For today's print edition, Tackett has duplicated the familiar components of The Saratogian from scratch, with the goal being that you won't know the difference between the look of today's paper and tomorrow's. Likewise, photographers Erica Miller and Ed Burke have used free software instead of Photoshop for their pictures, and the reporters have filed their stories in Googled Docs instead of Microsoft Word. Online Editor Steve Shoemaker is posting video and stories to a free website, in addition to the regular site at saratogian.com.
Considering how much needs to be done in such a short amount of time, newspapers tend to use massive collections of templates and integrated scripts if it will save even a few minutes during a production night. Even if the new templates and scripts were prepared in advance (bug-free and fully-featured, I'm sure), those doing layout would be put at an incredible disadvantage, even if they knew how to use the new programs at the same technical proficiency as their current ones (which I'm guessing they didn't).
A copy editor (who spends most of his job laying out a paper, not finding typos, despite his title) at the Montreal Gazette, a daily in a large city, describes transitioning from QuarkXPress to InDesign over a month or so, in stages, with certain staff and sections learning how to use the new system each week. Anyone who thinks trying new specialized software for one day will result in anything other than total chaos is kidding themselves. ("Hey, we switched from Drupal to Joomla for one day and it was much less efficient and took a lot more time.")
Also, the headline and summary are not completely correct: the paper used free (as in beer) software, some of which was libre and open source, some of which was not (Google Docs, likely the video site).
My office does all three of those, although it's partially so coworkers can access your computer if you're sick (lack of folder sharing being a problem in and of itself). In fact, I think my immediate boss is at 'password14' right now.
What I remember Activision for was the original MechWarrior game. I had to underclock my 486DX2-66 (still in my (mom's) basement (no, I don't live down there...yet)) to 10 MHz so the "robots" moved at a reasonable speed. Of course, when starting at opposite ends of the battlefield, it was much quicker to hit the turbo button and jump back up to 66 MHz till they started firing on you and then slow down again. One run in which the button didn't uncatch, leading to many frantic pushes, resulted in having to sell two Battlemechs just to cover repair costs.
Gosh,/., couldn't you have run this story during the day, when I didn't need to go to sleep? Ah, well, off to DOSBox.
It's probably the first time I've ever said this, but I am an expert on these machines, as I drive one for a living. One of the main reasons rinks still prefer natural gas (or even propane) is that those ice resurfacers have what are essentially internal combustion engines, which reduces repair costs, because the cities that own them usually have many spare parts around and the employees that work for the city usually know a lot more about ICEs than electric engines.
Further, eight years seems a little short for a natural gas machine; our last one (propane, actually) went 15-20 years (and we still use it to take out the ice in April and when our main one breaks down (man, it's a PITA to drive)) and our newer one is still going strong after nearly 10 years, and given its 3,800 hours of use, we probably won't be replacing it till near the end of the decade (barring unexpected problems), hopefully when electric motors are more competitive.
Lastly (not a reply to you, but to others), so long as your ventilation system is decent (which I would assume an Olympic oval's is), and it's actually used properly, air quality in an arena using a natural gas resurfacer is essentially the same as that in one using an electric resurfacer. If our arena didn't pass with the flying colours it got and instead got the massive fail 4 Glaces got I'd be suing my city (or getting our union to do it) immediately; I'm sure Olympic spectators have nothing to worry about.
Not exactly. As TFA states, "Air Canada stopped serving peanuts years ago, but the airline still serves cashews and other snacks that contain nuts."
As the CBC mentioned on TV today when covering this story, the cashews and other fancy nuts are only served in executive class. Which makes me wonder how it can be so difficult to make a nut-free zone; just put the woman in the back of the plane.
Also, you have your story reversed: on domestic and transborder (US) flights Air Canada doesn't charge for non-alcoholic drinks, but does charge you for food (sometimes they give you a free small snack (usually sesame sticks, but sometimes these lovely tangy and spicy lemony hard crisps)). Everything is free on overseas.
Lots of confusion in the comments, so here's the skinny on defamation law in Canada, taken directly from this judgment (removing citations for readability):
[28] A plaintiff in a defamation action is required to prove three things to obtain judgment and an award of damages: (1) that the impugned words were defamatory, in the sense that they would tend to lower the plaintiff's reputation in the eyes of a reasonable person; (2) that the words in fact referred to the plaintiff; and (3) that the words were published, meaning that they were communicated to at least one person other than the plaintiff. If these elements are established on a balance of probabilities, falsity and damage are presumed, though this rule has been subject to strong criticism: [citations]. (The only exception is that slander requires proof of special damages, unless the impugned words were slanderous per se: [citation].) The plaintiff is not required to show that the defendant intended to do harm, or even that the defendant was careless. The tort is thus one of strict liability.
[29] If the plaintiff proves the required elements, the onus then shifts to the defendant to advance a defence in order to escape liability.
[30] Both statements of opinion and statements of fact may attract the defence of privilege, depending on the occasion on which they were made. Some "occasions", like Parliamentary and legal proceedings, are absolutely privileged. Others, like reference letters or credit reports, enjoy "qualified" privilege, meaning that the privilege can be defeated by proof that the defendant acted with malice: [citation]. The defences of absolute and qualified privilege reflect the fact that "common convenience and welfare of society" sometimes requires untrammelled communications: [citation]. The law acknowledges through recognition of privileged occasions that false and defamatory expression may sometimes contribute to desirable social ends.
[31] In addition to privilege, statements of opinion, a category which includes any "deduction, inference, conclusion, criticism, judgment, remark or observation which is generally incapable of proof" ([citation]), may attract the defence of fair comment. As reformulated in WIC Radio, at para. 28, a defendant claiming fair comment must satisfy the following test: (a) the comment must be on a matter of public interest; (b) the comment must be based on fact; (c) the comment, though it can include inferences of fact, must be recognisable as comment; (d) the comment must satisfy the following objective test: could any person honestly express that opinion on the proved facts?; and (e) even though the comment satisfies the objective test the defence can be defeated if the plaintiff proves that the defendant was actuated by express malice. WIC Radio expanded the fair comment defence by changing the traditional requirement that the opinion be one that a "fairminded" person could honestly hold, to a requirement that it be one that "anyone could honestly have expressed" (paras. 49-51), which allows for robust debate. As Binnie J. put it, "[w]e live in a free country where people have as much right to express outrageous and ridiculous opinions as moderate ones" (para. 4).
[32] Where statements of fact are at issue, usually only two defences are available: the defence that the statement was substantially true (justification); and the defence that the statement was made in a protected context (privilege). The issue in this case is whether the defences to actions for defamatory statements of fact should be expanded, as has been done for statements of opinion, in recognition of the importance of freedom of expression in a free society.
Long story short: prove someone defamed you (defamatory, towards you, published), they're presumed guilty, with onus shifting. To defend themselves, they must prove either 1) the statements were absolutely privileged (from court or parliamentary testimony or documentation); 2) the statements enjoyed qualified p
I reach for my 70's era calculator and estimate the operational life of 34 years for this system. Some Fragility. Who or what at the Post has been there that long.
Washington Post? 1970s? Any big events during that time that are still relevant today? I know there's something, I just can't gate my mind around it....
I always found the Basel problem to be the most elegant converging series involving pi (being the square root of six times the sum of the reciprocals of the squares), probably because there are so many (elegant) proofs of this (pdf), because it's so simple to understand yet not so simple to prove on a cursory inspection, and because it's the specific case that generalized to one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics.
Actually, SSNs do not get reused. I recently met someone who works for the SSA who told me that they are currently trying to figure out what to do about this. The obvious solution -- increasing the number of digits, like what happened recently to the ISBN -- takes a lot infrastructural changes, both in government and the private sector. He said congressmen often told the SSA "Just do it!" and used things like this as an example of how bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, but that most of them now understand that the civil service doesn't always drag its feet because they resist change, contrary to what Sir Humphrey may have made them think.
Culture substantially different? The US only passed a law banning this in 1977, Canada in 1988, while until 1998 Germany made such bribes tax deductible! It's called schmiergelder:
Schmiergelder was the official name designated under German tax law permitting middlemen to deduct from their incomes bribes or any other payments to foreigners to secure the sale of German products. These deductions were called necessary business expenses. Schmiergelder is translated literally as "grease money".
The practice of paying schmiergelder was permitted until 1998 when Germany joined other European countries in a pact prohibiting the payment of grease money to foreign public officials. Germany expanded the ban in 2002 to include more than just public officials; it now prohibited paying Schmiergelder to anyone in a foreign country in a decision-making role.
So let's not pretend this is just Third World countries and the Western World is completely ethical.
'Swine' flu responds well to the relatively recent anti-flu drug Oseltamivir (marketing name: Tamiflu). That is to say, it gets killed pretty quickly and eradicated from the body if treatment is followed through (yeah, I know, right?). That's good news for the producers of Tamiflu who love having this in the news, and for their shareholders who saw their stock skyrocket as a result.
Skyrocket, eh? Gilead Sciences, which developed Tamiflu/Oseltamivir, and Roche, which markets it, haven't moved much since the outbreak started on March 18 (although this was apparently assumed to be regular flu for a few days, so it's hard to tell when people would have noticed this, although there is a weird spike in volume on March 18 even though the price barely moved (there was also a similar spike the last two days this week, but the price dropped 10%)). Further, the price hasn't moved much during any identifiable period I can see; GILD had an 8% bounce over two days at the beginning of April (which it has now lost), but this is much smaller movement than what was seen in January and February.
On the other hand Zanamivir (trade name Relenza), developped by Biota and marketed by GlaxoSmithKline has seen some movement. GSK, like Roche and GILD, had some movement since March 18 but nothing out of the ordinary (10% max movement and 0% net over the period), especially compared to the previous two months. Biota, on the other hand, has jumped nearly 40% this week, and has had an identifiable volume jump this week. Is this related to the pandemic? Maybe, but the company released a press release Thursday saying its royalties from Relenza for the first three months of 2009 (mostly before the swine flu) were sixteen times greater than the average royalties over the preceding two 3-month periods, and market regulators are wondering if there was some insider trading going on that anticipated the report. That's certainly likely to affect the price independent of the swine flu.
It's pretty special that there's tons of people out there just waiting around to make money off of this kind of thing.
Since the price of any of these shares has not skyrocketed as you claimed, and arguably may have gone down, depending when you decide the information could have been reasonably public that people could have figured out to invest in these companies, it seems the opportunity for these people waiting around to make money is still there. Perhaps as someone thinking about these things without looking at any facts, maybe you should just jump right in.
P.S. Don't forget to check out the next season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles this fall on FOX.
But it's so much more fun to blame editors (I know, being one myself). And to be fair, it's not like the names aren't slightly confusing to us registrANTs!
CIRA is the registrY for the.ca ccTLD, and is the manager for the entire domain name space, selling domains "wholesale" to registrARs, which sell them "retail" to the public. Come on, the CBC got it right, can't/.?
I figured if there is anybody that has a right to download "Death Magnetic" for free, it's me.
Wrong. I'm going to apply your logic here...
Actually, you're wrong; Lars is just displaying his mastery of logic, trying to fool people into thinking he's okay with filesharing. See, he said "if there is anybody that has a right to download 'Death Magnetic' for free....'" There (likely) isn't. So the antecedent is false, so his statement is true.
It's never a good idea to try to out-logic a pirate.
Not only that: I hear that when Poles get distressed, they go to Monaco. Must be the gambling, the cure for all distress (I hear James Bond is actually a Pole).
Actually, editing is not an Olympic broadcasting tradition; it's an NBC Olympic broadcasting tradition. Most Olympic networks show as much as they can live, and only show events tape-delayed when there are two events worth watching at the same time (or they're showing recaps when it's night time where the Olympics are).
NBC, on the other hand, instead of showing one of the most exciting opening ceremonies ever, decided to show The Today Show and, in my area, local news (apparently some loser got arrested for a domestic assault!).
Sadly, this is not news either. Which is why most Americans who live on the Canadian border watch the Olympics on CBC.
Each time I think they've reached the mountain top, they come up with something even better.
[...] Each time I think I've seen how low they can sink, they find some way to sink even lower.
These questions are simply unanswerable.
And the question is...what law (of physics) are they breaking? I guess it's interesting to note that they're also literally out of touch from humanity.
57 percent reported that they weren't comfortable their activities tracked for advertising purposes, even if the information couldn't be tied to their names or real-life identities.
I wonder what question they actually asked (no link in TFA). If the summary accurately reflects the question, then what would we expect? "Are you comfortable that your web browsing, email and purchases are tracked for advertising purposes, even if the information can't be tied to your name or real-life identity?" I'm surprised 43 per cent of people said no to this! There's really no way to figure out this information without biasing the sample as you ask the question.
America had a mad dictator at one time stomping on personal freedoms, and the country learned from that about how democracy and freedom should work. The country has pledged never to let that crap happen again.
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Considering how much needs to be done in such a short amount of time, newspapers tend to use massive collections of templates and integrated scripts if it will save even a few minutes during a production night. Even if the new templates and scripts were prepared in advance (bug-free and fully-featured, I'm sure), those doing layout would be put at an incredible disadvantage, even if they knew how to use the new programs at the same technical proficiency as their current ones (which I'm guessing they didn't).
A copy editor (who spends most of his job laying out a paper, not finding typos, despite his title) at the Montreal Gazette, a daily in a large city, describes transitioning from QuarkXPress to InDesign over a month or so, in stages, with certain staff and sections learning how to use the new system each week. Anyone who thinks trying new specialized software for one day will result in anything other than total chaos is kidding themselves. ("Hey, we switched from Drupal to Joomla for one day and it was much less efficient and took a lot more time.")
Also, the headline and summary are not completely correct: the paper used free (as in beer) software, some of which was libre and open source, some of which was not (Google Docs, likely the video site).
My office does all three of those, although it's partially so coworkers can access your computer if you're sick (lack of folder sharing being a problem in and of itself). In fact, I think my immediate boss is at 'password14' right now.
Civ II was MicroProse (ahh, that list takes me back); Activision did Call to Power.
/., couldn't you have run this story during the day, when I didn't need to go to sleep? Ah, well, off to DOSBox.
What I remember Activision for was the original MechWarrior game. I had to underclock my 486DX2-66 (still in my (mom's) basement (no, I don't live down there...yet)) to 10 MHz so the "robots" moved at a reasonable speed. Of course, when starting at opposite ends of the battlefield, it was much quicker to hit the turbo button and jump back up to 66 MHz till they started firing on you and then slow down again. One run in which the button didn't uncatch, leading to many frantic pushes, resulted in having to sell two Battlemechs just to cover repair costs.
Gosh,
It's probably the first time I've ever said this, but I am an expert on these machines, as I drive one for a living. One of the main reasons rinks still prefer natural gas (or even propane) is that those ice resurfacers have what are essentially internal combustion engines, which reduces repair costs, because the cities that own them usually have many spare parts around and the employees that work for the city usually know a lot more about ICEs than electric engines.
Further, eight years seems a little short for a natural gas machine; our last one (propane, actually) went 15-20 years (and we still use it to take out the ice in April and when our main one breaks down (man, it's a PITA to drive)) and our newer one is still going strong after nearly 10 years, and given its 3,800 hours of use, we probably won't be replacing it till near the end of the decade (barring unexpected problems), hopefully when electric motors are more competitive.
Lastly (not a reply to you, but to others), so long as your ventilation system is decent (which I would assume an Olympic oval's is), and it's actually used properly, air quality in an arena using a natural gas resurfacer is essentially the same as that in one using an electric resurfacer. If our arena didn't pass with the flying colours it got and instead got the massive fail 4 Glaces got I'd be suing my city (or getting our union to do it) immediately; I'm sure Olympic spectators have nothing to worry about.
Not exactly. As TFA states, "Air Canada stopped serving peanuts years ago, but the airline still serves cashews and other snacks that contain nuts."
As the CBC mentioned on TV today when covering this story, the cashews and other fancy nuts are only served in executive class. Which makes me wonder how it can be so difficult to make a nut-free zone; just put the woman in the back of the plane.
Also, you have your story reversed: on domestic and transborder (US) flights Air Canada doesn't charge for non-alcoholic drinks, but does charge you for food (sometimes they give you a free small snack (usually sesame sticks, but sometimes these lovely tangy and spicy lemony hard crisps)). Everything is free on overseas.
Long story short: prove someone defamed you (defamatory, towards you, published), they're presumed guilty, with onus shifting. To defend themselves, they must prove either 1) the statements were absolutely privileged (from court or parliamentary testimony or documentation); 2) the statements enjoyed qualified p
Washington Post? 1970s? Any big events during that time that are still relevant today? I know there's something, I just can't gate my mind around it....
Aha! Proof that allowing any more than 10x100mL bottles will result in a terrorist attack. Way to pick the right number, airport security regulators.
I always found the Basel problem to be the most elegant converging series involving pi (being the square root of six times the sum of the reciprocals of the squares), probably because there are so many (elegant) proofs of this (pdf), because it's so simple to understand yet not so simple to prove on a cursory inspection, and because it's the specific case that generalized to one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics.
Actually, SSNs do not get reused. I recently met someone who works for the SSA who told me that they are currently trying to figure out what to do about this. The obvious solution -- increasing the number of digits, like what happened recently to the ISBN -- takes a lot infrastructural changes, both in government and the private sector. He said congressmen often told the SSA "Just do it!" and used things like this as an example of how bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, but that most of them now understand that the civil service doesn't always drag its feet because they resist change, contrary to what Sir Humphrey may have made them think.
Not that vague at all; pretty direct, in fact.
So let's not pretend this is just Third World countries and the Western World is completely ethical.
Skyrocket, eh? Gilead Sciences, which developed Tamiflu/Oseltamivir, and Roche, which markets it, haven't moved much since the outbreak started on March 18 (although this was apparently assumed to be regular flu for a few days, so it's hard to tell when people would have noticed this, although there is a weird spike in volume on March 18 even though the price barely moved (there was also a similar spike the last two days this week, but the price dropped 10%)). Further, the price hasn't moved much during any identifiable period I can see; GILD had an 8% bounce over two days at the beginning of April (which it has now lost), but this is much smaller movement than what was seen in January and February.
On the other hand Zanamivir (trade name Relenza), developped by Biota and marketed by GlaxoSmithKline has seen some movement. GSK, like Roche and GILD, had some movement since March 18 but nothing out of the ordinary (10% max movement and 0% net over the period), especially compared to the previous two months. Biota, on the other hand, has jumped nearly 40% this week, and has had an identifiable volume jump this week. Is this related to the pandemic? Maybe, but the company released a press release Thursday saying its royalties from Relenza for the first three months of 2009 (mostly before the swine flu) were sixteen times greater than the average royalties over the preceding two 3-month periods, and market regulators are wondering if there was some insider trading going on that anticipated the report. That's certainly likely to affect the price independent of the swine flu.
Since the price of any of these shares has not skyrocketed as you claimed, and arguably may have gone down, depending when you decide the information could have been reasonably public that people could have figured out to invest in these companies, it seems the opportunity for these people waiting around to make money is still there. Perhaps as someone thinking about these things without looking at any facts, maybe you should just jump right in.
P.S. Don't forget to check out the next season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles this fall on FOX.
But it's so much more fun to blame editors (I know, being one myself). And to be fair, it's not like the names aren't slightly confusing to us registrANTs!
CIRA is the registrY for the .ca ccTLD, and is the manager for the entire domain name space, selling domains "wholesale" to registrARs, which sell them "retail" to the public. Come on, the CBC got it right, can't /.?
It may be 5 a.m. here, but that's the best business model I've seen in ages:
I figured if there is anybody that has a right to download "Death Magnetic" for free, it's me.
Wrong. I'm going to apply your logic here...
Actually, you're wrong; Lars is just displaying his mastery of logic, trying to fool people into thinking he's okay with filesharing. See, he said "if there is anybody that has a right to download 'Death Magnetic' for free....'" There (likely) isn't. So the antecedent is false, so his statement is true.
It's never a good idea to try to out-logic a pirate.
Not only that: I hear that when Poles get distressed, they go to Monaco. Must be the gambling, the cure for all distress (I hear James Bond is actually a Pole).
Actually, editing is not an Olympic broadcasting tradition; it's an NBC Olympic broadcasting tradition. Most Olympic networks show as much as they can live, and only show events tape-delayed when there are two events worth watching at the same time (or they're showing recaps when it's night time where the Olympics are).
NBC, on the other hand, instead of showing one of the most exciting opening ceremonies ever, decided to show The Today Show and, in my area, local news (apparently some loser got arrested for a domestic assault!).
Sadly, this is not news either. Which is why most Americans who live on the Canadian border watch the Olympics on CBC.
I believe you're thinking of what I like to call the zen cube.
America had a mad dictator at one time stomping on personal freedoms, and the country learned from that about how democracy and freedom should work. The country has pledged never to let that crap happen again.
There, fixed that for you.