This is one of the reasons why newspaper classifieds are not free, classified ad takers are trained in what discriminatory language is for housing and employment ads.
They usually have a photocopied list of bad words and phrases for those ads. And since a real person is looking at the ad, things like N.o Minorities can't get past the "filter".
I am not sure how I feel about it, but at least it might level the playing field with newspaper print/online classifieds a little more if everyone who made money off them was required to play by the same rules.
After all, technically, in the classifieds section of newspapers, they are just the same as craigslist, just a carrier of information between other parties, but the courts have not seen it that way.
Additionally, anytime someone with discriminatory views are reminded that they are really not acceptable to the majority of the community that is a good thing. Newsflash: There are good and bad tenents of every color, age and income level, quit being lazy and using stereotypes.
Work on one task at a time, context switching is very costly, various studies have proven once into a task, it can take upwards of 30 mins to get back to that same level of productive involvement after an interruption or concentration change of any sort. (This is probably the single most important change you can make)
Use asynchronous communication as much as possible, as it allows you to deal with things when you have completed something (email, IM).
Ignore your asynchronous communications while involved in a task. Don't have your client automatically check your email. Get your email when you have reached a natural break or completed what you were working on. Same with IM, put yourself 'Away' and don't look at what comes in until it is the proper time.
Tackle most difficult tasks first, break down if needed, but get the hardest things out of the way first.
Anything that you can handle totally, 100% in 5 mins or less do immediately, do not put those things off. If it is going to take longer than 5 mins, put it on the list, ranked accordingly. Again, this is avoid context switches later.
Work from a clean work area. Really no matter what you think, you will be more productive in a neat organized workspace. Read the studies, people who claimed to be more productive in a chaotic environment, were very surprised to learn that objective measurements and their own experience showed dramatic increases in productivity when forced to work from a organized, neat environment.
Practice these things, they can become invisible second nature if you actually practice them with serious self discipline in the beginning. Practice them, force yourself, you will thank me later. You will see over a 100% increase in your productivity if do all of the above. You will start succeeding in your job in ways you never thought possible if you want to, if you don't really want to, nothing is going to help, so be honest with yourself.
Using ff and adblock, I find it pretty easy to block the javascripts that put even text ads on pages for people.
One sneaks by now and again, but it is trivial to open up adblock and find the script that is doing the ad placement.
For example, one entry for: *googlesyndication.com*
will block all the adsense text ads.
I know it probably isn't helping keep content free to the consumers like us, but I have my rationalizations to make me feel better about doing it, and Im sure most of everyone else does too.
Every other package listed uses various other OSS licenses: BSD, APL, MPL, and a custom OSS license.
However, I think they clearly violate the GLPv2, specifically:
"5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it."
I think SCO has made it clear they do not accept the GPL and as such have no license to distribute this software.
Since I think there is always generally a ratio of people who care v. people who make trouble, it's really just a matter of how long the users take to learn how the moderation system works.
Set up properly, for example defaulting everyone to +4 comments only, would teach people pretty fast there are comments that get modded up and comments that don't. Further by adjusting their settings they can decide who/what types of messages to see.
So let the junk flow in, it just wont ever get seen, only the highly moderated comments will. Basically default it to only the comments someone has modded up, not rely on people to mod things down and you have won 3/4's of the battle.
I can't find it on his site, but the guy who runs DShield was under a DDOS attack a few years ago and he managed to crack into the IRC channel the attacker used to control his bot network.
Apparently the attacker about crapped his drawers when instead of the usual bot replies to his commands an actual person started talking to him in his IRC channel.
The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS). It enables you to do Query By Example on images, giving you the opportunity to improve query results by relevance feedback. For processing your queries the program relies entirely on the content of the images, freeing you from the need to annotate all images before querying the collection.
GIFT
It worked pretty well for me in the demos they linked too. I have been waiting for this type of application to gain momentum.
GNU has a very nifty system for searching image content now or "Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS)" as they call it.
It works much better than I expected.
I wish I was skilled enough to help out with the project because I think it will become important in the future and now that MS is after the same sort of application you can image what will happen.
"The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America."
Slashdot Mirror
What happened to the good old "boss button" that would throw up a screen shot of a spread sheet or code at the touch of a button?
That should be manditory in all games.
Actually it should be a feature of the OS *hint* *hint*
This is one of the reasons why newspaper classifieds are not free, classified ad takers are trained in what discriminatory language is for housing and employment ads.
They usually have a photocopied list of bad words and phrases for those ads. And since a real person is looking at the ad, things like N.o Minorities can't get past the "filter".
I am not sure how I feel about it, but at least it might level the playing field with newspaper print/online classifieds a little more if everyone who made money off them was required to play by the same rules.
After all, technically, in the classifieds section of newspapers, they are just the same as craigslist, just a carrier of information between other parties, but the courts have not seen it that way.
Additionally, anytime someone with discriminatory views are reminded that they are really not acceptable to the majority of the community that is a good thing. Newsflash: There are good and bad tenents of every color, age and income level, quit being lazy and using stereotypes.
Here are my suggestions:
Make a list and work from it religiously.
Work on one task at a time, context switching is very costly, various studies have proven once into a task, it can take upwards of 30 mins to get back to that same level of productive involvement after an interruption or concentration change of any sort. (This is probably the single most important change you can make)
Use asynchronous communication as much as possible, as it allows you to deal with things when you have completed something (email, IM).
Ignore your asynchronous communications while involved in a task. Don't have your client automatically check your email. Get your email when you have reached a natural break or completed what you were working on. Same with IM, put yourself 'Away' and don't look at what comes in until it is the proper time.
Tackle most difficult tasks first, break down if needed, but get the hardest things out of the way first.
Anything that you can handle totally, 100% in 5 mins or less do immediately, do not put those things off. If it is going to take longer than 5 mins, put it on the list, ranked accordingly. Again, this is avoid context switches later.
Work from a clean work area. Really no matter what you think, you will be more productive in a neat organized workspace. Read the studies, people who claimed to be more productive in a chaotic environment, were very surprised to learn that objective measurements and their own experience showed dramatic increases in productivity when forced to work from a organized, neat environment.
Practice these things, they can become invisible second nature if you actually practice them with serious self discipline in the beginning. Practice them, force yourself, you will thank me later. You will see over a 100% increase in your productivity if do all of the above. You will start succeeding in your job in ways you never thought possible if you want to, if you don't really want to, nothing is going to help, so be honest with yourself.
Regards.
You won't find any numbers in this game, it and its ilk are what I consider to be among the world's first mmorpg:
Genesis, The Original LP MUD
http://genesis.tekno.chalmers.se/
Regards
Actually my guess is the spell checker was the problem.
It looks to me like the sentence should have been:
"We recently had here in the office..."
He probably misspelled 'here' and the spell checker's best guess was 'heard' and he just accepted it without really looking.
Spell check errors lead to what look like gramatical errors with correctly spelled words.
Regards.
If I had mod points, they would be all yours.
I agree, MUDs have richness of interaction due to the verb/adverb combinations that graphical games can never match.
Even the "look and feel" of the game is so much richer with a text description about every detail of a room or area.
Here is my suggestion for a great MUD, Genesis, The Original LP mud, still going strong after many long years.
http://www.genesismud.org/
You should hope they use the IPTC fields on the jpegs. Standards are good.
Using ff and adblock, I find it pretty easy to block the javascripts that put even text ads on pages for people.
One sneaks by now and again, but it is trivial to open up adblock and find the script that is doing the ad placement.
For example, one entry for: *googlesyndication.com*
will block all the adsense text ads.
I know it probably isn't helping keep content free to the consumers like us, but I have my rationalizations to make me feel better about doing it, and Im sure most of everyone else does too.
Regards
That is a much worse transgression than spelling or grammer. That is ignorance of basic argument.
Read and learn:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begs_the_question
Regards.
MySQL and Samba are the only GPL'ed software.
Every other package listed uses various other OSS licenses: BSD, APL, MPL, and a custom OSS license.
However, I think they clearly violate the GLPv2, specifically:
"5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it."
I think SCO has made it clear they do not accept the GPL and as such have no license to distribute this software.
Since I think there is always generally a ratio of people who care v. people who make trouble, it's really just a matter of how long the users take to learn how the moderation system works.
Set up properly, for example defaulting everyone to +4 comments only, would teach people pretty fast there are comments that get modded up and comments that don't. Further by adjusting their settings they can decide who/what types of messages to see.
So let the junk flow in, it just wont ever get seen, only the highly moderated comments will. Basically default it to only the comments someone has modded up, not rely on people to mod things down and you have won 3/4's of the battle.
Or so I think.
Regards
Uhh, thats the point of community moderation and the comment rating system that Slashdot uses.
You think the slashdot editing team could edit out the trolls and such?
Not a chance.
Had the LA Times fully understood the issues they were facing they would have seen, they should have started with Slashcode.
I can't find it on his site, but the guy who runs DShield was under a DDOS attack a few years ago and he managed to crack into the IRC channel the attacker used to control his bot network.
Apparently the attacker about crapped his drawers when instead of the usual bot replies to his commands an actual person started talking to him in his IRC channel.
http://dshield.org/
I agree it was terrible. An insult to the cast and the fans.
It was a crappy episode of STN:TNG.
It should have been about Enterprise and not about Riker.
To the cast: You did wonderful, you deserved better, and I and others will blot out this travesty and remember you for the good work you have done.
Cheers
The fake ID's were purchased from a corrupt Virginia state worker who was selling them for $1k each.
So now you are going to give them a supposdly "super secure, REAL ID."
How exactly does that make you safer?
Does it make it impossible to not sell them illegaly anymore?
See how it actually makes the situation worse?
The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS). It enables you to do Query By Example on images, giving you the opportunity to improve query results by relevance feedback. For processing your queries the program relies entirely on the content of the images, freeing you from the need to annotate all images before querying the collection.
GIFT It worked pretty well for me in the demos they linked too. I have been waiting for this type of application to gain momentum.
I like astronomy and such so a program like Celestia seems like a good addition to me.
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Good luck, lots of other good advice here.
Regards
Hate to reply to my own post, but I just re-read the interview and its better than I remembered. Strange how a few years can do that.
William Shatner Replies
Some of the questions were rude, but his respones were not graceful IMO.
This handy webpage page and bookmarklet will search for songs artists and albums that are produced by RIAA members. That way you can avoid them.
They also offer searches and collections for NON-RIAA aka Indie music.
RIAARadar
Great!
Now I don't actually have to talk to people to know I am uninterested in them.
This is going to simplify my life a lot.
I don't know where Steve gets the idea it would take hell freezing over before iTune$ would run on windows, that seemed obvious.
What will take hell freezing over is when OS X runs on intel (officially), not just one app.
It works much better than I expected.
I wish I was skilled enough to help out with the project because I think it will become important in the future and now that MS is after the same sort of application you can image what will happen.
The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool)
Never buy RIAA music!
From the website:
"The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America."
RIAA Radar
Scientology has books that are public as well.
Christian, Islamic and Jewish religions all have "seceret" texts that lay people are not supposed to read.
They cant even agree on which books really belong in the bible.
Go ask for full access to the dead sea scrolls, you wont get it, you'll get the scrolls they released as but one example.
Go ask the Catholic church for all the papal documents ever created about church doctrine, you wont get them for another example.
You're uninformed about how your supposed "real" religions work.