Re:Knuth is only one foundation that won't be lost
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Software Archaeology
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I would say the the quality a programmer needs most of all is not logic or math, but just the ability to hold and manipulate large and complicated structures inside his head.
...and without the logic and math and technical skills to properly implement such a thing, you end up with slow, buggy-by-design code, which ends up costing more to maintain and is a big waste of time. I would never hire someone who has only worked in VB and Java, for example.
mechanism for dependably managing Web synchronization and tracking operations among multiple browsers,
That last one looks an awful lot like "logins and passwords". IANAL.
I should patent "Method for creating a repository of methods to create goods and services reserved for use by their original designers for a predetermined period ". Then I'd sue the USPTO. Imagine the irony.
Ahh, I see. So she's just bad at writing an article for those of us who neither use Windows, Roxio, or BuyMusic. In that case, this gripe seems a bit more legitimate.
This is not productive growth to me, it's just fat.
Exactly, and when the spam finally does die off, e-mail traffic will hit it's lowest point in years, and all that money put into all those mail servers and lines built to handle spam will be like the skin that hangs off the one ton man who lost 1800lbs.
The majority of telemarketing purchases are made by people too submissive or timid to say "no" to a caller.
Perhaps these folks have some mental anguish that makes them submissive? So let's extort money from the passive people making them feel worse? Sounds like a school bully kinda thing to me, and honestly, that's extortion.
While we're at it, let's put cocane in cigarettes to make them an even more uncontrolable downward spiral, too.
Wow, moderators without a sense of humor. READ MY BOLD, FOOL. The joke is, there is nothing called "Mac Linux", the article submitter obviously was typing "Mac, Linux and Windows" but got interupted or something and typed "Mac Linux, Mac OS X and Windows" instead. Metamods do your thing plz.
...the industry says will devastate business and cost as many as two million jobs.
Good. I hope they ALL get laid off. Get a real job. Unsolicited telemarketing is the single most USELESS idea ever. I know, let's start a business that:
Wastes telephone bandwidth.
Wastes people's time.
Wastes people's money.
Pisses me off durring dinner.
Wouldn't it be nice if the terrorists thought that telemarketing was really important to our economy and targeted the call centers instead?
The Mozilla Thunderbird (stand-alone Mozilla based mail/news reader) developers have just released their first milestone: version 0.1, available for Mac Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
It's GNU/Linux, dammit!:-D
Re:MS-Windows is a mess due to randomness not scat
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LSB & Posix Conflicts
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If, after seeing thousands of windows, you still don't know where to go to minimize, you probably have a very severe memory disorder.
UIs shouldn't be designed to be completely "readable", as is being argued. Once you learn your way around it, control becomes less of search-and-click and more of a gesture. For instance, I have a Mac (this particular one is OS 9). I know my "minimize" button (well, it's window shade, similar deal) is on the top-right, so I dont' really look for it, I just move the mouse in a diagonal motion until i get close, and then I look at it and home in for the kill. I'm still seeking, yes, but it's subconcious and quick, because i learned.
Now, on the other hand, dialog boxes have words and contain something different everytime. These where designed for readability and even reconfigure themselves based on localization. For instance, in right-to-left languages, the icon appears on the right side. This is more logical because it's something the user has to review each time.
BTW, installation/uninstallation of an app is the job of the package manager, not the user. If the PM knows what files belong to what package, what real advantage is there to having everything for that app under one directory?
Having everythign scattered everywhere is the very reason Windows is such a goddamn mess, that's why.
RFID tags are only as evil as those who use them. Just because your beer glass has an RFID tag in it does NOT mean you need a tin-foil hat to go to the bar.
You know, you coudl complain just as much about 802.11 and Bluetooth, because they can be used in similar ways with a little effort.
Monitor the general vicinity of your laptop? Record what store security systems your PDA enters? Hell, triangulate your cel phone signal (and now GPS it), a wireless electronic item quite personally associated with you by a corporate entity, nonetheless.
Please TFY next time. That's "Think For Yourself", and I think it should become as popular as "IANAL" and "RTFA" here on "/."
(Sorry if this was a joke, but the first thing I thought of when I read this article is "Great, another RFID bitchfest")
...and how Microsoft is claiming we SCO'd them. I dont' believe that has been said. Gates refered to Microsoft IP, not code. Microsoft's IP can (and surely does) cover more than code (look and feel, networking techniques, crappy vague patents, etc.). I'd be worried more about that than I would be about MS trying to be sneaky and steal some GPL'd code and put it in Windows, or submitting Windows code to the kernel or something like that. Why pull a big elaborate scam when a violation of a vague patent will do just fine?
Monopoly at it's best. Instead of eliminating the competition through inproving your own products, simply bash and sue the others using what should probably be unlawfuly aquired IP ("Method for rasterization of a rectangle through means of an electronic device...OK *stamp*". Scary how much even that parody might be factual given the USPTO, even though I bet that one belongs to IBM;-) ).
If there is any reason to be afraid, it's that. "FUD" could turn into "deep shit", if they really put their minds to it.
I guess what I'm saying is cookies eliminate the hassle of what you can already do. Why write code to make GET or POST session IDs when cookies are there already? Same reason we have window managers for GUIs: Why write your own code to make a window when, since everyone needs to do so, it can just be a function of the platform?
This raises an interesting point, however: Can sites use the GET and POST methods for session IDs and not need to inform the user about it under this law? I'd assume the difference comes in being able to track sessions between periods of browser activity, but then again, you're are storing data on a users computer for tracking purposes. (IANAL)
but the funny thing is, once it's out there, you can hardly do anything without it, unless you want to create a big hassle for yourself
You can delete cookies, you know. Individually or in bulk.
If you have a state mandate for cookies like this, then rather than having a veneer of "choice" - i.e., I can "choose" to disable cookies but then (feigned surprise) OH! Most websites don't work! Now people actually have the option to exercise this kind of privacy, rather than just the illusion that they do, and websites will use them judiciously, if at all.
Cookies solve alot of problems. NATs for instance. If you can't track by IP, assign an ID to a cookie. How are you planning on making websites that depend on that functionality work...without that functionality? If there was a better way, we wouldn't need cookies in the first place.
That being said, I think cookies should only be used for the website you're on. I don't prefer websites that have ads which place cookies, perhaps the warning could only be required in such situations?
What about hashing the raw e-mail body ASCII before doing OCR? That way, the hash could be compated against a database of known hashed-and-determined-to-be-spam e-mails. Since 90% of the e-mail on the net is spam, this will save the time of having to OCR a good majority of the e-mail.
Still, for this to be realisticlly implemented, I woudl say the mail server should be broken into two machines (or perhaps a single dual-processor machine), each of which would take the task of traditional mail server, and OCR scanner, respectively. This, in conjunction with traditional methods liek SpamAssassin, could prove to be quite helpful.
Of course, then you have the additional problem of loading the actual images...sometimes e-mail images are included as a link to a webserver, and just by loading the image, the spammer can check his logs and know your address is legit...by loading the images to OCR them for spam checks, you're basically validating the spammer's e-mail database for him. Of course, if this kind of scanning becomes commonplace, images could also be confirmed from e-mail addresses that do not exist, as opposed to those that do exist, while those that really are there get filtered out based on results from a bad addresses (i.e. if a good address gets mail with an unmatched hash, do not try and load it for scanning until either a bad address gets it, or a predetermined amount of time). That way, only bad addresses will be confirmed and the good addresses can have the spam filtered out before it reaches them! Not only do you keep the crap out of people Inboxes, but you can render a spammer's database completely invalid!
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I should patent "Method for creating a repository of methods to create goods and services reserved for use by their original designers for a predetermined period ". Then I'd sue the USPTO. Imagine the irony.
No.
Ahh, I see. So she's just bad at writing an article for those of us who neither use Windows, Roxio, or BuyMusic. In that case, this gripe seems a bit more legitimate.
Um, she mentions Roxio and Nero as plugins? Does she mean applications? Does she mean as actual plug-in files for WMP or something?
I hope she was a little more specific when talking to tech support or I'd probably tell her to fix it herself, and my dinner while she was at it.
That explains Congress.
If you're theory is true, that would mean that straightening your tie by yourself makes you go blind quicker.
While we're at it, let's put cocane in cigarettes to make them an even more uncontrolable downward spiral, too.
Wow, moderators without a sense of humor. READ MY BOLD, FOOL. The joke is, there is nothing called "Mac Linux", the article submitter obviously was typing "Mac, Linux and Windows" but got interupted or something and typed "Mac Linux, Mac OS X and Windows" instead. Metamods do your thing plz.
- Wastes telephone bandwidth.
- Wastes people's time.
- Wastes people's money.
- Pisses me off durring dinner.
Wouldn't it be nice if the terrorists thought that telemarketing was really important to our economy and targeted the call centers instead?I really just ruined my keyboard with nose milk. As much as that sucks, I thank you.
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Well put.
If, after seeing thousands of windows, you still don't know where to go to minimize, you probably have a very severe memory disorder.
UIs shouldn't be designed to be completely "readable", as is being argued. Once you learn your way around it, control becomes less of search-and-click and more of a gesture. For instance, I have a Mac (this particular one is OS 9). I know my "minimize" button (well, it's window shade, similar deal) is on the top-right, so I dont' really look for it, I just move the mouse in a diagonal motion until i get close, and then I look at it and home in for the kill. I'm still seeking, yes, but it's subconcious and quick, because i learned.
Now, on the other hand, dialog boxes have words and contain something different everytime. These where designed for readability and even reconfigure themselves based on localization. For instance, in right-to-left languages, the icon appears on the right side. This is more logical because it's something the user has to review each time.
RFID tags are only as evil as those who use them. Just because your beer glass has an RFID tag in it does NOT mean you need a tin-foil hat to go to the bar.
You know, you coudl complain just as much about 802.11 and Bluetooth, because they can be used in similar ways with a little effort.
Monitor the general vicinity of your laptop? Record what store security systems your PDA enters? Hell, triangulate your cel phone signal (and now GPS it), a wireless electronic item quite personally associated with you by a corporate entity, nonetheless.
Please TFY next time. That's "Think For Yourself", and I think it should become as popular as "IANAL" and "RTFA" here on "/."
(Sorry if this was a joke, but the first thing I thought of when I read this article is "Great, another RFID bitchfest")
- use enun instead of tons of #defines
Does the eNun have to take a vow or is it just pretend like Sister Act?(Score: -1, Poster is a Dumbass)
...Yes, there is more than one of him.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those?
...and how Microsoft is claiming we SCO'd them. I dont' believe that has been said. Gates refered to Microsoft IP, not code. Microsoft's IP can (and surely does) cover more than code (look and feel, networking techniques, crappy vague patents, etc.). I'd be worried more about that than I would be about MS trying to be sneaky and steal some GPL'd code and put it in Windows, or submitting Windows code to the kernel or something like that. Why pull a big elaborate scam when a violation of a vague patent will do just fine?
Monopoly at it's best. Instead of eliminating the competition through inproving your own products, simply bash and sue the others using what should probably be unlawfuly aquired IP ("Method for rasterization of a rectangle through means of an electronic device...OK *stamp*". Scary how much even that parody might be factual given the USPTO, even though I bet that one belongs to IBM
If there is any reason to be afraid, it's that. "FUD" could turn into "deep shit", if they really put their minds to it.
No I see your point, wasn't trying to be mean...
I guess what I'm saying is cookies eliminate the hassle of what you can already do. Why write code to make GET or POST session IDs when cookies are there already? Same reason we have window managers for GUIs: Why write your own code to make a window when, since everyone needs to do so, it can just be a function of the platform?
This raises an interesting point, however: Can sites use the GET and POST methods for session IDs and not need to inform the user about it under this law? I'd assume the difference comes in being able to track sessions between periods of browser activity, but then again, you're are storing data on a users computer for tracking purposes. (IANAL)
That being said, I think cookies should only be used for the website you're on. I don't prefer websites that have ads which place cookies, perhaps the warning could only be required in such situations?
What about hashing the raw e-mail body ASCII before doing OCR? That way, the hash could be compated against a database of known hashed-and-determined-to-be-spam e-mails. Since 90% of the e-mail on the net is spam, this will save the time of having to OCR a good majority of the e-mail.
Still, for this to be realisticlly implemented, I woudl say the mail server should be broken into two machines (or perhaps a single dual-processor machine), each of which would take the task of traditional mail server, and OCR scanner, respectively. This, in conjunction with traditional methods liek SpamAssassin, could prove to be quite helpful.
Of course, then you have the additional problem of loading the actual images...sometimes e-mail images are included as a link to a webserver, and just by loading the image, the spammer can check his logs and know your address is legit...by loading the images to OCR them for spam checks, you're basically validating the spammer's e-mail database for him. Of course, if this kind of scanning becomes commonplace, images could also be confirmed from e-mail addresses that do not exist, as opposed to those that do exist, while those that really are there get filtered out based on results from a bad addresses (i.e. if a good address gets mail with an unmatched hash, do not try and load it for scanning until either a bad address gets it, or a predetermined amount of time). That way, only bad addresses will be confirmed and the good addresses can have the spam filtered out before it reaches them! Not only do you keep the crap out of people Inboxes, but you can render a spammer's database completely invalid!