Why not something more pragmatic, which would -in effect- result in the desired outcome? The goal is ostensibly greater representation and prominence of disadvantaged classes of persons. This implementation of a solution is arbitrary and largely naive.
However, one should look at "codetermination" as a much more practical solution. Defined thus:
"A concept that involves the right of workers to participate in management of the companies they work for. The law allows workers to elect representatives (usually trade union representatives) for almost half of the supervisory board of directors. It applies to public and private companies."
On its practical efficacy:
"Economists in the past four decades have produced a large literature trying to determine the effects that codetermination has had on the German economy, and while the results are mixed, more often than not, studies find that codetermination and “works councils” lead to higher wages, less short-termism, greater productivity, even higher levels of income equality (see here for a good overview of recent research). They may, however, reduce profitability and lower returns for shareholders, suggesting they lead to a shift in both power and corporate earnings away from shareholders and toward workers."
Dylan Matthews. (2018) Workers don’t have much say in corporations. Why not give them seats on the board? - Vox. Retrieved October 14, 2018, from https://www.vox.com/2018/4/6/1...
Why does no one make a critique of the inherent architecture of the system one is trying to remove these programs from? One of the biggest faults of Windows is the inexcusably stupid registry concept. Having a single point of failure in something so often changed as one's configuration settings is just idiotic. That it's cryptic and inaccessible (to the average Joe Brown) just makes it worse. That Windows' start up items hook into so many places in the OS makes it even further difficult to remove these so-called annoying programs. I remember seeing the complexity involved in manually removing Norton's or McAfee's products. Windows manual uninstalls are a nightmare. Which of course just magnifies the frustration. I blame a lot of the annoyance these programs cause on the poor architectural design of Windows itself.
Is it usual for CEOs to have the grammar of twelve-year-olds? Reading through the PDF, most of the Microsoft employees have respectable spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. And then I read Steve Ballmer's e-mails. Here's a verbatim excerpt:
"You are right that people did not trust us have you checkd windows update I assume you found no drivers there either?? thanks"
Sure it does. I've been playing around with that sort of thing in Rockbox. Although it's more of a pitch changing thing than a tempo change - but I could see it as possible - and there's also the iPod's ability to change the pace of audiobooks.
It would be pretty cool if they built in exemptions for well-known Security Vendors, but suffice it to say, when has MS ever propped their competition?
The site preferences and preview features both seem like they were ganked from OmniWeb 5, which has both for a while now. Same with the improved content and pop-up blocker.
Well, now that people are finally getting up to OW's level, I'm going to be VERY interested in what the OmniGroup comes up with next to compete.
Well, I can watch wmvs in VLC just fine, with Flip4Mac. I guess it relies on the Quicktime Plug-In architecture in addition to whatever it has for itself.
Marshall T. Savage, a while ago, proposed a rather interesting idea for preserving life that I think would work as a great parallel project to this:
In this boldly optimistic manifesto, Savage proclaims a master plan for the human race: to spread life throughout the galaxy. To many, space exploration seems irrelevant to Earth's real problems; but humanity may in fact have no other way to secure its long-term survival. To remain confined to Earth, Savage claims, is to court extinction, possibly within a few decades. Savage (an engineer who has established the Millennial Foundation to promote space exploration) outlines his program for transferring a significant portion of humanity off-planet. The crucial first step is to colonize the ocean surface with floating cities, quadrupling the living space available to the growing population of Earth. This allows us to reverse the degradation of the environment by shifting to the thermal energy of the deep ocean as our primary power source. At the same time, spirulina algae (already on sale in health food stores) becomes a major new food crop. The hardware for these oceanic colonies is already within practical reach: Savage provides a detailed inventory of how his floating cities would work and support themselves, with copious citations of the scientific literature. Once this move is well underway, it frees up energy and resources for the next steps. Improved space vehicles make possible orbiting space colonies, then settlements on the moon. A larger step is terraforming Mars--creating an atmosphere and a water supply for our lifeless neighbor to form a human habitat. On an even longer time scale, the race can expand into the rest of the solar system: asteroids and the moons of other planets. Ultimately, artificial habitats may completely surround the sun. With the resources of an entire solar system at our command, according to Savage, humanity can at last send out emissaries to other stars. The stuff of science fiction? Of course--but rigorously built from existing science, carefully documented, and convincingly argued. Highly recommended.
Yet again, I am reminded of Marshall Savage's thought-provoking work, Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps. His belief is that the use of OTECs will relieve the world's energy problems, in addition to providing power for floating sea colonies, thus relieving population density. Furthering his premise, if I recall, the warm water will lead to an abundance of blue-green algae, which can be processed and used as a food source. These things, interestingly enough, are only a stop-gap until we can begin to expand life to places outside of this current biosphere.
Okay, maybe a tad off-topic, but I certainly find it fascinating.
Yet again, I am reminded of Marshall Savages thought-provoking work, Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps. His belief is that the use of OTECs will relieve the world's energy problems, in addition to providing power for floating sea colonies, thus relieving population density. Furthering his premise, if I recall, the warm water will lead to an abundance of blue-green algae, which can be processed and used as a food source. These things, interestingly enough, are only a stop-gap until we can begin to expand life to places outside of this current biosphere.
Okay, maybe a tad off-topic, but I certainly find it fascinating.
My personal preference would be for a constitutional amendment that added a wholly new branch of Government - outside the Executive, Legislative and Judicial - that has all the necessary powers, clearances, means and protections to investigate corruption at absolutely any level in every branch of Government. That is it. That is all it would do. Just investigate. Because it was independent of all other branches, it would not have political appointments made to it, could not be ordered to stop, or indeed even ordered to start. The power of such a body is not in what it could do, but in what it could know.
You mean sort of like Joseph McCarthy's department? I see too much of a chance of something like that being abused. What are its checks?
. . . NO! Gah. Farking capitalistic motivations corrupting a very efficient minimalist design. Sure, this might be modded as flamebait, but I don't care. I was recently praising google for getting ads right - meaning minimalist and relevant. I hate graphical ads with a passion. Maybe this stupidity will inspire more people to download ad-blockers and discourage the use of graphical ads.
Hopefully this is just rumor, or an outcry against it will rescind this idea.
And here I am, playing KOTOR, thinking very much of how Bastila is a great counter-example to this. So, in that vein, based on genre - where are our worst offenders for stereotyping?
It's fortunate that a lot of the major ISP's are offering some degree of protection to their customers. But I've found something strange. Why is it that both McAfee and Norton require that you have ActiveX enabled to download their products? I've always thought that the big names in this industry deliberately want to have security holes open so that they inflate the need for their products.
Secondly, as I indirectly work for one of these companies, I find it surprising how little attention is being given to Spyware by ISPs these days. For the most part, it's a matter of recommending a combination of Spybot and Ad-Aware. Viruses, Trojans, Worms and so on are becoming less of a (noticeable) problem. I'd really like to see a huge push against Spyware and Adware. I sometimes wish it were illegal to sell a Windows-based PC without, at least, a full year's subscription to security software or free open source alternatives. Otherwise, it's like selling someone a t-shirt with a target painted on it and going into a combined NRA-Alcholics Anonymous meeting and being surprised at the result.
Also, I wonder to what degree this survey took other OS's into account. For example, asking a Macintosh user if they have Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware software seems rather futile, for the time being.
It doesn't? That's curious, mine's been pulling data from my Address Book for some time now. What sort of features are you looking with this integration, though?
That's funny. Just yesterday I walked into a new Apple store near where I lived, came up to the Genius Bar (which you seem to need reservations for, and I didn't know this) waited for just a bit and was able to get my malfunctioning iPod replaced, no questions asked.
True, I had AppleCare, but I thought it'd be more inconvenient than just that.
I've thought of an implementation like this for some time, only I was thinking of the added element of sampling the user's voice with phonemes in the language to be translated to and then averaging that sound sample with the computer so that you could hear it somewhat spoken in the user's voice. Eventually, this would be a simple headset that could be worn, and you'd talk into a microphone and have some speakers around your ears broadcast what you said in translated form. Those speakers could also be a sort of unidirectional microphone for picking up on the foreign language-speaker's voice and translating it back.
It'd be for one-to-one conversations, of course. Unless we get to a point where we can separate individual voices in real time and then translate them and have the computer dynamically assign a digital voice to each of the translations so we don't get a jumbled conversation.
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Why not something more pragmatic, which would -in effect- result in the desired outcome? The goal is ostensibly greater representation and prominence of disadvantaged classes of persons. This implementation of a solution is arbitrary and largely naive.
However, one should look at "codetermination" as a much more practical solution. Defined thus:
"A concept that involves the right of workers to participate in management of the companies they work for. The law allows workers to elect representatives (usually trade union representatives) for almost half of the supervisory board of directors. It applies to public and private companies."
On its practical efficacy:
"Economists in the past four decades have produced a large literature trying to determine the effects that codetermination has had on the German economy, and while the results are mixed, more often than not, studies find that codetermination and “works councils” lead to higher wages, less short-termism, greater productivity, even higher levels of income equality (see here for a good overview of recent research). They may, however, reduce profitability and lower returns for shareholders, suggesting they lead to a shift in both power and corporate earnings away from shareholders and toward workers."
Dylan Matthews. (2018) Workers don’t have much say in corporations. Why not give them seats on the board? - Vox. Retrieved October 14, 2018, from https://www.vox.com/2018/4/6/1...
Why does no one make a critique of the inherent architecture of the system one is trying to remove these programs from? One of the biggest faults of Windows is the inexcusably stupid registry concept. Having a single point of failure in something so often changed as one's configuration settings is just idiotic. That it's cryptic and inaccessible (to the average Joe Brown) just makes it worse.
That Windows' start up items hook into so many places in the OS makes it even further difficult to remove these so-called annoying programs. I remember seeing the complexity involved in manually removing Norton's or McAfee's products. Windows manual uninstalls are a nightmare. Which of course just magnifies the frustration.
I blame a lot of the annoyance these programs cause on the poor architectural design of Windows itself.
Is it usual for CEOs to have the grammar of twelve-year-olds? Reading through the PDF, most of the Microsoft employees have respectable spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. And then I read Steve Ballmer's e-mails. Here's a verbatim excerpt:
"You are right that people did not trust us have you checkd windows update I assume you found no drivers there either?? thanks"
Most of what he writes is of similar quality.
Sure it does. I've been playing around with that sort of thing in Rockbox. Although it's more of a pitch changing thing than a tempo change - but I could see it as possible - and there's also the iPod's ability to change the pace of audiobooks.
It would be pretty cool if they built in exemptions for well-known Security Vendors, but suffice it to say, when has MS ever propped their competition?
The site preferences and preview features both seem like they were ganked from OmniWeb 5, which has both for a while now. Same with the improved content and pop-up blocker.
Well, now that people are finally getting up to OW's level, I'm going to be VERY interested in what the OmniGroup comes up with next to compete.
i agree. go nintendo.
Well, I can watch wmvs in VLC just fine, with Flip4Mac. I guess it relies on the Quicktime Plug-In architecture in addition to whatever it has for itself.
Marshall T. Savage, a while ago, proposed a rather interesting idea for preserving life that I think would work as a great parallel project to this:
In this boldly optimistic manifesto, Savage proclaims a master plan for the human race: to spread life throughout the galaxy. To many, space exploration seems irrelevant to Earth's real problems; but humanity may in fact have no other way to secure its long-term survival. To remain confined to Earth, Savage claims, is to court extinction, possibly within a few decades. Savage (an engineer who has established the Millennial Foundation to promote space exploration) outlines his program for transferring a significant portion of humanity off-planet. The crucial first step is to colonize the ocean surface with floating cities, quadrupling the living space available to the growing population of Earth. This allows us to reverse the degradation of the environment by shifting to the thermal energy of the deep ocean as our primary power source. At the same time, spirulina algae (already on sale in health food stores) becomes a major new food crop. The hardware for these oceanic colonies is already within practical reach: Savage provides a detailed inventory of how his floating cities would work and support themselves, with copious citations of the scientific literature. Once this move is well underway, it frees up energy and resources for the next steps. Improved space vehicles make possible orbiting space colonies, then settlements on the moon. A larger step is terraforming Mars--creating an atmosphere and a water supply for our lifeless neighbor to form a human habitat. On an even longer time scale, the race can expand into the rest of the solar system: asteroids and the moons of other planets. Ultimately, artificial habitats may completely surround the sun. With the resources of an entire solar system at our command, according to Savage, humanity can at last send out emissaries to other stars. The stuff of science fiction? Of course--but rigorously built from existing science, carefully documented, and convincingly argued. Highly recommended.
Yet again, I am reminded of Marshall Savage's thought-provoking work, Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps. His belief is that the use of OTECs will relieve the world's energy problems, in addition to providing power for floating sea colonies, thus relieving population density. Furthering his premise, if I recall, the warm water will lead to an abundance of blue-green algae, which can be processed and used as a food source. These things, interestingly enough, are only a stop-gap until we can begin to expand life to places outside of this current biosphere.
Okay, maybe a tad off-topic, but I certainly find it fascinating.
Yet again, I am reminded of Marshall Savages thought-provoking work, Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps. His belief is that the use of OTECs will relieve the world's energy problems, in addition to providing power for floating sea colonies, thus relieving population density. Furthering his premise, if I recall, the warm water will lead to an abundance of blue-green algae, which can be processed and used as a food source. These things, interestingly enough, are only a stop-gap until we can begin to expand life to places outside of this current biosphere.
Okay, maybe a tad off-topic, but I certainly find it fascinating.
. . . in a way.
Okay, so it's not exactly "working" in Firefox, per se, but you can use this extension to resolve the problem.
My personal preference would be for a constitutional amendment that added a wholly new branch of Government - outside the Executive, Legislative and Judicial - that has all the necessary powers, clearances, means and protections to investigate corruption at absolutely any level in every branch of Government. That is it. That is all it would do. Just investigate. Because it was independent of all other branches, it would not have political appointments made to it, could not be ordered to stop, or indeed even ordered to start. The power of such a body is not in what it could do, but in what it could know.
You mean sort of like Joseph McCarthy's department? I see too much of a chance of something like that being abused. What are its checks?
I just had to comment on this. It might be important.
Sweet. I consider that my "security feature" at work.
. . . NO!
Gah. Farking capitalistic motivations corrupting a very efficient minimalist design. Sure, this might be modded as flamebait, but I don't care.
I was recently praising google for getting ads right - meaning minimalist and relevant. I hate graphical ads with a passion. Maybe this stupidity will inspire more people to download ad-blockers and discourage the use of graphical ads.
Hopefully this is just rumor, or an outcry against it will rescind this idea.
And here I am, playing KOTOR, thinking very much of how Bastila is a great counter-example to this.
So, in that vein, based on genre - where are our worst offenders for stereotyping?
It's fortunate that a lot of the major ISP's are offering some degree of protection to their customers. But I've found something strange. Why is it that both McAfee and Norton require that you have ActiveX enabled to download their products? I've always thought that the big names in this industry deliberately want to have security holes open so that they inflate the need for their products.
Secondly, as I indirectly work for one of these companies, I find it surprising how little attention is being given to Spyware by ISPs these days. For the most part, it's a matter of recommending a combination of Spybot and Ad-Aware. Viruses, Trojans, Worms and so on are becoming less of a (noticeable) problem. I'd really like to see a huge push against Spyware and Adware. I sometimes wish it were illegal to sell a Windows-based PC without, at least, a full year's subscription to security software or free open source alternatives. Otherwise, it's like selling someone a t-shirt with a target painted on it and going into a combined NRA-Alcholics Anonymous meeting and being surprised at the result.
Also, I wonder to what degree this survey took other OS's into account. For example, asking a Macintosh user if they have Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware software seems rather futile, for the time being.
According to this unbiased site the PSP is owning.
Adium has OTR encryption and automatically logs the conversation into a searchable window.
I'm running Adium X 0.86 - which is the latest public release - but previous versions have, as I stated above, the feature(s) you're looking for, too.
Here's how you set it up.
It doesn't? That's curious, mine's been pulling data from my Address Book for some time now. What sort of features are you looking with this integration, though?
http://www.adiumx.com/ which includes:
Grouping of nicks under a single nick and holding for "pounces".
Transparent encryption.
Ability to reliably use the assigned nicks to refer to an intended user.
Make user icons available reliably.
Make client reliable and stable.
Last, but not least, make file transfers reliable across all protocols, which did requiring opening up ports for AIM transfers: 1026 and 1027.
Reasonably sure that last one is documented.
That's funny. Just yesterday I walked into a new Apple store near where I lived, came up to the Genius Bar (which you seem to need reservations for, and I didn't know this) waited for just a bit and was able to get my malfunctioning iPod replaced, no questions asked.
True, I had AppleCare, but I thought it'd be more inconvenient than just that.
So, to each, mileage may vary.
I've thought of an implementation like this for some time, only I was thinking of the added element of sampling the user's voice with phonemes in the language to be translated to and then averaging that sound sample with the computer so that you could hear it somewhat spoken in the user's voice. Eventually, this would be a simple headset that could be worn, and you'd talk into a microphone and have some speakers around your ears broadcast what you said in translated form. Those speakers could also be a sort of unidirectional microphone for picking up on the foreign language-speaker's voice and translating it back.
It'd be for one-to-one conversations, of course.
Unless we get to a point where we can separate individual voices in real time and then translate them and have the computer dynamically assign a digital voice to each of the translations so we don't get a jumbled conversation.