It's not. It's illegal but not stealing. Windows will NOT cost less if everyone paid for it, and even if it did, it's not stealing. You still have you copy, and Microsoft has theirs, and everyone else as well.
The question is, would anyone in 1996 say yes to the following question:
Do you think automatically updating software on a workstation (or terminal) from a server using a network is something that can be done if wanted?
Answer: YES
That only a fraction of the companies did this is because a very large fraction of the computer users where not networked. And most applications where standalone and isolated.
Automation should NOT be patentable. This is just that (and it's not innovative, much less "An invention"). Mostly everyone got new version of stuff, checking previously that they don't already have that update (terminal to be updated), and that the update was available somewhere (source of product), and that the "software" had to be transported to the "client", and installed, and inventariated.
Great, putting sticks on wheels is what the US Patent law promotes, and everyone suffers. There's people dying because they don't have food. Innovation should solve problems, not make them not only harder to crack, but impossible by definition.
Great!!! So let's hope everyone start patenting everything, so that we CANNOT DO THINGS as opposed to we CANNOT COPY THINGS OTHER WROTE. Looks like a promising future..."You cannot DO this, you cannot REACH this result, you cannot COMMUNICATE with me (the protocol is patented), you cannot...I mean, you cannot do anything, because there are hundred thouthands of patents you didnt even read, but the describe a result to be achieved, so just don't do nothing if you want to on the safe side. Whatever you do. it's probably already patented...
Patents law need to be reexaminated, it's supposed to help innovation by allowing client companies to learn from the patents. Nobody ever reads patents anymore (except the very very few, usefull ones), it's even what a patent lawer would suggest you to do.
I think Slackware is regarded as such, because you bypass all the "User Friendliness" from day 1, and realize it's just straightforward. You become more confortable and less limited. You don't lern where the buttons are, but what needs be done.
Knowing all this translated into beign able to do fancy things, like remote administration easily, solving unexpected problems. It's not about Slackware, it's about getting to know the tools. And seeing how you do not need to keep updating everything like mad.
So in the end, the call you "nerd", or you end up setting up servers and maintaining servers. But you will probably want a tutor (friend) with Slackware, it makes help you so much, Slackwareites usually have a tendency to tell you what to learn, or what tool is right for the job, not exact commands lines or "downloads".
A colleague introduced me to Linux, we bought a VA Linux server from my home country, and have it shipped to a USA hosting company. Then they configured the network in minutes. After an hour everything was fine and working. After a year, the machine would crash, and crash (run out of swap, leaking...).
So my friend suggested an "emergency" reinstall, 20000 miles away from the computer, without any remote assistance, unless he screwed. He did not...that slackware reinstall is still running mostly unchanged since 2001 without problems, uptimes in the years.
I then used Slackware at the notebook, but got a bit tired of babysitting it (have less time now, or so I think). So I installed Gentoo. Gentoo is also nice, but not as straighforward (it's the magic!). The best thing about Gentoo, I found later, is that cool stuff other people use gets an entry under portage. It helps you find all kind of usefull stuff that other appreciate.
But if it needed to be 100% in control again, I'd go back to Slackware anytime.
If you can't read any further, how do you know about his Clayton comments? I would have expected your post to be at +5 Funny or -1 Troll, but never at +X Informative...
Software patents deal with the result in some cases, but the important fact is that 1) everything is connected in some way 2) There are large monopolies that may force 95% of the population to use software that requires the innovators to pay a lot for royalties. Things *could* be easily done in 10 other ways, but it just happens that 95% of the people only have 1 of the "paths" available.
So you patent either results, or whatever that can be an important piece in the large chain that makes systems work, and push it to the masses.
Patents are supposed to be about royalties. Of course you'd expect someone using your patents to gain market share AND brand recognition. Else, you'd keep it as a trade secret. I don't see the problem with that. Also, I think patents would work best if companies where to be forced to split the revenues. Each company having a "patent collections" where they have to charge the same amount to their our patent department as they are charging others. You could stop any patent abuse, after all, they would have to abuse themselves in the first place. Granted, the company patent division could be making money, but probably the company as a hole could be making more money by NOT using their own very patents, and that would lead to patent revocation. In the end, they would have to balance patent extortion internaly and thus externaly.
Dell México has contracts with UPS (early assessments and some replacements) and Unisys, so it would be pretty likely they also work for them in the US (though it may be another company). These kind of contracts are not negotiated on a country by country basis generaly. The difference in Mexico is the service note you have to sign has the service company name on it (UPS/Unisys and some other company I yet don't know it's name).
... UPS drivers aren't replacing anything, they are simply shipping them to a center where techs replace the parts
In my case, a UPS guy came and changed the power supply of a Dell D600. That didn't work, and after about 2 days a Unisys guy come over and replaced the motherboard. Problem solved. Ok, the... ouch!!!! YES! refurbished Dell had initial problems... but Dell didn't realize it also came with 3 YEARS ONSITE Next Business Day Repair international warranty:-)
So the UPS guys not only ship, the do some assessment over the phone, try some things up, replace the easy parts, and if it's no good, a real tech comes by and services your equipment (either from UPS or Unisys here).
So no, they are aiming a low tech and medium tech "delivery" guys, not just delivery guys.
Here in Mexico, Dell uses both UPS services (first assesment) and if that fails, Unisys. Our Dell notebook needed two repairs in about 6 months. The first time, a help desk drone at Panamá o Argentina determined an on-site visit and some days after (few) someone from UPS or Unisys came and replaced the motherboard. Problem solved.
Some months after, the computer started to issue a warning that something was wrong with power supply. We called the help desk, and two days later a guy from UPS came over and replaced the power adapter and cable. It still didnt solve the problem, but they left us the adaptar and took the original so that the posibility of being a power supply was over in case we needed to reopen a ticket. Two days later, a Unisys repairman replaced once again the motherboard (everything onsite, almost NBD) and everything is up and running very smoothly.
I dont know, it seems to be working here this UPS/Unisys combo. We already know IBM (or was it someone else?) will start reparing Panasonic or Phillips TVs. It seems to me it's the same patter. You replace components if in doubt, and that in the end turns up costing less for the provider in both image terms and $ terms.
Here in Mexico, Dell has about 3 providers for onsite support, and global sourcing for their help desk needs, one BIG cusstomer database which keeps track of everything that happened to your computer (including where you live, etc). Centralicez "management" and distributed service delivery seems to be the way things will develop in the future.
A lot of companies will become "horizontal process firms" meaning the do 1 thing best, globaly, and that's all. If they can pack some more process, they will take advantage, but always related to their main "first class process" like logistics or "global shipping" for example.
I also aknoledge not everything can work like this, but as time passes, more and more of this you will see. Also, the phrase "company employees" will mean squat. Coca cola Mexico has about 300 employees, they it's the country that generates the largest sales in the world. They just happen to do two thing best: marketing and manufacturing/distribution supervision.
"It would be interesting if you can make a good argument why this is not going to happen again this time?".
Ok, it likely going to happen again, but in the mean time (I mean, for us it will not be cool. Getting trained in some science/job for 30 years, and then finding out your skills are not needed any more is not rewarding).
What if whatever you do, and 90% of your skill become unneeded. Inmediately, you will find yourself asking for money on the streets or janitoring places.
I agree we cannot hold progress, but if progress is paying us less (real income), then it will not work. High productitivy today focus a lot on paying less salaries and second, automation, while lowering costs (which is good), also increases the pool of unemployed. The consecuence? More people fighting for jobs, and that means that even if you are a rocket scientist or a grest "whatever field" you are going to get paid less. You have no way to bargain with your overlods, you and everyone else MUST eat.
In the long term things will have to get better, in the meantime, whatever you do, you will see increased competition and polatization, and will start to regard it as "pretty not cool" in the following years.
The problem is not Supply, it's Demand. Unemployment is on the rise, and if it gets lower, it will be by artificial measures.
Nobody needs 3 billion guys working. The problem is mostly big corporations can compete, because they offer scale, lower costs and standarization. But they don't share the gains except for the people that work in diamond shaping and 5 stars hotels.
Democracy works as a contract as long as citicens can survive.
ANyway, I am positive that a solution will have to come, nobody wants the status quo to change much, especially the ones on the top of the pyramid.
You MUST train CRM114 differently, it learns a different way, but getting to know what it did wrong. You can tune the learning for automatic train-on-error if you know beforehand what is spam and what is not (you have to write your own script for this). Else, you must train it live.
If you train it any other way, it doesnt work as well.
After a week of correct training, you can start comparisons. I dont care about the first two or two, but afterwards, I expect few errores, and that is what up until now CRM does for me.
CRM is also somewhat hard to set up, I had to do strange things. But it sorts spam very nicelly, rarely makes mistakes, except it seems simetrical (probability of getting a false positive = probability of false negative). I don't like false positives...but I preffer that to lots of spam, I don't have time anymore for regular checks of the spam warehouse.
What I do is delete the parts of spam messages that I do not want the spam filter to consider. For example??? MY FUCKING NAME! It seems they go my name from Whois, so whenever I get a spam message that has my name on it, I delete it. Look at the message bodies and headers to see if that is causing you troubles, delete anything common sense says you will like not tag as spam (name, address, text that is normally expected).
CRM114 and Spamassasin can be used on desktop computers, or even on remote accounts where you can get a shell. The is an extra risk if you use "as good as it gets" external email accounts like hotmail, yahoo or gmail.
CRM114 works well (extremely well really) when only trained on errors. Exacty NOT fair. SpamAssasin is very good, but i had it inmediately replaced with CRM114 after actually trying and training it for a week (not after reading how good the CRM114 thinks his filter is, or after reading report from Guy X).
Not training only on errors lowers accuracy significantly for CRM114. I tryed pretraining with CRM and was a mistake.
In any experiment, you first fit the model against the data, then forecast (or test). CRM data must be collected in a teach on errors only, the author could have writen a simple script to automate a train on errors if he wanted to get real life results not half assed numbers.
Now I only whish someone would do a plugin for Squirell mail that could strip the Subject prefix for spam, the CRM114 tag, and could add the comand to learn ham/spam.
Me too. I couldn't check email for about a week and grew 4200 or so spam messages and 300 ham ones. 1 spam misclassified...(but some false positives also).
I try to teach the program the least possible (if a message doesn't look like spam for me, even if it is though, I do not teach it).
I also delete de ADV: (prefix) in the subject and the crm114 spam metadata (TAG) and fix it in general so it doesnt get confused when learning spam.
Bad teaching at the beggining leads to lower quality filtering (I did this at the beggining, not cleaning tags amongh other mistaques).
I tryed spamassasing and got fed up. The rules system made Spamassassin pass as ham everything that spooed a PINE filter. WTF...I deleted the entry, then one day upgraded and voila, lots and lots of spam again. And accuracy was much lower (the PINE problem reproduced with a lot of other "whitlisting rules" that I never needed).
After a week with CRM114, I deleted spamassain preprocessing for my account.
My first suggestion would be, find someone you like as a boss, someone that inspires, and manage to fully trust him (even though you may disagree 80% of the time, but whoi will more than likely get where he wanted to be), try not to understand him. If you cant find one, keep trying.
Second thing, read "How to make friends and influence people", I read when I was 15 and though I will NOT help you make friend, I will clearly laid out that LOGIC does not help. People want to be right, not correct. People have a large set of "premises" you do not share. Everyone has a hidden agenda whether they know it or not. And the best part? People are easy to deal with!!! After you read that, you can start thinking for yourself what the fuck friendship is. And my conclusion is that it is choice. I choose my friends, and dont have a rule. And you'll never really know who your real friends are. Just be prepared for disappointment...and the opposite (THAT GUY HELPED ME?). Friendship is not static, just are you are not the same as you yesterday.
Last thing is, if you do not want to communicate, then don't! Don't feel forced! Don't feel unhappy if you don't have friend. First of all, try to love yourself, and to enjoy your mistakes. That's the only way to start loving anything. And the best lesson I learned is you dont have to accept you on credits earned, you just DO IT. With time you learn to do it with other people. You will see it helps a lot to not judge every situation, with time, you'll know how to judge with enough data, and with enough perspective to compare averages, not individual datasets of information. You are dealing with black boxes, you need VERY large datasets to judge yourself and other, so dont get stuck case by case judging!
When I started thinking LESS (judging less), and delaying judgement to reasonable amounts of time (6 months, or more), I started accomplishing more. Drone yourself in the short term after you've made a decision, it works most of the time! Delaying rejudgement gets you where you CAN be (wanted + saw a chance). In the short term, get aboslutely practical, take the shortest, least ilustrated ways to get where you decided. Rething matters only once in a while (yearly).
Hope it helps in any way. I've read a lot of stuff that did not help me. I tryed this more practical approach, you cannot try to evaluate everything/everyone each and everytime new information is given, not even yourself. It doesn't help, it does not offer real insight, you WILL be wrong most of the time (about yourself, others, subjects).
Last advice, do not make more connections than you can handle, especially if you are the realtime evaluating (judging) type. It will lead your braqing to a massive state of "rich" but utterly wrong connection that will require a lot of work to clean out.
Another way it might work. You apply for a patent, then you have to wait 3 years to see if anyone else comes up "post art". If they didn't need your "publishing of the patent", then your invention was not needed at all, it was obvious.
Another one, you have two parts of a patent, the goal of the patent (what you are patenting, explaining the goal, not your "solution" to the problem), and if anyone ever is able to come up with a solution without needing to read your patent details, then the patent does not hold.
I mean, there is no evidence whatsoever that patents are HELPING innovation in general. Patenting ideas is the worst thing ever to have happened to innovation.
Actually, there is a solution to all these madness you are experience.
1) Tell the rich guys to move abroad, so that they'll stop paying 7x the actual costs for land, 7x the cost for medicine, 20x the cost for haircuts, etc., so that us$3000 will start looking like a great salary.
2) Tell the government to stop spending so much money, because all that translates into higher taxes, reduced income and less income for the people that actually DO something usefull.
OR........
3) Tell the rich people there that they can't Outsource. If they want to be competitive they must invest in better technology that WILL NOT BE SOLD to foreing countries.
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It's not. It's illegal but not stealing. Windows will NOT cost less if everyone paid for it, and even if it did, it's not stealing. You still have you copy, and Microsoft has theirs, and everyone else as well.
"Ok, you got IBM linux... And you wonder why I hated statistics class."
:-)
Why? Because you kept failing? There's no such thing as IBM Linux
More seriously, statistics do not lie, people do.
The question is, would anyone in 1996 say yes to the following question:
Do you think automatically updating software on a workstation (or terminal) from a server using a network is something that can be done if wanted?
Answer: YES
That only a fraction of the companies did this is because a very large fraction of the computer users where not networked. And most applications where standalone and isolated.
Automation should NOT be patentable. This is just that (and it's not innovative, much less "An invention"). Mostly everyone got new version of stuff, checking previously that they don't already have that update (terminal to be updated), and that the update was available somewhere (source of product), and that the "software" had to be transported to the "client", and installed, and inventariated.
Great, putting sticks on wheels is what the US Patent law promotes, and everyone suffers. There's people dying because they don't have food. Innovation should solve problems, not make them not only harder to crack, but impossible by definition.
Great!!! So let's hope everyone start patenting everything, so that we CANNOT DO THINGS as opposed to we CANNOT COPY THINGS OTHER WROTE. Looks like a promising future..."You cannot DO this, you cannot REACH this result, you cannot COMMUNICATE with me (the protocol is patented), you cannot ...I mean, you cannot do anything, because there are hundred thouthands of patents you didnt even read, but the describe a result to be achieved, so just don't do nothing if you want to on the safe side. Whatever you do. it's probably already patented...
Patents law need to be reexaminated, it's supposed to help innovation by allowing client companies to learn from the patents. Nobody ever reads patents anymore (except the very very few, usefull ones), it's even what a patent lawer would suggest you to do.
Correlation != Cause ...
I think Slackware is regarded as such, because you bypass all the "User Friendliness" from day 1, and realize it's just straightforward. You become more confortable and less limited. You don't lern where the buttons are, but what needs be done.
Knowing all this translated into beign able to do fancy things, like remote administration easily, solving unexpected problems. It's not about Slackware, it's about getting to know the tools. And seeing how you do not need to keep updating everything like mad.
So in the end, the call you "nerd", or you end up setting up servers and maintaining servers. But you will probably want a tutor (friend) with Slackware, it makes help you so much, Slackwareites usually have a tendency to tell you what to learn, or what tool is right for the job, not exact commands lines or "downloads".
A colleague introduced me to Linux, we bought a VA Linux server from my home country, and have it shipped to a USA hosting company. Then they configured the network in minutes. After an hour everything was fine and working. After a year, the machine would crash, and crash (run out of swap, leaking...).
So my friend suggested an "emergency" reinstall, 20000 miles away from the computer, without any remote assistance, unless he screwed. He did not...that slackware reinstall is still running mostly unchanged since 2001 without problems, uptimes in the years.
I then used Slackware at the notebook, but got a bit tired of babysitting it (have less time now, or so I think). So I installed Gentoo. Gentoo is also nice, but not as straighforward (it's the magic!). The best thing about Gentoo, I found later, is that cool stuff other people use gets an entry under portage. It helps you find all kind of usefull stuff that other appreciate.
But if it needed to be 100% in control again, I'd go back to Slackware anytime.
If you can't read any further, how do you know about his Clayton comments? I would have expected your post to be at +5 Funny or -1 Troll, but never at +X Informative...
While I think Screen is much better (from what I read, i have to try it yet), there is also a "kind of" nohup that is also very usefull.
... suppose it's %1
Suppose you ALREADY started a lengthy process, thinking you'll have enough time to see it finished before disconnected. In this case you can do this:
1) Sleep the process (CTRL-Z)
2) Put it back but in the background (bg %1)
3) Detach it (disown %1)
Then disconnect, and it's somewhat similar to nohup.
Software patents deal with the result in some cases, but the important fact is that 1) everything is connected in some way 2) There are large monopolies that may force 95% of the population to use software that requires the innovators to pay a lot for royalties. Things *could* be easily done in 10 other ways, but it just happens that 95% of the people only have 1 of the "paths" available.
So you patent either results, or whatever that can be an important piece in the large chain that makes systems work, and push it to the masses.
Patents are supposed to be about royalties. Of course you'd expect someone using your patents to gain market share AND brand recognition. Else, you'd keep it as a trade secret. I don't see the problem with that. Also, I think patents would work best if companies where to be forced to split the revenues. Each company having a "patent collections" where they have to charge the same amount to their our patent department as they are charging others. You could stop any patent abuse, after all, they would have to abuse themselves in the first place. Granted, the company patent division could be making money, but probably the company as a hole could be making more money by NOT using their own very patents, and that would lead to patent revocation. In the end, they would have to balance patent extortion internaly and thus externaly.
They have been doing this kind of thing for other companies for years. So you'd better look into History rather than the fact mentioned here.
Dell México has contracts with UPS (early assessments and some replacements) and Unisys, so it would be pretty likely they also work for them in the US (though it may be another company). These kind of contracts are not negotiated on a country by country basis generaly. The difference in Mexico is the service note you have to sign has the service company name on it (UPS/Unisys and some other company I yet don't know it's name).
In my case, a UPS guy came and changed the power supply of a Dell D600. That didn't work, and after about 2 days a Unisys guy come over and replaced the motherboard. Problem solved. Ok, the
So the UPS guys not only ship, the do some assessment over the phone, try some things up, replace the easy parts, and if it's no good, a real tech comes by and services your equipment (either from UPS or Unisys here).
So no, they are aiming a low tech and medium tech "delivery" guys, not just delivery guys.
Here in Mexico, Dell uses both UPS services (first assesment) and if that fails, Unisys. Our Dell notebook needed two repairs in about 6 months. The first time, a help desk drone at Panamá o Argentina determined an on-site visit and some days after (few) someone from UPS or Unisys came and replaced the motherboard. Problem solved.
Some months after, the computer started to issue a warning that something was wrong with power supply. We called the help desk, and two days later a guy from UPS came over and replaced the power adapter and cable. It still didnt solve the problem, but they left us the adaptar and took the original so that the posibility of being a power supply was over in case we needed to reopen a ticket. Two days later, a Unisys repairman replaced once again the motherboard (everything onsite, almost NBD) and everything is up and running very smoothly.
I dont know, it seems to be working here this UPS/Unisys combo. We already know IBM (or was it someone else?) will start reparing Panasonic or Phillips TVs. It seems to me it's the same patter. You replace components if in doubt, and that in the end turns up costing less for the provider in both image terms and $ terms.
Here in Mexico, Dell has about 3 providers for onsite support, and global sourcing for their help desk needs, one BIG cusstomer database which keeps track of everything that happened to your computer (including where you live, etc). Centralicez "management" and distributed service delivery seems to be the way things will develop in the future.
A lot of companies will become "horizontal process firms" meaning the do 1 thing best, globaly, and that's all. If they can pack some more process, they will take advantage, but always related to their main "first class process" like logistics or "global shipping" for example.
I also aknoledge not everything can work like this, but as time passes, more and more of this you will see. Also, the phrase "company employees" will mean squat. Coca cola Mexico has about 300 employees, they it's the country that generates the largest sales in the world. They just happen to do two thing best: marketing and manufacturing/distribution supervision.
"It would be interesting if you can make a good argument why this is not going to happen again this time?".
Ok, it likely going to happen again, but in the mean time (I mean, for us it will not be cool. Getting trained in some science/job for 30 years, and then finding out your skills are not needed any more is not rewarding).
What if whatever you do, and 90% of your skill become unneeded. Inmediately, you will find yourself asking for money on the streets or janitoring places.
I agree we cannot hold progress, but if progress is paying us less (real income), then it will not work. High productitivy today focus a lot on paying less salaries and second, automation, while lowering costs (which is good), also increases the pool of unemployed. The consecuence? More people fighting for jobs, and that means that even if you are a rocket scientist or a grest "whatever field" you are going to get paid less. You have no way to bargain with your overlods, you and everyone else MUST eat.
In the long term things will have to get better, in the meantime, whatever you do, you will see increased competition and polatization, and will start to regard it as "pretty not cool" in the following years.
The problem is not Supply, it's Demand. Unemployment is on the rise, and if it gets lower, it will be by artificial measures.
Nobody needs 3 billion guys working. The problem is mostly big corporations can compete, because they offer scale, lower costs and standarization. But they don't share the gains except for the people that work in diamond shaping and 5 stars hotels.
Democracy works as a contract as long as citicens can survive.
ANyway, I am positive that a solution will have to come, nobody wants the status quo to change much, especially the ones on the top of the pyramid.
Well, I got tired of forgetting to use nohup, so I just sleep the process(^Z), and then disown it (disown %x).
Yeah, I cannot reown it later (I mena, I dont know how to do that), but handles most fire and forget apps nicely after. I only disown when needed.
Screen is good too, a friend used it. I never really remembered to use it though.
You MUST train CRM114 differently, it learns a different way, but getting to know what it did wrong. You can tune the learning for automatic train-on-error if you know beforehand what is spam and what is not (you have to write your own script for this). Else, you must train it live.
If you train it any other way, it doesnt work as well.
After a week of correct training, you can start comparisons. I dont care about the first two or two, but afterwards, I expect few errores, and that is what up until now CRM does for me.
CRM is also somewhat hard to set up, I had to do strange things. But it sorts spam very nicelly, rarely makes mistakes, except it seems simetrical (probability of getting a false positive = probability of false negative). I don't like false positives...but I preffer that to lots of spam, I don't have time anymore for regular checks of the spam warehouse.
Same problem here, though less intensive.
What I do is delete the parts of spam messages that I do not want the spam filter to consider. For example??? MY FUCKING NAME! It seems they go my name from Whois, so whenever I get a spam message that has my name on it, I delete it. Look at the message bodies and headers to see if that is causing you troubles, delete anything common sense says you will like not tag as spam (name, address, text that is normally expected).
Maybe it can help you.
CRM114 and Spamassasin can be used on desktop computers, or even on remote accounts where you can get a shell. The is an extra risk if you use "as good as it gets" external email accounts like hotmail, yahoo or gmail.
CRM114 works well (extremely well really) when only trained on errors. Exacty NOT fair. SpamAssasin is very good, but i had it inmediately replaced with CRM114 after actually trying and training it for a week (not after reading how good the CRM114 thinks his filter is, or after reading report from Guy X).
Not training only on errors lowers accuracy significantly for CRM114. I tryed pretraining with CRM and was a mistake.
In any experiment, you first fit the model against the data, then forecast (or test). CRM data must be collected in a teach on errors only, the author could have writen a simple script to automate a train on errors if he wanted to get real life results not half assed numbers.
Now I only whish someone would do a plugin for Squirell mail that could strip the Subject prefix for spam, the CRM114 tag, and could add the comand to learn ham/spam.
Me too. I couldn't check email for about a week and grew 4200 or so spam messages and 300 ham ones. 1 spam misclassified...(but some false positives also).
I try to teach the program the least possible (if a message doesn't look like spam for me, even if it is though, I do not teach it).
I also delete de ADV: (prefix) in the subject and the crm114 spam metadata (TAG) and fix it in general so it doesnt get confused when learning spam.
Bad teaching at the beggining leads to lower quality filtering (I did this at the beggining, not cleaning tags amongh other mistaques).
I tryed spamassasing and got fed up. The rules system made Spamassassin pass as ham everything that spooed a PINE filter. WTF...I deleted the entry, then one day upgraded and voila, lots and lots of spam again. And accuracy was much lower (the PINE problem reproduced with a lot of other "whitlisting rules" that I never needed).
After a week with CRM114, I deleted spamassain preprocessing for my account.
Mhh...
My first suggestion would be, find someone you like as a boss, someone that inspires, and manage to fully trust him (even though you may disagree 80% of the time, but whoi will more than likely get where he wanted to be), try not to understand him. If you cant find one, keep trying.
Second thing, read "How to make friends and influence people", I read when I was 15 and though I will NOT help you make friend, I will clearly laid out that LOGIC does not help. People want to be right, not correct. People have a large set of "premises" you do not share. Everyone has a hidden agenda whether they know it or not. And the best part? People are easy to deal with!!! After you read that, you can start thinking for yourself what the fuck friendship is. And my conclusion is that it is choice. I choose my friends, and dont have a rule. And you'll never really know who your real friends are. Just be prepared for disappointment...and the opposite (THAT GUY HELPED ME?). Friendship is not static, just are you are not the same as you yesterday.
Last thing is, if you do not want to communicate, then don't! Don't feel forced! Don't feel unhappy if you don't have friend. First of all, try to love yourself, and to enjoy your mistakes. That's the only way to start loving anything. And the best lesson I learned is you dont have to accept you on credits earned, you just DO IT. With time you learn to do it with other people. You will see it helps a lot to not judge every situation, with time, you'll know how to judge with enough data, and with enough perspective to compare averages, not individual datasets of information. You are dealing with black boxes, you need VERY large datasets to judge yourself and other, so dont get stuck case by case judging!
When I started thinking LESS (judging less), and delaying judgement to reasonable amounts of time (6 months, or more), I started accomplishing more. Drone yourself in the short term after you've made a decision, it works most of the time! Delaying rejudgement gets you where you CAN be (wanted + saw a chance). In the short term, get aboslutely practical, take the shortest, least ilustrated ways to get where you decided. Rething matters only once in a while (yearly).
Hope it helps in any way. I've read a lot of stuff that did not help me. I tryed this more practical approach, you cannot try to evaluate everything/everyone each and everytime new information is given, not even yourself. It doesn't help, it does not offer real insight, you WILL be wrong most of the time (about yourself, others, subjects).
Last advice, do not make more connections than you can handle, especially if you are the realtime evaluating (judging) type. It will lead your braqing to a massive state of "rich" but utterly wrong connection that will require a lot of work to clean out.
Another way it might work. You apply for a patent, then you have to wait 3 years to see if anyone else comes up "post art". If they didn't need your "publishing of the patent", then your invention was not needed at all, it was obvious.
Another one, you have two parts of a patent, the goal of the patent (what you are patenting, explaining the goal, not your "solution" to the problem), and if anyone ever is able to come up with a solution without needing to read your patent details, then the patent does not hold.
I mean, there is no evidence whatsoever that patents are HELPING innovation in general. Patenting ideas is the worst thing ever to have happened to innovation.
Actually, there is a solution to all these madness you are experience.
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1) Tell the rich guys to move abroad, so that they'll stop paying 7x the actual costs for land, 7x the cost for medicine, 20x the cost for haircuts, etc., so that us$3000 will start looking like a great salary.
2) Tell the government to stop spending so much money, because all that translates into higher taxes, reduced income and less income for the people that actually DO something usefull.
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3) Tell the rich people there that they can't Outsource. If they want to be competitive they must invest in better technology that WILL NOT BE SOLD to foreing countries.