Too bad they don't use a bit a bit of it themselves...
Of course if history is any indicator they probably thought the demand would only be about four customers world-wide.;-)
Maybe I'm the only one who hasn't been using Yahoo News, but I doubt it. When I saw the parent I decided to do the slashdot thing and check it out. I didn't know where to find Yahoo news, so I just went to yahoo.com. After a bit of looking I found a button that said news and clicked it: nothing. Hmmm...oh, that's a search. So where's the news? Scroll, scroll... Ooh, here's a link that says news. Whoops! Whats this? Looks like a page of links to Yahoo directories of news and media. Not what I expected, but here's a link to web directories. Okay, I've clicked it and Voila! The second link is Yahoo news. Good now we're cooking.
Eleven stories from three sources (AP, USAToday, Reuters) plus links to additional news organizations.
Compare that experience to google:
Go to google.com. Click the very obvious news button. Bingo! Twenty-six stories from twenty odd sources, and each with multiple headlines from other sources. Maybe that's why most people that I know use Google news as their primary news source. I really don't know anyone who uses Yahoo News in preference to Google News. An interesting aside, Google news doesn't even appear in the Yahoo directory. That's a big omission.
Now let me address the customizable bit before I get modded off-topic. I went to the Yahoo customize page and all I can do is "cosmetic changes": color, whether each section shows a summary or 3 headlines or 5 headlines, which order the sections are in, and (okay this is a content customization) which city's weather is shown.
The "News for Nerds" in this story is that Google is truly customizable. Not only can you add standard sections from each of over 20 regional editions, but you can also create your own sections based on your own search words and type of news ( the standard sections).
that not only is 100% of your money is spent on the front lines (the cost of running these organisations is drawn from money donated by others specifically for the purpose)
Some organizations use this technique to claim "100%" goes to the projects, but standard accounting procedures would still count this as part of their overhead. It does cost money to run an organization and I'd rather trust an organization which is honest about those costs than one that pretends otherwise.
I don't know how to post on slashdot, my husband usually reads it, not
me. However, I'm the one with experience in development (fund-raising)
and have seen places where charities are rated according to what percent
of their income they spend on themselves - for fund-raising, salaries,
etc. The url below lists charities that spend less than $25 for every
$100, this is considered pretty good! Worth magazine puts out a rating
of the top 100 charities in Dec of every year, but I was unable to
access the article without subscribing to their on-line magazine, as
does the Chronicle of Philanthropy - also by subscription only. These
are very good sources of info on charities if you're willing to
subscribe or go to the library to find a hard copy, otherwise, check out
the website below.
Cookie
http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html#intrelie f
Wow! I concur that has to be about the coolest web app I've seen.
As a bicyclist though I'd like to add two things.
1) Traffic density.
2) Elevation profiles.
This information is publicly available, but the interfaces are extremely un-user friendly. My idea would be that when you have a route laid out you ask for bicycle format and it changes the route color on a continuum from green to red based on how bicycle friendly it is. And a simple elevation profile underneath.
I've got about 5 old cars in my backyard and wondered if any hackers have figured out how to put Linux on them. I'd love to use them to run a Beowulf cluster.
"The mothers are going to walk right up to that computer and say, 'My children are dying, what can you do?' They're not going to sit there and like, browse eBay."
Why do you impose what you do on a computer to a third world mother? Of course she's not going to browse eBay! But a worker at her local clinic may well discover the proper treatment to treat the childs diarrhea, a farmers cooperative may find the agricultural practices necessary to avoid a prevalent crop disease, etc.
I'm just a farm kid from the American midwest, but I lived 3 years in Africa and 4 years in South Asia and I can tell you from personal experience that lack of access to timely information is a major factor in attempts at development in the third world.
You may think of your computer as mainly recreational or as a convenience, but there are places in the world where access to the internet is a matter of life and death.
The one piece that the parent doesn't include is the complicity of public universities. There was quite a bit of discussion in scientific journals 20 odd years ago when stuff like Round-Up Ready Soybeans were just a gleam in researchers eyes on questions such as: When a private corporation gives research money to a public university who owns the technology which results? Or is it even ethical to take corporate money when the university's charter mandates it to work for the general public good.
I guess we now know the result of such discussion. But you can be certain that the basic research that resulted in farmers being imprisoned for saving seed they grew themselves, was done in part at tax supported universities.
When Bush mangles his words that's funny, when Clinton didn't have sex with that cigar^H^H^H^H^H woman that's funny, but when some people continue to pretend that the U.S. government didn't spend billions getting the internet to where it is today and that politicians didn't play a part in it, that's not funny. That's simply refusing to give credit where credit is due.
You'd think this crowd of all people would be grateful to Gore for what at the time wasn't exactly politically expedient.
Essentially Gore provided political backing for the Internet which allowed it to become what we know today.
Among the quotes in the article: According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by [Gore in his current role as Vice President] and in his earlier role as Senator."
The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."
Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"
That is cool! Movable type made a huge difference in 15th century Europe. It is seen as one of the main developments leading to the renaissance. I hadn't realized that they'd started licensing the technology. Wow! what an opportunity. Now we can have our own renaissances.
the eMac microphone is too limited to be able to command the machine from across the room
It'd be a bit more expensive, but you could always use a wireless lapel mike if you knew you needed to control the computer while walking around the room. I'm a teacher and got inspired by all that could be done instructionally with that set-up.
Too easy! You go to the one thats messy, confused and poorly spelled because that guy was too busy to worry about his on CV. The other guy obfiously nobody trusted so he spent hours in his Mom's basement fine-tuning his CV.
_or_
Obviously you go to the man with the beautifully presented CV because he's obviously new or he'd have run it by the messy guy who would have messed it up just like he did his own CV.
_or_
He needs to take it to both of them. One for style and one for content. For as everyone knows disorganization is often a sign of a brilliant mind.
Okay okay... Go to messy because if they did each others CVs the one with the messy CV proofread the neat CV. (But I don't see any evidence of that in the story).
The submitter didn't really explain his situation well enough, but I'm guessing that the problem is that she is receiving the occasional OO doc and wants to be able to read it without a full install of OO.
If this is the case then exporting to PDF, or converting to DOC, makes no sense at all. If he could do that then she'd just read the frickin' doc. Duh...
My question is: Why the aversion to just installing OO? My answer is that he roams to different computers and uses his USB key as her personal drive and is unable to install OO on all the various computer he might use.
Slashdot Mirror
Too bad they don't use a bit a bit of it themselves... Of course if history is any indicator they probably thought the demand would only be about four customers world-wide. ;-)
Chill out!
... Ooh, here's a link that says news. Whoops! Whats this? Looks like a page of links to Yahoo directories of news and media. Not what I expected, but here's a link to web directories. Okay, I've clicked it and Voila! The second link is Yahoo news. Good now we're cooking.
Maybe I'm the only one who hasn't been using Yahoo News, but I doubt it. When I saw the parent I decided to do the slashdot thing and check it out. I didn't know where to find Yahoo news, so I just went to yahoo.com. After a bit of looking I found a button that said news and clicked it: nothing. Hmmm...oh, that's a search. So where's the news? Scroll, scroll
Eleven stories from three sources (AP, USAToday, Reuters) plus links to additional news organizations.
Compare that experience to google: Go to google.com. Click the very obvious news button. Bingo! Twenty-six stories from twenty odd sources, and each with multiple headlines from other sources. Maybe that's why most people that I know use Google news as their primary news source. I really don't know anyone who uses Yahoo News in preference to Google News. An interesting aside, Google news doesn't even appear in the Yahoo directory. That's a big omission.
Now let me address the customizable bit before I get modded off-topic. I went to the Yahoo customize page and all I can do is "cosmetic changes": color, whether each section shows a summary or 3 headlines or 5 headlines, which order the sections are in, and (okay this is a content customization) which city's weather is shown.
The "News for Nerds" in this story is that Google is truly customizable. Not only can you add standard sections from each of over 20 regional editions, but you can also create your own sections based on your own search words and type of news ( the standard sections).
It isn't open source, but its free...and they are making beaucoup bucks giving it away!
that not only is 100% of your money is spent on the front lines (the cost of running these organisations is drawn from money donated by others specifically for the purpose)
Some organizations use this technique to claim "100%" goes to the projects, but standard accounting procedures would still count this as part of their overhead. It does cost money to run an organization and I'd rather trust an organization which is honest about those costs than one that pretends otherwise.
I don't know how to post on slashdot, my husband usually reads it, not me. However, I'm the one with experience in development (fund-raising) and have seen places where charities are rated according to what percent of their income they spend on themselves - for fund-raising, salaries, etc. The url below lists charities that spend less than $25 for every $100, this is considered pretty good! Worth magazine puts out a rating of the top 100 charities in Dec of every year, but I was unable to access the article without subscribing to their on-line magazine, as does the Chronicle of Philanthropy - also by subscription only. These are very good sources of info on charities if you're willing to subscribe or go to the library to find a hard copy, otherwise, check out the website below. Cookie http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html#intrelie f
Wow! I concur that has to be about the coolest web app I've seen. As a bicyclist though I'd like to add two things. 1) Traffic density. 2) Elevation profiles. This information is publicly available, but the interfaces are extremely un-user friendly. My idea would be that when you have a route laid out you ask for bicycle format and it changes the route color on a continuum from green to red based on how bicycle friendly it is. And a simple elevation profile underneath.
I've got about 5 old cars in my backyard and wondered if any hackers have figured out how to put Linux on them. I'd love to use them to run a Beowulf cluster.
"The mothers are going to walk right up to that computer and say, 'My children are dying, what can you do?' They're not going to sit there and like, browse eBay."
Why do you impose what you do on a computer to a third world mother?
Of course she's not going to browse eBay! But a worker at her local clinic may well discover the proper treatment to treat the childs diarrhea, a farmers cooperative may find the agricultural practices necessary to avoid a prevalent crop disease, etc.
I'm just a farm kid from the American midwest, but I lived 3 years in Africa and 4 years in South Asia and I can tell you from personal experience that lack of access to timely information is a major factor in attempts at development in the third world.
You may think of your computer as mainly recreational or as a convenience, but there are places in the world where access to the internet is a matter of life and death.
Looking through Froogle for RoundUp Ready soybeans I came across this report . How does $4500 for a 218 page report strike you???
Exactly.
The one piece that the parent doesn't include is the complicity of public universities. There was quite a bit of discussion in scientific journals 20 odd years ago when stuff like Round-Up Ready Soybeans were just a gleam in researchers eyes on questions such as: When a private corporation gives research money to a public university who owns the technology which results? Or is it even ethical to take corporate money when the university's charter mandates it to work for the general public good.
I guess we now know the result of such discussion. But you can be certain that the basic research that resulted in farmers being imprisoned for saving seed they grew themselves, was done in part at tax supported universities.
I like funny...
When Bush mangles his words that's funny, when Clinton didn't have sex with that cigar^H^H^H^H^H woman that's funny, but when some people continue to pretend that the U.S. government didn't spend billions getting the internet to where it is today and that politicians didn't play a part in it, that's not funny. That's simply refusing to give credit where credit is due.
You'd think this crowd of all people would be grateful to Gore for what at the time wasn't exactly politically expedient.
Moderators: Please mod parent funny!
Stop it!!
Al Gore never claimed to _invent_ the internet. He did claim some credit for _creating_ the internet.
This article gives the real story.
Essentially Gore provided political backing for the Internet which allowed it to become what we know today.
Among the quotes in the article:
According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by [Gore in his current role as Vice President] and in his earlier role as Senator."
The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."
Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"
-1 Redundant
-1 Illegal
-1 Deceptive
We've never slashdotted cnet news.com yet and are even more unlikely to under the heading science. The site is perfectly crisp.
Huh...
One is about the rings of Saturn, the other about the satellites of Saturn. Get a clue!!
Please mod parent -1 redundant & -1 illegal
Here's Clio's video. I'm late to the discussion, so I'm kind of surprised no karma whores got there before me!
One cool thing we have is a movable type license
That is cool! Movable type made a huge difference in 15th century Europe. It is seen as one of the main developments leading to the renaissance. I hadn't realized that they'd started licensing the technology. Wow! what an opportunity. Now we can have our own renaissances.
the eMac microphone is too limited to be able to command the machine from across the room
It'd be a bit more expensive, but you could always use a wireless lapel mike if you knew you needed to control the computer while walking around the room. I'm a teacher and got inspired by all that could be done instructionally with that set-up.
I'm married...
If we can get about 24 more in this chain we can prove all slashdotters are married with a 95% confidence.
Who are you calling a homophone? ;-)
Too easy! You go to the one thats messy, confused and poorly spelled because that guy was too busy to worry about his on CV. The other guy obfiously nobody trusted so he spent hours in his Mom's basement fine-tuning his CV.
... Go to messy because if they did each others CVs the one with the messy CV proofread the neat CV. (But I don't see any evidence of that in the story).
_or_
Obviously you go to the man with the beautifully presented CV because he's obviously new or he'd have run it by the messy guy who would have messed it up just like he did his own CV.
_or_
He needs to take it to both of them. One for style and one for content. For as everyone knows disorganization is often a sign of a brilliant mind.
Okay okay
Nope. Its a firm policy around here to knot to maude up anonymous cowards.
The submitter didn't really explain his situation well enough, but I'm guessing that the problem is that she is receiving the occasional OO doc and wants to be able to read it without a full install of OO.
If this is the case then exporting to PDF, or converting to DOC, makes no sense at all. If he could do that then she'd just read the frickin' doc. Duh...
My question is: Why the aversion to just installing OO? My answer is that he roams to different computers and uses his USB key as her personal drive and is unable to install OO on all the various computer he might use.
The best solution probably is the larger USB key.
Project your slides onto good screen with an overhead projector
That's either a joke or a typo. Surely you mean "project your slides onto good screen with a _slide_ projector.