Silly person. I, like many others, am not always working at the same machine and can't just use a client.
I want a web page version of Thunderbird, myself. This is heading toward it, with gmail and rss on there. If I could only delete the stuff I have read from the rss lists, I would delete Thunderbird and use this portal everywhere.
I seem to recall God's next instruction after "here's ten rules to follow" was "go over that hill and kill everyone you find..."
Mixing Christianity with politics is more about claiming the moral high ground to backup the policies than creating policies on the basis of those morals.
Don't call the nice Brit a troll. In case you didn't notice, registering your meatspace co-ords with a VOIP provider won't change the problem you describe, so his point is still well made: they could register the address of the VOIP customer as a first point, and then hassle people to change it when they move.
I reckon the solution will only come with GPS receivers in all handsets, VOIP and cell, myself.
And your 'R'-rated movie anology? Ludicrous. A better analogy would be if, after accompanying my kids to a R-rated movie, we sit down and, 10 minutes in, the lost reel of "Debbie Does Dallas" appears.
Bollocks. The damn kid has to get a mod and unlock it, so your analogy would only work if your kid went and tipped the projectionist to show a badly made, not really pornographic cos there's no genitalia, car-fucking-toon.
Sloppy thinking by the inhabitants will ruin the ideal of America far more than any outside influence.
Did you see the telly program when they tested the hearing of such cretins? They showed one chavster how his response was below normal in the midrange, and his response was "Do you mean I need to put in a bigger midrange amp to hear the music properly?"
Glasstrons. I really want something like those, and I definitely don't want the 'little glass bit over the top of one lens' that is generally available.
I spent ages a couple of years ago trying to get hold of a pair to try out, but none of the UK Sony franchises would get one without a guaranteed sale, cos they said they couldn't get them from Sony UK on 'sale or return'. Sony UK wouldn't return my calls.
Absolutely, because it is effectively playing with complete games in order to do well, which is equivalent to making a tree of every possible chess move from the start - a rather big data set.
..and from reading to the end of it, the answer is...
Not really. But it does work, and it would be possible from someone to take this and expand on it quite neatly.
For example, it currently uses entire games to compare. So if it comes across an unusual opening, even one close to a standard one, it's not able to decide effectively. Perhaps something using game fragments would be possible, then it might reproduce structured plays even when the previous game play has been unusual.
Really though, it is a successful tiny step in a direction that no-one else has thought of going. That's worth congratulating in and of itself.
So... anyone got any other suggestions for improvements?
I'd suggest your shareholders ditch you for using macros for anything remotely business critical anyway. But what do I know, I'm just a sane person;-)
Next question: 4000 apps? Really?! I'd suggest your desktop env is vastly overcomplicated then.
In other words, your reason for not changing boils down to 'having been doing things really badly for years, it would be impossible to move to linux without incurring the costs of changing to do things properly at the same time.' Really you should be trying to get rid of macros and reduce your desktop complexity to something sensible anyway.
OMG, they cut the guns out of cartoons?!!! And the current most successful tv for 8-and-olders is Doctor Who, in which people die, in agony on a regualr basis.
Not to mention, in the same universe, thousands of Americans die from guns every year, and they are still barely controlled. But yeah, lets not have them in cartoons, just in case some kids don't realise they are dangerous.
It's another step in making a browser into a platform, that's all. Sometimes people don't want the standard controls. Think of it as a dynamically downloadable widget?
I know web design/developers who would love this and make beautiful sites with it. I know others who will use it in entirely the wrong places and make sites that will show up on WorstOfTheWeb in a year's time;-)
It does matter Mr Shouty, cos it might be NS4 or IE3. Does he say it's compliant?
Anyway, as I said to the op, that it doesn't work as he states it is supposed to is just a bug. We all write those and fix them when reported. If, on the other hand, he hadn't considered it at all, I'd be much more critical.
Yeah, I wouldn't count it as finished without supporting at least IE and Moz. What I was getting at was, as he clearly intended it to work, it's a bug rather than a criticism of his project.
The internet works within copyright, except caches.
I make a request to www.somecompany.com for a copy of a given page, it makes one and sends it to me, and I can keep it for as long as I like. What I can't do is copy it and send it out again.
They will never successfully argue that local caches are bad, but they might manage to argue that proxy caches are outside copyright provision.
They are still complete asshats though. Although, being English and thus allowed to swear in public, I don't understand why they aren't arseholes. Perhaps it's harder to type?
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Silly person. I, like many others, am not always working at the same machine and can't just use a client.
I want a web page version of Thunderbird, myself. This is heading toward it, with gmail and rss on there. If I could only delete the stuff I have read from the rss lists, I would delete Thunderbird and use this portal everywhere.
J.
And the UK Ordnance Survey was using the idea in 2003 on the MasterMap project.
J.
(MasterMap Developer)
I seem to recall God's next instruction after "here's ten rules to follow" was "go over that hill and kill everyone you find..."
Mixing Christianity with politics is more about claiming the moral high ground to backup the policies than creating policies on the basis of those morals.
J.
Don't call the nice Brit a troll. In case you didn't notice, registering your meatspace co-ords with a VOIP provider won't change the problem you describe, so his point is still well made: they could register the address of the VOIP customer as a first point, and then hassle people to change it when they move.
I reckon the solution will only come with GPS receivers in all handsets, VOIP and cell, myself.
J.
Bollocks. The damn kid has to get a mod and unlock it, so your analogy would only work if your kid went and tipped the projectionist to show a badly made, not really pornographic cos there's no genitalia, car-fucking-toon.
Sloppy thinking by the inhabitants will ruin the ideal of America far more than any outside influence.
Justin.
Ah, yes, two tier analysis. Pick the best possible resultant grouping, then the best move to achieve that grouping (as there are prolly several).
Obviously taking/checking will require different analyses, but then we are getting away from the simple bayesian approach.
J.
Did you see the telly program when they tested the hearing of such cretins? They showed one chavster how his response was below normal in the midrange, and his response was "Do you mean I need to put in a bigger midrange amp to hear the music properly?"
J.
Glasstrons. I really want something like those, and I definitely don't want the 'little glass bit over the top of one lens' that is generally available.
I spent ages a couple of years ago trying to get hold of a pair to try out, but none of the UK Sony franchises would get one without a guaranteed sale, cos they said they couldn't get them from Sony UK on 'sale or return'. Sony UK wouldn't return my calls.
So fuck 'em, I thought.
J.
Absolutely, because it is effectively playing with complete games in order to do well, which is equivalent to making a tree of every possible chess move from the start - a rather big data set.
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..and from reading to the end of it, the answer is...
Not really. But it does work, and it would be possible from someone to take this and expand on it quite neatly.
For example, it currently uses entire games to compare. So if it comes across an unusual opening, even one close to a standard one, it's not able to decide effectively. Perhaps something using game fragments would be possible, then it might reproduce structured plays even when the previous game play has been unusual.
Really though, it is a successful tiny step in a direction that no-one else has thought of going. That's worth congratulating in and of itself.
So... anyone got any other suggestions for improvements?
Justin.
Gaaah! Google's cache doesn't have that onepage!
For all the others, try here
J.
Next question: 4000 apps? Really?! I'd suggest your desktop env is vastly overcomplicated then.
In other words, your reason for not changing boils down to 'having been doing things really badly for years, it would be impossible to move to linux without incurring the costs of changing to do things properly at the same time.' Really you should be trying to get rid of macros and reduce your desktop complexity to something sensible anyway.
Justin.
We proto-hominids don't have opposable thumbs, you insensitive clod!
J.
J.
Not to mention, in the same universe, thousands of Americans die from guns every year, and they are still barely controlled. But yeah, lets not have them in cartoons, just in case some kids don't realise they are dangerous.
Go figure...
J.
(A Brit)
Nope, I'm damned if I can remember what it's doing for those few seconds. Now will you tell me the damn answer?
J.
I missed that /. article. Taco/Zonk, would you mind duping it please?
J.
It's another step in making a browser into a platform, that's all. Sometimes people don't want the standard controls. Think of it as a dynamically downloadable widget?
;-)
I know web design/developers who would love this and make beautiful sites with it. I know others who will use it in entirely the wrong places and make sites that will show up on WorstOfTheWeb in a year's time
J.
It does matter Mr Shouty, cos it might be NS4 or IE3. Does he say it's compliant?
Anyway, as I said to the op, that it doesn't work as he states it is supposed to is just a bug. We all write those and fix them when reported. If, on the other hand, he hadn't considered it at all, I'd be much more critical.
J.
Hallloooo! ;-)
Yeah, I wouldn't count it as finished without supporting at least IE and Moz. What I was getting at was, as he clearly intended it to work, it's a bug rather than a criticism of his project.
Cheers,
J.
Not to be a reading Nazi, but he says you can at the top of the page, and Firefox Just Works.
I'd ask you what browser you're using, but you're a useless AC so you'll prolly never read this.
J.
I make a request to www.somecompany.com for a copy of a given page, it makes one and sends it to me, and I can keep it for as long as I like. What I can't do is copy it and send it out again.
They will never successfully argue that local caches are bad, but they might manage to argue that proxy caches are outside copyright provision.
They are still complete asshats though. Although, being English and thus allowed to swear in public, I don't understand why they aren't arseholes. Perhaps it's harder to type?
J.
A present (not missing) robots.txt file which didn't include a rule for those pages might imply permission to cache...
Don't be so harsh, you've got a cheat sheet in front of you, this poor chap can only spell aoeui ;-)
J.