Check out the iAudio G3. I have had it for a year or so and love it. It mounts as a USB Mass Storage Device. It supports ogg. And it can record/listen to radio.
Can't say the interface is perfect, but it suits my needs.
Some people are saying they don't know why he'd have different copies of the same paper around. Easy:
I write in OO, but I have to turn things in as either pdf or doc. I usually do both. So those doc/pdf versions lay around. If I get the paper back with comments while I'm on campus I will edit at the computer lab. Later I might edit it at a different lab, or with my girlfriend's laptop. If I don't email it to myself after edit then even the copy I have in email isn't the most up to date. Not to mention, I might an edited copy back that I want to keep unmodified. Or I might not want to merge that into the "master" because I've continued to write while I was waiting for it to be returned.
What I have always wanted is a web calendar that I can sync with my desktop calendaring app (preferably via an open standard.) It'd be especially nice if it was acccessible via my cellphone, too. But what I'd really like it to do is this:
- show my schedule to the public - allow me to choose which calendar events I have posted are (in)visible, and with or without description (since I don't - necessarily want everyone to know _what I'm doing then. just that i'm busy.) - allow people to select a time range from the calendar and "apply" for that range of my time - have me emailed/IMd/otherwise contacted when such an application occurs so I can confirm/reject it - then have them notified of the acceptance/rejection.
I have a pretty busy and variable schedule. It would be nice for me to have my calendar available to me at all times. And to let people figure out what time suits both of us without having to trust that neither of us are forgetting anything.
Does such a calendar exist?
*Note: feel free to steal this idea. i know i'm not going to develop it...
That's a good point. I wouldn't mind religion courses -- so long as they run it as an intellectual, critical thinking based class. Of course, that would infuriate the religious right (and most Christians in America, probably) even more. They want the right to have religion in school, but only under their terms.
So I say let's have prayer, etc, in schools. Then I will insist on a chunk of class dedicated to invalidating the other half.
Though I don't know their reasoning all that well, I do agree that it is better for U.S. businesses to be in China than not.
Don't agree? Trace back 20ish years. What if no foreign company had dealt with China in the late 80s when the economy was opening up? Is the hope that the Chinese economy would have imploded like the Soviets and caused them to get a freer government? Unlikely. What is more likely is that without growth or access to the rest of the world the government would have become increasingly abusive. That is what has happend to most failed economies.
China has becoming a better place to live over the past 20 years, and it is just getting better. I spent 7 years there from 92 to 99. I have monitored it closely since then (and returned for short periods.) It is only getting better. Senior officials who publically abuse protesters are now being prosecuted. In another 30 years it might even pull a Taiwan and become democratic (as Taiwan did in 88 -- a move from dictatorship.)
The only additional pressure I think the U.S. congress should place on China is to open up its borders to even more foreign cultural and financial investment. It might not bring information as fast as the internet does, but it does bring it in the form of person-to-person contact, literature, etc. It also presents new products and social concepts that cause people to think.
And that is not evening mentioning the education boom that has been sparked by opportunities available entirely because of foreign engagement. Education systems have spread and matured. Cultural development has been embraced by the populace.
Hope is in the air in China. It should be here too.
$xrandr -o left X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 153 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (RRSetScreenConfig)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 1
but adding "Rotate" "CCW" works in xorg.conf. Just have to remember to put SWCursor in there or else my cursor doesn't work. I've been using linux exclusively since 1997... we've been saying that we'll be able to do what Windows users can do "next year" for many years. I just want to be able to use hardware easily that has existed for years (like rotating screens or external monitors.)
I only complain so much, though, since I don't do much to help. I wish I was a multimillionaire. I would hire a few people to just work on X.
And I am a huge proponent of Free software. But I sure would like to know when X will support today's new technologies and trends. rotating your screen is very difficult. and you can't have accelleration when you do. even resolution changes are difficult (xrandr helps, but you still can only move between the resolutions provided at the X server start, which doesn't help if you've plugged in a different monitor.) Switching between dual displays is hard.
I work in a bookstore. There is only one beginners book I recommend to people -- Master VISUALLY Creating Web Pages by Joe Kraynak
It covers the essential technologies without as much filler as the other for beginners books do. I especially like how it covers CSS and XHTML.
After you have figured out how the pieces fit together you can get more deeply into CSS with a CSS reference book or just go to w3c.org and find their CSS stuff.
CSS and some basic graphics knowledge will allow you to customize sites, blogs, forums, to your hearts content. enjoy!
Wow... a company can not be non-profit? Tell that to the world. Google for "non-profit" and "company" and you'll find 57,000,000 hits. Non-profits exist all over the world. They are not charities.
Though there is also a concept of a "social entrepreneur" -- one who makes money but makes it helping people. They tend not to be _as profitable as regular businesses because they tend to act more ethically.
Each year more and more CDs are put out and made available to the public. Surely the way to indicate a slump would be to release the total number of CDs sold in that week, or the total profits made by the music industry that week, and compare them.
Except that the top 10 albums sell a hugely disproportionate portion of the total sales. I'd guess the top 10 albums provide 30-50% of total sales. You forget that we have a monoculture.
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era -- 2004
And as much as you might not agree with him, you do have to wonder if we're going to be able to maintain our employment rates when there is almost no unskilled non-service labor left in the U.S. Which is, of course, why we subsidize many of our markets.
Not thanks to unions -- thanks to the philosophy that we need to have a constant growth economy. And with a constant growth economy people expect constant growth standards of living.
But that only worked in an isolationist world. Now that infrastructure is super efficient the multiplier effect is basically absent.
Read the book, "The End of Work." It's time to start changing our economy. If not we're going to have to give up our standards of living and live more like the rest of the world does and compete as if we're all in the same country.
Doesn't it crack anyone up that germany of all countries has the gall to tell the rest of the world what is right or not? For that matter japan? Yet both want a seat on the security council. Lets see, we have had two world wars both started by the germans. How about eh. NO.
This is the most absurd post I've seen in a good long while. If we said only the countries who have not sinned are allowed on the Security Council then we'd have an empty Council.
Should the U.S. be allowed in? No. 1) Native American massacres. 2) Japanese internment. 3) Slavery. 4) "immoral" foreign involvement (contras, etc.)
Or you could trace the population to its origins. So then the U.S. is to blame for everything the British have done? The French? Hell, basically every country in the world? No.
So then we should measure it by when the current nation was formed? Well, Japan has a new nation after WWII. Germany too. So there're allowed in. Glad we solved that one.
If they work with OO.o it won't be because they don't want to pay for support. It will be because none of them is able to develop a sufficiently mature office suite that can take on MS office independently. This is both because they don't have the (or will to assign the) resources and because if they competed they would be competing both against MS office and against each other.
And I don't see how this is the failure of "open source." Big and little entities are allowed to contribute to open projects. It only becomes a failure of open source the products never got developed people people were always vying for control.
1) so you can centralize your web-browsing experience. i.e. so browsing doesn't take up your entire taskbar and you can easily switch to your (tabbed) IM window, etc. Just like virtual desktops/workspaces. Email is on workspace 2, browsing/IM on workspace 1, music on workspace 3, work on workspace 4. (I use them in a square so email is above work, so the left column is play and the right is work.)
2) Some people consider tabs like a pile -- you go to news.google.com and you middle-click to open all of the stories you'd like to read in tabs. that way you don't have to bother with them (since a new tab loads in the background) and they are ready for you when you are finished with the first article and you close that tab.
I mix the two. I rarely have more than one browser window open, unless a second (or third) window is meant for an explicit purpose -- like if i'm researching a particular topic. And I'm glad I use firefox. I currently have about 25 tabs open. I wouldn't want to have to deal with that many windows.
And to answer one of your questions, when you hover over a tab it tells you the title of the website. This isn't needed, though, when you don't have so many that you can still read the title in the tab.
And as for a multi-billion dollar company backing it? Then I guess you never use new products from anything but the most well-established companies.
A parallel can be drawn with GNU/linux systems. When I started using linux in 1996 there were already companies supporting it. I have no doubt that as corperations adopt gecko-based solutions they will either start offering support themselves or some other kind of support structure will pop up.
I think you're thinking about free software falsely, though. I trust popular free software because I trust that there is a large enough section of the tech-proficient population that is good that I can trust them to poke through the code. The population that gets to deal with IE's code is much smaller, so the chance of there being a decently sized ethical population among them is much smaller.
The New York Times had an article on the impact of the revision called "Overhaul of Linux License Could Have Broad Impact."
some quotes:
"Industry analysts estimate that the value of hardware and software that use the Linux operating system is $40 billion."
"The revision process promises to be intriguing because of the man behind the G.P.L., Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation.
The G.P.L., according to Mr. Stallman, is an effort to use copyright law to protect what he calls the "four basic freedoms of software" - the unrestricted right to use, study, copy and modify software. The license also requires that any modifications be redistributed with the same unrestricted rights. "
"For Microsoft's part, Steven A. Ballmer, its chief executive, has called the G.P.L. a 'cancer.'"
You are right about the birds. But him talking about the digestive organs makes perfect sense (with his incorrect premise.) Some species can not eat grass because their digestive tract can not handle it. Just as some can't handle meat. If we had found meat in some herbivore's dung people could legitimately ask, "what do we not know about this herbivore? did they find any part of its digestive tract to indicate that it was different somehow?"
In fifty years, no one will be talking about "overpopulation" anymore.
They will be in the developing world... any agrarian society has large population growth. After all, it takes time for people to be convinced that the method they were given for success no longer applies.
Funny enough, my username dalutong means "comrade of the mainland." zhongguotong, which I didn't take for some reason or another, is "comrade of china," a term the chinese give to a foreign who understands china and its nature.
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Check out the iAudio G3. I have had it for a year or so and love it. It mounts as a USB Mass Storage Device. It supports ogg. And it can record/listen to radio.
Can't say the interface is perfect, but it suits my needs.
Some people are saying they don't know why he'd have different copies of the same paper around. Easy:
I write in OO, but I have to turn things in as either pdf or doc. I usually do both. So those doc/pdf versions lay around. If I get the paper back with comments while I'm on campus I will edit at the computer lab. Later I might edit it at a different lab, or with my girlfriend's laptop. If I don't email it to myself after edit then even the copy I have in email isn't the most up to date. Not to mention, I might an edited copy back that I want to keep unmodified. Or I might not want to merge that into the "master" because I've continued to write while I was waiting for it to be returned.
What I have always wanted is a web calendar that I can sync with my desktop calendaring app (preferably via an open standard.) It'd be especially nice if it was acccessible via my cellphone, too. But what I'd really like it to do is this:
- show my schedule to the public
- allow me to choose which calendar events I have posted are (in)visible, and with or without description (since I don't - necessarily want everyone to know _what I'm doing then. just that i'm busy.)
- allow people to select a time range from the calendar and "apply" for that range of my time
- have me emailed/IMd/otherwise contacted when such an application occurs so I can confirm/reject it
- then have them notified of the acceptance/rejection.
I have a pretty busy and variable schedule. It would be nice for me to have my calendar available to me at all times. And to let people figure out what time suits both of us without having to trust that neither of us are forgetting anything.
Does such a calendar exist?
*Note: feel free to steal this idea. i know i'm not going to develop it...
That's a good point. I wouldn't mind religion courses -- so long as they run it as an intellectual, critical thinking based class. Of course, that would infuriate the religious right (and most Christians in America, probably) even more. They want the right to have religion in school, but only under their terms.
So I say let's have prayer, etc, in schools. Then I will insist on a chunk of class dedicated to invalidating the other half.
Though I don't know their reasoning all that well, I do agree that it is better for U.S. businesses to be in China than not.
Don't agree? Trace back 20ish years. What if no foreign company had dealt with China in the late 80s when the economy was opening up? Is the hope that the Chinese economy would have imploded like the Soviets and caused them to get a freer government? Unlikely. What is more likely is that without growth or access to the rest of the world the government would have become increasingly abusive. That is what has happend to most failed economies.
China has becoming a better place to live over the past 20 years, and it is just getting better. I spent 7 years there from 92 to 99. I have monitored it closely since then (and returned for short periods.) It is only getting better. Senior officials who publically abuse protesters are now being prosecuted. In another 30 years it might even pull a Taiwan and become democratic (as Taiwan did in 88 -- a move from dictatorship.)
The only additional pressure I think the U.S. congress should place on China is to open up its borders to even more foreign cultural and financial investment. It might not bring information as fast as the internet does, but it does bring it in the form of person-to-person contact, literature, etc. It also presents new products and social concepts that cause people to think.
And that is not evening mentioning the education boom that has been sparked by opportunities available entirely because of foreign engagement. Education systems have spread and matured. Cultural development has been embraced by the populace.
Hope is in the air in China. It should be here too.
$xrandr -o left
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 153 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (RRSetScreenConfig)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 1
but adding "Rotate" "CCW" works in xorg.conf. Just have to remember to put SWCursor in there or else my cursor doesn't work. I've been using linux exclusively since 1997... we've been saying that we'll be able to do what Windows users can do "next year" for many years. I just want to be able to use hardware easily that has existed for years (like rotating screens or external monitors.)
I only complain so much, though, since I don't do much to help. I wish I was a multimillionaire. I would hire a few people to just work on X.
it is a laptop. i can't imagine it is so hard -- tablet screens are regularly rotated.
Very possibly. i don't know if the problem is in the framework's abilities or in the drivers.
And I am a huge proponent of Free software. But I sure would like to know when X will support today's new technologies and trends. rotating your screen is very difficult. and you can't have accelleration when you do. even resolution changes are difficult (xrandr helps, but you still can only move between the resolutions provided at the X server start, which doesn't help if you've plugged in a different monitor.) Switching between dual displays is hard.
can't think of anything else at the moment.
I work in a bookstore. There is only one beginners book I recommend to people -- Master VISUALLY Creating Web Pages by Joe Kraynak
It covers the essential technologies without as much filler as the other for beginners books do. I especially like how it covers CSS and XHTML.
After you have figured out how the pieces fit together you can get more deeply into CSS with a CSS reference book or just go to w3c.org and find their CSS stuff.
CSS and some basic graphics knowledge will allow you to customize sites, blogs, forums, to your hearts content. enjoy!
Precisely -- they make money. They just reinvest all of their earnings into the company instead of spreading it out among stockholders.
Wow... a company can not be non-profit? Tell that to the world. Google for "non-profit" and "company" and you'll find 57,000,000 hits. Non-profits exist all over the world. They are not charities.
Though there is also a concept of a "social entrepreneur" -- one who makes money but makes it helping people. They tend not to be _as profitable as regular businesses because they tend to act more ethically.
Each year more and more CDs are put out and made available to the public. Surely the way to indicate a slump would be to release the total number of CDs sold in that week, or the total profits made by the music industry that week, and compare them.
Except that the top 10 albums sell a hugely disproportionate portion of the total sales. I'd guess the top 10 albums provide 30-50% of total sales. You forget that we have a monoculture.
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era -- 2004
And as much as you might not agree with him, you do have to wonder if we're going to be able to maintain our employment rates when there is almost no unskilled non-service labor left in the U.S. Which is, of course, why we subsidize many of our markets.
Not thanks to unions -- thanks to the philosophy that we need to have a constant growth economy. And with a constant growth economy people expect constant growth standards of living.
But that only worked in an isolationist world. Now that infrastructure is super efficient the multiplier effect is basically absent.
Read the book, "The End of Work." It's time to start changing our economy. If not we're going to have to give up our standards of living and live more like the rest of the world does and compete as if we're all in the same country.
Doesn't it crack anyone up that germany of all countries has the gall to tell the rest of the world what is right or not? For that matter japan? Yet both want a seat on the security council. Lets see, we have had two world wars both started by the germans. How about eh. NO.
This is the most absurd post I've seen in a good long while. If we said only the countries who have not sinned are allowed on the Security Council then we'd have an empty Council.
Should the U.S. be allowed in? No. 1) Native American massacres. 2) Japanese internment. 3) Slavery. 4) "immoral" foreign involvement (contras, etc.)
Or you could trace the population to its origins. So then the U.S. is to blame for everything the British have done? The French? Hell, basically every country in the world? No.
So then we should measure it by when the current nation was formed? Well, Japan has a new nation after WWII. Germany too. So there're allowed in. Glad we solved that one.
If they work with OO.o it won't be because they don't want to pay for support. It will be because none of them is able to develop a sufficiently mature office suite that can take on MS office independently. This is both because they don't have the (or will to assign the) resources and because if they competed they would be competing both against MS office and against each other.
And I don't see how this is the failure of "open source." Big and little entities are allowed to contribute to open projects. It only becomes a failure of open source the products never got developed people people were always vying for control.
There are different reasons for tabs:
1) so you can centralize your web-browsing experience. i.e. so browsing doesn't take up your entire taskbar and you can easily switch to your (tabbed) IM window, etc. Just like virtual desktops/workspaces. Email is on workspace 2, browsing/IM on workspace 1, music on workspace 3, work on workspace 4. (I use them in a square so email is above work, so the left column is play and the right is work.)
2) Some people consider tabs like a pile -- you go to news.google.com and you middle-click to open all of the stories you'd like to read in tabs. that way you don't have to bother with them (since a new tab loads in the background) and they are ready for you when you are finished with the first article and you close that tab.
I mix the two. I rarely have more than one browser window open, unless a second (or third) window is meant for an explicit purpose -- like if i'm researching a particular topic. And I'm glad I use firefox. I currently have about 25 tabs open. I wouldn't want to have to deal with that many windows.
And to answer one of your questions, when you hover over a tab it tells you the title of the website. This isn't needed, though, when you don't have so many that you can still read the title in the tab.
And as for a multi-billion dollar company backing it? Then I guess you never use new products from anything but the most well-established companies.
A parallel can be drawn with GNU/linux systems. When I started using linux in 1996 there were already companies supporting it. I have no doubt that as corperations adopt gecko-based solutions they will either start offering support themselves or some other kind of support structure will pop up.
I think you're thinking about free software falsely, though. I trust popular free software because I trust that there is a large enough section of the tech-proficient population that is good that I can trust them to poke through the code. The population that gets to deal with IE's code is much smaller, so the chance of there being a decently sized ethical population among them is much smaller.
My question is: does this have the same effect as comments do? Or are links in the stories better for page rank?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/technology/30lic ense.html?pagewanted=print
The New York Times had an article on the impact of the revision called "Overhaul of Linux License Could Have Broad Impact."
some quotes:
"Industry analysts estimate that the value of hardware and software that use the Linux operating system is $40 billion."
"The revision process promises to be intriguing because of the man behind the G.P.L., Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation.
The G.P.L., according to Mr. Stallman, is an effort to use copyright law to protect what he calls the "four basic freedoms of software" - the unrestricted right to use, study, copy and modify software. The license also requires that any modifications be redistributed with the same unrestricted rights. "
"For Microsoft's part, Steven A. Ballmer, its chief executive, has called the G.P.L. a 'cancer.'"
it is at my borders books store here in silver spring, md -- so if anyone is looking check your local store.
does anyone have the right one?
You are right about the birds. But him talking about the digestive organs makes perfect sense (with his incorrect premise.) Some species can not eat grass because their digestive tract can not handle it. Just as some can't handle meat. If we had found meat in some herbivore's dung people could legitimately ask, "what do we not know about this herbivore? did they find any part of its digestive tract to indicate that it was different somehow?"
In fifty years, no one will be talking about "overpopulation" anymore.
They will be in the developing world... any agrarian society has large population growth. After all, it takes time for people to be convinced that the method they were given for success no longer applies.
Funny enough, my username dalutong means "comrade of the mainland." zhongguotong, which I didn't take for some reason or another, is "comrade of china," a term the chinese give to a foreign who understands china and its nature.