If the end of the universe is a heat death it might be possible to live forever, in smaller increments of time/energy. If the universe crunches, everyone and everything dies...
That is, of course, if we keep testing it and trying to see if it is true. (Or the closest approximation of 'true' we have been able to come up with.)
It matters now if it is not true because then we know we need a better theory. And that means we either didn't understand something we thought we understood, or that we hadn't explored our understanding fully. Either way, there is likely something else that will be affected...
As for beyond the pale... If they were at an embassy they wouldn't need to send a telegram: they could use the satellite hookup. But not all diplomats operate out of an embassy: sometimes they need to deal with, say, N. Korea. (How else do you discuss the latest peace treaty, or whatever?)
This is the State Department. You know, embassies and stuff? Telegrams are a good basic, fast, communication system.
A diplomat may be at the mercy of the local communication system, and I know of countries where modems are outlawed. (They mess up the cheap bugs the local law enforcement has on all the phones. Not that the phones work...) If you need something to go faster than a letter, a telegram may be your only choice.
What's the closest equivalent to AppleScript on a Linux system, also? Is it more like Perl, Python or bash shell scripts? Judging by the sounds of things, it sounds like an even higher level version of bash.
Bingo. AppleScript is a language for executing/controlling other programs. It can do some things on its own, but it's power is in controlling others. It's the shell script for when you don't have a shell.
If you just want to get a look at the language I'd say start with the scripts included with OS X. They're free, and you already have them. (If you can use AppleScript at all.) Apple's site has some fairly good basic docs too.
Personally, I give it a few weeks in hacker hands before someone figures out how to kill the reaction.
Hmm. I should get one and try coating it with clear nailpolish, or shellac or something like that. If it just reacts with oxygen, then a clear coating should stop the reaction. (And hopefully allow the disk to still play.)
Of getting a date? It would help. Of the location being some back-ally warehouse? It would help. Of her showing up? It would hurt. Of every gun-toting contact she could find showing up? It would help. Of you surviving the 'date'? It would hurt. Oh, would it hurt...
Also, under your system there would be several email lists where my 'correct' offlist reply address would never be seen (if I changed my 'From'): they (or I, in some cases) change the 'Reply-To' to the list. So, if I were to change my 'From' based on some idea of 'where I'm sending from', my DStaal@usa.net address would never be seen. So no one could ever reply to me offlist. Or recognize me from another list, or...
Ok, how about me? There are several people at my residence. We have one DSL line, with one email address. Each of us uses and collects their own email.
So, what is the 'correct' thing to do, in your world? Do we: A. Each set the DSL's email address as our 'From' address? (Relegating it useless for any one person in particular?) B. Send through our email address' SMTP server (which, in some cases, doesn't exist)? C. Pay for more addresses somewhere? (Why? I've had an unchanged email address for 8 years. I don't want to start spreading another. I intend to keep this email address forever.)
Complicate this with the fact that I also serve three domains on this line. Where do those emails come from? Their own domain? The DSL provider's domain?
Currently, one person uses the DSL email address. One uses a pure webmail system. One uses their work address. I have a more complicated setup... My email goes out through my local email server, usually. (Other times I use the webmail from my email provider.) I collect my main address off the POP3 server from my email provider. I also collect webmaster/postmaster emails from my domains, and sort and store them all locally on my IMAP server, which I can also access via a personal webmail interface.
(One comment on 'From' versus 'Reply-To': it confuses people. People normally read 'From' as who it is from. People don't normally read 'Reply-To'. Some (most) will just hit reply, and let the program figure it out. Some will actually correct the program if the address they are sending to isn't the same as the one they are got the mail from. Then of course, there are all the email programs which make it real easy to add a 'From' address to your address book. But try adding a 'Reply-To'...)
SPF has a good-sounding theory. Corporations will love it. But I don't think it will actually stop spam, and I think it will just make my life harder. I have been fighting what I feel to be a losing battle against the idea behind it for eight years. (Sending email via a webmail is clumsy. I have always sent via a different server.) I dread when it gets enough purchase to be viewed as required: it will mean I have to have someone else manage my email. And I won't get to choose who.
Because you don't patent ideas. You patent implementiations.
Or at least you should. This is where the current system has gone out of whack. But the point of patents is to encourage people to develop ideas into actual implementations, and then share those with the world.
Software is something different; it exists in the grey area between an idea and an implementation. It is an expression of an idea. Luckily, we already have something designed to deal with expressions of ideas: copyright. Which is all that should apply to software.
All of the keyboard shortcuts on a Mac OS X system (yes, applications too, Carbon or Cocoa) are rewrite-able using the built in control panel. (10.3.2 here.) Or, if you feel like it, you can use a text editor to write to the xml files yourself.;-)
Most computing tasks these days need both keyboard and mouse input, interspersed. Imagine never taking your hand off the mouse. The other hand can do all the typing you need.
I'd pay money for a keyboard that made that easy and natural, and was at least as comfortable as my current keyboard.
Agreed. I'd love to go. It would be a chance to actually do something unique, something that would get remembered. A chance to live on the edge, literally.
It would also be one of the few places where a true generalist would be useful, where someone would have to know everything. What geek can resist that?
As for human contact, hey, I'm posting on/.! I could do that just as well from Mars, with a good relay. (Well, I doubt I could get first post...) Email and mailing lists would work too, and I'd bet NASA would send along a videophone (though that would be awkward to use).
Really, what could I do on Earth that I couldn't do on Mars? Not a whole lot, if you look at it. But, to be the first to see what is really there on Mars, with my own eyes...
Sign me up. Tell me what I need to do, I'll do it. Tell me what I need to learn, I'll learn it. If I had money I'd pay money. This is a once a century (if that often) chance, a chance to go somewhere where no one has been, and see what is there. Sign me up, please.
(Disclaimer: SCO is smoking crack. I believe none of what I am about to say...)
Actually, SCO has a point. They claim ownership of the code in UNIX derivatives, of which AIX and the rest are examples. The fact that SCO has never seen or handled that code in any way is irrelevant. It is perfectly possible that IBM has infringed on SCO's property by copying code that IBM wrote for AIX/others into Linux. In which case, the only copy that SCO currently has access to is the Linux copy. After all SCO didn't write the code. IBM did. SCO just owns the rights.
Great. Except Verizon in my area won't lease their high-quality endlines. Mom-n-pops can't get access to offer ADSL or SDSL, only ISDN. Which costs twice as much, for a slower connection.
I was pricing recently, the lowest anyone else could offer was the same price as Verizon's business line cost. And it would be slower than Verizon's home line. This is competition?
I know that Moz supports acronym, abbr and a with title attributes, however IE is the most used browser (much to web standards proponents chagrin) out there and does not support all of the afore mentioned tags.
More pertentely in this context: Slashcode doesn't support it. Even if the original submitter included it in their submission it would have been stripped out before it got to the editors.
It is a bureaucratic hassle, but it is a necessary one. Let's look it in a slightly different way: the lawyer has to support and defend the company's software use in court. This is basically a sysadmin type job: the network sysadmin defends the company's network from technical threats, and insures the smooth running of the network. To do this he needs to know what software is in use. The company's lawyer needs to defend the company from legal threats and insure the smooth handling of legal matters. To do this he needs to know what legal agreements the company is a part of.
Now, Perl should be a perfunctory check: can we use GPL software for development purposes? Yes, but make sure you don't use the code. Simple. Just like the IT department will want to know you are using a programming package, and have agreed to not write a virus to destroy the network. Why? Because they will get the calls when it breaks something, and they need the info to effectively do their job.
Help the lawyer do their job. It is as necessary in today's world as yours. Hampering them will just make them angry, and likely to want to retaliate by hampering you.
It all, of course, depends on what you want to do. For the occasional weekend the atmosphere and set-up cost of fire-based light is great. For extended periods the cost of replacements and shipping (and the variable quality of the light, even with a good lantern) mean that even a standard electric bulb is cheaper and easier to use.
Florescent bulbs are a proven, mature tech, that work well. White LEDs are newer, with the costs of bleeding edge tech, but offer longer useful life and more flexible installation. If the submitter is planing on living in his remote home either would be worth a look. If he just visits then candles and lanterns may be all needs and his best solution. Any of these choices are worth considering over a standard incandescent: They offer no advantages over the newer tech, and all the disadvantages you pointed out.
I don't think that's an acceptable solution either. The RIAA only needs to sue the person they got the file from, which would be the last person in the chain.
Which is why Freenet splits everything into multiple chunks and stores/routes them separately: If you can define the 'last person in the chain', they can still prove they have no idea what is in the file bit they sent you.
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Hey, all the better!
If the end of the universe is a heat death it might be possible to live forever, in smaller increments of time/energy. If the universe crunches, everyone and everything dies...
Sure, in the long run it doesn't matter.
That is, of course, if we keep testing it and trying to see if it is true. (Or the closest approximation of 'true' we have been able to come up with.)
It matters now if it is not true because then we know we need a better theory. And that means we either didn't understand something we thought we understood, or that we hadn't explored our understanding fully. Either way, there is likely something else that will be affected...
(Hmm. I thought I had replied earlier to this...)
Sudan, at least the last time I was there.
As for beyond the pale... If they were at an embassy they wouldn't need to send a telegram: they could use the satellite hookup. But not all diplomats operate out of an embassy: sometimes they need to deal with, say, N. Korea. (How else do you discuss the latest peace treaty, or whatever?)
This is the State Department. You know, embassies and stuff? Telegrams are a good basic, fast, communication system.
A diplomat may be at the mercy of the local communication system, and I know of countries where modems are outlawed. (They mess up the cheap bugs the local law enforcement has on all the phones. Not that the phones work...) If you need something to go faster than a letter, a telegram may be your only choice.
Bingo. AppleScript is a language for executing/controlling other programs. It can do some things on its own, but it's power is in controlling others. It's the shell script for when you don't have a shell.
If you just want to get a look at the language I'd say start with the scripts included with OS X. They're free, and you already have them. (If you can use AppleScript at all.) Apple's site has some fairly good basic docs too.
Hmm. I should get one and try coating it with clear nailpolish, or shellac or something like that. If it just reacts with oxygen, then a clear coating should stop the reaction. (And hopefully allow the disk to still play.)
Of getting a date? It would help.
Of the location being some back-ally warehouse? It would help.
Of her showing up? It would hurt.
Of every gun-toting contact she could find showing up? It would help.
Of you surviving the 'date'? It would hurt. Oh, would it hurt...
Also, under your system there would be several email lists where my 'correct' offlist reply address would never be seen (if I changed my 'From'): they (or I, in some cases) change the 'Reply-To' to the list. So, if I were to change my 'From' based on some idea of 'where I'm sending from', my DStaal@usa.net address would never be seen. So no one could ever reply to me offlist. Or recognize me from another list, or...
Ok, how about me? There are several people at my residence. We have one DSL line, with one email address. Each of us uses and collects their own email.
So, what is the 'correct' thing to do, in your world? Do we:
A. Each set the DSL's email address as our 'From' address? (Relegating it useless for any one person in particular?)
B. Send through our email address' SMTP server (which, in some cases, doesn't exist)?
C. Pay for more addresses somewhere? (Why? I've had an unchanged email address for 8 years. I don't want to start spreading another. I intend to keep this email address forever.)
Complicate this with the fact that I also serve three domains on this line. Where do those emails come from? Their own domain? The DSL provider's domain?
Currently, one person uses the DSL email address. One uses a pure webmail system. One uses their work address. I have a more complicated setup... My email goes out through my local email server, usually. (Other times I use the webmail from my email provider.) I collect my main address off the POP3 server from my email provider. I also collect webmaster/postmaster emails from my domains, and sort and store them all locally on my IMAP server, which I can also access via a personal webmail interface.
(One comment on 'From' versus 'Reply-To': it confuses people. People normally read 'From' as who it is from. People don't normally read 'Reply-To'. Some (most) will just hit reply, and let the program figure it out. Some will actually correct the program if the address they are sending to isn't the same as the one they are got the mail from. Then of course, there are all the email programs which make it real easy to add a 'From' address to your address book. But try adding a 'Reply-To'...)
SPF has a good-sounding theory. Corporations will love it. But I don't think it will actually stop spam, and I think it will just make my life harder. I have been fighting what I feel to be a losing battle against the idea behind it for eight years. (Sending email via a webmail is clumsy. I have always sent via a different server.) I dread when it gets enough purchase to be viewed as required: it will mean I have to have someone else manage my email. And I won't get to choose who.
Because you don't patent ideas. You patent implementiations.
Or at least you should. This is where the current system has gone out of whack. But the point of patents is to encourage people to develop ideas into actual implementations, and then share those with the world.
Software is something different; it exists in the grey area between an idea and an implementation. It is an expression of an idea. Luckily, we already have something designed to deal with expressions of ideas: copyright. Which is all that should apply to software.
May I take a moment to be a Mac shrill?
;-)
All of the keyboard shortcuts on a Mac OS X system (yes, applications too, Carbon or Cocoa) are rewrite-able using the built in control panel. (10.3.2 here.) Or, if you feel like it, you can use a text editor to write to the xml files yourself.
Well, for a real reason here...
Most computing tasks these days need both keyboard and mouse input, interspersed. Imagine never taking your hand off the mouse. The other hand can do all the typing you need.
I'd pay money for a keyboard that made that easy and natural, and was at least as comfortable as my current keyboard.
Hey! Growing up that was my idea of fun!
Obviously it is not a problem, if you think a truth detector will make any difference to the girl in question.
It is not the content of the answer that matters. Truth and lie are equally dangerous.
It is how you say it.
Oh come on! I love commercials! How else am I supposed to watch Angel and Dragonball at the same time?
Agreed. I'd love to go. It would be a chance to actually do something unique, something that would get remembered. A chance to live on the edge, literally.
/.! I could do that just as well from Mars, with a good relay. (Well, I doubt I could get first post...) Email and mailing lists would work too, and I'd bet NASA would send along a videophone (though that would be awkward to use).
It would also be one of the few places where a true generalist would be useful, where someone would have to know everything. What geek can resist that?
As for human contact, hey, I'm posting on
Really, what could I do on Earth that I couldn't do on Mars? Not a whole lot, if you look at it. But, to be the first to see what is really there on Mars, with my own eyes...
Sign me up. Tell me what I need to do, I'll do it. Tell me what I need to learn, I'll learn it. If I had money I'd pay money. This is a once a century (if that often) chance, a chance to go somewhere where no one has been, and see what is there. Sign me up, please.
(Disclaimer: SCO is smoking crack. I believe none of what I am about to say...)
Actually, SCO has a point. They claim ownership of the code in UNIX derivatives, of which AIX and the rest are examples. The fact that SCO has never seen or handled that code in any way is irrelevant. It is perfectly possible that IBM has infringed on SCO's property by copying code that IBM wrote for AIX/others into Linux. In which case, the only copy that SCO currently has access to is the Linux copy. After all SCO didn't write the code. IBM did. SCO just owns the rights.
Great. Except Verizon in my area won't lease their high-quality endlines. Mom-n-pops can't get access to offer ADSL or SDSL, only ISDN. Which costs twice as much, for a slower connection.
I was pricing recently, the lowest anyone else could offer was the same price as Verizon's business line cost. And it would be slower than Verizon's home line. This is competition?
More pertentely in this context: Slashcode doesn't support it. Even if the original submitter included it in their submission it would have been stripped out before it got to the editors.
It is a bureaucratic hassle, but it is a necessary one. Let's look it in a slightly different way: the lawyer has to support and defend the company's software use in court. This is basically a sysadmin type job: the network sysadmin defends the company's network from technical threats, and insures the smooth running of the network. To do this he needs to know what software is in use. The company's lawyer needs to defend the company from legal threats and insure the smooth handling of legal matters. To do this he needs to know what legal agreements the company is a part of.
Now, Perl should be a perfunctory check: can we use GPL software for development purposes? Yes, but make sure you don't use the code. Simple. Just like the IT department will want to know you are using a programming package, and have agreed to not write a virus to destroy the network. Why? Because they will get the calls when it breaks something, and they need the info to effectively do their job.
Help the lawyer do their job. It is as necessary in today's world as yours. Hampering them will just make them angry, and likely to want to retaliate by hampering you.
That's the problem! We've got a design that attracts birds to positions that are likely to kill them. Change the design, and the birds will avoid it.
Or that they want to run the same codebase on all their product lines. Which are mostly G4 based...
It all, of course, depends on what you want to do. For the occasional weekend the atmosphere and set-up cost of fire-based light is great. For extended periods the cost of replacements and shipping (and the variable quality of the light, even with a good lantern) mean that even a standard electric bulb is cheaper and easier to use.
Florescent bulbs are a proven, mature tech, that work well. White LEDs are newer, with the costs of bleeding edge tech, but offer longer useful life and more flexible installation. If the submitter is planing on living in his remote home either would be worth a look. If he just visits then candles and lanterns may be all needs and his best solution. Any of these choices are worth considering over a standard incandescent: They offer no advantages over the newer tech, and all the disadvantages you pointed out.
Skip that, go straight for the replacement: White LEDs. A little more upfront cost, but lower power yet, and a longer life.
Which is why Freenet splits everything into multiple chunks and stores/routes them separately: If you can define the 'last person in the chain', they can still prove they have no idea what is in the file bit they sent you.