It's really sad, when Outlook users talk of simple features that real mail clients have had for years as "killer additions"
I'm not really flaming you, it's just a despairing situation. I use mutt, and I find it very difficult to use anything else. mutt is text only, but of course it can launch external viewers for graphics. It's super fast, and keyboard controlled. If you're handling large amounts of mail you can't use Outlook, because you're too reliant on the mouse. The rules are fine in Outlook but they're just not configurable enough to power sort email. Flagging has been available since Outlook Express 4, and you could easily sort by flag, shift-click to select, and move the messages. Now, this can be done automatically with some "flagged mail" folder. How is this killer?
I could do T (tag pattern) then write a regexp based on from, to, subject, body, etc, then have all matching messages tagged in a flash. Or I can tag some messages manually. Then ; to action the tagged messages, and in a flash copy them to another folder, forward them all to someone, reply to them all as one neatly formatted message, and so on. This is power email, and it's not in a GUI, and it doesn't take up massive resources. It is compatible with several mailbox formats, IMAP and POP. It can even write to several mailbox formats, it doesn't have an import/export hell.
Most corporate email I see is a complete mess thanks to Outlook. Notwithstanding all those stupid disclaimer signatures that aren't even line-wrapped properly and all that. OH, and don't even get me started on MS-TNEF and winmail.dat attachments which I still get from the occasional new client. Why should I run Outlook in order to receive mail from them, or why should I have to call them to change their settings, when MIME encapsulation, uuencode and base64 have been perfectly adequate for years before that client gained ground?
Outlook has a lot to do with this chaos, because it's such a prevailing piece of software... but I wouldn't call it a prevailing standard. The standard was set by PC-Pine (at least in my experience) on Unix/Linux around about the time of (maybe before) Win 3.11. Outlook is STILL playing catchup, some 10 years later. That's just plain crazy.
To be fair, it's a bit more complex than that, although its being written in Perl is not ideal for hardcore command liners
o search for numbers that are factors of 1024 and multiples of 12 or numbers
that are factors of 2333 and multiples of 9
numgrep/f1024m12,f2333m9/ data.txt
So, it's like a commandline based spreadsheet, because it can also do adding of columns and rows in text files. I think somehow awk could already handle a lot of the stuff it does do though.
...president@whitehouse.gov, nobody@nowhere.com and others as email for lots of signups, it's hardly surprising that they don't just let you email directly and promise a response.
Incidentally Ponie is 25GBP (well, a pony, really)... Only Fools & Horses, "stick a pony in me pocket", you English will be with me on that.
But really, now there's this Parrot, that's going to help Perl5 become Ponie, to give birth to Perl6. Madness. (English will be with me again, "One step beyonnnnnd")
Jeez I'm even sounding like Larry. Anybody care for some Objective Orientation towards a real page for what PERL 6 is really supposed to be about?
Unlike Aluminium it does not easily oxidise and rust
The oxide of aluminium that forms when it oxidises in air is the same size as the aluminium metal and so forms a protective layer. So Aluminium doesn't exactly rust like iron alloys. See here for more details...
I'd guess that it's Francium's very light weight to strength ratio that you're talking about, but I don't think it is light, according to this:
Francium does not have any stable isotopes. There is at most one ounce of francium in the whole earth at any given time as a result of the decay of other radioactive elements. It is the most unstable of the first 103 elements in the periodic table. Its longest lived isotope has a half life of 22 minutes.
Despite its radioactive complications, francium is the heaviest simple atom.
And on the Ford website a result for searching from Francium:
Search Results
Results for: francium
Sorry no matches were found.
Was this a joke, or can you provide us with more information on how Ford used the most unstable and heavy element in some magical light (or strong) alloy?
After a while it won't matter how HUGE long PDF files can bceome (sic).
I was going to moderate on this article, then I saw that, and I was going to mod you down. Then I thought I'd reply, which seems to be the logical thing to do actually, because the rest of the context isn't so bad.
Saying that it doesn't matter how big files get is wrong. Files should become MORE efficient, and filesizes should only increase if the QUALITY of the data increases (here it's mostly file metadata, and AV applications, that I'm thinking about).
Now, saying that a perfectly good format like PDF does not need some kind of efficient compression is wrong. The reason there are variances between Adobe PDF and "free" PDF is that Adobe have a better default compression setup, maybe even a proprietary compression algorithm, and it produces for their reader, not just a generic reader. PDF should make files smaller and smaller, based on common criteria like : format for screen display, format for print, format for archive...
Keep images out of PDFs, just put text, and you'll see it's pretty efficient, and a gain on Postscript. Stick some image in there, and don't think about embedding it as a JPEG or whatever (as you can do with AdobePDF) and downsampling it to 72dpi if it's not a print version, and away ye go. Maybe free versions can do this but I would bet it's not as intuitive.
But please, don't start claiming that documents can just keep getting bloated and it won't matter. This will only serve to further screw the less-well-connected into expensive bandwidth hell.
I wrote and submitted the summary. It's not a very interesting article, perhaps, but it's only confusing because the survey was pretty confusing.
As for useless, the point is rather the *debate* about such tactics, and the link back to the TCP/IP survey which was on Slashdot too, rather than the article itself.
I am just a SlashDot reader like yourself, by the way. You can submit articles too (just click the link on the left column).
You are right; I'm not sure whether I made that error, or if it was added by the editor. However, the link you provided didn't cover that, here's a better one:
Fair point. The quality of translation in most movies I have seen in French from the English is terrible... but sometimes, the actor who dubs the French is a better actor than the original, especially in the case of wooden action heroes, so sometimes films actually work better, even poorly translated (only if the original is poor)
Traslating a book is not the same as a movie or localising a game. With a movie, there is a LOT less content to work on and the standrards are way lower so it only takes about a week,
If you think you can do this, set up a company and do it. You might be able to translate most of the dialogue in a week, but that's not the half of it. You might even be able to get a foreign version out within a week of release date, if you pre-translate the script, modify bits of it for adlib or changes, and get it running in parallel with post production, but it sounds so wrong what you said.
Literacy is improved by reading and writing, and to a lesser extent typing. But you have to do these activities a lot to gain any profit from them.
Games where you have to interact a lot in a non repetitive way might be useful educational tools, as are books, as is a group classroom experiment, etc.
However, I have yet to see a game that really wins on any of these points, although they are all complements to real learning. Chat rooms do not even have conversations in English any more, it's all LOL and ROTFL and smilies. I've even seen people in chat rooms who barely type anything else, in fact they probably just point and click macros that someone else created instead.
Programming and logic, and of course hand to eye coordination, can be learned from computers. Doesn't beat real sport, which adds 3D sensory perception and much better spatial awareness. A good learning game will not beat a good book for improving literacy, but it might help with rule based learning, like mathematics, grammar and vocabulary building by repetition.
If you look at the flash animation on the article from the BBC site you get a better idea of how it works.
The view I gave is from the top, and you must stand with both feet on the ground and gripping the rail, because if you had high heels or something it could be a bit dangerous. Barefoot is inconceivable in the Paris metro anyway, unless you have no money for shoes you wouldn't consider it:)
Small children might not be big enough to grip the rail, but I don't know about how pushchairs would work on the system... although wheeling luggage on isn't too bad, as long as you're not too burdened by it.
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I have also been on this travelator
The accel/decel zones are like a number of ballbearings or something, which are rotating at gradually increasing speeds. This is why you need to keep both feet on the ground, because otherwise you could end up falling over.
It's a configuration a bit like this:
xoxoxoxox
oxoxoxoxo
xoxoxoxox
oxoxoxoxo
where the o's are cylinders and xs are gaps... they gradually accelerate you and then you sort of step onto the travelator moving at 9kph and the reverse happens at the other end. I can see why people fall over. There are notices and announcements everywhere "keep both feet on the floor" and "be careful" and "hold the rail, especially during accel/decel" but the researchers forget...
Announcements are so poorly used throughout public transport infrastructures that people don't listen to them,
People think they are so clever that they need not heed the announcements, like they can defy acceleration forces and gravity
Old people don't think the "if you are old or have a lot of luggage, please use the regular travelator" applies to them
It's really for regulars, not for tourists, because tourists have loads of baggage and always block the travelator - already they don't read the "stand on the right" signs and stick themselves in the middle of the regular travelators
Sure, everyone knows what you meant to say. That doesn't mean you should get away with it;-)
Geeks are pedantic, probably because they actually fear someone will read a [random] comment and then end up thinking that's the correct term for it, and the fear is too great not to hit reply.
I was trying to get the cycles per second / tour de France joke in there actually, but I guess that most/. readers don't follow the tour anyway. Oh well.
Euh... I got myself confused. After 6a there was some "hotfix bundle" that came afterwards which would have been SP7... you're right there. It was therefore betaed and then released as the hotfix rollup.
I had the original install CD from 95 and never took any chances with installs. Always SP6a last, of course.
Seven. Service pack 6a was really service pack 7, but it came so quickly after pack 6 that Microsoft were a bit ashamed to call it 7, and called it 6a instead.
A fresh install is a wonder to see though. No service pack, IE2.0, 16 colours only until you find a bloody driver that will work...
Then you have to install SP4 before SP6a if you want it to work properly.
Good point; since the crash, however, I think (I hope) that the balance will be struck.
Indeed this is the ugly side of full capitalism and no doubt you could draw a parallel between what you said and the lack of a visible political left wing in America (because the L wing has been stigmatised to such an extent with communism being worse than being a devil worshipper).
Except that Amazon will make sales on a high amount of people using the data, and raise brand awareness on a number of sites. People might end up clicking back to the Amazon site, or prefer shopping on another site which may become more and more of a "skin" on top of the Amazon e-commerce engine anyway.
I cannot find a better online shopping experience than Amazon, although the version localised to where I currently live (France) hasn't got anything like the range of the UK site which I used to use, and I don't know if there's a way to transfer my wishlist and all that (haven't looked though)
It's not open data, it's open access to proprietary data.
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I'm not really flaming you, it's just a despairing situation. I use mutt, and I find it very difficult to use anything else. mutt is text only, but of course it can launch external viewers for graphics. It's super fast, and keyboard controlled. If you're handling large amounts of mail you can't use Outlook, because you're too reliant on the mouse. The rules are fine in Outlook but they're just not configurable enough to power sort email. Flagging has been available since Outlook Express 4, and you could easily sort by flag, shift-click to select, and move the messages. Now, this can be done automatically with some "flagged mail" folder. How is this killer?
I could do T (tag pattern) then write a regexp based on from, to, subject, body, etc, then have all matching messages tagged in a flash. Or I can tag some messages manually. Then ; to action the tagged messages, and in a flash copy them to another folder, forward them all to someone, reply to them all as one neatly formatted message, and so on. This is power email, and it's not in a GUI, and it doesn't take up massive resources. It is compatible with several mailbox formats, IMAP and POP. It can even write to several mailbox formats, it doesn't have an import/export hell.
Most corporate email I see is a complete mess thanks to Outlook. Notwithstanding all those stupid disclaimer signatures that aren't even line-wrapped properly and all that. OH, and don't even get me started on MS-TNEF and winmail.dat attachments which I still get from the occasional new client. Why should I run Outlook in order to receive mail from them, or why should I have to call them to change their settings, when MIME encapsulation, uuencode and base64 have been perfectly adequate for years before that client gained ground?
Outlook has a lot to do with this chaos, because it's such a prevailing piece of software... but I wouldn't call it a prevailing standard. The standard was set by PC-Pine (at least in my experience) on Unix/Linux around about the time of (maybe before) Win 3.11. Outlook is STILL playing catchup, some 10 years later. That's just plain crazy.
To be fair, it's a bit more complex than that, although its being written in Perl is not ideal for hardcore command liners
So, it's like a commandline based spreadsheet, because it can also do adding of columns and rows in text files. I think somehow awk could already handle a lot of the stuff it does do though.
Funny... yeah, that's better than the dot com version.
Head over to the real whitehouse alternative, much more fun.
It's also twenty five quid. Like a monkey, a pony, a bluey, a score, a ton, and so on..
Incidentally Ponie is 25GBP (well, a pony, really)... Only Fools & Horses, "stick a pony in me pocket", you English will be with me on that.
But really, now there's this Parrot, that's going to help Perl5 become Ponie, to give birth to Perl6. Madness. (English will be with me again, "One step beyonnnnnd")
Jeez I'm even sounding like Larry. Anybody care for some Objective Orientation towards a real page for what PERL 6 is really supposed to be about?
Nice link list, that's what you call ramming the point home, isn't it... especially when someone already rubbed my nose in it ;-)
Cheers.
Err... smartcards just store data, they don't have an embedded OS on them.
The oxide of aluminium that forms when it oxidises in air is the same size as the aluminium metal and so forms a protective layer. So Aluminium doesn't exactly rust like iron alloys. See here for more details...
I'd guess that it's Francium's very light weight to strength ratio that you're talking about, but I don't think it is light, according to this:
Francium does not have any stable isotopes. There is at most one ounce of francium in the whole earth at any given time as a result of the decay of other radioactive elements. It is the most unstable of the first 103 elements in the periodic table. Its longest lived isotope has a half life of 22 minutes.
Despite its radioactive complications, francium is the heaviest simple atom.
And on the Ford website a result for searching from Francium:
Search Results
Results for: francium
Sorry no matches were found.
Was this a joke, or can you provide us with more information on how Ford used the most unstable and heavy element in some magical light (or strong) alloy?
I was going to moderate on this article, then I saw that, and I was going to mod you down. Then I thought I'd reply, which seems to be the logical thing to do actually, because the rest of the context isn't so bad.
Saying that it doesn't matter how big files get is wrong. Files should become MORE efficient, and filesizes should only increase if the QUALITY of the data increases (here it's mostly file metadata, and AV applications, that I'm thinking about).
Now, saying that a perfectly good format like PDF does not need some kind of efficient compression is wrong. The reason there are variances between Adobe PDF and "free" PDF is that Adobe have a better default compression setup, maybe even a proprietary compression algorithm, and it produces for their reader, not just a generic reader. PDF should make files smaller and smaller, based on common criteria like : format for screen display, format for print, format for archive...
Keep images out of PDFs, just put text, and you'll see it's pretty efficient, and a gain on Postscript. Stick some image in there, and don't think about embedding it as a JPEG or whatever (as you can do with AdobePDF) and downsampling it to 72dpi if it's not a print version, and away ye go. Maybe free versions can do this but I would bet it's not as intuitive.
But please, don't start claiming that documents can just keep getting bloated and it won't matter. This will only serve to further screw the less-well-connected into expensive bandwidth hell.
As for useless, the point is rather the *debate* about such tactics, and the link back to the TCP/IP survey which was on Slashdot too, rather than the article itself.
I am just a SlashDot reader like yourself, by the way. You can submit articles too (just click the link on the left column).
When Not to Use An Apostrophe
Fair point. The quality of translation in most movies I have seen in French from the English is terrible... but sometimes, the actor who dubs the French is a better actor than the original, especially in the case of wooden action heroes, so sometimes films actually work better, even poorly translated (only if the original is poor)
That's why they'll be using the Potter specific dictionary, I expect...
If you think you can do this, set up a company and do it. You might be able to translate most of the dialogue in a week, but that's not the half of it. You might even be able to get a foreign version out within a week of release date, if you pre-translate the script, modify bits of it for adlib or changes, and get it running in parallel with post production, but it sounds so wrong what you said.
Games where you have to interact a lot in a non repetitive way might be useful educational tools, as are books, as is a group classroom experiment, etc.
However, I have yet to see a game that really wins on any of these points, although they are all complements to real learning. Chat rooms do not even have conversations in English any more, it's all LOL and ROTFL and smilies. I've even seen people in chat rooms who barely type anything else, in fact they probably just point and click macros that someone else created instead.
Programming and logic, and of course hand to eye coordination, can be learned from computers. Doesn't beat real sport, which adds 3D sensory perception and much better spatial awareness. A good learning game will not beat a good book for improving literacy, but it might help with rule based learning, like mathematics, grammar and vocabulary building by repetition.
The view I gave is from the top, and you must stand with both feet on the ground and gripping the rail, because if you had high heels or something it could be a bit dangerous. Barefoot is inconceivable in the Paris metro anyway, unless you have no money for shoes you wouldn't consider it :)
Small children might not be big enough to grip the rail, but I don't know about how pushchairs would work on the system... although wheeling luggage on isn't too bad, as long as you're not too burdened by it.
I have also been on this travelator
The accel/decel zones are like a number of ballbearings or something, which are rotating at gradually increasing speeds. This is why you need to keep both feet on the ground, because otherwise you could end up falling over.
It's a configuration a bit like this:
xoxoxoxox
oxoxoxoxo
xoxoxoxox
oxoxoxoxo
where the o's are cylinders and xs are gaps... they gradually accelerate you and then you sort of step onto the travelator moving at 9kph and the reverse happens at the other end. I can see why people fall over. There are notices and announcements everywhere "keep both feet on the floor" and "be careful" and "hold the rail, especially during accel/decel" but the researchers forget ...
Geeks are pedantic, probably because they actually fear someone will read a [random] comment and then end up thinking that's the correct term for it, and the fear is too great not to hit reply.
I was trying to get the cycles per second / tour de France joke in there actually, but I guess that most /. readers don't follow the tour anyway. Oh well.
You'd be better off running it at 100Mb/s, now, wouldn't you? 100 Megabits a Second...
I had the original install CD from 95 and never took any chances with installs. Always SP6a last, of course.
Seven. Service pack 6a was really service pack 7, but it came so quickly after pack 6 that Microsoft were a bit ashamed to call it 7, and called it 6a instead.
A fresh install is a wonder to see though. No service pack, IE2.0, 16 colours only until you find a bloody driver that will work...
Then you have to install SP4 before SP6a if you want it to work properly.
Indeed this is the ugly side of full capitalism and no doubt you could draw a parallel between what you said and the lack of a visible political left wing in America (because the L wing has been stigmatised to such an extent with communism being worse than being a devil worshipper).
I cannot find a better online shopping experience than Amazon, although the version localised to where I currently live (France) hasn't got anything like the range of the UK site which I used to use, and I don't know if there's a way to transfer my wishlist and all that (haven't looked though)
It's not open data, it's open access to proprietary data.