...is being able to easily tell which windows are which. If you look at the related work section, it ends up saying that the similarity of the window representations in the pager is confusing, and that is what must be fixed. So they have added something to make it easier to identify each window.
Kinda like how a number of pagers show window names or grab a scaled view of the window contents continuously. And have been doing so for years. So yeah, I would call it invalid in a heartbeat.
In Danish, 'nu' means 'now'. So a fair amount of their income has come from Danish traffic. Too bad about the behaviour problems at.nu TLD mentioned otherwhere.
One language option that my RedHat installation at work came with was Farsi. Just for kicks, I selected that, and most text was indeed little squiggly lines. To get actual work done, I changed back to English, though for unknown reason one bit of Farsi stuck around. So I still have a home directory called squiggle-squiggle-squiggle.
So you're saying that there is no objective way to define 'being first', as it requires enough publicity that people buy into it? I guess the Macintosh was the first computer with a GUI, then, and Al Gore really did invent the internet.
See http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/ellehammer. html (or just google for Ellehammer). Several month before those silly French. But I must tip my had to the mad New Zealanders.
However, Joe Moron, who is convinced that it's fine to dig up fossil fuels out of the ground to use for generating electricity {increasing atmospheric CO2 levels}, OK to dump energy-rich organic matter in landfill where it will decay into methane {which is a better heat trap than CO2 -- better in the sense it traps more heat, not better environmentally}, and harmless to burn god knows what on bonfires in back gardens, somehow thinks that if we were to burn less fossil fuel, use burnable rubbish {much of which is plant-based, i.e. derived from CO2 that has been abstracted from the atmosphere; even the carbon in animals originally came from plants at some stage along the way} instead of some of it, in a high-tech pyrolysing furnace that combines as near as damn is to swearing all the fuel with oxygen, and save on logistics by not having to transport waste materials so far, then that would somehow be worse for the environment.
That sentence deserves to be taken out back and shot.
IMHO, the net is a lot more resilient than the power grid. Jumping from powerouts to net meltdown is like claiming that an increase in car traffic makes train accidents more likely.
OTOH, I agree that having basic infrastructure like roads, power, and water on private hands is a recipe for disaster. Monopolization and short-term interests combine to cause real problems.
Remember that there's a vital difference between state monopolies and private monopolies: State monopolies have their primary focus on ensuring stability. Private monopolies have their primary focus on making money. Which do you want cleaning your water?
...for, as Timothy himself says, "anything which slows down spam can only be a good thing." (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 3/08/25/0 024204&mode=nested&tid=111&tid=126&tid=95)
Maybe there are things that slow down spam that are not good?
The single best tip Iøve gotten about getting things done was from my former advisor. It's fairly simple, but it really helped me get out of the check news/check mail/game a bit/etc slump.
When you start working in the morning, don't do anything other than the work you're supposed to do, until 12 o'clock. Don't check news, don't check mail, don't fix a little bug in an unrelated program, don't try to get through that last level in your game. Nothing but what you're supposed to do. It can be hard, but you can tell yourself "I can do this until 12".
This works partly because you get at least some hours of concentrated work in the morning (assuming you get to work before 10ish), but also because you get into your work. Once you've spent two hours of concentrated time on your work, your brain has started spinning, and you should find yourself wanting to fix that next problem in your work as much as you'd otherwise want to play that next game level. It gets your interest up (assuming that you have some interest in your work to begin with, but as a student, you should have some).
The only thing I allowed breaks for was to go to the bathroom or get something to drink. It was quite hard at first, my fingers kept wanting to go M-x gnus on their own, but it was very rewarding.
For Linux, I will occasionally start a new X server to login without logging somebody else out. Should be possible to do the same on OS X. Hard on the RAM, though.
Unless you have crappy DSL, mailing DVDs doesn't help you much.
I get 75KB/s on my DSL line. It would take me 125829 seconds to download 9G of data. That's 34 hours. Not bad compared to two-three days for mail. You can get DSL with twice that rate if you have a good phone line and slightly more money.
Mailing DVDs is also faster than telegraphing them, but telegraphing went out of style only slightly before 28K phone lines.
In short (too late!), American culture is taking over the world. We aren't forcing it, people choosed what they like. Other cultures are getting forced out and feel threatened. The resulting fear turns to hatred of America and Americans. We are a "corrupting" influence. And we do take for granted freedoms and benefits others can only dream of.
We aren't forcing it at gunpoint, we're forcing it through much subtler means of economic pressure.
Also, many European countries who consider American culture a corrupting influence have freedoms and benefits that Americans can only dream of: Freedom to drink at any ago, freedom for gays, universally available quality healthcare and education... US is not the only country with a powerful constitution, it's merely the most powerful country around.
Having read several of the actual documents involved in this case, let me say this: This case is not about deep linking at all. In no way. Whatsoever.
What they're being sued over is having essentially copied the table-of-contents. They've taken the links and titles of all the newspaper articles directly from the webpage and presented them to users. Unlike/., they did not put their own title on the references or anything.
Under Danish copyright law, an index can be copyrighted. This copyright was violated.
This case sets no precedent for a site that collects links to articles about e.g. Linux, as such a site would have to put their own effort into making the index.
University of Aarhus, Denmark, where I got my Masters, almost enforced teamwork. We were split into study groups (though you could go alone if you wanted to) and expected to do all homework together. Projects were turned in as a group. I learned *so* much more from discussing the problems with my friends that from any other part of the education. Forbidding teamwork is just plain stupid (as is the curved grading that promotes selfishness).
This story is not complete without a link to the wonderful Contact Project: http://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/alien.html Much more interesting to try to figure out an alien civilization -- this message is really well done!
A curious thought: Microsoft is said to have remote shutdown capabilities built into Windows (at least some newer versions) to be able to terminate uses that break the EULA. Windows includes a file-sharing mechanism. What if somebody were to show the RIAA/MPAA that people are using Windows sharing to copy copyrighted material? Well, M$ has the ability to control it, and file sharing is certainly a selling point of Windows, so they would have vicarious liability. They would have to actually go out and shut down services that people have bought from them.
I wonder if the ensuing legal battle would end up like a battle between Sauron and Saruman:)
I realise this is massive gender stereotyping, but perhaps the majority of girls aren't interested in socially-deprived isolated activities like staring at code for hours?
Programming doesn't have to be isolated. Have a look at Extreme Programming -- pair programming sounds like fun (haven't tried it much yet) and quite social.
Except that on Windows, ssh is not a stock part of the OS (there are/no/ free versions that I'm aware of, and even the pay versions don't seem to support tunnelling[1], etc),...
There is a Java implementation of SSH called MindTerm that I'm using with great success (CA to IL). It does X forwarding, which is was I mainly crave. And no, it isn't hideously slow.
The best thing about a Java implementation is that you can run it off anybodys computer without a lot of grumpy installation. I've always missed SSH when I've come to some random, locked-down machine.
[Hmpf. Pressing return on the password field submitted my entry half done. Let me try again.]
Two other good Anime series that haven't been mentioned so far (that I saw at JAC at UIUC):
Nadia (The Secret of Blue Water) --Adventure/romance anime loosely based on Jules Vernes "20.000 Leagus Under the Sea", but with Atlanis myths and powerful technology at the core. Surprising story, good personalization, bea-yutiful animation, all over good. Manages to do high-tech stuff without the ubiquitous robots/grabbler arms etc.
Outlaw Star -- Space comedy with decent animation and story. Quite funny.
Two other good Anime that I didn't see mentioned so far (but I don't know if they're on DVD yet, I've only seen fansubbed versions at JAC (A HREF="http://www
I just want to say that this is going to be the first TV I'll consider keeping up with after coming over here (2 years). It rocks!
For those who haven't seen it yet: See it in order. There is so much more storyline than other shows that just picking a show here and there doesn't do it justice at all.
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There are lots. The Japanese Animation Club at UIUC had somewhere around 50-50 gender balance. A lot of anime is actually targetted towards girls.
You were thinking hentai, not anime, weren't you? You... you hentai, you.
-Lars
...is being able to easily tell which windows are which. If you look at the related work section, it ends up saying that the similarity of the window representations in the pager is confusing, and that is what must be fixed. So they have added something to make it easier to identify each window.
Kinda like how a number of pagers show window names or grab a scaled view of the window contents continuously. And have been doing so for years. So yeah, I would call it invalid in a heartbeat.
-Lars
that we can challenge him to a duel to the death? Line starts over there-->
"Name time, place and weapons."
"At dawn, on the slopes of Mt. Olympus, with enraged halibuts!"
-Lars
In Danish, 'nu' means 'now'. So a fair amount of their income has come from Danish traffic. Too bad about the behaviour problems at .nu TLD mentioned otherwhere.
-Lars
One language option that my RedHat installation at work came with was Farsi. Just for kicks, I selected that, and most text was indeed little squiggly lines. To get actual work done, I changed back to English, though for unknown reason one bit of Farsi stuck around. So I still have a home directory called squiggle-squiggle-squiggle.
-Lars
So you're saying that there is no objective way to define 'being first', as it requires enough publicity that people buy into it? I guess the Macintosh was the first computer with a GUI, then, and Al Gore really did invent the internet.
-Lars
See http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/ellehammer. html (or just google for Ellehammer). Several month before those silly French. But I must tip my had to the mad New Zealanders.
-Lars
-Lars
Film at eleven.
IMHO, the net is a lot more resilient than the power grid. Jumping from powerouts to net meltdown is like claiming that an increase in car traffic makes train accidents more likely.
OTOH, I agree that having basic infrastructure like roads, power, and water on private hands is a recipe for disaster. Monopolization and short-term interests combine to cause real problems.
Remember that there's a vital difference between state monopolies and private monopolies: State monopolies have their primary focus on ensuring stability. Private monopolies have their primary focus on making money. Which do you want cleaning your water?
-Lars
...for, as Timothy himself says, "anything which slows down spam can only be a good thing."0 3/08/25/0 024204&mode=nested&tid=111&tid=126&tid=95)
(http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=
Maybe there are things that slow down spam that are not good?
-Lars
The single best tip Iøve gotten about getting things done was from my former advisor. It's fairly simple, but it really helped me get out of the check news/check mail/game a bit/etc slump.
When you start working in the morning, don't do anything other than the work you're supposed to do, until 12 o'clock. Don't check news, don't check mail, don't fix a little bug in an unrelated program, don't try to get through that last level in your game. Nothing but what you're supposed to do. It can be hard, but you can tell yourself "I can do this until 12".
This works partly because you get at least some hours of concentrated work in the morning (assuming you get to work before 10ish), but also because you get into your work. Once you've spent two hours of concentrated time on your work, your brain has started spinning, and you should find yourself wanting to fix that next problem in your work as much as you'd otherwise want to play that next game level. It gets your interest up (assuming that you have some interest in your work to begin with, but as a student, you should have some).
The only thing I allowed breaks for was to go to the bathroom or get something to drink. It was quite hard at first, my fingers kept wanting to go M-x gnus on their own, but it was very rewarding.
-Lars
For Linux, I will occasionally start a new X server to login without logging somebody else out. Should be possible to do the same on OS X. Hard on the RAM, though.
Unless you have crappy DSL, mailing DVDs doesn't help you much.
I get 75KB/s on my DSL line. It would take me 125829 seconds to download 9G of data. That's 34 hours. Not bad compared to two-three days for mail. You can get DSL with twice that rate if you have a good phone line and slightly more money.
Mailing DVDs is also faster than telegraphing them, but telegraphing went out of style only slightly before 28K phone lines.
-Lars
In short (too late!), American culture is taking over the world. We aren't forcing it, people choosed what they like. Other cultures are getting forced out and feel threatened. The resulting fear turns to hatred of America and Americans. We are a "corrupting" influence. And we do take for granted freedoms and benefits others can only dream of.
We aren't forcing it at gunpoint, we're forcing it through much subtler means of economic pressure.
Also, many European countries who consider American culture a corrupting influence have freedoms and benefits that Americans can only dream of: Freedom to drink at any ago, freedom for gays, universally available quality healthcare and education... US is not the only country with a powerful constitution, it's merely the most powerful country around.
-Lars
Having read several of the actual documents involved in this case, let me say this: This case is not about deep linking at all. In no way. Whatsoever.
/., they did not put their own title on the references or anything.
What they're being sued over is having essentially copied the table-of-contents. They've taken the links and titles of all the newspaper articles directly from the webpage and presented them to users. Unlike
Under Danish copyright law, an index can be copyrighted. This copyright was violated.
This case sets no precedent for a site that collects links to articles about e.g. Linux, as such a site would have to put their own effort into making the index.
Everybody, STOP FSCKING PANICKING!
Thank you.
University of Aarhus, Denmark, where I got my Masters, almost enforced teamwork. We were split into study groups (though you could go alone if you wanted to) and expected to do all homework together. Projects were turned in as a group. I learned *so* much more from discussing the problems with my friends that from any other part of the education. Forbidding teamwork is just plain stupid (as is the curved grading that promotes selfishness).
-Lars
I think you might want, say, variables in there? Or it's not going to be even Turing-complete. And do X while Y == do X until !Y.
All in favor of using Lambda Calculus, raise your abstraction levels!
-Lars
This story is not complete without a link to the wonderful Contact Project: http://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/alien.html Much more interesting to try to figure out an alien civilization -- this message is really well done!
-Lars
A curious thought: Microsoft is said to have remote shutdown capabilities built into Windows (at least some newer versions) to be able to terminate uses that break the EULA. Windows includes a file-sharing mechanism. What if somebody were to show the RIAA/MPAA that people are using Windows sharing to copy copyrighted material? Well, M$ has the ability to control it, and file sharing is certainly a selling point of Windows, so they would have vicarious liability. They would have to actually go out and shut down services that people have bought from them.
I wonder if the ensuing legal battle would end up like a battle between Sauron and Saruman:)
-Lars
Programming doesn't have to be isolated. Have a look at Extreme Programming -- pair programming sounds like fun (haven't tried it much yet) and quite social.
-Lars
The best thing about a Java implementation is that you can run it off anybodys computer without a lot of grumpy installation. I've always missed SSH when I've come to some random, locked-down machine.
-Lars
Two other good Anime series that haven't been mentioned so far (that I saw at JAC at UIUC):
Nadia (The Secret of Blue Water) --Adventure/romance anime loosely based on Jules Vernes "20.000 Leagus Under the Sea", but with Atlanis myths and powerful technology at the core. Surprising story, good personalization, bea-yutiful animation, all over good. Manages to do high-tech stuff without the ubiquitous robots/grabbler arms etc.
Outlaw Star -- Space comedy with decent animation and story. Quite funny.
Hope you'll enjoy them!
-Lars
Two other good Anime that I didn't see mentioned so far (but I don't know if they're on DVD yet, I've only seen fansubbed versions at JAC (A HREF="http://www
I just want to say that this is going to be the first TV I'll consider keeping up with after coming over here (2 years). It rocks!
For those who haven't seen it yet: See it in order. There is so much more storyline than other shows that just picking a show here and there doesn't do it justice at all.
-Lars
So what is a "self-service impulse system" anyway?
-Lars