Let me point out the obvious here, since it was apparently lost on the person who unveiled the idea with the slides.
I care about my community, not yours.
This seems really really navel gazing. While I have my doubts about the usefulness of some of the ideas ("show me users near me" for one), I generally like the integration of social networks into the desktop. My concern is this. I, and many many other (potential) users of KDE don't care about the KDE "community." What does this do for me? It appears the answer is nothing.
This certainly reeks of the the second biggest problem within the FOSS world: navel gazing
I was speaking with my girlfriend and we're in agreement. Children, especially children that are at the age where coloring books are a learning aid really don't need to be exposed to the details of 9/11.
Oh yeah. Telling kids "You might think you made the disaster happen, but you didn't," is absolutely not the message we need to be telling our children. They are a failure, and because they didn't pick up their toys from the couch 3,000 people died, and if they don't eat their green beans, another 3,000 are going to die.
I was speaking with my girlfriend and we're in agreement. Children, especially children that are at the age where coloring books are a learning aid really don't need to be exposed to the details of 9/11.
Somehow I really doubt that details beyond: "New York", "World Trade Center Towers", "Airplanes", "Fire", and "Collapse" were involved. If you think honestly think that these details are too much, then you and your girlfriend are seriously underestimating that children understand the very very basics of the events that happened, and this helps them work through those basics. Did you honestly think that this was going to have a page where some Saudi slits the throat of a stewardess with a box cutter while shouting "Allah Ackbar!" ("I'm going to make the fountain of blood green! Yay!"), or people holding hands while jumping from the 87th floor to their death? ("They're going to land on a rainbow car! Yay!")
You never saw the book. You are not a child psychologist. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Personally, I think the reason why this book was removed was because it's been eight damn years. It served its purpose while no one noticed. People have moved on, so there's no point in keeping it up. Next up: Finding a PDF that informs us that "This Thursday, March 23, 2003 the DHS cafeteria is serving Sloppy Joes."
Specter left the Democratic Party in '81 because he lacked seniority for cool appointments. The Republicans were (and have been) desperate enough for a Pennsylvania senate seat that he could write his own checks in the GOP.
That's interesting, according Wikipedia he's been a registered Republican since 1966. He wasn't even elected to the Senate until 1980. So I call gross fabrication (i.e. bullshit). FYI: If you're going to make shit up, don't make it so goddamn trivial to check.
Now, he's looking at being part of a permanent minority, and the majority party is probably going to give him nicer committee chairs than he could get with the GOP.
Oh you're right to say that it's because he was going to lose in the GOP primary, but that's not very insightful, since Specter said that very thing in his press conference today. The real issue is whether he's right when he said that the GOP left him, rather than he left the GOP. I suspect he's right. Barry Goldwater famously went from crazy rightwinger to moderate without changing a position.
Not to say that GWB wasn't a completely failure, but the big bank deregulation occurred under Clinton in 1999.
The noisy ones on the extreme right wing of the Republican party should be ashamed of themselves, including but not limited to the folks on Fox who have clearly sold their souls.
Ashamed? Hell, they're proud of what they've done. Did you ever think that you'd see American politicians defending torture? I never did. I don't even recognize the the country since GWB.
New Orleans is squarely in Democrat hands, the Republicans haven't had anything to do with it. The fact that you don't know that just goes to show how good the media is at covering for them.
Oh yeah. The FEMA had nothing to do with Katrina aftermath. Wait. You're right! FEMA had nothing to with the aftermath! (And that was the problem.) Heckuva job Brownie.
As far as Scientific Funding.... Who was the first US President to dedicate Federal funds to embryonic stem cell research?
Its the 51% majority deciding what to do with their, and the 49% minorit[y's] money even though the 49% minority doesn't want their money spent that way.
Funny, I though that was called "democracy".
FYI about your quote. You need to learn what fascism really is. Fascism is authoritarian capitalism, while communism is authoritarian socialism. There's a reason why the biggest fascist of all, Hitler, and the biggest communist of all, Stalin, hated each other and everything the other stood for.
I know, it's anathema to free-market idealists, but the end result is... better, cheaper service.
See that's the thing I don't get. The free market is about about competition. Competition brings lower prices and better service because everyone is trying to get an edge over the other guy. There's absolutely no reason why the state can't be a player in the market. If anyone (including the state) can't provide adequate services at a reasonable price, no one will use it, and all the profit will flow to the whoever does.
The real reason you hear "free"-market advocates complain is because they've established themselves either a monopoly or a cartel and have thus eliminated all competition. Since the people (i.e. THE MARKET) is trying to remedy this, they cry foul. Of course, if the governement system was so inefficient and broken as the monopolists stay it is, then they would have anything to fear.
Provo lost money every month. Know why? Provo wasn't legally allowed to advertise service on their own network, precisely because it was city-owned; the majority of Provo-dwellers I've spoken with didn't even know about it. (For unknown reasons, the companies who the city leased the networks to weren't advertising either. I heard about it from my neighbor who had service from them. I have no idea how he found out about them.)
Well that's "pro-competition" state laws for you. See anything that's privately owned is as good as it can be, and anything that's collectively owned (i.e. government owned or a public-private partnership) is always horrible. That's just axiomatically true. See when you introduce a cheaper, more feature rich, alternative that's not "competition" or "market forces" that's "government price controls", and that's horrible.
Jesus. You couldn't just say we'd evolve beyond the need for bodies and and become disembodied beings of pure energy that transcend the universe and then forget what bodies are then decide to build one on an interplanetary scale by scooping together asteroids and then carving labels into the respected parts like "head", "eye", and "mouth"?
(God, I hate Asmiov. Lame trope after lame trope.)
Let's also keep in mind that this isn't really a CTO position. In a company a CTO makes strategic purchasing decisions. It's a day-to-day operations job. This "National CTO" is nothing like that. It's a position that makes public policy. It's a position that outlines national goals.
Keep in mind that one of the big goals that the Obama administration is pushing for is digital healthcare records. It's one of the centerpieces to their plan to cut healthcare costs nationwide, and it's one part that has broad support in the political, insurance, and medical communities. The Administration has placed a priority on getting that to work, and this guy has direct experience in that area.
Whining that the guy can't configure a network card, is just as lame as whining that the head of the NIH didn't practice medicine, but only conducted medical research and managed grants. Well, that's the job man.
Of course we're talking about Silicon Valley, which is dominated by engineers, and Ayn Rand "Objectivism" and hard-core Libertarianism is widespread among undergraduate engineers.
You're right that those saying they're "SEO experts" (funny, how they don't actually optimize search engines), have no clue about what they're doing. Those with a quarter of a clue toss around some terms they heard like "latent semantic indexing" and have no idea what that actually means, nor even if it's still relevant.
FYI: NO ONE at Google, Yahoo, LiveSearch, or any other big search company knows what a page "looks like" to the algorithm, because there's no one algorithm. It's a set that builds on top of each other. Simultaneously boosting and penalizing words and phrases. Wheels within wheels within wheels. Then it all goes into a big neural net, and out comes some weights. Why is foo more important than bar? Who knows? It just works better that way.
Every link on the front page led you to a permanent redirect to the diggbar frame page. This happened whether you were logged in to digg or not. This means spiders got the frame page, and thus the pagerank wouldn't propagate[*] to the linked to sites.
Facebook on the other hand, only serves the frame if you're logged into Facebook. That means you have to be a real person, and not a spider. Also, FB puts all their pages behind a robots.txt. Spiders only get a very short page that lists a name, a photo, and I think three friends. The rest is in the walled garden. That's another way that spiders don't get the framepage.
It's all about pagerank, and how Kevin Rose tried to steal it.
[*] Technically, there's still some flow because of the frameset, but sites with frames are horribly hard to parse in any meaningful way, so FRAME linked pages get penalized. Usually you don't notice when searching for some Java function call or something, because the terms are so rare, they only appear on those pages. Framed general text? You're screwed.
Does it make sense to pay someone millions of dollars to play a game or pretend to be someone else in front of a camera while millions are losing their homes and jobs?
Baseball ticket prices? Let me quote from your link:
Meanwhile, some bloggers and fans always ask why, and for that, we turn to the market. The Yankees are selling tickets at a face value of $250 per, and they're selling out the stadium. Tickets for premium games sell on StubHub for well over that value. The market, in other words, can afford it, and the Yankees are just trying to capture their revenues.
So in conclusion, you don't know what you're talking about.
GNOME has been stupid from a UX approach from day 1. In the beginning it used to be a billion options each with "clever" names. And when Sun did their user study they found out (GASP!) those options were confusing. So they removed them all in a quest to taylor it for the mythical user that has never used a computer in his/her entire life.
For years GNOME was taking the worst ideas of windows and implementing them in an amateur way. Now they're adding the worst ideas from MacOSX as well. (GTk FileChooser I'm looking at you!)
I have no faith that anyone in the user interface group has any idea what they're doing.
Why would you have a special made substandard dvd drive when you can get a commodity one for only a few bucks wholesale at volume that can run continuously?
I have severe doubts that a "short burst only" drive exists anywhere in the world.
a) No one is talking about ditching the servers. Storage, compute, and database servers are not only required to run a modern computer science department, they're required for advanced undergraduate coursework. Why screw around trying to install mysql on your laptop, when all you have to do is is connect to cs482.cs.foo.edu ? What they're talking about is getting rid of the big rooms full of PCs. (Anyway what's the "charm" in using a lab computer with an LCD? With a CRT you got blurry screens, chromashift, and that nice warm pink. Ahh, those were the days.)
b) You mean like how it's not appropriate to ask freshmen to "ditch hard coin" for things like books right?
"Strongly recommending" computers for incoming freshman started probably 10 years ago and increased years since. Also, with 90% of incoming freshman already owning computers, it's not like this is really an overly arduous requirement to meet since the supermajority was already voluntarily fulfilling it. Frankly, it sounds like you're the outlier, and by the use of your cavalier "hard earned coin" phrase, you're being cheap.
Program is not installable on a laptop? Good thing we still have those servers left around in part A.
Seriously, all you really need to provide today are the servers and printers. Personally, I like the idea of emptying all the big rooms and just putting tables with ac drops in them, and a bunch of whiteboards. It's a collaborative space, which really is (and has been for the last 10-15 years) really neeeded.
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Let me point out the obvious here, since it was apparently lost on the person who unveiled the idea with the slides.
I care about my community, not yours.
This seems really really navel gazing. While I have my doubts about the usefulness of some of the ideas ("show me users near me" for one), I generally like the integration of social networks into the desktop. My concern is this. I, and many many other (potential) users of KDE don't care about the KDE "community." What does this do for me? It appears the answer is nothing.
This certainly reeks of the the second biggest problem within the FOSS world: navel gazing
Oh yeah. Telling kids "You might think you made the disaster happen, but you didn't," is absolutely not the message we need to be telling our children. They are a failure, and because they didn't pick up their toys from the couch 3,000 people died, and if they don't eat their green beans, another 3,000 are going to die.
Somehow I really doubt that details beyond: "New York", "World Trade Center Towers", "Airplanes", "Fire", and "Collapse" were involved. If you think honestly think that these details are too much, then you and your girlfriend are seriously underestimating that children understand the very very basics of the events that happened, and this helps them work through those basics. Did you honestly think that this was going to have a page where some Saudi slits the throat of a stewardess with a box cutter while shouting "Allah Ackbar!" ("I'm going to make the fountain of blood green! Yay!"), or people holding hands while jumping from the 87th floor to their death? ("They're going to land on a rainbow car! Yay!")
You never saw the book. You are not a child psychologist. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Personally, I think the reason why this book was removed was because it's been eight damn years. It served its purpose while no one noticed. People have moved on, so there's no point in keeping it up. Next up: Finding a PDF that informs us that "This Thursday, March 23, 2003 the DHS cafeteria is serving Sloppy Joes."
I doubt it. I think it's more "we're against whatever it is he's for."
Specter left the Democratic Party in '81 because he lacked seniority for cool appointments. The Republicans were (and have been) desperate enough for a Pennsylvania senate seat that he could write his own checks in the GOP.
That's interesting, according Wikipedia he's been a registered Republican since 1966. He wasn't even elected to the Senate until 1980. So I call gross fabrication (i.e. bullshit). FYI: If you're going to make shit up, don't make it so goddamn trivial to check.
He's not getting any.
Oh you're right to say that it's because he was going to lose in the GOP primary, but that's not very insightful, since Specter said that very thing in his press conference today. The real issue is whether he's right when he said that the GOP left him, rather than he left the GOP. I suspect he's right. Barry Goldwater famously went from crazy rightwinger to moderate without changing a position.
Not to say that GWB wasn't a completely failure, but the big bank deregulation occurred under Clinton in 1999.
Ashamed? Hell, they're proud of what they've done. Did you ever think that you'd see American politicians defending torture? I never did. I don't even recognize the the country since GWB.
Oh yeah. The FEMA had nothing to do with Katrina aftermath. Wait. You're right! FEMA had nothing to with the aftermath! (And that was the problem.) Heckuva job Brownie.
The same one that simultaneously forbid additional stem cells lines, thus leaving only lines of dubious value.
Yes, and Dullest Blog in the World, is now popular.
Funny, I though that was called "democracy".
FYI about your quote. You need to learn what fascism really is. Fascism is authoritarian capitalism, while communism is authoritarian socialism. There's a reason why the biggest fascist of all, Hitler, and the biggest communist of all, Stalin, hated each other and everything the other stood for.
See that's the thing I don't get. The free market is about about competition. Competition brings lower prices and better service because everyone is trying to get an edge over the other guy. There's absolutely no reason why the state can't be a player in the market. If anyone (including the state) can't provide adequate services at a reasonable price, no one will use it, and all the profit will flow to the whoever does.
The real reason you hear "free"-market advocates complain is because they've established themselves either a monopoly or a cartel and have thus eliminated all competition. Since the people (i.e. THE MARKET) is trying to remedy this, they cry foul. Of course, if the governement system was so inefficient and broken as the monopolists stay it is, then they would have anything to fear.
This is just Lemon Capitalism at it's best.
Well that's "pro-competition" state laws for you. See anything that's privately owned is as good as it can be, and anything that's collectively owned (i.e. government owned or a public-private partnership) is always horrible. That's just axiomatically true. See when you introduce a cheaper, more feature rich, alternative that's not "competition" or "market forces" that's "government price controls", and that's horrible.
You don't want to become Sweden do you? My god just look at the Swedes! They're oh so thin, not like the good ol' U S of A at all. No. Sweden is such a hell hole, we don't want that all here.
Jesus. You couldn't just say we'd evolve beyond the need for bodies and and become disembodied beings of pure energy that transcend the universe and then forget what bodies are then decide to build one on an interplanetary scale by scooping together asteroids and then carving labels into the respected parts like "head", "eye", and "mouth"?
(God, I hate Asmiov. Lame trope after lame trope.)
Let's also keep in mind that this isn't really a CTO position. In a company a CTO makes strategic purchasing decisions. It's a day-to-day operations job. This "National CTO" is nothing like that. It's a position that makes public policy. It's a position that outlines national goals.
Keep in mind that one of the big goals that the Obama administration is pushing for is digital healthcare records. It's one of the centerpieces to their plan to cut healthcare costs nationwide, and it's one part that has broad support in the political, insurance, and medical communities. The Administration has placed a priority on getting that to work, and this guy has direct experience in that area.
Whining that the guy can't configure a network card, is just as lame as whining that the head of the NIH didn't practice medicine, but only conducted medical research and managed grants. Well, that's the job man.
Of course we're talking about Silicon Valley, which is dominated by engineers, and Ayn Rand "Objectivism" and hard-core Libertarianism is widespread among undergraduate engineers.
You're right that those saying they're "SEO experts" (funny, how they don't actually optimize search engines), have no clue about what they're doing. Those with a quarter of a clue toss around some terms they heard like "latent semantic indexing" and have no idea what that actually means, nor even if it's still relevant.
FYI: NO ONE at Google, Yahoo, LiveSearch, or any other big search company knows what a page "looks like" to the algorithm, because there's no one algorithm. It's a set that builds on top of each other. Simultaneously boosting and penalizing words and phrases. Wheels within wheels within wheels. Then it all goes into a big neural net, and out comes some weights. Why is foo more important than bar? Who knows? It just works better that way.
it's the fact that the frame was served to spiders. facebook doesn't do that.
Every link on the front page led you to a permanent redirect to the diggbar frame page. This happened whether you were logged in to digg or not. This means spiders got the frame page, and thus the pagerank wouldn't propagate[*] to the linked to sites.
Facebook on the other hand, only serves the frame if you're logged into Facebook. That means you have to be a real person, and not a spider. Also, FB puts all their pages behind a robots.txt. Spiders only get a very short page that lists a name, a photo, and I think three friends. The rest is in the walled garden. That's another way that spiders don't get the framepage.
It's all about pagerank, and how Kevin Rose tried to steal it.
[*] Technically, there's still some flow because of the frameset, but sites with frames are horribly hard to parse in any meaningful way, so FRAME linked pages get penalized. Usually you don't notice when searching for some Java function call or something, because the terms are so rare, they only appear on those pages. Framed general text? You're screwed.
Yes, since in hard economic times, people still pay for entertainment. Most famously, Hollywood made money during the Great Depression. ("Throughout most of the Depression, Americans went assiduously, devotedly, almost compulsively, to the movies.")
Baseball ticket prices? Let me quote from your link:
So in conclusion, you don't know what you're talking about.
You're right that the number of portables is what matters. Good thing laptops have been outselling desktops since 2005.
GNOME has been stupid from a UX approach from day 1. In the beginning it used to be a billion options each with "clever" names. And when Sun did their user study they found out (GASP!) those options were confusing. So they removed them all in a quest to taylor it for the mythical user that has never used a computer in his/her entire life.
For years GNOME was taking the worst ideas of windows and implementing them in an amateur way. Now they're adding the worst ideas from MacOSX as well. (GTk FileChooser I'm looking at you!)
I have no faith that anyone in the user interface group has any idea what they're doing.
Why would you have a special made substandard dvd drive when you can get a commodity one for only a few bucks wholesale at volume that can run continuously?
I have severe doubts that a "short burst only" drive exists anywhere in the world.
Let me rebut
a) No one is talking about ditching the servers. Storage, compute, and database servers are not only required to run a modern computer science department, they're required for advanced undergraduate coursework. Why screw around trying to install mysql on your laptop, when all you have to do is is connect to cs482.cs.foo.edu ? What they're talking about is getting rid of the big rooms full of PCs. (Anyway what's the "charm" in using a lab computer with an LCD? With a CRT you got blurry screens, chromashift, and that nice warm pink. Ahh, those were the days.)
b) You mean like how it's not appropriate to ask freshmen to "ditch hard coin" for things like books right?
"Strongly recommending" computers for incoming freshman started probably 10 years ago and increased years since. Also, with 90% of incoming freshman already owning computers, it's not like this is really an overly arduous requirement to meet since the supermajority was already voluntarily fulfilling it. Frankly, it sounds like you're the outlier, and by the use of your cavalier "hard earned coin" phrase, you're being cheap.
Program is not installable on a laptop? Good thing we still have those servers left around in part A.
Seriously, all you really need to provide today are the servers and printers. Personally, I like the idea of emptying all the big rooms and just putting tables with ac drops in them, and a bunch of whiteboards. It's a collaborative space, which really is (and has been for the last 10-15 years) really neeeded.
I have a program that does that. I haven't used it in years since I now have a mac, but it used to work. gtk and imlib.
I don't remember what the diff is between the versions, so here they both are.
http://jonathankorensucks.com/imlibsetroot-10.tar.gz
http://jonathankorensucks.com/imlibsetroot-11.tar.gz
Sounds like a personal problem.
Pffft. Oceans are overrated. Smelly and cold.
Yeah, and I live on the beach.