True Apple doesn't always keep all of the bundled OSS apps updated... OTOH they don't prevent you from compiling and installing (or finding pre-compiled) an updated version. I rarely use the bundled versions of PHP, MySQL or Ruby on my Mac.
Just be sure to install them under/usr/local/ or a similar standard but not Apple default location or your next Apple update will wipe them out.
There are a few apps which while OSS are tightly coupled to the OS itself and do not have timely support from their original maintainers for OS X - these often do require Apple to keep up to date, but in general they are pretty good about fixing security issues, with some notable exceptions... for which there is always the option to disable the service or app until the fix has been ported.
With OS X the best way I've tried is to store the built-in Keychain app profile on a USB drive. This can be inserted into any Mac (though most of the system passwords won't work there) and opened via the master password by importing the profile.
It is of course encrypted and you can set all kinds of policies for individual account/password credentials. It has support for Certs, accounts of all types as well as manually created entries for things like ATM/Credit cards, etc.
The downside for you of course may be that it only works on a Mac but others may find this useful - or you can look for something comparable.
I think the government is more concerned that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, etc., etc., would come crashing down as a result of this ruling. Their stock prices certainly would, since your proposed course of action would eliminate billions of dollars of intellectual property rights in a puff.
Actually it's the perceived value of their intellectual property rights that would disappear - and which would disappear for all of their competitors at the same time. Now the stock market would certainly freak out as they hate FUD and flee from it with money in hand to businesses with less FUD, but after the shake out value would return to those companies who have a sound business model and management.
Companies which only exist because of patents would have to create a real business out of their technology, methods, or service - aka offer real market value and would be punished until they are able to do so.
Sure it would be painful - but in the end everyone will be better off - meaning that the majority will be better off.
Someone should make a plugin like this one: surfclarity but make it just filter out FoxNews and other NewsCorp results and name it "NoMurdoch" or "Block FoxNews" or some other blatant reference to blocking out FoxNews and then distribute it far and wide...
Could be the start of a whole new way to protest. Get enough people to install and you'll see a news story out of it - and that will get Mr. Murdoch's attention.
Sounds like professors are guilty of that old taboo... not showing your work. How do the students even know if the prof understands the lecture they are giving if it's all pre-packaged?
My big love for Flash is sockets. I can push data to the client. Comet is okay but still not as easy to implement. What is your answer to this?
My other big love is being able attach sound objects to visual objects and have visual object properties (like x/y/z coordinates) impact sound object properties (like volume per channel, the waveform's amplitude ie: distorting the sound, etc.
Any idea on whether HTML 5 is going to offer this level of integration between audio and video/animation?
Finally the fact that Actionscript is dynamic object oriented makes it a pure joy to program in - need a new attribute, just create a new child object and add your key/value pair... makes creating Object Factories dirt simple and that allows for a lovely MVC pattern even when developing games or anything else that needs dynamically generated objects born with builtin behaviors... ie: particle engines, interactive painting simulation, etc.
I live in southern California and we have these really long freeways. I would love to see a dome placed over them - well more like a tunnel... I'd like it to be composed of low cost, low efficiency solar panels (being budget minded), have air scrubbers / exhaust vents and fans for each mile with an air intake system at the level of the roadway itself bringing fresh air from outside in.
The purpose is a combination of:
1) improved driving conditions - ie: less environmental wear on the surface
2) less exhaust pollution in the air via the scrubbers - at the source of a major contributing factor
3) self-sustaining energy use - the solar panels on top would for the most part provide enough power to light the tunnel at night and run the air systems. Any surplus would be a bonus (as solar panels get cheaper this could become significant) and could be used to offset the cost of the construction and future maintenance.
4) reduce noise pollution in surrounding areas immensely
All of this without disturbing any new environments or taking up additional valuable land.
The most misunderstood concept of copyright by copyright holders is that without strong fair-use rights, there is no market for your work and would therefore be worthless or significantly reduced in value to society at large.
It is a fine balance - one which must be upheld or we all lose.
Just my 2 cents in regards to public records and data.
I'd like to say that the groups making decisions in this area really should consider a MVC architecture which will avoid the concerns iterated here on/. and by pundits for open data standards everywhere in regards to display aka View technologies.
With a Model View Controller methodology and pattern in place it really is not a concern what technology is being used to display data at any given time. If public data is *stored* (Model) and *accessed* (Controller) via open standards then the *display* (View) itself is inconsequential and/or malleable to the extent needed for any purpose.
Flash is great at some things, PDFs are perfect for a variety of tasks. They are, like any other format, not the only useful format available and should never be thought of as the 'archive' or 'final' format. The Model is the archive.
All the government agencies need to do is show that the Model is able to be trans-coded to several other popular storage formats without loss and that should be good enough for anyone. They also need to provide an API for accessing the data regardless of the Model and an output format that is structured and well documented (XML, JSON, SOAP even).
At this point it is the data consumer who should choose what format they would like to visually see it in... PDF, interactive Flash/Flex charts, JSON, Word, HTML, SGML, RTF... does it matter? Not to me or anyone else. I will get to choose the format I'd like it in (XML, JSON or Actionscript Objects please).
If the format doesn't exist yet, there's an API I can use to transcode the data as I see fit.
The key point here and for any job where you'd like to be treated well... "Get on the Income side of the business".
If you're on the Income side, you deal with people who are moving up, looking for ways to increase revenue, etc. and will appreciate you. If you're on the Cost side you deal with people running in place trying to cut corners, etc.
If you succeed on the Income side - you get a bonus. If you succeed on the Cost side - you get a high five at best ("We're trying to save money here, not spend it on bonuses!").
So whatever job you go looking for, be a part of the business.... not the housekeeping. Housekeepers have always been treated as servants, even if well treated servants.
WTF? Have you never heard of an 'automatic' transmission? It changes gear for you. Amazing technology that's only been around for 30+ years - but meh I'll get off your lawn now.
How about rather than giving 'inventors' of a drug an exclusivity period, the law gives them a compulsory license deal. Here's how it would play out:
A drug company discovers a compound or treatment process (or creates one - unlikely but not unheard of). They then register with some regulatory organization - possibly the USPTO, possibly some other more suitable entity.
At this point they receive a first rights license within that country and are guaranteed a significant percentage of any profit generated from that formula for a period of 10 years.
Any other company can produce and sell the formula but must go through the same trials as the original company but will have to pay the licensing fee to the registered company.
The benefits of this are manyfold.
Not all research groups are suited to carrying out drug trials and setting up manufacturing. These companies can register a discovery and simply allow other companies to take them to market which equals a fair competition for those companies who are suited and means that the research group has an incentive and cashflow to continue doing research. Additionally this means they can continue to focus on research and not be forced to a) sell their research at an undervalued rate to big pharma or b) not have to waste energy on duplicating the infrastructure of big pharma just to bring a drug to market.
Companies that both do research and marketing (this includes the trials and manufacturing) will receive compensation for their discovery but will have to compete on the marketing. They will have an initial advantage as they are initially more prepared for all aspects, but if the drug is highly useful then other companies will have incentive to license and bring the drug to market as well.
Companies that did not do the research can assess the drug's viability and profitability and decide whether it is something they can bring to market independently and still make a profit while paying the licensing fee to the registered company.
Consumers benefit the most because this provides competition in the market, allows more research groups to be profitable and opens the door to all kinds of discoveries that currently are passed over by large organizations which must decide which drugs to put their resources behind... it is likely that some drugs currently do not make it to market because they are in budget conflict with other more highly profitable drugs... with a system as outlined above these 2nd tier drugs could find a home with a smaller pharma marketing company and yet the registered company would still profit from the licensing revenue.
SO how do you determine if someone synced an app between different devices/accounts? When I get an app I will often then authorize it for my wife's iPhone as well and sync to her phone. Her phone did not purchase it... do you get a list of authorized deviceIDs?
I'm wondering if his methodology is bad. I haven't read TFA as yet but it seems from scanning the posts here that he was comparing the deviceID that purchased with the deviceID that posted the score... in which case, how is he accounting for the fact that users are specifically allowed to share their apps with up to 5 devices?
I do this all the time between my wife and I. We download games for our kids to play as well as apps and music for ourselves when we find them... then sync up the phones via iTunes (as we are specifically allowed to do) - so that we can share our household purchases between the two phones.
If you assume a maximum of sharing.... take a sample of 100 downloads, then share it out to 5 people = 500 downloads, using his method you instantly have an 80% pirate rate!!!!
Continuously be on the look out for a low interest rate consolidation... they are out there, especially if you build your credit rating and keep a job for > 4 years before doing so. What was a risky loan will suddenly become a much less risky loan and you'll get offers in the 2%-4% range.
Wouldn't it be nice if young students had a more experienced person helping them through the process - like a counselor of some sort or even possible a mentor like person - let's call him/her a 'parent'.
Ah but you missed the super uber low refinancing available only 3 years ago. My wife had her student loans brought down to 1.5%;-p
Yes 1.5% - that's unheard of.. of course we also got a home loan at 4.9%, bought two cars with rates at 5.9% and 4.9% respectively as well... now I did have a 920 credit score but still... it was a golden age for low interest rates.
Our only financing issue at the moment is that our house is worth $100k less than it was when we bought it;-( but it's come back from $180k so making progress in that area - should be a full recovery in 5 years or so - oh and the 401k is finally back to what it was worth 2 years ago (except that most of that value is from contributions...).
That being said - I feel bad for the graduates just getting started. Sucks to be you... I mean it's times like these that 'build character';-p
For reading novels or regular literature my iPhone's resolution and backlit screen is just great... I haven't tried any of the eInk products - so I can't comment on that. I can say that they are too expensive to just be eReaders and too big for my personal preference in reading format.
I like a small paperback format, so that there is just one column of text at the optimum characters per line for easy reading and it should be small enough to fit in a pocket (something I always disliked about novels until really baggy pants came in style - which is a problem again now that they aren't in style any more).
I don't want to "carry around" my eReader... not trying to show off to people "hey look I read in the digital age" - in fact I'd rather people didn't know that I have 500 books in my pocket and can look up a reference to something in 5 secs while pretending to check my text messages (just tappity tap for a sec to make them think you're a hipster and they'll ignore your rudeness for some reason).
When I bought my iPhone and found eReader I gave up printed books for reading.
My iPhone is much more convenient, easier to read (backlit is very nice in most situations ie: anything other than sunlight behind me) and the iPhone lasts for ~5-6 hours of reading and music listening with occasional browsing/phone calls.
It never loses my place, I could write notes and bookmark pages if I wanted to. It's my phone so it's always with me and isn't conspicuous - so I can open up a book for any extra 5 min anywhere and catch up on some plot line that's been calling me...
I can get new material in minutes without a car ride, wait in line or dealing with a store that decided to re-arrange the shelves again. There's no shipping charge like there would be with a real book from Amazon.
Another big bonus is that there's nothing to get rid of when I'm done reading the book. I don't have to waste time with eBay or Craigslist trying to give the thing away and they don't pile up in boxes in the garage waiting for the next garage sale or book-drive... sorry, for me that part of it is just a big waste of time - no I don't care about the old book ethos or whatever.
SO eBooks are the next best thing to sliced bread IMHO. I don't really care if they cost the same or less than traditional books... I've already saved so much time not dealing with the physical book format that I'm already ahead.
We could also take the average car drive and stick them on a motorcycle and the results would be similar... a big accident with personal trauma to the operator and any unfortunate bystanders.
So I can assume that you're implying that operators of a flying car would need appropriate training (such as the 'driver's training' courses we have now) in how to safely operate such a vehicle.
Yes it's a little buzz kill - but then your comment wasn't really all that insightful to begin with.
Modern laptops and modern OS's recognize when you are typing and turn off the touchpad while doing so. I've never had this issue on my Macbook Pro. Maybe there's a feature in your OS you're not aware of...
Despite the sibling posts here threading is not the answer though it's half way there... email is personal while facebook is communal. It's a paradigm shift that is as much psychological as it is technological. Jumping between those spaces is awkward within one context, ie an email client.
Facebook is like having multiple conversations with different people at your local coffee shop or pub - it's okay to ignore a thread for a while or forever and nobody feels put out and you can address the group as an entity rather than individuals.
Email is like a conference call if you do threading... everyone expects to be answered and feel the need to address you directly and do feel put out if you don't reply.
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True Apple doesn't always keep all of the bundled OSS apps updated... OTOH they don't prevent you from compiling and installing (or finding pre-compiled) an updated version. I rarely use the bundled versions of PHP, MySQL or Ruby on my Mac.
Just be sure to install them under /usr/local/ or a similar standard but not Apple default location or your next Apple update will wipe them out.
There are a few apps which while OSS are tightly coupled to the OS itself and do not have timely support from their original maintainers for OS X - these often do require Apple to keep up to date, but in general they are pretty good about fixing security issues, with some notable exceptions... for which there is always the option to disable the service or app until the fix has been ported.
With OS X the best way I've tried is to store the built-in Keychain app profile on a USB drive. This can be inserted into any Mac (though most of the system passwords won't work there) and opened via the master password by importing the profile.
It is of course encrypted and you can set all kinds of policies for individual account/password credentials. It has support for Certs, accounts of all types as well as manually created entries for things like ATM/Credit cards, etc.
The downside for you of course may be that it only works on a Mac but others may find this useful - or you can look for something comparable.
You can find details about this at Mac OS X Hints.
I think the government is more concerned that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, etc., etc., would come crashing down as a result of this ruling. Their stock prices certainly would, since your proposed course of action would eliminate billions of dollars of intellectual property rights in a puff.
Actually it's the perceived value of their intellectual property rights that would disappear - and which would disappear for all of their competitors at the same time. Now the stock market would certainly freak out as they hate FUD and flee from it with money in hand to businesses with less FUD, but after the shake out value would return to those companies who have a sound business model and management.
Companies which only exist because of patents would have to create a real business out of their technology, methods, or service - aka offer real market value and would be punished until they are able to do so.
Sure it would be painful - but in the end everyone will be better off - meaning that the majority will be better off.
Someone should make a plugin like this one: surfclarity but make it just filter out FoxNews and other NewsCorp results and name it "NoMurdoch" or "Block FoxNews" or some other blatant reference to blocking out FoxNews and then distribute it far and wide...
Could be the start of a whole new way to protest. Get enough people to install and you'll see a news story out of it - and that will get Mr. Murdoch's attention.
Sounds like professors are guilty of that old taboo... not showing your work. How do the students even know if the prof understands the lecture they are giving if it's all pre-packaged?
My big love for Flash is sockets. I can push data to the client. Comet is okay but still not as easy to implement. What is your answer to this?
My other big love is being able attach sound objects to visual objects and have visual object properties (like x/y/z coordinates) impact sound object properties (like volume per channel, the waveform's amplitude ie: distorting the sound, etc.
Any idea on whether HTML 5 is going to offer this level of integration between audio and video/animation?
Finally the fact that Actionscript is dynamic object oriented makes it a pure joy to program in - need a new attribute, just create a new child object and add your key/value pair... makes creating Object Factories dirt simple and that allows for a lovely MVC pattern even when developing games or anything else that needs dynamically generated objects born with builtin behaviors... ie: particle engines, interactive painting simulation, etc.
I live in southern California and we have these really long freeways. I would love to see a dome placed over them - well more like a tunnel... I'd like it to be composed of low cost, low efficiency solar panels (being budget minded), have air scrubbers / exhaust vents and fans for each mile with an air intake system at the level of the roadway itself bringing fresh air from outside in.
The purpose is a combination of:
1) improved driving conditions - ie: less environmental wear on the surface
2) less exhaust pollution in the air via the scrubbers - at the source of a major contributing factor
3) self-sustaining energy use - the solar panels on top would for the most part provide enough power to light the tunnel at night and run the air systems. Any surplus would be a bonus (as solar panels get cheaper this could become significant) and could be used to offset the cost of the construction and future maintenance.
4) reduce noise pollution in surrounding areas immensely
All of this without disturbing any new environments or taking up additional valuable land.
The most misunderstood concept of copyright by copyright holders is that without strong fair-use rights, there is no market for your work and would therefore be worthless or significantly reduced in value to society at large.
It is a fine balance - one which must be upheld or we all lose.
Excepting the VETO power of course. Unfortunately doing nothing (or preventing all alternate actions) is not always an option either.
Just my 2 cents in regards to public records and data.
I'd like to say that the groups making decisions in this area really should consider a MVC architecture which will avoid the concerns iterated here on /. and by pundits for open data standards everywhere in regards to display aka View technologies.
With a Model View Controller methodology and pattern in place it really is not a concern what technology is being used to display data at any given time. If public data is *stored* (Model) and *accessed* (Controller) via open standards then the *display* (View) itself is inconsequential and/or malleable to the extent needed for any purpose.
Flash is great at some things, PDFs are perfect for a variety of tasks. They are, like any other format, not the only useful format available and should never be thought of as the 'archive' or 'final' format. The Model is the archive.
All the government agencies need to do is show that the Model is able to be trans-coded to several other popular storage formats without loss and that should be good enough for anyone. They also need to provide an API for accessing the data regardless of the Model and an output format that is structured and well documented (XML, JSON, SOAP even).
At this point it is the data consumer who should choose what format they would like to visually see it in... PDF, interactive Flash/Flex charts, JSON, Word, HTML, SGML, RTF... does it matter? Not to me or anyone else. I will get to choose the format I'd like it in (XML, JSON or Actionscript Objects please).
If the format doesn't exist yet, there's an API I can use to transcode the data as I see fit.
The key point here and for any job where you'd like to be treated well... "Get on the Income side of the business".
If you're on the Income side, you deal with people who are moving up, looking for ways to increase revenue, etc. and will appreciate you. If you're on the Cost side you deal with people running in place trying to cut corners, etc.
If you succeed on the Income side - you get a bonus. If you succeed on the Cost side - you get a high five at best ("We're trying to save money here, not spend it on bonuses!").
So whatever job you go looking for, be a part of the business.... not the housekeeping. Housekeepers have always been treated as servants, even if well treated servants.
"How do you change gear?"
WTF? Have you never heard of an 'automatic' transmission? It changes gear for you. Amazing technology that's only been around for 30+ years - but meh I'll get off your lawn now.
How about rather than giving 'inventors' of a drug an exclusivity period, the law gives them a compulsory license deal. Here's how it would play out:
A drug company discovers a compound or treatment process (or creates one - unlikely but not unheard of). They then register with some regulatory organization - possibly the USPTO, possibly some other more suitable entity.
At this point they receive a first rights license within that country and are guaranteed a significant percentage of any profit generated from that formula for a period of 10 years.
Any other company can produce and sell the formula but must go through the same trials as the original company but will have to pay the licensing fee to the registered company.
The benefits of this are manyfold.
Not all research groups are suited to carrying out drug trials and setting up manufacturing. These companies can register a discovery and simply allow other companies to take them to market which equals a fair competition for those companies who are suited and means that the research group has an incentive and cashflow to continue doing research. Additionally this means they can continue to focus on research and not be forced to a) sell their research at an undervalued rate to big pharma or b) not have to waste energy on duplicating the infrastructure of big pharma just to bring a drug to market.
Companies that both do research and marketing (this includes the trials and manufacturing) will receive compensation for their discovery but will have to compete on the marketing. They will have an initial advantage as they are initially more prepared for all aspects, but if the drug is highly useful then other companies will have incentive to license and bring the drug to market as well.
Companies that did not do the research can assess the drug's viability and profitability and decide whether it is something they can bring to market independently and still make a profit while paying the licensing fee to the registered company.
Consumers benefit the most because this provides competition in the market, allows more research groups to be profitable and opens the door to all kinds of discoveries that currently are passed over by large organizations which must decide which drugs to put their resources behind... it is likely that some drugs currently do not make it to market because they are in budget conflict with other more highly profitable drugs... with a system as outlined above these 2nd tier drugs could find a home with a smaller pharma marketing company and yet the registered company would still profit from the licensing revenue.
SO how do you determine if someone synced an app between different devices/accounts? When I get an app I will often then authorize it for my wife's iPhone as well and sync to her phone. Her phone did not purchase it... do you get a list of authorized deviceIDs?
I'm wondering if his methodology is bad. I haven't read TFA as yet but it seems from scanning the posts here that he was comparing the deviceID that purchased with the deviceID that posted the score... in which case, how is he accounting for the fact that users are specifically allowed to share their apps with up to 5 devices?
I do this all the time between my wife and I. We download games for our kids to play as well as apps and music for ourselves when we find them... then sync up the phones via iTunes (as we are specifically allowed to do) - so that we can share our household purchases between the two phones.
If you assume a maximum of sharing.... take a sample of 100 downloads, then share it out to 5 people = 500 downloads, using his method you instantly have an 80% pirate rate!!!!
Continuously be on the look out for a low interest rate consolidation... they are out there, especially if you build your credit rating and keep a job for > 4 years before doing so. What was a risky loan will suddenly become a much less risky loan and you'll get offers in the 2%-4% range.
You can't deduct if there isn't enough income... you can only deduct from taxes you owe, no taxes no deductible, no income no taxes.
Wouldn't it be nice if young students had a more experienced person helping them through the process - like a counselor of some sort or even possible a mentor like person - let's call him/her a 'parent'.
Yes that would be a nice turn of events.
Ah but you missed the super uber low refinancing available only 3 years ago. My wife had her student loans brought down to 1.5% ;-p
Yes 1.5% - that's unheard of.. of course we also got a home loan at 4.9%, bought two cars with rates at 5.9% and 4.9% respectively as well... now I did have a 920 credit score but still... it was a golden age for low interest rates.
Our only financing issue at the moment is that our house is worth $100k less than it was when we bought it ;-( but it's come back from $180k so making progress in that area - should be a full recovery in 5 years or so - oh and the 401k is finally back to what it was worth 2 years ago (except that most of that value is from contributions...).
That being said - I feel bad for the graduates just getting started. Sucks to be you... I mean it's times like these that 'build character' ;-p
Gah... how dirty is your home? You must have other pets, I mean have pets...
For reading novels or regular literature my iPhone's resolution and backlit screen is just great... I haven't tried any of the eInk products - so I can't comment on that. I can say that they are too expensive to just be eReaders and too big for my personal preference in reading format.
I like a small paperback format, so that there is just one column of text at the optimum characters per line for easy reading and it should be small enough to fit in a pocket (something I always disliked about novels until really baggy pants came in style - which is a problem again now that they aren't in style any more).
I don't want to "carry around" my eReader... not trying to show off to people "hey look I read in the digital age" - in fact I'd rather people didn't know that I have 500 books in my pocket and can look up a reference to something in 5 secs while pretending to check my text messages (just tappity tap for a sec to make them think you're a hipster and they'll ignore your rudeness for some reason).
When I bought my iPhone and found eReader I gave up printed books for reading.
My iPhone is much more convenient, easier to read (backlit is very nice in most situations ie: anything other than sunlight behind me) and the iPhone lasts for ~5-6 hours of reading and music listening with occasional browsing/phone calls.
It never loses my place, I could write notes and bookmark pages if I wanted to. It's my phone so it's always with me and isn't conspicuous - so I can open up a book for any extra 5 min anywhere and catch up on some plot line that's been calling me...
I can get new material in minutes without a car ride, wait in line or dealing with a store that decided to re-arrange the shelves again. There's no shipping charge like there would be with a real book from Amazon.
Another big bonus is that there's nothing to get rid of when I'm done reading the book. I don't have to waste time with eBay or Craigslist trying to give the thing away and they don't pile up in boxes in the garage waiting for the next garage sale or book-drive... sorry, for me that part of it is just a big waste of time - no I don't care about the old book ethos or whatever.
SO eBooks are the next best thing to sliced bread IMHO. I don't really care if they cost the same or less than traditional books... I've already saved so much time not dealing with the physical book format that I'm already ahead.
We could also take the average car drive and stick them on a motorcycle and the results would be similar... a big accident with personal trauma to the operator and any unfortunate bystanders.
So I can assume that you're implying that operators of a flying car would need appropriate training (such as the 'driver's training' courses we have now) in how to safely operate such a vehicle.
Yes it's a little buzz kill - but then your comment wasn't really all that insightful to begin with.
Modern laptops and modern OS's recognize when you are typing and turn off the touchpad while doing so. I've never had this issue on my Macbook Pro. Maybe there's a feature in your OS you're not aware of...
Despite the sibling posts here threading is not the answer though it's half way there... email is personal while facebook is communal. It's a paradigm shift that is as much psychological as it is technological. Jumping between those spaces is awkward within one context, ie an email client.
Facebook is like having multiple conversations with different people at your local coffee shop or pub - it's okay to ignore a thread for a while or forever and nobody feels put out and you can address the group as an entity rather than individuals.
Email is like a conference call if you do threading... everyone expects to be answered and feel the need to address you directly and do feel put out if you don't reply.