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  1. Re:What about... on Smoking Mothers May Alter the DNA of Their Children · · Score: 1

    except that isn't evidence, its a correlation at best. maybe smokers just have bad diets therefore their children get fat.

  2. Re:Who cares on Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination · · Score: 1

    Drupal is more of a platform that facebook, just sayin'

  3. Re:Drupal rocks! on Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination · · Score: 1

    its all in core now - http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/

  4. Re:Drupal rocks! on Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination · · Score: 1

    re MVC - DBTNG is a pretty solid db layer, adding TWIG as a templating engine disallows adding PHP on the View layer. hook_menu has always been a controller of sorts, and the move to Symfony routing solidifies that.

    MVC is nothing special anyway.

  5. Re:it will never happen on Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out the lastest 8.x version by going to http://simplytest.me/project/drupal and choosing 8.x. The site will install 8.x-dev for you and you can play with it.

    Some things to look at:

    - In place editing
    - CKeditor in core
    - Responsive out of the box (check the new admin menu)
    - Views in core

    There's a heap of scary awesome changes going on in the backend though

    - replacing lots of sub systems with Symfony components
    - RESTFUL services by checking a checkbox.
    - TWIG as a templating engine
    - Configuration management initiative
    - HTML5 and mobile
    - Far better multilingual support than previous versions.

    check out http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-initiatives for more info.

  6. Re:Drupal vs WordPress on Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's been a lot of discussion in the Drupal community recently about making major updates easier by offering backwards compatability, the consensus (best as I could tell) was that web technology is moving so fast that we need to be able to refactor quickly, though maybe in a few releases (6 years or so) Drupal will have completed the move to Symfony / OO and it will be worth looking at then.

    I love Drupal & its community - I've been working with it professionally for 8 years or so, and the constant improvement in the tools keeps things interesting for me. I spend most of my time working on edge cases where modules don't quite work together and I submit a lot of small patches to improve them. I've got a lot better at grokking other peoples code - a talent I think is more valuable than 'writing my own cms from scratch', though I've done that before too. I also dabble in various other techs after hours to keep up with new languages, and run my blog on Wordpress. Wordpress horrifies me from a technical perspective, but I just want to post content, and using it keeps me focused on that, as opposed to tweaking my Drupal install all the time.

    I used to freelance for smaller clients, but now i just refer them to Wordpress folks. They get better bang for their buck, and I don't have to deal with annoying budget overruns. Drupal is insanely good for big business who need complex workflows, asset management, community management, service integration and migration. Its really hard to build something that complex in a way that makes sense, stays stable and provides an upgrade path (however difficult that may be) and security support.

    I feel your pain though :)

  7. Re:Just like Hulk... on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 5, Informative
  8. Re:Buddhism - the less abhorrent religion. on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 2

    Zen Buddhism has been around for 1500 years or so. It focuses on the main teachings of the Buddha, which in themselves are not particularly mystical, at least in the sense of Gods and Heavens.

  9. Re:Savvy study author ... on Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors · · Score: 2

    Buddhism by itself is an athiest religion - there is no such thing as God in a purely Buddhist worldview.

    Often Buddhism is joined with another religion to meet that need for people. A couple of examples of this would be Bon in Tibetian Buddhism, and Shinto in the Japanese version.

  10. Re:What is Drupal? on Drupal 7 · · Score: 1

    For managing lots of Drupal sites (even across multiple servers) try the Aegir project, its close to a 1.0 release but is stable enough for production use now.

    http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system

    Kind of related, check out Drush, which lets you manage drupal sites from a linux command line & drush_make which lets you create make files for drupal sites.

    Drupal is very powerful, but its not for the faint-hearted.

  11. Re:To remove the annoying phone icon on Google Officially Brings Voice To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Also, this move makes a lot of sense considering the upcoming Chrome OS will probably need some sort of VOIP capability.

  12. Re:Good thing on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I understand you post.

    You've listed a set of classic public domain texts that have had non-public domain movies made out of them at various points. What are they evidence of?

    I agree with the 14 years though. All for copyright reform.

  13. Re:They Suck on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1

    I think this has been the most boring thread in Slashdot history. palegrey.net, I applaud you!

    *sigh*

  14. Re:Good thing on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Its not about the profit made in the first year. Its about controlling culture.

    If there was a massive public domain filled with all the cool movies made in the 80's, would we really bother to watch new ones as much?

    Shorter copyright periods lead to less profit for these companies regardless.

  15. Re:Good thing on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1

    That looks awesome. For $10 I'm gonna buy it. Also, fuck any person or business or business consortium who engages in frivolous lawsuits.

  16. Re:How about databases? on Australian Judge Rules Facts Cannot Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    4 : a settled date or time especially for a sporting or festive event; also : such an event especially as a regularly scheduled affair

    Study the language dood.

  17. Re:Always more to the legends and stories... on Aboriginal Folklore Leads To Meteorite Crater · · Score: 1

    makes sense. coming from australia, the sheer amount of water and trees blew my mind.

  18. Re:Always more to the legends and stories... on Aboriginal Folklore Leads To Meteorite Crater · · Score: 1

    I guess in this case I do define 'advanced' as more like me, because i was talking about 2 ethnic groups trying to integrate into our society. By integrate i mean 'finding their place' as opposed to 'becoming white fellahs'. They need to adapt to modern life and become a successful, healthy people.

    Advanced may have been a poor word selection as its a pretty loaded term.

    With Aboriginal hip hop, I wasn't talking commmercial 'bling' hip hop. I meant it as a street level form of self expression and building self respect.

    Watch the vid at http://www.indigenoushiphop.com/

  19. Re:Always more to the legends and stories... on Aboriginal Folklore Leads To Meteorite Crater · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I spent a bit of time during some touristy native american stuff while i was in canada and alaska last year, those tribes are (were) WAY more advanced than the Australian native peoples that the comparision just doesn't apply.

    Native americans built full blown cabins where aborigionals largely still lived in caves and temporary shelter. They had a far better chance at integration.

    Yeah its sad whats happened to the aussie abos, but at the end of the day they, as a people, need to save themselves - they have been given whatever resources they need. And perhaps they are making progress like alcohol bans in some towns up north, mon-fri boarding schools for children so they get proper rest at night, and pouring money into aborigional art and expression (hip-hop, dance and so on).

    The biggest problem is that a large proportion of this and the next generation of aboriginal kids will be growing up with fetal alcohol syndrome. those kids dont have a chance.

  20. Re:Bad Economy = Bad Management on IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is your C levels must've gone cheapo in Bangalore as well - as Bangalore should most certainly be up at 3am to fix things. Most serious IT outsources run 2 to 3 shifts to give 24/7 cover. Hell, most hosting companies in the US do that.

    Its always a sad thing to see a medium-large company die - so much hard work building it up sent straight down the drain.

  21. Re:Good to see game developers put their foot down on New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board · · Score: 1

    and besides, victims of crime in the States are much more likely to be DEAD!

  22. Re:Good to see game developers put their foot down on New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board · · Score: 1

    yeah i'd feel safer if i was packin' a glok.

    by the way, those stats are coming from victims of crime so their perception is warped anyway.

     

  23. Re:If anyone can see it, it can be indexed on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 1

    I view the one from the search engine, scroll down to the very bottom of the page and see the answers.

    I'm running Firefox under Ubuntu, maybe its a user agent or browser compatibility thing? Coz I certainly haven't subscribed :)

    I think they do it like that so google gets the content contained in the page but people still sub.

  24. Re:If anyone can see it, it can be indexed on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 1

    with experts-exchange.com you can scroll past the 5 screens worth of rubbish and see the results at the bottom of the page can't you?

    i agree those sites are incredibly annoying, who posts answers on them anyway?

  25. Re:Last mile bottleneck on Google Releases Source To Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    heh good point, i wasn't thinking about that.

    Is a renderfarm considered cloud though? maybe grid computing or distributed computing would be more accurate, cloud implying 'over the internet'.