I see the "window" occasionally, but not the ad that's supposed to be in it. Then again, I installed a custom userContent.css and I don't see most ads.
Can someone list any meaningfull danagers of GM food
Well, other than the supposed health fears, most of the controversy I hear about over GM crops is the concern of cross breeding with non-GM crops or weeds. In the case of the weeds article, the that pesticide-resistant genes manage to make it into weeds, which farmers obviously do not want resistant to weed killers.
For another argument, just do a quick search on "sterile genetically-modified" to find a whole bunch of stuff. The main concern I've read about on this is that pollen from sterile GM crops will infect fertile non-GM crops and prevent them from propogating (I don't have a link, but I remember an issue about this dealing with orange trees a couple of years back - farmers suing other nearby farmers because of lost crop fertility, or something like that).
JEdit's also nice, but way too slow for casual use
Funny, once I moved beyond a 500Mhz p2, I found it to be just as fast as any other graphical editor I've used. And on that note, jEdit is in my top 3 programs, right next to mozilla and putty in windows, and galeon and *-mp3 in linux (I'd have more in linux, but fedora seems to install everything I'd want except for mp3 support)
And so it does, I stand corrected. Although I can't for the life of me figure out how to make it bring up a different URL if I don't add anything for the %s to replace (since a plain ? should go to google.com, not google.com/search?q=%s)... since if I don't include anything, it tries to search for %s. Nor does it seem to allow multiple keywords, but that's only a minor annoyance. Anyway, thanks for correcting me. Good to learn new things.
Sorry, not the same. I have smart bookmarks for google in galeon and keyword (notice, not keywords) in mozilla set to "google search ?"... In mozilla, I have only that one keyword, and it brings up google.com. In galeon, if I type any of the keywords, it brings up google.com. But since it's also a smart bookmark, anything after the keyword is sent to a different url, with a %s replacement string. In the case of my google bookmark, it searches google for whatever I type after the "google" or "search" or "?". They're smart bookmarks, not keywords. I have dozens of these that let me search google, netflix, apache/php/mysql/perl manuals, etc. Much easier to hit ctrl-L (moves focus to the location box) and start typing, than to find a bookmark, let it load, find the search box, type, then click the submit button.
Duplicate feature sets? Until any of those other gecko-based browser support smart bookmarks like Galeon does (and though Epiphany says it supports them, I found no way to create one), I'll say that not ENOUGH features have been duplicated, and will continue to use Galeon, and moan when I'm forced to use Mozilla itself. Nothing improves my web browsing like the ability to type "? whatever" into my location bar and have it search google for "whatever".
How is this any different from the overtime laws that Bush managed to push through? Or is this the same law set just reworded? The actual new laws do a lot more than just hurt IT workers. Although some of this has apparently been ammended, the original proposal exempted anyone with a college degree, nurses, police, etc. This is a bad law.
I've been through too many instances were I was promised all these bonuses and raises only to have them disappear later
At least you got the chance to quit. At my first "real" job, although a nice $50k/year (I had 7+ years of industry experience that paid my way through colleges), I was promised a raise "asap" to get me off of the payroll of the recruiter. The recruiter was getting paid $10 for every $25 I was making, so I was obviously worth at least that much more to my employer. This dragged on for a year, until I was laid off. I easily found another job, but that year of broken promises still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
Actually, look at the search results. In both of my test searches ("1u server" and "blade server"), the results are identical with those from google. So in this case, I'm pretty sure that "on top of" means that they're not only using Google's engine for searching, they're also using Google's databases.
There was a big one heading in to Seattle back in '98
Was? It's about 50 feet north of the Pierce/King county line, visible from I-5 (large full-color northbound, smaller partial-color southbound), featuring full-otion video, and (northbound) bright enough at night to make me squint. When it went in, accident rate along that portion of the freeway jumped up something like 10%, and people fought to have it removed. Unfortunately, it's still there, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who dreams of taking a wide-spread shotgun to it every time I see it.
Yes, this is a blatant plug, I work for this company, and I don't mind burning a little karma for the cause; it isn't often that a/. article relates specifically to my company.
Anyway, Silicon Mechanics is a small-but-growing systems integrator (with some pretty large-name clients, but I won't drop names at the moment). We're (very) linux friendly (but sell plenty of Windows-based machines, too), specialize in 1u servers and our clients tend to think we offer the best support in the business. We're also pretty competitive price-wise (although there's no way we can compete with a build-it-yourself project, you do get what you pay for).
I truly doubt that Apple would just raise prices to $1.25 without a fight
Did you miss the part where they say that the iTunes store is already selling several albums in the $13-17 range? Of course the scarrier point that the article makes is that the actual physical CD is often for sale in stores for $3-5 less than these elevated digital prices. That's just messed up.
Why is that? I make all of my clients aware (in the contract) that I have a code library, and will use it and add to it from the current project as I see fit, with a big exception for "private" code (specific to the project, which would belong to the client and not me). My code library is part of what they pay me for - it lets me get projects done in a fraction of the time than if I had to code everything from scratch. But then again, I do NOT consider private code as part of my library, even if I have a backup copy or two sitting around on my network.
Seriously, though, would you really trust a person who completely relied on copy/pasting legacy code into current projects?
Who's copying verbatim? Granted, I have some general utility routines (forking commands, javascript mouseover stuff) but most of my code library isn't generalized enough to do this, so I copy/paste where I can, and make modifications where needed (and then I debug it).
who's gonna be willing to keep forking out money in perpetuity in order to have useable access to their music
Dunno, sounds like it could be a good deal for some people. I pay $20/month to netflix to get 3 DVD's at a time to keep for as long as I want (why buy dvd's again if I can just add them to my queue and have them show up in 2 days?). I can see a lot of people saying "$10/month to have access to almost any song, any time I want? Cool!" After all, that's the equivalent of buying one CD every 1-2 months, which is a lot less than many people buy.
Too bad it's WMA and won't play on my iPod, and that given my tastes for obscure groups, I wouldn't be able to find most of the music I like listening to.
Of course, this will be "advertiser supported" so who knows how invasive that will or will not be when using their mail services
If this is indeed a true service, and knowing google's record, I'd say "not very." They've very good at placing their ads in places that are easily visible but do not interfere with what you're immediately looking at. Not only that, I'd bet that they'd use their context engine to give you ads relevant to the email you're reading. Imagine, while you're reading about your mom's latest adventure cruise to alaska, you get ads relating to travel, outdoors, photography, etc. Privacy issues aside, google's context-based ad system is one of the best innovations in web advertising to happen in a long time (if ever).
I don't know what to do... try to tough it out, go straight to graduate school or just leave the country.
I majored in philosophy in undergrad. Took a year off to try my hand at small time ecommerce stuff, and then decided to go to grad school right before the big dot-com boom. I was in grad school for one year (short MA program in "social sciences" - emphasis in anthropology), just long enough to catch the beginning of the "dot-bomb" while I was looking for jobs.
My degrees are relatively worthless - they prove that I can think, and that's about it. I never received any kind of counseling about what kind of career I could expect to find with them, other than more school and someday teaching (which I didn't really want to do). However, throughout all of this, I continued to pay my bills by doing ecommerce stuff, and now have almost 10 years of experience behind me in an industry that is barely 10 years old.
I don't know if a graduate/professional level CS/CE degree will do you any better than your bachelor's degree, but make sure that you're gaining real-world experience during your studies (should you decide to pursue them). I've dealt with a lot of computer people, and it's very easy to recognize those who "live and breathe" code (or hardware, or networking, or whatever), compared to those who mostly just learned it from a book.
when will the Sony drives be appearing in Macs as the new "SuperDrive"?
Why would Apple switch away from Pioneer, who has already demonstrated that their current drives can do dual-layer burning, with only an updated firmware. (translated link to actual article is here)
Isn't sales tax waived for international tourists? Or isn't there some thing where you can get it reimbursed by your embassy? I know that in WA, if you're from a tax-free state and don't want to pay tax, you just have to flash your OR or MT driver's license and the store fills out some paperwork. Figured there was something similar for international purchasers, since sales tax is all about where the purchase will be used, not merely where it's purchased.
If you're going to ask for the 10th planet(oid), I assume you mean Sedna. But if you're going to include Sedna, you really shouldn't forget Quaoar. It's too small to be considered a planet, but so is Sedna.
This has been brought up before, I think (sorry, no links), and personally I think it's a great idea. Not only would it provide an easy-to-filter TLD for those people who don't want anything to do with porn (or whatever), but it would also provide an easy place to look for those who do want to see porn. Forcing sites into the TLD causes all kinds of issues that happens with censorship, let alone the issues that arise from one government trying to regulate something as international as the internet. There are just too many cases of misinterpretation causing problems.
I guess it's time for someone to start thinking about registering goatse.xxx.
Styrofoam should be a preferred material based on how well it can be recycled
And how do I go about doing this recycling thing? In Seattle, my curbside recycling takes just about anything recyclable (from steel to aseptic soy milk containers), but polystyrene is right there on the DO NOT list. The process of recycling may be easy enough, but finding a city recycling program that actually does it is far more difficult.
I think the issue is rather that other people use IE because they don't know any better, and us web designers would like our sites to look good on their browsers, but not spend hours trying to make the tweaks necessary to make things look good and consistent in every browser type (ie, gecko, khtml/safari).
The fact is that most people use IE. My company caters heavily to linux-using customers, and we have a very low 80% IE usage showing in our web logs - most sites seem to indicate 90-95%. Take that with a grain of salt because of people who change their useragent, but not that big of a grain, most people don't bother.
treating otherwise hopeless behavioral, neurological and psychiatric disorders
Does anyone think this sounds remotely like the chip the "military" was using on vampires and demons to change their behavior in the second-to-last season of Buffy?
why not change ichat to make it compatible with GnomeMeeting?
Because last I checked, it was gnomemeeting missing support for SIPS that prevented it working iChat, not iChat using some funky nonstandard protocol. However, I haven't been able to find any info about whether or not gnomemeeting 1.0 supports SIPS (earlier releases didn't).
You'd think that someone who writes for linux journal who can manually tweak an XF86Config file would know that it's pretty easy to set up and use two mice instead of "simply switch[ing] the # character on the two lines"
I just set up my always-connected mouse "CorePointer" and my sometimes-connected one as "AlwaysCore"... Then they both work.
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I see the "window" occasionally, but not the ad that's supposed to be in it. Then again, I installed a custom userContent.css and I don't see most ads.
Well, other than the supposed health fears, most of the controversy I hear about over GM crops is the concern of cross breeding with non-GM crops or weeds. In the case of the weeds article, the that pesticide-resistant genes manage to make it into weeds, which farmers obviously do not want resistant to weed killers.
For another argument, just do a quick search on "sterile genetically-modified" to find a whole bunch of stuff. The main concern I've read about on this is that pollen from sterile GM crops will infect fertile non-GM crops and prevent them from propogating (I don't have a link, but I remember an issue about this dealing with orange trees a couple of years back - farmers suing other nearby farmers because of lost crop fertility, or something like that).
Funny, once I moved beyond a 500Mhz p2, I found it to be just as fast as any other graphical editor I've used. And on that note, jEdit is in my top 3 programs, right next to mozilla and putty in windows, and galeon and *-mp3 in linux (I'd have more in linux, but fedora seems to install everything I'd want except for mp3 support)
And so it does, I stand corrected. Although I can't for the life of me figure out how to make it bring up a different URL if I don't add anything for the %s to replace (since a plain ? should go to google.com, not google.com/search?q=%s)... since if I don't include anything, it tries to search for %s. Nor does it seem to allow multiple keywords, but that's only a minor annoyance. Anyway, thanks for correcting me. Good to learn new things.
Sorry, not the same. I have smart bookmarks for google in galeon and keyword (notice, not keywords) in mozilla set to "google search ?"... In mozilla, I have only that one keyword, and it brings up google.com. In galeon, if I type any of the keywords, it brings up google.com. But since it's also a smart bookmark, anything after the keyword is sent to a different url, with a %s replacement string. In the case of my google bookmark, it searches google for whatever I type after the "google" or "search" or "?". They're smart bookmarks, not keywords. I have dozens of these that let me search google, netflix, apache/php/mysql/perl manuals, etc. Much easier to hit ctrl-L (moves focus to the location box) and start typing, than to find a bookmark, let it load, find the search box, type, then click the submit button.
Duplicate feature sets? Until any of those other gecko-based browser support smart bookmarks like Galeon does (and though Epiphany says it supports them, I found no way to create one), I'll say that not ENOUGH features have been duplicated, and will continue to use Galeon, and moan when I'm forced to use Mozilla itself. Nothing improves my web browsing like the ability to type "? whatever" into my location bar and have it search google for "whatever".
How is this any different from the overtime laws that Bush managed to push through? Or is this the same law set just reworded? The actual new laws do a lot more than just hurt IT workers. Although some of this has apparently been ammended, the original proposal exempted anyone with a college degree, nurses, police, etc. This is a bad law.
At least you got the chance to quit. At my first "real" job, although a nice $50k/year (I had 7+ years of industry experience that paid my way through colleges), I was promised a raise "asap" to get me off of the payroll of the recruiter. The recruiter was getting paid $10 for every $25 I was making, so I was obviously worth at least that much more to my employer. This dragged on for a year, until I was laid off. I easily found another job, but that year of broken promises still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
Actually, look at the search results. In both of my test searches ("1u server" and "blade server"), the results are identical with those from google. So in this case, I'm pretty sure that "on top of" means that they're not only using Google's engine for searching, they're also using Google's databases.
Was? It's about 50 feet north of the Pierce/King county line, visible from I-5 (large full-color northbound, smaller partial-color southbound), featuring full-otion video, and (northbound) bright enough at night to make me squint. When it went in, accident rate along that portion of the freeway jumped up something like 10%, and people fought to have it removed. Unfortunately, it's still there, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who dreams of taking a wide-spread shotgun to it every time I see it.
Anyway, Silicon Mechanics is a small-but-growing systems integrator (with some pretty large-name clients, but I won't drop names at the moment). We're (very) linux friendly (but sell plenty of Windows-based machines, too), specialize in 1u servers and our clients tend to think we offer the best support in the business. We're also pretty competitive price-wise (although there's no way we can compete with a build-it-yourself project, you do get what you pay for).
Did you miss the part where they say that the iTunes store is already selling several albums in the $13-17 range? Of course the scarrier point that the article makes is that the actual physical CD is often for sale in stores for $3-5 less than these elevated digital prices. That's just messed up.
Why is that? I make all of my clients aware (in the contract) that I have a code library, and will use it and add to it from the current project as I see fit, with a big exception for "private" code (specific to the project, which would belong to the client and not me). My code library is part of what they pay me for - it lets me get projects done in a fraction of the time than if I had to code everything from scratch. But then again, I do NOT consider private code as part of my library, even if I have a backup copy or two sitting around on my network.
Seriously, though, would you really trust a person who completely relied on copy/pasting legacy code into current projects?
Who's copying verbatim? Granted, I have some general utility routines (forking commands, javascript mouseover stuff) but most of my code library isn't generalized enough to do this, so I copy/paste where I can, and make modifications where needed (and then I debug it).
Dunno, sounds like it could be a good deal for some people. I pay $20/month to netflix to get 3 DVD's at a time to keep for as long as I want (why buy dvd's again if I can just add them to my queue and have them show up in 2 days?). I can see a lot of people saying "$10/month to have access to almost any song, any time I want? Cool!" After all, that's the equivalent of buying one CD every 1-2 months, which is a lot less than many people buy.
Too bad it's WMA and won't play on my iPod, and that given my tastes for obscure groups, I wouldn't be able to find most of the music I like listening to.
If this is indeed a true service, and knowing google's record, I'd say "not very." They've very good at placing their ads in places that are easily visible but do not interfere with what you're immediately looking at. Not only that, I'd bet that they'd use their context engine to give you ads relevant to the email you're reading. Imagine, while you're reading about your mom's latest adventure cruise to alaska, you get ads relating to travel, outdoors, photography, etc. Privacy issues aside, google's context-based ad system is one of the best innovations in web advertising to happen in a long time (if ever).
I majored in philosophy in undergrad. Took a year off to try my hand at small time ecommerce stuff, and then decided to go to grad school right before the big dot-com boom. I was in grad school for one year (short MA program in "social sciences" - emphasis in anthropology), just long enough to catch the beginning of the "dot-bomb" while I was looking for jobs.
My degrees are relatively worthless - they prove that I can think, and that's about it. I never received any kind of counseling about what kind of career I could expect to find with them, other than more school and someday teaching (which I didn't really want to do). However, throughout all of this, I continued to pay my bills by doing ecommerce stuff, and now have almost 10 years of experience behind me in an industry that is barely 10 years old.
I don't know if a graduate/professional level CS/CE degree will do you any better than your bachelor's degree, but make sure that you're gaining real-world experience during your studies (should you decide to pursue them). I've dealt with a lot of computer people, and it's very easy to recognize those who "live and breathe" code (or hardware, or networking, or whatever), compared to those who mostly just learned it from a book.
Why would Apple switch away from Pioneer, who has already demonstrated that their current drives can do dual-layer burning, with only an updated firmware. (translated link to actual article is here)
Isn't sales tax waived for international tourists? Or isn't there some thing where you can get it reimbursed by your embassy? I know that in WA, if you're from a tax-free state and don't want to pay tax, you just have to flash your OR or MT driver's license and the store fills out some paperwork. Figured there was something similar for international purchasers, since sales tax is all about where the purchase will be used, not merely where it's purchased.
If you're going to ask for the 10th planet(oid), I assume you mean Sedna. But if you're going to include Sedna, you really shouldn't forget Quaoar. It's too small to be considered a planet, but so is Sedna.
I guess it's time for someone to start thinking about registering goatse.xxx.
And how do I go about doing this recycling thing? In Seattle, my curbside recycling takes just about anything recyclable (from steel to aseptic soy milk containers), but polystyrene is right there on the DO NOT list. The process of recycling may be easy enough, but finding a city recycling program that actually does it is far more difficult.
The fact is that most people use IE. My company caters heavily to linux-using customers, and we have a very low 80% IE usage showing in our web logs - most sites seem to indicate 90-95%. Take that with a grain of salt because of people who change their useragent, but not that big of a grain, most people don't bother.
Does anyone think this sounds remotely like the chip the "military" was using on vampires and demons to change their behavior in the second-to-last season of Buffy?
Because last I checked, it was gnomemeeting missing support for SIPS that prevented it working iChat, not iChat using some funky nonstandard protocol. However, I haven't been able to find any info about whether or not gnomemeeting 1.0 supports SIPS (earlier releases didn't).
I just set up my always-connected mouse "CorePointer" and my sometimes-connected one as "AlwaysCore"... Then they both work.