids and the pieces of music they make up are proteins.
They go on to say:
Music is not a mere linear sequence of notes. Our minds perceive pieces of music on a level far higher than that. We chunk notes into phrases, phrases into melodies, melodies into movements, and movements into full pieces. similarly proteins only make sense when they act as chunked units. Although a primary structure carries all the information for the tertiary structure to be created, it still "feels" like less, for its potential is only realized when the tertiary structure is actually physically created.
Ok, this makes sense to me but we also do the same thing with words... and words can be made into speach. Why not say the same thing of patents... Our minds take existing ideas and change them... thoughts get put into actions, actions into motion, motion in physical parts, physical parts into machines, machines into processes, processes into... well, you get the idea.
All of our existence as humans (including our own being) is parts being put together into something greater than the whole, and this happens to include music... music has bizarre rules, and most everything else can be made into music. Does this mean the rules of music apply to the other items?
PoorPost Troll... what has happened? We worked together to create version.2 of the poorpost troll form and now you don't even use it!?! Where's the love? Come on, you have a name to make here... live up to your username and standards! Seek out those shitty/. posts and let it be known that people are posting trash... I'm behind you all the way... I've been waiting for you to post at the same time I have mod points so I can mod you up... but I can't do that if you don't post! Claim the day!
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It can't be said enough times: Americans! Please go vote! Voting is a right you get to keep by the very act of exercising it.
WHAT?!
I still use Proximitron... mainly because I've been using it for years, and I have many personal filter writen for it to override many annoying features I find in many websites I visit on a regular basis.
It not only blocks ads and other annoying crap, it lets me modify damn near anything sent to my browser. That is a -GOOD THING-.
Anyway, I would like to point out an ad based system that I go for all the time: Salon. I used to have a subscription to Salon, becuase I really like it, thought it was good, and read it on a regular basis. All those things still hold true... I just use thier click through ad system to get a day long subscription when I want to read thier stuff.
Works for me... I'm even taken in by problably 60% of thier ads and click through.
I don't mind. If that is cost of me getting hours of free content (30 seconds of my time), I'm in.
Ya know, you bring up an interesting point, something that I've really notice in myself in the past year of so: I want to be a keyboard commander.
I look for the key board short cuts for EVERYTHING I do on a regular basis. Anything I can do with out taking my hands off the keyboard is a a moment saved, and when you're moving at the speed of thought... well, that's a good thing.
Examples: Using firefox. I used to instinctively reach for the mouse when I wanted to click a link... now I find myself just typeing the text of link in, and Firefox goes to it. Killer.
Co workers: I design and make online applications for my coworkers, and I KILLS me when they go the a form, type something in, and then remove their hands from their keyboard to click the submit button. I'm always going, 'hey, you don't have to do that, JUST HIT ENTER!'.' Ack.
Programming. I've gotten to the point where when I edit, compile, deploy code, I can do it all with out using the mouse. I just avoid it. I went so far as to install a macro program that will execute commands that are not available in a given program. I can bounce around text code with the keyboard faster with the keyboard that I ever could with a mouse.
I even had a conversation with a lady neighbor friend who works with H&R block that does taxes... her comment was that she does a lot of clicking... and I was like, well, don't hey have shortcuts? A couple of days later, she mentioned to me that she started paying attention to that, and now she can do stuff a lot faster becuase she doesn't have to shift to the mouse as much any more.
Uhhh... huh huh heh huh... they said space ball.
Come on, it is funny.
I think it is funny.
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
"Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"
The man below says, "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field."
"You must work in information technology" says the balloonist.
"I do," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone."
The man below says, "You must be a corporate manager."
"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
Yeah, definately OT, but just to let you know -after-, that is a great sig link. Thanks!
Damn. I got motivated. Based upon what you posted, I did a summary of the stocks sold:
BENCH, ROBERT K. $2,779,184.00BROUGHTON, REGINALD CHARLES $14,402,226.00
CANOPY GROUP INC $1,405,180.00
GASPARRO, LARRY $5,637,633.00
HUNSAKER, JEFF F. $3,055,608.00
OLSON, MICHAEL P $9,051,745.00
RAIMONDI, THOMAS P. $223,450.00
RAIMONDI, THOMAS P., JR. $2,101,901.00
THOMPSON, DUFF R. $1,916,861.00
WILSON, MICHAEL L. $1,297,924.00
YARRO, RALPH J. $1,405,180.00
Grand total: $43,276,892.00
I know people like you... and you all scare me.
Well, ultimately it depends on the situation... you'd be amazed what you might try when other people are trying very hard to kill you, and you them.
From the article:
So those many, many hours I've spent on Doom, Quake, Quake2, Quake3, etc... can help make me a worthwhile soldier?
Hmm... having served in the military, I suppose it may be true.
The concepts of good cover, working as a team, knowing what your weapon can/can't do...
It makes sense. Aircraft pilots learn in a simulator, why not soldiers?
Maybe this is why my friends and I are good at paintball... cover me... go, go, go!
I can think of only one appropriate response:
Mmmmmmmmmm.... mushrooms.
And I MEAN it.
Thanks!
Hmm... cat_byte, I just skipped over a metamoding a mod on your post as interesting because I can't find any proof of what you speak. So I am curious. Could you please point me to hard numbers and facts that prove your point... it will not help the metamod, but it will help me in knowing if what you say is true.
From the FAQ (warning, PDF).
I hate cutting and pasting from PDF files.
Anyway, the statement Today, that plane would be shot down. to me is a bit absolute... is this really true? IF a pilot had problems, called in said problems to the tower and acted according instructions or his own judgement, would he really get shot down? Additionally, I have a problem accepting that jets would scramble fast enough to be able to do so...
This caught my eye:
Woah.
Interesting and insightful - that's a slashdot compliment.
The one thing I would say is this: there is a time and place for technology... and there is a time and place where it just doesn't apply.
Does technology make voting better? To answer that question, we have to understand what is better voting. For me, better voting is:
Can technology based voting take care of above said issues. I believe yes it can. However, I would say that the current said of electronic voting solutions fall well short of the goals, and I would esp. say that Diebold is flunking this test.
It has been said before... this is not that complicated from a software project stand point. The goals are clear, the specs are easy. Many, many, many groups should be able to produce software that does proper electronic voting.
Another opinion: we are in stage one, and those orginazation that are currently doing e-votes are those who are in it for the wrong reasons. Time will give us the correct results. But we must fight those current groups to ensure that the proper groups produce the proper software we need to does this most important of citizen requirements.
One more opinion: I belive that any such voting system should be open: right now it is. I can take a number two pencil and piece of paper and simulate what I am going to do at the polls. I can print my own ballets and hold a whole mock election. I do not think there should be anything different about electionic voting. Give the people the method. Keep things open. Be honest.
Well done, troll. I am glad to see that your posts have grown in versions, and that you are using the well formatted method I gladyly provided to you. Use the force. I still watch you, waiting for the day when you gain /. fame.
This tomato makes me think I'm grandma!
Shit! I forgot all about keeping my perpetual motion machine going. Oh hell, I'll charge it up right after my smoke bre... OH! Donuts! Sweet!
From http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/Sources.htm
They go on to say:
Ok, this makes sense to me but we also do the same thing with words... and words can be made into speach. Why not say the same thing of patents... Our minds take existing ideas and change them... thoughts get put into actions, actions into motion, motion in physical parts, physical parts into machines, machines into processes, processes into... well, you get the idea.
All of our existence as humans (including our own being) is parts being put together into something greater than the whole, and this happens to include music... music has bizarre rules, and most everything else can be made into music. Does this mean the rules of music apply to the other items?
Reminds me of the DeCss as free speach argument.
So be it.
Most futile slashdot request evar!
Or they could both be running and not running the game at the same time!
No one will know until they open up the door to the room where the lan party may or may not be taking place.
PoorPost Troll... what has happened? We worked together to create version .2 of the poorpost troll form and now you don't even use it!?! Where's the love? Come on, you have a name to make here... live up to your username and standards! Seek out those shitty /. posts and let it be known that people are posting trash... I'm behind you all the way... I've been waiting for you to post at the same time I have mod points so I can mod you up... but I can't do that if you don't post! Claim the day!
One word: porn.
And this is current time, not 'will be found' time.