I hate that idiotic focus effect in cartoons. Why try to emulate a stupid flaw in another medium? When you look at real objects, do you notice an "out of focus" effect? NO. It may be there, but you don't see it. We're just used to cameras distorting images and we think introducing the same familiar shotcomings into cartoons makes them more "real". If you can have infinite depth-of-field, DO IT! Just ask Ansel Adams about that one.
But the thing about radio and TV is that they are broadcast - they don't actually provide any bandwidth. I see the same old cspan on my TV that you are seeing on yours. They only have ONE channel. Whereas on the internet, you could conceivably have millions of simultaneous video brodcasts (not all to my single PC, but all travelling over the central pipes). You could boil down the bandwidth of your whole cable company to the equivilant of a single OC3.
Ditto goes for satelite brodcast. Sure, each channel is fat, but the overall bandwidth is pretty limited.
Dosn't it seem strange that this apple controversy follows strong on the heels of RMS (I think?) saying how we need to keep pushing the OSS thing into the media/suit world? Perhaps the whole apple controversy is just a way to get the OSS issues on the front page so that the newbies will get it pounded into them how critical these things are. Perhaps it was all contrived ahead of time by Eric, RMS and Steve in an effort to create positive press for everyone.
I don't know about the old, metal IBMs you are talking about - I thought they were cool, but I like the soft, but tight action of the Keytronic Lifetime I'm typing on now.
Anyway, point is, I worked as a tech in a computer store for a while, and I saw some pretty messed up keyboards there. I found that many of the coffee/beer problems could be resolved by a run in the dishwasher - no detergent, warm water.
Of course, this is a last resort - only if you're about to throw it away.
-=Julian=-
p.s. MS keyboards suck. The old and the new. The shape is nice, but the action on the keys is TOO LOOSE. They keycaps feel like they are going to flake off or something.
Bill talks about a very hip idea in this video - direct democracy or representative democracy. Pay attention to this part (around 25:15). I Love this idea, and I didn't know that billG was into this. Just goes to show he is smart.
Let's fire all the politicians and use our computers to directly control the government..
Market studies show that the top-paying job in the I.S. market is the DBA.
And what OS do DBAs choose 10:1? *nix. Could be linux, could be Sun, could be DEC. It dosn't really matter unless you try to make 'em use Windoze (or SCO haha). Then they revolt.
So here's another way to slice it - who actually makes more money? Not in terms of your take-home pay, but how much profit you actually produce for your company/organization/self? I think the NT admin, like NT, is way overvalued in the market today. They sit around and drink coffee all day, one hand on the reset button, the other on their beeper. Once in a while they get a day of steady work re-installing everything on the system. Then they drive their porshe home, laughing all the way - kind of like Bill himself. As Windows dies, we will see the death of the inflated windows job market too. Programmers too! "But I know everything about the windows message loop and thunking!" - "Have you ever used Java? Perl? No? Thanks, we'll let you know."
Fun ride while it lasts, but now you're unemployed just like all those Novell graduates from a few years back. I feel sorry for these guys too - just getting on the NT boat now only to be dumped overboard as the thing sinks like a seive.
I have a client now asking me to run their Oracle DB under windose. I won't do it. I keep telling 'em to get *nix.
They may have 14million now, but what percent of the global population is online now? Try putting 100 times more users online. Then your value/user is only $46.00. Can't they sell a $50 widget to every user? In ten years it _could_ happen. Unfortunately, I don't see how yahoo or any site has that kind of longevity. The web in general probably dosn't even have that kind of longevity.
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Good idea on the extra header fields. Anyone know if there is a defined namespace I should be careful of - like mime or whatever? I guess just start with an X and I should be OK.
The thing about the 'extraneous' information though, I think this is important.
First of all, I like to put the ID in the subject, because I automatically filter all incomming replies and sort them by complaint - and the subject line is sometimes the only thing left of the complaint when I get back a response - then you can tell if 'your' complaint has been answsered without giving away your REAL address. I also CONCEAL your address in the outgoing complaint.
Secondly, although many complaints fall on the jaded ears of experienced complaint-desk jockeys, I find that many of my complaints are sent to clueless lusers. I don't want them to confuse my complaint for a stupid spam. I also give the tracking URL to these guys so they can see WHY I decided to complain to them.
Besides, my boilerplate gives 'em the info they need right up front - IP and datestamp. Eventually, I hope ISPs will come to trust spamcop more than reading headers themselves - at least for day-to-day stuff.
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My program, SpamCop does a much better job of reporting spam. It has a web interface and an email interface, and by using the web interface, you can see what it's doing ahead of time. It dosn't have any of the problems listed above, and it is well loved by users and system admins alike. It's fast, accurate and it dosn't spam unrelated parties. It dosn't even complain to relay admins - although that might be added as an option later.
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I hate that idiotic focus effect in cartoons. Why try to emulate a stupid flaw in another medium? When you look at real objects, do you notice an "out of focus" effect? NO. It may be there, but you don't see it. We're just used to cameras distorting images and we think introducing the same familiar shotcomings into cartoons makes them more "real". If you can have infinite depth-of-field, DO IT! Just ask Ansel Adams about that one.
-=Julian 'f64' Haight=-
But the thing about radio and TV is that they are broadcast - they don't actually provide any bandwidth. I see the same old cspan on my TV that you are seeing on yours. They only have ONE channel. Whereas on the internet, you could conceivably have millions of simultaneous video brodcasts (not all to my single PC, but all travelling over the central pipes). You could boil down the bandwidth of your whole cable company to the equivilant of a single OC3.
Ditto goes for satelite brodcast. Sure, each channel is fat, but the overall bandwidth is pretty limited.
-=Julian=-
Dosn't it seem strange that this apple controversy follows strong on the heels of RMS (I think?) saying how we need to keep pushing the OSS thing into the media/suit world? Perhaps the whole apple controversy is just a way to get the OSS issues on the front page so that the newbies will get it pounded into them how critical these things are. Perhaps it was all contrived ahead of time by Eric, RMS and Steve in an effort to create positive press for everyone.
Intentional or not, I think it works!
-=Julian=-
I don't know about the old, metal IBMs you are talking about - I thought they were cool, but I like the soft, but tight action of the Keytronic Lifetime I'm typing on now.
Anyway, point is, I worked as a tech in a computer store for a while, and I saw some pretty messed up keyboards there. I found that many of the coffee/beer problems could be resolved by a run in the dishwasher - no detergent, warm water.
Of course, this is a last resort - only if you're about to throw it away.
-=Julian=-
p.s. MS keyboards suck. The old and the new. The shape is nice, but the action on the keys is TOO LOOSE. They keycaps feel like they are going to flake off or something.
Bill talks about a very hip idea in this video - direct democracy or representative democracy. Pay attention to this part (around 25:15). I Love this idea, and I didn't know that billG was into this. Just goes to show he is smart.
Let's fire all the politicians and use our computers to directly control the government..
-=Julian=-
Oracle DBAs make more money...
Market studies show that the top-paying job in the I.S. market is the DBA.
And what OS do DBAs choose 10:1? *nix. Could be linux, could be Sun, could be DEC. It dosn't really matter unless you try to make 'em use Windoze (or SCO haha). Then they revolt.
So here's another way to slice it - who actually makes more money? Not in terms of your take-home pay, but how much profit you actually produce for your company/organization/self? I think the NT admin, like NT, is way overvalued in the market today. They sit around and drink coffee all day, one hand on the reset button, the other on their beeper. Once in a while they get a day of steady work re-installing everything on the system. Then they drive their porshe home, laughing all the way - kind of like Bill himself. As Windows dies, we will see the death of the inflated windows job market too. Programmers too! "But I know everything about the windows message loop and thunking!" - "Have you ever used Java? Perl? No? Thanks, we'll let you know."
Fun ride while it lasts, but now you're unemployed just like all those Novell graduates from a few years back. I feel sorry for these guys too - just getting on the NT boat now only to be dumped overboard as the thing sinks like a seive.
I have a client now asking me to run their Oracle DB under windose. I won't do it. I keep telling 'em to get *nix.
-=Julian=-
-=Julian=-
Good idea on the extra header fields. Anyone know if there is a defined namespace I should be careful of - like mime or whatever? I guess just start with an X and I should be OK.
The thing about the 'extraneous' information though, I think this is important.
First of all, I like to put the ID in the subject, because I automatically filter all incomming replies and sort them by complaint - and the subject line is sometimes the only thing left of the complaint when I get back a response - then you can tell if 'your' complaint has been answsered without giving away your REAL address. I also CONCEAL your address in the outgoing complaint.
Secondly, although many complaints fall on the jaded ears of experienced complaint-desk jockeys, I find that many of my complaints are sent to clueless lusers. I don't want them to confuse my complaint for a stupid spam. I also give the tracking URL to these guys so they can see WHY I decided to complain to them.
Besides, my boilerplate gives 'em the info they need right up front - IP and datestamp. Eventually, I hope ISPs will come to trust spamcop more than reading headers themselves - at least for day-to-day stuff.
-=Julian=-
p.s. The url again! Bookmark it!
My program, SpamCop does a much better job of reporting spam. It has a web interface and an email interface, and by using the web interface, you can see what it's doing ahead of time. It dosn't have any of the problems listed above, and it is well loved by users and system admins alike. It's fast, accurate and it dosn't spam unrelated parties. It dosn't even complain to relay admins - although that might be added as an option later.