The MediaWiki sunflower would only be suitable as an icon for Wikis powered by that piece of software. I don't have an idea for an icon to represent all wikis.
Given the US-flag motif for politics articles for anywhere in the world, I think the slashdot community would be able to handle it.
You think these guys could plan their retirement at least 50 years in advance. It's not like copyright was 95 years and they suddenly reduced it to 50 years.
Or at least, not outside of these musicians' heads!
It is at best naïve, and at worst xenophobic, to trust every action of your country's government simply because it is your government. It is every government's duty to serve its citizens and to act in the names of its citizens; it is every citizen's duty to ensure that his or her government does not abuse the power that is used in his or her name.
Actually, you missed one of the more important aspects of the fourth point:
He adds a link to his blog using "additional references and a picture" (or variants) as the text. This results in him getting higher google rankings for his blog, particularly for "additional references and a picture" (or variants). Note the Related Links at the top right of the Slashdot page for this article. In addition to a standard "slashvertisement", the effects also amount to a "googletisement".
While in ordinary circumstances this could potentially be acceptable, the contents of Roland's blog entries are usually redundant (including the picture) to the very articles he is reviewing in his blog. This amounts to an abuse of the trust provided by the Slashdot community.
Many people warn other slashdotters by adding the tag "pigpile" (for those who have tagging enabled). However, more people use the Greasemonkey script that will block Roland's pseudoscientific submissions, which brendandonhueposted in a previous Pigpile thread. That is why the Pigpile rants are low, not necessarily the holidays.
I've been using office-style apps heavily since about Office 4, and I haven't seen many new features at all that I consider essential -- *especially* not ones that require adding UI elements to accommodate them.
Exactly; me too. And if I did, there are plenty of ways of customizing the UI to improve access to that element.
Maybe future versions of the keyboard will have the brains onboard, instead of in the computer it's connected to. Not only would that probably speed up the refresh rate, but it would also let you play these types of games without that ugly box attached to it.
Of course, after a certain point, it just becomes a touchscreen with tactile feedback.
Head up, look at the screen, use touch typing, and...
Sure, that works if you're typing in your native language/alphabet. Try learning/typing arabic, cyrillic, hebrew, or even typing on a French keyboard (where'd my "/" key go?!?) when you only type it occasionally and/or you're learning the language.
The ideal situation for cars is the freeway. Lanes are typically wider than on regular streets, there are few complex traffic situations which require the driver's active attention (signage, signalizations, intersections, long sightlines, slower traffic). In the last 50 years of urban "design", [North] American cities have tended to build their neighbourhoods with roads that share these qualities, namely that neighbourhood roads are wider.
With wider roads, drivers feel that they can drive faster without feeling they are going too fast. Part of this is parallax from the edges of the roads being farther away, and part is simply because the distance to the side of the road gives more reaction time.
Therefore, the natural "speed" of the road is often too fast to deal with kids on bikes, people walking their dogs or simply crossing the street. Therefore sidewalks are built to segregate the traffic, so drivers don't have to pay attention to those elements. Speed limits are imposed, but are loosely followed as they don't reflect the natural "speed" of the road.
But alternatives can happen in [North] America. Montreal's La Presse wrote an article on July 3, 2006, about how the neighbouring township of Granby did a study of 40 intersections that were controlled by stop signs. At 30 of them, they were able to reconfigure the intersections (usually by using curb bulbouts to narrow the intersections) so that they could replace the stop signs with yield signs.
While this isn't getting rid of signage, it's a step in the right direction. Ottawa-based alternative transportation activist Chris Bradshaw advocates the implementation of exactly what TFA is reporting: narrow the intersections so that people feel they naturally have to slow down, eliminating the need for signage. (I assume this is what TFA says; I haven't read it).
Funny, 'cause when I clicked on that link, the header said "Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP".
As much as I love PBS and its free online documentaries, any energy/pollution-related material would have to be taken with a pretty big chunk of salt if that very program is being funded by a large energy corporation.
I mean, that fear of editorial conflict of interest is the whole reason PBS operates the way it does.
No, it's more of a terms of use problem than a freedom of speech.
When I got my DL photo taken, it was under the understanding that it was necesary for me to get a license to do one particular thing--drive. *I* am allowed to provide that ID in siutations not pertaining to driving in order to identify myself, but I did not grant the gov't to do so, and has not done so.
Now that these gov'ts are starting to use this *driving* ID to identify peopel for other reasons, then it is a violation of the terms of use, and either they will have to get permission from the drivers to use the ID in this way, or they have to give people an opportunity to opt out. (For example, I haven't driven a car in years, and if my DL were turned into an identity card, I would seriously consider cancelling it).
Many, many people have a regrettable misdeed in their past.
This is only half the story. The important bit is that only some of them are caught, charged, convicted, and penalized for it.
If *everyone* were punished according to the law for *every* crime/offence they were to commit, our laws, politicians, and voters would be a whole lot different.
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Notice to the Slashdot grammarstapo community: there are people out there who can use both "it's" and "its" correctly--In the same sentence!
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Funny you bring that up. George Carlin has a thing or two to say about "the American Dream". Namely, that "you have to be asleep to believe it".
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Here's the Youtube version of Olbermann's Gingrich-killing-free-speech rant.
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Given the US-flag motif for politics articles for anywhere in the world, I think the slashdot community would be able to handle it.
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You think these guys could plan their retirement at least 50 years in advance. It's not like copyright was 95 years and they suddenly reduced it to 50 years.
Or at least, not outside of these musicians' heads!
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Not if you use the highly-efficient LenPEG compression algorithm!
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Play a really bad game. Either one with bad gameplay, or which crashes every five minutes, or which makes you lose a life without any reason, etc.
That way, you won't regret it at all when you quit.
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Yes, we live in Canada, so we're the benevolentest of all countries and our governments can do no wrong.
That's why our government holds people in jail without charging them (federal), and denies access to representation by those who cannot afford it themselves (Ontario) because we are too busy charging more and more people of crimes.
It is at best naïve, and at worst xenophobic, to trust every action of your country's government simply because it is your government. It is every government's duty to serve its citizens and to act in the names of its citizens; it is every citizen's duty to ensure that his or her government does not abuse the power that is used in his or her name.
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Now if I could only think of a fictional sci-fi character who makes snarky replies to people who use references to fictional sci-fi characters...
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Actually, you missed one of the more important aspects of the fourth point:
He adds a link to his blog using "additional references and a picture" (or variants) as the text. This results in him getting higher google rankings for his blog, particularly for "additional references and a picture" (or variants). Note the Related Links at the top right of the Slashdot page for this article. In addition to a standard "slashvertisement", the effects also amount to a "googletisement".
While in ordinary circumstances this could potentially be acceptable, the contents of Roland's blog entries are usually redundant (including the picture) to the very articles he is reviewing in his blog. This amounts to an abuse of the trust provided by the Slashdot community.
Many people warn other slashdotters by adding the tag "pigpile" (for those who have tagging enabled). However, more people use the Greasemonkey script that will block Roland's pseudoscientific submissions, which brendandonhue posted in a previous Pigpile thread. That is why the Pigpile rants are low, not necessarily the holidays.
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All this talk of the ribbon UI, and yet no useful links to describe what it is/looks like.
Sigh.
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Exactly; me too. And if I did, there are plenty of ways of customizing the UI to improve access to that element.
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I'm going to do my body a favour and go to sleep instead of reading TFA and the comments.
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"Come take a road trip to Arizona--where the rubber meets...the rubber!"
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Why don't they just wait until the rubber breaks dow---oh, right.
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A true politician knows that taking a position on anything is political suicide.
That's why it should be an agnostic, not an atheist.
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It's not just the content, it's also the presentation:
"...Linden Labs in California, the game's owner."
Do Second Life users also grab at modifiers that are dangled in front of them?
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Maybe future versions of the keyboard will have the brains onboard, instead of in the computer it's connected to. Not only would that probably speed up the refresh rate, but it would also let you play these types of games without that ugly box attached to it.
Of course, after a certain point, it just becomes a touchscreen with tactile feedback.
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Sure, that works if you're typing in your native language/alphabet. Try learning/typing arabic, cyrillic, hebrew, or even typing on a French keyboard (where'd my "/" key go?!?) when you only type it occasionally and/or you're learning the language.
It's a real bitch.
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What you're talking about is flow *of cars*.
The ideal situation for cars is the freeway. Lanes are typically wider than on regular streets, there are few complex traffic situations which require the driver's active attention (signage, signalizations, intersections, long sightlines, slower traffic). In the last 50 years of urban "design", [North] American cities have tended to build their neighbourhoods with roads that share these qualities, namely that neighbourhood roads are wider.
With wider roads, drivers feel that they can drive faster without feeling they are going too fast. Part of this is parallax from the edges of the roads being farther away, and part is simply because the distance to the side of the road gives more reaction time.
Therefore, the natural "speed" of the road is often too fast to deal with kids on bikes, people walking their dogs or simply crossing the street. Therefore sidewalks are built to segregate the traffic, so drivers don't have to pay attention to those elements. Speed limits are imposed, but are loosely followed as they don't reflect the natural "speed" of the road.
But alternatives can happen in [North] America. Montreal's La Presse wrote an article on July 3, 2006, about how the neighbouring township of Granby did a study of 40 intersections that were controlled by stop signs. At 30 of them, they were able to reconfigure the intersections (usually by using curb bulbouts to narrow the intersections) so that they could replace the stop signs with yield signs.
While this isn't getting rid of signage, it's a step in the right direction. Ottawa-based alternative transportation activist Chris Bradshaw advocates the implementation of exactly what TFA is reporting: narrow the intersections so that people feel they naturally have to slow down, eliminating the need for signage. (I assume this is what TFA says; I haven't read it).
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Ack! Please stop talking about this! The last thing we need is ignorant, suburban SUV drivers thinking that they're actually helping the planet!
Ozone in atmosphere = good
Ozone at street level = doubleplus bad!
I know this, you know this, but soccer dad thinks "oh, I'd better turn on the air conditioning to help global cooling!"
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Funny, 'cause when I clicked on that link, the header said "Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP ".
As much as I love PBS and its free online documentaries, any energy/pollution-related material would have to be taken with a pretty big chunk of salt if that very program is being funded by a large energy corporation.
I mean, that fear of editorial conflict of interest is the whole reason PBS operates the way it does.
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Happy birthday to you
This song's seventy-two
But each time I sing it
I still must pay you
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No, it's more of a terms of use problem than a freedom of speech.
When I got my DL photo taken, it was under the understanding that it was necesary for me to get a license to do one particular thing--drive. *I* am allowed to provide that ID in siutations not pertaining to driving in order to identify myself, but I did not grant the gov't to do so, and has not done so.
Now that these gov'ts are starting to use this *driving* ID to identify peopel for other reasons, then it is a violation of the terms of use, and either they will have to get permission from the drivers to use the ID in this way, or they have to give people an opportunity to opt out. (For example, I haven't driven a car in years, and if my DL were turned into an identity card, I would seriously consider cancelling it).
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This is only half the story. The important bit is that only some of them are caught, charged, convicted, and penalized for it.
If *everyone* were punished according to the law for *every* crime/offence they were to commit, our laws, politicians, and voters would be a whole lot different.
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