Last year, they had "Post Doc," which is probably worse--you are paid almost as little and have already made the choice not to sell out to some consulting firm who would pay you large sums of money for those three letters you can place after your name.
But there are many good science teachers, and most schools are better than the one they picked out. The article also implies that public-school science teachers are all poor teachers, which is not true.
I didn't see any criticism of science teachers being "poor teachers," except in the sense that you should feel sorry for them because they have to put up with inadequate funding.
While most public schools probably don't need to have English teachers teach science, it is true that many are under-funded & the No Child Left Behind Act favors other classes over science.
In fact, the study said Linux potentially violates 283 software patents, not "over 228" as Ballmer said in his speech.
Last time I checked, 283>228. Please also note this quote, which provides the best summary:
"The point of the study was actually to eliminate the FUD about Linux's alleged legal problems by attaching a quantifiable measure versus the speculation," he said. "And the number we found, to anyone familiar with this issue, is so average as to be boring; almost any piece of software potentially infringes at least that many patents.
Do we really expect to throw people in jail in 2004 for behavior theyve been engaged in for more than a quarter century?
Your jails are full of fellow citizens that dared to smoke pot. That "crime" has been on the books far, far longer Senator.
Perhaps, but you are using very different reasoning from him. You point out so-called victimless crimes (or perhaps those crimes where victims are dehumaninzed--such as the corporations who own the IP that you're stealing) is a concern. Good luck getting those overturned. That would require a major socially liberal movement that just ain't gonna happen.
A of socially-accepted people have legally skipped commercials for 25 years. When the MJ laws hit the books, this wasn't the case. Drug users weren't a majority & they were able to use anti-african american and anti-latino sentiments to help pass the ban.
The post was not a troll and is generally good advice, despite being a bit off the very narrow topic of the question posed in this story.
The parent correctly pointed out thatATI's drivers are insanely limited--they STILL don't have 64-bit drivers for linux & the beta Win-64 drivers are garbage.
As another response to the parent implied, ATI has drivers that are simple to install & don't lead to problems if you don't tweak them too much or stray too far from the default install. All of these issue are really related.
It is for this reason that I suggest not installing the drivers. Yes--they might work. But if you aren't (1)experimental enough to try this yourself or (2)willing to read what you can on these drivers (both what they offer and what problems people have had), I'd say you're setting yourself up for a headache.
It can work & if it doesn't, you can rollback the drivers. However, it won't get you insanely l33t performance boosts & remain stable. If it did, why wouldn't ATI use them instead? They're not that negligent in writing the drivers: just very narrowly focused.
--A disgruntled owner of an X800 and a mobility radeon
Regarding returns: I think they would take them if you had a legitimate complaint. I'm told none have been returned due to the search applet not working and, as I said, it works under Linux.
Yes. It is HTML-based. The most useful navigation tool is the search engine, which is a java applet that runs from the CD. This will be hit-or-miss, depending on browser & JVM. It can work. I just created an index of the articles on my hard drive. I suppose you can also just grep through them.
It does have topical and date-based indexes, so you don't even need the search applet.
You may want to mount as check=r[elaxed], as the HTML files link to files with capitalization that doesn't always match with the filename on the disc.
A blog is definitely not a CMS. A true CMS has certain features, such as content "versioning" and support for workflow.
Ah the irony. The second link you list cites a blog as a type of CMS. Furthermore, I was using the term "blog" in a rather broader sense than personal blogs (though software that powers these, such as wordpress, are most definitely CMS apps): to refer instead to sites like slashdot.
To the contrary, many CMS's are evolving in precisely this direction.
I didn't say none. And I also see a difference between a product that is evolving into something and one that is already something. Furthermore, my comment wasn't really decrying the ease-ofuse issue, but the power to edit everything in detail. You might be able to add new pages with formatted text, but the page layout is still fairly restricted. In only a few can you use the CMS itself to change MARKUP and LAYOUT and STYLE. This makes sense--the C is for content. But some people seemed to be wanting an online WYSIWIG page creator.
Wikis can be be easy to install, administer, and use. But they lack a great deal.
Well the first post is as indefensible as if I had decried the ease-of-use of some CMS's. There are nice UIs for wikis too. The second post just decries over-collaborative generation of documentation. IMHO, it doesn't really apply to the case where someone wanted a very simple way to add content to a webpage. There are wikis that aren't world-writable.
To me the biggest downside was support for inserting straight HTML....losing the ability to use all of the functionality of HTML when entering content seems like a big trade-off.
These seem to be a bit incosistent, no?! Inserting straight HTML can be a security risk and/or wouldn't be used by non-savvy users. There are wikis that do and don't let you use HTML, so I don't know what the big deal is...
1- Provide a WYWYSIG editor for those who just want to add new content.
The best you can do without something like an applet or clever javascript or shock or XUL is to have a preview. I would personally prefer a simple HTML form interface that works on all browsers well than it to almost work in some browsers.
2- Allow users to cut and paste highly formatted content from (gasp!) MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
Not gonna happen without an even more ugly hack: Windows and windows-based browsers doesn't even try to accept pasted markup/images/etc. Should be possible to upload a word document & have openoffice/antiword/acrobat/etc. convert it into a more web-friendly format.
3- Allow insertion of HTML-formatted content.
Some wikis do allow this. It is trivial for them to do so. But it is a security risk & I think the HTML-parsers or strippers have been built for a reason.
Blogs were the first and are the most deployed apps to use CMS. HTML-savvy people wanted to provide the rest of the world an easy way to contribute content. I'm aware of very few apps meant to make a web developer's life easier by allowing online editing as if it were an online Dreamweaver or what not.
If you want KISS & need to add a lot of content, what is lacking in wikis?
I've had my unit for about two years. I've seen a lot, but you are correct that more-often-than-not, you aren't subjected to an add.
But you aren't right about when it happens. You need only to have it paused for a few seconds for one to appear. Usually you may press exit to make it disappear, but it will reappear after about 2 minutes.
I do share your optimism that ReplayTV would be slower to adopt additional advertising.
You also still have CommercialAdvance if you have a 5000-series or earlier and Show|Nav regardless (which uses the CA algorithm, but must be manually activated).
But it does display full-screen ads when you press pause.
I am a proud owner of a ReplayTV 5040. That being said, it to has ads: leave your ReplayTV paused sometime & you should see an ad for discounts on the 5500 series or additional subscriptions. So far, the ads have been almost all for ReplayTV's own products, which is slightly more tolerable. They are also only on when you aren't actually watching TV. But they are still fullscreen & they are still a bit tacky. My CD players don't spew commercials if I pause a CD. My microwave doesn't scoll ads when I'm not cooking. Why should any unit that I pay for--especially one that is a somewhat expensive luxury item--inundate me with ads.
TiVo better aggressively lower the price to consumers if they expect this ploy to work. They could adopt a model a'la some adware: it is extremely cheap or free to use if they can promise the advertisers your eyeballs, but you have the option to pay a higher fee in order to be ad-free.
This article cites St. Louis as the first city to receive suits, followed by New York and Philadelphia. Examples of movies: "Troy," from Warner Bros., "Spider-Man 2," from Columbia Pictures and "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," from The Walt Disney Co.
One of these ads shows a finger clicking a mouse, alongside a headline emblazoned in red: "Is this you?" That's followed by a long list of user names and IP addresses typical of those found on file-sharing networks such as Kazaa, eDonkey, DirectConnect, Grokster and Lime Wire, which are named specifically. "If you think you can get away with illegally trafficking in movies, think again," the ad warns.
The trade group said the program would be available for the Windows computer operating system on a special Web site established to educate consumers about copyrights. The name or exact nature of the program was not described Tuesday.
Too bad. I would have liked to try it out. Wagers as to how it will figure out offending content? Just by filename/size?
witness the majority of US citizens who believed that there was a proven direct link between Iraq and 9/11
This is a good case where diverse views and evolution do win out. Current polls showthat the majority believe there wasn't a direct link. I will happily acknowledge that crowds don't always start out with the right answer or can even converge on the right answer--look at lynch mobs.
I could argue that the profile of the average Wikipedia contributer is predominantly skewed..., so the 1st and 2nd criteria are not being adequately met,
If you did, the 2nd criteria should still be met: One of those nerds isn't some dictator telling the other nerds how to act.
It is a good thing you don't argue the first point either: the group who participates in the Wikipedia is considerably more diverse than many examples given in the book, such as a crew of US submariners (ALL of whom were likely American 18-35 year old males).
the Wikipedia falls down most strongly on point (4)...One individual can partially or completely overwrite, in an atomic fashion, other opinions.
But how often does this happen? Yes, there are "edit wars" where a page goes back and forth between two strong opinions. But participants (other editors or voters) do use the page history to find the common ground. The discussion pages are a great tool where different views can be and are gathered using threaded discussions.
It's worth noting that Everything2's model...supports this kind of aggregation better than Wikipedia's).
That is an interesting statement. I don't think it is really a better model of aggregation though: what the book argues is that diverse opinions need to be summarized into one decision. I think the wikipedia does this (however imperfectly), whereas E2 doesn't.
a good article...requires not just a firm grasp of the subject matter, but an ability to write well.
Traditional encyclopedias solve this dilemma the same way the Wikipedia does: through revision, the writing style and the factual content are improved.
If I'm asked for directions on the street and send people in the wrong direction, they're worse off than if I'd shrugged my shoulders or started speaking gibberish.
But few people get terribly lost. You, like most people, try not to misinform people & the people who need directions often ask more than a single person. They eventually find their way to their destination.
There's a reason why writing is taught beyond the universal high school level and why there are professionals
Talented writers can and do contribute to the Wikipedia. Wikipedia contributors are probably more journalisticly inclined than the average person. Furthermore, there are many profesional authors and editors who don't have much formal training. Finally, many "professional writers" don't actually earn their bread-and-butter by actually writing.
But there is in fact no real barrier....netiquette collapsed under the weight of AOL'ers in the mid 1990's: such virtual barriers are meaningless.
I'll concede this point. It is an uphill battle, but not an unwinnable one. Just as we've made tools to shelter us from the idiocy of AOLusers, we may be forced to make tools in the future to protect things like the Wikipedia.
This is (as modded) funny, but not (also as modded) "insightful:" fences can be costly (in at least time and effort, if not sheer quantity of materials) and impractical. That's one reason people use herding dogs. These little robots can become commodities--cheaper than raising and training a pup to herd. They might also be programmed or deployed to be better herders and/or may have a longer active lifetime.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah--the poor Zope site is down. google cache
If Solaris succeeds, MS will rant about the death of Linux & the undependable and unpredictable upgrade paths required for open source solutions.
If Solaris doesn't succeed, MS will rant about how open sourcing it killed it and how you can't depend on open source software.
Here's the report. You can be proud that your anti-evolutionist views are shared by 80% of people with a high school education or less.
If you want to post some funny bunk science, why not Big Daddy?
In all seriousness, the first posting of last year's list does have some great comments.
Last year, they had "Post Doc," which is probably worse--you are paid almost as little and have already made the choice not to sell out to some consulting firm who would pay you large sums of money for those three letters you can place after your name.
While most public schools probably don't need to have English teachers teach science, it is true that many are under-funded & the No Child Left Behind Act favors other classes over science.
A of socially-accepted people have legally skipped commercials for 25 years. When the MJ laws hit the books, this wasn't the case. Drug users weren't a majority & they were able to use anti-african american and anti-latino sentiments to help pass the ban.
The post was not a troll and is generally good advice, despite being a bit off the very narrow topic of the question posed in this story.
The parent correctly pointed out thatATI's drivers are insanely limited--they STILL don't have 64-bit drivers for linux & the beta Win-64 drivers are garbage.
As another response to the parent implied, ATI has drivers that are simple to install & don't lead to problems if you don't tweak them too much or stray too far from the default install. All of these issue are really related.
It is for this reason that I suggest not installing the drivers. Yes--they might work. But if you aren't (1)experimental enough to try this yourself or (2)willing to read what you can on these drivers (both what they offer and what problems people have had), I'd say you're setting yourself up for a headache.
It can work & if it doesn't, you can rollback the drivers. However, it won't get you insanely l33t performance boosts & remain stable. If it did, why wouldn't ATI use them instead? They're not that negligent in writing the drivers: just very narrowly focused.
--A disgruntled owner of an X800 and a mobility radeon
Regarding returns: I think they would take them if you had a legitimate complaint. I'm told none have been returned due to the search applet not working and, as I said, it works under Linux.
Yes. It is HTML-based. The most useful navigation tool is the search engine, which is a java applet that runs from the CD. This will be hit-or-miss, depending on browser & JVM. It can work. I just created an index of the articles on my hard drive. I suppose you can also just grep through them.
It does have topical and date-based indexes, so you don't even need the search applet.
You may want to mount as check=r[elaxed], as the HTML files link to files with capitalization that doesn't always match with the filename on the disc.
Blogs were the first and are the most deployed apps to use CMS. HTML-savvy people wanted to provide the rest of the world an easy way to contribute content. I'm aware of very few apps meant to make a web developer's life easier by allowing online editing as if it were an online Dreamweaver or what not.
If you want KISS & need to add a lot of content, what is lacking in wikis?
I've had my unit for about two years. I've seen a lot, but you are correct that more-often-than-not, you aren't subjected to an add.
But you aren't right about when it happens. You need only to have it paused for a few seconds for one to appear. Usually you may press exit to make it disappear, but it will reappear after about 2 minutes.
I do share your optimism that ReplayTV would be slower to adopt additional advertising.
Are you sure this overrides the ads? The ads don't appear every time you pause.
I never set the unit up with a photo partition--better for me to squeeze in another hour of TV instead.
You also still have CommercialAdvance if you have a 5000-series or earlier and Show|Nav regardless (which uses the CA algorithm, but must be manually activated).
But it does display full-screen ads when you press pause.
I am a proud owner of a ReplayTV 5040. That being said, it to has ads: leave your ReplayTV paused sometime & you should see an ad for discounts on the 5500 series or additional subscriptions. So far, the ads have been almost all for ReplayTV's own products, which is slightly more tolerable. They are also only on when you aren't actually watching TV. But they are still fullscreen & they are still a bit tacky. My CD players don't spew commercials if I pause a CD. My microwave doesn't scoll ads when I'm not cooking. Why should any unit that I pay for--especially one that is a somewhat expensive luxury item--inundate me with ads.
TiVo better aggressively lower the price to consumers if they expect this ploy to work. They could adopt a model a'la some adware: it is extremely cheap or free to use if they can promise the advertisers your eyeballs, but you have the option to pay a higher fee in order to be ad-free.
This article cites St. Louis as the first city to receive suits, followed by New York and Philadelphia. Examples of movies: "Troy," from Warner Bros., "Spider-Man 2," from Columbia Pictures and "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," from The Walt Disney Co.
It is a good thing you don't argue the first point either: the group who participates in the Wikipedia is considerably more diverse than many examples given in the book, such as a crew of US submariners (ALL of whom were likely American 18-35 year old males).But how often does this happen? Yes, there are "edit wars" where a page goes back and forth between two strong opinions. But participants (other editors or voters) do use the page history to find the common ground. The discussion pages are a great tool where different views can be and are gathered using threaded discussions.That is an interesting statement. I don't think it is really a better model of aggregation though: what the book argues is that diverse opinions need to be summarized into one decision. I think the wikipedia does this (however imperfectly), whereas E2 doesn't.Traditional encyclopedias solve this dilemma the same way the Wikipedia does: through revision, the writing style and the factual content are improved.But few people get terribly lost. You, like most people, try not to misinform people & the people who need directions often ask more than a single person. They eventually find their way to their destination.Talented writers can and do contribute to the Wikipedia. Wikipedia contributors are probably more journalisticly inclined than the average person. Furthermore, there are many profesional authors and editors who don't have much formal training. Finally, many "professional writers" don't actually earn their bread-and-butter by actually writing.I'll concede this point. It is an uphill battle, but not an unwinnable one. Just as we've made tools to shelter us from the idiocy of AOLusers, we may be forced to make tools in the future to protect things like the Wikipedia.
This is (as modded) funny, but not (also as modded) "insightful:" fences can be costly (in at least time and effort, if not sheer quantity of materials) and impractical. That's one reason people use herding dogs. These little robots can become commodities--cheaper than raising and training a pup to herd. They might also be programmed or deployed to be better herders and/or may have a longer active lifetime.