To both of you with hearing losses - since I have one myself, I have a question: how do you deal with people and companies that absolutely, completely and utterly depend on the phone? This has been a real bane for me lately - employers who rely very heavily on voicemail. It drives me bonkers.
Since this is totally off-topic, and I don't really wish to hijack this thread, you email me via gmail as ski.mountaineer.
Judding by your responses to this thread, I'm in pretty much the same situation as you (in terms of hearing loss)
That said, I don't support ADA lawsuits against cinemas. I'm quite happy to just watch movies on DVD and only go to the cinema occasionally.
Having a calendar client is all fine and good, but until open source calendar servers are as ubiquitious as Apache, a calender client isn't going to be a lot of use.
An especially promising initiave in this are is the Hula project.
They're just finally admitting that between their EULA, the Dept of Homeland Security, and spyware, nobody actually owns or controls the MS Windows in their home or office.
Everyone has been talking about Google getting into an ASP-like business, but I think the pundits are missing the real business model here.
Google is currently in the business of turning data into information, but there's nothing to say they can't switch gears a little and start making money from the data itself.
If they somehow ended up being the #1 place to store your data, they could easily generate a lot of revenue simply by providing an API for that data and licensing ASPs to use it. Result: Less lock-in for the user, lots of money for Google.
I read "Art of the Start" and I came away really underwhelmed by this book. Yes, there's a couple of good tips in there, but overall it was very VC-focussed (no surprise, he's a VC himself). There's much better books out there.
Besides, I'm not convinced of Guy Kawasaki's credentials - after all, he funded Gator (oh, sorry "Claria").
How many of you are in a successful relationship that would have never gotten off the ground if you had been required to reveal all of your past upon meeting your mate?
Or as the old saying goes: "People love you despite who you are, not because of who you are."
Fair point. Keep in mind though, that converting text to speech (and other formats) is easy, but arbitary speech to text is still essentially an unsolved problem.
MP3 and other audio interviews are completely and utterly useless to me. Why? Because I'm DEAF. No "insensitive clod" appeded to the comment here, because I'm not trying to be funny. It's true.
Besides, most people have a hard enough time writing in a way that is presentable to a wide audience, even after a great deal of editing - let alone SPEAKING in a way that comes across as polished. Until you can afford a studio, professional editors, and someone to transcribe your speech - please, FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS - stick to text. It's harder to mess up with text. Trust me on this.
Until we have real-time text-to-speech transcription for arbitary speakers, I'd be extremely grateful if the internet stuck to what it's good at: text. While I have my own agenda for this, there's another factor to consider: audio files cannot easily be indexed or searched, so they're really just kind of useless on the internet - after all, a great deal of the power we get from the net today comes from the information being available via search engines.
You're forgetting one other thing that is powerful enough to force a government to change its decision against their will:
The media.
This is an awesome story for the mainstream media. It's one of the most incredibly stupid political decisions this administration has made (and it's sure made a few). How can we get this story into The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the like, replete with all the irony of this situation? This story could seriously undermind the administration's credibility and cause people to take a much harder look at the people being appointed.
This magazine sounds really cool, but I'd like to actually read an issue before deciding whether or not I want to subscribe.
Does anyone know if you can get it in any stories, or is it subscription only? From reading the site, it sounds like it is subscription only, but I'm hoping that's not the case.
PS: Is it just me, or do most of the projects they covered sound awfully lot like slashdot stories we've had in the last 6 months?
"Until such time as the major polluters of the world - including the United States and China - are made part of the Kyoto regime, it is next to useless and indeed harmful for a country such as Australia to sign up," he [the Australian Prime Minister] said.
Sounds like a pretty smart decision to me. It's his job to protect the best interests of Australians, and frankly commiting economic suicide isn't in the best interests of any nation.
Ishkurs Guide to music is far from definitive - while he identifies a lot of different sub-genres, he spends most of the time pontificating on each subgenre rather than actually informing the reader what exactly defines each genre.
His guide is a start - but there's a big need for a resource that clearly defines each genre by a clear set of criteria - things like BPM, what chords are typically used, etc.
The database in question is probably a database originally created by a Norwegien company called Clustra. This company was acquired by Sun 2 or 3 years ago. Clustra built a distributed database system that was seen by Sun to be a good fit for Sun's J2EE platform.
If it's true that this database is being offered as an open source product, it could be very interesting because it's a very good database from what I hear.
"Seven Habits" has to be one of the most overrated books on the planet. I found it to be so banal that couldn't even bring myself to finish the book. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has that opinion.
By the way, it looks like Covey's (the author) wife has nagged him into buying another private jet -- he's just come out with "The Eight Habit".
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To both of you with hearing losses - since I have one myself, I have a question: how do you deal with people and companies that absolutely, completely and utterly depend on the phone? This has been a real bane for me lately - employers who rely very heavily on voicemail. It drives me bonkers. Since this is totally off-topic, and I don't really wish to hijack this thread, you email me via gmail as ski.mountaineer.
Judding by your responses to this thread, I'm in pretty much the same situation as you (in terms of hearing loss) That said, I don't support ADA lawsuits against cinemas. I'm quite happy to just watch movies on DVD and only go to the cinema occasionally.
Wouldn't that be two chips at the same time?
Having a calendar client is all fine and good, but until open source calendar servers are as ubiquitious as Apache, a calender client isn't going to be a lot of use.
An especially promising initiave in this are is the Hula project.
I think the best use of these funds would be pay bounties for Linux features, similar to Mark Shuttleworth's bounty fund.
They're just finally admitting that between their EULA, the Dept of Homeland Security, and spyware, nobody actually owns or controls the MS Windows in their home or office.
That was a great, and very informative explanation.
But *please*, for the love of god, learn how to spell the word "ridiculous".
This is more than just a spelling nazi nitpick - your spelling ability affects who people percieve you, and the credibility they give your comments.
Anyone know what that other black plane is (on the same tarmac, immediately North of the SR-71s)?
Wouldn't that make it a not-so-great white shark?
You mean Greg Norman?
there would be 72 virgins waiting for them in heaven, just like there were for the 9/11 hijackers
What Koran didn't mention is that those 72 virgins are all male.
Everyone has been talking about Google getting into an ASP-like business, but I think the pundits are missing the real business model here.
Google is currently in the business of turning data into information, but there's nothing to say they can't switch gears a little and start making money from the data itself.
If they somehow ended up being the #1 place to store your data, they could easily generate a lot of revenue simply by providing an API for that data and licensing ASPs to use it. Result: Less lock-in for the user, lots of money for Google.
I read "Art of the Start" and I came away really underwhelmed by this book. Yes, there's a couple of good tips in there, but overall it was very VC-focussed (no surprise, he's a VC himself). There's much better books out there.
Besides, I'm not convinced of Guy Kawasaki's credentials - after all, he funded Gator (oh, sorry "Claria").
How many of you are in a successful relationship that would have never gotten off the ground if you had been required to reveal all of your past upon meeting your mate?
Or as the old saying goes: "People love you despite who you are, not because of who you are."
Fair point. Keep in mind though, that converting text to speech (and other formats) is easy, but arbitary speech to text is still essentially an unsolved problem.
MP3 and other audio interviews are completely and utterly useless to me. Why? Because I'm DEAF. No "insensitive clod" appeded to the comment here, because I'm not trying to be funny. It's true. Besides, most people have a hard enough time writing in a way that is presentable to a wide audience, even after a great deal of editing - let alone SPEAKING in a way that comes across as polished. Until you can afford a studio, professional editors, and someone to transcribe your speech - please, FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS - stick to text. It's harder to mess up with text. Trust me on this. Until we have real-time text-to-speech transcription for arbitary speakers, I'd be extremely grateful if the internet stuck to what it's good at: text. While I have my own agenda for this, there's another factor to consider: audio files cannot easily be indexed or searched, so they're really just kind of useless on the internet - after all, a great deal of the power we get from the net today comes from the information being available via search engines.
You're forgetting one other thing that is powerful enough to force a government to change its decision against their will:
The media.
This is an awesome story for the mainstream media. It's one of the most incredibly stupid political decisions this administration has made (and it's sure made a few). How can we get this story into The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the like, replete with all the irony of this situation? This story could seriously undermind the administration's credibility and cause people to take a much harder look at the people being appointed.
If "spimming" is IM-speak for spamming, then I guess chatting via IM is called "chitting"?
This magazine sounds really cool, but I'd like to actually read an issue before deciding whether or not I want to subscribe.
Does anyone know if you can get it in any stories, or is it subscription only? From reading the site, it sounds like it is subscription only, but I'm hoping that's not the case.
PS: Is it just me, or do most of the projects they covered sound awfully lot like slashdot stories we've had in the last 6 months?
"Until such time as the major polluters of the world - including the United States and China - are made part of the Kyoto regime, it is next to useless and indeed harmful for a country such as Australia to sign up," he [the Australian Prime Minister] said.
Sounds like a pretty smart decision to me. It's his job to protect the best interests of Australians, and frankly commiting economic suicide isn't in the best interests of any nation.
Effective and Ethical Project Management
Ethical? EA? Riiight.
Ishkurs Guide to music is far from definitive - while he identifies a lot of different sub-genres, he spends most of the time pontificating on each subgenre rather than actually informing the reader what exactly defines each genre. His guide is a start - but there's a big need for a resource that clearly defines each genre by a clear set of criteria - things like BPM, what chords are typically used, etc.
The database in question is probably a database originally created by a Norwegien company called Clustra. This company was acquired by Sun 2 or 3 years ago. Clustra built a distributed database system that was seen by Sun to be a good fit for Sun's J2EE platform.
If it's true that this database is being offered as an open source product, it could be very interesting because it's a very good database from what I hear.
I disagree.
What CSS *really* needs is variables. For example:
Having variables like this would cut down on a lot of the maintenance headaches that CSS can cause.
"Seven Habits" has to be one of the most overrated books on the planet. I found it to be so banal that couldn't even bring myself to finish the book. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has that opinion.
By the way, it looks like Covey's (the author) wife has nagged him into buying another private jet -- he's just come out with "The Eight Habit".
... I can erase goatse and tubgirl from my memory.