If people taking this stance would at least bounce the email, it wouldn't be quite so bad. Right now a lot of people don't, and those running their own mailservers do not even know when a message will not reach the intended recipient because their IP address wasn't "expensive enough".
As a native french speaker, I can tell you that accents ARE most definitely used in signs and capitals. Even in acronyms now (pretty much always have been in Canada, relatively recent in France)
Well, even restricting to the G7, 4 out of 7 have characters missing from the 37 allowable in DNS: Canada: à â ç é è ê ë î ï ô û ù ü ÿ missing France: à â ç é è ê ë î ï ô û ù ü ÿ missing Germany: ä, ö, ü and ß missing Italy: All letters covered (as far as I can tell) Japan: Most letters missing United Kingdom: All letters covered United States: All letters covered
But restricting to the G7 is very convenient. How about the most popular languages by native speakers (taken from wikipedia) Mandarin: 672 million native (old statistic) English 425 million Spanish: 390 million Arabic: 272 million Indonesian: 222 million native Portugese: 210 million Bengali: 194 million Khariboli: 180 million Russian: 145 million Japanese: 130 million French: 120 million Persian: 101 million German: 100 million native
The hilarious thing is that English is the only language out of these 13 to have no issues at all with only having the 37 dns characters.
Please, there have been complaints about DNS not supporting most language's (even latin) character sets since the birth of the web, so it's completely untrue that we waited till everything was built. After well over a decade of patient waiting, it seems that actual pressure was required to get this change through.
I think it can be argued that as a naming system DNS doesn't work very well if it prevents most of the planet form using common, everyday words in their native language, or forces them to mis-spell them.
"But it works now, why change it?" Well, the same could have been said of IP addresses, and that didn't stop us from moving to DNS!
No, no, it was a honest mistake! From past experience, the developer expected a 1 bit integer as the candidate array index would be large enough for any american election. The next version will use a 2 bit integer.
I think the point it that it's very possible (maybe even very likely) that whatever "better" tool replaces wikipedia will only keep the latest version of the old wikipedia.
>> complaining that developers should be "free" to use DRM is analogous to saying that people should be "free" to own slaves.
>False analogy. We are not talking about a person, who has unalienable rights, but about something, that can be owned.
All right then "complaining that developers should be "free" to use DRM is analogous to saying that people should be "free" to to put sugar in the gas of other's people's car."
No, downloading transactions isa way to save lots of time on data entry. Spoting mistakes is the job of the reconciliation process (which gnucash has specific functions to help you with).
You may off course decide to skip reconciling and trust your bank for accounts where you download your transactions, but that isn't recommended. Reconciling against paper statements when they come in literaly takes seconds (when there are no mistakes) and is still well worth doing, if only to spod manually introduced mistakes in the account.
Not many, that's what QIF, OFX and OFC downloads, as well as OFX Direct Connect and HBCI are for. Gnucash will simply ask you what each of your transaction was spent on, as it already knows what account it's from. It will even do bayesian filtering the next time you import to try and guess it for you.
Why not? Because for most of the planet 3 years old hardware is pretty much top of the line, and for the developped world in non-corporate environement 3 year old hardware is the typical installed base.
Oups, it apears I'm indeed the one who misread the article, The quote was "The utilities are the same revisions as the old version 7.03 utilities with just changed copyright year and company name." But that refered to utilities they already have copyright to. DOH
The Epson Photo series are not as crappy with slides as other flatbeds, thanks to their film holder, lamp built into the lid and ability to focus above the glass. Off course don't expect spectacular results either.
Now the big problem is that standard linux tools (XSane and others) will get you really weird color out of film or slides. The solution (since you have an epson) is to use Epson IScan, which Epson actually publishes under the GPL: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/inde x.html
The interface is pretty annoying, but at least if features some surprisingly smart auto-color correction for slides that vastly makes up for it.
Well, here's a list of software that ESR wrote or maintains: http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html. I counted 45 distinct title, and that's not counting other projects he contributed code to or no longuer maintains (some are listed at the end).
If that isn't contributing SOMETHING to the development of software, I'd love to hear what your definition is.
I don't get it, you feel people on the other side of the ocean are geographically challenged because they only know a few of the internal divisions of your specific country?
In Canada you have a legal obligation to help someone needing assistance (to the extent of your knowledge/abilities), unless there is a risk for your own safety.
That's shortsighted. Do you really think HAMs in that area will keep training with and spending money on equipement if they can't operate it reliably EXCEPT when power is down? There is a limit to everyone's altruism...
Please shut the fuck up or, at least, learn proper English. By the way, the US can kick the shit out of the rest of world combined any day of the week and twice on Sunday and will be able to do so for far more than the next twenty years. Please fuck off and die.
Well, maybe so, but obviously you personally are so insecure and unable to kick anyone's ass that you have to hide behind a shroud of annonymity before you can even start yelling at people. Pathetic.
>Interesting how you pull Dean's tax hikes and massive new government programs out of my post before questioning whether he is really `left', eh?
I did it because tax and spending increases clearly ARE are left wing policies. In Canada our definition of what is left and right is pretty narrow and mostly limited to the level of government intervention. It's also usually not an insult to label someone left or right wing.
But I've noticed that most americans imply a LOT more attributes when they use the term. So I wanted to know what most americans mean by left or right (something you did answer). I personally have absolutely no idea how "left" Howard Dean is, regardless of the definition.
>I work for a very niche market/profitable software company and thats exactly how the developers get their feet wet, by fixing minor bugs.
That myth does not usually apply when you have a physical team working on a project, as new members can (and usually are) coached by existing developers. When you have no one to answer the question "In what file can I find X" except by email, overview documents are essential.
>Seems like the only way to "learn a project" is to fix bugs and therefore read the code.
Off course, but no normal human being can linearly read thousands of lines of source code and efficiently extract the big picture from it. So unless they are paid to do it, most would be contributors to large open source projects will never reach the stage where they can fix bugs and in so doing acquire a deeper understanding of the project.
The kind of comment new developers need most when they join any new project is NOT: -Watch out, the following snipplet is very complicated, let me walk you through it.
They need much more mundane info that most people completely forget to write:
-The following directory contains files related to functionnality X, and here is what each one does. -This code is not currently used anywhere, but was writtent to allow support of X if someone writes code Y and Z -This code will be deprecated, don't wate time on it, use X instead.
I don't get it. Excuse me for my foreign ignorance, but what does being: 1-pro-civil-unions, 2-pro-abortion-through-the-third-trimester-without -p arental-consent 3-pro-affirmative-action 4-Wanti ng to pull out of Iraq before reconstruction is complete 5-``reach out'' to state sponsors of terror 6-Pay off North Korea.
Have to do with being left wing? Only 4 and 6 have anything to do with government involvement, and analyzed purely from that perspective, 4 may even be right wing.
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If people taking this stance would at least bounce the email, it wouldn't be quite so bad. Right now a lot of people don't, and those running their own mailservers do not even know when a message will not reach the intended recipient because their IP address wasn't "expensive enough".
As a native french speaker, I can tell you that accents ARE most definitely used in signs and capitals. Even in acronyms now (pretty much always have been in Canada, relatively recent in France)
Well, even restricting to the G7, 4 out of 7 have characters missing from the 37 allowable in DNS:
Canada: à â ç é è ê ë î ï ô û ù ü ÿ missing
France: à â ç é è ê ë î ï ô û ù ü ÿ missing
Germany: ä, ö, ü and ß missing
Italy: All letters covered (as far as I can tell)
Japan: Most letters missing
United Kingdom: All letters covered
United States: All letters covered
But restricting to the G7 is very convenient. How about the most popular languages by native speakers (taken from wikipedia)
Mandarin: 672 million native (old statistic)
English 425 million
Spanish: 390 million
Arabic: 272 million
Indonesian: 222 million native
Portugese: 210 million
Bengali: 194 million
Khariboli: 180 million
Russian: 145 million
Japanese: 130 million
French: 120 million
Persian: 101 million
German: 100 million native
The hilarious thing is that English is the only language out of these 13 to have no issues at all with only having the 37 dns characters.
Please, there have been complaints about DNS not supporting most language's (even latin) character sets since the birth of the web, so it's completely untrue that we waited till everything was built. After well over a decade of patient waiting, it seems that actual pressure was required to get this change through.
I think it can be argued that as a naming system DNS doesn't work very well if it prevents most of the planet form using common, everyday words in their native language, or forces them to mis-spell them.
"But it works now, why change it?" Well, the same could have been said of IP addresses, and that didn't stop us from moving to DNS!
No, no, it was a honest mistake! From past experience, the developer expected a 1 bit integer as the candidate array index would be large enough for any american election. The next version will use a 2 bit integer.
I think the point it that it's very possible (maybe even very likely) that whatever "better" tool replaces wikipedia will only keep the latest version of the old wikipedia.
>> complaining that developers should be "free" to use DRM is analogous to saying that people should be "free" to own slaves.
>False analogy. We are not talking about a person, who has unalienable rights, but about something, that can be owned.
All right then "complaining that developers should be "free" to use DRM is analogous to saying that people should be "free" to to put sugar in the gas of other's people's car."
Better?
No, downloading transactions isa way to save lots of time on data entry. Spoting mistakes is the job of the reconciliation process (which gnucash has specific functions to help you with).
You may off course decide to skip reconciling and trust your bank for accounts where you download your transactions, but that isn't recommended. Reconciling against paper statements when they come in literaly takes seconds (when there are no mistakes) and is still well worth doing, if only to spod manually introduced mistakes in the account.
Not many, that's what QIF, OFX and OFC downloads, as well as OFX Direct Connect and HBCI are for. Gnucash will simply ask you what each of your transaction was spent on, as it already knows what account it's from. It will even do bayesian filtering the next time you import to try and guess it for you.
Why not? Because for most of the planet 3 years old hardware is pretty much top of the line, and for the developped world in non-corporate environement 3 year old hardware is the typical installed base.
Nope, the moisturizing part will be left out as it provides no financial benefits.
> besides, when is a burglar going to think twice about a "warning: cat on premises" sign?
;) Uncontroleable coughing isn't usually burglar's favorite activity...
Well, statistically a lot more burglars should be alergic to cats than dogs
Oups, it apears I'm indeed the one who misread the article, The quote was "The utilities are the same revisions as the old version 7.03 utilities with just changed copyright year and company name." But that refered to utilities they already have copyright to. DOH
My apologies
RTFA, they changed the copyright notice on many of these utilities.
The Epson Photo series are not as crappy with slides as other flatbeds, thanks to their film holder, lamp built into the lid and ability to focus above the glass. Off course don't expect spectacular results either.
e x.html
Now the big problem is that standard linux tools (XSane and others) will get you really weird color out of film or slides. The solution (since you have an epson) is to use Epson IScan, which Epson actually publishes under the GPL:
http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/ind
The interface is pretty annoying, but at least if features some surprisingly smart auto-color correction for slides that vastly makes up for it.
Well, here's a list of software that ESR wrote or maintains: http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html. I counted 45 distinct title, and that's not counting other projects he contributed code to or no longuer maintains (some are listed at the end).
If that isn't contributing SOMETHING to the development of software, I'd love to hear what your definition is.
I don't get it, you feel people on the other side of the ocean are geographically challenged because they only know a few of the internal divisions of your specific country?
In Canada you have a legal obligation to help someone needing assistance (to the extent of your knowledge/abilities), unless there is a risk for your own safety.
That's shortsighted. Do you really think HAMs in that area will keep training with and spending money on equipement if they can't operate it reliably EXCEPT when power is down? There is a limit to everyone's altruism...
Please shut the fuck up or, at least, learn proper English. By the way, the US can kick the shit out of the rest of world combined any day of the week and twice on Sunday and will be able to do so for far more than the next twenty years. Please fuck off and die.
Well, maybe so, but obviously you personally are so insecure and unable to kick anyone's ass that you have to hide behind a shroud of annonymity before you can even start yelling at people. Pathetic.
You can't really complain about the english increasing beer pint size by 4 ounces can you?
>Interesting how you pull Dean's tax hikes and massive new government programs out of my post before questioning whether he is really `left', eh?
I did it because tax and spending increases clearly ARE are left wing policies. In Canada our definition of what is left and right is pretty narrow and mostly limited to the level of government intervention. It's also usually not an insult to label someone left or right wing.
But I've noticed that most americans imply a LOT more attributes when they use the term. So I wanted to know what most americans mean by left or right (something you did answer). I personally have absolutely no idea how "left" Howard Dean is, regardless of the definition.
>I work for a very niche market/profitable software company and thats exactly how the developers get their feet wet, by fixing minor bugs.
That myth does not usually apply when you have a physical team working on a project, as new members can (and usually are) coached by existing developers. When you have no one to answer the question "In what file can I find X" except by email, overview documents are essential.
>Seems like the only way to "learn a project" is to fix bugs and therefore read the code.
Off course, but no normal human being can linearly read thousands of lines of source code and efficiently extract the big picture from it. So unless they are paid to do it, most would be contributors to large open source projects will never reach the stage where they can fix bugs and in so doing acquire a deeper understanding of the project.
The kind of comment new developers need most when they join any new project is NOT:
-Watch out, the following snipplet is very complicated, let me walk you through it.
They need much more mundane info that most people completely forget to write:
-The following directory contains files related to functionnality X, and here is what each one does.
-This code is not currently used anywhere, but was writtent to allow support of X if someone writes code Y and Z
-This code will be deprecated, don't wate time on it, use X instead.
I don't get it. Excuse me for my foreign ignorance, but what does being:t -p arental-consenti ng to pull out of Iraq before reconstruction is complete
1-pro-civil-unions, 2-pro-abortion-through-the-third-trimester-withou
3-pro-affirmative-action
4-Want
5-``reach out'' to state sponsors of terror
6-Pay off North Korea.
Have to do with being left wing? Only 4 and 6 have anything to do with government involvement, and analyzed purely from that perspective, 4 may even be right wing.