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The government is in the unenviable situation of trying to regulate the patterns and processes of Net activity. In real space, the various geographies (physical, economic) are pretty well understood, they can do this--hence, we have things like the Interstate Commerce Commission. Granted, illegal activities take place in which we can't account for the movement of capital and goods, but it's a relatively minor part of the economy.
In digital space, geographies are difficult to define, change rapidly, and are poorly understood in general--especially by government types. Things like MP3s, which are getting everyone into a froth, can be created, copied, hosted, and distributed with no relation to political boundaries, and the actors involved may or may not be U.S. citizens.
I understand the government's position of wanting to do something about what's happening on the Net, because it clearly facilitates gross violations of laws and regulations that are applied in physical space.
Hopefully, someone can clearly articulate to our lawmakers what it is about online culture that's different from physical space and deserves to be treated differently.
This is really intriguing, despite the multitude of evil uses it potentially has. Those aside, I just thought of cool things urban geographers and transportation planners could do with this--conduct better transportation surveys. As it stands, a lot of our spending on infrastructure like roads is tied to surveys that gauge the travel patterns of a small sample of people in a metro area on one carefully selected day of the year (I think it's a Wednesday in October...). This is taken to be representative of everyone's travel patterns. There are lots of better ways I can think of to conduct these surveys, but logistics and cost prevent them.
With this, we could potentially track willing participants that cut across demographic and economic categories. If there was enough computing power in the equation, we could arrive at more accurate descriptions of people's travel habits over the course of a week, or in different seasons.
Just a thought for other geographers out there like myself.
I've been a Window Maker devotee for many moons now, and I'm a big fan of the ease with which you can designate keyboard shortcuts for all kinds of things. Using the kb I can navigate the root menu, shade/unshade windows, toggle thru my desktops, alt+tab switch, F3 (dunno why I picked it but there we are) to execute an arbitrary command, iconify, yada yada yada. I agree that Netscape is the trickiest app to use mouseless.
All these things can be done in other WMs to be sure, but it's slick with Window Maker. 'vi ~/GNUstep/Library/Windowmaker/menu'
...is to make our voices heard, if we care about this enough to do it. Head over to http://www.cdt.org and read their take on the latest news. Type in your ZIP code, find out if your representative is on any of the important committees. Even if they aren't, CDT provides the phone numbers for the committees so you can call and let them know how you feel. The most important thing in the end will be to let your representative know how important the right to use encryption is to you. Perhaps a well-worded letter can educate them a bit, you never know. But try to get them on the bandwagon to support this bill in its correct form when it eventually gets voted on. Oh, and of course the full text of everything related to this bill is on http://thomas.loc.gov, just look up HR 850.
I'm pretty sure I have enough respect for those of you out there who prefer this {life || work)style. After all, I'm primarily an end user, so I mostly enjoy the fruits of your labor--using software, surfing the web pages you make, using the dialup connection you maintain, etc.
And it seems that most of you are into it this way because you choose to, which is of the utmost importance. Bravo, I say, because you really need to do what you enjoy. If the majority were being forced into this against their will, it would be a problem.
The 12-14 hour days are not for me. In the two or three career paths I see for myself, only one of them has the possibility of non-traditional workdays. I enjoy computers, but could never spend that much time with them. Come 4:30 or 5:00, I want to leave work behind and enjoy time with a wife, kids, nature, a good book and a beer, watching the news, etc.
It must be terribly difficult to be socially active with an extra long day. You could argue that you can still be social online, but I would counter that by saying that time with "real" people and friends is much more fun. Hmm, chat rooms or a night out with your best buddies for drinks and live blues? Online Quake or an evening hike? I appreciate my friends for wanting to include me in things rather than seeing me while away my free time in front of a computer.
I could easily see problems with marital relations, families, stress-related health issues, etc. if this became the norm. But it seems to be mostly in the realm of the single 20 and 30-somethings. Perhaps it's best that way, and people will transition out of that sort of thing as they get older and start families.
Oh, and cubicles do suck, as a previous poster alluded to.:-)
Kudos to you both for this online community you've created and put so much effort into. While there will inevitably be naysayers, hopefully it will be clear that the large majority of us support this move for a few reasons (there are obviously more, but I thought of these quick):
1) You guys might actually get some rest! 2) Multiple servers? I don't know much but that sounds like more bandwidth and faster page loading for us. 3) Both of you sound like you stand to benefit financially--anyone would be hard pressed to argue that you don't deserve it. 4) Some good causes will receive support. 5) Control will be kept in the hands of the guys that best know how to exercise it.
Perhaps he evaluates the merits of ideologies based on their economic returns. If so, he might well ignore what many of us consider to be the nobler (but far less profitable) ideals of the Open Source community and bestow his much-sought-after (hehe) blessing upon M$'s methods.
And of course those would be to overwhelm its customers with advertisements for its corpulent, bug-ridden software that with each iteration practically demands that users make major hardware upgrades for the privilege of watching their new software suck down ever increasing amounts of system resources. Whew. Thereafter the aforementioned corporation dutifully promises to offer token support for its products in the form of hastily thrown together patches that only might fix the problem, and to let its customers languish in the deep hold tanks of its telephone support system.
In marked contrast, this community's ideals are to subject code and concepts to peer review, allowing the best and most secure to emerge naturally. Forget the "antiquated technology" argument--in another 30 years, when Metcalfe may well have gone the way of the dodo, we may look at companies still using the cabalistic design practices of M$ and scoff at their decrepitude.
I agree that Linux will always be a minority in the desktop and server markets, but a substantial one at that. But no matter what happens, there's no way all the dedicated programmers out there that make the software I use and enjoy are just going to shrivel up and disappear with the advent of Windows2000. Sheesh.
If this could bring me CapitalGold from London on Saturday mornings during the English Premiership season it would be peachy. Few things better than a cup of joe and Jonathan Pearce doing the commentary on the match of the day to start off a Saturday. Or better yet, RadioChelsea 1494 AM from London, Andy Saunders bringing you live Chelsea FC action from Stamford Bridge. . .
But I have to wholeheartedly echo the sentiments of an earlier poster . . . no matter where you go there are already stations playing the rubbish that they call pop music. No need to tune in to your home station from hundreds of miles away.
As long as the discussion is focused on X, 3D, and video cards and such, I'd like someone to help me get back up to speed on some things.
I definitely don't want this to turn into a chipset war, but a fast summary of who's making what, whose drivers are being open sourced or will be (3dfx, nVidia, Matrox, etc.), the state of 2D support and potential for 3D would be very helpful.
Mostly because I'm budgeting for a new system later this summer (granted, the pace of things may make forecasts difficult) and I'd like something rock-solid under 2D and hopefully with a bright future as far as 3D is concerned.
...the expanses of cyberspace allow plenty of room for God while simultaneously making it quite simple for you to ignore religious material which you find objectionable. Admittedly, I find the idea of an Internet patron saint a wee bit silly. But I find it very difficult to believe that you'll encounter any palpable attempts at 'indoctrination' if the Vatican were to go ahead with this.:)
It's all too easy to bring up the Church's missteps throughout the centuries, but these are human errors, some graver than others. That they were wrongly committed in the name of God does not repudiate the value of the religion's message or its true core doctrines, IMHO. And for centuries the concept of personal freedom was largely unknown to the masses who knew only the Church as the starting and ending points of most aspects of their lives. I think for far too long religion got bogged down in the details of things like the Bible, a fascinatingly confusing document which led to the justification for all sorts of terrible deeds. Recently there have been shifts away from organized religions to "personal faith", a more direct connection to one's deity of choice. A lot of right-wing fundamentalist Christian groups emphasize this, as a result of their disillusionment with Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, etc. etc.
All that aside, today you and I have the freedom to cheerfully ignore religion or complain about it as we see fit. That freedom comes from the labors of generations of our ancestors, Christian, Jew, Muslim, or none of the above. While acknowledging the fact that organized religions have made mistakes, their importance should not be so wantonly dismissed. While I am a Christian (Lutheran specifically), I'm quite liberal, and if you want to be a heathen, hey, that's fine with me. I wonder if the fierce reprisals against religion are because the online demographics are much different than the real world...i.e., a higher concentration of agnostics and atheists in the online population. Who knows?
I would also not be surprised (if you are Caucasian) if you owe your existence to the 'Catholic heritage' at some point way back in history.:) While not a Catholic myself and more recently in history being descended from German Protestants, I know I do.
I only have two weeks or so experience with US West and I'm already fearing the worst. With plans to move into my new place in Minneapolis on 1 June, I called a week prior to set up new service so it would be ready the day I got there. Well, lo and behold, it didn't work on 1 June, so I called. They explained that 'someone' had pushed the date back on the computer and it would be done on 2 June by 5 PM. The next day someone stopped by while I was out and left a message saying that I needed to call an 800 number to schedule an appt. to complete installation. When I called, they explained that they hadn't anticipated needing to get inside so they couldn't have forewarned me about the possibility of needing to be there, and oh by the way we can't set you up now until Saturday 5 June. Great. And they need a four hour window to do it. Better. So my roommate and I completely rearrange our schedules to be home from 2-6 PM on a beautiful Sat. afternoon, and guess who NEVER shows up--US West. I call AGAIN, and it is explained away as a case of the problem simply 'not being assigned to a technician'. Well, at 7:45 PM on Monday 7 June they finally did it. And now the kicker is that when I originally called before I moved in, the guy ran a line check and found that I qualify for the 256k DSL service, but now I don't anymore for some reason. Stuck with dialup...hmph. A pretty lousy situation after being spoiled by 10BaseT for the last four years.
US Worst seems to be a fairly apt moniker in my estimation.
Um, number 16 or 19 (can't remember) on the list was in Chippewa Falls, WI. The only important thing I can think of in Chippewa Falls is...Leinenkugel's Brewery! Maybe those of you who aren't from the Upper Midwest aren't as familiar, but maybe they do a whole lot more volume than I thought...hehe. Being a Minnesotan, I think that Leinie's is close to the only useful thing to come out of Wisconsin. On a side note, 14 of the top 500 are in good old Minnesota, mostly because of the University and Cray. That's a pretty decent total for one state. And the U has some pretty kickin' machines it would seem.
Moneydance. Requires the JDK which of course you can get from www.blackdown.org if you don't already have it. I used xacc for awhile, now that's become GnuCash, which might amount to something in a few years.:)
Slow, but that's mostly my machine...one of the better Java apps I've seen.
Get it here: http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/
The idea of meeting people online has sparked many discussions among my group of friends this year. My roommate sees nothing wrong with meeting others in chat rooms, and will argue until he is blue in the face that it is no different than meeting people out in "the real world." Now I'm not a chat person myself...the extent of my Internet socialization is the occasional game of bridge on Yahoo! where I will exchange greetings with those I am playing with as a matter of courtesy.
If I were to ever become the chat room type, I think I could keep myself limited to using it for informational purposes. That is, I see IRC and similar things as fine forums for collaboration, catching up with friends from far away, etc. I personally would never use it to try and meet others to establish relationships that would eventually result in a face-to-face meeting.
The whole idea makes me quite leery, actually. I understand that there are a lot of you out there who have "success" stories, and that it has turned out to be a good experience. That's great, and you are fortunate. But please, spare me the details...because I find personal anecdotes used as support of a view to be largely worthless and a very weak form of argument. Your personal experiences do not extrapolate to the whole situation. Until we see a substantive study by a research group of sociologists, psychologists, or whoever is qualified to do such a thing, we should really withhold judgment about this behavior. I cannot say it is better or worse than meeting people in real life, only that I have a gut feeling about it that I cannot ignore.
Several generations ago it was common for marriages to be arranged, and it still happens in some societies. Decisions were made for people based on socio-economic status and reputation, not on the chemistry two young people established. In these times we are used to the idea that in most cases, we need to get a complete picture of a person before we consider embarking on a serious relationship. Personality, looks, intelligence, habits--some or all of these are important to all of us. That was a major change in the way people met and decided to spend the rest of their lives with each other. What I wonder is what the growing number of people online will do to this process. I think we should all be patient with it and be extra careful until we have a sense of the wider implications and the trends.
Cold? What's that? I've got -3C currently in Mankato, barometer at 760mm, and snow's been piling up nicely all day. The Cities were getting an inch per hour earlier today. . . but it was downright balmy earlier this week. This winter was really tame. Anyone who complains about the temperature is a wee pansy.:)
I think it would be pretty keen to have a job in Minneapolis, it's a fun city (go T-Wolves!). ..I'll probably be stuck in that bland suburban expanse--Bloomington.
I must have never heard about this. . . from the sound of the article, it seems that a Celeron 366 is extremely overclockable. Was this a slip by Intel? It has to be really well known, because it got tremendous scores on all those tests. Anybody got more info. on this processor? Just curious.
I noticed that you mentioned using ArcView for printing maps. . . I don't know exactly what quality you are shooting for, perhaps it's not important, but ArcView makes really cruddy maps. I believe there are some plugins available (don't remember URL) to port ArcView.shp files over to Adobe Illustrator, which I have seen make some excellent looking maps of high cartographic quality.
On a side note--anyone know how Rob's submission thing works? I posted the news of this beta release announcement a couple of hours after the folks at Baylor put it up, and today was the first mention of it on/. Weird. It's not a big deal, I suppose interested geographers like myself and other folks that work with GIS would have heard about this fairly quickly anyway.
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The government is in the unenviable situation of trying to regulate the patterns and processes of Net activity. In real space, the various geographies (physical, economic) are pretty well understood, they can do this--hence, we have things like the Interstate Commerce Commission. Granted, illegal activities take place in which we can't account for the movement of capital and goods, but it's a relatively minor part of the economy.
In digital space, geographies are difficult to define, change rapidly, and are poorly understood in general--especially by government types. Things like MP3s, which are getting everyone into a froth, can be created, copied, hosted, and distributed with no relation to political boundaries, and the actors involved may or may not be U.S. citizens.
I understand the government's position of wanting to do something about what's happening on the Net, because it clearly facilitates gross violations of laws and regulations that are applied in physical space.
Hopefully, someone can clearly articulate to our lawmakers what it is about online culture that's different from physical space and deserves to be treated differently.
This is really intriguing, despite the multitude of evil uses it potentially has. Those aside, I just thought of cool things urban geographers and transportation planners could do with this--conduct better transportation surveys. As it stands, a lot of our spending on infrastructure like roads is tied to surveys that gauge the travel patterns of a small sample of people in a metro area on one carefully selected day of the year (I think it's a Wednesday in October...). This is taken to be representative of everyone's travel patterns. There are lots of better ways I can think of to conduct these surveys, but logistics and cost prevent them.
With this, we could potentially track willing participants that cut across demographic and economic categories. If there was enough computing power in the equation, we could arrive at more accurate descriptions of people's travel habits over the course of a week, or in different seasons.
Just a thought for other geographers out there like myself.
I've been a Window Maker devotee for many moons now, and I'm a big fan of the ease with which you can designate keyboard shortcuts for all kinds of things. Using the kb I can navigate the root menu, shade/unshade windows, toggle thru my desktops, alt+tab switch, F3 (dunno why I picked it but there we are) to execute an arbitrary command, iconify, yada yada yada. I agree that Netscape is the trickiest app to use mouseless.
All these things can be done in other WMs to be sure, but it's slick with Window Maker. 'vi ~/GNUstep/Library/Windowmaker/menu'
...is to make our voices heard, if we care about this enough to do it. Head over to http://www.cdt.org and read their take on the latest news. Type in your ZIP code, find out if your representative is on any of the important committees. Even if they aren't, CDT provides the phone numbers for the committees so you can call and let them know how you feel. The most important thing in the end will be to let your representative know how important the right to use encryption is to you. Perhaps a well-worded letter can educate them a bit, you never know. But try to get them on the bandwagon to support this bill in its correct form when it eventually gets voted on. Oh, and of course the full text of everything related to this bill is on http://thomas.loc.gov, just look up HR 850.
I'm pretty sure I have enough respect for those of you out there who prefer this {life || work)style. After all, I'm primarily an end user, so I mostly enjoy the fruits of your labor--using software, surfing the web pages you make, using the dialup connection you maintain, etc.
:-)
And it seems that most of you are into it this way because you choose to, which is of the utmost importance. Bravo, I say, because you really need to do what you enjoy. If the majority were being forced into this against their will, it would be a problem.
The 12-14 hour days are not for me. In the two or three career paths I see for myself, only one of them has the possibility of non-traditional workdays. I enjoy computers, but could never spend that much time with them. Come 4:30 or 5:00, I want to leave work behind and enjoy time with a wife, kids, nature, a good book and a beer, watching the news, etc.
It must be terribly difficult to be socially active with an extra long day. You could argue that you can still be social online, but I would counter that by saying that time with "real" people and friends is much more fun. Hmm, chat rooms or a night out with your best buddies for drinks and live blues? Online Quake or an evening hike? I appreciate my friends for wanting to include me in things rather than seeing me while away my free time in front of a computer.
I could easily see problems with marital relations, families, stress-related health issues, etc. if this became the norm. But it seems to be mostly in the realm of the single 20 and 30-somethings. Perhaps it's best that way, and people will transition out of that sort of thing as they get older and start families.
Oh, and cubicles do suck, as a previous poster alluded to.
Kudos to you both for this online community you've created and put so much effort into. While there will inevitably be naysayers, hopefully it will be clear that the large majority of us support this move for a few reasons (there are obviously more, but I thought of these quick):
1) You guys might actually get some rest!
2) Multiple servers? I don't know much but that sounds like more bandwidth and faster page loading for us.
3) Both of you sound like you stand to benefit financially--anyone would be hard pressed to argue that you don't deserve it.
4) Some good causes will receive support.
5) Control will be kept in the hands of the guys that best know how to exercise it.
Congratulations again on a job well done.
Perhaps he evaluates the merits of ideologies based on their economic returns. If so, he might well ignore what many of us consider to be the nobler (but far less profitable) ideals of the Open Source community and bestow his much-sought-after (hehe) blessing upon M$'s methods.
And of course those would be to overwhelm its customers with advertisements for its corpulent, bug-ridden software that with each iteration practically demands that users make major hardware upgrades for the privilege of watching their new software suck down ever increasing amounts of system resources. Whew. Thereafter the aforementioned corporation dutifully promises to offer token support for its products in the form of hastily thrown together patches that only might fix the problem, and to let its customers languish in the deep hold tanks of its telephone support system.
In marked contrast, this community's ideals are to subject code and concepts to peer review, allowing the best and most secure to emerge naturally. Forget the "antiquated technology" argument--in another 30 years, when Metcalfe may well have gone the way of the dodo, we may look at companies still using the cabalistic design practices of M$ and scoff at their decrepitude.
I agree that Linux will always be a minority in the desktop and server markets, but a substantial one at that. But no matter what happens, there's no way all the dedicated programmers out there that make the software I use and enjoy are just going to shrivel up and disappear with the advent of Windows2000. Sheesh.
Live in the now, Metcalfe.
If this could bring me CapitalGold from London on Saturday mornings during the English Premiership season it would be peachy. Few things better than a cup of joe and Jonathan Pearce doing the commentary on the match of the day to start off a Saturday. Or better yet, RadioChelsea 1494 AM from London, Andy Saunders bringing you live Chelsea FC action from Stamford Bridge. . .
But I have to wholeheartedly echo the sentiments of an earlier poster . . . no matter where you go there are already stations playing the rubbish that they call pop music. No need to tune in to your home station from hundreds of miles away.
As long as the discussion is focused on X, 3D, and video cards and such, I'd like someone to help me get back up to speed on some things.
I definitely don't want this to turn into a chipset war, but a fast summary of who's making what, whose drivers are being open sourced or will be (3dfx, nVidia, Matrox, etc.), the state of 2D support and potential for 3D would be very helpful.
Mostly because I'm budgeting for a new system later this summer (granted, the pace of things may make forecasts difficult) and I'd like something rock-solid under 2D and hopefully with a bright future as far as 3D is concerned.
Thanks for any offerings.
...the expanses of cyberspace allow plenty of room for God while simultaneously making it quite simple for you to ignore religious material which you find objectionable. Admittedly, I find the idea of an Internet patron saint a wee bit silly. But I find it very difficult to believe that you'll encounter any palpable attempts at 'indoctrination' if the Vatican were to go ahead with this. :)
:) While not a Catholic myself and more recently in history being descended from German Protestants, I know I do.
It's all too easy to bring up the Church's missteps throughout the centuries, but these are human errors, some graver than others. That they were wrongly committed in the name of God does not repudiate the value of the religion's message or its true core doctrines, IMHO. And for centuries the concept of personal freedom was largely unknown to the masses who knew only the Church as the starting and ending points of most aspects of their lives. I think for far too long religion got bogged down in the details of things like the Bible, a fascinatingly confusing document which led to the justification for all sorts of terrible deeds. Recently there have been shifts away from organized religions to "personal faith", a more direct connection to one's deity of choice. A lot of right-wing fundamentalist Christian groups emphasize this, as a result of their disillusionment with Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, etc. etc.
All that aside, today you and I have the freedom to cheerfully ignore religion or complain about it as we see fit. That freedom comes from the labors of generations of our ancestors, Christian, Jew, Muslim, or none of the above. While acknowledging the fact that organized religions have made mistakes, their importance should not be so wantonly dismissed. While I am a Christian (Lutheran specifically), I'm quite liberal, and if you want to be a heathen, hey, that's fine with me. I wonder if the fierce reprisals against religion are because the online demographics are much different than the real world...i.e., a higher concentration of agnostics and atheists in the online population. Who knows?
I would also not be surprised (if you are Caucasian) if you owe your existence to the 'Catholic heritage' at some point way back in history.
I only have two weeks or so experience with US West and I'm already fearing the worst. With plans to move into my new place in Minneapolis on 1 June, I called a week prior to set up new service so it would be ready the day I got there. Well, lo and behold, it didn't work on 1 June, so I called. They explained that 'someone' had pushed the date back on the computer and it would be done on 2 June by 5 PM. The next day someone stopped by while I was out and left a message saying that I needed to call an 800 number to schedule an appt. to complete installation. When I called, they explained that they hadn't anticipated needing to get inside so they couldn't have forewarned me about the possibility of needing to be there, and oh by the way we can't set you up now until Saturday 5 June. Great. And they need a four hour window to do it. Better. So my roommate and I completely rearrange our schedules to be home from 2-6 PM on a beautiful Sat. afternoon, and guess who NEVER shows up--US West. I call AGAIN, and it is explained away as a case of the problem simply 'not being assigned to a technician'. Well, at 7:45 PM on Monday 7 June they finally did it. And now the kicker is that when I originally called before I moved in, the guy ran a line check and found that I qualify for the 256k DSL service, but now I don't anymore for some reason. Stuck with dialup...hmph. A pretty lousy situation after being spoiled by 10BaseT for the last four years.
US Worst seems to be a fairly apt moniker in my estimation.
Um, number 16 or 19 (can't remember) on the list was in Chippewa Falls, WI. The only important thing I can think of in Chippewa Falls is...Leinenkugel's Brewery! Maybe those of you who aren't from the Upper Midwest aren't as familiar, but maybe they do a whole lot more volume than I thought...hehe. Being a Minnesotan, I think that Leinie's is close to the only useful thing to come out of Wisconsin. On a side note, 14 of the top 500 are in good old Minnesota, mostly because of the University and Cray. That's a pretty decent total for one state. And the U has some pretty kickin' machines it would seem.
Moneydance. Requires the JDK which of course you can get from www.blackdown.org if you don't already have it. I used xacc for awhile, now that's become GnuCash, which might amount to something in a few years. :)
Slow, but that's mostly my machine...one of the better Java apps I've seen.
Get it here: http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/
The idea of meeting people online has sparked many discussions among my group of friends this year. My roommate sees nothing wrong with meeting others in chat rooms, and will argue until he is blue in the face that it is no different than meeting people out in "the real world." Now I'm not a chat person myself...the extent of my Internet socialization is the occasional game of bridge on Yahoo! where I will exchange greetings with those I am playing with as a matter of courtesy.
If I were to ever become the chat room type, I think I could keep myself limited to using it for informational purposes. That is, I see IRC and similar things as fine forums for collaboration, catching up with friends from far away, etc. I personally would never use it to try and meet others to establish relationships that would eventually result in a face-to-face meeting.
The whole idea makes me quite leery, actually. I understand that there are a lot of you out there who have "success" stories, and that it has turned out to be a good experience. That's great, and you are fortunate. But please, spare me the details...because I find personal anecdotes used as support of a view to be largely worthless and a very weak form of argument. Your personal experiences do not extrapolate to the whole situation. Until we see a substantive study by a research group of sociologists, psychologists, or whoever is qualified to do such a thing, we should really withhold judgment about this behavior. I cannot say it is better or worse than meeting people in real life, only that I have a gut feeling about it that I cannot ignore.
Several generations ago it was common for marriages to be arranged, and it still happens in some societies. Decisions were made for people based on socio-economic status and reputation, not on the chemistry two young people established. In these times we are used to the idea that in most cases, we need to get a complete picture of a person before we consider embarking on a serious relationship. Personality, looks, intelligence, habits--some or all of these are important to all of us. That was a major change in the way people met and decided to spend the rest of their lives with each other. What I wonder is what the growing number of people online will do to this process. I think we should all be patient with it and be extra careful until we have a sense of the wider implications and the trends.
Hmmm, I read some antiquated information. The official website says March/April. That's even sooner. :)
I'd like to work THERE as well. You'd probably get to play with ERDAS Imagine or something even cooler. Landsat 7 in July! Whee!
Cold? What's that? I've got -3C currently in Mankato, barometer at 760mm, and snow's been piling up nicely all day. The Cities were getting an inch per hour earlier today. . . but it was downright balmy earlier this week. This winter was really tame. Anyone who complains about the temperature is a wee pansy. :)
.I'll probably be stuck in that bland suburban expanse--Bloomington.
I think it would be pretty keen to have a job in Minneapolis, it's a fun city (go T-Wolves!). .
I must have never heard about this. . . from the sound of the article, it seems that a Celeron 366 is extremely overclockable. Was this a slip by Intel? It has to be really well known, because it got tremendous scores on all those tests. Anybody got more info. on this processor? Just curious.
I noticed that you mentioned using ArcView for printing maps. . . I don't know exactly what quality you are shooting for, perhaps it's not important, but ArcView makes really cruddy maps. I believe there are some plugins available (don't remember URL) to port ArcView .shp files over to Adobe Illustrator, which I have seen make some excellent looking maps of high cartographic quality.
/. Weird. It's not a big deal, I suppose interested geographers like myself and other folks that work with GIS would have heard about this fairly quickly anyway.
On a side note--anyone know how Rob's submission thing works? I posted the news of this beta release announcement a couple of hours after the folks at Baylor put it up, and today was the first mention of it on
Cheers,
Joel