>>> "The main problem is that you would need to get everyone to get on board with it all at once."
How about sending the new format as a section in a multipart message. New mta's (mail transfer agents) could either pass the email on as is to the viewer or could strip all but the new email part (recognised by magic numbers or mime-type).
That way you can still pander to older apps but can include the more modern features. Just like html vs. txt based emails now.
Problem will be forcing the transition, but if you can have mail apps drop lots of spam out of the box using the new system then it could work.
Largely I concur with the poster. But it does depend on your life-view.
If you want to be a good coder to earn good money and get on with your life && (very important _and_) you can get a job in computing now I'd take the job. Perhaps an internship with a computing company or tech firm?
There's no reason why you can't take a job and do an Open University degree (UK distance learning Uni with more students than any other UK institution)... employers like those too. They do MSc's and such too. You will need to be highly motivated for this route.
I guess my point is that there's nothing academic that you can learn at Uni that you can't learn elsewhere. If it's genunine CompSci (study of algorithms, Turing machines and all that guff) and not glorified programming then Uni will make this easier.
[ disclaimer I didn't do CompSci, I did Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. I've since done a DipComp with the OU ]
My cousin posts say "finite != small", fair enough. Also that a finite number of atoms make up our planet. OK.
Thing is that there may be an infinite number of possible melodies. Yes given a restricted time frame and quantisation of sound frequencies (eg "musical notes") then we're looking at a finite set of permutations. But a melody can be any length. So if we suppose that time is infinite then so are the number of possible melodies.
So to rephrase "there may also be a finite number of melodies that any human ear would consider music".
Thanks
[this post brought to you by the letter Aleph and the Mathematics Nazis]
>>>... so the banks may well be in for quite the can of whoopass.
Or not. Just look at what the water regulators have done to the water companies that allow their pipes to leak so much that they have to impose hosepipe bans and standpipes in some places... fined them a tiny percentage of their profits.
A reasonable sum to hurt a bank and make them be careful is going to be about 10% of their profits : 25 million or so for Barclays highstreet banking I gather (http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/artic le346803.ece). You can buy quite a lot of lawyers (and probably politicians, at least in the European Parliament) for that.
I think management should be held to account for such failures as with corporate manslaughter. I predict however that the regulator will either do nothing but make a suggestion ("naughty banks") or fine them something like £50k (twice the annual paperclip bill!).
Interestingly HSBC is the 3rd most profitable UK company (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4303653.stm, one site says they make £1m per hour) yet they don't produce anything! That to me is like paying your richest employee the most even if he does nothing, screwy.
>>> "The term "original" also involves a test of substantiality - literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works will not be original if there has not been sufficient skill and labour expended in their creation. But, sometimes significant investment of resources without significant intellectual input can still count as sufficient skill and labour."
>>>"Published editions of literary works such as magazines, anthologies of poems and so on, where there may be more than one copyright owner, may afford copyright protection in their own right for the typographical arrangement of the edition. Copyright in your typographical edition lasts for 25 years."
I don't claim to be an "expert" on matters of intellectual property. I've been out of patents for a couple of years two so I probably back to being current with other laymen.
I am of the impression (which appears to be supported by these texts) that the engraving of musical notation is considered sufficiently labourious and artistic to warrant a further copyright term. Some older scores (I gather) must be translated in the same way that Anglo-Saxon might be translated to modern English. Such translation affords copyright protection (cf. The Holy Bible, NIV, etc.).
PS: I don't code in C++ (any more) and I'm slightly older than 14 too. So you must be a Patent Attorney as you use a non exclusive form of "comprises"??
1) Just have your DVD writing program test the files for validity. Guarrantees they're written right. 2) Save oodles of time. 3)... 4) Profit
Re:NDA? Goose? ... just wait for the video version
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Goatse man's video posted to your zune will hurt bad.
Zune: "Incoming video 'Madonna: Pop Trash Ate the Song Writer'; accept Y/N" User: "Cool, huh, huh {Y}" User: "Madonna's videos aren't what they used to be {retch}"
As a heads up... in the UK you can usually guess a products price by using the dollar price. Effectively we're paying nearly twice as much as in the US. And we usually wait about 6 months longer to have a product available.
Doesn't matter to me. I can only afford one meal a day anyway.
>>> Do you also filter by the orientation of the staple on the resume?
I would. If the staple(s) are on the wrong edge, or opposite edges away from the vertices, your candidate lacks attention to detail OR is a moron.
The filtering would however be Bayesian.
>>> You can't be bothered to turn the page of a document right in front of you
As the applicant it's your job to summarise your skills and experience. If you provide a good summary then providing a link to further information seems a good idea. A good summary will make me want to know more. However, the link may be your downfall as an alternative way to get more information is to invite you for interview.
I'm curious, I've not heard of rel="microsummary" (is that bad, I'm a part-time web developer!??) before. Is this new. It seems that the tag is becoming a dumping point for new ideas.
>>> "The microsummary generator dialect and the use of the <link rel> element to specify microsummaries should be standardized by the appropriate bodies, which may include the microformats group and the WHATWG."
_should_ be standardised? Has there been an RFC for this with efforts to get comments from other browser writers? (Link please, no pun intended).
What will the effect be on servers if all browser bookmarks use this system?
I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and advocating it as the best browser for probably a couple of years. About 4 months ago I went looking for another browser as I've had these memory problems on both Linux and WindowsXP. I've tried the fixes suggested but they don't seem to do anything on either of my systems.
The thing is that my use of Firefox is now ingrained. I'm using Konqueror on Linux quite a bit, Op9 occassionally, but still "teh Fox" gets alot of use until it fills my entire RAM up and dies.
I've not tried the most recent v2 release as v2 didn't help a couple of months back.
Right, background: excelled at mathematics in primary school (up to age 11) but got bored as I'd finished (the concepts of) all the course texts and didn't like doing actual work. Was top set in secondary (up to 16) but never really shone until that final year. Did double maths A-level (maths and further maths) and went on to do Theoretical Physics and maths degree. Some of it came easily to me - complex numbers, fractal geometry, differential equations; some not so easy - quantum field theory, fluid dynamics.
I've never really considered that I could have a different approach to numbers that would make maths easier. Maths and Physics I loved at school as I have a very poor memory and could always go back to basic assumptions and build from there. Later on (eg fluid dynamics) I had to try and really on some rote learning as the stuff was too abstract for me grasp.
I don't really have a visual grasp of concepts - I've often tried to envision a four dimensional hypersphere or a fractional dimension without much success. When I turn my mind to dimensions folding in on themselves the images are often just (barely) 3D. But somehow I grasp many of these concepts... I guess it's that step of going from "this is an electron, a solid minute particle orbitting an atomic centre" to "this is an electron a four dimensional probability wave".
>>> "moving to the next level should require no more brain power than, say, learning to follow a recipe in a cook book or installing a plumbing fixture"
Hmm, that's a very _now_ statement. I'm sure that if all you're trying to do is pass an exam that's true. If you're trying to understand and develop, indeed push the boundaries of, a concept then I don't think that's true. Have you ever just picked up a recipe book (for soufflé say) and just tried to follow the recipe. Sure you know what the words are and carry out the action, but you can just lack the knack to perform it well. It's a terrible analogy but I think as with musicality, a sportsmans eye for the ball, an artists abstraction of images to capture their essence, there's a mathematicians feel for the equations and their beauty or otherwise.
What was the question again... yeah I was suppose to be working but it's one in the morning, so what they hey...
I personally prefer slapt-get (and use gslapt as a Front-End if I'm feeling gooey!).
QTswaret, however, is a very nice FE and almost makes me want to switch to swaret. The thing is, I tend to use the CLI for occassional updates and probably only use an FE 20% of the time. I used to use swaret but am currently more comfortable with slapt-get.
slackpkg is quite useful too for package management.
When I roll my own I use checkinstall (mentioned wrt debian and redhat/fedora in a later post) to create install tarballs.
It still looks like a face to me, just perhaps after a meteor strike.
What I find funny is that many people think that the universe has just happened by chance. Yet, the idea of a geological formation on a planet that looks like a face forming by chance is so way out.
I have to say that this also creates an obscure title (for those not familiar with US euphemism).
I thought it was referring to some sort of network bootstrapping using freenode. You soon realise the error, but then why have a title. "Died" is surely not offensive?
Wha??? So if I claim the someones yacht ran over my foot and sue, but they don't turn up in court; then rather than examining the evidence the court finds against them, automatically!!??
Boy is that some strange notion of a justice system. I thought the court was supposed to examine the arguments of the plaintiff and defendant and came to an opinion based on the facts of the case. This means if one side adds no additional detail then the court has a slanted view, granted, but the plaintiff still has to give evidence of the complaint (like a doctors note saying "this man had severe lacerations consistent with a yacht's keel running over their foot" and a witness saying "yer, I saw the whole thing guv'nor").
I thought in the States you had laws allowing free speech? Surely a non-profit saying in a list that someone that is a spammer, get this... "is a spammer"... is free speech?
Sharia, no probably not - as I understand it, it derives from Koranic injunction, early post-koranic scriptures and modern priestly interpretation (much like Rabbinic law) and is a system intended to encompass not just judicial areas but the whole gamut of life, basically a blueprint for an Islamic state.
I don't know if crossdressing is haram or hadith or what, I just know that I've heard an Imam say that it's not allowed under Shari'ah.
So, back to the thread, all I was saying was I wondered if fundamentalists would wear womens clothing even if in doing so they could fulfill their muslim calling.
I've never seen those "code changin" warnings. But I'm a serial tweaker so I set it up for myself, what I need is to have a per-site setup (eg xml file) that get's used (automagically) for that site so it's not possible to edit in non-xhtml stuff or use relative URLs instead of absolute, or whatever.
Oh and the rendering engine is mshtml, isn't it.
It's not all bad but clean code is not something I'm willing to associate with DW yet.
I never understood how people on either side could be described as protestant or catholic in the Christian sense, at least... I don't suppose many of them have asked "what would Jesus do?" and decided he'd throw a petrol bomb at the police or murder a fellow human or throw stones at schoolchildren. If they have they're madder than I thought.
The Nicene Creed states "we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church" I wonder if they recite that in Irish churches.
>>> Who the heck told you to download an unheard of codec
Usually that would be Windows Media Player. I wonder if they can create a video file that forces WMP to get this codec? Then it's just a case of releasing george_bush_naked.avi (ewww) on bittorrent and let the trojan horses run/roll.
But then I've been stopped before - young man, university educated, large plane, backpack... makes sense to me. I now have a plaited beard (look, I like it OK!) and doubt I'd get on a flight now without a close look. I also get a middle eastern skin colour when I've had chance to vacation (turks think I'm turkish 'til I speak, I like that).
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the viewer being the mail user agent (mua), ie mail app
>>> "The main problem is that you would need to get everyone to get on board with it all at once."
How about sending the new format as a section in a multipart message. New mta's (mail transfer agents) could either pass the email on as is to the viewer or could strip all but the new email part (recognised by magic numbers or mime-type).
That way you can still pander to older apps but can include the more modern features. Just like html vs. txt based emails now.
Problem will be forcing the transition, but if you can have mail apps drop lots of spam out of the box using the new system then it could work.
Largely I concur with the poster. But it does depend on your life-view.
... employers like those too. They do MSc's and such too. You will need to be highly motivated for this route.
If you want to be a good coder to earn good money and get on with your life && (very important _and_) you can get a job in computing now I'd take the job. Perhaps an internship with a computing company or tech firm?
There's no reason why you can't take a job and do an Open University degree (UK distance learning Uni with more students than any other UK institution)
I guess my point is that there's nothing academic that you can learn at Uni that you can't learn elsewhere. If it's genunine CompSci (study of algorithms, Turing machines and all that guff) and not glorified programming then Uni will make this easier.
[ disclaimer I didn't do CompSci, I did Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. I've since done a DipComp with the OU ]
Lolz!
My cousin posts say "finite != small", fair enough. Also that a finite number of atoms make up our planet. OK.
Thing is that there may be an infinite number of possible melodies. Yes given a restricted time frame and quantisation of sound frequencies (eg "musical notes") then we're looking at a finite set of permutations. But a melody can be any length. So if we suppose that time is infinite then so are the number of possible melodies.
So to rephrase "there may also be a finite number of melodies that any human ear would consider music".
Thanks
[this post brought to you by the letter Aleph and the Mathematics Nazis]
>>> ... so the banks may well be in for quite the can of whoopass.
... fined them a tiny percentage of their profits.
c le346803.ece). You can buy quite a lot of lawyers (and probably politicians, at least in the European Parliament) for that.
Or not. Just look at what the water regulators have done to the water companies that allow their pipes to leak so much that they have to impose hosepipe bans and standpipes in some places
A reasonable sum to hurt a bank and make them be careful is going to be about 10% of their profits : 25 million or so for Barclays highstreet banking I gather (http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/arti
I think management should be held to account for such failures as with corporate manslaughter. I predict however that the regulator will either do nothing but make a suggestion ("naughty banks") or fine them something like £50k (twice the annual paperclip bill!).
Interestingly HSBC is the 3rd most profitable UK company (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4303653.stm, one site says they make £1m per hour) yet they don't produce anything! That to me is like paying your richest employee the most even if he does nothing, screwy.
>>> "The term "original" also involves a test of substantiality - literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works will not be original if there has not been sufficient skill and labour expended in their creation. But, sometimes significant investment of resources without significant intellectual input can still count as sufficient skill and labour."
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See http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/c-applies/c-origina
>>>"Published editions of literary works such as magazines, anthologies of poems and so on, where there may be more than one copyright owner, may afford copyright protection in their own right for the typographical arrangement of the edition. Copyright in your typographical edition lasts for 25 years."
See http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/c-applies/c-write.h
I don't claim to be an "expert" on matters of intellectual property. I've been out of patents for a couple of years two so I probably back to being current with other laymen.
I am of the impression (which appears to be supported by these texts) that the engraving of musical notation is considered sufficiently labourious and artistic to warrant a further copyright term. Some older scores (I gather) must be translated in the same way that Anglo-Saxon might be translated to modern English. Such translation affords copyright protection (cf. The Holy Bible, NIV, etc.).
PS: I don't code in C++ (any more) and I'm slightly older than 14 too. So you must be a Patent Attorney as you use a non exclusive form of "comprises"??
1) Just have your DVD writing program test the files for validity. Guarrantees they're written right. ...
2) Save oodles of time.
3)
4) Profit
Goatse man's video posted to your zune will hurt bad.
Zune: "Incoming video 'Madonna: Pop Trash Ate the Song Writer'; accept Y/N"
User: "Cool, huh, huh {Y}"
User: "Madonna's videos aren't what they used to be {retch}"
--
PS: Vune or Zideo??
As a heads up ... in the UK you can usually guess a products price by using the dollar price. Effectively we're paying nearly twice as much as in the US. And we usually wait about 6 months longer to have a product available.
Doesn't matter to me. I can only afford one meal a day anyway.
>>> Do you also filter by the orientation of the staple on the resume?
I would. If the staple(s) are on the wrong edge, or opposite edges away from the vertices, your candidate lacks attention to detail OR is a moron.
The filtering would however be Bayesian.
>>> You can't be bothered to turn the page of a document right in front of you
As the applicant it's your job to summarise your skills and experience. If you provide a good summary then providing a link to further information seems a good idea. A good summary will make me want to know more. However, the link may be your downfall as an alternative way to get more information is to invite you for interview.
I'm curious, I've not heard of rel="microsummary" (is that bad, I'm a part-time web developer!??) before. Is this new. It seems that the tag is becoming a dumping point for new ideas.
I don't like the comment at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries
>>> "The microsummary generator dialect and the use of the <link rel> element to specify microsummaries should be standardized by the appropriate bodies, which may include the microformats group and the WHATWG."
_should_ be standardised? Has there been an RFC for this with efforts to get comments from other browser writers? (Link please, no pun intended).
What will the effect be on servers if all browser bookmarks use this system?
>>> "trying to make Firefox look bad"
Nice flame.
I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and advocating it as the best browser for probably a couple of years. About 4 months ago I went looking for another browser as I've had these memory problems on both Linux and WindowsXP. I've tried the fixes suggested but they don't seem to do anything on either of my systems.
The thing is that my use of Firefox is now ingrained. I'm using Konqueror on Linux quite a bit, Op9 occassionally, but still "teh Fox" gets alot of use until it fills my entire RAM up and dies.
I've not tried the most recent v2 release as v2 didn't help a couple of months back.
Guess I'm just trying to make FF look bad though.
Right, background: excelled at mathematics in primary school (up to age 11) but got bored as I'd finished (the concepts of) all the course texts and didn't like doing actual work. Was top set in secondary (up to 16) but never really shone until that final year. Did double maths A-level (maths and further maths) and went on to do Theoretical Physics and maths degree. Some of it came easily to me - complex numbers, fractal geometry, differential equations; some not so easy - quantum field theory, fluid dynamics.
... I guess it's that step of going from "this is an electron, a solid minute particle orbitting an atomic centre" to "this is an electron a four dimensional probability wave".
... yeah I was suppose to be working but it's one in the morning, so what they hey ...
I've never really considered that I could have a different approach to numbers that would make maths easier. Maths and Physics I loved at school as I have a very poor memory and could always go back to basic assumptions and build from there. Later on (eg fluid dynamics) I had to try and really on some rote learning as the stuff was too abstract for me grasp.
I don't really have a visual grasp of concepts - I've often tried to envision a four dimensional hypersphere or a fractional dimension without much success. When I turn my mind to dimensions folding in on themselves the images are often just (barely) 3D. But somehow I grasp many of these concepts
>>> "moving to the next level should require no more brain power than, say, learning to follow a recipe in a cook book or installing a plumbing fixture"
Hmm, that's a very _now_ statement. I'm sure that if all you're trying to do is pass an exam that's true. If you're trying to understand and develop, indeed push the boundaries of, a concept then I don't think that's true. Have you ever just picked up a recipe book (for soufflé say) and just tried to follow the recipe. Sure you know what the words are and carry out the action, but you can just lack the knack to perform it well. It's a terrible analogy but I think as with musicality, a sportsmans eye for the ball, an artists abstraction of images to capture their essence, there's a mathematicians feel for the equations and their beauty or otherwise.
What was the question again
I personally prefer slapt-get (and use gslapt as a Front-End if I'm feeling gooey!).
QTswaret, however, is a very nice FE and almost makes me want to switch to swaret. The thing is, I tend to use the CLI for occassional updates and probably only use an FE 20% of the time. I used to use swaret but am currently more comfortable with slapt-get.
slackpkg is quite useful too for package management.
When I roll my own I use checkinstall (mentioned wrt debian and redhat/fedora in a later post) to create install tarballs.
Hmm, so it's not that they can't asset-track but that they can't keep proper records. That's so much better for the census bureau!
... where stuff like this never happens [rolls eyes].
Not that I care, I'm in the UK
It still looks like a face to me, just perhaps after a meteor strike.
What I find funny is that many people think that the universe has just happened by chance. Yet, the idea of a geological formation on a planet that looks like a face forming by chance is so way out.
Go figure.
I have to say that this also creates an obscure title (for those not familiar with US euphemism).
I thought it was referring to some sort of network bootstrapping using freenode. You soon realise the error, but then why have a title. "Died" is surely not offensive?
>>> "default judgment"
Wha??? So if I claim the someones yacht ran over my foot and sue, but they don't turn up in court; then rather than examining the evidence the court finds against them, automatically!!??
Boy is that some strange notion of a justice system. I thought the court was supposed to examine the arguments of the plaintiff and defendant and came to an opinion based on the facts of the case. This means if one side adds no additional detail then the court has a slanted view, granted, but the plaintiff still has to give evidence of the complaint (like a doctors note saying "this man had severe lacerations consistent with a yacht's keel running over their foot" and a witness saying "yer, I saw the whole thing guv'nor").
I thought in the States you had laws allowing free speech? Surely a non-profit saying in a list that someone that is a spammer, get this ... "is a spammer" ... is free speech?
Sharia, no probably not - as I understand it, it derives from Koranic injunction, early post-koranic scriptures and modern priestly interpretation (much like Rabbinic law) and is a system intended to encompass not just judicial areas but the whole gamut of life, basically a blueprint for an Islamic state.
I don't know if crossdressing is haram or hadith or what, I just know that I've heard an Imam say that it's not allowed under Shari'ah.
So, back to the thread, all I was saying was I wondered if fundamentalists would wear womens clothing even if in doing so they could fulfill their muslim calling.
I've never seen those "code changin" warnings. But I'm a serial tweaker so I set it up for myself, what I need is to have a per-site setup (eg xml file) that get's used (automagically) for that site so it's not possible to edit in non-xhtml stuff or use relative URLs instead of absolute, or whatever.
Oh and the rendering engine is mshtml, isn't it.
It's not all bad but clean code is not something I'm willing to associate with DW yet.
Well put.
... I don't suppose many of them have asked "what would Jesus do?" and decided he'd throw a petrol bomb at the police or murder a fellow human or throw stones at schoolchildren. If they have they're madder than I thought.
I never understood how people on either side could be described as protestant or catholic in the Christian sense, at least
The Nicene Creed states "we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church" I wonder if they recite that in Irish churches.
>>> Who the heck told you to download an unheard of codec
Usually that would be Windows Media Player. I wonder if they can create a video file that forces WMP to get this codec? Then it's just a case of releasing george_bush_naked.avi (ewww) on bittorrent and let the trojan horses run/roll.
Richard Reed, I thought the guy looked freaky.
... makes sense to me. I now have a plaited beard (look, I like it OK!) and doubt I'd get on a flight now without a close look. I also get a middle eastern skin colour when I've had chance to vacation (turks think I'm turkish 'til I speak, I like that).
But then I've been stopped before - young man, university educated, large plane, backpack