Seems like Mail.app has been getting worse since about 2003. I finally gave up on it about 5 years ago - in favor of gmail's web interface. At first I was a little disgusted with myself - but I've never regretted it.
I still use mail on my iOS devices, though. Have not yet seen a better UI for those.
If a compression scheme is lossless—that is, you can always recover the entire original message by decompressing—then a compressed message has the same quantity of information as the original, but communicated in fewer characters. That is, it has more information per character, or a higher entropy. This means a compressed message is more unpredictable, because there is no redundancy. Roughly speaking, Shannon's source coding theorem says that a lossless compression scheme cannot compress messages, on average, to have more than one bit of information per bit of message. The entropy of a message multiplied by the length of that message is a measure of how much information the message contains.
Right, and that's a fair workaround if you are only serving for personal use. And you aren't worried about being at locations that limit your outbound ports. And you don't mind jumping through the additional hoops of setting it up. And you are running on an OS that is ported to (or you're willing to put the server behind something else that does run a ported to OS).
But in this particular case it is a workaround that should not be needed.
Explain than to me why *I* as a customer should shoulder the costs of what you don't want to pay. Because at the end of the day, the ISP is a business and has to recover costs somewhere. Maybe hmmm, they will invent *tier* contracts in alternative of having a socialist alternative reality where I share your costs for a service I don't need or want?
Fine by me.
Because I should be able to run a trivial little server that turns off my lights using a webpage. Bandwidth is nothing. I should even be able to run a coms server so I can voice chat with my friends while playing whatever game is hot this week.
Frankly, unless you're hosting porn, your bandwidth usage for hosting a website is likely to be peanuts compared to someone who is only doing 'client' things like torrenting movies.
I'm all for honest limits. Bandwidth limits, byte limits, whatever.
But arbitrarily declaring servers as not being allowed is lame. And lamer still from Google. I ran servers on home machines for years though disallowed. How many ISPs do you know that are competent enough to catch it? But Google? They'll figure it out.
Or maybe this whole thing is miscommunication? You do realize in this case that I am theoretically paying google for internet connectivity, right?
I wanna run a server at home. I don't wanna pay $4/month more. I want to run some non-standard OS. I want to test my custom hardware. I want to connect my server to my lights.
I hope my car lasts more than 5 years. I'd like an integrated standard 'external' touch screen and audio. Then I just plug in my phone or pad and I have everything I want. GPS, phone, whatever. In a couple of years when I upgrade my phone, my car is upgraded. And again in a couple more years. And again in a couple more years. Then in 6 years I'm using new/updated software with a new 'computer' instead of the ancient crap that they installed for me with vendor lock-in crapware that was never updated because why bother.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Becker Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an American economist. He is a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago and a professor at the Booth School of Business. He has important contributions to the family economics branch within the economics. Neoclassical analysis of family within the family economics is also called new home economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.[1] He is currently a Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson senior fellow at the conservative[2] Hoover Institution, located at Stanford University.
Because code generated by a compiler tends not to be human readable and the instant you make even the tiniest change directly in the object code, the source becomes useless.
That's a great point. It's possible it didn't occur to me because most of the 'raw' javascript libraries I've looked at seem pretty ugly already - I didn't think of compiled coffeescript as looking much worse. But it really does.
That doesn't make compiling bad, but it does mean that the source language and compiler becomes a dependency.
Since the coffeescript compiler is self-hosted and compiles to the target, at least that dependency seems like a non-issue.
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SolarCity is rolling this out:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/12/10/solarcity-tesla/3948955/
Claimer: I am a very very recent SolarCity employee.
I'm now an IT manager over our hardware repair and oncall function, and I owe it to the day I went "PC Compatible"... over a freakin' video game.
Kinda sad.
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/NEXTSTEP
wahuh?
I think they have doomed us all.
I'm pretty sure we're all gonna die.
Five in five sun-like starts may have an earth-like planet!
Or it could be one in billions.
I predict it will be somewhere between. Do I get a cookie? How about a web hit?
Seriously - this isn't news. It's conjecture to fill space.
Seems like Mail.app has been getting worse since about 2003. I finally gave up on it about 5 years ago - in favor of gmail's web interface. At first I was a little disgusted with myself - but I've never regretted it.
I still use mail on my iOS devices, though. Have not yet seen a better UI for those.
Is there any solar power that is not a blight on the land?
There are a whole lot of roofs and parking lots that will be covered without mucking up more clear land.
You're seeing that many good programmers?
Where?
Oh SNAP! Nice one.
(written from OSX...)
https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Atranspires&oq=de&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i60l4.966j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Transpire: occur, happen
It is now revealed.
Nope. It's just about the same.
The answer is that it can last maybe 7 years if folks haven't learned anything. Less if they have.
Yeah. And there is absolutely no reason to go there unless you are planing on using it as a stepping stone.
But there are plenty of places there is no reason to go - and [rich] folks pay to go to 'em.
I could see a commercial/vacation moon visits done with private money. But a base? Naw.
The big unknown is nanotech. If we can nail down atomic manufacturing, then anything goes. But trying to predict that is ridiculous.
Yeah, I guess I feel the same way.
Of the projects that folks have mentioned, there are a few that I would have considered using at one time, but none that I would choose to use, today.
All in all, it has seemed like Apache is where projects go to die for a long time, now.
That's a golf cart.
No side windows. Top speed below 65mph.
Nothing to see, here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)#Data_compression
If a compression scheme is lossless—that is, you can always recover the entire original message by decompressing—then a compressed message has the same quantity of information as the original, but communicated in fewer characters. That is, it has more information per character, or a higher entropy. This means a compressed message is more unpredictable, because there is no redundancy. Roughly speaking, Shannon's source coding theorem says that a lossless compression scheme cannot compress messages, on average, to have more than one bit of information per bit of message. The entropy of a message multiplied by the length of that message is a measure of how much information the message contains.
Isn't this (one reason) why any good encryption system compresses what it is encrypting first? To maximize the data's entropy?
Right, and that's a fair workaround if you are only serving for personal use. And you aren't worried about being at locations that limit your outbound ports. And you don't mind jumping through the additional hoops of setting it up. And you are running on an OS that is ported to (or you're willing to put the server behind something else that does run a ported to OS).
But in this particular case it is a workaround that should not be needed.
Explain than to me why *I* as a customer should shoulder the costs of what you don't want to pay. Because at the end of the day, the ISP is a business and has to recover costs somewhere. Maybe hmmm, they will invent *tier* contracts in alternative of having a socialist alternative reality where I share your costs for a service I don't need or want?
Fine by me.
Because I should be able to run a trivial little server that turns off my lights using a webpage. Bandwidth is nothing. I should even be able to run a coms server so I can voice chat with my friends while playing whatever game is hot this week.
Frankly, unless you're hosting porn, your bandwidth usage for hosting a website is likely to be peanuts compared to someone who is only doing 'client' things like torrenting movies.
I'm all for honest limits. Bandwidth limits, byte limits, whatever.
But arbitrarily declaring servers as not being allowed is lame. And lamer still from Google. I ran servers on home machines for years though disallowed. How many ISPs do you know that are competent enough to catch it? But Google? They'll figure it out.
Or maybe this whole thing is miscommunication? You do realize in this case that I am theoretically paying google for internet connectivity, right?
Because.
I wanna run a server at home.
I don't wanna pay $4/month more.
I want to run some non-standard OS.
I want to test my custom hardware.
I want to connect my server to my lights.
What do you care why?
You would think that /. would be polite and warn folks.
Oh, look at your uid. You've been here long enough that you certainly know better.
I hope my car lasts more than 5 years. I'd like an integrated standard 'external' touch screen and audio. Then I just plug in my phone or pad and I have everything I want. GPS, phone, whatever. In a couple of years when I upgrade my phone, my car is upgraded. And again in a couple more years. And again in a couple more years.
Then in 6 years I'm using new/updated software with a new 'computer' instead of the ancient crap that they installed for me with vendor lock-in crapware that was never updated because why bother.
Anyone out there in /.-land plan on getting these for a real project?
Tell us about it! What language/OS/purpose?
Just curious...
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an American economist. He is a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago and a professor at the Booth School of Business. He has important contributions to the family economics branch within the economics. Neoclassical analysis of family within the family economics is also called new home economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.[1] He is currently a Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson senior fellow at the conservative[2] Hoover Institution, located at Stanford University.
Thanks for summarizing the summary - that's the only bit I care about.
Because code generated by a compiler tends not to be human readable and the instant you make even the tiniest change directly in the object code, the source becomes useless.
That's a great point. It's possible it didn't occur to me because most of the 'raw' javascript libraries I've looked at seem pretty ugly already - I didn't think of compiled coffeescript as looking much worse. But it really does.
That doesn't make compiling bad, but it does mean that the source language and compiler becomes a dependency.
Since the coffeescript compiler is self-hosted and compiles to the target, at least that dependency seems like a non-issue.