What that really means is that the unshifted and shifted keys are different letters of the alphabet, which makes touch typing a PITA. None of the other meta keys is used for typing, however. It could be worse, I guess.
Worse than that is a situation like mine. I am an English speaker living in Korean (obviously needing the keyboard here) and using Thai a couple of times a week, as well. Remembering to touch type Thai with its 46 consonants and 36 vowels is nearly impossible for me, so I end up hunting around the three or four keys that I suspect are correct.
I would still never buy one of these keyboards, though. Only if my job revolved around using multiple character sets daily...
Well, I went there on your suggestion, never having tried it before, chose all my favorite bands and styles, and was told "We don't support Netscape 6.0+ at this time." They lose, I guess.
Despite being tonal, Thai as an SVO language was pretty easy to learn for me, but SOV Korean is raking me over the coals and it's enjoying every minute of it, too.
One more thing -- make sure that "magic points" and "Karma" or whatever you use are an economy unto themselves. Like maybe some regions are more magic-prone than others, and points recover based on an algorithm, but no more than x total point for everyone in the area per day. The points get rationed out or something. If there are 800 magicians staying in a city for a magicians convention, then, nobody is recovering anything until the convention leaves town, PLUS there's no room in the inn and you'll be sleeping in the stable again.;)
I'm not really a gamer, but I think that I'd play your game, but only because I like role playing. I never realized that MMORPGs worked the way that you say that they currently do. It sounds idiotic, and why would I want to play in a world where nothing ever really changes. Up to this point, I haven't played them because they just don't look any fun.
So I say "code it," if you can, and not in some flippant, "If you want feature, then add it" way. I mean really. If it's within your ability, I think that it would be great. Make it so that when the cleric opens a rift in the ground to swallow some eveil city, not only is the city gone, but the plate tectonics change. When a horde of locusts is called in, the crops are ruined, the locusts spead to other areas, there's massive famile, and the characters can't buy food. When a tornado is called down by a mage, the weather pattern over the whole continent shifts a little. Make hurricanes and tidal waves to destroy the ships and harbors.The possibilities are endless.
So that things don't get too civilized, create an unassailable "hell" or "Mordor" (however you spell it) in a part of the world where evil things keep respawning and resettling. Make it all use AI. The really powerful characters can "retire" to live in the city and do whatever they want, but who'll want to play a retired character? If your world is harsh enough to keep knocking civilization down, then it'll never get out of hand. Program the AI and let it handle the economy, the pilgimage of elves across the plains to their ancestral home once a year, and whether the inn has room for you or you need to sleep in the stable.
Make characters die often, especially the powerful ones. Becoming powerful just makes you a target, you know. Suddenly there are quests against the major players in the game. Although I don't understand the way guilds work in WoW, it sounds like it sucks, and you should find some way to avoid armies running around full time, perhaps disease or food supply or something. Make the world tough, because it's an adventure, right? Make the harshness a constant in your game, so that it can be adjusted up or down depending on how civilization is doing. Or just let the demons overrun the world, reboot the game and make everyone start over from scratch. Either way, it sounds like good role-playing, if less hack-and-slash than most people are used to. It doesn't even have to be graphically great, I think, if the "change the world" premise is sold well enough. Think of it as networked nethack with AI on a grand scale.
Finally, make sure that it has SEX, because that in and of itself will cause the game to sell. If characters can go to a brothel and pay to have sex while the player watches the action and whacks off at home, you'll be rich, and both the players and characters will be eternally poor. Of course, for that part, the graphics will have to be more than nethackish....
( |\ --> ( |/ \\o// -->:P^\| ) just won't make it there.;)
But before you hit those mod buttons, at least finish reading. I finished my above post by complaining the this forum is spending all its time talking about slavery and virtually none of it talking about nerdy stuff, like the tech involved or even light science like atropology -- what does this "discovery" mean to that field?
Well, it brings up my disgust after over eight years of reading Slashdot, and the story choice these days. From the various sections:
Apple Today: 0 Yesterday: 1 Ask Slashdot Today: 1 (about energy drinks, FGS) Yesterday: 4 (I generally avoid Asks unless I think I can answer the submitter's question or have the same problem myself) Developers Today: 0 Yesterday: 4 (One was an Ask and 2 were product releases) Games Today: 8 Yesterday: 15 (Since when did Slash become a gaming site. People used to brag about Nethack!) Hardware: Today: 1 Yesterday: 6 (2 were really Games) Interview: Today: 0 Yesterday: 0 (Not surprising, really) IT: Today: 3 Yesterday: 6 Linux Today: 0 Yesterday: 0 (You have to be kidding me! NO Linux stories on Slash in the last two days?) Politics: Today: 3 (1 is YRO) Yesterday: 1 Science: Today: 4 Yesterday: 5 (1 was YRO) -- These were almost all really puff stories like this one. YRO: Today: 3 Yesterday: 7 (This has to be the worst section in Slash... Oh no, that's Politics. Sorry)
I guess that the readership demographic has changed significantly in the last couple of years. I would move on, but I can't find anywhere better. I had originally hoped that Bruce's website would pan out, but it didn't, and Kuro5hin and Digg just dont have the tech that I'm looking for. Any suggestions?
The atrocity doesn't need to be minimized, because human rights just wasn't an issue for 99% of the world's population. Nobody cared. Slaves were held, women were beaten to death, and people were burned at the stake for suspected crimes against the state or a religioin. If you were the biggest, baddest guy on the block, you could do anything you wanted and you got away with it. If you were strong enough, you could walk right into your neighbor's backyard, pull him out of his house, and slit his throat. This "neighbor" could be a man, a lord, a king, or a whole race of people, depending on how truly global your power was.
I truly belive that most people of that time had to be psychotic: they were beaten or raped regularly as children, abused by anyone who had more power than they did, and illiterate (for the most part), as well. Geez, put somebody from rural Africa or the Americas 500 years ago, who didn't know from which direction the disease, animal, or human that would cut him down the following day would come, into our modern society, and the cruellest men of our time would look normal to him, just like every man in power he'd ever met.
You can't judge historical figures with modern morality. It's just not fair.
Finally, I want to know why we need to use this story as an excuse to discuss slavery and who should be blamed for it, instead of the tech involved in dating / placing the origin of the specimen and whether the conclusions are valid or not. This is a techie site, after all....
I know that everybody here is talking about Asberger's, but not me. My sister is severely autistic, to the point that she is still in a supervised group-home sstting even though she is over forty. I skipped the whole freshman calc sequence and went right into DiffEq my first semester at uni. Do my sister and I share that common gene? It's possible, I guess. My parents almost didn't have another child after my sister, fearing another severely autistic child. It may turn out that they were almost correct in their fear.
I RTFA, and have to say that I was quite impressed. I rarely see articles about tech news online that are longer than a few clomn-inches, but the NYT put together what appears to be a thoroughly-researched piece on Yahoo!'s evolution this the.bomb period.
Yahoo! focusing on media and advertising appears to be paying off for it, and it's purchase of Inktomi was handled well. It's market cap doesn't look as illogical as that of the goliath standing next to it, either. I'm glad to see that one ex-media mogul "gets it."
What's really amusing about your post is that,while I haven't watched commercial TV in the US for many years, when I was young, "Filmed in front of a studio audience" was network-speak for "canned laughter." If there was a live audience, they'd say so.
I've joked for a long time that the death penalty should apply for any crime greater than grand theft auto, since that's the modern equivalent of horse stealing there in the US. Convict 'em and hang 'em / shoot 'em the next morning. I guess that you'd have to let {deity} sort them out if they deserved an appeal...
Heck, I lived for over four years in a country where on-the-spot execution for drug traffickers was legal. Hint: It's in SE Asia and the PM is one of the richest men in the world.
The other forces at work there: 1) IBM outsourced OS development for the PC platform to Microsoft, effectively giving them control of the desktop once the PC platform became ubiquitous. ** There were other competitors to MS during the early period which MS has been found guilty of subjecting to anti-competitive tactics, and had to pay reparations for.
2) Lotus had the dominant position in spreadsheets with 1-2-3, but lost out to Excel by being slow in transitioning to a GUI, slow to add features, etc. ** This may be true, but see #3 for an additional reason.
3) Wordperfect had the word processing market locked up, but fell behind for reasons similar to Lotus. ** The reason that I found for the fall from grace was during my work for the US gov't between 1995 and 1999, when the gov't standardized on MS Office, and companies which needed to deal with the gov't switched over en masse. So, in effect, it was almost a gov't enforced monopoly based on the the closed file formats used by MS office.
4) Novell dominated the PC networking scene but was based on proprietary protocols, was too obscure and command-line oriented, etc. ** Once MS put all^Wmost of the major features of Novell networking into Windows 95, however poorly implemented, people tended to use those supplied features. Companies which were already Novell stayed that way for a long time, but new small businesses didn't bother going to Novell, in genereal.
5) Netscape had the superior browser and majority share but became a slow, buggy piece of bloatware. ** Plus the fact that it suffered under the anti-competitive abuse of MS, as shown in court (same as #1)
6) Apple had the superior UI (and still does in many ways) but allowed the gap to close considerably prior to OS X. ** Apple really made some bad choices in the 90's, but ultimately is a hardware company and not a software one, so shouldn't be directly compared to MS. It's like comparing Solaris to MS Windows. (I know tha it operates on x86, BTW)
7) Symantec had a lock on tools with superior Norton products which have devolved into buggy bloatware (not that Microsoft yet competes against this, but it gives them a reason to develop their own equivalents). ** The recent interview with security VP Mike Nash leads me to believe that Symantec will end up competing with MS Windows the same as Novell, Netscape, Real, or any of the anti-spyware products' companies have.
This is why ALL my installs for the years that I've had a high speed connection (whether at work or at home) have been network installs. Boot the installation disk using the minimum amount of software necessary to do the job and install everything at the most recently patched level. There's no 1) Install 2) Patch 3) Reboot process in which you are an open target for a couple of hours.
It's still not perfect, and you can get caught on something that's still unpatched, but by installing a closed firewall, snort and tripwire from the beginning, you can be relatively sure about your status as "uncomprimised."
I was thinking that it must be nice to legally install unlicensed copies of Windows XP SP2 that you carry around on your keychain. This is not a duplicatable process, I think...
One of my best friends in high school was an exchange student from a Beijing teachers college. Her brother was wounded at Tian An Men, being shot in the knee, and couldn't go to the hospital for fear of being imprisoned (my friend swears that her brother was not involved in the demonstrations, and was there as a bystander. She had no reason to lie to me about it.) I met him in Beijing before the event and understand that he walks with a cane now.
My rather arcane point to this is that there are quite a few people wandering around (especially in Beijing) who experienced the demonstations first hand, and I would have thought that word-of-mouth would spread the story to all corners of the PRC. I guess I'm wrong, though, considering your anecdote...
I know that you were joking, but what I really want is a CMS where I just upload files to a folder on the server, and the CMS puts that content into the site. For example, use any OpenDocument Text file to create a page (pages). Content production would be a breeze. I think that eZ publish can do this, but I've never gotten the set up to work correctly.
My father spent his life doing what he loved to do -- flying. It was his dream to fly when he was a child, and he managed his life so that he could do it as long as possible, even turning down promotions and better pay so that he could continue flying.
He made sure that he flew them all, too, from fighter jets to the largest commercial planes, from props to jets to helicopters. He never got tired of his job, and would often tell me to do what I enjoyed doing, and that the money would come eventually. He said that while he struggled with making enough money to keep his family going the way that he wanted to, but he never doubted. After I left home for uni, he moved into a better flying position and tripled his salary, finally allowing him and my mother to make the kind of money that they really wanted. It took many years for that to happen, though.
If you ask him, he'll tell you that he loved flying until the end of his career. Sure, he made some errors in judgement and would change some things about his life if he could go back, but he'll still say what he's always said -- "Do what you love to do, and then you'll do it well. When you do something well and it doesn't seem like work, you'll be successful at it." I used to call it "subjective pay per hour (SPPH)," meaning that sitting in a 40 hour a week job where every day feels like an eternity gives a lower SPPH than working twelve hours a day doing what you love and never noticing the time speeding by." I think a lot of people on this site know what I'm talking about.
I have had a lot of problems with my father over the years, but this is one area where I believe he hit the nail right on the head.
The most common of these chips right now is the RaLink 2500, used in many laptops. The driver was open sourced in early 2005 and lacked some important features at the time, such as managed networks. The driver now is stable, though, and causes me no problems on my laptop except needing to be unloaded before suspending.
For what it's worth, Ubuntu supports this chip out of the box with their restricted modules package, and I didn't have to do any CLI work to get the chip working under Breezy on my latest laptop, unlike a similar model that I bought last year which I spent a fair amount of time researching the chip and compiling the driver under Warty. Under Breezy, it only required filling in the necessary info in the standard network configuration dialog.
What I don't understand is that BN (The type of wine tested) is produced to be drunk immediately. It is already "smooth" before the process that was mentioned even gets to it. In fact, BN doesn't age well at all, and shouldn't be drunk more than a year or two out from bottling...
While what I'm going to say may seem slightly off-topic at first, keep reading, please. On my last trip into Seoul, I went looking in the computer malls for a DivX player for several hours. These are easy to find and play movies or music of most formats through your TV with 5.1 sound. While I could build one myself, these are smaller (about the size of a cable modem or wireless router) and/or cheaper (about US$125) than a home-built solution. Oddly, they all worked off of a USB cable. You disconnect the DivX player from the A/V setup, carry it over to your computer, load the movie that you want to watch onto the flash RAM, reattach the player to the A/V setup, and play the movie. This seemed rather like a lot of work.
So, I asked for what I thought was an obvious feature -- to access a Samba share across a wireless (or even physical) network to play movies. After hours of talking to virtually every vendor and them making many phone calls to their suppliers, I found no DivX players with this faeture. One shop promised that it would be in the "next model."
It would be pretty easy for me to set up Geexbox to do this, but I really wanted the small form-factor at the small price. I expected that a network-aware player would cost more, but never suspected that one did not exist. It's not really important enough for me to spend over US$200 on, and I certainly want a setup that's small enough to take back home with me when I'm finished in Korea, so I guess that I'll pass on building my own and wait for that "next model."
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Sex was a joke, included for Slashdotters' benefit. The other ideas are serious, though.
What that really means is that the unshifted and shifted keys are different letters of the alphabet, which makes touch typing a PITA. None of the other meta keys is used for typing, however. It could be worse, I guess.
Worse than that is a situation like mine. I am an English speaker living in Korean (obviously needing the keyboard here) and using Thai a couple of times a week, as well. Remembering to touch type Thai with its 46 consonants and 36 vowels is nearly impossible for me, so I end up hunting around the three or four keys that I suspect are correct.
I would still never buy one of these keyboards, though. Only if my job revolved around using multiple character sets daily...
Well, I went there on your suggestion, never having tried it before, chose all my favorite bands and styles, and was told "We don't support Netscape 6.0+ at this time." They lose, I guess.
Despite being tonal, Thai as an SVO language was pretty easy to learn for me, but SOV Korean is raking me over the coals and it's enjoying every minute of it, too.
One more thing -- make sure that "magic points" and "Karma" or whatever you use are an economy unto themselves. Like maybe some regions are more magic-prone than others, and points recover based on an algorithm, but no more than x total point for everyone in the area per day. The points get rationed out or something. If there are 800 magicians staying in a city for a magicians convention, then, nobody is recovering anything until the convention leaves town, PLUS there's no room in the inn and you'll be sleeping in the stable again. ;)
I'm not really a gamer, but I think that I'd play your game, but only because I like role playing. I never realized that MMORPGs worked the way that you say that they currently do. It sounds idiotic, and why would I want to play in a world where nothing ever really changes. Up to this point, I haven't played them because they just don't look any fun.
... :P^\| ) just won't make it there. ;)
So I say "code it," if you can, and not in some flippant, "If you want feature, then add it" way. I mean really. If it's within your ability, I think that it would be great. Make it so that when the cleric opens a rift in the ground to swallow some eveil city, not only is the city gone, but the plate tectonics change. When a horde of locusts is called in, the crops are ruined, the locusts spead to other areas, there's massive famile, and the characters can't buy food. When a tornado is called down by a mage, the weather pattern over the whole continent shifts a little. Make hurricanes and tidal waves to destroy the ships and harbors.The possibilities are endless.
So that things don't get too civilized, create an unassailable "hell" or "Mordor" (however you spell it) in a part of the world where evil things keep respawning and resettling. Make it all use AI. The really powerful characters can "retire" to live in the city and do whatever they want, but who'll want to play a retired character? If your world is harsh enough to keep knocking civilization down, then it'll never get out of hand. Program the AI and let it handle the economy, the pilgimage of elves across the plains to their ancestral home once a year, and whether the inn has room for you or you need to sleep in the stable.
Make characters die often, especially the powerful ones. Becoming powerful just makes you a target, you know. Suddenly there are quests against the major players in the game. Although I don't understand the way guilds work in WoW, it sounds like it sucks, and you should find some way to avoid armies running around full time, perhaps disease or food supply or something. Make the world tough, because it's an adventure, right? Make the harshness a constant in your game, so that it can be adjusted up or down depending on how civilization is doing. Or just let the demons overrun the world, reboot the game and make everyone start over from scratch. Either way, it sounds like good role-playing, if less hack-and-slash than most people are used to. It doesn't even have to be graphically great, I think, if the "change the world" premise is sold well enough. Think of it as networked nethack with AI on a grand scale.
Finally, make sure that it has SEX, because that in and of itself will cause the game to sell. If characters can go to a brothel and pay to have sex while the player watches the action and whacks off at home, you'll be rich, and both the players and characters will be eternally poor. Of course, for that part, the graphics will have to be more than nethackish.
( |\ --> ( |/ \\o// -->
But before you hit those mod buttons, at least finish reading. I finished my above post by complaining the this forum is spending all its time talking about slavery and virtually none of it talking about nerdy stuff, like the tech involved or even light science like atropology -- what does this "discovery" mean to that field?
... Oh no, that's Politics. Sorry)
Well, it brings up my disgust after over eight years of reading Slashdot, and the story choice these days. From the various sections:
Apple Today: 0 Yesterday: 1
Ask Slashdot Today: 1 (about energy drinks, FGS) Yesterday: 4 (I generally avoid Asks unless I think I can answer the submitter's question or have the same problem myself)
Developers Today: 0 Yesterday: 4 (One was an Ask and 2 were product releases)
Games Today: 8 Yesterday: 15 (Since when did Slash become a gaming site. People used to brag about Nethack!)
Hardware: Today: 1 Yesterday: 6 (2 were really Games)
Interview: Today: 0 Yesterday: 0 (Not surprising, really)
IT: Today: 3 Yesterday: 6
Linux Today: 0 Yesterday: 0 (You have to be kidding me! NO Linux stories on Slash in the last two days?)
Politics: Today: 3 (1 is YRO) Yesterday: 1
Science: Today: 4 Yesterday: 5 (1 was YRO) -- These were almost all really puff stories like this one.
YRO: Today: 3 Yesterday: 7 (This has to be the worst section in Slash
I guess that the readership demographic has changed significantly in the last couple of years. I would move on, but I can't find anywhere better. I had originally hoped that Bruce's website would pan out, but it didn't, and Kuro5hin and Digg just dont have the tech that I'm looking for. Any suggestions?
The atrocity doesn't need to be minimized, because human rights just wasn't an issue for 99% of the world's population. Nobody cared. Slaves were held, women were beaten to death, and people were burned at the stake for suspected crimes against the state or a religioin. If you were the biggest, baddest guy on the block, you could do anything you wanted and you got away with it. If you were strong enough, you could walk right into your neighbor's backyard, pull him out of his house, and slit his throat. This "neighbor" could be a man, a lord, a king, or a whole race of people, depending on how truly global your power was.
...
I truly belive that most people of that time had to be psychotic: they were beaten or raped regularly as children, abused by anyone who had more power than they did, and illiterate (for the most part), as well. Geez, put somebody from rural Africa or the Americas 500 years ago, who didn't know from which direction the disease, animal, or human that would cut him down the following day would come, into our modern society, and the cruellest men of our time would look normal to him, just like every man in power he'd ever met.
You can't judge historical figures with modern morality. It's just not fair.
Finally, I want to know why we need to use this story as an excuse to discuss slavery and who should be blamed for it, instead of the tech involved in dating / placing the origin of the specimen and whether the conclusions are valid or not. This is a techie site, after all.
I know that everybody here is talking about Asberger's, but not me. My sister is severely autistic, to the point that she is still in a supervised group-home sstting even though she is over forty. I skipped the whole freshman calc sequence and went right into DiffEq my first semester at uni. Do my sister and I share that common gene? It's possible, I guess. My parents almost didn't have another child after my sister, fearing another severely autistic child. It may turn out that they were almost correct in their fear.
The figers aren't working today. That should read "column-inches" and "since the .bomb period." Jeez!
I RTFA, and have to say that I was quite impressed. I rarely see articles about tech news online that are longer than a few clomn-inches, but the NYT put together what appears to be a thoroughly-researched piece on Yahoo!'s evolution this the .bomb period.
Yahoo! focusing on media and advertising appears to be paying off for it, and it's purchase of Inktomi was handled well. It's market cap doesn't look as illogical as that of the goliath standing next to it, either. I'm glad to see that one ex-media mogul "gets it."
What's really amusing about your post is that,while I haven't watched commercial TV in the US for many years, when I was young, "Filmed in front of a studio audience" was network-speak for "canned laughter." If there was a live audience, they'd say so.
I've joked for a long time that the death penalty should apply for any crime greater than grand theft auto, since that's the modern equivalent of horse stealing there in the US. Convict 'em and hang 'em / shoot 'em the next morning. I guess that you'd have to let {deity} sort them out if they deserved an appeal...
Heck, I lived for over four years in a country where on-the-spot execution for drug traffickers was legal. Hint: It's in SE Asia and the PM is one of the richest men in the world.
Wow. You made it on my VERY short list of friends with that comment. Hoozah! I now have kim chi in my nose, too, so thanks for that.
The other forces at work there:
1) IBM outsourced OS development for the PC platform to Microsoft, effectively giving them control of the desktop once the PC platform became ubiquitous.
** There were other competitors to MS during the early period which MS has been found guilty of subjecting to anti-competitive tactics, and had to pay reparations for.
2) Lotus had the dominant position in spreadsheets with 1-2-3, but lost out to Excel by being slow in transitioning to a GUI, slow to add features, etc.
** This may be true, but see #3 for an additional reason.
3) Wordperfect had the word processing market locked up, but fell behind for reasons similar to Lotus.
** The reason that I found for the fall from grace was during my work for the US gov't between 1995 and 1999, when the gov't standardized on MS Office, and companies which needed to deal with the gov't switched over en masse. So, in effect, it was almost a gov't enforced monopoly based on the the closed file formats used by MS office.
4) Novell dominated the PC networking scene but was based on proprietary protocols, was too obscure and command-line oriented, etc.
** Once MS put all^Wmost of the major features of Novell networking into Windows 95, however poorly implemented, people tended to use those supplied features. Companies which were already Novell stayed that way for a long time, but new small businesses didn't bother going to Novell, in genereal.
5) Netscape had the superior browser and majority share but became a slow, buggy piece of bloatware.
** Plus the fact that it suffered under the anti-competitive abuse of MS, as shown in court (same as #1)
6) Apple had the superior UI (and still does in many ways) but allowed the gap to close considerably prior to OS X.
** Apple really made some bad choices in the 90's, but ultimately is a hardware company and not a software one, so shouldn't be directly compared to MS. It's like comparing Solaris to MS Windows. (I know tha it operates on x86, BTW)
7) Symantec had a lock on tools with superior Norton products which have devolved into buggy bloatware (not that Microsoft yet competes against this, but it gives them a reason to develop their own equivalents).
** The recent interview with security VP Mike Nash leads me to believe that Symantec will end up competing with MS Windows the same as Novell, Netscape, Real, or any of the anti-spyware products' companies have.
This is why ALL my installs for the years that I've had a high speed connection (whether at work or at home) have been network installs. Boot the installation disk using the minimum amount of software necessary to do the job and install everything at the most recently patched level. There's no 1) Install 2) Patch 3) Reboot process in which you are an open target for a couple of hours.
It's still not perfect, and you can get caught on something that's still unpatched, but by installing a closed firewall, snort and tripwire from the beginning, you can be relatively sure about your status as "uncomprimised."
My 20 Won ROK, anyway
I was thinking that it must be nice to legally install unlicensed copies of Windows XP SP2 that you carry around on your keychain. This is not a duplicatable process, I think...
I hear a cry for "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it" going out...
One of my best friends in high school was an exchange student from a Beijing teachers college. Her brother was wounded at Tian An Men, being shot in the knee, and couldn't go to the hospital for fear of being imprisoned (my friend swears that her brother was not involved in the demonstrations, and was there as a bystander. She had no reason to lie to me about it.) I met him in Beijing before the event and understand that he walks with a cane now.
My rather arcane point to this is that there are quite a few people wandering around (especially in Beijing) who experienced the demonstations first hand, and I would have thought that word-of-mouth would spread the story to all corners of the PRC. I guess I'm wrong, though, considering your anecdote...
I know that you were joking, but what I really want is a CMS where I just upload files to a folder on the server, and the CMS puts that content into the site. For example, use any OpenDocument Text file to create a page (pages). Content production would be a breeze. I think that eZ publish can do this, but I've never gotten the set up to work correctly.
My father spent his life doing what he loved to do -- flying. It was his dream to fly when he was a child, and he managed his life so that he could do it as long as possible, even turning down promotions and better pay so that he could continue flying.
He made sure that he flew them all, too, from fighter jets to the largest commercial planes, from props to jets to helicopters. He never got tired of his job, and would often tell me to do what I enjoyed doing, and that the money would come eventually. He said that while he struggled with making enough money to keep his family going the way that he wanted to, but he never doubted. After I left home for uni, he moved into a better flying position and tripled his salary, finally allowing him and my mother to make the kind of money that they really wanted. It took many years for that to happen, though.
If you ask him, he'll tell you that he loved flying until the end of his career. Sure, he made some errors in judgement and would change some things about his life if he could go back, but he'll still say what he's always said -- "Do what you love to do, and then you'll do it well. When you do something well and it doesn't seem like work, you'll be successful at it." I used to call it "subjective pay per hour (SPPH)," meaning that sitting in a 40 hour a week job where every day feels like an eternity gives a lower SPPH than working twelve hours a day doing what you love and never noticing the time speeding by." I think a lot of people on this site know what I'm talking about.
I have had a lot of problems with my father over the years, but this is one area where I believe he hit the nail right on the head.
The most common of these chips right now is the RaLink 2500, used in many laptops. The driver was open sourced in early 2005 and lacked some important features at the time, such as managed networks. The driver now is stable, though, and causes me no problems on my laptop except needing to be unloaded before suspending.
For what it's worth, Ubuntu supports this chip out of the box with their restricted modules package, and I didn't have to do any CLI work to get the chip working under Breezy on my latest laptop, unlike a similar model that I bought last year which I spent a fair amount of time researching the chip and compiling the driver under Warty. Under Breezy, it only required filling in the necessary info in the standard network configuration dialog.
What I don't understand is that BN (The type of wine tested) is produced to be drunk immediately. It is already "smooth" before the process that was mentioned even gets to it. In fact, BN doesn't age well at all, and shouldn't be drunk more than a year or two out from bottling...
While what I'm going to say may seem slightly off-topic at first, keep reading, please. On my last trip into Seoul, I went looking in the computer malls for a DivX player for several hours. These are easy to find and play movies or music of most formats through your TV with 5.1 sound. While I could build one myself, these are smaller (about the size of a cable modem or wireless router) and/or cheaper (about US$125) than a home-built solution. Oddly, they all worked off of a USB cable. You disconnect the DivX player from the A/V setup, carry it over to your computer, load the movie that you want to watch onto the flash RAM, reattach the player to the A/V setup, and play the movie. This seemed rather like a lot of work.
So, I asked for what I thought was an obvious feature -- to access a Samba share across a wireless (or even physical) network to play movies. After hours of talking to virtually every vendor and them making many phone calls to their suppliers, I found no DivX players with this faeture. One shop promised that it would be in the "next model."
It would be pretty easy for me to set up Geexbox to do this, but I really wanted the small form-factor at the small price. I expected that a network-aware player would cost more, but never suspected that one did not exist. It's not really important enough for me to spend over US$200 on, and I certainly want a setup that's small enough to take back home with me when I'm finished in Korea, so I guess that I'll pass on building my own and wait for that "next model."