Even supposedly active, sponsored projects like Eclipse's JDT code seem to suffer from decent patches with proper regression tests being ignored for months. My only advice if you can't make the developer(s) take notice is to maintain your own branch / patchset. Forking generally is to be avoided if possible, particularly if you only want to augment the code or change tiny bits of it.
I think you miss the point entirely. Your post contains vast amounts of fluff. Techies will know all this. Non-techies won't get further than "A "folder" is a container that can contain many files, can contain folders, and can be found in a folder." and people in-between will get bored while trying to find the things they don't know in the cruft.
Don't bore the user with applications - they won't know what Open Office is, or care. If you're writing a book, they'll also be out of date in a year.
Something more like:
Files are like bits of paper - they contain your actual data. Folders are where you keep your files, just like in a filing cabinet. Unlike normal cardboard folders in a filing cabinet, you can nest folders inside one another, as deep as you like.
If you don't understand, as you quite clearly do not, that "your" is a possessive and that "you're" is a contraction of "you are", then I shall immediately conclude that YOU'RE an uneducated idiot and I shall therefore not pay as much attention to YOUR comments.
This is the way that life works. Rightly or wrongly, first impressions are important. A basic grasp of grammar goes a long way towards me thinking I might pay attention to you.
If you consider this elitist and wrong, then I really don't care. I *like* being elitist. It helps me listen to people who have something intelligent to say, and filter out the noise from the people who do not.
If you're going to blow your own trumpet to such a high degreee, you can expect holes to be picked. So I shall oblige. I must say, IMVHO, that you really shouldn't consider yourself excellent.
A person with a firm grasp of English would not start his sentences with conjunctions ("and" and "but"). Likewise they would not use an ellipsis followed by a conjunction ("usable... and").
You have also failed with your assertion about Mr. Gates. Your construct "didn't know it was he" should instead read, "didn't know it was him". "There are even examples of Mr. Gates' e-mail" makes no sense in the context in which you put it. I think you mean "There are even examples to be found in Mr. Gates' e-mails".
As for using an ellipsis followed immediately by a comma... Yuck.
Putting "illiteracy" in inverted commas also seems entirely strange to me. Why did you do that? You make no attempt to advocate a different interpretation of the word, or other requisite for such behaviour.
In short, I can only surmise that you are one of those sorts of people who claim to be a rocket scientist on their CV, but actually can't do basic algebra.
The moral of this story is to not blow your own trumpet unless you really think there's a good reason to.
(I now fully expect this post to be torn to shreds by some more zealot-like creature than me.;-) )
Ah, but if you search for Volvo, links to Ford might well be irrelevant, because they happen to own Volvo. Of course, in this case they own both trademarks, so the issue is different.
What about "hoover"? In the UK at least, many people use the word "hoover" when they really mean "vacuum cleaner". "Hoover" is trademarked. But if I search for "cheap hoover suppliers" I probably want to get search results for other vacuum cleaner manufacturers too.
So suddenly it all becomes a great deal less obvious. You'd have to vet each AdWord application to make sure it was suitable, and there are plenty of border-line cases like the above "Hoover" example. It's just not feasible.
The XDAIIs / MPS III / Orange M2000 will do this, as they're basically a 2.5g modem (GPRS, etc.) with bluetooth, wifi, etc. in a PDA form factor. Because you can run any PocketPC app on them, you can do what you like:
- If someone else has a different challenge/response system then the automated systems will ping e-mail back and forth to each other and humans will never see it. If the systems are sufficiently dumb, you'll get a nasty mailing loop and fill up both users' quota/hard disk.
- Most spam has a forged address. If someone sends e-mail to 10,000 users with a c/r system with *your* e-mail address in the from header, you get 10,000 e-mails that day. Your only solution to this obvious problem would be to blacklist anything that looked like a c/r e-mail, thus breaking the system entirely.
- It increases the amount of traffic on the 'net. This is bad.
- About five million other reasons to do with netiquette and common sense. Will people never learn?
No, it *doesn't* work like that. On their home page, in bold type:
Note: PirateEye(TM) does not utlize LASER technology.
If I were them, I'd take an IR picture, then illuminate with IR from in front and take another picture then compare the difference. Most objects don't reflect IR light, comparing things takes people, etc. out of the equation and then you're just left with shiny objects.
You might be able to look at the locations of shiny objects (height, whether there are two of them right next to each other) to see whether you think the objects are people's glasses or a real camcorder. I'd have thought there'd be an *awful* lot of human input to make this useful, though. Basically, I can't see how you'd even approach being able to make this reliable in an automated way.
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How can the parent be modded +3 insightful?!?
Even more advanced applications that use ASP pages that execute on the server, can be seen by changing the URL to list the source rather than execute them
Are you smoking crack?
You can't arbitrarily get at source code on someone's web server. Do you think eBay would want you seeing the passwords to their database servers?
Web apps aren't written in JavaScript. Sure, there might be some to drive calendar selection or something, but pretty much all real apps (shopping carts, etc.) are done server side.
Please get a clue and stop spreading your FUD around.
Additionally, this isn't a "feature" of Java. It's just a side-effect of its machine-independent bytecode. You could argue that it's not all that hard to reverse engineer compiled C - if you step it through a debugger you can see what it does fairly easily.
Systems being more "advanced" (let's wave our hands a little bit more) won't make it any more difficult to hide the source. Many many people run Java on the server side of web apps. It will always be impossible to view the source for such applications (unless the developers put it up for the world to see, of course). As for being "open", what do you mean? If you mean, "open source" then, well, duh...:)
No - there is *no* data being sent up. The Google web search data is added to the local data and displayed, not the other way around. If you look, you'll see that the Google app is running from 127.0.0.1 - that's a web server it runs on your local machine, not accessible to the outside world.
If you let people install things on public PCs then as a sysadmin you deserve to be shot.
At the very least, you will end up reinstalling Windows every week as the system drowns in a mire of spyware and viruses.
In addition, why would anyone on a public PC want to install this? They'd only do it to look at other people's files. And if they want to do that, then why not go the whole hog and install a keystroke logger instead? Why bother looking through the windows when you can steal the keys?
There is no fancy copy protection. There certainly isn't some flaw in Mozilla.
It's simple - the image is done as the background image for an HTML element. There's nothing to stop you linking directly to the content: sample image, for example.
You can't right click on it because it's a background graphic. But you sure as hell could write a robot script that went and downloaded pages.
If they're clever, they'll watermark each image as it is served, so they can tell who's copying what (well, down to the originating IP, anyway).
> Performance gains occur at the hardware level. > Any tendency to optimize prematurely ought to be > avoided, at least until after v1.0 ships.
Performance gains occur at the algorithm level. It doesn't matter how much hardware you throw at a problem if it needs to scale properly and you have an O(n^3) solution.
>...considering the fact that driving is a rather simple mental process, > books should be outlawed too if laptops are, I see lots of people reading > books on the road...
Of course books should be banned. Doing anything that takes your eyes off the road at all is inherently dangerous, whether it be trying to read a map, look at a computer, fiddle with your radio, or turn around to tell your screaming kids to shut up and stop squabbling.
Of course, it's all a matter of common sense, something that legislation these days doesn't seem to allow for. You're probably quite safe reading a book if you're heading down a bit of dead-straight deserted road in Arizona provided you look up every few seconds. You're obviously not in the rush hour in L.A.
Anyone who reads while driving in most situations is asking to drive into the back of someone. Obviously.
The real link to the site for the community behind this is deanspace.org. The deanspace software is based on drupal 4.2. It'd be nice if the developers over there contributed back to the Drupal codebase - it's dangerously close to a fork, and needn't be. The upcoming Drupal 4.3 has some features 4.2 is lacking, and is much more user-friendly. It'd be a pity to lose these when a fork isn't necessary.
It's important to realise that this is *not* an open source development effort for a presidential campaign.
Deanspace have forked Drupal 4.2 and added their own custom modules. They don't actually talk much to the folk at drupal.org (certainly not on the developers list), which is a pity. We've yet to see any contributed code come back to our CVS server.
It's entirely likely that Dean's site doesn't have the caching module enabled (which it isn't by default). With it, there's only one SQL hit per page. Without it, the entire page gets built for every page-view (slooooow).
Drupal.org has caching enabled, and therefore hasn't fallen over (yet). But we don't have all that much bandwidth, so it's being *very* slow at the moment.
I've been developing Drupal for a few months now. It has a very active developer community and continues to get more flexible and modular with each successive release. It's much more extensible and better architected than (for example) PostNuke.
We're also coming up on a new release (4.3) which should go RC in the next few days. If you're thinking of trying it out, I'd recommend either waiting for that, or getting latest CVS tarball - things are much nicer than 4.2!
Sorry to have to say it, and mod me down for redundancy, but I'm Really Pissed Off with the way that the sodding American government basically passes laws that in the current American legal system effectively mean if you have lots of money, you can do what you like.
It doesn't matter if you have all the legal protection in the world, if you can't afford to fight the case in the first place, you're totally screwed. And when it's Microsoft, who can afford to fight it?/me screams at his monitor, looks very pissed off with the whole patent-pending, DMCA'd-to-oblivion utter shocking (and embarassing) mess that is the law on the other side of the pond from him and hopes the middle east collectively nuke congress to hell and back as a result. Kinda. </rant>
We've been developing location-based mobile services for a while now, with several customers with live services, and many more trialling. They're very useful for services like "dial this number and be connected to your nearest taxi company".
However, REQUIRED BY LAW, the user must be informed that they are about to be located. Their consent is implicit if they don't hang up at that point. People can't spy on you without your consent. Of course, what this means for kids under voting age regarding their parents is up for interpretation.;)
Yes, they can, as it happens. The only thing this company is selling is a directory service, just like DNS, or a standard paper telephone directory. You then make a direct call, much like receiving data from a web server.
You can buy the actual phones seperately from Grand Stream.
It seems there's never a week goes by without the USPO letting someone file something stupidly obvious, and there being appropriate backlash on slashdot. Yawn.
Someone needs to sue the patent office for incompetency.:)
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Even supposedly active, sponsored projects like Eclipse's JDT code seem to suffer from decent patches with proper regression tests being ignored for months. My only advice if you can't make the developer(s) take notice is to maintain your own branch / patchset. Forking generally is to be avoided if possible, particularly if you only want to augment the code or change tiny bits of it.
I think you miss the point entirely. Your post contains vast amounts of fluff. Techies will know all this. Non-techies won't get further than "A "folder" is a container that can contain many files, can contain folders, and can be found in a folder." and people in-between will get bored while trying to find the things they don't know in the cruft.
Don't bore the user with applications - they won't know what Open Office is, or care. If you're writing a book, they'll also be out of date in a year.
Something more like:
Files are like bits of paper - they contain your actual data. Folders are where you keep your files, just like in a filing cabinet. Unlike normal cardboard folders in a filing cabinet, you can nest folders inside one another, as deep as you like.
NO.
If you don't understand, as you quite clearly do not, that "your" is a possessive and that "you're" is a contraction of "you are", then I shall immediately conclude that YOU'RE an uneducated idiot and I shall therefore not pay as much attention to YOUR comments.
This is the way that life works. Rightly or wrongly, first impressions are important. A basic grasp of grammar goes a long way towards me thinking I might pay attention to you.
If you consider this elitist and wrong, then I really don't care. I *like* being elitist. It helps me listen to people who have something intelligent to say, and filter out the noise from the people who do not.
If you're going to blow your own trumpet to such a high degreee, you can expect holes to be picked. So I shall oblige. I must say, IMVHO, that you really shouldn't consider yourself excellent.
;-) )
A person with a firm grasp of English would not start his sentences with conjunctions ("and" and "but"). Likewise they would not use an ellipsis followed by a conjunction ("usable... and").
You have also failed with your assertion about Mr. Gates. Your construct "didn't know it was he" should instead read, "didn't know it was him". "There are even examples of Mr. Gates' e-mail" makes no sense in the context in which you put it. I think you mean "There are even examples to be found in Mr. Gates' e-mails".
As for using an ellipsis followed immediately by a comma... Yuck.
Putting "illiteracy" in inverted commas also seems entirely strange to me. Why did you do that? You make no attempt to advocate a different interpretation of the word, or other requisite for such behaviour.
In short, I can only surmise that you are one of those sorts of people who claim to be a rocket scientist on their CV, but actually can't do basic algebra.
The moral of this story is to not blow your own trumpet unless you really think there's a good reason to.
(I now fully expect this post to be torn to shreds by some more zealot-like creature than me.
> ...when I'm forced to try and make sense of a "document"...
;-)
:)
I think you mean "try to make sense".
If you're going to whinge about people's grandma, learn how to suck eggs first...
Ah, but if you search for Volvo, links to Ford might well be irrelevant, because they happen to own Volvo. Of course, in this case they own both trademarks, so the issue is different.
What about "hoover"? In the UK at least, many people use the word "hoover" when they really mean "vacuum cleaner". "Hoover" is trademarked. But if I search for "cheap hoover suppliers" I probably want to get search results for other vacuum cleaner manufacturers too.
So suddenly it all becomes a great deal less obvious. You'd have to vet each AdWord application to make sure it was suitable, and there are plenty of border-line cases like the above "Hoover" example. It's just not feasible.
The XDAIIs / MPS III / Orange M2000 will do this, as they're basically a 2.5g modem (GPRS, etc.) with bluetooth, wifi, etc. in a PDA form factor. Because you can run any PocketPC app on them, you can do what you like:
http://www.my-xda.com/xda2s.html
- If someone else has a different challenge/response system then the automated systems will ping e-mail back and forth to each other and humans will never see it. If the systems are sufficiently dumb, you'll get a nasty mailing loop and fill up both users' quota/hard disk.
- Most spam has a forged address. If someone sends e-mail to 10,000 users with a c/r system with *your* e-mail address in the from header, you get 10,000 e-mails that day. Your only solution to this obvious problem would be to blacklist anything that looked like a c/r e-mail, thus breaking the system entirely.
- It increases the amount of traffic on the 'net. This is bad.
- About five million other reasons to do with netiquette and common sense. Will people never learn?
Please ignore me. It's 3am and I just replied to the wrong comment. :)
No, it *doesn't* work like that. On their home page, in bold type:
Note: PirateEye(TM) does not utlize LASER technology.
If I were them, I'd take an IR picture, then illuminate with IR from in front and take another picture then compare the difference. Most objects don't reflect IR light, comparing things takes people, etc. out of the equation and then you're just left with shiny objects.
You might be able to look at the locations of shiny objects (height, whether there are two of them right next to each other) to see whether you think the objects are people's glasses or a real camcorder. I'd have thought there'd be an *awful* lot of human input to make this useful, though. Basically, I can't see how you'd even approach being able to make this reliable in an automated way.
How can the parent be modded +3 insightful?!?
:)
Even more advanced applications that use ASP pages that execute on the server, can be seen by changing the URL to list the source rather than execute them
Are you smoking crack?
You can't arbitrarily get at source code on someone's web server. Do you think eBay would want you seeing the passwords to their database servers?
Web apps aren't written in JavaScript. Sure, there might be some to drive calendar selection or something, but pretty much all real apps (shopping carts, etc.) are done server side.
Please get a clue and stop spreading your FUD around.
Additionally, this isn't a "feature" of Java. It's just a side-effect of its machine-independent bytecode. You could argue that it's not all that hard to reverse engineer compiled C - if you step it through a debugger you can see what it does fairly easily.
Systems being more "advanced" (let's wave our hands a little bit more) won't make it any more difficult to hide the source. Many many people run Java on the server side of web apps. It will always be impossible to view the source for such applications (unless the developers put it up for the world to see, of course). As for being "open", what do you mean? If you mean, "open source" then, well, duh...
Latest CrossOver (3.01?), version 7 Photoshop. Works for me. Check crossover's site for their compatibility matrix.
I believe it used to work in WINE but CVS HEAD broke support for it about nine months ago. Go Google.
No - there is *no* data being sent up. The Google web search data is added to the local data and displayed, not the other way around. If you look, you'll see that the Google app is running from 127.0.0.1 - that's a web server it runs on your local machine, not accessible to the outside world.
If you let people install things on public PCs then as a sysadmin you deserve to be shot.
At the very least, you will end up reinstalling Windows every week as the system drowns in a mire of spyware and viruses.
In addition, why would anyone on a public PC want to install this? They'd only do it to look at other people's files. And if they want to do that, then why not go the whole hog and install a keystroke logger instead? Why bother looking through the windows when you can steal the keys?
Nothing to see here, move along...
There is no fancy copy protection. There certainly isn't some flaw in Mozilla.
It's simple - the image is done as the background image for an HTML element. There's nothing to stop you linking directly to the content: sample image, for example.
You can't right click on it because it's a background graphic. But you sure as hell could write a robot script that went and downloaded pages.
If they're clever, they'll watermark each image as it is served, so they can tell who's copying what (well, down to the originating IP, anyway).
> Performance gains occur at the hardware level.
> Any tendency to optimize prematurely ought to be
> avoided, at least until after v1.0 ships.
Performance gains occur at the algorithm level. It doesn't matter how much hardware you throw at a problem if it needs to scale properly and you have an O(n^3) solution.
> ...considering the fact that driving is a rather simple mental process,
> books should be outlawed too if laptops are, I see lots of people reading
> books on the road...
Of course books should be banned. Doing anything that takes your eyes off the road at all is inherently dangerous, whether it be trying to read a map, look at a computer, fiddle with your radio, or turn around to tell your screaming kids to shut up and stop squabbling.
Of course, it's all a matter of common sense, something that legislation these days doesn't seem to allow for. You're probably quite safe reading a book if you're heading down a bit of dead-straight deserted road in Arizona provided you look up every few seconds. You're obviously not in the rush hour in L.A.
Anyone who reads while driving in most situations is asking to drive into the back of someone. Obviously.
The real link to the site for the community behind this is deanspace.org. The deanspace software is based on drupal 4.2. It'd be nice if the developers over there contributed back to the Drupal codebase - it's dangerously close to a fork, and needn't be. The upcoming Drupal 4.3 has some features 4.2 is lacking, and is much more user-friendly. It'd be a pity to lose these when a fork isn't necessary.
It's important to realise that this is *not* an open source development effort for a presidential campaign.
Deanspace have forked Drupal 4.2 and added their own custom modules. They don't actually talk much to the folk at drupal.org (certainly not on the developers list), which is a pity. We've yet to see any contributed code come back to our CVS server.
It's entirely likely that Dean's site doesn't have the caching module enabled (which it isn't by default). With it, there's only one SQL hit per page. Without it, the entire page gets built for every page-view (slooooow).
Drupal.org has caching enabled, and therefore hasn't fallen over (yet). But we don't have all that much bandwidth, so it's being *very* slow at the moment.
I've been developing Drupal for a few months now. It has a very active developer community and continues to get more flexible and modular with each successive release. It's much more extensible and better architected than (for example) PostNuke.
We're also coming up on a new release (4.3) which should go RC in the next few days. If you're thinking of trying it out, I'd recommend either waiting for that, or getting latest CVS tarball - things are much nicer than 4.2!
Sorry to have to say it, and mod me down for redundancy, but I'm Really Pissed Off with the way that the sodding American government basically passes laws that in the current American legal system effectively mean if you have lots of money, you can do what you like.
/me screams at his monitor, looks very pissed off with the whole patent-pending, DMCA'd-to-oblivion utter shocking (and embarassing) mess that is the law on the other side of the pond from him and hopes the middle east collectively nuke congress to hell and back as a result. Kinda.
It doesn't matter if you have all the legal protection in the world, if you can't afford to fight the case in the first place, you're totally screwed. And when it's Microsoft, who can afford to fight it?
</rant>
We've been developing location-based mobile services for a while now, with several customers with live services, and many more trialling. They're very useful for services like "dial this number and be connected to your nearest taxi company".
;)
However, REQUIRED BY LAW, the user must be informed that they are about to be located. Their consent is implicit if they don't hang up at that point. People can't spy on you without your consent. Of course, what this means for kids under voting age regarding their parents is up for interpretation.
Yes, they can, as it happens.
The only thing this company is selling is a directory service, just like DNS, or a standard paper telephone directory. You then make a direct call, much like receiving data from a web server.
You can buy the actual phones seperately from Grand Stream.
It seems there's never a week goes by without the USPO letting someone file something stupidly obvious, and there being appropriate backlash on slashdot. Yawn.
:)
Someone needs to sue the patent office for incompetency.