I'm on my third child now - I know how you must feel. Let me tell you this: it's time to relax, man; being relaxed as a parent is everything with kids. Babies feel most comfortable (protected) lying on their stomachs (except for when they're really full sometimes), and besides, what happens if your baby, lying on its back, throws up in her sleep ? She might suffocate. What happens if your baby, lying on its side, rolls to her front ? Both her arms are on one side all of a sudden; she'll have no control of movement. Each position has its disadvantages, but my baby feels most comfortable on her belly. So she sleeps on her belly.
I think mailclients should accept mail by whitelist only. SMTP should then be extended to include a whitelist-request, which can, count 'em, contain 1 line of text of 100 characters or something; much like a subject line, so you can still subscribe to web-based mailing lists and the like. The response to a whitelist-request should also be automated by your mailclient (popup with: 'You have a whitelist request, XXX. What would you like to do ?'). MTAs can be aware of the preferences of their clients by intercepting these whitelist-responses. Spam would be useless, as it could only be formulated in the whitelist-request subject-line (much too short). APIs that send mail to (large amounts of) (perhaps unaware) subscribers, can be made to formulate whitelist-requests instead of regular mail when they get their '455 Sender not listed' response. The little bit of action at the end-user-end (doing your daily thing of whitelisting sender-addresses, or not - an activity that will eventually dry up) will be zero in comparison to the amount of action that is required at the moment.
Wow. Just wow. Time to move out of the country, I'd say. For if you didn't know it - no such government-harassment would follow your friends outside the US, you know; there's a whole developed world out there, English speaking an' all.
If you took the gloves off, your international reputation wouldn't stand a chance either. Besides, in 'nam, you guys openly took the gloves off, and you still couldn't do it.
Oracle is the kind of company that has these prices for two reasons: - to scare off the unsure, and - to enable salesreps to give you rebate percentages in the double digits.
You seem to be contradicting yourself - you want both oversight and due process _and_ limited government. In other words, you want stuff to be on the books, but no people to perform duties described in there, or do you want no stuff in the books, and therefore no people ? Or do you want people to give you due process, but not everyone else, so that there can still be limited government ? Or do you want limited government, but due process and long queues in airports ? See, I don't get it. Please explain.
Time Warner Exec: Okay, it's decided. We're going to demerge with you. AOL Exec: Really? Look. It's _US_ who bought _YOU_. So _WE_ are going to demerge with _YOU_, not the other way 'round. TW: Ha ! Loser. We are bigger now. _WE_ are going to demerge with _YOU_. AOL: Hell no ! _WE_ are going to demerge with _YOU_ motherf$%^# ! TW: No ! Because I'm going to call the demerge department now ! AOL: Not if I can get there quicker ! Hello ?! Hello ?! Fucker ! He hung up on me !
]] The differences you describe are there for concurrency. A Vector is a thread-safe List. A Hashtable is a thread-safe Map.
These additions were also made royally late in the game, and only when Sun had to realize, to its embarassment, that all these fancy java.util classes were completely un-reentrant. The GP poster is still right in his complaint.
]] You should punch your packagers if their Firefox packages don't always load plugins from/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and ~/.mozilla/plugins.
Hm. I run FC4 (or 5, I forget), and I have/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6,/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7,/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.8 etc, and FC isn't exactly obscure. Plus; ~/.mozilla/plugins ? I have more users, not just one !
]] The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory.
Until you do a yum upgrade, or something like that. Because then you get a separate directory for each sub version of firefox with a different plugins directory underneath it, and you lose your plugin once again, until you symlink to the plugin from the new plugins directory. Yes, maintaining software on Linux is a breeze, sometimes.
And of course, for people with jobs and lives and such trivial things, a guild has quite a different meaning, and some of them are quite often quite a lot older than your WOW-or-what-have-you guilds, think a few centuries.
Because moving files around is all I ever do all day. Plus, most of the files I ever move around are big enough so that the time it consumes is more in network bandwidth than anything else. Is apple claiming that bigger screens will enhance my network bandwidth as well ?
I think if you read this, you'll notice that it's rather the other way 'round. Sadly, I cannot think up an appropriately funny 'chuck norris fact' for the occasion.
The fact that it's just paper, doesn't mean that its becoming worthless isn't destruction of capital. When the dotcom billionaires screw up their companies by making reckless decisions, they destroy the livelihoods of their workers, their inventory and real estate will be sold for under the write-off price, the capital of their investors (you and me) will be gone, the market's trust in their branch will be down the toilet for years to come. You don't want another 2001, do you ?
}} You can't just "make a YouTube out of Slashdot"
You could make YouTube out of a Wiki in a few hours. If you don't see that, then you're probably not very much of a programmer. Or maybe *I* don't understand what so difficult about a searchable content-database with a web-presentation layer and some user abstraction.
}} The fashion industry is well aware of this, yet they haven't stopped vying for their dollars, have they?
The fashion industry is not one big blob, my friend. Individual fashion companies go out of business all the time.
All these companies that you mention make tangible products that they produce unbranded as well. In fact, they make a good chunk of their profits rebranding their product (or the lower quality versions of their products) for the 'competition'. Also, most of these companies you mentioned own more than one brand - when a consumer runs to the other brand for some reason - ha ! they still have him/her. YouTube has no tangible product, no other brand, and the only option they have for rebranding their product, is become an ISP. An ISP the size of YouTube's server farm is not worth 1640000000 dollars. The value of the code behind YouTube is probably worth something like several thousands of dollars; as I said, something you can grab in open source format off the web and fiddle with for a few hours.
When the market realizes that young people switch over from one website to the next on a whim, and that you can make youtube out of slashdot out of wikipedia with just minor code changes, they will once again withdraw their money and the market will collapse. All these companies have is brands; it's a dangerous move by Google.
- The guy's an obvious live-in-his-moms-basement nutter. - They also found child porn on his 'puter. - It may not hold up on appeal as it is, indeed, questionably opposed to the freedom of speech.
I goes without saying that the security measures in Indian companies are among the best; why, with all those CMM level 5 companies, security comes for free !
The police used to do this in the Netherlands; when a phone was reported stolen, it would be sent an SMS every five minutes, saying: 'this phone is stolen'. That would require the thief to change the SIM card, which would make his action less than free (gratis).
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I'm on my third child now - I know how you must feel. Let me tell you this: it's time to relax, man; being relaxed as a parent is everything with kids. Babies feel most comfortable (protected) lying on their stomachs (except for when they're really full sometimes), and besides, what happens if your baby, lying on its back, throws up in her sleep ? She might suffocate. What happens if your baby, lying on its side, rolls to her front ? Both her arms are on one side all of a sudden; she'll have no control of movement. Each position has its disadvantages, but my baby feels most comfortable on her belly. So she sleeps on her belly.
I think mailclients should accept mail by whitelist only. SMTP should then be extended to include a whitelist-request, which can, count 'em, contain 1 line of text of 100 characters or something; much like a subject line, so you can still subscribe to web-based mailing lists and the like. The response to a whitelist-request should also be automated by your mailclient (popup with: 'You have a whitelist request, XXX. What would you like to do ?'). MTAs can be aware of the preferences of their clients by intercepting these whitelist-responses. Spam would be useless, as it could only be formulated in the whitelist-request subject-line (much too short). APIs that send mail to (large amounts of) (perhaps unaware) subscribers, can be made to formulate whitelist-requests instead of regular mail when they get their '455 Sender not listed' response. The little bit of action at the end-user-end (doing your daily thing of whitelisting sender-addresses, or not - an activity that will eventually dry up) will be zero in comparison to the amount of action that is required at the moment.
Hate yourself much ?
Wow. Just wow. Time to move out of the country, I'd say. For if you didn't know it - no such government-harassment would follow your friends outside the US, you know; there's a whole developed world out there, English speaking an' all.
If you took the gloves off, your international reputation wouldn't stand a chance either. Besides, in 'nam, you guys openly took the gloves off, and you still couldn't do it.
Oracle is the kind of company that has these prices for two reasons:
- to scare off the unsure, and
- to enable salesreps to give you rebate percentages in the double digits.
You seem to be contradicting yourself - you want both oversight and due process _and_ limited government. In other words, you want stuff to be on the books, but no people to perform duties described in there, or do you want no stuff in the books, and therefore no people ? Or do you want people to give you due process, but not everyone else, so that there can still be limited government ? Or do you want limited government, but due process and long queues in airports ? See, I don't get it. Please explain.
Time Warner Exec: Okay, it's decided. We're going to demerge with you.
AOL Exec: Really? Look. It's _US_ who bought _YOU_. So _WE_ are going to demerge with _YOU_, not the other way 'round.
TW: Ha ! Loser. We are bigger now. _WE_ are going to demerge with _YOU_.
AOL: Hell no ! _WE_ are going to demerge with _YOU_ motherf$%^# !
TW: No ! Because I'm going to call the demerge department now !
AOL: Not if I can get there quicker ! Hello ?! Hello ?! Fucker ! He hung up on me !
No Steve Jobs.
]] The differences you describe are there for concurrency. A Vector is a thread-safe List. A Hashtable is a thread-safe Map.
These additions were also made royally late in the game, and only when Sun had to realize, to its embarassment, that all these fancy java.util classes were completely un-reentrant. The GP poster is still right in his complaint.
]] You should punch your packagers if their Firefox packages don't always load plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and ~/.mozilla/plugins.
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6, /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7, /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.8 etc, and FC isn't exactly obscure. Plus; ~/.mozilla/plugins ? I have more users, not just one !
Hm. I run FC4 (or 5, I forget), and I have
]] The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory.
Until you do a yum upgrade, or something like that. Because then you get a separate directory for each sub version of firefox with a different plugins directory underneath it, and you lose your plugin once again, until you symlink to the plugin from the new plugins directory. Yes, maintaining software on Linux is a breeze, sometimes.
And of course, for people with jobs and lives and such trivial things, a guild has quite a different meaning, and some of them are quite often quite a lot older than your WOW-or-what-have-you guilds, think a few centuries.
Erm.. aren't they all adding up to eight ?
Because moving files around is all I ever do all day. Plus, most of the files I ever move around are big enough so that the time it consumes is more in network bandwidth than anything else. Is apple claiming that bigger screens will enhance my network bandwidth as well ?
I think if you read this, you'll notice that it's rather the other way 'round. Sadly, I cannot think up an appropriately funny 'chuck norris fact' for the occasion.
Is that the most quality of writing ?
The fact that it's just paper, doesn't mean that its becoming worthless isn't destruction of capital. When the dotcom billionaires screw up their companies by making reckless decisions, they destroy the livelihoods of their workers, their inventory and real estate will be sold for under the write-off price, the capital of their investors (you and me) will be gone, the market's trust in their branch will be down the toilet for years to come. You don't want another 2001, do you ?
}} You can't just "make a YouTube out of Slashdot"
You could make YouTube out of a Wiki in a few hours. If you don't see that, then you're probably not very much of a programmer. Or maybe *I* don't understand what so difficult about a searchable content-database with a web-presentation layer and some user abstraction.
}} The fashion industry is well aware of this, yet they haven't stopped vying for their dollars, have they?
The fashion industry is not one big blob, my friend. Individual fashion companies go out of business all the time.
All these companies that you mention make tangible products that they produce unbranded as well. In fact, they make a good chunk of their profits rebranding their product (or the lower quality versions of their products) for the 'competition'. Also, most of these companies you mentioned own more than one brand - when a consumer runs to the other brand for some reason - ha ! they still have him/her. YouTube has no tangible product, no other brand, and the only option they have for rebranding their product, is become an ISP. An ISP the size of YouTube's server farm is not worth 1640000000 dollars. The value of the code behind YouTube is probably worth something like several thousands of dollars; as I said, something you can grab in open source format off the web and fiddle with for a few hours.
When the market realizes that young people switch over from one website to the next on a whim, and that you can make youtube out of slashdot out of wikipedia with just minor code changes, they will once again withdraw their money and the market will collapse. All these companies have is brands; it's a dangerous move by Google.
You _think_ they're talking about kids and family.
- The guy's an obvious live-in-his-moms-basement nutter.
- They also found child porn on his 'puter.
- It may not hold up on appeal as it is, indeed, questionably opposed to the freedom of speech.
I goes without saying that the security measures in Indian companies are among the best; why, with all those CMM level 5 companies, security comes for free !
The police used to do this in the Netherlands; when a phone was reported stolen, it would be sent an SMS every five minutes, saying: 'this phone is stolen'. That would require the thief to change the SIM card, which would make his action less than free (gratis).