The link in the article seems to be from some sort of spammy ad/link farm. This might be a little authentic.
At 17, Danville's Evan O'Dorney already has won the National Spelling Bee and a gold medal at an international math Olympiad, meeting two presidents along the way. On Tuesday, he claimed the triple-crown: the coveted Intel Science Talent Search's $100,000 top prize.
Considering how robust the plot had been until this point, it felt rather unimaginative and contrived. Deus ex and all that...
In any case, Arya has been my favourite Stark and I can't wait to see how she develops.
I loved the series until the whole Caitlyn-returns-from-the-dead-and-becomes-a-witch-queen incident. That was just ridiculous and smacked of one of his TV scripts. I will still read DWD though...
Anybody care to venture a guess as to how much this mission would have cost if outsourced to India's Antrix/ISRO or Russia? I realise that they also had a failure a few months ago. But their success rate has generally been pretty good when it comes to launches. Are there other space agencies which are offering cheaper alternatives? China? Japan? How about American privateers (sic)?
Opera already provides a speech interface. Mobile phones routinely provide voice dialling and similar functionality. This technology is already here. Neither is it reliable enough nor is it more efficient than just using a mouse/keyboard. I expect that the main driver behind this is accessibility rather than UX. As for the computer talking back, it's a lot easier to get the computer to say something rather than get it to process human speech input.
Am I the only one noticing the plummeting quality in journalism across the board? Besides the drawbacks of relying on spell-check and other automation, the gradual shift in the publishing industry towards the Internet seems to have dented profit margins significantly enough to affect the QA process. Books, papers, magazines... they all seem to be suffering from this malaise.
um, you mean the rape charge that conveniently surfaced once Wikileaks released the cables? The rape charge wherein no formal charges have been placed against him in Sweden? The rape charge where nobody is allowed to view the evidence? The rape charge that resulted in a "red notice" by Interpol (for sex crimes, something that the organisation rarely does) and not a warrant for arrest? Bollocks.
Besides, the veracity of the leaked information has never been called into question. So there is not question of whether to listen to him or not. Also, considering the overwhelming amount of good that has come from the leak (Tunisia, egypt and more), openness is what this has brought about and freedom & justice is the result.
I'd like to see a bill allowing scientists to teach in Sunday school about the absurdity of the Bible. "There is serious scepticism about the virgin birth. In fact, chances are high that Mary was just a very naughty girl."
er... and following up on this notion of yours, the universe is also outside of time. Time is something which is within it. Consequently, there is no need for a chap to be fiddling around with the dials. In any case, you are taking the proverbial ridiculous leap of faith in postulating this dude's existence. or wait, maybe this being is not a dude, but is actually one of many constipated yellow Hyenas (duly capitalised) with eyes made out of blue glitter, peppered with numerous black orifices which are each conduits into various multiverses and what we call matter is actually God-faeces. It brings a new meaning to the term "Big Bang"
I guess I just ran this conversation right into the toilet there.
... and who is the homo who is being hominem-ed? You are feeling personally insulted because Taco generalised people sharing your belief system?
Furthermore, yes, creationism is being peddled as a science. Read about the different subsets of creationism and associated litigation, especially the Lemon test.
Oh dear... and which is the best explanation that you have seen which explains who made God? Ad nauseum.... and if you are not of the notion that such a being would or even could actually care about the daily goings-on of such short-lived organisms such as ourselves, why are you capitalising god? Are you doing this in reverence?:S
Is it just me or is the rest of the world getting just as trigger-happy as the Japs (assuming that the OP isn't:})? 16GB of data over 28 days at a resolution of say, 4MB per picture, is about 150 snaps every flippin' day. That sounds more like work than a vacation to me.
In any case, I rely on Picasa for low-res storage, NAS for general storage and an external HDD for back-up of essential files which I sync every now and then and store at a remote location.
It's not very *proper* of them if they do not disclose that fact, is it? Considering the fact that most of/. believes in openness, neutrality and transparency, I'd say that disclaimers are a necessary prerequisite.
I can also tell you that it is often the case that authors are requested by the publisher to "recommend" reviewers for them to approach. If suitable targets are not acquired, they leverage their own private and consequently partisan fleet of buoyant yes-men to craft 1000-word critiques suitable for dissemination and mass consumption.
While I don't know if this review is a "paid" review or not, I do know (from personal experience) that a lot of them are. Could/. consider adding a rule or guideline requesting the reviewer to state if he/she was given the book for free or otherwise compensated for the review?
Every now and then, I trawl through my gmail spam folder looking for false positives. These sojourns also serve to give me an idea of the amount of spam and type of spam that's floating around. When a botnet goes down, my spam levels go down to around 2000 and odd. When the botnets are supposedly back, they tend to return to the 5000 level. What I've noticed in the last few months however, is the significant number of invalid spam e-mails - those with no subject and no sender name or sender e-mail address. These are by far the most common type of message in my spam folder at the moment and I was wondering wtf was going on.
I know spammers suck. But do they now also suck at spam?
Why is the summary not linking to the original article and instead pointing to a blog-post which is supposedly regurgitating a Press Trust of India release based on the NYTimes article? This story is also about 3 days old:S
I should have probably been more specific. But this shortcut is especially useful on laptops (like my Dell) which do not come with a middle button for their trackpads. No middle-button = no middle click:(
Another related issue is that while the context menu's Open in a background tab works fine at all times, CTRL + SHIFT + Click will trigger the pop-up blocker if it is set to Block all pop-ups.
All that said, features such as the Content blocker, Site preferences, Reload page, Link-lister etc. ensure that every one of my boxen has Opera installed.
Afaik, it is simply not configurable without resorting to using an external JS file. There is no option for this in the keyboard or mouse configuration dialogs in Preferences.
... except for that fact that it STILL does not support CTRL + Click (or an equivalent option) for opening tabs in the background. Really bloody annoying.
FYI, TATA is an Indian conglomerate which has fingers in many pies: ISP, Telecom, Software (TCS), Steel, Chemicals, Power, Motors (trucks & cars; also own Jaguar and Landrover; makers of the Nano), Tea, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, clothing, watches, salt, jewellery, DTH TV - I can just keep going on an on. It's ridiculous how much one single company can control:S
Tata, the telecom carrier company, was previously named Teleglobe and was bought in 2005.
From the Delhi Police Facebook page:
"Uploading of Fake/Morphed Photo:
When it is found that a member has uploaded fake / morphed photo, DTP will take legal action with the help of Cyber Crime Cell - Delhi Police, Inernet/Telecom Service Provider, Facebook (Now they have a office in India), under IT Act.
Members are warned not to attempt any misadventure on this account as we take this act very seriously."
Upgraded to karmic from jaunty and lost my display.. nobody has been able to help me find it. Come the weekend, I'm just going to install Fedora 12 and be done with it.
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At 17, Danville's Evan O'Dorney already has won the National Spelling Bee and a gold medal at an international math Olympiad, meeting two presidents along the way. On Tuesday, he claimed the triple-crown: the coveted Intel Science Talent Search's $100,000 top prize.
Considering how robust the plot had been until this point, it felt rather unimaginative and contrived. Deus ex and all that... In any case, Arya has been my favourite Stark and I can't wait to see how she develops.
I loved the series until the whole Caitlyn-returns-from-the-dead-and-becomes-a-witch-queen incident. That was just ridiculous and smacked of one of his TV scripts. I will still read DWD though ...
Anybody care to venture a guess as to how much this mission would have cost if outsourced to India's Antrix/ISRO or Russia? I realise that they also had a failure a few months ago. But their success rate has generally been pretty good when it comes to launches. Are there other space agencies which are offering cheaper alternatives? China? Japan? How about American privateers (sic)?
Opera already provides a speech interface. Mobile phones routinely provide voice dialling and similar functionality. This technology is already here. Neither is it reliable enough nor is it more efficient than just using a mouse/keyboard. I expect that the main driver behind this is accessibility rather than UX. As for the computer talking back, it's a lot easier to get the computer to say something rather than get it to process human speech input.
Am I the only one noticing the plummeting quality in journalism across the board? Besides the drawbacks of relying on spell-check and other automation, the gradual shift in the publishing industry towards the Internet seems to have dented profit margins significantly enough to affect the QA process. Books, papers, magazines ... they all seem to be suffering from this malaise.
Besides, the veracity of the leaked information has never been called into question. So there is not question of whether to listen to him or not. Also, considering the overwhelming amount of good that has come from the leak (Tunisia, egypt and more), openness is what this has brought about and freedom & justice is the result.
Enough with book reviews and enough with Drupal book reviews. Doesn't /. have anything interesting to report?
How about a limit of 1 review per month?
I'd like to see a bill allowing scientists to teach in Sunday school about the absurdity of the Bible. "There is serious scepticism about the virgin birth. In fact, chances are high that Mary was just a very naughty girl."
er... and following up on this notion of yours, the universe is also outside of time. Time is something which is within it. Consequently, there is no need for a chap to be fiddling around with the dials. In any case, you are taking the proverbial ridiculous leap of faith in postulating this dude's existence. or wait, maybe this being is not a dude, but is actually one of many constipated yellow Hyenas (duly capitalised) with eyes made out of blue glitter, peppered with numerous black orifices which are each conduits into various multiverses and what we call matter is actually God-faeces. It brings a new meaning to the term "Big Bang" I guess I just ran this conversation right into the toilet there.
... and who is the homo who is being hominem-ed? You are feeling personally insulted because Taco generalised people sharing your belief system? Furthermore, yes, creationism is being peddled as a science. Read about the different subsets of creationism and associated litigation, especially the Lemon test.
Oh dear ... and which is the best explanation that you have seen which explains who made God? Ad nauseum. ... and if you are not of the notion that such a being would or even could actually care about the daily goings-on of such short-lived organisms such as ourselves, why are you capitalising god? Are you doing this in reverence? :S
Looking at other reviews, I believe that the "guy" in the ref link is /. itself. It's not the reviewer.
Is it just me or is the rest of the world getting just as trigger-happy as the Japs (assuming that the OP isn't :})? 16GB of data over 28 days at a resolution of say, 4MB per picture, is about 150 snaps every flippin' day. That sounds more like work than a vacation to me.
Reminds me of this chap.
In any case, I rely on Picasa for low-res storage, NAS for general storage and an external HDD for back-up of essential files which I sync every now and then and store at a remote location.
I can also tell you that it is often the case that authors are requested by the publisher to "recommend" reviewers for them to approach. If suitable targets are not acquired, they leverage their own private and consequently partisan fleet of buoyant yes-men to craft 1000-word critiques suitable for dissemination and mass consumption.
Thank you :) I hope Taco et al. are listening.
While I don't know if this review is a "paid" review or not, I do know (from personal experience) that a lot of them are. Could /. consider adding a rule or guideline requesting the reviewer to state if he/she was given the book for free or otherwise compensated for the review?
Every now and then, I trawl through my gmail spam folder looking for false positives. These sojourns also serve to give me an idea of the amount of spam and type of spam that's floating around. When a botnet goes down, my spam levels go down to around 2000 and odd. When the botnets are supposedly back, they tend to return to the 5000 level. What I've noticed in the last few months however, is the significant number of invalid spam e-mails - those with no subject and no sender name or sender e-mail address. These are by far the most common type of message in my spam folder at the moment and I was wondering wtf was going on. I know spammers suck. But do they now also suck at spam?
Why is the summary not linking to the original article and instead pointing to a blog-post which is supposedly regurgitating a Press Trust of India release based on the NYTimes article? This story is also about 3 days old :S
I should have probably been more specific. But this shortcut is especially useful on laptops (like my Dell) which do not come with a middle button for their trackpads. No middle-button = no middle click :(
Another related issue is that while the context menu's Open in a background tab works fine at all times, CTRL + SHIFT + Click will trigger the pop-up blocker if it is set to Block all pop-ups.
All that said, features such as the Content blocker, Site preferences, Reload page, Link-lister etc. ensure that every one of my boxen has Opera installed.
Afaik, it is simply not configurable without resorting to using an external JS file. There is no option for this in the keyboard or mouse configuration dialogs in Preferences.
... except for that fact that it STILL does not support CTRL + Click (or an equivalent option) for opening tabs in the background. Really bloody annoying.
FYI, TATA is an Indian conglomerate which has fingers in many pies: ISP, Telecom, Software (TCS), Steel, Chemicals, Power, Motors (trucks & cars; also own Jaguar and Landrover; makers of the Nano), Tea, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, clothing, watches, salt, jewellery, DTH TV - I can just keep going on an on. It's ridiculous how much one single company can control :S
Tata, the telecom carrier company, was previously named Teleglobe and was bought in 2005.
From the Delhi Police Facebook page: "Uploading of Fake/Morphed Photo: When it is found that a member has uploaded fake / morphed photo, DTP will take legal action with the help of Cyber Crime Cell - Delhi Police, Inernet/Telecom Service Provider, Facebook (Now they have a office in India), under IT Act. Members are warned not to attempt any misadventure on this account as we take this act very seriously."
Upgraded to karmic from jaunty and lost my display.. nobody has been able to help me find it. Come the weekend, I'm just going to install Fedora 12 and be done with it.