Mozilla is quickly becoming my preferred choice of mail client. You can now use pgp with it seamlessly with Enigmail and its filtering and message coloring is approaching Eudora's. It also has message threading, which is incredibly useful. It handles HTML mail better than Eudora, and is less buggy than Eudora.
What is really great about Mozilla is that people can add what they need to it, in the way that Enigmail has been created. If you need better filters, you can write an extension for Mozilla Mail that does what you need.
I've used Eurora since 1996; its about time that we have a robust alternative to it, beacuse its development is very slow, its buggy, the filters are not sane, and its performance is not what it should be. Also, its not available for Linux, and we are not doing any more windoze in our operation, so unless Qualcomm ports Eudora to Linux and improves it dramatically before Mozilla 1.0 comes out, we are bailing.
What I would like is a migration utility so that I can move all of my messages and setings to Mozilla Mail in one operation, and then move that bundle to my Linux installation, or any other Mozilla installation.
Something for the Mozilla evangelists to think about.
thirty years ago would never have predicted or even dreamed that a Russian software company would be defending the rights of Americans and going to court in a bid to uphold the American Constitution.
Codeweavers to release a package that allows us to run the key Adobe and Macromedia apps quickly and perfectly under Linux, and then the circle is complete; there will be absolutely no reason for us (in particular) to ever boot into Windoze again.
It would be more than useful also, for them to quickly address the problem of font control under Linux; this means creating an Adobe Type Manager® clone. Then, we will be able to gleefully work uninterupted for days on end.
Is anyone really surprised by this?
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Its amazing that anyone is surprised by the "discovery" of planets around other stars.
Direct obersrervation of these bodies is interesting and exiting, but only because we are finally getting to see directly what most intelligent people already knew was there with absolute certainty, and not because its actually sometheing unexpected.
It would be utterly incredible if there were NO planetary bodies orbiting other stars; now THAT would be a scoop.
The fact that they are finding them so quickly is merely a funciton of having better equipment. You would expect to find more planets with better telescopes, and when they finally put a very big telescope on the dark side of the moon, or launch some other new excellent device, all the smaller bodies will suddely resolve out of the glare.
What I find truely beautiful is the range of unimagined objects that the hubble keeps uncovering week upon week. Like this stuff.
Certainly, meta moderation is worth a page for each meta mod. Im sure people feel that they have to get something back for doing it. Once you start having to pay for something, it ceases to be a game. Karma will take on an actual monetary value, and this will make the resentment towards the system grow by orders of magnitude for the "quirks" of the system.
Karma as currency now thats an idea....letting people buy and sell Karma...hmmmmm
As for different ways to pay, Kagi seems to be a cool service, because you can pay with, believe it or not, cash, from anwhere in the world, in any currency.
Wether or not you can automate subscriptions with it, I do not know, and obviously this would be a factor, since there will be many subscriptions to manage.
No one seems to have noticed/mentioned that fine grained stats have been collected on individual Slashdot usage over the years. What a picture that would be to look at!
Illegal in the USA, and not anywhere else. American law is for Americans and the companies that trade within its borders. Other countries can do what they like.
And its exactly this attitude and action which will create a huge market opportunity for some non us person or entity to manufacture and distribute parts and finished products that are free of these absurd encumberments.
Just as no one buys the crippled SONY portable music players, and they buy other, SDMI free players, people will reject these new devices and parts en masse, and the law will be made to look an ass again.
To talk about what makes good web design without giving EXAMPLES. Here are two:
The International Herald Tribune This site is simply one of the best I have ever seen. It has all the right attributes, works in both Mozilla and IE5/6 identically, without loosing any of its cool functionality, beautiful typography or features.
37 Signals Is an example of a design firm that excels in clarity and a good understanding of what web design needs to do. Take a look at the work they have done.
Both of these sites are given as examples because they look superb without throwing away any functionality. They demonstrate through beauty and execution what usability means.
The pro usability websites, whilst good for evangelism are sometimes ugly to look at, and not simple to navigate (and yes I know that "ugliness" subjective). You can find them for yourselvs.
I've thought for a long time that one of the great web design firms should team up with the makers of a strong distro, so that the next generation of Linux desktop could be created; a desktop that is not windoze or aqua, but a third, elegant and unique thing.
"Doug demonstrates working with a graphic file tagged with hyperlinked items. Clicking on a link in the graphic, Doug jumps to separate items, such as texts, linked to the graphic."
Im not so sure about that; SEGA vs SONY vs Nintendo in gaming for example - three companies with different platforms violently fighting for market domination.
Why is GSM a standard all over the world? At a guess its probably more to do with strict Govt. regulation than any philanthropic urge by the telecoms companies.
Also, telecoms seems to be more engineer driven when it comes to implimenting standards in Europe, except in the case of A5 which is deliberately crippled. But thats another story.
I wonder what pressure caused this voluntary unification to take place?
Normally when a company has large commercial sucess with a proprietary format, it simply "goes with it" and the competition be damned. Perhaps the sucess of each of these formats was far less than expected, forcing this collaboration.
Certainly it will mean cheaper media and drives for everyone, less consumer confusion and A Better Ride®.
Saying we will sail to the stars can be likened to the inventor of the zepplin saying that we will have mass crossings of the atlantic via deridgible.
Not even the ultra skeptical Nasa believs this solar sail stuff, which is why they are working on the REAL way that people will colonize the stars, with next generation propulsion systems.
These new systems are to chemical rockets as the sails of sea ships are to the jet; profoundly differnent and unpredicted by the "scientists" and sailors of old.
It seems to me that if I bought a ticket for unlimited rides for one day, and only need it for half a day, I am entitled to resell or give away the unused portion to someone else who only needs to ride the latter half of the day... Just as I could reasonably sell half of anything that is only available in quantity (4 eggs, anyone?).
A ticket is more than just an object; its a contract between you and London Underground. Part of that contract states that your ticket is not for resale.
"Issued subject to conditions - see over" is what it says on todays tickets, with a URL to the London Underground Terms & Conditions on the reverse.
You are not entitled to sell your ticket, or give it away to someone else....but it feels good when you do it!
someone who says as soon as he buys a CD, he rips it to MP3 for playing in his car. That's fair use. But if he were to give it to someone who hadn't already bought the CD then he has cost the publisher a sale. By your definition, that is theft.
No, that is not theft.
It would become theft if he made those rips and then sold them to another person. If no money changes hands, then it is not theft, it is sharing.
There is a subtle differnce between intangible property and tangible property, hence the confusion of many people when they are confronted with this subject.
Stealing a physical CD from a shop is different to copying the contents of that cd and sharing them with a friend.
What if the person you gave your ticket to, doesn't have any money in the first place? I've seen many of such situations. Where are the "lost" or "stolen" money then? Such thinking is a result of long "intellectual property" propaganda, we have to understand that, which also assumes that people have infinite amount of money.
This is totally correct; if you can be sure that the person you are giving your unfinished ticket to would not be able to buy a ticket, then giving it to her is not wrong. This is clear. What is probably wrong is deliberately diverting money from London Underground by sharing or re-selling a ticket that you bought, knowing that the person that you are giving the ticket to could buy one. I said "probably" just in case I am regurgitating IP Propaganda®.
In any case, a ticket is not intellectual property, it is real property, just as a seat on a train journey is real property.
Telling your friend about the stories in the newspaper is not the same as copying the paper and then selling those copies on a street corner. Selling copies of something that you didnt write / create, that someone else is trying to sell, is very probably wrong, since you are taking / diverting / stealing money from that person, and putting proceeds that belong to her in your pocket.
Once again, I am talking about copying and selling real property and not just reciting something in the street, wich takes nothing away from the person who is selling physical newspapers.
Well, let's say you have a train ticket, good for unlimited travel for a day on the London Underground. You finish with it, but it is still valid for several hours, is it stealing or sharing if you give it away to someone?
Yes, because you are preventing the London Underground from selling a ticket.
A ride on the underground cannot be copied without loss, and so two people sharing the same ticket is "stealing". This is true if the ticked is unexpired or not. A ticket that is sold to you is for you alone; one ass on one seat.
Tickets for journeys and services are the same as physical objects like CDs. Taking one or the other from someone who has them for sale in a shop or terminal is stealing.
Digital copying is something completely different.
Copying bits without charging for them removes nothing from anyone and so is not stealing, just as reading from a book to someone is not stealing, or playing a song on your guitar on the sidewalk in St. Marks Square, Venice is not stealing from the composer of that music.
This is deeply objectionable to people who sell software as a business, but it is true.
If you enter it into a turnstile and you and a friend squeeze through? Stealing obviously.
Think about it; wireless access to all other computers and their aggregated processing power, combined with basic modular parts like the ones they have created at Xerox, driven by something that wants to "get out of its box". This equals extinction.
Unless we explicitly dissalow autonomy in machines, all it will take to wipe us out is a few instances of something simulating only the will to replicte itself and then its "game over".
This will happen at a geometric rate, with machines duplicating themselvs out of these clever modular parts, which might of course, optimize themselvs every other generation until we can't understand how they even work.
Now imagine that they use the Xerox modular robot idea, but at the Nano scale.
...these words may be too late. Minutes to go, minutes to go, minutes to goo, minutes to green goo.William S. Burroughs
These "robots" will compete with us for natural resources and energy. That alone will be enough to wipe us out; this threat is not only one of walking anthropomorphized, lazer rifle carrying exterminators; the extinction of man will be slower, more painful and terrible than straight up war, as we are pushed out of the way by a terrible, autonamous very small or maybe not small, but very smart something.
Possibly. They were bound together in the container to unify them. The fact that the "O" is not immedately recognised of course will change if the symbol spreads everywhere.
Whatever symbol is eventually adopted, what is certain is that some graphic device has to be used to mark content as freed, otherwise, for reasons that I've stated, content that is not marked will not be freed, and in fact, can be possibly "revoked".
Its high time that there was a unique, instantly recognisable symbol for everything that is released under one of the new copyright licences.
The article in question does not have a symbol to mark it as Open Content or Copyleft or Free Content. Unmarked articles are by default, copyrighted upon creation according to the Berne Convention, so if the article was not about copyleft content, one would immediately assume that it was copyrighted if you were to come across it. You would immediately refrain from using it for fear of being sued, and they could claim that it was not freed, because it is not marked as freed.
If this idea of freed content and the freed content itself are to spread, then all content released under these licences needs to be clearly marked as freed; as clearly as the IP that is traditionally copyrighted.
At this page we have created a set of graphic devices to solve this problem.
The new symbol solves this problem, scales graphically for both print and web, and conveys the idea that the properties that it is attached to are licenced content.
Atari's vision of the future was pretty intelligent: games like "Thrill Drive" can only be appreciated in the arcade, sitting in a fully blown machine.
In the '70s they said "Home Taping is Killing Music". Today it can be said that "Home Gaming is killing Video Games". The custom hardware and elaborate bespoke controls that are deployed in Arcade games are ruled out for small, generic controls when you move from the arcade to the home console.
This is a Bad Thing®
There are some incredible games on home consoles, thats not in dispute. What I mourn is the ability to play a game like "Marble Madness" with its control (a huge trackball) made specially for the game, or "Paperboy" (bicycle handlebars), "Crystal Castles" (trackball), "Propcycle" (full size bicycle with fan in front to simulate rushing wind), and of course, "Missile Command", one of the early trackball games...there are so many examples. Ideally, the controls should be designed for the game. Game designers should be free to design both the controls and the gameplay.
I mourn the fact that these types of innovative game are being sidelined for development of Hollywood tie-in Lamestation fodder, and that so many Arcades have bitten the dust. In London, all the great Arcades have gone; the ones that remain are full of slot machines, meaning that no one under 18 can get in. The last big Arcade, at the Trocadero is full of poorly maintained machines, poor security, bumper cars and other distractions.
Namco Wonderworld is one of the last great, true arcades in London.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't you find anything to report about that HASN'T already happened?
How can ANY editor report something that HASN'T YET HAPPENED??
Mozilla is quickly becoming my preferred choice of mail client. You can now use pgp with it seamlessly with Enigmail and its filtering and message coloring is approaching Eudora's. It also has message threading, which is incredibly useful. It handles HTML mail better than Eudora, and is less buggy than Eudora.
What is really great about Mozilla is that people can add what they need to it, in the way that Enigmail has been created. If you need better filters, you can write an extension for Mozilla Mail that does what you need.
I've used Eurora since 1996; its about time that we have a robust alternative to it, beacuse its development is very slow, its buggy, the filters are not sane, and its performance is not what it should be. Also, its not available for Linux, and we are not doing any more windoze in our operation, so unless Qualcomm ports Eudora to Linux and improves it dramatically before Mozilla 1.0 comes out, we are bailing.
What I would like is a migration utility so that I can move all of my messages and setings to Mozilla Mail in one operation, and then move that bundle to my Linux installation, or any other Mozilla installation.
Something for the Mozilla evangelists to think about.
thirty years ago would never have predicted or even dreamed that a Russian software company would be defending the rights of Americans and going to court in a bid to uphold the American Constitution.
The 21st century: an upside-down circus!
Codeweavers to release a package that allows us to run the key Adobe and Macromedia apps quickly and perfectly under Linux, and then the circle is complete; there will be absolutely no reason for us (in particular) to ever boot into Windoze again.
It would be more than useful also, for them to quickly address the problem of font control under Linux; this means creating an Adobe Type Manager® clone. Then, we will be able to gleefully work uninterupted for days on end.
Its amazing that anyone is surprised by the "discovery" of planets around other stars.
Direct obersrervation of these bodies is interesting and exiting, but only because we are finally getting to see directly what most intelligent people already knew was there with absolute certainty, and not because its actually sometheing unexpected.
It would be utterly incredible if there were NO planetary bodies orbiting other stars; now THAT would be a scoop.
The fact that they are finding them so quickly is merely a funciton of having better equipment. You would expect to find more planets with better telescopes, and when they finally put a very big telescope on the dark side of the moon, or launch some other new excellent device, all the smaller bodies will suddely resolve out of the glare.
What I find truely beautiful is the range of unimagined objects that the hubble keeps uncovering week upon week. Like this stuff.
Certainly, meta moderation is worth a page for each meta mod. Im sure people feel that they have to get something back for doing it. Once you start having to pay for something, it ceases to be a game. Karma will take on an actual monetary value, and this will make the resentment towards the system grow by orders of magnitude for the "quirks" of the system.
Karma as currency now thats an idea....letting people buy and sell Karma...hmmmmm
As for different ways to pay, Kagi seems to be a cool service, because you can pay with, believe it or not, cash, from anwhere in the world, in any currency.
Wether or not you can automate subscriptions with it, I do not know, and obviously this would be a factor, since there will be many subscriptions to manage.
No one seems to have noticed/mentioned that fine grained stats have been collected on individual Slashdot usage over the years. What a picture that would be to look at!
Illegal in the USA, and not anywhere else. American law is for Americans and the companies that trade within its borders. Other countries can do what they like.
But you knew that.
And its exactly this attitude and action which will create a huge market opportunity for some non us person or entity to manufacture and distribute parts and finished products that are free of these absurd encumberments.
Just as no one buys the crippled SONY portable music players, and they buy other, SDMI free players, people will reject these new devices and parts en masse, and the law will be made to look an ass again.
The International Herald Tribune
This site is simply one of the best I have ever seen. It has all the right attributes, works in both Mozilla and IE5/6 identically, without loosing any of its cool functionality, beautiful typography or features.
37 Signals
Is an example of a design firm that excels in clarity and a good understanding of what web design needs to do. Take a look at the work they have done.
Both of these sites are given as examples because they look superb without throwing away any functionality. They demonstrate through beauty and execution what usability means.
The pro usability websites, whilst good for evangelism are sometimes ugly to look at, and not simple to navigate (and yes I know that "ugliness" subjective). You can find them for yourselvs.
I've thought for a long time that one of the great web design firms should team up with the makers of a strong distro, so that the next generation of Linux desktop could be created; a desktop that is not windoze or aqua, but a third, elegant and unique thing.
"Doug demonstrates working with a graphic file tagged with hyperlinked items. Clicking on a link in the graphic, Doug jumps to separate items, such as texts, linked to the graphic."
We call this Prior Art.
Why didn't they use microwave or cable links to connect those areas? It would be worth it to be seamlessly connected to GSM land.
Im not so sure about that; SEGA vs SONY vs Nintendo in gaming for example - three companies with different platforms violently fighting for market domination.
Why is GSM a standard all over the world? At a guess its probably more to do with strict Govt. regulation than any philanthropic urge by the telecoms companies.
Also, telecoms seems to be more engineer driven when it comes to implimenting standards in Europe, except in the case of A5 which is deliberately crippled. But thats another story.
I wonder what pressure caused this voluntary unification to take place?
Normally when a company has large commercial sucess with a proprietary format, it simply "goes with it" and the competition be damned. Perhaps the sucess of each of these formats was far less than expected, forcing this collaboration.
Certainly it will mean cheaper media and drives for everyone, less consumer confusion and A Better Ride®.
Saying we will sail to the stars can be likened to the inventor of the zepplin saying that we will have mass crossings of the atlantic via deridgible.
Not even the ultra skeptical Nasa believs this solar sail stuff, which is why they are working on the REAL way that people will colonize the stars, with next generation propulsion systems.
These new systems are to chemical rockets as the sails of sea ships are to the jet; profoundly differnent and unpredicted by the "scientists" and sailors of old.
What if I printed up my own tickets for the London Underground and gave them away to people for free?
Thats called counterfeiting, and you KNOW that its wrong.
It seems to me that if I bought a ticket for unlimited rides for one day, and only need it for half a day, I am entitled to resell or give away the unused portion to someone else who only needs to ride the latter half of the day... Just as I could reasonably sell half of anything that is only available in quantity (4 eggs, anyone?).
A ticket is more than just an object; its a contract between you and London Underground. Part of that contract states that your ticket is not for resale.
"Issued subject to conditions - see over" is what it says on todays tickets, with a URL to the London Underground Terms & Conditions on the reverse.
You are not entitled to sell your ticket, or give it away to someone else....but it feels good when you do it!
someone who says as soon as he buys a CD, he rips it to MP3 for playing in his car. That's fair use. But if he were to give it to someone who hadn't already bought the CD then he has cost the publisher a sale. By your definition, that is theft.
No, that is not theft.
It would become theft if he made those rips and then sold them to another person. If no money changes hands, then it is not theft, it is sharing.
There is a subtle differnce between intangible property and tangible property, hence the confusion of many people when they are confronted with this subject.
Stealing a physical CD from a shop is different to copying the contents of that cd and sharing them with a friend.
What if the person you gave your ticket to, doesn't have any money in the first place? I've seen many of such situations. Where are the "lost" or "stolen" money then? Such thinking is a result of long "intellectual property" propaganda, we have to understand that, which also assumes that people have infinite amount of money.
This is totally correct; if you can be sure that the person you are giving your unfinished ticket to would not be able to buy a ticket, then giving it to her is not wrong. This is clear. What is probably wrong is deliberately diverting money from London Underground by sharing or re-selling a ticket that you bought, knowing that the person that you are giving the ticket to could buy one. I said "probably" just in case I am regurgitating IP Propaganda®.
In any case, a ticket is not intellectual property, it is real property, just as a seat on a train journey is real property.
Telling your friend about the stories in the newspaper is not the same as copying the paper and then selling those copies on a street corner. Selling copies of something that you didnt write / create, that someone else is trying to sell, is very probably wrong, since you are taking / diverting / stealing money from that person, and putting proceeds that belong to her in your pocket.
Once again, I am talking about copying and selling real property and not just reciting something in the street, wich takes nothing away from the person who is selling physical newspapers.
Well, let's say you have a train ticket, good for unlimited travel for a day on the London Underground. You finish with it, but it is still valid for several hours, is it stealing or sharing if you give it away to someone?
Yes, because you are preventing the London Underground from selling a ticket.
A ride on the underground cannot be copied without loss, and so two people sharing the same ticket is "stealing". This is true if the ticked is unexpired or not. A ticket that is sold to you is for you alone; one ass on one seat.
Tickets for journeys and services are the same as physical objects like CDs. Taking one or the other from someone who has them for sale in a shop or terminal is stealing.
Digital copying is something completely different.
Copying bits without charging for them removes nothing from anyone and so is not stealing, just as reading from a book to someone is not stealing, or playing a song on your guitar on the sidewalk in St. Marks Square, Venice is not stealing from the composer of that music.
This is deeply objectionable to people who sell software as a business, but it is true.
If you enter it into a turnstile and you and a friend squeeze through?
Stealing obviously.
Goto:
http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/catfix.htm
Where you can download the entire Conet Project. Be sure to buy a t-shirt or a physical copy if you liked it.
Are all coming together. Go and see "Demon Seed" with Julie Christie. Then look at this: http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/modrobots/.
...these words may be too late. Minutes to go, minutes to go, minutes to goo, minutes to green goo.William S. Burroughs
Think about it; wireless access to all other computers and their aggregated processing power, combined with basic modular parts like the ones they have created at Xerox, driven by something that wants to "get out of its box". This equals extinction.
Unless we explicitly dissalow autonomy in machines, all it will take to wipe us out is a few instances of something simulating only the will to replicte itself and then its "game over".
This will happen at a geometric rate, with machines duplicating themselvs out of these clever modular parts, which might of course, optimize themselvs every other generation until we can't understand how they even work.
Now imagine that they use the Xerox modular robot idea, but at the Nano scale.
These "robots" will compete with us for natural resources and energy. That alone will be enough to wipe us out; this threat is not only one of walking anthropomorphized, lazer rifle carrying exterminators; the extinction of man will be slower, more painful and terrible than straight up war, as we are pushed out of the way by a terrible, autonamous very small or maybe not small, but very smart something.
Doh! You are absolutely correct.
We will change it over; this is important.
"...can be misinterpreted as two symbols"
Possibly. They were bound together in the container to unify them. The fact that the "O" is not immedately recognised of course will change if the symbol spreads everywhere.
Whatever symbol is eventually adopted, what is certain is that some graphic device has to be used to mark content as freed, otherwise, for reasons that I've stated, content that is not marked will not be freed, and in fact, can be possibly "revoked".
Every article or image that is produced by copyright concious organizations is marked as being copyrighted, with the © and owners name.
Its high time that there was a unique, instantly recognisable symbol for everything that is released under one of the new copyright licences.
The article in question does not have a symbol to mark it as Open Content or Copyleft or Free Content. Unmarked articles are by default, copyrighted upon creation according to the Berne Convention, so if the article was not about copyleft content, one would immediately assume that it was copyrighted if you were to come across it. You would immediately refrain from using it for fear of being sued, and they could claim that it was not freed, because it is not marked as freed.
If this idea of freed content and the freed content itself are to spread, then all content released under these licences needs to be clearly marked as freed; as clearly as the IP that is traditionally copyrighted.
At this page we have created a set of graphic devices to solve this problem.
Using the old © inverted is about as inelegant a solution as you could dream up. It sends the wrong signals, that in some way, Open Content or Copyleft is "upside down", "wrong way around" or the polar opposite of Copyright, which it is not. Copyright is seen, almost universally, as A Good Thing®. The opposite of a good thing is a bad thing. The use of the inverted © conveys a kind of "upside down crucifix" vibe which is counterproductive.
The new symbol solves this problem, scales graphically for both print and web, and conveys the idea that the properties that it is attached to are licenced content.
Atari's vision of the future was pretty intelligent: games like "Thrill Drive" can only be appreciated in the arcade, sitting in a fully blown machine.
In the '70s they said "Home Taping is Killing Music". Today it can be said that "Home Gaming is killing Video Games". The custom hardware and elaborate bespoke controls that are deployed in Arcade games are ruled out for small, generic controls when you move from the arcade to the home console.
This is a Bad Thing®
There are some incredible games on home consoles, thats not in dispute. What I mourn is the ability to play a game like "Marble Madness" with its control (a huge trackball) made specially for the game, or "Paperboy" (bicycle handlebars), "Crystal Castles" (trackball), "Propcycle" (full size bicycle with fan in front to simulate rushing wind), and of course, "Missile Command", one of the early trackball games...there are so many examples. Ideally, the controls should be designed for the game. Game designers should be free to design both the controls and the gameplay.
I mourn the fact that these types of innovative game are being sidelined for development of Hollywood tie-in Lamestation fodder, and that so many Arcades have bitten the dust. In London, all the great Arcades have gone; the ones that remain are full of slot machines, meaning that no one under 18 can get in. The last big Arcade, at the Trocadero is full of poorly maintained machines, poor security, bumper cars and other distractions.
Namco Wonderworld is one of the last great, true arcades in London.