First, I think that current law against junk faxes should be extended to include junk emails. This would not eliminate spam, but it would give us the ability to correct the spammers who operate out in the open.
As a Libertarian, I want to jealously guard the right of the people to freedom of expression. But that right does not and cannot include the right to expropriate other people's time or money. You have a right to make your voice heard. You do not have a right to force me to pay for it.
As a Libertarian, I think that the black lists are sufficient. If a black list doesn't work well for me, I'll either have to change my black list or my friends will have to change their ISP. It's an inconvenience, but it's not that unsurmountable.
On the other hand, if we extend the fax laws to spam, that would only give additional reasons to our government for searching our machines and controlling our lives.
Fourteen years ago, the French government started giving away free network/internet capable computers to *every single* household within its borders. However, the inflated cost of a local telephone call is making worthwhile internet connections prohibitive, and most people in France will limit their usage to just a few minutes per month.
Good Patents: 20 percent
Bad Patents: 0.2 percent
Patents that were never used: 79.8 percent.
Chances that the media will misrepresent a patent when covering it: 99 percent
and what's the worst part of all - to have ANY level of security from a whois search that could give sickos and perverts your address is by getting a P.O. Box.. from the USPS
If your stalker can prove to the post office that you're using your PO box for business purposes, the post office is *obligated* by law to releaseyour personal address. You're probably better off using the more expensive "Mailbox, etc."
You better forget about voting too. Your voting registration is public information.
"...I would have to say the primary hurdle that Brown will have to overcome is pedigree."
At UC Berkeley, I have seen pedigree successfully acquired through exclusivity. Its Women's Studies Program started out with only one person in it. They didn't want more than one graduate, otherwise the perceived quality of their diploma would have been diluted. Hopefully, Brown will have the guts to implement similar measures.
Wiki is kind of limited in the way you create topics. It has some weird run-together capitalization routine so your TopicsLookLikeThis. It's kind of silly, actually.
Wikis have kept the capitalization scheme for backward-compatibility purposes, but most (except the original) do allow the use of alternative notations.
In any case, I wouldn't be so quick to point out the deficiency of TopicCapitalizations. That kind of notation forces you to give your topic a simple and precise name. Just like Slashdot and listservs, a Wiki likes to mold itself from its audience, but unlike/. and company; it does not allow itself to easily forget and repeat its own stories.
Researchers at the University of Moscow released a surprising new study Friday afternoon indicating that simple tap water and sugar could be converted into a microbial growth solution. "Works for anything. Virii, bacteria, cysts." says the head of Russian Advanced Science.
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The problem with this is that meteors are not hot. See this link and this one.
This is Scientific method at its Best !
Step 1. Formulate an abilation theory
Step 2. Contradict this theory with evidence
Step 3. Conclude that the evidence MUST be wrong
Step 4. Go back to Step 1.
This isn't just true in terms of software, but extends to all industries and products. Take a regular cup of coffee as an example: You walk into a shop and pay $3.00 for a cup of coffee. You'd expect it to be a pretty decent cup of coffee, right? What if you bought a cup of coffee for $1.00? Would you expect it to be more or less good than the $3.00 cup of coffee? The majority of people would expect the $3.00 cup of coffee to be nicer than the $1.00 cup of coffee, but until they taste them both, they don't know.
I am glad you brought up the coffee example. When I go and buy an expensive cup of coffee at Starbucks, the coffee is not the only thing I buy, I buy the entire experience of Starbucks. For instance, I buy the background music, the halogena lighting, the comfy chairs that I can sit in for hours, the convenient outlets that I can plug my laptop in, the assurance that the cup of coffee was prepared the same way as the other starbucks I know of, the assurance that the employees are getting paid a decent wage and benefits, etc.
And like you said, this is also true in terms of software. The client is not simply buying a piece of software, they're buying a package of something much weirder.
If things look rich, then people, especially business people tend to trust them more than things that don't look rich. This is a major flaw in the only society I am familar with, North American Society.
Not that I am excusing the behavior of biggots, but this is not necessarily a flaw, it's not necessarily limited to our subcontinent, and you're probably not even immune to this kind of fallacious thinking yourself.
Frankly, I can see how the act of stereotyping could have been useful to our survival as a specie. Stereotyping is nothing more than making quick decisions based on very limited information. How often have you done that yourself in the past six months? What criteria do you use to see a movie? What types of girls do you usually go after? What kind of person would you hire to babysit your kids? Would you hire an homeless just off the street, with all the proper qualifications, for that babysitting job?
Anyway, where would you draw the line. What is the difference between stereotyping and sound judgement? Isn't it just a matter of degrees and couldn't you make mistakes in either case.
There are usually two reasons why customers don't buy, there is the official reason, and then there is the real reason.
Now, don't tell the potential client you know he's not being forthright with you. Instead, simply ask him: "In addition to that, what else..." "is wrong with my bid?" or better yet, "In addition to that, what else can I do to improve my bid?"
Please try that, and then report back to us, and tell us what happened.
I've been using pie menus on Squeak and they're pretty useful. In case anyone is interested, Squeak is a free and open OS and programming environment written in a version of SmallTalk-80.
How does one go about getting federally funded for something like this. I _dream_ of doing something like this for my sleepy town.
First off, don't just limit yourself to Federal funds. There are thousands of foundations out there, go after all of them. There are also thousands of companies who allocate a certain portion of their inventories for product giveaways, so go after all the companies that could provide you something of value.
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Obviously you didn't check the link. It is available as Flash, MP3, and a text transcript. Mirrors were also provided. This guy makes it easier than anybody else to listen to his message.
When I checked his web page, it *only* had the Flash 8.4 MB swf file, the 7.2 MB MP3 file, the original Flash 18.7 MB source code, the icon file, and the font file. I'm pretty sure the powerpoint presentation and the transcript were added after I made my original comment. His timestamp at the bottom of his page, "Last updated: 08/17/2002 02:04:19", should at least confirm that the page was modified since then.
In any case, I'll retract my statement about the Flash designer bit. I doubt a real Flash designer would be as responsive as this guy has been; and I am glad that he has responded in this way. Now, if you'll excuse me, I will finally get to find out what this guy is all about.
Whenever I write something I start by letting my ideas flow onto the paper (actually word processor). Then I make several passes through the story to make the logic and dialogue stronger. I also cut out non-essential stuff if I feel the story is too long. It's not difficult at all.
"How Computers Cause Bad Writing ...Although most of these professionals share the belief that computers help them write, they display specific writing problems that may actually be caused, or accentuated, by the fact that they write on computers..."
Not only was the idea developed on his own time, it was developed before his employment there began.
No, that fact is in dispute. He *claimed* he developed this idea before his employment began. That fact could be true, granted, but that has not been proven yet. Please read the article again.
I am 100 percent in agreement with the above points. Let me also add that these are guidelines that everyone who is involved in open source should observe religiously.
Same thing goes for university graduate students. Be careful, your university owns your work.
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"Almost all of that is the 32kbps mp3 file... it's more than 30 minutes, remember. "
Yes, I *remember,* but what difference does that make?
This guy doesn't make his slide show available in a separate smaller download, so I still have to download the entire 8MB, and he doesn't even give us an ascii transcript of his presentation. At the very least, he could have posted a short one-paragraph summary of his talk on his download page.
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yeah 30k plugin that works for any browser under the sun other than lynx... real difficult:D
I was talking about the size of the swf file; it's 8MB! And don't even get me started on Flash's usability issues.
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As a Libertarian, I think that the black lists are sufficient. If a black list doesn't work well for me, I'll either have to change my black list or my friends will have to change their ISP. It's an inconvenience, but it's not that unsurmountable.
On the other hand, if we extend the fax laws to spam, that would only give additional reasons to our government for searching our machines and controlling our lives.
Fourteen years ago, the French government started giving away free network/internet capable computers to *every single* household within its borders. However, the inflated cost of a local telephone call is making worthwhile internet connections prohibitive, and most people in France will limit their usage to just a few minutes per month.
Bad Patents: 0.2 percent
Patents that were never used: 79.8 percent.
Chances that the media will misrepresent a patent when covering it: 99 percent
If your stalker can prove to the post office that you're using your PO box for business purposes, the post office is *obligated* by law to releaseyour personal address. You're probably better off using the more expensive "Mailbox, etc."
You better forget about voting too. Your voting registration is public information.
http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow/computerbad.html
At UC Berkeley, I have seen pedigree successfully acquired through exclusivity. Its Women's Studies Program started out with only one person in it. They didn't want more than one graduate, otherwise the perceived quality of their diploma would have been diluted. Hopefully, Brown will have the guts to implement similar measures.
Wikis have kept the capitalization scheme for backward-compatibility purposes, but most (except the original) do allow the use of alternative notations.
In any case, I wouldn't be so quick to point out the deficiency of TopicCapitalizations. That kind of notation forces you to give your topic a simple and precise name. Just like Slashdot and listservs, a Wiki likes to mold itself from its audience, but unlike /. and company; it does not allow itself to easily forget and repeat its own stories.
Researchers at the University of Moscow released a surprising new study Friday afternoon indicating that simple tap water and sugar could be converted into a microbial growth solution. "Works for anything. Virii, bacteria, cysts." says the head of Russian Advanced Science.
Take a look at The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.
It contains unusually insightful comments about telecommuting.
Here is the original WikiWikiWeb: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
Here is a Wiki you can easily install on your own machine: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/swiki/15
Here is a free Wiki farm that let's you start your own on a shared server: http://www.seedwiki.com
This is Scientific method at its Best !
Step 1. Formulate an abilation theory
Step 2. Contradict this theory with evidence
Step 3. Conclude that the evidence MUST be wrong
Step 4. Go back to Step 1.
I am glad you brought up the coffee example. When I go and buy an expensive cup of coffee at Starbucks, the coffee is not the only thing I buy, I buy the entire experience of Starbucks. For instance, I buy the background music, the halogena lighting, the comfy chairs that I can sit in for hours, the convenient outlets that I can plug my laptop in, the assurance that the cup of coffee was prepared the same way as the other starbucks I know of, the assurance that the employees are getting paid a decent wage and benefits, etc.
And like you said, this is also true in terms of software. The client is not simply buying a piece of software, they're buying a package of something much weirder.
Not that I am excusing the behavior of biggots, but this is not necessarily a flaw, it's not necessarily limited to our subcontinent, and you're probably not even immune to this kind of fallacious thinking yourself.
Frankly, I can see how the act of stereotyping could have been useful to our survival as a specie. Stereotyping is nothing more than making quick decisions based on very limited information. How often have you done that yourself in the past six months? What criteria do you use to see a movie? What types of girls do you usually go after? What kind of person would you hire to babysit your kids? Would you hire an homeless just off the street, with all the proper qualifications, for that babysitting job?
Anyway, where would you draw the line. What is the difference between stereotyping and sound judgement? Isn't it just a matter of degrees and couldn't you make mistakes in either case.
Here is a little gem I came across in the following book by Frank Bettger.
There are usually two reasons why customers don't buy, there is the official reason, and then there is the real reason.
Now, don't tell the potential client you know he's not being forthright with you. Instead, simply ask him: "In addition to that, what else..." "is wrong with my bid?" or better yet, "In addition to that, what else can I do to improve my bid?"
Please try that, and then report back to us, and tell us what happened.
I've been using pie menus on Squeak and they're pretty useful. In case anyone is interested, Squeak is a free and open OS and programming environment written in a version of SmallTalk-80.
The Jaguar is not really British anymore. It is now owned and operated by the Fix Or Repair Daily Company
First off, don't just limit yourself to Federal funds. There are thousands of foundations out there, go after all of them. There are also thousands of companies who allocate a certain portion of their inventories for product giveaways, so go after all the companies that could provide you something of value.
When I checked his web page, it *only* had the Flash 8.4 MB swf file, the 7.2 MB MP3 file, the original Flash 18.7 MB source code, the icon file, and the font file. I'm pretty sure the powerpoint presentation and the transcript were added after I made my original comment. His timestamp at the bottom of his page, "Last updated: 08/17/2002 02:04:19", should at least confirm that the page was modified since then.
In any case, I'll retract my statement about the Flash designer bit. I doubt a real Flash designer would be as responsive as this guy has been; and I am glad that he has responded in this way. Now, if you'll excuse me, I will finally get to find out what this guy is all about.
- Stephan
"How Computers Cause Bad Writing
What about the lawyer who applied for the patent? Can he be sued and can he have his license taken away?
No, that fact is in dispute. He *claimed* he developed this idea before his employment began. That fact could be true, granted, but that has not been proven yet. Please read the article again.
Same thing goes for university graduate students. Be careful, your university owns your work.
Yes, I *remember,* but what difference does that make?
This guy doesn't make his slide show available in a separate smaller download, so I still have to download the entire 8MB, and he doesn't even give us an ascii transcript of his presentation. At the very least, he could have posted a short one-paragraph summary of his talk on his download page.
I was talking about the size of the swf file; it's 8MB!
And don't even get me started on Flash's usability issues.
April 11th, 2002 The President of Venezuela, the head of OPEC, gets kidnapped.
Coincidence, I think not.
Mark my words. Just a couple of hours before we go into Iraq, the President of Venezuela and his government will be massacred.