"I disagree even more strongly with white people designing tests that don't take into account the way non-white people think
Can somebody explain how this line of thought isn't considered racist? I was going to post something about how these kinds of things make a hidden asumption that minorities' brains are different, but you went right out and said it."
People can think differently without having different brian structures or function. Differences in the way various races or ethnic groups think may be traced to differences in their cultures. It isn't a racist point, it's an entirely valid one.
Once upon a time, HP invited me out to their facility near Rancho Bernardo, CA for a course in how to write printer drivers. Before the course started, they took us for a tour of the plant. It was all mildly interesting until we got to the testing area.
When I saw the tests that those printers go through, my jaw hit the floor. They repeatedly (thousands of times) shock the printers with special equipment that makes really cool inch-long sparks, they strap them to giant shakers and shake them as hard as they can, until something flies off, then redesign so that the part will stay on. They do tests that I wouldn't dream of.
They weren't the cheapest printers, and deservedly so. If I had to bet my life on the performance of a printer, I'd spend the extra few hundred bucks and buy an HP.
Pair recently moved their headquarters, and the amount of information that they provided during their (as brief as I could ever imagine) outage was stunning. (It was obviously hosted on another site during the move).
Pair's pricing doesn't seem as cheap as some places, but there will come a day when you need you host to come through for you. When that happens, Pair will be there for you. The cheaper host's staff (oh, yeah, it's a one man/woman operation) will be unavailable.
I don't work for pair, but happily host a site there.
I just stuck this one on my own page. Music news and News for Nerds don't intersect as often as I'd like...
I have a suspicion that this deal is similar to those "branded credit cards" that everyone under the sun offers. The real grunt work is done by a real financial institution, in this case USABancShares.com. He just sticks his face on the ATM cards and the cheques, and probably gets a royalty fee or a percentage. Nothing very radical here, except for another marketing coup by a performer who seems to embrace "the future", every step of the way.
I agree that a site built on Slashdot's code can be about anything you want. I was, however, referring to Slashdot. Which is CmdrTaco's webpage. And is a forum that champions open source development.
Neither was mozilla, but that doesn't keep Slashdot from trumpeting about it whenever anything mildly newsworthy comes along.
I think that it's at least slightly hypocritical for Rob to herald the virtues of open source, or to have his webpage as a forum lauding open source, without having the balls to practice what he preaches.
Many of the sites that the uninitiated user would go to for comparisons of hosting companies receive money from the hosting companies for positive reviews.
It's pretty tough to get an objective appraisal of where to spend your hosting cash. Especially if you aren't technical enough to tell when people are bullshitting you...
The ones using free Operating Systems would have leftover money in their pockets.
The ones who sent money to Bill Gates, would be sitting in the corner with vacant looks in their eyes, wondering how they managed to burn through all that cash. And thinking that perhaps the animated paperclip wasn't worth that much money after all...
It's their job to patent everything that can be patented that pertains to their business. It sucks, but it's true. Their duty (their job!) is to protect shareholder value. If the Patent Office will allow such a patent, then the company has to go for it, instead of holding off and taking the risk that this patent will fall into the hands of the competition.
It's similar to when giant corporations apply for huge tax credits. They don't need the money, and they look like hogs at the trough doing it, but if the shareholders found out that the opportunity existed and was not taken, there'd be hell to pay.
I know it sucks, but the heat should be primarily on the patent office for allowing such patents.
Free speech has nothing to do with someone lying. I agree with you totally.
People just seem to get a bee in their bonnet when they think that someone is "censoring" them using moderation, IP logging etc. It isn't censorship, and in fact is essential, but try telling it to them. The argument usually slides into a chest-beating, speechifying, flag-waving mess.
"Free speech" is a great thing, but sometimes people with flimsy arguments try to get a bit further by using it to (erroneously) back up their position.
This type of self-moderation is essential for online communities. Although some people get really antsy and yell "free speech, free speech!", the interests of the readership are served by precautions such as IP logging. The forum's credibility also benefits.
Neil Young and his wife Pegi formed a charity that helps handicapped kids harness technology to increase their ability to communicate. Which is a pretty cool and worthy thing. They hold a charity concert every year, and Neil ropes some heavyweight acts to help out (including the Who this year, CmdrTaco!).
This year, it will be cybercast (on Oct 30 and 31st), with some sort of agreement with Yahoo and Intel. If you go to the Intel page, it looks like you *MUST* have a Pentium III to check out the webcast. I was miserably contemplating how much that sucked, when I decided to check out the Bridge School site at http://wwww.bridgeschool.org , where I found that you could access the concert with the normal streaming plugins. It's good that Intel is getting involved with charity work, but kind of pathetic when they blatantly tie it to a push for more market share.
It's good to see the Open Source paradigm come to the bitter and twisted world of domain registration. I hope this does well.
It's also good to see a website go live with even less content than mine did! Lets hope they're dreaming up some intelligent, robust methods to impliment their scheme.
I thought that the older TRG stuff used to void your Pilot's warranty. Perhaps that's no longer the case. Thus my trepidation. I'm sure someone will speak up and say it's no longer true...
It's too bad that there's quite a distance between possible and usable. You *can* make Linux work on a Pilot, but you have to do all sorts of weird stuff, and buy hardware, etc. It would be nice to have a platform that would naturally accept Linux, without forcing the consumer to go the extra mile.
I'd love for that to happen, but their target demographic is only interested in cute boys and watching drunken co-eds **paaaaarrttyyyy** on spring break. They aren't interested in such difficult pursuits as listening to good music or thinking.
After buying NoteTab Pro, I was pleasantly surprised by the mileage I could get out of it. I was looking for an outlining tool, which is one thing that NoteTab Pro isn't so great at, but instead I got a very extensible bare-bones editor that knows just enough HTML. My fledgling website owes a lot to NoteTab Pro.
A unix version would be greatly appreciated. And don't talk to me about EMACS! EMACS might be good for solving the Towers of Hanoi, or as a LISP platform, or for whatever new feature that they've piled on the heap, but it certainly isn't lightweight like NoteTab.
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I think he was in the right place, at the right time, with enough talent to pull it off.
He's science fiction's Linus Torvalds (or Rob Malda).
"I disagree even more strongly with white people designing tests that don't take into account the way non-white people think
Can somebody explain how this line of thought isn't considered racist? I was going to post something about how these kinds of things make a hidden asumption that minorities' brains are different, but you went right out and said it."
People can think differently without having different brian structures or function. Differences in the way various races or ethnic groups think may be traced to differences in their cultures. It isn't a racist point, it's an entirely valid one.
Once upon a time, HP invited me out to their facility near Rancho Bernardo, CA for a course in how to write printer drivers. Before the course started, they took us for a tour of the plant. It was all mildly interesting until we got to the testing area.
When I saw the tests that those printers go through, my jaw hit the floor. They repeatedly (thousands of times) shock the printers with special equipment that makes really cool inch-long sparks, they strap them to giant shakers and shake them as hard as they can, until something flies off, then redesign so that the part will stay on. They do tests that I wouldn't dream of.
They weren't the cheapest printers, and deservedly so. If I had to bet my life on the performance of a printer, I'd spend the extra few hundred bucks and buy an HP.
Pair recently moved their headquarters, and the amount of information that they provided during their (as brief as I could ever imagine) outage was stunning. (It was obviously hosted on another site during the move).
Pair's pricing doesn't seem as cheap as some places, but there will come a day when you need you host to come through for you. When that happens, Pair will be there for you. The cheaper host's staff (oh, yeah, it's a one man/woman operation) will be unavailable.
I don't work for pair, but happily host a site there.
Their proxy server is hidden. You don't see it, but it's there.
He said "going out". You said "download".
He could mean outbound speeds. Which differ from download speeds. The "A" in ADSL is "asymmetric".
I just stuck this one on my own page. Music news and News for Nerds don't intersect as often as I'd like...
I have a suspicion that this deal is similar to those "branded credit cards" that everyone under the sun offers. The real grunt work is done by a real financial institution, in this case USABancShares.com. He just sticks his face on the ATM cards and the cheques, and probably gets a royalty fee or a percentage. Nothing very radical here, except for another marketing coup by a performer who seems to embrace "the future", every step of the way.
You might want to read my comment again.
I agree that a site built on Slashdot's code can be about anything you want. I was, however, referring to Slashdot. Which is CmdrTaco's webpage. And is a forum that champions open source development.
no. an older version of the Slashdot code is there. There's a big difference...
"Or maybe it just isn't ready for realease? "
Neither was mozilla, but that doesn't keep Slashdot from trumpeting about it whenever anything mildly newsworthy comes along.
I think that it's at least slightly hypocritical for Rob to herald the virtues of open source, or to have his webpage as a forum lauding open source, without having the balls to practice what he preaches.
Many of the sites that the uninitiated user would go to for comparisons of hosting companies receive money from the hosting companies for positive reviews.
It's pretty tough to get an objective appraisal of where to spend your hosting cash. Especially if you aren't technical enough to tell when people are bullshitting you...
The ones using free Operating Systems would have leftover money in their pockets.
The ones who sent money to Bill Gates, would be sitting in the corner with vacant looks in their eyes, wondering how they managed to burn through all that cash. And thinking that perhaps the animated paperclip wasn't worth that much money after all...
Have you discovered some sort of link between browser use and financial success?
Or is it that, in certain financial circles, use of Netscape is frowned upon?
If I use Netscape, am I doomed to a life of abject poverty, begging for scraps of food from the overprivileged Explorer users?
Inquiring minds want to know!
And what have you given the public?
In Netscape 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
I think they're putting a lot of eggs in the Mozilla basket, and putting minimal resources towards fixing Communicator 4.x.
Like they said they would. It's a committment to open source. Something we've been asking for for a while.
Don't give them a hard time about it.
It's their job to patent everything that can be patented that pertains to their business. It sucks, but it's true. Their duty (their job!) is to protect shareholder value. If the Patent Office will allow such a patent, then the company has to go for it, instead of holding off and taking the risk that this patent will fall into the hands of the competition.
It's similar to when giant corporations apply for huge tax credits. They don't need the money, and they look like hogs at the trough doing it, but if the shareholders found out that the opportunity existed and was not taken, there'd be hell to pay.
I know it sucks, but the heat should be primarily on the patent office for allowing such patents.
Free speech has nothing to do with someone lying. I agree with you totally.
People just seem to get a bee in their bonnet when they think that someone is "censoring" them using moderation, IP logging etc. It isn't censorship, and in fact is essential, but try telling it to them. The argument usually slides into a chest-beating, speechifying, flag-waving mess.
"Free speech" is a great thing, but sometimes people with flimsy arguments try to get a bit further by using it to (erroneously) back up their position.
Bravo!
This type of self-moderation is essential for online communities. Although some people get really antsy and yell "free speech, free speech!", the interests of the readership are served by precautions such as IP logging. The forum's credibility also benefits.
www.bridgeschool.org
HTML are not my native tongue. I not speakingly it goodly.
Dammit.
www.bridgeschool.org
Back to your regularly scheduled program.
Neil Young and his wife Pegi formed a charity that helps handicapped kids harness technology to increase their ability to communicate. Which is a pretty cool and worthy thing. They hold a charity concert every year, and Neil ropes some heavyweight acts to help out (including the Who this year, CmdrTaco!).
This year, it will be cybercast (on Oct 30 and 31st), with some sort of agreement with Yahoo and Intel. If you go to the Intel page, it looks like you *MUST* have a Pentium III to check out the webcast. I was miserably contemplating how much that sucked, when I decided to check out the Bridge School site at http://wwww.bridgeschool.org , where I found that you could access the concert with the normal streaming plugins. It's good that Intel is getting involved with charity work, but kind of pathetic when they blatantly tie it to a push for more market share.
It's good to see the Open Source paradigm come to the bitter and twisted world of domain registration. I hope this does well.
It's also good to see a website go live with even less content than mine did! Lets hope they're dreaming up some intelligent, robust methods to impliment their scheme.
I thought that the older TRG stuff used to void your Pilot's warranty. Perhaps that's no longer the case. Thus my trepidation. I'm sure someone will speak up and say it's no longer true...
It's too bad that there's quite a distance between possible and usable. You *can* make Linux work on a Pilot, but you have to do all sorts of weird stuff, and buy hardware, etc. It would be nice to have a platform that would naturally accept Linux, without forcing the consumer to go the extra mile.
I'd love for that to happen, but their target demographic is only interested in cute boys and watching drunken co-eds **paaaaarrttyyyy** on spring break. They aren't interested in such difficult pursuits as listening to good music or thinking.
After buying NoteTab Pro, I was pleasantly surprised by the mileage I could get out of it. I was looking for an outlining tool, which is one thing that NoteTab Pro isn't so great at, but instead I got a very extensible bare-bones editor that knows just enough HTML. My fledgling website owes a lot to NoteTab Pro.
A unix version would be greatly appreciated. And don't talk to me about EMACS! EMACS might be good for solving the Towers of Hanoi, or as a LISP platform, or for whatever new feature that they've piled on the heap, but it certainly isn't lightweight like NoteTab.