You'll see some of the excessively long ones trimmed or deleted, with fair-use violations as the quoted cause. If you give away every possible detail of some movies, no one would want to see them. Likewise, if you photocopy your notes perfectly enough and sold them at a reasonable price, no one would ever go to college, they'd just learn from you.
Granted, that's dumb, people are unlikely to read plot of the Matrix and go, "Well, I'm done, no need to see slow motion fighting in THX sound" And of course, people will still go to college for the degree.
... excessive interest, and not a DOS attack? For that matter, when a page gets Slashdoted or Farked, but not DOSed, what's the difference? How do we really determine intent?
The way I heard it, in microgravity, fluids accumulate in your respiratory tract. Being in space is like having a head cold, not exactly the best condition for getting good work done.
Almost by definition, peer-to-peer programs avoid domains belonging to RIAA-type corporations, that just makes sense, their content will be false, or poor quality, or not there, or they'll back-track the user to find out who to sue. No one would use a peer-to-peer client to attack such a domain. Well, I suppose it would work if everyone did it at once, but that just seems unlikely. Presumably, their servers are robust enough for all their paying customers, right?
Wow. It obits the sun, but can't get enough power from solar panels. That's kinda sad, says something about the feasibility of solar power, for terrestrial budget applications, compared to JPL's application with no adverse weather to block the sun, and presumably, the very best, most efficient cells.
Curious idea, one end of the probe in constant sunlight, the other end in constant cold of space, heat pump anyone?
As I recall, there was a distinct group of people who used the Concorde frequently. They could go from Singapore to London to New York, all in the same day with the time zone difference, doing work along the way -- i.e. plan it in Singapore, proposition it in the London office's morning meeting, execute it in the New York office, and it happened the same day you came up with it in Singapore. The problem was, the people who did this sort of thing, died in the towers on 9-11. Presumably, the concept is being revisited again. But can the get the design up quickly, before the idea fades again?
that SCO was able to frighten a few people into paying for, you know, to continue to use "SCO property" once the lawsuit was judged in their favor, right. Do those still earn money for SCO, or do you not have to pay to a bankrupt company. Can those people who chose to pay sue SCO for strongarming them without basis?
... the same story as this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project digital document?
The answer is simple, copy it over frequently. Granted, certain obscure works will be lost from time to time, if they're skipped over. But so what? I remember once seeing a documentary about some old silent picture, as an example of pictures made on film stock that was rapidly decaying. It was a comedy about newlyweds, pretty much the same story that's been told time and time again.
Precisely, this sounds like the marketing dept talking, "Add a slot, for a 3rd party 2 GM memory card, that can load a possible stripped down XP, and then some other 3rd party proprietary educational software. The head geek in charge -- Bill Gates, said the whole concept of OLPC is dumb. No one at Richmond is working on this project. Just some PR drone with an idea -- this isn't exactly FUD, it a sort of, "Hey we said we'd meet you half way"
If my opinion counted, I'd say, put XP compatibility in OLPC ver 2.0
But no one can reject how useful they were in advancing medicine and providing valuable facts about human anatomy and biology, information used widely even today.
The way I heard it, much of the work of Megele on twins was junk science -- looking for psychic connections, etc. Furthermore, the research on toxins was already known and published -- no real need to do it on humans. Then there's the vacuum experiments, Britain and the US were able to develop fighter aircraft without killing humans by exposing them to low atmospheres -- once the test individual was unconscious, there was no need to keep pumping 'til the subject died.
to AbiWord for all my document needs. I don't care for MS Office's feature bloat, and OpenOffice wasn't much better.
I tried to use OO's spreadsheet to make a chart, but it's controls were too counterintuitive -- I simply couldn't find them. A couple of versions back, the help file was adequate -- before they were all but useless -- and now we're back to useless again. I may get better.
I personally don't make presentations or use macros, so I don't care about those either way.
But a small, tight, spreadsheet program, with good sci and statistical functions, and a clean charting ability, would come in handy. Any options?
Look up 'Third World' on wikipedia, or perhaps a better source if you've got it. It's an archaic term from the cold-war days. US&Europe=1st World, Soviet Bloc=2nd World, 3rd World=poor people 1st & 2nd World manipulated with cash to further their own ends. It never had anything to do with tech savvyness, just cash/infrastructure.
I thought Firefox was doing this. Don't they openly admit they get revenue from Google by sending searches their way? On that point, has anyone had any problems using a Google image search from the default Mozilla/Google startup page? Never worked for me, I have to go directly to the real Google page. Then again, I block Google cookies, so that could be it.
Wow. We slashdotted the story. They coral-cashed the error message. It came up a year ago on slashdot, but the original link is, of course, dead.
Listen, that's fine for many/. stories. We can glean enough info from the content of the messages posted, or we can google the title, or check wikipedia. But something like this, transient documents , ink-less printers is to far out there. All we can talk about is what we don't know.
Oh hey, I got a cure for AIDS, and cancer and it's a cheap free fusion engine, with possible FTL capability. I can't back that up with any documents of course, should I submit it as an article on slashdot?
I suppose the original poster on the other thread was referring to a plug-in that exists in IE7, that allows you to Google search any hyperlink to see if it was fraudulent, by searching Google you can see if other people have commented on the link as fraudulent, or spyware. Thats how a link that was Microsoft approved got found out to be a spyware company. The connection is thin and shaky, at best, but it certainly flies in the face of Microsoft's claim of being security conscious.
... on the FA comments section. Microsoft is going to kill Google someday. Some stooge at Microsoft knew this was a malware company, and they took the money and ran the advert anyway. Would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
According to a scientific journal article I once read (can't remember the title -- maybe Museum Curator, or something like that), frogs and lizards in amber tend to decompose a little bit before the amber preserves them. And the photos of this frog certainly fit that description. So yeah, this is not exactly pendant material.
There are a lot of frauds out there, however. Hollow out some amber, insert animal remains, fill in with resin (copal is the semi-fossilized sap of trees and melts easily or you can use synthetic polymers), then... profit. The article I read mentioned a famous fraudulent frog specimen. They weren't allowed to take a sample, and it had all the right clues: amber was oxidized, there were debris inclusions throughout the amber, frog partially decomposed, there was an air inclusion... wait, lets look at the air inclusion under a microscope... wait, that's not air, it's a tiny scallop shell... some fraudster forgot marine=!aquatic. Then it was obvious, oh that crack at the top of the piece was wasn't a crack, it was where the top was sawed off. All in all, a very careful but flawed hoax.
Wasn't the story that politicians in support of pennies come from zinc producing states, and/or are supported by zinc mining lobbyists? Whereas, the "anti-pennyists" were (mostly) found to be in collusion with copper-producers -- the basic idea being that no pennies means more nickels, and more copper needed. Everyone gets caught up in the "logic" and "efficiency" and the "historical tradition" and "we have to redesign the penny to include the Lincoln Memorial" and "how 'bout an MLK penny" When this is really all about senators and their personal pork barrel.
These agents don't seem to be as "intelligent" as an online agent is supposed to be.
1). The agents should stop sending me the same position day after day. A simple "no thanks" click should filter the position out. Heck, some job sites redisplay the next month, after I've applied to the position already. Thay ask me if I want to reapply, so the system knows I've applied, so why show me the position.
2). Some decent functioning filters are needed. Case in point, I have the instrumental skills, and the experience requested by the position, but not the degrees (M.S. or Ph.D.) requested. Applying to that position will actually cause a recruiter to write back, "You do not meet the education requirements for this position." Trying to filter out those jobs doesn't always work. Even the online searches on Monster and others don't always allow me to filter out this most basic and easy to see (for the human resources rep) criterion.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Plot contains a few examples, and the bulk of the discussion.
You'll see some of the excessively long ones trimmed or deleted, with fair-use violations as the quoted cause. If you give away every possible detail of some movies, no one would want to see them. Likewise, if you photocopy your notes perfectly enough and sold them at a reasonable price, no one would ever go to college, they'd just learn from you. Granted, that's dumb, people are unlikely to read plot of the Matrix and go, "Well, I'm done, no need to see slow motion fighting in THX sound" And of course, people will still go to college for the degree.
... excessive interest, and not a DOS attack? For that matter, when a page gets Slashdoted or Farked, but not DOSed, what's the difference? How do we really determine intent?
The way I heard it, in microgravity, fluids accumulate in your respiratory tract. Being in space is like having a head cold, not exactly the best condition for getting good work done.
Almost by definition, peer-to-peer programs avoid domains belonging to RIAA-type corporations, that just makes sense, their content will be false, or poor quality, or not there, or they'll back-track the user to find out who to sue. No one would use a peer-to-peer client to attack such a domain. Well, I suppose it would work if everyone did it at once, but that just seems unlikely. Presumably, their servers are robust enough for all their paying customers, right?
I see, so it's a solar probe, yet far from the sun, oh well.
Wow. It obits the sun, but can't get enough power from solar panels. That's kinda sad, says something about the feasibility of solar power, for terrestrial budget applications, compared to JPL's application with no adverse weather to block the sun, and presumably, the very best, most efficient cells. Curious idea, one end of the probe in constant sunlight, the other end in constant cold of space, heat pump anyone?
As I recall, there was a distinct group of people who used the Concorde frequently. They could go from Singapore to London to New York, all in the same day with the time zone difference, doing work along the way -- i.e. plan it in Singapore, proposition it in the London office's morning meeting, execute it in the New York office, and it happened the same day you came up with it in Singapore. The problem was, the people who did this sort of thing, died in the towers on 9-11. Presumably, the concept is being revisited again. But can the get the design up quickly, before the idea fades again?
that SCO was able to frighten a few people into paying for, you know, to continue to use "SCO property" once the lawsuit was judged in their favor, right. Do those still earn money for SCO, or do you not have to pay to a bankrupt company. Can those people who chose to pay sue SCO for strongarming them without basis?
... the same story as this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project digital document? The answer is simple, copy it over frequently. Granted, certain obscure works will be lost from time to time, if they're skipped over. But so what? I remember once seeing a documentary about some old silent picture, as an example of pictures made on film stock that was rapidly decaying. It was a comedy about newlyweds, pretty much the same story that's been told time and time again.
Precisely, this sounds like the marketing dept talking, "Add a slot, for a 3rd party 2 GM memory card, that can load a possible stripped down XP, and then some other 3rd party proprietary educational software. The head geek in charge -- Bill Gates, said the whole concept of OLPC is dumb. No one at Richmond is working on this project. Just some PR drone with an idea -- this isn't exactly FUD, it a sort of, "Hey we said we'd meet you half way" If my opinion counted, I'd say, put XP compatibility in OLPC ver 2.0
If belated doesn't disappoint you, Retrocrush updated their top 100 scary movie scenes -- http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/scary/
But no one can reject how useful they were in advancing medicine and providing valuable facts about human anatomy and biology, information used widely even today. The way I heard it, much of the work of Megele on twins was junk science -- looking for psychic connections, etc. Furthermore, the research on toxins was already known and published -- no real need to do it on humans. Then there's the vacuum experiments, Britain and the US were able to develop fighter aircraft without killing humans by exposing them to low atmospheres -- once the test individual was unconscious, there was no need to keep pumping 'til the subject died.
... I'd page Mr Ric Romero. I wonder who's /.'s patron saint of the obvious.
to AbiWord for all my document needs. I don't care for MS Office's feature bloat, and OpenOffice wasn't much better. I tried to use OO's spreadsheet to make a chart, but it's controls were too counterintuitive -- I simply couldn't find them. A couple of versions back, the help file was adequate -- before they were all but useless -- and now we're back to useless again. I may get better. I personally don't make presentations or use macros, so I don't care about those either way. But a small, tight, spreadsheet program, with good sci and statistical functions, and a clean charting ability, would come in handy. Any options?
Look up 'Third World' on wikipedia, or perhaps a better source if you've got it. It's an archaic term from the cold-war days. US&Europe=1st World, Soviet Bloc=2nd World, 3rd World=poor people 1st & 2nd World manipulated with cash to further their own ends. It never had anything to do with tech savvyness, just cash/infrastructure.
I thought Firefox was doing this. Don't they openly admit they get revenue from Google by sending searches their way? On that point, has anyone had any problems using a Google image search from the default Mozilla/Google startup page? Never worked for me, I have to go directly to the real Google page. Then again, I block Google cookies, so that could be it.
Wow. We slashdotted the story. They coral-cashed the error message. It came up a year ago on slashdot, but the original link is, of course, dead. Listen, that's fine for many /. stories. We can glean enough info from the content of the messages posted, or we can google the title, or check wikipedia. But something like this, transient documents , ink-less printers is to far out there. All we can talk about is what we don't know.
Oh hey, I got a cure for AIDS, and cancer and it's a cheap free fusion engine, with possible FTL capability. I can't back that up with any documents of course, should I submit it as an article on slashdot?
Slashdoters worldwide hope that quote gets picked up by the popular press
I suppose the original poster on the other thread was referring to a plug-in that exists in IE7, that allows you to Google search any hyperlink to see if it was fraudulent, by searching Google you can see if other people have commented on the link as fraudulent, or spyware. Thats how a link that was Microsoft approved got found out to be a spyware company. The connection is thin and shaky, at best, but it certainly flies in the face of Microsoft's claim of being security conscious.
... on the FA comments section. Microsoft is going to kill Google someday. Some stooge at Microsoft knew this was a malware company, and they took the money and ran the advert anyway. Would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
All I can find online with a quick google search is this reference here: http://www.vgms.org/bt/vgms0109.htm
According to a scientific journal article I once read (can't remember the title -- maybe Museum Curator, or something like that), frogs and lizards in amber tend to decompose a little bit before the amber preserves them. And the photos of this frog certainly fit that description. So yeah, this is not exactly pendant material.
... profit. The article I read mentioned a famous fraudulent frog specimen. They weren't allowed to take a sample, and it had all the right clues: amber was oxidized, there were debris inclusions throughout the amber, frog partially decomposed, there was an air inclusion ... wait, lets look at the air inclusion under a microscope ... wait, that's not air, it's a tiny scallop shell ... some fraudster forgot marine=!aquatic. Then it was obvious, oh that crack at the top of the piece was wasn't a crack, it was where the top was sawed off. All in all, a very careful but flawed hoax.
There are a lot of frauds out there, however. Hollow out some amber, insert animal remains, fill in with resin (copal is the semi-fossilized sap of trees and melts easily or you can use synthetic polymers), then
Wasn't the story that politicians in support of pennies come from zinc producing states, and/or are supported by zinc mining lobbyists? Whereas, the "anti-pennyists" were (mostly) found to be in collusion with copper-producers -- the basic idea being that no pennies means more nickels, and more copper needed. Everyone gets caught up in the "logic" and "efficiency" and the "historical tradition" and "we have to redesign the penny to include the Lincoln Memorial" and "how 'bout an MLK penny" When this is really all about senators and their personal pork barrel.
These agents don't seem to be as "intelligent" as an online agent is supposed to be.
1). The agents should stop sending me the same position day after day. A simple "no thanks" click should filter the position out. Heck, some job sites redisplay the next month, after I've applied to the position already. Thay ask me if I want to reapply, so the system knows I've applied, so why show me the position.
2). Some decent functioning filters are needed. Case in point, I have the instrumental skills, and the experience requested by the position, but not the degrees (M.S. or Ph.D.) requested. Applying to that position will actually cause a recruiter to write back, "You do not meet the education requirements for this position." Trying to filter out those jobs doesn't always work. Even the online searches on Monster and others don't always allow me to filter out this most basic and easy to see (for the human resources rep) criterion.