I, for one, would love to see the UI that the techs use to run the queries on obscure NFL statistics during games.
"This is only the second time 3 consecutive 3rd down conversions have occurred between 11-3 rated AFC teams in outdoor stadiums with 2nd string quarterbacks using a QB option play"
And they are able to run these queries quickly...usually within the time of the next play. How do they do that? Is it raw TSQL styled queries or do they have some kind of UI for that?
2006 Arthur Brooks analyzed 10 datasets "such as the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (University of Michigan Survey Research Center), the SOcial Capital Community Benchmark Survey (collaborative of American universities with Roper Center for Public Opinion Research), America Gives (Center on Philanthropy of Indiana University) and 7 others"
There is only one way to cut through all of the conflicting claims and agendas about the CRU's research: open-source it all. Publish the primary data sets, publish the programs used to interpret them and create graphs like the well-known global-temperature "hockey stick", publish everything. Let the code and the data speak for itself; let the facts trump speculation and interpretation.
We know, from experience with software, that secrecy is the enemy of quality -- that software bugs, like cockroaches, shun light and flourish in darkness. So, too. with mistakes in the interpretation of scientific data; neither deliberate fraud nor inadvertent error can long survive the skeptical scrutiny of millions. The same remedy we have found in the open-source community applies - unsurprisingly, since we learned it from science in the first place. Abolish the secrecy, let in the sunlight.
World population is continually increasing, China and India are rapidly industrializing so demand for oil is going up and up, but the flow rate isn't. This is why we had $147/barrel oil a few years ago, not speculators. It's all supply and demand, but in this case the supply is limited.
If it is simply supply and demand, why are we now down to ~$50/barrel and yet demand hasn't decreased and supply hasn't increased? The price of oil is hardly an indicator of what you are suggesting.
I would love to see a really good RPG made again. Not the click-n-twitch Diablo "RPG" or the faux-RPG of Fable II, but a dyed in the wool real RPG. Ultima or even Baldur's Gate. Something that you could get immersed in for hundreds of hours like the originals. True sandbox-style game where you are able to roam the landscape unfettered.
Since when is Gitmo closed? Post-election and post-promises, President Obama has decided that the "hair on fire" issues at Gitmo aren't that bad and has decided to leave it open....exactly what President Bush and Senator McCain were both arguing for. Interesting that Obama supporters aren't up in arms over this, since they were the ones who gnashed their teeth that it was a human rights fiasco down there.
I've used a client based solution in the past, Cloudmark. It was a very good solution, but required user intervention and wasn't really cost effective for small-medium sized businesses.
My company switched to using MXLogic and we absolutely love it. Previously, I was receiving 100 spam emails a day; one spam email now leaks through maybe a month. It is probably the best spam solution we have used. We have tried Baracuda, Postini and others, but MXLogic was the best solution.
(No, I do not work for them. Yes, my company resells their service)
FTA: "A locking feature, which prevents the buttons from being pushed accidentally in a purse or pocket, is nice. But it should be optional. And one button press should suffice to unlock it; two in sequence is just annoying."
I'm failing to see how one button to unlock the phone would be any different than an accidental button push in a purse or pocket. Most cellphones I have ever used have unlocked by pressing a "menu" button and then the asterisk button. How is that difficult or annoying? Have we really gotten to the point where one extra button press is beyond acceptance?
On the other hand, FTA: "A cellphone should auto-format phone numbers with parentheses and hyphens when you enter them in the address book. When the cursor is in a number box, like ZIP code, the keyboard should automatically start typing numbers. The owner should not have to press the alternate-symbols key."
I can't agree more with this statement. I have the same problem on my Motorola Q . The design choices are nearly laughable. There are many inputs in the phone where the edit box will only take a numeric input. And yet, the phone design (specifically, the OS) forces me to press the Alt button to allow me to enter numbers.
Repeating the same ol' dKos/DU/lib talking points about how bad the economy is, how bad minimum wage is, etc. will get you no where until you can put some data where your mouth is.
Instead of allowing the gov't to force you to pay someone a set price, how about letting the marketplace determine what the price should be? Seriously, how many people are married and have 4 kids and are working for minimum wage? Sounds like Darwin in action, if so.
Their mission is to "The ALL Species Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the complete inventory of all species of life on Earth within the next 25 years - a human generation."
We clearly see where the priorities of this adminstration are. Forget the rising unemployment rate, the balooning deficit, and the fact that medicare is getting slashed to the bone.
Let's continue to invest in war, because as we all know, war is good business, right?
Medicare is getting slashed? Congress just passed the largest increase in Medicare spending in decades (Prescription Drug Program).
Were you just posting the Daily Kos talking points without thinking? Just because you keep quoting these talking points as facts doesn't mean they will automagically become facts.
Yes, the deficit is rising and the gov't is spending more for craptastic social programs. Military spending is still ~4% GDP, so I really don't have a problem with that. Of course, I don't have a problem with our gov't safeguarding us and preventing another 3,000 of our citizens from being killed by terrorists, but I guess I'm not blinded by hatred of our President. Win at all costs, that's the mantra of the Kossacks, isn't it?
Microsoft released a 900MHz cordless phone back in late 1998 that had all the features you want, plus more. You could create a whitelist in the software and any phone call that wasn't in the whitelist wouldn't even ring the handset, but get diverted straight to voice mail. The phone supported voice dialing, multiple voice mailboxes, personalized rings and greetings based on the Caller-ID number. The software would automatically divert or block Caller-ID blocked incoming phone calls. The software even imported your phonebook from Outlook Express/Outlook.
Ok, granted, the phone was 900MHz, was quite bulky and the batteries were less than optimal. The one feature that this phone had that none (except PBXs) have had since, was total control of the hardware ringer. Because you had total control of the ringer, features became available (and controllable via software) that would allow you to force select incoming calls straight to voicemail or DND without ever being distracted by the ring. Of course, this product was soon killed and all support for updates to the software quickly killed, too.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever, EVER read a Microsoft attack article or post on/. that was uncalled for or without a good reason. We all know that MS is EViL and they do absolutely nothing good for the world, the industry or any BODY.
The saddest part is that no matter how vast our understanding of evolution becomes, there will always be those who, for religious or logically unsound reasons, or just out of plain ignorance and misplaced incredulity, will reject it, and there will be those that wish to misrepresent or out-and-out destroy science simply to prop up their too-deeply held superstitions.
And there will always be those who believe that those who have deeply held religious convictions, not just about evolution or ID, but about anything else in religious nature, as hokem and superstition, never realizing that by dismissing out of hand a being or deity greater than themselves is the upmost in intellectual arrogance.
Dismissing the idea that there could be anything greater than yourself takes more mental gymnastics than acknowledging that we, as human beings, don't know everything about our world or universe. For everything just to be a complete accident, random happenstance, takes more arrogance than acknowledging that there could be purpose to life.
As an American, let me say that we are NOT the best country in the world, and that any time we say that we are, we sound as silly as the russians here
And as an American, you should leave.
Funny how millions are trying to get into the United States every year, along with a other millions that risk their lives sneaking in illegally. For not being the best country in the world for achievement, advancement and "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" the US must really suck to those millions.
Funny how having pride and love for your country is now considered "silly". Amazing what our public school system has produced....
You obviously have never coded in the "real world" or have no concept of how COM works. You can easily automate MS Office with C++ using COM...it is the same as VB (hence, the underlying premise of COM; programming by interface).
VB was an excellent RAD tool for prototyping application or development of in-house applications. Why force your senior developers (who might be C++ programmers) to write simple, piddly in-house applications when you can get your junior programmers to program the app using something easier and at the same time learn business logic/processes as opposed to spending time making sure you are using STL or smart pointers correctly.
Microsoft didn't force ANYONE to use VB. Thanks for the FUD. Microsoft's latest and greatest applications all support VBA and are not dropping it anytime soon.
Once again, how about RTFA. Microsoft is not forcing anyone to redevelop their applications. They are simply putting a shelf life on extended support for the application. Companies are under no obligation to support their applications indefinitely. Welcome to the real world.
Thanks for RTFA. Spreading FUD isn't limited to MS, I see.
VBA and VBScript have nothing to do with Visual Basic 6. Not to mention, just because MS is no longer supporting VB 6, it isn't going to "cease to work" tomorrow.
A couple of task apps that I've used in the past are Postive-G's Task Tracker or Dev Planner.
What I've resorted to now is using Microsoft's OneNote and creating sections for the products I'm working on, with pages for TODO lists, Wish Lists, R&D, code snippets, etc. Easy to use and probably one of the best applications Microsoft has released in years.
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I, for one, would love to see the UI that the techs use to run the queries on obscure NFL statistics during games.
"This is only the second time 3 consecutive 3rd down conversions have occurred between 11-3 rated AFC teams in outdoor stadiums with 2nd string quarterbacks using a QB option play"
And they are able to run these queries quickly...usually within the time of the next play. How do they do that? Is it raw TSQL styled queries or do they have some kind of UI for that?
Seriously, can no one on Slashdot google anymore?
http://www.gordon.edu/ace/pdf/Spr07BRGrinols.pdf
2006 Arthur Brooks analyzed 10 datasets "such as the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (University of Michigan Survey Research Center), the SOcial Capital Community Benchmark Survey (collaborative of American universities with Roper Center for Public Opinion Research), America Gives (Center on Philanthropy of Indiana University) and 7 others"
His 4 main conclusions are in the PDF above.
Interestingly, ESR has gotten in on the discussion and is a little more damning in his condemnation of the entire Climategate ordeal
http://rebootcongress.blogspot.com/2009/11/eric-s-raymond-on-east-anglia-crus.html
There is only one way to cut through all of the conflicting claims and agendas about the CRU's research: open-source it all. Publish the primary data sets, publish the programs used to interpret them and create graphs like the well-known global-temperature "hockey stick", publish everything. Let the code and the data speak for itself; let the facts trump speculation and interpretation.
We know, from experience with software, that secrecy is the enemy of quality -- that software bugs, like cockroaches, shun light and flourish in darkness. So, too. with mistakes in the interpretation of scientific data; neither deliberate fraud nor inadvertent error can long survive the skeptical scrutiny of millions. The same remedy we have found in the open-source community applies - unsurprisingly, since we learned it from science in the first place. Abolish the secrecy, let in the sunlight.
If it is simply supply and demand, why are we now down to ~$50/barrel and yet demand hasn't decreased and supply hasn't increased? The price of oil is hardly an indicator of what you are suggesting.
I would love to see a really good RPG made again. Not the click-n-twitch Diablo "RPG" or the faux-RPG of Fable II, but a dyed in the wool real RPG. Ultima or even Baldur's Gate. Something that you could get immersed in for hundreds of hours like the originals. True sandbox-style game where you are able to roam the landscape unfettered.
Since when is Gitmo closed? Post-election and post-promises, President Obama has decided that the "hair on fire" issues at Gitmo aren't that bad and has decided to leave it open....exactly what President Bush and Senator McCain were both arguing for. Interesting that Obama supporters aren't up in arms over this, since they were the ones who gnashed their teeth that it was a human rights fiasco down there.
Won't dental work be difficult with a snorkle attachment in the child's mouth?
How exactly does that work?
SoapBox Server from Coversant is probably your best bet. It's a stable platform, source is available.
http://www.coversant.com/
I've used a client based solution in the past, Cloudmark. It was a very good solution, but required user intervention and wasn't really cost effective for small-medium sized businesses.
My company switched to using MXLogic and we absolutely love it. Previously, I was receiving 100 spam emails a day; one spam email now leaks through maybe a month. It is probably the best spam solution we have used. We have tried Baracuda, Postini and others, but MXLogic was the best solution.
(No, I do not work for them. Yes, my company resells their service)
FTA: "A locking feature, which prevents the buttons from being pushed accidentally in a purse or pocket, is nice. But it should be optional. And one button press should suffice to unlock it; two in sequence is just annoying."
I'm failing to see how one button to unlock the phone would be any different than an accidental button push in a purse or pocket. Most cellphones I have ever used have unlocked by pressing a "menu" button and then the asterisk button. How is that difficult or annoying? Have we really gotten to the point where one extra button press is beyond acceptance?
On the other hand, FTA: "A cellphone should auto-format phone numbers with parentheses and hyphens when you enter them in the address book. When the cursor is in a number box, like ZIP code, the keyboard should automatically start typing numbers. The owner should not have to press the alternate-symbols key."
I can't agree more with this statement. I have the same problem on my Motorola Q . The design choices are nearly laughable. There are many inputs in the phone where the edit box will only take a numeric input. And yet, the phone design (specifically, the OS) forces me to press the Alt button to allow me to enter numbers.
Which photographs?
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I would start with this:
http://rayrobison.typepad.com/ray_robison/2006/08
and
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=221
Then you can read about the Red Cross Ambulance Incident here:
http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/
Additional staged incidents here:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=221
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_l
Instead of pulling numbers out of your arse, how about backing up that 400% increase in the cost of living?
$1US in 1996 is $1.29US in 2006. I'm not seeing the 400% increase. http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/c
Feel free to actually use real statistical data to prove your point. Try here: http://www.newsengin.com/neFreeTools.nsf/CPIcalc?
Repeating the same ol' dKos/DU/lib talking points about how bad the economy is, how bad minimum wage is, etc. will get you no where until you can put some data where your mouth is.
Instead of allowing the gov't to force you to pay someone a set price, how about letting the marketplace determine what the price should be? Seriously, how many people are married and have 4 kids and are working for minimum wage? Sounds like Darwin in action, if so.
This is the intent of the http://www.all-species.org/ ALL Species Foundation.
, 00.html/ about them has some interesting information.
Their mission is to "The ALL Species Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the complete inventory of all species of life on Earth within the next 25 years - a human generation."
A Wired article http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50942
Rising unemployement rate? No, national unemployment is down to nearly 1999 levels.
See http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServl
Medicare is getting slashed? Congress just passed the largest increase in Medicare spending in decades (Prescription Drug Program).
Were you just posting the Daily Kos talking points without thinking? Just because you keep quoting these talking points as facts doesn't mean they will automagically become facts.
Yes, the deficit is rising and the gov't is spending more for craptastic social programs. Military spending is still ~4% GDP, so I really don't have a problem with that. Of course, I don't have a problem with our gov't safeguarding us and preventing another 3,000 of our citizens from being killed by terrorists, but I guess I'm not blinded by hatred of our President. Win at all costs, that's the mantra of the Kossacks, isn't it?
Microsoft released a 900MHz cordless phone back in late 1998 that had all the features you want, plus more. You could create a whitelist in the software and any phone call that wasn't in the whitelist wouldn't even ring the handset, but get diverted straight to voice mail. The phone supported voice dialing, multiple voice mailboxes, personalized rings and greetings based on the Caller-ID number. The software would automatically divert or block Caller-ID blocked incoming phone calls. The software even imported your phonebook from Outlook Express/Outlook.
Ok, granted, the phone was 900MHz, was quite bulky and the batteries were less than optimal. The one feature that this phone had that none (except PBXs) have had since, was total control of the hardware ringer. Because you had total control of the ringer, features became available (and controllable via software) that would allow you to force select incoming calls straight to voicemail or DND without ever being distracted by the ring. Of course, this product was soon killed and all support for updates to the software quickly killed, too.
Pot. Meet kettle. He's black.
/. that was uncalled for or without a good reason. We all know that MS is EViL and they do absolutely nothing good for the world, the industry or any BODY.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever, EVER read a Microsoft attack article or post on
"since microsoft no longer supports me, i dont get any new features. ( or bugs "
/. post.....
That's crap and you know it. Windows 2000 goes into extended support June 30th. They are still supporting it. Typical
And as an American, you should leave.
Funny how millions are trying to get into the United States every year, along with a other millions that risk their lives sneaking in illegally. For not being the best country in the world for achievement, advancement and "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" the US must really suck to those millions. Funny how having pride and love for your country is now considered "silly". Amazing what our public school system has produced....
You obviously have never coded in the "real world" or have no concept of how COM works. You can easily automate MS Office with C++ using COM...it is the same as VB (hence, the underlying premise of COM; programming by interface).
VB was an excellent RAD tool for prototyping application or development of in-house applications. Why force your senior developers (who might be C++ programmers) to write simple, piddly in-house applications when you can get your junior programmers to program the app using something easier and at the same time learn business logic/processes as opposed to spending time making sure you are using STL or smart pointers correctly.
Microsoft didn't force ANYONE to use VB. Thanks for the FUD. Microsoft's latest and greatest applications all support VBA and are not dropping it anytime soon.
Once again, how about RTFA. Microsoft is not forcing anyone to redevelop their applications. They are simply putting a shelf life on extended support for the application. Companies are under no obligation to support their applications indefinitely. Welcome to the real world.
Thanks for RTFA. Spreading FUD isn't limited to MS, I see.
VBA and VBScript have nothing to do with Visual Basic 6. Not to mention, just because MS is no longer supporting VB 6, it isn't going to "cease to work" tomorrow.
I nominate Howard Dean's meltdown scream in 2004. "The scream heard 'round the world!"
yeeeeearRRrrrrrrgh!!
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Exactly how is the parent post "Insightful"? Typical lefty drivel like this seems par for the course here at
A couple of task apps that I've used in the past are Postive-G's Task Tracker or Dev Planner.
What I've resorted to now is using Microsoft's OneNote and creating sections for the products I'm working on, with pages for TODO lists, Wish Lists, R&D, code snippets, etc. Easy to use and probably one of the best applications Microsoft has released in years.