The article is calling the fact that you have to do a manual save at least once per document a bad thing.
Fortunately, technology has improved since the 1970s. We have the power, in today's computers, to pick a sensible name for a document, and to save it to a person's desktop as soon as she begins typing, just like a piece of paper in real life. We also have the ability to save changes to that document every couple of minutes (or, perhaps, every paragraph) without any user intervention.
We have the technology. So why do we still make people save each of their documents, at least once, manually? Cruft.
I don't wan't to name the document until I decide to save it. Does anyone else here want this feature? I create many documents every day, to re-format, print, view differently cut / paste from web for printing, for email, etc... I don't want my hard drive cluttered with this crap. That's why I don't save it. Yet, this Matthew Thomas guy thinks this would be good. I think his first example of "cruft" is a bad one.
Although John Dvorak was speaking about copyright law when he said this, It still sounds appropriate:
What's happened, and the point I keep trying to make, is that technology has changed the economics of these industries.
This is indeed true of teh VOIP scene. What a pathetic lack of understanding of the technology the Panamanian governement has displayed. Many of those ports are just as easily used by many apps that they definately don't want to ban. Exchange Sever is one example, but there are many more.
WorldCom will use the money for incentives to retain 325 employees, mostly sales and service people in its MCI and network and products services units.
That comes to around 76K per person. It seems like they might could spread that a bit thinner, and keep some more people, especially the ones at and below Manager level. But How much do you want to bet that every penny of that is going to VP's and Directors?
Just get DHCP to assign one, and then set it as a static IP. You are correct that they could decide to yank it most any time, but most ISP's don't do that. Additionally, depending on the DHCP server, most DHCP scopes won't assign an IP that is already in use even if it is within th scope and not assigned by the server, so you are pretty safe. Obviosly, this isn't something you would want to do with a production server, but for home use it works ok, as long as you recognise that they could shut you down if they decide to. I've done this with two different providers, and have had no real problems.
He stood me up the first time, then when he did arrive, he told me that I couldn't have a dedicated IP, despite them having promised me that I could have one. He did however configure my machine to use the cable company's proxy server, and use DHCP, etc... After he was done, I just reconfigured it and hard set the IP address. I haven't had a problem in the past couple of years. Except for when my machine was off for a couple of days, and I had to re-configure for DHCP,and "steal" another address, as my old one wasn't available any more...
Actually, my company, which shall remain unnamed, used to have pretty strict dresscodes, in fact the dresscode rules have changed 3 times in the last year.
First they announced that Business casual had been eliminated, and Business dress (suit and tie) was now required for all offices globally. Then just after everyone spent a couple of grand upgrading their wardrobes, they announced that Business casual had returned. Then, just a couple of months ago, dresscodes were eliminated entirely for all European offices.
Depending on which office I am in, I may still wear a suit and tie, but when I don't think it's necessary, I wear whatever I want. I think it's a great arrangement, but I feel sorry for the people who spent a small fortune on new clothes, and weren't really in a position to do so.
Maybe when we get out of bankruptcy, we can go back to Business Dress..
This is all nonsense about mobile phones being dangerous to airplane communications. There have been lots of articles regarding this subject. One of many by John Dvorak who said "And I already mentioned the restrictions placed on cell phones in airplanes. There is no evidence that mobile phones interfere with communications. This just amplifies an atmosphere of utter stupidity and senseless rules that makes us all dumber. Logic, common sense, and science are shoved aside in favor of mysterious edicts derived from fear, lack of knowledge, New Age mumbo-jumbo, and superstition. Welcome to America, 2002."
Also, if they were so dangerous, they would collect the phones at security like guns and knives.. its just a big scam. There are many articles on the subject.
Ive never even heard of Search King until now. I did a couple of sample searches, and got all commercial sites at the top of the Search King Results, and got usefull information at the top of Googles results. I did like a quote from the page about the suit.
"when your "business" consists of shoplifting and the corner store installs a security camera, you're going to go out of business quickly enough that an injunction is your only hope."
That probably wasnt the best analogy they could have used seeing as they are comparing themselves to shoplifters, and complaining about Googles "security camera", but I think its appropriate...
I understand your point and all, but really, isnt paraprasing
"Given the way the economic model works, and that is a subsidy followed, essentially, by fees for every piece of software sold, our licence framework has to do that," Mr Ballmer said. "If there are aspects that are not allowed, it would encourage us to require a change in the legal framework. Otherwise, it wouldn't make economic sense."
into....
"change the law, or they will have to reconsider selling the Xbox in Australia. "
Simultaneously, the company is hoping that broadband users will need the same kind of handholding that its masses of dial-up devotees once thrived on.
Hah! Somehow I doubt that's going to happen.
However, the article goes on to make that same point. Analysts blame AOL's poor broadband showing on the fact that the service is a bit more expensive than competitors' systems, and on what's called a "mature market," by which they mean that people interested in DSL are too sophisticated for AOL.
So, it looks bad for AOL.. That's good.. However, like it or not, they did play a big role in the massive acceptance of Instant Messaging software. Sure they were far from the first, and far from the best, and they totally missed the boat when they wouldn't let other software clients bounce messages of their servers, but they were the biggest for a while, and they played a key role...
Bring over 8,000 songs (WMA/80kbps) or 5,000 songs (MP3/128kbps) everywhere you go with this cutting-edge compact 20GB player.,
But then it also says: "The Zen offers up to 12 hours of continuous playback using the quick-charge battery, and the sleek aluminum body makes carrying your music even more fun."
Forget about how a "sleek aluminum body makes carrying your music even more fun", but 20 GB would offer around 400 hours or so of music. Obviously the batteries cant keep up with that, but enough battery life to listen to more than a tiny fraction of your music would be nice.. I guess this goes back to the whole batteries arent progressing fast enough argument....
Yeah, I can understand what you are saying, however, if you read the article, he has clearly exceeded the vocabulary that would be found in normal conversation, and is using words that do not contribute to understand what he is saying, but rather the opposite.
Besides, Ive never been a fan of those vocabulary courses, who run adverts saying things like: "impress your friends with words they dont know", etc... I prefer to divert my language skills to expanding my vocabulary in the other languages that I speak. But to be sure, Mr. Jackson could communicate far more clearly with a little less effort...
"The distinction between 'judicial' speech and proscribed 'extrajudicial' speech is unrealistic. It conflates the concept of unofficial commentary and personal prejudice, which do not always equate, and draws the line between the permissible and the impermissible on the basis of whether the judge speaks ex cathedra [by virtue of one's position] or simply as a knowledgeable participant in the adjudicative process."
Jackson calls for "more sensible rules" regarding when a judge should speak out. "
So, in effect, he is saying: "Yes, I broke the rules, but it's ok, because I don't agree with the rules."
Hmm..
And what is he, a scrabble champion or something? Do Judges REALLY talk like that?.. I guess so, considering they are just glorified lawyers...
Emotions. Trying to build emotions into systems. I did some work for a Californian company called Evolution Robotics that was making a home robot and trying to understand how to prevent it from getting trapped in the corner or falling down the stairs. It seemed to me that the way to do it was for the robot to be frustrated in the corner and give up what it was doing and do something else, and also for it to be afraid of heights.
Emotions? That's just what we need a robot with PMS...
Right, but according to the article, (And I'm a bit out of my league on this one), they can now make it work over longer distances, which may make it more useable in the commercial domain.
My comment was more related to the seemingly extreme laws governing encryption technology.
The big question, though, is whether they should be allowed to enter the commercial domain, where they could be used by organised crime and terrorism to thwart eavesdropping by police.
Let me help answer the question. Yes, It should be allowed to enter the commercial domain. Their overprotection of encryption technology is getting old.
I wish those ads would at least include the MSRP or some kind of estimated price....
In case it gets slashdotted.....
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When they say that "The companies also agreed to distribute $75.7 million worth of CDs to public entities and nonprofit organizations in all 50 states.
Is that 75.5 Million at the "artificially inflated" price or the price they should have been. Also, who gets to decide which CD's they send? They should have been made to $75.7 million worth of BLANK cd's..
"Attorneys general in the two states, who were joined in the lawsuit by 39 other states, said that the industry kept consumer CD prices artificially high between 1995 and 2000 with a practice known as "minimum-advertised pricing" (MAP)."
So, what has been keeping the prices artificially high since 2000? The CD prices continue to go nowhere but up. Shouldn't they have to lower the prices? Wouldn't that be a more beneficial judgement?
And furthermore, 67 MILLION??? Please! They will probably spend twice that on the party they throw to celebrate their "loss".
"The growth of online commerce has spawned dozens of lawsuits over intellectual property. One highly publicized case involved online bookseller amazon.com, which was granted a patent for the process that allows customers to complete purchases with a single mouse-click."
How on earth did they win that one? How do you patent a mouse click? Is that why everytime I want to buy something online, I have to go through several extra meaningless steps like. Are you really, really, really, sure you want to do this?
Who holds the patent on the two step online purchase Process forcing everyone to add a third step? You see how that can go on forever.
"the fact that it was cordless and had a built-in optical sensor deeply attracted me. I immediately decided to buy it and that may have been the biggest mistake I had ever made. "
I can relate. Yes, I too understand being deeply attracted, and later realizing it was a huge mistake. My biggest ever mistakes, didn't usually involve mice, but maybe I get out more..
it took me a lot of practice to get used to the trackball. Believe it or not, learning how to use the TrackMan FX is actually harder than learning to drive a car.
You actually have to leave the house to drive a car..
It does sound cool though, and one nice detail which would have been nice to include in the article would have been the price.
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The article is calling the fact that you have to do a manual save at least once per document a bad thing.
Fortunately, technology has improved since the 1970s. We have the power, in today's computers, to pick a sensible name for a document, and to save it to a person's desktop as soon as she begins typing, just like a piece of paper in real life. We also have the ability to save changes to that document every couple of minutes (or, perhaps, every paragraph) without any user intervention.
We have the technology. So why do we still make people save each of their documents, at least once, manually? Cruft.
I don't wan't to name the document until I decide to save it. Does anyone else here want this feature? I create many documents every day, to re-format, print, view differently cut / paste from web for printing, for email, etc... I don't want my hard drive cluttered with this crap. That's why I don't save it. Yet, this Matthew Thomas guy thinks this would be good. I think his first example of "cruft" is a bad one.
Although John Dvorak was speaking about copyright law when he said this, It still sounds appropriate:
What's happened, and the point I keep trying to make, is that technology has changed the economics of these industries.
This is indeed true of teh VOIP scene. What a pathetic lack of understanding of the technology the Panamanian governement has displayed. Many of those ports are just as easily used by many apps that they definately don't want to ban. Exchange Sever is one example, but there are many more.
WorldCom will use the money for incentives to retain 325 employees, mostly sales and service people in its MCI and network and products services units.
That comes to around 76K per person. It seems like they might could spread that a bit thinner, and keep some more people, especially the ones at and below Manager level. But How much do you want to bet that every penny of that is going to VP's and Directors?
Correct..
Just get DHCP to assign one, and then set it as a static IP. You are correct that they could decide to yank it most any time, but most ISP's don't do that. Additionally, depending on the DHCP server, most DHCP scopes won't assign an IP that is already in use even if it is within th scope and not assigned by the server, so you are pretty safe. Obviosly, this isn't something you would want to do with a production server, but for home use it works ok, as long as you recognise that they could shut you down if they decide to. I've done this with two different providers, and have had no real problems.
Regards,
Thanks for the pics.
It looks oddly similar to the Compaq PDA, no? I wonder who builds the Compaq ones, and if Dell will simply outsource to the same place?
He stood me up the first time, then when he did arrive, he told me that I couldn't have a dedicated IP, despite them having promised me that I could have one. He did however configure my machine to use the cable company's proxy server, and use DHCP, etc... After he was done, I just reconfigured it and hard set the IP address. I haven't had a problem in the past couple of years. Except for when my machine was off for a couple of days, and I had to re-configure for DHCP,and "steal" another address, as my old one wasn't available any more...
Actually, my company, which shall remain unnamed, used to have pretty strict dresscodes, in fact the dresscode rules have changed 3 times in the last year.
First they announced that Business casual had been eliminated, and Business dress (suit and tie) was now required for all offices globally. Then just after everyone spent a couple of grand upgrading their wardrobes, they announced that Business casual had returned. Then, just a couple of months ago, dresscodes were eliminated entirely for all European offices.
Depending on which office I am in, I may still wear a suit and tie, but when I don't think it's necessary, I wear whatever I want. I think it's a great arrangement, but I feel sorry for the people who spent a small fortune on new clothes, and weren't really in a position to do so.
Maybe when we get out of bankruptcy, we can go back to Business Dress..
This is all nonsense about mobile phones being dangerous to airplane communications. There have been lots of articles regarding this subject. One of many by John Dvorak who said "And I already mentioned the restrictions placed on cell phones in airplanes. There is no evidence that mobile phones interfere with communications. This just amplifies an atmosphere of utter stupidity and senseless rules that makes us all dumber. Logic, common sense, and science are shoved aside in favor of mysterious edicts derived from fear, lack of knowledge, New Age mumbo-jumbo, and superstition. Welcome to America, 2002."
Also, if they were so dangerous, they would collect the phones at security like guns and knives.. its just a big scam. There are many articles on the subject.
One of the John Dvorak articles is here.
There many more if you do a google search.
Ive never even heard of Search King until now. I did a couple of sample searches, and got all commercial sites at the top of the Search King Results, and got usefull information at the top of Googles results. I did like a quote from the page about the suit.
"when your "business" consists of shoplifting and the corner store installs a security camera, you're going to go out of business quickly enough that an injunction is your only hope."
That probably wasnt the best analogy they could have used seeing as they are comparing themselves to shoplifters, and complaining about Googles "security camera", but I think its appropriate...
Hey,
I understand your point and all, but really, isnt paraprasing
"Given the way the economic model works, and that is a subsidy followed, essentially, by fees for every piece of software sold, our licence framework has to do that," Mr Ballmer said. "If there are aspects that are not allowed, it would encourage us to require a change in the legal framework. Otherwise, it wouldn't make economic sense."
into....
"change the law, or they will have to reconsider selling the Xbox in Australia. "
stretching it a bit?
Simultaneously, the company is hoping that broadband users will need the same kind of handholding that its masses of dial-up devotees once thrived on.
Hah! Somehow I doubt that's going to happen.
However, the article goes on to make that same point. Analysts blame AOL's poor broadband showing on the fact that the service is a bit more expensive than competitors' systems, and on what's called a "mature market," by which they mean that people interested in DSL are too sophisticated for AOL.
So, it looks bad for AOL.. That's good.. However, like it or not, they did play a big role in the massive acceptance of Instant Messaging software. Sure they were far from the first, and far from the best, and they totally missed the boat when they wouldn't let other software clients bounce messages of their servers, but they were the biggest for a while, and they played a key role...
It says:
,
Bring over 8,000 songs (WMA/80kbps) or 5,000 songs (MP3/128kbps) everywhere you go with this cutting-edge compact 20GB player.
But then it also says:
"The Zen offers up to 12 hours of continuous playback using the quick-charge battery, and the sleek aluminum body makes carrying your music even more fun."
Forget about how a "sleek aluminum body makes carrying your music even more fun", but 20 GB would offer around 400 hours or so of music. Obviously the batteries cant keep up with that, but enough battery life to listen to more than a tiny fraction of your music would be nice.. I guess this goes back to the whole batteries arent progressing fast enough argument....
Yeah, I can understand what you are saying, however, if you read the article, he has clearly exceeded the vocabulary that would be found in normal conversation, and is using words that do not contribute to understand what he is saying, but rather the opposite.
Besides, Ive never been a fan of those vocabulary courses, who run adverts saying things like: "impress your friends with words they dont know", etc... I prefer to divert my language skills to expanding my vocabulary in the other languages that I speak. But to be sure, Mr. Jackson could communicate far more clearly with a little less effort...
I liked one of the previous posts...
He says:
"The distinction between 'judicial' speech and proscribed 'extrajudicial' speech is unrealistic. It conflates the concept of unofficial commentary and personal prejudice, which do not always equate, and draws the line between the permissible and the impermissible on the basis of whether the judge speaks ex cathedra [by virtue of one's position] or simply as a knowledgeable participant in the adjudicative process."
Jackson calls for "more sensible rules" regarding when a judge should speak out. "
So, in effect, he is saying: "Yes, I broke the rules, but it's ok, because I don't agree with the rules."
Hmm..
And what is he, a scrabble champion or something? Do Judges REALLY talk like that?.. I guess so, considering they are just glorified lawyers...
Now if they can just find a way to exchange email addresses with a bow, then we will have something really useful in Japan.
What are your big priorities in usability now?
Emotions. Trying to build emotions into systems. I did some work for a Californian company called Evolution Robotics that was making a home robot and trying to understand how to prevent it from getting trapped in the corner or falling down the stairs. It seemed to me that the way to do it was for the robot to be frustrated in the corner and give up what it was doing and do something else, and also for it to be afraid of heights.
Emotions? That's just what we need a robot with PMS...
Right, but according to the article, (And I'm a bit out of my league on this one), they can now make it work over longer distances, which may make it more useable in the commercial domain.
My comment was more related to the seemingly extreme laws governing encryption technology.
Regards..
The big question, though, is whether they should be allowed to enter the commercial domain, where they could be used by organised crime and terrorism to thwart eavesdropping by police.
Let me help answer the question. Yes, It should be allowed to enter the commercial domain. Their overprotection of encryption technology is getting old.
I wish those ads would at least include the MSRP or some kind of estimated price....
Here is the full text from the Journal Entry...
Tuesday mornings are my early days. We split 'em up between the authors, but tuesday and sundays are mine. I got up at 7:20, showered, picked up a cup of coffee at the local shop, and was at the office by 7:45. I deleted about 30 submissions by 8:10, and posted my first story of the morning.
Its another typical tuesday at Slashdot... except that this time around, we're 5 years old. FIVE years. Thats almost 20% of my life. All of my post collegiate life, plus some. Slashdot has been my full time job for 4 years now. I've been deleting submissions and posting stories for what seems like forever. We've posted nearly 30,000 stories. Deleted a million submissions. Served half a billion pages. And we've come a long way from those days of serving a few thousand pages a day from a little DEC Alpha Multia.
And ya know what? I wouldn't trade it for anything. I work with some of the most creative and fun people I've ever met. I have interesting work that only rarely gets boring. Flexible hours (excluding those pesky tuesday mornings
Even though we jumped the shark approximately 4.99 years ago, I'd like to thank everyone who's still reading, and everyone who helps make this site go 'round each and every day. Specifically, the Coders (Jamie, Krow, CowboyNeal & Pudge) and the writers (Timothy, Michael, & Hemos) as well as the countless folks that have helped make Slashdot what it is under the scenes (Everyone in #slashdot-authors, and all the folks who handle stuff like HR and let us just run the site)
So once again... I love my job. Here's hoping that in 5 years, I can say that once again, in this forum. Now Subscribe, or click on banner ads, or buy something from ThinkGeek to help keep us going.
When they say that "The companies also agreed to distribute $75.7 million worth of CDs to public entities and nonprofit organizations in all 50 states.
Is that 75.5 Million at the "artificially inflated" price or the price they should have been. Also, who gets to decide which CD's they send? They should have been made to $75.7 million worth of BLANK cd's..
The article says that
"Attorneys general in the two states, who were joined in the lawsuit by 39 other states, said that the industry kept consumer CD prices artificially high between 1995 and 2000 with a practice known as "minimum-advertised pricing" (MAP)."
So, what has been keeping the prices artificially high since 2000? The CD prices continue to go nowhere but up. Shouldn't they have to lower the prices? Wouldn't that be a more beneficial judgement?
And furthermore, 67 MILLION??? Please! They will probably spend twice that on the party they throw to celebrate their "loss".
From the article:
"The growth of online commerce has spawned dozens of lawsuits over intellectual property. One highly publicized case involved online bookseller amazon.com, which was granted a patent for the process that allows customers to complete purchases with a single mouse-click."
How on earth did they win that one? How do you patent a mouse click? Is that why everytime I want to buy something online, I have to go through several extra meaningless steps like. Are you really, really, really, sure you want to do this?
Who holds the patent on the two step online purchase Process forcing everyone to add a third step? You see how that can go on forever.
How much would you just love to kick Bernie Ebbers right in the balls?
From the article:
"the fact that it was cordless and had a built-in optical sensor deeply attracted me. I immediately decided to buy it and that may have been the biggest mistake I had ever made. "
I can relate. Yes, I too understand being deeply attracted, and later realizing it was a huge mistake. My biggest ever mistakes, didn't usually involve mice, but maybe I get out more..
it took me a lot of practice to get used to the trackball. Believe it or not, learning how to use the TrackMan FX is actually harder than learning to drive a car.
You actually have to leave the house to drive a car..
It does sound cool though, and one nice detail which would have been nice to include in the article would have been the price.