I learned to make folders and file my files appropriate
Yes, because we use computers so we can work for them rather than them working for us.....
Seriously, a lot of people these days work with so much data that manual filing would take a significant amount of time and ultimately is never going to happen 100% reliably or with enough fine grained detail. There is obvious value in a tool that can pull information on a given topic from a variety of sources in one quick hit.
People love Firefox and they love Mozilla. It looks like more of an organisational issue to me, the problem being not an absolute lack of contributers but an inability to get people up to the level where they take on some responsibility as part of the project rather than a contributer to the project. From the description the problem seems to be a bottleneck rather than an absolute lack of resources.
While I agree, I find it remarkable that the parent says "search" but goes on to talk about how advertising can be applied to calendars.
I guess I read the original post a different way. When considering Google's "long term strategy" I was considering their ability to monetise such a product. For Google that means applying their search technology for 'implicit' searches to retrieve adverts.
I'm sure search can be applied to calendar entries.
"Going to Movies" - Pimp some movies.
"Tax due" - Pimp some tax services.
"Pay off credit card" - Pimp a credit card
"Johns Birthday" - Pimp some gift ideas
Just like gmail and adsense, calendar advertising could be used to help supply adverts targeted to something that someone is specifically interested in. Calendars might even be better than email as they will probably be more focused and less noisy than email conversations.
SSL implementations have been barely usable for real people years with their laughably tiny "padlock" indicator.
Bugs aside things are just starting to look reasonable as far as SSL in browsers is concerned.
Firefox puts the "padlock" where someone will actually stand a chance of seeing it (in the urlbar) and also color codes the URL.
Opera does something similar in it's recent beta but also displays the organisational name of the certificate owner aside the padlock.
The spoofing problem isn't a fundamental flaw that is going to doom the future of browser based commerce. The reinvigoration of browser competition has started making things better for the end user.
But for a lot of people carrying shit around is a real pain. I have a phone and a PDA and a Network Walkman. The PDA never leaves my bedroom. My Walkman rarely comes with me. My phone is always with me.
Having more PDA and music functionality in my phone (my phone has radio but appears to need some crappy Nokia headset for it) would be a definate advantage to me.
The fact that there are other inputs into the environmental system than those under our control doesn't mean it isn't important to consider the effects of those aspects which are under our control.
Perhaps you are suggesting they should go further, not only campaign to reduce man-made negative effects on our environment but also be proactive and devise ways to resist naturally occurring changes to our environment which may effect us negatively? I suppose we do that on a fairly localised basis anyway.
It's like someone shooting someone with a gun. Do you arrest the guy at K-Mart who sold him the gun?
Probably nor, nor would I think prosecuting the tool vendors (ie Bittorrent authors) is reasonable in this case.
However, Lokitorrent is not distanced from the activity as the Kmart guy above is, it is actively involved in the process. To continue you analogy, Lokitorrent is akin to a guy who kept reloading the shooters weapons with more ammo while he was shooting.
Lokitorrent didn't just "empower" people, it actively assisted them during the actual commission of illegal activity.
The only defence to that would be that the were unaware of what was happening on their site and that is completely implausible.
Generally religions tend to get round such things in time (though not without much wailing and gnashing of teeth).
Most of them will probably be happy accepting that it is "our kind of life" that is the special thing and that the existance of microbes etc elsewhere doesn't diminish how special us higher beings are. After all, most of them don't seem to like the thought that we and simpler organisms have common origins anyway.
The GoDaddy certs are compatible with pretty much every browser in use today....
Internet Explorer 5.01 and higher AOL 5 and higher Netscape 4.7 and higher Opera 7.5 and higher. Safari on Mac OS X 10.3.4 or higher Mozilla (all versions) Firefox (all versions)
In practice the ID checks that I've seen done are fairly flimsy. And with "hundreds" of dollars being charged by big name certifying authorites there is strong motivation for them to just give you the cert (and take your money) once you've faxed them a couple of vaguely official looking signed bits of paper.
Anyone paying "hundreds" of bucks for a certificate is being scammed though. Much cheaper ones are available from people like GoDaddy. I can't see why anyone wouldn't just go for the $29 one, your users won't notice any difference between them unless they are particularly inquisitive and enjoy poking around obscure browser dialogues.
It wasn't a retort or lazy or stupid or fatuous.
It was letting you know you weren't communicating effectively. You can take that and learn from it or ignore it or get all offended by it. Your choice.
If you can't read a 6 and 10 line pair of paragraphs about a simple URI scheme, you're probably not going to be much help getting us from URLs to URIs. Just lay back and enjoy it when it works.
There is a significant difference between "can't read" and "can't be bothered to read".
Ultimately I do. At the end of the day VOIP is just data like any other.
I don't know much about international telecoms but presumably any pipes and satellites that currently switch telephone calls internationally could be repurposed to carry 'generic' data (if they don't already). Presumably VOIP is more efficient in bandwidth terms than traditional telecoms as the encoding will minimise the amount of data sent and therefore it should be less expensive.
Such "negotiation" would be largely a waste of time. You need to give graphics card manufacturers a market to care about and demand for their cards. Currently usage of 3d on Linux is very limited, a few games, visualisers and niche apps.
If 3d is used more widely used on the desktop then more card makers will see linux as a market for their cards and more people will be using 3d and pressuring for better, more open drivers.
What the Open Source community has is what all communist countries thus far have lacked, which is the admission of only like-minded people. For a commune to work, the citizens must all have similar ideas with respect to how to interact with the outside world.
That is not true, at least not put so simply. Open Source works not because community members are like minded but because, despite having different (even competing) motivations and goals, they can come together with one particular shred of commonality, the licence.
The Open Source community is diverse, that is part of it's strength.
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Seriously, a lot of people these days work with so much data that manual filing would take a significant amount of time and ultimately is never going to happen 100% reliably or with enough fine grained detail. There is obvious value in a tool that can pull information on a given topic from a variety of sources in one quick hit.
I think that's a load of horse shit.
People love Firefox and they love Mozilla. It looks like more of an organisational issue to me, the problem being not an absolute lack of contributers but an inability to get people up to the level where they take on some responsibility as part of the project rather than a contributer to the project. From the description the problem seems to be a bottleneck rather than an absolute lack of resources.
I'd argue that they are indeed investing credible resources (if not "pumping money") into important parts of desktop infrastructure.
Robert Love working on HAL.
Robert O'Callahan working on Mozilla.
David Reveman working on Glitz/Cairo
Etc, etc.
Presumably all those access points need to tap into a hard line run by an ISP or telecom company.
To me the thought of a variety of commercial entities all competing in a limited bandwidth range along with private use sounds a little chaotic.
I'm sure search can be applied to calendar entries.
"Going to Movies" - Pimp some movies.
"Tax due" - Pimp some tax services.
"Pay off credit card" - Pimp a credit card
"Johns Birthday" - Pimp some gift ideas
Just like gmail and adsense, calendar advertising could be used to help supply adverts targeted to something that someone is specifically interested in. Calendars might even be better than email as they will probably be more focused and less noisy than email conversations.
SSL implementations have been barely usable for real people years with their laughably tiny "padlock" indicator.
Bugs aside things are just starting to look reasonable as far as SSL in browsers is concerned.
Firefox puts the "padlock" where someone will actually stand a chance of seeing it (in the urlbar) and also color codes the URL.
Opera does something similar in it's recent beta but also displays the organisational name of the certificate owner aside the padlock.
The spoofing problem isn't a fundamental flaw that is going to doom the future of browser based commerce. The reinvigoration of browser competition has started making things better for the end user.
But for a lot of people carrying shit around is a real pain. I have a phone and a PDA and a Network Walkman. The PDA never leaves my bedroom. My Walkman rarely comes with me. My phone is always with me.
Having more PDA and music functionality in my phone (my phone has radio but appears to need some crappy Nokia headset for it) would be a definate advantage to me.
How exactly does one "take it in to account"?
The fact that there are other inputs into the environmental system than those under our control doesn't mean it isn't important to consider the effects of those aspects which are under our control.
Perhaps you are suggesting they should go further, not only campaign to reduce man-made negative effects on our environment but also be proactive and devise ways to resist naturally occurring changes to our environment which may effect us negatively? I suppose we do that on a fairly localised basis anyway.
However, Lokitorrent is not distanced from the activity as the Kmart guy above is, it is actively involved in the process. To continue you analogy, Lokitorrent is akin to a guy who kept reloading the shooters weapons with more ammo while he was shooting.
Lokitorrent didn't just "empower" people, it actively assisted them during the actual commission of illegal activity.
The only defence to that would be that the were unaware of what was happening on their site and that is completely implausible.
Godaddy certs are actually issued by "Starfield Secure Certification Authority" which is in turn signed by Valicert I think.
Godaddy (unsurprisingly) use one of their own certs so you can go to their site over https and see one.
Generally religions tend to get round such things in time (though not without much wailing and gnashing of teeth).
Most of them will probably be happy accepting that it is "our kind of life" that is the special thing and that the existance of microbes etc elsewhere doesn't diminish how special us higher beings are. After all, most of them don't seem to like the thought that we and simpler organisms have common origins anyway.
The GoDaddy certs are compatible with pretty much every browser in use today....
Internet Explorer 5.01 and higher
AOL 5 and higher
Netscape 4.7 and higher
Opera 7.5 and higher.
Safari on Mac OS X 10.3.4 or higher
Mozilla (all versions)
Firefox (all versions)
In practice the ID checks that I've seen done are fairly flimsy. And with "hundreds" of dollars being charged by big name certifying authorites there is strong motivation for them to just give you the cert (and take your money) once you've faxed them a couple of vaguely official looking signed bits of paper.
Anyone paying "hundreds" of bucks for a certificate is being scammed though. Much cheaper ones are available from people like GoDaddy. I can't see why anyone wouldn't just go for the $29 one, your users won't notice any difference between them unless they are particularly inquisitive and enjoy poking around obscure browser dialogues.
It wasn't a retort or lazy or stupid or fatuous. It was letting you know you weren't communicating effectively. You can take that and learn from it or ignore it or get all offended by it. Your choice.
You can produce the next version of America's Army, productise the headset and sell it to 'trainees' who you don't even have to pay to train.
Then implement the draft! It's genius!
I'm fairly sure they were actually laughing at the such childishness...
Ultimately I do. At the end of the day VOIP is just data like any other.
I don't know much about international telecoms but presumably any pipes and satellites that currently switch telephone calls internationally could be repurposed to carry 'generic' data (if they don't already). Presumably VOIP is more efficient in bandwidth terms than traditional telecoms as the encoding will minimise the amount of data sent and therefore it should be less expensive.
Such "negotiation" would be largely a waste of time. You need to give graphics card manufacturers a market to care about and demand for their cards. Currently usage of 3d on Linux is very limited, a few games, visualisers and niche apps.
If 3d is used more widely used on the desktop then more card makers will see linux as a market for their cards and more people will be using 3d and pressuring for better, more open drivers.
The Open Source community is diverse, that is part of it's strength.