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- Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:09 pm
- Forum: Reader Response
- Topic: The announcement
- Replies: 66
- Views: 18515
Re: The announcement
Guys, it's awesome to have supportive fans. I just wanted to say thanks. As you can imagine, this has been a stressful time. It's nice to know that people really want us around, to the extent of being willing to support us financially. Hopefully, that won't be necessary. But it's nice to know.
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:09 pm
- Forum: Reader Response
- Topic: The announcement
- Replies: 66
- Views: 18515
Re: The announcement
It should be noted that we're not being turned down because of requiring so much maintenance. Honestly, once we get up and running, our sponsors generally don't have to do anything. The main problem we've had is that departments are wary of having liability for something that we say.
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:03 pm
- Forum: Reader Response
- Topic: The announcement
- Replies: 66
- Views: 18515
Re: The announcement
The board needs someplace to run a virtual server, and department willing to request that http://theboard.byu.edu point to that server. We need to have root access on that virtual server.
That's it.
That's it.
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:49 pm
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: Board fixed for Safari in iOS 5
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2690
Board fixed for Safari in iOS 5
I'm sure there are a few of you who will appreciate this.
Ever since iOS 5 came out, if you visited the Board on your iPhone or iPad, the blue sidebar got in the way as soon as you tried to zoom in. It was really annoying.
That has now been fixed. You may now continue to enjoy the Board.
Ever since iOS 5 came out, if you visited the Board on your iPhone or iPad, the blue sidebar got in the way as soon as you tried to zoom in. It was really annoying.
That has now been fixed. You may now continue to enjoy the Board.
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:59 pm
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: Apple's digital textbook initiative
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19489
Re: Apple's digital textbook initiative
For those who are interested, the EULA on iBooks Author was updated today, and clarifies that it only applies to the actual .ibooks files generated from the app. Apple doesn't claim ownership of the content, and you can still sell PDFs generated from the app, etc. Anyway, I know it got discussed, so...
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:49 pm
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: Apple's digital textbook initiative
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19489
Re: Apple's digital textbook initiative
For Katya's sake, though, I do agree that archival of digital works is a huge unsolved problem. If anyone has a brilliant idea for how to solve that problem, I suspect you could make a ton of money.
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:56 pm
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: Apple's digital textbook initiative
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19489
Re: Apple's digital textbook initiative
Wow. I'm late to this game, apparently. I won't bother trying to reply to every point made along the way, but I'll respond to what I see as the most important ones. Overall thoughts Apple's making a big play for the education space here. The tools they've introduced let you make content that's far m...
- Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:59 pm
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
- Replies: 5227
- Views: 4950993
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Yeah, I could do that. I'll PM you my contact info.
- Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:34 am
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: Conference
- Replies: 48
- Views: 18845
Re: Conference
He did. The video's already up on lds.org, if you'd like to watch it. Fair warning, though, it was perhaps the least Relief-Society-esque talk of conference so far. (By which I refer to an observation DL and I have made: When speaking to the Relief Society, general authorities tend to praise the wom...
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:31 pm
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: New Name for Dragon Baby
- Replies: 49
- Views: 19265
Re: New Name for Dragon Baby
Or we could go with specific types of dragons... Hungarian Horntailed Baby, Chinese Fireball Baby, Common Welsh Green Baby (um... okay?), etc.
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:20 pm
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: New Name for Dragon Baby
- Replies: 49
- Views: 19265
Re: New Name for Dragon Baby
Maybe we could go with other mythical creatures? Maybe with a Harry Potter theme? So: Dragon Baby, Centaur Baby, Mandrake Baby (for a particularly colicky one), etc.
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:01 am
- Forum: Reader Response
- Topic: Star Wars quotes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6313
Re: Star Wars quotes
From the upcoming Blu Ray release of Star Wars comes another inexplicable change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RVJJfny4I
Cause, you know, if he didn't say "No" we wouldn't have known what he was thinking. [sigh]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RVJJfny4I
Cause, you know, if he didn't say "No" we wouldn't have known what he was thinking. [sigh]
- Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:26 am
- Forum: Reader Response
- Topic: #64076 Ferroliquids
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4407
Re: #64076 Ferroliquids
Another cool video: http://kottke.org/11/08/magnetic-soap
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:44 pm
- Forum: Soapbox
- Topic: Patents and the tech industry
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4958
Re: Patents and the tech industry
Another example from the NPR article: This patent covers an idea called a "contextualizer", and can apparently be used to sue anyone who has a website where, when you scroll your mouse over certain sections, pop-up boxes appear.
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:34 pm
- Forum: Soapbox
- Topic: Patents and the tech industry
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4958
Patents and the tech industry
I'm branching this off of something over in the Random Chatter forum , because I feel like I need a soapbox. I'm no patent lawyer, but this just seems too general to be considerable as novel and non-obvious. With the description "Electronic Device" and claim "We claim the ornamental d...
- Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: Nine for Random Chatter, doomed to die
- Replies: 1553
- Views: 482200
Re: Nine for Random Chatter, doomed to die
Yeah, I talked about it as an idea. But nothing concrete is planned right now.Katya wrote:Wasn't Yellow (or someone) talking once about having alumni writers come back for Homecoming Week? That would be fun.
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:28 pm
- Forum: Reader Response
- Topic: Star Wars quotes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6313
Re: Star Wars quotes
Hey, look at that! The quote is suddenly and mysteriously correct!
I wonder how that happened...
I wonder how that happened...
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:38 am
- Forum: Reader Response
- Topic: Star Wars quotes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6313
Re: Star Wars quotes
Uh... yeah. Intentional. Totally. [sheepish look]
- Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:54 am
- Forum: Reader Response
- Topic: #63798 - Picky eaters
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8573
Re: #63798 - Picky eaters
But the problem you are describing is categorically different than that of a picky eater. I suppose a definition of terms is in order; to me, the term "picky eater" refers to someone who claims not to like many foods because of an aversion based on certain environmental factors, as well a...
- Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:29 am
- Forum: Random Chatter
- Topic: Under Contract!!!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5497
Re: Under Contract!!!
Well, Riverton really, not Salt Lake proper.