from the freshmeat comments it sounds like a neat project. my only suggestion is to whitelist the allowed html tags when you do the filter. maybe i read it wrong, but it seemed to me that you wanted to diallow a few tags but leave the rest.
but you win for the best summary ever, good job... seriously, it's well written. my site is small enough, with few enough participants that i can get by writing my own; it just provides a web frontend for editing the text files directly. this directory has the source code... if anyone is interested
the school i go to still uses the abcdf system. we have photo id's if we want to use a computer independantly or check out books. if you're marked absent, they give you a slip of paper saying so, and if you get it signed by a teacher saying you were there, they let it slide. nice system, i think. each teacher deals with tardies differently, most give you one free tardy, after that detention. i don't know what unexcused absences do though... i think they call your parents and maybe a detention or something if your parents say you were supposed to be there. at lunch, they have teachers at the indoor cafeteria exits, asking for passes, and on the outside, they have a teacher drive a van around and make sure nobody leaves. we are allowed to go out on a large grassy area to play hacky-sack, frisbee, and eat. i think it's fine, although their "zero tolerance" policies are kind of irritating. fighting and drugs/alcohol are _not_ tolerated, and there are some pretty big consequences, i think. i don't know what they are, i threw away the handbook...:) oh, and cheating goes on your permanent record, besides getting an F on the assignment/test. how strictly the rules are enforced varies from teacher to teacher, they're typically not as bad as the suggested method, in my experience. and despite the lecture on "be more friendly to your peers", there has been no zero tolerance policy on intolerance.
there are two sides to a magneto optical disk: a floppy-like side and a cdrom-like side. a laser heats the cdrom-like side until it hits a temp. where the magnetic portion directly below that hot point can be changed. a magnetic head then changes the polarity of that hot spot on the magnetic side. the disk is read from the optical side, and the dot on the optical side reads differently depending on the polarity of the dot directly oposite it on the magnetic side of the disk. this gives you over 1e6 rewrites, and the disk won't demagnetize under a certain (high) temperature. also, the shelf life is 50-100 years, in part due to the plastic (3.5" floppy like) casing mentioned by the parent. the disadvantage being that these drives are slow and expensive... slow because the drive checks what it just wrote and corrects the write if it's faulty (i think on a per dot basis). the upside is reliability. magneto optical discs get anywhere from 128mb to 5.2gb that i've seen, and they come in three varieties: minidisc, which is primarily for audio, but a few data ones are being sold, the old version holds ~1/5 of a cd, so ~130mb, the newer version (uses multiple layers) holds 1gb, and i don't know if they have a data version or not. 3.5" mo discs come in 128mb-1.3gb that i've seen. slightly older drives accept 640mb discs while the new ones take 1.3gb discs. this value may have increased since i last looked for a mo drive. 5.25" mo discs come in sizes up to 5.2gb so far as i've seen; this value might be bigger now.
so you want to do something quickly without learning how to do it, and you want the tool for free. have fun:P also, considering that the people who could build the tool are most likely proficient in both html and c/c++/etc. they probably consider html to be a piece of cake and therefore would not have much motivation to build the program.
i'm running an athlon64 2800 on an nforce3 motherboard on gentoo and all the integrated peripherals work great (although i haven't tested firewire, parallel, or serial, but they show up in dmesg so i think it's fine). i kind of stupidly bought a radeon 9200... but it works and it has dri and framebuffer support, so i'm ok. the 64bit thing works wonderfully, and they even have a 32bit emulation option in the kernel. just for kicks, i turned it off and rebooted... it went just fine, all except for grub (which is only available for 32bit archs), but the emulation works around that. i picked gentoo because it had better support for nforce3 motherboards than freebsd did at the time. also, slackware's boot kernel didn't support my sata drive. debian would have done the job, but i don't really care for it. mandrake and suse also have 64bit distros, but they were not free as in beer when i bought this computer... you may want to check, if you like those distros. fedora core 1 has support for amd64, and there are most likely a few other distros too. openbsd, netbsd, and freebsd support it too. if you want to run something weirder than that, athlon64 processors support 32bit stuff too, the slackware install kernel booted on my machine.
(rather than, eg those most aligned with their religion) i don't see why this is so bad. for example, Christianity in part advocates being a good steward of your resources. there's also something about helping the poor, loving your neighbor, and other such things. all of these are characteristics i'd like to see in a presidential candidate, supposing their decisions were made accordingly.
to say that everyone is or isn't special is somewhat lacking in information, as people are typically gifted in a certain area or group of areas... granted that among a group of people geared a certain way, there are varying proficiencies, saying that there are simply two categories is a bit off
an ecosystem of its own -- preys and victims...And the best part is, everyone can, if they played their cards carefully enough. how can everyone be making money? you already said there are preys & victims, and people have to be making that money from somewhere
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The technology... was created by Xerox about 20 years ago.
It was 1984 twenty years ago.
I for one welcome our human-brained mouse overlords!
they're only mouses in this dimension...
Supposing a commander were to eat a taco, would the purpose have been served?
from the freshmeat comments it sounds like a neat project. my only suggestion is to whitelist the allowed html tags when you do the filter. maybe i read it wrong, but it seemed to me that you wanted to diallow a few tags but leave the rest.
but you win for the best summary ever, good job... seriously, it's well written.
my site is small enough, with few enough participants that i can get by writing my own; it just provides a web frontend for editing the text files directly. this directory has the source code... if anyone is interested
the school i go to still uses the abcdf system. we have photo id's if we want to use a computer independantly or check out books. if you're marked absent, they give you a slip of paper saying so, and if you get it signed by a teacher saying you were there, they let it slide. nice system, i think. each teacher deals with tardies differently, most give you one free tardy, after that detention. i don't know what unexcused absences do though... i think they call your parents and maybe a detention or something if your parents say you were supposed to be there. :) oh, and cheating goes on your permanent record, besides getting an F on the assignment/test.
at lunch, they have teachers at the indoor cafeteria exits, asking for passes, and on the outside, they have a teacher drive a van around and make sure nobody leaves. we are allowed to go out on a large grassy area to play hacky-sack, frisbee, and eat. i think it's fine, although their "zero tolerance" policies are kind of irritating. fighting and drugs/alcohol are _not_ tolerated, and there are some pretty big consequences, i think. i don't know what they are, i threw away the handbook...
how strictly the rules are enforced varies from teacher to teacher, they're typically not as bad as the suggested method, in my experience. and despite the lecture on "be more friendly to your peers", there has been no zero tolerance policy on intolerance.
In Soviet Russia, newer humor parrots you!
I don't think Microsoft should let this guy speak in the future wihtout some supervision, or at least an editor.
and notepad doesn't count.
In Soviet Russia, PROFIT!!! runs poll(?) on you!
there are two sides to a magneto optical disk: a floppy-like side and a cdrom-like side. a laser heats the cdrom-like side until it hits a temp. where the magnetic portion directly below that hot point can be changed. a magnetic head then changes the polarity of that hot spot on the magnetic side. the disk is read from the optical side, and the dot on the optical side reads differently depending on the polarity of the dot directly oposite it on the magnetic side of the disk. this gives you over 1e6 rewrites, and the disk won't demagnetize under a certain (high) temperature. also, the shelf life is 50-100 years, in part due to the plastic (3.5" floppy like) casing mentioned by the parent. the disadvantage being that these drives are slow and expensive... slow because the drive checks what it just wrote and corrects the write if it's faulty (i think on a per dot basis). the upside is reliability.
magneto optical discs get anywhere from 128mb to 5.2gb that i've seen, and they come in three varieties: minidisc, which is primarily for audio, but a few data ones are being sold, the old version holds ~1/5 of a cd, so ~130mb, the newer version (uses multiple layers) holds 1gb, and i don't know if they have a data version or not. 3.5" mo discs come in 128mb-1.3gb that i've seen. slightly older drives accept 640mb discs while the new ones take 1.3gb discs. this value may have increased since i last looked for a mo drive. 5.25" mo discs come in sizes up to 5.2gb so far as i've seen; this value might be bigger now.
so you want to do something quickly without learning how to do it, and you want the tool for free. have fun :P
also, considering that the people who could build the tool are most likely proficient in both html and c/c++/etc. they probably consider html to be a piece of cake and therefore would not have much motivation to build the program.
paragraph 1: learn to use html via text editor, it gives you better control
paragraph 2: kde, gnome, etc. while different, they are all pretty consistent when taken alone.
One thing i should mention: flash is a royal pain to get working, if you can get it working at all.
although i'm sure someone else would know more
you sir, are spot on.
i'm running an athlon64 2800 on an nforce3 motherboard on gentoo and all the integrated peripherals work great (although i haven't tested firewire, parallel, or serial, but they show up in dmesg so i think it's fine). i kind of stupidly bought a radeon 9200... but it works and it has dri and framebuffer support, so i'm ok. the 64bit thing works wonderfully, and they even have a 32bit emulation option in the kernel. just for kicks, i turned it off and rebooted... it went just fine, all except for grub (which is only available for 32bit archs), but the emulation works around that.
i picked gentoo because it had better support for nforce3 motherboards than freebsd did at the time. also, slackware's boot kernel didn't support my sata drive. debian would have done the job, but i don't really care for it. mandrake and suse also have 64bit distros, but they were not free as in beer when i bought this computer... you may want to check, if you like those distros. fedora core 1 has support for amd64, and there are most likely a few other distros too.
openbsd, netbsd, and freebsd support it too. if you want to run something weirder than that, athlon64 processors support 32bit stuff too, the slackware install kernel booted on my machine.
(rather than, eg those most aligned with their religion)
i don't see why this is so bad. for example, Christianity in part advocates being a good steward of your resources. there's also something about helping the poor, loving your neighbor, and other such things. all of these are characteristics i'd like to see in a presidential candidate, supposing their decisions were made accordingly.
solar power isn't profitable for anybody... it has a high initial cost, low power output, and low reliability.
Just have less children.
you're preaching to the choir man
any economist would tell you they did the right thing.
so, essentially, they did the wrong thing.
to say that everyone is or isn't special is somewhat lacking in information, as people are typically gifted in a certain area or group of areas... granted that among a group of people geared a certain way, there are varying proficiencies, saying that there are simply two categories is a bit off
so once it airs in Russia, he's all set
if it were truly an ideal system, the investors would be a factor...
Bill Gates' unfortunately windowless office
wait, so he's using office on a mac?
the world i once knew is crashing down before my eyes...
an ecosystem of its own -- preys and victims...And the best part is, everyone can, if they played their cards carefully enough.
how can everyone be making money? you already said there are preys & victims, and people have to be making that money from somewhere
how's the libpthread thing going in 5.x?
i had a bugger of a time installing xmms-shell (small, i know) in 4.x