I tried CRM-114 after the previous Slashdot article. I payed a lot of attention to my email and did all the required training. After getting over the initial hump of misclassified email it got to a steady low level. Once it made a mistake and I had to train it, though, I would get a run of false positives and negatives for a bit until it settled out again.
What sent me back to SA was that a number of CRM-114 misclassifications were marking ham as spam. Losing a real message in the sea of spam is much more of a concern for me than getting a bit of spam with the regular stuff. It is very rare that I get ham classified as span in SA.
Several others have recommended Life Balance, and that is my choice too. LB follows a philosophy of assigning priorities to different parts of your life in order to bring things into balance. So, for example, if you feel that work is taking too much time out of your life you lower the priority for work all work tasks are accoringly moved to a lower place on the list according to home life and any other categories.
LB is hierarchical, so you can schedule tasks so that they don't show up until subtasks are complete.
While I mentioned the LB philosophy of balance, I have started using David Allens Getting Things Done approach. Life Balance works with it quite well and actually helps to keep me doing it.
I have both Palm and PC versions of Life Balance. the two synchronize so I can use either one. When I bought the Palm version it was the most expensive piece of Palm software I had bought. I begrudged them the money, but I'm hooked on the program. I have since bought the desktop version, which is easier to use when I'm at my PC.
Brown is intent on proving that Linus stole from Minix or UNIX. In what way was he supposed to have done this? Did he look at how they behaved and write something that does the same thing? Sure, and there is nothing wrong with that. Did he steal source code? If so it should be easy enough to compare Minix or the Lion document and see what was stolen. OK, maybe it is tedious to compare the source code. Brown should provide some concrete proof such as lines of stolen code rather than trying to attack Linus by saying he couldn't have written Linux.
I agree with the point that most of the products mentioned are made overseas. I would also point out that if the jobs were in America then the same products would still be required, only Americans would be employed. So while I'm glad that the Indians are buying "American" products, it does not really make outsourcing a good thing.
I happily use Debian at home, but the problem at work where support matters is that there are a lot more third party products that support Redhat than Debian. If you are going to use all free software then Debian is fine, but it gets trickier if you need go beyond that.
Trustic wasn't replying to my submissions anymore. Now I know why.
While I did my part to contribute to the Trustic database, I wasn't real sure about their methods. I submitted spam messages as they requested, but I had to tell them which address to consider to be a spam gateway. The addresses above that are marked positive. I always picked the first address outside of rr.com, but for all I know the nearest Roadrunner smtp system is a spam forwarder and I should have flagged it as negative. Pooling lots of people's ignorance won't necessarily provide good information.
I'm not sure what the big deal is about Achilles and the Tortoise anyhow. The "paradox" comes from stating the problem in a way that seems paradoxical, not anything inherent in reality. All you have to do is ask another question, "How long does it take Achilles and the tortoise to get to the finish line?". If Achilles gets there faster then he passed the tortoise.
That's pretty much how my personal usage goes, too. At work, though, we are loath to send company business over the wire in plain text, so this feature could be useful for businesses.
This topic came up in a story in the New York Times magazine today. This is otherwise an interesting article about a white racist who was actually black, but after ending one stretch in prison he ended up back there again after trying to pass a phone $20 at a Dunkin' Donuts. Aside from not being a dimly lit location, there was a cop behind him in line to help when the cashier refused the bill.
The sad part is that both of fans that come with my retail Athlons died within a year. They are lousy fans. I replaced them with approved third party fans which I hope will work much better. I suppose I could have tried warranty claims, but didn't think about it until it was too late.
Yes, it has occurred to me. The fact that I said "It includes Japanese fonts" after talking about Chinese was a way of saying that the program has separate fonts for Japanese.
I use CJKOS on my Clie to give me Chinese characters, both for input as well as display in applications. It includes Japanese fonts but I have never used them. It works quite well for me.
And the bad part is that they aren't using the 234 numbers. They gave us the 234 overlay but didn't end up needing it. A few numbers got given out, though, including one from MSN (Microsoft does it again!), so they can't undo the overlay.
No, a mix. I have 2 builtin USB ports, and the old fashioned serial, parallel, keyboard, and mouse ports. My mouse is using USB but my keyboard is using the keyboard port.
The point of the article was that the profiling features in Tivo and Amazon.com can give incorrect recommendations. The man who did not want recommendations for books about pregnancy went and rated a number of other books to try to fix Amazon's suggestions. Since he WANTED accurate suggestions, he should have told Amazon not to use the one book for recommendations as I suggested. If you don't want to make it easy for them to influence your sales decision, you should go to each book that Amazon uses as a basis for recommendations and tell them not to use it.
Lame posting, lame pregnant gay man paragraph
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I'll agree with everyone who has complained about the submission. The article itself, though, is weak on substance. Tivo thinks you like something, and if it is wrong you thumb-down its recommendations. Big deal. It happened to me but I wouldn't tell the Wall Street Journal about it.
Regarding the pregnant gay man, Amazon has a feature where you can see what the basis was for a recommendation. If you find it was based on a book or other product that you do not want them to consider for your recommendations, you click a button and that is the end of it. The writer of the article should have done more research.
My PDA (Palm III/Visor Deluxe/Clie 610) has been a major lifestyle improvement. The killer app for me is Supermemo, a flash card program that gives you the cards you get wrong more often than the cards you get write. There is a PC version, but I like being able to work on Supermemo wherever I am.
Other useful apps:
Life Balance: Fancy todo list
Datebk5: Fancy calendar
Oxford English-Chinese Dictionary: I'm learning Chinese so it is handy having a dictionary with me. I also just bough an English-Spanish dictionary to take with me to the Dominican Republic.
Strip: Password storage program. This way I have my DES-3 encrypted passwords with me whereever I go.
Handy Shopper: Shopping list and general purpose checklist program. I use it for shopping and packing for trips.
iSilo: Stores web pages and plain text documents for convenient access.
Xmap Handheld: maps of anywhere in the US.
None of these are forced uses. While I can obviously survive without them, they make owning a PDA worthwhile.
I'm also a bit baffled by the poster. Charging a PDA only wastes time if you sit there watching it charge. I haven't had to reload software that often on my Palms. Syncing may take a few minutes, but I don't sit and watch it either.
They key to a PDA is to find a useful application for what you do. For me it was programs to help me learn Chinese, but there are programs for lots of other areas of life. Go to Palmgear and find something you can use.
I never check the MD5 checksum because I figure that if someone can crack the file they can replace the checksum. Having said that, I understand that the checksum and file may be in different locations, but often they are not. It would probably still make sense to check, though. An MD5 mismatch would be meaningful even if a match may not be.
I love my Tivo, and the review was very good, but I'm having a problem with one feature that the reviewer really liked. I find that when I'm fast forwarding over commercials and then stop I end up seeing most of the commercial before the show returns. I've been using my Tivo for a couple of years, so I may have just gotten too fast. I wish they would add the slider that Richard referred to in the interview. Then I could tune it to my speed.
It is interesting that Tivo will be able to download program information from cable TV. I hope this means that I can disconnect the phone line and remain anonymous. Also, this would let me get rid of my phone line altogether and I could go all-cellular.
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I'm wondering what will keep the neutron from bumping into itself as it moves back through time. You can't just have something go back in time in the same place, because it was already there and the two instances of the item would be occupying the same space. Does this time travel mechanism involve skipping over time?
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I tried CRM-114 after the previous Slashdot article. I payed a lot of attention to my email and did all the required training. After getting over the initial hump of misclassified email it got to a steady low level. Once it made a mistake and I had to train it, though, I would get a run of false positives and negatives for a bit until it settled out again.
What sent me back to SA was that a number of CRM-114 misclassifications were marking ham as spam. Losing a real message in the sea of spam is much more of a concern for me than getting a bit of spam with the regular stuff. It is very rare that I get ham classified as span in SA.
Several others have recommended Life Balance, and that is my choice too. LB follows a philosophy of assigning priorities to different parts of your life in order to bring things into balance. So, for example, if you feel that work is taking too much time out of your life you lower the priority for work all work tasks are accoringly moved to a lower place on the list according to home life and any other categories.
LB is hierarchical, so you can schedule tasks so that they don't show up until subtasks are complete.
While I mentioned the LB philosophy of balance, I have started using David Allens Getting Things Done approach. Life Balance works with it quite well and actually helps to keep me doing it.
I have both Palm and PC versions of Life Balance. the two synchronize so I can use either one. When I bought the Palm version it was the most expensive piece of Palm software I had bought. I begrudged them the money, but I'm hooked on the program. I have since bought the desktop version, which is easier to use when I'm at my PC.
Brown is intent on proving that Linus stole from Minix or UNIX. In what way was he supposed to have done this? Did he look at how they behaved and write something that does the same thing? Sure, and there is nothing wrong with that. Did he steal source code? If so it should be easy enough to compare Minix or the Lion document and see what was stolen. OK, maybe it is tedious to compare the source code. Brown should provide some concrete proof such as lines of stolen code rather than trying to attack Linus by saying he couldn't have written Linux.
I agree with the point that most of the products mentioned are made overseas. I would also point out that if the jobs were in America then the same products would still be required, only Americans would be employed. So while I'm glad that the Indians are buying "American" products, it does not really make outsourcing a good thing.
I happily use Debian at home, but the problem at work where support matters is that there are a lot more third party products that support Redhat than Debian. If you are going to use all free software then Debian is fine, but it gets trickier if you need go beyond that.
While I did my part to contribute to the Trustic database, I wasn't real sure about their methods. I submitted spam messages as they requested, but I had to tell them which address to consider to be a spam gateway. The addresses above that are marked positive. I always picked the first address outside of rr.com, but for all I know the nearest Roadrunner smtp system is a spam forwarder and I should have flagged it as negative. Pooling lots of people's ignorance won't necessarily provide good information.
I'm not sure what the big deal is about Achilles and the Tortoise anyhow. The "paradox" comes from stating the problem in a way that seems paradoxical, not anything inherent in reality. All you have to do is ask another question, "How long does it take Achilles and the tortoise to get to the finish line?". If Achilles gets there faster then he passed the tortoise.
That's pretty much how my personal usage goes, too. At work, though, we are loath to send company business over the wire in plain text, so this feature could be useful for businesses.
This topic came up in a story in the New York Times magazine today. This is otherwise an interesting article about a white racist who was actually black, but after ending one stretch in prison he ended up back there again after trying to pass a phone $20 at a Dunkin' Donuts. Aside from not being a dimly lit location, there was a cop behind him in line to help when the cashier refused the bill.
Has anyone gotten the Debian release to work? I got bogged down in conflicting prereqs and gave up.
The sad part is that both of fans that come with my retail Athlons died within a year. They are lousy fans. I replaced them with approved third party fans which I hope will work much better. I suppose I could have tried warranty claims, but didn't think about it until it was too late.
Yes, it has occurred to me. The fact that I said "It includes Japanese fonts" after talking about Chinese was a way of saying that the program has separate fonts for Japanese.
I use CJKOS on my Clie to give me Chinese characters, both for input as well as display in applications. It includes Japanese fonts but I have never used them. It works quite well for me.
And the bad part is that they aren't using the 234 numbers. They gave us the 234 overlay but didn't end up needing it. A few numbers got given out, though, including one from MSN (Microsoft does it again!), so they can't undo the overlay.
No, a mix. I have 2 builtin USB ports, and the old fashioned serial, parallel, keyboard, and mouse ports. My mouse is using USB but my keyboard is using the keyboard port.
It works fine for me, but I can tell you how I'm set up if you want to compare.
The saddest part is when I consider all of the articles that I've had rejected, then I see all the duplicates and misunderstood postings on Slashdot.
The point of the article was that the profiling features in Tivo and Amazon.com can give incorrect recommendations. The man who did not want recommendations for books about pregnancy went and rated a number of other books to try to fix Amazon's suggestions. Since he WANTED accurate suggestions, he should have told Amazon not to use the one book for recommendations as I suggested. If you don't want to make it easy for them to influence your sales decision, you should go to each book that Amazon uses as a basis for recommendations and tell them not to use it.
I'll agree with everyone who has complained about the submission. The article itself, though, is weak on substance. Tivo thinks you like something, and if it is wrong you thumb-down its recommendations. Big deal. It happened to me but I wouldn't tell the Wall Street Journal about it.
Regarding the pregnant gay man, Amazon has a feature where you can see what the basis was for a recommendation. If you find it was based on a book or other product that you do not want them to consider for your recommendations, you click a button and that is the end of it. The writer of the article should have done more research.
Other useful apps:
None of these are forced uses. While I can obviously survive without them, they make owning a PDA worthwhile.
I'm also a bit baffled by the poster. Charging a PDA only wastes time if you sit there watching it charge. I haven't had to reload software that often on my Palms. Syncing may take a few minutes, but I don't sit and watch it either.
They key to a PDA is to find a useful application for what you do. For me it was programs to help me learn Chinese, but there are programs for lots of other areas of life. Go to Palmgear and find something you can use.
Do we know that a wormhole blocks gravity? If it doesn't, then time won't vary significantly on the two ends.
I never check the MD5 checksum because I figure that if someone can crack the file they can replace the checksum. Having said that, I understand that the checksum and file may be in different locations, but often they are not. It would probably still make sense to check, though. An MD5 mismatch would be meaningful even if a match may not be.
I love my Tivo, and the review was very good, but I'm having a problem with one feature that the reviewer really liked. I find that when I'm fast forwarding over commercials and then stop I end up seeing most of the commercial before the show returns. I've been using my Tivo for a couple of years, so I may have just gotten too fast. I wish they would add the slider that Richard referred to in the interview. Then I could tune it to my speed.
It is interesting that Tivo will be able to download program information from cable TV. I hope this means that I can disconnect the phone line and remain anonymous. Also, this would let me get rid of my phone line altogether and I could go all-cellular.
I'm wondering what will keep the neutron from bumping into itself as it moves back through time. You can't just have something go back in time in the same place, because it was already there and the two instances of the item would be occupying the same space. Does this time travel mechanism involve skipping over time?