I was thinking last night about what could be used to auto translate the Met/BBC Shipping Forcast into lay speak (just cause). This project sounds promising.
Some market regulation is good and some market regulation is bad. I agree with regulating hygiene standards in restaurants because I don't want to get food poisoning. Yes, it makes work harder and costs more for restaurant owners, but it's something the vast majority want regulated. I also agree with building standard regulations including things like a requirement for hardwired smoke alarms in multiple occupancy buildings (A UK thang, not sure what kind of regs the US has for that) because it forces a situation where, for the example given, if there was a fire, people have an in-built warning system. Yes, architects and building owners will have to make considerations and concessions on the design of a structure and fork out more to install said fire alarms (plus extinguishers, thick doors with intumescent seals, etc), but so be it.
Regulation of the Internet when it comes to Net Neutrality is something I also agree with. Yes, it makes things harder and costs more for the businesses that provide backbone services, etc, but if big businesses are given control of what goes through their tubes, then, well, there will be consequences such as limitations on free speech online, as hey, it's their system and they can simply take it home with them if they get upset.
Over regulation is bad as well as it leads to authoritarianism, but a minimal amount to make the world a better place is better than none at all.
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i'm wondering how long it'll be until we see this data integrated with gapminder. either that, or a gapminder-esq interface on the UNdata site.
lets not forget http://wikinews.org/
just commenting with the above title so that people who use the proper term for this area of life get a google result for this article.
I was thinking last night about what could be used to auto translate the Met/BBC Shipping Forcast into lay speak (just cause). This project sounds promising.
*dances with joy*
then we need the push for selling music and other audio in ogg and flac formats! lets not loose the momentum on this one.
/. being second result by tomorrow afternoon?
just to add to the list of nifty ripping software, Streambox VCR Suite is also rather good.
on a related note;
http://www.pyrsf.com/chapters/Wikiworld/Wikiworld.htm
What you want is pluralism!
It's not an IT problem, it's an HR problem.
Some market regulation is good and some market regulation is bad. I agree with regulating hygiene standards in restaurants because I don't want to get food poisoning. Yes, it makes work harder and costs more for restaurant owners, but it's something the vast majority want regulated. I also agree with building standard regulations including things like a requirement for hardwired smoke alarms in multiple occupancy buildings (A UK thang, not sure what kind of regs the US has for that) because it forces a situation where, for the example given, if there was a fire, people have an in-built warning system. Yes, architects and building owners will have to make considerations and concessions on the design of a structure and fork out more to install said fire alarms (plus extinguishers, thick doors with intumescent seals, etc), but so be it.
Regulation of the Internet when it comes to Net Neutrality is something I also agree with. Yes, it makes things harder and costs more for the businesses that provide backbone services, etc, but if big businesses are given control of what goes through their tubes, then, well, there will be consequences such as limitations on free speech online, as hey, it's their system and they can simply take it home with them if they get upset.
Over regulation is bad as well as it leads to authoritarianism, but a minimal amount to make the world a better place is better than none at all.
GAH! how many more years of this toilet humour?! damn you nintendo!!
I'd like to see an LCARS theme for this.
yes no maybe fud notfud
it could be so good, but it could also be sooo so as bad as doom was
thinkofthechildren
i never said i was slagging colloquialisms, i'm just wondering what the proper technical term for this kind of device would be.
"wanger"? surely there's a better word for this kind of mechanical system? maybe it's obvious but i can't think of something myself right now.
and so are all these people?
well at least someone's pulled their troops out..
what about Apple's All-Seeing Screen?
6) profit!!
Now Mr Simmons, 42, is calling on other desk-bound workers to get up and move around to cut the risk of DVT.
like, duh..
ooh, for all their differences, the numerious comparisons that can be made between slashdot and microsoft right now is rather interesting..
geddit?
(ok, i'm thinking ie/firefox/digg(/kuro5hin)/predictable user attitudes on both sides)
that's one of robert x. cringley's predictions thwarted already..