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by p_alexander 17y ago
There's a nice big spam button on each wave in the sandbox. I imagine they'll be able to handle it in a similar way that Gmail handles it, with perhaps some added functionality to handle spam at the wavelet level, control for public vs priv
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by p_alexander 18y ago
I used Novell iFolder for a while (running on Ubuntu, though it was a pain to install). I think it worked pretty well on SuSE out of the box. Anyway, it uses a client on individual machines with a server hosting the files. Pretty much like
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by p_alexander 18y ago
I agree, in terms of convenience for higher-end shopping it's nice. I'm more concerned about the erosion of true public space (as in a public plaza, square, city streets, etc) and the conflation of such space with purely commercial zones. I
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by p_alexander 18y ago
Definitely. The North Side/South Side fighting in Chicago was pretty crazy to see after coming from California, especially as the borders seem to be drawn on socio-economical/racial lines.
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by p_alexander 18y ago
San Jose, like any major US city, has its awesome points and its disgusting monstrosities (Santana Row, I'm talking to you). And come on, San Francisco has its share of fake and cliche (North Beach? Haight? The area around PacBell Park?). S
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by p_alexander 18y ago
I think this is not a work made for hire because it was done on contract rather than as an employee. From PubLaw ( http://www.publaw.com/work2.html ) "But if the creator of the work is not an employee, but instead a freelancer, than the "wo
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by p_alexander 18y ago
I've turned several TED lovers onto Radiolab (not video, but great content sure to open your eyes, covers the intersection between science and culture with very well thought out themed episodes). When I listen to an episode I'm almost guara
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by p_alexander 19y ago
Man, I don't mean to comment-whore this thread, but it happens to be one of the topics I know the most about :) I can think of a couple of reasons: 1. Access to grant funding. It's really hard to get granting organizations to take you serio
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by p_alexander 19y ago
This is true. Many departments are granted budget depending on their PhD student headcount (and where headcount doesn't determine budget it often determines prestige). This leads to two things: 1) no consideration for the actual demand for
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by p_alexander 19y ago
That doesn't jibe well with tuition increases at an unbelievable scale (40% from 2000 to 2005 according to Marc Bousquet - http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/who-benefits-from... ). The California State University system has seen t