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I must say that's an awesome response, and it looks like there might be some real change ahead.
If you're serious, give the folks at the Computer History Museum a ring and see if they have any advice. But, be prepared for disappointment. There are many 40-50 year old pieces in their collection that don't work anymore, and it's kinda hard to get parts with how quickly tech changes.
You mean the CD caddies? Those weren't exclusive to Apple -- pretty much all the first-generation CD-ROM drives used them. The PSP still uses a smaller variant.
A platform for this has existed almost as long as the web itself. PICS is a W3C standard for labeling content. There is a working draft out for an RDF-based version of PICS called POWDER.
PICS ratings are assigned by the IRCA, now part of The Family Online Safety Institute.
The problems with PICS adoption were predictable. First, like with the V-Chip, few parents enabled content filtering on their browsers, or even knew that feature was available. Second, the honest content providers, the ones who got their sites labeled for language, violence, or adult situations, got screwed because of all the sites out there who didn't opt into the system, and which could be viewed by everyone.
Actually, Engelbart designed the mouse as a counterpart to the five-key chorded keyboard he worked with his left hand. His plan was for the alphanumeric keyboard to only be used for entering text, and the chorded keyboard for all the other commands.
So, you wouldn't have to take your hand off the keyboard.
I think the OP is referring to a deeper issue than AJAX itself. There are sites out there which use AJAX to simulate an iframe. There's no refresh when going to a new page, but your URL never changes, either. So, you can't bookmark an inner page, and I'm sure Google can't crawl a page like that.
Well, just to counter that, I've spent cash out of my own pocket for ObjectDock and TopDesk so I can have the equivalents of the Dock and Espose on my Windows machine at work. It makes life a little more bearable.
My boss would like to get us all Macs, but there isn't enough room in the budget.
Just curious -- was your problem that the command line utils were "out of date", or just different?
OSX uses BSD's command line utils, and BSD's utils are different from GNU's. You'll find different command-line switches here & there, and the output of top will throw you for a loop.
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Agreed.
For comparison, I offer the trailer for Star Trek: First Contact, which has lots of fight-the-Borg action, and only a brief appearance by Zefram Cochrane.
"WAIT" is a valid keyword in Commodore BASIC 2.0. Recall the famous easter egg Microsoft planted in the first version they sold to Commodore:
WAIT 6502, n
And we're ten years past when the Eugenics Wars were supposed to have happened.
I know a lot of us grew up with Star Trek, and don't want anything to change. But, if it's going to continue on as a franchise, maybe now is a good time to "reboot", as reality is starting to overlap the timeline.
I got the CVT on my Nissan Versa. It's supposed to be good for an additional 2 MPG, although I have no way of knowing how true that really is. I'm getting 24-26 MPG on all city driving, though, which is pretty nice. I have a 6 mile one-way commute, and fill up once a month.
We just tried out IP geolocation where I work, and the results were depressing. From what my boss found out, we could only get results for ~65% of IP addresses. The ones we could get were close, but not usably close -- our office was listed as being in a town 1/2 hour away in good traffic.
"Location-based" services need good data on where someone is. If I'm trying to find coffee shops nearby, for example, it doesn't help if the only ones I can find are several towns over.
We had a small ceremony in the woods behind the Lake County Discovery Museum, then everyone ducked into a tent for the reception. We had an open bar, a buffet, and a DJ told he could play ANYTHING people requested except the Chicken Dance. They even opened the museum for the kids.
We got to celebrate with our closest friends and family, and to me that's what the wedding is about.
Since you asked (probably rhetorically, but what the heck), here are the stats from the Parents' Television Council, citing a Kaiser Family Foundation study:
15% of all parents have used the V-Chip, which was required to be included in all TV sets over 13 inches after January 2000
one in four (26%) haven't bought a new TV since then
39% have bought a new TV, but don't think it includes a V-Chip
20% know they have a V-Chip, but haven't used it.
Among those who have a V-Chip and know it:
42% have used it.
Nearly two-thirds (61%) of parents who have used the V-Chip say they found it "very" useful.
I highly recommend This Week @ NASA, because they don't just talk about the shuttle, but all the missions & experiments going on in the agency. The Shuttle & Station podcast has all your takeoff & landing footage, usually within a day of it happening, and in addition to the usual footage, you get odd stuff like the video of the launch from a camera on the fuel tank.
If you really want to be blown away, get an HDTV and subscribe to DirecTV with HDNet. They broadcast every shuttle launch & landing within a few days of it happening, and it's an hour long show with footage of Mission Control, and interviews up to the big moment, and it's all broadcast in 1080i with digital sound.
Interesting. My Core Duo Mac Mini downstairs is great. It's stable, and it performs well for watching videos & surfing the web. It doesn't see use every day, though, so maybe that's why it's stayed so healthy.
Them: Yes, we do see that, we see one charge has cleared and another pending
They should have explained things a little better. When a card is charged, it's a two-step process: authorization and capture. At authorization, they've told the merchant "yes, this transaction can go through and we'll hold the money for you". A merchant can't undo an authorization. The money doesn't get sent until capture, usually a nightly process. If a charge isn't captured within a certain amount of time (24 hours to a few days), the bank rescinds the authorization automatically.
They should have explained that there was a chance the merchant realized their mistake and wasn't going to capture the funds. If you contacted the merchant and let them know the situation, they probably could have prevented capture too. But, if the charge ended up being captured, you would need to file a dispute.
As a merchant, this is the way I want things to work. If an authorization goes through, I don't need to wait until I have the money in my account to ship someone their order. If they could back out of an authorization before capture, the authorization would be meaningless and I'd probably see a lot more fraud.
In fact, at the risk of having my geek card revoked: I don't even go into advanced mode anymore. It boots more slowly than easy mode, and easy mode is good enough for me 99% of the time. I'm a huge KDE fan so I expected to hate the basic launcher and "need" the full KDE desktop, but all that extra flexibility kind of misses the point of the Eee PC.
I could have written the same thing. The fast boot and the "easy mode" launcher are enough to get me into the apps I need quickly. It's really cool to see KDE with Compiz Fusion running on the Eee, but when I'm running EeePCLinuxOS, what apps do I run? The same ones I pull up in "easy mode".
Oh yeah, totally. Don't get me wrong, the EeePC is not going to be someone's primary machine. But it's good for looking things up or checking a client's site. I even use Google Reader on it, although the display is a little cramped.
I was really impressed by the experience reading an ebook on it. I need to get xrandr running on it so I can hold it like a book.
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The Dept. has updated their page. The page linked to in the summary now gives a 404, and going to /Skills gives you the text in this post's parent.
I must say that's an awesome response, and it looks like there might be some real change ahead.
If you're serious, give the folks at the Computer History Museum a ring and see if they have any advice. But, be prepared for disappointment. There are many 40-50 year old pieces in their collection that don't work anymore, and it's kinda hard to get parts with how quickly tech changes.
You mean the CD caddies? Those weren't exclusive to Apple -- pretty much all the first-generation CD-ROM drives used them. The PSP still uses a smaller variant.
Pick up the book iCon, or do what I did and get the audiobook from Audible. It explains all the drama going on in Apple at the time.
A platform for this has existed almost as long as the web itself. PICS is a W3C standard for labeling content. There is a working draft out for an RDF-based version of PICS called POWDER.
PICS ratings are assigned by the IRCA, now part of The Family Online Safety Institute.
The problems with PICS adoption were predictable. First, like with the V-Chip, few parents enabled content filtering on their browsers, or even knew that feature was available. Second, the honest content providers, the ones who got their sites labeled for language, violence, or adult situations, got screwed because of all the sites out there who didn't opt into the system, and which could be viewed by everyone.
This whole discussion reminds me of the talk about teaching Computational Thinking two years ago.
Actually, Engelbart designed the mouse as a counterpart to the five-key chorded keyboard he worked with his left hand. His plan was for the alphanumeric keyboard to only be used for entering text, and the chorded keyboard for all the other commands. So, you wouldn't have to take your hand off the keyboard.
I think the OP is referring to a deeper issue than AJAX itself. There are sites out there which use AJAX to simulate an iframe. There's no refresh when going to a new page, but your URL never changes, either. So, you can't bookmark an inner page, and I'm sure Google can't crawl a page like that.
Well, just to counter that, I've spent cash out of my own pocket for ObjectDock and TopDesk so I can have the equivalents of the Dock and Espose on my Windows machine at work. It makes life a little more bearable.
My boss would like to get us all Macs, but there isn't enough room in the budget.
Just curious -- was your problem that the command line utils were "out of date", or just different?
OSX uses BSD's command line utils, and BSD's utils are different from GNU's. You'll find different command-line switches here & there, and the output of top will throw you for a loop.
Agreed.
For comparison, I offer the trailer for Star Trek: First Contact, which has lots of fight-the-Borg action, and only a brief appearance by Zefram Cochrane.
"WAIT" is a valid keyword in Commodore BASIC 2.0. Recall the famous easter egg Microsoft planted in the first version they sold to Commodore: WAIT 6502, n
And we're ten years past when the Eugenics Wars were supposed to have happened. I know a lot of us grew up with Star Trek, and don't want anything to change. But, if it's going to continue on as a franchise, maybe now is a good time to "reboot", as reality is starting to overlap the timeline.
It crashes all the time in Safari for me too. Works great in Firefox.
I got the CVT on my Nissan Versa. It's supposed to be good for an additional 2 MPG, although I have no way of knowing how true that really is. I'm getting 24-26 MPG on all city driving, though, which is pretty nice. I have a 6 mile one-way commute, and fill up once a month.
We just tried out IP geolocation where I work, and the results were depressing. From what my boss found out, we could only get results for ~65% of IP addresses. The ones we could get were close, but not usably close -- our office was listed as being in a town 1/2 hour away in good traffic.
"Location-based" services need good data on where someone is. If I'm trying to find coffee shops nearby, for example, it doesn't help if the only ones I can find are several towns over.
I was hoping someone would recommend BeOS! Its successor is an open source OS called Haiku.
Oh, no! The reception is the best part!
We had a small ceremony in the woods behind the Lake County Discovery Museum, then everyone ducked into a tent for the reception. We had an open bar, a buffet, and a DJ told he could play ANYTHING people requested except the Chicken Dance. They even opened the museum for the kids.
We got to celebrate with our closest friends and family, and to me that's what the wedding is about.
Among those who have a V-Chip and know it:
Kaiser Family Foundation, 9/23/04.
It sounds like you need to subscribe to the NASA video podcasts.
I highly recommend This Week @ NASA, because they don't just talk about the shuttle, but all the missions & experiments going on in the agency. The Shuttle & Station podcast has all your takeoff & landing footage, usually within a day of it happening, and in addition to the usual footage, you get odd stuff like the video of the launch from a camera on the fuel tank.
If you really want to be blown away, get an HDTV and subscribe to DirecTV with HDNet. They broadcast every shuttle launch & landing within a few days of it happening, and it's an hour long show with footage of Mission Control, and interviews up to the big moment, and it's all broadcast in 1080i with digital sound.
Interesting. My Core Duo Mac Mini downstairs is great. It's stable, and it performs well for watching videos & surfing the web. It doesn't see use every day, though, so maybe that's why it's stayed so healthy.
I don't know about Sears, but Ikea takes them. There's a bin by the exit.
They should have explained things a little better. When a card is charged, it's a two-step process: authorization and capture. At authorization, they've told the merchant "yes, this transaction can go through and we'll hold the money for you". A merchant can't undo an authorization. The money doesn't get sent until capture, usually a nightly process. If a charge isn't captured within a certain amount of time (24 hours to a few days), the bank rescinds the authorization automatically.
They should have explained that there was a chance the merchant realized their mistake and wasn't going to capture the funds. If you contacted the merchant and let them know the situation, they probably could have prevented capture too. But, if the charge ended up being captured, you would need to file a dispute.
As a merchant, this is the way I want things to work. If an authorization goes through, I don't need to wait until I have the money in my account to ship someone their order. If they could back out of an authorization before capture, the authorization would be meaningless and I'd probably see a lot more fraud.
Oh yeah, totally. Don't get me wrong, the EeePC is not going to be someone's primary machine. But it's good for looking things up or checking a client's site. I even use Google Reader on it, although the display is a little cramped. I was really impressed by the experience reading an ebook on it. I need to get xrandr running on it so I can hold it like a book.