I used to think SMSing was slow, unless u typ n txtspk. But then I found how to use the T9 (predictive) text system on my phone. I now SMS more than I phone.
T9 is a very clever system, It lets me send properly written messages, fast.. at just over one key press per character. It is also so damn clever that my inner geek gets a workout too:-)
It's good that this is happening now before 1.0 or even 1.0beta is released.
Nope.
It's sad that such a stupid, obvious, user confidence destroying, DEFECT (real engineers use the word 'defect', sloppy hackers talk about 'bugs') is shipping in a widely promoted, vastly overhyped, beta.
Even sadder, it's happening at the time that lots of general computer users are being told to get away from IE (due to the recent combined security issues). Their first experience of Open Source is going to be a OBVIOUSLY DEFECTIVE PROGRAM.
However, since the entire software industry is a shambolic shitheap of low quality barely working crap. This defect is just IT business as usual.
Humm, The BBC had a article related to this too, Here, and it scared me since the companies that are lobbying for changes to the Patent regieme are all the existing 'effective monopolies', MS, Cisco, Ebay, etc..
I don't think a patent system re-written by Big-Business is going to be good for anyone other than Big-Business.
The more I think about this, the more I fail to see any answer, only problems. How can a patent system protect the genuinely innovative little guys, whilst preventing the abuses the Big Business will practice in order to protect their market share?
Come'on AOL, give those members who this guy spammed a chance to have at the car with a hammer! Better still offer them a chance to buy the oppertunity to urinate on the upholstery, proceeds to CAUCE! All sorts of fun activities spring to mind. You can the webcast it so the spammer can watch;-)
Since there is a lot of talk about Jackson making a prequal, (aka 'The Hobbit';-) this might provide a oppertunity to also generate new LOTR related footage too, for the 'bumper mega extended edition' that would follow.
Just a thought, just occurs to me that if you're filming in a 'Middle Earth' environment, possibly with some characters, like Gandalf, on set and in costume. Then doing a few small but important 'filler' shots for a even longer LOTR version is possible..
Yep, I see your point, I guess I tend look at it another way; If I was setting up a traditional email system then choosing IMAP etc.. would be a good way of conforming to well followed standards, and having many choices for the client. But, I'm actually using a whole different methodology, IMAP etc.. are irrelevent, HTML and SSH are the standards I need the 'client' to follow.. Openwebmail itself does follow three very well known standards, HTML (I believe it's HTML4 complient, certainly works flawlessly in the 4 different browsers I use on three OS's), Unix mailbox format (it's just a frontend to my FreeBSD mail system/account) and CSV address books.
Is there really any credible evidence of serious threats of violence against Darl McBride?
Well.. if you systematically piss of a very large and diverse group of people, in a country where guns are readily available and using maximum force (physical and legislative) to solve issues is considered normal, even laudable (witness the way your government and corporations behave and present themselves), what do you expect?
I'd be pretty paranoid about a lone nutter too.. Mind you, hiring a good bodyguard, and listening to what they say, would make more sense.
What I really don't like about that is that usually it's the only option when all you have is a terminal that you'd really rather not type a password into
Amen to that.. I'd love to see a RSA securid type system that was affordable/usable for small home servers (I'm on FreeBSD/ApacheSSL over ADSL). Having a system that that makes keyloggers less effective would make me a very happy bunny. [tinfoilhat] I only login on terminals I am happy with, most Internet cafe's fail this test..[/tinfoilhat]
HeHe, I tried a POP server on port 80 (no personal www server at the time, clean forgot to try 80[08]0) but it couldn't get past the Philips corporate firewall. I.e. some firewalls are clever enough to check content type as well as port number! I was actually pretty impressed, even if it did mean I'd just wasted several hours.
Humm.. It's amazing how many company firewalls completely block all POP and IMAP access these days (reasonably so, it's a huge virus/IP security risk). I never did a contract at any place they allowed this traffic to pass outside their intranet.
Mind you, These days some companies block webmail too, at least major sites like hotmail/yahoo/etc.. My system would probably slip under the radar unless they use heuristics.
Actually I used to do my roaming by constantly updating mail redirects on my personal and company mail servers, workable, but error prone and only effective once the redirect was updated. Having access to -all- my email is a definate advantage.
I just ditched my email client, I'm 100% on openwebmail now.
I'm a roaming contractor, so the alternative was trying to manage email clients at several locations, and constantly finding that something (address books, mail archives, etc..) was out of sync.
Is number 666 ever issued? A lot of numberiung systems miss this one out, in order to keep the religeously insane from freaking. For instance the UK number plate authority stopped using it a few years ago after complaints from some quarters.
So my real question is: Would this have -actually- been AL00666?
Nah, they'd say '10 years of profit and then I retire. Hurrah!' Consider the money that Haliburton et al. are making from US foreign policy, consider who profits, consider who makes that policy. Now consider how many wars you can let dumb dictators give you excuses for, and start, in that time if you don't have to worry about re-election. Engineering wars takes time you know, Bush/Rumm/Dickie PLC only managed two (well, three if you count the war on terror, and they needed help from Ozzie for that). In ten years they could shaft Iran, N.Korea & Libya with ease, prehaps Syria and Jordan too.. plenty of Oil and profit there folks.
I've been usuing The Bat (www.ritlabs.com) for about 5 years now, and it's great. No worms, no virii, no pop-ups, no crap. I view all my email as text. And they've been continuously improving the product.
Where to start.. I finally ditched the Bat! after my five years last week.. and good riddance.
The UI has not evolved, sure lots of new features get added over the years, but they all end up as hacks into an already clumsy interface.
The UI is a classic case of a few -really- good features (I do appreciate them) surrounded by poo. Auto-formating in the text is useless, NEVER paste some code and try to annotate it, turning it off leaves everything else looking ugly. Even Outlook manages to format it's messages better.
The UI displays a classic 'designed by the developers' illness. They can't see it's flaws because they're too embedded in the development. If they'd just employ a professional UI designer to re-jig it, and actually do the things suggested, then it would be a world-beater.
And you now have to upgrade ($$$) to the latest version to stay current. It's just the same as the old one, hardly any worthwhile new features. A money-spinning enforced upgrade of the most cynical sort.
If you want it's fantastic filtering systems, wonderful templates, clever widgets, superb PGP support etc.. and are prepared to put a lot of effort and patience into learning and using it, then I heartily recommend it.
If all you want to do is write emails to people, and read ones you receive, save yourself time and money by looking elsewhere.
String them up I say.. I got sideswiped off my bike last week in Amsterdam by some total dork watching hardcore rap video's in his little toy BMW, via a front mount DVD player. THere are a lot of total twats doing that in this town. Mostly my pride injured but I was not amused.
Watching anything other than the road is just an idiotic thing to do. Full stop. End of discusion. If you think you can drive and also focus on a VDU then you're an arrogant twat who puts your own pleasure before the safety of others.
I remember a 'Police-camera-action' type show that had a whole slot filled with film of Car drivers who simply were not aware of the emergency vehicle, even huge red fire engines using full lights and siren behind them.. Makes me scared that I have to share the same road with them.
It's worth noting that in europe many emergency vehicles now have cameras, not just the police.. and in some places they are also putting cameras in Busses to catch peole who drive/park in bus lanes.
I prefer Harry Enfields Dutch quote. "Hallo dere! It's me Captain Stefan Van Der Haast Graacht of the Amsterdam Police, and this is my partner jens, who is also my lover." Mind you his 'herman the German' character went further and was funnier..
Or simply not a native Dutch speaker. I'm learning Dutch at the moment and I have repeatedly been told that 'U' is formal, 'Je' is informal and -only- to be used with people you know. If in doubt use 'U' is the advice I have had several times..
Well, I guess the general population takes it's cues for behaviour from the rest of the population.
If all they see in society and the media is spin, profit over ethics and threats (I'll sue you). Where the amount of money you have is generally the only relevent measure of somebody's value or 'worth'. Where everything you ever see, hear or read is distorted in some manner by these forces.
How do you expect people to behave differently?
Here in the UK things are nearly as bad. I personally reckon the BBC is probably the only thing that has stopped us decending to the unfortunate state the US has found itself in.
So next time you hear of a little thieving toe-rag (oops, sorry, I meant underprivaleged young man who has fallen to peer-pressure) coming out with the usual excuses ('I brought it off a man in a pub', 'I was threatened by the way the old man ran away from me so I kicked his head in' etc..) blame the spin doctors and barristers.. The criminaly are just learning from the masters.
Our lives are now nothing more than manipulation, external and internal.
There was a rather interesting dip to $8.27 a share from around $9.00 a share just before they released the news.
I was interested to note that despite that they're still near their 2-yr high level. So I guess that answers the 'where's the money' question about why they're doing this.
Nobody will pay for a player that can't play a normal DVD!
Correction, few Americans will pay for it, especially those with a good DVD collection already.
But if you're building a collection from scratch.. especially if there is lots of AV formet media for sale down, say, your local market.. Then go for it.
...people who have absolutely no use for raw data...
I have a use for it, I'd analyse it to death until I have some sort of sequence that matches the dimensions of the Pyramids, preferably also chucking in the orientation of Stonehenge and distance of Easter Island from Atlantis.
Then I'd write a book.
Perhaps I should patent my Business plan first? or is there priorart?
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Looks more like a caterpillar to me..
Bad metafor, worms do not turn into pretty butterflies.
I used to think SMSing was slow, unless u typ n txtspk. But then I found how to use the T9 (predictive) text system on my phone. I now SMS more than I phone.
:-)
T9 is a very clever system, It lets me send properly written messages, fast.. at just over one key press per character. It is also so damn clever that my inner geek gets a workout too
It's good that this is happening now before 1.0 or even 1.0beta is released.
Nope.
It's sad that such a stupid, obvious, user confidence destroying, DEFECT (real engineers use the word 'defect', sloppy hackers talk about 'bugs') is shipping in a widely promoted, vastly overhyped, beta.
Even sadder, it's happening at the time that lots of general computer users are being told to get away from IE (due to the recent combined security issues). Their first experience of Open Source is going to be a OBVIOUSLY DEFECTIVE PROGRAM.
However, since the entire software industry is a shambolic shitheap of low quality barely working crap. This defect is just IT business as usual.
Humm, The BBC had a article related to this too, Here, and it scared me since the companies that are lobbying for changes to the Patent regieme are all the existing 'effective monopolies', MS, Cisco, Ebay, etc..
I don't think a patent system re-written by Big-Business is going to be good for anyone other than Big-Business.
The more I think about this, the more I fail to see any answer, only problems. How can a patent system protect the genuinely innovative little guys, whilst preventing the abuses the Big Business will practice in order to protect their market share?
Come'on AOL, give those members who this guy spammed a chance to have at the car with a hammer! Better still offer them a chance to buy the oppertunity to urinate on the upholstery, proceeds to CAUCE! All sorts of fun activities spring to mind. You can the webcast it so the spammer can watch ;-)
Sweepstaking it is sooo tame.
Since there is a lot of talk about Jackson making a prequal, (aka 'The Hobbit' ;-) this might provide a oppertunity to also generate new LOTR related footage too, for the 'bumper mega extended edition' that would follow.
Just a thought, just occurs to me that if you're filming in a 'Middle Earth' environment, possibly with some characters, like Gandalf, on set and in costume. Then doing a few small but important 'filler' shots for a even longer LOTR version is possible..
Yep, I see your point, I guess I tend look at it another way;
If I was setting up a traditional email system then choosing IMAP etc.. would be a good way of conforming to well followed standards, and having many choices for the client.
But, I'm actually using a whole different methodology, IMAP etc.. are irrelevent, HTML and SSH are the standards I need the 'client' to follow..
Openwebmail itself does follow three very well known standards, HTML (I believe it's HTML4 complient, certainly works flawlessly in the 4 different browsers I use on three OS's), Unix mailbox format (it's just a frontend to my FreeBSD mail system/account) and CSV address books.
Is there really any credible evidence of serious threats of violence against Darl McBride?
Well.. if you systematically piss of a very large and diverse group of people, in a country where guns are readily available and using maximum force (physical and legislative) to solve issues is considered normal, even laudable (witness the way your government and corporations behave and present themselves), what do you expect?
I'd be pretty paranoid about a lone nutter too.. Mind you, hiring a good bodyguard, and listening to what they say, would make more sense.
Err, Openwebmail is open, as in source.
What I really don't like about that is that usually it's the only option when all you have is a terminal that you'd really rather not type a password into
Amen to that.. I'd love to see a RSA securid type system that was affordable/usable for small home servers (I'm on FreeBSD/ApacheSSL over ADSL). Having a system that that makes keyloggers less effective would make me a very happy bunny. [tinfoilhat] I only login on terminals I am happy with, most Internet cafe's fail this test..[/tinfoilhat]
HeHe, I tried a POP server on port 80 (no personal www server at the time, clean forgot to try 80[08]0) but it couldn't get past the Philips corporate firewall. I.e. some firewalls are clever enough to check content type as well as port number! I was actually pretty impressed, even if it did mean I'd just wasted several hours.
Humm.. It's amazing how many company firewalls completely block all POP and IMAP access these days (reasonably so, it's a huge virus/IP security risk). I never did a contract at any place they allowed this traffic to pass outside their intranet.
Mind you, These days some companies block webmail too, at least major sites like hotmail/yahoo/etc.. My system would probably slip under the radar unless they use heuristics.
Actually I used to do my roaming by constantly updating mail redirects on my personal and company mail servers, workable, but error prone and only effective once the redirect was updated. Having access to -all- my email is a definate advantage.
I just ditched my email client, I'm 100% on openwebmail now.
I'm a roaming contractor, so the alternative was trying to manage email clients at several locations, and constantly finding that something (address books, mail archives, etc..) was out of sync.
I find the number 667 Highly suspicious..
Is number 666 ever issued? A lot of numberiung systems miss this one out, in order to keep the religeously insane from freaking. For instance the UK number plate authority stopped using it a few years ago after complaints from some quarters.
So my real question is: Would this have -actually- been AL00666?
Spooky...
Nah, they'd say '10 years of profit and then I retire. Hurrah!'
Consider the money that Haliburton et al. are making from US foreign policy, consider who profits, consider who makes that policy. Now consider how many wars you can let dumb dictators give you excuses for, and start, in that time if you don't have to worry about re-election. Engineering wars takes time you know, Bush/Rumm/Dickie PLC only managed two (well, three if you count the war on terror, and they needed help from Ozzie for that). In ten years they could shaft Iran, N.Korea & Libya with ease, prehaps Syria and Jordan too.. plenty of Oil and profit there folks.
I've been usuing The Bat (www.ritlabs.com) for about 5 years now, and it's great. No worms, no virii, no pop-ups, no crap. I view all my email as text. And they've been continuously improving the product.
Where to start.. I finally ditched the Bat! after my five years last week.. and good riddance.
The UI has not evolved, sure lots of new features get added over the years, but they all end up as hacks into an already clumsy interface.
The UI is a classic case of a few -really- good features (I do appreciate them) surrounded by poo. Auto-formating in the text is useless, NEVER paste some code and try to annotate it, turning it off leaves everything else looking ugly. Even Outlook manages to format it's messages better.
The UI displays a classic 'designed by the developers' illness. They can't see it's flaws because they're too embedded in the development. If they'd just employ a professional UI designer to re-jig it, and actually do the things suggested, then it would be a world-beater.
And you now have to upgrade ($$$) to the latest version to stay current. It's just the same as the old one, hardly any worthwhile new features. A money-spinning enforced upgrade of the most cynical sort.
If you want it's fantastic filtering systems, wonderful templates, clever widgets, superb PGP support etc.. and are prepared to put a lot of effort and patience into learning and using it, then I heartily recommend it.
If all you want to do is write emails to people, and read ones you receive, save yourself time and money by looking elsewhere.
String them up I say.. I got sideswiped off my bike last week in Amsterdam by some total dork watching hardcore rap video's in his little toy BMW, via a front mount DVD player. THere are a lot of total twats doing that in this town.
Mostly my pride injured but I was not amused.
Watching anything other than the road is just an idiotic thing to do. Full stop. End of discusion. If you think you can drive and also focus on a VDU then you're an arrogant twat who puts your own pleasure before the safety of others.
I remember a 'Police-camera-action' type show that had a whole slot filled with film of Car drivers who simply were not aware of the emergency vehicle, even huge red fire engines using full lights and siren behind them.. Makes me scared that I have to share the same road with them.
It's worth noting that in europe many emergency vehicles now have cameras, not just the police.. and in some places they are also putting cameras in Busses to catch peole who drive/park in bus lanes.
I prefer Harry Enfields Dutch quote.
"Hallo dere! It's me Captain Stefan Van Der Haast Graacht of the Amsterdam Police, and this is my partner jens, who is also my lover."
Mind you his 'herman the German' character went further and was funnier..
as they use "u" for everybody
;-)
Or simply not a native Dutch speaker.
I'm learning Dutch at the moment and I have repeatedly been told that 'U' is formal, 'Je' is informal and -only- to be used with people you know. If in doubt use 'U' is the advice I have had several times..
Bedankt! en tot ziens
Well, I guess the general population takes it's cues for behaviour from the rest of the population.
If all they see in society and the media is spin, profit over ethics and threats (I'll sue you). Where the amount of money you have is generally the only relevent measure of somebody's value or 'worth'. Where everything you ever see, hear or read is distorted in some manner by these forces.
How do you expect people to behave differently?
Here in the UK things are nearly as bad. I personally reckon the BBC is probably the only thing that has stopped us decending to the unfortunate state the US has found itself in.
So next time you hear of a little thieving toe-rag (oops, sorry, I meant underprivaleged young man who has fallen to peer-pressure) coming out with the usual excuses ('I brought it off a man in a pub', 'I was threatened by the way the old man ran away from me so I kicked his head in' etc..) blame the spin doctors and barristers.. The criminaly are just learning from the masters.
Our lives are now nothing more than manipulation, external and internal.
There was a rather interesting dip to $8.27 a share from around $9.00 a share just before they released the news.
I was interested to note that despite that they're still near their 2-yr high level. So I guess that answers the 'where's the money' question about why they're doing this.
Nobody will pay for a player that can't play a normal DVD!
;-)
Correction, few Americans will pay for it, especially those with a good DVD collection already.
But if you're building a collection from scratch.. especially if there is lots of AV formet media for sale down, say, your local market.. Then go for it.
PS: Notice I didn't say 'legal' AV media
...people who have absolutely no use for raw data...
I have a use for it, I'd analyse it to death until I have some sort of sequence that matches the dimensions of the Pyramids, preferably also chucking in the orientation of Stonehenge and distance of Easter Island from Atlantis.
Then I'd write a book.
Perhaps I should patent my Business plan first? or is there prior art?
Nearly right, actually I was thinking of AMTRAK