The contact info is often only a website hosted in somewhere like Vanatu with "Give us your credit card number and we'll send you Viagra, honest. No really, trust us." I don't like thinking about just how stupid someone would have to be to buy stuff from spam.
Yes, in fact just after posting that message I checked the version that Debian Stable uses and it's 2.20. I upgraded to 2.55, so hopefully that will be better. More time wasted by the bloody spammers.
I've definitely noticed that my spamassassin filters are getting less effective. Six months ago, it was rare to see a spam that didn't get caught. Now maybe 10-20% get through.
As I use a sensible email client that doesn't render HTML by default, I can't even read the text of the spams anyway.
What an awful, pig-headed, unthinking response. "Fuck the rest of the world, what about me". The developing world catches up. Learn to do your job better, be indispensable, or lose your job. It's called capitalism. It seemed quite popular in America at one point.
The article states Google's problems very badly. It's not thought through sufficiently well and looks like something the author knocked out in a few minutes.
He does have a (small) point though - page rank is not necessarily a good indicator of 'quality' or relevance, it's just generally pretty well correlated with it.
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While the cosmetic appearance of programs is not vitally important, consistency does make them easier to use. For example, I use KDE with the MacOS style menu bar at the top of the screen. If I use Mozilla in KDE it doesn't follow the KDE style and I get two menu bars (mozilla's and the default KDE one). Confusing and a waste of screen space.
If a button always looks the same, if menu layout is always the same, using the GUI requires less thought. I can get on with using the computer, instead of having to waste brain power thinking about how to do things with the interface.
I've always wanted faster 2D performance in Linux - it's one of those things that makes the desktop feel nicer to use. But I can't find many benchmarks of directFB vs X. Apart from this
Which is just on the Matrox G400, which isn't that common a card. Are there more? If not, why not publish an extensive list of benchmarks with many cards and settle the X performance question?
Wouldn't preventing deep-linking destroy the use of search engines? What would Google do - provide a link to the front page and directions?
"On the main page, scroll down half way and click on the small link on the right hand side. Close the resulting pop-up and scroll down to the bottom of the next page. Follow the second link from the right and you will find the content you are looking for."
I somehow doubt the person behind the counter earns 100k/year. More like 20k. They're not exactly highly trained. Perhaps pharmacy was the wrong term to use - you couldn't get prescriptions filled there, but you could buy Clarityn.
[This trial] is not to do with security or theft, it is a supply chain trial."
But they then say security staff use it. So what is it for? What supply chain information does it give them that they can't get from the till receipts?
My local supermarket (Safeways, Shepherds Bush) had huge shoplifting problems with razor blades. Rather than implementing this (presumably expensive) scheme, they took the simple step of moving the blades behind the counter at the store pharmacy. Shoplifting drops overnight, no added cost and no privacy concerns.
For me, this kind of thing is my Number 2 reason for liking free software (Number 1 obviously being, well, freedom).
Free software sets the level for what people can do without help from companies. So, if a company wants to sell me some software, it has to demonstrably do something that I can't do for myself (with free software).
By forcing companies like Microsoft to lower prices, rethink strategies etc, free software improves condition in the industry, even for those that don't use it.
- I'm thinking about donating some money to charity. Should I give it to the FSF or Al Queda? - I currently work for Satan but I'm thinking of quitting and working for God. What does Slashdot think?
The battery life is affected by how long the device is on (just keeping the screen on uses some power) and also by what you do with it. If it's not actually doing anything (i.e. it's just sitting in the event loop waiting), the whole processor bit almost switches off, so power consumption drops.
The other power consuming action is maintaining the contents of memory, which happens all the time whether the unit is on or off, although it doesn't consume that much power.
Although keeping the DRAM refreshed while the unit is off uses some battery power (at least, it does on most Palm units), so I guess it won't be exactly linear.
Couldn't have summarised the situation better. So why do people put up with this shit from MS, when anybody suggesting using a non-standard electric plug would be laughed at.
Does the OS X version make use of the groovy "Aqua" gui yet, or is it still kludged on top of X for OS X?
Personally, I think it would do Apple good to put a couple of their programmers to working on Openoffice in the same way they did with Safari/Konqueror. That way, OSX gets a good, free Aqua-integrated word-processor for the cost of a couple of programmers' salaries, and the community gets the bug-fixes and improvements back. Win-win.
Yes, measuring something like linux usage is next to impossible. For example, I would imagine that linux users tend to use the web more, being more techy people. But then, do they know what they are looking for more and use bookmarks etc rather than google?
Personally, I think 1-2% is probably about right. It seems more when I go on academic conferences and am surrounded by Gnome/KDE + linux laptops, but that is a biased sample. As much as it pains me to say it, Linux usage is pretty damn rare "in the real world".
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No, the Google zeitgeist reports hits to its pages from different operating systems. Assuming that google usage is pretty even across users of desktop operating systems, the zeitgeist is a reasonably accurate measure of how many people actually use GNU/Linux.
Of course, not many people browse the web from their file server, so it doesn't measure server usage.
Somebody should really write an updated version of that troll. Although, I guess from the number of responses (and the mod point) it still seems to work.
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1Mb? That's a huge Palm app! Most apps are around 30-64K (not including those with lots of extra data like plucker web pages, of course).
The contact info is often only a website hosted in somewhere like Vanatu with "Give us your credit card number and we'll send you Viagra, honest. No really, trust us." I don't like thinking about just how stupid someone would have to be to buy stuff from spam.
Yes, in fact just after posting that message I checked the version that Debian Stable uses and it's 2.20. I upgraded to 2.55, so hopefully that will be better. More time wasted by the bloody spammers.
I've definitely noticed that my spamassassin filters are getting less effective. Six months ago, it was rare to see a spam that didn't get caught. Now maybe 10-20% get through.
As I use a sensible email client that doesn't render HTML by default, I can't even read the text of the spams anyway.
What an awful, pig-headed, unthinking response. "Fuck the rest of the world, what about me". The developing world catches up. Learn to do your job better, be indispensable, or lose your job. It's called capitalism. It seemed quite popular in America at one point.
The article states Google's problems very badly. It's not thought through sufficiently well and looks like something the author knocked out in a few minutes.
He does have a (small) point though - page rank is not necessarily a good indicator of 'quality' or relevance, it's just generally pretty well correlated with it.
While the cosmetic appearance of programs is not vitally important, consistency does make them easier to use. For example, I use KDE with the MacOS style menu bar at the top of the screen. If I use Mozilla in KDE it doesn't follow the KDE style and I get two menu bars (mozilla's and the default KDE one). Confusing and a waste of screen space.
If a button always looks the same, if menu layout is always the same, using the GUI requires less thought. I can get on with using the computer, instead of having to waste brain power thinking about how to do things with the interface.
I've always wanted faster 2D performance in Linux - it's one of those things that makes the desktop feel nicer to use. But I can't find many benchmarks of directFB vs X. Apart from this
Which is just on the Matrox G400, which isn't that common a card. Are there more? If not, why not publish an extensive list of benchmarks with many cards and settle the X performance question?
That company's doing well:
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Wouldn't preventing deep-linking destroy the use of search engines? What would Google do - provide a link to the front page and directions?
I somehow doubt the person behind the counter earns 100k/year. More like 20k. They're not exactly highly trained. Perhaps pharmacy was the wrong term to use - you couldn't get prescriptions filled there, but you could buy Clarityn.
[This trial] is not to do with security or theft, it is a supply chain trial."
But they then say security staff use it. So what is it for? What supply chain information does it give them that they can't get from the till receipts?
My local supermarket (Safeways, Shepherds Bush) had huge shoplifting problems with razor blades. Rather than implementing this (presumably expensive) scheme, they took the simple step of moving the blades behind the counter at the store pharmacy. Shoplifting drops overnight, no added cost and no privacy concerns.
Not having a CD burner isn't a problem - you could buy a CD writer and enough CD-Rs for not much more than the price of the boxed set ($40).
Shaky ground? More like quicksand.
For me, this kind of thing is my Number 2 reason for liking free software (Number 1 obviously being, well, freedom).
Free software sets the level for what people can do without help from companies. So, if a company wants to sell me some software, it has to demonstrably do something that I can't do for myself (with free software).
By forcing companies like Microsoft to lower prices, rethink strategies etc, free software improves condition in the industry, even for those that don't use it.
Future AskSlashdot questions:
- I'm thinking about donating some money to charity. Should I give it to the FSF or Al Queda?
- I currently work for Satan but I'm thinking of quitting and working for God. What does Slashdot think?
The battery life is affected by how long the device is on (just keeping the screen on uses some power) and also by what you do with it. If it's not actually doing anything (i.e. it's just sitting in the event loop waiting), the whole processor bit almost switches off, so power consumption drops.
The other power consuming action is maintaining the contents of memory, which happens all the time whether the unit is on or off, although it doesn't consume that much power.
Although keeping the DRAM refreshed while the unit is off uses some battery power (at least, it does on most Palm units), so I guess it won't be exactly linear.
Couldn't have summarised the situation better. So why do people put up with this shit from MS, when anybody suggesting using a non-standard electric plug would be laughed at.
What about graph-sketching? Is it no longer required? Just taking sample data points is a pretty poor method of drawing graphs in many cases.
The MS grammar checker is awful enough for the English version. Reading documents 'corrected' using the MS grammar checker is pretty funny.
Personally, I think grammar checkers as an idea are a complete waste of time as it is too complex a task for a computer to do well at the moment.
Does the OS X version make use of the groovy "Aqua" gui yet, or is it still kludged on top of X for OS X?
Personally, I think it would do Apple good to put a couple of their programmers to working on Openoffice in the same way they did with Safari/Konqueror. That way, OSX gets a good, free Aqua-integrated word-processor for the cost of a couple of programmers' salaries, and the community gets the bug-fixes and improvements back. Win-win.
Yes, measuring something like linux usage is next to impossible. For example, I would imagine that linux users tend to use the web more, being more techy people. But then, do they know what they are looking for more and use bookmarks etc rather than google?
Personally, I think 1-2% is probably about right. It seems more when I go on academic conferences and am surrounded by Gnome/KDE + linux laptops, but that is a biased sample. As much as it pains me to say it, Linux usage is pretty damn rare "in the real world".
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No, the Google zeitgeist reports hits to its pages from different operating systems. Assuming that google usage is pretty even across users of desktop operating systems, the zeitgeist is a reasonably accurate measure of how many people actually use GNU/Linux.
Of course, not many people browse the web from their file server, so it doesn't measure server usage.
Somebody should really write an updated version of that troll.
Although, I guess from the number of responses (and the mod point) it still seems to work.