Click on a multilink, you get a new browser window, and each of the targets are in a separate tab. That's how I would like to use it, at least. Should be trivial in javascript.
Was your problem a "fill on close" issue? I.e. did you have trades that were supposed to go through at the closing price but didn't because there was no close that day? If so I can see how this would screw a lot of traders.
I don't buy that... What if a 3rd joespoolcleaning comes along? Also the suffix.com has been so embedded in the public consciousness that even if somebody reads joespoolcleaning.biz they will mistype it as.com half the time anyway. Easier to come up with joesextremepoolcleaning.com or something else different.
They're a clue to what the nature of the site is. If it's an.edu you know it's some kind of school. If it's.org it's probably non-profit. If it's.xxx you know it's porno. Same is true for the non-US country codes,.gov, maybe.net.
If you see a.com it could be anything but is probably not a school or non-profit and is probably US.
There is absolutely no reason for.biz,.info, etc. Those were stupid ideas which were probably just to get more money for the registrars. Who knows how ICANN makes these decisions...
I'd like to see.mov (so that the studios can stop writing www.manoshandsoffatethemovie.com) or.tv or other areas where you have an already-existing bunch of names.. Maybe.lit and.mus for books and music? Anything else?
Yeah, and see how much market share VMS and OSF/1 has now... The days are long past when the OS can be considered a significant value-added component that you can charge for on a subscription basis.
As many people have said, just copy everything to new media every time you upgrade, and always keep a backup or two that you upgrade also. It helps that every PC generation has 10x the hard disk space of the previous one.
A different question is whether you'll be able to read the data. I think you should:
1. Make sure there are open-source readers for any format you use (and keep copies of them with the data)
2. If possible pick a simple format that you could reverse-engineer yourself in a pinch (e.g. XML)
3. Pick a popular format so that in 40 years everybody will have the same problem that you do, and you can be sure there will be a solution
No you don't, you just have a relay... An open relay is one that accepts mail from anybody, whereas smtp.myisp.com should be accepting mail only from cusomers of myisp. This is exactly how all isp's work now. They do not rewrite the From: and Reply-to: lines of the messages they accept (SBC doesn't, at least).
If (1) the blocking policy is fine for the majority of clueless users, and (2) only advanced users need to unblock, then maybe they can unblock on an as-needed basis.
Besides, I can't believe that you would be able to require the IP address of the first-hop SMTP server match the DNS record for the domain in the From: line. There are so many cases where this is just not going to work...
Doesn't the SPF proposal require you to give a list of SMTP servers that are allowed to send mail on your behalf? Wouldn't you just add your ISP's server to this list?
Obviously an ISP would not block all port 25 traffic, only traffic to SMTP servers outside the ISP's control. Normally you would point your MUA's SMTP server to mail.myisp.com or whatever and have no problems.
Good example. None of the obvious workarounds (set up DHCP or DNS to give him different SMTP servers in different places, ssh-tunnel port 25 to the office, etc) seem workable for a PHB. So the ISP needs to have some kind of opt-out mechanism for users who are technically savvy and responsible (or have handlers who are). Maybe allow each user a maximum number of port-25 connections per minute?
A better solution would be to separate out the ports used by MUA-MTA and MTA-MTA connections. This would stop the zombies from pretending to be an MTA while still allowing you your choice of MTA's from your MUA.
I'm 99% sure that the books were all written after the movies.
There are a few good Star Wars books - the Thrawn series by Timothy Zahn as others have mentioned - but just because work well as sci-fi space opera literature doesn't mean they would make good movies.
I had heard the last trilogy would feature Han's & Leia's kids (and maybe Luke's and Mara Jade's?). If they are grown up in the stories then the original actors could certainly play their characters...
Do you have any idea how many lousy books have been written in the Star Wars universe, with Lucas's approval, if not guidance? It seems like hundreds... If that's not cheapening, what is?
Besides, I have one word to reply to the idea that Star Wars is some kind of pristine gem that needs preserving: "Jar-Jar"
*pedantic grumbling* Maybe so. But you would not expect an experienced science writer to point out the fact that it takes light 2.2G years to travel 2.2G light years as if it were some kind of big surprise...
My point was that in modern physics there is no meaningful way that you can say "X and Y happen at the same time" if they are not at the same location. Twin paradox and all that.
Getting hit with a fatal GRB in your neighborhood can't be very common, because life on Earth has avoided it for a few billion years. At least, the atmosphere-scouring kind. Maybe some of the periodic extinction events in the past have been due to such things? But I guess we would know it if a black hole were a few 1000 light years from us, assuming it was active (had an accretion disk).
The comments on slashdot are pretty inane, but look at what the original author wrote... "The merger occurred 2.2 billion light-years away, so it actually took place 2.2 billion years ago and the light just reached Earth this morning." Nobody with even a basic understanding of relativity would write about space-time in that way.
I don't know what it means to "corrupt" the gene pool. The genes of all organisms are changing all the time and are selected for or against by environmental pressures. We're adding another type of "mutation" - GM - and using the same kind of environmental pressure farmers have been using for thousands of years to select for it. Nothing is different, qualitatively.
In any case, our best bet for saving the planet is decreasing the population. I don't know what a sustainable number might be but it's got to be a lot closer to 1G than 6G
Java, C#, and C++ are not scripting languages - for example they have compile-time type enforcement, no eval statement, etc. Starting about 10 years ago I think it's been pretty clear that you don't want to do UI programming in a low-level language like those, you want to use something like Python, Tcl, or Scheme. Just write the "hello world" application in each of those languages and see the difference. It's 2 lines in Tcl/Tk. What's it in Java - 100 lines or so?
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Click on a multilink, you get a new browser window, and each of the targets are in a separate tab. That's how I would like to use it, at least. Should be trivial in javascript.
What's a torrent file?
Was your problem a "fill on close" issue? I.e. did you have trades that were supposed to go through at the closing price but didn't because there was no close that day? If so I can see how this would screw a lot of traders.
I don't buy that... What if a 3rd joespoolcleaning comes along? Also the suffix .com has been so embedded in the public consciousness that even if somebody reads joespoolcleaning.biz they will mistype it as .com half the time anyway. Easier to come up with joesextremepoolcleaning.com or something else different.
They're a clue to what the nature of the site is. If it's an .edu you know it's some kind of school. If it's .org it's probably non-profit. If it's .xxx you know it's porno. Same is true for the non-US country codes, .gov, maybe .net.
.com it could be anything but is probably not a school or non-profit and is probably US.
.biz, .info, etc. Those were stupid ideas which were probably just to get more money for the registrars. Who knows how ICANN makes these decisions...
.mov (so that the studios can stop writing www.manoshandsoffatethemovie.com) or .tv or other areas where you have an already-existing bunch of names .. Maybe .lit and .mus for books and music? Anything else?
If you see a
There is absolutely no reason for
I'd like to see
That's silly - it's the data feed from Tivo you are paying for...
The day M$ starts charging a monthly or yearly fee is the day they lose 30% of their market share to Lindows or some such free alternative overnight.
Yeah, and see how much market share VMS and OSF/1 has now... The days are long past when the OS can be considered a significant value-added component that you can charge for on a subscription basis.
I think there's a daemon process you can run that will do that - maxwelld I think :-)
As many people have said, just copy everything to new media every time you upgrade, and always keep a backup or two that you upgrade also. It helps that every PC generation has 10x the hard disk space of the previous one.
A different question is whether you'll be able to read the data. I think you should:
1. Make sure there are open-source readers for any format you use (and keep copies of them with the data)
2. If possible pick a simple format that you could reverse-engineer yourself in a pinch (e.g. XML)
3. Pick a popular format so that in 40 years everybody will have the same problem that you do, and you can be sure there will be a solution
No you don't, you just have a relay ... An open relay is one that accepts mail from anybody, whereas smtp.myisp.com should be accepting mail only from cusomers of myisp. This is exactly how all isp's work now. They do not rewrite the From: and Reply-to: lines of the messages they accept (SBC doesn't, at least).
If (1) the blocking policy is fine for the majority of clueless users, and (2) only advanced users need to unblock, then maybe they can unblock on an as-needed basis.
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Besides, I can't believe that you would be able to require the IP address of the first-hop SMTP server match the DNS record for the domain in the From: line. There are so many cases where this is just not going to work
Doesn't the SPF proposal require you to give a list of SMTP servers that are allowed to send mail on your behalf? Wouldn't you just add your ISP's server to this list?
Obviously an ISP would not block all port 25 traffic, only traffic to SMTP servers outside the ISP's control. Normally you would point your MUA's SMTP server to mail.myisp.com or whatever and have no problems.
Good example. None of the obvious workarounds (set up DHCP or DNS to give him different SMTP servers in different places, ssh-tunnel port 25 to the office, etc) seem workable for a PHB. So the ISP needs to have some kind of opt-out mechanism for users who are technically savvy and responsible (or have handlers who are). Maybe allow each user a maximum number of port-25 connections per minute?
A better solution would be to separate out the ports used by MUA-MTA and MTA-MTA connections. This would stop the zombies from pretending to be an MTA while still allowing you your choice of MTA's from your MUA.
Why should outlook be connecting to port 25 of a server that is not the ISP's official mail server?
A "futurologist" is somebody who writes the same stuff as bad sci-fi writers do, only he calls it a "prediction" and gets mentioned on slashdot ...
I'm 99% sure that the books were all written after the movies.
There are a few good Star Wars books - the Thrawn series by Timothy Zahn as others have mentioned - but just because work well as sci-fi space opera literature doesn't mean they would make good movies.
I had heard the last trilogy would feature Han's & Leia's kids (and maybe Luke's and Mara Jade's?). If they are grown up in the stories then the original actors could certainly play their characters...
Oh right... It's even worse than I thought. I think it was Curly Joe in the Hercules movie, right? That was pretty unwatchable.
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Don't forget Joe ... The role of the 3rd Stooge was like that of the drummer in Spinal Tap.
Do you have any idea how many lousy books have been written in the Star Wars universe, with Lucas's approval, if not guidance? It seems like hundreds... If that's not cheapening, what is?
Besides, I have one word to reply to the idea that Star Wars is some kind of pristine gem that needs preserving: "Jar-Jar"
*pedantic grumbling* Maybe so. But you would not expect an experienced science writer to point out the fact that it takes light 2.2G years to travel 2.2G light years as if it were some kind of big surprise...
My point was that in modern physics there is no meaningful way that you can say "X and Y happen at the same time" if they are not at the same location. Twin paradox and all that.
Getting hit with a fatal GRB in your neighborhood can't be very common, because life on Earth has avoided it for a few billion years. At least, the atmosphere-scouring kind. Maybe some of the periodic extinction events in the past have been due to such things? But I guess we would know it if a black hole were a few 1000 light years from us, assuming it was active (had an accretion disk).
The comments on slashdot are pretty inane, but look at what the original author wrote... "The merger occurred 2.2 billion light-years away, so it actually took place 2.2 billion years ago and the light just reached Earth this morning." Nobody with even a basic understanding of relativity would write about space-time in that way.
His point is that people who live in villages have more kids. Is this true in your experience?
Take your situation and extrapolate it to 6 billion people. How well does it scale?
I don't know what it means to "corrupt" the gene pool. The genes of all organisms are changing all the time and are selected for or against by environmental pressures. We're adding another type of "mutation" - GM - and using the same kind of environmental pressure farmers have been using for thousands of years to select for it. Nothing is different, qualitatively.
In any case, our best bet for saving the planet is decreasing the population. I don't know what a sustainable number might be but it's got to be a lot closer to 1G than 6G
Java, C#, and C++ are not scripting languages - for example they have compile-time type enforcement, no eval statement, etc. Starting about 10 years ago I think it's been pretty clear that you don't want to do UI programming in a low-level language like those, you want to use something like Python, Tcl, or Scheme. Just write the "hello world" application in each of those languages and see the difference. It's 2 lines in Tcl/Tk. What's it in Java - 100 lines or so?