How many still buy the romantic idea that all life is precious? If you're over 30, you've probably cured yourself already of that illusion. If we (a number of nations) just started acting rationally and removed major sources of the disease (let's say execute just 50 top megaspammers), and demonstrate willingness to continue the treatment, I will bet you the amount of spam worldwide would plummet.
Spam is no surprise to anyone anymore. We have to start taking responsibility for our lack of determination to solve the problem.
There is zero social benefit from spam. There is zero excuse "I didn't know" if you're sending 10 million spams a day. There is zero reason why the society should tolerate it.
Usability still matters, not just raw speed or ability to supports other vendor's plugins. I have and occasionally use IE8, and while it is a huge improvement on the previous versions of IE, usability-wise it still cannot hold a candle in my book to Firefox. It insists on its own way of arranging menus and bookmarks, so that if I want to have what I have in Firefox, I need 3-4 rows of text and icons at the top instead of 2 in Firefox. That kind of inflexibility irritates me. I don't like wasting screen space. I also don't like using software that irritates me. It's strange because Microsoft was one of the pioneers of the "Customize" concept of the application's interface, where you could remove and rearrange items as you saw fit.
Just disregard the whole thread. It is painfully obvious you have never been on an intercontinental flight in your life. Yet another know-it-all with zero first-hand knowledge of the subject.
You clearly do not fly for a living because you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. 12-15 hours on the flight with no ability to rest because some twit has to yuk right next to you, and you seriously consider committing murder. If you think earplugs are sufficient to muffle a bunch of idiots barking and laughing around you, you are deaf.
Indeed, it was somewhat buried in the second article (no mention in the first). However, having worked in networking with QoS and deep classification, I know that unless you get seriously heavy-handed, it is not so easy to cover all possible tunneling permutations - and you can count on folks getting creative.
Despite the airlines' push to keep customers connected while flying, there's one service passengers shouldn't expect soon: cellphone service.
Carriers are reluctant to make cellphone connections available during flights [...] partly to avoid problems between passengers seeking quiet and those talking loudly to be heard above
While I certainly welcome connectivity on the plane, once you offer it, unless you explicitly block Skype, YIM, and others, cellphones are no longer relevant as anyone can use VoIP. That means that people will talk for hours, so blocking cellphones to keep peace and quiet on the plane is no longer a valid reason. Given an opportunity, people will talk for hours, and will do so loudly.
It would be nice, but not as "let me guess half way what you want as you type in the address bar" kind of thing. Much of that is there already. If you want to add a real command line, then create an add-on with multi-line commands, some logic built-in, perhaps piping. In other words, do a "bashy" thing.
While we're at it, why not allow execution of scripts written in this new language? Now, that would be cool.
No, but you can filter them out. I haven't seen an anonymous post in years
My problem is that my posts show up as anonymous if I click my mouse somewhere in the dark portion of the screen (not the checkmark next to "Post Anonymously". I would dearly love to move that checkmark somewhere or at least disable the click in the dark strip. I've done it to my posts over and over again, and it is hard to notice. Very annoying design. It's as if the layout favored anonymous posting.
So, the scribd.com from the TFA lists tags for the Open Cloud Manifesto as "Open, communist, cloud"? And the top related document is "The Communist Manifesto"? And Microsoft is still complaining, "We were admittedly disappointed by the lack of openness in the development of the Cloud Manifesto"? What do they have to do? Put Fidel's picture on the cover?
Misunderstanding: I meant corporations as users, with some NetAdmins seeing NAT as part of their security measures (yes, there is a good degree of that thought out there).
On old style keyboards keys collapsed at the end of the movement, and your finger naturally relaxed. Rubber keyboards resist the pressure all the way, and the most toward the end. Then they push back. Your hands tire much faster that way, and it could contribute to the development of the repetitive stress disorder. In addition, it is very difficult to find a decent ergonomic keyboard these days. They seem to have disappeared. I still use my 12-year old feather-touch Acer Future.
Perhaps if the maker in TFA developed a good split keyboard like that, with light-touch collapsible keys, they could find a real niche. I know I would buy one (USB).
What the hell is wrong with moderating on slashdot? The thread is about forgotten operating systems. Coherent is one of them. Seriously, WTF? There should be a mechanism to track idiotic mods and revoke their moderation privileges for three months.
What about convincing many corporate users who have come to believe over the years that private IPv4 NATed networks are an essential part of their security?
Neither article mentions Coherent, a clone of Unix v.7. Their early version could run on lowly pre-386 hardware. They didn't have TCP/IP or virtual memory (until later versions), but they did include C development tools and UUCP.
I read TFAs and the comments and do not understand the outrage. Google disagreed on the amount of royalties and obliged the authors and other interested parties by removing the music. That should be considered a win, right? I mean now the authors are free from unfair competition to open their own streaming website and offer their music at what they consider a fair price. Isn't that what they want?
I understand the purpose of #!, but I was referring to using ! as part of a program's name. Oh well, not really that important. As a previous poster said, they can do whatever they like.
But with a read out, we could learn that "oh, that feeling means a lower than normal (for them) level of testosterone", with out looking at the meter, and know that its time to get some exercise in
That is exactly what I am talking about. You have to correlate the measurements to the signals your body is sending you. As I said in my first post, it takes some measuring, but one can learn that way.
I appreciate your experience, but I have to say that mine is the opposite. Yes, occasionally I miscalculate, but most of the time I can amuse myself by guessing to within a few points.
It could be because in the last several years I have managed to keep it within a fairly narrow range (50-60 average daily spread with infrequent jump beyond that).
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Figures.
...I want it to super-advance stock market tape on CNBC.
Probably "Not-as-irritating-as-those-who-overgeneralize".
Sigh. Doesn't talking to a strawman get boring?
How many still buy the romantic idea that all life is precious? If you're over 30, you've probably cured yourself already of that illusion. If we (a number of nations) just started acting rationally and removed major sources of the disease (let's say execute just 50 top megaspammers), and demonstrate willingness to continue the treatment, I will bet you the amount of spam worldwide would plummet.
Spam is no surprise to anyone anymore. We have to start taking responsibility for our lack of determination to solve the problem.
There is zero social benefit from spam. There is zero excuse "I didn't know" if you're sending 10 million spams a day. There is zero reason why the society should tolerate it.
Usability still matters, not just raw speed or ability to supports other vendor's plugins. I have and occasionally use IE8, and while it is a huge improvement on the previous versions of IE, usability-wise it still cannot hold a candle in my book to Firefox. It insists on its own way of arranging menus and bookmarks, so that if I want to have what I have in Firefox, I need 3-4 rows of text and icons at the top instead of 2 in Firefox. That kind of inflexibility irritates me. I don't like wasting screen space. I also don't like using software that irritates me. It's strange because Microsoft was one of the pioneers of the "Customize" concept of the application's interface, where you could remove and rearrange items as you saw fit.
Just disregard the whole thread. It is painfully obvious you have never been on an intercontinental flight in your life. Yet another know-it-all with zero first-hand knowledge of the subject.
Are you seriously that fscking stupid, or you just cannot read?
You clearly do not fly for a living because you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. 12-15 hours on the flight with no ability to rest because some twit has to yuk right next to you, and you seriously consider committing murder. If you think earplugs are sufficient to muffle a bunch of idiots barking and laughing around you, you are deaf.
Indeed, it was somewhat buried in the second article (no mention in the first). However, having worked in networking with QoS and deep classification, I know that unless you get seriously heavy-handed, it is not so easy to cover all possible tunneling permutations - and you can count on folks getting creative.
While I certainly welcome connectivity on the plane, once you offer it, unless you explicitly block Skype, YIM, and others, cellphones are no longer relevant as anyone can use VoIP. That means that people will talk for hours, so blocking cellphones to keep peace and quiet on the plane is no longer a valid reason. Given an opportunity, people will talk for hours, and will do so loudly.
It would be nice, but not as "let me guess half way what you want as you type in the address bar" kind of thing. Much of that is there already. If you want to add a real command line, then create an add-on with multi-line commands, some logic built-in, perhaps piping. In other words, do a "bashy" thing.
While we're at it, why not allow execution of scripts written in this new language? Now, that would be cool.
My problem is that my posts show up as anonymous if I click my mouse somewhere in the dark portion of the screen (not the checkmark next to "Post Anonymously". I would dearly love to move that checkmark somewhere or at least disable the click in the dark strip. I've done it to my posts over and over again, and it is hard to notice. Very annoying design. It's as if the layout favored anonymous posting.
Aaaaarrrggghhhhh.... isn't there a way to disable this fscking moronic "Post Anonymously" crap? I am beginning to hate /. for this idiotic design.
So, the scribd.com from the TFA lists tags for the Open Cloud Manifesto as "Open, communist, cloud"? And the top related document is "The Communist Manifesto"? And Microsoft is still complaining, "We were admittedly disappointed by the lack of openness in the development of the Cloud Manifesto"? What do they have to do? Put Fidel's picture on the cover?
Misunderstanding: I meant corporations as users, with some NetAdmins seeing NAT as part of their security measures (yes, there is a good degree of that thought out there).
On old style keyboards keys collapsed at the end of the movement, and your finger naturally relaxed. Rubber keyboards resist the pressure all the way, and the most toward the end. Then they push back. Your hands tire much faster that way, and it could contribute to the development of the repetitive stress disorder. In addition, it is very difficult to find a decent ergonomic keyboard these days. They seem to have disappeared. I still use my 12-year old feather-touch Acer Future.
Perhaps if the maker in TFA developed a good split keyboard like that, with light-touch collapsible keys, they could find a real niche. I know I would buy one (USB).
What the hell is wrong with moderating on slashdot? The thread is about forgotten operating systems. Coherent is one of them. Seriously, WTF? There should be a mechanism to track idiotic mods and revoke their moderation privileges for three months.
What about convincing many corporate users who have come to believe over the years that private IPv4 NATed networks are an essential part of their security?
...Microsoft shall taketh away.
Neither article mentions Coherent, a clone of Unix v.7. Their early version could run on lowly pre-386 hardware. They didn't have TCP/IP or virtual memory (until later versions), but they did include C development tools and UUCP.
I read TFAs and the comments and do not understand the outrage. Google disagreed on the amount of royalties and obliged the authors and other interested parties by removing the music. That should be considered a win, right? I mean now the authors are free from unfair competition to open their own streaming website and offer their music at what they consider a fair price. Isn't that what they want?
I understand the purpose of #!, but I was referring to using ! as part of a program's name. Oh well, not really that important. As a previous poster said, they can do whatever they like.
That is exactly what I am talking about. You have to correlate the measurements to the signals your body is sending you. As I said in my first post, it takes some measuring, but one can learn that way.
I appreciate your experience, but I have to say that mine is the opposite. Yes, occasionally I miscalculate, but most of the time I can amuse myself by guessing to within a few points.
It could be because in the last several years I have managed to keep it within a fairly narrow range (50-60 average daily spread with infrequent jump beyond that).