I get a similar position with my job. Whenever we get a "why doesn't this work", we have to be careful to explain it in a way that sounds good, BUT does not mention possible fixes (work-arounds, hacks). Because we know they will assume that the mentioned fixes will be assumed to be implemented, tested, working yet somehow without taking away from the existing priorities of getting it working properly in the first place!
I'm not American, so I can't say how much of a real impact something like this has, but I wonder if this recent rise of very conservative religious fundamentalism in the USA and efforts to stop the presentation of things that contradict their view might not lead to the USA eventually falling beind in key sciences, and, as a consquence, losing its edge in the world of technology.
What do you mean, falling behind in key sciences? Military spending is up, is there any science more important then that? After all, any historian will tell you that war has been a driving factor for all major technological advances! The spear? The musket? Artillery?
As some-one working on a OSS project who went looking for 3D implementations, OGRE is the one I chose. Great community, great design. Provides lots of features, but doesn't sacrifice speed. Options for when you want them, defaults that get the job done.
Great work Sinbad, temas, wumpus, _mental_, and every-one else in the community.
Excellent point. +1 Insightful (pretend it's a mod point.)
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Or in my case, WinXP with decoration turned off. But, I bet once you click it, it does launch a pop-up, which would work for most users (Oh, a dialog box, click ok). In fact, since it's right over the main content, your pretty much required to click on it and get the pop-up, just to use the site.
How damn rude! I never used the site, but if a site I do use does that, they will lose a customer!
Human beings cant even pass a message on in the same language without it getting corrupted (chinease whispers) so yes, I'd be impressed too. Although I'll suggest you mean "if the meaning doesn't get corrupted", since expecting reproduction word-for-word both ways means the problem would be so simple, it'd be done by now, since it would just be substitution.
I try to give a message to advertisers, by not blocking Google Ad's. Yes, they are ad's, and they are not annoyance free, but they are SO much better then flashy GIF's or Flash animations or pop-up-under-over-around windows, that I'm willing to put up with them in the hope that advertisers will notice they are more effective at reaching their audience, and switch.
Knowing advertisers though, its a forlorn hope. Should they notice they are more effective, they will just start using plain-text ads AS WELL AS their existing annoying techniques.
And typing in a bad URL DOES give you Googles "I'm feeling lucky" hit, I often use it when I just cant think of the website, but I know it'll come up number one (like type in apache, no need to remember.com,.org,.net etc ).
From our work (we work with some people related with NASA) we've heard there is actually a group of people who have planned to turn the ISS into a space hotel. Maybe they will speed up their plans, buy the Hubble, and keep it for a tourist attraction!
See the Hubble Telescope, Discoverer of Lots Of Things! Buy your Tshirt "I looked through the Hubble"!
I assume this is for the USA. What you need to worry about is: How much will wages go up in India? If its less, well then... how would you like to train your replacement today?
Does IPv6 have a large enough adress space for the parallel universes? Will I be able to escape and still browse Slashdot? Will I be able to grab the last of my Torrents off my server before the universe collapses?
A lot of people have said "check the certificates". Well, I've seen local (Australian) banks use bad certificates! Yes, the Commonwealth Bank's website has at various times provided invalid certificates, usually due to not updating them quick enough. So, when you go to their secure section, you would get a warning box! Yet it really was the right site.
Actually, no. They wrote FastTrack. The company Sharman Networks brought this technology, and made Kazaa with it. THEY are responsible for all the crap that was Kazaa. But not for what made the program useful (the FastTrack network)!
I use a similar process as well. I tend to block ad's on sites that have ads for the sake of ads, but on sites I like (/., penny-arcade, keenspace) I purposely dont block ads.
I also don't block Google Ads because I think they deserve supporting, not because they are ads but because they are better ads. Who want's KBs of animated GIF or Flash, when a frame of text is so much lighter and more effective because they dont annoy you?
Fortunately, I'm only "mildly" ADD and through perserverence I'm able to actually mostly complete things. It also helps that with my job, the "target" is constantly moving, so there is almost always something new and interesting to do.
(And interestingly enough, my younger brother is diagnosed with AS (I hadn't heard of it before he was diagnosed, now its coming out all over the media) ).
Slashdot Mirror
Mechanised Propulsion Systems
Group of people in the US who are working on a similar concept. But with less shuffling! It's all volunteer time and resources.
I get a similar position with my job. Whenever we get a "why doesn't this work", we have to be careful to explain it in a way that sounds good, BUT does not mention possible fixes (work-arounds, hacks). Because we know they will assume that the mentioned fixes will be assumed to be implemented, tested, working yet somehow without taking away from the existing priorities of getting it working properly in the first place!
What do you mean, falling behind in key sciences? Military spending is up, is there any science more important then that? After all, any historian will tell you that war has been a driving factor for all major technological advances! The spear? The musket? Artillery?
Ogre Projects
List of projects that use Ogre, including quite a few games, some being OSS, some being commericial.
As some-one working on a OSS project who went looking for 3D implementations, OGRE is the one I chose. Great community, great design. Provides lots of features, but doesn't sacrifice speed. Options for when you want them, defaults that get the job done.
Great work Sinbad, temas, wumpus, _mental_, and every-one else in the community.
PeterNewman
Excellent point. +1 Insightful (pretend it's a mod point.)
Or in my case, WinXP with decoration turned off. But, I bet once you click it, it does launch a pop-up, which would work for most users (Oh, a dialog box, click ok). In fact, since it's right over the main content, your pretty much required to click on it and get the pop-up, just to use the site.
How damn rude! I never used the site, but if a site I do use does that, they will lose a customer!
Human beings cant even pass a message on in the same language without it getting corrupted (chinease whispers) so yes, I'd be impressed too.
Although I'll suggest you mean "if the meaning doesn't get corrupted", since expecting reproduction word-for-word both ways means the problem would be so simple, it'd be done by now, since it would just be substitution.
I try to give a message to advertisers, by not blocking Google Ad's. Yes, they are ad's, and they are not annoyance free, but they are SO much better then flashy GIF's or Flash animations or pop-up-under-over-around windows, that I'm willing to put up with them in the hope that advertisers will notice they are more effective at reaching their audience, and switch.
Knowing advertisers though, its a forlorn hope. Should they notice they are more effective, they will just start using plain-text ads AS WELL AS their existing annoying techniques.
Did you notice, he isn't running XP SP2 (it still uses the old startup screen). I wonder if that would have made a difference.
RapidSVN, right there on the Subversion main website.
Your right.
.com, .org, .net etc ).
And typing in a bad URL DOES give you Googles "I'm feeling lucky" hit, I often use it when I just cant think of the website, but I know it'll come up number one (like type in apache, no need to remember
From our work (we work with some people related with NASA) we've heard there is actually a group of people who have planned to turn the ISS into a space hotel. Maybe they will speed up their plans, buy the Hubble, and keep it for a tourist attraction!
See the Hubble Telescope, Discoverer of Lots Of Things! Buy your Tshirt "I looked through the Hubble"!
Wow, thanks, that really says something about the differing economies strengths.
I assume this is for the USA. What you need to worry about is: How much will wages go up in India? If its less, well then... how would you like to train your replacement today?
I read that title as "Profits != .Net", and I thought, maybe Microsoft will drop development of .NET now.
Does IPv6 have a large enough adress space for the parallel universes? Will I be able to escape and still browse Slashdot? Will I be able to grab the last of my Torrents off my server before the universe collapses?
A lot of people have said "check the certificates". Well, I've seen local (Australian) banks use bad certificates! Yes, the Commonwealth Bank's website has at various times provided invalid certificates, usually due to not updating them quick enough. So, when you go to their secure section, you would get a warning box! Yet it really was the right site.
Actually, no. They wrote FastTrack. The company Sharman Networks brought this technology, and made Kazaa with it. THEY are responsible for all the crap that was Kazaa. But not for what made the program useful (the FastTrack network)!
Linus Torvalds
What... like the back of a Volkswagen?
I use a similar process as well. I tend to block ad's on sites that have ads for the sake of ads, but on sites I like (/., penny-arcade, keenspace) I purposely dont block ads.
I also don't block Google Ads because I think they deserve supporting, not because they are ads but because they are better ads. Who want's KBs of animated GIF or Flash, when a frame of text is so much lighter and more effective because they dont annoy you?
You beat me to it. So I'll just say: Me too!
I'd just like to reply and say: Me too!
Fortunately, I'm only "mildly" ADD and through perserverence I'm able to actually mostly complete things. It also helps that with my job, the "target" is constantly moving, so there is almost always something new and interesting to do.
(And interestingly enough, my younger brother is diagnosed with AS (I hadn't heard of it before he was diagnosed, now its coming out all over the media) ).
Very funny!
Although you forgot:
Making a custom Elf-Hunt level for NetHack (based on number 9).