Sure, but that particular phrase won't help much (I tried), and I think it would be hard work to find a reliable set of words to filter away. Furthermore, you might remove more than what you want (for example the site you want, if it contains a link to sites for price comparisons).
The real problem is that you sometimes want to exclude classes of sites.
That is a great idea! In my simple test, it did filter away some of the annoyances (kelkoo for example), but left some other sites in (swedish sites, that's where I am). At any rate, it is a step forward.
Thanks.
That is useful if a single site is the problem, but how do I say "I do not want results from any price comparison site"? This is a problem I see more and more of: searching for a product can bring up pages of more or less lame price comparison sites before meaning ful sites. The actual producer of the product you are looking for is surprisingly often way down in my listings.
I am also a fan of mindstorms, as many others replying in this thread, but I have seen that kids tend to "get stuck" simply building Lego... With motors and whatever of course, but the actual programming part has become parenthetical and very simplistic.
There is nothing wrong with that, of course! I have recommended mindstorms as a xmas present just a few days ago, but if you are really looking at teaching programming, then you will have to work a little extra to make the kids focus on the programming part.
Squeak is quite similar to the mindstorms programming environment, all graphical, and the kids will have a blast.
So, buy the kids Lego Mindstorms for christmas and use Squeak for teaching programming...
My 12-year old son has had a great time with squeak, and so has a couple of his friends. You can make some simple but fun games and you work with graphics all the time, which that age group really wants.
Using squeak, you get acquainted with all the basic concepts of programming, so I believe it is a terrific starting point. Both my son and a friend of his are now ready for the next level, writing programs, and we just have to find what would be the suitable continuation (no pun intended!)
The clothing dating you are referring to was actually also featured on Slashdot under the Best/. Headline Ever: Pants Were Optional, 100,000 Years Ago.
That paper, with its abstract available from PubMed, was from Mark Stoneking's group and I believe they said in interviews that they intended to pursue studying the difference between head lice and pubic lice to figure out when we lost our fur. So maybe this result tells us why there was no follow-up paper: The data could not be used to address that issue.
Well, maybe I should the paper. After I am done posting at/. of course!
The word "hero" should of course be used sparingly, and probably not in adjunction to "tech", but JWZ holds his place among the Big Hackers, IMHO.
Some of his accomplishments, in no particular order:
XEmacs. He was one of (the?) main people making a user-friendly version of GNU Emacs.
XKeyCaps. This little application has really helped me getting a sane keyboard layout under X a few times.
Mosaic. I believe he was the main hacker on the Unix version of the first "real" browser. And one of the first employees at Netscape.
I am amused by the three of the 10 reasons to upgrade:
2. Image-based install
3. Up-to-date driver base and better driver handling on installation
10. Face it, you have no choice
His 10th reasons ends with "Face it: your arse belongs to Redmond."
Not really what you would get from a marketing department, is it?
Is that the best a MS fan-boy can do for his new fav toy? That is not a good sign for the company. I don't want to spend time on installation more than anyone else, but I would at least like to pretend it is a one-time cost (even though I have just had to re-install on the home computer) and it is certainly not 20 % of my calculations when thinking about upgrades.
The last reason, well, that is just a complete turn-off for me.
I have to say that I have seen plenty of academic codes that would make the most hardened programmer cry. My favourite example involves include files that behaves differently depending on which file includes them. And the conditionals are nested... When the ifdefs cover several pages at the time, it can be several days worth of work to understand what is going on.
No doubt the pressure is on also in academia, but add to that inadequate programming skills and you get an interesting combination.
Like most others who have posted so far, my first reaction to this disaster was "Cool!" But when I think about it, I get uncertain to what the rational reaction is. There are several forgiving factors to this prank/terrorist act:
It is just a virtual world, just a game.
The vulnerability of the system was demonstrated, possibly a good thing. It makes you consider the consequences about DOS-attacks in the real world.
It lets people think about what is important in First Life: Maybe it is not a computer game?
Some things has to be tried, sort of like climbing Mount Everest.
I was not affected.:-)
Nevertheless, this may ruin someones evening of good-hearted fun,
affect SL's legitimate business and possibly (somewhat tangential) even ruin it. That is not fair and right.
Is this event really so easily forgiven? Why are we not condemning this action with as much venom as we do with spam?
I live in Sweden and we have laws about making services accessible too, but not as sharp as ADA. Guess what, disabled over here have lots of examples of companies and government agencies not complying with the law. The US is often pointed out as a good example when it comes to working legislation for the disabled.
But this a display of closed-source mentality: "If the provider changes the license, we have to follow suit." In the open-source world, the source is out and available and skilled people would pick up the last GPLv2 release and continue using that. This seems to be an aspect that journalists are often missing, that free software is really free so you cannot control its re-distribution, only demand it.
Yeah, and I was shocked when someone showed me that behaviour. I would never have tried that. That, without any visual clue, is as non-intuitive as it gets.
Yeah, sure, but what if it is not my document? If it is a document I own, I wouldn't even bother with using anything other than my favourite authoring tool and put the anchors that I need where I want them. That is probably easier than figuring out what part of the document I want to link to. And if I use some auto-generated anchor using XML+XSL as someone suggested will just cause the pain of figuring our how a new edit would affect the auto-generated anchor-ids.
The point here is that I want to link to any part of any document.
Isn't this just an anchor tag on drugs? Just make it part of HTML 5.
I would actually like to see something like this in HTML. I have always found it a bit weak that you have to explicitly put anchors in your document to be able to jump there. Of course, I have not been clever enough to suggest an improvement or even voice my disapproval.
Some way of saying "fifth P element of this document" or "H1 element with text 'The Main Point'" should all be pretty easy to implement for a client program.
An explanation to this phenomenon could be a tradition of relatively strong consumer protection laws (and traditions), and that the "personal use" clauses in copyright have always been defended here.
In my quick testing I was surprised to how much alike ask.com was to google.com. The simple query page is nice, just like google's and maybe it is wrong to complain about that. But the results page felt like it could have been straight from Google; Don't they want to differentiate themselves somewhat? It seems hard to compete with Google if it comes across as wanting to look like Google.
I liked to possibility to save some hits though and will give ask.com a try next time I need to search for something.
From what I have heard and read (and now checked at Venter's own instutute's web site) his group is actually only sampling the oceans for microbial DNA. They have a nice sailboat and make no secret of where they are going.
This makes the whole assertion even more stupid, since no country/ethnic group/publicity-seeking self-proclaimed human-rights experts can claim to own or control or have rights to that pool of DNA.
It is a very odd stunt indeed. But I guess there is an appreciating audience for this stuff too.
First of all, there's not nearly as much crime in Sweden as there is in Australia. The Swedish government takes proper care of their people, so no one feels a need to commit crime. There's no homeless people sleeping in parks at night. People are much, much friendlier.
It is too cold to sleep in the parks, that is the main reason you don't see them there. It might be that we have fewer homeless people here than in other countries, but they certainly exist and the situation is not nearly as good as you suggest.
And there are many who feel that Swedes are cold, more so than friendly.
I don't have any crime statistic, but I would be surprised if it was much lower than for comparable European countries. The most scary thing to me is that we have an unemployment rate of about 15% today and this hasn't changed for several years. It is a social bomb ticking away.
They also don't have any terrorist panic. There's no "terrorism alert levels", and there isn't much security. There's not even nearly as many police around as there is in Australia.
I haven't been to Australia, but aren't you describing most of Europe here? I can tell you that many Swedes would actually like to see more police on the streets.
I just hope everyone who reads this post can imagine what life would be like to live in a country where you don't need to be afraid of terrorism or crime, a country where almost all of the population gets a good education, and all this despite alcohol (and probably other drugs) being more easily accessible in this country.
Are you suggesting that alcohol is easy to get in Sweden?! The alcohol taxes are among the highest in the world, and you can only buy alcohol in special government stores. They are closed on Sundays and it was only last year that they started being open on Saturdays.
I like Sweden, but I have to say that you have a very unusual view of my country. Either that or you are astroturfing for the government...
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The real problem is that you sometimes want to exclude classes of sites.
That is a great idea! In my simple test, it did filter away some of the annoyances (kelkoo for example), but left some other sites in (swedish sites, that's where I am). At any rate, it is a step forward. Thanks.
That is useful if a single site is the problem, but how do I say "I do not want results from any price comparison site"? This is a problem I see more and more of: searching for a product can bring up pages of more or less lame price comparison sites before meaning ful sites. The actual producer of the product you are looking for is surprisingly often way down in my listings.
Someone got me to mix up the programming environments! My son has tried Scratch, not squeak...
Aw, I got it wrong: I mean Scratch (from MIT), not Squeak. Scratch is great! We have not looked at squeak.
There is nothing wrong with that, of course! I have recommended mindstorms as a xmas present just a few days ago, but if you are really looking at teaching programming, then you will have to work a little extra to make the kids focus on the programming part.
Squeak is quite similar to the mindstorms programming environment, all graphical, and the kids will have a blast.
So, buy the kids Lego Mindstorms for christmas and use Squeak for teaching programming...
Using squeak, you get acquainted with all the basic concepts of programming, so I believe it is a terrific starting point. Both my son and a friend of his are now ready for the next level, writing programs, and we just have to find what would be the suitable continuation (no pun intended!)
In what sense is AFS bad? I have been on AFS for years, with Solaris and Linux, and occacionally on MS Win. I think it is great.
That paper, with its abstract available from PubMed, was from Mark Stoneking's group and I believe they said in interviews that they intended to pursue studying the difference between head lice and pubic lice to figure out when we lost our fur. So maybe this result tells us why there was no follow-up paper: The data could not be used to address that issue.
Well, maybe I should the paper. After I am done posting at /. of course!
Is that the best a MS fan-boy can do for his new fav toy? That is not a good sign for the company. I don't want to spend time on installation more than anyone else, but I would at least like to pretend it is a one-time cost (even though I have just had to re-install on the home computer) and it is certainly not 20 % of my calculations when thinking about upgrades.
The last reason, well, that is just a complete turn-off for me.
I have to say that I have seen plenty of academic codes that would make the most hardened programmer cry. My favourite example involves include files that behaves differently depending on which file includes them. And the conditionals are nested... When the ifdefs cover several pages at the time, it can be several days worth of work to understand what is going on.
No doubt the pressure is on also in academia, but add to that inadequate programming skills and you get an interesting combination.
- It is just a virtual world, just a game.
- The vulnerability of the system was demonstrated, possibly a good thing. It makes you consider the consequences about DOS-attacks in the real world.
- It lets people think about what is important in First Life: Maybe it is not a computer game?
- Some things has to be tried, sort of like climbing Mount Everest.
- I was not affected.
:-)
Nevertheless, this may ruin someones evening of good-hearted fun, affect SL's legitimate business and possibly (somewhat tangential) even ruin it. That is not fair and right.Is this event really so easily forgiven? Why are we not condemning this action with as much venom as we do with spam?
I live in Sweden and we have laws about making services accessible too, but not as sharp as ADA. Guess what, disabled over here have lots of examples of companies and government agencies not complying with the law. The US is often pointed out as a good example when it comes to working legislation for the disabled.
But this a display of closed-source mentality: "If the provider changes the license, we have to follow suit." In the open-source world, the source is out and available and skilled people would pick up the last GPLv2 release and continue using that. This seems to be an aspect that journalists are often missing, that free software is really free so you cannot control its re-distribution, only demand it.
No, it means that more samples are not rendered useless. Sounds like good science.
Yeah, and I was shocked when someone showed me that behaviour. I would never have tried that. That, without any visual clue, is as non-intuitive as it gets.
Sorry for the confusion.
The point here is that I want to link to any part of any document.
Some way of saying "fifth P element of this document" or "H1 element with text 'The Main Point'" should all be pretty easy to implement for a client program.
I am Swedish and I don't think that TPB has had much influence at all, laws and attitudes would have been just the same if this was an organization outside Sweden. My guess is that the presence of the organisation is simply reflecting current attitudes in general in Sweden today. It is notable that a minister in the socialdemocratic government downloaded mp3s, burned them to CD, and gave it to friend as a birthday present (Swedish article) already in 2000, without seeing any wrong with it.
An explanation to this phenomenon could be a tradition of relatively strong consumer protection laws (and traditions), and that the "personal use" clauses in copyright have always been defended here.
I liked to possibility to save some hits though and will give ask.com a try next time I need to search for something.
This makes the whole assertion even more stupid, since no country/ethnic group/publicity-seeking self-proclaimed human-rights experts can claim to own or control or have rights to that pool of DNA.
It is a very odd stunt indeed. But I guess there is an appreciating audience for this stuff too.
First of all, there's not nearly as much crime in Sweden as there is in Australia. The Swedish government takes proper care of their people, so no one feels a need to commit crime. There's no homeless people sleeping in parks at night. People are much, much friendlier.
It is too cold to sleep in the parks, that is the main reason you don't see them there. It might be that we have fewer homeless people here than in other countries, but they certainly exist and the situation is not nearly as good as you suggest.
And there are many who feel that Swedes are cold, more so than friendly.
I don't have any crime statistic, but I would be surprised if it was much lower than for comparable European countries. The most scary thing to me is that we have an unemployment rate of about 15% today and this hasn't changed for several years. It is a social bomb ticking away.
They also don't have any terrorist panic. There's no "terrorism alert levels", and there isn't much security. There's not even nearly as many police around as there is in Australia.
I haven't been to Australia, but aren't you describing most of Europe here? I can tell you that many Swedes would actually like to see more police on the streets.
I just hope everyone who reads this post can imagine what life would be like to live in a country where you don't need to be afraid of terrorism or crime, a country where almost all of the population gets a good education, and all this despite alcohol (and probably other drugs) being more easily accessible in this country.
Are you suggesting that alcohol is easy to get in Sweden?! The alcohol taxes are among the highest in the world, and you can only buy alcohol in special government stores. They are closed on Sundays and it was only last year that they started being open on Saturdays.
I like Sweden, but I have to say that you have a very unusual view of my country. Either that or you are astroturfing for the government...