So you're seriously suggesting that Microsoft is creating a new file system just for wedding photos and nothing else?
No, they also want to lock out any competitors. Obviously.
And you say that I should have a separate application for finding images, another one for finding music files, another one for documents, another one C programs and so on? Well thank you very much, I'd rather have a file system that lets me find all these in a uniform way, without having to install and learn a new app.
No, again. I gave 3 examples of apps that use the same system. Any app can add its own metadata about its files to this file "that lets me find all these in a uniform way, without having to install and learn a new app", and without having to learn and install a whole new operating system.
Anyway, the point was not that this particular system was the best (though I think it has many virtues, of simplicity, being based on plain text files); but that something like this can and is being done very easily right now.
to suggest that we'd hand over control of the internet to a body that...lets China prevent Taiwan to gain representation
It was Nixon who recognised "Red" China and paved the way to let it take the China chair in the UN. Taiwan's govt was too pigheaded to take the opportunity then to declare itself independent, clinging to the fantasy that it could retake the Mainland. Now they want to be independent but need China too much economically to piss them off and declare it.
they have useless names like DSC0001.jpg and there's no metadata that says they are wedding photos.
ACDsee, a well-known and, at one time, free, image viewing and organising app, supports metadata. It puts it in a "descript.ion" text file in each directory. This is an ancient DOS standard. It's still supported by a few Windows apps, notably the Far manager (a shareware clone of Norton Commander for Win) and ReGet, a downloader; both Russian.
In fact I find the "descript.ion" metadata so useful I stick with apps that use it. At my last job, a web news site, I organised out image library using ACDsee and this metadata to add notes. ACDsee also has a nice batch rename.
No need to invent a whole bloody new file system to find your wedding photos.
When SPAM stops being profitable (as in people who respond and purchase things), than SPAM will go away.
No, because a lot of spam is sent by stupid people who believe they will make money. By the time they've lost the money they paid for their mailing lists and spam software the damage is done and there's another asshole to takwe their place.
The big-time spammers like Ralsky aren't selling dick enlarging cream, they're selling spamming services to those who do.
>You don't have to have a prohibition based on content. It should focus on mass mailings alone.
Ah, but you do have to look at content.
Yes; but only of mass mailings. Also, having content-based filters at the ISP level creates a wonderful tool for governments to censor mail.
Basically you need a reliable "bulk" tag. The recipient can then use that to filter himself. Bulk can be treated much more cavalierly than individually-sent emails -- most people could deal with all the latter by hand easily enough. A default approach for bulk might be to refuse all except for whitelisted senders, such as mailing lists. Or if any of these pay for email schemes are implemented, you might allow bulk that paid you above a minimum amount.
It's detection of "bulk" that's the problem, and content isn't reliable or desirable. If an ISP sees a batch of almost identical messages coming in it could add this tag -- obviously then we'd get into a game with spammers trying to avoid this. They'd try to spread their messages out, make each one different, use multiple mail servers, etc. It'd still be a battle.
Yep, and this is the crux of the whole spam problem: We want to be able to send as many emails with any content in it to anyone we want without any cost yet, we don't want someone to send us tons of email that we consider crap. You just can't have both these things; it's impossible to seperate the two.
There is a difference: the first is sent individually, the latter in quantity. You don't have to have a prohibition based on content. It should focus on mass mailings alone. I don't have a solution beyond that, but I think that's the problem that should be addressed.
I believe the same problems occured with the two space shuttle crashes. In the first one, the O-Ring sealant was changed to remove asbestos. This sealant became brittle during very cold weather.
BOTH sealing putties contained asbestos. See here. It wasn't the presence or absence of asbestos that was the problem.
"Type Nerd" went out at least 10, maybe 15, years ago.
The proper term nowadays is: "Font Geek".
A font geek is someone with 15,000 truetype fonts he's downloaded from P2P or usenet. Many are duplicated under different names, many have been mangled by poor conversion, but he's happy just to pick up every one he comes across. Occasionally he might use one, usually applying several PhotoShop filters to make it grungy.
A type nerd probably has far fewer fonts, but they're all high quality and probably paid for (by his past employers -- he has at least actually been paid to set type). He'll argue endlessly about kerning or height of small capitals, and sneer at lining figures instead of old-style, "fi" instead of the ligature, and has strong opinions on which foundry's cut of Garamond is the most elegant or historically authentic.
So on the whole, "type nerd" is probably the preferable epithet.
For political dissent, do you really think the police thugs in Kuwait or Oklahoma have any clout in the Netherlands?
No, but if they have your real identity, they can arrest you the next time you come within their grasp, or your relatives failing that, or confiscate your property; put all your contacts under surveillance, etc.
About 75% of the spam I get is in Chinese or Korean charsets. Considering that the dominant language in the US is English and that most of us are too damned lazy to learn a second language, and those that do learn Spanish or French or something, somehow I doubt that Americans are the major spam target.
I live in Hong Kong. 95% of the spam I receive is for viagra/dick enlarger/mortgage/cable descramblers. Occasionally I go to the referenced websites and usually they ONLY deliver to the US anyway, and most of their products won't work (financial instruments, cable descramblers) outside the US anyway. Americans invented spam. Americans are the source of most spam. Americans are the targets of most spam. The rest of the world gets swamped just by carelessness. (Why the fuck send ads to the.hk domain when it's impossible to deliver your product there?).
By the same logic that lets you judge spammers by the total damage caused by spam, the RIAA should also be allowed to judge pirates by the total damage caused by piracy.
No, because as has been documented (including this FA) only a small number of Americans are responsible for most of the spam. With file trading, there are millions of us^H^H them, so dividing the damage by the number of perps does not lead to death penalties in this case.
Times New Roman is a Monotype design, Times Roman is a Linotype design. They're pretty similar, but there are subtle differences-- the most striking difference is that there's an extra serif on the Times Roman "5".
Well spotted, but you do have to be a type nerd to notice or care.
Arial, however, is noticeably different.
I said metrically identical. Same widths. Helvetica is bland, but preferable, at least in print.
But "Times New Roman " is "a" Times. If you can tell the difference from a printed sample at 14 pts, you have a better eye than me. Most software will silently use whichever one is available if one is specified.
I believe TNR is metrically exactly the same as the version Adobe sells, as Arial is of Helvetica. MS and Apple wanted compatibility with standard Adobe fonts, but didn't want to pay for them. (Now they're all buddies again with OpenType.)
The government uses a lot of OCR - more than you would believe. Standardizing on one exact font description makes it far easier to build an OCR engine...
True enough, but they already had a standard font (Courier). And Courier, being monospaced, and with no fiddly serifs (it has thick square-edged ones) is much easier to OCR than Times -- when I've done it (not frequently, I admit) I get zero errors with Courier, vs at least a few percent in any other font -- and if it's gone through a fax machine, the error rate goes up more.
Humans, OTOH, do generally read Times more easily than Courier.
The worst part is, its profitable for Western companies for China to remain communist, because it makes it easy to engineer sweetheart market deals with a nicely centralized economic engine such as the Chinese government.
The Chinese government, like every country's, is centralized. Which country that functions at all isn't? And China is "Communist" in name only now. The Communist Party still runs the show, but ideology has little to do with their methods.
How much would they sell via their website in an entire week anyway? As often noted, they hardly sell anything at all. It won't affect their litigation activities at all, except to give them more ammunition to slander Linux users with.
One problem with Slashdot geeks is that they think "taking a company's website down" will severely impact them. Maybe for big web retailers, like Amazon, Dell, eBay or online banks; but the vast majority of businesses could lose their web site for weeks without it affecting the bottom line (assuming the email server is unaffected, which it should be). It might be an embarrassment -- but as I said above, SCO will use it to show it's being persecuted by Linux virus terrorists.
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be a "search engine". Try searching for likely subjects like "Pamela" and you get NO results. They "suggest" searching for "porn", that gives you a list of rated websites. I'd guess that's the only search that works -- unless anyone has more patience than me wants to try. It's really just a hand-compiled list of porn sites.
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No, they also want to lock out any competitors. Obviously.
And you say that I should have a separate application for finding images, another one for finding music files, another one for documents, another one C programs and so on? Well thank you very much, I'd rather have a file system that lets me find all these in a uniform way, without having to install and learn a new app.
No, again. I gave 3 examples of apps that use the same system. Any app can add its own metadata about its files to this file "that lets me find all these in a uniform way, without having to install and learn a new app", and without having to learn and install a whole new operating system.
Anyway, the point was not that this particular system was the best (though I think it has many virtues, of simplicity, being based on plain text files); but that something like this can and is being done very easily right now.
It was Nixon who recognised "Red" China and paved the way to let it take the China chair in the UN. Taiwan's govt was too pigheaded to take the opportunity then to declare itself independent, clinging to the fantasy that it could retake the Mainland. Now they want to be independent but need China too much economically to piss them off and declare it.
ACDsee, a well-known and, at one time, free, image viewing and organising app, supports metadata. It puts it in a "descript.ion" text file in each directory. This is an ancient DOS standard. It's still supported by a few Windows apps, notably the Far manager (a shareware clone of Norton Commander for Win) and ReGet, a downloader; both Russian.
In fact I find the "descript.ion" metadata so useful I stick with apps that use it. At my last job, a web news site, I organised out image library using ACDsee and this metadata to add notes. ACDsee also has a nice batch rename.
No need to invent a whole bloody new file system to find your wedding photos.
No, because a lot of spam is sent by stupid people who believe they will make money. By the time they've lost the money they paid for their mailing lists and spam software the damage is done and there's another asshole to takwe their place.
The big-time spammers like Ralsky aren't selling dick enlarging cream, they're selling spamming services to those who do.
Ah, but you do have to look at content.
Yes; but only of mass mailings. Also, having content-based filters at the ISP level creates a wonderful tool for governments to censor mail.
Basically you need a reliable "bulk" tag. The recipient can then use that to filter himself. Bulk can be treated much more cavalierly than individually-sent emails -- most people could deal with all the latter by hand easily enough. A default approach for bulk might be to refuse all except for whitelisted senders, such as mailing lists. Or if any of these pay for email schemes are implemented, you might allow bulk that paid you above a minimum amount.
It's detection of "bulk" that's the problem, and content isn't reliable or desirable. If an ISP sees a batch of almost identical messages coming in it could add this tag -- obviously then we'd get into a game with spammers trying to avoid this. They'd try to spread their messages out, make each one different, use multiple mail servers, etc. It'd still be a battle.
There is a difference: the first is sent individually, the latter in quantity. You don't have to have a prohibition based on content. It should focus on mass mailings alone. I don't have a solution beyond that, but I think that's the problem that should be addressed.
On the other hand, I might be joking.
BOTH sealing putties contained asbestos. See here. It wasn't the presence or absence of asbestos that was the problem.
A font geek is someone with 15,000 truetype fonts he's downloaded from P2P or usenet. Many are duplicated under different names, many have been mangled by poor conversion, but he's happy just to pick up every one he comes across. Occasionally he might use one, usually applying several PhotoShop filters to make it grungy.
A type nerd probably has far fewer fonts, but they're all high quality and probably paid for (by his past employers -- he has at least actually been paid to set type). He'll argue endlessly about kerning or height of small capitals, and sneer at lining figures instead of old-style, "fi" instead of the ligature, and has strong opinions on which foundry's cut of Garamond is the most elegant or historically authentic.
So on the whole, "type nerd" is probably the preferable epithet.
No, but if they have your real identity, they can arrest you the next time you come within their grasp, or your relatives failing that, or confiscate your property; put all your contacts under surveillance, etc.
Win 98SE reports itself as "Win 4.10, DOS 7.10A".
You can get rid of most of the bloated interface with 98lite. You can strip it all the way down to a CLI if you want.
I live in Hong Kong. 95% of the spam I receive is for viagra/dick enlarger/mortgage/cable descramblers. Occasionally I go to the referenced websites and usually they ONLY deliver to the US anyway, and most of their products won't work (financial instruments, cable descramblers) outside the US anyway. Americans invented spam. Americans are the source of most spam. Americans are the targets of most spam. The rest of the world gets swamped just by carelessness. (Why the fuck send ads to the .hk domain when it's impossible to deliver your product there?).
No, because as has been documented (including this FA) only a small number of Americans are responsible for most of the spam. With file trading, there are millions of us^H^H them, so dividing the damage by the number of perps does not lead to death penalties in this case.
Well spotted, but you do have to be a type nerd to notice or care.
Arial, however, is noticeably different.
I said metrically identical. Same widths. Helvetica is bland, but preferable, at least in print.
But "Times New Roman " is "a" Times. If you can tell the difference from a printed sample at 14 pts, you have a better eye than me. Most software will silently use whichever one is available if one is specified.
I believe TNR is metrically exactly the same as the version Adobe sells, as Arial is of Helvetica. MS and Apple wanted compatibility with standard Adobe fonts, but didn't want to pay for them. (Now they're all buddies again with OpenType.)
There are many versions of "Times" from different type foundries. Microsoft licensed one of them.
Burma.
True enough, but they already had a standard font (Courier). And Courier, being monospaced, and with no fiddly serifs (it has thick square-edged ones) is much easier to OCR than Times -- when I've done it (not frequently, I admit) I get zero errors with Courier, vs at least a few percent in any other font -- and if it's gone through a fax machine, the error rate goes up more.
Humans, OTOH, do generally read Times more easily than Courier.
You don't need IE to get Times on Macs. I don't know about OSX, but Times has been bundled with MacOS (before IE) since at least OS7. See Mac OS 7.x, 8.x 9.x: Fonts Included With Major System Releases.
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The Chinese government, like every country's, is centralized. Which country that functions at all isn't? And China is "Communist" in name only now. The Communist Party still runs the show, but ideology has little to do with their methods.
How much would they sell via their website in an entire week anyway? As often noted, they hardly sell anything at all. It won't affect their litigation activities at all, except to give them more ammunition to slander Linux users with.
One problem with Slashdot geeks is that they think "taking a company's website down" will severely impact them. Maybe for big web retailers, like Amazon, Dell, eBay or online banks; but the vast majority of businesses could lose their web site for weeks without it affecting the bottom line (assuming the email server is unaffected, which it should be). It might be an embarrassment -- but as I said above, SCO will use it to show it's being persecuted by Linux virus terrorists.
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be a "search engine". Try searching for likely subjects like "Pamela" and you get NO results. They "suggest" searching for "porn", that gives you a list of rated websites. I'd guess that's the only search that works -- unless anyone has more patience than me wants to try. It's really just a hand-compiled list of porn sites.
On Slashdot where the editors can't spell, I'm afraid the assumption is that a mistake is a mistake, not a joke. Sorry...