Amsterdam and Cambridge (UK), respectively, bought lots and lots of bicycles for everyone to use for free. Just use 'em, and then leave 'em for the next guy. They were all stolen. Anonymous access to facilities is always abused.
Actually, no, I don't think it has. Precisely as you observe, only a large chunk is available. Now the fact that the vanilla aspects you mention can already be acheived is not a good enough reason to avoid implementing some kind of value-added extensible version of anything that is useful. This is the net evolving to serve humans better, right in front of us.
Just think of this sort of thing as inter-linking web services sitting on top of the http protocol.
But seriously, are you suggesting we should have universal anonymity with universal trust? You must be mad. Did you follow the 'white bicycle' and 'green bicycle' experiments?
Anyway, the 'rich' (in this case those with 20 bucks to spare) only get to be anonymous by forfeiting access to some of their money.
You might as well complain that parking schemes are only for the benefit of those who can afford a car.
The same thing is now happening to the Television industry. Between TIVOs and BitTorrent, the world is demanding digital, on-demand television.
I like your thinking. We, the users, are saying "this is technically do-able, get the fuck on with it or we'll do it ourselves", the RIAA et al is saying "shut up and buy CDs and DVDs, and wait till we broadcast that show in your region" and so the public is doing it itself.
Not necessarily legal, but hell, I'm sure someone told me copyrights and patents were there to foster innovation... so the corporations better get on and innovate before it gets innovated for them!
"Heart pacemakers extend the lives of countless patients but can be surprisingly hazardous to others after death," says Christopher Gale, a research fellow at The General Infirmary at Leeds in England. The implants, which are typically hidden under layers of tissue, contain combustible chemicals that can suddenly explode if a body is cremated, injuring unsuspecting workers. Gale surveyed 241 British crematoriums; more than half reported pacemaker explosions, including blasts powerful enough to blow off oven doors and cause hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of damage. For safety's sake, Gale suggests that crematoriums should install metal detectors.
So does this mean that Microsoft will eventually have to remove every component which can be produced by a competitor
No you nerk, it means they will have to make sure they can be removed and permit OEMs to replace them with alternatives if the customer would prefer them. The fact this is not permitted is why the phrase 'monopoly abuse' keeps cropping up.
The entire point of debian's wonderfully stable 'stable' releases is that you have no reason not to upgrade to the latest stable release of any deb, and you are extremely unlikely to have any problems whatsoever in doing so.
We used to have substantial sysstems at Hampshire County Council which were REXX based. Users in the low thousands, spread all over the county.
When we couldn't parse user input we used to print to the screen a simple error message readin "ERROR: Cannot parse input; you have entered ''
Now, I sometimes used to parse user input into a variable called 'shit' because I was 23 and it amused me. Then one day I wrote a bug which missed out the read from console step, so the variable was never set. Now, REXX returns the upper case variable name if you reference an unset variable. So what did the user see? Yep, with the last word in upper case, just when it was coming to mean shouting, they got:
it *still* is an performance issue to add a few million records to a database?
What the fuck are you using, Access?! I don't consider my databases big till they are a couple of orders of mag over that. And no, I don't have any speed issues.
The problem is not SQL. The problem is developers who don't understand databases. For example (personal hate) surrogate keys on every table instead of actually understanding what the keys are, dictated by the business need. Un-indexed foreign keys because the developer doesn't realise that the connection goes both ways (find the parent from the child child from the parent).
If you step back a little, and think about what a SQL engine does - work out the best way to produce exactly what you said we should manually write, then write it and execute it - you'll realise that you might as well complain that Awk does pattern matching for you and we should walk the byte arrays ourselves. Or do you turn off all code generation tools when working with EJBs (say) because you know better?
I am in development, and I'm damned if I can see a strategy in.NET except "Shit we better have something to rival this Java thing before it rolls all over us!".
I agree, and apart from that how often do you upgrade a laptop?!
Incidentally, all your points are good, but there are still ease-of-se things. For example, I have a duplex printer - if it's on XP. If it's on a Linux box it's a single-sider simply because the driver doesn't yet support it.
Your comments about the dongles are right on: I have a Belking bluetooth usb which requires complicated installation on any given XP box, works fine until you reboot, then not at all again ever after. I hate XP.
I lost my third year project (Physics) to one in 1992. Eight months work chewed to bits, but a very nice chap named Jules reconstructed most of it from the actual sectors, with me guessing where-abouts it came from.
Well he's right, most people don't want to use computers and pointing devices. I for one, want a neural lace to communicate with Minds a la Iain M Banks's Culture novels.
But we'll put up with mice and Microsoft in the meantime...
Yeah, I know what you mean. Even reading, I find myself looking at a paragraph before I read it to see if it looks relevant to the story. Sometimes I catch myself just after I have skipped it... who knows how often I do it without realising!
I find this correlates to whether or not I have some interesting work to do which gets me back in the habit of concentrating. When I have a contract with some good, meaty, stuff (as now) I check/. et al about four times a day and read anything good.
When I am out of work (all of April this year) I turn into a big geeky gadfly and can't concentrate on anything mental. So I do the garden and lay patios and such.
"Ma'am, we're with the FBI. Would you please come with us? It's about your kids"
"Oh my god, what happened?"
"Well, it seems your DVD player noticed your kids were repeatedly attempting to unlock a movie of "Honeydumpling Sweethearts" with a dolly's finger and deduced there were no adults present in the home"
"My DVD player can do that?"
"Yes Ma'am. Anyway, not knowing any better, it called the RIAA. Luckily for you, a new operator there didn't know any better either and called us for the 'Home Alone' rather than sue your kids under the DMCA for 'Attempting to Circumvent'. Your family's getting off lightly..."
You can detect the malicious activity and advise the customer with or without stopping the spam, but you might as well. What earthly good would leaving p25 outbound do?
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Amsterdam and Cambridge (UK), respectively, bought lots and lots of bicycles for everyone to use for free. Just use 'em, and then leave 'em for the next guy. They were all stolen. Anonymous access to facilities is always abused.
J.
Well there's a big fat assumption, right there.
J.
Just think of this sort of thing as inter-linking web services sitting on top of the http protocol.
Justin.
But seriously, are you suggesting we should have universal anonymity with universal trust? You must be mad. Did you follow the 'white bicycle' and 'green bicycle' experiments?
Anyway, the 'rich' (in this case those with 20 bucks to spare) only get to be anonymous by forfeiting access to some of their money.
You might as well complain that parking schemes are only for the benefit of those who can afford a car.
Justin.
I like your thinking. We, the users, are saying "this is technically do-able, get the fuck on with it or we'll do it ourselves", the RIAA et al is saying "shut up and buy CDs and DVDs, and wait till we broadcast that show in your region" and so the public is doing it itself.
Not necessarily legal, but hell, I'm sure someone told me copyrights and patents were there to foster innovation... so the corporations better get on and innovate before it gets innovated for them!
J.
Hi Roy! Yep, I remember you too - should've guessed you'd be a /.er ;-)
J.
I was there 93-97, on FMS then the HantNet Forms project, and yeah, HantsNet rocked. Until people wanted pictures, not just functionality.
I'm Justin Rowles. Who you?
J.
"Heart pacemakers extend the lives of countless patients but can be surprisingly hazardous to others after death," says Christopher Gale, a research fellow at The General Infirmary at Leeds in England. The implants, which are typically hidden under layers of tissue, contain combustible chemicals that can suddenly explode if a body is cremated, injuring unsuspecting workers. Gale surveyed 241 British crematoriums; more than half reported pacemaker explosions, including blasts powerful enough to blow off oven doors and cause hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of damage. For safety's sake, Gale suggests that crematoriums should install metal detectors.
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http://www.poynter.org/dg.lts/id.2/aid.8039/colum
Justin.
No you nerk, it means they will have to make sure they can be removed and permit OEMs to replace them with alternatives if the customer would prefer them. The fact this is not permitted is why the phrase 'monopoly abuse' keeps cropping up.
Justin.
But by making a funny post, you weren't testing that. So...
*ducks*
Justin.
J.
We used to have substantial sysstems at Hampshire County Council which were REXX based. Users in the low thousands, spread all over the county.
When we couldn't parse user input we used to print to the screen a simple error message readin "ERROR: Cannot parse input; you have entered ''
Now, I sometimes used to parse user input into a variable called 'shit' because I was 23 and it amused me. Then one day I wrote a bug which missed out the read from console step, so the variable was never set. Now, REXX returns the upper case variable name if you reference an unset variable. So what did the user see? Yep, with the last word in upper case, just when it was coming to mean shouting, they got:
ERROR: Cannot parse input; you have entered SHIT
Didn't amuse me any longer, I can tell you.
Justin.
What the fuck are you using, Access?! I don't consider my databases big till they are a couple of orders of mag over that. And no, I don't have any speed issues.
The problem is not SQL. The problem is developers who don't understand databases. For example (personal hate) surrogate keys on every table instead of actually understanding what the keys are, dictated by the business need. Un-indexed foreign keys because the developer doesn't realise that the connection goes both ways (find the parent from the child child from the parent).
If you step back a little, and think about what a SQL engine does - work out the best way to produce exactly what you said we should manually write, then write it and execute it - you'll realise that you might as well complain that Awk does pattern matching for you and we should walk the byte arrays ourselves. Or do you turn off all code generation tools when working with EJBs (say) because you know better?
Justin.
Get your head out of your arse!
.NET except "Shit we better have something to rival this Java thing before it rolls all over us!".
I am in development, and I'm damned if I can see a strategy in
Justin.
I agree, and apart from that how often do you upgrade a laptop?!
Incidentally, all your points are good, but there are still ease-of-se things. For example, I have a duplex printer - if it's on XP. If it's on a Linux box it's a single-sider simply because the driver doesn't yet support it.
Your comments about the dongles are right on: I have a Belking bluetooth usb which requires complicated installation on any given XP box, works fine until you reboot, then not at all again ever after. I hate XP.
Justin.
Look, it's at the bottom of the ocean, right. The bottom. So, do you think it'll be the densest water, or some of the less dense stuff?
;-)
Sarcasm opportunity aside, the bottom of the sea is at 39 fahrenheit according to TFA, which is the 4C one w^Hshould expect
J.
I lost my third year project (Physics) to one in 1992. Eight months work chewed to bits, but a very nice chap named Jules reconstructed most of it from the actual sectors, with me guessing where-abouts it came from.
Those were, emphatically, NOT the days.
Justin.
Well he's right, most people don't want to use computers and pointing devices. I for one, want a neural lace to communicate with Minds a la Iain M Banks's Culture novels.
But we'll put up with mice and Microsoft in the meantime...
Justin.
Not enough!
Yeah, I know what you mean. Even reading, I find myself looking at a paragraph before I read it to see if it looks relevant to the story. Sometimes I catch myself just after I have skipped it... who knows how often I do it without realising!
/. et al about four times a day and read anything good.
I find this correlates to whether or not I have some interesting work to do which gets me back in the habit of concentrating. When I have a contract with some good, meaty, stuff (as now) I check
When I am out of work (all of April this year) I turn into a big geeky gadfly and can't concentrate on anything mental. So I do the garden and lay patios and such.
Justin.
<pout>I'm not allowed discretionary foolish purchases...</pout>
Justin.
"Ma'am, we're with the FBI. Would you please come with us? It's about your kids"
"Oh my god, what happened?"
"Well, it seems your DVD player noticed your kids were repeatedly attempting to unlock a movie of "Honeydumpling Sweethearts" with a dolly's finger and deduced there were no adults present in the home"
"My DVD player can do that?"
"Yes Ma'am. Anyway, not knowing any better, it called the RIAA. Luckily for you, a new operator there didn't know any better either and called us for the 'Home Alone' rather than sue your kids under the DMCA for 'Attempting to Circumvent'. Your family's getting off lightly..."
J.
Could've been worse, you could have suggested they were only Interfaces...
Anyway, for most people here they are probably Abstract anyway.
J.
You can detect the malicious activity and advise the customer with or without stopping the spam, but you might as well. What earthly good would leaving p25 outbound do?
J.
I think it helps if you're in the heart of the city, about twenty feet from an exchange ;-)
J.