Take a look at http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/headline.html and view the page source. A few HTML comment lines fetch the rss source and then insert the links, titles, descriptions, etc any way you like. The down-side is that it's not automatic-- the html is static and must be generated by the headline script, which requires perl. The upshot is you can crontab that, and you don't need CGI capabilities on the web server.
We've also got screen-scraping capabilities for a few sites that don't have their own rss feeds, or at least didn't when we wrote it. </SHAMELESS PLUG>
By far the most interesting and enlightening book I've read about consciousness, the brain, and whether computers can be conscious is Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach.
I think Bruce's comment is funny: Oops, that was a faux pas, never fear boys, I'll set them straight-- and then he does! It's like Bruce is this little angel sitting on the suit's shoulders reminding them to play nice or the linux zealots will skin them alive.
What's most interesting is that Bruce calls it a faux pas. Is that because the linux user base would be offended? Surely he's not protecting Linus' or Alan's fragile egos. Is it written somewhere in the OpenSource definition that thou shalt not make disparaging comments about the product?
Well, Karl Marx defined religion as the opiate of the masses, which Noam Chomsky subsequently revised to sports, iirc. Add to that television, music, movies, D&D, nethack, etc, etc. If we spent as much time and resources solving the real problems in the world as we do on entertainment, I think the world would be a much nicer, happier, even entertaining place to live in.
You can go on about living in glass houses, and certainly I hold myself as much responsible for ignoring the world's real problems as the next guy, but at the end of the day, very little of what we discuss on slashdot matters a whole lot.
I do agree that a big part of these games is the community that forms around them, and that's why I think the community should recognize its own inherent value and disown the vendor that created it, which is clearly only out to make a buck. (Or perhaps they're protecting their own community of independent retailers, who of course were the first guys to play such games and everyone else is just a wannabe).
I guess if we all got a life, we wouldn't read slashdot.:-)
oops, did I just say that out loud? There goes my karma.
but seriously, think about how much time and money you've put in to that exercise which might have been better spent, I dunno, feeding the poor or something. Kind of like my nethack habit.;-)
When the vendor clearly demonstrates that they don't give a rat's ass about the community their customers have developed, that's when it's time for everyone to collectively tell the vendor to piss off. Imagine what kind of effect that would have on the RIAA.
Could that be the cheat? I assumed there's someone in the car-- the camera angle just perfectly masks the driver's seat, and any silhouette could be photoshopped out.
I agree, with one small correction. SARS quarantines extend to anyone who's had contact with a potential SARS case, not just confirmed carriers. In Canada, that has included anyone who set foot in Hospitals X,Y or Z in some time period. That translates to thousands of potential, but low-probability, carriers under quarantine. It's these people, who probably aren't infected, that end up being assholes and violating the quarantine. They don't realize that the non-zero probability can lead to thousands more infected if it turns out by some fluke that they have it.
And you don't think that people exposed to SARS in the US are being quarantined? You don't think US public health officials would seek legal action against someone who knowingly violated their quarantine. Damm right they would, and they should. This isn't a question of civil liberties, this is a question of public health.
While you were busy watching GulfWar II on CNN, SARS was spreading around the globe. The fact that it hasn't spread into the general population in the states is because of the CDC's containment strategy, which is to quarantine everyone who comes into contact with it. Next to the war, though, it's not very exciting news..
Yes, it is that bad. Malaria isn't contagious. If SARS isn't contained, then a lot more than a million people could die. Consider what could happen if SARS spread to Africa, where a significant percentage of the population is infected with an immune-suppressing virus (HIV).
If SARS was spreading in the states as fast as it's spreading in SE Asia, then you can bet you'd see mandatory quarantines imposed, and if people violated it, to hell with the constitution, they'd be locked up for the duration (or longer).
There's a good reason for this too. If your mere presense in a room full of people represented a threat to their lives, I think they'd want you out of the room pretty fast.
I do agree that web-cams are a bit extreme, but the bottom line is that people can be total assholes when they're inconvenienced for a few days, and if they're going to flaunt the law (particularly one that is just and designed to prevent unneccessary deaths), they should expect to forfeit at least some of their rights.
.. it's important at MS to maintain the myth that the full-timers are the best in the business. I mean, after all, they read Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein *cover to cover* the night before their job interview and they regurgitated quicksort with the precision of a patriot missile. The temps at MS are clearly of a lesser, inferior breed and they should be treated as such..
I think there are two kinds of temps. The first, the specialist, is responsible for making the perms look stupid and lazy, whereas the second, the indentured slave, is responsible for working like a dog to deliver the product and routinely grovel before his overlords...
I think the width bug is the easiest to emulate. (iirc, it's only IE 5 that has this problem, they fixed it in 6). It's quite simple to adjust your width computation based on the spec or based on IE's broken idea of what it means..
Yes, well I'm still waiting for an IE release on my os of choice..;-) If I want to test something on IE I have to reboot. Even harder when the page I want to look at is hosted by the box I have to reboot.
Certainly not bug-for-bug, but perhaps at least the major layout bugs that affect flow, div widths, etc. (and maybe some of the JS bugs, but I think that's less of an issue).
I think the nice thing about the standard is that document flow is pretty linear, so at each element moz can simply ask "What goofiness would IE do here?" Obviously IE was designed with the spec in mind and the spec practically defines the algorithm that you need to use for layout. But, as they say, the devil is in the details.
Well, if you put enough monkeys at enough typewriters..;-)
I haven't looked at the rendering engine code since the early gecko days, but you can bet that there are a lot of quirks in there to get pages on major sites that were designed for IE to render as the designers intended. Gecko may be standards compliant, but for ages the Debug menu had a long list of major sites that were important to render correctly.
While I agree with you that it's probably not as easy as I suggested, I do think that the moz developers have a good sense of the major IE non-compliances and how they can be reproduced.
Fair enough, but the reality for most web designers is that IE represents ~96% of their audience. From a debugging point of view, I *need* to open a page in IE, just to check that it lays out properly. Wouldn't it be nice if Mozilla obviated that need? I don't think it should be a default setting, but something the user can switch on when needed.
Don't laugh, I'm serious. It would be nice to see that how page I'm working on renders in IE without switching OS and browsers. Most of the layout bugs and standards-defiance in IE are well documented and it shouldn't be too hard for Moz to behave like IE if the user so desired.
I know, I know, I should post these requests on bugzilla..
Slashdot Mirror
I thought it was my aggregator too, but it turns out that it was Evolution, which was fetching every 10 minutes, even though I never read the summary.
/. readers refresh index.html, which is a larger file, several times an hour.
I think 30 minutes is a bit harsh, given the fact that many
Take a look at http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/headline.html and view the page source. A few HTML comment lines fetch the rss source and then insert the links, titles, descriptions, etc any way you like. The down-side is that it's not automatic-- the html is static and must be generated by the headline script, which requires perl. The upshot is you can crontab that, and you don't need CGI capabilities on the web server.
We've also got screen-scraping capabilities for a few sites that don't have their own rss feeds, or at least didn't when we wrote it.
</SHAMELESS PLUG>
No one can say how Allende would have led the country in the long run. We do know for a fact were Pinochet took it though.
;-)
No one can say where Gore would have led the country in the long run. We do know for a fact were (sic) Bush took it though.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
By far the most interesting and enlightening book I've read about consciousness, the brain, and whether computers can be conscious is Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach.
Me == shakes head.
I think Bruce's comment is funny: Oops, that was a faux pas, never fear boys, I'll set them straight-- and then he does! It's like Bruce is this little angel sitting on the suit's shoulders reminding them to play nice or the linux zealots will skin them alive.
What's most interesting is that Bruce calls it a faux pas. Is that because the linux user base would be offended? Surely he's not protecting Linus' or Alan's fragile egos. Is it written somewhere in the OpenSource definition that thou shalt not make disparaging comments about the product?
Well, Karl Marx defined religion as the opiate of the masses, which Noam Chomsky subsequently revised to sports, iirc. Add to that television, music, movies, D&D, nethack, etc, etc. If we spent as much time and resources solving the real problems in the world as we do on entertainment, I think the world would be a much nicer, happier, even entertaining place to live in.
:-)
You can go on about living in glass houses, and certainly I hold myself as much responsible for ignoring the world's real problems as the next guy, but at the end of the day, very little of what we discuss on slashdot matters a whole lot.
I do agree that a big part of these games is the community that forms around them, and that's why I think the community should recognize its own inherent value and disown the vendor that created it, which is clearly only out to make a buck. (Or perhaps they're protecting their own community of independent retailers, who of course were the first guys to play such games and everyone else is just a wannabe).
I guess if we all got a life, we wouldn't read slashdot.
quit gaming and get a life..
;-)
oops, did I just say that out loud?
There goes my karma.
but seriously, think about how much time and money you've put in to that exercise which might have been better spent, I dunno, feeding the poor or something. Kind of like my nethack habit.
When the vendor clearly demonstrates that they don't give a rat's ass about the community their customers have developed, that's when it's time for everyone to collectively tell the vendor to piss off. Imagine what kind of effect that would have on the RIAA.
Could that be the cheat? I assumed there's someone in the car-- the camera angle just perfectly masks the driver's seat, and any silhouette could be photoshopped out.
I'm canadian, which explains why I'd never heard of either of them. ;-)
I guess we have to take the bad w/ the good..
I agree, with one small correction. SARS quarantines extend to anyone who's had contact with a potential SARS case, not just confirmed carriers. In Canada, that has included anyone who set foot in Hospitals X,Y or Z in some time period. That translates to thousands of potential, but low-probability, carriers under quarantine. It's these people, who probably aren't infected, that end up being assholes and violating the quarantine. They don't realize that the non-zero probability can lead to thousands more infected if it turns out by some fluke that they have it.
IANAE (I am not an epidemiologist) but iirc, antibiotics treat bacterial infection, not viral infections.
And you don't think that people exposed to SARS in the US are being quarantined? You don't think US public health officials would seek legal action against someone who knowingly violated their quarantine. Damm right they would, and they should. This isn't a question of civil liberties, this is a question of public health.
While you were busy watching GulfWar II on CNN, SARS was spreading around the globe. The fact that it hasn't spread into the general population in the states is because of the CDC's containment strategy, which is to quarantine everyone who comes into contact with it. Next to the war, though, it's not very exciting news..
Yes, it is that bad. Malaria isn't contagious. If SARS isn't contained, then a lot more than a million people could die. Consider what could happen if SARS spread to Africa, where a significant percentage of the population is infected with an immune-suppressing virus (HIV).
If SARS was spreading in the states as fast as it's spreading in SE Asia, then you can bet you'd see mandatory quarantines imposed, and if people violated it, to hell with the constitution, they'd be locked up for the duration (or longer).
There's a good reason for this too. If your mere presense in a room full of people represented a threat to their lives, I think they'd want you out of the room pretty fast.
I do agree that web-cams are a bit extreme, but the bottom line is that people can be total assholes when they're inconvenienced for a few days, and if they're going to flaunt the law (particularly one that is just and designed to prevent unneccessary deaths), they should expect to forfeit at least some of their rights.
In ten years you'll thank your parents. Trust me.
.. it's important at MS to maintain the myth that the full-timers are the best in the business. I mean, after all, they read Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein *cover to cover* the night before their job interview and they regurgitated quicksort with the precision of a patriot missile. The temps at MS are clearly of a lesser, inferior breed and they should be treated as such..
I think there are two kinds of temps. The first, the specialist, is responsible for making the perms look stupid and lazy, whereas the second, the indentured slave, is responsible for working like a dog to deliver the product and routinely grovel before his overlords...
:-)
Somebody throw me a bone here..
We just retired our old LJ 4Si two weeks ago. It was in our lab from the first day I set foot in there in '95. That's longetivity.
I think the width bug is the easiest to emulate. (iirc, it's only IE 5 that has this problem, they fixed it in 6). It's quite simple to adjust your width computation based on the spec or based on IE's broken idea of what it means..
Yes, well I'm still waiting for an IE release on my os of choice.. ;-) If I want to test something on IE I have to reboot. Even harder when the page I want to look at is hosted by the box I have to reboot.
Certainly not bug-for-bug, but perhaps at least the major layout bugs that affect flow, div widths, etc. (and maybe some of the JS bugs, but I think that's less of an issue).
I think the nice thing about the standard is that document flow is pretty linear, so at each element moz can simply ask "What goofiness would IE do here?" Obviously IE was designed with the spec in mind and the spec practically defines the algorithm that you need to use for layout. But, as they say, the devil is in the details.
Well, if you put enough monkeys at enough typewriters.. ;-)
I haven't looked at the rendering engine code since the early gecko days, but you can bet that there are a lot of quirks in there to get pages on major sites that were designed for IE to render as the designers intended. Gecko may be standards compliant, but for ages the Debug menu had a long list of major sites that were important to render correctly.
While I agree with you that it's probably not as easy as I suggested, I do think that the moz developers have a good sense of the major IE non-compliances and how they can be reproduced.
Fair enough, but the reality for most web designers is that IE represents ~96% of their audience. From a debugging point of view, I *need* to open a page in IE, just to check that it lays out properly. Wouldn't it be nice if Mozilla obviated that need? I don't think it should be a default setting, but something the user can switch on when needed.
Don't laugh, I'm serious. It would be nice to see that how page I'm working on renders in IE without switching OS and browsers. Most of the layout bugs and standards-defiance in IE are well documented and it shouldn't be too hard for Moz to behave like IE if the user so desired.
I know, I know, I should post these requests on bugzilla..