This is something that Xerox researched several years ago. If you're really interested in gestural/marking menus, you may find their paper Contextual Animation of Gestural Commands interesting. I used this as inspiration to build my own DHTML Marking Menu a couple years back (has been updated, should work in Mozilla). Feel free to copy the code if you get a wild hair and want to put one of these things on your own web site.
I receive emails from Bluefly at the rate of about one a month. I signed up to receive these messages. I am glad to see them, because often they announce a sale before it's available to the general public. I buy a lot of my clothes at Bluefly, and I can tell you that the good items in normal sizes sell out pretty quickly. It's nice to know when new items come in, and I count on their emails to tell me that.
What I'm trying to say is, these are not the bad guys. They only send email to people who specifically request it. The point of this article is that legitimate email marketing (opt-in, don't sell their list) is getting drowned out by spam.
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Hollings is going to be around for at least a few more years, but we do get to pick a new senator to replace Strom this year. The senate race here in SC isn't getting as much press as the race for governor, but I think it's just as if not more important. So who among our senate candidates is more "tech-friendly", more interested in protecting the public interest, less interested in introducing new legislation for the sake of placating lobbyists?
I have TimeWarner digital cable, and it's the same problem. I don't know whether they allocate bandwidth based on a channel's popularity, but the big networks (NBC, ABC, etc.) all come across fine, the Sci-Fi channel and specialized movie channels are just a little blocky (especially in any scene with fog, smoke, or sand), and digital-only channels (i.e. can only receive them if you subscribe to digital cable) such as Style and BBC America frequently go all blocky or crap out altogether.
I called TWC last night about BBC America breaking up and all the customer service rep would say was "That's a network problem."
There's a story about the meeting on C|Net. Apparently, Stallman et. al. went to the meeting and made a lot of noise until the panelists agreed to let them speak. I don't know that they made the best impression they could have, but they seem to have gotten their point across: "A Commerce Department spokeswoman said that she could not recall such public outcry during a government roundtable."
I know that Real video is terrible quality, and their pop-up ads are annoying, but I personally am thrilled by this announcement. You see, I am a Survivor junkie, and all the video from the show on the CBS web site is in Real format. Next season, I can watch clips of Bickering Idiots in Paradise without firing up IE for Classic, and that makes me and my Finder happy. Hey, at least it's not Windows Media Player.
How funny! To be fair, they probably didn't build their own site. They probably had someone who specializes in that sort of thing do it for them. I know, I used to work for a consulting company that built sites for Red Hat and ISS (not their current sites, this was a few years ago). Internet consulting co.'s (i.e. web design people) don't always apply the same standards to their own code that their clients do. Personally, I like to make sites I build valid and simple, but not every designer shares those values and some scoff at those who do.
Even where modern business allows disorder, it cannot be individually expressive disorder
How true that is. When the.com I formerly worked for moved into its snazzy new offices, the creative dept. brought its chair collection. Lovingly collected by one of the art directors, these unusual chairs were artistic, interesting, and some were even worth quite a bit. I remember a red velvet one, a white melamine butterfly-shaped one... We thought they went fine with the modern steel, brick, and neon design in the new office.
Unfortunately, someone in management decreed that our cool chairs were not part of the officially sanctioned concept of "hip". A decree was issued: Only company-purchased Aeron chairs may be visible in the office. Our chairs had been sent packing. A year later, so were the employees.
Body for Life, mentioned elsewhere in posts on this article, worked for me. I like it 'cause it works on the premise you shouldn't spend more than an hour in the gym at a time, it's easy for novices to follow, and it works for women. Frankly, much of the advice in your post is exactly what the BFL program advocates.
I love books, and I can't bear to see them destroyed or thrown away. However, on 2 occasions I purposely threw away books because they were so awful It would have pained my conscience to leave them around for others to read. (In case you're wondering, the books were Kiss the Girls by James Patterson - reads like a post from alt.sex - and Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell - physically painful to read if you know anything about the Internet, I couldn't finish it.)
When I searched for my name, Teoma ranked my personal web site as the 3rd result. Google put my site 52nd on the same search. Clearly, Teoma likes me better.
This article says that tradional radio broadcasters aren't paying these fees because they "successfully argued before lawmakers that they already were promoting the music."
When I listen to CMRadio.net, they tell me the song title, artist's name, and provide links to the artist's web site and places to purchase their CD on a whim, all in realtime. When I listen to traditional radio, the DJ may or may not tell me the name of the song or artist, let alone what album the song is from. And if I'm listening to a "new music" station I may not even be able to buy the CD because it won't be released for another 3 months.
Explain to me again why traditional radio promotes music but internet radio doesn't?
Not so far-fetched, if you read the description of the robot show on the Magna site: "The prey find their food from light sensors within the arena, while the predators feed off prey by stalking and chasing them before sucking away their power." Sounds like a Matrix sort of future to me.
My only question is, what kind of robot is Gaak, predator or prey?
Maybe this story ought to be in the Apple section as well, because the appearance of a decent audio editor for OSX is huge. I have been waiting for someone to develop something that's simple, cheap, and works. So far, I have been recording VO audio clips in iMovie and editing them with QuickTime; or recording music in ProToolsFree, which only runs in Classic and is way more complex than I need. Hooray for Audacity! I'm downloading it tonight.
It makes sense. In their books Generations and The 4th Turning, historians Strauss and Howe say that each generational archetype has its own version of the hero myth, so what speaks to one generation will not speak to the next.
Take the movies "Bugs" and "Antz" as examples. The two movies have some superficial similarities, but "Antz" tells the boomer generation story of lone rebels fighting against an opressive regime, while "Bugs" tells the millennial generation story of a society banding together to fight invading evil. There are good guys and bad guys in both stories, but they are still very different.
What about that venerable geek standby, Buffy the Vampire Slayer? (I know it's been exported to the UK, not sure about Oz.) IMO, Joss Whedon is a master storyteller. He's created a show that has survived 6 seasons, 2 networks, and the death of the main character without losing its fans, and it definitely has an ongoing storyline.
Heh. I'd forgotten about that one. Remember covering the holes on tape cassetes with scotch tape so they could be written over? Hm, I wonder if opaque tape would work as well as a post-it note on these CDs? It might be less likely to come off in high speed drives.
You can find out more detailed information on Hollings on his page at Project Vote-Smart.
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3 of the 6 "ideals" begin with the words "Support the elimination of legislation, or prevention of future legislation." I like the idea of a PAC that's not interested in creating more legislation. It seems more sensible than the knee-jerk reaction "There ought to be a law against xyz!" when xyz upsets you.
I have seen sales goons literally gut a company that once had a bright future.
That happened to me. The sales people at a place I used to work (doesn't exist anymore) stopped selling our most popular product and instead tried to sell stuff we didn't know how to make. Who on earth ever told them that was a good idea?
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This is something that Xerox researched several years ago. If you're really interested in gestural/marking menus, you may find their paper Contextual Animation of Gestural Commands
interesting. I used this as inspiration to build my own DHTML Marking Menu a couple years back (has been updated, should work in Mozilla). Feel free to copy the code if you get a wild hair and want to put one of these things on your own web site.
I receive emails from Bluefly at the rate of about one a month. I signed up to receive these messages. I am glad to see them, because often they announce a sale before it's available to the general public. I buy a lot of my clothes at Bluefly, and I can tell you that the good items in normal sizes sell out pretty quickly. It's nice to know when new items come in, and I count on their emails to tell me that.
What I'm trying to say is, these are not the bad guys. They only send email to people who specifically request it. The point of this article is that legitimate email marketing (opt-in, don't sell their list) is getting drowned out by spam.
Hollings is going to be around for at least a few more years, but we do get to pick a new senator to replace Strom this year. The senate race here in SC isn't getting as much press as the race for governor, but I think it's just as if not more important. So who among our senate candidates is more "tech-friendly", more interested in protecting the public interest, less interested in introducing new legislation for the sake of placating lobbyists?
alt.ascii-art was one of the first newsgroups I ever posted to. A search on Google Groups returns a post showing my first attempt at ascii art!
It appears to be a Mac Classic. I'm not sure whether it's thinking or exploding.
I have TimeWarner digital cable, and it's the same problem. I don't know whether they allocate bandwidth based on a channel's popularity, but the big networks (NBC, ABC, etc.) all come across fine, the Sci-Fi channel and specialized movie channels are just a little blocky (especially in any scene with fog, smoke, or sand), and digital-only channels (i.e. can only receive them if you subscribe to digital cable) such as Style and BBC America frequently go all blocky or crap out altogether.
I called TWC last night about BBC America breaking up and all the customer service rep would say was "That's a network problem."
There's a story about the meeting on C|Net. Apparently, Stallman et. al. went to the meeting and made a lot of noise until the panelists agreed to let them speak. I don't know that they made the best impression they could have, but they seem to have gotten their point across: "A Commerce Department spokeswoman said that she could not recall such public outcry during a government roundtable."
I know that Real video is terrible quality, and their pop-up ads are annoying, but I personally am thrilled by this announcement. You see, I am a Survivor junkie, and all the video from the show on the CBS web site is in Real format. Next season, I can watch clips of Bickering Idiots in Paradise without firing up IE for Classic, and that makes me and my Finder happy. Hey, at least it's not Windows Media Player.
How funny! To be fair, they probably didn't build their own site. They probably had someone who specializes in that sort of thing do it for them. I know, I used to work for a consulting company that built sites for Red Hat and ISS (not their current sites, this was a few years ago). Internet consulting co.'s (i.e. web design people) don't always apply the same standards to their own code that their clients do. Personally, I like to make sites I build valid and simple, but not every designer shares those values and some scoff at those who do.
Even where modern business allows disorder, it cannot be individually expressive disorder
.com I formerly worked for moved into its snazzy new offices, the creative dept. brought its chair collection. Lovingly collected by one of the art directors, these unusual chairs were artistic, interesting, and some were even worth quite a bit. I remember a red velvet one, a white melamine butterfly-shaped one... We thought they went fine with the modern steel, brick, and neon design in the new office.
How true that is. When the
Unfortunately, someone in management decreed that our cool chairs were not part of the officially sanctioned concept of "hip". A decree was issued: Only company-purchased Aeron chairs may be visible in the office. Our chairs had been sent packing. A year later, so were the employees.
What's worked for Slashdotters?
Body for Life, mentioned elsewhere in posts on this article, worked for me. I like it 'cause it works on the premise you shouldn't spend more than an hour in the gym at a time, it's easy for novices to follow, and it works for women. Frankly, much of the advice in your post is exactly what the BFL program advocates.
I love books, and I can't bear to see them destroyed or thrown away. However, on 2 occasions I purposely threw away books because they were so awful It would have pained my conscience to leave them around for others to read. (In case you're wondering, the books were Kiss the Girls by James Patterson - reads like a post from alt.sex - and Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell - physically painful to read if you know anything about the Internet, I couldn't finish it.)
When I searched for my name, Teoma ranked my personal web site as the 3rd result. Google put my site 52nd on the same search. Clearly, Teoma likes me better.
This article says that tradional radio broadcasters aren't paying these fees because they "successfully argued before lawmakers that they already were promoting the music."
When I listen to CMRadio.net, they tell me the song title, artist's name, and provide links to the artist's web site and places to purchase their CD on a whim, all in realtime. When I listen to traditional radio, the DJ may or may not tell me the name of the song or artist, let alone what album the song is from. And if I'm listening to a "new music" station I may not even be able to buy the CD because it won't be released for another 3 months.
Explain to me again why traditional radio promotes music but internet radio doesn't?
Not so far-fetched, if you read the description of the robot show on the Magna site: "The prey find their food from light sensors within the arena, while the predators feed off prey by stalking and chasing them before sucking away their power." Sounds like a Matrix sort of future to me.
My only question is, what kind of robot is Gaak, predator or prey?
Maybe this story ought to be in the Apple section as well, because the appearance of a decent audio editor for OSX is huge. I have been waiting for someone to develop something that's simple, cheap, and works. So far, I have been recording VO audio clips in iMovie and editing them with QuickTime; or recording music in ProToolsFree, which only runs in Classic and is way more complex than I need. Hooray for Audacity! I'm downloading it tonight.
Perhaps part of the reason inkjets seem so popular is that so many computer resellers gave them away for free, bundled with their computers.
It makes sense. In their books Generations and The 4th Turning, historians Strauss and Howe say that each generational archetype has its own version of the hero myth, so what speaks to one generation will not speak to the next.
Take the movies "Bugs" and "Antz" as examples. The two movies have some superficial similarities, but "Antz" tells the boomer generation story of lone rebels fighting against an opressive regime, while "Bugs" tells the millennial generation story of a society banding together to fight invading evil. There are good guys and bad guys in both stories, but they are still very different.
What about that venerable geek standby, Buffy the Vampire Slayer? (I know it's been exported to the UK, not sure about Oz.) IMO, Joss Whedon is a master storyteller. He's created a show that has survived 6 seasons, 2 networks, and the death of the main character without losing its fans, and it definitely has an ongoing storyline.
Heh. I'd forgotten about that one. Remember covering the holes on tape cassetes with scotch tape so they could be written over? Hm, I wonder if opaque tape would work as well as a post-it note on these CDs? It might be less likely to come off in high speed drives.
You can find out more detailed information on Hollings on his page at Project Vote-Smart.
3 of the 6 "ideals" begin with the words "Support the elimination of legislation, or prevention of future legislation." I like the idea of a PAC that's not interested in creating more legislation. It seems more sensible than the knee-jerk reaction "There ought to be a law against xyz!" when xyz upsets you.
how would {RI,MP}AA justify licensing the material to a physical coordinates rather than a paying customer?
Clearly, they need to track the physical coordinates of the customers themselves. Time for everyone to get implants!
"If you are interested in reaching quality demographics using Slashvertisements for your company..."
...then you're S.O.L. Current polls show that 65% of the \. demographics are CowboyNeal.
I have seen sales goons literally gut a company that once had a bright future.
That happened to me. The sales people at a place I used to work (doesn't exist anymore) stopped selling our most popular product and instead tried to sell stuff we didn't know how to make. Who on earth ever told them that was a good idea?
...it surely isn't, as Hollings states, "a lack of content on the Internet."
Mr. Senator, there is more out there than MSN and AOL.