My wife's been a web designer for about a decade and as her home sysadmin maybe I can relay an opinion or two.
My understanding is that you _will_ use Dreamweaver -- but should you care? You want to teach the code and you want them to see how the code looks in the range of browsers so why not emphasize that in the learning environment? My wife has been perfectly happy with bluefish at home but of course that's linux (with Win XP running in a qemu window). I believe Quanta Plus would work and give you content management if that is important. You could even be remembered as the teacher who was hard core and made them code in Notepad2 -- so they'd at least have syntax highlighting. Or maybe consider going the opposite direction from austere and starting from scratch on a full-ranged IDE like Aptana on Eclipse with Dojo if that isn't _way_ outside the range of the course? Picking up Dreamweaver should be a run through the menu options.
My wife is happy with Photoshop 7 -- "integrated" or not. I'm not sure she has anything much newer at work. I've tried promoting the GIMP. I've sneaked GIMPshop onto her laptop. ("But honey! It's laid out like Photoshop!") She won't have a word of it. But, like I say, Photoshop 7 is OK with her.
Flash is another story. Like people say, it is mutating rapidly and the mutations aren't backward compatible. I don't know whether any of the open source.swf projects are any better as learning exercises than Flash 5 and Flash 5 is a problem. Maybe you have to gut through that and scream for Flash CS3 in the future.
Belkin Skype phone? Doesn't have any way to log on so it'd have to be a public hot spot. Sound like an alternative? Or would something like an Asus 3e make more sense?
Remember, not all of us over 40-50 are dead yet and the need to be connected is one of the greatest generational gaps. (We often don't feel it and, so, would be annoyed paying for it.)
Hell, dude. My wife and I have gotten that treatment on the American side coming _back_ from Canada so don't take it personally. But I think we're mainly talking about Canadian customs and my experience has been mostly, "You have a great time in Canada, eh?"
My one year of middle-school bible camp, the big outing was a forced march of several miles to sneak into Canada on a gravel road and buy candy and souvenirs. Probably a few hundred gravel roads where that one came from.
They say all societies are insane in their own way but modern western societies are uniquely insane. Perversely, since they would like to say they promote "ultimate" truth, evangelicals have always been well positioned to understand that what is taught in school, what is seen on TV, what is preached on Sunday, what has museums built to promote it _IS_ TRUE.
I don't think we have intellectuals in North America who have come to grasp this situation we have found ourselves placed into by modern media. People like McLuhan and Chomsky have just been too darn "rational". The French philosophers from Foucault to Baudrillard got it. On a societal level there isn't a "real" anymore to point to. It isn't that media are covering reality over in an opaque virtual layer of goo. The "virtual" and the "real" are intertwined in cause and effect to the point where there is no practical discernment between them.
Equally true in the political sphere. A staged show like Colin Powell waving his pencil around on TV becomes the _cause_ of the "real" effect of a war. That war is simultaneously real and unreal. It's a war "about" Colin Powell waving a pencil around. And sustained by any number of "reasons" each worn out in turn and replaced by a new reason.
Who can say what is real? Perhaps a hundred or two hundred million Americans "saw" Colin Powell wave his pencil around. How many words of what power does it take after that "experience" to convince people that there were no WMDs? After all, people "saw" Colin Powell wave his pencil around. As people say today, "You have your sources and I have mine."
The same with Evangelicals. They want their "Colin Powell moment" where a hundred million people will just "see" that intelligent design is "true". If they work as diligently as the Neocons have for decades to shape the political sphere, they will probably get it. Will liberals and the rational "get it" before they do?
We (the USA) are not at war with anyone right now, and haven't been since WWII.
Maybe not any_one_ but we've got one savagely hot war on the emotion of "terra" that, if it goes really badly for us, could take forever. It would be a joke in any sane society but the casualties have already been high to the constitution in passage of the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act and FISA.
Discover a few years ago apparently got a Neocon evangelical editorial board and every new issue had to have interviews with Newt Gingrich or debates with creationists or articles like "The end of science" or cover headlines like "Why kids love Big Brother". Dropped the subscription and now I refuse to look at an issue on the newsstand. If their editorial board wants to destroy the pop science magazine, and who can say for sure that they don't, they have succeeded wildly with me.
I find Wired's "Blame the Geeks" cover headline equally offensive and _way_ over the line. Anyone with more knowledge, wisdom and culture than Conan the Barbarian knew invading Iraq was MORONIC _before_ it occurred. That isn't 20-20 hindsight, Bucky. That's the truth. And if you can remember waaaay back to 2003 literally _millions_ of people filled the streets of metropolises literally around the world from New York to London to Cape Town to Sydney in horror of the INEVITABLE quagmire (and perhaps yet worse to come) our moronic White House instituted in our name. Deal with it. Wired, don't excuse idiots with power by promoting limp revisionisms like "blame the geeks".
How long before a web site promoting a road-blocking sit-down protest against a land mine factory, or the like, gets everybody prosecuted as domestic terrorists for promoting business-impeding "violence" against a _corporation_?
I have difficulty reconciling an eyewitness account that "most of my classmates died" with the idea that radioactivity is surprisingly benign. The article is like concluding that the people who survived the concentration camps are surprisingly healthy and rather fortunate, in fact, to have participated in an informal experiment in calorie restriction.
We are on a credit card fraud alert short list that sometimes seems like harassment. More than 3-4 internet purchases/day on any given day and it's time to give them a call to remove the holds.
Anyway, my wife buys nicotine gum from a New Zealand pharmacy because it's a 1/3 cheaper, including 4-day express mail from the other side of the earth, than it is at the local Target. Came up as an alert and I had to give Citibank a call. Two days later it arrived wrapped in lime-green "Mr. Yuk" Homeland Security tape. Only time that's happened before or since. (Gosh, and the Citibank phone drone seemed like such a _pleasant_ guy.)
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Somebody brought up a similar concern in Scientific American. A civilization advanced enough to have expanded themselves to multiple star systems would certainly use a highly directed medium like a laser beam instead of a radio wave to maintain communication. Not much chance to be in the beam path.
I think that's the nagging fear of SETI. That we're looking for smoke signals when we should be looking for more advanced media.
He keeps quoting the lowest possible number. If the range is 30-90,000 and 30,000 is not insignificant then a median guess of 60,000 is twice as not insignificant.
Yup, bait and switch article. Content doesn't match the headline.
I can sympathize. I don't know if we are _perfectly_ happy with his and hers 754 boards with Athlon 64FXs and 2 gig but we are _pretty_ happy. Echoing the kid, bigger LCD screen for the MythTV (also a 754 board with two gig) is the priority here and as long as the PCs have the processing power to serve our needs (which is pretty much to say NOT gaming or home video and audio production) I don't see an emphasis on fancier peripherals as "merely" consumerist.
If you've got the ram on the laptop try qemu instead of dual-booting. I've got my wife running PhotoShop 7, Illustrator and Flash 9 on an XP Pro qemu virtualization. Acceptable speed with the kqemu accelerator for office work.
Reminds me of Chaosium's Lovecraftian Miskatonic University memorabilia. I have a good selection of their stuff from the alumni mug, degree kit with "student id", notepad, etc., windows stickers including the parking permits. At a conference a speaker once asked me whether my U actually had a department of astrology when she read my polo shirt logo. Even though they never provided transcripts and the like, the rumor I heard was that Chaosium was informally told that they should tone it down or they could be in trouble for running a diploma mill.
Darn shame. But, like Colbert, you can't really blur reality and fantasy _too_ much or they'll come after you. Makes such things more of a one-off artist's stunt.
It's been shuffled out _way_ too much by the Democrats since the '04 "victory". I'm long past finding the poor, tattled little thing attractive.
Even if it's true and there isn't just one party, the power party, playing games with us, stupidity isn't really that appealing and I'm at a loss for why they think it continues to be a good excuse for us to support them.
Our bus/trolley system in Minneapolis/St Paul has been operating for years on a cash or disposable card system with the cards having unlimited monthly value or a cash value. They have recently completed testing and are pushing a swipe card that isn't disposable and has a unique serial number. You can add value to it online and a couple days later it will appear on the card when you use it. Obviously because the readers are a wifi connection to the system.
So it's all in the quality of the database and cooperation with law enforcement. It could be used for anything from data mining to track people in criminal and civil cases to a real-time estimation of position and direction. Of course, there is still the option to pay cash but many people won't.
I don't know. Efficiency. Seemed like a model for cutting out the middle man and streamlining the government/corporate fascistocracy. Probably their big mistake was actually notifying the media so when they arrived the story wasn't reporters throwing softballs at FEMA, the story was how the news conference went on without their reporters. And it's a concept that would certainly be a win for the media bottom line. They could fire all their reporters and broadcast government and corporate media clips all the time instead of just some of the time.
So a win for government and a win for business. You don't hate America and hate capitalism, do you Citizen?
Also attended a talk last month by our state person in charge of these things. Antivirals are $16/dose and expire and you can't just build a few extra hospitals sitting around for when we need them so there is only so much you can practically do to be prepared. When the auditoriums fill up with cots like they did for the Spanish Flu people will be sent home to sink or swim. Death rate charts from the Big One show that quarantine is what works.
So if the country wants to be prepared: schooling-at-home and work-at-home groupware, online delivery of groceries and the like. How that affects net traffic is a good point.
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My wife's been a web designer for about a decade and as her home sysadmin maybe I can relay an opinion or two.
.swf projects are any better as learning exercises than Flash 5 and Flash 5 is a problem. Maybe you have to gut through that and scream for Flash CS3 in the future.
My understanding is that you _will_ use Dreamweaver -- but should you care? You want to teach the code and you want them to see how the code looks in the range of browsers so why not emphasize that in the learning environment? My wife has been perfectly happy with bluefish at home but of course that's linux (with Win XP running in a qemu window). I believe Quanta Plus would work and give you content management if that is important. You could even be remembered as the teacher who was hard core and made them code in Notepad2 -- so they'd at least have syntax highlighting. Or maybe consider going the opposite direction from austere and starting from scratch on a full-ranged IDE like Aptana on Eclipse with Dojo if that isn't _way_ outside the range of the course? Picking up Dreamweaver should be a run through the menu options.
My wife is happy with Photoshop 7 -- "integrated" or not. I'm not sure she has anything much newer at work. I've tried promoting the GIMP. I've sneaked GIMPshop onto her laptop. ("But honey! It's laid out like Photoshop!") She won't have a word of it. But, like I say, Photoshop 7 is OK with her.
Flash is another story. Like people say, it is mutating rapidly and the mutations aren't backward compatible. I don't know whether any of the open source
Belkin Skype phone? Doesn't have any way to log on so it'd have to be a public hot spot. Sound like an alternative? Or would something like an Asus 3e make more sense?
Remember, not all of us over 40-50 are dead yet and the need to be connected is one of the greatest generational gaps. (We often don't feel it and, so, would be annoyed paying for it.)
"I'm ashamed that my future tax dollars and my children's future tax contributions will be going to pay for this fu..."
Think of it as a kinder, gentler contract than IBM got to help Hitler tabulate the Jews.
On second thought, I guess history will tell whether it was kinder and gentler.
Hell, dude. My wife and I have gotten that treatment on the American side coming _back_ from Canada so don't take it personally. But I think we're mainly talking about Canadian customs and my experience has been mostly, "You have a great time in Canada, eh?"
My one year of middle-school bible camp, the big outing was a forced march of several miles to sneak into Canada on a gravel road and buy candy and souvenirs. Probably a few hundred gravel roads where that one came from.
They say it'll be a buyer's market with the dollar tanking over the next year.
They say all societies are insane in their own way but modern western societies are uniquely insane. Perversely, since they would like to say they promote "ultimate" truth, evangelicals have always been well positioned to understand that what is taught in school, what is seen on TV, what is preached on Sunday, what has museums built to promote it _IS_ TRUE.
I don't think we have intellectuals in North America who have come to grasp this situation we have found ourselves placed into by modern media. People like McLuhan and Chomsky have just been too darn "rational". The French philosophers from Foucault to Baudrillard got it. On a societal level there isn't a "real" anymore to point to. It isn't that media are covering reality over in an opaque virtual layer of goo. The "virtual" and the "real" are intertwined in cause and effect to the point where there is no practical discernment between them.
Equally true in the political sphere. A staged show like Colin Powell waving his pencil around on TV becomes the _cause_ of the "real" effect of a war. That war is simultaneously real and unreal. It's a war "about" Colin Powell waving a pencil around. And sustained by any number of "reasons" each worn out in turn and replaced by a new reason.
Who can say what is real? Perhaps a hundred or two hundred million Americans "saw" Colin Powell wave his pencil around. How many words of what power does it take after that "experience" to convince people that there were no WMDs? After all, people "saw" Colin Powell wave his pencil around. As people say today, "You have your sources and I have mine."
The same with Evangelicals. They want their "Colin Powell moment" where a hundred million people will just "see" that intelligent design is "true". If they work as diligently as the Neocons have for decades to shape the political sphere, they will probably get it. Will liberals and the rational "get it" before they do?
We (the USA) are not at war with anyone right now, and haven't been since WWII.
Maybe not any_one_ but we've got one savagely hot war on the emotion of "terra" that, if it goes really badly for us, could take forever. It would be a joke in any sane society but the casualties have already been high to the constitution in passage of the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act and FISA.
Discover a few years ago apparently got a Neocon evangelical editorial board and every new issue had to have interviews with Newt Gingrich or debates with creationists or articles like "The end of science" or cover headlines like "Why kids love Big Brother". Dropped the subscription and now I refuse to look at an issue on the newsstand. If their editorial board wants to destroy the pop science magazine, and who can say for sure that they don't, they have succeeded wildly with me.
I find Wired's "Blame the Geeks" cover headline equally offensive and _way_ over the line. Anyone with more knowledge, wisdom and culture than Conan the Barbarian knew invading Iraq was MORONIC _before_ it occurred. That isn't 20-20 hindsight, Bucky. That's the truth. And if you can remember waaaay back to 2003 literally _millions_ of people filled the streets of metropolises literally around the world from New York to London to Cape Town to Sydney in horror of the INEVITABLE quagmire (and perhaps yet worse to come) our moronic White House instituted in our name. Deal with it. Wired, don't excuse idiots with power by promoting limp revisionisms like "blame the geeks".
How long before a web site promoting a road-blocking sit-down protest against a land mine factory, or the like, gets everybody prosecuted as domestic terrorists for promoting business-impeding "violence" against a _corporation_?
I have difficulty reconciling an eyewitness account that "most of my classmates died" with the idea that radioactivity is surprisingly benign. The article is like concluding that the people who survived the concentration camps are surprisingly healthy and rather fortunate, in fact, to have participated in an informal experiment in calorie restriction.
We are on a credit card fraud alert short list that sometimes seems like harassment. More than 3-4 internet purchases/day on any given day and it's time to give them a call to remove the holds.
Anyway, my wife buys nicotine gum from a New Zealand pharmacy because it's a 1/3 cheaper, including 4-day express mail from the other side of the earth, than it is at the local Target. Came up as an alert and I had to give Citibank a call. Two days later it arrived wrapped in lime-green "Mr. Yuk" Homeland Security tape. Only time that's happened before or since. (Gosh, and the Citibank phone drone seemed like such a _pleasant_ guy.)
Somebody brought up a similar concern in Scientific American. A civilization advanced enough to have expanded themselves to multiple star systems would certainly use a highly directed medium like a laser beam instead of a radio wave to maintain communication. Not much chance to be in the beam path.
I think that's the nagging fear of SETI. That we're looking for smoke signals when we should be looking for more advanced media.
sounds weird and not all that narrow. its split down the middle (more or less), just like the parties (more or less). is anyone suprised?
Presumably every Democrat in a leadership position since they keep trying to appeal to the mythical "center".
He keeps quoting the lowest possible number. If the range is 30-90,000 and 30,000 is not insignificant then a median guess of 60,000 is twice as not insignificant.
Yup, bait and switch article. Content doesn't match the headline.
I can sympathize. I don't know if we are _perfectly_ happy with his and hers 754 boards with Athlon 64FXs and 2 gig but we are _pretty_ happy. Echoing the kid, bigger LCD screen for the MythTV (also a 754 board with two gig) is the priority here and as long as the PCs have the processing power to serve our needs (which is pretty much to say NOT gaming or home video and audio production) I don't see an emphasis on fancier peripherals as "merely" consumerist.
authors of the electronic messages show less signs of serious mental illness, but they are more profane and disorganized
If you are disorganized how do you expect to effectively express your serious mental illness?
But I have to imagine it's the sort of experience an actor would kill to have in the portfolio.
Couldn't the FBI just tattoo the forearms of peace protesters?
Oh, well. You get the "Gee, whiz" out of the way now. Kids in 20 years will think their handheld is what a handheld should be and always has been.
If you've got the ram on the laptop try qemu instead of dual-booting. I've got my wife running PhotoShop 7, Illustrator and Flash 9 on an XP Pro qemu virtualization. Acceptable speed with the kqemu accelerator for office work.
it's a shame when we can't take a joke.
Reminds me of Chaosium's Lovecraftian Miskatonic University memorabilia. I have a good selection of their stuff from the alumni mug, degree kit with "student id", notepad, etc., windows stickers including the parking permits. At a conference a speaker once asked me whether my U actually had a department of astrology when she read my polo shirt logo. Even though they never provided transcripts and the like, the rumor I heard was that Chaosium was informally told that they should tone it down or they could be in trouble for running a diploma mill.
Darn shame. But, like Colbert, you can't really blur reality and fantasy _too_ much or they'll come after you. Makes such things more of a one-off artist's stunt.
It's been shuffled out _way_ too much by the Democrats since the '04 "victory". I'm long past finding the poor, tattled little thing attractive.
Even if it's true and there isn't just one party, the power party, playing games with us, stupidity isn't really that appealing and I'm at a loss for why they think it continues to be a good excuse for us to support them.
that I haven't seen discussed.
Our bus/trolley system in Minneapolis/St Paul has been operating for years on a cash or disposable card system with the cards having unlimited monthly value or a cash value. They have recently completed testing and are pushing a swipe card that isn't disposable and has a unique serial number. You can add value to it online and a couple days later it will appear on the card when you use it. Obviously because the readers are a wifi connection to the system.
So it's all in the quality of the database and cooperation with law enforcement. It could be used for anything from data mining to track people in criminal and civil cases to a real-time estimation of position and direction. Of course, there is still the option to pay cash but many people won't.
I don't know. Efficiency. Seemed like a model for cutting out the middle man and streamlining the government/corporate fascistocracy. Probably their big mistake was actually notifying the media so when they arrived the story wasn't reporters throwing softballs at FEMA, the story was how the news conference went on without their reporters. And it's a concept that would certainly be a win for the media bottom line. They could fire all their reporters and broadcast government and corporate media clips all the time instead of just some of the time.
So a win for government and a win for business. You don't hate America and hate capitalism, do you Citizen?
Also attended a talk last month by our state person in charge of these things. Antivirals are $16/dose and expire and you can't just build a few extra hospitals sitting around for when we need them so there is only so much you can practically do to be prepared. When the auditoriums fill up with cots like they did for the Spanish Flu people will be sent home to sink or swim. Death rate charts from the Big One show that quarantine is what works.
So if the country wants to be prepared: schooling-at-home and work-at-home groupware, online delivery of groceries and the like. How that affects net traffic is a good point.