Hold up to public scrutiny what China wants to hide.
Publish the blocked list.
While this doesn't solve the problem of Google pandering to the Chinese regime, it can demonstrate to the rest of the world exactly what China is afraid will unbalance it's leaderships power. Raising the visibility of banned authors and topics will help undermine their attempt to limit knowledge.
My biggest complaint with slashdot is that you can't hide a rathole.
Say there's a topic on space travel and someone chimes in about their breastfeeding theory and soon there's 85 replies: each one regaling us with a delightful and witty breastfeeding story that I'd just rather skip over. A collapsible outline format would allow the discerning reader to simply close irrelevant threads and subordinate branches.
No, I believe the original poster actually purchases CDs (you know in meatspace) and rips that. There's no DMCA violation - mainly because the industry failed to close a loophole no doubt:-)
A feature I've been looking for (no use for podcasts) - but earlier iTunes versions wouldn't allow you to hide the podcasts icon on the left. Thought it was funny because you can disable other entries you don't use.
Now you can go to "Parental Control" on preferences and disable it (as well as music store and shared music)
I started with a 4k PDP/8L and I wrote my first game in FOCAL. Must have been '71. All paper tape - we had no fancy tape drives.
This was a small private high school and we (the kids) got to load the COBOL compiler so the local university (FDU) could have a class in our computer room. Gee, mr, can we, can we, hun, please?!
An addiction that has stuck for life.
Thank you Delbarton.
*FDU - Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison Campus
Well it turns out the magnetic material in modern hard drives is really really hard. That means it takes a very strong magnetic field to change it.
Forget about the fan motor for a minute... the biggest magnetic force is the disk head as it writes a track nearby... Remember the bit about the energy dropping as the square of the distance? Well with track densities about 100,000/inch and bit densities around 500,000/inch the magnetic media has to be almost *NOT* magnetic so you don't overwrite a given track when you're writing an adjacent track.
The fan etc. are just too far away to effect the hard disk.
It's already there and been available for years. Well, in Japan anyway.
I wrote an open source EXIF metadata library for Delphi. Sometime in summer 2001, I had someone from Japan write and inquire about adding the GPS EXIF tags. I did so and tested it with some sample photos that were sent along. The interesting thing is that evidentally software shipped with the camera that plotted your path on a map and put links to each photo that you took. Of additional interest is that the GPS tags include an entry for "direction" that GPS normally doesn't return (that is: "Which direction is the camera pointing?"). So I don't know if the camera also had an embedded compass or not.
Lets see (sound of shuffling back throug old files...) that was a Kashmir model KASHMI.
This was the Enforcement Droid in the original Robocop movie. This is what came to mind when I read the title. Wheels - bah!
ED-209 was very cool and I wanted one in the worst way. Ok, so there were a few bugs to work out - like the 'gun is really dropped' override - and 'what to do on stairs'. I also wonder who put the tantrum routine in there. When it fell down and couldn't get up it threw a pretty good impression of a two-year-old!
By the time they start putting these things in street lights, they'll be cheap enough not to tempt anyone. As a matter of fact, the light bulb will probably be more expensive.
Right now, thanks to Best Buy et al, you can get a cheap wireless router for about 30 USD. Given the typical markups I'd bet they can build these for about $7 - $8 delivered in large quantities. Nothing worth crashing your car over;^)
1. Install IE Security patches - Linux N/A 2. Install MS Exchange Security patches - Linux N/A 3. Install MS Office Security patches - Linux N/A 4. Install MS Outlook Security patches - Linux N/A
5. Daily Operation - Linux faster
Yup. Microsoft is faster for 4 out of 5. (But who really wants to do those four?!)
Really, Quantum corp is a prime example of splitting your effort only to lose your primary market. Quantum is only a shadow of what they once were (dominent player in the Hard disk market). In July of '99 they split into two business units with separate tracking stocks. At the time the reason given was: "We don't want to anchor the rapid growth of the tape buinerss with the old-fashioned HD unit."
They sold the hard disk business to Maxtor (who is successful now) only to have their DLT business languish. Think "negative added shareholder value".
(Disclaimer: shareholder)
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Uh, both JSF vs. links above point to the same JSF vs Asp article.
Got something on JSF vs Struts?
Hold up to public scrutiny what China wants to hide.
Publish the blocked list.
While this doesn't solve the problem of Google pandering to the Chinese regime, it can demonstrate to the rest of the world exactly what China is afraid will unbalance it's leaderships power. Raising the visibility of banned authors and topics will help undermine their attempt to limit knowledge.
If you have two of "these" then why do you need any other stuff?
My biggest complaint with slashdot is that you can't hide a rathole.
Say there's a topic on space travel and someone chimes in about their breastfeeding theory and soon there's 85 replies: each one regaling us with a delightful and witty breastfeeding story that I'd just rather skip over. A collapsible outline format would allow the discerning reader to simply close irrelevant threads and subordinate branches.
No, I believe the original poster actually purchases CDs (you know in meatspace) and rips that. There's no DMCA violation - mainly because the industry failed to close a loophole no doubt :-)
A feature I've been looking for (no use for podcasts) - but earlier iTunes versions wouldn't allow you to hide the podcasts icon on the left. Thought it was funny because you can disable other entries you don't use.
Now you can go to "Parental Control" on preferences and disable it (as well as music store and shared music)
Sorry, Wil's still got some geek cred for me but he's getting a little too deep into the Texas poker stuff.
My god, one of his entries was even about sitting outside in Vegas, during daylight! He'll lose that hard earned pallor for sure.
Remember - it's only good until October 1st. Me, I'm tired of being an unpaid test pilot.
Yes!
Now where are my mod points when I need them.
+1, insightful [sorry honorary points only]
I *do* have a working 8-track quadrophonic system!
Finding media for this puppy is not easy!
8K?
What did you do with all that RAM?
I started with a 4k PDP/8L and I wrote
my first game in FOCAL. Must have been '71.
All paper tape - we had no fancy tape drives.
This was a small private high school and
we (the kids) got to load the COBOL compiler
so the local university (FDU) could have a class
in our computer room. Gee, mr, can we, can we,
hun, please?!
An addiction that has stuck for life.
Thank you Delbarton.
*FDU - Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison Campus
Well it turns out the magnetic material in modern hard drives is really really hard. That means it takes a very strong magnetic field to change it.
Forget about the fan motor for a minute... the biggest magnetic force is the disk head as it writes a track nearby... Remember the bit about the energy dropping as the square of the distance? Well with track densities about 100,000/inch and bit densities around 500,000/inch the magnetic media has to be almost *NOT* magnetic so you don't overwrite a given track when you're writing an adjacent track.
The fan etc. are just too far away to effect the hard disk.
The deal is actually $55 (or so) billion in the stock swap deal and Comcast would assume $11 billion of Disney's debt.
This is where the $66 billion headline came from.
Good news!
It's already there and been available for years. Well, in Japan anyway.
I wrote an open source EXIF metadata library for Delphi. Sometime in summer 2001, I had someone from Japan write and inquire about adding the GPS EXIF tags. I did so and tested it with some sample photos that were sent along. The interesting thing is that evidentally software shipped with the camera that plotted your path on a map and put links to each photo that you took. Of additional interest is that the GPS tags include an entry for "direction" that GPS normally doesn't return (that is: "Which direction is the camera pointing?"). So I don't know if the camera also had an embedded compass or not.
Lets see (sound of shuffling back throug old files...) that was a Kashmir model KASHMI.
Cheers!
This was the Enforcement Droid in the original Robocop movie. This is what came to mind when I read the title. Wheels - bah!
ED-209 was very cool and I wanted one in the worst way. Ok, so there were a few bugs to work out - like the 'gun is really dropped' override - and 'what to do on stairs'. I also wonder who put the tantrum routine in there. When it fell down and couldn't get up it threw a pretty good impression of a two-year-old!
--> "what is your greatest weakness".
/. sometime in the distant past...]
My favorite answer to that question is "Kryptonite!"
They'll probably remember that response and if they don't get a chukle from it you probably don't want that job anyway.
[Gleaned from somewhere in
By the time they start putting these things in street lights, they'll be cheap enough not to tempt anyone. As a matter of fact, the light bulb will probably be more expensive.
;^)
Right now, thanks to Best Buy et al, you can get a cheap wireless router for about 30 USD. Given the typical markups I'd bet they can build these for about $7 - $8 delivered in large quantities. Nothing worth crashing your car over
While Shrek may not be everyone's favorite animated movie it certainly qualifies as a financial success.
"DreamWorks says the Shrek franchise will deliver $1 billion in profits..." [Forbes]
I guess it depends on your definition of "sucked ass"!
Wow! Not only can I run Java on the
processor - it can brew it too!
I can't wait to get my NeverEmpty
coffee cup on ThinkGeek!
Troll?
Since when is a joke at Microsoft's expense
not funny. Is this slashdot?
So how the weather in Redmond these days?
Well lets see...
1. Install IE Security patches - Linux N/A
2. Install MS Exchange Security patches - Linux N/A
3. Install MS Office Security patches - Linux N/A
4. Install MS Outlook Security patches - Linux N/A
5. Daily Operation - Linux faster
Yup. Microsoft is faster for 4 out of 5.
(But who really wants to do those four?!)
Well thank goodness for car thieves or
my automobile wouldn't be nearly as
secure.
When you combine this with the help of
good-hearted burglars (who ensure my domestic
bliss) it kinda brings a tear to the eye.
Really, Quantum corp is a prime example of
splitting your effort only to lose your primary
market. Quantum is only a shadow of what
they once were (dominent player in the Hard disk
market). In July of '99 they split into
two business units with separate tracking
stocks. At the time the reason given was:
"We don't want to anchor the rapid growth of
the tape buinerss with the old-fashioned HD
unit."
They sold the hard disk business to Maxtor (who
is successful now) only to have their DLT
business languish. Think "negative added
shareholder value".
(Disclaimer: shareholder)
Exactly!
Reference: See Quantum
Yeah, and look where DG is today! :)