Assuming neither unsecured WiFi hotspots nor safe internet cafes, can Chinese citizens buy pre-paid mobile phones and then use dial-up networking (DUN) to make data calls over the mobile phone?
Since proxied data is still flowing through communist firewalls, any SSL connections could easily be detected programatically. You need an easy-to-use covert channel. Imagine SSL connections using fake spam emails or file sharing fake MP3 as a stenographic network transport. If it was well-written, it could just plug into your OS's existing network stack without requiring network apps to be rewritten. Of course, latency would be slow and the communist firewalls might get suspicious if you receive AND send hundreds spams per minute! <:)
How many compiler warnings were generated by the code inside your TV? Most users don't know or care. The browser window is the new TV: users just want it to work.
Simpy.com is a cool idea and looks good, but isn't sharing of tagged bookmarks what del.icio.us already does? whois simpy.com shows that it's your project.:)
But VCs fund startups so they can grow and THEN be sold to big companies like Google. If Google starts buying/betting on micro-acquisitions, they save a lot of money and/or can buy a lot companies.
Google developed Orkut internally, while Dodgeball was developed by dedicated outside company. Did Orkut's developer(s) work on it full-time? Or was it one of Google's "20%" projects?
Your comments about ACLU junk mail are too true. I donate to such a wide variety of political organizations that I get junk mail about gun control and gun rights in the same day!:) These organizations, and the ACLU in particular, seem to have a very narrow view of their donors (and the world?).
I've never actually used a Blackberry, but I've watch people use theirs on the commuter train. Having programmed Windows CE apps, I know more about the wide range of Pocket PC hardware quality than I would like.:)
Given that, however, I plan to buy a Treo 650 soon. I agree with most of your points on the Treo vs the Tungsten C, but I want a phone and don't care about Wi-Fi. I don't want to carry both a phone and a PDA. Sure, Wi-Fi sounds cool, but I would give it up for a smaller/lighter/cheaper phone. Of course, the Tungsten C has a faster processor and twice as much memory..
I don't understand why the Blackberry is so popular. It's expensive. Its software is closed and ugly. Its hardware is ugly and cheap. It requires an expensive, proprietary server to connect to your enterprise's Exchange server. The Blackberry's only apparent advantage is that it has "push" email notifications, but that can be added to another device sooooo easily using background SMS.
I think the Blackberry's success has been driven by their focus on The Enterprise. Once they get their proprietary server in your company's data center, new users will start adopting the Blackberry and you aren't likely to dump it.
Maybe Google should introduce some randomization into their search algorithms? Like a game of Rock Paper Scissors, SEOs can't guess Google's next move if even Google doesn't know its next move!:)
If university would not be free, I would have to pay for it, and loose that money to buy other stuff. Same with when I get ill, I keep my pay, and get health care free of charge. If I loose my job, it won't mean my kids can't go to university.
Sounds like you get what you pay for with free education. And you say that you are now a teacher providing said free education to today's children? I believe the children are the future.
Pension funds are some of the largest shareholders. How happy will union members be when they find that their pensions have dried up because someone decided that pension funds should be "shared" from companies' shareholders to employees?
I'm more than willing to share the things that I have and freely give away things that I have more than enough of. What's the point in my keeping more of a resource than I need?
Who decides how much of a given resource YOU need? You or the beneficiary?
Does RedHat purposely make Fedora incompatible with RHEL to protect their "semi-proprietary" RHEL product line? Or are they incompatible just because Fedura version N will become RHEL version N+1?
Do any Linux distros disable noatime by default? If someone cares about noatime, let them manually enable it. Currently, we are all paying the price for those users!
If Sun goes private, what happens to employees' unexercised stock options? Employee morale could take a HUGE hit, especially if SUNW reverse-splits its stock to force out any share holders who don't want to sell out..
MS way of doing things indeed! Sun is trying to be the thorn in Bill Gates' side. Once Bill has been annoyed long enough, Scott will sell Sun to Microsoft. Case closed!
well, the hardware might belong to Verizon, but once they provided a free public service, the service belongs to the public. That free wireless networks is ours, not Verizon's, and Verizon should not be allowed take away something that does not belong to them. That is called stealing.
You might say the public is "stealing" Verizon's network, but their network is free; you can't steal something that's free. The public's use of the network is creates value, so if Verizon takes it away, Verizon IS indeed stealing value from its owners (the public).
This Longhorn beta might looks a lot like Windows XP, but Microsoft is probably saving the cool GUI changes until the last beta or RTM milestone. Betas of earlier Windows version did the same thing.
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Assuming neither unsecured WiFi hotspots nor safe internet cafes, can Chinese citizens buy pre-paid mobile phones and then use dial-up networking (DUN) to make data calls over the mobile phone?
Since proxied data is still flowing through communist firewalls, any SSL connections could easily be detected programatically. You need an easy-to-use covert channel. Imagine SSL connections using fake spam emails or file sharing fake MP3 as a stenographic network transport. If it was well-written, it could just plug into your OS's existing network stack without requiring network apps to be rewritten. Of course, latency would be slow and the communist firewalls might get suspicious if you receive AND send hundreds spams per minute! <:)
Might you even call those people Extremist Programmers?
How many compiler warnings were generated by the code inside your TV? Most users don't know or care. The browser window is the new TV: users just want it to work.
Simpy.com is a cool idea and looks good, but isn't sharing of tagged bookmarks what del.icio.us already does? whois simpy.com shows that it's your project.
But VCs fund startups so they can grow and THEN be sold to big companies like Google. If Google starts buying/betting on micro-acquisitions, they save a lot of money and/or can buy a lot companies.
Google developed Orkut internally, while Dodgeball was developed by dedicated outside company. Did Orkut's developer(s) work on it full-time? Or was it one of Google's "20%" projects?
Your comments about ACLU junk mail are too true. I donate to such a wide variety of political organizations that I get junk mail about gun control and gun rights in the same day!
I've never actually used a Blackberry, but I've watch people use theirs on the commuter train. Having programmed Windows CE apps, I know more about the wide range of Pocket PC hardware quality than I would like.
Given that, however, I plan to buy a Treo 650 soon. I agree with most of your points on the Treo vs the Tungsten C, but I want a phone and don't care about Wi-Fi. I don't want to carry both a phone and a PDA. Sure, Wi-Fi sounds cool, but I would give it up for a smaller/lighter/cheaper phone. Of course, the Tungsten C has a faster processor and twice as much memory..
I don't understand why the Blackberry is so popular. It's expensive. Its software is closed and ugly. Its hardware is ugly and cheap. It requires an expensive, proprietary server to connect to your enterprise's Exchange server. The Blackberry's only apparent advantage is that it has "push" email notifications, but that can be added to another device sooooo easily using background SMS.
I think the Blackberry's success has been driven by their focus on The Enterprise. Once they get their proprietary server in your company's data center, new users will start adopting the Blackberry and you aren't likely to dump it.
Maybe Google should introduce some randomization into their search algorithms? Like a game of Rock Paper Scissors, SEOs can't guess Google's next move if even Google doesn't know its next move!
government health care = DMV health care. Any questions?
If university would not be free, I would have to pay for it, and loose that money to buy other stuff. Same with when I get ill, I keep my pay, and get health care free of charge.
If I loose my job, it won't mean my kids can't go to university.
Sounds like you get what you pay for with free education. And you say that you are now a teacher providing said free education to today's children? I believe the children are the future.
Pension funds are some of the largest shareholders. How happy will union members be when they find that their pensions have dried up because someone decided that pension funds should be "shared" from companies' shareholders to employees?
I'm more than willing to share the things that I have and freely give away things that I have more than enough of. What's the point in my keeping more of a resource than I need?
Who decides how much of a given resource YOU need? You or the beneficiary?
Does RedHat purposely make Fedora incompatible with RHEL to protect their "semi-proprietary" RHEL product line? Or are they incompatible just because Fedura version N will become RHEL version N+1?
Do any Linux distros disable noatime by default? If someone cares about noatime, let them manually enable it. Currently, we are all paying the price for those users!
Flash Lite for mobile phones already supports SVG-T (SVG Tiny).
If Sun goes private, what happens to employees' unexercised stock options? Employee morale could take a HUGE hit, especially if SUNW reverse-splits its stock to force out any share holders who don't want to sell out..
MS way of doing things indeed! Sun is trying to be the thorn in Bill Gates' side. Once Bill has been annoyed long enough, Scott will sell Sun to Microsoft. Case closed!
well, the hardware might belong to Verizon, but once they provided a free public service, the service belongs to the public. That free wireless networks is ours, not Verizon's, and Verizon should not be allowed take away something that does not belong to them. That is called stealing.
You might say the public is "stealing" Verizon's network, but their network is free; you can't steal something that's free. The public's use of the network is creates value, so if Verizon takes it away, Verizon IS indeed stealing value from its owners (the public).
While we wait for Arc, Paul Graham's Lisp FAQ has his Lisp recommendations:
Do you know a good, free Lisp implementation?
There are several. The Common Lisp implementation I use is Clisp, but CMUCL is also well-regarded. For Scheme hacking I use Scheme 48 and PLT Scheme.
use car/cdr when treating conses as binary trees.
If you are walking a binary tree, why not use function names like left and right, instead of car and cdr?
Do you login as root to do your day-to-day work? Thought so.
This Longhorn beta might looks a lot like Windows XP, but Microsoft is probably saving the cool GUI changes until the last beta or RTM milestone. Betas of earlier Windows version did the same thing.