given that (at least) 95% of the printed (yes, hardcopy) material produced since 1850-ish is printed on paper with a high acid content, and will inevitably become unreadable as it disintegrates (I hate to think of the number of books I have, even from the mid-eighties that are falling apart)...
I think that in 100 years or so - I'm not planning on sticking around for long enough to find out:-) we will find ourselves in another dark age - unless, of course, Project Gutenberg can cope...
I have seen this claim a few times; one anti-spam site (I can't remember which one off-hand) also claims Australia is one of the worst baddies, despite the fact that Australian ISPs are generally pretty quick to kill email accounts under AUPs.
I am curious as to where these "figures" come from, given the logistics of measuring internet traffic generally, let alone distinguishing between "legitimate" email and spam.
For the record, at least 95% of the spam I receive originates from the USofA.
Sure, but I still remember having, as a sysop back in the '70s, dropping stacks of punch cards (on a number of occasions) and having to get them back into sequence by eyeball.
The whole point of what is called "the Scientific Method" (check out any 1st year university-level science textbook for what this means) is that any research has to be peer-reviewed and results have to be reproducible.
In this sense, the scientific community has been "open-sourcing" their work for centuries. Keeping work secret invalidates it as serious research.
Open-sourcing the tools with which the research is carried out only makes sense.
I'd agree with this; many distros are now getting as easy to install as Losedows (I found Mandrake 8.1 much easier and less painful than any M$ excreta), and I've nothing but praise for StarOffice as a viable alternative to M$Orifice
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The way I read the article, it doen't seem to be dealing with the issue as a burner of spare CPU cycles (as with seti@home), but more as a big resource for people who actually have some expertise in the field of astronomy.
I know the news is slow to filter through, but just thought I should mention that I, Sir Mudge Pinkerton-Bottomley, am the sovereign Emperor of the moon. Application forms for mining leases should be sought care of me at Slashdot.
have our desires of a browser's capability increased by a factor of 16 like the resources used have?
Yes, they have. There are a few of us, (myself included, on very rare occasions) who still use lynx as a browser, but even I am ready to admit that I expect much more "web experience" [:-)] now than I did 5 years ago, or even in the good ol' days of MILNET/ARPANET.
Yes, I am that old:-)
I find it a bit sad that the general tone of the postings on this thread seems to represent a level of jingoistic hysteria which we only seem to hear from the US and other third-world countries:-), and general approval of any action taken against other nations on the most circumstantial evidence.
At the same time, we hear loud squeals of protest when governments or industry bodies encroach on our personal liberties (privacy online, copy-protected CDs, etc etc...).
While I would be the first to admit that I hate having to hunt through screeds of files in a single directory by hand, most of us who operate *nix boxes of one colour or another on the desktop have far too many object files to make for easy digestion without having recourse to some kind of package manager, whether it be rpm, apt or whatever. I think only servers really can use the luxury of separate directories for everything nowadays.
...How long before phone spamming becomes the norm?
Here in Australia. phone spamming is fairly common - notable culprits are Optus and Telstra messaging according to cell location.
BTW, if you've got an Ericsson T20s, you can get a dinky little qwerty keyboard to plug into the bottom of it if you're so inclined (GSM only, I'm afraid...)
I would be angry if we were putting him on trial without enumerating evidence, but first we need to imprison him based on the evidence we have.
Sorry if this seems offtopic, but it needs to be said:
Sorry, but it seems to me that nobody has any intention whatsoever of putting the man on trial...
Mob rules?
I have been a Linux user for 4 years now, having had flings with Slackware, Debian and Redhat, while still being called upon to install/maintain Lose98/2K boxes every now and then.
Last week I dropped an install of Mandrake 8.1 on my workstation box, and believe me, it was a lot less troublesome a delivery than I have ever found with any version of Windows (or DOS, for that matter).
All hardware picked up first time, none of the broken packaging I found in four releases of RedHat... Everything just works.
I would say Linux probably is ready for the general user's desktop.
I still have a certain affection for good ol' TECO even if it was a bit heavy on memory usage (remembering all those line-transmission-noise commands:-P ), it still beat the 029 card punch hands down, and is still hard to beat for quick parse/mod scripts.
Them were the days...
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Just put my glasses on, and...
voila!
automatically antialiased fonts :-)
installing Windows on some laptops can be quite complicated...
I had a major battle just reinstalling Lose98 on an old desktop machine I was giving away which I had been using as a linux box.Never could get the damn PCI bridge support and IDE drivers to work properly :-)
This sounds like pretty groovy chemistry...
Just imagine the uses for the stuff in the sex industry :-)
given that (at least) 95% of the printed (yes, hardcopy) material produced since 1850-ish is printed on paper with a high acid content, and will inevitably become unreadable as it disintegrates (I hate to think of the number of books I have, even from the mid-eighties that are falling apart)...
I think that in 100 years or so - I'm not planning on sticking around for long enough to find out:-) we will find ourselves in another dark age - unless, of course, Project Gutenberg can cope...
OK, mod me -1 redundant... :-)
(1) whether Sun is actually going to charge for StarOffice, and
(2) if so, how much?
let's face it, StarOrifice 6 beta has been pretty successful (I like it, anyway), but I wonder if someone is just spreading FUD.
I have seen this claim a few times; one anti-spam site (I can't remember which one off-hand) also claims Australia is one of the worst baddies, despite the fact that Australian ISPs are generally pretty quick to kill email accounts under AUPs.
I am curious as to where these "figures" come from, given the logistics of measuring internet traffic generally, let alone distinguishing between "legitimate" email and spam.
For the record, at least 95% of the spam I receive originates from the USofA.
Which is why we're still using Unix of one flavour or another after 30 years...
Sure, but I still remember having, as a sysop back in the '70s, dropping stacks of punch cards (on a number of occasions) and having to get them back into sequence by eyeball.
Have we come that far?
Thanks for that, A.C., that's actually quite a useful link I hadn't come across...
The whole point of what is called "the Scientific Method" (check out any 1st year university-level science textbook for what this means) is that any research has to be peer-reviewed and results have to be reproducible. In this sense, the scientific community has been "open-sourcing" their work for centuries. Keeping work secret invalidates it as serious research. Open-sourcing the tools with which the research is carried out only makes sense.
I'd agree with this; many distros are now getting as easy to install as Losedows (I found Mandrake 8.1 much easier and less painful than any M$ excreta), and I've nothing but praise for StarOffice as a viable alternative to M$Orifice
The way I read the article, it doen't seem to be dealing with the issue as a burner of spare CPU cycles (as with seti@home), but more as a big resource for people who actually have some expertise in the field of astronomy.
I know the news is slow to filter through, but just thought I should mention that I, Sir Mudge Pinkerton-Bottomley, am the sovereign Emperor of the moon. Application forms for mining leases should be sought care of me at Slashdot.
Dammit, I know you yanks think you own the world already, but just leave the moon alone, huh? :-)
This article seems like a good argument for bands pressing and marketing their own CDs, given that this is now pretty cheap & easy
have our desires of a browser's capability increased by a factor of 16 like the resources used have? Yes, they have. There are a few of us, (myself included, on very rare occasions) who still use lynx as a browser, but even I am ready to admit that I expect much more "web experience" [:-)] now than I did 5 years ago, or even in the good ol' days of MILNET/ARPANET. Yes, I am that old:-)
I find it a bit sad that the general tone of the postings on this thread seems to represent a level of jingoistic hysteria which we only seem to hear from the US and other third-world countries :-), and general approval of any action taken against other nations on the most circumstantial evidence.
At the same time, we hear loud squeals of protest when governments or industry bodies encroach on our personal liberties (privacy online, copy-protected CDs, etc etc...).
While I would be the first to admit that I hate having to hunt through screeds of files in a single directory by hand, most of us who operate *nix boxes of one colour or another on the desktop have far too many object files to make for easy digestion without having recourse to some kind of package manager, whether it be rpm, apt or whatever. I think only servers really can use the luxury of separate directories for everything nowadays.
the fancy chrome-and-tinsel 4-wheel-drive market...:-)
...How long before phone spamming becomes the norm? Here in Australia. phone spamming is fairly common - notable culprits are Optus and Telstra messaging according to cell location. BTW, if you've got an Ericsson T20s, you can get a dinky little qwerty keyboard to plug into the bottom of it if you're so inclined (GSM only, I'm afraid...)
I would be angry if we were putting him on trial without enumerating evidence, but first we need to imprison him based on the evidence we have. Sorry if this seems offtopic, but it needs to be said: Sorry, but it seems to me that nobody has any intention whatsoever of putting the man on trial... Mob rules?
I have been a Linux user for 4 years now, having had flings with Slackware, Debian and Redhat, while still being called upon to install/maintain Lose98/2K boxes every now and then.
Last week I dropped an install of Mandrake 8.1 on my workstation box, and believe me, it was a lot less troublesome a delivery than I have ever found with any version of Windows (or DOS, for that matter).
All hardware picked up first time, none of the broken packaging I found in four releases of RedHat... Everything just works.
I would say Linux probably is ready for the general user's desktop.
The Gimp's splashscreen...
I still have a certain affection for good ol' TECO even if it was a bit heavy on memory usage (remembering all those line-transmission-noise commands :-P ), it still beat the 029 card punch hands down, and is still hard to beat for quick parse/mod scripts.
Them were the days...