Similarly, if hundreds of thousands of people might read your comments, why come off like a twit? You could've just as easily said, "The correct term is dynamism," and your response would've been graceful and elegant instead of smug.
Similarly, you could have made your post without insulting me. Anyway, smug implies self-satisfaction. My motive is more frustration and despair at Taco's contempt for correct use of the language, or any other aspect of the job of editing, a job Taco is paid to do.
And surely you're not suggesting that people carry paper dictionaries with them every time they log on to a computer? It might reduce misspellings but it's hardly practical.
I've got an Oxford and American Heritage dictionary installed on my PC. I've used Slashcode on another website, and it does have a spellcheck function, which few of the editors here evidently pay attention to. And I'd assume they have "shelves" in an "office" on which they can keep books should they need to refer to them; I do.
As for which is the most correct form of the word to use, "dynamism" may not be the popular choice, though I believe it should be. Sadly people often build baroque constructions of layered suffixes until they get something that seems the right part of speech and sounds impressive.
Programs trying to connect to the internet without a good reason is a pet peeve of mine.
Even worse, programs that refuse to install unless you have IE installed -- several utilities, eg LitePC, allow you to uninstall, or not install, IE, but software often insists on having it, to for instance, render a splash page in HTML, and chokes if it can't find IE. Even though you may have another perfectly fine browser installed.
98 over 95 added things like USB (although it never worked right) and CD burning
Win98 certainly does not include CD burning (or support for anything except plain CDR or audio CDs). If you did have a burner, the drivers for that were bundled with it and will work just as well with Win95 (or even Win 3.1 in some cases). Win2k doesn't support CD burners out of the box either, not until XP I think.
I don't know why they had a single customer after the Office 95 to 97 fiasco
That's probably why since then the file format has remained compatible, Word 97 can open any later format, at least in my experience.
Yes, if you were actually runing a warez/porn/MP3/whatever server and trying to make it deniable it might not fly. But if you were truly allowing public access to your connection, either through ignorance or idealism, and can make a reasonable case for that before a judge, then you should escape. Though it is likely to be an expensive and long-drawn-out process.
There is a free service called yousendit.com that allows one to post a file using a web form, then it sends an email with just the URL...I am a little leary of a free hosted service (could use this to build spam lists, or eavesdrop on your files, etc.)
I use this for distributing largish files; anything over 5 MB. Less than that I put on my free ISP webspace.
I trust them fairly well, but as a matter of policy use only a disposable email account with them. After the upload I copy the resulting URL and distribute it myself rather then let them do it, so they don't have any addresses. Also their files expire after a week, which is fine by me. If you were worried about security, there are many encryption methods; eg just compress with Winrar and a password is pretty secure. There are others you see around, prominently Rapidshare.de, which is better for sending to many people, size limit 100 MB (though it makes you wait 30 seconds unless you have a "premium" account).
I don't really expect any of these to be permanent, so hosting inhouse would be a longer-term solution for a company. Most simply, just an FTP server is fine; if you have a web host you probably already have that available. I set up an FTP server many years ago when I noticed people in our company sending 10+ MB files around as email attachments; really painful using 28k modems, and blowing our mail quota. It should be noted that email attachments are ASCII encoded (probably base-64), and so about 30% larger than the original binary file. Using http or ftp is that much more efficient, especially important on modem lines.
from the article: "Eventually, his and his wife's money was freed up."
And the idiotic thing about this is if the retired Texan schoolteacher had actually been planning buying a truckload of fertilizer and diesel and driving it into a church/mosque/synagogue/abortion clinic; he would have been alerted that the feds were onto him and gone undergound; or accelerated his plan to get it done before he was caught. So as an anti-terrorism measure, it's counter-productive.
If they spoof their mac address to be yours, chances are you won't be able to prove that you didn't do it...
Fortunately, normally* you don't have to prove you are innocent of a criminal charge, the prosecutor has to prove you are guilty. And if anyone could have been using the IP in question, then unless you have something incriminating on your hard disk, this makes any evidence no more than circumstantial.
The NYP can't resist: David Cole,... for Symantec...said savvy users could use the computer as a launching pad for identity theft or the uploading and downloading of child pornography.
In a lot of large corporations, they just deal with Office in a similar way to "single isolated users". My experience is that the collaboration features are largely ignored in favour of simple emailling.
I do a lot of editing of peoples' ms, the more professional ones can use the revision tracking feature which has been in Word since at least 97 (and that's what I usually open them with). But many blank out on this whe I try to explain it and fax me printpouts with scribbled annotations. And these are university lecturers and lawyers; not geeks but not idiots. I've never had any occasion to use the touted "collaborative" features beyond that, and find it hard to imagine when they might be useful in real life.
Do you know how that compares to OOo's multilingual support?
No idea, haven't used OOo much (by "better" I was referring to earlier versions of MS Office, not OOo). However, much of this should be part of the OS, not just the app. Also the newer format OpenType fonts aren't supported properly by anything except the latest Adobe apps (in others they just act like Truetype).
ok, everywhere except a few mostly ex-colonies & one or two other very sensible countries, got it wrong;)
portugal also used to drive on the left, until the 1920s, that explains macau
gibralter, ireland, bangladesh and south aftrica drive on the left too, as well as malta & cyprus & many other mainly commonwealth countries.
Hong Kong still drives on the right, despite now being part of China. It helps to cut down cross-border car theft and smuggling.
Also Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan are left-side.
MS hasn't been able to introduce a single feature into Office that hasn't made me wonder why I should care.
Multi-lingual support is better, especially Chinese and such using Unicode fonts. That may well not be a critical feature for many readers here though.
What if the bad guys don't use standard encryption tools? It'd be easy enough to take encryption code (or math), and implement it in software used only among the "bad guys glee club". By doing this, along with generating your own keys and sending them thru non-internet means, it can become effectively impossible to break. The known methods of breaking most encryptions rely (among other things) on knowing the approximate data arrangement of the encoded text, and which algorithm to use.
I don't know of any code breaking tool that starts with no knowledge of the text except a string of bytes.
I'm just a dilettante when it comes to encryption; but I can tell you that's not a good tactic. Lots of people think they have a great encryption idea and rush off to implement it. Most of the time they have a fatal flaw. The established ones have withstood attack and you can be sure no one can crack them if you RTFM. And actually all codebreakers have to start by working out what kind of code is being used. Few bother to try to conceal the kind of encryption because of the above though; unless you get into steganography, the rather over-hyped methods of hiding code in things like image or sound files, etc. Check out Bruce Schneier's site, and especially his monthly newsletter for a professional approach to cryptography.
Now with these services I can keep calling from various numbers and try to reach the busterds (or at least try to annoy them).
Futile. If you want to get anywhere, you need to get the law involved, either police if it's blatant theft, or hire a lawyer. I once had a guy overseas, in Australia, scam our company by ordering goods and only giving a PO Box as an address. (I would have been suspicious myself, but some people are too trusting.) I called the Australian Consulate and spoke to a police representative who got the local cops to check out the buyer and gave him a visit; and immediately after he returned the goods. Companies that make a habit out of ripping off customers have thick skins and just talking to them is pointless, especially if they know you're far away.
Fuck u. This all began because I was trying to explain something to someone using words they were familiar with rather than introducing a lot of terminology that probably would have meant nothing to him. I did Physics 101, 201 and 301, FYI. Not to mention 321, 341 and some others. If I just wanted to be a jerk I could have written a correct, concise explanation and communicated nothing.
very well then, i made the assumption that a heavy metal asteroid would have more mass than it really does, apparently erroneously.
Sorry to have been too abrupt. I may well have made a mistake, but I assumed a ball of radius 1 km, density 5 (as for iron ore). If it were made of solid platinum, it would be about 4 times heavier; still negligible astronomically (unless it impacted, of course).
Oh it's worse than that. Even if it does not crash it could still wreak havoc on tidal forces and ocean currents and turn the ecosystem upside down.
Bullshit. You'd need a micrometer to measure its tidal effect.
Moon: mass = 7x10e22 kg, distance= 360,000 km
Asteroid: mass about 2x10e13 kg, distance (say) 100 km
ratio of gravitational forces:m1/m2* (r1/r2)e2 = roughly 1/270.
.. what about the impact of launching rockets with ore from this asteroid continuously? is that not "thrust"? that would change its orbit.
No. Rockets "push against" their exhaust, not what they launch from. However, if they used a mass-driver to accelerate the payloads, the asteroid would be pushed back. But it's a simple calculation.
and your ability to keep your letters to your mistress a secret is trumped by my desire to have the CIA catch the next suicide bomber of airplane hijacker BEFORE they kill me, not after. All this bellyaching about piracy is absurd. Which is more important, the government using an automated system to decrypt some e-mail, or NOT being murdered in a terrorist attack?
Well, as I recall, the 9-11 hijackers did use ordinary, unencrypted webmail. Do you think terrorists are actually going to write an email: Osama orders that we release the nerve toxin in Times Square at noon tomorrow. Allahu Akbar Jihad Jihad!?
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Similarly, you could have made your post without insulting me. Anyway, smug implies self-satisfaction. My motive is more frustration and despair at Taco's contempt for correct use of the language, or any other aspect of the job of editing, a job Taco is paid to do.
And surely you're not suggesting that people carry paper dictionaries with them every time they log on to a computer? It might reduce misspellings but it's hardly practical.
I've got an Oxford and American Heritage dictionary installed on my PC. I've used Slashcode on another website, and it does have a spellcheck function, which few of the editors here evidently pay attention to. And I'd assume they have "shelves" in an "office" on which they can keep books should they need to refer to them; I do.
As for which is the most correct form of the word to use, "dynamism" may not be the popular choice, though I believe it should be. Sadly people often build baroque constructions of layered suffixes until they get something that seems the right part of speech and sounds impressive.
The line in question is in Taco's addendum to the summary. Down here in the comments is another thing.
No, it's not. Dynamism is.
If you're going to publish something for hundreds of thousands of people to read, why not use a dictionary?
Nothing wrong with that -- but where the odour arises is when they don't identify it as a press release; or even present it as their own thoughts.
Even worse, programs that refuse to install unless you have IE installed -- several utilities, eg LitePC, allow you to uninstall, or not install, IE, but software often insists on having it, to for instance, render a splash page in HTML, and chokes if it can't find IE. Even though you may have another perfectly fine browser installed.
Win98 certainly does not include CD burning (or support for anything except plain CDR or audio CDs). If you did have a burner, the drivers for that were bundled with it and will work just as well with Win95 (or even Win 3.1 in some cases). Win2k doesn't support CD burners out of the box either, not until XP I think.
I don't know why they had a single customer after the Office 95 to 97 fiasco
That's probably why since then the file format has remained compatible, Word 97 can open any later format, at least in my experience.
Yes, if you were actually runing a warez/porn/MP3/whatever server and trying to make it deniable it might not fly. But if you were truly allowing public access to your connection, either through ignorance or idealism, and can make a reasonable case for that before a judge, then you should escape. Though it is likely to be an expensive and long-drawn-out process.
I use this for distributing largish files; anything over 5 MB. Less than that I put on my free ISP webspace.
I trust them fairly well, but as a matter of policy use only a disposable email account with them. After the upload I copy the resulting URL and distribute it myself rather then let them do it, so they don't have any addresses. Also their files expire after a week, which is fine by me. If you were worried about security, there are many encryption methods; eg just compress with Winrar and a password is pretty secure. There are others you see around, prominently Rapidshare.de, which is better for sending to many people, size limit 100 MB (though it makes you wait 30 seconds unless you have a "premium" account).
I don't really expect any of these to be permanent, so hosting inhouse would be a longer-term solution for a company. Most simply, just an FTP server is fine; if you have a web host you probably already have that available. I set up an FTP server many years ago when I noticed people in our company sending 10+ MB files around as email attachments; really painful using 28k modems, and blowing our mail quota. It should be noted that email attachments are ASCII encoded (probably base-64), and so about 30% larger than the original binary file. Using http or ftp is that much more efficient, especially important on modem lines.
And the idiotic thing about this is if the retired Texan schoolteacher had actually been planning buying a truckload of fertilizer and diesel and driving it into a church/mosque/synagogue/abortion clinic; he would have been alerted that the feds were onto him and gone undergound; or accelerated his plan to get it done before he was caught. So as an anti-terrorism measure, it's counter-productive.
Well, yes, the rules of evidence don't seem to have much relevance to the way their lawyers operate.
Fortunately, normally* you don't have to prove you are innocent of a criminal charge, the prosecutor has to prove you are guilty. And if anyone could have been using the IP in question, then unless you have something incriminating on your hard disk, this makes any evidence no more than circumstantial.
*Unless you're a Muslim.
But at least they didn't play the TERRORIST card.
I do a lot of editing of peoples' ms, the more professional ones can use the revision tracking feature which has been in Word since at least 97 (and that's what I usually open them with). But many blank out on this whe I try to explain it and fax me printpouts with scribbled annotations. And these are university lecturers and lawyers; not geeks but not idiots. I've never had any occasion to use the touted "collaborative" features beyond that, and find it hard to imagine when they might be useful in real life.
No idea, haven't used OOo much (by "better" I was referring to earlier versions of MS Office, not OOo). However, much of this should be part of the OS, not just the app. Also the newer format OpenType fonts aren't supported properly by anything except the latest Adobe apps (in others they just act like Truetype).
Hong Kong still drives on the right, despite now being part of China. It helps to cut down cross-border car theft and smuggling.
Also Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan are left-side.
Multi-lingual support is better, especially Chinese and such using Unicode fonts. That may well not be a critical feature for many readers here though.
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Since Springfield is in the USA (though it's kept ambiguous exactly where), "left" is definitely "wrong".
I'm just a dilettante when it comes to encryption; but I can tell you that's not a good tactic. Lots of people think they have a great encryption idea and rush off to implement it. Most of the time they have a fatal flaw. The established ones have withstood attack and you can be sure no one can crack them if you RTFM. And actually all codebreakers have to start by working out what kind of code is being used. Few bother to try to conceal the kind of encryption because of the above though; unless you get into steganography, the rather over-hyped methods of hiding code in things like image or sound files, etc. Check out Bruce Schneier's site, and especially his monthly newsletter for a professional approach to cryptography.
Futile. If you want to get anywhere, you need to get the law involved, either police if it's blatant theft, or hire a lawyer. I once had a guy overseas, in Australia, scam our company by ordering goods and only giving a PO Box as an address. (I would have been suspicious myself, but some people are too trusting.) I called the Australian Consulate and spoke to a police representative who got the local cops to check out the buyer and gave him a visit; and immediately after he returned the goods. Companies that make a habit out of ripping off customers have thick skins and just talking to them is pointless, especially if they know you're far away.
Fuck u. This all began because I was trying to explain something to someone using words they were familiar with rather than introducing a lot of terminology that probably would have meant nothing to him. I did Physics 101, 201 and 301, FYI. Not to mention 321, 341 and some others. If I just wanted to be a jerk I could have written a correct, concise explanation and communicated nothing.
That's why I put quotemarks around "push".
Sorry to have been too abrupt. I may well have made a mistake, but I assumed a ball of radius 1 km, density 5 (as for iron ore). If it were made of solid platinum, it would be about 4 times heavier; still negligible astronomically (unless it impacted, of course).
Bullshit. You'd need a micrometer to measure its tidal effect.
Moon: mass = 7x10e22 kg, distance= 360,000 km
Asteroid: mass about 2x10e13 kg, distance (say) 100 km
ratio of gravitational forces:m1/m2* (r1/r2)e2 = roughly 1/270.
No. Rockets "push against" their exhaust, not what they launch from. However, if they used a mass-driver to accelerate the payloads, the asteroid would be pushed back. But it's a simple calculation.
Well, as I recall, the 9-11 hijackers did use ordinary, unencrypted webmail. Do you think terrorists are actually going to write an email: Osama orders that we release the nerve toxin in Times Square at noon tomorrow. Allahu Akbar Jihad Jihad!?