Re:But what I am rellay looking forward to...
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(I'm using CVS HEAD and let me tell you, Konq is faster than ever. It's actually faster than Mozilla on my machine.)
This is not a troll. Are there any plans to use the recently-discovered Microsoft feature to speed load times up even further (at least, from IIS servers)?
The "save this process" trick sounds like something Mozilla has had for some time, the "Quick Launch" feature. Speeding up load times is a great thing.
Forcing your clients to upgrade is better all round - it's better for the economy because it's creating sales which lead to more R&D spending [...]
Yeah, just like the current incomprehensible US tax laws are better for the economy because it's creating jobs for accountants.
Think for a second: if the money wasn't being spent on upgrading software, what would the companies do with it? Give it to their employees, invest in other process improvements, improve the bottom line -- all much better for the economy than giving money away to get a dubiously "better" version of software that you currently have.
One of the ways to keep errors from creeping into programs is to put limits on things so high that you can never reach them in the practical world.
Anyone ever thought of a variable-bit filesystem?
Start with 64-bit, but make it 63-bit. If the 64th bit is on, then there's another 64-bit value following which is prepended to the value (making it a 126-bit address -- again, reserve one bit for another 64-bit descriptor).
Chances are it won't ever need the additional descriptors since 64-bits is a lot, but it would solve the problem once-and-for-all.
Thankfully, the White House Drug Czar's office has seen fit to, again, buy *two* of these overpriced ad slots to propagandize about the evils of marijuana. What a perfect way to spend my tax dollars, thanks guys!
Ah, the irony: right above your post is a post saying that Anheuser-Busch bought five-and-a-half minutes of commercial time.
There is a certain kind of logic to all that. Call it Palladium, wait til everyone gets irate and associates the word Palladium with something they hate then change the name. And if you can change it to a name that's utterly unmemorable all the better. Then roll it out.
That's exactly why the easy-to-remember-and-pronounce SSSCA was changed to the consonant-heavy CBDPTA.
The media hypes anything that is detrimental to the public, including viruses, DDoS attacks, etc. This does nothing but a) scare users off the net 2) make the Net look bad to the public.
This idea of an inherent limit to the complexity of
programs using current methods is pure larksvomit, and if Jaron Lanier sells it, he's a snake oil hawker.
I'd like to know how he manages to produce snake oil from lark's vomit!
Military tech has been stuck in the same putrid earthy shades of green and brown for far too long!
Funny, that's what another visionary thought in the late 60s. There was an article about himrecently, which said:
While chief of staff at Fort Carson in Colorado in the late 1960s, Hughes felt the Army's strict rules failed to inspire restless young men in the turbulent era.
So he let troops paint tanks in psychedelic colors, drive them in road rallies and bring wives and girlfriends along as navigators. He stocked base hangouts with beer and go-go girls, encouraged black troops to stage Guerrilla Theater and brought in such diverse political speakers as Cesar Chavez and William F. Buckley.
On a different subject, in a story about a week ago, someone posted a link to a peer-peer network of spam emails for MS Outlook available at http://www.cloudmark.com that will trap a significant amount of emails based on (and this is overly simplified, of course) users' votes. Does such a solution exist in the open source world?
Hi, that was me. Unfortunately this only works for Outlook (not even Outlook Express), but it's been working great for me.
As others have pointed out, Vipul's Razor is a great open-source solution.
Checking SourceForge, I found the following additional packages:
I know I'm going to take a beating for doing some marketing here, but a) we've all gotta eat and b) this service could really help you out.
I'm an associate for Pre-Paid Legal, a service giving access to attorneys. It generally costs $26/month (some states are less), and gives you a number of benefits including unlimited phone consultation, document review (up to 10 pages, which the work contract should be under), a free will, traffic defense, civil defense, and any services which aren't covered are offered at a 25% discount to the attorney's hourly rates (so anything not covered would basically pay for the membership after the first couple hours).
It would be like invading a foreign country and claiming ownership of all of its land for American exploitation.
This reminds me of Braveheart, where the occupied land had marriages, and the occupiers would have sex with the female in the marriage. This is extremely distasteful, but serves a very useful purpose: it dilutes the populace, so that after a few generations, the populace consists of the occupiers rather than the occupied.
The part about being in violation of "intellectual property rights" without being able to compete in this arena is very telling.
Cool, thanks! Hadn't seen that one before. Very well thought-out and described in the paper; made for some interesting reading. We're getting closer to being able to create one of these daily -- my guess is within 100 years.
We'll have usable nanotech within 10-30 years, and the pace of technological evolution after that will quicken rapidly as we create computers more powerful than the human brain, which can solve problems quicker and more efficiently. It may be that after achieving nanotech we'll be able to create a Matrioshka Brain in just a couple years.
for example fair use and expiration of copyrights, which would come into play IF the DRM solution was part of a law.
I'm interested in exactly how the "expiration of copyrights" part will be written.
1. Just set the date on your PC to next century, open the DRM-protected data, it sees the copyrights have expired and allows you to copy it.
2. Use a central authority to determine when copyrights expire; this would prevent 1. from working, but what happens when that central authority goes out of business?
These exist, although not like Heinlein envisioned. Just visit any large airport, there are "slidewalks" to help move people more efficiently.
The matter converters are several years away; once we perfect nanotechnology, they'll start popping up all over the place.
Aside on nanotech: I really like the Foresight Institute's Feynman Grand Prize. In order to win the $250,000, you (or your team) needs to achieve two things:
Specifications for the Feynman Grand Prize require the winning entrant to:
* design, construct, and demonstrate the performance of a robotic arm that initially fits into a cube no larger than 100 nanometers in any dimension, meeting certain performance specifications including means of input. The intent of this prize requirement is a device demonstrating the controlled motions needed to manipulate and assemble individual atoms or molecules into larger structures, with atomic precision; and
* design, construct, and demonstrate the performance of a computing device that fits into a cube no larger than 50 nanometers in any dimension. It must be capable of correctly adding any pair of 8-bit binary numbers, discarding overflow. The device must meet specified input and output requirements.
Once these two "parts" exist, many nanotechnology devices will be able to be built. We truly live in interesting times!
If we only see ~5% of the Universe (and probably only understand about 0.00000001% of that), could it be that we really cannot see most of what is right in front of us?
My belief is that the 95% of the universe that we cannot see is actually countless stars enveloped by Dysonspheres by an advanced alien civilization.
Once we achieve the technology, that's my plan -- to "save" as much of the energy that's pouring out into space, so we can make the universe last longer. I'm sure advanced civilizations have similar thoughts.
The cool part is, if it's true, then it's a lot like realizing that you're already within the event horizon of a black hole. They've "eaten" 95% of the stars; they'll get to ours sooner or later. Will we be able to keep it?
In short, I agree with the parent - get a fucking life ESR.
Oooh, oooh, I wanna be petty too!
From ESR's annotation:
From: Orlando Ayala
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:22 AM
To: GMs of Subsidiaries
Cc: Mich Mathews; Mike Nash; Craig Mundie; Brad Smith (LCA); Pamela Passman (LCA); Vivek Varma; Orlando Ayala's Direct Reports
Subject: OSS and Goverment
{Probably LCA = "Law and Corporate Affairs". Passman's bio suggests this interpretation.
We need to more effectively respond to press reports regarding Governments and other major institutions considering OSS alternatives to [...]
Perhaps someday we'll learn how to close our curly braces.
Yeah, so that the colorblind readers he's being so helpful to will know that the entire fucking memo wasn't just the rest of ESR's first annotation.
I'd rather have the extra 3 or 4 dozen spam per day that have a "community" filter my email thank you very much.
I understand your concerns, but it's not really "giving up control." When SpamNet filters an email, it simply moves it into the "Spam" folder. It doesn't delete anything, so you can review the decisions it has made and click "Unblock" to revert them.
For instance, I'm currently looking for a job and one of the newsletters I get had been marked as spam by someone. I unblocked it, and from then on those newsletters weren't marked as spam. So it's got some smarts to it, and even if it makes a wrong decision, it's reversible.
I believe it also evaluates members of the community's decisions, so that people who block things that are later unblocked become weighted less, and thus irrelevant.
YMMV but I've had a great experience with SpamNet.
I don't have much personal experience with SpamAssassin, but from what I heard it does a fine job already.
Never used SpamAssassin, but I've been using SpamNet for a couple weeks now and it removes most of the spam from my inbox.
It works with Outlook (not Outlook Express).
The coolest part is when you find an email that is spam, which it didn't catch (perhaps about 5% of the time), just click "Block" and it'll record that you blocked it on their servers, so anyone else receiving the same (or nearly similar, I think) email will have it blocked as well.
In other words, it's a community-driven spam blocker which works better the more people use it. And it already works very well.
How can Microsoft publicly attack something called clit or cuntlits?
Microsoft themselves made the mistake of releasing offendingly-named software. I'm not making this up: they created the Critical Update Notification Tool.
It was later renamed to the Critical Update Notification Utility (or CUNU). But the quick among us were already laughing.;-)
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The "save this process" trick sounds like something Mozilla has had for some time, the "Quick Launch" feature. Speeding up load times is a great thing.
Think for a second: if the money wasn't being spent on upgrading software, what would the companies do with it? Give it to their employees, invest in other process improvements, improve the bottom line -- all much better for the economy than giving money away to get a dubiously "better" version of software that you currently have.
Start with 64-bit, but make it 63-bit. If the 64th bit is on, then there's another 64-bit value following which is prepended to the value (making it a 126-bit address -- again, reserve one bit for another 64-bit descriptor).
Chances are it won't ever need the additional descriptors since 64-bits is a lot, but it would solve the problem once-and-for-all.
"Use only government-approved poisons!"
Now, if you were talking about FreeBSD releases, then yes, Slashdot should post them whenever a bit changes on the FreeBSD ftp site.
And in Brazil, some (all?) cell phones have an extra digit to dial.
Retro rap?
Another /.er asked :
which I got a kick out of. And who knows, Hughes is a wireless pioneer, perhaps he'll be on Jobs' staff!Hi, that was me . Unfortunately this only works for Outlook (not even Outlook Express), but it's been working great for me.
As others have pointed out, Vipul's Razor is a great open-source solution.
Checking SourceForge , I found the following additional packages:
BogoFilter
SpamAssassin
JoeEmail
Bayesian anti-spam classifier
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server
Bayesian Mail Filter
JunkFilter
SpamProbe - fast bayesian spam filter
Mailfilter
IMAPAssassin
That's just from the first page of search results. If you'd like to see all the results (I did a search for "spam" from their search box), click here .
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For more information, click here .
Again I apologize for the commercial nature of my post but I hope that the service can be of value to you.
"One of us! One of us!"
The part about being in violation of "intellectual property rights" without being able to compete in this arena is very telling.
We'll have usable nanotech within 10-30 years, and the pace of technological evolution after that will quicken rapidly as we create computers more powerful than the human brain, which can solve problems quicker and more efficiently. It may be that after achieving nanotech we'll be able to create a Matrioshka Brain in just a couple years.
We truly live in interesting times! ;-)
1. Just set the date on your PC to next century, open the DRM-protected data, it sees the copyrights have expired and allows you to copy it.
2. Use a central authority to determine when copyrights expire; this would prevent 1. from working, but what happens when that central authority goes out of business?
The matter converters are several years away; once we perfect nanotechnology, they'll start popping up all over the place.
Aside on nanotech: I really like the Foresight Institute's Feynman Grand Prize . In order to win the $250,000, you (or your team) needs to achieve two things:
Once these two "parts" exist, many nanotechnology devices will be able to be built. We truly live in interesting times!Once we achieve the technology, that's my plan -- to "save" as much of the energy that's pouring out into space, so we can make the universe last longer. I'm sure advanced civilizations have similar thoughts.
The cool part is, if it's true, then it's a lot like realizing that you're already within the event horizon of a black hole. They've "eaten" 95% of the stars; they'll get to ours sooner or later. Will we be able to keep it?
From ESR's annotation:
Perhaps someday we'll learn how to close our curly braces.
Yeah, so that the colorblind readers he's being so helpful to will know that the entire fucking memo wasn't just the rest of ESR's first annotation.
Okay, I'm done. Get back to coding.
For instance, I'm currently looking for a job and one of the newsletters I get had been marked as spam by someone. I unblocked it, and from then on those newsletters weren't marked as spam. So it's got some smarts to it, and even if it makes a wrong decision, it's reversible.
I believe it also evaluates members of the community's decisions, so that people who block things that are later unblocked become weighted less, and thus irrelevant.
YMMV but I've had a great experience with SpamNet.
It works with Outlook (not Outlook Express).
The coolest part is when you find an email that is spam, which it didn't catch (perhaps about 5% of the time), just click "Block" and it'll record that you blocked it on their servers, so anyone else receiving the same (or nearly similar, I think) email will have it blocked as well.
In other words, it's a community-driven spam blocker which works better the more people use it. And it already works very well.
It was later renamed to the Critical Update Notification Utility (or CUNU). But the quick among us were already laughing. ;-)