I have over 3,000 webpages and over 2000 links saved and organized in Scrapbook. Scrapbook can recursively safe entire websites. Searching for good information is tedious with search engines. Webpages come and go. Scrapbook lets you build a library, your own personal knowledgeable over years. You can highlight text and save the results, too. All the webpages can be be organized in a tree-like hierarchal manner.
The only issue with it has to do with synchronization and differential backups. It should be rewritten to save Mozilla Archive Format files MAFF's so that synchronization would be quicker from machine to machine.
Just don't use Scrapbook on Slashdot. I got banned from Slashdot several times, because I wanted to save a single article to read while taking transit home. I once got my entire office banned from Slashdot.
As a bicyclist who follows the rules, I've almost been killed 3-4 times now by bicyclists who simply don't pay attention to stop signs or red lights, crossing straight through intersections at 40 km/h, while illegally driving on the sidewalk. I seriously hate about 60% of the bicyclists on the road, and wish traffic laws harsh enough to properly deter this behavior - deliberately ignoring a red light is a huge safety risk to everyone, and in my opinion, should carry a $3000 fine (I'm not talking about the kind where someone rushes through a yellow, and it turn's red half way through -- I'm talking about red lights that have been red for five seconds or more) Of course, cab drivers here are just as bad - I'm not really sure which I hate more.
Toronto has had similar style parking meters for a while. Paying for parking by credit card is actually pretty convenient - when it works. When you're paying $8 for parking, hunting down change isn't much fun (even if we do use $1 and $2 coins)
The original meters that were installed simply validated that the credit card swiped was valid, and stored the payment internally. People soon caught on and started using prepaid credit cards that were maxed out to pay. I experienced this first hand one day when we were parking, and a guy walking by and said "don't waste your money" to me, walked up to the meter, swiped a card, and paid for our parking that night.
The company that created the parking meters responded by upgrading the meters to store a blacklist of 1000 numbers. The machines were occasionally updated with a new set of blacklisted credit card numbers. Eventually, there were more prepaid and maxed out credit cards going around the city, so they upgraded the machines again with a 10,000 number blacklist. This approach inevitability failed as well, as the blacklist grew too large.
The next step was to install a modem into each of the parking machines. When you attempted to pay with a credit card, the machine would say "dialling...", and they would contact a credit card validation service somewhere. Nine times out of ten, this credit card validation routine fails to connect to the validation service properly, and the machine refuses to accept payment.
Sigh....if only these machines were a little "smarter"
Hey, the annual Banished Words List is the only time my Alma Mater is in the news these days, and it made me proud to see my no name school on Slashdot:)
Once upon a time, LSSU had a very good hockey program for a school their size (~3000 students), with NCAA national titles in 1988, 1992 and 1994.
No Goalies - At The Start Screen: Hold A and B on Both Controllers and then Start on the first controller
Non-Stop Puck and No goalies! - On he title screen hold down the A and B buttons on controllers 1 and 2, then press start on controller 1, now you'll have a puck that never stops moving, and no goalies at the nets.
Can someone tell where my NHL 2008 on the Wii is? The controlling scheme would be so simple - Use the analog stick on the nunchuck to move, like every other NHL game. Configure the game so it knows whether you are left or right handed. Hold the wiimote and nunchuck in parallel, as if you were holding a hockey stick. Move the hockey stick around to stick handle. To help the Wii system understand what you're trying to do with the puck, hold down B to shoot and Z to pass. A quick flick of the wrists for a wrister, and a windup for a slapshot. It seems so obvious to me that this would be a killer game on the Wii. I almost want to get my hands on the Wii developer kit just so I can build a prototype of the controlling scheme to get EA Sports on the right track.
Right now, I'm stuck playing Nintendo Ice Hockey (circa 1988), and it just isn't cutting it. I've considered ponying up a few dollars for a couple Gamecube controllers and NHL 2006, but I can't say I'm that excited about the idea, since I already have NHL 07 on the PC.
Yeah - I'm with you on that. The 0.8% of the market that wants their operating system for free are all going to rush out the stores to buy their $59 retail editions of the game instead of downloading the torrent 3 weeks before the game is even released.
I totally agree - Blizzard should produce a Linux version of this game, but the market just doesn't justify the expense. It's unfortunate, but true. If Propellerhead Reason, Visual Studio 2005, Half-Life 2 and Starcraft 2 all had official Linux releases, I would never touch a window's machine again. If Linux eventually manages to take a significant chunk of marketshare, like Firefox has managed to do, we'll see official Linux releases, but I can't see too many businesses putting in the effort before that happens.
Something like this once happened to us in a production SQL Server environment. We used a product called SQL Server Log Explorer from Lumigent, which allowed us to selectively roll back the transaction, based on the transaction log. That was the only time I've ever used the product, but it saved our collective hides.
Agreed. The vitriolic tone of this thread is somewhat astonishing to me. I'm primarily a Windows/.NET developer that is slowly working towards migrating to a Linux platform, and the Mono project is one of the key technologies leading me in that direction. When Microsoft announced that Silverlight was going to be a cross-platform technology that only ran on Windows and Apple, I was extremely frustrated. I can understand why, strategically, Microsoft has chosen not to implement a Silverlight implementation on Linux, but I cannot understand why the majority of those commenting on this thread are arguing so vehemently against Miguel.
Silverlight is not just a reimplementation of Flash. Coding in.NET is a pleasure, and a can gaurantee you that coding for the Silverlight platform is going to be infinitely more organized and structured than coding for Flash. Website developers are going to flock to this new technology. Without a Linux implementation of Silverlight, 20% of websites will be completely inaccessible to Linux users in 5 years.
The summary is misleading. The summary states that "all-electric driving is not considered". The article states that hybrids will be most impacted by the rule changes, because aggressive driving and cold weather driving will theoretically minimize the impact on gas mileage provided by all-electric drive.
We bought a Prius in September. We average about 55 MPG in warmer weather, and 47 MPG in driving in cold Michigan/Canadian weather (both city and highway), so I don't think Hybrids will see as big of a drop as the article claims. The only time we see bad gas mileage is for short city trips of 5 minutes or less from a cold start in cold weather. During those for 3-4 minutes, we average anywhere between 15-25 MPG. Once the car is warmed up, the average jumps to around 45-50 MPG. If the goal of the EPA is to make hybrids look as bad as possible, the test should be a short, four minute drive from a cold weather start. In any other condition, the hybrids (at least the Prius) will continue to score well above other consumer automobiles in gas mileage ratings.
I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.4 as well. I have the default security settings enabled. Sometimes when I hit the back button in GMail it works, but usually, I get the following message after a 30 second delay:
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If you continue to have trouble loading your account, please visit the help center for troubleshooting information.
I second this -- I have a 15-year old pillow that's like three quarters of an inch thick. I can't sleep on anything else. I've tried shopping for a new pillow, but they are all at least three times as thick as my current one, and I just don't feel comfortable sleeping with any other pillow.
My dad suggested buying a new pillow, putting it in a garbage bag, and running back and forth over it a few times with my car, but I can't say I've tried that out yet.
To top it off -- I have asthma and allergies -- I spend about 250 days out of the year with a chronic cough and stuffed up sinuses, which also prevents me from getting a good night's rest. I know my ratty old pillow is doing me no good, but there doesn't seem to be a pillow manufacturer capable of making a pillow that is less than three inches thick. I feel like I just can't win...
I guess I'll have to check out India's pillow manufacturers. Let me know if you ever find a good source for flat pillows:)
Amen to that. A couple years ago, I was working on a large (500+ files) VB.NET ASP.NET project. I was also working on a woefully underpowered (400 MHz) dev box. The automatic continous error detection drove me insane, as I often had pauses of 30-40 seconds where my computer quit responding while it continiously attempted to refactor/recompile the application in memory.
I've since switched to C#, and will never look back.
From what I've experienced so far using the Whibdey betas, developing in C# using VS.NET 2005 is the ultimate developer experience. The intellisense feature in VS2005 is light years ahead VS.NET 2003, Eclipse, or Netbeans. The intellisense system keeps a statistical database, and automatically keeps the keywords that you use the most often nearby. The improved intellisense also functions on the first class name as well, so, for example, you can simply type S.W.H.C.U.I<enter>, instead of System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity. And, as you've mentinoed, refactoring is built in to the new IDE.
I originally read about this story several weeks ago. The company that produced the machines sold several different models of the machine with different price tags. The people who made the decision to buy a machine with a 3000 vote cap are partially to blame. The company who designed the machine is mostly to blame. The tried to pass the buck by stating that a little light would start blinking on the machine after the memory was full.
Okay, I sort of understand the idea behind the pricing scheme, but they went about it in entirely the wrong way. They should allow the machine to count all the votes it wants...but then go back and charge the precinct based on the number of votes tallied.
This is exactly what I thought about when I started reading all the complaints about why bothering with tracking all of your grocery items.
A database of potential recipes based on your current stock of groceries is a great idea.
I don't know about you, but I have all kinds of groceries stuffed in the back of my pantry, and I have a real hard time remembering what I have on hand without spending a long time digging through everything.
Another feature that I would love would be automatic tracking of expiration dates. I don't know how many times I've pulled an old quart of milk, some rotten vegitables, moldy bread, or spoiled sour cream from some forgotten corner of the back of the fridge. I would really appreciate reminders like this "You have a quart of milk purchased last Tuesday that is about to expire", and "You should really think about throwing away that loaf of bread that expired three weeks ago".
This would probably work pretty well as an ASP app. The ASP would be responsible for keeping an up-to-date bar code database & recipe database. Scanning items would update their database.
what margin of error? In an election, when every vote is counted, there is no such thing as a margin of error. (That is, of course, theoretical, since they don't seem to be that interested in counting every vote)
If you add Defence spending, I'm sure Bush's spending increase % would skyrocket. With the data included, people would generally state that the incease in spending was due to the war in Iraq. Seeing the numbers without defense spending shows that Bush has been fiscally irresponsible, even after including the increased costs due to the war.
Thank you..thank you...thank you...for the good news. Half-life was my favourite game of all time. In my heyday I played 3-4 hours of TFC per night, but I'm now married and I've since fallen into the realm of casual gamer (3-4 Hours of UT2004 a month)
I tried out Doom3 on my laptop (P4 2.4 Ghz, Radeon 9000), and it blew chunks (Around 8-12 frames per second at minimum settings)
I am simultaneously super-excited about the possibility of playing HL2, but at the same time feel pessimistic of my chances of actually being able to run the game. I have been too scared to actually investigate the recommended system specs, because I don't want to be disappointed to hear that I cannot run this game.
I just discovered a very annoying feature. I use two profiles on my laptop -- one on my work domain, and another local profile. I wish I could find a way to use a single profile, but I haven't.
In any case, I installed the Google Desktop Search at work earlier today, and it worked great. I got home, and Google informed me that I couldn't use the desktop search because it was installed by another user.
I then attempted to install the toolbar again, but I got the following message:
Google Desktop Search is already installed on this machine by a different user. Only one user can install Google Desktop Search on a machine. Before continuing, uninstall the other Google Desktop Search installation.
Why create a program that can only be installed on a single profile?
Slashdot Mirror
I've never heard of simple.wikipedia.org before. Who keeps this up-to-date? https://simple.wikipedia.org/w... says Slashdot has been a website for 10 years. It was actually launched 20 years ago (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)
I have over 3,000 webpages and over 2000 links saved and organized in Scrapbook. Scrapbook can recursively safe entire websites. Searching for good information is tedious with search engines. Webpages come and go. Scrapbook lets you build a library, your own personal knowledgeable over years. You can highlight text and save the results, too. All the webpages can be be organized in a tree-like hierarchal manner.
The only issue with it has to do with synchronization and differential backups. It should be rewritten to save Mozilla Archive Format files MAFF's so that synchronization would be quicker from machine to machine.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
Just don't use Scrapbook on Slashdot. I got banned from Slashdot several times, because I wanted to save a single article to read while taking transit home. I once got my entire office banned from Slashdot.
So, now you can run SharePoint Server on your legos? Who thought this was a good idea...
As a bicyclist who follows the rules, I've almost been killed 3-4 times now by bicyclists who simply don't pay attention to stop signs or red lights, crossing straight through intersections at 40 km/h, while illegally driving on the sidewalk. I seriously hate about 60% of the bicyclists on the road, and wish traffic laws harsh enough to properly deter this behavior - deliberately ignoring a red light is a huge safety risk to everyone, and in my opinion, should carry a $3000 fine (I'm not talking about the kind where someone rushes through a yellow, and it turn's red half way through -- I'm talking about red lights that have been red for five seconds or more) Of course, cab drivers here are just as bad - I'm not really sure which I hate more.
Toronto has had similar style parking meters for a while. Paying for parking by credit card is actually pretty convenient - when it works. When you're paying $8 for parking, hunting down change isn't much fun (even if we do use $1 and $2 coins)
The original meters that were installed simply validated that the credit card swiped was valid, and stored the payment internally. People soon caught on and started using prepaid credit cards that were maxed out to pay. I experienced this first hand one day when we were parking, and a guy walking by and said "don't waste your money" to me, walked up to the meter, swiped a card, and paid for our parking that night.
The company that created the parking meters responded by upgrading the meters to store a blacklist of 1000 numbers. The machines were occasionally updated with a new set of blacklisted credit card numbers. Eventually, there were more prepaid and maxed out credit cards going around the city, so they upgraded the machines again with a 10,000 number blacklist. This approach inevitability failed as well, as the blacklist grew too large.
The next step was to install a modem into each of the parking machines. When you attempted to pay with a credit card, the machine would say "dialling...", and they would contact a credit card validation service somewhere. Nine times out of ten, this credit card validation routine fails to connect to the validation service properly, and the machine refuses to accept payment.
Sigh....if only these machines were a little "smarter"
Hey, the annual Banished Words List is the only time my Alma Mater is in the news these days, and it made me proud to see my no name school on Slashdot :)
Once upon a time, LSSU had a very good hockey program for a school their size (~3000 students), with NCAA national titles in 1988, 1992 and 1994.
Dugg for use of the word "nergasms", lol <3
or Florida Panthers
Thanks for the heads up on the hint codes.
No Goalies - At The Start Screen: Hold A and B on Both Controllers and then Start on the first controller
Non-Stop Puck and No goalies! - On he title screen hold down the A and B buttons on controllers 1 and 2, then press start on controller 1, now you'll have a puck that never stops moving, and no goalies at the nets.
Source: Gamespot
Can someone tell where my NHL 2008 on the Wii is? The controlling scheme would be so simple - Use the analog stick on the nunchuck to move, like every other NHL game. Configure the game so it knows whether you are left or right handed. Hold the wiimote and nunchuck in parallel, as if you were holding a hockey stick. Move the hockey stick around to stick handle. To help the Wii system understand what you're trying to do with the puck, hold down B to shoot and Z to pass. A quick flick of the wrists for a wrister, and a windup for a slapshot. It seems so obvious to me that this would be a killer game on the Wii. I almost want to get my hands on the Wii developer kit just so I can build a prototype of the controlling scheme to get EA Sports on the right track.
Right now, I'm stuck playing Nintendo Ice Hockey (circa 1988), and it just isn't cutting it. I've considered ponying up a few dollars for a couple Gamecube controllers and NHL 2006, but I can't say I'm that excited about the idea, since I already have NHL 07 on the PC.
I nominate Vloggercon.
Yeah - I'm with you on that. The 0.8% of the market that wants their operating system for free are all going to rush out the stores to buy their $59 retail editions of the game instead of downloading the torrent 3 weeks before the game is even released.
I totally agree - Blizzard should produce a Linux version of this game, but the market just doesn't justify the expense. It's unfortunate, but true. If Propellerhead Reason, Visual Studio 2005, Half-Life 2 and Starcraft 2 all had official Linux releases, I would never touch a window's machine again. If Linux eventually manages to take a significant chunk of marketshare, like Firefox has managed to do, we'll see official Linux releases, but I can't see too many businesses putting in the effort before that happens.
Something like this once happened to us in a production SQL Server environment. We used a product called SQL Server Log Explorer from Lumigent, which allowed us to selectively roll back the transaction, based on the transaction log. That was the only time I've ever used the product, but it saved our collective hides.
Agreed. The vitriolic tone of this thread is somewhat astonishing to me. I'm primarily a Windows/.NET developer that is slowly working towards migrating to a Linux platform, and the Mono project is one of the key technologies leading me in that direction. When Microsoft announced that Silverlight was going to be a cross-platform technology that only ran on Windows and Apple, I was extremely frustrated. I can understand why, strategically, Microsoft has chosen not to implement a Silverlight implementation on Linux, but I cannot understand why the majority of those commenting on this thread are arguing so vehemently against Miguel.
.NET is a pleasure, and a can gaurantee you that coding for the Silverlight platform is going to be infinitely more organized and structured than coding for Flash. Website developers are going to flock to this new technology. Without a Linux implementation of Silverlight, 20% of websites will be completely inaccessible to Linux users in 5 years.
Silverlight is not just a reimplementation of Flash. Coding in
The summary is misleading. The summary states that "all-electric driving is not considered". The article states that hybrids will be most impacted by the rule changes, because aggressive driving and cold weather driving will theoretically minimize the impact on gas mileage provided by all-electric drive.
We bought a Prius in September. We average about 55 MPG in warmer weather, and 47 MPG in driving in cold Michigan/Canadian weather (both city and highway), so I don't think Hybrids will see as big of a drop as the article claims. The only time we see bad gas mileage is for short city trips of 5 minutes or less from a cold start in cold weather. During those for 3-4 minutes, we average anywhere between 15-25 MPG. Once the car is warmed up, the average jumps to around 45-50 MPG. If the goal of the EPA is to make hybrids look as bad as possible, the test should be a short, four minute drive from a cold weather start. In any other condition, the hybrids (at least the Prius) will continue to score well above other consumer automobiles in gas mileage ratings.
How about Microsoft ObjectSpaces? Lets have a detailed look into the Microsoft ObjectSpaces, an upcoming OR mapping tool from Microsoft.
I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.4 as well. I have the default security settings enabled. Sometimes when I hit the back button in GMail it works, but usually, I get the following message after a 30 second delay:
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If you continue to have trouble loading your account, please visit the help center for troubleshooting information.
Methods and system of obtaining consumer reviews
I second this -- I have a 15-year old pillow that's like three quarters of an inch thick. I can't sleep on anything else. I've tried shopping for a new pillow, but they are all at least three times as thick as my current one, and I just don't feel comfortable sleeping with any other pillow.
:)
My dad suggested buying a new pillow, putting it in a garbage bag, and running back and forth over it a few times with my car, but I can't say I've tried that out yet.
To top it off -- I have asthma and allergies -- I spend about 250 days out of the year with a chronic cough and stuffed up sinuses, which also prevents me from getting a good night's rest. I know my ratty old pillow is doing me no good, but there doesn't seem to be a pillow manufacturer capable of making a pillow that is less than three inches thick. I feel like I just can't win...
I guess I'll have to check out India's pillow manufacturers. Let me know if you ever find a good source for flat pillows
Amen to that. A couple years ago, I was working on a large (500+ files) VB.NET ASP.NET project. I was also working on a woefully underpowered (400 MHz) dev box. The automatic continous error detection drove me insane, as I often had pauses of 30-40 seconds where my computer quit responding while it continiously attempted to refactor/recompile the application in memory.
I've since switched to C#, and will never look back.
From what I've experienced so far using the Whibdey betas, developing in C# using VS.NET 2005 is the ultimate developer experience. The intellisense feature in VS2005 is light years ahead VS.NET 2003, Eclipse, or Netbeans. The intellisense system keeps a statistical database, and automatically keeps the keywords that you use the most often nearby. The improved intellisense also functions on the first class name as well, so, for example, you can simply type S.W.H.C.U.I<enter>, instead of System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity. And, as you've mentinoed, refactoring is built in to the new IDE.
I originally read about this story several weeks ago. The company that produced the machines sold several different models of the machine with different price tags. The people who made the decision to buy a machine with a 3000 vote cap are partially to blame. The company who designed the machine is mostly to blame. The tried to pass the buck by stating that a little light would start blinking on the machine after the memory was full.
Okay, I sort of understand the idea behind the pricing scheme, but they went about it in entirely the wrong way. They should allow the machine to count all the votes it wants...but then go back and charge the precinct based on the number of votes tallied.
This is exactly what I thought about when I started reading all the complaints about why bothering with tracking all of your grocery items.
A database of potential recipes based on your current stock of groceries is a great idea.
I don't know about you, but I have all kinds of groceries stuffed in the back of my pantry, and I have a real hard time remembering what I have on hand without spending a long time digging through everything.
Another feature that I would love would be automatic tracking of expiration dates. I don't know how many times I've pulled an old quart of milk, some rotten vegitables, moldy bread, or spoiled sour cream from some forgotten corner of the back of the fridge. I would really appreciate reminders like this "You have a quart of milk purchased last Tuesday that is about to expire", and "You should really think about throwing away that loaf of bread that expired three weeks ago".
This would probably work pretty well as an ASP app. The ASP would be responsible for keeping an up-to-date bar code database & recipe database. Scanning items would update their database.
what margin of error? In an election, when every vote is counted, there is no such thing as a margin of error. (That is, of course, theoretical, since they don't seem to be that interested in counting every vote)
If you add Defence spending, I'm sure Bush's spending increase % would skyrocket. With the data included, people would generally state that the incease in spending was due to the war in Iraq. Seeing the numbers without defense spending shows that Bush has been fiscally irresponsible, even after including the increased costs due to the war.
Thank you..thank you...thank you...for the good news. Half-life was my favourite game of all time. In my heyday I played 3-4 hours of TFC per night, but I'm now married and I've since fallen into the realm of casual gamer (3-4 Hours of UT2004 a month)
I tried out Doom3 on my laptop (P4 2.4 Ghz, Radeon 9000), and it blew chunks (Around 8-12 frames per second at minimum settings)
I am simultaneously super-excited about the possibility of playing HL2, but at the same time feel pessimistic of my chances of actually being able to run the game. I have been too scared to actually investigate the recommended system specs, because I don't want to be disappointed to hear that I cannot run this game.
I just discovered a very annoying feature. I use two profiles on my laptop -- one on my work domain, and another local profile. I wish I could find a way to use a single profile, but I haven't.
In any case, I installed the Google Desktop Search at work earlier today, and it worked great. I got home, and Google informed me that I couldn't use the desktop search because it was installed by another user.
I then attempted to install the toolbar again, but I got the following message:
Google Desktop Search is already installed on this machine by a different user. Only one user can install Google Desktop Search on a machine. Before continuing, uninstall the other Google Desktop Search installation.
Why create a program that can only be installed on a single profile?