Yeah, what's with this example? Sting (who is a great musician, but seems to be an asshole as a person, according to many reports) tried to wrangle the Internet domain sting.com from someone who registered it in 1995, long before Sting even acknowledged that the Internet existed. (My own domains are from 1992/1993, I know about these times.)
This was denied. As the GP quoted, the system worked as intended. This time.
Second, checking accounts are difficult to reconcile as can be seen from the linked story. The person in question despite being financially sophisticated, was not able to be SURE about what his balance should be. Because the checks settle out of your account at the timing discretion of the recipient of the funds, it's not possible to say what your balance on any given day should be, which makes it hard to spot problems as they occur.
Well, if one really has that problem, there exists a nice invention, from back in 1494. It's called double-entry bookkeeping and since a few hundred years it's the standard way to track one's accounts and be able to tell its balance (and all outstanding receivables and liabilities) on any given day.
And, speaking as a CEO, if one has responsibility for a company, one does better make sure that one has control over the company's finances. Otherwise one invites trouble, just as this guy seems to have done. If he's not able to do so, he should hire professional help.
Thank you very much for summing up so concisely why so many of us in Old Europe(tm) think that too many of you USAans are one beer short of a six-pack. You guys there still seem to believe that the Wild Wild West is an appropriate metapher to live by.
So-called "islamic" terrorism is as religious as the IRA or the Ulster folks in Northern Ireland are "catholic" or "protestantic" terrorists.
IMNSHO, anybody who believes the terrorists, that they do their heidious acts for religious reasons, is a sucker who falls for their propaganda and helps in the end to further their goals, by not addressing the real causes. After all, terrorism by definition is not there to "win" anything, it's there to scare the enemy and make them afraid of something. (An actual suicide bomber or other attacker might also believe in that idiocy, but not the people behind him who plan the attacks.)
Look - if you had ever held a security clearance and worked for some part of the military, you wouldn't be making ignorant statements like that. It's just *not* *true*. Yes, there are actual people, with actual faces and names, that actually plan to harm people for reasons that are largely religious in nature.
Ah, you talk about the "moral majority" in the USA! So, why don't they do something against them? If you're on this side of the pond, go ahead!
Seriously, this is the most stupid explanation of terrorism threat that I have read in a long time, and that tells something. If you really believe that the reason behind the current wave of global terrorism is "largely religious in nature", you're part of the problem.
Then you would have needed a better provider. I see maybe 2-3 spam messages a week in the newsgroups that I read (comp.* mostly, some de.*). And the signal-to-noise ratio there is usually higher than those on most Web forums that I have visited. (Well, for example, it's definitively higher than here on/.;-)
Maybe it's the work of my Usenet provider, news.individual.net, I dunno. The 10 EUR p.a. were well spent up to now, I got a service with great reliability.
Oh yes, and I use Usenet since 1990/1991 or so. So I know older times. (I even participated in the great ra.sf-lovers split flamewar. Ah, those times...)
Yes, Frank (Mittelbach) cashed several of them, he made a sport to find dozens of errors both in tex.web and in the TeXbook. I cached some as well, and kept only the very first that I got, back in 1983, when we ported the brand-new TeX82 to our then-TeX78 installation. It's now besides the picture of Don and Jill, when they visited us at home a few years later. Oh, such were the times...:-)
No, the backup should also know the accounts. Otherwise it will create the backscatter spam when it forwards the email to the primary and the primary rejects it.
Many spammers send emails via the backup MTA even though the primary is active and reachable. Don't ask me why. Perhaps they think they can circumvent some spam protection this way.
That means that you should have your backup MTA under your control, too. If you use your ISP's MTA as backup, it will not really work. If you can't share your account database so easily (because the backup MTA is off-site), a good solution is online account verification from the backup to the primary. Then the check will only be skipped if the primary is really down, which is hopefully seldom.
Then why don't you try attracting attention to the statistical correlation between rape cases and muslim population in European cities. The correlation is real (and perfectly calculateable, and as you know this implies that either rapes make someone muslim, or that muslims rape (a lot) more than othres).
One of the first things that one learns in any introductionary statistics course is: Correlation must not be used as explanation of cause and effect. This is polemics, and has nothing to do with math.
So, is your statement made out of ignorance, or of malice?
If ignorance, I would recommend a 101 statistics course in any university. It's really enlighting when you will read other published stats in the future. If malice, drop an appropriate answer so that we know that we can ignore future posts from you.
To be fair, the Bible has it's fair share of statements that could be used to oppress women, but the Christian fundamentalists haven't been able to get any of that codified into actual law yet.
Well, at least in the US, they try very hard, don't they? All those folks from the Religious Right who want to send women back to the kitchen where they shall raise their children which is their only god-given right. And it's not as if these folks have no influence on a certain US political party...
Except that VMware Server Beta2 replaced the simple server console app with a horrendous memory-eating Tomcat-based monster web application. I downloaded it once and when I saw a footprint of 350 MB without even a single VM instantiated, I checked the VMware forums. There, a clear commitment to this new management interface and its resource demands could be read, in spite of the protests of many many users.
We will have to see how many have the type of hardware that one seems to need for VMware server 2. Upgrading VMware Workstation with the needed additional functionality from Server also doesn't seem to be in the works.
I'm a paying VMware customer since they released the beta for their very first 1.0 product that is now called Workstation. I'm very disappointed by the current development, and this was a sufficient reason to check out the other VM offerings. Sad to say, the other ones are still not as stable or as functional.
I've got a M.Sc. and a PhD in CS, both with honors, with a solid grounding in math. (When I studied 25 years ago, this was a given, undergrad studies in CS and math were the same for 70% of our courses.) My field is computer languages, in particular formal semantics. I read ACM proceedings in the evening, for fun. I have actually used systems with core memory when I was young.
With this background, let me tell you: As so many others here, I have no idea what he could have meant with core stack. Maybe that the cores where typically stacked in planes and a memory word was distributed over these planes. But it really is not a term that is in wide use.
p.s. on the subject of not being serious, I can't be the only one who would struggle to take a judge called "Tugendhat" seriously. Tug who's end into who's hat, I'd like to know...
You might be even more amused when you learn that "tugend" means "virtue" in German. To put one's virtue in one's hat; that's great, for sure.:-)
I also don't know why people buy stand-alone DVD recorders -- living in Germany, all people I know have DVRs with DVD-Writers included.
That said, you obviously don't seem to know much about the market in Europe. Most equipment here doesn't care for your DRM and just records stuff, no question answered. Hell, most DVD players are region-code free. Whereas, many non-geeks don't want a TV tuner in their computer, it would have to run for recording any show; therefore they use appliances for recording and burning. Those non-geeks also don't find it trivial to edit out commercials and often give up with software that they don't understand -- but luckily we don't have this insane amount of commercials as I've seen in the US...:-)
Me, I run a Dreambox, with two DVB-S tuners. I like that it's Linux-based and that I can integrate it fully in my home network. But I would never recommend that device to my mother-in-law, who is able to handle a DVR+DVD-recording device with her 72 years.
PS is not better. It has too much functionality, leading to incompatible implementations, has no notion of embedded objects. Getting EPS imported properly into other PS files is a PIA, compared to creation of a PDF X-object. Standardized compression is also a big plus, if you have to transmit many documents to your printing house. Furthermore, many PS creators have problems with proper font inclusion, where this ain't so for PDF creators. (But the latter is probably more about current implementations than about technology itself.)
Besides, PS has no equivalent to PDF/A, for archival.
That said, I agree with the PP that forms are an interesting, but not a crucial matter for PDF. PDF got its dominant role in the print industry not for forms, but for "doing PS the right way".
As another poster already pointed out, you have no idea at all about navigation. Both in the modern GPS-based form and in the old traditional form, it's based on accurate timekeeping. That's why chronometers were invented in the first place.
In addition, your definition of arbitrary seems to be different from mine. If one thinks about the importance of water for humans, I don't think that the temperatures where water freezes and boils at sea level are arbitrary definitions for a temperature scale. Of course, one could argue that everything man-made is arbitrary to some extent, but that devalues the semantics of that term for any meaningful discussion and is thus counter-productive.
Too bad that this universal translator did not also warp the light appropriately for the German version.
What? You say that the German version was not created by a universal translator, but by a dubious low-tech process called dubbing? Do you really want to destroy all my childhood beliefs?
1) Because it's what they have and what they know. For example, in dealing with an IT department recently where we needed to make screenshots attachments (they were used to Notes where they pasted in, now we needed files) the solution was to have them past it into Word, save and send. Would an image editor and an image format be more appropriate? Yes. If an IT department won't do it, will regular people? No.
Actually, I don't know if an image editor would really be more appropriate.
I save screenshots in Powerpoint files all the time, e.g., to document a storyboard. (This is in corporate environment. Privately, I don't use Windows.)
1) It's frickin' easy: One just does Shift-Print and Ctrl-C, that's all.
2) I don't have an image editor installed on my Windows; and if I had it, I wouldn't know what image format my recipients could read. But I know that they have Powerpoint.
3) My recipients don't call me to ask what they shall do with that file. They know exactly how they handle Powerpoint.
4) It's very easy to add comments (either myself or by one of my colleagues/customers). E.g., a big arrow with "Do you really want this?" or "Please change here". And even if we have no comments at first, they will be added in 50% of my use cases.
5) It's a good way to store more than one screenshot in one file. I don't know if my recipients have ZIP installed, or similar. And if they have, it's easier for them to scroll through a Powerpoint file than reopen each file in a ZIP archive.
6) It's a good way to attach this file with more than one screenshot to a document. (As an embedded OLE component that is not expanded.) E.g., one customer of mine likes to have mini-user-guides for applications this way.
So, especially as an IT person, I don't handle screenshots as single files.
(I don't like to embed them in Word, though. Word moves embedded images too often around; that messes up the easy-commenting feature.)
I'm all for air conditioning in these areas -- but do you really have to turn them down to 18 C (whatever that is in Fahrenheit)? This insistance on freezing, non-moderate temperatures made my stays in the US sometimes a pain in the back and caused a horrible cold.
Ah, pissing contest. OK. I was involved in porting X10 to new hardware, and X11 when it came out. I do TeX development since 1981. I made gcc backend ports to new architectures back in 1983. I ran some of the largest ftp archives in the world (if you still remember the C++ collection on Walnot Creek CDs in the early 90s, that was from me.) Since these days, I have been actively involved in development of free and open source software.
And let me tell, the GP is right. Linux triggered a revolution in the way how open source software is created, and what is expected from distributed development in an OSS project. Before 1992, we worked differently than we do today.
Yes, and that's the effect of a court system where a 100% winner doesn't get payed his legal expenses by the looser. And where the legal expenses are ridiculously high.
And that's not only in patent cases. As the CEO of a small (6-person) German company, all my contracts are strictly with German subsidiaries of US companies, never with the mother company itself. The financial risk is simply too high, no project is worth that.
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This was denied. As the GP quoted, the system worked as intended. This time.
Well, if one really has that problem, there exists a nice invention, from back in 1494. It's called double-entry bookkeeping and since a few hundred years it's the standard way to track one's accounts and be able to tell its balance (and all outstanding receivables and liabilities) on any given day.
And, speaking as a CEO, if one has responsibility for a company, one does better make sure that one has control over the company's finances. Otherwise one invites trouble, just as this guy seems to have done. If he's not able to do so, he should hire professional help.
Thank you very much for summing up so concisely why so many of us in Old Europe(tm) think that too many of you USAans are one beer short of a six-pack. You guys there still seem to believe that the Wild Wild West is an appropriate metapher to live by.
And it is not related to my argument (that the cause of current terrorism is not religious, but has political and economic reasons).
So, why should I join you in bubbling arbitrary nonsense that has nothing to do with the discussion thread?
IMNSHO, anybody who believes the terrorists, that they do their heidious acts for religious reasons, is a sucker who falls for their propaganda and helps in the end to further their goals, by not addressing the real causes. After all, terrorism by definition is not there to "win" anything, it's there to scare the enemy and make them afraid of something. (An actual suicide bomber or other attacker might also believe in that idiocy, but not the people behind him who plan the attacks.)
Seriously, this is the most stupid explanation of terrorism threat that I have read in a long time, and that tells something. If you really believe that the reason behind the current wave of global terrorism is "largely religious in nature", you're part of the problem.
Maybe it's the work of my Usenet provider, news.individual.net, I dunno. The 10 EUR p.a. were well spent up to now, I got a service with great reliability.
Oh yes, and I use Usenet since 1990/1991 or so. So I know older times. (I even participated in the great ra.sf-lovers split flamewar. Ah, those times...)
Yes, Frank (Mittelbach) cashed several of them, he made a sport to find dozens of errors both in tex.web and in the TeXbook. I cached some as well, and kept only the very first that I got, back in 1983, when we ported the brand-new TeX82 to our then-TeX78 installation. It's now besides the picture of Don and Jill, when they visited us at home a few years later. Oh, such were the times... :-)
Many spammers send emails via the backup MTA even though the primary is active and reachable. Don't ask me why. Perhaps they think they can circumvent some spam protection this way.
That means that you should have your backup MTA under your control, too. If you use your ISP's MTA as backup, it will not really work. If you can't share your account database so easily (because the backup MTA is off-site), a good solution is online account verification from the backup to the primary. Then the check will only be skipped if the primary is really down, which is hopefully seldom.
So, is your statement made out of ignorance, or of malice?
If ignorance, I would recommend a 101 statistics course in any university. It's really enlighting when you will read other published stats in the future. If malice, drop an appropriate answer so that we know that we can ignore future posts from you.
We will have to see how many have the type of hardware that one seems to need for VMware server 2. Upgrading VMware Workstation with the needed additional functionality from Server also doesn't seem to be in the works.
I'm a paying VMware customer since they released the beta for their very first 1.0 product that is now called Workstation. I'm very disappointed by the current development, and this was a sufficient reason to check out the other VM offerings. Sad to say, the other ones are still not as stable or as functional.
Which AWK? The original, POSIX, nawk, or GNU awk?
With this background, let me tell you: As so many others here, I have no idea what he could have meant with core stack. Maybe that the cores where typically stacked in planes and a memory word was distributed over these planes. But it really is not a term that is in wide use.
Joachim
That said, you obviously don't seem to know much about the market in Europe. Most equipment here doesn't care for your DRM and just records stuff, no question answered. Hell, most DVD players are region-code free. Whereas, many non-geeks don't want a TV tuner in their computer, it would have to run for recording any show; therefore they use appliances for recording and burning. Those non-geeks also don't find it trivial to edit out commercials and often give up with software that they don't understand -- but luckily we don't have this insane amount of commercials as I've seen in the US... :-)
Me, I run a Dreambox, with two DVB-S tuners. I like that it's Linux-based and that I can integrate it fully in my home network. But I would never recommend that device to my mother-in-law, who is able to handle a DVR+DVD-recording device with her 72 years.
Yet another entry for my KILL file^W^WFoe list.
Besides, PS has no equivalent to PDF/A, for archival.
That said, I agree with the PP that forms are an interesting, but not a crucial matter for PDF. PDF got its dominant role in the print industry not for forms, but for "doing PS the right way".
In addition, your definition of arbitrary seems to be different from mine. If one thinks about the importance of water for humans, I don't think that the temperatures where water freezes and boils at sea level are arbitrary definitions for a temperature scale. Of course, one could argue that everything man-made is arbitrary to some extent, but that devalues the semantics of that term for any meaningful discussion and is thus counter-productive.
What? You say that the German version was not created by a universal translator, but by a dubious low-tech process called dubbing? Do you really want to destroy all my childhood beliefs?
Actually, I don't know if an image editor would really be more appropriate. I save screenshots in Powerpoint files all the time, e.g., to document a storyboard. (This is in corporate environment. Privately, I don't use Windows.)
1) It's frickin' easy: One just does Shift-Print and Ctrl-C, that's all.
2) I don't have an image editor installed on my Windows; and if I had it, I wouldn't know what image format my recipients could read. But I know that they have Powerpoint.
3) My recipients don't call me to ask what they shall do with that file. They know exactly how they handle Powerpoint.
4) It's very easy to add comments (either myself or by one of my colleagues/customers). E.g., a big arrow with "Do you really want this?" or "Please change here". And even if we have no comments at first, they will be added in 50% of my use cases.
5) It's a good way to store more than one screenshot in one file. I don't know if my recipients have ZIP installed, or similar. And if they have, it's easier for them to scroll through a Powerpoint file than reopen each file in a ZIP archive.
6) It's a good way to attach this file with more than one screenshot to a document. (As an embedded OLE component that is not expanded.) E.g., one customer of mine likes to have mini-user-guides for applications this way.
So, especially as an IT person, I don't handle screenshots as single files. (I don't like to embed them in Word, though. Word moves embedded images too often around; that messes up the easy-commenting feature.)
I know that you try to sound funny -- but this doesn't succeed. You realize that ISO is not a UN organization, do you?
I'm all for air conditioning in these areas -- but do you really have to turn them down to 18 C (whatever that is in Fahrenheit)? This insistance on freezing, non-moderate temperatures made my stays in the US sometimes a pain in the back and caused a horrible cold.
And let me tell, the GP is right. Linux triggered a revolution in the way how open source software is created, and what is expected from distributed development in an OSS project. Before 1992, we worked differently than we do today.
And that's not only in patent cases. As the CEO of a small (6-person) German company, all my contracts are strictly with German subsidiaries of US companies, never with the mother company itself. The financial risk is simply too high, no project is worth that.