If my AP is open then you have my permission to use it. I assume everyone else is the same. I consider people who lockdown their AP to be stealing from the public because they are using up a scarce public resource and not sharing it. It's the same as if they went into a national park and built a log cabin for their private use.
Well - she seems to have ran out of stuff to write about Harry Potter so I guess her creative abilities have came and gone leaving her with only a few billion dollars to show for it. Time to start getting sue crazy over IP. Evidently she doesn't realize how much like Voldemort SCO was and how like Harry Potter Linux is. She is on the wrong side. Never thought she'd become a Death Eater.
If people don't openly resist then things will only get worse. What needs to happen is for people to openly protest and for people to openly support the protesters. Never give up the key and be totally open that there is a key and that you're not going to give it up. Involve the press and make a big stink about the issue.
If you want to manually create filters for every possibility instead of having the system figure it out for you then you must not get very much email. I get thousands of messages a day and it's a huge pain to create filters for every possibility. I much perfer to let my email client do some figuring stuff out for me along with being able to create my own filters. What if your needs change from moment to moment and you need the messages filtered differently?
For instance, if I receive ten messages a day from a certain email address why not have the email program identify a need to offer a virtual folder of mail from this email address? If it's emails showing signs of coming from a known mailing list software, or mailing list, then why not clump it's virtual folder under a folder just for mailing lists? While you're at it why not offer easy controls for working with the mailing list software such as unsubscribing, switching to digest mode, request a CVS account, etc.
While they're at it, why not do things like live previews of incoming message attachments? Maybe a sidebar or maybe just a short listing at the top of the message list similar to found images in Google search?
Why not let our software work for us so that we can work on stuff that is actually useful? I've used a lot of email programs over the years and so far all of them have been inferior to the one I wrote for myself. I applaud Google for trying to go beyond the 1985 limitations of email thought.
There is not a single email client available to the public that makes managing mass amounts of email really effecient. You spend more time dealing with the software than communicating. If the software didn't suck then spam wouldn't be an issue. It's only an issue because email clients aren't intelligent enough to know what is relevant to your current needs and what isn't.
I agree that UI clutter is a bad idea but I think that taking advantage of social information to make email work better is a good idea. Hopefully, Google will do this as intelligently as they do most things (unlike Microsoft) and not screw up our email experience.
I already love the integration of IM and email and the presence information is often useful.
I can see an option to sort incoming email by how frequently you've sent messages to that person as being very useful. Without totally hiding away the new message from the monthly newsletter I'm subscribed to the messages from my friends and family would pop to the top of the list where I'll see them right away.
I'm sure there are other useful features that could be integrated directly into email and many more than could be a sepperate social networking app.
What's really bad is that a clever hacker can bypass much of your companies security just by getting someone running Windows to let themselves be infected with a program that gives the hacker terminal access to their computer and the ability to catch usernames, passwords, etc. Suddenly they have all the right authorization and access to your protected systems from inside the LAN. Worse, they can often infect other Windows systems giving the hacker access to the protected systems with many different user creditials. Would you want a hacker accessing ANYTHING that any Windows user on your network has access to? For most companies that gives access to everything because most data is accessed by a least on Windows user.
If you have Windows on your network then it's not difficult to penetrate your network. I've done this experiment many times with many different companies I've worked for. I can always gain secure access.
No, because more bills creates an issue for the system, more data doesn't. It's easy to delete the stolen objects, or just return them to their rightful owner, and just ban the user that stole them. Making this a criminal issue is stupid.
Next time someone steals a handful of Monopoly money when I grab a soda I'm going to have to press charges I guess. Afterall, I paid real money to buy that Monopoly money so snatching it must be a real crime. Doh.
Having short term vision is a common problem among American's and their politicians. Planning for the future doesn't matter - only quick gain does. We'll save a nickle today so we don't worry that it'll cost us a dollar tomorrow. Stupid isn't it? You'd think we're all children.
I've thought of using the grooves along the road to make a menacing voice for years. 'Get your ass back on the road stupid!' or some such thing. I think it's more American than playing music.
I've looked at Lua but was turned off by it's syntax. Is there any benefit to using it over Python? I'm pretty satisfied with Python but sometimes use other languages if I think they'll do a given task better.
My wishlist for Windows is for them to give up and realize that they produce crap. Follow Apple's example and build on top of BSD and Linux. Base IE on Gecko or KHTML. I'd love to scratch Windows and IE off my list of things to have to worry about.
Other than security issues and poor standards support I don't really care about Windows. I use Linux as my primary desktop at home and MacOS (running Linux and Windows VMs) at work. Windows is only on my radar so far as it annoys me and gets in my way.
C++ and Java are still a lot more trouble to work with than Python or a similar level of scripting language. Which language you do a given task in should vary by what is most appropiate for doing that task. If doing it in C++ instead of C will make your program easier to maintain then use C++. If doing it in Python makes more sense than doing it in C++ then do it in Python. If you have a domain specific problem where Prolog makes more sense then use Prolog. Don't replace three lines of Prolog with three hundred lines of C - just embed Prolog and learn to use it. Likewise, if writing something in Prolog would be slow and difficult to maintain then maybe C, C++, or Python makes more sense for solving that problem. Trying to force a problem into a given language it doesn't fit well with doesn't make a lot of sense.
We all love the quirky folks that figure out how to write web servers in Postscript and Doom clones in QBasic but it just isn't the right choice for a real-world implementation.
But logic faults are easier to find and fix in a higher language because you have less syntax to hurdle over to understand what is going on. I'd much rather try to read, understand, and fix Python code than the same functionality in C.
Of course that doesn't fix every problem but I think it fixes a lot. I see so many programs written entirely in C when they really shouldn't be. I think programmers feel more studly if they write everything in C than if they write in a higher level language when possible.
I think that software that takes a long time to patch is often, but not always, designed badly. Do the time sensitive parts of your code in C/C++/Asm and the rest do in a higher level language such as Python. That way the majority of your code should be pretty easy to patch quickly while still keeping the speed boosts where they matter most. An additonal benefit is that there are many languages out there that are easy to embed in your program and usually they have far more maintainers than you'd have resources to put on a project - any bugs that show up will often be found and fixed before you even know about them. Code written in high level languages often is also more resistant to many types of security issues.
If you're already using a high level language and fixes take weeks then I think you may be doing something wrong.:)
I don't think the US really needs to be split. What needs to happen is for power to move away from the federal government and back to the state governments. The federal government has grown way to strong. Issues that should be solved at a local or state level are being addressed at a national level. Conformity is being expected rather than letting different states try different things.
Regardless, it won't make a significant difference so long as the citizens don't care. People have to be intelligent and moral and willing to stand up for what needs to be done - then they have to care enough to actually think issues through and act on them. Without a majority of these people, democracy cannot function.
I don't mind my friends that have different ideas than me if they are intelligent and have thought the issues through. What I mind is my friends that just take a party stance or jump on some bandwagon without really understanding the issues. The first group offers useful dialog on the subjects at hand and a healthy compromise can be figured out that benefits us all. The later shouldn't be allowed to vote or participate in dialog because they are shrill and aren't accomplishing anything. Sadly, most people, in the US at least, are like the later group of my friends. They don't really care enough to think on their own or participate like adults.
Our company uses VMWare simply because it's still the best virtualization platform I've been able to find for the x86 Linux platform and has the best upgrade path. We'd love to use open source but we've yet to see an open source product that can offer the same stability and features and host so many platforms.
When an open source competitor can run as reliably and fast on my dual quad-core Xeon server, can host at least Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows XP, can do clustering with live migration, and do live backups then we'll seriously think about switching. Until then we're not interested because these are the features we need.
When an open source competitor can offer those though then there is a very good chance we'll switch. If VMWare wants to keep our business they either need to create new features we need, which is doubtful since this solution works great for us, or open source their code. We'd pay for support ven if their code was free.
The intent of the Constitution was to take money from big media companies to shut down educational institutions and make kids that download media, without paying for it, work at Burger King for their whole life?
I've been tempted to leave the US to it's own self destruction and just go elsewhere. I feel that my influence would be greater if I moved to a smaller country.
America is to corrupt to save I think. The government is bad enough but the average citizen is what is really to the point of being beyond saving. Those people in the "if you don't like it, leave!" crowd are only one example of what is making America suck. The people, as a whole, just don't really care if it sucks. Either they live in a delusion of their ideal America and think that it's real, they're stupid, or they're to lazy and immoral to give a shit.
I think America could only be saved if a large part of the population got both intelligence (and the ability to use it) and religion (or decent morality of some kind) - two things that often don't go together in our culture. To really be sure of success the same people would have to grow some balls and not be afraid to be brash and stand up for themselves and what needs to be done. Without these, the US is doomed. I'd say it's pretty much fscked and without hope.
If only I could count on the US not dragging the world down with it when it goes down. If so I'd just find a nice tropical country with good beaches and a low cost of living and move.:)
I don't sign such agreements. My usual method isn't to argue unless forced to - I just tend to keep forgetting to do anything about the subject at all and hope everyone else does likewise. This has actually worked pretty well for me over the years. If it comes down to a choice of signing or finding a different job then I'll find a different job. Nobody has the right to steal my ideas or my work from me. To often companies can screw individuals just because they have the money and we don't. You shouldn't let that happen to you. If you're already employed there and weren't asked to sign at the time of employment then I'd suspect you might have a valid lawsuit against them if they fire you for not signing now. They can't just force you to sign aay all your rights. I'd talk to a lawyer to find out your exact rights though.
So because corruption has been going on for a long time we shouldn't be angry at it's existance or try to stamp it out?
I think the problem is that we need a visionary with practical pursuits in mind. Someone that can look at the problems and systematically attack and fix them. We need to stop arguing over stupid crap, selling out to the highest bidder, and thinking only about ourselves. Every problem can be fixed if we only make some actual effort to do it with our brains and our hands instead of going by emotion and opinions.
We need to get back to spending MORE on basic scientific research and development. That is what made our country great. The government should fund research that doesn't have practical commercial applications because those things pay off eventually and drive our society forward.
Everyone needs a party now and then. So long as actual scientists are being invited to these parties and not just bigwigs I think it's very appropiate to spend a little on that kind of thing. Any other company would be spending that much on morale boosting.
How much has NASA boosted our economy and improved our lifestyle over the years? If they were collecting royalties they could pay for their own party.
The nvidia drivers suck. Those provided by nvidia constantly caused my system to crawl due to memory leaks and such. Unless Nvidia opens their drivers I'll probably be buying ATI products from now on.
I use both GIMP and Photoshop on a regular basis. I'd rather use GIMP than Photoshop any day. It's way easier to use. I hate dimwits who've only used Photoshop that whine that GIMP needs to be more like Photoshop.
People are greedy and stupid. It's worth destroying our Constitutional rights to free speech just to get a couple dollars. I'm surprised they didn't sue Intel and Nvidia too as evidently if you write your own code that uses their products you can be offended by showing yourself naked people.
Most days I'm disgusted to be an American. I think this is one of those days. My fellow citizens disgust me. People get the government they deserve and that says a lot about the state the US is in.
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If my AP is open then you have my permission to use it. I assume everyone else is the same. I consider people who lockdown their AP to be stealing from the public because they are using up a scarce public resource and not sharing it. It's the same as if they went into a national park and built a log cabin for their private use.
I don't like laptops bcause they are clunky yet cramped. They're not big enough and they're not small enough. They just don't fit my needs very well.
Well - she seems to have ran out of stuff to write about Harry Potter so I guess her creative abilities have came and gone leaving her with only a few billion dollars to show for it. Time to start getting sue crazy over IP. Evidently she doesn't realize how much like Voldemort SCO was and how like Harry Potter Linux is. She is on the wrong side. Never thought she'd become a Death Eater.
If people don't openly resist then things will only get worse. What needs to happen is for people to openly protest and for people to openly support the protesters. Never give up the key and be totally open that there is a key and that you're not going to give it up. Involve the press and make a big stink about the issue.
If you want to manually create filters for every possibility instead of having the system figure it out for you then you must not get very much email. I get thousands of messages a day and it's a huge pain to create filters for every possibility. I much perfer to let my email client do some figuring stuff out for me along with being able to create my own filters. What if your needs change from moment to moment and you need the messages filtered differently?
For instance, if I receive ten messages a day from a certain email address why not have the email program identify a need to offer a virtual folder of mail from this email address? If it's emails showing signs of coming from a known mailing list software, or mailing list, then why not clump it's virtual folder under a folder just for mailing lists? While you're at it why not offer easy controls for working with the mailing list software such as unsubscribing, switching to digest mode, request a CVS account, etc.
While they're at it, why not do things like live previews of incoming message attachments? Maybe a sidebar or maybe just a short listing at the top of the message list similar to found images in Google search?
Why not let our software work for us so that we can work on stuff that is actually useful? I've used a lot of email programs over the years and so far all of them have been inferior to the one I wrote for myself. I applaud Google for trying to go beyond the 1985 limitations of email thought.
There is not a single email client available to the public that makes managing mass amounts of email really effecient. You spend more time dealing with the software than communicating. If the software didn't suck then spam wouldn't be an issue. It's only an issue because email clients aren't intelligent enough to know what is relevant to your current needs and what isn't.
I agree that UI clutter is a bad idea but I think that taking advantage of social information to make email work better is a good idea. Hopefully, Google will do this as intelligently as they do most things (unlike Microsoft) and not screw up our email experience.
I already love the integration of IM and email and the presence information is often useful.
I can see an option to sort incoming email by how frequently you've sent messages to that person as being very useful. Without totally hiding away the new message from the monthly newsletter I'm subscribed to the messages from my friends and family would pop to the top of the list where I'll see them right away.
I'm sure there are other useful features that could be integrated directly into email and many more than could be a sepperate social networking app.
What's really bad is that a clever hacker can bypass much of your companies security just by getting someone running Windows to let themselves be infected with a program that gives the hacker terminal access to their computer and the ability to catch usernames, passwords, etc. Suddenly they have all the right authorization and access to your protected systems from inside the LAN. Worse, they can often infect other Windows systems giving the hacker access to the protected systems with many different user creditials. Would you want a hacker accessing ANYTHING that any Windows user on your network has access to? For most companies that gives access to everything because most data is accessed by a least on Windows user.
If you have Windows on your network then it's not difficult to penetrate your network. I've done this experiment many times with many different companies I've worked for. I can always gain secure access.
No, because more bills creates an issue for the system, more data doesn't. It's easy to delete the stolen objects, or just return them to their rightful owner, and just ban the user that stole them. Making this a criminal issue is stupid.
Next time someone steals a handful of Monopoly money when I grab a soda I'm going to have to press charges I guess. Afterall, I paid real money to buy that Monopoly money so snatching it must be a real crime. Doh.
Having short term vision is a common problem among American's and their politicians. Planning for the future doesn't matter - only quick gain does. We'll save a nickle today so we don't worry that it'll cost us a dollar tomorrow. Stupid isn't it? You'd think we're all children.
I've thought of using the grooves along the road to make a menacing voice for years. 'Get your ass back on the road stupid!' or some such thing. I think it's more American than playing music.
I've looked at Lua but was turned off by it's syntax. Is there any benefit to using it over Python? I'm pretty satisfied with Python but sometimes use other languages if I think they'll do a given task better.
My wishlist for Windows is for them to give up and realize that they produce crap. Follow Apple's example and build on top of BSD and Linux. Base IE on Gecko or KHTML. I'd love to scratch Windows and IE off my list of things to have to worry about.
Other than security issues and poor standards support I don't really care about Windows. I use Linux as my primary desktop at home and MacOS (running Linux and Windows VMs) at work. Windows is only on my radar so far as it annoys me and gets in my way.
C++ and Java are still a lot more trouble to work with than Python or a similar level of scripting language. Which language you do a given task in should vary by what is most appropiate for doing that task. If doing it in C++ instead of C will make your program easier to maintain then use C++. If doing it in Python makes more sense than doing it in C++ then do it in Python. If you have a domain specific problem where Prolog makes more sense then use Prolog. Don't replace three lines of Prolog with three hundred lines of C - just embed Prolog and learn to use it. Likewise, if writing something in Prolog would be slow and difficult to maintain then maybe C, C++, or Python makes more sense for solving that problem. Trying to force a problem into a given language it doesn't fit well with doesn't make a lot of sense.
We all love the quirky folks that figure out how to write web servers in Postscript and Doom clones in QBasic but it just isn't the right choice for a real-world implementation.
But logic faults are easier to find and fix in a higher language because you have less syntax to hurdle over to understand what is going on. I'd much rather try to read, understand, and fix Python code than the same functionality in C.
Of course that doesn't fix every problem but I think it fixes a lot. I see so many programs written entirely in C when they really shouldn't be. I think programmers feel more studly if they write everything in C than if they write in a higher level language when possible.
I think that software that takes a long time to patch is often, but not always, designed badly. Do the time sensitive parts of your code in C/C++/Asm and the rest do in a higher level language such as Python. That way the majority of your code should be pretty easy to patch quickly while still keeping the speed boosts where they matter most. An additonal benefit is that there are many languages out there that are easy to embed in your program and usually they have far more maintainers than you'd have resources to put on a project - any bugs that show up will often be found and fixed before you even know about them. Code written in high level languages often is also more resistant to many types of security issues.
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If you're already using a high level language and fixes take weeks then I think you may be doing something wrong.
I don't think the US really needs to be split. What needs to happen is for power to move away from the federal government and back to the state governments. The federal government has grown way to strong. Issues that should be solved at a local or state level are being addressed at a national level. Conformity is being expected rather than letting different states try different things.
Regardless, it won't make a significant difference so long as the citizens don't care. People have to be intelligent and moral and willing to stand up for what needs to be done - then they have to care enough to actually think issues through and act on them. Without a majority of these people, democracy cannot function.
I don't mind my friends that have different ideas than me if they are intelligent and have thought the issues through. What I mind is my friends that just take a party stance or jump on some bandwagon without really understanding the issues. The first group offers useful dialog on the subjects at hand and a healthy compromise can be figured out that benefits us all. The later shouldn't be allowed to vote or participate in dialog because they are shrill and aren't accomplishing anything. Sadly, most people, in the US at least, are like the later group of my friends. They don't really care enough to think on their own or participate like adults.
Our company uses VMWare simply because it's still the best virtualization platform I've been able to find for the x86 Linux platform and has the best upgrade path. We'd love to use open source but we've yet to see an open source product that can offer the same stability and features and host so many platforms.
When an open source competitor can run as reliably and fast on my dual quad-core Xeon server, can host at least Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows XP, can do clustering with live migration, and do live backups then we'll seriously think about switching. Until then we're not interested because these are the features we need.
When an open source competitor can offer those though then there is a very good chance we'll switch. If VMWare wants to keep our business they either need to create new features we need, which is doubtful since this solution works great for us, or open source their code. We'd pay for support ven if their code was free.
The intent of the Constitution was to take money from big media companies to shut down educational institutions and make kids that download media, without paying for it, work at Burger King for their whole life?
I've been tempted to leave the US to it's own self destruction and just go elsewhere. I feel that my influence would be greater if I moved to a smaller country.
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America is to corrupt to save I think. The government is bad enough but the average citizen is what is really to the point of being beyond saving. Those people in the "if you don't like it, leave!" crowd are only one example of what is making America suck. The people, as a whole, just don't really care if it sucks. Either they live in a delusion of their ideal America and think that it's real, they're stupid, or they're to lazy and immoral to give a shit.
I think America could only be saved if a large part of the population got both intelligence (and the ability to use it) and religion (or decent morality of some kind) - two things that often don't go together in our culture. To really be sure of success the same people would have to grow some balls and not be afraid to be brash and stand up for themselves and what needs to be done. Without these, the US is doomed. I'd say it's pretty much fscked and without hope.
If only I could count on the US not dragging the world down with it when it goes down. If so I'd just find a nice tropical country with good beaches and a low cost of living and move.
I don't sign such agreements. My usual method isn't to argue unless forced to - I just tend to keep forgetting to do anything about the subject at all and hope everyone else does likewise. This has actually worked pretty well for me over the years. If it comes down to a choice of signing or finding a different job then I'll find a different job. Nobody has the right to steal my ideas or my work from me. To often companies can screw individuals just because they have the money and we don't. You shouldn't let that happen to you. If you're already employed there and weren't asked to sign at the time of employment then I'd suspect you might have a valid lawsuit against them if they fire you for not signing now. They can't just force you to sign aay all your rights. I'd talk to a lawyer to find out your exact rights though.
So because corruption has been going on for a long time we shouldn't be angry at it's existance or try to stamp it out?
I think the problem is that we need a visionary with practical pursuits in mind. Someone that can look at the problems and systematically attack and fix them. We need to stop arguing over stupid crap, selling out to the highest bidder, and thinking only about ourselves. Every problem can be fixed if we only make some actual effort to do it with our brains and our hands instead of going by emotion and opinions.
We need to get back to spending MORE on basic scientific research and development. That is what made our country great. The government should fund research that doesn't have practical commercial applications because those things pay off eventually and drive our society forward.
Everyone needs a party now and then. So long as actual scientists are being invited to these parties and not just bigwigs I think it's very appropiate to spend a little on that kind of thing. Any other company would be spending that much on morale boosting.
How much has NASA boosted our economy and improved our lifestyle over the years? If they were collecting royalties they could pay for their own party.
The nvidia drivers suck. Those provided by nvidia constantly caused my system to crawl due to memory leaks and such. Unless Nvidia opens their drivers I'll probably be buying ATI products from now on.
I use both GIMP and Photoshop on a regular basis. I'd rather use GIMP than Photoshop any day. It's way easier to use. I hate dimwits who've only used Photoshop that whine that GIMP needs to be more like Photoshop.
People are greedy and stupid. It's worth destroying our Constitutional rights to free speech just to get a couple dollars. I'm surprised they didn't sue Intel and Nvidia too as evidently if you write your own code that uses their products you can be offended by showing yourself naked people.
Most days I'm disgusted to be an American. I think this is one of those days. My fellow citizens disgust me. People get the government they deserve and that says a lot about the state the US is in.