Look into the MATE Desktop Environment. [1] "MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux…"
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I'm very curious about the content of this chapter, given that Sendmail's deficiencies resulted in so many alternate MTAs being written (qmail, postfix, exim, etc.).
Apparently a reference to Former Duke Cancer Researcher Anil Potti. [1][2]
> …put egg on some Harvard Econ prof's faces - to the delight of the UMASS grad student that found it...
Likely referring to the Reinhart/Rogoff spreadsheet error discovered by Thomas Herndon. [3]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Potti
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/anil-potti-duke-can...
[3] http://chronicle.com/article/UMass-Graduate-Student-Talks/13...
What do you mean by "Captain Kirk type"?
Absolutely. People familiar with the tech industry should recognize this pattern: Announce a vaporware [1] product as part of a FUD [2] campaign against the enemy.
When considered in this way, Musk's actions with Hyperloop make a lot of sense. This is a classic FUD move against CA HSR.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
Do you have any data to back up your opinion? My anecdotal experience with unsophisticated users is that Google's new flat design has been a usability disaster. People who had been capable users of the old gmail design had difficulty finding the same functionality in the new design.
There's a strong tendency for people who live and breath technology to think that it is "intuitive" for everyone. It's not, and such an attitude merely reflects a lack of empathy for people who don't find computer use natural and easy.
Chicks? Really? Come on Linode, you should be better than this.
This is exactly right. This is a case of the government reviewing itself by packing the review board with insiders and sympathizers. Nobody who disagrees with the NSA's behavior has been selected for this panel.
Blogger Emptywheel has been following this much more closely than the general media:
Advocate of Secret Infiltration, Cass Sunstein, on Obama’s “Committee To Make Us Trust the Dragnet” [1]
The No-Technologist Technology Review Panel [2]
3 Tech Issues the Non-Technologist NSA Technical Committee Needs to Address [3]
[1] http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/22/advocate-of-secret-infi...
[2] http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/27/the-no-technologist-tec...
[3] http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/28/3-tech-issues-the-non-t...
Nowadays with welded rail, careful compliance with construction standards is required. Slow orders are issued during heat waves and frequent track inspections are conducted to look for potential or actual sun kinks.
A good summary of the issue can be found in the Heat Orders FAQ from Virginia Railway Express. [1]
[1] http://www.vre.org/feedback/frequently_asked_questions/faq_h...
Remember, this was 1987—25 years ago, before bash and other modern shells, and with much more primitive versions of awk and sed. Nor was the web available to look things up.
Writing shell/awk/sed scripts back then was awful, no matter how much the Bell Labs folks touted its superiority.
When perl showed up on comp.sources.unix it was an incredible breath of fresh air. I downloaded and built perl based on its claim to replace shell script/awk/sed programming and Larry Wall's reputation as the author of rn [1], my preferred newsreader for usenet. Perl lived up to its billing and was an enormous improvement for writing scripts.
Further questions: How many grid cells are there? What is the largest area that can be fully represented? How are grid cells reused as the subject travels?
To be credible, a skeptic can't be ignorant.
Reading the article makes it clear that it wan't an identification as much as a confirmation of Rowling as the author. The analysis was the result of suspicions triggered by an anonymous tip via Twitter.
The analysis used a corpus of only four authors' works. Rowling was the most likely of the four.
No, Obama's most fervent supporters want to hang Snowden for treason, and Greenwald along with him. They're quite happy to use the word "treason" for both of them.
Ever since the leak supporters of Obama on blogs and Twitter have been attacking Snowden and particularly Greenwald with ferocity. [1]
A derogatory term has recently been coined and is now being applied to anyone on the left who supports Snowden and Greenwald. This term, "emoprog," basically translates to "whiny progressive." The complaint is that emoprogs, instead of falling into line and unquestioningly supporting whatever Democrat is president, whine disloyally about principles said president is violating or not pursuing with enough vigor.
So no, Obama's most fervent supporters wish Snowden and the whole issue would just go away and find infuriating the disloyalty shown by Greenwald and his emoprog supporters.
[1] https://twitter.com/JeffersonObama/status/351829186991759360 https://twitter.com/Johngcole/status/349308095987593217 https://twitter.com/JeffersonObama/status/348879008747896833
It's frustrating to have my attempt to cite sources trigger the anti-spam function.
Although I posted this information to that discussion, since it's not widely known that a 1999 court case found that a conspiracy did exist I submitted this link. (See also the Wikipedia entry on the Civil case for conspiracy. [2])
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5889959 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_...
The jury–six blacks and six whites—found that King had been the victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police as well as federal agencies. [1]
The judge continued: “Do you also find that others, including governmental agencies, were parties to this conspiracy as alleged by the defendant?’ Your answer to that one is also ‘Yes.’” [2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_...
[2] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/MLKconExp.ht...
I submitted reference 2 as a HN story. For further discussion of the MLK conspiracy go here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5891883
> They said sorry - you need to use this software - there is no other way.
It would have been easy for Apple to work with entities such as CD Baby to whip up an alternate method to handle the importation of large catalogs of music. Once specified I'm sure such a trivial web API could be implemented and tested quickly.
But Apple and Jobs didn't do this because they knew they had the power to insist that their software be used even though it was only suited for single CD submissions.
I find it interesting that many commenters are critical of Sivers while completely overlooking Apple's abuse of power.
dmourati not only recognized the abuse of power but recommended a method for meeting it head on.
Sample USENET post from December, 1987 with an "NSA Food" line in the signature (and a related joke line): https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.sys....
Discussion of "NSA food" lines from April, 1987: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/news.misc...
This is just below a link reading "Fournier: Obama's Police State..."
[Note, I support everyone highlighting this issue, even Drudge. There's been far too little concern with the fear of terrorism being used to justify the erosion of our civil liberties, first by Republicans under Bush, and now by Democrats under Obama.]
That's beautiful. May I quote you?
To me the word "discovery" means finding unknown works, not simply another way to listen to an artist who is already well established.
Pandora for discovery is a nonstarter, at least for me.
It seems you're not acquainted with the concept of "streetcar suburbs" [1]. The Wikipedia article goes into some detail; I recommend it for the curious who'd like to know how streetcar technology drove suburbanization before 1920.
FTA: "Because streetcar operators offered low fares and free transfers, commuting was finally affordable to nearly everyone."
This is not academic information about the distant past that no longer applies. Transit-oriented development [2] is impacting our cities positively today. It will be a long time before driverless cars have an impact.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit-oriented_development
It starts off with an anecdote about how greed torpedoed the meeting of industry leaders to deal with the health issues presented by their products. From the article, an extraordinary admission by one of the would-be reformers:
> Mudd then did the unthinkable. He drew a connection to the last thing in the world the C.E.O.’s wanted linked to their products: cigarettes.
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