When a user leaves your site, just pop up one of those irritating survey windows with a 'how useful was this wiki to you?' (You might have to say 'web site' if 'wiki' means nothing to them)..
Log some answers, or just plain old make them up, and put them in an Excel spreadsheet which you then print out and give to your PHB.
If I delete something at work, and then six months later think 'whatever happened to that file?', there's a chance it'll be on our backup archive and I can get it back. Or I can roll back to any of the last week's daily backups. Can Google do that? Has anyone tried? Does it keep versions?
They seem to encourage you to not delete anything, but that doesn't help with undoing several revisions of a document, does it?
I'm not a big google docs user, so I might have missed this somewhere.
In four mouse clicks I've added that site to my exceptions list. It warned me, I read and understood the warning, I acted. I saw the https page and the web site owner didn't have to pay for a certificate.
So, the article is wrong: "Mozilla Firefox 3 limits usable encrypted (SSL) web sites to those who are willing to pay money to one of their approved digital certificate vendors"
please add 'or click four times to add the site to an exception list'.
Do you really want over a million Microsoft-constructed telescopes pointing at you while you *ahem* surf the web?
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The thing with Lego is that if the molds aren't just right then the blocks either fall apart or jam together. Getting that right is a big factor of the success of Lego - it just feels so good when it all clicks together.
HowStuffWorks says the mold tolerance is 0.002mm. That's 500 to the milimetre.
and what I said then still stands - the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". I defy anyone to come up with useful statistical models and tests on actual disease incidence based on web-crawling for disease names.
2. Laser-range scan a street scene (slight variation of #1)
3. Colourise and dissolve the street scene (maybe two ideas here)
4. Add lots of jittery noise.
That's it. Nothing else. Yes there are videos with fewer ideas (eg "stick band against white backdrop and film them") but Radiohead are supposed to be cerebral and have lots of ideas.
I did a BSc in Physics with Astrophysics, and the astro classes were more maths than even my friends who were doing maths had in their mathiest maths classes.
For our stellar structure course the lecturer used every letter of the alphabet in his equations. Upper and lower case. Latin and Greek. He may even have sneaked in an aleph when we weren't looking (which was often). We used to test ourselves by someone picking a random letter, say 'p' and someone else going 'partial gas pressure!' or whatever it was.
Okay, I suppose the equations were all based on physical properties of fusion plasmas, but with a maths degree you shouldn't have any trouble with the numbers.
Good to see people calling it 'maths' and not 'math' in this thread - I don't think the USA has woken up yet:)
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When a user leaves your site, just pop up one of those irritating survey windows with a 'how useful was this wiki to you?' (You might have to say 'web site' if 'wiki' means nothing to them)..
Log some answers, or just plain old make them up, and put them in an Excel spreadsheet which you then print out and give to your PHB.
Best watched with the sound off. It's the same music all the way through.
I guess someone doing colour matching on a porno movie might get a bit distracted. Computers don't have that problem...
They don't have to supply the source until they distribute the binaries. GPL FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
Gallons? US or Imperial? NASA has gone metric anyway, so it should be litres. NASA know what happens when you mix your units up...
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
If I delete something at work, and then six months later think 'whatever happened to that file?', there's a chance it'll be on our backup archive and I can get it back. Or I can roll back to any of the last week's daily backups. Can Google do that? Has anyone tried? Does it keep versions?
They seem to encourage you to not delete anything, but that doesn't help with undoing several revisions of a document, does it?
I'm not a big google docs user, so I might have missed this somewhere.
I can't really see the phrase 'Imagine a GrayWulf cluster of these!' catching on on Slashdot. Nice try, Microsoft.
They say one day robots may compete on a human level at Stare-out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stare-Out.jpg
but frankly, I doubt it.
I love the way the icon on the story page under the Monty Python foot is an apple logo and some tools. Apple. Tools. Yup, sums the story up perfectly.
I'll be impressed when they can build a computer that can play Mornington Crescent at pro level.
Really? Bogusky? Bogus-ky? Next we'll be told that Microsoft's lawyers are going to be Grabbit and Runne.
First you need an Object-Oriented COBOL, aka ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL.
I suppose in the US you have judges with clue. In the UK it's fuddy duddy old men in wigs who go "What is this 'internet'?".
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/05/17/judge-has-beatles-moment-over-internet
or maybe he didnt:
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/05/18/judge-didnt-have-beatles-moment-after-all
Apparently the original story of the judge saying 'Who are the Beatles?' might be a myth anyway...
In four mouse clicks I've added that site to my exceptions list. It warned me, I read and understood the warning, I acted. I saw the https page and the web site owner didn't have to pay for a certificate.
So, the article is wrong:
"Mozilla Firefox 3 limits usable encrypted (SSL) web sites to those who are willing to pay money to one of their approved digital certificate vendors"
please add 'or click four times to add the site to an exception list'.
Perhaps if Freddie had been, he'd still be here now...
Oh, "LaTeX", not... you know...
Will everyone's IP-number be 8675309?
[Hint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqUPApCUt90
]
...the first blue windscreen of death. Literally.
['windscreen' is what you across the pond call the 'windshield']
MS announce XP on XO.
Slashdot goes "Pics or it never happened!"
MS provide screen shots.
Slashdot goes "screenshots can be faked - video or it never happened!"
MS provide video.
Slashdot goes "Whatever, it never happened!"
Do you really want over a million Microsoft-constructed telescopes pointing at you while you *ahem* surf the web?
The thing with Lego is that if the molds aren't just right then the blocks either fall apart or jam together. Getting that right is a big factor of the success of Lego - it just feels so good when it all clicks together.
HowStuffWorks says the mold tolerance is 0.002mm. That's 500 to the milimetre.
Another report of the same HealthMap thing was on /. not too long ago:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/09/1424247
and what I said then still stands - the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". I defy anyone to come up with useful statistical models and tests on actual disease incidence based on web-crawling for disease names.
Four ideas. Count 'em.
1. Laser-range scan the band.
2. Laser-range scan a street scene (slight variation of #1)
3. Colourise and dissolve the street scene (maybe two ideas here)
4. Add lots of jittery noise.
That's it. Nothing else. Yes there are videos with fewer ideas (eg "stick band against white backdrop and film them") but Radiohead are supposed to be cerebral and have lots of ideas.
I know, if I could have modded myself 'funny' I would have. And you too.
Actually Explorer I was up there at the time. The first two Sputniks had already gone up and come down [wikipedia].
Where's the satellite picture of the scene before the earthquake?
I did a BSc in Physics with Astrophysics, and the astro classes were more maths than even my friends who were doing maths had in their mathiest maths classes.
For our stellar structure course the lecturer used every letter of the alphabet in his equations. Upper and lower case. Latin and Greek. He may even have sneaked in an aleph when we weren't looking (which was often). We used to test ourselves by someone picking a random letter, say 'p' and someone else going 'partial gas pressure!' or whatever it was.
Okay, I suppose the equations were all based on physical properties of fusion plasmas, but with a maths degree you shouldn't have any trouble with the numbers.
Good to see people calling it 'maths' and not 'math' in this thread - I don't think the USA has woken up yet :)