I agree. That's why we need a reliable way to distinguish spam from non-spam. If we establish opt-in for all e-mail we throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Opt-in is a lousy idea. Don't you want to be able to receive legitimate e-mail from people you haven't met yet?
Perhaps someone wants to write you a note about your web site. Or maybe someone read an article that you wrote and would like to discuss it. Or maybe an old friend from high school wants to send you an e-mail out of the blue.
If we shut off the possibility of such introductions, the Internet will become an even drier place than it is now.
Good link, thanks. This analysis seems to assume that the orbit of the smaller body around the larger one is perfectly circular -- this is why the two bodies have fixed positions in the rotating frame of reference. I wonder what happens to the results when you make the orbit elliptical? Do L4 and L5 remain stable?
-- Brian
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Under the GPL, the developer is voluntarily surrendering some of the rights he would gain under normal copyright
I don't think this is true at all. The developer is voluntarily granting a license to the world at large. She isn't surrendering anything at all. Without that license, the world has no rights whatsoever to the developer's work.
The biggest "source" of income for spammers is not even the money they receive from 0.001% who do respond to their messages, but what they make when they re-sell the list
That would create a pyramid structure which, as we all know, is unsustainable. Since spam doesn't seem to be losing any steam, I don't think this theory could possibly be true.
I am under no obligation whatsoever to view your advertising. I am not interested in a sob story about the importance of your advertising. The mere idea that I have some sort of duty in this regard is ludicrous. If you are forced out of business because I refuse to view your advertising, then go out of business.
The Internet is supposed to be free-as-in-liberty, not free-as-in-beer. No one ever promised that you'd be able to make money here.
Personally, I believe that a feasible micro-payment solution will eventually arise. If, in the meantime, the Internet becomes completely commercial-free, then I for one will shed no tears.
The long-term theory is to create self-replicating, self-powering nanobots
Anything that is (accurately) self-replicating in this fashion will be indistinguishable from life. And if there is then even the slightest possibility of error in the replication, you will then have survival of the fittest and evolution.
I devoured his columns as a boy. His simple, clear writing style made it easy to understand very sophisticated concepts. Today, I aspire to write like he did.
He is getting on in years and it's been awhile since I've seen anything new from him (either on math or junk science, his other favorite topic). His collection, The Night is Large is a great overview of his work.
Anway, it's a pleasure just to see his name and know that people are still pursuing the topics he wrote about.
Does this mean that Joe Public surfing the AT&T web site can't shoot them a question via e-mail? If so, I can't imagine that's going to be good for their business.
Thanks for these details. I remember happily using ln (both with and without -S) many years ago on SunOS. Just one of the many things about Unix that I miss in the Windows world.
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I doesn't hurt to ask, but that's pretty much what I thought. Thanks.
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Without messing around physically with the innards of my access point, is there a simple way to increase its range?
Question: If the process ends catastrophically (e.g. sudden power failure), it will never close() the file. As you mentioned, the file is no longer referenced elsewhere in the file system. So does this orphan the data on the hard drive?
I'm a Windows guy, so I don't quite understand. What does this have to do with inodes? In Windows, my understanding is that the reason you can't delete a file that's in use is because the process may want to read it again. How do Unix inodes avoid this problem?
I certainly agree that the presentation layer shouldn't interact directly with the database, but I don't see any reason why the abstract business logic can't run on the client.
... or "submerging", whatever that's supposed to mean.
I work for a company that builds business software. We have big projects building N-tier apps with "rich clients" on both.NET and Java. HTTP and HTML are wonderful, but they are not the solution to every problem. In some cases, people need GUI behavior that is just too difficult to get through a browser. For example, just try editing a grid of data in a browser. The web is not made for that sort of activity.
Unfortunately, the section you linked to covers "computer programs", not "all digital media". Can a music CD be considered a computer program rather than data? I doubt it.
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Does SMTP provide a reliable way for a single recipient to determine the total number of recipients? I don't think it does, but I'm not an expert.
I agree. That's why we need a reliable way to distinguish spam from non-spam. If we establish opt-in for all e-mail we throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Opt-in is a lousy idea. Don't you want to be able to receive legitimate e-mail from people you haven't met yet?
Perhaps someone wants to write you a note about your web site. Or maybe someone read an article that you wrote and would like to discuss it. Or maybe an old friend from high school wants to send you an e-mail out of the blue.
If we shut off the possibility of such introductions, the Internet will become an even drier place than it is now.
That's what I was afraid of. Gotta love that Slashdot mindset.
Why?
Good link, thanks. This analysis seems to assume that the orbit of the smaller body around the larger one is perfectly circular -- this is why the two bodies have fixed positions in the rotating frame of reference. I wonder what happens to the results when you make the orbit elliptical? Do L4 and L5 remain stable?
-- Brian
Under the GPL, the developer is voluntarily surrendering some of the rights he would gain under normal copyright
I don't think this is true at all. The developer is voluntarily granting a license to the world at large. She isn't surrendering anything at all. Without that license, the world has no rights whatsoever to the developer's work.
-- Brian
What exactly is the upgrade? I went to the site, but there are no details at all.
The biggest "source" of income for spammers is not even the money they receive from 0.001% who do respond to their messages, but what they make when they re-sell the list
That would create a pyramid structure which, as we all know, is unsustainable. Since spam doesn't seem to be losing any steam, I don't think this theory could possibly be true.
-- Brian
I am under no obligation whatsoever to view your advertising. I am not interested in a sob story about the importance of your advertising. The mere idea that I have some sort of duty in this regard is ludicrous. If you are forced out of business because I refuse to view your advertising, then go out of business.
The Internet is supposed to be free-as-in-liberty, not free-as-in-beer. No one ever promised that you'd be able to make money here.
Personally, I believe that a feasible micro-payment solution will eventually arise. If, in the meantime, the Internet becomes completely commercial-free, then I for one will shed no tears.
The long-term theory is to create self-replicating, self-powering nanobots
Anything that is (accurately) self-replicating in this fashion will be indistinguishable from life. And if there is then even the slightest possibility of error in the replication, you will then have survival of the fittest and evolution.
After that, watch out...
-- Brian
"How to Recognize Speech" = "How to Wreck a Nice Beach"
Obligatory comment.
I devoured his columns as a boy. His simple, clear writing style made it easy to understand very sophisticated concepts. Today, I aspire to write like he did.
He is getting on in years and it's been awhile since I've seen anything new from him (either on math or junk science, his other favorite topic). His collection, The Night is Large is a great overview of his work.
Anway, it's a pleasure just to see his name and know that people are still pursuing the topics he wrote about.
-- Brian
Does this mean that Joe Public surfing the AT&T web site can't shoot them a question via e-mail? If so, I can't imagine that's going to be good for their business.
If nuclear power is so "clean", what do you propose we do with the resulting waste?
It's an Orinoco BG-2000. Any suggestions?
Thanks for these details. I remember happily using ln (both with and without -S) many years ago on SunOS. Just one of the many things about Unix that I miss in the Windows world.
I doesn't hurt to ask, but that's pretty much what I thought. Thanks.
Without messing around physically with the innards of my access point, is there a simple way to increase its range?
Excellent explanation. Thank you.
Question: If the process ends catastrophically (e.g. sudden power failure), it will never close() the file. As you mentioned, the file is no longer referenced elsewhere in the file system. So does this orphan the data on the hard drive?
-- Brian
I'm a Windows guy, so I don't quite understand. What does this have to do with inodes? In Windows, my understanding is that the reason you can't delete a file that's in use is because the process may want to read it again. How do Unix inodes avoid this problem?
-- Brian
I certainly agree that the presentation layer shouldn't interact directly with the database, but I don't see any reason why the abstract business logic can't run on the client.
... or "submerging", whatever that's supposed to mean.
.NET and Java. HTTP and HTML are wonderful, but they are not the solution to every problem. In some cases, people need GUI behavior that is just too difficult to get through a browser. For example, just try editing a grid of data in a browser. The web is not made for that sort of activity.
I work for a company that builds business software. We have big projects building N-tier apps with "rich clients" on both
Unfortunately, the section you linked to covers "computer programs", not "all digital media". Can a music CD be considered a computer program rather than data? I doubt it.