Try X1 or Google Desktop Search - both will search Outlook and other parts of your computer and do so really fast. (X1 costs money while GDS is free, but X1 might be worth it to you because it also lets you index shared network devices. I've been able to hack GDS to search networks but I have to manually refresh the index which is annoying).
For the record, I use Eudora, which comes with X1 built-in for free (doesn't search files, just Eudora though).
I think he actually meant what he said: correspondence. He could have said "correlation" and made the same point, and the two words are quite similar. Here's the first definition of correspondence on m-w:
1 a : the agreement of things with one another b : a particular similarity c : a relation between sets in which each member of one set is associated with one or more members of the other
It's named after Raymond Chandler, the mystery author. This is the URL that explains briefly in their own words:
"Our product (code-named "Chandler" after the great detective novelist Raymond Chandler,) is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) intended for use in everyday information and communication tasks, such as composing and reading email, managing an appointment calendar and keeping a contact list."
Lookit - the ISP's job is to keep all my data where I left it - no matter what it is. If I was paying for webhosting, I would think I should be compensated if they lose all my data. Even worse, if they lose all my incoming traffic somehow. Ditto for data files stored on their database servers. Email is no different. What if some of these users are connecting with IMAP - seems a little trickier to tell who's lazy and who's using the system as it was designed. Lost data is lost data.
I do appreciate the kind of idiocy you must put up with as an ISP. But consider, we're paying you, not the other way around.
Here's what PlusNet has to say about the incident.
Pretty nonchalant about the whole thing if you ask me. I wonder if they are crediting individual users who claim serious loss?
Yes but your parent poster is saying is that the variability in C as a constant is far less than the variability of the measurement of redshift. So we don't care if C varies for purposes of measuring "distance" to a star. There are other ways of measuring C as a constant (I believe they examine hydrogen gas absorbtion/emission and things like that - I am not an expert though).
If C could vary so much that a star "drastically" older and farther away appeared to be close, then there are a lot bigger problems about the Universe. I think based on the current science, we can pretty much guarantee that C can't vary by more than a few parts in a million over a billion years, which is far less than our ability to precisely measure the distance/age of any star or galaxy..
p.s. I have read that the constant "alpha" was measured in an ancient, natural nuclear reactor that was found in Africa, and that it was found not to have changed measurably. (This odd and ancient reactor has naturally occuring radioactive rocks mediated with underground water springs, creating an inefficient but functioning nuclear reaction).
I looked up the site on internic and it appears this person is real and lives in Connecticut. I figure not everyone knows how to look things up on Internic (even on slashdot), so I'm deleting personally identifying information.
evanwashere.com: Evan [last name removed] 68 [Street removed] Hill Rd [city removed], CT [zip removed] +1.917[number removed] [email removed]
I wondered also if this was legitimate but it seems like a lot of effort and risk to take for a few donations. I currently believe it's legitimate - the Internic info has the ring of truth..
A feature I found a little while ago relates to real estate. Google seems to have (silently) upload many of the US Multiple Listing Service (MLS) databases for residential real estate. Try searching:
san francisco real estate
You get an option to "refine your search" - if you use this interactive tool, you can search the MLS database in San Francisco for properties with specific characteristics. Who needs realtor.com anymore?
Actually Einstein was wrong about being wrong about the cosmological constant. But the fact that it got added and removed and added somewhat arbitrarily to fit the facts in evidence is a good example of a practice in modern physics that is almost commonplace these days.
http://super.colorado.edu/~michaele/Lambda/blund.h tml
I tried to use the Free legal resources touted last year by these guys. I called up and some harried guy answered the phone (presumably Moglen) and he said he'd have to call me back. I left my number and never heard from them again. It was so disorderly as to be amusing. But it was not effective OSS legal advice for the little guy, by any stretch. Maybe they'll get it right on this one, or eventually..
I have a simple, rule-of-thumb test for a new search engine to see how it performs. My test, of course, doesn't test all features, but it does test an important one. Here's the test: There's a small, rural town near San Francisco called Gilroy. It's a random small town for this test's purpose. Try searching any search engine for:
Gilroy hotels
See what you turn up (or substitute your own city of choice).
Google is crammed full of BS fake ad sites for this search (and has been for years). A long time ago on Google this search would pull up useful information from personal websites about good hotels in the area.
Ask.com provides a somewhat more credible set of results, but still plenty of fake ad sites.
In my opinion, until somebody cracks the BS ad site problem, our search engine technology is really just incremental. As far as "narrowing search results" on ask.com - that doesn't seem like what the feature does. It seems more like a semantic prompt. In this case, it asks if I would like to run a search on "City of Gilroy." Note this doesn't narrow my search of Gilroy hotels, but replaces it completely, giving me (useful) results about the City of Gilroy in general.
From what I know (always suspect), nothing in this standard or protocol will prevent you from watching unprotected content from some "small movie maker."
This is just about ensuring that distributors who want to protect their content with DRM, can do so. Now, I personally think that DRM goes over the line of what my copyrights are right now for the same content, and therefore is a bad thing, but I don't believe that it will restrict you from accessing content that is unprotected.
I found these interesting links about more patent reform work out there. The first one is a partnership between IBM and some university people on building some kind of peer review patent system. Looks very interesting:
This might have been true for the original XBox, but the XBox 360 is based on a "Trusted Computing" model which appears to be pretty hard to hack. It includes hardware based security to ensure that nothing which hasn't been signed/approved by Microsoft will run on the box.
There are efforts to hack the thing but success has not been seen yet.
I wouldn't count on a lot of help from "hackers" in fixing problems with this device. It looks like for the foreseeable future, it's MS or no one..
I'm surprised everyone seems to be talking about EULA as valid contract. Regardless of that, the idea that copyright ownership could prohibit the behavior specified in the EULA is questionable. Two parties could certainly create a contract with terms that prevent this behavior - and a EULA might be considered such a valid contract, or it might not.
But, two parties could/would not use copyright law as the basis for this contract - there are better lines of legal reasoning. Seems like these guys (among many others) have overloaded copyright provisions. Hopefully this will go to court, and fix this EULA mess, at least insofar as it's based on copyright ownership.
FTFA:
'Copyright law plainly wasn't designed for what RetroCoder is using it for, said Christopher Brody, a partner at Clark & Brody in Washington, D.C. "Copyright laws prevent copying, not examination, and I question the enforceability of such a clause based on copyright ownership," he said.'
Here's a quote I found a while ago, about availability of routing on Ipv6. The pessimistic estimate of available IP #'s is a little low - plenty, but still surprisingly low. I could imagine using up that many IP's in a hundred years. Granted the optimistic number would be plenty forever..
"Even [the] most pessimistic estimate...would provide 1,564 addresses for each square meter of the surface of the planet Earth. The optimistic estimate would allow for 3,911,873,538,269,506,102 addresses for each square meter of the surface of the planet Earth."
Quoated from specification for IPv6,
regarding the number of nodes (computers) which
it will be possible to access from the new network.
Relativity : The Special and the General Theory By Albert Einstein
This is written for the technically inclined layman. I read it and since then I've been life of the party. It really did make things much more clear - like what does flexible of spacetime have to do with the speed of light? It's all in there!
I have to point out that this has been a problem for time immemorial. Every generation feels like things are horrible now and there was reasonable discipline and order in the past. The following observation was made more than 2 millenia ago, which tends to suggest that generations of kids don't really change all that much over time (and neither do grown ups):
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates
Slashdot Mirror
For the record, I use Eudora, which comes with X1 built-in for free (doesn't search files, just Eudora though).
1 a : the agreement of things with one another b : a particular similarity c : a relation between sets in which each member of one set is associated with one or more members of the other
It's named after Raymond Chandler, the mystery author. This is the URL that explains briefly in their own words: "Our product (code-named "Chandler" after the great detective novelist Raymond Chandler,) is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) intended for use in everyday information and communication tasks, such as composing and reading email, managing an appointment calendar and keeping a contact list."
Lookit - the ISP's job is to keep all my data where I left it - no matter what it is. If I was paying for webhosting, I would think I should be compensated if they lose all my data. Even worse, if they lose all my incoming traffic somehow. Ditto for data files stored on their database servers. Email is no different. What if some of these users are connecting with IMAP - seems a little trickier to tell who's lazy and who's using the system as it was designed. Lost data is lost data.
I do appreciate the kind of idiocy you must put up with as an ISP. But consider, we're paying you, not the other way around.
Here's what PlusNet has to say about the incident. Pretty nonchalant about the whole thing if you ask me. I wonder if they are crediting individual users who claim serious loss?
Yes but your parent poster is saying is that the variability in C as a constant is far less than the variability of the measurement of redshift. So we don't care if C varies for purposes of measuring "distance" to a star. There are other ways of measuring C as a constant (I believe they examine hydrogen gas absorbtion/emission and things like that - I am not an expert though).
If C could vary so much that a star "drastically" older and farther away appeared to be close, then there are a lot bigger problems about the Universe. I think based on the current science, we can pretty much guarantee that C can't vary by more than a few parts in a million over a billion years, which is far less than our ability to precisely measure the distance/age of any star or galaxy..
p.s. I have read that the constant "alpha" was measured in an ancient, natural nuclear reactor that was found in Africa, and that it was found not to have changed measurably. (This odd and ancient reactor has naturally occuring radioactive rocks mediated with underground water springs, creating an inefficient but functioning nuclear reaction).
I looked up the site on internic and it appears this person is real and lives in Connecticut. I figure not everyone knows how to look things up on Internic (even on slashdot), so I'm deleting personally identifying information.
evanwashere.com:
Evan [last name removed]
68 [Street removed] Hill Rd
[city removed], CT [zip removed]
+1.917[number removed]
[email removed]
I wondered also if this was legitimate but it seems like a lot of effort and risk to take for a few donations. I currently believe it's legitimate - the Internic info has the ring of truth..
FTA:
"If something this complicated goes wrong, it could be very hard to get out."
That's all I need to know. I stick with the endo thanks.
Yeah - he did. His name is Bill Gates.
Hey! Easy now. Archos Jukebox was the birthplace of Rockbox, and therefore deserves respect like the 386 upon which Linus wrought his Linuxness..
A feature I found a little while ago relates to real estate. Google seems to have (silently) upload many of the US Multiple Listing Service (MLS) databases for residential real estate. Try searching:
san francisco real estate
You get an option to "refine your search" - if you use this interactive tool, you can search the MLS database in San Francisco for properties with specific characteristics. Who needs realtor.com anymore?
Actually Einstein was wrong about being wrong about the cosmological constant. But the fact that it got added and removed and added somewhat arbitrarily to fit the facts in evidence is a good example of a practice in modern physics that is almost commonplace these days. http://super.colorado.edu/~michaele/Lambda/blund.h tml
I'm not sure about commute times, but PJ O'Rourke has noted:
"The key to success in business is to arrive early, stay late, and take 8 hour lunches."
I tried to use the Free legal resources touted last year by these guys. I called up and some harried guy answered the phone (presumably Moglen) and he said he'd have to call me back. I left my number and never heard from them again. It was so disorderly as to be amusing. But it was not effective OSS legal advice for the little guy, by any stretch. Maybe they'll get it right on this one, or eventually..
Gilroy hotels
See what you turn up (or substitute your own city of choice). Google is crammed full of BS fake ad sites for this search (and has been for years). A long time ago on Google this search would pull up useful information from personal websites about good hotels in the area.
Ask.com provides a somewhat more credible set of results, but still plenty of fake ad sites.
In my opinion, until somebody cracks the BS ad site problem, our search engine technology is really just incremental. As far as "narrowing search results" on ask.com - that doesn't seem like what the feature does. It seems more like a semantic prompt. In this case, it asks if I would like to run a search on "City of Gilroy." Note this doesn't narrow my search of Gilroy hotels, but replaces it completely, giving me (useful) results about the City of Gilroy in general.
From what I know (always suspect), nothing in this standard or protocol will prevent you from watching unprotected content from some "small movie maker."
This is just about ensuring that distributors who want to protect their content with DRM, can do so. Now, I personally think that DRM goes over the line of what my copyrights are right now for the same content, and therefore is a bad thing, but I don't believe that it will restrict you from accessing content that is unprotected.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ati.com
Much more satisfying and stable than Google caches..
I found these interesting links about more patent reform work out there. The first one is a partnership between IBM and some university people on building some kind of peer review patent system. Looks very interesting:
- BethNoveck.pdf
http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent
Second is an article by one of the university people with more details on this (PDF warning):
http://peertopatent.jot.com/WikiHome/PeerToPatent
This might have been true for the original XBox, but the XBox 360 is based on a "Trusted Computing" model which appears to be pretty hard to hack. It includes hardware based security to ensure that nothing which hasn't been signed/approved by Microsoft will run on the box. There are efforts to hack the thing but success has not been seen yet. I wouldn't count on a lot of help from "hackers" in fixing problems with this device. It looks like for the foreseeable future, it's MS or no one..
I'm surprised everyone seems to be talking about EULA as valid contract. Regardless of that, the idea that copyright ownership could prohibit the behavior specified in the EULA is questionable. Two parties could certainly create a contract with terms that prevent this behavior - and a EULA might be considered such a valid contract, or it might not.
But, two parties could/would not use copyright law as the basis for this contract - there are better lines of legal reasoning. Seems like these guys (among many others) have overloaded copyright provisions. Hopefully this will go to court, and fix this EULA mess, at least insofar as it's based on copyright ownership.
FTFA:
'Copyright law plainly wasn't designed for what RetroCoder is using it for, said Christopher Brody, a partner at Clark & Brody in Washington, D.C. "Copyright laws prevent copying, not examination, and I question the enforceability of such a clause based on copyright ownership," he said.'
Here's a quote I found a while ago, about availability of routing on Ipv6. The pessimistic estimate of available IP #'s is a little low - plenty, but still surprisingly low. I could imagine using up that many IP's in a hundred years. Granted the optimistic number would be plenty forever..
"Even [the] most pessimistic estimate...would
provide 1,564 addresses for each square meter of
the surface of the planet Earth. The optimistic
estimate would allow for 3,911,873,538,269,506,102
addresses for each square meter of the surface of
the planet Earth."
Quoated from specification for IPv6,
regarding the number of nodes (computers) which
it will be possible to access from the new network.
Link to PDF of original doc
I would recommend reading:
Relativity : The Special and the General Theory
By Albert Einstein
This is written for the technically inclined layman. I read it and since then I've been life of the party. It really did make things much more clear - like what does flexible of spacetime have to do with the speed of light? It's all in there!
I have to point out that this has been a problem for time immemorial. Every generation feels like things are horrible now and there was reasonable discipline and order in the past. The following observation was made more than 2 millenia ago, which tends to suggest that generations of kids don't really change all that much over time (and neither do grown ups):
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates
Here's a quote from MIT Tech Review Mag. I don't remember the exact date of this article - probably around 2004:
13 billion emails sent every day are unsolicited junk mail. 90% of these are sent by fewer than 200 people.
- Evan I. Schwartz, MIT Technology Review
So, putting this guy in jail actually does move us closer to the goal line (by 1/200th)..
NetFlix being the most obvious example of how media and content companies can capitalize on this issue..