* it doesn't try to display messages in some ghastly proportional font.
* it doesn't fuck with my mailboxes or try to move/import them into it's own format.
* it's a mail reader. it doesn't pretend to be a mail sorter/filter as well, i leave that to procmail.
* excellent searching and tagging operations.
* regexp support for searching and tagging.
* it works identically for me whether i'm physically in front of the machine or connected via ssh.
* in combination with screen, I don't even have to restart mutt when i login, i just connect to the screen session.
* i get multi-folder support by running 20 or so mutts in the background, each one with a different mailbox open. switch using ^Z and shell fg command.
* no crappy built-in editor.
* 'set edit_headers' in.muttrc lets me edit the ALL of the headers as well as the body - convenient for trimming the To:/CC: list, or deleting unwanted In-Reply-To or References headers (i.e. lazy group reply for a new msg without hijacking an existing thread).
* lots of other benefits, too numerous to mention.
well then, if you're talking about perception of value then the people who mine bitcoins obviously perceive the value of what they are doing to be higher than the value of the electricity consumed.
BTW, lots of people pay good money for worthless shit that they perceive to have value (largely because they're either stupid or easily manipulated by marketing or both) so arguments based on perceived value aren't very convincing.
It's not the dog that lies, it's the police officer "interpreting" the dog.
police dogs have long been used like this as a proxy for illegal racial and subcultural (hippies, goths, ravers and other weirdoes) profiling. or whenever a cop just needs an excuse for a search without actual probable cause.
and even without deliberate lying, there's also a feedback loop - the dogs are sensitive to their handlers' reactions. if a cop doesn't like the look of you because you're a long-haired freak or walking while black or something similarly nefarious, then the dog will pick up on that and react. the dogs end up reacting to the sight of such profiling targets because they know their handler will reward them and tell them what a good dog they are.
That Field Guide To Web Applications site is a damn good example of why "Web Applications" suck, and why they not only miss the point of the web, they undermine and sabotage it.
When I go to a site containing documentation, I want to read documentation. I want to be able to read, scroll back and forth, search for text, save or copy-paste bits of text. I don't want more than half of the window wasted on blank space and a pretty picture of a book, and I want to be able to resize the window and/or font size to suit MY current requirements.
I don't want to *play* with some simulation of a book. It's a pretty gimmick that not only adds no value, it detracts from the content.
Worse it destroys the boundary between code and data (one of the strengths of the web) by forcing me to allow some random site to execute arbitrary code on MY computer just to read the contents.
I don't want to risk malware or spyware just to view a file.
I want site navigation and other control elements to have a consistent interface under the control of the browser software I've chosen to install and run, not a different interface on every web site.
Problem: "Yeah, I thought I was done with floppies until last year when I ended up needing one for a BIOS update on a server."
Solution: enable PXE on the NIC, dhcp, tftp, memdisk and menu.c32 from syslinux, and freedos.
once that's set up, it's easy enough to add extra menu options for clonezilla, gparted, parted magic, and similar netbootable utility programs....never have to stuff around looking for media and making a bootable floppy, USB stick or CD/DVD again.
No, and this won't either. Some users will use it, but most probably won't, either because they don't care or they don't know.
Sentence much?
at least the OP actually posted a reasonably well-formed sentence that conveyed some meaning.
you just posted a fuckwitted meme.
WTF does adding " much?" to a word mean anyway? AFAICT, it's invariably an attempt to make some un-specified criticism or counterpoint without actually making any effort to, you know, make a criticism or counterpoint.
is it a method for those with Irony Deficit Disorder or Sarcasm Deficit Disorder (AKA "Americans") to make some lame substitute attempt at irony or sarcasm?
the point that you are missing is that your legal rights "don't mean a bucket load of sheep guts" unless you can afford to defend them in court.....which is likely to cost an absolute minimum of $5000-$10000, with no guarantee of success.
unless you can afford to lose that kind of money, you can't afford to sue anyone for any reason.
and, BTW, your comments about requiring a signed contract are only true in *SOME* states in the U.S. The default assumption of who owns what varies from state to state. I'm not even an american citizen and even i know that.
and, in any case, the OP already *has* a contract saying the employer owns everything they create whether on their own time or not. once again, the validity of such clauses varies from state to state. In some states, they're perfectly valid and enforcable. In other states, they're not.
you should never have signed such an onerous agreement in the first place. I've never had any problems form employers when refusing to sign such contracts and always insist on them being rewritten so that anything done on my time on my equipment remains mine, and that any of my contributions to open source projects are licensed under the terms of that project.
(sometimes it takes the lawyers a few attempts to get it right - i've found that even if the boss is willing, lawyers have difficulty understanding that their client actually wants the contract to be fair)
on a related note, IMO if your employer wants to own everything you create on your own time then they should pay you for 24 hours/day, 7 days/week - prob. about 4 times your current pay (based on a working week of 40 hours).
yeah, they should have built their factories in Queensland or New South Wales. or the UK...it's been at least a few years since they had a major flood.
after all, everyone knows that floods in predominantly white countries don't destroy factories due to the superior racial characteristics of the geography. and in QLD or NSW a bushfire is sure to come along soon and dry everything out.
you're still buying into and propagating their world view by accepting the term IP, Intellectual Property - which is a bullshit propaganda term designed to make you think of copyrights, patents, and trademarks as one thing (instead of three very different things) and, worse, make you them of them in the same that way you think of property.
they're just putting it on the back-burner until AFTER the upcoming US election.
it'll be rail-roaded through your congress and senate shortly after that - and the politicians will be safe in the knowledge that most people have very short memories....and there'll be years worth of distractions to help with that.
you do realise that the "link" between vaccinations and autism is complete bullshit - a deliberate fraud.
OTOH, the real risk is that if people take the vaccine, they'll die within days and then rise to turn into flesh-eating monsters. i'd call that at least a -1 on the risk side of the equation....but it balances out:
-1 take the vaccine and turn into an undead cannibal
vs
-1 don't take the vaccine and get eaten by your neighbours who did.
1. The vast majority of programmers get paid for doing in-house development for the company they work. The next most common kind of employment for programmers is as consultants working on specific projects, either through an agency or self-employed. The number of programmers working for commercial software developers producing COTS software is miniscule - so tiny it's barely worth even counting.
2. Free/Open Source Software hasn't eliminated COTS software yet and is unlikely to do so in future. Some people (and many businesses) prefer to buy a product - in a box, with a manual and support. People even pay for Free Software packaged this way.
2. implications? they're all good as far as i can see.
1. Restore original copyright length of 20 years. Failing that, abolish copyright altogether. Tighten the language to make clear that *only* the specific work of art (writing, music, painting, sculpture, etc) is copyrighted - NOT any ideas, characters, setting/background etc, and that the public's fair-use right to re-use & remix existing works is unabridged.
2. Revoke all Software, Design, Business Methods, Gene, and Pharmaceutical Usage patents and all other patents that aren't actually inventions.
3. Restrict Trade Marks to just company names and brand names. No slogans, no words, no phrases. The only valid purpose of trademarks is to protect purchasers from fakes.
4. For all three, explicitly acknowledge and acknowledge that they are not rights or property, they are artificial monopolies granted for specific civic purposes - and that where they conflict with those civic purposes, the monopoly power is revoked (e.g. if it can be proved that a patent stifles innovation rather than fostering it, it is to be revoked).
5. Penalties for abusing the monopoly powers granted by copyrights, patents, and trademarks must be sufficient to discourage such abuse even by corporations with deep pockets.
6. Penalties for infringing the monopoly powers should be restricted to commercial and large-scale infringements by businesses, companies, corporations, and other organisations.
You have to be a very confident, out going individual to buy a house when you guaranteed basic wage would not cover your mortgage.
actually, no. you have to be pretty stupid, or innumerate, or bad at analysing risk. Being good at self-deception and living in a fantasy world of your own imagining helps too.
they managed to do the job back in the bad old dead tree print days.
some of them even survived and kept their jobs after employers realised that giving the receptionist a DTP program may produce output that looks like arse but it's cheaper than hiring a professional.
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* it's fast
* it *doesn't* run javascript or display images
* it doesn't try to display messages in some ghastly proportional font.
* it doesn't fuck with my mailboxes or try to move/import them into it's own format.
* it's a mail reader. it doesn't pretend to be a mail sorter/filter as well, i leave that to procmail.
* excellent searching and tagging operations.
* regexp support for searching and tagging.
* it works identically for me whether i'm physically in front of the machine or connected via ssh.
* in combination with screen, I don't even have to restart mutt when i login, i just connect to the screen session.
* i get multi-folder support by running 20 or so mutts in the background, each one with a different mailbox open. switch using ^Z and shell fg command.
* no crappy built-in editor.
* 'set edit_headers' in .muttrc lets me edit the ALL of the headers as well as the body - convenient for trimming the To:/CC: list, or deleting unwanted In-Reply-To or References headers (i.e. lazy group reply for a new msg without hijacking an existing thread).
* lots of other benefits, too numerous to mention.
well then, if you're talking about perception of value then the people who mine bitcoins obviously perceive the value of what they are doing to be higher than the value of the electricity consumed.
BTW, lots of people pay good money for worthless shit that they perceive to have value (largely because they're either stupid or easily manipulated by marketing or both) so arguments based on perceived value aren't very convincing.
It's not the dog that lies, it's the police officer "interpreting" the dog.
police dogs have long been used like this as a proxy for illegal racial and subcultural (hippies, goths, ravers and other weirdoes) profiling. or whenever a cop just needs an excuse for a search without actual probable cause.
and even without deliberate lying, there's also a feedback loop - the dogs are sensitive to their handlers' reactions. if a cop doesn't like the look of you because you're a long-haired freak or walking while black or something similarly nefarious, then the dog will pick up on that and react. the dogs end up reacting to the sight of such profiling targets because they know their handler will reward them and tell them what a good dog they are.
why would they fire them? they're more likely to get promoted to management...if they aren't already.
wow. who cares about "future-proofing" when you can have "future-immunisation".
That Field Guide To Web Applications site is a damn good example of why "Web Applications" suck, and why they not only miss the point of the web, they undermine and sabotage it.
When I go to a site containing documentation, I want to read documentation. I want to be able to read, scroll back and forth, search for text, save or copy-paste bits of text. I don't want more than half of the window wasted on blank space and a pretty picture of a book, and I want to be able to resize the window and/or font size to suit MY current requirements.
I don't want to *play* with some simulation of a book. It's a pretty gimmick that not only adds no value, it detracts from the content.
Worse it destroys the boundary between code and data (one of the strengths of the web) by forcing me to allow some random site to execute arbitrary code on MY computer just to read the contents.
I don't want to risk malware or spyware just to view a file.
I want site navigation and other control elements to have a consistent interface under the control of the browser software I've chosen to install and run, not a different interface on every web site.
Problem: "Yeah, I thought I was done with floppies until last year when I ended up needing one for a BIOS update on a server."
Solution: enable PXE on the NIC, dhcp, tftp, memdisk and menu.c32 from syslinux, and freedos.
once that's set up, it's easy enough to add extra menu options for clonezilla, gparted, parted magic, and similar netbootable utility programs....never have to stuff around looking for media and making a bootable floppy, USB stick or CD/DVD again.
at least the OP actually posted a reasonably well-formed sentence that conveyed some meaning.
you just posted a fuckwitted meme.
WTF does adding " much?" to a word mean anyway? AFAICT, it's invariably an attempt to make some un-specified criticism or counterpoint without actually making any effort to, you know, make a criticism or counterpoint.
is it a method for those with Irony Deficit Disorder or Sarcasm Deficit Disorder (AKA "Americans") to make some lame substitute attempt at irony or sarcasm?
the point that you are missing is that your legal rights "don't mean a bucket load of sheep guts" unless you can afford to defend them in court.....which is likely to cost an absolute minimum of $5000-$10000, with no guarantee of success.
unless you can afford to lose that kind of money, you can't afford to sue anyone for any reason.
and, BTW, your comments about requiring a signed contract are only true in *SOME* states in the U.S. The default assumption of who owns what varies from state to state. I'm not even an american citizen and even i know that.
and, in any case, the OP already *has* a contract saying the employer owns everything they create whether on their own time or not. once again, the validity of such clauses varies from state to state. In some states, they're perfectly valid and enforcable. In other states, they're not.
renegotiate your contract or quit.
you should never have signed such an onerous agreement in the first place. I've never had any problems form employers when refusing to sign such contracts and always insist on them being rewritten so that anything done on my time on my equipment remains mine, and that any of my contributions to open source projects are licensed under the terms of that project.
(sometimes it takes the lawyers a few attempts to get it right - i've found that even if the boss is willing, lawyers have difficulty understanding that their client actually wants the contract to be fair)
on a related note, IMO if your employer wants to own everything you create on your own time then they should pay you for 24 hours/day, 7 days/week - prob. about 4 times your current pay (based on a working week of 40 hours).
yeah, they should have built their factories in Queensland or New South Wales. or the UK...it's been at least a few years since they had a major flood.
after all, everyone knows that floods in predominantly white countries don't destroy factories due to the superior racial characteristics of the geography. and in QLD or NSW a bushfire is sure to come along soon and dry everything out.
"IP-Infringers."
you're still buying into and propagating their world view by accepting the term IP, Intellectual Property - which is a bullshit propaganda term designed to make you think of copyrights, patents, and trademarks as one thing (instead of three very different things) and, worse, make you them of them in the same that way you think of property.
Intellectual Property does not exist.
accusation alone ought to be enough. only communists and terrorists demand proof before guilt is established.
yeah, it's almost as amazing as the number of fire-savvy people who are against people sticking their hands into a furnace.
or the privacy-savvy people who try to warn others about the dangers of facebook and other web spyware.
Correct - except that it's not (and shouldn't) be up to Capitol Records to decide that. It's not their choice.
Charles Manson sent out a heart-felt message to school bullies telling them to be nicer to the other kids.
they're just putting it on the back-burner until AFTER the upcoming US election.
it'll be rail-roaded through your congress and senate shortly after that - and the politicians will be safe in the knowledge that most people have very short memories....and there'll be years worth of distractions to help with that.
right. 0.000001% or less of car drivers own a Lamborghini. Therefore IT IS NOT A CAR.
You're an idiot.
you do realise that the "link" between vaccinations and autism is complete bullshit - a deliberate fraud.
OTOH, the real risk is that if people take the vaccine, they'll die within days and then rise to turn into flesh-eating monsters. i'd call that at least a -1 on the risk side of the equation....but it balances out:
-1 take the vaccine and turn into an undead cannibal
vs
-1 don't take the vaccine and get eaten by your neighbours who did.
1. The vast majority of programmers get paid for doing in-house development for the company they work. The next most common kind of employment for programmers is as consultants working on specific projects, either through an agency or self-employed. The number of programmers working for commercial software developers producing COTS software is miniscule - so tiny it's barely worth even counting.
2. Free/Open Source Software hasn't eliminated COTS software yet and is unlikely to do so in future. Some people (and many businesses) prefer to buy a product - in a box, with a manual and support. People even pay for Free Software packaged this way.
2. implications? they're all good as far as i can see.
The following are both right and fair:
1. Restore original copyright length of 20 years. Failing that, abolish copyright altogether. Tighten the language to make clear that *only* the specific work of art (writing, music, painting, sculpture, etc) is copyrighted - NOT any ideas, characters, setting/background etc, and that the public's fair-use right to re-use & remix existing works is unabridged.
2. Revoke all Software, Design, Business Methods, Gene, and Pharmaceutical Usage patents and all other patents that aren't actually inventions.
3. Restrict Trade Marks to just company names and brand names. No slogans, no words, no phrases. The only valid purpose of trademarks is to protect purchasers from fakes.
4. For all three, explicitly acknowledge and acknowledge that they are not rights or property, they are artificial monopolies granted for specific civic purposes - and that where they conflict with those civic purposes, the monopoly power is revoked (e.g. if it can be proved that a patent stifles innovation rather than fostering it, it is to be revoked).
5. Penalties for abusing the monopoly powers granted by copyrights, patents, and trademarks must be sufficient to discourage such abuse even by corporations with deep pockets.
6. Penalties for infringing the monopoly powers should be restricted to commercial and large-scale infringements by businesses, companies, corporations, and other organisations.
it sucks when you have to explain a joke, but yes, that's part of what makes it funny.
Disney sued them for copyright infringement. That's why they had to stop calling Pluto a planet.
actually, no. you have to be pretty stupid, or innumerate, or bad at analysing risk. Being good at self-deception and living in a fantasy world of your own imagining helps too.
how about typesetters?
they managed to do the job back in the bad old dead tree print days.
some of them even survived and kept their jobs after employers realised that giving the receptionist a DTP program may produce output that looks like arse but it's cheaper than hiring a professional.