>emacs is odd, it's solid, and, for
>anything Word is capable of (or, at
>least, that I could figure out how to get
>Word to do), it's easier
*Anything*? Hmm.. how about mail-merge that a secretary with a liberal arts education can manage? How 'bout not-professional-grade, but adequate text effects (including three-d (whee!))? How about changing fonts and colors in a document without needing to flash a Mensa membership badge? How about a scripting language (VBA) (though admittedly abused for writing viruses -- though that's a implementation fault, not the language's) that a 5 year old can use, as opposed to some parenthesized abomination (exaggerating here:)) that requires mucho thumbing through GLS and the emacs manual?
Point is: emacs and word were designed for different audiences. Get over it.
PS. Tried emacs. didn't like it. stayed with vim. with perl bolted onto it, don't really miss elisp much.
Key add-ons when you buy Pro are SMP support and (I think) NTFS and ACL's
Natch, XP Home edition supports NTFS and ACLs.
See here - it's a install time choice.
The Command line lives in XP... it's called "cmd"
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And it supports *almost* bash-style command-line completion, for loops with quite a few options, unix like && and || operators etc.
And with cmd and bash *both* on my XP or NT/2000/XP PC, i for sure don't miss command.com -- that travesty with its limits on the size of the environment wasn't fitting to be called a shell.
Good point. WinME has this feature too. What I particularly like is that the OS remembers all the various apps that can open a document, even if they are not the default. I use this to play mp3s with Winamp (the default) and occasionally MusicMatch.
>though HBO does not offer a commercial channel
>so you either pay up or do without the Sopranos...
Short note, since you mentioned HBO: here in India, nobody can afford to pay more than $2..$6 to their cable operator a month. If it costs more, most people simply cannot *afford* cable. So you know what HBO does here? They show ads. They encrypt their signal. Cable operators who agree to pay them have decoders. And they have deals with cable operators all over the country. The cable operators pay them something like 25-40 cents per subscriber, or get hit a lawsuit if some guy pirates their signal or doesn't pay. Why does this work? 'cos India's big population makes it economically feasible.
Now, my point is: why can't we have a similar system in place for the e-world? Some would do it through micropayments, many could do it through ISPs ("use fooISP, only $39.95, and get Salon in the bargain!"), and some big ones could go their own way ("Yahoo fulfilment center").
The results may surprise you. Remember the (FDR?)quote -- "Those who give up a liberty for convenience deserve neither"? (not accurate, but too tired to look it up)
Whatever format this CD uses, I can't see Sony etc scrambling to follow this. Joe User is at least more receptive to privacy concerns than intellectual property issues.
Off topic, maybe its just me, but I kind of enjoy watching big media cos get shafted with lawsuits these days:)
Given the current economic climate, this was the absolute worst time of heavy handed industry regulation anyway. And note that Justice will drop the demand for breakup, they will not stop considering other means to regulate MS. Who knows, at the end of the day, with Justice's shrill anti-MS posture gone, and MS's shrill anti-breakup posture gone, there actually may be a solution satisfactory to all. (Yeah, unlikely I know, but...)
Does this remind anyone else of the old AT&T-style licensing for Unix? Of course, Microsoft probably has serveral riders forbidding commercial use of this code. Has anyone here actually come across this stuff at college?
FOR those who cannot remember their work, home, mobile, fax and pager numbers, and their e-mail address, help may be at hand
The one reason this may not work with individuals is that many people do not want a single point of contact. I know several people who assiduously keep several SIM cards on their cells, so that personal and business calls can be separated (their service providers typically have not provided call sorting). Businesses, with their mess phone/fax/email contact points, would probably take to this like ducks to water though.
And remembering these 11 digit numbers could be fun...
But you may not have to remember it, Network Solutions would be too happy to provide ENUM-to-name mapping to you... for a fee of course:) -- and again, it'll be businesses that'll shell out for these addresses, rather than people.
See the dictionary.com entry for tautology (search for "logic" within the page) -- Most people who've taken a course on discrete math would be familiar with this usage.
Btw, the antonym for tautology in this sense would be "contradiction": an expression which never evaluates to (boolean) truth, irrespective of the values assigned to its sub-expressions. "It is raining outside my house and it is not raining outside my house" would be an example of a contradiction. Replace and with or and you have a tautology.
If you use SSH2 protocol and Public key authentication only, you're no longer vulnerable to the password-guessing or Monkey-in-the-middle attacks as they exist today.
Then you'd better ensure that your SSH2 implmentation has a decent DSA implmentation behind it, for it is possible to break DSA (and thus SSH2) by taking advantage of a half-assed PRNG.
I wouldn't wait for an ack if the distance was 45 Light Years. I'd keep broadcasting. At least 45 years later, we'd have a pretty good rate of information coming through.
Also, look near south west Kashmir, it reckons the area is as light as much of Europe.
Actually, if I see the 'center asia' map and consult an atlas, I see that it isn't Kashmir that blazing with light -- in fact Kashmir is very dark indeed. It's the very industrialized New Delhi-Punjab-Islamabad area that's 'ablaze' with light in the figure -- and that area is filled with populous cities.
And yes, the asociation of light with industries and large metropolitan agglomerations is very strong indeed.
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>emacs is odd, it's solid, and, for
:)) that requires mucho thumbing through GLS and the emacs manual?
>anything Word is capable of (or, at
>least, that I could figure out how to get
>Word to do), it's easier
*Anything*? Hmm.. how about mail-merge that a secretary with a liberal arts education can manage? How 'bout not-professional-grade, but adequate text effects (including three-d (whee!))? How about changing fonts and colors in a document without needing to flash a Mensa membership badge? How about a scripting language (VBA) (though admittedly abused for writing viruses -- though that's a implementation fault, not the language's) that a 5 year old can use, as opposed to some parenthesized abomination (exaggerating here
Point is: emacs and word were designed for different audiences. Get over it.
PS. Tried emacs. didn't like it. stayed with vim. with perl bolted onto it, don't really miss elisp much.
Question: I'd really like to try this out, what would be a decent system configuration for this to run well?
Key add-ons when you buy Pro are SMP support and (I think) NTFS and ACL's
Natch, XP Home edition supports NTFS and ACLs. See here - it's a install time choice.
And it supports *almost* bash-style command-line completion, for loops with quite a few options, unix like && and || operators etc.
And with cmd and bash *both* on my XP or NT/2000/XP PC, i for sure don't miss command.com -- that travesty with its limits on the size of the environment wasn't fitting to be called a shell.
/ducks for cover :)
Good point. WinME has this feature too. What I particularly like is that the OS remembers all the various apps that can open a document, even if they are not the default. I use this to play mp3s with Winamp (the default) and occasionally MusicMatch.
>so you either pay up or do without the Sopranos...
Short note, since you mentioned HBO: here in India, nobody can afford to pay more than $2..$6 to their cable operator a month. If it costs more, most people simply cannot *afford* cable. So you know what HBO does here? They show ads. They encrypt their signal. Cable operators who agree to pay them have decoders. And they have deals with cable operators all over the country. The cable operators pay them something like 25-40 cents per subscriber, or get hit a lawsuit if some guy pirates their signal or doesn't pay. Why does this work? 'cos India's big population makes it economically feasible.
Now, my point is: why can't we have a similar system in place for the e-world? Some would do it through micropayments, many could do it through ISPs ("use fooISP, only $39.95, and get Salon in the bargain!"), and some big ones could go their own way ("Yahoo fulfilment center").
but IE's got COM bindings for quite some time now. (v3, and stabilized in v4).
This link: http://www.4k-associates.com/4K-Associates/IEEE-L7 -WAP-BIG.html may be useful.
;-)
Would you be willing to give up some of the liberties we have in this country in order for the government to crack down on terrorism, or not?
The results may surprise you. Remember the (FDR?)quote -- "Those who give up a liberty for convenience deserve neither"? (not accurate, but too tired to look it up)
Whatever format this CD uses, I can't see Sony etc scrambling to follow this. Joe User is at least more receptive to privacy concerns than intellectual property issues.
:)
Off topic, maybe its just me, but I kind of enjoy watching big media cos get shafted with lawsuits these days
Given the current economic climate, this was the absolute worst time of heavy handed industry regulation anyway. And note that Justice will drop the demand for breakup, they will not stop considering other means to regulate MS. Who knows, at the end of the day, with Justice's shrill anti-MS posture gone, and MS's shrill anti-breakup posture gone, there actually may be a solution satisfactory to all. (Yeah, unlikely I know, but...)
Does this remind anyone else of the old AT&T-style licensing for Unix? Of course, Microsoft probably has serveral riders forbidding commercial use of this code. Has anyone here actually come across this stuff at college?
The one reason this may not work with individuals is that many people do not want a single point of contact. I know several people who assiduously keep several SIM cards on their cells, so that personal and business calls can be separated (their service providers typically have not provided call sorting). Businesses, with their mess phone/fax/email contact points, would probably take to this like ducks to water though.
But you may not have to remember it, Network Solutions would be too happy to provide ENUM-to-name mapping to you
Someone may like to mod this up, I found it offtopic but informative (and amusing)! (try doing a wget -S http://slashdot.org to see the headers).
Actually, I'm told (but cannot confirm) they do send a confirmatory email to the email address for "activating" the Passport.
See the dictionary.com entry for tautology (search for "logic" within the page) -- Most people who've taken a course on discrete math would be familiar with this usage.
Btw, the antonym for tautology in this sense would be "contradiction": an expression which never evaluates to (boolean) truth, irrespective of the values assigned to its sub-expressions. "It is raining outside my house and it is not raining outside my house" would be an example of a contradiction. Replace and with or and you have a tautology.
iPaq just got new gracious looks. QNX microkernel and the gracious Photon micro GUI
Can anyone please tell me how the hell the adjective "gracious" is justified in this context??
Yes, it was called "My Son, The Physicist". Or something like that.
Then you'd better ensure that your SSH2 implmentation has a decent DSA implmentation behind it, for it is possible to break DSA (and thus SSH2) by taking advantage of a half-assed PRNG.
It's gonna become tougher to dupe some poor sod into clicking a goatse link now that Banjo's got this way-cool domain-printing feature. :-) (But only if you don't disable it!)
I wouldn't wait for an ack if the distance was 45 Light Years. I'd keep broadcasting. At least 45 years later, we'd have a pretty good rate of information coming through.
And yes, the asociation of light with industries and large metropolitan agglomerations is very strong indeed.
Sorry, that should have read... authors with addresses at the same server using that notation.