Comment PRAAT (Score 1) 221
Transcribe manually, using a transcription program like PRAAT.
Comment Re:It's about Cherry Picking. (Score 1) 507
Set "Funny" mods to score -6.
No more jokes.
Comment Re:one side of a conversation (Score 1) 460
Maybe I'm missing some option to turn that irrelevant waste off
Yes. If you follow someone, you don't see their replies to other users (unless you go look for them).
Comment The Onion? (Score 3, Funny) 126
Is this an article from The Onion?
Comment Re:Serves you right... (Score 1) 438
Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 561
I smoke about one cigarette every two days, and never more than one a day.
I suppose I'm one of those rare people who is immune to nicotine addiction.
Comment Re:The Monty crowd will blame this on Oracle (Score 1) 271
Exactly right. I'm sure PostgreSQL is a great database but thanks to its relentless Slashdot troll army I've really grown to dislike it and I don't feel any inclination to look into it any further.
Comment Re:humans (Score 1) 536
does your lower jaw jut forwards
Lower jaw jut forwards? Neanderthals had receding chins.
Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 153
Exactly. The Postgres trolls are about as interesting as "BSD is dead", etc. Unfortunately they are invariably moderated "insightful". It's getting really tiresome.
Comment Re:And nothing of value was archived (Score 1) 267
I remember "Tales from a loser" or something like that, a blog before the word even existed
Actually, that one is still active after 14 years: Keeper of Lost Lives.
Submission + - Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? (readwriteweb.com)
ReadWriteWeb writes: "Radar Networks has announced a new Semantic Web application called Twine, which it says will be the first mainstream Semantic Web application. Founder Nova Spivack, who has worked in the past with Semantic Web and AI legends Ray Kurzweil and Danny Hillis (of Thinking Machines), showed a demo of Twine to several reporters today. Spivack described Twine as a "knowledge networking" application. It has aspects of social networking, wikis, blogging, knowledge management systems — but its defining feature is that it's built with Semantic Web technologies including RDF, OWL, SPARQL, XSL. Spivack told Read/WriteWeb that Twine aims to bring a usable and scalable interface to the long-promised dream of the Semantic Web."
Submission + - Introducing Dojo's asynchronous xhrGet and xhrPost (dojoforum.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Dojo Toolkit's 0.9 release has come with a lot of small changes, most notably to their underlying asynchronous function calls. Where everything used to go through the dojo.io.bind command, they've separated the functionality into different methods now: xhrGet, xhrPost, xhrPut and xhrDelete. Following is an introduction to the former two methods: xhrGet and xhrPost. Learn how to asynchronously submit forms and transparently send content back and forth between the client and the server using both GET and POST.
Submission + - Google vows to increase Gmail limit (computerworld.com) 1
Lucas123 writes: "Google said that people are devouring capacity with photos and other attachments on its Gmail e-mail service faster than the company can add to it at its current pace. So Google said on Friday that it would increase the rate at which it is adding capacity to its Web-based service. There's only one problem, Google's main competitors — Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail — far surpassed Gmail this year with their own capacity."
Submission + - Dr Robert Bussard dies (classicalvalues.com)
david.given writes: "Dr Robert W. Bussard, nuclear physicist and fusion physics researcher, died from cancer on October 6. Most people here will know him for the Bussard Ramjet, a theoretical space drive that uses magnetic fields to scoop up interstellar hydrogen to power a fusion drive. In recent years he has been working on the Polywell electrostatic inertial confinement fusion reactor, which promises to produce a cheap and simple fusion power plant without the cost and complexity of magnetic confinement. Rumours are that the Polywell was recently funded by the US Navy and may start producing results in 2008."
Submission + - Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
jpkunst writes: Computerworld reports that Michael Stonebraker, who co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology as a researcher at UC Berkeley in the early 1970s, argues in The Database Column that the current major relational DBMSs (DB2, SQLserver, Oracle) "should be considered legacy technology, more than a quarter of century in age and 'long in the tooth'.". His prediction is "that column stores will take over the warehouse market over time, completely displacing row stores".
