But Google covers not only English text. Should the usage of other languages influence the English one (Maybe).
"email" is an ordinary French and German word.
The file command did not look at the extension to get that data, it looked at the file. In Linux the program opening the file needs to be smart enough to know what it's opening, that's not hard.
OS/2 Rexx scripts must start with a Rexx comment.
Like:
/* example.cmd Rexx Script to do something */
a= 1
[...]
In spite of this "magic bytes", file can't distinguish them from C or C++ header and code files (.h,.c and.cpp)
And file can call "English text" things that are not text and are not English.
IBM OS/2 does implement (on FAT and HPFS filesystems) Extended Attributes. You have up to 64 kB associated to any file, where you can store attributes (official or your own), for example, URL where I downloaded it from, date of creation, date of last read, date of last update,...
One of the official attributes is type, you can label a file as "text", "OS/2 command file", "DOS command file". You can even assign your own type.
Some OS/2 programs (not those ported from Unix) can use them to ignore extensions.
OS/2's Workplace Shell works both with extensions and file types. You can assign.jpg, jpeg, image/jpeg and JPEG file to the same or different program objects. You can even associate an extension to several programs. There can be conflicts as to which gets open by default, but the icon tells you which it will be.
It is not perfect, because many programs ignore extended attributes. But I think it's a good idea.
BeOS did it better because it has no limit to the size of the attributes. __
Perhaps you've been wandering in the Windows world too much,
Perhaps you've been wandering in the Unix world too much. Can magic-based systems distinguish English plain-text from German plain-text? Somebody could find it useful.
A possible solution without external metadata would be an in-file header like XML and HTML, but I find it cumbersome. __
Norton Utilities 4.5 for DOS had FileSave (I think) that implemented this. You set a limit to the space of files not-really-deleted, and you could say that.TMP, or.BAK shouldn't be stored.
A TSR intercepted the "delete-file" and "how much space free" calls.
If the really free space went too low, the programa would really delete files. So it was transparent.
Something similar was put into MS-DOS 6.0 and in OS/2. If Unix doesn't have it, I call it a shortcome. But Unix was never designed for fallible beings (hence, case-sensitive filenames). __
Artificial-reality pioneer Myron Krueger hinted to a "Kung-fu typewriter": You stand in an augmented environment. You type by throwing kicks and punchs to virtual or artificial keys.
It may not be very productive, but, if you currently spend 8 hours typing and 2 exercising to compensate the sedentary time, with this you could spend 10 hours kungfu-typing.
Some people here point that nobody would want to talk with a finger in their ear. Actually lots of people now talk with the phone in one hand and the other on the other ear, if in a noisy environment. I don't see it a problem.
Where I see a problem is in that with this you absolutely need one hand to talk. No more trying to hold the thing between the shoulder and the head (it's bad for your neck, you know). Now you only have one hand free. __
But I mean the case when they apply, the public knows the secret and they are not awarded the patent.
As other posters have said, this could mean that the applicant shouldn't have even tried, but probably there could be a fine line of inventions that could be patented or not and are kept secret. __
As someone said, the original intent of patents is: the inventors uncover their trade secrets in exchange for a time-limited monopoly.
If "The bill would also establish an "opposition procedure" at the conclusion of the process, "so that the public at large would have one additional opportunity to challenge the award of a business method patent short of having to file a lawsuit," said Boucher., wouldn't this mean that the inventors may be revealing their secrets, and maybe not getting a patent? __
"livre", which in the context looks like an unintentional typo for the expected adjective "libre" (free as in freedom of speach).
That's the joke. It's intended. I know that "libre" is "free". But I understand that "livre" is very similar and still it makes sense. It's funny, laugh. "Un livre" is not funny, it is too far from the original slogan. You have ruined my life.
I have even marked it out of the {EM} block. Are you reading it in Lynx? __
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But Google covers not only English text. Should the usage of other languages influence the English one (Maybe).
"email" is an ordinary French and German word.
Though if the difference is 20 to 1...
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Of course, I mean "2001: A Space Odissey".
200.1 is the reduced-to-one-tenth shorter version. No so boring.
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To me, the film Solaris was as boring as 200.1
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Is this the first time a book written not originally in English is reviewed here?
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What music goes with that? I don't recognize it.
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nobody wanted them at the time, either
Yeah, my point.
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Comercial software is made because other people want it. If no one wants the software, they don't buy it, and the whole thing ends.
:)
Explain then Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.0
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The file command did not look at the extension to get that data, it looked at the file. In Linux the program opening the file needs to be smart enough to know what it's opening, that's not hard.
/* example.cmd Rexx Script to do something */
.c and .cpp)
.jpg, jpeg, image/jpeg and JPEG file to the same or different program objects. You can even associate an extension to several programs. There can be conflicts as to which gets open by default, but the icon tells you which it will be.
OS/2 Rexx scripts must start with a Rexx comment.
Like:
a= 1
[...]
In spite of this "magic bytes", file can't distinguish them from C or C++ header and code files (.h,
And file can call "English text" things that are not text and are not English.
IBM OS/2 does implement (on FAT and HPFS filesystems) Extended Attributes. You have up to 64 kB associated to any file, where you can store attributes (official or your own), for example, URL where I downloaded it from, date of creation, date of last read, date of last update,...
One of the official attributes is type, you can label a file as "text", "OS/2 command file", "DOS command file". You can even assign your own type.
Some OS/2 programs (not those ported from Unix) can use them to ignore extensions.
OS/2's Workplace Shell works both with extensions and file types. You can assign
It is not perfect, because many programs ignore extended attributes. But I think it's a good idea.
BeOS did it better because it has no limit to the size of the attributes.
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Perhaps you've been wandering in the Windows world too much,
Perhaps you've been wandering in the Unix world too much. Can magic-based systems distinguish English plain-text from German plain-text? Somebody could find it useful.
A possible solution without external metadata would be an in-file header like XML and HTML, but I find it cumbersome.
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I have seen a similar script somewhere. But it wouldn't work out of the command line.
What's needed is a program intercepting every call to the "delete file" system call. It has been done on DOS.
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Norton Utilities 4.5 for DOS had FileSave (I think) that implemented this. You set a limit to the space of files not-really-deleted, and you could say that .TMP, or .BAK shouldn't be stored.
A TSR intercepted the "delete-file" and "how much space free" calls.
If the really free space went too low, the programa would really delete files. So it was transparent.
Something similar was put into MS-DOS 6.0 and in OS/2. If Unix doesn't have it, I call it a shortcome. But Unix was never designed for fallible beings (hence, case-sensitive filenames).
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Artificial-reality pioneer Myron Krueger hinted to a "Kung-fu typewriter": You stand in an augmented environment. You type by throwing kicks and punchs to virtual or artificial keys.
It may not be very productive, but, if you currently spend 8 hours typing and 2 exercising to compensate the sedentary time, with this you could spend 10 hours kungfu-typing.
Great, this Krueger.
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Some people here point that nobody would want to talk with a finger in their ear. Actually lots of people now talk with the phone in one hand and the other on the other ear, if in a noisy environment. I don't see it a problem.
Where I see a problem is in that with this you absolutely need one hand to talk. No more trying to hold the thing between the shoulder and the head (it's bad for your neck, you know). Now you only have one hand free.
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Bill Gates will send them his lawyers for trying to reverse-engineer his Microsoft Mouse.
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I was concerned about what would happen to our environment if every Chinese would be given a car.
Now I am concerned about locusts!
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Does eComStation (eCommStation?) have a market beyond OS/2 upgrades?
All I hear about it is a (sort of) upgrade from OS/2 Warp 4. But it could be because I am not in the circuit of huge parks of company computers.
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I heard that somebody was re-porting it to OS/2. How is it going?
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Netcraft, has a service to find web servers with addresses matching an expresion like "*.microsoft.*"
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But I mean the case when they apply, the public knows the secret and they are not awarded the patent.
As other posters have said, this could mean that the applicant shouldn't have even tried, but probably there could be a fine line of inventions that could be patented or not and are kept secret.
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As someone said, the original intent of patents is: the inventors uncover their trade secrets in exchange for a time-limited monopoly.
If "The bill would also establish an "opposition procedure" at the conclusion of the process, "so that the public at large would have one additional opportunity to challenge the award of a business method patent short of having to file a lawsuit," said Boucher., wouldn't this mean that the inventors may be revealing their secrets, and maybe not getting a patent?
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What is a karma freeze?
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"livre", which in the context looks like an unintentional typo for the expected adjective "libre" (free as in freedom of speach).
That's the joke. It's intended. I know that "libre" is "free". But I understand that "livre" is very similar and still it makes sense. It's funny, laugh. "Un livre" is not funny, it is too far from the original slogan. You have ruined my life.
I have even marked it out of the {EM} block. Are you reading it in Lynx?
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Ey! Don't believe them. It was all a plot to get Slashdot more traffic and sell more banner ads.
The story supposedly posted by the crackers was signed by CmdrTaco itself. Would he think we wouldn't notice?
Slashdot.org has the highest security. And it runs Linux. And Slashcode is GPLed. You want me to believe that some Dutchmen can crack it?
(Suggestion to moderators: Conspiranoid, +1)
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I don't know if it is related to the article :) but Larry Feign is doing Lily Wong comics again.
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becuase I can't think of a compelling reason to think otherwise.
So you think that all the people claiming to be Bruce Perens are the real one?
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