why waste your time reading or writing about something you don't like
Because many of the complaints are from web page designers and developers. These people have to deal with not only making their multi-million dollar clients pages look good, they need to make them look good in other browsers apart from IE. Opera, Safari, Konquerer, Firefox and the others, on operating systems apart from Windows... namely OS X and Linux.
While I am sure they could code their page to suit an audience using just Windows and IE we could then end up with the internet looking like it did in 1998, to wit, underlined text of varying point sizes, blink and marquee.
It is only if all the players in the browser market work towards a defined standard that developers work will be moved from coding browser hacks to actually improving what's out there for the audiences to see and appreciate.
It's not winging that they hate using the browser personally (even if they do), it's complaining that they need to do everything twice. A very real complaint.
I've been in and had a quick look and it's a nice site that works under Linux (all you need is Javascript enabled).
What will be fun though are the answers to specific questions. There is a grassroots push for anyone who doesn't wish to answer the religion question to put FSM or Pastafarian (Flying Spaghetti Monster if you were wondering, as a protest against intelligent design) in. This would be more fun tha listing Jedi as 70,000 people did in 2001, and as we have the option to release full uncensored details in 2105 to our descendants it will be a great joke on them. Pity that we won't be around to see them scratch their heads on that one.
The other "informal" answer question is number 5, marital status. There is a similar push to have "Same Sex Marriage" put in as the answer for anyone who wishes to protest the Howard/Costello coservative constitutional amendments rushed through to stop such an act.
According to a recent/. thread India has rejected the OLPC project, so how will a solar WiFi mesh create anything more than the ability for the rich to get access on their Lenovo's, Sony's and Toshiba's when they are doing a visit to the slums?
So, how are we supposed to RTFA then the FA is over 470MB and a video file. Why not just a nice simple text summary Mr Submitter, but nooooo that would just be too easy!
I have available to me quite a large database of historical research spanning back to 1991, being freeform copies of emails between researchers and acedemics on a wide variety of topics to do with a specific topic from the 15th century. Dry stuff, but a very exciting topic.
At the moment the data is mined with wildcard text searching, which means you need to know the subject before you can participate. It's a very valuable resource, but it's also not used to it's potential due to the clunky methods of interfacing with it.
It will be quite interesting applying this technique to the dataset to see if unknown relationships become apparent or known relationships become clearer.
Looking at the paper and samples would indicate this tool (if it does what it promises) might be able to not only work out the correlation between datum but to create visual diagrams linking people, places and events quite well. A handy tool for my dataset.
I'm now sitting here crystal ball gazing; if we were to expand this to a 3D map. Say by displaying a resulting chart and allow a researcher to hotlink to the data underneath it would be an interesting way to navigate a complex topic, more so than a text based wild or fuzzy search. Of course I won't know if this is possible until I look into the program more, and I won't be able to look into the program more until I massage teh dataset again;) but it does open up some interesting possibilities.
Click on the Anthony Ashcam box and see the hotlinking and unfolding of data specific to him. Drill in more... then more... and eventually get to a specific fact.
The only problem will be that I would need to pre-compute all the charts. Oh well, one day;)
Launching programs with Kapapult
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Sure, multi-key shortcuts are nice but if you have too many of them they become harder to remember, especially those tasks you only do once a week.
I have been using a program called Katupult for many months now. It provides the advantages of shortcuts to programs and bookmarks without the need to memorise anything.
To execute this program you press your start key (Mine is Alt-Space) then you just start typing.
Xine? Alt-Space x Firefox? Alt-Space f Konversation? Alt-Space ko Google? Alt-Space go Slashdot? Alt-Space sl
Well, you get the idea. As you type an OSD box on the screen cycles through the choice for the letters you have typed. There is no setup, it calculates all the shortcuts dynamically. In a letter tie (say k) the more you type the more you drill down. I rarely have to type more than three characters for the most obscure program.
I was a little sceptical, but after I RTFA and watched the demo I would definately love to see some of those techniques make their way into window managers. Applying the snippet of the demo with the photo light box to the desktop would be quite nice, resizing windows by pulling the corners apart, flicking them into corners and so on.
Mind you, how do you keep the screen clean of fingerprints and pizza grease smears.
It could be an offer, but know/. I tend to think it's more likely a typo. I think it probably should have been written: Ask Slashdot, Wikipedia and the Collective Hive Mind.
The other tool is a 28 foot long cable that would be used to connect an avionics bay located on the middeck with the flight-deck controls.
If not a kite than maybe one of those plastic motorised control line model planes that we had as kids. You know, the ones that flew round and round in circles at the end of a long string.
Although just skimmed over in the precis, as no one else seems to have commented I will say the tablet would be quite handy in some school settings.
Right now our school employs a aide to copy graphical information onto paper with puff-ink or an embossing wheel. She traces the pictures and the ink expands and is "readable" by the visually impared kids we have, the wheel on the other hand leaves an impression in the paper that feels like braille.
Both these techniques lets them "see" the shape of squares, triangles, countries - even letters that you or I read. The biggest disadvantage is that the aide needs to be with the child as they learn to give a description of what is being seen. With this system and pre-prepared sheets the child can explore graphical images in their own way without another person being with them.
By the way, for all the web developers out there, we find that many pages are not really accessable; tables for layout are generally a PITA to read, CSS works very nicely though.
Just like you create a web page then test it in Opera, FFx, Safari, Konqueror, Lynx and IE you should run it through a JAWS simulator. JAWS is the main Windows based text to speech screen reading tool many visually impared people use. JAWS Demo from HereFANGS is a firefox extension that simulates what a visually impared person will see if they are using JAWS (FANGS is easier than JAWS for sighted people to use as you don't need to learn a heap of key bindings). Please add it to your arsenal of testing tools.
If you can do a regex of what you are looking for, you might be able to put some infrastructure in front of your web apps that controls what goes out.
Interesting idea... but I'd do it as an adjunct as you suggest.
mod_security for Apache can do exactly this sort of regex matching and serve up an error page if a match is found. The logs are pretty easy to grep to find occurences of a match and hence track the data down.
Yet unlike violent murders, drug abusers, "adult" rapists, thieves, psychotics, necrophiliacs and even zoophiles
As a schizophrenic who has suffered from many a psychotic episode I really dislike your bundling of this word within a group of objectionable terms.
You really should research the disorder and it's treatment and in turn become a little more compassionate towards those not in your "normal" frame of mind.
But Spaceway-3 (when it's launced in 2007) is to be at 95W which is not accessible in Australia, As the test is taking place down under it would need to be a satellite parked around 160E. Unfortunately this means one of the Aussats or Asiasats which would not really be suitable for such a high velocity test.
In the last two millenia I don't know of any country that waged war with Australia and attempted to invade them. The aussies were involved in wars as a part of the british empire but it was alwasy in far off places.
If I lived in a country in which no house had ever burned down since it's founding then I would not buy fire insurance.
You are aware that Japan bombed Australia during WWII aren't you?
So tell me, who is going to be attacking Australia?
Indonesia is a prime candidate if not for Australia's role in East Timor then for some other cultural difference. Hell, maybe Costello will finally convince everyone that Islam really is to be feared as much as he incites and we go to war on that basis.
Probably through the MRU:) It's a prime area for forensics and the first place most investigators look. If he also used a program like MRU-Blaster run from a USB memory key (which also holds your secure eraser) will help to remove the chance that "they" could find out you're using the programs.
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While I am sure they could code their page to suit an audience using just Windows and IE we could then end up with the internet looking like it did in 1998, to wit, underlined text of varying point sizes, blink and marquee.
It is only if all the players in the browser market work towards a defined standard that developers work will be moved from coding browser hacks to actually improving what's out there for the audiences to see and appreciate.
It's not winging that they hate using the browser personally (even if they do), it's complaining that they need to do everything twice. A very real complaint.
I've been in and had a quick look and it's a nice site that works under Linux (all you need is Javascript enabled).
What will be fun though are the answers to specific questions. There is a grassroots push for anyone who doesn't wish to answer the religion question to put FSM or Pastafarian (Flying Spaghetti Monster if you were wondering, as a protest against intelligent design) in. This would be more fun tha listing Jedi as 70,000 people did in 2001, and as we have the option to release full uncensored details in 2105 to our descendants it will be a great joke on them. Pity that we won't be around to see them scratch their heads on that one.
The other "informal" answer question is number 5, marital status. There is a similar push to have "Same Sex Marriage" put in as the answer for anyone who wishes to protest the Howard/Costello coservative constitutional amendments rushed through to stop such an act.
According to a recent /. thread India has rejected the OLPC project, so how will a solar WiFi mesh create anything more than the ability for the rich to get access on their Lenovo's, Sony's and Toshiba's when they are doing a visit to the slums?
So, how are we supposed to RTFA then the FA is over 470MB and a video file. Why not just a nice simple text summary Mr Submitter, but nooooo that would just be too easy!
I have available to me quite a large database of historical research spanning back to 1991, being freeform copies of emails between researchers and acedemics on a wide variety of topics to do with a specific topic from the 15th century. Dry stuff, but a very exciting topic.
;) but it does open up some interesting possibilities.
;)
At the moment the data is mined with wildcard text searching, which means you need to know the subject before you can participate. It's a very valuable resource, but it's also not used to it's potential due to the clunky methods of interfacing with it.
It will be quite interesting applying this technique to the dataset to see if unknown relationships become apparent or known relationships become clearer.
Looking at the paper and samples would indicate this tool (if it does what it promises) might be able to not only work out the correlation between datum but to create visual diagrams linking people, places and events quite well. A handy tool for my dataset.
I'm now sitting here crystal ball gazing; if we were to expand this to a 3D map. Say by displaying a resulting chart and allow a researcher to hotlink to the data underneath it would be an interesting way to navigate a complex topic, more so than a text based wild or fuzzy search. Of course I won't know if this is possible until I look into the program more, and I won't be able to look into the program more until I massage teh dataset again
Click on the Anthony Ashcam box and see the hotlinking and unfolding of data specific to him. Drill in more... then more... and eventually get to a specific fact.
The only problem will be that I would need to pre-compute all the charts. Oh well, one day
Sure, multi-key shortcuts are nice but if you have too many of them they become harder to remember, especially those tasks you only do once a week.
I have been using a program called Katupult for many months now. It provides the advantages of shortcuts to programs and bookmarks without the need to memorise anything.
To execute this program you press your start key (Mine is Alt-Space) then you just start typing.
Xine? Alt-Space x
Firefox? Alt-Space f
Konversation? Alt-Space ko
Google? Alt-Space go
Slashdot? Alt-Space sl
Well, you get the idea. As you type an OSD box on the screen cycles through the choice for the letters you have typed. There is no setup, it calculates all the shortcuts dynamically. In a letter tie (say k) the more you type the more you drill down. I rarely have to type more than three characters for the most obscure program.
I am left wondering if this car is involved in an accident if the batteries will vent like the recent /. articles suggest.
Exploding Dells, fires on planes, and soon at an intersection near you... cars venting more flame than the batmobile.
But we all know the Moon landings were a hoax. These researchers must be faking their results to fraudulently obtain grant money.
I was a little sceptical, but after I RTFA and watched the demo I would definately love to see some of those techniques make their way into window managers. Applying the snippet of the demo with the photo light box to the desktop would be quite nice, resizing windows by pulling the corners apart, flicking them into corners and so on.
Mind you, how do you keep the screen clean of fingerprints and pizza grease smears.
"How will I ever get rid of my male jelly now?"
Well, someone had to say it!
Ask Slashdot, Wikipedia and the Collective Hive Mind.
Ah, everything old is new again
The answer would have to be...
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Although just skimmed over in the precis, as no one else seems to have commented I will say the tablet would be quite handy in some school settings.
Right now our school employs a aide to copy graphical information onto paper with puff-ink or an embossing wheel. She traces the pictures and the ink expands and is "readable" by the visually impared kids we have, the wheel on the other hand leaves an impression in the paper that feels like braille.
Both these techniques lets them "see" the shape of squares, triangles, countries - even letters that you or I read. The biggest disadvantage is that the aide needs to be with the child as they learn to give a description of what is being seen. With this system and pre-prepared sheets the child can explore graphical images in their own way without another person being with them.
The web page is at http://www.touchgraphics.com/ttt.htm if anyone is interested in looking more.
By the way, for all the web developers out there, we find that many pages are not really accessable; tables for layout are generally a PITA to read, CSS works very nicely though.
Just like you create a web page then test it in Opera, FFx, Safari, Konqueror, Lynx and IE you should run it through a JAWS simulator. JAWS is the main Windows based text to speech screen reading tool many visually impared people use. JAWS Demo from Here FANGS is a firefox extension that simulates what a visually impared person will see if they are using JAWS (FANGS is easier than JAWS for sighted people to use as you don't need to learn a heap of key bindings). Please add it to your arsenal of testing tools.
mod_security for Apache can do exactly this sort of regex matching and serve up an error page if a match is found. The logs are pretty easy to grep to find occurences of a match and hence track the data down.
The Washington Times has a slightly better writeup. Not exact but way better than that poor link.
By the way - to the editors.... It's Winnie not Winny.
Yet unlike violent murders, drug abusers, "adult" rapists, thieves, psychotics, necrophiliacs and even zoophiles
As a schizophrenic who has suffered from many a psychotic episode I really dislike your bundling of this word within a group of objectionable terms.
You really should research the disorder and it's treatment and in turn become a little more compassionate towards those not in your "normal" frame of mind.
I see that Senator Helen Coonan missed a chance to be in mining gear like the rest of cabinet :/ and had to settle with cutting a ribbon instead?
Meh, it's a copypaste from ShellyTheRepublican.com
It's Just trying to drive up adsense revenue at that site.
Don't humour them and they will go away.
But Spaceway-3 (when it's launced in 2007) is to be at 95W which is not accessible in Australia, As the test is taking place down under it would need to be a satellite parked around 160E. Unfortunately this means one of the Aussats or Asiasats which would not really be suitable for such a high velocity test.
Would that would be
In the last two millenia I don't know of any country that waged war with Australia and attempted to invade them. The aussies were involved in wars as a part of the british empire but it was alwasy in far off places.
How about Japan?
If I lived in a country in which no house had ever burned down since it's founding then I would not buy fire insurance.
You are aware that Japan bombed Australia during WWII aren't you?
So tell me, who is going to be attacking Australia?
Indonesia is a prime candidate if not for Australia's role in East Timor then for some other cultural difference. Hell, maybe Costello will finally convince everyone that Islam really is to be feared as much as he incites and we go to war on that basis.
Probably through the MRU :) It's a prime area for forensics and the first place most investigators look. If he also used a program like MRU-Blaster run from a USB memory key (which also holds your secure eraser) will help to remove the chance that "they" could find out you're using the programs.
While this is a good thing the summary overstates things a little. It is, in fact, just one department of one state. A mere chink in the armour.