Whoa, they turned Painkiller Jane into a series? I watched the made-for-SciFi movie and it wasn't too bad, but I never knew they picked it up for a show.
A key mistake in your assumptions was brought up when the Netscape fiasco was news, and I will bring it up again...
"http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.d td" is a URI. It uniquely identifies a file. It *HAPPENS* to also be the URL for that same file, for now, but that is just a fortunate intentional coincidence. Your software should not rely on or require the file to be located at that URL./var/dtd/rss-0.91.dtd is a perfectly valid location for the file identified by the URI "[whatever]/rss-0.91.dtd". What we need is for XML-using-software authors to support and embrace local DTD caches, AND package DTDs along with their applications (with the possibility of updating them from the web if neccessary).
It is silly that millions of RSS readers fetch a non-changing file from the same web site every day. It is only very slightly less silly that they fetch it from the web at all.
My GP2X can put out 720x480, that's plenty of resolution for me to watch on a big screen. There are plenty of portable devices that put out HD as well, that's why Mini-DVI was invented.
The new feedback system that just went into testing should help eliminate this. The problem is that the transaction is NOT finished when you pay. You could still dispute the credit card charge, or return the package, or file a complaint with the USPS, or any of a hundred other things. The new system *IS* more discrete and categorized, which hopefully means they will let us leave feedback in stages.
Also, I am in favor of not showing either party the feedback that the other user left until they have both left it. That would almost completely eliminate retaliatory feedback.
PS: I am a seller, and I actually do leave positive feedback as soon as the (proper) payment arrives.
2. Get a dedicated phone line for office work with a vmail that has a professional greeting. No "Hi, Jim and Linda are unable to answer the phone right now..." Why on earth would you have your own line and vmail at home? You don't have your office number forwarded to your computer at home?
If you're curious, here are the settings I use, I find they make for a much more enjoyable slashdot experience. I marked the ones I remember changing with asterisks, but I might be wrong. Also, with my heavy friend/etc scoring it helps to have a larger friend network.
Too many posts hit +4 *for you*. Some of us have slash configured to make Funny -3 instead of +1. Really helps with avoiding clutter when browsing at +3.
I disagree on your assessment of their web design. "What We Do" is a 3-page section. The first page explains the problem they solve, the second page explains how the problem can be solved and how they are working to solve it, and the third page elaborates on the success they have had. The second page, which seems to be the one you want, is available on the dropdown menu as "Our Theory of Change" under "What We Do" from the front page of the site, as well as links on both the left AND right sides of the first "What We Do" page, one of which DESCRIBES the page it links to.
I don't know if there's a proper term for what I do, but anyone can do it. Buy things, and sell them. Buy low, sell high. Auctions, flea markets, classified ads, and plenty of other venues are available for both ends of the process. Corporate and government surplus and liquidation are also great sources. Lately there has been a rash of 'work from home' scams describing just buying and selling on ebay, but that is minimally lucrative. The best results are had moving from global/national markets like ebay to local markets like classifieds and flea markets, and vice versa. You can make as much as you're willing to invest the time to deal with, with some caveats regarding initial capital. I have had to pass up on some great deals recently because I didn't have $10000+ available on short enough notice. In my experience, you are best off to stick to things you're already familiar with. Don't buy jewelry if you aren't intimately familiar with different types and their market values. I do most of my best work in tech items like computers and cameras and their accessories and parts, the sorts of things I can just look at and instantly know the auction and direct sale values for.
I don't mind "sharing my secret" like this because even though anyone CAN do it, most people don't have the organizational skills or the patience. Also, you have to be prepared for dry spells. I have turned over $2000 in profit for a few hours work before. Normal weeks I end up spending 10-15 hours shopping, selling, and shipping and can make maybe $1000. And some bad weeks I can't move anything at all.
You describe teaching for government institutions. Sadly you are mostly correct, with that consideration. But you neglect the possibility of teaching for a private school or a trade school, where experience and qualifications are what matters.
You act like this is an uber-hacker solution. 15 years ago there were consumer level VCRs with IR dongles to change cable channels, back when every cable company was scrambling standard cable TV. An idea out of style because the problem went away doesn't make it inappropriate as a solution to the same old problem.
My HD cable box does 1080i and 720p over component cables. No encryption there. Ditto over the DVI out. I won't ever buy or rent HDCP equipment, so I am safe from your hypothetical HDMI-only scenario.
Unreal Tournament 2004 has a mode called Onslaught, with 'nodes' across the map that can be captured. Owning a node means your team can spawn there when it isn't under attack, and your team gets first dibs on vehicles that spawn there. The interesting difference between ONS and other position-capturing modes in other games is that nodes form a network in UT, and you can only capture nodes 'connected' to the ones you already control. Most maps offer a variety of different pre-set network configurations, each completely changing the strategic dynamics of the map. But, more on topic here, the game supported randomized networks. Unfortunately the heuristics to pick the random network were pretty dumb, so you ended up with plenty of "playable" networks that were completely unfair.
You use the video-out from the cable box to let the DVR/PC "watch" TV and record. Most cable boxes can be controlled via serial or usb or firewire. If that ability is removed, there's always the old fashioned way (attach an IR transmitter to the front of the cable box, control it via "remote").
GW is a MMO-3dchatroom, and a (non-M)MORPG. That is an important distinction. You can walk past a hundred people in town, and talk to thousands, but when it comes down to actually playing the (C)RPG part of the game, its strictly a 6(?)-person game. GW is just as much a MMOG as Diablo was, the only difference is that Diablo had a text chat lobby and GW has a 3d avatar-driven chat lobby.
There are still Radio Shack stores with good suppliest of chips, components, cabling, boards, chemicals, etc. But they are rare. RS corporate is slowly killing them all. Here in Nashville, *ONE* store out of about 12 in the county is a 'parts store'. Ask the counter-folk at your local 'retail store' RS where the nearest 'parts store' is, you might be pleasantly surprised. Then again, you might not:(
Many people bought them 2-3 years ago and they failed after a year, but then Apple refused to cover the failure under the warranty. So they still have the iBooks sitting around on bookshelves, waiting to be ressurected.
Can anyone identify where on the logic board the photographed chip/connection is located? Also, can anyone confirm that the connection shown at the center of the photo showing the chip, which would be the bottom right most connection on the chip from that perspective, is the one in need of repair? This doesnt seem completely evident from the zoomed in photos of the joint/trace. My roommates have a number of iBooks that have suffered what is likely this fault, and I would love to get them working again.
I have had to butt heads with YUI on more than one occasion while working on Gallery2 (a php photo gallery system). It is evil in the worst ways. Often I will give up after chasing functionality through a dozen function calls and still be nowhere near the code that I need to find to decipher the undesirable behavior in question. I admit, opening a popup element with open_popup(x,y,source) might be a bit too much to ask, but when I get literally *TWELVE* levels deep in the function call list and still haven't found a single bit of code that actually DOES anything to the page, there is something wrong.
Blood Toll tried this. A neat idea. They use the Cube game engine with a java 'lobby' that doubles as an anti-cheat tool. Been in early testing stages for a while, doubt it will come to fruition with the current engine but it has potential as an idea.
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Whoa, they turned Painkiller Jane into a series? I watched the made-for-SciFi movie and it wasn't too bad, but I never knew they picked it up for a show.
Is it sad that I knew you were linking to the black keyboard without clicking on the link?
A key mistake in your assumptions was brought up when the Netscape fiasco was news, and I will bring it up again...
d td" is a URI. It uniquely identifies a file. It *HAPPENS* to also be the URL for that same file, for now, but that is just a fortunate intentional coincidence. Your software should not rely on or require the file to be located at that URL. /var/dtd/rss-0.91.dtd is a perfectly valid location for the file identified by the URI "[whatever]/rss-0.91.dtd". What we need is for XML-using-software authors to support and embrace local DTD caches, AND package DTDs along with their applications (with the possibility of updating them from the web if neccessary).
"http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.
It is silly that millions of RSS readers fetch a non-changing file from the same web site every day. It is only very slightly less silly that they fetch it from the web at all.
My GP2X can put out 720x480, that's plenty of resolution for me to watch on a big screen. There are plenty of portable devices that put out HD as well, that's why Mini-DVI was invented.
The new feedback system that just went into testing should help eliminate this. The problem is that the transaction is NOT finished when you pay. You could still dispute the credit card charge, or return the package, or file a complaint with the USPS, or any of a hundred other things. The new system *IS* more discrete and categorized, which hopefully means they will let us leave feedback in stages.
Also, I am in favor of not showing either party the feedback that the other user left until they have both left it. That would almost completely eliminate retaliatory feedback.
PS: I am a seller, and I actually do leave positive feedback as soon as the (proper) payment arrives.
Yeah, IF he was, which he isn't. Hooray for RingTFA.
If you're curious, here are the settings I use, I find they make for a much more enjoyable slashdot experience. I marked the ones I remember changing with asterisks, but I might be wrong. Also, with my heavy friend/etc scoring it helps to have a larger friend network.
+1 Insightful
+1 Interesting
-3 Funny*
+1 Informative
-1 Offtopic
0 Flamebait*
-1 Troll
-1 Redundant
+3 Friend*
+1 Fan*
-3 Foe*
-1 Freak*
+1 Friends of Friends*
-1 Foes of Friends*
0 Anonymous
+2 Karma*
0 Subscriber
-1 1% New Users
And I browse with a threshold of 3*.
Too many posts hit +4 *for you*. Some of us have slash configured to make Funny -3 instead of +1. Really helps with avoiding clutter when browsing at +3.
The second page, which seems to be the one you want, is available on the dropdown menu as "Our Theory of Change" under "What We Do" from the front page of the site, as well as links on both the left AND right sides of the first "What We Do" page, one of which DESCRIBES the page it links to.
Top menu, front page: What We Do
--(rollover menu)--> Our theory of change Left side, What We Do page: Our theory of change Right side, What We Do page: In this section
Our theory of change
Read our perspective on the underlying causes of the achievement gap and how we are working to address them >> Oh, and it's also on the Site Map, of course. I admit, this isn't the absolute best web design I have seen, but it isn't nearly as bad as you have made it out to be.
I don't know if there's a proper term for what I do, but anyone can do it. Buy things, and sell them. Buy low, sell high. Auctions, flea markets, classified ads, and plenty of other venues are available for both ends of the process. Corporate and government surplus and liquidation are also great sources. Lately there has been a rash of 'work from home' scams describing just buying and selling on ebay, but that is minimally lucrative. The best results are had moving from global/national markets like ebay to local markets like classifieds and flea markets, and vice versa. You can make as much as you're willing to invest the time to deal with, with some caveats regarding initial capital. I have had to pass up on some great deals recently because I didn't have $10000+ available on short enough notice. In my experience, you are best off to stick to things you're already familiar with. Don't buy jewelry if you aren't intimately familiar with different types and their market values. I do most of my best work in tech items like computers and cameras and their accessories and parts, the sorts of things I can just look at and instantly know the auction and direct sale values for.
I don't mind "sharing my secret" like this because even though anyone CAN do it, most people don't have the organizational skills or the patience. Also, you have to be prepared for dry spells. I have turned over $2000 in profit for a few hours work before. Normal weeks I end up spending 10-15 hours shopping, selling, and shipping and can make maybe $1000. And some bad weeks I can't move anything at all.
You describe teaching for government institutions. Sadly you are mostly correct, with that consideration. But you neglect the possibility of teaching for a private school or a trade school, where experience and qualifications are what matters.
http://www.videoguys.com/vidcap.htm
Two external component capture solutions under $200. That's a bit more pricey than I would like, but plenty reasonable as part of a $400 DVR machine.
You act like this is an uber-hacker solution. 15 years ago there were consumer level VCRs with IR dongles to change cable channels, back when every cable company was scrambling standard cable TV. An idea out of style because the problem went away doesn't make it inappropriate as a solution to the same old problem.
My HD cable box does 1080i and 720p over component cables. No encryption there. Ditto over the DVI out. I won't ever buy or rent HDCP equipment, so I am safe from your hypothetical HDMI-only scenario.
Unreal Tournament 2004 has a mode called Onslaught, with 'nodes' across the map that can be captured. Owning a node means your team can spawn there when it isn't under attack, and your team gets first dibs on vehicles that spawn there. The interesting difference between ONS and other position-capturing modes in other games is that nodes form a network in UT, and you can only capture nodes 'connected' to the ones you already control. Most maps offer a variety of different pre-set network configurations, each completely changing the strategic dynamics of the map. But, more on topic here, the game supported randomized networks. Unfortunately the heuristics to pick the random network were pretty dumb, so you ended up with plenty of "playable" networks that were completely unfair.
You use the video-out from the cable box to let the DVR/PC "watch" TV and record. Most cable boxes can be controlled via serial or usb or firewire. If that ability is removed, there's always the old fashioned way (attach an IR transmitter to the front of the cable box, control it via "remote").
Everyone knows that prepositions are not good words to end sentences with.
GW is a MMO-3dchatroom, and a (non-M)MORPG. That is an important distinction. You can walk past a hundred people in town, and talk to thousands, but when it comes down to actually playing the (C)RPG part of the game, its strictly a 6(?)-person game. GW is just as much a MMOG as Diablo was, the only difference is that Diablo had a text chat lobby and GW has a 3d avatar-driven chat lobby.
There are still Radio Shack stores with good suppliest of chips, components, cabling, boards, chemicals, etc. But they are rare. RS corporate is slowly killing them all. Here in Nashville, *ONE* store out of about 12 in the county is a 'parts store'. Ask the counter-folk at your local 'retail store' RS where the nearest 'parts store' is, you might be pleasantly surprised. Then again, you might not :(
Many people bought them 2-3 years ago and they failed after a year, but then Apple refused to cover the failure under the warranty. So they still have the iBooks sitting around on bookshelves, waiting to be ressurected.
Can anyone identify where on the logic board the photographed chip/connection is located? Also, can anyone confirm that the connection shown at the center of the photo showing the chip, which would be the bottom right most connection on the chip from that perspective, is the one in need of repair? This doesnt seem completely evident from the zoomed in photos of the joint/trace. My roommates have a number of iBooks that have suffered what is likely this fault, and I would love to get them working again.
Yeah, not like Opera is the most used browser on the planet or anything. Your desktop-centric thinking is rapidly becoming obsolete.
I have had to butt heads with YUI on more than one occasion while working on Gallery2 (a php photo gallery system). It is evil in the worst ways. Often I will give up after chasing functionality through a dozen function calls and still be nowhere near the code that I need to find to decipher the undesirable behavior in question. I admit, opening a popup element with open_popup(x,y,source) might be a bit too much to ask, but when I get literally *TWELVE* levels deep in the function call list and still haven't found a single bit of code that actually DOES anything to the page, there is something wrong.
Blood Toll tried this. A neat idea. They use the Cube game engine with a java 'lobby' that doubles as an anti-cheat tool. Been in early testing stages for a while, doubt it will come to fruition with the current engine but it has potential as an idea.