One thing I really hate about the iPod is that it requires you to make a playlist for everything. I have a large MP3 collection all sorted into directories by Genre/Artist/AlbumName/Tracks. I just want to move up and down the directories and select a starting point to play at and just go.
Ummmm, I don't understand your complaint. I hardly use playlists at all on my iPod, and it does everything I want. I just picked up my iPod and navigated to:
Browse -> Genres -> Jazz -> Arturo Sandoval -> Danzon (the album)
Or if I want to listen to all of my Arturo albums, I select:
Browse -> Genres -> Jazz -> Arturo Sandoval -> All
I wasted an hour troubleshooting X11 before I finally discovered that the old X11 was in my Applications folder, and the new X11 was in my Utilities folder. D'oh!
So, has anyone found an X version of emacs (preferably emacs21, not xemacs) that works in Panther? Does the one in fink work? I'll try that one soon, but I'm in no hurry since you have to compile all of fink and emacs from source...
Apple's Steve jobs had previously mentioned that the tablet market was non-existant.
Interesting notion. Let's look at the numbers. According to the article (which you all read), tablets are expected to make up a bit less than 5% of the worldwide laptop market. Pretty small, and not much of a success in the x86 world.
But does anyone remember what Apple's market share looks like? That's right, about 5%. In effect, they're both about the same size niche. Pot, meet kettle.
Ummmm, tablets are expected to make up less than 5% of the worldwide laptop market, which implies they're not even there yet. Apple already commands more than 7% of the worldwide laptop market. Point being, the demand for an Apple laptop would be nil.
... is a 20MB download, has a 35MB memory footprint, doesn't support FLAC, Ogg or MPC (hence doesn't play most of my music collection), doesn't seem to support ReplayGain, has a huge slow GUI, and doesn't seem to have a plugin system that would allow me or others to fix any of these things.
So why should I use it instead of foobar2000, or even WinAMP?
Because none of those other programs let you purchase music from a catalog of 400,000 songs with a single click, for only $0.99, start listening to them instantly, get the cover art too, and burn the song to a CD whenever you want?
Anyway, why treat it as iTunes or nothing? The point is, does iTunes offer something that no other program does? Yes. Since it's free, why not keep it around, too?
BTW, iTunes does have a plugin system that allows you to add support for more codecs. It's called QuickTime. Here's an Ogg decoder QuickTime plugin for the Mac - now that iTunes is available on Windows, I wouldn't be surprised if a Windows version comes out soon.
Could anyone find out more information about the voice recorder? I'm curious what the quality is like. What I'd really like is to be able to hook up my own microphone to it...so it could completely replace my Minidisc recorder. (I want to use it to record music.)
This guy, who if he's really an expert has no doubt heard a TON of equipment that cost more than you can BELIEVE, is saying the unit ACTUALLY HAS high frequency response, low harmonic distortion and high sensitivity for a unit of its size and cost. And that information is much more useful than just numbers.
That doesn't mean that audiophiles couldn't make their results more quantitative. Has he tried a double-blind listening test? Or even a blind listening test? All he'd need is a friend to mix up the equipment while he's closing his eyes, to see if he can REALLY tell the difference. It's not that I don't believe him when he says that the iPod sounds good, but I do wonder if he could tell the difference between a 256 kb MP3 and an AIFF.
It reminds me of a recent article suggesting that wine connoisseurs can't even tell the difference between red and white wine! The truth may be that of course anyone can tell the difference, but only if you know that you're trying to tell them apart. But if someone served you white wine, dyed red and served at room temperature with a steak, you might never realize it.
wrong. there are silent x86-machines as well, so what's your point? Just get a nice and quiet case with good hi-quality heatsinks & fans and power-supplies, and you are all set.
This is an honest question. Can anyone recommend a very quiet, but also high-performance PC? All of the new PCs I've used recently are on the loud side.
But if all you want is a cheap and easy box for a non-technical person to run Word and Excel and Internet Explorer on, you can get a workable Dell (Dimension 2400, Celeron 2.2GHz, 40GB HD, 128MB RAM) for $500 to $600, while the cheapest Mac is the eMac (800MHz G4, 40GB HD, 128MB RAM) at $800. Multiply that by even just a couple dozen people, and the price differential really adds up.
The problem is that high-end Macs are competitive to high-end PC's, and mid-range Macs are (somewhat) competitive to mid-range PC's, but there are no low-end Macs for businesses who want bare-bones end-user computers....except that all studies have shown that Macs last 1.5 - 2x as long as equivalent PCs. So do you want to upgrade those systems after 2 years, or 3-4 years?
Yeah, my fiancee has one, and they're small and cool and all, but goddamn if they're not expensive. So, I went out and bought myself a Creative Nomad.
Not that I'm saying iPods are cheap, but did you ever consider buying a used one on eBay? I saw dozens of 10 GB models for $150 Buy It Now. Apple is also selling refurbushed 10 GB models for $179.
Interestingly, among the academics given the MacArthur grants, the Ivy league schools Harvard, MIT and Yale appear to be producing a number of these folks whether at the undergraduate level, the graduate level or the faculty level. Many of the recipients appear to have done at least some time at those institutions.
I suspect that it's not as much that those schools produce "geniuses", as much as "geniuses" tend to go to those schools.
When it got to the end of the recording, it then attempted to drop the line and dial the next number. However, in another one of those phone technicalities, this won't work because I had initiated the call; only I can drop the line.
I don't get it. Why can't the autodialer drop the line?
If my crazy uncle calls me and I don't want to listen to him, I can just hang up. Two seconds later, I can pick up the phone and dial someone else. He can't hijack my phone just because he initiated the call.
I think that the parent is a nice story, but I don't buy it...
I was surprised to se QT AAC ranked so low after it recently won a similar test among AAC encoders, was that HE AAC encoder not included in the previous test?
Keep in mind that the songs on the iTunes music store are all 128 kbps. Possibly Apple decided it wasn't worth optimizing their AAC encoder to work well at 64 kbps. How well one encoder sounds at 64 kbps doesn't necessarily say anything about how it will sound at a higher bitrate.
For instance, I've heard that common every day american english conveys approximately 1.2 bits of information per word... meaning that the least redundant approximation of human speech would need that bit rate to represent it.
No, the entropy of English is ~1 bit per character, not ~1 bit per word.
Then if AMD hit it off with the Athlon 64, then Intel would tell mobo makers the secret code or whatever that would allow them to turn on the 64 bit part with a simple BIOS upgrade. All of a sudden, Intel would have an instant installed base of 64 bit chips. This means that if Intel doesn't use AMD's instruction set (I doubt this, as the article says it would be eating crow, they'd never do it), they'd have a good chance of instantly having a huge install base on desktop PCs, and since they are Intel, they could get software companies to follow. In one fell swoop they could win the 64 bit war.
You've got to be kidding. It takes years to develop a compiler for a new instruction set. If Intel suddenly announced that a lot of their chips were 64-bit capable, it would be completely useless, because there would be no software at all that could take advantage of it.
Keep in mind that running 64-bit programs requires that the Operating System supports the instruction set completely (otherwise the registers wouldn't be saved properly, at a minimum), so they'd basically have to have Microsoft on board, in addition to probably a Linux port in order for it to be useful.
And in the meantime, all of those extra instruction decoders and extra registers would be there on the chip, wasting valuable silicon that could be used for a larger cache. No way - Intel wouldn't sacrifice potential speed now for the chance to surprise everyone with a 64-bit processor later.
Face it: Intel gambled with the Itanium, and so far their gamble hasn't been paying off. It's far too early to see who will win in the long term, but it's clear that the Itanium hasn't been an overwhelming success, while the Opteron is definitely equally popular already, if not already more popular.
It's blocked for me. The cable is provided by Time Warner, but the Internet connection by RoadRunner, so I'm assuming that RoadRunner is the one blocking it...
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I was recently trying to read an NTFS partition from one of my other machines and learned that NTFS support on Linux and Mac OS X is quite poor, because Microsoft has never published any documentation. I'm impressed that people have reverse-engineered as much as they have, but it sounds like getting robust write-access to an NTFS volume is still a pipe dream.
Is Microsoft violating their antitrust settlement by not providing complete NTFS documentation? Or is there some loophole?
" Right now I am embarrassed to say that the Beatles are my favorite music group."
That would be embarassing regardless of any lawsuits.
I mean, its like sayiing "Glen Miller" is my favorite group. Both are equally relevant to today's music scene.
First of all, it's "Glenn", like John Glenn.
Second, the Glenn Miller Orchestra is still touring, and has been consistently since 1956. They play a variety of old and new songs, all in the traditional Glenn Miller big-band style. I'd highly recommend the CD In the Digital Mood - so titled because it was one of the first all-digital recordings ever made (20 years ago). If you've only heard old recordings of Glenn Miller from the 40's, you're in for a treat...it's like night and day difference to hear the same songs recorded in a modern digital studio.
Finally, wouldn't you call bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Brian Setzer Orchestra relevant to today's music scene? I know Swing isn't as "in" as it was a couple year ago, but come on, that was pretty recent. And you'd better believe that Glenn Miller was a huge influence for those groups, as well as just about any other modern swing, rockabilly, or ska band.
Indeed. Sarah works at SCO. Recent moves spur her to seek other employment. She's unhireable. Why? Because she didn't immeditately quit and beg for quarters on the street until she got a new job? What an insane overreaction.
That's why they said "any resumes which include the SCO Group after September of 2003 will be immediately deleted" - they're specifically giving SCO employees until the end of the month to quit if they want to be eligible for employment at Damage Studios. That seems fair to me - anyone who is still working at SCO in a month is clearly part of the problem. They've known about SCO's actions for nine months - if they haven't been looking for a new job and preparing to quit, then clearly their ethics do not agree with mine and I don't want to work with them.
Here are some procmail recipes to identify these bounce messages: * ^Subject: delivery fail * ^Subject: Delivery Status Notification * ^Subject: failure notice * ^Subject: mail system error * ^Subject: norton antivirus detected * ^Subject: returned mail * ^Subject: undeliverable mail * ^Subject: undeliverable: * ^Subject: undelivered mail * ^Subject: virus alert * ^Subject: virus detect * ^Subject: virus found in sent message * ^Subject: virus in your mail * ^Subject: virus warning * ^Subject: warning:.*virus * ^Subject: your e-mail.*virus
I would recommend redirecting these messages to a separate folder rather than deleting them, as there's a small chance of false positives.
BTW, how does one write a procmail rule that succeeds if ANY of the lines match, rather than if ALL? (I have all of the lines above in separate recipes, currently...)
Long time ago... I learned that the hard disk speed is the most important factor in compile speeds. Once you have LOTS of memory, then get the fastest SCSI hard drive you can get your hands on... forget 7200 RPM IDE drives, think 15K RPM SCSI disks. Every time you have to open a new file for compiling... you have to spin (on average) 1/2 of the disk to get your head positioned... it makes a huge difference
This may have been true once, but not anymore. Processor speed is by far the most important thing affecting compilation speed. This is ESPECIALLY true with C++ (e.g., KDE), which tends to take significantly longer to compile than C.
Disk speed is much more significant for linking. But for a large project, linking only represents a small fraction of the total time to build, so speeding up linking by 2x doesn't speed up the overall build by much.
I'm not saying you shouldn't get fast disks. I'm just saying that in a choice between 2x the processor speed, or 2x the disk speed, you should take the processor speed every time if compiling is your main task you want to optimize.
Why not make the patents proportional to the amount of time and effort required to come up with the algoritm? I.e. "1 click shopping" should be patentable for about 10 minutes, while something like a machine vision algorithm which required years of research should be patentable for years...
The problem with this is that while it may take one person years to come up with a particular machine vision algorithm, someone else who has been working in the field of machine vision for 20 years could often do the same thing in a week.
No, the true test for a patent should be that it's non-obvious to people working in the field. If you show the patent abstract to 10 professionals in the field, every single one of them should say, "Wow, how did they do that?". If even a single one of them can figure out more or less how the patent works without reading the actual text, then clearly the patent does not meet one of the requirements: it's not non-obvious to someone in the field.
I believe it's time for tests like this to become part of the patent review process, instead of a criterion that only comes up when the patent is challenged in court.
It is the opposite of what private industry does which is to fire the MMs and keep the engineers(Flatten the organizational chart, keep the Indians fire the chiefs, etc.)
I don't know what dreamworld you're living in, but most of the time in private industry it's the engineers who are fired when there's a budget cut, not the managers. I've been working for NASA for two years and my impression is that it's no worse at NASA - and potentially better: JPL just created a new fund specifically to pay the salaries of people who are too smart or too important to lose but don't currently have a good assignment at the lab. Clearly they're trying to retain as many of their best and brightest as possible.
"Undergraduate degrees are meaningless now-a-days, so you might as well spend as little as possible getting one. Going to a community college for the first 2 years to get the basics out of the way is a good start."
Spot on!
Another point is that the majority of community college faculty are actually interested in teaching students. Most university faculty, particularly those at the "prestigious" institutions, have absolutely no interest in teaching. They want to do research. Odds are that the undergrad classes at those top universities are being taught by graduate assistants anyway.
There's a lot of truth in this, and for many people, a community college may be the best experience.
The major problem with community colleges isn't usually the teachers - most of them are good - it's your classmates. Face it - if you go to a community college, a lot of the people there won't be as interested in learning. Some people just want the degree, others just go because their parents are paying.
I'm not saying there aren't people like that at any school. But if you go to a highly-ranked four-year school, you'll be surrounded by far more students who are highly motivated and really excited about lots of subjects, and about learning in general. This excitement is infectious, and you are likely to find yourself more motivated as a result.
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One thing I really hate about the iPod is that it requires you to make a playlist for everything. I have a large MP3 collection all sorted into directories by Genre/Artist/AlbumName/Tracks. I just want to move up and down the directories and select a starting point to play at and just go.
Ummmm, I don't understand your complaint. I hardly use playlists at all on my iPod, and it does everything I want. I just picked up my iPod and navigated to:
Browse -> Genres -> Jazz -> Arturo Sandoval -> Danzon (the album)
Or if I want to listen to all of my Arturo albums, I select:
Browse -> Genres -> Jazz -> Arturo Sandoval -> All
Or all of my jazz:
Browse -> Genres -> Jazz -> All
What's wrong with that interface?
I wasted an hour troubleshooting X11 before I finally discovered that the old X11 was in my Applications folder, and the new X11 was in my Utilities folder. D'oh!
So, has anyone found an X version of emacs (preferably emacs21, not xemacs) that works in Panther? Does the one in fink work? I'll try that one soon, but I'm in no hurry since you have to compile all of fink and emacs from source...
Apple's Steve jobs had previously mentioned that the tablet market was non-existant.
Interesting notion. Let's look at the numbers. According to the article (which you all read), tablets are expected to make up a bit less than 5% of the worldwide laptop market. Pretty small, and not much of a success in the x86 world.
But does anyone remember what Apple's market share looks like? That's right, about 5%. In effect, they're both about the same size niche. Pot, meet kettle.
Ummmm, tablets are expected to make up less than 5% of the worldwide laptop market, which implies they're not even there yet. Apple already commands more than 7% of the worldwide laptop market. Point being, the demand for an Apple laptop would be nil.
... is a 20MB download, has a 35MB memory footprint, doesn't support FLAC, Ogg or MPC (hence doesn't play most of my music collection), doesn't seem to support ReplayGain, has a huge slow GUI, and doesn't seem to have a plugin system that would allow me or others to fix any of these things.
So why should I use it instead of foobar2000, or even WinAMP?
Because none of those other programs let you purchase music from a catalog of 400,000 songs with a single click, for only $0.99, start listening to them instantly, get the cover art too, and burn the song to a CD whenever you want?
Anyway, why treat it as iTunes or nothing? The point is, does iTunes offer something that no other program does? Yes. Since it's free, why not keep it around, too?
BTW, iTunes does have a plugin system that allows you to add support for more codecs. It's called QuickTime. Here's an Ogg decoder QuickTime plugin for the Mac - now that iTunes is available on Windows, I wouldn't be surprised if a Windows version comes out soon.
Could anyone find out more information about the voice recorder? I'm curious what the quality is like. What I'd really like is to be able to hook up my own microphone to it...so it could completely replace my Minidisc recorder. (I want to use it to record music.)
This guy, who if he's really an expert has no doubt heard a TON of equipment that cost more than you can BELIEVE, is saying the unit ACTUALLY HAS high frequency response, low harmonic distortion and high sensitivity for a unit of its size and cost. And that information is much more useful than just numbers.
That doesn't mean that audiophiles couldn't make their results more quantitative. Has he tried a double-blind listening test? Or even a blind listening test? All he'd need is a friend to mix up the equipment while he's closing his eyes, to see if he can REALLY tell the difference. It's not that I don't believe him when he says that the iPod sounds good, but I do wonder if he could tell the difference between a 256 kb MP3 and an AIFF.
It reminds me of a recent article suggesting that wine connoisseurs can't even tell the difference between red and white wine! The truth may be that of course anyone can tell the difference, but only if you know that you're trying to tell them apart. But if someone served you white wine, dyed red and served at room temperature with a steak, you might never realize it.
wrong. there are silent x86-machines as well, so what's your point? Just get a nice and quiet case with good hi-quality heatsinks & fans and power-supplies, and you are all set.
This is an honest question. Can anyone recommend a very quiet, but also high-performance PC? All of the new PCs I've used recently are on the loud side.
But if all you want is a cheap and easy box for a non-technical person to run Word and Excel and Internet Explorer on, you can get a workable Dell (Dimension 2400, Celeron 2.2GHz, 40GB HD, 128MB RAM) for $500 to $600, while the cheapest Mac is the eMac (800MHz G4, 40GB HD, 128MB RAM) at $800. Multiply that by even just a couple dozen people, and the price differential really adds up.
...except that all studies have shown that Macs last 1.5 - 2x as long as equivalent PCs. So do you want to upgrade those systems after 2 years, or 3-4 years?
The problem is that high-end Macs are competitive to high-end PC's, and mid-range Macs are (somewhat) competitive to mid-range PC's, but there are no low-end Macs for businesses who want bare-bones end-user computers.
Yeah, my fiancee has one, and they're small and cool and all, but goddamn if they're not expensive. So, I went out and bought myself a Creative Nomad.
Not that I'm saying iPods are cheap, but did you ever consider buying a used one on eBay? I saw dozens of 10 GB models for $150 Buy It Now. Apple is also selling refurbushed 10 GB models for $179.
Interestingly, among the academics given the MacArthur grants, the Ivy league schools Harvard, MIT and Yale appear to be producing a number of these folks whether at the undergraduate level, the graduate level or the faculty level. Many of the recipients appear to have done at least some time at those institutions.
I suspect that it's not as much that those schools produce "geniuses", as much as "geniuses" tend to go to those schools.
When it got to the end of the recording, it then attempted to drop the line and dial the next number. However, in another one of those phone technicalities, this won't work because I had initiated the call; only I can drop the line.
I don't get it. Why can't the autodialer drop the line?
If my crazy uncle calls me and I don't want to listen to him, I can just hang up. Two seconds later, I can pick up the phone and dial someone else. He can't hijack my phone just because he initiated the call.
I think that the parent is a nice story, but I don't buy it...
I was surprised to se QT AAC ranked so low after it recently won a similar test among AAC encoders, was that HE AAC encoder not included in the previous test?
Keep in mind that the songs on the iTunes music store are all 128 kbps. Possibly Apple decided it wasn't worth optimizing their AAC encoder to work well at 64 kbps. How well one encoder sounds at 64 kbps doesn't necessarily say anything about how it will sound at a higher bitrate.
For instance, I've heard that common every day american english conveys approximately 1.2 bits of information per word... meaning that the least redundant approximation of human speech would need that bit rate to represent it.
No, the entropy of English is ~1 bit per character, not ~1 bit per word.
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Then if AMD hit it off with the Athlon 64, then Intel would tell mobo makers the secret code or whatever that would allow them to turn on the 64 bit part with a simple BIOS upgrade. All of a sudden, Intel would have an instant installed base of 64 bit chips. This means that if Intel doesn't use AMD's instruction set (I doubt this, as the article says it would be eating crow, they'd never do it), they'd have a good chance of instantly having a huge install base on desktop PCs, and since they are Intel, they could get software companies to follow. In one fell swoop they could win the 64 bit war.
You've got to be kidding. It takes years to develop a compiler for a new instruction set. If Intel suddenly announced that a lot of their chips were 64-bit capable, it would be completely useless, because there would be no software at all that could take advantage of it.
Keep in mind that running 64-bit programs requires that the Operating System supports the instruction set completely (otherwise the registers wouldn't be saved properly, at a minimum), so they'd basically have to have Microsoft on board, in addition to probably a Linux port in order for it to be useful.
And in the meantime, all of those extra instruction decoders and extra registers would be there on the chip, wasting valuable silicon that could be used for a larger cache. No way - Intel wouldn't sacrifice potential speed now for the chance to surprise everyone with a 64-bit processor later.
Face it: Intel gambled with the Itanium, and so far their gamble hasn't been paying off. It's far too early to see who will win in the long term, but it's clear that the Itanium hasn't been an overwhelming success, while the Opteron is definitely equally popular already, if not already more popular.
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ralvneet deuonctms to be asiedvd to you by us to asttet to the Calim. We will use our poostniis to get all innartel dmuatteooicnn to back up the cmials, in fact ervey docmunet to eecfft tihs porecs
wlil be in aocccadrne with the baknnig law, rugtaniloes and
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avdiiffat of clamis in a crout of law to back up yuor cilams.
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furnsih you with the wlhoe pdcorreeus to eunrse taht the deal is
sccssuufelly colcunded.
For your asssatince we have ageerd to give you thrtiy pcrneet(30%) of the ttoal sum at the end of the totnicaarsn. It is
rsik free and a big mgea fnuorte. All cpnnrrcdooeese tadwors tihs tcaanitsron wlil be togurhh e-mail and Fax for now. I awiat yuor eralseit ressnpoe.
Tnhkas,
Yours Sirlneecy
Mr. Erhiapm kloa
Let's sbclamre all of the vaalrbie and foitcunn nemas in the Lniux knreel so taht SCO won't rncogeize wrehe we've stoeln tehir Unix
.sig isn't smbearcld yet:
cdoe!
Taht way, isanted of manneufigl funciotn names like fexecve and ntohl, we'd get feecxve and nhotl!
(I'll bet msot pepole wloud have a hrad tmie fnugiirg out wihch ones wree the rael fnuotcin naems!)
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I was recently trying to read an NTFS partition from one of my other machines and learned that NTFS support on Linux and Mac OS X is quite poor, because Microsoft has never published any documentation. I'm impressed that people have reverse-engineered as much as they have, but it sounds like getting robust write-access to an NTFS volume is still a pipe dream.
Is Microsoft violating their antitrust settlement by not providing complete NTFS documentation? Or is there some loophole?
" Right now I am embarrassed to say that the Beatles are my favorite music group."
That would be embarassing regardless of any lawsuits.
I mean, its like sayiing "Glen Miller" is my favorite group. Both are equally relevant to today's music scene.
First of all, it's "Glenn", like John Glenn.
Second, the Glenn Miller Orchestra is still touring, and has been consistently since 1956.
They play a variety of old and new songs, all in the traditional Glenn Miller big-band style. I'd highly recommend the CD In the Digital Mood - so titled because it was one of the first all-digital recordings ever made (20 years ago). If you've only heard old recordings of Glenn Miller from the 40's, you're in for a treat...it's like night and day difference to hear the same songs recorded in a modern digital studio.
Finally, wouldn't you call bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Brian Setzer Orchestra relevant to today's music scene? I know Swing isn't as "in" as it was a couple year ago, but come on, that was pretty recent. And you'd better believe that Glenn Miller was a huge influence for those groups, as well as just about any other modern swing, rockabilly, or ska band.
Indeed. Sarah works at SCO. Recent moves spur her to seek other employment. She's unhireable. Why? Because she didn't immeditately quit and beg for quarters on the street until she got a new job? What an insane overreaction.
That's why they said "any resumes which include the SCO Group after September of 2003 will be immediately deleted" - they're specifically giving SCO employees until the end of the month to quit if they want to be eligible for employment at Damage Studios. That seems fair to me - anyone who is still working at SCO in a month is clearly part of the problem. They've known about SCO's actions for nine months - if they haven't been looking for a new job and preparing to quit, then clearly their ethics do not agree with mine and I don't want to work with them.
Here are some procmail recipes to identify these bounce messages:
* ^Subject: delivery fail
* ^Subject: Delivery Status Notification
* ^Subject: failure notice
* ^Subject: mail system error
* ^Subject: norton antivirus detected
* ^Subject: returned mail
* ^Subject: undeliverable mail
* ^Subject: undeliverable:
* ^Subject: undelivered mail
* ^Subject: virus alert
* ^Subject: virus detect
* ^Subject: virus found in sent message
* ^Subject: virus in your mail
* ^Subject: virus warning
* ^Subject: warning:.*virus
* ^Subject: your e-mail.*virus
I would recommend redirecting these messages to a separate folder rather than deleting them, as there's a small chance of false positives.
BTW, how does one write a procmail rule that succeeds if ANY of the lines match, rather than if ALL? (I have all of the lines above in separate recipes, currently...)
Long time ago... I learned that the hard disk speed is the most important factor in compile speeds. Once you have LOTS of memory, then get the fastest SCSI hard drive you can get your hands on... forget 7200 RPM IDE drives, think 15K RPM SCSI disks. Every time you have to open a new file for compiling... you have to spin (on average) 1/2 of the disk to get your head positioned... it makes a huge difference
This may have been true once, but not anymore. Processor speed is by far the most important thing affecting compilation speed. This is ESPECIALLY true with C++ (e.g., KDE), which tends to take significantly longer to compile than C.
Disk speed is much more significant for linking. But for a large project, linking only represents a small fraction of the total time to build, so speeding up linking by 2x doesn't speed up the overall build by much.
I'm not saying you shouldn't get fast disks. I'm just saying that in a choice between 2x the processor speed, or 2x the disk speed, you should take the processor speed every time if compiling is your main task you want to optimize.
Why not make the patents proportional to the amount of time and effort required to come up with the algoritm? I.e. "1 click shopping" should be patentable for about 10 minutes, while something like a machine vision algorithm which required years of research should be patentable for years...
The problem with this is that while it may take one person years to come up with a particular machine vision algorithm, someone else who has been working in the field of machine vision for 20 years could often do the same thing in a week.
No, the true test for a patent should be that it's non-obvious to people working in the field. If you show the patent abstract to 10 professionals in the field, every single one of them should say, "Wow, how did they do that?". If even a single one of them can figure out more or less how the patent works without reading the actual text, then clearly the patent does not meet one of the requirements: it's not non-obvious to someone in the field.
I believe it's time for tests like this to become part of the patent review process, instead of a criterion that only comes up when the patent is challenged in court.
It is the opposite of what private industry does which is to fire the MMs and keep the engineers(Flatten the organizational chart, keep the Indians fire the chiefs, etc.)
I don't know what dreamworld you're living in, but most of the time in private industry it's the engineers who are fired when there's a budget cut, not the managers. I've been working for NASA for two years and my impression is that it's no worse at NASA - and potentially better: JPL just created a new fund specifically to pay the salaries of people who are too smart or too important to lose but don't currently have a good assignment at the lab. Clearly they're trying to retain as many of their best and brightest as possible.
"Undergraduate degrees are meaningless now-a-days, so you might as well spend as little as possible getting one. Going to a community college for the first 2 years to get the basics out of the way is a good start."
Spot on!
Another point is that the majority of community college faculty are actually interested in teaching students. Most university faculty, particularly those at the "prestigious" institutions, have absolutely no interest in teaching. They want to do research. Odds are that the undergrad classes at those top universities are being taught by graduate assistants anyway.
There's a lot of truth in this, and for many people, a community college may be the best experience.
The major problem with community colleges isn't usually the teachers - most of them are good - it's your classmates. Face it - if you go to a community college, a lot of the people there won't be as interested in learning. Some people just want the degree, others just go because their parents are paying.
I'm not saying there aren't people like that at any school. But if you go to a highly-ranked four-year school, you'll be surrounded by far more students who are highly motivated and really excited about lots of subjects, and about learning in general. This excitement is infectious, and you are likely to find yourself more motivated as a result.