I'm not sure just how fresh the water in Icebergs is but increased amounts of fresh water in the Ocean can cause problems.
I remember watching a program a while back which said that due to global warming huge russian rivers were dumping much more than the usual amount of fresh water in the North Atlantic.
The North Atlantic contains one end of the Gulf Stream where the warm water sinks down and flows back to the Gulf Of Mexico to be reheated. Apparently if the salinity of the water reduces by any more the warm water might not sink down and in effect turn off the Gulf Stream at which point we in the UK would be pretty f#cked.
How many other scientist agree with this idea though I am not sure.
To be fair the parishioners know what their donations are going towards and there are a lot of charitable religious organisations who do raise a lot of money for real good causes.
The best tool for a job depends on the particular job you want to do.
I can see how Dreamweavers Templates benefit you in the scenario you are describing - a situation where your editors need to see the whole page but can't be allowed to make changes to anything other than their particular area. I agree there is no direct OSS alternative to this ( which I am aware of at least ).
In your original scenario of a Local Government Intranet however I really do think a tailored CMS would be a better solution.
I can't really see any reason why your editors would need to take account of anything else on the page other than their own particular area. You can use your professional web designer to set the CMS up and design it and then hand out the editing tools to your staff and integrate them into their working routine, they don't need to know anything about HTML or web design and will be provided with tools to enable them to enter the information they are in charge of in a clear and informative manner.
The heart of a CMS is a database and there is no reason why you can't use no web based tools to update or create your content.
The last CMS I wrote for work I found it a lot easier to just write a front end using MS Access forms where I could produce a responsive WYSIWYG environment quite easily.
Taking things a bit further you can basically provide any kind of editing facility you like based on tools like Word or whatever.
Well it may not be new but it's obviously an exciting discovery for the parent, you remember what it's like when you learn something for the first time ?
I suppose it is possible that you were spawned from a magic salmon and knew everything it's possible to know from birth but I doubt that's the case.
I think that if you are considering CMS for a largely static site you would consider choosing one which did produce static pages and only regenerated them when a new change was put into the system - which if it's largely static won't be that often.
I agree with that, Dreamweaver was the first Web Development tool I used and it was very good at helping me learn how to code HTML and Javascript and really helped me think more about how I was designing my site rather than worring about the nuts and bolts of actually coding it.
However after a year or so of using Dreamweaver I just found it easier to use a text editor to type up the HTML and write some Perl or PHP to deal with putting the pages together, when I was using Dreamweaver I could see how using templates would be useful but found in practice they were normally more trouble than they were worth. It was when I stopped using Dreamweaver that the idea of templates was most useful re-implemented as scripts.
I think the ideal solution nowadays is a good CMS solution, there are lots of good Open Source ones to choose from which can be easily tailored to your requirements and if nothing is suitable it's worth the effort of writing something which does do exactly what you want it to do. For the same price as kitting your self or your team out with Dreamweaver I am sure you can hire someone to provide you with an effective CMS.
"Why is it that most Open Source advocates are so foul-mouthed?"
I don't they are any more foul mouthed than any other group in society, fair enough you are replying to one of the minority in your post but on the whole the answer to your question is that they aren't.
I think when Bill uses the word "communists" he is referring to some kind of negative force against which we need to fight rather than any politically informed meaning. OSS is not a political organisation and to describe it in any kind of political light such as it being a capitalist or a communist system is pointless.
It's amazing that you have been modded insightful for that post.
You are in a way implying that there is some fundamental difference between American's and Israelies which makes Americans better at resisting terrorist attacks despite the fact that America has such a vanisingly small level of terrorism compared to Israel that you can't possibly have any evidence to back that claim up.
The only suggestion you do make as to why this might be so is that you have more guns and are more righteous than Isralies ( both of which are doubtful ) and immediately terrorist atrocities began you'd all be out in your pickups hunting down the terrorists. This doesn't seem to have worked in Israel where they use Apache helicopters rather than your out dated pickup so there's every chance your wonderful plan would be a complete failure in America too.
Another explanation as to why all those "thousands of illegal middle easterners" in your country have not kick started a massive terrorism epidemic is probably down to the fact they are normal people ( I would say like yourself but wont ) who probably have better things to do than stock up on guns and buy gun racks for their pickups.
America doesn't suffer from terrorism internally because it's a basically a democracy and every one is capable of working out their differences by debate. Terrorism arises when a sizable group of people are unable to have their voices heard or opinions considered and feel they have no recourse left but to fight for their beliefs which is really exactly what you are saying you would do in the face of something which was forced onto you ( the unlikely scenario of Israel type terrorism in the US ).
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I laugh at your foolish lack of a social safety net and I pour scorn on the bulbous enormity of your military.
I think it would be more accurate to say that the U.S. taxpayer is funding the re-distribution of money from their own pockets to the pockets of the rich industrialists who have paid for their government.
England hasn't been invaded for over 1000 years and I don't see anyone queuing up to have a crack now. Feel free to withdraw your military, we may lose out a bit in the local communities they spend their ( well technically your ) American dollars in but I'm sure we can live with that.
I admit in practice it looks like you can pretty much just patent ideas in the US but I don't think that is the way things were supposed to work in theory and in a lot of other countries it is still impossible to do this.
Movies and music are covered by copyright which aside from the length of time you can hold copyrights for seem to be a fairly sensible and workable system. I can certainly use ideas from your movies or songs in my own work provided I did not do it in an identical fashion. Software should also be covered like this and not through patents.
Patents also work fairly well for tangible, physical things which need to be built or manufactured because then you have a very specific limitation on what is actually being patented and you can't pretend a patent on your new kind of vacuum cleaner also covers the design of jet engines. They don't work at all for software because you either end up patenting some basic mathematical equation or some nebulous concept which you take good care to define as loosely as possible, neither of those things should be patentable in my opinion.
"Econimies with a high degree of freedom are Capitalist. Economies with low freedom are generally Communist. Those in the middle are Socialist."
I don't know what you think that means I think it is utterly non-sensical.
Capitalism can increase wealth ( and also decrease it ) but it tend it do it depending on how much wealth you have in the first place. For example if you have massive pile of money then it can easily turn in a super massive pile of money. If you have no money however then you will end up with no money. This is what people mean when they say that the Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer.
You may have noticed that what often happens is that the very rich people who own large capitalist entities such as corporations like to pay themselves huge wages whilst outsourcing the jobs of the poor people to even poorer people elsewhere so they can pay them even less and thus make more money for themselves. Sounds pretty good if you are lucky enough to be born rich.
If you mean intangible products such as books or music or paintings then your work is protected by copyrights.
If you have spend millions of dollars to come up with some kind of idea which will not lead you to actually build, make or produce anything then all you have is the idea.
I don't see why you should have any protection whereby you can say "I had that idea first, now you're not allowed to think of it without paying me !".
Yes, it's really easy to make pizza yourself and more fun than sitting around waiting for them to deliver it. The key is getting nice mozarella cheese to put on it.
In 48 hours you could fairly comfortably walk 40 - 50 miles and with the fear of a painful watery death if you didn't walk far enough you'd probably manage a lot further than that. If this thing is supposed to penetrate 20 Miles inland you'd be laughing.
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I'm not sure just how fresh the water in Icebergs is but increased amounts of fresh water in the Ocean can cause problems.
I remember watching a program a while back which said that due to global warming huge russian rivers were dumping much more than the usual amount of fresh water in the North Atlantic.
The North Atlantic contains one end of the Gulf Stream where the warm water sinks down and flows back to the Gulf Of Mexico to be reheated. Apparently if the salinity of the water reduces by any more the warm water might not sink down and in effect turn off the Gulf Stream at which point we in the UK would be pretty f#cked.
How many other scientist agree with this idea though I am not sure.
Perhaps he should have named it jbnonux-555068 ?
No, neither of those were valid reasons.
To be fair the parishioners know what their donations are going towards and there are a lot of charitable religious organisations who do raise a lot of money for real good causes.
Can anyone read what is written on the bit's of paper on the desk ?
Yes, Paedogeddon draws ever closer.
What are the chances of the password being a childs name or date of birth I wonder ?
Indeed and once we no longer have any freedom they won't be so jealous and terrorism will go away, or at least we wont be allowed to hear about it.
It doesn't look like this report has taken the on-going terrorism in Iraq into account here.
The best tool for a job depends on the particular job you want to do.
I can see how Dreamweavers Templates benefit you in the scenario you are describing - a situation where your editors need to see the whole page but can't be allowed to make changes to anything other than their particular area. I agree there is no direct OSS alternative to this ( which I am aware of at least ).
In your original scenario of a Local Government Intranet however I really do think a tailored CMS would be a better solution.
I can't really see any reason why your editors would need to take account of anything else on the page other than their own particular area. You can use your professional web designer to set the CMS up and design it and then hand out the editing tools to your staff and integrate them into their working routine, they don't need to know anything about HTML or web design and will be provided with tools to enable them to enter the information they are in charge of in a clear and informative manner.
The heart of a CMS is a database and there is no reason why you can't use no web based tools to update or create your content.
The last CMS I wrote for work I found it a lot easier to just write a front end using MS Access forms where I could produce a responsive WYSIWYG environment quite easily.
Taking things a bit further you can basically provide any kind of editing facility you like based on tools like Word or whatever.
Well it may not be new but it's obviously an exciting discovery for the parent, you remember what it's like when you learn something for the first time ?
I suppose it is possible that you were spawned from a magic salmon and knew everything it's possible to know from birth but I doubt that's the case.
I think that if you are considering CMS for a largely static site you would consider choosing one which did produce static pages and only regenerated them when a new change was put into the system - which if it's largely static won't be that often.
I agree with that, Dreamweaver was the first Web Development tool I used and it was very good at helping me learn how to code HTML and Javascript and really helped me think more about how I was designing my site rather than worring about the nuts and bolts of actually coding it.
However after a year or so of using Dreamweaver I just found it easier to use a text editor to type up the HTML and write some Perl or PHP to deal with putting the pages together, when I was using Dreamweaver I could see how using templates would be useful but found in practice they were normally more trouble than they were worth. It was when I stopped using Dreamweaver that the idea of templates was most useful re-implemented as scripts.
I think the ideal solution nowadays is a good CMS solution, there are lots of good Open Source ones to choose from which can be easily tailored to your requirements and if nothing is suitable it's worth the effort of writing something which does do exactly what you want it to do. For the same price as kitting your self or your team out with Dreamweaver I am sure you can hire someone to provide you with an effective CMS.
Wine does run it - after a fashion. The last time I had a go it ran very very very slowly and some of the menu options didn't seem to work.
"Why is it that most Open Source advocates are so foul-mouthed?"
I don't they are any more foul mouthed than any other group in society, fair enough you are replying to one of the minority in your post but on the whole the answer to your question is that they aren't.
I think when Bill uses the word "communists" he is referring to some kind of negative force against which we need to fight rather than any politically informed meaning. OSS is not a political organisation and to describe it in any kind of political light such as it being a capitalist or a communist system is pointless.
I think it's going to take a lot of imagineering to fully appreciate the tectonics of a potential paridigm shift.
Well that's not exactly an invasion since they are English as well.
It's amazing that you have been modded insightful for that post.
You are in a way implying that there is some fundamental difference between American's and Israelies which makes Americans better at resisting terrorist attacks despite the fact that America has such a vanisingly small level of terrorism compared to Israel that you can't possibly have any evidence to back that claim up.
The only suggestion you do make as to why this might be so is that you have more guns and are more righteous than Isralies ( both of which are doubtful ) and immediately terrorist atrocities began you'd all be out in your pickups hunting down the terrorists. This doesn't seem to have worked in Israel where they use Apache helicopters rather than your out dated pickup so there's every chance your wonderful plan would be a complete failure in America too.
Another explanation as to why all those "thousands of illegal middle easterners" in your country have not kick started a massive terrorism epidemic is probably down to the fact they are normal people ( I would say like yourself but wont ) who probably have better things to do than stock up on guns and buy gun racks for their pickups.
America doesn't suffer from terrorism internally because it's a basically a democracy and every one is capable of working out their differences by debate. Terrorism arises when a sizable group of people are unable to have their voices heard or opinions considered and feel they have no recourse left but to fight for their beliefs which is really exactly what you are saying you would do in the face of something which was forced onto you ( the unlikely scenario of Israel type terrorism in the US ).
I laugh at your foolish lack of a social safety net and I pour scorn on the bulbous enormity of your military.
I think it would be more accurate to say that the U.S. taxpayer is funding the re-distribution of money from their own pockets to the pockets of the rich industrialists who have paid for their government.
England hasn't been invaded for over 1000 years and I don't see anyone queuing up to have a crack now. Feel free to withdraw your military, we may lose out a bit in the local communities they spend their ( well technically your ) American dollars in but I'm sure we can live with that.
I admit in practice it looks like you can pretty much just patent ideas in the US but I don't think that is the way things were supposed to work in theory and in a lot of other countries it is still impossible to do this.
Movies and music are covered by copyright which aside from the length of time you can hold copyrights for seem to be a fairly sensible and workable system. I can certainly use ideas from your movies or songs in my own work provided I did not do it in an identical fashion. Software should also be covered like this and not through patents.
Patents also work fairly well for tangible, physical things which need to be built or manufactured because then you have a very specific limitation on what is actually being patented and you can't pretend a patent on your new kind of vacuum cleaner also covers the design of jet engines. They don't work at all for software because you either end up patenting some basic mathematical equation or some nebulous concept which you take good care to define as loosely as possible, neither of those things should be patentable in my opinion.
"Econimies with a high degree of freedom are Capitalist. Economies with low freedom are generally Communist. Those in the middle are Socialist."
I don't know what you think that means I think it is utterly non-sensical.
Capitalism can increase wealth ( and also decrease it ) but it tend it do it depending on how much wealth you have in the first place. For example if you have massive pile of money then it can easily turn in a super massive pile of money. If you have no money however then you will end up with no money. This is what people mean when they say that the Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer.
You may have noticed that what often happens is that the very rich people who own large capitalist entities such as corporations like to pay themselves huge wages whilst outsourcing the jobs of the poor people to even poorer people elsewhere so they can pay them even less and thus make more money for themselves. Sounds pretty good if you are lucky enough to be born rich.
If you mean intangible products such as books or music or paintings then your work is protected by copyrights.
If you have spend millions of dollars to come up with some kind of idea which will not lead you to actually build, make or produce anything then all you have is the idea.
I don't see why you should have any protection whereby you can say "I had that idea first, now you're not allowed to think of it without paying me !".
Yes, it's really easy to make pizza yourself and more fun than sitting around waiting for them to deliver it. The key is getting nice mozarella cheese to put on it.
In 48 hours you could fairly comfortably walk 40 - 50 miles and with the fear of a painful watery death if you didn't walk far enough you'd probably manage a lot further than that. If this thing is supposed to penetrate 20 Miles inland you'd be laughing.