Or donate to the people who develope all that open source software like VLC, Blender, KDE, Gnome or the EFF or even W3C, since the foundations of the internet (HTML, PHP, MySQL, Javascript) are all readable for everyone and is open for everyone to learn and use as see fit - for free). W3C are the ones who take care of standards, which is good for programmers and users alike. When there are no standards, everything goes wrong, check videoformats for streaming or interactive design (Flash, anyone?). Plugins for using the internet is a form of pushiness for capital gain and exclusion.

Wishful thinking.

Fair play. Right up front, let's admit the obvious. We're too late.

The only people who will pay are consumers and prices will never go down

If we're honest enough to face feedback loops like boiling methane in the permafrost contributing to more boiling methane in the permafrost, we can deal with the consequences of carbon taxes.

it should be looked at as a national security issue

On the one hand you have uninhabitable Earth in our near-future. On the other you have the concern that a tax on carbon emissions from private jets and luxury yachts is theft.

create a race to the moon mentality

Right, because if you want something done, do it as a large, government program. As basic research. With no funding. Maybe that is the best way to get to a dead world.

Taxing existing infrastructure will not work

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that there is a real cost to carbon emissions. One we pay in terms of the survival of life as we know it on Earth. Carbon taxes would put that cost on balance sheets. What else would?

its not bold

Given the stakes and the power of the resistance to it, yes, it is.

its not even giving people an option

I may be part of the problem, just like anyone else, but then this isn't up to me. I don't have an option as it is. Not like some do.

the energy companies will pass it on

That's how economics works.

because you cant go anywhere else

You've hit the nail on the head.

Anthropogenic global warming, yes or no?

Arson? Who’re these arsonists? Is it Antifa? Because I bet it’s Antifa, right? And here, I thought it was the energy utility PG&E, with their ancient, decrepit above and below-ground monopoly infrastructure.

Lack of controlled burns? Maybe I’m surprised because I live in California, and I see them. You might think California is an isolated backwater around forest management. Not so much, although you’re right, I’m not entirely certain every neighorhood in the city of Santa Rosa is doing everything they can with controlled burns.

It’s true, there’s nothing as enjoyable as fresh socks. Well, except maybe wholesale rollbacks of environmental laws. For some folks, not only are they a pure delight, like your new socks, they’re about about feeling good. For now.

People often say to me, ‘You don’t pay the authors. You don’t pay the reviewers. You hardly print anymore. The Web is free. Why do you charge?

Exactly. And then their answer is that they do things like:

from training and managing peer reviewers to preventing plagiarism to building interactive components into digital versions.

The first one is bullshit. No publisher ever trained me or anyone I know to be a peer reviewer. If you’re lucky your advisor will show you how to do it, if not you learn it by looking at the reviews you’ve received for your own papers.

The second one is something that anyone with elementary understanding of web design could do in minutes.

Are those things really more valuable than actually creating and reviewing the content?

Publishers are full of shit, and most senior academics enable this sort of business by attaching prestige to paid publications instead of going open access. What Elbakyan is doing is the only logical way to tackle the problem.

This is an interesting interactive forum.....for instance this was a question from a reader:

"The question "How well does the word 'violent' describe most blacks?" was asked, with lower scores indicating racism. However, this question implies that it is asking about how well the word 'violent' describes blacks compared to other races, such as whites, asians, etc (e.g. "Does the word 'violent' describe most blacks, compared to other races, such as whites, asians, etc").

"According to Beureau of Justice statistics, data show that from 1976 to 2005, black victims were killed by blacks 94% of the time." ... "Overall, more than half the nation's homicide victims are African-American, though blacks make up only 13% of the total U.S. population. Of those black murder victims, 85% were men, mostly young men." Source: http://online.wsj.com/new...

Based on these statistics alone, it would be accurate to claim that blacks are more violent in the U.S compared to other races. Therefore, if a person interpreted the question in the way described they would be correct, but would they necessarily be racist?"

Sometimes I find these types of studies to be corrals, where the participants are being used for an agenda. For instance, were only whites asked these questions. Do you think black respondents would actually show to be more racist if asked that same question?...and a sweeping statement of "describe most blacks"...that's pretty over the top.

Hey, that’s not fair. America’s still number one. Number one in arms exports. Number one in opiate addiction. Number one in imprisonment, number one in capital punishment, and number one in summary execution in the street by police. Number one in carbon emissions. Even just the U.S. military, alone and by far the world’s largest, is the number one polluter in the world. Number one fossil fuel producer. Number one beef producer. USA! USA! ‘Merica!

Sorry to tell you guys but we do not want ads, period. We don't care whether they're relevant or irrelevant.

Also:

Short-form programming optimized for presentation on mobile devices.

Interactive and personalized methods of viewing sports and other live events.

Integration of professionally produced content with virtual reality or augmented reality services.

Services that encourage consumers to combine professionally produced content with their own creative content and share the results on social media.

Greater choice, convenience, and value in programming bundles.

You can provide all of these things already if you want to, you don't need to merge for that.

You know what customers want? For companies to actually compete with each other to provide better service. Customers don't want enormous monopolies charging 1000% markups of for services. Of course this is not about what customers want, it's about what big corporations want, and politicians usually oblige sooner or later. So much for free-market competition.

I'm patiently waiting for Google Fiber to get here to ditch these assholes for good.

Edit: Formatting

Hi there. Ok, you see the green submit button. Hit that first. A panel will come up where you can insert your link.....then hit submit. That will upload your link and should load in a title and a picture. This panel allows you to edit your snap before you hit publish. You can chose different tribes to post in as well as the category of what it is, interactive, expression, etc. Once you think it's ready, hit publish and it will send it out.

Video games are one of the most advanced mediums. Also one of the youngest. You are 100% right when you say games are art. They combine Music, Traditional and digital art with story telling into an interactive experience. Just enjoy it as it is. It doesnt matter what people call it as long as you enjoy it.

How could they not mention something as essential as time on the interactive map? In what time is that happening? Are we watching a mass extinction during our lifetime or are we talking thousands of years?

Something one can only get from a college/university?:....... not addressed. Despite that here is mine.

The True Purpose of College and Higher Education, Dung Nguyen

"When academics created various educational systems long ago in ancient Greece and China, they did not design these centers of learning for the masses. Rather, they were made for the elite: the well-endowed, prosperous citizen. These places were conceived with the ideas of wisdom and enlightenment in mind. Unfortunately, (or fortunately, depending on one's opinion) this is no longer the case in many educational facilities. In the United States, university and college systems have become much more accessible to the populace. Though there is little doubt that this is a good turn of events, it has also brought about a change in the focus of many institutions. Universities seek to attract accomplished researchers from around the world, putting less and less emphasis on dynamic curriculum and "credential" teachers. Instead of making education a diverse and interactive environment where one challenges known assumptions, and probes mysterious realms of thought, it has become one where the same topics are taught repetitively every year, making students cynical and unconcerned about real learning. Rather, students care much more about getting an "A" and graduating with their degree on time. The romantic notion of learning for the sake of increasing one's understanding is no longer practiced. This is mainly due to the mass production methods now being applied to higher learning."

While trade/apprenticeship programs may not be all encompassing, they certainly do not preclude a student learning what they may about what they may without agendas.

Dig that flag of Mulhouse. Just try and spot it in that crazyquilt map of France, though. It's gotta be dazzling if you're to even find it in all that.

Do when can we finally have those interactive cereal boxes like in that movie Minority Report??

My guess is between Memphis and Nashville. It looks like the front is heading north east and up into Kentucky.

http://www.weather.com/weather/radar/interact...?animation=true&interactiveMapLayer=radar

This headline is completely misleading!

Adobe's announcement concerns only Flash Profeessional. The Flash technology in the broader sense remains unchanged.

Many developers, including myself, use other tools to create Flash contents (eg. Apache Flex). This type of content (eg. swf's, like on http://sprite.slicker.me/flash/tutorial.htm) will not be impacted in any way.

BTW, interactive HTML5 content (eg. games) must depend heavily on JavaScript, and current browser incompatibilities make it much harder to achieve the same result in HTML5 than Flash.

Who is who in the Syrian civil war.

http://www.clarionproject.org/sites/default/f...roject%20Syrian%20Civil%20War%20Factsheet.pdf

This link is a bit older, from 2013.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2013/07/20137188552345899.html

Coincidentally yesterday I was deeply (but quietly) entertained to watch four children, the oldest about eight, running laps round the block while waving "weapons" and yelling pretend threats to each other. Eventually I heard "I won" and off they went on another mission. They most probably have tvs, games consoles and the like but it's the summer holidays so the young ones go outside. I think young childrens make believe games are still able to work well where there are places to play near home and away from traffic. The biggest problem here is that since the media started making a really big stink over missing children and child molesters, a large proportion of the population took that to mean that there was a sudden upsurge in numbers due to the internet. Not so, we simply weren't very well informed back in the 'dark ages'. So kids don't get to wander as far afield as they once did. Add that to all day childrens tv, not just two hours as I remember, and no wonder younger kids stay in more.

Older children into teenage years seem to be the ones that are surgically attached to xbox and playstation, because by that age they have got quite good. I don't think it's so much because it is a screen, but because the screen is the medium on which the good games are currently played. All that getting out boxes, setting things up, arguing over rules, putting the game away and losing important pieces just can't compete.

So, what I have observed is that younger kinds are more likely to want to be outside playing and don't have all that much interest in stuff on screen, provided that they are encouraged to go out and play. Otherwise they want to sit in front of the 'goggle box' all day. The older they get, the more likely it is that a screen will claim them, but it will probably be an interactive one. And then they want Netflix...

But, some people will always ignore a tv in favour of a book, or they'll do something creative. Not doing that is more down to personality or lack of opportunity when young, not to mere availability of a screen. Some of us (ie me) grew up without tv, read inordinate numbers of books, watched lots of tv as an adult the suddenly! computers! the internet! my creative and artistic mother would be horrified! After all, most people do not have exciting and creative jobs, and those that do seem willing to struggle against all odds to do so. Imagination is not something we all have in abundance. Personally, I'd rather kids learned to use some common sense, but I was always an unusual child :)

Way late to this thread, but yes they are pets, friends, mentors at times and oh so bright, interactive, whiley and funny and loving -- such that I cannot consider them a food or fabric source for any conscionable human with alternatives. It's something about the animal's apparent sentience which factors into my deliberations of considering eating salmon as different than eating dolphin and having come to know the species quite well, I cannot not see rabbits as anything other than companion.

If you press play on this interactive graph, you can see genocides happening. Chilling.

But simultaneously it shows the correlation between higher life expectancy and lower fertility rates, and the general shift toward the lower right, which is a slight positive. I feel terrible for Africa though :(

That Google public data explorer site is fascinating. Play around with the axes.

one command soundly missed is apropos. Need to do something, but don't happen to know it's exact name? Well, then. It's time for apropos!

 MacBook-Pro:~ admin$ apropos download
 CPAN(3pm)                - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
 lwp-download(1)          - Fetch large files from the web
 Wget(1)                  - The non-interactive network downloader
 git-fetch(1)             - Download objects and refs from another repository
 git-http-fetch(1)        - Download from a remote Git repository via HTTP
 MacBook-Pro:~ admin$

works on Linux and OSX and it's saved my ass more than once time over the years whenever I knew there was a command to do something, but couldn't think of what it was.

Sign of an open mind. Living in California in an area with a good community radio station, I hear maybe more than I’d like about the issue. It’s like a masters’ course in critical thinking listening to these arguments for long stretches. Like you, it reminds me a great deal of loosely similar arguments on parallel issues. One telltale sign it’s going to get weird is when the invited guests start by establishing right out front they’re not opposed to vaccination per se. Invariably that segueways into fairly vapid anti-vaccination nonsense, statistical distortions, anecdata, and downright medieval denunciations of clinical witchcraft.

Here's an antidote that often comes to mind when those shows get to be too much to take.

All of those watch-to-watch features just seem so gimmicky, I really can't see a large number of people ever using them.

On the other hand, interactive watch faces have a lot of potential, even though they already exist. I use Pujie Black's calendar function regularly and it works well.

That's a very interesting animation. I love the interactive aspect.

This is cool! I think you'll also like http://liveplasma.com/

This one has a radio function and a more interactive interface, so it's even easier to explore : D

It seems to me that they never had a way of paying it back... Lending money to someone who can't pay is never a good deal. This article summarizes the crisis, including a brief answer to your question at the end.