I was thinking more like self-contained software, small apps like putty, or similar, that are a single.exe and do not require an 'install'...
Incidentally, many Mac programs are this way, and I like that idea... most of the small/medium sized apps, regardless of purpose, are often just a copy/paste(drag and drop) away from installing... That design is nicely suited for a pendrive home directory, where a registry isn't required.
A pendrive/ipod (in size, harddrive space) bluetooth enabled device that carried core applications and your home folder? Wether in be a unix-style home folder layour, or an xml/generic folder layout that has an abstraction to windows/unix/linux(various conflicting layouts in unixes). and OFCOURSE, the drive, preferably solid-state, would be encrypted with a public key...
I walk up to an unused machine, sit down, the login script/screen detects my bluetooth device, notices that is a user account storage device, and prompts for a username/password that is checked against the device via encrypted bluetooth... If successful, links, shortcuts, small apps(putty), documents, contacts, email, etc.. are all 'loaded' onto the local machine, as if i were at my home computer...
Even better if these were on a linux/x11 setup so we could do some automatic screen attach/detach scripts on all processes/programs running!
doesn't propaganda have to be... lies and rediculous broken truths to serve your own purpose... from Bowling for Columbine, it is obvious he has a political stance himself, but he presents facts and has the viewer decide.
maybe some of it slips through because of the sender's email address... if you send 100 emails from one of your old address to gmail, then accept 20 of them as good emails, and the other 80 are spam, google might be more likely to accept some iffy-spam as legit, since it comes from the same email that a lot of your legit email comes from....
It makes sense that email it is not 100% sure is spam, may possibly slip through due to that.
they would rather fall short on the side of too much spam getting through, then too much legit email getting marked as spam....
The problem is, the group heuristics they use allow for a lot of people to build the filter on what is/isn't spam, which is great, until you start getting jerks who mark tons of legit email as spam, and you start to break the filters usefullness.
Google needs, all email services need, a 2 or 3 pronged aproach... For the length of the beta, use the group heursitics filter... When it goes gold, make each member have an idividual filter, that starts preconfigured to the beta's heursitics settings.
It also needs just a plain keyword/dumb spam search, befor it hits any bayesian mail filter, to weed out the OBVIOUS spam, and lighten the load on the more complex bayesian-style filtering system.
Easy, they could do that now... www.XXX-XX-XXX.gov where the X's represent your ssn.... Oh, wait, that wouldn't be very smart, now would it?
How about Google starts a new Gsite project, offers 1 gig of hosting, with dns and hoopla for its users and etc, etc, etc... The government doesn't need to step in and do everything, the free market will fill where demand exists...
Next you will call for the USPS to issue email addresses for every american citizen... Well, at 1 point (early on!) they considered running a email server for the nation, but didn't... Besides, Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, Spymac, and every ISP in the world has filled the gap in email, and the competition(gmail esspecially in recent weeks) has provided an improvement of service overall.
SHHH!!! What are you trying to do, spoil our surprise attack on the northern border? Someone didn't get the DO-NOT-DISCLOSE memo sent to every red-blooded american, aye?
Waste is a file-sharing app first, chat client second... It doesn't have a good IM/IRC feel to it, even though it tries to do the buddy list/irc-style chat. It is a second rate setup for chatting, though fully functional for cassual conversations.
I am pro-waste... A big fan. I believe i thas potential to be a monumentous application, but no, in it's current form, it should not be heralded as a chatting application... With further releases come improvements to this design, ofcourse.
hey bud. Yea, mirwin is rediculous right now... we made a bad decision and tried to migrate to a new OS, ened up(lucky us) not being able to finish the new box, while scrapping the harddrive that contained the old OS+mirwin setup... big fuck up, this weekend will be getting work done to get it up.
THEN will we finally move to IPv6? If it takes moving phone numbers and the entire phone system to the internet to FINALLY come to a point where NAT and such don't work, then so be it!
Migrate to IPv6 now, get it done, and not worry about it for a couple CENTURIES
yes, because when someone offers ME free web hosting with intuitive interface and a gig of storage, the first the I do is find how best to exploit that service for a profit... Well done, you just took 29 email addresses from the community, made google be liable for 29 more gigs of potential data, and just made the world look that much more greedy, because you couldn't accept a good thing and be thankful, you had to have more.
"You ask them what Internet Explorer is and they'll tell you it's a web browser."
Heh, no, they won't... The vast majority of people don't realize 'Internet Explorer' is a seperate application, or an application and all, and just see it as a thing that displays webpages... In the same sense, they don't realize Explorer is a full application and just see it as a window that displays the contents of a folder/drive.
what if it isn't ebay that sold the account, rather a random generation spammer sent to ebay@DOMAIN.TLD? Or if the company(or you, by accident) post the email address to the web, and a spider grabbed it and was added to a spammers list?
how many CORP_X accounts do you go through? ebay1@DOMAIN.TLD, ebay2@, ebay3@... ditching each once it starts to recieve spam.
YES! GiigkeFS has triple redundancy of all it's information, for recovery purposes, while slashdot reposts articles for... well, lets just call it 'recovery purposes' too.
"No matter how much you skin slashcode, it still feels like slashdot in the end, even if it wasn't intentional."
But a textfield and output is so generic, you don't have the/. sidebar and color scheme(even with themes and whatnot) that just scream ripoff.
"Giving something back implies that they took something from the users (?) and are now paying back."
Well, maybe he meant 'give back' in the sense of repaying Google for providing a service that has benefited internet use globally, while offering it for free and being unbiased in their results... Maybe he thought that that service was such a kind act by a private company, that Google deserves to be 'thanked' in a significant way.
"I have a feeling that despite having lower sales, making a 2d game with a tiny team in a few months might actually have larger profit margins than top-end development."
Even more so, if you write the engine to a solid, expandable, and powerful (while easy to build upon, ofcourse) 2d game, then have multipl in-house, independent teams write games off of it, and lease the engine to other companies... You could have a team of 7-10 people, using an engine your company wrote, acting as their own independent game development company within your own corporation.
Instead of a 50 person team for a high-end 3d FPS or something, try 5 teams of 10 people writing storylines, graphics, nuances and gameplay around an single engine and get 5 times as many games(that sell for less money and in fewer numbers, mind you) that are factionaly less cost to produce!
he army has $5.8mil to contract out *research* to some company for technology what.... 10-15 years away at the minimum?
The cluster is suppose to be operational by late fall, of this year.
However, that is lame about your situation... I don't think that the rediculously large budget is to blame, just poor distrobution of funds... 1 less fighter, would pay for a lot of equipment for 'grunts' AND this world record(speed vs. cost) setting cluster, that does have practical and important use.
i think the code could exist at sub-100Tflop speeds... whether it be text I/O only, but that is still highly powerful. Lets get THAT AI working(and plug it into some big IRC Channels, for it to 'grow' at light speed!!) and the 100Tflop goodness will come later.
A 10,000 dollar grant or donation from IBM, Intel, AMD or HP could give the server box needed to run a system of that power.
It isn't like version you already bought won't work... You bought this software knowning its abilities and decided to pay the money for it. Would it have been nice for Apple to have given you a discount? Yes, absolutely, just about any discount is 'nice'... Do you deserve to bitch and moan because you no longer have the latest ang greatest? No.
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I was thinking more like self-contained software, small apps like putty, or similar, that are a single .exe and do not require an 'install'...
Incidentally, many Mac programs are this way, and I like that idea... most of the small/medium sized apps, regardless of purpose, are often just a copy/paste(drag and drop) away from installing... That design is nicely suited for a pendrive home directory, where a registry isn't required.
A pendrive/ipod (in size, harddrive space) bluetooth enabled device that carried core applications and your home folder? Wether in be a unix-style home folder layour, or an xml/generic folder layout that has an abstraction to windows/unix/linux(various conflicting layouts in unixes). and OFCOURSE, the drive, preferably solid-state, would be encrypted with a public key...
I walk up to an unused machine, sit down, the login script/screen detects my bluetooth device, notices that is a user account storage device, and prompts for a username/password that is checked against the device via encrypted bluetooth... If successful, links, shortcuts, small apps(putty), documents, contacts, email, etc.. are all 'loaded' onto the local machine, as if i were at my home computer...
Even better if these were on a linux/x11 setup so we could do some automatic screen attach/detach scripts on all processes/programs running!
doesn't propaganda have to be... lies and rediculous broken truths to serve your own purpose... from Bowling for Columbine, it is obvious he has a political stance himself, but he presents facts and has the viewer decide.
maybe some of it slips through because of the sender's email address... if you send 100 emails from one of your old address to gmail, then accept 20 of them as good emails, and the other 80 are spam, google might be more likely to accept some iffy-spam as legit, since it comes from the same email that a lot of your legit email comes from....
It makes sense that email it is not 100% sure is spam, may possibly slip through due to that.
they would rather fall short on the side of too much spam getting through, then too much legit email getting marked as spam....
The problem is, the group heuristics they use allow for a lot of people to build the filter on what is/isn't spam, which is great, until you start getting jerks who mark tons of legit email as spam, and you start to break the filters usefullness.
Google needs, all email services need, a 2 or 3 pronged aproach... For the length of the beta, use the group heursitics filter... When it goes gold, make each member have an idividual filter, that starts preconfigured to the beta's heursitics settings.
It also needs just a plain keyword/dumb spam search, befor it hits any bayesian mail filter, to weed out the OBVIOUS spam, and lighten the load on the more complex bayesian-style filtering system.
why don't you setup some spamassassin setup for your domain, to knock out another huge chunk of emails, as well?
Easy, they could do that now... www.XXX-XX-XXX.gov where the X's represent your ssn.... Oh, wait, that wouldn't be very smart, now would it?
How about Google starts a new Gsite project, offers 1 gig of hosting, with dns and hoopla for its users and etc, etc, etc... The government doesn't need to step in and do everything, the free market will fill where demand exists...
Next you will call for the USPS to issue email addresses for every american citizen... Well, at 1 point (early on!) they considered running a email server for the nation, but didn't... Besides, Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, Spymac, and every ISP in the world has filled the gap in email, and the competition(gmail esspecially in recent weeks) has provided an improvement of service overall.
SHHH!!! What are you trying to do, spoil our surprise attack on the northern border? Someone didn't get the DO-NOT-DISCLOSE memo sent to every red-blooded american, aye?
That would be GREAT for getting rid of long waits... 95% of your callers would hangup in digust!
Waste is a file-sharing app first, chat client second... It doesn't have a good IM/IRC feel to it, even though it tries to do the buddy list/irc-style chat. It is a second rate setup for chatting, though fully functional for cassual conversations.
I am pro-waste... A big fan. I believe i thas potential to be a monumentous application, but no, in it's current form, it should not be heralded as a chatting application... With further releases come improvements to this design, ofcourse.
hey bud. Yea, mirwin is rediculous right now... we made a bad decision and tried to migrate to a new OS, ened up(lucky us) not being able to finish the new box, while scrapping the harddrive that contained the old OS+mirwin setup... big fuck up, this weekend will be getting work done to get it up.
THEN will we finally move to IPv6? If it takes moving phone numbers and the entire phone system to the internet to FINALLY come to a point where NAT and such don't work, then so be it!
Migrate to IPv6 now, get it done, and not worry about it for a couple CENTURIES
yes, because when someone offers ME free web hosting with intuitive interface and a gig of storage, the first the I do is find how best to exploit that service for a profit... Well done, you just took 29 email addresses from the community, made google be liable for 29 more gigs of potential data, and just made the world look that much more greedy, because you couldn't accept a good thing and be thankful, you had to have more.
Shame.
the sad part is, that is some damn solid 'job security'... even if it drives the tech support kids absolutely crazy.
"You ask them what Internet Explorer is and they'll tell you it's a web browser."
Heh, no, they won't... The vast majority of people don't realize 'Internet Explorer' is a seperate application, or an application and all, and just see it as a thing that displays webpages... In the same sense, they don't realize Explorer is a full application and just see it as a window that displays the contents of a folder/drive.
what if it isn't ebay that sold the account, rather a random generation spammer sent to ebay@DOMAIN.TLD? Or if the company(or you, by accident) post the email address to the web, and a spider grabbed it and was added to a spammers list?
how many CORP_X accounts do you go through? ebay1@DOMAIN.TLD, ebay2@, ebay3@... ditching each once it starts to recieve spam.
A most interesting approach, though.
Yes, I have already begun a project to achieve this goal... Now, you gotta hear me out...
1. Invent interstellar propulsion system
2. ???
3. Profit!
"It's a lot like slashcode, really."
/. sidebar and color scheme(even with themes and whatnot) that just scream ripoff.
YES! GiigkeFS has triple redundancy of all it's information, for recovery purposes, while slashdot reposts articles for... well, lets just call it 'recovery purposes' too.
"No matter how much you skin slashcode, it still feels like slashdot in the end, even if it wasn't intentional."
But a textfield and output is so generic, you don't have the
"Giving something back implies that they took something from the users (?) and are now paying back."
Well, maybe he meant 'give back' in the sense of repaying Google for providing a service that has benefited internet use globally, while offering it for free and being unbiased in their results... Maybe he thought that that service was such a kind act by a private company, that Google deserves to be 'thanked' in a significant way.
"but geeks owe Google, not vice-versa. Geeks (and normal users as well) depend on Google."
so buy some stock (when they go public) and move on, not that hard...
Why is the word "Engineer" used to describe someone with a proficiency with Microsoft?
Do you build structures out of Microsoft?
NO, you administrate networks and Windows systems, not design them.
Is your certification revoked if any of your projects crash--or your corporation basicly shuts down due to virus infection site-wide-- ever?
"I have a feeling that despite having lower sales, making a 2d game with a tiny team in a few months might actually have larger profit margins than top-end development."
Even more so, if you write the engine to a solid, expandable, and powerful (while easy to build upon, ofcourse) 2d game, then have multipl in-house, independent teams write games off of it, and lease the engine to other companies... You could have a team of 7-10 people, using an engine your company wrote, acting as their own independent game development company within your own corporation.
Instead of a 50 person team for a high-end 3d FPS or something, try 5 teams of 10 people writing storylines, graphics, nuances and gameplay around an single engine and get 5 times as many games(that sell for less money and in fewer numbers, mind you) that are factionaly less cost to produce!
he army has $5.8mil to contract out *research* to some company for technology what.... 10-15 years away at the minimum?
The cluster is suppose to be operational by late fall, of this year.
However, that is lame about your situation... I don't think that the rediculously large budget is to blame, just poor distrobution of funds... 1 less fighter, would pay for a lot of equipment for 'grunts' AND this world record(speed vs. cost) setting cluster, that does have practical and important use.
i think the code could exist at sub-100Tflop speeds... whether it be text I/O only, but that is still highly powerful. Lets get THAT AI working(and plug it into some big IRC Channels, for it to 'grow' at light speed!!) and the 100Tflop goodness will come later.
A 10,000 dollar grant or donation from IBM, Intel, AMD or HP could give the server box needed to run a system of that power.
It isn't like version you already bought won't work... You bought this software knowning its abilities and decided to pay the money for it. Would it have been nice for Apple to have given you a discount? Yes, absolutely, just about any discount is 'nice'... Do you deserve to bitch and moan because you no longer have the latest ang greatest? No.