If you're gonna market it anywhere, market it to the fitness crowd. I know that if I could have reliable, small, shock-proof audio, I might actually get my butt over to the health club...
Re:Why UseNet will remain popular
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Is Usenet Dying?
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The technology will certainly remain popular. Jon Udell's Practical Internet Groupware beats the drum that NNTP is still a good mechanism for sharing information across the network.
The problem with Usenet per se is that it's been co-opted. Dejanews doesn't even have "news" in their name any more, but it's still recognized as being what it is: A discussion tool. Just yesterday, I had someone at work ask "Hey, Andy, could we set up something like Dejanews." He didn't realize that there was an entire Usenet behind it, but it still had value to him.
Maybe the rule that "The Internet will route around problems" has a corrolary, where hard-to-understand technologies are routed around to the more easily understood presentations.
WINE has always seemed to be a great windmill-tilt, and even moreso today. How long did it take 'em to get Win32 support?
I would think that a more practical use of time would be trying to get the companies who have the products that you'd be WINEing to release Linux versions. Change the sickness rather than getting around the symptoms.
According to this article from the ACM, Turing said "if an observer cannot distinguish the responses of a programmed machine from those of a human being, the machine is said to have passed the Turing test". I'd be interested in reading the full text of his comments.
I've always thought that the intent was that the subject would be sitting down at a terminal with the intention of figuring out whether the conversation was with man or machine. Of course, if that were the case, the person would probably try to dupe the subject into thinking that it was actually a machine with which they were conversing. And then the Turing program would have to model that behavior as well....
How would the server verify this? Rather than presenting links to the actual sites, would it present a list of CGI's that a browser could then click, causing the server to verify the page prior to passing it back to the client? That would be a major CPU killer.
It's not that far from what DirectHit does. DirectHit rates all their links on the number of times that the hits are accessed.
Do a search for something on DirectHit and you'll see the little people icons. The more people icons, the more popular the page is.
The extension to this is that if you find one link that's bad, they should check all the other URLs for that site. There are a ton of bad links to old pages at jargon.org, for instance.
So the net result of this is good: Clemson backed down on Internet censoring,
Once again the word "censorship" gets bandied about when really the speaker means "not getting something for free, because God knows that everything related to the Internet must be free of charge."
You get 404s in every search engine, not just AltaVista. I keep a list of dead URLs that I find, and then submit 'em en masse to my fave engines. It takes about 2 minutes, and it helps keep stuff clean.
Yeah, it would be nice if every URL always worked, but hey, it's the Internet.
Using Perl's OO features, whether they're cheats or not, makes all the difference in the world when you're working on any sizable project.
Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl by Manning (the same publisher of the book whence springs this entire thread) is one of the best language-specific books I've ever read. The explanations are clear, the examples are meaningful, and it's funny as hell, to boot.
Learning Python is a fine book for learning. Programming Python is far more geared towards being a reference, not unlike the differences between the Camel and the Llama.
I have to agree that making whitespace significant, even if only in the form of indentation, is a horrible horrible design decision.
I would love to have a Tivo specifically for ER, because my wife has a knack for discussing the mushy parts of ER right when there's good medical blather goin' on, and we all know that's the REAL reason to watch ER.
I now record ER as we watch it in case of just such a situation.
They've done so much better in the past, like mailing NOW and other women's organizations asking them to participate in a "Babes Of The Women's Movement" pageant or something similar....
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If you're gonna market it anywhere, market it to the fitness crowd. I know that if I could have reliable, small, shock-proof audio, I might actually get my butt over to the health club...
The problem with Usenet per se is that it's been co-opted. Dejanews doesn't even have "news" in their name any more, but it's still recognized as being what it is: A discussion tool. Just yesterday, I had someone at work ask "Hey, Andy, could we set up something like Dejanews." He didn't realize that there was an entire Usenet behind it, but it still had value to him.
Maybe the rule that "The Internet will route around problems" has a corrolary, where hard-to-understand technologies are routed around to the more easily understood presentations.
Now, before this article was posted, I might have scoffed at the idea of enforcing that, but 500/minute's gotta sting...
I would think that a more practical use of time would be trying to get the companies who have the products that you'd be WINEing to release Linux versions. Change the sickness rather than getting around the symptoms.
I've always thought that the intent was that the subject would be sitting down at a terminal with the intention of figuring out whether the conversation was with man or machine. Of course, if that were the case, the person would probably try to dupe the subject into thinking that it was actually a machine with which they were conversing. And then the Turing program would have to model that behavior as well....
Do a search for something on DirectHit and you'll see the little people icons. The more people icons, the more popular the page is.
The extension to this is that if you find one link that's bad, they should check all the other URLs for that site. There are a ton of bad links to old pages at jargon.org, for instance.
Yes, fraction means "any rational number". For that matter, it may be 1/1.
Yeah, it would be nice if every URL always worked, but hey, it's the Internet.
Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl by Manning (the same publisher of the book whence springs this entire thread) is one of the best language-specific books I've ever read. The explanations are clear, the examples are meaningful, and it's funny as hell, to boot.
I have to agree that making whitespace significant, even if only in the form of indentation, is a horrible horrible design decision.
I now record ER as we watch it in case of just such a situation.
xoxo,
Andy
xoxo,
Andy