Anyone else find it impossible to read an article that has not one, but two sets of scrolling photos next to it? Jeez, I'm trying not to get my work done here, but the distractions are just too distracting.
I was hoping that some slashbot would be able to help me with this question, since no one on flickr seems to be able to.
Is there anyway to sort through flickr by both creative commons license AND by interestingness?
I ask because I spend a huge amount of time on flickr looking for images that I use in my classroom presentations (also CC licensed) and it seems like madness that I have to look at ALL the 'physics' photos to try and find the few good ones.
It's one thing if you're picking up a box full of glasses and someone says "be careful with that!" It's another if they follow you around and say "be careful with that!" every time you pick up a pen, a sheet of paper, or a phone.
That's what it's like being a science teacher. Thanks to health and safety I am required to write a risk assessment for anything that requires lifting and my student must have safety goggles on for activities such as boiling water.
In a cinema there are often hundreds of people. The chance that at least one person out of those hundreds has an 'emergency' during the length of a movie is significant. This means that any time I see a movie I have to endure a significant chance of it being ruined because of someone else's problem.
Call notification = vibrate. No more problem.
Except, of course, for the selfish jerks who refuse to use this feature.
I don't quite get what google base is. From reading the FAQ this is part of google's plan to organize all the worlds information -- but sometime we need a bit more structure than that. I sell my photos on ebay and would love to be able to use a different service as payments to ebay are death by 1,000 cuts. But, are people really going to look for photos of London in the same place they'd try and find recipes and free web hosting?
Foolish yes, but I also sense growth potential for the pharmaceutical industry. I actually know a woman who shares her prozac with her dog during the winter.:\
It's a simple matter to go to the embassy, renounce your US citizenship and surrender your US passport if they're not providing you any services.
Right. Except then I will not be able to work in the US if I ever wanted to in the future. It's just a crazy system as the US is one of the only governments in the world that require you to pay taxes even if you don't live there.
Hell, I moved out of the US and trained as a teacher in England and now work at a school in London. Can anyone explain to me why I still have to pay income tax to the U.S. government when I don't use any of their services?
"We are stronger than ever because we have a research lab in Cambridge, we have one now in China, one in India and that is where the top problems in computer science are going to be solved." [Gates Said]
So... if we don't manufacture products in the States anymore and the future of computer science is overseas, what's left for America to be good at?
"The beauty of software is that we are always making breakthroughs. We will have more in the next 10 years than we have had on the last 30," he [Gates] said in an exclusive BBC interview.
Right... and so will Google. Good luck catching up Billie Boy.
I mean, who really needs a countdown timer to the next episode of Battlestar Galactica just one keypress away at any moment?
You Sir, have clearly never seen Battlestar Galactica. That being said, I agree with your main point. If it wasn't for my oh-how-long-must-I-wait-before-watching-Starbuck-f ight-the-toasters timer, I wouldn't use dashboard either.
They don't have a message board on their website, and emailed questions are never answered.
No kidding, I've been trying to get an answer to this question for a while. Perhaps someone here can help me out.
I have a question regarding the non-commercial clause of licenses and how it relates to advertising. I am in the process of putting together some classroom resources for teachers using the CC BY-NC-SA license. The resource includes both my own work, and the work of others under compatible licenses (ie BY, BY-SA). Ultimately, I would like to make the materials available on my website -- however, my website does contain advertising. The viewer is not forced to see the ads, and I will make the materials free to download. I am just concerned that the presence of the ads may violate the NC clause of the license.
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Anyone else find it impossible to read an article that has not one, but two sets of scrolling photos next to it? Jeez, I'm trying not to get my work done here, but the distractions are just too distracting.
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I was hoping that some slashbot would be able to help me with this question, since no one on flickr seems to be able to.
Is there anyway to sort through flickr by both creative commons license AND by interestingness?
I ask because I spend a huge amount of time on flickr looking for images that I use in my classroom presentations (also CC licensed) and it seems like madness that I have to look at ALL the 'physics' photos to try and find the few good ones.
-CGP314 on Flickr
Just who is running this madhouse, anyhow?
:(
The inmates
-CGP
It's one thing if you're picking up a box full of glasses and someone says "be careful with that!" It's another if they follow you around and say "be careful with that!" every time you pick up a pen, a sheet of paper, or a phone.
That's what it's like being a science teacher. Thanks to health and safety I am required to write a risk assessment for anything that requires lifting and my student must have safety goggles on for activities such as boiling water.
-CGP
In a cinema there are often hundreds of people. The chance that at least one person out of those hundreds has an 'emergency' during the length of a movie is significant. This means that any time I see a movie I have to endure a significant chance of it being ruined because of someone else's problem.
Call notification = vibrate. No more problem.
Except, of course, for the selfish jerks who refuse to use this feature.
-CGP
So by the same reasoning would concrete bunkers deep underground be illegal?
-CGP
I don't quite get what google base is. From reading the FAQ this is part of google's plan to organize all the worlds information -- but sometime we need a bit more structure than that. I sell my photos on ebay and would love to be able to use a different service as payments to ebay are death by 1,000 cuts. But, are people really going to look for photos of London in the same place they'd try and find recipes and free web hosting?
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Don't.
-Colin
Foolish yes, but I also sense growth potential for the pharmaceutical industry. I actually know a woman who shares her prozac with her dog during the winter. :\
-CGP
I have no idea why this should be.
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So when I google myself I'll look really popular on the web!
It's a simple matter to go to the embassy, renounce your US citizenship and surrender your US passport if they're not providing you any services.
Right. Except then I will not be able to work in the US if I ever wanted to in the future. It's just a crazy system as the US is one of the only governments in the world that require you to pay taxes even if you don't live there.
-Colin
Hell, I moved out of the US and trained as a teacher in England and now work at a school in London. Can anyone explain to me why I still have to pay income tax to the U.S. government when I don't use any of their services?
-Colin
The prime backers of the war were:
1) US
2) Britain
3) Spain
4) Italy
5) Australia
Don't forget Poland!
-Colin
"We are stronger than ever because we have a research lab in Cambridge, we have one now in China, one in India and that is where the top problems in computer science are going to be solved." [Gates Said]
So... if we don't manufacture products in the States anymore and the future of computer science is overseas, what's left for America to be good at?
-Colin
"The beauty of software is that we are always making breakthroughs. We will have more in the next 10 years than we have had on the last 30," he [Gates] said in an exclusive BBC interview.
Right... and so will Google. Good luck catching up Billie Boy.
-Colin
but at a certain point, the "bush sucks" rhetoric gets old
That point will be when there are no more Bushes in the White House. That means you too, JEB.
-Colin
I mean, who really needs a countdown timer to the next episode of Battlestar Galactica just one keypress away at any moment?
f ight-the-toasters timer, I wouldn't use dashboard either.
You Sir, have clearly never seen Battlestar Galactica. That being said, I agree with your main point. If it wasn't for my oh-how-long-must-I-wait-before-watching-Starbuck-
-Colin
Do you think any office worker who puts in a 10-hour day actually does more than 3 hours of work?
-Colin
The fact that it has failed can easily be demonstrated by the fact that there is no major work released under the CC
Whoops, also forgot the BBS: Documentary.
-Colin
The fact that it has failed can easily be demonstrated by the fact that there is no major work released under the CC
Flickr, 4,202,909 creative commons photos as of now.
-Colin
They don't have a message board on their website, and emailed questions are never answered.
No kidding, I've been trying to get an answer to this question for a while. Perhaps someone here can help me out.
I have a question regarding the non-commercial clause of licenses and how it relates to advertising. I am in the process of putting together some classroom resources for teachers using the CC BY-NC-SA license. The resource includes both my own work, and the work of others under compatible licenses (ie BY, BY-SA). Ultimately, I would like to make the materials available on my website -- however, my website does contain advertising. The viewer is not forced to see the ads, and I will make the materials free to download. I am just concerned that the presence of the ads may violate the NC clause of the license.
-Colin
Too much of a good thing is NEVER beneficial.
Money.
-Colin