Completely offtopic, but never a bad time to push a worthy tool: there's an excellent command-line, Perl-based tool to upload images to Flickr. Not necessarily your cup of tea if you want/need to organise or sort images before uploading, but if you've got a lot of photos to put online all at one, tagged and titled, this might be the tool for you! Anti-Perl people (the thought!) can look up other script-based command line tools on Flickr's API page (of all places).
("Profit!" is step 0, and is handled by the advertising dept)
Yeah, I was confused by "knol (not yet publicly available)" too, but then I figured that knol was either an acronym in another language or a Slashdot editor mess-up. And when you've been on Slashdot as long as I have, you'll know which one is (much) more likely.;)
Agreed. One thing I love about Vim is all the Unixy tools or functionality you get built-in: grep, diff, tail, and others. I didn't have to download Cygwin/MingW for ages because I could always jump into Vim to get atleast these two tasks done. (Yeah, I know about GnuWin32, but I didn't back then, and hate using CMD.EXE anyway; and Vim's sometimes convoluted interface to them is relatively easy to look up and work with, not to say anything of the pretty colours).
A TomTom the size of a planet! What, it'll tell you where you are relative to the centre of the galaxy; a line diagram, maybe, of the entire unimaginable infinity of the universe with a very tiny marker that says "You Are Here" on the front?
Hmm, might not be such a bad idea; I know a Vogon construction company that'll do it for half a bajillion quatloons, if you're interested. We'll have to get rid of the Earth, but no great loss there, surely.
Why is it a sentence fragment? I don't know much (anything?) about English grammar, but there's a subject ('you'), object ('extreme programming'), and a verb ('do'); what's missing?
Woah! I never thought about it that way before. Is that why the phrase US Military surge came about? As a Surge of Good v.s. the (obvious) in-Surge of Evil?
1. Looks at title: omg! Slashdot's parent company had an IT meltdown! ha-ha! But waitaminute... 2. Looks at icon: a... crown? The Queen? Perhaps they mean *our* overlords, VA Linux? Or is VA Linux a monarchist organisation now? 3. Looks at summary: and... medical? Why are th... oh HANG ON WAIT A MINUTE 4. Looks at icon: I remember that! It means... government! Crown, government, get it? So, VA Linux screwed up a government's medical system? That makes... 5. Looks into the inner recesses of my mind:... sense, but... something's out of place, something's... just... not... quite... 7. Looks at lightbulb over head: of course! There *is* no VA Linux! It's Sourceforge, Inc now! But that must mean... 6. Looks at summary:... carefully... the VA, why the VA, shouldn't it be... Vir..ginia?!
Gee thanks, Zonk, just what I needed before going to sleep. Now I'll dream of the Queen in Virginia melting down medical computers for Slashdot's open source overlords. Again.
My attempts at converting any of my friends/family to Flickr have been horribly unsuccessfully, though, and I'm pretty sure that the permissions thing is part of the problem. The few friends who did sign up uploaded a few public photos and then left, suggesting they never figured out the public/private system at all. Having to set up a Yahoo account for Flickr was also a big hinderance.
The inherent, default privacy of uploading to either Yahoo Photos or Picassa (your photos are private by default, and shareable with friends) or Orkut or Facebook (your photos are, at worse, visible to everybody in your "network", which is generally people who might bump into you on the street anyway, and can be privacy-restricted to friends only) seems to be a big win for them, as opposed to Flickr, a website which shamelessly shows somebody's photograph on their front page when you log in (gasp!). Not that this is an inherently bad thing: sometimes photos are just for seeing what your friends are up to. Flickr really is aimed at the rank-amateur to professional-photographer range of interests, not at casual "smile for the camera!" type situations. You could make all your photos private as you go, but that takes out half of the fun of Flickr.
I _am_ a huge Flickr fan, a Flickr Pro account holder, and wouldn't dream of switching to Picassa or MS Flickr[tm] for the world, but I only know about five other people with active Flickr accounts who I didn't meet on Flickr before meeting them in meatspace. Of course, it could be something other than the above that's keeping them out, and I'd love to know what that is, but the above's my best guess at the moment.
It's a really nice idea: a lot of my friends shy away from Flickr because of its expansive, community-based idea of image storage and sharing - they want a private place to host family and personal photos. A lot of them already use Facebook and Picassa Web Albums extensively for exactly this reason. And remember: Yahoo! Photos shut down earlier this (last?) year. All those displaced people will be needing somewhere to go to for private photo hosting. A Yahoo! Photos-clone with support to public sharing of images, integrated with Live image search, the entire thing accessible by PhotoSynth (heck, forget the Yahoo! and the Live, just PhotoSynth by itself!) could be a huge draw, and Microsoft certainly has the money to undercut and outfeature anything Yahoo! and Flickr can throw up.
Personally, I'd love more competition in this field: it'd get us Flickrites more goodies from Flickr!
That's an interesting theory, but the urban legend is wrong: Hancock signed his name on the Declaration of Independence in a large script because he was the first one to sign it, and he had the whole of the rest of the page to himself. It was first printed in that form - with only two names, and one signature, on it (John Hancock, as the president of the Continental Congress, signed it on behalf of the entire Congress). The others didn't sign it until later that year, at which point they had to make sure there was room enough for everyone.
IANAHistorian, so please correct me if I got something wrong!
I hear you; as someone who frequently gets "music cravings" (mmm must get some rock mmm musicals etc.), I think it's tragic that Amazon (or iTunes, etc.) would like me to buy from them, I would like to buy from them, this is all completely legal and allowed and everything, but the tight-fisted music companies don't want their music slipping into Asia without them putting a mark-up on it. My current cravings (intensified by my work computers' lack of a working CD-ROM drive) are probably going to be satiated through Magnatune, which _does_ let you download their music anywhere in the world. And it's cheap! Personally, I'm not a big fan of electronica and rock-with-lots-of-distortion in it, so a lot of their catalogue is wasted on me, but they have some really nice classical music you should definitely give a listen to. In rock, I can recommend Plunkett and Arthur Yoria.
(Not affiliated with Magnatune, just a satisfied customer!)
I'm kinda scared a friend I don't know about is going to knock on my door 20 years from now
Sorry to intrude, but I'm curious: do you mean that a friend you've forgotten about will show up twenty years from now? But if that happens, wouldn't the two of you be able to sit back and reminisce about that holiday? Perhaps reforge a new friendship?
Wait, why? These are suicide bombers waiting to be security checked before boarding the aircraft and fulfilling their mission. They might yet be discovered (embarrassing, particularly if it's a large complicated plot which will be foiled by their getting arrested), and most likely deported to either Guantanamo Bay or one of the CIA's non-existant secret prisons, neither of which options are likely to be particularly comfortable.
And this is not counting nervousness from all the other edge-case possibilities which might occur: another passenger at the airport recognizing the bomber from way-back-when, the flight being delayed and passengers being taken to a hotel, etc.
If he doesn't like the deal he's getting these days, perhaps he should start patenting stuff or quit the software business [...]
... which is right about the point where I stop using their browsers, I guess. I love Opera, and one of my major reasons for doing so is that it's a well-engineered product made by a company which has always been pretty good "corporate citizens". Yes, they have strange ideas about design and advertising, but they make good products, run a sustainable business, give me a very decent browser for free, support said browser at no extra cost, and are very good at coming up with interesting new features, which have a much better record than most other software I use as being completely "fleshed out". They're also "good geeks": they don't go nuts patenting things, are pretty okay with other companies reusing and building on their ideas, allow you to download early tech previews of their software for testing and feedback, and have their browser primed for the kind of people who like having a couple of dozen tabs open at any one time - i.e. the sort who are much too fond of Wikipedia for their own good. Also, that bit you quote doesn't sound (in context) like sour grapes: Jon is pointing out that one of Opera's biggest strengths is coming up with innovative features, including mouse gestures and tabs (innovative half a decade ago). Opera 9 has several new features such as Speed Dial and Thumbnail Preview, which made things easier for me within hours of installing, so I'd say they're still doing a great job on that front.
Speaking of which, I checked Wikipedia on the mouse gestures bit; Konqueror's doesn't say when it got mouse gestures, but the mouse gestures page says Opera has had them "since version 5.11 (April 2001)", when KDE was at version 2.1. So if you can figure out when Konqueror got mouse gestures, you'll have your answer. Anecdotally, I found what might be the original patch for Opera mouse gestures in Konqueror, which would support Jon's idea of Opera as the originator.
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Emperor of the Ethereal
Somehow (I only caught the last half, and am in the middle of a minor Civ4 obsession) I read that as Ethelred the Unready. Appropriate enough, though.
Completely offtopic, but never a bad time to push a worthy tool: there's an excellent command-line, Perl-based tool to upload images to Flickr. Not necessarily your cup of tea if you want/need to organise or sort images before uploading, but if you've got a lot of photos to put online all at one, tagged and titled, this might be the tool for you! Anti-Perl people (the thought!) can look up other script-based command line tools on Flickr's API page (of all places).
STD_DISCLAIMER(no_relation, happy_customer);
It's the Google life cycle!
;)
1. Crazy idea
2. Idea
3. NYPA
4. Beta
("Profit!" is step 0, and is handled by the advertising dept)
Yeah, I was confused by "knol (not yet publicly available)" too, but then I figured that knol was either an acronym in another language or a Slashdot editor mess-up. And when you've been on Slashdot as long as I have, you'll know which one is (much) more likely.
Agreed. One thing I love about Vim is all the Unixy tools or functionality you get built-in: grep, diff, tail, and others. I didn't have to download Cygwin/MingW for ages because I could always jump into Vim to get atleast these two tasks done. (Yeah, I know about GnuWin32, but I didn't back then, and hate using CMD.EXE anyway; and Vim's sometimes convoluted interface to them is relatively easy to look up and work with, not to say anything of the pretty colours).
Thank you, Mr. Moolenaar and others!
Maybe the question was, "Are we there yet?"
A TomTom the size of a planet! What, it'll tell you where you are relative to the centre of the galaxy; a line diagram, maybe, of the entire unimaginable infinity of the universe with a very tiny marker that says "You Are Here" on the front?
Hmm, might not be such a bad idea; I know a Vogon construction company that'll do it for half a bajillion quatloons, if you're interested. We'll have to get rid of the Earth, but no great loss there, surely.
... and then we'll restore it from backup!
Well, according to Wikipedia, Absolute Power only started in the 1990s ... you must be new here! (here = earth)
If it's something else, why don't you Be Bold and edit it yourself?
Why is it a sentence fragment? I don't know much (anything?) about English grammar, but there's a subject ('you'), object ('extreme programming'), and a verb ('do'); what's missing?
Woah! I never thought about it that way before. Is that why the phrase US Military surge came about? As a Surge of Good v.s. the (obvious) in-Surge of Evil?
Man, devious.
I had a real fun time parsing this article.
... ... crown? The Queen? Perhaps they mean *our* overlords, VA Linux? Or is VA Linux a monarchist organisation now? ... medical? Why are th... oh HANG ON WAIT A MINUTE ... government! Crown, government, get it? So, VA Linux screwed up a government's medical system? That makes ... ... sense, but ... something's out of place, something's ... just ... not ... quite ... ... ... carefully ... the VA, why the VA, shouldn't it be ... Vir..ginia?!
...
1. Looks at title: omg! Slashdot's parent company had an IT meltdown! ha-ha! But waitaminute
2. Looks at icon: a
3. Looks at summary: and
4. Looks at icon: I remember that! It means
5. Looks into the inner recesses of my mind:
7. Looks at lightbulb over head: of course! There *is* no VA Linux! It's Sourceforge, Inc now! But that must mean
6. Looks at summary:
Gee thanks, Zonk, just what I needed before going to sleep. Now I'll dream of the Queen in Virginia melting down medical computers for Slashdot's open source overlords. Again.
Last thing I needed
Me too! :P
My attempts at converting any of my friends/family to Flickr have been horribly unsuccessfully, though, and I'm pretty sure that the permissions thing is part of the problem. The few friends who did sign up uploaded a few public photos and then left, suggesting they never figured out the public/private system at all. Having to set up a Yahoo account for Flickr was also a big hinderance.
The inherent, default privacy of uploading to either Yahoo Photos or Picassa (your photos are private by default, and shareable with friends) or Orkut or Facebook (your photos are, at worse, visible to everybody in your "network", which is generally people who might bump into you on the street anyway, and can be privacy-restricted to friends only) seems to be a big win for them, as opposed to Flickr, a website which shamelessly shows somebody's photograph on their front page when you log in (gasp!). Not that this is an inherently bad thing: sometimes photos are just for seeing what your friends are up to. Flickr really is aimed at the rank-amateur to professional-photographer range of interests, not at casual "smile for the camera!" type situations. You could make all your photos private as you go, but that takes out half of the fun of Flickr.
I _am_ a huge Flickr fan, a Flickr Pro account holder, and wouldn't dream of switching to Picassa or MS Flickr[tm] for the world, but I only know about five other people with active Flickr accounts who I didn't meet on Flickr before meeting them in meatspace. Of course, it could be something other than the above that's keeping them out, and I'd love to know what that is, but the above's my best guess at the moment.
It's a really nice idea: a lot of my friends shy away from Flickr because of its expansive, community-based idea of image storage and sharing - they want a private place to host family and personal photos. A lot of them already use Facebook and Picassa Web Albums extensively for exactly this reason. And remember: Yahoo! Photos shut down earlier this (last?) year. All those displaced people will be needing somewhere to go to for private photo hosting. A Yahoo! Photos-clone with support to public sharing of images, integrated with Live image search, the entire thing accessible by PhotoSynth (heck, forget the Yahoo! and the Live, just PhotoSynth by itself!) could be a huge draw, and Microsoft certainly has the money to undercut and outfeature anything Yahoo! and Flickr can throw up.
Personally, I'd love more competition in this field: it'd get us Flickrites more goodies from Flickr!
+1 Scary
That's an interesting theory, but the urban legend is wrong: Hancock signed his name on the Declaration of Independence in a large script because he was the first one to sign it, and he had the whole of the rest of the page to himself. It was first printed in that form - with only two names, and one signature, on it (John Hancock, as the president of the Continental Congress, signed it on behalf of the entire Congress). The others didn't sign it until later that year, at which point they had to make sure there was room enough for everyone.
IANAHistorian, so please correct me if I got something wrong!
*stands up and applauds*
A fake moon landing set ... on the moon?
I hear you; as someone who frequently gets "music cravings" (mmm must get some rock mmm musicals etc.), I think it's tragic that Amazon (or iTunes, etc.) would like me to buy from them, I would like to buy from them, this is all completely legal and allowed and everything, but the tight-fisted music companies don't want their music slipping into Asia without them putting a mark-up on it. My current cravings (intensified by my work computers' lack of a working CD-ROM drive) are probably going to be satiated through Magnatune, which _does_ let you download their music anywhere in the world. And it's cheap! Personally, I'm not a big fan of electronica and rock-with-lots-of-distortion in it, so a lot of their catalogue is wasted on me, but they have some really nice classical music you should definitely give a listen to. In rock, I can recommend Plunkett and Arthur Yoria.
(Not affiliated with Magnatune, just a satisfied customer!)
Sorry to intrude, but I'm curious: do you mean that a friend you've forgotten about will show up twenty years from now? But if that happens, wouldn't the two of you be able to sit back and reminisce about that holiday? Perhaps reforge a new friendship?
Or did you mean something else?
Born? I thought Robot Jesus was intelligently designed?
... and hot air from the secret Microsoft lair's marketing dolphins is causing the arctic ice cap to melt! Somebody call Al Gore, quick!
Please, they only just started synthesizing proteins.
Until they go multicellular, they still get to be our green blob underlings.
(or would that be "green blog minions"? I can just see it now: "Now, my pretties! More beta-globulin! MORE BETA-GLOBULIN!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!")
Wait, why? These are suicide bombers waiting to be security checked before boarding the aircraft and fulfilling their mission. They might yet be discovered (embarrassing, particularly if it's a large complicated plot which will be foiled by their getting arrested), and most likely deported to either Guantanamo Bay or one of the CIA's non-existant secret prisons, neither of which options are likely to be particularly comfortable.
And this is not counting nervousness from all the other edge-case possibilities which might occur: another passenger at the airport recognizing the bomber from way-back-when, the flight being delayed and passengers being taken to a hotel, etc.
Speaking of which, I checked Wikipedia on the mouse gestures bit; Konqueror's doesn't say when it got mouse gestures, but the mouse gestures page says Opera has had them "since version 5.11 (April 2001)", when KDE was at version 2.1. So if you can figure out when Konqueror got mouse gestures, you'll have your answer. Anecdotally, I found what might be the original patch for Opera mouse gestures in Konqueror, which would support Jon's idea of Opera as the originator.
Cheers!
Can we please oh please oh please call them death rays?