"And by the way, how many subsistence farmers do you know that committed suicide due to farming?"
Quite a few poor farmers in India have committed suicide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers'_suicides_in_India -- from which, "At least 17,368 Indian farmers killed themselves in 2009, the worst figure for farm suicides in six years, according to data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)."
No new people, actually -- the content on the site is put up pretty much by the four guys whose nicks you see on the site;) (Maybe eventually there *will* be new people to make more video, and better than I know how to, but for now it's an ongoing experiment.)
I don't know if I'll have a chance to, but I'll add it to the way-too-long list of things I'd like to do.
I'll likely write up a longer explanation soon, but the fact is I didn't get to see nearly as much as I'd hoped -- always the case, at a big trade show.
Of course, there's the Kindle / Kindle Fire / Mechanical Turk...
Nowadays, it's nearly as easy to say that "no one's a tech company" as it is that "everyone's a tech company." (Starbucks is one of my most regular ISPs, really...)
Not for every story, but very often we will mix various aspects of submissions on the same topic -- I saw that both of those had identical headlines, it made me smile (since they were otherwise distinct). Headline, body text, supplied source / anchortext... sometimes the snappier version wins, and sometimes the ueberlinked version does, partly depending on how much recent coverage there's been (which is to say, how much context it seems is needed).
We like to give credit to multiple submitters, too, but since there are often many submitters for similar stories (and since the "credit" is mostly just a number in a database, in the end, or a namecheck;)), that's a pretty low priority in the system.
One big reason I use VLC as my usual media player: it has decent pitch control / speed control built in. So, I can listen to podcasts or audiobooks a bit faster, and yank back a few minutes of time.
Also good for guilty pleasures like sit-coms; much nicer to watch The Big Bang Theory in 17 minutes instead of 22. (And if I could find versions with the laugh-track missing, I think it might be down to about 9...)
"Where is the "magical" place that you live or have lived, in the urbanized western world, where snow is NOT cleared within a matter of hours?"
Seattle, Washington.
Seattle's kind of an odd bird; everyone knows that it's rainy there, but besides the persistent (usually gentle) rain for much of the year, there's little snow, and lightning is very rare. Storms of the kind I grew up with and loved in the mid-Atlantic, and the sometimes monstrous storms I relished in central Texas, are quite uncommon in Seattle -- Seattle's "bad weather" typically means it's a touch colder than usual and / or the rain is actually pouring rather than as usual falling gently.
That means when snow comes, the city is generally unprepared. I had the interesting fortune to be house-sitting a few years back when a massive snow dump turned the city into an amusement part; I couldn't move my car for well over a week (10 days, I think) because -- goes the story -- the city has only 2 plows, and one of the horses was arthritic;) Much political trouble erupted from the bewildered, ineffective response. I borrowed better shoes than I had worn over, trudged back to my own house for supplies, saw some interesting driving, including watching a bus fail to get up a medium-steep hill...
(btw, to be clear, *some* of the city was cleared much sooner, but small streets were very low on the priority list, and the weather stayed cold long enough, with intermittent warming to get the ice flowing each day, that there was snow around parts of the city for a long time.)
Oh, I just think it would be a fun, creepy effect... could be worked into a "funeral in progress" setpiece / scene, where the funeral director or minister repeatedly lays a bible on top of the coffin of the not-very-dear departed, who was so evil that the Bible doesn't even want to touch his coffin, refuses to stay in place. Nothing profound, really.
Actually, it's like this: most interview guests respond in the way that's conventional on Slashdot -- by adding their responses to each question directly in line with and separate from the others.
Shatner specifically chose not to; I edited a few typos (letter transpositions, that sort of thing), but as I mentioned in the introduction, let his style of response stand. I wish he'd chosen the other way, really, but I enjoyed his blast-of-Shatner stye, too.
Noticing the... er, "interaction" you describe. How did you reconfigure your browsers to stop it? I'm poring through the prefs and not seeing a "Use custom settings" option or something.
That's good to know, esp. if I go back to Ubuntu for a (likely) netbook purchase in the near future. Thanks. I wish they'd keep that as an included default, though...
Partly, it's that this coincided with a general distro exploration sparked by the circumstance of a failed laptop, and my preference for good (IMO good, that is) default settings, so I can if needed use a live CD on a borrowed machine without unlearning my accustomed ways to work, and because then I have something I'm happier recommending to friends. I made a bunch of live CDs, incl. Mint, the two most recent Ubuntu releases, and the newest Fedora beta, and several more obscure ones as well. (I bought my laptop from a small local shop with a tiny stock and a terrible website (http://thecomputershop.net/) -- but it was the only place nearby that would let me actually use the live distros to test out the hardware, and they happened to have a model of ThinkPad that I really like.)
Since I was putting on a whole new OS anyhow, though it was a "switch," it was actually no more of a time investment than would have been sticking with Ubuntu on the replacement laptop. If I were replacing the old one (a netbook, actually -- a 3-year-old Asus Eee) with another netbook, I might be more tempted to get more used to Unity. (I like the Gnome 2 interface better than Gnome 3, so I had pretty much the same reaction to the defaults in the new Fedora.)
Since I'm likely to get a netbook again soon (this ThinkPad is more of a low-end desktop replacement with a short battery life, and heavier than I'd prefer for airplane travel), I might with that one try to get used to [Unity / Gnome 3] for the good reason that they try to well use the limited vertical space.
The Mint Debian is nice for being a rolling release, too -- at least, nothing's bitten me in the few days I've had it on here.
Not trying to smear, and it seems like a pretty clear denial to me as well.
There are two things in the answer that I'd like to see (preferrably) non Blue Coat employees address, though:
1) "The allegation that an organization penetrated one of our appliances through a security hole is flatly not true. There are no known vulnerabilities of our appliance that would allow such an action" Is that the case? I don't know enough about it, but I'm sure there are people who do.
2) "it appears that these logs came from an appliance in a country where there are no trade restrictions" -- I'd like to know what about the logs conveys that information. Not proposing anything conspiratorial, but curious.
OK: I get that this is a "media consumption device" as a general thing: Amazon wants you to buy stuff from them, with this as the end-point. That's fine, and causes me no moral misgivings.
HOWEVER: I would like to buy one, if it had more options to actually extend it later. I believe there are now chipsets with GPS, bluetooth, and Wi-Fi on one additional chip, and even a cheap camera would be enough for a lot of the coolest apps that a tablet of this size / power would be perfect for. Sort of like the Nook Color -- if it had a few extra bits, I'd happily pay for it, even if only to reflash.
Actually, I agree with you. Decreasing order of units, with all slots filled (2011-09-11, with or without dashes or slashes in there) makes the most sense, and (dadblastit!) sorts properly, when it starts off a file name, say.
However, this is an exception. Americans (perhaps the rest of the world? I think so, I'm sure I've heard it a few times abroad) have boiled that day's name down to "nine-eleven," so that is (approximately) how I wrote it. Believe me, I wish that the American convention was either big endian or little endian.
In casual speech, it makes much less difference whether it's middle endian, though, if the month name is being spoken / written -- I rather like "18 December, 1974" or "18th December, 1974," myself, but if you swap the month and day number, there's still no ambiguity.
Yes; not taking Haz's Astro is one of my course-selection regrets (which are all of omission, rather than commission); everyone liked him. I think Jamie (former Slashcoder) had him there as well, and my friend Dug among hundreds of others did, too. One day, as in "when I have kids, at least," I will get a telescope and do some desert camping to use it;)
Bob Zei was dark-haired, probably mid or late '30s, if that helps at all. One day I will find / scan / post a few photos from that class.
Slashdot Mirror
I do *not* have a Yoda doll!
I have a few Yoda figurines, and a bottle-topper, and maybe somewhere some trading cards from the early '80s, but definitely not a doll.
timothy
"And by the way, how many subsistence farmers do you know that committed suicide due to farming?"
Quite a few poor farmers in India have committed suicide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers'_suicides_in_India -- from which, "At least 17,368 Indian farmers killed themselves in 2009, the worst figure for farm suicides in six years, according to data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)."
timothy
No new people, actually -- the content on the site is put up pretty much by the four guys whose nicks you see on the site ;) (Maybe eventually there *will* be new people to make more video, and better than I know how to, but for now it's an ongoing experiment.)
And what -- you want everything?!
timothy
Hi there!
I don't know if I'll have a chance to, but I'll add it to the way-too-long list of things I'd like to do.
I'll likely write up a longer explanation soon, but the fact is I didn't get to see nearly as much as I'd hoped -- always the case, at a big trade show.
Cheers,
timothy
Of course, there's the Kindle / Kindle Fire / Mechanical Turk ...
Nowadays, it's nearly as easy to say that "no one's a tech company" as it is that "everyone's a tech company." (Starbucks is one of my most regular ISPs, really ...)
timothy
Not for every story, but very often we will mix various aspects of submissions on the same topic -- I saw that both of those had identical headlines, it made me smile (since they were otherwise distinct). Headline, body text, supplied source / anchortext ... sometimes the snappier version wins, and sometimes the ueberlinked version does, partly depending on how much recent coverage there's been (which is to say, how much context it seems is needed).
We like to give credit to multiple submitters, too, but since there are often many submitters for similar stories (and since the "credit" is mostly just a number in a database, in the end, or a namecheck ;)), that's a pretty low priority in the system.
Cheers,
timothy
One big reason I use VLC as my usual media player: it has decent pitch control / speed control built in. So, I can listen to podcasts or audiobooks a bit faster, and yank back a few minutes of time.
Also good for guilty pleasures like sit-coms; much nicer to watch The Big Bang Theory in 17 minutes instead of 22. (And if I could find versions with the laugh-track missing, I think it might be down to about 9 ...)
timothy
... but I have an answer :)
"Where is the "magical" place that you live or have lived, in the urbanized western world, where snow is NOT cleared within a matter of hours?"
Seattle, Washington.
Seattle's kind of an odd bird; everyone knows that it's rainy there, but besides the persistent (usually gentle) rain for much of the year, there's little snow, and lightning is very rare. Storms of the kind I grew up with and loved in the mid-Atlantic, and the sometimes monstrous storms I relished in central Texas, are quite uncommon in Seattle -- Seattle's "bad weather" typically means it's a touch colder than usual and / or the rain is actually pouring rather than as usual falling gently.
That means when snow comes, the city is generally unprepared. I had the interesting fortune to be house-sitting a few years back when a massive snow dump turned the city into an amusement part; I couldn't move my car for well over a week (10 days, I think) because -- goes the story -- the city has only 2 plows, and one of the horses was arthritic ;) Much political trouble erupted from the bewildered, ineffective response. I borrowed better shoes than I had worn over, trudged back to my own house for supplies, saw some interesting driving, including watching a bus fail to get up a medium-steep hill ...
(btw, to be clear, *some* of the city was cleared much sooner, but small streets were very low on the priority list, and the weather stayed cold long enough, with intermittent warming to get the ice flowing each day, that there was snow around parts of the city for a long time.)
timothy
Well, y'know, the workmen in charge of the long-planned demolition of the Old Bailey added a surprise of their own ...
timothy
That's excellent -- I'll be in touch soon about setting that up :)
Cheers,
timothy
Bruce --
Would you be willing to take part in a Slashdot interview sometime soon? :)
timothy
Oh, I just think it would be a fun, creepy effect ... could be worked into a "funeral in progress" setpiece / scene, where the funeral director or minister repeatedly lays a bible on top of the coffin of the not-very-dear departed, who was so evil that the Bible doesn't even want to touch his coffin, refuses to stay in place. Nothing profound, really.
timothy
Actually, it's like this: most interview guests respond in the way that's conventional on Slashdot -- by adding their responses to each question directly in line with and separate from the others.
Shatner specifically chose not to; I edited a few typos (letter transpositions, that sort of thing), but as I mentioned in the introduction, let his style of response stand. I wish he'd chosen the other way, really, but I enjoyed his blast-of-Shatner stye, too.
timothy
Noticing the ... er, "interaction" you describe. How did you reconfigure your browsers to stop it? I'm poring through the prefs and not seeing a "Use custom settings" option or something.
I was hopeful that "Default search options" was the answer, and that I could just change ... but when I try that, it just reverts.
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=002683415331144861350%3Atsq8didf9x0&q=%25s&ie={inputEncoding}&sa=Search
to "http://www.google.com"
(Yep, I'm a lazy perpetual newbie with a bad memory.)
timothy
That's good to know, esp. if I go back to Ubuntu for a (likely) netbook purchase in the near future. Thanks. I wish they'd keep that as an included default, though ...
timothy
Partly, it's that this coincided with a general distro exploration sparked by the circumstance of a failed laptop, and my preference for good (IMO good, that is) default settings, so I can if needed use a live CD on a borrowed machine without unlearning my accustomed ways to work, and because then I have something I'm happier recommending to friends. I made a bunch of live CDs, incl. Mint, the two most recent Ubuntu releases, and the newest Fedora beta, and several more obscure ones as well. (I bought my laptop from a small local shop with a tiny stock and a terrible website (http://thecomputershop.net/) -- but it was the only place nearby that would let me actually use the live distros to test out the hardware, and they happened to have a model of ThinkPad that I really like.)
Since I was putting on a whole new OS anyhow, though it was a "switch," it was actually no more of a time investment than would have been sticking with Ubuntu on the replacement laptop. If I were replacing the old one (a netbook, actually -- a 3-year-old Asus Eee) with another netbook, I might be more tempted to get more used to Unity. (I like the Gnome 2 interface better than Gnome 3, so I had pretty much the same reaction to the defaults in the new Fedora.)
Since I'm likely to get a netbook again soon (this ThinkPad is more of a low-end desktop replacement with a short battery life, and heavier than I'd prefer for airplane travel), I might with that one try to get used to [Unity / Gnome 3] for the good reason that they try to well use the limited vertical space.
The Mint Debian is nice for being a rolling release, too -- at least, nothing's bitten me in the few days I've had it on here.
timothy
Not trying to smear, and it seems like a pretty clear denial to me as well.
There are two things in the answer that I'd like to see (preferrably) non Blue Coat employees address, though:
1) "The allegation that an organization penetrated one of our appliances through a security hole is flatly not true. There are no known vulnerabilities of our appliance that would allow such an action" Is that the case? I don't know enough about it, but I'm sure there are people who do.
2) "it appears that these logs came from an appliance in a country where there are no trade restrictions" -- I'd like to know what about the logs conveys that information. Not proposing anything conspiratorial, but curious.
timothy
I hope you ask this in today's (upcoming) interview with Deville -- interesting point.
timothy
Ask that in today's interview :) (upcoming)
And I'm glad you liked it -- it's instantly one of my favorites, too.
timothy
OK: I get that this is a "media consumption device" as a general thing: Amazon wants you to buy stuff from them, with this as the end-point. That's fine, and causes me no moral misgivings.
HOWEVER: I would like to buy one, if it had more options to actually extend it later. I believe there are now chipsets with GPS, bluetooth, and Wi-Fi on one additional chip, and even a cheap camera would be enough for a lot of the coolest apps that a tablet of this size / power would be perfect for. Sort of like the Nook Color -- if it had a few extra bits, I'd happily pay for it, even if only to reflash.
timothy
This comment made my morning -- thanks. And anonymous, even!
Now: what's the best source for seeing people's parody shots, with animals randomly inserted into other scenes? ;)
timothy
Actually, I agree with you. Decreasing order of units, with all slots filled (2011-09-11, with or without dashes or slashes in there) makes the most sense, and (dadblastit!) sorts properly, when it starts off a file name, say.
However, this is an exception. Americans (perhaps the rest of the world? I think so, I'm sure I've heard it a few times abroad) have boiled that day's name down to "nine-eleven," so that is (approximately) how I wrote it. Believe me, I wish that the American convention was either big endian or little endian.
In casual speech, it makes much less difference whether it's middle endian, though, if the month name is being spoken / written -- I rather like "18 December, 1974" or "18th December, 1974," myself, but if you swap the month and day number, there's still no ambiguity.
Best,
timothy
Yes; not taking Haz's Astro is one of my course-selection regrets (which are all of omission, rather than commission); everyone liked him. I think Jamie (former Slashcoder) had him there as well, and my friend Dug among hundreds of others did, too. One day, as in "when I have kids, at least," I will get a telescope and do some desert camping to use it ;)
Bob Zei was dark-haired, probably mid or late '30s, if that helps at all. One day I will find / scan / post a few photos from that class.
timothy
What year? I took logic w/ Scott Schreiber in 1990, and there was a Jeremy in my class ...
timothy
Who was your Geology instructor? I had Bob Zei, in 1991. Great class, well taught -- south-central PA has a lot of offer for Geology.
timothy