Yes. NS4 is seven years out-of-date at this point. IT'S OLD SOFTWARE. Almost anyone using it now is using it because they're afraid of change rather than for any other reason.
But I do try to make my sites "degrade" nicely for NS4. (I know of a few users of our sites who are stuck with NS4 because even Phoenix is too hard on their systems and they can't afford to upgrade.) If the layout lines up neatly down the left edge of the page in NS4 and the site is still useable, I consider my work done.
Apparently there's an ongoing debate as to whether the book is actually in the public domain or not (based on my quick research). Perhaps that's a lesson in how legalities can help make your intentions clear, even while you're campaigning against those legalities themselves.
Hoffman's book showed that people will buy something they value even when they're told to steal it. The prole sheep intuitively understand that books cost money to create. But maybe that was a different era, before the web existed. This website offers the text even though there are four editions for sale at Amazon. I wonder who holds the rights?
Any author can chose to release any writing with copyright into the public domain prior to the natural expiration of copyright. Once that occurs, nobody owns the rights.
Given the author, and the book, my guess would be that it's in the public domain.
Is the danger that you can't trust the postal employee, or that someone can get into your mailbox before the mail can be collected?
The more specific warning would to be never to put bill payments by check in your outside mailbox.
Check washers look for mailboxes with the flag up and take the mail, hoping that there's a check in one of the envelops. They then "wash" the check, make it out to themselves, and cash it.
If you're in an apartment building with a locked mail room, you're safe from this. If you've got a house with a mailbox at the curb . . . I wouldn't put anything into it for pickup anymore. It's gotten so bad, there's a pretty high chance that it'll be stolen.
Hell, the UPS drivers around here refuse to try to deliver if a signature is required.
At least twice last year, I was sitting at home waiting for a signature-required delivery. Our front door opens into our living room and our living room is our office. I spent the whole day sitting within ten feet of the front door--not only could I hear if someone came up the walk, but I could hear if the damn truck drove by/pulled up. The truck never stopped at the house--never even drove by--but it kept getting recorded as delivery failed because there wasn't anyone at home to sign.
And they wanted the little yellow stickie when I gave up and drove over to pick up . . . a little yellow stickie that was never stuck on our door, because their drivers didn't actually come by the house. They didn't believe me when I told them that.
I pay extra for FedEx when I can, now. Our local FedEx drivers are good. And if nobody is home to sign, their office is only five minutes down the road. Our UPS is twenty miles and 45 minutes away.
Re:Another (not so rosy) view of Heinlein
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If you're going to damn SF writers who are assholes and egomanics, then there's a lot of writers to damn. That's a pretty common writer personality.
I'd say that, once you get past some of the bias, the article's description of his personality is pretty accurate. That's because there's so many writers, both professional and amateur who are just like that. Writers don't tend to be very nice people . . . and popular, widely published writers don't get to that point by being nice.
You'll have to figure out how to alter headers in your favorite mail/news reading program (if you're using a dedicated newsreader, you may just have to find the configuration option to turn it on.) Google will also respect x-no-archive if it's the first line of a post, but that's non-standard.
I use pine for both mail and news, so I just put it into the customized-hdrs line of configuation.
From and reply-to were included because in an old version of pine, if you specified any "custom" headers you needed to specify certain other headers if you wanted to see them when you turned on full headers. I don't know if that's the case in newer versions . . . the configuration setup is six years old at this point!;)
It's useful to the extent which the archiving services obey it.
Deja, then Google have always honored x-no-archive headers. Egroups, then Yahoo Groups honored it as well. You've got to look at other mailing lists archiving systems on a case-by-case basis.
All my mail and all my Usenet posts since mid-1997 has carried this header. It has worked well to keep my messages out of perm. archives.
You're not supposed to put an aquarium heater on a UPS. Everything else with an aquarium can be handled during a blackout (filters can go on UPSs, or water quality can be kept up if the water's still running).
I'm just questioning why a heater would be needed today if the person is any blackout area. Once the house loses its air conditioning, the room should get to a decent temp to sustain the aquarium.
I think that he/she is talking about the interactions of the NET (no electronic theft) act and recent copyright extensions. 1984 is in the public domain in Australia, but NOT in the public domain in the United States. So it's only legal to access this text in Australia, or any other country with a 50 year copyright term. The NET act made more types of copyright violation a criminal act. (Prior to the NET act, most individuals only had to fear civil, not criminal, suits over copyright violations.)
There's been a couple of scams exposed in the US where the telemarker tries to get you to say "yes" (for instance, asking "Is your name so-and-so?") and later splicing that yes in with another question ("Do you agree that we can put the charge for this service on your phone bill?")
The suggestion has been to either say "I'm not interested" and "put me on your do not call list" right off the bat, or to affirm by repeating the information back at the telemarker ("My name is so-and-so.") Never simply say yes to an unsolicted caller or telemarker.
(Of course, that still doesn't protect against a growing scam in which fake recordings are being made using telemarketing employees as the "consumer." They don't even need to call you!)
If you're in the US, that interpretation may be wrong under several different laws (including copyright.)
If you are a full-time employee, anything you do in the context of your employment belongs to the company. It's not your copyright, it's the company's copyright. They don't need a contract for this to be true; it's federal law.
Even if you're only a contractor or a freelancer, you might not own the copyright to anything you produce in return for money (unless your contract specifically says otherwise.) Works for hire belong to the company that paid you for them.
I would object to that characterization. I've known quite a few people with an English or History background who had a far greater understanding of the potential of technology, and far more creativity in exploiting that potential, than many typical CS grads.
Writing and coding (in particular) have are very similar on both the creative and organizational level. There's a reason why Big Blue used to almost exclusively hire English grads to train as mainframe programmers and operators.;) They'd recognized that potential back in the 1960s.
Just for reference: my undergrad degree is in English, my masters in Computer Science. The people who did best in my masters program weren't the undergrad CS people--they were the undergrad English, History, Biology, and Chemistry people. I saw a lot of people with undergrad CS degrees struggle and die. A lot of times, they were the ones holding back groups projects, or turning out craptastic code that others had to reengineer and rewrite.
Does OpenOffice yet offer a way to save text files with hard line breaks? That lack was the major reason that we haven't switched (version 1.0 doesn't have the ability, as far as we could determine). Telling people that they have to hit return at the end of each line in a 100K file in order to achieve wrapping in a plain text file doesn't result in happy people.
And by the way, the "poor" you would find are NOT the ones using libraries anyway, so check your figures. The average person in a public library is an educated, high upper middle income person, or home educated Christian kids with their mother getting books for the week. Besides, is your library card free? Most cards I know are at least $15 annually. What poor person pays to read? lol!!
What area of the country are you in? I've never paid for a library card, and there were times when I had library cards for several different public libraries in the area. At the moment, my card is registered in three public library systems (my small home library, and the two larger districts that surround us) and I didn't have to pay for my card or to register it in either district.
The amount of federal funding differs from library system to system. When the law forcing libraries to filter Internet access or lose federal funding came around, there were stories of several large library systems (with budgets of several million+) who decided they would give up federal funding--which constituted only a small fraction of their budget--rather than be forced to filter.
Re:Separating Content from Presentation a Good Thi
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The point is to seperate them *in the same file*. This is not the same as deleting the presentation information!
Then you're not talking about XML. The point is not to have presentation information in the file at all--that is supplied by an *external* stylesheet. Your DTD or Schema, which may be part of the document, ARE NOT about presentation. They are about the wellformness and validity of your tree structure. And that's XML: your XML tagging and your DTD/Schema.
Pure XML is completely content-driven, with no presentation markup. (Go take a look at the XML format of a document on the W3's web site.)
There are cases where conceptually content and presentation are intermingled, and you have to explicitly take those cases into account in your DTD/Schema. For example, bolding a word is both about presentation AND content context. So, an XML element needs to be defined, say [EM_ELEMENT] which your stylesheet recognizes and handles properly when translating your XML document to a printable format (whether that be a word doc, pdf, or whatever bizarre format your printer requires.)
I see a basic misunderstanding of what XML is about presented in most of these comments.
XML is about separating content from presentation: exporting presentation-neutral XML is EXACTLY what the W3 standard is all about. Yes there are times when content and presentation are sort of intermingled in a way that makes it non-intuitive to separate them (bolding a word is part of presentation, but indicates that it's an important word according to content.)
What Microsoft would need to do (and won't do) is three-fold:
1) Export content-neutral XML. 2) Allow that presentation-neutral XML to be designed according to an external DTD or Schema. (So that if I want my bolded word to be my "important" word, it can be defined that way internally to my Schema.) 3) Allow that presentation-neutral XML to also be exported to a common and publicly distributed Microsoft-defined DTD/Schema. Also make available a XSL stylesheet that can use that MS-defined DTD/Schema for other products to read and display the document.
#3 is probably what MS won't do, because they would see it as self-defeating. But #1 and #2 are very important in the XML scheme of things... and exactly what XML is all about.
Actually, this looks promising for the company I'm currently working at. The article states that, when saved to XML, Word creates presentation-neutral XML (by not exporting any presentation-related information). In fact, that's exactly what they are complaining about.
We don't want Microsoft's presentation crap--we don't CARE how the data looks in Word. We want pure XML content (content completely separate from presentation). Our XSL stylesheets will create our presentation upon XML tranformation into PDF. This is the base intention of XML: separating content from presentation. Presentation information SHOULD NOT be part of the XML format.
If we can create pure XML templates that'll export using our DTD/Schema... sweet! Right now the Word templates we're going to be using to "flow" data from Word into XML are a complete pain in the ass, due to Word. (And since our content-creators are external, we're not going to be escaping from Word any time soon.)
Our only issue would be getting freelancers to upgrade to the newest version of Word, given that the majority of them still use really, really old versions. Maybe five years from now... *sigh*
Well, if IE (even 6) would stop (incorrectly) tying elements to the view and not the element base, CSS coding might be a wee bit easier across browsers... that shit gets me every single time I try to go to a pure CSS based design. Float and percentages are also not correctly implemented in IE 6.
Although Mozilla does some bizarre things with float as well. If you put two columns next to one another, and one is floated while the other is not (which is a trick to get IE 6 to handle things correctly, if you're using floats+percentages) the floated column ends up shifted about 10 px lower than the non-floated column. I have never been able to solve that one... and it doesn't *always* display incorrectly, either. Just sometimes.
Hey, that's mean.;) Try switching regularly between an environment (pine/pico) where ctrl-w means "search" and NS/Moz. I have killed more browser windows that way...
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. NS4 is seven years out-of-date at this point. IT'S OLD SOFTWARE. Almost anyone using it now is using it because they're afraid of change rather than for any other reason.
But I do try to make my sites "degrade" nicely for NS4. (I know of a few users of our sites who are stuck with NS4 because even Phoenix is too hard on their systems and they can't afford to upgrade.) If the layout lines up neatly down the left edge of the page in NS4 and the site is still useable, I consider my work done.
That is true, which is why I said "my guess".
Apparently there's an ongoing debate as to whether the book is actually in the public domain or not (based on my quick research). Perhaps that's a lesson in how legalities can help make your intentions clear, even while you're campaigning against those legalities themselves.
any of (his or her) writing
Hoffman's book showed that people will buy something they value even when they're told to steal it. The prole sheep intuitively understand that books cost money to create. But maybe that was a different era, before the web existed. This website offers the text even though there are four editions for sale at Amazon. I wonder who holds the rights?
Any author can chose to release any writing with copyright into the public domain prior to the natural expiration of copyright. Once that occurs, nobody owns the rights.
Given the author, and the book, my guess would be that it's in the public domain.
Is the danger that you can't trust the postal employee, or that someone can get into your mailbox before the mail can be collected?
The more specific warning would to be never to put bill payments by check in your outside mailbox.
Check washers look for mailboxes with the flag up and take the mail, hoping that there's a check in one of the envelops. They then "wash" the check, make it out to themselves, and cash it.
If you're in an apartment building with a locked mail room, you're safe from this. If you've got a house with a mailbox at the curb . . . I wouldn't put anything into it for pickup anymore. It's gotten so bad, there's a pretty high chance that it'll be stolen.
ISBN [International Standard Book Number] number
JSP [Java Server Pages] pages
Hell, the UPS drivers around here refuse to try to deliver if a signature is required.
At least twice last year, I was sitting at home waiting for a signature-required delivery. Our front door opens into our living room and our living room is our office. I spent the whole day sitting within ten feet of the front door--not only could I hear if someone came up the walk, but I could hear if the damn truck drove by/pulled up. The truck never stopped at the house--never even drove by--but it kept getting recorded as delivery failed because there wasn't anyone at home to sign.
And they wanted the little yellow stickie when I gave up and drove over to pick up . . . a little yellow stickie that was never stuck on our door, because their drivers didn't actually come by the house. They didn't believe me when I told them that.
I pay extra for FedEx when I can, now. Our local FedEx drivers are good. And if nobody is home to sign, their office is only five minutes down the road. Our UPS is twenty miles and 45 minutes away.
If you're going to damn SF writers who are assholes and egomanics, then there's a lot of writers to damn. That's a pretty common writer personality.
I'd say that, once you get past some of the bias, the article's description of his personality is pretty accurate. That's because there's so many writers, both professional and amateur who are just like that. Writers don't tend to be very nice people . . . and popular, widely published writers don't get to that point by being nice.
You'll have to figure out how to alter headers in your favorite mail/news reading program (if you're using a dedicated newsreader, you may just have to find the configuration option to turn it on.) Google will also respect x-no-archive if it's the first line of a post, but that's non-standard.
;)
I use pine for both mail and news, so I just put it into the customized-hdrs line of configuation.
customized-hdrs = From:
Reply-to:
X-No-Archive: yes
From and reply-to were included because in an old version of pine, if you specified any "custom" headers you needed to specify certain other headers if you wanted to see them when you turned on full headers. I don't know if that's the case in newer versions . . . the configuration setup is six years old at this point!
It's useful to the extent which the archiving services obey it.
Deja, then Google have always honored x-no-archive headers. Egroups, then Yahoo Groups honored it as well. You've got to look at other mailing lists archiving systems on a case-by-case basis.
All my mail and all my Usenet posts since mid-1997 has carried this header. It has worked well to keep my messages out of perm. archives.
x-no-archive: yes
in your headers.
It'll also keep your mail out of Yahoo group archives.
You're not supposed to put an aquarium heater on a UPS. Everything else with an aquarium can be handled during a blackout (filters can go on UPSs, or water quality can be kept up if the water's still running).
I'm just questioning why a heater would be needed today if the person is any blackout area. Once the house loses its air conditioning, the room should get to a decent temp to sustain the aquarium.
I think that he/she is talking about the interactions of the NET (no electronic theft) act and recent copyright extensions. 1984 is in the public domain in Australia, but NOT in the public domain in the United States. So it's only legal to access this text in Australia, or any other country with a 50 year copyright term. The NET act made more types of copyright violation a criminal act. (Prior to the NET act, most individuals only had to fear civil, not criminal, suits over copyright violations.)
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Which side?
There's been a couple of scams exposed in the US where the telemarker tries to get you to say "yes" (for instance, asking "Is your name so-and-so?") and later splicing that yes in with another question ("Do you agree that we can put the charge for this service on your phone bill?")
The suggestion has been to either say "I'm not interested" and "put me on your do not call list" right off the bat, or to affirm by repeating the information back at the telemarker ("My name is so-and-so.") Never simply say yes to an unsolicted caller or telemarker.
(Of course, that still doesn't protect against a growing scam in which fake recordings are being made using telemarketing employees as the "consumer." They don't even need to call you!)
If you're in the US, that interpretation may be wrong under several different laws (including copyright.)
If you are a full-time employee, anything you do in the context of your employment belongs to the company. It's not your copyright, it's the company's copyright. They don't need a contract for this to be true; it's federal law.
Even if you're only a contractor or a freelancer, you might not own the copyright to anything you produce in return for money (unless your contract specifically says otherwise.) Works for hire belong to the company that paid you for them.
I would object to that characterization. I've known quite a few people with an English or History background who had a far greater understanding of the potential of technology, and far more creativity in exploiting that potential, than many typical CS grads.
;) They'd recognized that potential back in the 1960s.
Writing and coding (in particular) have are very similar on both the creative and organizational level. There's a reason why Big Blue used to almost exclusively hire English grads to train as mainframe programmers and operators.
Just for reference: my undergrad degree is in English, my masters in Computer Science. The people who did best in my masters program weren't the undergrad CS people--they were the undergrad English, History, Biology, and Chemistry people. I saw a lot of people with undergrad CS degrees struggle and die. A lot of times, they were the ones holding back groups projects, or turning out craptastic code that others had to reengineer and rewrite.
Does OpenOffice yet offer a way to save text files with hard line breaks? That lack was the major reason that we haven't switched (version 1.0 doesn't have the ability, as far as we could determine). Telling people that they have to hit return at the end of each line in a 100K file in order to achieve wrapping in a plain text file doesn't result in happy people.
And by the way, the "poor" you would find are NOT the ones using libraries anyway, so check your figures. The average person in a public library is an educated, high upper middle income person, or home educated Christian kids with their mother getting books for the week. Besides, is your library card free? Most cards I know are at least $15 annually. What poor person pays to read? lol!!
What area of the country are you in? I've never paid for a library card, and there were times when I had library cards for several different public libraries in the area. At the moment, my card is registered in three public library systems (my small home library, and the two larger districts that surround us) and I didn't have to pay for my card or to register it in either district.
The amount of federal funding differs from library system to system. When the law forcing libraries to filter Internet access or lose federal funding came around, there were stories of several large library systems (with budgets of several million+) who decided they would give up federal funding--which constituted only a small fraction of their budget--rather than be forced to filter.
The point is to seperate them *in the same file*. This is not the same as deleting the presentation information!
Then you're not talking about XML. The point is not to have presentation information in the file at all--that is supplied by an *external* stylesheet. Your DTD or Schema, which may be part of the document, ARE NOT about presentation. They are about the wellformness and validity of your tree structure. And that's XML: your XML tagging and your DTD/Schema.
Pure XML is completely content-driven, with no presentation markup. (Go take a look at the XML format of a document on the W3's web site.)
There are cases where conceptually content and presentation are intermingled, and you have to explicitly take those cases into account in your DTD/Schema. For example, bolding a word is both about presentation AND content context. So, an XML element needs to be defined, say [EM_ELEMENT] which your stylesheet recognizes and handles properly when translating your XML document to a printable format (whether that be a word doc, pdf, or whatever bizarre format your printer requires.)
1) Export content-neutral XML.
... mentally translate to presentation-neutral. Bad fingers.
Oops
I see a basic misunderstanding of what XML is about presented in most of these comments.
... and exactly what XML is all about.
XML is about separating content from presentation: exporting presentation-neutral XML is EXACTLY what the W3 standard is all about. Yes there are times when content and presentation are sort of intermingled in a way that makes it non-intuitive to separate them (bolding a word is part of presentation, but indicates that it's an important word according to content.)
What Microsoft would need to do (and won't do) is three-fold:
1) Export content-neutral XML.
2) Allow that presentation-neutral XML to be designed according to an external DTD or Schema. (So that if I want my bolded word to be my "important" word, it can be defined that way internally to my Schema.)
3) Allow that presentation-neutral XML to also be exported to a common and publicly distributed Microsoft-defined DTD/Schema. Also make available a XSL stylesheet that can use that MS-defined DTD/Schema for other products to read and display the document.
#3 is probably what MS won't do, because they would see it as self-defeating. But #1 and #2 are very important in the XML scheme of things
Actually, this looks promising for the company I'm currently working at. The article states that, when saved to XML, Word creates presentation-neutral XML (by not exporting any presentation-related information). In fact, that's exactly what they are complaining about.
... sweet! Right now the Word templates we're going to be using to "flow" data from Word into XML are a complete pain in the ass, due to Word. (And since our content-creators are external, we're not going to be escaping from Word any time soon.)
... *sigh*
We don't want Microsoft's presentation crap--we don't CARE how the data looks in Word. We want pure XML content (content completely separate from presentation). Our XSL stylesheets will create our presentation upon XML tranformation into PDF. This is the base intention of XML: separating content from presentation. Presentation information SHOULD NOT be part of the XML format.
If we can create pure XML templates that'll export using our DTD/Schema
Our only issue would be getting freelancers to upgrade to the newest version of Word, given that the majority of them still use really, really old versions. Maybe five years from now
Well, if IE (even 6) would stop (incorrectly) tying elements to the view and not the element base, CSS coding might be a wee bit easier across browsers ... that shit gets me every single time I try to go to a pure CSS based design. Float and percentages are also not correctly implemented in IE 6.
... and it doesn't *always* display incorrectly, either. Just sometimes.
Although Mozilla does some bizarre things with float as well. If you put two columns next to one another, and one is floated while the other is not (which is a trick to get IE 6 to handle things correctly, if you're using floats+percentages) the floated column ends up shifted about 10 px lower than the non-floated column. I have never been able to solve that one
Hey, that's mean. ;) Try switching regularly between an environment (pine/pico) where ctrl-w means "search" and NS/Moz. I have killed more browser windows that way ...