I wasn't one of users that protested feeds. In fact, I *like* feeds. They let me keep up with my friends.
But this new advertising scheme has basically killed them. 3/4 of the slots in my friends feed is now taken up with "So and so has added "Some Movie" to their Blockbuster Online queue" (oh, and the extra ads they inject anyways).
Facebook's search for revenue seems to have gone awry...
As an English (US) speaker who hadn't received IMAP access yet, changing my language setting to UK and then back to US activated IMAP. Guess it works in reverse as well.
Funny that this should appear today. Just a half hour ago, I was sitting in a room listening to a talk by Rebecca Mercuri, one of the big names in Electronic Voting theory. She even talked about the Fairfax situation. You wouldn't believe the horror stories she had to tell about electronic voting.
But anyways, it's not enough that there be a paper trail. The trail needs to be voter verified. That is, the voter must be able to inspect the paper record that the machine creates to make sure it is accurate. Of course, this isn't all. You also want to make sure that the paper is in the vote counting critical path (ie, the machine isn't printing one thing but recording something else which is used to do the counting). One way to do this is to perform all counting using optical recognition on the paper trail. There are other more complicated ways to do this as well, but the simplier the better. After all, your average American needs to be able to trust that his/her vote is counted. With the current crop of black box voting machines, this just isn't possible.
I have the same sawfish problem (though I use aterm). I'm running 2.5.70. I was hoping to upgrade tonight and see if the problem was still there, but it sounds like it is.
The strange thing is that I'm not having serious timing issues with anything else, just when launching an aterm from a keybinding in sawfish. Could this be a corner case problem that only appears with sawfish on the new kernel?
Chris: You didn't touch anything, did you? Mitch: No. Chris: Good. Because all of my filth is arranged in alphabetical order. This, for instance, is under 'H' for "toy. Mitch: What is it? Chris: It's a penis stretcher. Do you want to try it? Mitch: No. Chris: I'm just kidding. It's yet another in a long series of attempts to avoid responsibility.
Doesn't this just sound like fiber optics without the fiber?
Doesn't radio seem an awful lot like sending electrical signals over a wire, but with no wire? By that argument maybe we should forget WiFi and just stick to cat 5. Anyone want this wireless card I just bought?
Dude, chill out. I'd like to see your resume before you knock one of the sharpest VM programmers in the business. Not only is Kevin smart, but he knows the x86 ISA better than most people know how to read. Add on the fact that he pumps out code at an insane rate, and you get a programmer I'm grateful is working in the OSS world. Kevin's given us a lot and I'm more willing to forgive him for being a triffle distractable in exchange. People have called Kevin a lot of things (erratic, drasticable, incapable of proper commenting), but to call him shit is unbelievable. Unless you're Linus or RMS, get off the man's back.
The author suggests that Apple should release a Rendezvous enabled VOIP app. It seems to me that he's almost hit the nail on the head. Imagine if all new Macs came with not only that app, but also a phone jack that you could plug your telephone into. Maybe partner with a long distance company to provide a.Mac internet-to-phone calling plan! The possibilities are wide open for a company who owns the hardware, the software, and has little bit of capital.
We used a 68k assembler from France called Fantasm. It was a disturbing piece of software, complete with odd compilation noises, a built in cd player, and a weird sense of humor. I can't remember the specifics, but I think the error had to do with using data registers instead of address registers or something like that. But, anyways, I kid you not, the reported error was... Smoke me a kipper!
It's funny that I keep finding myself advocating WindowMaker, 'cause I use sawfish, but WindowMaker is great when it comes to ease of use. If an employee needs three apps, let's say (web, email, spread sheet). Clean the dock of anything else but those three and you'll have the easiest to use interface of them all.
My response seems so obvious, but no one ever seems to suggest it. If you want all your apps to look and feel the same, then I suggest you run KDE or GNOME (or any other toolkit/appkit). Just pick one. There are enough apps for each that you never should have to leave your chosen "standard" look and feel. And for the rest of us who don't care, let us run what we want.
Hmmm... I have the exact opposite situation. At my school, I set up a bunch of iMacs running Debian with Window Maker and Mozilla. People love them. The IT office has a bunch of macs and window pcs kicking around, but whenever you walk by, ALL the linux boxes will be in use. The linux boxes are so easy to use (a big window maker button for each task, "browse web", "check email", etc...), that people instantly can use them, as opposed to trying to figure out what they should click on under MacOS or windows.
And, of couse, the boxes are simple to maintain. They all boot from the same NFS root (read only), so upgrades are real easy. God bless the penguin. -spnbs
What happens when microsoft owns the routers? Maybe the football team will decide that there's just no need for an AV club. It's just a haven for dorks without software licenses, anyways.
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I wasn't one of users that protested feeds. In fact, I *like* feeds. They let me keep up with my friends.
But this new advertising scheme has basically killed them. 3/4 of the slots in my friends feed is now taken up with "So and so has added "Some Movie" to their Blockbuster Online queue" (oh, and the extra ads they inject anyways).
Facebook's search for revenue seems to have gone awry...
As an English (US) speaker who hadn't received IMAP access yet, changing my language setting to UK and then back to US activated IMAP. Guess it works in reverse as well.
Actually, PostgreSQL is distributed under a BSD license. Which makes it even more attractive in certain circles.
http://www.postgresql.org/licence.html
But anyways, it's not enough that there be a paper trail. The trail needs to be voter verified. That is, the voter must be able to inspect the paper record that the machine creates to make sure it is accurate. Of course, this isn't all. You also want to make sure that the paper is in the vote counting critical path (ie, the machine isn't printing one thing but recording something else which is used to do the counting). One way to do this is to perform all counting using optical recognition on the paper trail. There are other more complicated ways to do this as well, but the simplier the better. After all, your average American needs to be able to trust that his/her vote is counted. With the current crop of black box voting machines, this just isn't possible.
I have the same sawfish problem (though I use aterm). I'm running 2.5.70. I was hoping to upgrade tonight and see if the problem was still there, but it sounds like it is.
The strange thing is that I'm not having serious timing issues with anything else, just when launching an aterm from a keybinding in sawfish. Could this be a corner case problem that only appears with sawfish on the new kernel?
PS- Everything works fine with 2.4
Chris: You didn't touch anything, did you?
Mitch: No.
Chris: Good. Because all of my filth is arranged in alphabetical order. This, for instance, is under 'H' for "toy.
Mitch: What is it?
Chris: It's a penis stretcher. Do you want to try it?
Mitch: No.
Chris: I'm just kidding. It's yet another in a long series of attempts to avoid responsibility.
Doesn't this just sound like fiber optics without the fiber?
Doesn't radio seem an awful lot like sending electrical signals over a wire, but with no wire?
By that argument maybe we should forget WiFi and just stick to cat 5.
Anyone want this wireless card I just bought?
Dude, chill out. I'd like to see your resume before you knock one of the sharpest VM programmers in the business. Not only is Kevin smart, but he knows the x86 ISA better than most people know how to read. Add on the fact that he pumps out code at an insane rate, and you get a programmer I'm grateful is working in the OSS world. Kevin's given us a lot and I'm more willing to forgive him for being a triffle distractable in exchange. People have called Kevin a lot of things (erratic, drasticable, incapable of proper commenting), but to call him shit is unbelievable. Unless you're Linus or RMS, get off the man's back.
The author suggests that Apple should release a Rendezvous enabled VOIP app. It seems to me that he's almost hit the nail on the head. Imagine if all new Macs came with not only that app, but also a phone jack that you could plug your telephone into. Maybe partner with a long distance company to provide a .Mac internet-to-phone calling plan! The possibilities are wide open for a company who owns the hardware, the software, and has little bit of capital.
We used a 68k assembler from France called Fantasm. It was a disturbing piece of software, complete with odd compilation noises, a built in cd player, and a weird sense of humor. I can't remember the specifics, but I think the error had to do with using data registers instead of address registers or something like that. But, anyways, I kid you not, the reported error was...
Smoke me a kipper!
It's funny that I keep finding myself advocating WindowMaker, 'cause I use sawfish, but WindowMaker is great when it comes to ease of use. If an employee needs three apps, let's say (web, email, spread sheet). Clean the dock of anything else but those three and you'll have the easiest to use interface of them all.
I want a standard look&feel across all my apps
My response seems so obvious, but no one ever seems to suggest it. If you want all your apps to look and feel the same, then I suggest you run KDE or GNOME (or any other toolkit/appkit). Just pick one. There are enough apps for each that you never should have to leave your chosen "standard" look and feel. And for the rest of us who don't care, let us run what we want.
Hmmm... I have the exact opposite situation. At my school, I set up a bunch of iMacs running Debian with Window Maker and Mozilla. People love them. The IT office has a bunch of macs and window pcs kicking around, but whenever you walk by, ALL the linux boxes will be in use. The linux boxes are so easy to use (a big window maker button for each task, "browse web", "check email", etc...), that people instantly can use them, as opposed to trying to figure out what they should click on under MacOS or windows.
And, of couse, the boxes are simple to maintain. They all boot from the same NFS root (read only), so upgrades are real easy. God bless the penguin.
-spnbs
What happens when microsoft owns the routers? Maybe the football team will decide that there's just no need for an AV club. It's just a haven for dorks without software licenses, anyways.
Don't you mean Debian GNU/GNU?
=)