You've got to love Slashdot, where everyone has a say, and no one ever RTFA (or even uses the product commented on).
Yes, I love slashdot, because it always gives me the chance to at least virtually encounter people that virtually are that much based in the realms of reality that implications rendered by concepts are beyond what their imagination can grasp.
Thank you for alerting me to the fact that a revert is technically possible. I would not have imagined that this is feasible. I am also not aware of the CVS concept, of which Wikipedia says "Developers are therefore expected to keep their working copy up-to-date by incorporating other people's changes on a regular basis".
Especially now after you enlightened me, I see that I failed to take into account that users who collaboratively edit a document in a typical business environment are much more accustomed to manage concurrent processes (as well as their results,wanted and unwanted).
Remember this thing came out nearly a decade ago and those "web standards" you fellas like so much really didn't exist as anything more than proposals at the time, most of which were completely changed after IE 6 had already been released.
Wandering who the scientific consultant was since things appear quite well thought out to me, I found this:
"In popular culture Gregory Benford: is a science fiction writer with over twenty novels to his credit; has won the Nebula Award twice; in 1989 was host and scriptwriter for the television documentary series A Galactic Odyssey; and also served as scientific consultant for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In academia Gregory Benford: has a doctorate in physics; is a professor of physics at the University of California; conducts research in plasma turbulence and in astrophysics; has published well over a hundred scientific papers; and has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA and the White House Council on Space Policy."
quote from TFA: "Dr. Volkow said that the latest research is preliminary and does not address questions about cancer or other heath issues, but it does raise new questions about potential areas of research to better understand the health implications of increased brain activity resulting from cellphone use."
And what further conclusion do you think one could draw if one did a test with the 'left side switched on' as well?
IMHO, this is obviously piloting for a broader approach to raise funds.
Incidentally, I was just watching the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and reading your post makes me think that probably a major 'Carrington Event' would probably do a good (?) lot more than just turning some gear into expensive junk.
If you can read, and I know that is now rare in the US just do that.
You did not realize that semi-literacy is compensated by the super-human ability to simultaneously stream input from different sources (aka multitasking) in this digital age, did you? This of course also voids your argument regarding 'waste of time'.
Besides, the phenomenon seems to be global, so the US may not claim to have the lead here.
Quote: "Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars—the majority of them nonviolent offenders—mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers"
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Canonical isn't perfect, but why such the hate lately?
Maybe some distant relation to 'apps' stopping to work with an upgrade or the whole boot if you are on a WUBI installed system?
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You've got to love Slashdot, where everyone has a say, and no one ever RTFA (or even uses the product commented on).
Yes, I love slashdot, because it always gives me the chance to at least virtually encounter people that virtually are that much based in the realms of reality that implications rendered by concepts are beyond what their imagination can grasp.
I indeed love that 'groundedness' .
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Thank you for alerting me to the fact that a revert is technically possible. I would not have imagined that this is feasible. I am also not aware of the CVS concept, of which Wikipedia says "Developers are therefore expected to keep their working copy up-to-date by incorporating other people's changes on a regular basis".
Especially now after you enlightened me, I see that I failed to take into account that users who collaboratively edit a document in a typical business environment are much more accustomed to manage concurrent processes (as well as their results,wanted and unwanted).
Thank you for sharing your insights with me, Sir.
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TFA; "so everyone can contribute to the same version of a file at the same time"
Which essentially means that the file is versionless.
Good luck restoring to an intended state if someone fucked the thing up.
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Remember this thing came out nearly a decade ago and those "web standards" you fellas like so much really didn't exist as anything more than proposals at the time, most of which were completely changed after IE 6 had already been released.
I disagree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#HTML_version_timeline
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Now, look at more recent sites that don't include that kludge and see if it still looks OK.
The new design here completely fails with Netscape 9 (or is it the other way round?).
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Wandering who the scientific consultant was since things appear quite well thought out to me, I found this:
"In popular culture Gregory Benford: is a science fiction writer with over twenty novels to his credit; has won the Nebula Award twice; in 1989 was host and scriptwriter for the television documentary series A Galactic Odyssey; and also served as scientific consultant for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In academia Gregory Benford: has a doctorate in physics; is a professor of physics at the University of California; conducts research in plasma turbulence and in astrophysics; has published well over a hundred scientific papers; and has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA and the White House Council on Space Policy."
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TFA: "Now Joshua Foer writes in the NY Times magazine (reg. may be required) that a 'skilled memory' can be acquired and proves ..."
News indeed. Prior art (e.g.): Egan and Schwartz (1979), Chunking in recall of symbolic drawings. Memory and Cognition, 7(2), 149-158.
And again someone who 'proves'.
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Fine, I see the point.
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quote from TFA: "Dr. Volkow said that the latest research is preliminary and does not address questions about cancer or other heath issues, but it does raise new questions about potential areas of research to better understand the health implications of increased brain activity resulting from cellphone use."
And what further conclusion do you think one could draw if one did a test with the 'left side switched on' as well?
IMHO, this is obviously piloting for a broader approach to raise funds.
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At least, there is alredy a Patent 5539616 (among others).
I also recall that there were 'modular' laptops a long long time ago, but apparently these did not sell.
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look how dumb their user base got
Probably it is good (in contrast to evil) to have a dumb userbase if you are an advertising company.
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There is also this one: "Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report" ( http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12507&page=1 ).
I did not read this one, but a summary that I apparently cannot find again.
Anyway, I doubt that adequate precautions will be installed, since IMHO these would require an essentially distributed model.
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"Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform, don't kid yourself" (Zappa)
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Incidentally, I was just watching the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and reading your post makes me think that probably a major 'Carrington Event' would probably do a good (?) lot more than just turning some gear into expensive junk.
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Simple: Delete stuff.
Yes, great, I have done it, but it is difficult to learn.
Even more so if you are suspected to fall for a slogan like 'because we can', I guess.
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not many are screaming out for it
Probably since those who use a CMS do not scream?
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If you can read, and I know that is now rare in the US just do that.
You did not realize that semi-literacy is compensated by the super-human ability to simultaneously stream input from different sources (aka multitasking) in this digital age, did you? This of course also voids your argument regarding 'waste of time'.
Besides, the phenomenon seems to be global, so the US may not claim to have the lead here.
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Depends on your definitions of both quality and video.
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That if you advertise or support a company, and are paid for by the company - you had to declare it?
Probably depends on your jurisdiction. In Germany, yes (Telemediengesetz 6, IANAL).
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as if tens of thousands of people in jail
But they feed the 'prison-industrial complex'!
Quote: "Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars—the majority of them nonviolent offenders—mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers"
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-prison-industrial-complex/4669/
Take note of the year!
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The 'reason to innovate' is to make money by making better stuff than your competitors.
Wasn't, originally, the idea behind innovation 'making it easier to survive'? Or, in probably more fashionable terms, 'making life more sustainable'?
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TFS: "that would provide a national strategy to prevent the use of American technology from being used by human rights abusers"
No time to worry, as this is the first time that the controls already in place failed.
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using the scientific method
Probably "using scientific methodology"; anyway: FAIL.
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How they managed to equate that to the hard technical limits ....
Totally with you, had to google this myself.
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