It's operated essentially by consensus. Headlines of every article submitted appears in a sidebar on the front page. The editors are all volunteers, and they choose some articles to put on the front page in full. Obviously, they put the articles that most of the readership would enjoy.
I'm still not sure how this is hypocritical. If most people are liberals, they operate the site by a mix of consensus and majority opinion, then of course it will be dominated by liberal points of view. The classic rule of freedom of the press: he who has a press, has the freedom. They aren't demanding that regular media print things from their point of view, they're printing the point of view of the majority. In this case, the majority owns the press rather than vested interests. As those vested interests have their own press, they don't bother to submit articles to Indymedia.
They aren't claiming to be neutral! Maybe that's your issue. They claim to represent the interests of most people, which is quite different. We can't be neutral when it comes to matters of life and death. The hypocrisy comes when a news source like Fox News claims to be independent or neutral in reporting the news, when in fact they are choosing the side of moneyed interests.
PS: it's "to" not "too." Anti-intellectual right-wingers make me mad:)
Indymedia is independent, but they certainly have a liberal slant. The elite already have their own news media; it's natural that a populist media source with wide access would attract liberals, as they make up a) most of the population and b) the least enfranchised by the current media. You can submit your conservative articles, and they'll appear on the website. Don't expect an editor to put it on the front page, though.
I've found it to meet all of the requirements you listed. It has excellent TOC/Reference/Figure support, is built with consistent formatting in mind, and is FREE.
I think that maybe what you really need is FrameMaker, because you have used it for so long. However, LaTeX has been around longer IIRC, and has a more than ample featureset. I've used LyX to replace all of my regular word processing needs. I open the occasional Word document in either OpenOffice or Abiword, depending on the complexity of the file. Many others that I know have used it for a thesis, and I myself use it for writing plays, long papers, etc.
Other people at my university do use FrameMaker, using exactly the Solaris hosted trick that you mention, though. It seems to be a matter of preference.
That's a load of crap. Who do you know that makes a special trip to rent a video? You always have some other errand in mind (or at least my friends and family tend to).
Plain and simple, this encourages waste. The end tradeoff is just marketing. Car driving is a separate problem.
Take note of the contest at the end: convert a base 36 number to base 10 in an interesting way (ie, short, clever, etc). Sounds like an interesting challenge.
think about what a trailer actually is: it is supposed to convey an impression of what the picture is about. If it does that accurately, it's successful. It doesn't mean that every detail must be precisely as shown in the trailer.
In fact, other products are sold the same way: you want publicity and product sales to begin about the same time. So, you give the publicity crew some mockups and high level design goals to make a campaign from, and you finish the actual product concurrently. Advertisement campaigns take a long time to orchestrate. This features is even more prominent in film publicity, because publicity often starts months before you begin the actual distribution.
Umm...you gotta remember that the trailer is made waaay before the movie is in a completely edited state. Be thankful that the editing staff were still working on the movie -- too many recent movies leave the editing floor unfinished today, in my opinion. They must have cut the scenes after they had produced the trailer.
Movie folks work on multi-year timelines, and rarely stay within them:) It would be silly to delay the trailer until every scene was edited, because the distributor needs to get publicity rolling early to recoup his investment.
Then add this line to your.mailcap file (or/etc/mailcap if you prefer).
#this allows you to read those obnoxious word attachments
application/msword;antiword %s|less; \needsterminal; \
print=antiword -p letter %s|lpr
Very handy; takes less time than opening a word document in Windows using MS-Word, and keeps my blood pressure low.
Every GIS program has a different interface, which sucks, but the best GIS software already runs under Linux: GRAS. Hard to learn, but extremely powerful.
Wrong. Big businesses, for the most part, don't pay taxes. Check out Public Citizen. It's small businesses and the middle class who pay taxes. The wealthy get tax breaks since they write the tax codes.
Sounds like a project being worked on by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. I know CMU has a close relationship with Intel. Anyone know any more about the connection to this research?
There is a school of thought that says that playing violent video games such as Quake 3 or Mortal Combat actually is theraputic
Yes, but that theory has been entirely discredited. It's tempting to think otherwise, but the idea of catharsis as being necessary turns out to be empirically unlikely -- in fact, such stimulation tends to reinforce negative patterns, creating more of that tendency than previously was present. "Release" is codeword for "reinforcement of destructive/violent impulses."
Wow, this is what the Internet really needs to become the force for social change that people originally thought it would be. It sucks about the Web that people with popular sites need to pay more for their bandwidth -- meaning that you don't want your personal site to get too many hits.
Freenet is nowhere near what this sounds like guys, much as we like the underdog. What is amazing about this is that it relies on already existing infrastructure. I don't want to have to be: running a Freenet node, wait 20 seconds for a 5 k html file to load, and then be dependent on the page being a frequently requested (and thus stored) page. Freenet works best for large, popular files, because the search time then becomes negligible and you are ensured that the file you want will be available. This sounds great for Bob to host his site without worrying that it will disappear if nobody but him reads it, but also if it turns into the next Hamster Dance, he doesn't have to shell out thousands of dollars for bandwidth costs.
I use Freenet, but I recognize its limitations. It unfortunately is not the tool for dissent that people hoped it would be, because unpopular files are hard to find.
They do have ISO, but they are fairly well hidden. To save bandwidth, they don't link to them from the front page. If you can download the ISO, you should probably just use a boot disk and do a net install instead.
I use and love that flexible filtering language, sieve. Designed for Cyrus/IMAP servers, but also works clientside.
(info about sieve can be found here)
This is definitely a derivative work, and is definitely a modification. They certainly should have taken the instructions off of their website, as they clearly violated the EULA in getting the instructions, and encouraged others to do so by posting them. Modifying the system means changing it from it's intended purpose. Setting the time zone is an intended function of the OS. Removing key compononents, designed for copy protection, is not.
The target should be the EULA. Maybe you should have those rights -- if so, consider this an act of civil disobedience. You shouldn't be afraid to be arrested for an act of civil disobedience. If it wasn't civil disobedience, it was petty thievery.
Hear hear! I believe in free market economics, with a healthy dose of regulation. What has happened is that corporations have become enthroned, and given far more power than they have had in the past. Still in this century, the corporate charter was not a right -- it was earned. They had been revoked when the corporation was no longer fulfilling the charter's terms, or was actively harmful to society. A quote by Abraham Lincoln sums it up well:
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my country.... corporations have been
enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the
money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working
upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few
hands and the Republic is destroyed." -Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864
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This is exactly right. Who modded up Irony Nazi, anyhow? Blatant lies are insightful?
I'm still not sure how this is hypocritical. If most people are liberals, they operate the site by a mix of consensus and majority opinion, then of course it will be dominated by liberal points of view. The classic rule of freedom of the press: he who has a press, has the freedom. They aren't demanding that regular media print things from their point of view, they're printing the point of view of the majority. In this case, the majority owns the press rather than vested interests. As those vested interests have their own press, they don't bother to submit articles to Indymedia.
They aren't claiming to be neutral! Maybe that's your issue. They claim to represent the interests of most people, which is quite different. We can't be neutral when it comes to matters of life and death. The hypocrisy comes when a news source like Fox News claims to be independent or neutral in reporting the news, when in fact they are choosing the side of moneyed interests.
PS: it's "to" not "too." Anti-intellectual right-wingers make me mad :)
Indymedia is independent, but they certainly have a liberal slant. The elite already have their own news media; it's natural that a populist media source with wide access would attract liberals, as they make up a) most of the population and b) the least enfranchised by the current media. You can submit your conservative articles, and they'll appear on the website. Don't expect an editor to put it on the front page, though.
Flac is lossless.
I've found it to meet all of the requirements you listed. It has excellent TOC/Reference/Figure support, is built with consistent formatting in mind, and is FREE.
I think that maybe what you really need is FrameMaker, because you have used it for so long. However, LaTeX has been around longer IIRC, and has a more than ample featureset. I've used LyX to replace all of my regular word processing needs. I open the occasional Word document in either OpenOffice or Abiword, depending on the complexity of the file. Many others that I know have used it for a thesis, and I myself use it for writing plays, long papers, etc.
Other people at my university do use FrameMaker, using exactly the Solaris hosted trick that you mention, though. It seems to be a matter of preference.
Plain and simple, this encourages waste. The end tradeoff is just marketing. Car driving is a separate problem.
Take note of the contest at the end: convert a base 36 number to base 10 in an interesting way (ie, short, clever, etc). Sounds like an interesting challenge.
I heard this same story on NPR over a year ago.
electro magnetic waves == light. You're right that light has a different transmission speed in different media, though.
I admire someone with your dedication.
In fact, other products are sold the same way: you want publicity and product sales to begin about the same time. So, you give the publicity crew some mockups and high level design goals to make a campaign from, and you finish the actual product concurrently. Advertisement campaigns take a long time to orchestrate. This features is even more prominent in film publicity, because publicity often starts months before you begin the actual distribution.
Movie folks work on multi-year timelines, and rarely stay within them
Then add this line to your .mailcap file (or /etc/mailcap if you prefer).
#this allows you to read those obnoxious word attachments application/msword;antiword %s|less; \needsterminal; \ print=antiword -p letter %s|lpr Very handy; takes less time than opening a word document in Windows using MS-Word, and keeps my blood pressure low.
Every GIS program has a different interface, which sucks, but the best GIS software already runs under Linux: GRAS. Hard to learn, but extremely powerful.
Wrong. Big businesses, for the most part, don't pay taxes. Check out Public Citizen. It's small businesses and the middle class who pay taxes. The wealthy get tax breaks since they write the tax codes.
Sounds like a project being worked on by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. I know CMU has a close relationship with Intel. Anyone know any more about the connection to this research?
Wow, this is what the Internet really needs to become the force for social change that people originally thought it would be. It sucks about the Web that people with popular sites need to pay more for their bandwidth -- meaning that you don't want your personal site to get too many hits.
Freenet is nowhere near what this sounds like guys, much as we like the underdog. What is amazing about this is that it relies on already existing infrastructure. I don't want to have to be: running a Freenet node, wait 20 seconds for a 5 k html file to load, and then be dependent on the page being a frequently requested (and thus stored) page. Freenet works best for large, popular files, because the search time then becomes negligible and you are ensured that the file you want will be available. This sounds great for Bob to host his site without worrying that it will disappear if nobody but him reads it, but also if it turns into the next Hamster Dance, he doesn't have to shell out thousands of dollars for bandwidth costs.
I use Freenet, but I recognize its limitations. It unfortunately is not the tool for dissent that people hoped it would be, because unpopular files are hard to find.
They do have ISO, but they are fairly well hidden. To save bandwidth, they don't link to them from the front page. If you can download the ISO, you should probably just use a boot disk and do a net install instead.
I use and love that flexible filtering language, sieve. Designed for Cyrus/IMAP servers, but also works clientside.
(info about sieve can be found here)
Would this also apply to Morpheus? IIRC, they use the same network.
sheesh, glad i'm not using comcast. I like my DSL...
Remember that little End User License Agreement that you clicked "agree" to?
The target should be the EULA. Maybe you should have those rights -- if so, consider this an act of civil disobedience. You shouldn't be afraid to be arrested for an act of civil disobedience. If it wasn't civil disobedience, it was petty thievery.