Well, you can start with the Wikipedia article on Digital Preservation. And then follow links around some. Or go ask your local archivist. Or find a librarian forum and ask there.
Seriously--they're the experts. And there are a lot of digital archives at colleges and such that are on a small enough scale that their solutions would be practical for individuals too.
Don't forget Peeps, which is my favorite Westerfeld.
Seriously, a lot of the best SF/F is being marketed in the YA section these days. I'd refer everyone to this thread at BoingBoing, which has a good overview of recent YA.
And everyone here at Slashdot who hasn't recommended Little Brother yet should be ashamed.
You say "good genes". I say: "bad math". Body fat is subject to the universal laws of thermodynamics. If you decrease your calorie consumption, you will have less energy left over to store as fat. The overall trend in the USA (or probably all of the western world) is towards unhealthy diets. I have what might be called a "superfood" diet and hover at a trim 30-32" waist size, even with what I must admit is too little exercise.
Wow! Your anecdotally reported study with a sample size of one has convinced me! Diet must be the only factor in body fat composition!
A user should be able to install a set of drivers for a computer and have them work independent of distribution and kernel upgrades. So, for instance, if I go out and buy a new laptop, then once somebody has come up with stable video, sound, acpi, etc. drivers for it, then I should be able to install those drivers on my system and have them work. I should not have to compile a custom kernel, or wait until the new driver is packaged up in the official distribution repositories, or anything like that. And if my distribution comes out with a new kernel update, then I should be able to install it and not have to worry about it messing up my hardware support.
If this results in more proprietary binary drivers, then so be it. We just have to suck it up and deal.
I don't mind having to tell friends that, if they want to run Linux, they have to buy hardware that is supported. I mind having to tell friends that their hardware is supported, but in order to get it to run they have to hand-compile the drivers, or install an alpha distribution, or something else ridiculous like that.
Aw, man! Does this mean that we're going to have to deal with Primords? At least the BBC has prepared for this by bringing Dr. Who back...
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lower taxes for those who pay taxes (the lower 50% of the earners in America pay no taxes!).
Really? Wow!
Does that mean that people in the lower 50% of earners don't have to pay FICA, sales tax, gas tax, property tax, or cigarette and alcohol taxes? Dude! I have some good news for some of my underemployed friends. Do they need to get special 'lower 50% of earners' cards to exempt them from these taxes or something? Where do you get those?
Because, you know, if you want to lower taxes for people who pay taxes, why don't you start with the taxes that everybody actually pays? Maybe graduate FICA so that the first $20,000 is exempt, the next $50,000 is at the current rate, and everything above it is at a higher rate? That'll save a lot more money for a lot more people than cutting things like the income tax and the estate tax.
If most Americans want to reduce their personal tax burdens, then they're a lot better off keeping (or raising) things like the estate tax, many capital gains taxes, and the upper rates of the income tax, and lowering things like FICA and state sales and property taxes. Unless, or coure, they're misled into thinking that income taxes are the only real taxes that people pay. But nobody would be dumb enough to fall for that.
Dude, The New Republic is full of neo-conservatives and hardly qualifies as liberal. You want left/center-left, read The Nation or Dissent, or go to the Center for American Progress.
And even though the tax rate is lower the exponential increase in the amount of capital moved more than makes up for the reducion in the tax rate. And as such the income of the government increases.
And thus the increases in federal income tax revenue that happened in the 80's under Reagan and the 00's under Bush. Except that neither happened--tax rates were lowered, and tax revenues--surprise!--lowered also. Read about it at Wikipedia.
There are some arguments for supply-side economics, but no (or incredibly few) serious economists believe that reducing marginal tax rates increases tax revenue. It might reduce tax revenue less than one would expect, but it doesn't increase revenue.
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As long as a lot of people are complaining about XP's wireless configuration, could someone point me in the direction of the corresponding tool for Linux? I'd really like to be able to bring my laptop out of suspend in a new place and have a little dialog pop up showing me what wireless networks are around.
For added points, it should work with any wireless card and driver that is supported under Linux.
1) Just having the technology isn't enough. Projects currently exist that integrate ViaVoice with voice command-and-control on linux (xvoice, at http://xvoice.sourceforge.net/ for instance). The thing is, unless someone goes through and integrates the technology with the environment, it won't really be usable. For instance, ask anyone who actually uses voice control how practical it is to try to control a computer without a correction window available at every point.
2) That having been said.... If they actually do go through and make a usable integration out of this, it would be a great thing. I personally know several people who have RSI to the point that they can't type and/or mouse for more than 5 minutes without pain. All of these people _have_ to use Windows 95 (!not even NT!) for now--voice command and control on Linux just isn't far enough along right now. (Actually, since all of the companies that make voice recognition software for Windows (Dragon/L&H, IBM) have chosen to go after the dictation market instead of tailoring their tools for hands-free usage, it's barely adequate on Windows...)
3) If you want an idea of how important this is, imagine that you hurt your hands such that you could neither type nor mouse, or even lift medium-weight objects (and it can happen). Then imagine that on top of that, you were forced to use Windows to cope with your disability...
I wonder how much of the Alpha's popularity problem stems from the fact that Compaq/Digital sells it primarily in premium servers and workstations. Sure, it means that the people who get the chip get really nice machines, but it also means that the pricing that most people see is, well, a bit on the high-end.
Just once, I'd like to see an announcement on the Alpha that says, 'This chip is shipping for $??? in quantities of 1000.' They do sell them that way to third-party distributors, after all.
Maybe once Alpha Processor, Inc., finally gets going...
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Well, you can start with the Wikipedia article on Digital Preservation. And then follow links around some. Or go ask your local archivist. Or find a librarian forum and ask there.
Seriously--they're the experts. And there are a lot of digital archives at colleges and such that are on a small enough scale that their solutions would be practical for individuals too.
Don't forget Peeps, which is my favorite Westerfeld.
Seriously, a lot of the best SF/F is being marketed in the YA section these days. I'd refer everyone to this thread at BoingBoing, which has a good overview of recent YA.
And everyone here at Slashdot who hasn't recommended Little Brother yet should be ashamed.
You say "good genes". I say: "bad math". Body fat is subject to the universal laws of thermodynamics. If you decrease your calorie consumption, you will have less energy left over to store as fat. The overall trend in the USA (or probably all of the western world) is towards unhealthy diets. I have what might be called a "superfood" diet and hover at a trim 30-32" waist size, even with what I must admit is too little exercise.
Wow! Your anecdotally reported study with a sample size of one has convinced me! Diet must be the only factor in body fat composition!
A user should be able to install a set of drivers for a computer and have them work independent of distribution and kernel upgrades. So, for instance, if I go out and buy a new laptop, then once somebody has come up with stable video, sound, acpi, etc. drivers for it, then I should be able to install those drivers on my system and have them work. I should not have to compile a custom kernel, or wait until the new driver is packaged up in the official distribution repositories, or anything like that. And if my distribution comes out with a new kernel update, then I should be able to install it and not have to worry about it messing up my hardware support.
If this results in more proprietary binary drivers, then so be it. We just have to suck it up and deal.
I don't mind having to tell friends that, if they want to run Linux, they have to buy hardware that is supported. I mind having to tell friends that their hardware is supported, but in order to get it to run they have to hand-compile the drivers, or install an alpha distribution, or something else ridiculous like that.
Aw, man! Does this mean that we're going to have to deal with Primords? At least the BBC has prepared for this by bringing Dr. Who back...
lower taxes for those who pay taxes (the lower 50% of the earners in America pay no taxes!).
Really? Wow!
Does that mean that people in the lower 50% of earners don't have to pay FICA, sales tax, gas tax, property tax, or cigarette and alcohol taxes? Dude! I have some good news for some of my underemployed friends. Do they need to get special 'lower 50% of earners' cards to exempt them from these taxes or something? Where do you get those?
Because, you know, if you want to lower taxes for people who pay taxes, why don't you start with the taxes that everybody actually pays? Maybe graduate FICA so that the first $20,000 is exempt, the next $50,000 is at the current rate, and everything above it is at a higher rate? That'll save a lot more money for a lot more people than cutting things like the income tax and the estate tax.
If most Americans want to reduce their personal tax burdens, then they're a lot better off keeping (or raising) things like the estate tax, many capital gains taxes, and the upper rates of the income tax, and lowering things like FICA and state sales and property taxes. Unless, or coure, they're misled into thinking that income taxes are the only real taxes that people pay. But nobody would be dumb enough to fall for that.
Right?
-allen
Dude, The New Republic is full of neo-conservatives and hardly qualifies as liberal. You want left/center-left, read The Nation or Dissent, or go to the Center for American Progress.
And even though the tax rate is lower the exponential increase in the amount of capital moved more than makes up for the reducion in the tax rate. And as such the income of the government increases.
And thus the increases in federal income tax revenue that happened in the 80's under Reagan and the 00's under Bush. Except that neither happened--tax rates were lowered, and tax revenues--surprise!--lowered also. Read about it at Wikipedia.
There are some arguments for supply-side economics, but no (or incredibly few) serious economists believe that reducing marginal tax rates increases tax revenue. It might reduce tax revenue less than one would expect, but it doesn't increase revenue.
As long as a lot of people are complaining about XP's wireless configuration, could someone point me in the direction of the corresponding tool for Linux? I'd really like to be able to bring my laptop out of suspend in a new place and have a little dialog pop up showing me what wireless networks are around.
For added points, it should work with any wireless card and driver that is supported under Linux.
-allen
Some thoughts:
1) Just having the technology isn't enough. Projects currently exist that integrate ViaVoice with voice command-and-control on linux (xvoice, at http://xvoice.sourceforge.net/ for instance). The thing is, unless someone goes through and integrates the technology with the environment, it won't really be usable. For instance, ask anyone who actually uses voice control how practical it is to try to control a computer without a correction window available at every point.
2) That having been said.... If they actually do go through and make a usable integration out of this, it would be a great thing. I personally know several people who have RSI to the point that they can't type and/or mouse for more than 5 minutes without pain. All of these people _have_ to use Windows 95 (!not even NT!) for now--voice command and control on Linux just isn't far enough along right now. (Actually, since all of the companies that make voice recognition software for Windows (Dragon/L&H, IBM) have chosen to go after the dictation market instead of tailoring their tools for hands-free usage, it's barely adequate on Windows...)
3) If you want an idea of how important this is, imagine that you hurt your hands such that you could neither type nor mouse, or even lift medium-weight objects (and it can happen). Then imagine that on top of that, you were forced to use Windows to cope with your disability...
-allen
I wonder how much of the Alpha's popularity problem stems from the fact that Compaq/Digital sells it primarily in premium servers and workstations. Sure, it means that the people who get the chip get really nice machines, but it also means that the pricing that most people see is, well, a bit on the high-end.
Just once, I'd like to see an announcement on the Alpha that says, 'This chip is shipping for $??? in quantities of 1000.' They do sell them that way to third-party distributors, after all.
Maybe once Alpha Processor, Inc., finally gets going...