this means little. it's not like tomorrow the FBI's gonna know what your PIN is for your bank account. this was jsut a proposal.
Also, because the judge initially rejected the FCC interpretation due to lack of justification doesnt mean he'll approve it because they "justified" it. He only rejected them the first time because EPIC et al said they didnt provide justification, and the judge agreed. Now (if I know legal patterns well enough) EPIC et al is going to be challenging those justifications, making the judge decide on the merits of the FCC's justification. Only after the judge gives the ok to the FCC does this actually become a real issue (for those who care about it).
boy do i shameful look on my face! guess that really shows the level to which MS market-speak says about who developed what first, and how easy it is to twist one into MS's thoughts.
MS has perhaps the best research team (at least nowadays) when it comes to HCI stuff. Think about it -- who invented that top-notch joystick? Natural shape keyboards? Wheeled mouse? MS on all three.
Granted, if only their software groups could listen to them saying what a good error message is, we'd be set. (sorry, ranting about error msg in outlook "Operation could not be completed. Object Not Found" when clicking send&receive)
(note: i am a former AOLer. at the time, they were the only ISP with a dial number that was local)
AOL does indeed monitor chatroom conversations, but not all at once, and you know when they're being watched, as a screenname "Guide####" appears in the list of people there. In addition, if someone's causing a ruckus, a Guide can be "paged" or someone can submit a TOS violation report, and they'll investigate.
Likewise, for IM conversation (ie, one-to-one conversations), someone can send a TOSV report, and AOL will investigate. But that's only for their ISP users (people that pay for the service), not AIM users.
My guess is that either all conversations are logged and purged after like a day or so, or a snapshot of the conversation is made when a report is filed.
i suspect the quotes from Schnier (sp?) were eitehr taken out of context or he didnt know what they were going toward.
i read the article yesterday (tried submiting it too, rejected) and the article was anti-IRC right from the start. Kinda like Phil Zimmerman's "guilt" over PGP dabacle with the Washington Post last September following the terror attacks.
basic thing to remember: the media is always biased, no matter how much they say they arent.
we had an askslashdot on that device a several months ago, asking similar questions and also how it actually worked.
but as for how well it works -- my local news did a test of it sometime in the past few months. they had someone (who works from home) record day&time of calls for two weeks, noting who from, etc, and not requesting removal. then they plugged in the telezapper. after two weeks, the number of calls dropped drastically.
the story told to my OS class was that Theo for whatever reason split from either Free or NetBSD to OpenBSD. For a while, the two were pretty much the same. Then someone r00t3d Theo's machine. Thus OpenBSD took on the task of being the most secure OS out there, and I think they've done a pretty good job, particularly in their development practices that encourage finding bugs and getting things right the first time.
your simplification is somewhat faulty. If you have 3 people developing a large complex system, at some point it becomes obvious they'll need more than three in order to make the deadline, even if that deadline is years away, and especially if all three lack serious knowledge in a particular topic, such as databases or UI design. Think of what slashcode might be like if cmdrtaco were still the only guy working on it.
yeah, the other poster is correct - writing slow java code is easy to do. but as i said in my post above, text apps feel native once they get going. it's just been my experience that large gui apps are noticebly slower on Java 1.3. see my otehr post about why guis might be slower than text apps.
the reason swing is slow is because it has maintain prtability between windowing systems (GNOME vs KDE, for example) and OSs (like Windows vs Solaris). As a result, the code becomes a little bloated in getting everybody supported equally.
AWT, the original gui package, ran ok for the runtime environment it had, but was very feature limited, as they only implemented something everybody had.
Swing, OTOH, implementes every gui widget you can think of, and uses the Java 2D graphics package instead of the native windowing system (although that too has changed). When I said earlier that Swing was improved in 1.4, it was actually this 2D package that was improved.
Chances are high that the ThinkFree suite was implemented for Java 1.3 since 1.4 was just released within the past month or two.
ime, Java is slow with desktop apps. It's better geared for back-end stuff like webservers or database apps. I've used more than a few Java desktop apps that slow down as the document or whatever is being worked on gets larger. My guess is that it's the gui that slows things down, as text-mode apps feel like native apps after the start-up penalty. Now granted, I havent yet given 1.4 it's chance on the desktop, where many improvements to swing have been made, so we shall see how it goes....
Like setting when you setup spam filters in Outlook XP the "Send/Receive Button" stops working? Or how Word says "this document has macros, you have macros disabled. you need to enable macros to make them work" when the Doc doesnt have macros? I could probably find a few more if you'd like.......
Prevent the consumer from "feeling" the pain of his/her choices, so no incentive to lower usage.
I dont fully know what it was like in CA (but I did get a $12/day surcharge at a SF hotel last June), but to my understanding, the limit was on cost per watt or something like that, not cost/month. Cost/watt would give conservation incentives by showing the person how much they were using.
Discouraged investment in new sources of power. Precisely. The same concept happened in the living caps thingy. Energy companies had to reallocate the money they normally would've invested in new sources into funding production because their revenue from end consumers was limited.
CA's power troubles mostly were in over-regulation. Last fall I had microecon in school and we learned what happened: price caps. CA didnt want electrical companies charging too much for electricity. Ok, so the electric companies only provided enough power such that they would break even, but that failed to fulfill the power demand. Result: brownouts.
Turns out similar problems occured in living establishments (apts, homes, etc). CA put a cap on how much a place to live costs (was based on something like cost per sq ft.). This wound up discouraging builders from building new apartments and housing developments, or made them go with cheap ass establshments just so they could break even or barely profit. Result: more people living out of vans; which is illegal in CA.
This was all in a WSJ article titled "CA: The Free Lunch State" If i had a link i'd show it.
Basically, the lesson in the econ class was that price caps limit supply.
Some people say that deregulating the power troubles wouldn't work. But where I live, PA, we have electric competition, keeping supply/demand in balance. One local electric exec wrote a WSJ article (also from the econ class) about how deregulation helped the mid-Atlantic states prevent most brownouts and keep end consumer costs down.
the kid was 21 years old, an eppileptic, and clinically depressed, along with a few other psyhological disorders. IANA[insert profession here], but to me it's clear that the game was part of the problem as he was playing 12 hours/day, and once thought the characters were chasing him, but mom and the psychologist continued to let him play it. Sony's lawyers will also be quick to point out the Columbine case.
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i happen to enjoy it a little. example: my school's newspaper, The Triangle, publishes The Rectangle every April 1. They go to great lengths at writing a complete edition of made-up-stories, complete with spoofed photos of ceremonys (like the school president shaking hands with Snuffy from Sesame St), made up advertisements and even classified ads. On some levels, they are writing the paper by following The Onion's style of humor.
will you be placing the slashads in their own topic or have them posted by their own author? i'd like to use my prefs page to hide them.
disclaimer: i am aware of today's date.
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well, i never said all that was going to be easy (or cheap for that matter). I was actually refering to reliability in terms of how current hard disks risk failure from the movements required for the disk arm, platters, etc. With stopped-light disks, most of that movement is eliminated and given to hard-wired components (which also risk failure, just not as badly as current hd's).
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this means little. it's not like tomorrow the FBI's gonna know what your PIN is for your bank account. this was jsut a proposal.
Also, because the judge initially rejected the FCC interpretation due to lack of justification doesnt mean he'll approve it because they "justified" it. He only rejected them the first time because EPIC et al said they didnt provide justification, and the judge agreed. Now (if I know legal patterns well enough) EPIC et al is going to be challenging those justifications, making the judge decide on the merits of the FCC's justification. Only after the judge gives the ok to the FCC does this actually become a real issue (for those who care about it).
boy do i shameful look on my face! guess that really shows the level to which MS market-speak says about who developed what first, and how easy it is to twist one into MS's thoughts.
MS has perhaps the best research team (at least nowadays) when it comes to HCI stuff. Think about it -- who invented that top-notch joystick? Natural shape keyboards? Wheeled mouse? MS on all three.
Granted, if only their software groups could listen to them saying what a good error message is, we'd be set. (sorry, ranting about error msg in outlook "Operation could not be completed. Object Not Found" when clicking send&receive)
(note: i am a former AOLer. at the time, they were the only ISP with a dial number that was local)
AOL does indeed monitor chatroom conversations, but not all at once, and you know when they're being watched, as a screenname "Guide####" appears in the list of people there. In addition, if someone's causing a ruckus, a Guide can be "paged" or someone can submit a TOS violation report, and they'll investigate.
Likewise, for IM conversation (ie, one-to-one conversations), someone can send a TOSV report, and AOL will investigate. But that's only for their ISP users (people that pay for the service), not AIM users.
My guess is that either all conversations are logged and purged after like a day or so, or a snapshot of the conversation is made when a report is filed.
i suspect the quotes from Schnier (sp?) were eitehr taken out of context or he didnt know what they were going toward.
i read the article yesterday (tried submiting it too, rejected) and the article was anti-IRC right from the start. Kinda like Phil Zimmerman's "guilt" over PGP dabacle with the Washington Post last September following the terror attacks.
basic thing to remember: the media is always biased, no matter how much they say they arent.
we had an askslashdot on that device a several months ago, asking similar questions and also how it actually worked.
but as for how well it works -- my local news did a test of it sometime in the past few months. they had someone (who works from home) record day&time of calls for two weeks, noting who from, etc, and not requesting removal. then they plugged in the telezapper. after two weeks, the number of calls dropped drastically.
oh one more thing -- i dont vouch for the accuaracy of my post, as it's hearsay from a prof who also heard it via hearsay.
the story told to my OS class was that Theo for whatever reason split from either Free or NetBSD to OpenBSD. For a while, the two were pretty much the same. Then someone r00t3d Theo's machine. Thus OpenBSD took on the task of being the most secure OS out there, and I think they've done a pretty good job, particularly in their development practices that encourage finding bugs and getting things right the first time.
your simplification is somewhat faulty. If you have 3 people developing a large complex system, at some point it becomes obvious they'll need more than three in order to make the deadline, even if that deadline is years away, and especially if all three lack serious knowledge in a particular topic, such as databases or UI design. Think of what slashcode might be like if cmdrtaco were still the only guy working on it.
yeah, the other poster is correct - writing slow java code is easy to do. but as i said in my post above, text apps feel native once they get going. it's just been my experience that large gui apps are noticebly slower on Java 1.3. see my otehr post about why guis might be slower than text apps.
the reason swing is slow is because it has maintain prtability between windowing systems (GNOME vs KDE, for example) and OSs (like Windows vs Solaris). As a result, the code becomes a little bloated in getting everybody supported equally.
AWT, the original gui package, ran ok for the runtime environment it had, but was very feature limited, as they only implemented something everybody had.
Swing, OTOH, implementes every gui widget you can think of, and uses the Java 2D graphics package instead of the native windowing system (although that too has changed). When I said earlier that Swing was improved in 1.4, it was actually this 2D package that was improved.
Chances are high that the ThinkFree suite was implemented for Java 1.3 since 1.4 was just released within the past month or two.
ime, Java is slow with desktop apps. It's better geared for back-end stuff like webservers or database apps. I've used more than a few Java desktop apps that slow down as the document or whatever is being worked on gets larger. My guess is that it's the gui that slows things down, as text-mode apps feel like native apps after the start-up penalty. Now granted, I havent yet given 1.4 it's chance on the desktop, where many improvements to swing have been made, so we shall see how it goes....
since the reviewer found quite a few faults
Are you suggesting that Office XP has no faults?
Like setting when you setup spam filters in Outlook XP the "Send/Receive Button" stops working? Or how Word says "this document has macros, you have macros disabled. you need to enable macros to make them work" when the Doc doesnt have macros? I could probably find a few more if you'd like.......
that's what i needed. thanks for the explanation. the gas example really helped my understanding of what was going on. thanks again
ok, i'm not an economist. tell me this: was the cap something like "$100/month for the end consumer, no higher?"
Prevent the consumer from "feeling" the pain of his/her choices, so no incentive to lower usage.
I dont fully know what it was like in CA (but I did get a $12/day surcharge at a SF hotel last June), but to my understanding, the limit was on cost per watt or something like that, not cost/month. Cost/watt would give conservation incentives by showing the person how much they were using.
Discouraged investment in new sources of power.
Precisely. The same concept happened in the living caps thingy. Energy companies had to reallocate the money they normally would've invested in new sources into funding production because their revenue from end consumers was limited.
CA's power troubles mostly were in over-regulation. Last fall I had microecon in school and we learned what happened: price caps. CA didnt want electrical companies charging too much for electricity. Ok, so the electric companies only provided enough power such that they would break even, but that failed to fulfill the power demand. Result: brownouts.
Turns out similar problems occured in living establishments (apts, homes, etc). CA put a cap on how much a place to live costs (was based on something like cost per sq ft.). This wound up discouraging builders from building new apartments and housing developments, or made them go with cheap ass establshments just so they could break even or barely profit. Result: more people living out of vans; which is illegal in CA.
This was all in a WSJ article titled "CA: The Free Lunch State" If i had a link i'd show it.
Basically, the lesson in the econ class was that price caps limit supply.
Some people say that deregulating the power troubles wouldn't work. But where I live, PA, we have electric competition, keeping supply/demand in balance. One local electric exec wrote a WSJ article (also from the econ class) about how deregulation helped the mid-Atlantic states prevent most brownouts and keep end consumer costs down.
thanks. i guess i simply skimmed right over that.
let my error be a lesson to the rest of you: dont ever learn to speed read or take a course in it, you'll end up missing those types of details.
it's one big rant about Apple's shortcomings, padded with small praises to lighten the impact.
iirc, video games put epileptic warnings in the fine print in the back of the instruction booklets.
the kid was 21 years old, an eppileptic, and clinically depressed, along with a few other psyhological disorders. IANA[insert profession here], but to me it's clear that the game was part of the problem as he was playing 12 hours/day, and once thought the characters were chasing him, but mom and the psychologist continued to let him play it. Sony's lawyers will also be quick to point out the Columbine case.
...when BP wants it to stop.
i happen to enjoy it a little. example: my school's newspaper, The Triangle, publishes The Rectangle every April 1. They go to great lengths at writing a complete edition of made-up-stories, complete with spoofed photos of ceremonys (like the school president shaking hands with Snuffy from Sesame St), made up advertisements and even classified ads. On some levels, they are writing the paper by following The Onion's style of humor.
will you be placing the slashads in their own topic or have them posted by their own author? i'd like to use my prefs page to hide them.
disclaimer: i am aware of today's date.
well, i never said all that was going to be easy (or cheap for that matter). I was actually refering to reliability in terms of how current hard disks risk failure from the movements required for the disk arm, platters, etc. With stopped-light disks, most of that movement is eliminated and given to hard-wired components (which also risk failure, just not as badly as current hd's).