You might find the solution to both of your problems in ICQ 2 Go. Not only is it a stripped down client, with no ads anywhere. It also runs in a Java applet, so you can use it on any operating system, from any computer!
Hey, I'm all for Nuclear power over coal and other fossil-fuel based methods, my point was just that making the problem smaller doesn't necessarily make it go away.
---- Radioactive waste, while chronicly dangerous, isnt volitle (Im sure there are more 'correct' terms used by people who deal with risk management..). ie, its always putting off radiation but its not going to explode or anything. Unlike, say decommisioned biological wepons. And its relativly simple to deal with; burry it. ----
LOL... you must be joking here. 'Bury it', while being only 2 words, is not as simple as it sounds. While it's okay for the short term, it means that Nuclear Power could never be implemented on a large scale in the long-term the way things are today.
Eventually, you are going to run out of places to put it. Major urban areas (where the power is most needed) are already running out of places to use for landfills, where will they put the Nuclear Waste? You can't keep digging holes forever. not to mention the transportation of all that waste (eventually, transporting it x kilometres has got to cost a lot).
Until a sustainable method of disposing Nuclear Waster is created/discovered, there is no way we can keep using Nucler power forever.
Red Hat is dropping hints about a common Desktop Linux. Article on C|NET
"We think we can deliver a fully integrated solution that is based on open-source technologies," Szulik said. A year ago, information technology executives didn't consider the issue, but "I would say it's accelerating (and) showing up in three to four conversations a month now with chief information officers."
The article says that they are only going to shut down one long street (and area) on a Saturday morning. They are not shutting down the entire city, and the mayor (or whoever the guy was that was responsible) said that any local businesses would not be compromised and be forced to shut down.
While actually coding may help you learn to program, it may not help if the programmer does not know about the tools available to solve the problems they encounter.
If a coder knows about conventions, concepts, and other fundamentals, when they encounter a situation coding where they need to apply them (for a simple example, planning before you actually code), then they can think "Hey, I remember something that's applicable to this", and go and lookup the details if necessary.
To go to your boots example: If someone gets blisters from walking, they may think it's the boots that need breaking in, but they might also think that the boots they have are not the right kind. When you say, "Look millions of people have gotten blisters, and breaking the boots in solves it with most boots", they might actualy do that, whreas without your guidance, they might not even consider that factor.
A bit of added notes, he mentions that a lot of the action is very Hollywood, included only because its necessary, that being the movie's only failing point. He also thought that Al Pacino was very good as well.
"Unlike most remakes, the Nolan "Insomnia" is not a pale retread, but a re-examination of the material, like a new production of a good play."
For a second opinion....
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Review: Insomnia
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· Score: 2, Informative
Why don't you read Robert Ebert's review. He thought Robin Williams was rather good, and made much of the same points mentioned above. "3.5 stars"
For your fashion example, is it really the advertisers creating demand for clothing (or shoes, etc.)? Or is it the fact that kids have a need to be cool by wearing something different as everyone (or the same, depending on your social group), and that the advertising tries to suggest what might be considered cool?
The actual meaning of Nike is to add an impression of quality to a product, in order to make the consumer feel that they can trust products from that particular company (to have some specific details). A consumer NEEDS a product they can trust. This leads to Brand Recognition, etc...
The point I'm trying to make is that it can be argued that there is in fact a need for Nike shoes, because Nike shoes are cooler/worth more/whatever, and the marketing campaigns merely suggest the idea to the consumer.
Simmilarily for the SDMI compliant tagline, the manufacturer wants the user to be informed of the consumer is aware of what will and will not work with their particular device.
There is not black and white, only shades of grey...
Actually, contrary to what most people believe, Marketing is not defined as "Create Demand". While I'm not saying that no one attempts to create demand, it is not marketing.
One definition of marketing is: MARKETING includes identifying unmet needs; producing products and services to meet those needs: and pricing, distributing, and promoting those products and services to produce a profit. - Learnthat.com
The demand is there whether marketing is around or not. I'll bet you'd be hard-pressed to find parents with small children who weren't concerned about their child's health and safety. Believe it or not, there are a lot of people obsessed with cleanliness in the States (although I fall into the same category as yourself about the whole microbe situation).
Remember, think before you post. Just because you think one way doesn't mean you can speak for all of America.
No, Steve Yzerman had to ignore the sharp pains coming from his knee as Vancouver refused to give up and forcing him to keep pushing to keep (and later extend) the lead. This is after the fans were no doubt booing and hissing at him (not to mention all the !@#$ing sports-interviewers asking what went wrong) after they had lost the past two games on their home ice, no doubt complaining that they weren't doing their job right, which they arguably might not have been able to do properly anyways at the time, and he probably had to listen to the coaches complaining at some of the team members (perhaps asking Yzerman to try a bit harder, work out those problems).
Do you think that Yzerman can just say, "I need enough time to heal me knee, then I can do it properly"? No. He has to perform at all costs.
Interesting how your comparasion falls apart.
As an aside though, I think he probably has one of the best jobs, probably a big productive gain!:-)
There is a reason for this, which I learned from an administrator at UW.
There are basically two ways you can schedule exams. The first way is too let everyone pick their own classes, and then schedule the exams around the students so that everyone can write them. This is the format UW uses, and because of it, they can't even start forming the schedule until schedules are finalised (usually just past the mid-way mark).
The other way is to have each course have a pre-determined exam slot. This means that if a particular course has the same exam slot as another course, you cannot take it. This also means that the exam schedule cannot be optomised so that more people are done sooner.
So there you have it, the system is designed to get everyone out of there as quickly as possible. At the sacrifice at not knowing the schedule until much later, you can pick-and-choose whatever courses you want, and USUALLY be out of school a week before the last exams. (emphasis on the 'usually')
As anyone can obviously see, this artwork was ripped off of the upcoming Metroid game for Nintendo GameCube! I mean, isn't that a big gun attched to their right hand? And look at the helmet style!
I wonder if you can trademark nano-tech robot suit designs, and then cry patent infringment. "I swear, I was the first one to think of making the suit come in 5 different colors!"
I'm surprised that this didn't happen to anyone else...
I was on a mailing list where this happened, and it ended up not being so bad, until a few bad apples came along...
I found it personally funny, but I knew there were a lot of people that were surprised and shocked to find various emails that started like this...
"Thank you for joining our opt-in marketing scheme!"...."Thank you for joining the free sexy school girl pictures mailing list"... etc etc....
Since the confirmation obviously was sent to everyone, some people got the bright idea to subscribe and confirm the subscribtion, and the spam really started flowing then!
Needless to say, many were very angry, and I don't think they ever figured out who did it. Just my story.
I agree completely with your first point, and the one thing I thought was worth considering was updating the FAQ to reflect these 'policies'.
However, I don't agree with your second point. While I honestly have no idea what the editors' opinions are on this, if I were them, I would not care in the least about the 'PR fiasco' or the 'karma hits'. Slashdot is still read by lots of people and karma is re-gained quite easily if you want it.
Regardless of what the moderators thought, when I see an article on Oracle Databases (I think that's where it happened), I don't want to see a debate going on about the moderation system. There are plenty of other places to discuss these sort of things (You mentioned the feature in Kuro5hin, or user journals) that I could seek out if I wanted to learn about this. Even better, I could stop whining and do something about it by emailing the editors or contributing to Slashcode.
Back to my earlier points, I don't care if the thread exists, and is linked to from Kuro5hin, then I can find it there. The mass-moderation was intended to take the material of the related (when it was actually un-related) story, not to genuinely obscure it.
Oh, and no single post deserves that many moderations. I know it was a kind of moderation-war, but people should just let it die, find something unrecognized to moderate rather than moderating the same post over and over and over.....
Finally, arguing about post scores (-1 vs 0) is really trivial, please don't tell me that you are only offended because the posts were knocked down ot -1, and that you would be perfectly happy with 0. It is not begin extra vinidcative or disrespectful. It's just a moderation! No, it's not worth losing much sleep over.
And as a final note, it hasn't been "months after the fact", it's been one month, and it only was mentioned at this rare opportunity to post on-topic on the issue.
I would have moderated those posts as off-topic myself.
I did not say that they suppressed anything. All they did was move the content to the end of the page. (Read it with -1 enabled, you'll find it eventually)
You can hardly call moving content around (something I actually believe that they were in their right to do) suppressing the material!The post was blatently off-topic, and was arranged as such.
You don't see news broadcast being acused for censorship when they don't show the story about the girl who found her cat, do you?
It's not nearly as bad as some other posts that I have read. It really isn't that difficult at all to display all the comments and scroll to the bottom of the page. It's certainly not "locked away".
The very definition of the word "censorship" is "to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable" (dictionary.com).
Moderation does not remove or supress information, it merely highlights parts of the information.
I know this one is just a joke, but I think slashdot readers should be aware of this fact.
Slashdot addresses the question of censorship in moderation in their FAQ.
The very definition of the word "censorship" is "to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable" (dictionary.com). As is demonstrated by the other posts in this thread, the concerned posts still exist on the slashdot servers!
All that happened was the editors chose to draw attention away from these posts. While this could be a questionable practice, it is not censorship!
Everyone should get on the same wavelength and figure out what they're fighting before they start fighting it.
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It has been by far my favourite client for Linux.
Hey, I'm all for Nuclear power over coal and other fossil-fuel based methods, my point was just that making the problem smaller doesn't necessarily make it go away.
----
Radioactive waste, while chronicly dangerous, isnt volitle (Im sure there are more 'correct' terms used by people who deal with risk management..). ie, its always putting off radiation but its not going to explode or anything. Unlike, say decommisioned biological wepons. And its relativly simple to deal with; burry it.
----
LOL... you must be joking here. 'Bury it', while being only 2 words, is not as simple as it sounds. While it's okay for the short term, it means that Nuclear Power could never be implemented on a large scale in the long-term the way things are today.
Eventually, you are going to run out of places to put it. Major urban areas (where the power is most needed) are already running out of places to use for landfills, where will they put the Nuclear Waste? You can't keep digging holes forever. not to mention the transportation of all that waste (eventually, transporting it x kilometres has got to cost a lot).
Until a sustainable method of disposing Nuclear Waster is created/discovered, there is no way we can keep using Nucler power forever.
Red Hat is dropping hints about a common Desktop Linux. Article on C|NET
"We think we can deliver a fully integrated solution that is based on open-source technologies," Szulik said. A year ago, information technology executives didn't consider the issue, but "I would say it's accelerating (and) showing up in three to four conversations a month now with chief information officers."
I repeat, RTFA
"Funny... The transition on Fox to soft-core porn was so gradual I hardly noticed it!" -Marge Simpson (well, paraphased anyways)
While actually coding may help you learn to program, it may not help if the programmer does not know about the tools available to solve the problems they encounter.
If a coder knows about conventions, concepts, and other fundamentals, when they encounter a situation coding where they need to apply them (for a simple example, planning before you actually code), then they can think "Hey, I remember something that's applicable to this", and go and lookup the details if necessary.
To go to your boots example: If someone gets blisters from walking, they may think it's the boots that need breaking in, but they might also think that the boots they have are not the right kind. When you say, "Look millions of people have gotten blisters, and breaking the boots in solves it with most boots", they might actualy do that, whreas without your guidance, they might not even consider that factor.
A bit of added notes, he mentions that a lot of the action is very Hollywood, included only because its necessary, that being the movie's only failing point. He also thought that Al Pacino was very good as well.
"Unlike most remakes, the Nolan "Insomnia" is not a pale retread, but a re-examination of the material, like a new production of a good play."
Why don't you read Robert Ebert's review. He thought Robin Williams was rather good, and made much of the same points mentioned above. "3.5 stars"
They are doing something simmilar at Antarti.ca.
Okay, this is going off an tangent now, but...
For your fashion example, is it really the advertisers creating demand for clothing (or shoes, etc.)? Or is it the fact that kids have a need to be cool by wearing something different as everyone (or the same, depending on your social group), and that the advertising tries to suggest what might be considered cool?
The actual meaning of Nike is to add an impression of quality to a product, in order to make the consumer feel that they can trust products from that particular company (to have some specific details). A consumer NEEDS a product they can trust. This leads to Brand Recognition, etc...
The point I'm trying to make is that it can be argued that there is in fact a need for Nike shoes, because Nike shoes are cooler/worth more/whatever, and the marketing campaigns merely suggest the idea to the consumer.
Simmilarily for the SDMI compliant tagline, the manufacturer wants the user to be informed of the consumer is aware of what will and will not work with their particular device.
There is not black and white, only shades of grey...
Actually, contrary to what most people believe, Marketing is not defined as "Create Demand". While I'm not saying that no one attempts to create demand, it is not marketing.
One definition of marketing is: MARKETING includes identifying unmet needs; producing products and services to meet those needs: and pricing, distributing, and promoting those products and services to produce a profit. - Learnthat.com
The demand is there whether marketing is around or not. I'll bet you'd be hard-pressed to find parents with small children who weren't concerned about their child's health and safety. Believe it or not, there are a lot of people obsessed with cleanliness in the States (although I fall into the same category as yourself about the whole microbe situation).
Remember, think before you post. Just because you think one way doesn't mean you can speak for all of America.
But Star Wars Galaxies is also trying to 'give gamers what they want'. If you read the FAQ on their page, they seem to just want to please everyone.
In the end, they aren't putting much effort into making a game that will be fun.
One of the many reasons why I fully support Nintendo, a company that is constantly innovating in their games.
No, Steve Yzerman had to ignore the sharp pains coming from his knee as Vancouver refused to give up and forcing him to keep pushing to keep (and later extend) the lead. This is after the fans were no doubt booing and hissing at him (not to mention all the !@#$ing sports-interviewers asking what went wrong) after they had lost the past two games on their home ice, no doubt complaining that they weren't doing their job right, which they arguably might not have been able to do properly anyways at the time, and he probably had to listen to the coaches complaining at some of the team members (perhaps asking Yzerman to try a bit harder, work out those problems).
Do you think that Yzerman can just say, "I need enough time to heal me knee, then I can do it properly"? No. He has to perform at all costs.
Interesting how your comparasion falls apart.
As an aside though, I think he probably has one of the best jobs, probably a big productive gain! :-)
There is a reason for this, which I learned from an administrator at UW.
There are basically two ways you can schedule exams. The first way is too let everyone pick their own classes, and then schedule the exams around the students so that everyone can write them. This is the format UW uses, and because of it, they can't even start forming the schedule until schedules are finalised (usually just past the mid-way mark).
The other way is to have each course have a pre-determined exam slot. This means that if a particular course has the same exam slot as another course, you cannot take it. This also means that the exam schedule cannot be optomised so that more people are done sooner.
So there you have it, the system is designed to get everyone out of there as quickly as possible. At the sacrifice at not knowing the schedule until much later, you can pick-and-choose whatever courses you want, and USUALLY be out of school a week before the last exams. (emphasis on the 'usually')
As anyone can obviously see, this artwork was ripped off of the upcoming Metroid game for Nintendo GameCube! I mean, isn't that a big gun attched to their right hand? And look at the helmet style!
I wonder if you can trademark nano-tech robot suit designs, and then cry patent infringment. "I swear, I was the first one to think of making the suit come in 5 different colors!"
I'm surprised that this didn't happen to anyone else...
I was on a mailing list where this happened, and it ended up not being so bad, until a few bad apples came along...
I found it personally funny, but I knew there were a lot of people that were surprised and shocked to find various emails that started like this...
"Thank you for joining our opt-in marketing scheme!"...."Thank you for joining the free sexy school girl pictures mailing list"... etc etc....
Since the confirmation obviously was sent to everyone, some people got the bright idea to subscribe and confirm the subscribtion, and the spam really started flowing then!
Needless to say, many were very angry, and I don't think they ever figured out who did it. Just my story.
I agree completely with your first point, and the one thing I thought was worth considering was updating the FAQ to reflect these 'policies'.
However, I don't agree with your second point. While I honestly have no idea what the editors' opinions are on this, if I were them, I would not care in the least about the 'PR fiasco' or the 'karma hits'. Slashdot is still read by lots of people and karma is re-gained quite easily if you want it.
Regardless of what the moderators thought, when I see an article on Oracle Databases (I think that's where it happened), I don't want to see a debate going on about the moderation system. There are plenty of other places to discuss these sort of things (You mentioned the feature in Kuro5hin, or user journals) that I could seek out if I wanted to learn about this. Even better, I could stop whining and do something about it by emailing the editors or contributing to Slashcode.
Back to my earlier points, I don't care if the thread exists, and is linked to from Kuro5hin, then I can find it there. The mass-moderation was intended to take the material of the related (when it was actually un-related) story, not to genuinely obscure it.
Oh, and no single post deserves that many moderations. I know it was a kind of moderation-war, but people should just let it die, find something unrecognized to moderate rather than moderating the same post over and over and over.....
Finally, arguing about post scores (-1 vs 0) is really trivial, please don't tell me that you are only offended because the posts were knocked down ot -1, and that you would be perfectly happy with 0. It is not begin extra vinidcative or disrespectful. It's just a moderation! No, it's not worth losing much sleep over.
And as a final note, it hasn't been "months after the fact", it's been one month, and it only was mentioned at this rare opportunity to post on-topic on the issue.
I would have moderated those posts as off-topic myself.
lol!
This is a great definition, I wish you had posted earlier up, this puts into slashdot vocabulary exactly what I wanted to say.
I did not say that they suppressed anything. All they did was move the content to the end of the page. (Read it with -1 enabled, you'll find it eventually)
You can hardly call moving content around (something I actually believe that they were in their right to do) suppressing the material!The post was blatently off-topic, and was arranged as such.
You don't see news broadcast being acused for censorship when they don't show the story about the girl who found her cat, do you?
It's not nearly as bad as some other posts that I have read. It really isn't that difficult at all to display all the comments and scroll to the bottom of the page. It's certainly not "locked away".
this is censorship without a doubt.
see my Earlier post.
The very definition of the word "censorship" is "to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable" (dictionary.com). Moderation does not remove or supress information, it merely highlights parts of the information. I know this one is just a joke, but I think slashdot readers should be aware of this fact.
Slashdot addresses the question of censorship in moderation in their FAQ.
The very definition of the word "censorship" is "to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable" (dictionary.com). As is demonstrated by the other posts in this thread, the concerned posts still exist on the slashdot servers!
All that happened was the editors chose to draw attention away from these posts. While this could be a questionable practice, it is not censorship!
Everyone should get on the same wavelength and figure out what they're fighting before they start fighting it.