Too late, It's already done. The Exif information from the cameras I use already includes the camera serial number. (Not that I'm disagreeing with your point.)
Of course, EXIF contains a lot of information about your camera. However, the data is digital, and can thus be edited. You are free to remove any identifying data from the EXIF headers before you publish your images.
This is exactly one of the reasons why I keep using Mutt (http://www.mutt.org/). I can edit any message, and I often use that feature.
My voicemail system leaves a message in my email box with the subject "Voicemail from <telephone number>". I always edit that subject to reflect the contents of the voicemail message. Since 90% of my voicemail messages are coming from 2 telephone numbers, this is really a requirement if I want to find a specific message ever again.
Another feature I miss in many email clients (probably Thunderbird 2.0 too, haven't checked that one yet) is the ability to freely edit email threading. Sometimes I want to break a thread into two parts, or I want to link two emails into a thread, for instance emails discussing the same subject but different subject headers. This is also something Mutt does very well.
The third reason I keep using Mutt is that it displays mails originating from myself in a different way. All mails from someone else show the "From" header in the index. All mails from myself show "To <recipient>" and are displayed in a different colour. This allows me to store both incoming and outgoing messages in the same folder, allowing for gmail-ish mailboxes that contain the entire discussion.
As long as there isn't a GUI mail client that can do all this, I'm not moving away from Mutt.
In other words: infinity / infinity is 1.5. Of course, this holds true for all numbers.
I don't have a mathematical proof for infinity * 0, but multiplying by zero and dividing by infinity seem to be rather related, don't you think?
What I'm really wondering about is how to proceed once you have a calculation that results in nullity. What is nullity + 1? How can calculations continue? If the only outcome of a calculation involving nullity results in nullity, how does that solve a computer crashing after dividing by zero? How would, for instance, a board computer of an aeroplane calculate a new position for the wing flaps? I don't see how "nullity" is a valid wing flap position...
I feel the same way. Nowadays, websites aren't about information any more, they are about looking cool and providing a "look" for the company behind it. Sure, good looks are nice, but more and more people trade looks for usability. I prefer clear, easily usable, quickly loading website. I don't care about the underlying technology.
I'm very glad that Theora is on it's way. It seems like, with all those patent holders leeching money out of us, Open technology is the only way to go.
Hopefully, Matroska will gain popularity as well. It's a nice container format, with way more possibilities than old AVI.
Most of your parenting skills are learned as a child, growing up in your own home. If you don't have that, then the next best thing is a willingness to learn from some elders who are great parents.
True, but that all implies a willingness to learn. The kind of parents that we're talking about here - the bad, misbehaving and abusing kind, don't want to learn. That's why I'm suggesting that they MUST learn before getting children.
There is no way that the government is prepared to teach parenting!
Sure, but that's not the issue here. I think they should at least tell you what not to do with your child, and what not to forget. A list of DOs and DON'Ts would already help.
Now, that gov. are tracking citizens and listening in their voice and internet coversations, how is that different than what gestapo did to the average german citizen?
The difference is the action that is being taken. With the Gestapo, you could get killed for venting your thoughts. No way that this is going to happen by action of the Dutch government.
I think the protection of children is a good thing. Personally, I'm against the right to have children as defined now. I think everybody should have the right to have children, but only after having done a course in raising a kid.
Personally, if I would have to give up a little privacy in order to give one kid a better life, I think it's worth it. If you look at the raising criminality and drug use among kids in The Netherlands, I think paying more attention to them wouldn't hurt anyone. Many parents don't do that nowadays - pay proper attention to their kids I mean.
Then again, given the current situation of The Netherlands, I think our government has much better ways of spending their money.
Hey, if people choose to use the most incompatible filesystem on the planet, it's their choice. If it causes their system to be unrepairable, let them complain to Microsoft.
If Windows can be made secure by properly administering it, why isn't it SHIPPED secure? You'd expect that Microsoft ships their OS - at least their Server OS - set up as secure as possible. Judging from your post, they don't. Sorry, but I won't run an OS from a company that makes such a huge mistake.
When an unpatched Windows runs for a couple of months without getting virus infections and other malware crap on it, I may start thinking they finally got some security on board.
As long as it takes less than a minute to get infected on a freshly installed system, I'm not touching their stuff with a Very Long Pole. If Microsoft's stuff is so secure, let them show it off by making the default installation secure.
How can typing a few console commands be confusing? I mean, the average user will simply do a copy & paste, and the commands are there.
Sure, it could get confusing if you try to understand each and every letter you're typing. But face it, people don't read those Windows wizard screens either, they just click "next". How difficult can "copy this text and press enter" be?
If you're serious about being a programmer for 20 years, you sure picked the wrong Linux distribution! A friend of mine is a natural Blonde (in every sense of the word) and doesn't know anything about computers. Yet, he installed Ubuntu Linux all by himself. If he can do that, and you can't, then you must suck at being a programmer.
A friend of mine is a complete CIV addict. He has bought all the CIV games available, and all the expansion packs he could lay his hands on. Still, he tells me that he likes FreeCIV best, for various reasons.
A game concept isn't bad just because it's old. If old things were boring just because they were old, there would be no war in the world - everybody would be like "yeah, been there, done that ages ago". Your reasoning seems to be flawed.
It looks nice enough not to be offended by it. Really, it's the gameplay that makes FreeCIV such a nice game, not the looks. Compare it with a tabletop game - that's pieces of wood and carton as well. Yet, many people play tabletop games.
I'm so happy that I've got a system that doesn't integrate every little bit into the OS!
Too bad Mickeysoft still doesn't understand that more features don't make their system any better.
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I remember the old days, when programmers nudged every single bit of speed and capability out of the machines they had. When computer engineers, faced with limits, still made magic happen.
Too bad they don't say anything about IPv6 support. Without that, I'm not going to buy it. It's nice to have a WiFi phone and all, but without IPv6 it isn't worth that much to me. In my opinion, IPv6 with it's mobile extension is a perfect match for VOIP.
if, instead of using <a href="#" onclick="foo"> [...]
This is really wrong coding. <a href="#"> means "jump to the top of the page". My browser (Firefox) does this correct, jumping to the top of the page each time I click on such a link. Why do people think that href="#" has no meaning? If you want a link that does nothing with it's href attribute, use something like href="javascript:;".
On November 5 1999 we had the "Burn all GIFs" day because of patent issues. Shall we announce a "Burn all JPEGs" day because of Microsoft security issues now and switch all to PNG?
That would be unwise. PNG uses lossless compression, and JPEG uses lossy compression. PNG can't simply replace JPEG. Take any picture from a digital camera, and save it as JPEG (if it isn't already) and PNG. Now compare the file size.
PNG is a replacement for GIF, and an improvement in many ways.
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The reason I got a .eu domain is quite simple: the .nl was already taken, and the owner didn't want to part with it.
Of course, EXIF contains a lot of information about your camera. However, the data is digital, and can thus be edited. You are free to remove any identifying data from the EXIF headers before you publish your images.
This is exactly one of the reasons why I keep using Mutt (http://www.mutt.org/). I can edit any message, and I often use that feature.
My voicemail system leaves a message in my email box with the subject "Voicemail from <telephone number>". I always edit that subject to reflect the contents of the voicemail message. Since 90% of my voicemail messages are coming from 2 telephone numbers, this is really a requirement if I want to find a specific message ever again.
Another feature I miss in many email clients (probably Thunderbird 2.0 too, haven't checked that one yet) is the ability to freely edit email threading. Sometimes I want to break a thread into two parts, or I want to link two emails into a thread, for instance emails discussing the same subject but different subject headers. This is also something Mutt does very well.
The third reason I keep using Mutt is that it displays mails originating from myself in a different way. All mails from someone else show the "From" header in the index. All mails from myself show "To <recipient>" and are displayed in a different colour. This allows me to store both incoming and outgoing messages in the same folder, allowing for gmail-ish mailboxes that contain the entire discussion.
As long as there isn't a GUI mail client that can do all this, I'm not moving away from Mutt.
If you divide infinity by infinity, you can get everything:
3x/2x = 3/2 for all values of x
So if we let x = infinity, then:
3/2 = 3x/2x = 3 infinity / 2 infinity = infinity / infinity
In other words: infinity / infinity is 1.5. Of course, this holds true for all numbers.
I don't have a mathematical proof for infinity * 0, but multiplying by zero and dividing by infinity seem to be rather related, don't you think?
What I'm really wondering about is how to proceed once you have a calculation that results in nullity. What is nullity + 1? How can calculations continue? If the only outcome of a calculation involving nullity results in nullity, how does that solve a computer crashing after dividing by zero? How would, for instance, a board computer of an aeroplane calculate a new position for the wing flaps? I don't see how "nullity" is a valid wing flap position...
I feel the same way. Nowadays, websites aren't about information
any more, they are about looking cool and providing a "look"
for the company behind it. Sure, good looks are nice, but more
and more people trade looks for usability. I prefer clear,
easily usable, quickly loading website. I don't care about the
underlying technology.
I'm very glad that Theora is on it's way. It seems like, with all those patent holders leeching money out of us, Open technology is the only way to go.
Hopefully, Matroska will gain popularity as well. It's a nice container format, with way more possibilities than old AVI.
True, but that all implies a willingness to learn. The kind of parents that we're talking about here - the bad, misbehaving and abusing kind, don't want to learn. That's why I'm suggesting that they MUST learn before getting children.
Sure, but that's not the issue here. I think they should at least tell you what not to do with your child, and what not to forget. A list of DOs and DON'Ts would already help.
The difference is the action that is being taken. With the Gestapo, you could get killed for venting your thoughts. No way that this is going to happen by action of the Dutch government.
I think the protection of children is a good thing. Personally, I'm against the right to have children as defined now. I think everybody should have the right to have children, but only after having done a course in raising a kid.
Personally, if I would have to give up a little privacy in order to give one kid a better life, I think it's worth it. If you look at the raising criminality and drug use among kids in The Netherlands, I think paying more attention to them wouldn't hurt anyone. Many parents don't do that nowadays - pay proper attention to their kids I mean.
Then again, given the current situation of The Netherlands, I think our government has much better ways of spending their money.
Ok, so apparently you ment "NTFS is better than FAT" instead of "NTFS is one of the best filesystems", since both documents only look at NTFS and FAT.
Do you have any articles that support that statement? I'd like to read them.
Hey, if people choose to use the most incompatible filesystem on the planet, it's their choice. If it causes their system to be unrepairable, let them complain to Microsoft.
If Windows can be made secure by properly administering it, why isn't it SHIPPED secure? You'd expect that Microsoft ships their OS - at least their Server OS - set up as secure as possible. Judging from your post, they don't. Sorry, but I won't run an OS from a company that makes such a huge mistake.
When an unpatched Windows runs for a couple of months without getting virus infections and other malware crap on it, I may start thinking they finally got some security on board.
As long as it takes less than a minute to get infected on a freshly installed system, I'm not touching their stuff with a Very Long Pole. If Microsoft's stuff is so secure, let them show it off by making the default installation secure.
That's nasty! I'm glad that in Linux files aren't automagically executable when you give them a certain name :)
How can typing a few console commands be confusing? I mean, the average user will simply do a copy & paste, and the commands are there.
Sure, it could get confusing if you try to understand each and every letter you're typing. But face it, people don't read those Windows wizard screens either, they just click "next". How difficult can "copy this text and press enter" be?
If you're serious about being a programmer for 20 years, you sure picked the wrong Linux distribution! A friend of mine is a natural Blonde (in every sense of the word) and doesn't know anything about computers. Yet, he installed Ubuntu Linux all by himself. If he can do that, and you can't, then you must suck at being a programmer.
Yeah, a game of chess would have been a better example ;-)
A friend of mine is a complete CIV addict. He has bought all the CIV games available, and all the expansion packs he could lay his hands on. Still, he tells me that he likes FreeCIV best, for various reasons. A game concept isn't bad just because it's old. If old things were boring just because they were old, there would be no war in the world - everybody would be like "yeah, been there, done that ages ago". Your reasoning seems to be flawed.
It looks nice enough not to be offended by it. Really, it's the gameplay that makes FreeCIV such a nice game, not the looks. Compare it with a tabletop game - that's pieces of wood and carton as well. Yet, many people play tabletop games.
I'm so happy that I've got a system that doesn't integrate every little bit into the OS! Too bad Mickeysoft still doesn't understand that more features don't make their system any better.
Too bad they don't say anything about IPv6 support. Without that, I'm not going to buy it. It's nice to have a WiFi phone and all, but without IPv6 it isn't worth that much to me. In my opinion, IPv6 with it's mobile extension is a perfect match for VOIP.
if, instead of using <a href="#" onclick="foo"> [...]
This is really wrong coding. <a href="#"> means "jump to the top of the page". My browser (Firefox) does this correct, jumping to the top of the page each time I click on such a link. Why do people think that href="#" has no meaning? If you want a link that does nothing with it's href attribute, use something like href="javascript:;".
www.apache.org - Apache 2: ....
...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:17:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Unix)
www.redhat.com - Unknown apache version:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:18:05 GMT
Server: Apache
www.cnn.com - Unknown apache version:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:18:45 GMT
Server: Apache
www.cnet.com - Apache 2:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:19:08 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0
www.bbc.co.uk - Apache 2:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:19:38 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.51 (Unix)
us2.php.net - Apache 2:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:20:01 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.46 OpenSSL/0.9.6g DAV/2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 PHP/4.3.2 mod_gzip/2.0.26.1a
I guess a lot of people use Apache 2!
On November 5 1999 we had the "Burn all GIFs" day because of patent issues. Shall we announce a "Burn all JPEGs" day because of Microsoft security issues now and switch all to PNG?
That would be unwise. PNG uses lossless compression, and JPEG uses lossy compression. PNG can't simply replace JPEG. Take any picture from a digital camera, and save it as JPEG (if it isn't already) and PNG. Now compare the file size.
PNG is a replacement for GIF, and an improvement in many ways.
I was referring to the "It works on my box...bug must be fixed!", which in my experience isn't true for the large projects.
That's true for small home-projects, but not for projects like Mozilla, Gnome, OpenOffice.org, Gimp, etc.