I actually like reading comments from people who really are lawyers, but how many "IANAL" comments spouting their truth - because they're modded up as such - do we need to wade through to get to them?
Feel free to mod me down because "IANASA" (I Am Not A Site Administrator), so I don't really know what I'm talking about.
You spelled it this way twice, and twice with "u" and "i" for the vowels.
I like the former -- it seems like a passive-aggressive way of making the very word describing their religion, to be "formed in the image of Mohammed", and even if it was just a typo, I like the things my brain tells me, so I will keep rewarding it with alcohol.
A generation ago, it was, in fact, interchangeable in English. It's really not used anymore, due to pressure from Islamic groups, from what I understand.
I also understand that there seems to be a discrepancy regarding the exact meaning of "moslem". I've seen it referred to as "one who is evil and unjust" - which would explain the pressure from Islamic groups, and the other is "the will" as in "the will that a believer submits him or herself to".
On the other hand, the American Moslem Foundation still uses the old spelling.
Judging by your post indicating that you actively embrace other cultures, I would theorise that IANAAC stands for I Am Not An American Citizen.
I'm American, through and through (living in the midwest, no less), but enjoy as much of the world as I'm able. Believe it or not, there are plenty of us in the US. We just don't get the airplay that the nutjobs do.
and while I do notice it takes a bit more effort to learn something new, once I do I can retain it without problems, provided I use the knowledge.
Languages have always interested me (it's what I do for a living these days), and every couple years I try to learn the basics of another language. I find that as long as I exercise the newly learned skill/material, I'm OK (such as reading newspapers in the other language, listening to broadcasts in that language, and finally speaking the language whenever I get the chance. I would imagine I'm using a different part of the brain for these activities, though.
I'm certainly no expert, nor do I claim to know anything of how the mind works for that matter, but I can't help but think that actually using skills learned later in life helps.
This is not to knock you or your efforts. Really. But looking a bit through your website, I have a question...
In your CV you state that you are the sole developer for the Appleseed project. Yet elsewhere on your site you state that you are a group of developers. Which one is it?
That is an obvious question, but there are others (timeline-related).
It would be prudent to "get your ducks in a row", so to speak, when asking for money, otherwise you run the risk of no being taken seriously. At least that's the way I look at it.
Again, I say this not to knock you or your efforts in any way. It's an observation that could perhaps help you.
They could, after some months, come back and publicly say "Even with all your contributions, we couldn't write something that could in good conscience be released to the public" and walk away with the money.
They may still be forced to show what code they could produce (and it could very well be a small amount), but that wouldn't stop them from just walking away.
Other than "hey, once we finish studies, we'll right on that", there's absolutely no timeline.
I don't know that I would advocate Appleseed either. They've been at a standstill for 2 years, and that's according to their own website timeline. If you go back further in their timeline, their progress has been quite slow.
I recently found a book that belonged to my grandmother, titled "The strange tactics of extremism" (H&B Overstreet), written in the early 60s.
It basically deals with the John Birch Society and Communism of the era and their tactics, but reading it, you see the EXACT same tactics being used by the extreme liberals and extreme conservatives in this country today.
More down to earth - Was that DJ right? Is Facebook losing huge numbers? Is there any way to know for sure?
If you're on Facebook, there's a really easy way to tell: Have any of your friends dropped off?
I can say that none of my friends or family have, and every single one of them is aware of the privacy issues that have been talked about. It's in the mainstream news, after all.
Until there's an easy way for them to migrate to another service - and when I say easy, I mean an easy way to move all their photos, etc. and perhaps even more importantly, apps such as iLike/Music or any of the popular games - they'll very well stay put on Facebook.
I've been using GV (and before that GC) for a bit over a year, and it's been pretty reliable. then again, I only have used it for voicemail. I don't use it for SMS or making calls. Making calls through it just seems convoluted and unnecessary.
THAT is just one example of a "how to" found within the comments of/. Oh, BTW, this solution cannot be found anywhere in any training for any certification that I've ever seen.
Back in 2004/2005 when I was working on Linux-based clusters for a company, I got to wondering if this could be done with Win-based PCs - my curiosity came from the fact that I could easily do this with individual Linux nodes when they went bad due to hardware failure, or whatever other reason for the failure.
So I went searching to see if it was possible. Turns out is was indeed possible. Know where I found the information? A search on Microsoft's very own Technet.
And yeah, it can be found in several different training materials too.
That was just me and my own little non-Microsoft oriented curious mind. I knew where to look first, though. It wasn't Slashdot.
Again, I'm answering to the exaggeration in your original post. If you are relying on Slashdot to "save the place you work", you're in the wrong line of work.
Slashdot has saved the place I worked more time than I've wasted reading it. I've learned how to do stuff that I would never find reading Tech Manuals and taking classes.
How so?
I've not thought of Slashdot as a tech-learning/tech-howto site for years.
I say this in all seriousness. Most everything I read on Slashdot comes from another site I've visited earlier.
I suppose there's the "Ask Slashdot" section, but let's take a look at the last few entries in that section:
- Can We Legislate Past the H.264 Debate?
- How To Behave At a Software Company?
- How Do You Handle Your Keys?
- Consumer Webcams With High-Quality Sensors?
- Best Way To Sell a Game Concept?
- Chains of RFCs and Chains of Laws?
- Hot Aisle Or Cold Aisle For Containment?
- What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser?
- Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements?
- Computer Competency Test For Non-IT Hires?
That's just the last page that comes up under the category. Do any of those qualify for saving a workplace?
Personally, I didn't learn most of these things until after I was in the workforce a few years. It wasn't a sudden epiphany either. It was little by little, situation by situation.
And really, when it comes down to it, that's about the only way to learn how to behave in any job.
S/he can be offered all the advice in the world, and truthfully, I don't think it'll make a difference. You don't learn job-related interpersonal skills until you've had to deal with very different types of people and situations - on the job.
I don't know why s/he is sweating it... it'll come if they want improve their work life and stay employed.
You know how much it costs to make an hour long show?
How in the world did they ever manage to produce a show before the internet?
Your argument is bunk. They made their money first from commercials over the airwaves, then from cable and DVD (and I suppose VHS) sales. So if someone wants to pay a buck a show, that's gravy to them. The show's been made and aired. Soon to be released on DVD.
Um... have you watched MSNBC at all? They are extremely liberal, in the American sense of the word.
Really. Or do you not think Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow qualify as liberal? They're standard fare MSNBC programming. Maybe you can point me toward something liberal then, if that's not it.
I don't care one way or the other whether it succeeds, but a large portion of people here just can't leave it alone - it's not enough to just not buy one, it somehow must be killed with fire.
I don't really care whether it succeeds or not either, but I can sort of understand the loathing.
It gets tiring after a while seeing more than one iPad "article" a day, not just on slashdot, but on many of the sites we tend to frequent. We'd like to see something other than iPad/Apple postings. It's not that there aren't other interesting things to discuss either - there are plenty of things going on in the tech/mobile world.
It's a shame that we have no news service dedicated to deep investigations and aiding the liberal causes.
Click your remote a few times and you'll eventually hit upon MSNBC... they're about as liberal as they come.
As far as "deep investigations", well, why would these networks do any thorough investigating when the latest newsbyte comes from the next viewer email, complete with camphone video? Not saying it's right, just that seems to be the way everything is headed.
Just a couple of years ago, you wouldn't have seen any program on CNN US with any reporter's name in it.
They used to have a policy that stated they'd have no celebrity reporters, à la MSNBC. Somewhere along the way that policy changed. I don't know the reasoning behind the change, though. Now we've got Anderson Cooper, Amanpour, Zakaria, etc.
If anything this just adds to the mystery, if they had engineering knowledge of similar level to the Romans, why did their civilization suddenly die out?
Probably much like Roman civilization, the main power structure lost control. That seems to be recurring throughout all history and cultures.
Obviously that's a huge simplification, but it no doubt contributed to the "collapse" of their civilization. I put "collapse" in parentheses, because Mayan civilization still exists to a certain degree.
Slashdot Mirror
It's sort of tiring listening to it after a while though. It becomes profanity theater. Not really needed to get her point across.
I actually like reading comments from people who really are lawyers, but how many "IANAL" comments spouting their truth - because they're modded up as such - do we need to wade through to get to them?
Feel free to mod me down because "IANASA" (I Am Not A Site Administrator), so I don't really know what I'm talking about.
A generation ago, it was, in fact, interchangeable in English. It's really not used anymore, due to pressure from Islamic groups, from what I understand.
I also understand that there seems to be a discrepancy regarding the exact meaning of "moslem". I've seen it referred to as "one who is evil and unjust" - which would explain the pressure from Islamic groups, and the other is "the will" as in "the will that a believer submits him or herself to".
On the other hand, the American Moslem Foundation still uses the old spelling.
But there are religions that have no deity, or "imaginary friends" as you've stated.
I'm American, through and through (living in the midwest, no less), but enjoy as much of the world as I'm able. Believe it or not, there are plenty of us in the US. We just don't get the airplay that the nutjobs do.
Languages have always interested me (it's what I do for a living these days), and every couple years I try to learn the basics of another language. I find that as long as I exercise the newly learned skill/material, I'm OK (such as reading newspapers in the other language, listening to broadcasts in that language, and finally speaking the language whenever I get the chance. I would imagine I'm using a different part of the brain for these activities, though.
I'm certainly no expert, nor do I claim to know anything of how the mind works for that matter, but I can't help but think that actually using skills learned later in life helps.
In your CV you state that you are the sole developer for the Appleseed project. Yet elsewhere on your site you state that you are a group of developers. Which one is it?
That is an obvious question, but there are others (timeline-related).
It would be prudent to "get your ducks in a row", so to speak, when asking for money, otherwise you run the risk of no being taken seriously. At least that's the way I look at it.
Again, I say this not to knock you or your efforts in any way. It's an observation that could perhaps help you.
They may still be forced to show what code they could produce (and it could very well be a small amount), but that wouldn't stop them from just walking away.
Other than "hey, once we finish studies, we'll right on that", there's absolutely no timeline.
I don't know that I would advocate Appleseed either. They've been at a standstill for 2 years, and that's according to their own website timeline. If you go back further in their timeline, their progress has been quite slow.
I recently found a book that belonged to my grandmother, titled "The strange tactics of extremism" (H&B Overstreet), written in the early 60s.
It basically deals with the John Birch Society and Communism of the era and their tactics, but reading it, you see the EXACT same tactics being used by the extreme liberals and extreme conservatives in this country today.
I thought it was an interesting read, anyway.
If you're on Facebook, there's a really easy way to tell: Have any of your friends dropped off?
I can say that none of my friends or family have, and every single one of them is aware of the privacy issues that have been talked about. It's in the mainstream news, after all.
Until there's an easy way for them to migrate to another service - and when I say easy, I mean an easy way to move all their photos, etc. and perhaps even more importantly, apps such as iLike/Music or any of the popular games - they'll very well stay put on Facebook.
I've been using GV (and before that GC) for a bit over a year, and it's been pretty reliable. then again, I only have used it for voicemail. I don't use it for SMS or making calls. Making calls through it just seems convoluted and unnecessary.
Back in 2004/2005 when I was working on Linux-based clusters for a company, I got to wondering if this could be done with Win-based PCs - my curiosity came from the fact that I could easily do this with individual Linux nodes when they went bad due to hardware failure, or whatever other reason for the failure.
So I went searching to see if it was possible. Turns out is was indeed possible. Know where I found the information? A search on Microsoft's very own Technet.
And yeah, it can be found in several different training materials too.
That was just me and my own little non-Microsoft oriented curious mind. I knew where to look first, though. It wasn't Slashdot.
Again, I'm answering to the exaggeration in your original post. If you are relying on Slashdot to "save the place you work", you're in the wrong line of work.
Was Slashdot really the first place you read about it? And did it really save your place of work?
The exaggeration in the post to which I replied was my point.
How so?
I've not thought of Slashdot as a tech-learning/tech-howto site for years.
I say this in all seriousness. Most everything I read on Slashdot comes from another site I've visited earlier.
I suppose there's the "Ask Slashdot" section, but let's take a look at the last few entries in that section:
- Can We Legislate Past the H.264 Debate?
- How To Behave At a Software Company?
- How Do You Handle Your Keys?
- Consumer Webcams With High-Quality Sensors?
- Best Way To Sell a Game Concept?
- Chains of RFCs and Chains of Laws?
- Hot Aisle Or Cold Aisle For Containment?
- What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser?
- Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements?
- Computer Competency Test For Non-IT Hires?
That's just the last page that comes up under the category. Do any of those qualify for saving a workplace?
That said, I've recently upgraded my version of OO.org to 3.2 on Ubuntu and it's significantly faster than then previous version.
And really, when it comes down to it, that's about the only way to learn how to behave in any job.
S/he can be offered all the advice in the world, and truthfully, I don't think it'll make a difference. You don't learn job-related interpersonal skills until you've had to deal with very different types of people and situations - on the job.
I don't know why s/he is sweating it... it'll come if they want improve their work life and stay employed.
But then, I'm and old coot.
That's exactly how it's being marketed. Nowhere do I see or have I seen it being marketed at content creators.
Why would you even try to shoehorn your needs into a device that clearly won't do what you want?
How in the world did they ever manage to produce a show before the internet?
Your argument is bunk. They made their money first from commercials over the airwaves, then from cable and DVD (and I suppose VHS) sales. So if someone wants to pay a buck a show, that's gravy to them. The show's been made and aired. Soon to be released on DVD.
And why on earth would you be carrying around three keys to your girlfriend's place? Is the front door key not sufficient?
I suppose I deserve reading this, after complaining that there are too many iPad stories on Slashdot.
Really. Or do you not think Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow qualify as liberal? They're standard fare MSNBC programming. Maybe you can point me toward something liberal then, if that's not it.
I don't really care whether it succeeds or not either, but I can sort of understand the loathing.
It gets tiring after a while seeing more than one iPad "article" a day, not just on slashdot, but on many of the sites we tend to frequent. We'd like to see something other than iPad/Apple postings. It's not that there aren't other interesting things to discuss either - there are plenty of things going on in the tech/mobile world.
Click your remote a few times and you'll eventually hit upon MSNBC... they're about as liberal as they come.
As far as "deep investigations", well, why would these networks do any thorough investigating when the latest newsbyte comes from the next viewer email, complete with camphone video? Not saying it's right, just that seems to be the way everything is headed.
They used to have a policy that stated they'd have no celebrity reporters, à la MSNBC. Somewhere along the way that policy changed. I don't know the reasoning behind the change, though. Now we've got Anderson Cooper, Amanpour, Zakaria, etc.
Probably much like Roman civilization, the main power structure lost control. That seems to be recurring throughout all history and cultures.
Obviously that's a huge simplification, but it no doubt contributed to the "collapse" of their civilization. I put "collapse" in parentheses, because Mayan civilization still exists to a certain degree.