No, the problem with tagging, is that everyone else may have a different interpretation of what the metadata means. The solution to this? Why, tag tagging of course.
"Capchas" and similar technology are just DRM. Thankfully, the audience trying to crack the former are far more stupid than the audience that crack DRM.
It's said that there are two types of people (and many people inbetween the two extremes): Starters and Finishers. Starts are good at planning, but find it hard to continue a task. Finishers are good at maintaining, but are crap at planning or actually starting stuff. "Intermediate Deadlines" will only help one type of person (The starters - they can be good at starting these smaller projects, and not burn out). For "Finishers", intermediate deadlines may in fact make the problem worse!
It looks, to me, that the grandparent has a "Finisher" perspective, while you have a "Starter" perspective, thus explaining your difference in opinion. Both are right. Neither are wrong. Just be aware that what works for you, is not necessarily what works for others:-)
-c is a GNU extension. i.e. if you work with both Linux and UNIX (e.g. Solaris), then you wont be using -c with/usr/bin/grep. Using grep file | wc -l would work on both machines, therefore is probably the better one to use.
If you have nobody in front of you and a queue of cars behind you, chances are you are going too slow!
Oh fuck off. It is wrong to tell someone what to think. Maybe you're wrong. "You're going too slow". "You're driving the wrong car". "You believe in the wrong faith". What next, Herr Hitler sir?!
Same with a single-lane road. If you simply must drive slow and enjoy the view, have the courtesy to pull to the shoulder when people approach who actually have a destination they are looking forward to reaching.
I do however, agree with you on this point. In the same ways as tractors do, cars should be required by law to pull over if they're driving less than (e.g.) 80% of the speed limit, and/or if there are more than (e.g.) 10 cars behind you. The problem is, how would you enforce this?:-)
This whole class of issues, as well as the concept of "free energy", caused the government at the time to worry, and suspend Tesla's research. If they didn't, it is suggested that this news would have been a few hundred years earlier.
Of course, being Linux it has three Solitaire programs, all of which have 30 different types of Solitaire to choose for. And who said choice was a bad thing!;-)
Is it still detectable with passive radar methods?
Briefly, a passive radar system will monitor the background radar/microwave "noise" that gets emitted by hot objects, radio masts and the like. If they detect a lack of signal in a specific area, then logically that means something is deflecting or absorbing the microwaves.
Maybe, but I don't think you'd get much job satisfaction with a boss who has a complete lack of understanding about web design - Phrases like "Hey, where's the Flash?" and "Can you rewrite that page using AJAX?" spring to mind.
In theory, the atoms involved get replicated in a different location. Essentially, yes, the source atom gets destroyed, and the destination atom gets "created". But the destination atom is indistinguishable from the source, so who is to say that they are not the same atom? Technically, the atom does not get destroyed, but it's spin and other state[1] gets set to the state of the original atom.
One question worth asking, is whether the relative position of the atoms are maintained through "teleportation". I would assume not. So at this stage, even if you did succeed in transporting a human, they would end up as a pool of water and carbon atoms I guess.
This is more of a philosophical question, I think. Hypothetically speaking, you could see it as killing the person, and re-assembling their likeness. But "their likeness" would know no different, and he/she would feel and act like the real person. Equally, as you say, an outsider would know no different. Would you be willing to kill yourself, knowing that an exact replica of you is about to be re-created.
It goes further, too. Does the soul exist as something other than the collection of atoms and particles that comprise us? If so, does this get left behind, or somehow carried across?
[1] This is how I understand it, at least. Maybe someone could clarify, and explain if anything other than spin would get replicated.
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Awesome! So a terrorist that hijacks an aeroplane in the future now gets missile neutralisers with it for free! *sigh*
No, the problem with tagging, is that everyone else may have a different interpretation of what the metadata means. The solution to this? Why, tag tagging of course.
"Capchas" and similar technology are just DRM. Thankfully, the audience trying to crack the former are far more stupid than the audience that crack DRM.
The Nautilus built-in does actually "just work" (in Ubuntu, at least).
It's said that there are two types of people (and many people inbetween the two extremes): Starters and Finishers. Starts are good at planning, but find it hard to continue a task. Finishers are good at maintaining, but are crap at planning or actually starting stuff. "Intermediate Deadlines" will only help one type of person (The starters - they can be good at starting these smaller projects, and not burn out). For "Finishers", intermediate deadlines may in fact make the problem worse!
:-)
It looks, to me, that the grandparent has a "Finisher" perspective, while you have a "Starter" perspective, thus explaining your difference in opinion. Both are right. Neither are wrong. Just be aware that what works for you, is not necessarily what works for others
A "WebOS" is really just an expensive implementation of a Thin client.
Sure, sure it is reducing the entry vector somewhat. But they're still using Microsoft Exchange.
it would slow them down something fierce, to maybe only sending 1 or 2 emails a minute
I can't personally see this happening. Some basic threading would enable parallelised mailing.
Set up your shell prompt to look like this user@host /path$
I showed this trick to my collegue at work. Unfortunately, he names all his machine `machine`.
-c is a GNU extension. i.e. if you work with both Linux and UNIX (e.g. Solaris), then you wont be using -c with /usr/bin/grep. Using grep file | wc -l would work on both machines, therefore is probably the better one to use.
If you have nobody in front of you and a queue of cars behind you, chances are you are going too slow!
:-)
Oh fuck off. It is wrong to tell someone what to think. Maybe you're wrong. "You're going too slow". "You're driving the wrong car". "You believe in the wrong faith". What next, Herr Hitler sir?!
Same with a single-lane road. If you simply must drive slow and enjoy the view, have the courtesy to pull to the shoulder when people approach who actually have a destination they are looking forward to reaching.
I do however, agree with you on this point. In the same ways as tractors do, cars should be required by law to pull over if they're driving less than (e.g.) 80% of the speed limit, and/or if there are more than (e.g.) 10 cars behind you. The problem is, how would you enforce this?
Why would an intelligence designer create a structure that serves no purpose?
- Talking point at intergalactic parties.
- For a laugh.
- Boredom.
- Because they were drunk.
- ? Profit!
- Cowboyneal
This whole class of issues, as well as the concept of "free energy", caused the government at the time to worry, and suspend Tesla's research. If they didn't, it is suggested that this news would have been a few hundred years earlier.
Of course, being Linux it has three Solitaire programs, all of which have 30 different types of Solitaire to choose for. And who said choice was a bad thing! ;-)
Easier would be to "sudo update-manager -c", from a command line.
Is it still detectable with passive radar methods?
Briefly, a passive radar system will monitor the background radar/microwave "noise" that gets emitted by hot objects, radio masts and the like. If they detect a lack of signal in a specific area, then logically that means something is deflecting or absorbing the microwaves.
What difference would it make if Gimp was "integrated", into, say Open Office?
Maybe, but I don't think you'd get much job satisfaction with a boss who has a complete lack of understanding about web design - Phrases like "Hey, where's the Flash?" and "Can you rewrite that page using AJAX?" spring to mind.
As we have realised with DVD-CSS, and DRM, exceptions like these cannot be restricted to certain parties.
Put simply, crackers will ultimately be able to use the same backdoors to do Bad Things(tm).
In theory, the atoms involved get replicated in a different location. Essentially, yes, the source atom gets destroyed, and the destination atom gets "created". But the destination atom is indistinguishable from the source, so who is to say that they are not the same atom? Technically, the atom does not get destroyed, but it's spin and other state[1] gets set to the state of the original atom.
One question worth asking, is whether the relative position of the atoms are maintained through "teleportation". I would assume not. So at this stage, even if you did succeed in transporting a human, they would end up as a pool of water and carbon atoms I guess.
This is more of a philosophical question, I think. Hypothetically speaking, you could see it as killing the person, and re-assembling their likeness. But "their likeness" would know no different, and he/she would feel and act like the real person. Equally, as you say, an outsider would know no different. Would you be willing to kill yourself, knowing that an exact replica of you is about to be re-created.
It goes further, too. Does the soul exist as something other than the collection of atoms and particles that comprise us? If so, does this get left behind, or somehow carried across?
[1] This is how I understand it, at least. Maybe someone could clarify, and explain if anything other than spin would get replicated.
The link in the article is a click-through to the REAL article at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6121608.html
The BBC also does a very good job of keeping down the number of adverts on commercial TV, too.
What you really meant to say is "The BBC do not have commercial advertising on their channels".
Sometimes it doesn't hurt to link to the original site - or better, a pre-emptive Corel Cache of the original site !
/me tapes over the DELL sticker
Or, a much better idea - scrap Acrobat, use a better PDF reader and load a PDF in second.
I can't believe that a company like Adobe can make such bilge like Acrobat Reader. Foxit looks literally the same, but done right!