By the cup? At the Baltimore Science Center, there is currently a K'nex exhibit along with tables where you can build your own models. If you want to take it home, you pay by the pound. Makes much more sense than selling by volume.
The funny thing is, those jokes about Emacs being slow date back to the 80s. These days, I find that Emacs is about the fastest app to start on a modern Linux distribution.
The rest of userland has gotten fatter and fatter, but Emacs has stayed about the same.
Since the story asks for favorite things about Emacs, I will just add: Gnus. The best email app bar none.
Are they planning to submit their system for FIPS 140-2? The US OMB decreed that most laptops must be encrypted with full-disk FIPS 140-2-compliant encryption, but the only certified tools for this exist for Windoze. The algorithms used are fine, but this stamp of approval would be very useful for federal Linux and Mac users!
Looking at the images in the actual patent, this actually seems to specifically cover how they present travel, product, and news results on top of the regular search results.
I'm not 100% sure, since I can't seem to get to a technical description, just the pictures. But this isn't a patent on the design of general search results pages.
Avi Rubin was a guest today on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU (a local NPR station). Not only is Professor Rubin an outspoken critic of the Diebold systems, he has also participated in the last two elections as an election judge. You can listen to the radio show at the above link once it gets archived later this afternoon. Some good commentary on Ehrlich's statement and on the election in Maryland in general.
Note that by having internal components connected to USB, they have a higher battery drain (simply because of how USB works) than they would if connected some other way. You can save battery by shutting down the iSight and bluetooth when you're not using them.
The article blurb seems to assume that plain-old (analog?) elections are perfect, whereas digital voting is possibly subject to fraud. In fact there is error inherent in both schemes, both intentional and unintentional, and from a variety of sources.
The problem with criticizing voting problems with electronic voting machines is that you don't have a comparable error rate for a paper ballot scheme. The question isn't how bad, it's whether it's worse or better.
And frankly, the problem isn't error, because errors are unavoiable. The problem is accountability. And until e-voting is accountable and auditable, it should go away.
Not that it's so hard to hunt up his homepage(s), but the summary is that Udi Manber was a very big name in web search before web search became big business. He wrote agrep, Glimpse, Harvest, and other nifty things.
This is a different kind of hire than snagging that guy from Microsoft.
All those shared libraries are also part of the reason that KDE and GNOME can take so long to start up, and why more memory and a higher-RPM hard disk can speed things up. It does make me laugh sometimes that Emacs is now one of Linux's fastest-starting desktop apps.
I was listening to a story on NPR this morning, that the astronauts on the ISS were going to launch "SuitSat", which is an empty Russian space suit with a radio transmitter inside and an antenna attached to the helmet. HAMs get to track it as it burns through the atmosphere. (What the point of this is, I couldn't begin to speculate...)
Now I realize the suit isn't empty. It's the last guy who pissed off the NASA IG.
If Technorati or other bloggers are having nightmares about blog search, it's way too late. Frankly, since having a successful blog is all about being read, I think that bloggers would clamor for good search tools.
Speaking of which, there's been a workshop on blogs and blog search at the past couple WWW conferences. Here's some links:
Anyone got good links on Ajax? The articles on the Adaptive Path site are enough to grab your interest, but I'd like to see some full sample apps or a tutorial or something?
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"Modern computing"? He's the father (or certainly one of the fathers) of computation as any sort of scientific or mathematical discipline.
.... watch me pull a planet out of my hat!
You go to evolution with the planet you have, not the planet you wish you had.
By the cup? At the Baltimore Science Center, there is currently a K'nex exhibit along with tables where you can build your own models. If you want to take it home, you pay by the pound. Makes much more sense than selling by volume.
The funny thing is, those jokes about Emacs being slow date back to the 80s. These days, I find that Emacs is about the fastest app to start on a modern Linux distribution.
The rest of userland has gotten fatter and fatter, but Emacs has stayed about the same.
Since the story asks for favorite things about Emacs, I will just add: Gnus. The best email app bar none.
Are they planning to submit their system for FIPS 140-2? The US OMB decreed that most laptops must be encrypted with full-disk FIPS 140-2-compliant encryption, but the only certified tools for this exist for Windoze. The algorithms used are fine, but this stamp of approval would be very useful for federal Linux and Mac users!
Looking at the images in the actual patent, this actually seems to specifically cover how they present travel, product, and news results on top of the regular search results.
I'm not 100% sure, since I can't seem to get to a technical description, just the pictures. But this isn't a patent on the design of general search results pages.
http://www.wamu.org/programs/kn/06/09/21.php#12024
Avi Rubin was a guest today on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU (a local NPR station). Not only is Professor Rubin an outspoken critic of the Diebold systems, he has also participated in the last two elections as an election judge. You can listen to the radio show at the above link once it gets archived later this afternoon. Some good commentary on Ehrlich's statement and on the election in Maryland in general.
So I have the THX widescreen release of the original trilogy without the new scenes. What's the best way to transfer these to DVD?
More useful information for geeks... although the support is indeed the real news.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/releasenotes/606
Hmmm.
/usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
$ grep 'us$'
11835
Not done yet.
Note that by having internal components connected to USB, they have a higher battery drain (simply because of how USB works) than they would if connected some other way. You can save battery by shutting down the iSight and bluetooth when you're not using them.
The article blurb seems to assume that plain-old (analog?) elections are perfect, whereas digital voting is possibly subject to fraud. In fact there is error inherent in both schemes, both intentional and unintentional, and from a variety of sources.
The problem with criticizing voting problems with electronic voting machines is that you don't have a comparable error rate for a paper ballot scheme. The question isn't how bad, it's whether it's worse or better.
And frankly, the problem isn't error, because errors are unavoiable. The problem is accountability. And until e-voting is accountable and auditable, it should go away.
Not that it's so hard to hunt up his homepage(s), but the summary is that Udi Manber was a very big name in web search before web search became big business. He wrote agrep, Glimpse, Harvest, and other nifty things.
This is a different kind of hire than snagging that guy from Microsoft.
All those shared libraries are also part of the reason that KDE and GNOME can take so long to start up, and why more memory and a higher-RPM hard disk can speed things up. It does make me laugh sometimes that Emacs is now one of Linux's fastest-starting desktop apps.
Sure you can. Take a gander at http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000153064739/
What you don't get with VMware player is the nifty GUI to help you with the setup.
I was listening to a story on NPR this morning, that the astronauts on the ISS were going to launch "SuitSat", which is an empty Russian space suit with a radio transmitter inside and an antenna attached to the helmet. HAMs get to track it as it burns through the atmosphere. (What the point of this is, I couldn't begin to speculate...)
Now I realize the suit isn't empty. It's the last guy who pissed off the NASA IG.
So that's why I always feel better after I get a new computer!
If Technorati or other bloggers are having nightmares about blog search, it's way too late. Frankly, since having a successful blog is all about being read, I think that bloggers would clamor for good search tools.
Speaking of which, there's been a workshop on blogs and blog search at the past couple WWW conferences. Here's some links:
http://www.blogpulse.com/www2004-workshop.html
http://www.blogpulse.com/www2005-workshop.html
I recompiled my Gentoo install using a beta of the GPLv3, and my desktop alrady feels more responsive and snappy!
It's good to be reminded that Slashdot is a Technology, not a Lifestyle.
Hey, if you just query "Area 51" on Google Maps, you get right there, plus a link to the Best Western!
Found some myself in the article and elsewhere:
s uggest-dissected.html l e.html
d ex.html
http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-
http://johnvey.com/features/gmailapi/
http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-goog
and a nice set of articles from Apple's Developer site... (see the one on scripting in iframes, and rendering XML with CSS and JavaScript)
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/in
Anyone got good links on Ajax? The articles on the Adaptive Path site are enough to grab your interest, but I'd like to see some full sample apps or a tutorial or something?
Hey, now British Telecom can sue Amazon!