OK, the guy is doing something quite nice with his recipes- a way to quickly see how ingredients are grouped is a very creative and useful way to organize things.
My frustration is how he expresses the problem with CSS:
My recipe summaries don't display properly in browsers other than Internet Explorer. This is mainly because Internet Explorer is not fully CSS standard compliant and I had to come up with creative ways to get IE to present the table the way I desired it to.
Unfortunately, some of the other browsers are standards compliant and render the tables awkwardly.
I find that interpretation frustrating.
What is unfortunate is not that a standards compliant browser would properly display IE's mangled HTML/CSS- it's that we have to mangle it for IE in the first place.
I wish more designers would design for the standards-compliant browsers first. Add a ie-kludge.css import every time you detect IE if necessary.
Anyhow... I hope the guy does well. You can't be too upset at a guy's CSS if he has a nice recipe explanation for making Tiramisu on his front page.
For intra-company document exchanges, re-inventing email is IMO a poor fit. Having a searchable centralized archive of all documents in an intranet can save a lot of time- that's what intranets are for.
As noted in the first article you linked to, it's quite bizarre that the ISO asks you to pay money to get a copy of the standard. When shit like this happens, couldn't one of the internet standards organizations publish their own (compatible) standard?
I'm sure he'll still have his little 2% taking away from the Democrats come Election Day.
Take a look at Nader's pitch to republicans- here's an interview with Pat Buchanan. The biggest myth out there is that Nader is a bleeding heart liberal. Also check out exit polls. It's just not clear cut.
Maybe the us military might be able to replace their $30,000+ individual soldier helmet monocles which are currently using 5000 hour MTBF organic led technology with durable, bright and efficient nano-leds and save taxpayer money while we're at it.
At the very least, any time someone redeems a card within hours of purchase and at a distance that is farther than you would expect someone to be able to travel - there should be an alarm set off.
Boingboing covered the topic. Perhaps not quite resistant enough yet, but definitely a step in the right direction.
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They only have a concept, with "hopes" for a prototype by 2015.
WTF? They also don't mention price for this 500-ton "portable" device. Will they count the cost of development and disposal, not to mention deployment of such a beast?
By 2015, wind energy will likely be around USD$0.02-0.03/kWh; the odds of nuclear catching up are practically nil.
Heh, you are absolutely correct about framing in regards to a crime:) I should have used quotes or something... I've been thinking about the issue after reading an article on the topic of how political language frames issues. (Because of that, I should have been even more careful about the use of "framing"!!).
Mobilization for its own sake can be good sometimes, even if only to maintain the morale of the protesters. Kinberg's arrest changes the situation: where there wasn't any dilemma for the powers-that-be, they can now be created. I wonder how long he is kept in custody, and what people on the ground will do to increase the pressure. I'll be watching news closely!:)
What's the point of civil disobedience if you don't get arrested for it?
IMO, if your act of CD is only effective through arrest, it wasn't properly planned: the powers-that-be can simply ignore you. I'd rather force them to choose between two options that reduce their power.
To use an oft-cited example, let's use the salt march. Gandhi -after much organizing on constructive policies- marches to the ocean with the stated intention to make his own salt. Now the English must lose. If they let the man in a loin cloth make his own salt, their tax revenues drop and they won't be able to afford their occupation. The other option is to demonstrate how fragile their rule is by being forced to arrest an old man... if a single person can so threaten their ability to rule, well, the rest really is history. Victory assured, no arrest necessary.
Getting back to Joshua Kinberg, he had to win no matter what the police did. He came up with a new style of political expression, and without arrest he would have been effectively using his new gadget to spread his medium|message, and been part of a larger effort of CD (his actions by himself obviously don't put the system in a situation where it must react). The harder the system tries to repress him, the more impact he'll have, a good example of why nonviolence is often referred to as political jiu-jitsu.
But this is only possible because Kinberg can't possibly be charged for anything that most people would find reasonnable. A system that can not tolerate slogans expressed with chalk on its streets and sidewalks is a fragile system indeed. Who can possibly suggest this ought to be a crime?
What if 1,000 Joe and Jane RNCs decide to hand-write/stencil/spray their messages with chalk? If they don't arrest you now, they look silly for having arrested Kinberg, and it may be evident to many they simply can't repress dissent anymore. Arresting that many people for using their right to free speech- well that impact is hard to calculate. Isn't your first amendment central to your idea of civilization, that which is being defended against the terrorists? If it doesn't exist, what moral superiority can be claimed? This is very problematic... and would let you frame the Bush gang as a bunch of radicals ready to subvert American values to keep their hold on power.
Ok, let me say that since A16, these protests haven't been my cup of tea. For the RNC, I find the strategic objective rather weak given the resources spent on staging the protests. What if they just ignore you? If someone can explain to me what was gained in that case, I'd love to hear it (I'll confess that I haven't really been paying attention to this issue).
This has been a long post... if you read this far, thanks!!:)
You don't need a full pilot's license for some recreational aircraft, and you likely won't need one for fying cars either.
Also, a terrorist would not need a valid pilot's license to steal someone else's flying car... and there are worse things that could be done than just flying into a high-rise.
Randomly shooting other planes would likely create far more panic- think high-speed chases only with objects falling randomly from the sky.
Flying planes would also be great for letting terrorists move fast in between targets, letting you proceed to the downtown core after having caused havoc on the interstate, blowing up a bridge or dropping white powder near a political convention.
That said, I think those scenarios aren't terribly likely if we could actually use strong intelligence and policing actions to deal with terrorists, but that's not the way the brownshirts think.
the UN Oil-for-food scandel) never get adequately reported in the French press.
If Denis Halliday had received his fair share of press in the US when he resigned from administering that program, I could be convinced you had a point there. The whole topic was never adequately reported in the US press, even after years of activists trying to get issues to their attention.
There's been so much propaganda about Iraq and OFF that we sometimes forget that OFF was itself a scandal, a thinly veil for genocide. Enforced nominally by the UN, it was the UK and US that refused to lift the embargo, precipitating the deaths of over a million Iraqis (according to UN agencies). OFF was always inadequate. After Halliday quit in protest, his GERMAN successor also quit... also mostly unreported in the US press, although you can be sure the Europeans paid a bit more attention.
As some would rather not let you know why some Iraqis so hate your soldiers, it's easier to distract you with a petty scandal. Your media has also told you blatant lies - e.g. telling you Saddam Hussein expelled inspectors out while it was the UN that called them out before a US attack. Your media had reported the facts correctly when this happened in 1998, but in 2002 they couldn't be bothered to check their own damned archives.
The US is a media island. You've been told so many lies that you are willing to march to the drums of war. And when told France's media is servile and heavily censored, you swallow it whole because you've never set foot in a French newsstand. Had you done so, and had you been able to read it, you wouldd have seen more diversity of opinion then you thought could exist. I'll not count the number of marxist splinter groups and right-wing nutjobs, never mind for a second the several Greens and the Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Tradition weirdos- just the diversity of mainstream papers would kick the ass out of your newstainment sources.
And yes, I also have French citizenship, as well as Canadian, so I know I'm doubly suspect to your brand of trollish yanks. But I have to tell you your complaints about our media are going to fall on deaf ears until you manage to get respectable media yourselves.
I'm certainly not going to share this with any women as long as the switching stories only feature guys. This hopefully a) wasn't done on purpose and b) is going to be changed really soon.
Put in idiotic, technically dubious and extremely expensive regulations, and watch as start-ups flounder. Meanwhile, watch foreign corporations refine their (simpler) systems and develop low-cost ways to deliver their service.
The US now has a choice to make: paranoia or progress.
There doesn't need to be an opposition between doing what's good for humans and doing work like this.
Corals are good carbon sinks. They are essential as breakwaters- pretty essential if you live by the coast line. As fish nurseries, wherever they are being rebuilt harvests could increase. Corals could also be a good source of income for many coastal people through tourism and sustainable harvesting - and we benefit from their beauty both directly and in our aquariums.
This is a lot like just about every environmental issue I've looked at: the benefits to humans of acting in a responsible way are so enormous that it is absurd to oppose the care of our environment and the care of our habitat. We owe it to *ourselves* to take care of our habitat- our planet will do just fine, even after we're gone.
My experience with it has been rather disapppointing. Why I need to tag as spam two messages from the same sender or with the exact same subject is a mystery to me. After the 10th "Make $/d+ in XX days" type message one has to wonder just how effective this thing is.
This method is promising because it uses spell-checking and a better way to identify spammy string sequences, something none of the two main camps of spam-filters have seem keen to do until now.
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I started learning basic 20 years ago at age 9. I liked it but I loved piano and politics.
Three and a half years ago, I got back into programming with PHP, and what a difference that makes (I had to laugh when I saw a one-line loop). Moved on to Java, SQL (Oracle, MySQL), and now Python.
One of the surprising things I found after getting a Java certification was how useful it was. I was getting faster at coding, not looking up things in the javadocs as often. And being forced to memorize parts of the core libraries -even if I promptly forgot half of it- means I know exactly where to look, and I won't waste time writing util classes for stuff that already exists. I've actually erased hundreds of lines at a time of code that was duplicating core lib. functionalities...:(
I don't disagree with your main point- given a choice between a person that likes to think like a programmer and a person with a certificate, I'd choose the programmer. However if you can find people that like programming and have solid knowledge in one area, do consider it a bonus:)
If you wanted to show that the average citizen had better stay quiet or risk being fucked with -- and as others have mentionned, if it took Kennedy 3 weeks to get off the list, what are your chances? -- you could scarcely devise a more effective scenario.
As usual, I'm wondering if we are facing very well thought-out machiavellic plans or sheer ineptitude. And every time I think I have it figured out, they do something else to throw me off.
Same here, only French and English. I have wondered sometimes if some thoughts are even possible in one language. Do you find that you can think some things in Japanese that would be near impossible to state in English?
Perhaps you have also had the experience of thinking about a conversation, and repeating it in each language to determine what language it took place in (whichever sounds right is probably the one)?
ISPs could bundle AV software with their service, close down open relays, etc...
This however is lame, exactly for the reason you pointed out. Until people can be protected from joe jobs, the only people that will be victims will be innocent, while the rest already get bullet-proof hosting somewhere overseas.
I don't understand why people keep saying this... McDonalds is not seeing explosive growth, is it? It's had to close a number of "restaurants", and is facing brutal competition in a commoditized market.
For P/E ratios, Google's share price is uncomfortably high. But let's not compare to McDonalds, shall we? Compare them to microsoft, yahoo, etc... and given Google's infrastructure and human resources, I would think they're a much safer bet.
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My frustration is how he expresses the problem with CSS:
I find that interpretation frustrating.
What is unfortunate is not that a standards compliant browser would properly display IE's mangled HTML/CSS- it's that we have to mangle it for IE in the first place.
I wish more designers would design for the standards-compliant browsers first. Add a ie-kludge.css import every time you detect IE if necessary.
Anyhow... I hope the guy does well. You can't be too upset at a guy's CSS if he has a nice recipe explanation for making Tiramisu on his front page.
For intra-company document exchanges, re-inventing email is IMO a poor fit. Having a searchable centralized archive of all documents in an intranet can save a lot of time- that's what intranets are for.
As noted in the first article you linked to, it's quite bizarre that the ISO asks you to pay money to get a copy of the standard. When shit like this happens, couldn't one of the internet standards organizations publish their own (compatible) standard?
Oh, for fuck's sake, enough about Piquepaille's success already. You don't have to read them. Heck, you don't even have to read /.
Are you people bitter that you haven't had their stories posted? Is it because the man's French?
WTF is blogspamming anyways, and why do you care?
At the very least, any time someone redeems a card within hours of purchase and at a distance that is farther than you would expect someone to be able to travel - there should be an alarm set off.
Boingboing covered the topic. Perhaps not quite resistant enough yet, but definitely a step in the right direction.
They only have a concept, with "hopes" for a prototype by 2015.
WTF? They also don't mention price for this 500-ton "portable" device. Will they count the cost of development and disposal, not to mention deployment of such a beast?
By 2015, wind energy will likely be around USD$0.02-0.03/kWh; the odds of nuclear catching up are practically nil.
Heh, you are absolutely correct about framing in regards to a crime :) I should have used quotes or something... I've been thinking about the issue after reading an article on the topic of how political language frames issues. (Because of that, I should have been even more careful about the use of "framing"!!).
:)
Mobilization for its own sake can be good sometimes, even if only to maintain the morale of the protesters. Kinberg's arrest changes the situation: where there wasn't any dilemma for the powers-that-be, they can now be created. I wonder how long he is kept in custody, and what people on the ground will do to increase the pressure. I'll be watching news closely!
To use an oft-cited example, let's use the salt march. Gandhi -after much organizing on constructive policies- marches to the ocean with the stated intention to make his own salt. Now the English must lose. If they let the man in a loin cloth make his own salt, their tax revenues drop and they won't be able to afford their occupation. The other option is to demonstrate how fragile their rule is by being forced to arrest an old man... if a single person can so threaten their ability to rule, well, the rest really is history. Victory assured, no arrest necessary.
Getting back to Joshua Kinberg, he had to win no matter what the police did. He came up with a new style of political expression, and without arrest he would have been effectively using his new gadget to spread his medium|message, and been part of a larger effort of CD (his actions by himself obviously don't put the system in a situation where it must react). The harder the system tries to repress him, the more impact he'll have, a good example of why nonviolence is often referred to as political jiu-jitsu.
But this is only possible because Kinberg can't possibly be charged for anything that most people would find reasonnable. A system that can not tolerate slogans expressed with chalk on its streets and sidewalks is a fragile system indeed. Who can possibly suggest this ought to be a crime?
What if 1,000 Joe and Jane RNCs decide to hand-write/stencil/spray their messages with chalk? If they don't arrest you now, they look silly for having arrested Kinberg, and it may be evident to many they simply can't repress dissent anymore. Arresting that many people for using their right to free speech- well that impact is hard to calculate. Isn't your first amendment central to your idea of civilization, that which is being defended against the terrorists? If it doesn't exist, what moral superiority can be claimed? This is very problematic... and would let you frame the Bush gang as a bunch of radicals ready to subvert American values to keep their hold on power.
Ok, let me say that since A16, these protests haven't been my cup of tea. For the RNC, I find the strategic objective rather weak given the resources spent on staging the protests. What if they just ignore you? If someone can explain to me what was gained in that case, I'd love to hear it (I'll confess that I haven't really been paying attention to this issue).
This has been a long post... if you read this far, thanks!!
OK, other people have told you this already in this thread, but
WEAR EAR PLUGS
I've seen way too many musician friends suffer from severe damage. After a while that tinnitus gets to be a real drag.
You don't need a full pilot's license for some recreational aircraft, and you likely won't need one for fying cars either.
Also, a terrorist would not need a valid pilot's license to steal someone else's flying car... and there are worse things that could be done than just flying into a high-rise.
Randomly shooting other planes would likely create far more panic- think high-speed chases only with objects falling randomly from the sky.
Flying planes would also be great for letting terrorists move fast in between targets, letting you proceed to the downtown core after having caused havoc on the interstate, blowing up a bridge or dropping white powder near a political convention.
That said, I think those scenarios aren't terribly likely if we could actually use strong intelligence and policing actions to deal with terrorists, but that's not the way the brownshirts think.
If Denis Halliday had received his fair share of press in the US when he resigned from administering that program, I could be convinced you had a point there. The whole topic was never adequately reported in the US press, even after years of activists trying to get issues to their attention.
There's been so much propaganda about Iraq and OFF that we sometimes forget that OFF was itself a scandal, a thinly veil for genocide. Enforced nominally by the UN, it was the UK and US that refused to lift the embargo, precipitating the deaths of over a million Iraqis (according to UN agencies). OFF was always inadequate. After Halliday quit in protest, his GERMAN successor also quit... also mostly unreported in the US press, although you can be sure the Europeans paid a bit more attention.
As some would rather not let you know why some Iraqis so hate your soldiers, it's easier to distract you with a petty scandal. Your media has also told you blatant lies - e.g. telling you Saddam Hussein expelled inspectors out while it was the UN that called them out before a US attack. Your media had reported the facts correctly when this happened in 1998, but in 2002 they couldn't be bothered to check their own damned archives.
The US is a media island. You've been told so many lies that you are willing to march to the drums of war. And when told France's media is servile and heavily censored, you swallow it whole because you've never set foot in a French newsstand. Had you done so, and had you been able to read it, you wouldd have seen more diversity of opinion then you thought could exist. I'll not count the number of marxist splinter groups and right-wing nutjobs, never mind for a second the several Greens and the Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Tradition weirdos- just the diversity of mainstream papers would kick the ass out of your newstainment sources.
And yes, I also have French citizenship, as well as Canadian, so I know I'm doubly suspect to your brand of trollish yanks. But I have to tell you your complaints about our media are going to fall on deaf ears until you manage to get respectable media yourselves.
Do people wonder why we can't attract more women to Computer Science... ?
I'm certainly not going to share this with any women as long as the switching stories only feature guys. This hopefully a) wasn't done on purpose and b) is going to be changed really soon.
With allies like Congress, who needs competition?
Put in idiotic, technically dubious and extremely expensive regulations, and watch as start-ups flounder. Meanwhile, watch foreign corporations refine their (simpler) systems and develop low-cost ways to deliver their service.
The US now has a choice to make: paranoia or progress.
Nitpick...
There doesn't need to be an opposition between doing what's good for humans and doing work like this.
Corals are good carbon sinks. They are essential as breakwaters- pretty essential if you live by the coast line. As fish nurseries, wherever they are being rebuilt harvests could increase. Corals could also be a good source of income for many coastal people through tourism and sustainable harvesting - and we benefit from their beauty both directly and in our aquariums.
This is a lot like just about every environmental issue I've looked at: the benefits to humans of acting in a responsible way are so enormous that it is absurd to oppose the care of our environment and the care of our habitat. We owe it to *ourselves* to take care of our habitat- our planet will do just fine, even after we're gone.
I think you mean Thunderbird.
My experience with it has been rather disapppointing. Why I need to tag as spam two messages from the same sender or with the exact same subject is a mystery to me. After the 10th "Make $/d+ in XX days" type message one has to wonder just how effective this thing is.
This method is promising because it uses spell-checking and a better way to identify spammy string sequences, something none of the two main camps of spam-filters have seem keen to do until now.
I started learning basic 20 years ago at age 9. I liked it but I loved piano and politics.
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Three and a half years ago, I got back into programming with PHP, and what a difference that makes (I had to laugh when I saw a one-line loop). Moved on to Java, SQL (Oracle, MySQL), and now Python.
One of the surprising things I found after getting a Java certification was how useful it was. I was getting faster at coding, not looking up things in the javadocs as often. And being forced to memorize parts of the core libraries -even if I promptly forgot half of it- means I know exactly where to look, and I won't waste time writing util classes for stuff that already exists. I've actually erased hundreds of lines at a time of code that was duplicating core lib. functionalities...
I don't disagree with your main point- given a choice between a person that likes to think like a programmer and a person with a certificate, I'd choose the programmer. However if you can find people that like programming and have solid knowledge in one area, do consider it a bonus
If you wanted to show that the average citizen had better stay quiet or risk being fucked with -- and as others have mentionned, if it took Kennedy 3 weeks to get off the list, what are your chances? -- you could scarcely devise a more effective scenario.
As usual, I'm wondering if we are facing very well thought-out machiavellic plans or sheer ineptitude. And every time I think I have it figured out, they do something else to throw me off.
Same here, only French and English. I have wondered sometimes if some thoughts are even possible in one language. Do you find that you can think some things in Japanese that would be near impossible to state in English?
Perhaps you have also had the experience of thinking about a conversation, and repeating it in each language to determine what language it took place in (whichever sounds right is probably the one)?
ISPs could bundle AV software with their service, close down open relays, etc...
This however is lame, exactly for the reason you pointed out. Until people can be protected from joe jobs, the only people that will be victims will be innocent, while the rest already get bullet-proof hosting somewhere overseas.
I don't understand why people keep saying this... McDonalds is not seeing explosive growth, is it? It's had to close a number of "restaurants", and is facing brutal competition in a commoditized market.
For P/E ratios, Google's share price is uncomfortably high. But let's not compare to McDonalds, shall we? Compare them to microsoft, yahoo, etc... and given Google's infrastructure and human resources, I would think they're a much safer bet.