The point is that Wikipedia is rapidly being adopted as a first point of reference for information worldwide, and research has demonstrated that the bias in contributors has led to a bias in the actual content of the encylopedia.
Ok, I'm throughly confused. I thought Apple's terms restricted being able to transfer code in and out of an interpreter on iOS. If that's the case, how can you use this as a development environment in any reasonable way?
Apple replaced it twice under AppleCare, but that has run out. Seems likely it will blow again in less than a year. I highly doubt I'll be buying another Mac. I didn't pay "the Apple premium" for hardware to die this quickly, this often.
Negatives: I got to touch base with high school friends, It was impossible to sort though all the crap that came in, I was constantly ignoring this and that, I started unfriending people who posted too much shit to get shit from them for unfriending them. It started arguments with my family when I didn't want to friend them or I friended them and ignored them. I lost real life friends because facebook allowed me to learn more about their personalities then I ever really wanted to know. I got into real life arguments because I didn't check or respond to a facebook status.
I wish I had moderation points... the experience the parent describes is identical to mine, and the precise reason I got off Facebook. It is so much easier to tell people "I'm not on Facebook" than it was to deal with the drama.
No first person shooters? Are the scouts aware that they actually offer a merit badge in SHOOTING.
I'm the last person to depend Scouting (they've really gone off the deep end in recent years), but I should at least point out that the Rifle Shooting merit badge significantly emphasizes gun safety and appropriate use. I remember my own experiences from scout camp as a kid where they were hyper-vigilant about safety, only using guns for target practice, and so on. Again, I'm not defending Scouting in general or guns in particular, but there is a big difference between learning how to shoot targets with a rifle (with a high emphasis placed on safety and understanding of the dangers) and shooting up aliens in a first-person shooter.
Ever since Mulberry Mail went free (as in beer), I switched from Thunderbird and haven't looked back. It's dramatically faster and includes a whole lot of features that I use that I had always been frustrated that Thunderbird didn't have. Apart from those who are attracted to Thunderbird because of its license, why aren't more people using Mulberry? Does Thunderbird 2.0 change this perspective?
So after reading a lot of the content on Slashdot and elsewhere recently about the wonderful efficiency of CFLs, my wife and I thought we'd try them. We were really disappointed.
they still have that deathly white sterilizing glow that traditional fluorescent lights do
they take 60 seconds to achieve maximum brightness, which means that by the time you've found your clothes in the closet, the lights are finally bright
on the flip side, you can't use them with a dimmer switch, so if you want to achieve mood lighting, you can't
We're going to relegate these bulbs to the garage and stick with incandescents: we'd rather pay the electric bills for lighting we enjoy. Is is just us? Do most people just not notice the difference in lighting, or are they willing to put up with it for the cost savings? (Yes, we bought two different brands: GE and HomeBest. Similar.)
How will they handle privacy issues? Don't the same issues appear here that appeared with the AOL data this summer? With enough ratings you can narrow down to a specific person, and then find out about all the pr0n that this person has been getting as well.
While I would hate to disagree with Stephen Hawking, he would seem to be in disagreement with most modern philosophers of science. A single observation can only disprove a theory if you know that observation to be definitively true -- but any observation you make hinges on a theory as well, e.g. the theory that "what I see in this microscope is a big version of what's really there, and not distorted in some substantial way." An observation that disagrees with a theory could instead disprove the theory that says you're seeing what you think you're seeing.
Most textbook publishers will send you free evaluation versions so that you can check them out. Go to the academic sections for major textbook publisher websites (Addison-Wesley, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly, etc...), find the book you want, and there's always a link for "send me an evaluation copy."
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Agreed. Even more frustrating is that all the collections classes have been rebuilt to be based on generics. I teach at a liberal arts college, and have found Java 1.5 to be a supreme headache. It's much harder to teach than Java 1.4. I'm finding that I have to either teach intro CS students the complexities of Java generics, or I need to teach them to ignore warning messages. It's painful.
As best as I can tell from the website, the API is only for storing and interacting with a large graph. Nothing there is actually involved with PageRank. You could use this API presumably to write your own PageRank code, but to say "everybody can grok PageRank now!" is misleading at best.
Moreover, IANAL, but isn't the PageRank algorithm patented by Google? Wouldn't this prevent anyone from releasing GPL code that computes PageRank?
I run Windows as my desktop OS, and connect via Putty to other machines running Linux. Perhaps once a year, I try migrating to Linux as my desktop OS. I always go back. Here's why.
Interface speed. Most of the window managers on my 700 MHz machine seem slow and clunky. There are all kinds of artifacts in moving windows around. Under Windows, it's quite snappy. I have tried the lightweight WMs (Windowmaker, ICEWM, etc.), but inevitably there is some feature I want that they don't support.
Focusing issues. Under Windows, the focus behavior is always consistent. Under Linux, regardless of how I set up focusing on my window manager, some applications don't listen.
Clipboard consistency. The clipboard under Windows always works. Under Linux, there is more than one clipboard and getting them to communicate is a pain the rump, especially when emacs is involved.
Microsoft Office. I don't feel like paying for Crossover Office, and OpenOffice is really slow. I was using it for a while under Windows, trying to do my part for the community, and eventually got tired of waiting for it to open documents.
Windows Media Player. I love Yahoo's Launchcast. This is the coolest internet radio ever - it configures itself to you by your rated songs. Can't make it work under Linux. Again, I paid for Windows once, I don't want to pay for Crossover Office again.
Opera. Opera under Windows is absolutely fabulous. Under Linux it looks poor and focuses badly (see above), effectively killing some of the keyboard shortcuts.
Keyboard shortcuts. These work completely inconsistently across Linux apps. When combined with focusing issues, it's a nightmare under Linux. Is anyone else out there trying to avoid using the mouse? Windows handles this well.
Fonts. I've tried em 'all, AA vs. non-AA, etc. They just look bad under all the Linux distros I've tried (though I'll admit I haven't tried the newest ones that have come out in the last couple of months). The fixes are always 30 minutes in hunting down dot files. I tried setting up Microsoft fonts under Mandrake, and it just confused the heck out of Opera. And they're always too small in the web browsers.
Games. 'Nuff said.
Ease of program installation. RPMs and dependencies stink. (I'll admit I have not tried apt-get.)
I would love nothing better than to dump Windows especially with Microsoft's licensing arrangements, etc. But Linux ain't there as a desktop.
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The point is that Wikipedia is rapidly being adopted as a first point of reference for information worldwide, and research has demonstrated that the bias in contributors has led to a bias in the actual content of the encylopedia.
Ok, I'm throughly confused. I thought Apple's terms restricted being able to transfer code in and out of an interpreter on iOS. If that's the case, how can you use this as a development environment in any reasonable way?
My mid-year 2007 iMac is on its third logic board. And I ain't the only one:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1516765?start=0&tstart=0
Apple replaced it twice under AppleCare, but that has run out. Seems likely it will blow again in less than a year. I highly doubt I'll be buying another Mac. I didn't pay "the Apple premium" for hardware to die this quickly, this often.
Windows 3.1 called, and it wants Program Manager back... despite the apparent name change to LaunchPad...
Negatives: I got to touch base with high school friends, It was impossible to sort though all the crap that came in, I was constantly ignoring this and that, I started unfriending people who posted too much shit to get shit from them for unfriending them. It started arguments with my family when I didn't want to friend them or I friended them and ignored them. I lost real life friends because facebook allowed me to learn more about their personalities then I ever really wanted to know. I got into real life arguments because I didn't check or respond to a facebook status.
I wish I had moderation points... the experience the parent describes is identical to mine, and the precise reason I got off Facebook. It is so much easier to tell people "I'm not on Facebook" than it was to deal with the drama.
No first person shooters? Are the scouts aware that they actually offer a merit badge in SHOOTING.
I'm the last person to depend Scouting (they've really gone off the deep end in recent years), but I should at least point out that the Rifle Shooting merit badge significantly emphasizes gun safety and appropriate use. I remember my own experiences from scout camp as a kid where they were hyper-vigilant about safety, only using guns for target practice, and so on. Again, I'm not defending Scouting in general or guns in particular, but there is a big difference between learning how to shoot targets with a rifle (with a high emphasis placed on safety and understanding of the dangers) and shooting up aliens in a first-person shooter.
Ever since Mulberry Mail went free (as in beer), I switched from Thunderbird and haven't looked back. It's dramatically faster and includes a whole lot of features that I use that I had always been frustrated that Thunderbird didn't have. Apart from those who are attracted to Thunderbird because of its license, why aren't more people using Mulberry? Does Thunderbird 2.0 change this perspective?
- they still have that deathly white sterilizing glow that traditional fluorescent lights do
- they take 60 seconds to achieve maximum brightness, which means that by the time you've found your clothes in the closet, the lights are finally bright
- on the flip side, you can't use them with a dimmer switch, so if you want to achieve mood lighting, you can't
We're going to relegate these bulbs to the garage and stick with incandescents: we'd rather pay the electric bills for lighting we enjoy. Is is just us? Do most people just not notice the difference in lighting, or are they willing to put up with it for the cost savings? (Yes, we bought two different brands: GE and HomeBest. Similar.)It's as "downstate" as you can get, on Long Island. The recycling company is upstate in Buffalo, NY.
How will they handle privacy issues? Don't the same issues appear here that appeared with the AOL data this summer? With enough ratings you can narrow down to a specific person, and then find out about all the pr0n that this person has been getting as well.
If NASA were doing things "by the book," hours would seem like days.
While I would hate to disagree with Stephen Hawking, he would seem to be in disagreement with most modern philosophers of science. A single observation can only disprove a theory if you know that observation to be definitively true -- but any observation you make hinges on a theory as well, e.g. the theory that "what I see in this microscope is a big version of what's really there, and not distorted in some substantial way." An observation that disagrees with a theory could instead disprove the theory that says you're seeing what you think you're seeing.
Most textbook publishers will send you free evaluation versions so that you can check them out. Go to the academic sections for major textbook publisher websites (Addison-Wesley, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly, etc...), find the book you want, and there's always a link for "send me an evaluation copy."
Agreed. Even more frustrating is that all the collections classes have been rebuilt to be based on generics. I teach at a liberal arts college, and have found Java 1.5 to be a supreme headache. It's much harder to teach than Java 1.4. I'm finding that I have to either teach intro CS students the complexities of Java generics, or I need to teach them to ignore warning messages. It's painful.
He wants to innovate? Submit an RFC (Request For Comment). Let the community decide whether or not this innovation is good for the Internet.
As best as I can tell from the website, the API is only for storing and interacting with a large graph. Nothing there is actually involved with PageRank. You could use this API presumably to write your own PageRank code, but to say "everybody can grok PageRank now!" is misleading at best.
Moreover, IANAL, but isn't the PageRank algorithm patented by Google? Wouldn't this prevent anyone from releasing GPL code that computes PageRank?
- Interface speed. Most of the window managers on my 700 MHz machine seem slow and clunky. There are all kinds of artifacts in moving windows around. Under Windows, it's quite snappy. I have tried the lightweight WMs (Windowmaker, ICEWM, etc.), but inevitably there is some feature I want that they don't support.
- Focusing issues. Under Windows, the focus behavior is always consistent. Under Linux, regardless of how I set up focusing on my window manager, some applications don't listen.
- Clipboard consistency. The clipboard under Windows always works. Under Linux, there is more than one clipboard and getting them to communicate is a pain the rump, especially when emacs is involved.
- Microsoft Office. I don't feel like paying for Crossover Office, and OpenOffice is really slow. I was using it for a while under Windows, trying to do my part for the community, and eventually got tired of waiting for it to open documents.
- Windows Media Player. I love Yahoo's Launchcast. This is the coolest internet radio ever - it configures itself to you by your rated songs. Can't make it work under Linux. Again, I paid for Windows once, I don't want to pay for Crossover Office again.
- Opera. Opera under Windows is absolutely fabulous. Under Linux it looks poor and focuses badly (see above), effectively killing some of the keyboard shortcuts.
- Keyboard shortcuts. These work completely inconsistently across Linux apps. When combined with focusing issues, it's a nightmare under Linux. Is anyone else out there trying to avoid using the mouse? Windows handles this well.
- Fonts. I've tried em 'all, AA vs. non-AA, etc. They just look bad under all the Linux distros I've tried (though I'll admit I haven't tried the newest ones that have come out in the last couple of months). The fixes are always 30 minutes in hunting down dot files. I tried setting up Microsoft fonts under Mandrake, and it just confused the heck out of Opera. And they're always too small in the web browsers.
- Games. 'Nuff said.
- Ease of program installation. RPMs and dependencies stink. (I'll admit I have not tried apt-get.)
I would love nothing better than to dump Windows especially with Microsoft's licensing arrangements, etc. But Linux ain't there as a desktop.