No silent updates of course - the user must always remain in control. I have seen the update notification setting - but don't I still have to act on each notification to perform each upgrade singly ? Updating all in a single action ala 'apt-get upgrade' would have been much nicer.
I have a bunch of applications in the "My downloads" menu, all with the "Update available" status... But they never upgrade automatically. The OS upgraded to Cupcake fine though. But I have never seen a single app upgrade notification come up without me having triggered the upgrade.
Package upgrade on Android... For starters, the "My Downloads" list is not ordered alphabetically nor in any apparently meaningful order. Then for each upgradeable package, one must first browse to the package, then manually trigger the upgrade package, then acknowledge system privileges the upgraded package and finally clear the download notification and the update notification. Is this a joke ? This almost matches the tediousness of upgrading Windows software - an impressive feat considering that the foundations of Android package management seem serious enough. Where is my APT ?
Basil Fawlty: Is something wrong ? 4th German: Will you please stop talking about the war ? Basil Fawlty: Me ? You started it ! 4th German: We did not start it. Basil Fawlty: Yes you did, you invaded Poland.
> I'm constantly waiting for songs to end before > picking another one, or leaving tracks that have > silence at the end to finish completely. Really > wish it incremented at 75% complete or something.
Amarok submits to Last.fm after playing about half of the track. Yet another reason to use Amarok...
In the first Civ game, the resolution of battles used a single turn probabilistic algorithm. So although the attack/defense ratio of battleship vs. pikemen was ridiculous, the low probability event of a pikemen win did happen from time to time... And battleship owners were pissed off accordingly !
Newer incarnations of the game introduced a hit point system with a multi-turn battle algorithm including an initiative factor - there are almost no more really surprising outcomes.
I believe the suprises were part of the Civilization gameplay, and they mirrored the real world suprises of the battlefield. They forced the player to have a deeper plan made so that his campaign works with no single unit being critical.
I have used many Linux image browsers and editors along with a stable of home grown bash scripts. Even though I still use my scripts out of habit, I must say that Digikam can replace most of them and provide a seamless JPEG workflow in a state of the art environment. There are still some small things I would appreciate, such as a better curves dialog, but overall I have been a very happy user. Some tools such as the crop tool with framing aids are the best I have ever seen, and overall I have seen my photo editing time almost halved by using Digikam. It is not a general graphics editor - for retouching you still need something else, but for the basic editing (everything that touches the whole image) it fills the need perfectly. And it is the best IPTC tagger I have used so far.
In order to promote that feed sharing and discovery I made my daily reading list public. If you like the concept of concept of discovering new feeds from friends and neighbors, the you might also enjoy Toluu.
Maintaining an edge in computer security is a never ending race between finding new vulnerabilities and patching them. Constantly finding new vulnerabilities just in case war breaks out tomorrow is an expensive endeavor - just like any other arms race but iterating much faster. Only two sort of people are motivated enough to invest enough in it to maintain a lead : intelligence agencies (which probably won't tell anyone about what they find) and organized criminals who are often the origin of the knowledge that percolates through layers of lesser skilled intruders until a defense is set up. China has reputedly set up a mutually beneficial cooperation between the army and the criminals - it makes a lot of sense : the criminals are the peacetime maintainers of skills that the army can mobilize at will in exchange for turning a blind eye to their other activities. The ethics of a western democracy are incompatible with that sort of arrangement. I guess that you will not tell us the budget involved, but could you please paint us a picture of the process of keeping the digital powder dry and the digital knives sharp while remaining within the frame of our ethics ?
Indeed I'm already using a rather aggressive stance : I reject calls with no caller ID, I don't have any voicemail, I take names and complain for every single spammy call (which are actually very rare - maybe one every two months).
But ultimately, whitelisting will be unavoidable and other callers will get screened. Collaborative blacklisting will also be needed - the email experience will help set up systems for that.
Ubik is utterly psychedelic. Telepathy, subjective realities that border on the hallucination and a warped flow of time will combine to make the movie very difficult to render in a way that will connect to mainstream audiences not under the influence of mind altering drugs. Of course there is always the option of emasculating the scenario to produce a bland simplified Hollywood-compatible blockbuster with extra explosions...
Lack of outline mode is bug nÂ3959 and if you had as much as skimmed its content you would know why it is taking longer to develop than you think it should.
Everyone agrees it is important, everyone is impatient, the developers know all about it, but it is not a trivial hack, so it will take resources and therefore time.
For many people, the whole point of publishing on the Internet is to be free from regulatory interference and free from the structural costs of top down media. So please unionize and suffer the same marginalization by everyone else who does not care.
> That was with me accidentally getting on the wrong flight.
A similar story happened on a flight from France to Germany in the nineties. Because of overbooking I had been upgraded to business class and no one else claimed the seat, so I was completely unaware of being on the wrong flight. Only during the traditional hostess announcement after take-off did I mention to my neighbor that the wrong destination was announced... Lufthansa nicely took it as their own error and re-routed me on a flight from Stuttgart to my original destination, Hamburg.
What happened is that the planes were on the two branches of an "Y" shaped boarding bridge. When the overhead sign changed from "Stuttgart" to "Hamburg" I leaped from my seat, handed my boarding pass and boarded. But the ground crew had not had time to change the ribbon barrier configuration, so I boarded the wrong plane. I should have been surprised to be first at the gate and then board a full plane.
Anyway, if you forge a boarding pass, do it for a first or business class seat - a collision with another passenger is less likely.
>> "You will know everything from the climate and soil the food was >> grown in, to the pesticides and pollution it was exposed to, to >> the energy consumed to create the product, to the temperature >> and air quality of the shipping containers it traveled through >> on the way to your dinner table." > > Will such information increase sales or revenue to producers ?
Yes it will ! Differenciation is what make a product stand out from the lot. This has already begun to happen in agriculture : mass produced generic commodities are far less profitable than product with very specific pedigrees. The modern marketing of "appellation d'origine controllée" began with wines, but you can now find examples in many other food categories such as coffee and cheese, and it is just the beginning of the trend.
> Every
release -- even a small point release like this one -- I hope that the
> OOo developers will add an outline mode to Writer. And every
release I'm
> disappointed. I really like OOo, but this one missing feature
keeps me from
> using it for serious work becuase it makes large document
planning and writing
> production in Writer sloooooow.
Has already existed and thrived for a long time !
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Those of you who listen to African, and particularly Congolese music are familiar with that scheme. Songs are peppered with praise for individuals who paid for it. Actually it is so big that some artists pre-finance their albums production that way ! It is like embedding advertising in the songs. In a country where piracy makes album sales almost irrelevant, live performance and embedded advertising are important ways to make money.
Doesn't this remind you about the early networks ? Think about the protocols that were designed for this sort of asynchronous all-terrain exchanges. This bus could be : - Fidonet node - NNTP server - SMTP server - POP server - Mirror of many things
Protocols such as Fido and NNTP have been in use in an age of 300 to 9600 bps connexions and tape spool exchanged between sites. They would be right at home in this sort of bus !
> When I am travelling, I try to force myself to leave my laptop behind in order to > truly relax, but that means that I have to use my e-mail provider's web interface. > And when I see that my Inbox has 500 messages after just 36 hours, then I start to > understand the grumbling that SMTP is broken and we need a drastically reformed > protocol.
No, you just need server-side filtering. Maildrop rulez !
I get so much spam that no single approach works on its own. I use a mix of greylisting, selected blacklists, Spamassassin with bayesian filters and various plugins inclusing URIDNSBL and FuzzyOCR, Razor and Pyzor, Clamav... And each user still sees a couple of spam messages a week. But overall I believe I have a rather nice system with extremely low maintainance and standard components.
I you still have spam, it just means that you are not using the freely available tools to eradicate it. Just do it ! I found it is suprisingly easy and we have to thank Debian for that !
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No silent updates of course - the user must always remain in control. I have seen the update notification setting - but don't I still have to act on each notification to perform each upgrade singly ? Updating all in a single action ala 'apt-get upgrade' would have been much nicer.
I have a bunch of applications in the "My downloads" menu, all with the "Update available" status... But they never upgrade automatically. The OS upgraded to Cupcake fine though. But I have never seen a single app upgrade notification come up without me having triggered the upgrade.
Not being used by Android because it being Linux is purely immaterial.
Of course - it could be any package management... Just something automated !
If you want a phone with APT, you need to look at Nokia's Maemo offering.
Yes, I have noticed it and I'll certainly give it a good look.
Package upgrade on Android... For starters, the "My Downloads" list is not ordered alphabetically nor in any apparently meaningful order. Then for each upgradeable package, one must first browse to the package, then manually trigger the upgrade package, then acknowledge system privileges the upgraded package and finally clear the download notification and the update notification. Is this a joke ? This almost matches the tediousness of upgrading Windows software - an impressive feat considering that the foundations of Android package management seem serious enough. Where is my APT ?
Basil Fawlty: Is something wrong ?
4th German: Will you please stop talking about the war ?
Basil Fawlty: Me ? You started it !
4th German: We did not start it.
Basil Fawlty: Yes you did, you invaded Poland.
> I'm constantly waiting for songs to end before
> picking another one, or leaving tracks that have
> silence at the end to finish completely. Really
> wish it incremented at 75% complete or something.
Amarok submits to Last.fm after playing about half of the track. Yet another reason to use Amarok...
In the first Civ game, the resolution of battles used a single turn probabilistic algorithm. So although the attack/defense ratio of battleship vs. pikemen was ridiculous, the low probability event of a pikemen win did happen from time to time... And battleship owners were pissed off accordingly !
Newer incarnations of the game introduced a hit point system with a multi-turn battle algorithm including an initiative factor - there are almost no more really surprising outcomes.
I believe the suprises were part of the Civilization gameplay, and they mirrored the real world suprises of the battlefield. They forced the player to have a deeper plan made so that his campaign works with no single unit being critical.
I have used many Linux image browsers and editors along with a stable of home grown bash scripts. Even though I still use my scripts out of habit, I must say that Digikam can replace most of them and provide a seamless JPEG workflow in a state of the art environment. There are still some small things I would appreciate, such as a better curves dialog, but overall I have been a very happy user. Some tools such as the crop tool with framing aids are the best I have ever seen, and overall I have seen my photo editing time almost halved by using Digikam. It is not a general graphics editor - for retouching you still need something else, but for the basic editing (everything that touches the whole image) it fills the need perfectly. And it is the best IPTC tagger I have used so far.
In order to promote that feed sharing and discovery I made my daily reading list public. If you like the concept of concept of discovering new feeds from friends and neighbors, the you might also enjoy Toluu.
Maintaining an edge in computer security is a never ending race between finding new vulnerabilities and patching them. Constantly finding new vulnerabilities just in case war breaks out tomorrow is an expensive endeavor - just like any other arms race but iterating much faster. Only two sort of people are motivated enough to invest enough in it to maintain a lead : intelligence agencies (which probably won't tell anyone about what they find) and organized criminals who are often the origin of the knowledge that percolates through layers of lesser skilled intruders until a defense is set up. China has reputedly set up a mutually beneficial cooperation between the army and the criminals - it makes a lot of sense : the criminals are the peacetime maintainers of skills that the army can mobilize at will in exchange for turning a blind eye to their other activities. The ethics of a western democracy are incompatible with that sort of arrangement. I guess that you will not tell us the budget involved, but could you please paint us a picture of the process of keeping the digital powder dry and the digital knives sharp while remaining within the frame of our ethics ?
Indeed I'm already using a rather aggressive stance : I reject calls with no caller ID, I don't have any voicemail, I take names and complain for every single spammy call (which are actually very rare - maybe one every two months). But ultimately, whitelisting will be unavoidable and other callers will get screened. Collaborative blacklisting will also be needed - the email experience will help set up systems for that.
Ubik is utterly psychedelic. Telepathy, subjective realities that border on the hallucination and a warped flow of time will combine to make the movie very difficult to render in a way that will connect to mainstream audiences not under the influence of mind altering drugs. Of course there is always the option of emasculating the scenario to produce a bland simplified Hollywood-compatible blockbuster with extra explosions...
Lack of outline mode is bug nÂ3959 and if you had as much as skimmed its content you would know why it is taking longer to develop than you think it should.
Everyone agrees it is important, everyone is impatient, the developers know all about it, but it is not a trivial hack, so it will take resources and therefore time.
For many people, the whole point of publishing on the Internet is to be free from regulatory interference and free from the structural costs of top down media. So please unionize and suffer the same marginalization by everyone else who does not care.
> That was with me accidentally getting on the wrong flight.
A similar story happened on a flight from France to Germany in the nineties. Because of overbooking I had been upgraded to business class and no one else claimed the seat, so I was completely unaware of being on the wrong flight. Only during the traditional hostess announcement after take-off did I mention to my neighbor that the wrong destination was announced... Lufthansa nicely took it as their own error and re-routed me on a flight from Stuttgart to my original destination, Hamburg.
What happened is that the planes were on the two branches of an "Y" shaped boarding bridge. When the overhead sign changed from "Stuttgart" to "Hamburg" I leaped from my seat, handed my boarding pass and boarded. But the ground crew had not had time to change the ribbon barrier configuration, so I boarded the wrong plane. I should have been surprised to be first at the gate and then board a full plane.
Anyway, if you forge a boarding pass, do it for a first or business class seat - a collision with another passenger is less likely.
>> "You will know everything from the climate and soil the food was
>> grown in, to the pesticides and pollution it was exposed to, to
>> the energy consumed to create the product, to the temperature
>> and air quality of the shipping containers it traveled through
>> on the way to your dinner table."
>
> Will such information increase sales or revenue to producers ?
Yes it will ! Differenciation is what make a product stand out
from the lot. This has already begun to happen in agriculture :
mass produced generic commodities are far less profitable than
product with very specific pedigrees. The modern marketing of
"appellation d'origine controllée" began with wines, but you
can now find examples in many other food categories such as
coffee and cheese, and it is just the beginning of the trend.
> OOo developers will add an outline mode to Writer. And every release I'm
> disappointed. I really like OOo, but this one missing feature keeps me from
> using it for serious work becuase it makes large document planning and writing
> production in Writer sloooooow.
I ranted about a year ago and found that I was not the only one. In spite of a five year old wishlist bug, the recriminations have not fallen on deaf ears, and last February I heard some encouraging noises from the dev team. Outline mode is not coming soon, but some day maybe... I'm keeping the faith but meanwhile I hate to say that for now Ms Word is my outliner of choice.
If you don't think you need outline mode, then it is just that you have no idea what efficiently working with big documents is like.
Quite a few people have been writing about how Facebook is a walled garden the likes of which the Internet has not seen since AOL. I wrote a summary piece with excerpts from notable articles on that subject : "Facebook users haven't learnt and history repeats itself". I wrote is four days ago so it is quite timely !
Those of you who listen to African, and particularly Congolese music are familiar with that scheme. Songs are peppered with praise for individuals who paid for it. Actually it is so big that some artists pre-finance their albums production that way ! It is like embedding advertising in the songs. In a country where piracy makes album sales almost irrelevant, live performance and embedded advertising are important ways to make money.
Doesn't this remind you about the early networks ? Think about the protocols that were designed for this sort of asynchronous all-terrain exchanges. This bus could be :
- Fidonet node
- NNTP server
- SMTP server
- POP server
- Mirror of many things
Protocols such as Fido and NNTP have been in use in an age of 300 to 9600 bps connexions and tape spool exchanged between sites. They would be right at home in this sort of bus !
Anyone who has played Worms is well aware of the weaponization potential of the homing pigeon. The future battlefield will be a bed of feathers...
> When I am travelling, I try to force myself to leave my laptop behind in order to
> truly relax, but that means that I have to use my e-mail provider's web interface.
> And when I see that my Inbox has 500 messages after just 36 hours, then I start to
> understand the grumbling that SMTP is broken and we need a drastically reformed
> protocol.
No, you just need server-side filtering. Maildrop rulez !
I get so much spam that no single approach works on its own. I use a mix of greylisting, selected blacklists, Spamassassin with bayesian filters and various plugins inclusing URIDNSBL and FuzzyOCR, Razor and Pyzor, Clamav... And each user still sees a couple of spam messages a week. But overall I believe I have a rather nice system with extremely low maintainance and standard components.
Last month I installed the FuzzyOCR on my Spamassassin setup it and I can now testify that rare is the image spam that gets through. I wrote a article about it if you want more detail : http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2006/12 /19/fuzzyocr-hits-debian-unstable-and-eradicates-i mage-spam
I now scrub mail for friends and familly through my Postfix mail server using Fetchmail, Fetchyahoo and Gotmail. Amavisd-new, Clamav, Spamassassin, various DNS blacklists includung URIDNSBL and a sprinkle of bayesian filtering have pretty much solved the problem as far as I'm concerned. The only remaining annoyance was image spam, but that has even been solved thanks to FuzzyOCR that is now in Debian !
I you still have spam, it just means that you are not using the freely available tools to eradicate it. Just do it ! I found it is suprisingly easy and we have to thank Debian for that !