Mr. Torr uses IE to download Firefox in his blog article. Why am I not surprised that IE has difficulties downloading Firefox? Next thing we know, an internal Microsoft memo will surface recommending that MS "cut off Firefox's air supply."
I would say its more important that My resume created in OO renders exactly that same in word. Since you as the the resume author are the one with OO and your potential employer is the one most likely running MS office.
In addition to Word, most employers also have Adobe Reader. Just export your OO resume to PDF and email it them that way. I love OO's built-in export to PDF function for this reason.
Having just spent the past year studying Japanese at an intensive immersive program at Cornell University (FALCON), I might be able to provide some insight. First and foremost, your technology should support your teaching/training methodology. Develop your methodology first, then build your technology around it. Otherwise you may wind up spending your budget in ways that do not clearly contribute to your learning process.
For example, the methodology at Cornell is to build both understanding and automaticity with the language. Understanding is achieved using detailed textbooks (Eleanor Harz Jordan, which some students complain about for being too dry, but which I believe explain the details of the language more completely than any other series), and daily lectures that further explain aspects of the grammar that students may not have completely understood from reading. The technological contribution here is minimal.
Automaticity - the ability to speak Japanese correctly without thinking about it - is achieved by having students memorize lots of conversations and grammatical patterns during homework and study lab. Then, during 3 drill periods per day led by native Japanese speakers, students are challenged to use these conversations and grammatical patterns in new ways. Once students reach the point where they can instantly recall and apply various grammatical patterns to new conversational situations without much thought, then they have achieved automaticity with the language.
Technology is used to support achieving automaticity in several ways. Much of it is audio-based, and some of the audio is on language tapes, other is in quicktime audio on a website (http://lrc.cornell.edu), and other is audio/video in quicktime vids on the website. The most important aspect of the audio is that it is all spoken by native Japanese speakers, and in Cornell's case, by Tokyo-ites. If you do something similar, keep in mind that the goal should be to create an efficient method of accessing whatever audio your class uses.
For a little more detail, audio is used in several ways. First, on the course website are quicktime videos of native Japanese people in various everyday situations. Students watch the video and are required to 1) understand the situation and the cultural aspects of it, and 2) to memorize all sides of the converstation, and 3) to re-enact the conversation during drill class with the native Japanese teacher. The teacher will change things around and challenge the students to step out of the memorized comfort-zone and use the patterns, vocab, and newly acquired knowledge of Japanese culture to respond correctly to different situations.
A second use is something called "Eavesdroppings", in which students listen to quicktime audio files of conversations between native Japanese speakers, and must translate what was said. It tests listening and understanding ability.
Also, one thing that helped me was that I was able to convert all the Quicktime audio and video to MP3 files using Quicktime Pro and Audacity (http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/), and put them on my iPod, which let me carry around and listen to my Japanese wherever I was, or even when driving my car four hour
...Sydney to Australia? Are you circling around the airport and landing again?;)
Erm, funny, yes, and observant, yes, but not insightful. Oh, right, the Funny mod doesn't give karma points, so we're all subbing Insightful and Interesting for Funny now. Can the/. admins please add karma to Funny mods? Half the reason I read/. is for the witty humor, and this forced mod mis-labeling is getting a bit annoying.
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What Google really needs is a for pay LexisNexis tab so you can find real information from real sources in real time. That and a tab that indexes full text medical and science journals. Those damn journals! I love em but I don't have hundreds of dollars a year for each Psych. journal I want to read and hate going to libraries if I just want to see what's shaking in the world of science. With full text periodicals and full test journal search Google would become a singularity of information.
Agreed, however what would be even better would be for them to just buy Lexis and the journals and make all their content available online for free. Expensive yes, but it would give Google a lock on the most pertinent and valuable of human knowledge (real knowledge, not Paris Hoochie bs), driving insane amounts of traffic through their site and commensurately increasing their ad revenue.
"I think the creation of not merely a new Chinese history but a whole Chinese reality, basically in 5 short decades, is probably the greatest cultural achievement of the previous century."
Welcome to the relativist / dialectical materialist method of social organization. Social change through mass mind control through complete information control and the eradication of absolute truth. I wouldn't call it "great", though.
Why can't these companies allow you to challenge items on your credit report electronically?!#@!$! I do everything electronically these days and writing and mailing a snail-mail letter hurts to just consider. But I need to since some of my parent's credit cards are showing up on my credit reports.
When the person thinks they are telling the truth then the lie is not a lie anymore. Its all relative!
It's not all relative. Thinking something false is true does not make it true, as you're bound to find out one way or another sooner or later. Further, even if you believe you're telling the truth, you still have to have concocted it sometime before and then convinced yourself it's actually true, which would have required extra brain activity. Perhaps there are some highly intelligent people for whom concocting a sophisticated and convincing lie on the spur of the moment uses no more brain activity than regurgitating a known truth (Kaiser Soze comes to mind), but I doubt your average terrorist is capable of such a feat.
Perhaps you can beat this kind of lie detector test by doing all the work of convincing yourself that your lie is true ahead of time, so that when you're strapped into the machine, you'll only have to use a normal amount of brain activity to respond to the questions. That assumes you know what the pertinent questions are ahead of time, though.
True, but Capitalism provides a high level of class mobility, and combined with the social stability seen in America, the result is a self-perpetuating power structure whose members are highly variable. Also, that power structure is limited in ways that prevent it from abusing its power, theoretically, at least moreso than most other forms of government.
Further, to respond to the other poster, intelligence is not the defining factor in class mobility. It is certainly a factor, and it seems like it is the only one because these days smart people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, etc. get all the media attention. But there are plenty of self-made wealthy people who got that way just by hustling and working hard, whose IQ is just average. To don my tin-foil hat for a moment, it is in the best interests of people who favor Socialism to have the general public believe that there is little or no class mobility and that people's station in life is predetermined by their innate intelligence. Socialism requires a proletariat, be that the Working Class, the Middle Class, or whatever, and one reason it hasn't caught on in America as it has in Europe is due to our relatively easy class mobility. Yes, the American Dream is alive and well, and not soley dependent upon hereditary intelligence for its survival.
So I hopped back to Slashdot after my break at work came around,
That's alright, you don't have to hide the fact that you leave/. open on a web browser and constantly refresh it every two minutes at work. Like we all do. It's okay to come out of the closet here.
What in the hell does that sentence mean? I can handle a couple of spelling or grammatical problems, but seriously!
Engrish. Definitely Engrish. (No offense to my Asian friends, your Engrish is much better than my Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. But it's still funny.)
The only reason the government gets technology like this developed is intelligent people will do anything for their degree or grant money.
Interestingly, and somewhat related, a friend of mine who is an engineering PhD student at an Ivy informed me that since the Bush admin took over, funding for pure research has all but dried up. The only things getting funding from the Feds now are projects with near-immediate benefits, like this eavesdropping device. Longer-term research that is essential to maintaining the US's scientific leadership (if that still exists) is getting harder and harder to fund.
but AMD has taken the Intel bull by the horns and is beginning to bring it to its knees.
I'm guessing that started happening about the time Dirk Meyer and the remnants of his Alpha team left HPQ and went over to AMD. Given the unfortunate fate of Alpha, I hope those guys get the last laugh on Intel, by way of AMD.
seems like any person with a basic understanding of human nature and history would realize that capitalism encourages and rewards this sort of behavior. We govern business with regulations and laws for a reason.
At least we govern it with regulations and laws and a relatively high degree of transparency. Any person with a basic understanding of human nature and history would realize that the pursuit of wealth under any economic system encourages and rewards this sort of behavior. Do you think Socialism, Communism, and Monarchy are not subject to the problems of human greed? Do you have some other system in mind that isn't? At least in our society we can openly criticize those who sell out, and if their transgression is too greivous, we can sue them. Try that in China, especially if the object of your angst is politically important or connected.
Capitalism has done more for improving quality of life for more people than any other system in history by freeing people from arbitrarily imposed class structures designed to maintain the ruling class's monopoly on power (wealth=power), and by efficiently allocating people's creative energy and abilities toward wealth production. These unqualified critiques of capitalism are quite narrow-minded, out of scale with the actual problem, and roughly equivalent to biting your own hand that's feeding you.
Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) called it the most disturbing hearing he'd ever heard in the Senate
It takes a senate hearing for him to learn that p0rn is ubiquitous on the internet? Just more anecdotal evidence of how completely clueless are the people making such laws as these.
Put it on on Dome A. The Chinese can transport it there (they're going anyway, so they can lug the ITER with them, and if it's too heavy, they can conscript a million more peasants. Think modern day Pyramid construction). The Japs can assemble it and the Americans can pay for it (national debt, you say? what national debt?). The Europeans can administer it (they like to think they're good at administering things anyway), and the Russians can provide moral support, reassuring everyone that Dome A is warm compared to where they grew up in Siberia (and more importantly, they can supply the vodka). IANANS (nuke scientist), but perhaps the cold temperature will come in handy in cooling the torus or something like that. Perfect solution, now I just have to explain to GW what nuclar fusion is. Wish me luck.
Agreed, the ignorance of the average/. poster on the history and methods of Communism is, while expected due to America's shitty pre-college education system, disheartening nonetheless. The Communists devised a method of social change based upon the philosophies of relativism (right and wrong are only what those in power say they are and enforce), materialism (human beings have no eternal soul, therefore no individual value, hence no individual rights, and the only thing that matters is the overall happiness of society, even if you have to kill a few million wrong-thinking capitalists/bourgeosie/ect. to achieve that), and dialectics (every social state or force has an opposite, an antithesis, which when combined with violent revolution creates the "synthesis", or new state of existence). They used this to justify systematic, government mass murder, oppression, and thought control in an attempt to create "progress" (hence the label Progressive) and utopia. Utopia was an end that could justify any means among the public sheep, and it did, but utopia was never achieved.
All these idiots who criticize America and hail the Communists are guilty of an obscene case of "the grass is always greener". America isn't perfect, but any sane, decent, and informed person would take it any day over the USSR or Communist China.
If you haven't noticed, the Chinese aren't big on grand, meaningless showboating: they do what they do because it furthers their long-term objectives, not because it wins them short-term positive press coverage.
On the contrary, the Chinese are all about face - gaining it and not losing it. If they perceive a "grand, meaningless showboating" endeavor as something that gains them face, they'll more than likely go for it.
I assume the commercials would be flagged, and any new hardware must respect the flag's autho-i-tay.
Cool, I hope ads are flagged. If idiot gov forces the commercials to be flagged, then we can build some hacks that let us auto-skip the ad-flagged parts. Right now it's nice to manually fast-forward past them, but it would be much nicer to hit the "skip forward" button (like on CD and DVD players, or those old high-tech car cassette decks) and just instantly skip right to the next section.
I think you've figured out why the airline industry is pushing this technology. They could completely eliminate serving the drinks and peanuts and save beaucoup bucks.
Jeez, why was that rated insightful? Definitely +5 funny, but to be insightful it would have had to point out that the huge amount of money the industry will have to spend to get this technology working will more than negate the pennies they'll save by not passing out peanuts. And it would also have to mention the fact that such brief scramjet flights mean that only/.'ers will be able to join the milehigh club anymore. And then someone could make a funny post pointing out that/.'ers aren't elligible for the milehigh club anyway.
Agreed. Too bad Pixar isn't doing HHGTTG instead. I know they prefer to do their own stuff, but I think their creativity would strongly complement Adam's flippantly brilliant style, and they'd probably enjoy such a unique challenge as well. Oh well, coulda shoulda woulda...
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Mr. Torr uses IE to download Firefox in his blog article. Why am I not surprised that IE has difficulties downloading Firefox? Next thing we know, an internal Microsoft memo will surface recommending that MS "cut off Firefox's air supply."
I would say its more important that My resume created in OO renders exactly that same in word. Since you as the the resume author are the one with OO and your potential employer is the one most likely running MS office.
In addition to Word, most employers also have Adobe Reader. Just export your OO resume to PDF and email it them that way. I love OO's built-in export to PDF function for this reason.
Having just spent the past year studying Japanese at an intensive immersive program at Cornell University (FALCON), I might be able to provide some insight. First and foremost, your technology should support your teaching/training methodology. Develop your methodology first, then build your technology around it. Otherwise you may wind up spending your budget in ways that do not clearly contribute to your learning process.
For example, the methodology at Cornell is to build both understanding and automaticity with the language. Understanding is achieved using detailed textbooks (Eleanor Harz Jordan, which some students complain about for being too dry, but which I believe explain the details of the language more completely than any other series), and daily lectures that further explain aspects of the grammar that students may not have completely understood from reading. The technological contribution here is minimal.
Automaticity - the ability to speak Japanese correctly without thinking about it - is achieved by having students memorize lots of conversations and grammatical patterns during homework and study lab. Then, during 3 drill periods per day led by native Japanese speakers, students are challenged to use these conversations and grammatical patterns in new ways. Once students reach the point where they can instantly recall and apply various grammatical patterns to new conversational situations without much thought, then they have achieved automaticity with the language.
Technology is used to support achieving automaticity in several ways. Much of it is audio-based, and some of the audio is on language tapes, other is in quicktime audio on a website (http://lrc.cornell.edu), and other is audio/video in quicktime vids on the website. The most important aspect of the audio is that it is all spoken by native Japanese speakers, and in Cornell's case, by Tokyo-ites. If you do something similar, keep in mind that the goal should be to create an efficient method of accessing whatever audio your class uses.
For a little more detail, audio is used in several ways. First, on the course website are quicktime videos of native Japanese people in various everyday situations. Students watch the video and are required to 1) understand the situation and the cultural aspects of it, and 2) to memorize all sides of the converstation, and 3) to re-enact the conversation during drill class with the native Japanese teacher. The teacher will change things around and challenge the students to step out of the memorized comfort-zone and use the patterns, vocab, and newly acquired knowledge of Japanese culture to respond correctly to different situations.
A second use is something called "Eavesdroppings", in which students listen to quicktime audio files of conversations between native Japanese speakers, and must translate what was said. It tests listening and understanding ability.
Third, the Eleanor Harz Jordan books come with a CD-ROM companion program that's very good, although a bit dated (must run in Win95 compatibility mode on Win2k and WinXP). It contains all the Quicktime video and audio, along with breakdowns and eplanations of new vocab and grammar as it occurs. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/030 0075634/qid=1103321825/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xg l14/002-1361347-6472006?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
Also, one thing that helped me was that I was able to convert all the Quicktime audio and video to MP3 files using Quicktime Pro and Audacity (http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/), and put them on my iPod, which let me carry around and listen to my Japanese wherever I was, or even when driving my car four hour
...Sydney to Australia? Are you circling around the airport and landing again? ;)
/. admins please add karma to Funny mods? Half the reason I read /. is for the witty humor, and this forced mod mis-labeling is getting a bit annoying.
Erm, funny, yes, and observant, yes, but not insightful. Oh, right, the Funny mod doesn't give karma points, so we're all subbing Insightful and Interesting for Funny now. Can the
What Google really needs is a for pay LexisNexis tab so you can find real information from real sources in real time. That and a tab that indexes full text medical and science journals. Those damn journals! I love em but I don't have hundreds of dollars a year for each Psych. journal I want to read and hate going to libraries if I just want to see what's shaking in the world of science. With full text periodicals and full test journal search Google would become a singularity of information.
Agreed, however what would be even better would be for them to just buy Lexis and the journals and make all their content available online for free. Expensive yes, but it would give Google a lock on the most pertinent and valuable of human knowledge (real knowledge, not Paris Hoochie bs), driving insane amounts of traffic through their site and commensurately increasing their ad revenue.
"I think the creation of not merely a new Chinese history but a whole Chinese reality, basically in 5 short decades, is probably the greatest cultural achievement of the previous century."
Welcome to the relativist / dialectical materialist method of social organization. Social change through mass mind control through complete information control and the eradication of absolute truth. I wouldn't call it "great", though.
"The game, 'Soccer Manager 2005', contained content that harmed China's sovereignty and territorial integrity
And Intel thinks they're the king of paranoia....
Congrats to the Slash community for making a difference and helping to set US Govt policy.
And thanks to NOAA for being receptive to non-corporate opinions.
Why can't these companies allow you to challenge items on your credit report electronically?!#@!$! I do everything electronically these days and writing and mailing a snail-mail letter hurts to just consider. But I need to since some of my parent's credit cards are showing up on my credit reports.
$100 to whoever can most accurately estimate the number of gravity-gun only servers. And you're not allowed to hold the jar.
When the person thinks they are telling the truth then the lie is not a lie anymore. Its all relative!
It's not all relative. Thinking something false is true does not make it true, as you're bound to find out one way or another sooner or later. Further, even if you believe you're telling the truth, you still have to have concocted it sometime before and then convinced yourself it's actually true, which would have required extra brain activity. Perhaps there are some highly intelligent people for whom concocting a sophisticated and convincing lie on the spur of the moment uses no more brain activity than regurgitating a known truth (Kaiser Soze comes to mind), but I doubt your average terrorist is capable of such a feat.
Perhaps you can beat this kind of lie detector test by doing all the work of convincing yourself that your lie is true ahead of time, so that when you're strapped into the machine, you'll only have to use a normal amount of brain activity to respond to the questions. That assumes you know what the pertinent questions are ahead of time, though.
any power structure tends to perpetuate itself,
True, but Capitalism provides a high level of class mobility, and combined with the social stability seen in America, the result is a self-perpetuating power structure whose members are highly variable. Also, that power structure is limited in ways that prevent it from abusing its power, theoretically, at least moreso than most other forms of government.
Further, to respond to the other poster, intelligence is not the defining factor in class mobility. It is certainly a factor, and it seems like it is the only one because these days smart people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, etc. get all the media attention. But there are plenty of self-made wealthy people who got that way just by hustling and working hard, whose IQ is just average. To don my tin-foil hat for a moment, it is in the best interests of people who favor Socialism to have the general public believe that there is little or no class mobility and that people's station in life is predetermined by their innate intelligence. Socialism requires a proletariat, be that the Working Class, the Middle Class, or whatever, and one reason it hasn't caught on in America as it has in Europe is due to our relatively easy class mobility. Yes, the American Dream is alive and well, and not soley dependent upon hereditary intelligence for its survival.
So I hopped back to Slashdot after my break at work came around,
/. open on a web browser and constantly refresh it every two minutes at work. Like we all do. It's okay to come out of the closet here.
That's alright, you don't have to hide the fact that you leave
What in the hell does that sentence mean? I can handle a couple of spelling or grammatical problems, but seriously!
Engrish. Definitely Engrish. (No offense to my Asian friends, your Engrish is much better than my Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. But it's still funny.)
The only reason the government gets technology like this developed is intelligent people will do anything for their degree or grant money.
Interestingly, and somewhat related, a friend of mine who is an engineering PhD student at an Ivy informed me that since the Bush admin took over, funding for pure research has all but dried up. The only things getting funding from the Feds now are projects with near-immediate benefits, like this eavesdropping device. Longer-term research that is essential to maintaining the US's scientific leadership (if that still exists) is getting harder and harder to fund.
but AMD has taken the Intel bull by the horns and is beginning to bring it to its knees.
I'm guessing that started happening about the time Dirk Meyer and the remnants of his Alpha team left HPQ and went over to AMD. Given the unfortunate fate of Alpha, I hope those guys get the last laugh on Intel, by way of AMD.
seems like any person with a basic understanding of human nature and history would realize that capitalism encourages and rewards this sort of behavior. We govern business with regulations and laws for a reason.
At least we govern it with regulations and laws and a relatively high degree of transparency. Any person with a basic understanding of human nature and history would realize that the pursuit of wealth under any economic system encourages and rewards this sort of behavior. Do you think Socialism, Communism, and Monarchy are not subject to the problems of human greed? Do you have some other system in mind that isn't? At least in our society we can openly criticize those who sell out, and if their transgression is too greivous, we can sue them. Try that in China, especially if the object of your angst is politically important or connected.
Capitalism has done more for improving quality of life for more people than any other system in history by freeing people from arbitrarily imposed class structures designed to maintain the ruling class's monopoly on power (wealth=power), and by efficiently allocating people's creative energy and abilities toward wealth production. These unqualified critiques of capitalism are quite narrow-minded, out of scale with the actual problem, and roughly equivalent to biting your own hand that's feeding you.
Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) called it the most disturbing hearing he'd ever heard in the Senate
It takes a senate hearing for him to learn that p0rn is ubiquitous on the internet? Just more anecdotal evidence of how completely clueless are the people making such laws as these.
Put it on on Dome A. The Chinese can transport it there (they're going anyway, so they can lug the ITER with them, and if it's too heavy, they can conscript a million more peasants. Think modern day Pyramid construction). The Japs can assemble it and the Americans can pay for it (national debt, you say? what national debt?). The Europeans can administer it (they like to think they're good at administering things anyway), and the Russians can provide moral support, reassuring everyone that Dome A is warm compared to where they grew up in Siberia (and more importantly, they can supply the vodka). IANANS (nuke scientist), but perhaps the cold temperature will come in handy in cooling the torus or something like that. Perfect solution, now I just have to explain to GW what nuclar fusion is. Wish me luck.
Agreed, the ignorance of the average /. poster on the history and methods of Communism is, while expected due to America's shitty pre-college education system, disheartening nonetheless. The Communists devised a method of social change based upon the philosophies of relativism (right and wrong are only what those in power say they are and enforce), materialism (human beings have no eternal soul, therefore no individual value, hence no individual rights, and the only thing that matters is the overall happiness of society, even if you have to kill a few million wrong-thinking capitalists/bourgeosie/ect. to achieve that), and dialectics (every social state or force has an opposite, an antithesis, which when combined with violent revolution creates the "synthesis", or new state of existence). They used this to justify systematic, government mass murder, oppression, and thought control in an attempt to create "progress" (hence the label Progressive) and utopia. Utopia was an end that could justify any means among the public sheep, and it did, but utopia was never achieved.
All these idiots who criticize America and hail the Communists are guilty of an obscene case of "the grass is always greener". America isn't perfect, but any sane, decent, and informed person would take it any day over the USSR or Communist China.
If you haven't noticed, the Chinese aren't big on grand, meaningless showboating: they do what they do because it furthers their long-term objectives, not because it wins them short-term positive press coverage.
On the contrary, the Chinese are all about face - gaining it and not losing it. If they perceive a "grand, meaningless showboating" endeavor as something that gains them face, they'll more than likely go for it.
I assume the commercials would be flagged, and any new hardware must respect the flag's autho-i-tay.
Cool, I hope ads are flagged. If idiot gov forces the commercials to be flagged, then we can build some hacks that let us auto-skip the ad-flagged parts. Right now it's nice to manually fast-forward past them, but it would be much nicer to hit the "skip forward" button (like on CD and DVD players, or those old high-tech car cassette decks) and just instantly skip right to the next section.
There are a lot of significant differences, but few of them are actually important.
lol, sounds like something Yogi Berra would say. I'll assume you intentionally phrased it that way.
I think you've figured out why the airline industry is pushing this technology. They could completely eliminate serving the drinks and peanuts and save beaucoup bucks.
/.'ers will be able to join the milehigh club anymore. And then someone could make a funny post pointing out that /.'ers aren't elligible for the milehigh club anyway.
Jeez, why was that rated insightful? Definitely +5 funny, but to be insightful it would have had to point out that the huge amount of money the industry will have to spend to get this technology working will more than negate the pennies they'll save by not passing out peanuts. And it would also have to mention the fact that such brief scramjet flights mean that only
Agreed. Too bad Pixar isn't doing HHGTTG instead. I know they prefer to do their own stuff, but I think their creativity would strongly complement Adam's flippantly brilliant style, and they'd probably enjoy such a unique challenge as well. Oh well, coulda shoulda woulda...