I've been working on this for a little while too. The main difference is that all my pages are database driven, from the content to the menu item and the images. My solution (yet to actually be implimentented) is to add another field to the tables that will denote the language, and then use a view based on the language of the browser to figure out which records get displayed. Someone will have to translate the text, but that is the only sticking point. Everything else - site design, application programming, page logic -stays the same for each language. You won't need to maintain multiple language pages or static include files. It is all done through the same web-based entry form.
Am I the only one that is getting really pissed at the marketing and timing decisions on DVD releases? I just bought the VHS of Episode 1, but I would have waited until September for a DVD version. I just saw that Disney is releasing a "Special Edition" of Tarzan, a month or so after the regular version. Is it just me or doesn't it seem like these groups are trying to milk buyers twice for the same thing? Now I can live with Special Editions coming out 1-2 years later, but within *MONTHS* of the first release? That is not an accident. I would buy the special editions, pay more money for them if they were offered up front, but I will not pay a second time for the same thing plus a little bit extra.
The main questions I have are about how the system will be implimented. We've heard that people can annonomously call in others for fun and profit, but what happens then? What are Pinkerton's reccommended actions?
Is the child or the parents notifed of the calls or are they quietly filed into school records?
Do school counselors get involved?
Is the kid thrown out of school until everything is verified?
Are the calls, callers, and target of the calls confidential until a real problem is verified?
Are there reccommended actions for people that knowingly make false accusations?
What are the actions taken to verify the validity of the calls?
There is also a potentially huge legal side to this. When do police get called in? Who is responsible for the system when false malicous calls are made?
This only seems to focus on one side of prevention, and that is the "turn in a friend, he could be evil" kind. Are there plans for any sort of prevention in the form of annonomous help lines that people can call when they are depressed? Something that won't turn right around and go back to their parents and school officials?
The point I'm getting to is who is this tool supposed to help? The school, so they can say "you can't sue us because we bought this tool", or the kids that need help before something happens.
A lot of the comments here seem to be saying "I'm not going to play Quake/compile a kernel/insert-other-high-powered-processor-need-he re on a portable system so I don't think they will make a difference" but how often do you need to do this while walking down the street anyways? The new implimentations of a low power embedded processor are very likely going to be things that we haven't seen before. Possibly things that we have seen in our favorite TV shows like a Star Trek communicator or PADD will be possible. Or it just might be something like a next level PDA, that can do more. Nothing earth-shaking, but it will be useful and easier to integrate into our lives. Just think of everytime you said to yourself "I have that information, but it's on my computer at home". Each of those times you could have had the data synched up to a portable device and have it at your fingertips.
I saw that on ABC last night and read another artic le on ABCNEWS.com from and interview with L0pht saying they can take down the Internet in 30 minutes. I've thought about it and couldn't come up with anything off the top of my head. Is this a group just boasting or is there any fact to it? Wasn't the decentrailzed nature of the Internet designed to avoid going down during war and the like?
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I've been working on this for a little while too. The main difference is that all my pages are database driven, from the content to the menu item and the images. My solution (yet to actually be implimentented) is to add another field to the tables that will denote the language, and then use a view based on the language of the browser to figure out which records get displayed. Someone will have to translate the text, but that is the only sticking point. Everything else - site design, application programming, page logic -stays the same for each language. You won't need to maintain multiple language pages or static include files. It is all done through the same web-based entry form.
Am I the only one that is getting really pissed at the marketing and timing decisions on DVD releases? I just bought the VHS of Episode 1, but I would have waited until September for a DVD version. I just saw that Disney is releasing a "Special Edition" of Tarzan, a month or so after the regular version. Is it just me or doesn't it seem like these groups are trying to milk buyers twice for the same thing? Now I can live with Special Editions coming out 1-2 years later, but within *MONTHS* of the first release? That is not an accident. I would buy the special editions, pay more money for them if they were offered up front, but I will not pay a second time for the same thing plus a little bit extra.
The chapter's name is Sex and Paperwork? You have to fill out a form now? But I HATE paperwork! ::sigh::
- Is the child or the parents notifed of the calls or are they quietly filed into school records?
- Do school counselors get involved?
- Is the kid thrown out of school until everything is verified?
- Are the calls, callers, and target of the calls confidential until a real problem is verified?
- Are there reccommended actions for people that knowingly make false accusations?
- What are the actions taken to verify the validity of the calls?
There is also a potentially huge legal side to this. When do police get called in? Who is responsible for the system when false malicous calls are made?This only seems to focus on one side of prevention, and that is the "turn in a friend, he could be evil" kind. Are there plans for any sort of prevention in the form of annonomous help lines that people can call when they are depressed? Something that won't turn right around and go back to their parents and school officials?
The point I'm getting to is who is this tool supposed to help? The school, so they can say "you can't sue us because we bought this tool", or the kids that need help before something happens.
A lot of the comments here seem to be saying "I'm not going to play Quake/compile a kernel/insert-other-high-powered-processor-need-he re on a portable system so I don't think they will make a difference" but how often do you need to do this while walking down the street anyways? The new implimentations of a low power embedded processor are very likely going to be things that we haven't seen before. Possibly things that we have seen in our favorite TV shows like a Star Trek communicator or PADD will be possible. Or it just might be something like a next level PDA, that can do more. Nothing earth-shaking, but it will be useful and easier to integrate into our lives. Just think of everytime you said to yourself "I have that information, but it's on my computer at home". Each of those times you could have had the data synched up to a portable device and have it at your fingertips.
I saw that on ABC last night and read another artic le on ABCNEWS.com from and interview with L0pht saying they can take down the Internet in 30 minutes. I've thought about it and couldn't come up with anything off the top of my head. Is this a group just boasting or is there any fact to it? Wasn't the decentrailzed nature of the Internet designed to avoid going down during war and the like?