That's really a ludicrous position to take. Like Presidents have to whip out the veto now and then so they can feel like a man. The President only has to use the veto on legislation he's strongly against. If Bush hasn't vetoed something that may show poor judgment on his part, in your opinion, but it's not a reflection of his use of the office of the Presidency.
Unbelievable. President Bush and the Republican Congress are actually poised to do something good for us geeks--keeping internet access tax-free--and some slashbot still manages to find a way to turn it into an anti-Bush troll. Simply stunning.
They can tie. The one football game I've ever been to, an Eagles v Ravens game back in 2000 I think was a 13-13 tie. Funny, since I had grown up in Philadelphia and then moved to Baltimore to go to high school.
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The way they're acting, they might as well be a 507 org. Why don't they just call up Soros to get funding, and in the meantime say that Bill Gates betrayed his country in Vietnam?
I think this may be one of the drawbacks of the above-mentioned applications: I don't think any of them actually index content. I believe they all rely on the filename, filetype, place in the filesystem hierarchy, and metadata provided by applications (the Mail database, bookmarks, iTunes database, etc).
I do know that searching by content in the current OS X search is not terribly reliable, and it's very slow.
I think this is a really interesting development. Computing companies are starting to realize that with all the mounds of content that people now have on their hard drives, it's tougher and tougher to find exactly what you and and where you put it.
Hierarchical filesystems rely on users being able to organize their own data, remembering where they put it, and being able to navigate to it quickly. In reality, this has turned out to be a pain more than anything else. Not all files are easily categorizable, and not all users have their own schemes to keep their files in relevant places. Further, some files can easily fit into two or three different categories, but hierarchical filesystems only allow the file to exist in one place.
There have been numerous hacks to get around this problem: aliases/shortcuts, application and file launchers, the start menu, drawers, etc. Each way is essentially trying to overcome the limits of a hierarchical system.
When the internet was developing, top-level domains helped distinguish different types of content. Domains and sub-domains further helped. When those became too many to deal with, Web directories like Yahoo! became popular in an attempt to categorize and separate content. This is essentially a hierarchical filesystem for the internet. Then Google's innovation was that you didn't have to use a filesystem, you could just search the content and its relationships to find what you wanted. No filesystem is needed: you don't really need bookmarks or directories if you have Google, you just search for whatever you want.
Now, computing companies realize that the same idea applies to the desktop: the hierarchical filesystem is badly broken, and has been ever since people had to start inventing hack after hack to make it more tolerable. File searching was always a kind of last resort for OS writers. Microsoft focused all its efforts on making IE its filebrowser, instead of making a filesystem that's actualyl usable. Now companies realize what the next stage is: Apple has Spotlight, Launchbar, Quicksilver, and Butler; Windows has Google Desktop and Copernic; Linux has the always reliable grep.
It may take one of two more iterations of OSes, but I predict that when you boot up your OS, the first thing you see will not be a desktop of icons and a hierarchical filebrower. Your OS will have one simple interface: a search field. Just like Google's internet search, the OS will have one simply interfact. Only on the desktop, the OS can make the search results appear in realtime, categorize them more efficiently with metadata (which won't be spoofed in the same manner Web metadata was), and be able to launch or alter the files from the search results.
Things to look for: Apple's 10.4 Tiger OS now features Spotlight, but that finder search tool takes an auxiliary position in the UI. By 10.5, look for Spotlight to take the central position away from the Finder/Dock and become the primary instrument for using the OS. Launchbar has already done this to my computer-use habits, and I'm still using 10.3 Panther. If an when WinFS ever surfaces, look for it to transform the Windows desktop in the same manner.
You don't have to wait until next year to have this type of application on your Mac actually. Check out Launchbar, Quicksilver and Butler. All do exactly what the Google Desktop does, only they are able to search through more types of files and items, and are better integrated with the filesystem. It's nice that Google threw Window's users a bone though. I may use it at work.
China has been most consistently the biggest superpower over mankinds history
Yeah, except for when they were ruled by the Mongols, and when they were conquered by the Japanese, and when they were carved up by the Europeans, and when they were dominated by the United States.
A more interesting application might be genetically modifying a plant disease which could introduce GM RNA into drug-producing plants, crippling their ability to reproduce or even produce the drug chemicals themselves. A revamped War on Drugs would then be fought by plant diseases that spread among Coca plants or Poppies rendering them harmless.
Yeah, I read somewhere that they had actually contracted a different strain of HIV, HIV-2 it was called. It was still infectious, but it prevented HIV-1 from infecting them and developing into fullblown AIDS. Kind of like an HIV vaccine against HIV.
...if you force enough people to serve against their will, the general public will get interested enough to do something about a war which they don't support.
This is just about the most anti-democratic statement I've ever heard on slashdot. Why parent thinks it's acceptable to run roughshod over people's freedoms simply to make a political point against a war they object to is inconceivable to me.
That doesn't really make sense though: rich people have always been able to avoid the draft, while poor people were always stuck with it. Introducing a draft does little to nothing to change the rich-poor divide in the armed services.
Further, except in times of great conflict, the United States, like all liberal democracies, has avoided compulsory military service, opting instead for a fully civilian-controlled volunteer army. Mandating that kids join the lowest ranks isn't going to change how the Generals fight America's war either.
Well I agree that terrorism is a huge problem but ya know if the British government had listened to the plight of the Catholics in Northern Ireland in the sixties, there would be no IRA today.
Essentially what you're saying here is that whenever a minority group has a grievance, if the government does not accommodate them, then blowing up civilians in downtown London is an understandable recourse. I understand that Catholics in Northern Ireland were terribly oppressed by the Protestants, and that the government was more willing to send troops to keep things the way they were, rather than to enforce civility between the two groups. But terrorism is still not a legitimate response to oppression.
I'm not exactly sure how people are defining "the biggest threat to the world." It seems rather ludicrous to me to define it either as terrorism or poverty. Both have been around forever, and neither is likely to go away in the forseeable future. Clearly neither can therefore be the factor that is increasing the threat "to the world," whatever that means.
P.S. I spent New Years 2003/2004 in Galway. Wonderful town. On New Years Day my mom and I drove around County Joyce (I believe) which was jaw-droppingly stunning, and up to Cong Abbey. I must say you live in a beautiful area of the world. All the best.
If Bush is a bad President, it ought to be fairly trivial to refute the claims of any postings supporting him. Rather, what grandparent was noting, is that the moderators will simply use moderation to dispense with comments that don't support their view. That is displaying bias, rather than displaying a factual basis for the claim that Bush is a bad president. These "intelligent" "critical thinkers" ought to be able to defend their assertion that President Bush is terrible for the country without resorting simply to moderation (keeping pro-Bush posts out of sight rather than having to deal with the substance of their arguments). If their views are as "substantial" as you assert, they should display the substance of their views through hitting the Reply button, not the Moderate button.
Sure, more leftist ideas will be accessible if people have the internet. But then again, there are a lot of well-trafficked rightwing sites on the internet as well (the whole 'digital brownshirt' thing Gore talked about, like an idiot). Just as the partisan war in the country has been fought out in pamphlets, newspapers, radio, and television, so too will it continue, idiotically, on the internet. Don't be so quick to celebrate one or the other side's triumph.
What exactly do you think the American ethos and mythos are? Your post is a troll blanket statement about all 280+ million Americans who come from all over the world and from all different backgrounds. I'm not sure at all that the societal norms you disparage and ascribe uniquely to Americans are in fact shared by most Americans, much less all.
I agree. In fact, flying cars are too large a step in my opinion. The technology that we should be focusing on is that hovering skateboard from Back to the Future. Nothing will be more essential to my life than that if it gets made. The VCs can just take all my money, I don't care. (Take that, Segway tool!)
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It only died for three days, but then it was forked into a new incarnation.
Sorry, ChristBSD is far superior, and you'll be made to regret your poor choice when your gift-receivers realize what you've done.
That's really a ludicrous position to take. Like Presidents have to whip out the veto now and then so they can feel like a man. The President only has to use the veto on legislation he's strongly against. If Bush hasn't vetoed something that may show poor judgment on his part, in your opinion, but it's not a reflection of his use of the office of the Presidency.
Unbelievable. President Bush and the Republican Congress are actually poised to do something good for us geeks--keeping internet access tax-free--and some slashbot still manages to find a way to turn it into an anti-Bush troll. Simply stunning.
In that case, we'd like our cemetaries back.
They can tie. The one football game I've ever been to, an Eagles v Ravens game back in 2000 I think was a 13-13 tie. Funny, since I had grown up in Philadelphia and then moved to Baltimore to go to high school.
Also worth checking out for comparison's sake are the Freedom of the Press rankings put out by Freedom House.
The way they're acting, they might as well be a 507 org. Why don't they just call up Soros to get funding, and in the meantime say that Bill Gates betrayed his country in Vietnam?
I do know that searching by content in the current OS X search is not terribly reliable, and it's very slow.
Hierarchical filesystems rely on users being able to organize their own data, remembering where they put it, and being able to navigate to it quickly. In reality, this has turned out to be a pain more than anything else. Not all files are easily categorizable, and not all users have their own schemes to keep their files in relevant places. Further, some files can easily fit into two or three different categories, but hierarchical filesystems only allow the file to exist in one place.
There have been numerous hacks to get around this problem: aliases/shortcuts, application and file launchers, the start menu, drawers, etc. Each way is essentially trying to overcome the limits of a hierarchical system.
When the internet was developing, top-level domains helped distinguish different types of content. Domains and sub-domains further helped. When those became too many to deal with, Web directories like Yahoo! became popular in an attempt to categorize and separate content. This is essentially a hierarchical filesystem for the internet. Then Google's innovation was that you didn't have to use a filesystem, you could just search the content and its relationships to find what you wanted. No filesystem is needed: you don't really need bookmarks or directories if you have Google, you just search for whatever you want.
Now, computing companies realize that the same idea applies to the desktop: the hierarchical filesystem is badly broken, and has been ever since people had to start inventing hack after hack to make it more tolerable. File searching was always a kind of last resort for OS writers. Microsoft focused all its efforts on making IE its filebrowser, instead of making a filesystem that's actualyl usable. Now companies realize what the next stage is: Apple has Spotlight, Launchbar, Quicksilver, and Butler; Windows has Google Desktop and Copernic; Linux has the always reliable grep.
It may take one of two more iterations of OSes, but I predict that when you boot up your OS, the first thing you see will not be a desktop of icons and a hierarchical filebrower. Your OS will have one simple interface: a search field. Just like Google's internet search, the OS will have one simply interfact. Only on the desktop, the OS can make the search results appear in realtime, categorize them more efficiently with metadata (which won't be spoofed in the same manner Web metadata was), and be able to launch or alter the files from the search results.
Things to look for: Apple's 10.4 Tiger OS now features Spotlight, but that finder search tool takes an auxiliary position in the UI. By 10.5, look for Spotlight to take the central position away from the Finder/Dock and become the primary instrument for using the OS. Launchbar has already done this to my computer-use habits, and I'm still using 10.3 Panther. If an when WinFS ever surfaces, look for it to transform the Windows desktop in the same manner.
You don't have to wait until next year to have this type of application on your Mac actually. Check out Launchbar, Quicksilver and Butler. All do exactly what the Google Desktop does, only they are able to search through more types of files and items, and are better integrated with the filesystem. It's nice that Google threw Window's users a bone though. I may use it at work.
Yeah, except for when they were ruled by the Mongols, and when they were conquered by the Japanese, and when they were carved up by the Europeans, and when they were dominated by the United States.
A more interesting application might be genetically modifying a plant disease which could introduce GM RNA into drug-producing plants, crippling their ability to reproduce or even produce the drug chemicals themselves. A revamped War on Drugs would then be fought by plant diseases that spread among Coca plants or Poppies rendering them harmless.
This is a problem with IP law, not GM.
Yeah, I read somewhere that they had actually contracted a different strain of HIV, HIV-2 it was called. It was still infectious, but it prevented HIV-1 from infecting them and developing into fullblown AIDS. Kind of like an HIV vaccine against HIV.
This is just about the most anti-democratic statement I've ever heard on slashdot. Why parent thinks it's acceptable to run roughshod over people's freedoms simply to make a political point against a war they object to is inconceivable to me.
That doesn't really make sense though: rich people have always been able to avoid the draft, while poor people were always stuck with it. Introducing a draft does little to nothing to change the rich-poor divide in the armed services. Further, except in times of great conflict, the United States, like all liberal democracies, has avoided compulsory military service, opting instead for a fully civilian-controlled volunteer army. Mandating that kids join the lowest ranks isn't going to change how the Generals fight America's war either.
Essentially what you're saying here is that whenever a minority group has a grievance, if the government does not accommodate them, then blowing up civilians in downtown London is an understandable recourse. I understand that Catholics in Northern Ireland were terribly oppressed by the Protestants, and that the government was more willing to send troops to keep things the way they were, rather than to enforce civility between the two groups. But terrorism is still not a legitimate response to oppression.
I'm not exactly sure how people are defining "the biggest threat to the world." It seems rather ludicrous to me to define it either as terrorism or poverty. Both have been around forever, and neither is likely to go away in the forseeable future. Clearly neither can therefore be the factor that is increasing the threat "to the world," whatever that means.
P.S. I spent New Years 2003/2004 in Galway. Wonderful town. On New Years Day my mom and I drove around County Joyce (I believe) which was jaw-droppingly stunning, and up to Cong Abbey. I must say you live in a beautiful area of the world. All the best.
You forgot to add... "with the walkie talkies that have somehow replaced their guns."
If Bush is a bad President, it ought to be fairly trivial to refute the claims of any postings supporting him. Rather, what grandparent was noting, is that the moderators will simply use moderation to dispense with comments that don't support their view. That is displaying bias, rather than displaying a factual basis for the claim that Bush is a bad president. These "intelligent" "critical thinkers" ought to be able to defend their assertion that President Bush is terrible for the country without resorting simply to moderation (keeping pro-Bush posts out of sight rather than having to deal with the substance of their arguments). If their views are as "substantial" as you assert, they should display the substance of their views through hitting the Reply button, not the Moderate button.
I don't know what you're looking at, but there's a big green "Download Now!" button on the top right.
Sure, more leftist ideas will be accessible if people have the internet. But then again, there are a lot of well-trafficked rightwing sites on the internet as well (the whole 'digital brownshirt' thing Gore talked about, like an idiot). Just as the partisan war in the country has been fought out in pamphlets, newspapers, radio, and television, so too will it continue, idiotically, on the internet. Don't be so quick to celebrate one or the other side's triumph.
What exactly do you think the American ethos and mythos are? Your post is a troll blanket statement about all 280+ million Americans who come from all over the world and from all different backgrounds. I'm not sure at all that the societal norms you disparage and ascribe uniquely to Americans are in fact shared by most Americans, much less all.
Once again, the Onion captured idiotic school behavior on the internet well before real life did.
I agree. In fact, flying cars are too large a step in my opinion. The technology that we should be focusing on is that hovering skateboard from Back to the Future. Nothing will be more essential to my life than that if it gets made. The VCs can just take all my money, I don't care. (Take that, Segway tool!)