I too thought there had to be pictures. In this day and age eye witness accounts == pictures. I found a few pictures, and they aren't very sensational. Prepare to be disappointed!
These are were taken from the blog of the Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita detailing their travels this year. They have eye witness accounts of the plastic garbage. It turns out the plastic is not even close to a island, or anything island like. The plastic that is out looks like the byproduct of a will-it-blend episode.
To get any detectable and easily studied plastic they set out a small net and trawl for the plastic:
"[T]rawls today were the highest plastic concentration we have seen yet"... "The pictures are from 2 ea. 2 hour trawls covering 1 meter wide by 6 miles long."
Regarding the difficulty seeing it:
"Then when I went up to sit on the boom to get a higher vantage point for spotting bigger pieces, the first thing I noticed was, I could no longer see the small fragments, so if you are on the deck of 300 ft ship, you will not even see the real problem. I tried to film the small bits, but I don't know how well it came out."
"[T]he plastic we have accumulated from the trawls-these are the tiny fragments which we will not be able to quantify and classify until we get them back to the lab.
This link needs to be in this discussion somewhere In the Beginning was
the Command Line (It was written before Stephenson went insane writing the Baroque Cycle, so it shouldnt take your more than a week to read)
The AskSlashdot question leads me to believe that the users are doing a lot of data entry. I have experienced similar feedback when migrating users from one system to a newer system with 'bling'.
The thing one has to look at is not the time to do one thing but one task. It is a big difference. A thing is copy this field to that field, a task is something like register this customer for our great new service.
Lets say you have some data entry drone that is reading from a piece of paper ( this happens very often ) and typing the data into the system. On the older style of systems ( green screen ) the users hands are always on the keyboard. On the newer windowed system your hands are alternating between on keyboard and on mouse. The more 'context' switching that goes on to complete one task. That is where all of the wasted time goes.
There are also little things that you learn when you watch people using their old systems. (A very good idea if you ever get the chance. Cute girls in the accounting dept...) Once you learn the buisness practices behind them you can make some very efficient input forms, that dont require a mouse to use.
From http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/200509.shtml#2005-09-12 094345 You can include your Skype ID in your About Me page.... We'll be working with you,... to thoughtfully work out the details of how eBay and Skype will interact, including any policy changes that may be required.
So they are going to add a button to 'talk' with seller.
This is going to work because skype is _Really_ easy to use. Napster easy. I know non techie 50yr old mac users who use skype without any trouble.
http://www.trackplus.de/ has a nice open source jsp/mysql ( and other db's) based track tracking system.
It is a bit rigid, but if you have any coding skills you shouldn't have any problems.
I like it is web based, others here like its reports.
It has things like role seperation; so you can allow a developer to log bugs, bug not close bugs; or allow test engineers to close bugs, but not open new ones.
Over all a nice little system. Never had any problems over the last year or so using it, or more importantly, teaching others how to use it.
If you do a lot of Reading from the database, add a index on the columns you query for.
If you do a lot of Writing to the database, you _may_ want to do batch updating. Or buy/build a raid (I still recommend SCSI )
Finally; Databases are easy to use, but hard to master. There are reasons why people get paid hundreds of dollars an hour to fix peoples database problems.
By uploading a video to the site you are giving them a lot of rights to use the content how they please. For example they could create a GoogleTV show and use your content without paying you, even if it is something that you charge people to view.
Just because they used plain language in their terms does not mean that they are being !evil. I think enticing people to give up the rights to their content is edging twards evil.
I think they could be more clear about what is going on here.
google video: Trading our Bandwidth for your Content.
3. Use of Content. By accepting this Agreement and uploading Your Authorized Content to Google, you are directing and authorizing Google to, and granting Google a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license to, host, cache, route, transmit, store, copy, distribute, perform, display, reformat, excerpt, analyze, and create algorithms based on the Authorized Content in order to (i) host the Authorized Content on Google's servers, (ii) index the Authorized Content; and (iii) display the Authorized Content, in whole or in part in the territory(ies) designated in the Uploading Instructions, in connection with Google products and services now existing or hereafter developed, including without limitation in products developed for syndication. This license gives Google the right to copy, excerpt, distribute and display Your Authorized Content via both streaming and progressive downloading technologies, and to display limited excerpts of Your Authorized Content for no fee to the end user. Google reserves the right to display advertisements in connection with any display of Your Authorized Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Google is not required to host, index, or display any Authorized Content uploaded, and may remove or refuse to host, index or display any Authorized Content. Google is not responsible for any loss, theft or damage of any kind to the Authorized Content.
Sounds a bit evil to me...
They tried to do the linux thing a couple years back. Something called kylix. Sadly no one seems to know about the free ( as in, you use it you give your stuff away free ) Borland® Kylix(TM) 3 Open Edition (their name, not mine).
I haven't done any delphi work in a couple years, and have never heard anyone talking about kylix. Anyone have any experience with it?
Not a problem, unless the sender set their return address to something@OurNewProduct.com, and it doesn't exist.... It doesn't matter if there are invalid domain names WITHIN the message, because it doesn't parse those.
In spam I have seen most of the 'evil' links are contained WITHIN the body of the text. The sending email addresses are from yahoo, gmail &c.
The problem is catching the spammers email. If you made a simple mail filter would send legit emails containing unregistered domains to/dev/null by default. This would be a badthing(tm)
It would be funny if you tried to email a DNS provider about your domain that wasn't resolving.
All of that is produced by these tags ( which are probably overkill)
<DL> <DT> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" <DD> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/</a> <DT> Html Tag info <DD> <a href="http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/">so me random site I found...</a> </DL>
Smart cards are a great way to keep you private encryption key(s) and passwords safe, OFF your computer harddrive, and out of your computer memory.
Why? Because you the user can not know if the computer you are typing on is safe ( think spyware, malware etc... ) .
Current smartcard technology has been problimatic because you can only store tiny amounts of data on them. By tiny I mean really small, shorter than a few SMS (text based cellphone) message amount of data. ( dont forget the file allocation table takes up space...)
You also dont really store data on them, they store data for you. Smart cards are basically little computers, that will only respond with the correct password to give you your data. Pretty clever really.
Now it looks like they will be able to store much more data, like a couple 1024 bit keys, your encrypted passwords and lots of other great stuff like that.
That is what it could be used for... but I am sure everyone is going to buy them because they can save their IE Favorites, and their Email Address book on it.
Google Desktop Search uses the same cookie as Google.com and other Google services. If you send us non-personal information about your Google Desktop Search use, we may be able to make Google services work better by associating this information with other Google services you use and vice versa. You can opt out of...
(emphasis mine)
Oh sure, correlate non personal information. Doesn't that make it personal?
Google search: we know what you dont know
Gmail: we know who you know
GoogleDesktopSearch: All your base are belong to us?
Slashdot Mirror
These are were taken from the blog of the Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita detailing their travels this year. They have eye witness accounts of the plastic garbage. It turns out the plastic is not even close to a island, or anything island like. The plastic that is out looks like the byproduct of a will-it-blend episode.
To get any detectable and easily studied plastic they set out a small net and trawl for the plastic:
Regarding the difficulty seeing it:
Source: http://orvalguita.blogspot.com/2009/07/t.html
Hmm... I should probably post this to wikipedia...
http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/e1____/e1____ps.pdf
There's a reference to a few HDD controller mentioned, jumper positions, etc.
I'd bet you could hack a modern fdd into it fairly easily...
However this image:
http://www.rsc.org/ej/LC/2008/b711622e/b711622e-f4.gif
Is quite impressive. It is a excellent demonstration of what you can build with these channels. Quite cool.
Now where can I find a hand-held corona discharger?
The AskSlashdot question leads me to believe that the users are doing a lot of data entry. I have experienced similar feedback when migrating users from one system to a newer system with 'bling'.
The thing one has to look at is not the time to do one thing but one task. It is a big difference. A thing is copy this field to that field, a task is something like register this customer for our great new service.
Lets say you have some data entry drone that is reading from a piece of paper ( this happens very often ) and typing the data into the system. On the older style of systems ( green screen ) the users hands are always on the keyboard. On the newer windowed system your hands are alternating between on keyboard and on mouse. The more 'context' switching that goes on to complete one task. That is where all of the wasted time goes.
There are also little things that you learn when you watch people using their old systems. (A very good idea if you ever get the chance. Cute girls in the accounting dept...) Once you learn the buisness practices behind them you can make some very efficient input forms, that dont require a mouse to use.
I love uncyclopedia.org I also love wikipedia.org. The Zen of it is amazing.
If that is true and MS did share work that being done under a NDA then G&M deserves to be compensated. May I suggest a fair jury trial?
???
3)Profit!
You can include your Skype ID in your About Me page.
So they are going to add a button to 'talk' with seller.
This is going to work because skype is _Really_ easy to use. Napster easy. I know non techie 50yr old mac users who use skype without any trouble.
It is a bit rigid, but if you have any coding skills you shouldn't have any problems.
I like it is web based, others here like its reports.
It has things like role seperation; so you can allow a developer to log bugs, bug not close bugs; or allow test engineers to close bugs, but not open new ones.
Over all a nice little system. Never had any problems over the last year or so using it, or more importantly, teaching others how to use it.
If you do a lot of Reading from the database, add a index on the columns you query for.
If you do a lot of Writing to the database, you _may_ want to do batch updating. Or buy/build a raid (I still recommend SCSI )
Finally; Databases are easy to use, but hard to master. There are reasons why people get paid hundreds of dollars an hour to fix peoples database problems.
Your post was funny.
( and you were modded 2 Informative -- very nice. )
Just because they used plain language in their terms does not mean that they are being !evil. I think enticing people to give up the rights to their content is edging twards evil.
I think they could be more clear about what is going on here.
3. Use of Content. By accepting this Agreement and uploading Your Authorized Content to Google, you are directing and authorizing Google to, and granting Google a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license to, host, cache, route, transmit, store, copy, distribute, perform, display, reformat, excerpt, analyze, and create algorithms based on the Authorized Content in order to (i) host the Authorized Content on Google's servers, (ii) index the Authorized Content; and (iii) display the Authorized Content, in whole or in part in the territory(ies) designated in the Uploading Instructions, in connection with Google products and services now existing or hereafter developed, including without limitation in products developed for syndication. This license gives Google the right to copy, excerpt, distribute and display Your Authorized Content via both streaming and progressive downloading technologies, and to display limited excerpts of Your Authorized Content for no fee to the end user. Google reserves the right to display advertisements in connection with any display of Your Authorized Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Google is not required to host, index, or display any Authorized Content uploaded, and may remove or refuse to host, index or display any Authorized Content. Google is not responsible for any loss, theft or damage of any kind to the Authorized Content. Sounds a bit evil to me...
I haven't done any delphi work in a couple years, and have never heard anyone talking about kylix. Anyone have any experience with it?
In spam I have seen most of the 'evil' links are contained WITHIN the body of the text. The sending email addresses are from yahoo, gmail &c.
The problem is catching the spammers email. If you made a simple mail filter would send legit emails containing unregistered domains to /dev/null by default. This would be a badthing(tm)
It would be funny if you tried to email a DNS provider about your domain that wasn't resolving.
To Accounting@bla.com:
Please authorise my PO so I may purchase the domainname OurNewProduct.com
Wow... My head just exploded. Thanks. I wonder if you could run a stable kernel and debug a new kernel at the same time. THAT would be great.
All of that is produced by these tags ( which are probably overkill)
Google may be able to help you find out about it.
Here is a link to their Client Softwareinfo page.
I personally would like one of these Fingerprint Scanner + SmartCard reader My old scanner is getting a little old, and isnt USB.
hint hint :)
Why? Because you the user can not know if the computer you are typing on is safe ( think spyware, malware etc... ) .
Current smartcard technology has been problimatic because you can only store tiny amounts of data on them. By tiny I mean really small, shorter than a few SMS (text based cellphone) message amount of data. ( dont forget the file allocation table takes up space...)
You also dont really store data on them, they store data for you. Smart cards are basically little computers, that will only respond with the correct password to give you your data. Pretty clever really.
Now it looks like they will be able to store much more data, like a couple 1024 bit keys, your encrypted passwords and lots of other great stuff like that.
That is what it could be used for... but I am sure everyone is going to buy them because they can save their IE Favorites, and their Email Address book on it.
Oh sure, correlate non personal information. Doesn't that make it personal?
Google search: we know what you dont know
Gmail: we know who you know
GoogleDesktopSearch: All your base are belong to us?
in case they change my sig is currently
and stromthurman's is
why Transparent Aluminum of course!
I like AAC, but we are talking about radio here. I assume a 64kb mp3 encoding would be overkill for standard FM reception.
Any experience with the FM transmitter?