IMHO for technical papers, reading in a foreign language is actually relatively easy to learn. Differences are much less for technical language than for spoken language, and formal writing is very consistent. Many science/engineering academics can read papers in other languages. This is especially true for newer disciplines.
One downside of Erlang and OCaml is poor native Unicode support. Erlang has a Unicode library, but from my experience I would prefer my strings to be a language feature (that is used consistently thoughout all libraries). Appears Haskell has it's problems with Unicode too.
I am sorry, but every single device should come have redundant power supplies and redundant main boards... Get a grip.
Doubling the flash capacity costs money -- unfortunately consumers dont value that feature enough to pay for it. Better equipment has this feature (e.g. I know our Proliant server mobo, and my own mobo, has a jumper and redundant flash memory).
1000s of rackmount servers being sold second hand cheaply (and you can find trustable sellers - most sellers are businesses regularly selling old equipment)... (We got a 1U Proliant DL360 cheap however it sounds like a jet engine -- I would't want one in the house!)
If we were to lose everything except for blockbuster movies, would that give a good picture of our society in the future?
The "not very good" old stuff is often truely valuable. Books poorly written by the poor, useless business accounts etc often have true historical significance - precisely because they were not valued in their time.
Gmail makes it easy to create multiple aliasii (and to send from those aliasii I think).
Append a plus followed by a word, and it resolves to the name before the plus. e.g. happypenguin+amazon@gmail.com goes to happypenguin@gmail.com account. Or use dots in your email address and the gmail address resolves to your account without dots e.g. ha.ppy.pen.guin@gmail.com goes to happypenguin@gmail.com account
You can then easily create a spam filter if an address is snarfed by a spammer.
Couldn't they optionally allow the voter to give their email address when voting to help prevent ballot stuffing?
Vote can be weighted according to heuristics of how "valid" the email address is, and duplicate vote detection...
Less votes, but voting should be more reliable because votes have a "cost" to the user (cost: handing out email address, loss of anonymity, hassle of entering address).
Tickbox to send email to confirm vote (increases vote weight) - and give useful links in email to allow opt-in for getting follow-up about the vote or feature, or allow to reply with comments.
http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200710.html#e20071017T215538
From the article:
If this reference appears in an HTTPS page, the mixed content warning will appear. How to craft a reference that works for both? The answer is again relative URLs, but using a more obscure syntax:
"I do not understand how your corporate leadership sleeps at night." "I sleep at night on satin sheets in a luxurious mansion in a quiet cul-de-sac by the sea next to a companion whose beauty would make you weep with desire" - Leunig
Unfortunately even with care, other people may leak YOUR private information. Even done anything stupid at a party that you would rather were not published?
"PhD candidate Stephen Murray spent $61,000 over three years conducting hundreds of experiments to prove that people are worse at crossing the road - and more likely to be hit by a vehicle - if they are talking on a cellphone at the same time."
The issue is that existing web server frameworks generally don't support keeping connections open to clients, or perhaps they just can't scale if they do.
Of course, this technique is yet another hack (like most everything in the browser world;) but it does work.
If you are a student and keen on developing open source, then the Summer of code is a great opportunity for experience, kudos, and some cash. Either pick a project (some are pretty broad) or if you prefer come up with your own idea (compatible with the project) and submit it to one of the the approx. 70 organisations.
Or pick a project based on the mentor - many are captains of open source!
Most mentors will be happy to have anyone who has ability, and the motivation to work through to complete a project.
If travelling, I wouldn't recommend using any other PIN length than four!
I entered a 5 digit PIN for a new VISA card (NZ tends to be ahead on ATM tech). Worked most places while I was travelling in South America and Europe, but one place I got a in Bogota I got a strange error from the ATM on trying to get cash.
When I got home I found the money had been debited, even though I never received it from the machine. I am fairly sure it was due to the 'non-standard' PIN length. The bank refunded the money given this explanation.
> Evolution involves the death of weaker individuals before they can breed.
That is only a small part of evolution. Evolution involves anything that affects the chances of reproduction of individuals, their kin, or their offspring.
Examples:
The trolling gene is likely to be eradicated over time because nobody likes a troll, so trolls are less likely to breed.
The high karma gene is likely to become more prevalent. Those that get high karma are showing that they are the fittest individuals in a community, which leads to more chances of fertilisation events.
The slashdot gene is likely to be eradicated, since the slashdot population is competing with a large number of other males for a small number of fit females -- also for slashdotters I would expect a reasonable correlation with laptop usage and monitor X-rays, both of which lead to increased risk of male sterility.
Slashdot Mirror
IMHO for technical papers, reading in a foreign language is actually relatively easy to learn. Differences are much less for technical language than for spoken language, and formal writing is very consistent. Many science/engineering academics can read papers in other languages. This is especially true for newer disciplines.
One downside of Erlang and OCaml is poor native Unicode support. Erlang has a Unicode library, but from my experience I would prefer my strings to be a language feature (that is used consistently thoughout all libraries). Appears Haskell has it's problems with Unicode too.
3rd world governments may just spend discretionary income on military hardware (buying from big vendors like the US) or other luxury items.
I second joker.com - I have used them for three years without problems. Price is USD12 for one .com domain.
Thanks captnitro for your recommendation back in 2004: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=129142&cid=10775648
I edit the legalese to my advantage before faxing in a contract...
Bwa ha harrr! I LOVE faxes!
I am sorry, but every single device should come have redundant power supplies and redundant main boards ... Get a grip.
Doubling the flash capacity costs money -- unfortunately consumers dont value that feature enough to pay for it. Better equipment has this feature (e.g. I know our Proliant server mobo, and my own mobo, has a jumper and redundant flash memory).
You might have read Amps as Watts - looking at a couple of chargers around the office: 1.5A 5V DC -> 7.5W. A Razr fast charge could easily be 2.8A.
To calculate cellphone average Watts usage:
watts = batteryVoltage * batteryMilliAmpHours / hoursRunningBeforeFlatBattery
Google SketchUp is intuitive -- you can produce something useful with within a few hours without prior 3d skills. Amazing.
Use ebay.
1000s of rackmount servers being sold second hand cheaply (and you can find trustable sellers - most sellers are businesses regularly selling old equipment)... (We got a 1U Proliant DL360 cheap however it sounds like a jet engine -- I would't want one in the house!)
If we were to lose everything except for blockbuster movies, would that give a good picture of our society in the future?
The "not very good" old stuff is often truely valuable. Books poorly written by the poor, useless business accounts etc often have true historical significance - precisely because they were not valued in their time.
Gmail makes it easy to create multiple aliasii (and to send from those aliasii I think).
Append a plus followed by a word, and it resolves to the name before the plus. e.g. happypenguin+amazon@gmail.com goes to happypenguin@gmail.com account. Or use dots in your email address and the gmail address resolves to your account without dots e.g. ha.ppy.pen.guin@gmail.com goes to happypenguin@gmail.com account
You can then easily create a spam filter if an address is snarfed by a spammer.
This article says it better: http://somegirlwitha.com/2008/04/17/the-dot-plus-and-googlemail-gmail-hacks/
I was just looking at Gigabyte consumer motherboards for Intel, and they seem to mostly max out at 8GB memory. e.g. http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2736
JotSpot used Dojo but Sites doesn't... It looks like they are now using their own library specific to Google Sites (code doesn't look like GWT).
Anyone know what they are using?
From the article: If this reference appears in an HTTPS page, the mixed content warning will appear. How to craft a reference that works for both? The answer is again relative URLs, but using a more obscure syntax:
Should I set my user agent to GoogleBot, and perhaps make a plugin that asks for the robots.txt for every page visited?
And if enough people do this, doesn't it help Google too?
I wonder who will write the book... :)
At least they will be able to use some good evil quotes that nice books can't use
Unfortunately even with care, other people may leak YOUR private information. Even done anything stupid at a party that you would rather were not published?
After playing for a short while, you realise that there is a common set of words that everyone knows are the best first tries.
Lady, Girl, Man seem to be really common (even if not right) and colours too.
So it soon ends up that pictures are labelled by the words that help you win, rather than the most appropriate words for the image.
Another study:
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"PhD candidate Stephen Murray spent $61,000 over three years conducting hundreds of experiments to prove that people are worse at crossing the road - and more likely to be hit by a vehicle - if they are talking on a cellphone at the same time."
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3717695a
You don't have to poll with Ajax/HTTP - you can keep a connection open: http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/comet-a-new-approa ch-to-ajax-applications
;) but it does work.
The issue is that existing web server frameworks generally don't support keeping connections open to clients, or perhaps they just can't scale if they do.
Of course, this technique is yet another hack (like most everything in the browser world
If you are a student and keen on developing open source, then the Summer of code is a great opportunity for experience, kudos, and some cash. Either pick a project (some are pretty broad) or if you prefer come up with your own idea (compatible with the project) and submit it to one of the the approx. 70 organisations.
Or pick a project based on the mentor - many are captains of open source!
Most mentors will be happy to have anyone who has ability, and the motivation to work through to complete a project.
If travelling, I wouldn't recommend using any other PIN length than four!
I entered a 5 digit PIN for a new VISA card (NZ tends to be ahead on ATM tech). Worked most places while I was travelling in South America and Europe, but one place I got a in Bogota I got a strange error from the ATM on trying to get cash.
When I got home I found the money had been debited, even though I never received it from the machine. I am fairly sure it was due to the 'non-standard' PIN length. The bank refunded the money given this explanation.
> Evolution involves the death of weaker individuals before they can breed.
That is only a small part of evolution. Evolution involves anything that affects the chances of reproduction of individuals, their kin, or their offspring.
Examples:
The trolling gene is likely to be eradicated over time because nobody likes a troll, so trolls are less likely to breed.
The high karma gene is likely to become more prevalent. Those that get high karma are showing that they are the fittest individuals in a community, which leads to more chances of fertilisation events.
The slashdot gene is likely to be eradicated, since the slashdot population is competing with a large number of other males for a small number of fit females -- also for slashdotters I would expect a reasonable correlation with laptop usage and monitor X-rays, both of which lead to increased risk of male sterility.