20 (or so) years ago, the domesday project did the same thing - recorded to a laserdisk, and intended to be a resource of all things at that time. For the time, it was pretty fantastic - schools up and down the country took part, videos were made, maps, testaments from people of all walks of life.
There is now a project to try and resurrect the domesday project, because no technology available can read it.
The problem is, it wasn't a videogame. If they'd included a few side-scrolling shooters, there'd be a dozen emulators available for it.
Paper is better than electronic for long term storage.
That's arguably true provided you have a printing press. Anyone who's studied medieval and classical literature knows that paper is a horrible medium when data has to be copied manually -- most things written more than a thousand years ago don't exist today, either through war, disaster, or lack of interest, and those that do survive, have been bowdlerized.
As from the comments above and my own experience, the answer is still a very resounding "YES".
Please, test doing the Insert->Field->Page Number with a fully formatted +100 page document with inserted tables and graphics. Then, return to Slashdot and post your experiences.
I've done it before and it's not a problem. You are creating a header or footer box to place the number in, right?
I still have some problems with page numbering: For example: doing a resume which has a header (including page numbers) but only starting at page 2. At the moment, it would appear that the only way I can see to do that is to split into two separate documents (ugh!).
Easy. Make sure the cursor's on the first page (or whatever page you want to remove headers from), then go Format->Stylist (or just hit F11), click the button for page settings, and double-click the appropriate format (I'd recommend Default because First Page uses really small margins).
Nor did SCO ever hold an ownership interest in the original BPF implementation, which as the very name shows was originally part of BSD Unix, and which was copied, perfectly legally, into SCO's Sys V Unix from BSD.
Ah, so that's why SCO's considering a suit against BSD.
It's not even Moore's law, it's Moore's principle.
It's easy to break principles, it's hard to break laws. Laws of physics, criminal law etc.
If you want to be perfectly pedantic, "law" is really an outdated term in science -- they're really theories that remain reasonably accurate under rigorous testing. We still talk about Newton's Laws and the Laws of Thermodynamics for the same reason we refer to Pluto as a planet -- habit.
IOW, our algorithm says music is good if it sounds like everything else people think is good right now, and if it's different from current Top 40, it's crap.
But if their algorithm does what they say it does, how could the predict the success of Norah Jones? AFAIK, there weren't a lot of lite jazz chanteuses on the radio two years ago.
(For that matter, how do we know they actually predicted her success?)
If the site isn't conforming to the specifications that Mozilla claims to support, then yes it is fine. But more often than not Mozilla failing to work is due to some crappy server side client dection script that doesn't know what to do with Mozilla and so it just sends the equivilant of, "go away, we don't want your kind around here." My normal response is "fine, then I will take my business where I am apreciated".
Thanks to IE, people have gotten used to non-standard HTML and poor coding. If you write some really bad HTML that IE happens to render properly (the way you want it to look), and Mozilla renders it exactly the way you wrote it (errors and all), the problem is still your code, not Mozilla's rendering engine. Oddly enough, if you write correct, standard code it will work on any browser (disregarding bugs in the browser, which aren't your problem)
This is true of HTML, but when it comes to CSS, IE doesn't even bother with what the designer meant.
So you don't think there's anything wrong with people saying "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less" even though the former makes no sense?
Mapping the Internet weekly will allow us to see major disasters in different parts of the world. The Internet is a huge disaster censor. If I had maps of pre-war Iraq and then compared them to today, one could see how badly Iraq was destoryed.
If you could, you might actually see the opposite -- except for the Kurdish north, Iraq wasn't exactly teeming with Internet users before the war, but now the US army's set up network connections for the troops.
Here's the thing -- "blog" doesn't just refer to the site, but to the system. A blog is largely automated -- the blogger types content into a special window, hits "post" and the server takes care of placing it on the site, giving it a unique link, and moving it into the appropriate archive. That's distinct enough from how your average personal website works that it deserves a different name, just like Usenet should be distinguished from a BBS.
..Something I've been having trouble with for several years now.
I know it's PC to have a specialized label for every fricking thing under the sun, but...
a Blog IS a personal website.
Sure they are... except for the ones written by professional journalists for magazine websites... and the ones run by political campaigns... and the ones run by businesses...
This is the big problem with current Open Source world, IMO -- the current Open Source world seems oriented toward DIY'ers creating code for other DIY'ers. Its a BOF community of computer and software-loving people. The result is code that only another coder would love. What fraction of Open Source software packages "just works" without configuration, reading a manual, etc.
Don't confuse Open Source with the Linux community -- the two biggest Windows compatible Open Source projects, Mozilla and Open Office, require no more configuration than their MS counterparts. And with Mozilla programs, you can do some heavy duty customization by going to Mozdev and installing extensions directly from the web -- so easy, even an AOL monkey could do it.
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No, if you're going to whack someone, stick your phone in their pocket so you can follow them. This technology's great for stalkers.
20 (or so) years ago, the domesday project did the same thing - recorded to a laserdisk, and intended to be a resource of all things at that time. For the time, it was pretty fantastic - schools up and down the country took part, videos were made, maps, testaments from people of all walks of life.
There is now a project to try and resurrect the domesday project, because no technology available can read it.
The problem is, it wasn't a videogame. If they'd included a few side-scrolling shooters, there'd be a dozen emulators available for it.
Paper is better than electronic for long term storage.
That's arguably true provided you have a printing press. Anyone who's studied medieval and classical literature knows that paper is a horrible medium when data has to be copied manually -- most things written more than a thousand years ago don't exist today, either through war, disaster, or lack of interest, and those that do survive, have been bowdlerized.
As from the comments above and my own experience, the answer is still a very resounding "YES".
Please, test doing the Insert->Field->Page Number with a fully formatted +100 page document with inserted tables and graphics. Then, return to Slashdot and post your experiences.
I've done it before and it's not a problem. You are creating a header or footer box to place the number in, right?
I still have some problems with page numbering: For example: doing a resume which has a header (including page numbers) but only starting at page 2. At the moment, it would appear that the only way I can see to do that is to split into two separate documents (ugh!).
Easy. Make sure the cursor's on the first page (or whatever page you want to remove headers from), then go Format->Stylist (or just hit F11), click the button for page settings, and double-click the appropriate format (I'd recommend Default because First Page uses really small margins).
Nor did SCO ever hold an ownership interest in the original BPF implementation, which as the very name shows was originally part of BSD Unix, and which was copied, perfectly legally, into SCO's Sys V Unix from BSD.
Ah, so that's why SCO's considering a suit against BSD.
It's not even Moore's law, it's Moore's principle. It's easy to break principles, it's hard to break laws. Laws of physics, criminal law etc.
If you want to be perfectly pedantic, "law" is really an outdated term in science -- they're really theories that remain reasonably accurate under rigorous testing. We still talk about Newton's Laws and the Laws of Thermodynamics for the same reason we refer to Pluto as a planet -- habit.
IOW, our algorithm says music is good if it sounds like everything else people think is good right now, and if it's different from current Top 40, it's crap.
But if their algorithm does what they say it does, how could the predict the success of Norah Jones? AFAIK, there weren't a lot of lite jazz chanteuses on the radio two years ago.
(For that matter, how do we know they actually predicted her success?)
Kazaa Installs GATOR
You've just discovered Kazaa's new campaign -- "We're not pirateware. We're spyware!"
If the site isn't conforming to the specifications that Mozilla claims to support, then yes it is fine. But more often than not Mozilla failing to work is due to some crappy server side client dection script that doesn't know what to do with Mozilla and so it just sends the equivilant of, "go away, we don't want your kind around here." My normal response is "fine, then I will take my business where I am apreciated".
Have you tried the user agent extensions at Mozdev?
Thanks to IE, people have gotten used to non-standard HTML and poor coding. If you write some really bad HTML that IE happens to render properly (the way you want it to look), and Mozilla renders it exactly the way you wrote it (errors and all), the problem is still your code, not Mozilla's rendering engine. Oddly enough, if you write correct, standard code it will work on any browser (disregarding bugs in the browser, which aren't your problem)
This is true of HTML, but when it comes to CSS, IE doesn't even bother with what the designer meant.
So you don't think there's anything wrong with people saying "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less" even though the former makes no sense?
If it was widely popular, why does it have to be resurrected?
The SciFi Channel had the budget for a Kia but went out and bought a Porsche.
Mapping the Internet weekly will allow us to see major disasters in different parts of the world. The Internet is a huge disaster censor. If I had maps of pre-war Iraq and then compared them to today, one could see how badly Iraq was destoryed.
If you could, you might actually see the opposite -- except for the Kurdish north, Iraq wasn't exactly teeming with Internet users before the war, but now the US army's set up network connections for the troops.
Here's the thing -- "blog" doesn't just refer to the site, but to the system. A blog is largely automated -- the blogger types content into a special window, hits "post" and the server takes care of placing it on the site, giving it a unique link, and moving it into the appropriate archive. That's distinct enough from how your average personal website works that it deserves a different name, just like Usenet should be distinguished from a BBS.
I know it's PC to have a specialized label for every fricking thing under the sun, but... a Blog IS a personal website.
Sure they are
This is the big problem with current Open Source world, IMO -- the current Open Source world seems oriented toward DIY'ers creating code for other DIY'ers. Its a BOF community of computer and software-loving people. The result is code that only another coder would love. What fraction of Open Source software packages "just works" without configuration, reading a manual, etc. Don't confuse Open Source with the Linux community -- the two biggest Windows compatible Open Source projects, Mozilla and Open Office, require no more configuration than their MS counterparts. And with Mozilla programs, you can do some heavy duty customization by going to Mozdev and installing extensions directly from the web -- so easy, even an AOL monkey could do it.