For every person who goes out into the world and gets a good job on the basis of a qualification they didn't earn, someone who did earn that qualification loses out.
It also leads a rational person to the conclusion that he is a sap for not inflating his qualifications. Thus begins the arms race.
Meanwhile, the Kiel Institute for World Economics warns that higher temperatures could mean thousands of heat-related deaths every year. But the extrapolations that lead to this dire prediction are based on the mortality rate in the unusually hot summer of 2003, for which Germans were wholly unprepared. But if hot summer days do become the norm, people will simply adjust by taking siestas and installing air-conditioning.
Hey Google, we really need a button to exclude all sites selling stuff from searches. I hate having to wade through a pile of e-commerce sites when I'm looking for INFORMATION.
Hear, hear. One of the reasons why the Wikipedia page for a particular topic often ends up being my ad hoc search portal nowadays. I see a lot of lame ideas that get drummed up as the next 'Google Killer', but this is one thing that would get my attention.
Are you kidding me? The Bee Rapture was the inspiration for the best-selling series of novels, "Left Bee-hind." Oh, is that what those were about? Never read any of them. But certainly heard the buzz.:p
I do some consulting with an IT company that services other small to medium-sized businesses -- all of which work in a Windows environment. They're more on the hardware end, but all that hardware comes loaded Windows, so they're up-to-date with all the latest MS marketing spin.
It seems like what is getting aggressively pushed to their larger clients is Sharepoint. I suspect this -- the latest version of Sharepoint -- will be one of the main gateways to getting business customers to step up to Vista.
As many have noted, Vista and the new Office are incremental improvements at best to what most people already have. The latest version of Sharepoint, from what I have read and seen of it, is a notable upgrade from the previous version. It's basically a CMS for intranet sites, but the document versioning is new and it's something many business users I've talked to find really useful. It also offers wiki and blogging, which will likely be a first introduction to some desktop-locked late-adopters who have never heard of live journal or wikipedia. Sharepoint strikes me as MS's effort to lock the most compelling features of the Web 2.0 up in a corporate LAN.
I suspect that the success of Vista for businesses hinges on MS's ability to hook their clients on Sharepoint. Would be interested to know if anyone else in the industry has noticed this.
Agreed, but the ability to fully edit the source does make Blogger more fun than a lot of other 2.0 sites and I'd hate to see it go away.
Interestingly, both Blogger and Googlepages are now Google services. Blogger is obviously meant for blogging and Googlepages for setting up common web pages, but Googlepages is a headache and Blogger offers the ability to edit the source. So if I need to set up a random web page on the web and I want it to look like I want it to look (and not have ads plastered all over it), I'll use Blogger. I don't know anywhere else on the web where I can do this.
artisan chapbook makers, live children puppet-shows, and, of course, Linux.
Seriously, if this crap goes down, I'm going back to reading Victorian novels -- and maybe watching the occasional episode of Entourage at a friends' house.
Today's web is crazy. Open ID is a pipe dream. Every direction you turn you're forced to create yet another account. Most of the time it's for one of those throw-away web startups created 10 times a day, but occasionaly it's worth the effort. It might be to purchase some fancy threads, order a pizza or see how fat the Cool Kids from high school have become. When it's that important, you can't afford to drop the ball. With a useless account you can practice without fear. So when it comes to the crunch, you're ready!
Fair enough with respect to BofA's website. But my comment didn't refer to bank websites specifically.
Two personal experiences with bank's fraud prevention departments: 1) mysterious ATM charges 2) checks written in my name. Both times the "security" specialists I spoke with seemed to care less about solving the problem with their system and more interested in simply establishing that it was my fault.
When they exhausted that assumption, they refunded my account, but not after significant waste of time.
Exactly. I've dealt with identity theft problem with banks a couple times and it was obvious that the bank's fraud prevention department's first goal was to try to pin responsibility -- and liability -- on you.
If you do have a security problem with your bank, immediately draw up a record of events being careful to point out where the bank's systems failed. And recognize that the bank's fraud or security department is not there to help you, but is looking at you as the offender and scapegoat.
Don't disagree at all. Don't look to Myspace for good design or standards validation. Myspace clearly has little use for each.
My myspace page (a tongue-in-cheek knock-off of csszengarden) is simply offered as proof of the concept that one's myspace page doesn't necessarily have to induce seizures.
I've been satisfied with Google D&S, mostly because it's now well integrated (bundled?) with my Gmail account. Then I tried to print a hard copy of a Google Doc for the first time yesterday. Now I'm less impressed. (Google's definition of a 'pt' and Word's are way off.)
Still, the sharing feature is cool. But the Gmail integration is the main reason I'm loathe to try any alternatives.
Maybe if people were given a way to make an attractive and functional MySpace page without resorting to pink twinkly "This Space Pimped With Rogers SpacePimper" graphics and thirty megs of site garbage, they'd stop pimping and start primping.
I remember hearing a report on NPR on this subject. It mentioned Wikia as a commercial counterpart to Wikipedia. Granted Wikia will probably never have the force of the Wikipedia, but this seems a more palatable approach.
Frink: I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.
Apu: Could it be used for dating?
Frink: Well, technically, yes, but the computer matches would be so perfect as to eliminate the thrill of romantic conquest.
It's also available on a couple websites -- good for use on the road.
I, and a couple others, have been using it for about 6 months. A few others have tried and thought it was more work than it was worth. It's not perfect, but better than any other system I've come across or come up with.
Nice thing is it allows you to post your reminder in public. For example:
m{this.site/anonymous_coward > msw}
My company is working a project that will require registration and we're seriously checking out OpenID. I also wonder if/when Google might open up their authentication system in a similar way.
I suppose the views of my sister are representative of a certain number of Americans who respond to these polls.
A couple years ago, my sister was enrolled in a biology class while attending a state college here in Southern California. I asked here, "Cool, so you're finally learning about evolution?" to which she replied, to my utter astonishment, "Yeah, but I don't really buy it." We were brought up more or less secularly -- though she did attend a church school for a couple years in grade school -- and though further to the right than me and wavers between identifying herself as a Democrat or Republican, she is still a class example of the California fiscal conservative/social liberal.
Obviously, I wasn't going to persuade her of the scientific evidence supporting evolution over the course of a family dinner, but I did ask her what she made of the fact that her state-run school, funded with her taxes and backed by almost every expert in the subject both in government agencies and academia at large, accepted as fact the scientific theory she wasn't buying. A conspiracy theory so grand that, as E.O. Wilson suggests, God is in on it? She resisted but I could see this had some impact. She has since adopted a more indifferent view on the matter.
I think the explanation, from a cognitive science point-of-view, is that evolution just doesn't hit most people the way last Sunday's football scores -- or a drunk driver -- do. And they're blissfully unaware of the amazing contradictions that would confront them if only they paused to ponder the world in which they live for a few minutes.
Slashdot Mirror
tobacco, drugs, weapons, and prostitution
Don't forget to add domain names with the word google in them (e.g. http://lastgoogle.blogspot.com/), as I learned much to my chagrin.
For every person who goes out into the world and gets a good job on the basis of a qualification they didn't earn, someone who did earn that qualification loses out.
It also leads a rational person to the conclusion that he is a sap for not inflating his qualifications. Thus begins the arms race.
At least 35,000[11] and as many as 50,000[12] people died from the 2003 European heat wave.
a ve#Total_dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_w
Article does acknowledge:
Meanwhile, the Kiel Institute for World Economics warns that higher temperatures could mean thousands of heat-related deaths every year. But the extrapolations that lead to this dire prediction are based on the mortality rate in the unusually hot summer of 2003, for which Germans were wholly unprepared. But if hot summer days do become the norm, people will simply adjust by taking siestas and installing air-conditioning.
Invest in A/C and siestas now!
Hey Google, we really need a button to exclude all sites selling stuff from searches. I hate having to wade through a pile of e-commerce sites when I'm looking for INFORMATION.
Hear, hear. One of the reasons why the Wikipedia page for a particular topic often ends up being my ad hoc search portal nowadays. I see a lot of lame ideas that get drummed up as the next 'Google Killer', but this is one thing that would get my attention.
Times have changed, I remember rolling around blobs of mercury on lab tables in school.
My dad likes to tell me about this and how shiny you can make a dime cleaning it with mercury. He likes shiny things.
I don't think religion has anything to do with it
Apparently, you haven't heard of Bee Rapture. (I hadn't either until it was mentioned -- in passing -- in the New York Times a couple days ago.)
I do some consulting with an IT company that services other small to medium-sized businesses -- all of which work in a Windows environment. They're more on the hardware end, but all that hardware comes loaded Windows, so they're up-to-date with all the latest MS marketing spin.
It seems like what is getting aggressively pushed to their larger clients is Sharepoint. I suspect this -- the latest version of Sharepoint -- will be one of the main gateways to getting business customers to step up to Vista.
As many have noted, Vista and the new Office are incremental improvements at best to what most people already have. The latest version of Sharepoint, from what I have read and seen of it, is a notable upgrade from the previous version. It's basically a CMS for intranet sites, but the document versioning is new and it's something many business users I've talked to find really useful. It also offers wiki and blogging, which will likely be a first introduction to some desktop-locked late-adopters who have never heard of live journal or wikipedia. Sharepoint strikes me as MS's effort to lock the most compelling features of the Web 2.0 up in a corporate LAN.
I suspect that the success of Vista for businesses hinges on MS's ability to hook their clients on Sharepoint. Would be interested to know if anyone else in the industry has noticed this.
Tom
But since ours is a relatively small company, we went with the open-source Thai fighters.
Just ran a domain I own through that appraiser thing and it said it's worth $10,900.00 - $13,650.00 USD.
Now if I could just get someone to offer me that much...
with apologies to Fark, I'm sure:
i tter-buttocks-in-dark-sans-flashlight/
"WSJ Discovers Twitter, Buttocks in Dark Sans Flashlight"
link: http://crunchgear.com/2007/03/16/wsj-discovers-tw
Agreed, but the ability to fully edit the source does make Blogger more fun than a lot of other 2.0 sites and I'd hate to see it go away.
Interestingly, both Blogger and Googlepages are now Google services. Blogger is obviously meant for blogging and Googlepages for setting up common web pages, but Googlepages is a headache and Blogger offers the ability to edit the source. So if I need to set up a random web page on the web and I want it to look like I want it to look (and not have ads plastered all over it), I'll use Blogger. I don't know anywhere else on the web where I can do this.
artisan chapbook makers, live children puppet-shows, and, of course, Linux.
Seriously, if this crap goes down, I'm going back to reading Victorian novels -- and maybe watching the occasional episode of Entourage at a friends' house.
something wrong with its captcha
from their website:
Today's web is crazy. Open ID is a pipe dream. Every direction you turn you're forced to create yet another account. Most of the time it's for one of those throw-away web startups created 10 times a day, but occasionaly it's worth the effort. It might be to purchase some fancy threads, order a pizza or see how fat the Cool Kids from high school have become. When it's that important, you can't afford to drop the ball. With a useless account you can practice without fear. So when it comes to the crunch, you're ready!
Fair enough with respect to BofA's website. But my comment didn't refer to bank websites specifically.
Two personal experiences with bank's fraud prevention departments: 1) mysterious ATM charges 2) checks written in my name. Both times the "security" specialists I spoke with seemed to care less about solving the problem with their system and more interested in simply establishing that it was my fault.
When they exhausted that assumption, they refunded my account, but not after significant waste of time.
Exactly. I've dealt with identity theft problem with banks a couple times and it was obvious that the bank's fraud prevention department's first goal was to try to pin responsibility -- and liability -- on you.
If you do have a security problem with your bank, immediately draw up a record of events being careful to point out where the bank's systems failed. And recognize that the bank's fraud or security department is not there to help you, but is looking at you as the offender and scapegoat.
Don't disagree at all. Don't look to Myspace for good design or standards validation. Myspace clearly has little use for each.
My myspace page (a tongue-in-cheek knock-off of csszengarden) is simply offered as proof of the concept that one's myspace page doesn't necessarily have to induce seizures.
I've been satisfied with Google D&S, mostly because it's now well integrated (bundled?) with my Gmail account. Then I tried to print a hard copy of a Google Doc for the first time yesterday. Now I'm less impressed. (Google's definition of a 'pt' and Word's are way off.)
Still, the sharing feature is cool. But the Gmail integration is the main reason I'm loathe to try any alternatives.
Maybe if people were given a way to make an attractive and functional MySpace page without resorting to pink twinkly "This Space Pimped With Rogers SpacePimper" graphics and thirty megs of site garbage, they'd stop pimping and start primping.
Like this?
moshi project
True, it requires more concentration than most myspace users can muster, but a slashdotter can primp to his heart's delight.
A sample: http://www.myspace.com/klenwell
I thought this was the point of Wikia.
3 0/PM200608305.html
I remember hearing a report on NPR on this subject. It mentioned Wikia as a commercial counterpart to Wikipedia. Granted Wikia will probably never have the force of the Wikipedia, but this seems a more palatable approach.
Here's the source:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/08/
Any news on how Wikia's doing financially?
Frink: I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.
Apu: Could it be used for dating?
Frink: Well, technically, yes, but the computer matches would be so perfect as to eliminate the thrill of romantic conquest.
Stop requiring registration for moronic things! I don't want to give you any personal information to post in a damned blog!
Amen. I tried various systems to address this problem. Finally created a javascript module that allows you to hash a single password:
http://code.google.com/p/mushpup/
It's also available on a couple websites -- good for use on the road.
I, and a couple others, have been using it for about 6 months. A few others have tried and thought it was more work than it was worth. It's not perfect, but better than any other system I've come across or come up with.
Nice thing is it allows you to post your reminder in public. For example:
m{this.site/anonymous_coward > msw}
My company is working a project that will require registration and we're seriously checking out OpenID. I also wonder if/when Google might open up their authentication system in a similar way.
I suppose the views of my sister are representative of a certain number of Americans who respond to these polls.
A couple years ago, my sister was enrolled in a biology class while attending a state college here in Southern California. I asked here, "Cool, so you're finally learning about evolution?" to which she replied, to my utter astonishment, "Yeah, but I don't really buy it." We were brought up more or less secularly -- though she did attend a church school for a couple years in grade school -- and though further to the right than me and wavers between identifying herself as a Democrat or Republican, she is still a class example of the California fiscal conservative/social liberal.
Obviously, I wasn't going to persuade her of the scientific evidence supporting evolution over the course of a family dinner, but I did ask her what she made of the fact that her state-run school, funded with her taxes and backed by almost every expert in the subject both in government agencies and academia at large, accepted as fact the scientific theory she wasn't buying. A conspiracy theory so grand that, as E.O. Wilson suggests, God is in on it? She resisted but I could see this had some impact. She has since adopted a more indifferent view on the matter.
I think the explanation, from a cognitive science point-of-view, is that evolution just doesn't hit most people the way last Sunday's football scores -- or a drunk driver -- do. And they're blissfully unaware of the amazing contradictions that would confront them if only they paused to ponder the world in which they live for a few minutes.
Not much Song and Dance, but one credible attempt to assess the consensus:
e _and_Society_Essay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Oreskes#Scienc