Oh, hang on, "switch campaign." You were talking about advertisement of Macs, not iPods. Sorry. Even so, weren't a number of the "switchers" creative professionals? You know, the ones a little less memorable than Ellen Feiss.
Drink the right beer and bikini babes will have sex with you! This is hardly an Apple-specific approach. It's the fundamental thesis of all modern consumer-oriented advertising. The reason you see no ads extolling the ROI of iPod ownership is that iPods aren't business tools.
It's built on PHP and MySQL and released under the GPL. You can use it to serve AICC- and SCORM-compatible courses. It includes built-in webmail, forum, chat and document upload tools.
The interface is translated into several languages, including English. The user community is mostly French-speaking, but there are enough people who also speak English to respond to questions on the forums.
Full disclosure: I work for a museum, though not as an archaeologist, and I am biased.
My proposal is this: How many historical sites/wrecks can be researched in 100 years? Take this number and double it. Now make a list of these sites. These sites would be "off limits" to looters, er treasure hunters. Now if a "new" site is found, in order to add it to the list you must drop an existing site from the list.
Archaeologists already do this, making educated guesses about the relative potential values of sites in order to most efficiently allocate limited resources. However, one can't judge a site's value fully until after it has been excavated and analyzed. Often, the excavation of one site will provide leads that make previously ignored sites seem suddenly more interesting. To restrict research to a list of particular sites would inhibit the pursuit of such connections, decreasing what could have been learned.
Compromise measures are in place already to keep less important sites from being tied up in perpetuity. Development can proceed after a quick survey that determines a site is nothing more than another scatter of flakes with nothing new to teach us. This even saves the looters' time and energy!
And why assume that looters would refrain from digging into the sites on the protected list? Laws protecting public sites and sites on private property don't seem to stop looters now. If anything, a public list of "Almost Certainly Valuable Sites" would encourage more looting of them.
...without "looters" many existing museum pieces would not have been found and available for the public to see and researchers to study.
This is true; many of the objects that are in museum collections were acquired in the past through activities that we would now describe as "looting." Modern museums are more careful to discourage this sort of practice, though. It is considered to be unethical as well as severely damaging to an object's research value. Only a fraction of available information is extracted from the object itself. The rest is provided by the context in which the object is found: location, association, etc. This contextual information is lost unless the site is excavated and reported in a controlled manner.
The Minoan capital was Knossos, not Minoa. Knossos is located on the island of Crete. Minoa is located on the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades island group. The Cyclades also include the island of Thera/Santorini, referred to elsewhere in this thread.
Essentially, it's a committee of professional museum people, mostly from the International Council of Museums and the J. Paul Getty Trust. They have very strict ideas about who qualifies and who doesn't.
The only person who'll find pr0n in.museum is Rudy Giuliani.
Ah yes, The Great Brain. I wore out my library card on that series of books. He's like a 12-year-old Stainless Steel Rat. Perfect reading material for the junior confidence man in training.
The plot lines I remember right off the top of my head: running a one-man PX out of the Jesuit boarding school; betting the other kids that he can magnetize a piece of wood (shaped suspiciously like a boomerang); and selling admission to see the town's first indoor flush toilet.
From reading other replies, it's clear that at least half of posters have no idea what makes this software unique, and why you can't do what it does with freely available tools for Linux. I blame bad promotion on their part.
When you go to their website at www.zeroknowledge.com, you see a list of the "Standard Services," all of which can be provided by various free tools. It's the company's "Premium Services" that are worth paying for, and those are hidden a minimum of two clicks in. If you actually go to www.freedom.net, the Premium Services are mentioned right up front, but highlighted in gray instead of red and not clearly explained.
If you use the Premium Services, all of your Web, email, and IRC traffic is encrypted and bounced through their "Freedom Network." It's like a big VPN that entirely masks your location and identity from the outside Internet.
They ought to be advertising the hell out of a capability like that. The only other service that comes close is Anonymizer.com, and that runs all your traffic through a single relay point--meaning a single set of logs to be subpoenaed and parsed.
The only reason I can think of not to loudly promote such a service is to stay below the radar of various regulating bodies who may be concerned about the proliferation of untraceable Internet connections. Safe, but not a good way to convince people your product is worth buying.
There's not a thing wrong with doing it that way, but there's not much about it that's better either.
You don't end up with shorter names, because "museum.org" then would be, in effect, a TLD. You'ld have to to type out "guggenheim.museum.org," which is longer than either "guggenheim.museum" or "guggenheim.org."
You don't have a good way to settle name disputes because there's no sanctioned arbiter for.org who has firsthand knowledge of the museum industry. Under the.museum plan, MDMA (which is mostly ICOM + money from the Getty Foundation) oversees any disputes using guidelines such as those ICOM has been hammering out for years to decide what actually qualifies as a museum.
(Incidentally, museum.org is registered by the Swedish Museum of Natural History, but it doesn't appear to be in use.)
Criminy, people! If I didn't know better, I'd think that none of you were paying any attention as this has been coming up on us for the year. These new TLDs are so odd because the procedure for proposing a new one was very specific on a few matters, namely, "Who's gonna run the damn thing?" You had to be able to convince them that your proposal was feasible, and most suggestions just weren't.
Nobody could ever agree over who should arbitrate ".kids" or ".web.", but there are very specific groups to go to for things like ".museum". Groups that already have the organization and infrastructure to handle the chore of assigning names for a whole TLD.
The MDMA that pushed for.museum is an organization composed mostly of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), which itself is a working unit of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). There's not a more organized professional group in the world than ICOM. They have the people, determination, and management skills to get it done, ergo they got it done. I say good for them.
Why.museum instead of sticking to.org? Because of the museum community's keen sense of group identity. Rightly or wrongly, they like to decide among themselves who gets sanctioned to wear the MUSEUM label. Joe Bob's sideshow with the two-headed rattlesnakes out in Arizona doesn't make the cut.
Why.museum instead of.art? Because not all museums are art museums. Remember there are lots of museums that do all kinds of things, and lots that stick to natural history or straight history history.
Why.museum instead of.mus? Because "museum" is a latin noun that means the same thing all over the Western world and is generally a recognizably assimilated word in non-Western languages. Also, there are other parties who wouldn't be so quick to give up.mus (think "music"). How hard do you suppose the RIAA is going to fight for that?
So, short story long, these are the new domains we got because these are the ones that organized people cared enough to fill out the paperwork for. Next time they ask, be ready.
No, I think that Jesus would be constrained by the speed of light, because as said in the Bible, Jesus is the Word, and as we all know, relativity says that information cannot travel faster than light.
Well, yes, but please bear in mind that The Word was the Gospel, which is of course, "Good News." I don't know about its speed, but as the Hitchhiker's Guide tells us, Bad News easily exceeds the speed of light.
For some reason, when I read "ASCI White" it linked straight to a neuron in my head that said "Soylent Green." I never had that association when reading "ASCI Red" or "ASCI Blue."
I'm pretty sure that "Homecoming" itself is largely an American concept, so let me explain that...
Homecoming is an annual celebration/event held at most schools and colleges, usually in mid-autumn, where alumni of the institution are encouraged to return and revel in their shared nostalgia/school-spirit/what-have-you.
The celebration lasts anywhere from a few days to a week, includes some or all of these events: a parade, a dance, a game of football (that's American football, not soccer) with an easily-beaten opponent, and the appointment of a pseudo-royal Homecoming Court.
The Homecoming Court is composed of an arbitrary number of couples, headed by a Homecoming King and Queen. Methods of selection vary. Sometimes they are chosen from and by the student body at large. More traditional schools reserve participation for the members of the football team and their personally selected escorts.
The duties of the Homecoming Court are largely ceremonial, and their origin and purpose are lost to the mists of time. Very often, it amounts to little more than the women putting on fancy dresses, appearing in the parade, and then viewing the game from a special dais near the field sideline.
On a more personal note, I have attended exactly one Homecoming celebration in the ten years since I left high school, merely because I happened to be back home for a friend's wedding and had nothing else to do. I didn't run into any of my old friends, but I did see a number of former in-crowd classmates, who apparently never left the county, cheering their little hearts out.
The ArcView and ArcInfo software packages from ESRI do geocoding of address. However, they are "pricey GIS packages" that you might find distasteful. I don't know of any free and/or open-source packages that do it.
Also, you'll need to lay your hands on properly prepared and reliable street data for this to work. There again, you'll probably have to pay for it. Several commercial outfits provide such data, and you can also get it from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Oh no, it's not "weather." It's an "up-to-the-minute meteorological event update direct from [Some Random Jerk] in the StormTeam News20 Forecast Center!(!!)"
If you go right down to the bottom of their homepage, and click on the "Contact" link, you'll get to a page that still has all of their old menus intact. From there you can find your way around the old (currently unmaintained?) site. Also, believe it or not, I got email tech support out of them just last week. It took about two weeks for a response, but apparently somebody still is sitting there in the office.
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Oh, hang on, "switch campaign." You were talking about advertisement of Macs, not iPods. Sorry. Even so, weren't a number of the "switchers" creative professionals? You know, the ones a little less memorable than Ellen Feiss.
Buy Apple and you'll look and be cool!
Drink the right beer and bikini babes will have sex with you! This is hardly an Apple-specific approach. It's the fundamental thesis of all modern consumer-oriented advertising. The reason you see no ads extolling the ROI of iPod ownership is that iPods aren't business tools.
That's pretty close. Here's a slightly more accurate, though still imperfect, version from my memory:
Free, free
A trip to Mars
For 900
Empty jars
Burma~Shave
and then:
If a trip
To Mars you'd earn
Remember friend
There's no return
Burma~Shave
I think, eventually, they did send the lucky winner and his wife on an all expenses paid vacation to Moers, Germany.
If you can read a bit of French, you might try Ganesha:
It's built on PHP and MySQL and released under the GPL. You can use it to serve AICC- and SCORM-compatible courses. It includes built-in webmail, forum, chat and document upload tools.
The interface is translated into several languages, including English. The user community is mostly French-speaking, but there are enough people who also speak English to respond to questions on the forums.
Sure. Why not? I'm an American who's been living in Paris for several months, and I've noticed the following things:
- As an anglophone, it is easier for me to understand other anglophones speaking French than a francophone speaking French.
- As an American, I can tell the difference between an American, a Briton and a German speaking French.
- As a Southerner, I can tell the difference between a Californian, a New Yorker, and a Floridian speaking French
If the accent is strong enough, it will always shine through.Full disclosure: I work for a museum, though not as an archaeologist, and I am biased.
My proposal is this: How many historical sites/wrecks can be researched in 100 years? Take this number and double it. Now make a list of these sites. These sites would be "off limits" to looters, er treasure hunters. Now if a "new" site is found, in order to add it to the list you must drop an existing site from the list.Archaeologists already do this, making educated guesses about the relative potential values of sites in order to most efficiently allocate limited resources. However, one can't judge a site's value fully until after it has been excavated and analyzed. Often, the excavation of one site will provide leads that make previously ignored sites seem suddenly more interesting. To restrict research to a list of particular sites would inhibit the pursuit of such connections, decreasing what could have been learned.
Compromise measures are in place already to keep less important sites from being tied up in perpetuity. Development can proceed after a quick survey that determines a site is nothing more than another scatter of flakes with nothing new to teach us. This even saves the looters' time and energy!
And why assume that looters would refrain from digging into the sites on the protected list? Laws protecting public sites and sites on private property don't seem to stop looters now. If anything, a public list of "Almost Certainly Valuable Sites" would encourage more looting of them.
This is true; many of the objects that are in museum collections were acquired in the past through activities that we would now describe as "looting." Modern museums are more careful to discourage this sort of practice, though. It is considered to be unethical as well as severely damaging to an object's research value. Only a fraction of available information is extracted from the object itself. The rest is provided by the context in which the object is found: location, association, etc. This contextual information is lost unless the site is excavated and reported in a controlled manner.
The Minoan capital was Knossos, not Minoa. Knossos is located on the island of Crete. Minoa is located on the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades island group. The Cyclades also include the island of Thera/Santorini, referred to elsewhere in this thread.
Here's a map for your convenience.
They figured they'd have to to fight the recording industry over use of .mus (as in .music). It just didn't seem worth the trouble.
Who decides? They do.
Essentially, it's a committee of professional museum people, mostly from the International Council of Museums and the J. Paul Getty Trust. They have very strict ideas about who qualifies and who doesn't.
The only person who'll find pr0n in .museum is Rudy Giuliani.
Ah yes, The Great Brain. I wore out my library card on that series of books. He's like a 12-year-old Stainless Steel Rat. Perfect reading material for the junior confidence man in training.
The plot lines I remember right off the top of my head: running a one-man PX out of the Jesuit boarding school; betting the other kids that he can magnetize a piece of wood (shaped suspiciously like a boomerang); and selling admission to see the town's first indoor flush toilet.
From reading other replies, it's clear that at least half of posters have no idea what makes this software unique, and why you can't do what it does with freely available tools for Linux. I blame bad promotion on their part.
When you go to their website at www.zeroknowledge.com, you see a list of the "Standard Services," all of which can be provided by various free tools. It's the company's "Premium Services" that are worth paying for, and those are hidden a minimum of two clicks in. If you actually go to www.freedom.net, the Premium Services are mentioned right up front, but highlighted in gray instead of red and not clearly explained.
If you use the Premium Services, all of your Web, email, and IRC traffic is encrypted and bounced through their "Freedom Network." It's like a big VPN that entirely masks your location and identity from the outside Internet.
They ought to be advertising the hell out of a capability like that. The only other service that comes close is Anonymizer.com, and that runs all your traffic through a single relay point--meaning a single set of logs to be subpoenaed and parsed.
The only reason I can think of not to loudly promote such a service is to stay below the radar of various regulating bodies who may be concerned about the proliferation of untraceable Internet connections. Safe, but not a good way to convince people your product is worth buying.
One such project is ADODB.
You don't end up with shorter names, because "museum.org" then would be, in effect, a TLD. You'ld have to to type out "guggenheim.museum.org," which is longer than either "guggenheim.museum" or "guggenheim.org."
You don't have a good way to settle name disputes because there's no sanctioned arbiter for .org who has firsthand knowledge of the museum industry. Under the .museum plan, MDMA (which is mostly ICOM + money from the Getty Foundation) oversees any disputes using guidelines such as those ICOM has been hammering out for years to decide what actually qualifies as a museum.
(Incidentally, museum.org is registered by the Swedish Museum of Natural History, but it doesn't appear to be in use.)
Nobody could ever agree over who should arbitrate ".kids" or ".web.", but there are very specific groups to go to for things like ".museum". Groups that already have the organization and infrastructure to handle the chore of assigning names for a whole TLD.
The MDMA that pushed for .museum is an organization composed mostly of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), which itself is a working unit of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). There's not a more organized professional group in the world than ICOM. They have the people, determination, and management skills to get it done, ergo they got it done. I say good for them.
Why .museum instead of sticking to .org? Because of the museum community's keen sense of group identity. Rightly or wrongly, they like to decide among themselves who gets sanctioned to wear the MUSEUM label. Joe Bob's sideshow with the two-headed rattlesnakes out in Arizona doesn't make the cut.
Why .museum instead of .art? Because not all museums are art museums. Remember there are lots of museums that do all kinds of things, and lots that stick to natural history or straight history history.
Why .museum instead of .mus? Because "museum" is a latin noun that means the same thing all over the Western world and is generally a recognizably assimilated word in non-Western languages. Also, there are other parties who wouldn't be so quick to give up .mus (think "music"). How hard do you suppose the RIAA is going to fight for that?
So, short story long, these are the new domains we got because these are the ones that organized people cared enough to fill out the paperwork for. Next time they ask, be ready.
Well, yes, but please bear in mind that The Word was the Gospel, which is of course, "Good News." I don't know about its speed, but as the Hitchhiker's Guide tells us, Bad News easily exceeds the speed of light.
I wonder if that means anything?
Homecoming is an annual celebration/event held at most schools and colleges, usually in mid-autumn, where alumni of the institution are encouraged to return and revel in their shared nostalgia/school-spirit/what-have-you.
The celebration lasts anywhere from a few days to a week, includes some or all of these events: a parade, a dance, a game of football (that's American football, not soccer) with an easily-beaten opponent, and the appointment of a pseudo-royal Homecoming Court.
The Homecoming Court is composed of an arbitrary number of couples, headed by a Homecoming King and Queen. Methods of selection vary. Sometimes they are chosen from and by the student body at large. More traditional schools reserve participation for the members of the football team and their personally selected escorts.
The duties of the Homecoming Court are largely ceremonial, and their origin and purpose are lost to the mists of time. Very often, it amounts to little more than the women putting on fancy dresses, appearing in the parade, and then viewing the game from a special dais near the field sideline.
On a more personal note, I have attended exactly one Homecoming celebration in the ten years since I left high school, merely because I happened to be back home for a friend's wedding and had nothing else to do. I didn't run into any of my old friends, but I did see a number of former in-crowd classmates, who apparently never left the county, cheering their little hearts out.
Our team lost 28-7.
Also, you'll need to lay your hands on properly prepared and reliable street data for this to work. There again, you'll probably have to pay for it. Several commercial outfits provide such data, and you can also get it from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Oh no, it's not "weather." It's an "up-to-the-minute meteorological event update direct from [Some Random Jerk] in the StormTeam News20 Forecast Center!(!!)"
If you go right down to the bottom of their homepage, and click on the "Contact" link, you'll get to a page that still has all of their old menus intact. From there you can find your way around the old (currently unmaintained?) site. Also, believe it or not, I got email tech support out of them just last week. It took about two weeks for a response, but apparently somebody still is sitting there in the office.