What a poor title for the article. For those who can't be bothered to read the article, we aren't going to see robots chasing ambulances or wearing pinstripe armani suits any time soon.
FTA: "Robot agents digest all the information and make proposals to the parties. Once the arbitrator is agreed upon, the robot agent finds a suitable meeting date for everybody," said Jacques Gouimenou, managing director of Tiga Technologies, the company behind e-Dispute, speaking with ElectricNews.Net. "Our system reduces delays and costs. It is also very secure."
So what we are really talking about is something that: 1. Stores documentation 2. allows the two parties to select an anbitrator 3. Selects a date
What does this have to do lawyers? This is a scheduling tool.
There have been guerilla wars won by occupying powers without resorting to overwelming force and brutality.
For example Britian in Malaya.
What is needed is the ability to: 1. Win over the population. Unless you do this your own options are to kill them all or to lose (eventually). 2. Take and hold areas. Concentrate on taking and holding ground. That is making an areas stable and free of insurgents and growing those areas.
The current US strategy in Iraq seems to be failing at both 1 and 2.
I've been running that for about a year or so now, at home and at work, and it does a fantastic job, even on lower end, older boxes (read Win98). It is lightweight and it works. I've had it pick up a fair few viruses.
Hotmail vs gmail google talk vs MSN Desktop search (please note this is a different market to web searching)
Sure these aren't competition to Microsoft's main software business, but Microsoft tradionally needs to expand into new areas to generate more revenue. These are areas where they have tried to do that.
This explains pretty well why they have such incredibly long beta periods.
I have no problem with the extended beta periods.
No exe or zips...It's a feature, not a bug.
One man's feature is another man's bug. I realise it is by design. I realise it is generally a smart option for the rank and file. I still don't like it.
No nested labels: I can't say much about this, as it is opinion.
Wrong. You can create *multiple* labels on one message, you can't create nested labels. To match the label system to that of folders, you would need to set it up so that a label is valid only if the message has been labelled with another specific label. Unless you know of some particularly funky option I have missed. Labels are a flat structure.
Whim of an external comany... * It becomes more costly to support multiple services like that. * It would make the "simplicity" portion of gmail a bit too complex.
I can give you another reason they don't support IMAP, it means people would no longer need the gmail interface. POP is OK, but the real advantage of gmail is that you can access it from multiple computers. Once you offer IMAP, people would be using the gmail intercace less. Also, it would certainly be more complex, technically speaking.
Anyway, I don't think they are going to do it.
That said, I disagree with your point 2 about complexity. When you provide another option, you are not necessarily making it more complex. For example they can provide IMAP, but sell and provide instructions for use in POP. IMAP they can leave to the techies.
My solution to email is that I own my own domain and I have recently installed my own mail server (althought it is not currently online). I'll by using IMAP over SSL, with my choice of mail client (or a web interface if I choose) and my choice of spam filtering at both client and server.
1. No exe or zip attachments. To clarify, no exes inside zip attachments.
2. No folders. Blah blah labels blah blah. Labels do not nest. I want folders mmkay?
3. gmail is neat, but you are still at the whim of an external company to provide your email. They can go bust, add an unnacceptable policy, or just shut down your account for any reason they choose. Also, you are tied to their interface, if you don't like it, you can't do anything about it. And while they offer pop, they don't offer imap (or imap over ssl).
A sibling poster has pointed this out, but the whole executable/zip thing with gmail is darn annoying.
I program for a living. I got a gmail account relatively early but had other email options so used them. Recentlt however I had a contractor who used gmail as his primary means of contact. Trying to get some files to him was a major headache.
exe doesn't work. zip doesn't. However renaming the zip seemed to work. Woohoo, lets party like its 2002 google. I mean just scan the damn files for viruses, OK? Emailing exe's is necessary under some circumstances. If gmail is for techies, exe and zip files should be passed through.
However, if this 'international criminal court' starts picking up Americans (soldiers, for instance) and putting them up for ridiculous show trials where they're convicted of nebulous crimes sans evidence by anti-US judges, then of course we're going in to get them.
As opposed to biased US courts trying other foreign nationals?
What recourse do other nations have when the US illegally detains and trys their citizens? Not everyone is able to resort to force the way the US does.
This post of yours (and others in the article) smacks of two attitudes: 1. The US is a white knight and what is right is defined by its actions 2. Might is right
Just as a matter of interest, does your advice ever change from de-regulate? Not trying to troll here, but it seems from your anarcho-capitalist view that de-regulation is the answer, and what was the question again? Do you believe that regulation is ever a solution?
This assumes that your life can be unaffected by Wikipedia if you choose not to use it. Surely the latest firestorm would have made it clear that even people who do not use Wikipedia can be affected by it.
Probably never; there are many cultural and historical reasons why. 'Experts' are all-too frequently found to be wrong (or shown to be lying). History is full of instances where the 'experts' were less interested in the facts than in protecting their own ego and/or prestige. (ie. the 'expert' cannnot allow (him/her)self to be wrong, even though the facts disagree).
The effect of what you are saying is that an expert cannot be trusted. So some random shmoe is a better able to comment on something than someone who is an expert because the fact that they are an expert mens they are untrustworthy.
Facts will speak for themselves; there is no need for an 'expert' to present a fact that stands on its own.
Do some more reading on the application of facts and history. I reccommend E H Carr's "What is History". The reality is that facts by themselves are nuanced. Whose facts are you producing? How are you analysing those facts to develop a thesis? Which facts are you eliminating because they don't fit the thesis (and yes you will be eliminating some facts)? Finally facts never stand on their own, they stand in a context.
This is just a result of poor coding practices. Good coding practices ensure that any authentication details (login/password) are not embedded in the application.
Parents are presently concerned about kids accessing unwholesome stuff - in the absence of government/isp-level censoring, many parents are actually doing the unthinkable - Spending Time With Their Kids
The Australian government is currently pushing through Industrial Relations laws that are opposed by almost all community and church groups. Why? Because of they effect they will have on family life. The expected impact of these laws is that parents will have less time to spend with their kids.
I'm taking the oposite direction (to some extent).
I like having control of my email. Choice of mail client is one element of control. I can choose a client that allows me to create folders because I like them, or I can choose one that allows me to label the messages. But I am not forced to do either. Call me paranoid, but Google could choose to change their policies regarding gmail in some way that I do not like (assuming I like current policies).
On the other hand more tradition email options (ie POP), have some significant limitations like not being able to read the email from multiple machines.
So my solution (not for the faint hearted) is to roll my own mail server. I own my own domain name, which helps. The server will run IMAP (over SSL for remote access) over the net. I could set up a web interface too, but I like my email client.
I can: - have any number of email addresses I want - access my email from any of my machines (laptops etc)
Benefits: - Security - I am not dependant on any company for any aspect of my email (except net connection)
FTA: "The transplant would have to come from a beating heart donor. So, say your sister was in intensive care, you would have to agree to allow their face to be removed before the ventilator was switched off.
I call that an ethical concern. Certainly for some.
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1: MS Office doesn't use vbscript. It uses Visual Basic.
MS Office doesn't use Visual Basic. It uses Visual Basic for Applications.
What a poor title for the article. For those who can't be bothered to read the article, we aren't going to see robots chasing ambulances or wearing pinstripe armani suits any time soon.
FTA:
"Robot agents digest all the information and make proposals to the parties. Once the arbitrator is agreed upon, the robot agent finds a suitable meeting date for everybody," said Jacques Gouimenou, managing director of Tiga Technologies, the company behind e-Dispute, speaking with ElectricNews.Net. "Our system reduces delays and costs. It is also very secure."
So what we are really talking about is something that:
1. Stores documentation
2. allows the two parties to select an anbitrator
3. Selects a date
What does this have to do lawyers? This is a scheduling tool.
This is an over simplification.
There have been guerilla wars won by occupying powers without resorting to overwelming force and brutality.
For example Britian in Malaya.
What is needed is the ability to:
1. Win over the population. Unless you do this your own options are to kill them all or to lose (eventually).
2. Take and hold areas. Concentrate on taking and holding ground. That is making an areas stable and free of insurgents and growing those areas.
The current US strategy in Iraq seems to be failing at both 1 and 2.
I'll second the recommendation for f-secure.
I've been running that for about a year or so now, at home and at work, and it does a fantastic job, even on lower end, older boxes (read Win98). It is lightweight and it works. I've had it pick up a fair few viruses.
Nup. They compete in other areas:
Hotmail vs gmail
google talk vs MSN
Desktop search (please note this is a different market to web searching)
Sure these aren't competition to Microsoft's main software business, but Microsoft tradionally needs to expand into new areas to generate more revenue. These are areas where they have tried to do that.
Spelling:
Looser -> Loser (Unless you actually mean that the person who is less tight pays. I'm not sure how you would determine that.)
goy -> guy (I am assuming you don't actually mean goy, because sometimes Jewish people go to court too)
Ostralia -> Australia (While we may pronounce it "Ostralia", we actually spell it Australia)
mischife -> mischief (I love Olde Englishe too, but we do have a dictionary now)
This explains pretty well why they have such incredibly long beta periods.
I have no problem with the extended beta periods.
No exe or zips...It's a feature, not a bug.
One man's feature is another man's bug. I realise it is by design. I realise it is generally a smart option for the rank and file. I still don't like it.
No nested labels: I can't say much about this, as it is opinion.
Wrong. You can create *multiple* labels on one message, you can't create nested labels. To match the label system to that of folders, you would need to set it up so that a label is valid only if the message has been labelled with another specific label. Unless you know of some particularly funky option I have missed. Labels are a flat structure.
Whim of an external comany...
* It becomes more costly to support multiple services like that.
* It would make the "simplicity" portion of gmail a bit too complex.
I can give you another reason they don't support IMAP, it means people would no longer need the gmail interface. POP is OK, but the real advantage of gmail is that you can access it from multiple computers. Once you offer IMAP, people would be using the gmail intercace less. Also, it would certainly be more complex, technically speaking.
Anyway, I don't think they are going to do it.
That said, I disagree with your point 2 about complexity. When you provide another option, you are not necessarily making it more complex. For example they can provide IMAP, but sell and provide instructions for use in POP. IMAP they can leave to the techies.
My solution to email is that I own my own domain and I have recently installed my own mail server (althought it is not currently online). I'll by using IMAP over SSL, with my choice of mail client (or a web interface if I choose) and my choice of spam filtering at both client and server.
OK then, problems with gmail:
1. No exe or zip attachments. To clarify, no exes inside zip attachments.
2. No folders. Blah blah labels blah blah. Labels do not nest. I want folders mmkay?
3. gmail is neat, but you are still at the whim of an external company to provide your email. They can go bust, add an unnacceptable policy, or just shut down your account for any reason they choose. Also, you are tied to their interface, if you don't like it, you can't do anything about it. And while they offer pop, they don't offer imap (or imap over ssl).
A sibling poster has pointed this out, but the whole executable/zip thing with gmail is darn annoying.
I program for a living. I got a gmail account relatively early but had other email options so used them. Recentlt however I had a contractor who used gmail as his primary means of contact. Trying to get some files to him was a major headache.
exe doesn't work. zip doesn't. However renaming the zip seemed to work. Woohoo, lets party like its 2002 google. I mean just scan the damn files for viruses, OK? Emailing exe's is necessary under some circumstances. If gmail is for techies, exe and zip files should be passed through.
If you were an Autralian, you would know that Australia doesn't have a president.
I have a solution for laptops.
You pull the power cord out of the back, and then pull out any batteries. Works for me.
However, if this 'international criminal court' starts picking up Americans (soldiers, for instance) and putting them up for ridiculous show trials where they're convicted of nebulous crimes sans evidence by anti-US judges, then of course we're going in to get them.
As opposed to biased US courts trying other foreign nationals?
What recourse do other nations have when the US illegally detains and trys their citizens? Not everyone is able to resort to force the way the US does.
This post of yours (and others in the article) smacks of two attitudes:
1. The US is a white knight and what is right is defined by its actions
2. Might is right
I'm wondering if you have put this comment and your sig together?
so hot, drool.....
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Just as a matter of interest, does your advice ever change from de-regulate? Not trying to troll here, but it seems from your anarcho-capitalist view that de-regulation is the answer, and what was the question again? Do you believe that regulation is ever a solution?
Steve Zissou: Anne-Marie, do all the interns get Glocks?
Anne-Marie Sakowitz: No, they all share one.
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This assumes that your life can be unaffected by Wikipedia if you choose not to use it. Surely the latest firestorm would have made it clear that even people who do not use Wikipedia can be affected by it.
Probably never; there are many cultural and historical reasons why. 'Experts' are all-too frequently found to be wrong (or shown to be lying). History is full of instances where the 'experts' were less interested in the facts than in protecting their own ego and/or prestige. (ie. the 'expert' cannnot allow (him/her)self to be wrong, even though the facts disagree).
The effect of what you are saying is that an expert cannot be trusted. So some random shmoe is a better able to comment on something than someone who is an expert because the fact that they are an expert mens they are untrustworthy.
Facts will speak for themselves; there is no need for an 'expert' to present a fact that stands on its own.
Do some more reading on the application of facts and history. I reccommend E H Carr's "What is History". The reality is that facts by themselves are nuanced. Whose facts are you producing? How are you analysing those facts to develop a thesis? Which facts are you eliminating because they don't fit the thesis (and yes you will be eliminating some facts)? Finally facts never stand on their own, they stand in a context.
"It's wrong, and stealing and lying are wrong," AIT President Clarence Briggs said. "Somebody needs to do something about it."
Has he borrowed one of GWB's speachwriter as a publicist?
This is just a result of poor coding practices. Good coding practices ensure that any authentication details (login/password) are not embedded in the application.
Parents are presently concerned about kids accessing unwholesome stuff - in the absence of government/isp-level censoring, many parents are actually doing the unthinkable - Spending Time With Their Kids
The Australian government is currently pushing through Industrial Relations laws that are opposed by almost all community and church groups. Why? Because of they effect they will have on family life. The expected impact of these laws is that parents will have less time to spend with their kids.
The same thing that is happening in the US.
Fear.
That is why John Howard is in power. That is why GWB is in power.
I'm taking the oposite direction (to some extent).
I like having control of my email. Choice of mail client is one element of control. I can choose a client that allows me to create folders because I like them, or I can choose one that allows me to label the messages. But I am not forced to do either. Call me paranoid, but Google could choose to change their policies regarding gmail in some way that I do not like (assuming I like current policies).
On the other hand more tradition email options (ie POP), have some significant limitations like not being able to read the email from multiple machines.
So my solution (not for the faint hearted) is to roll my own mail server. I own my own domain name, which helps. The server will run IMAP (over SSL for remote access) over the net. I could set up a web interface too, but I like my email client.
I can:
- have any number of email addresses I want
- access my email from any of my machines (laptops etc)
Benefits:
- Security
- I am not dependant on any company for any aspect of my email (except net connection)
FTA:
"The transplant would have to come from a beating heart donor. So, say your sister was in intensive care, you would have to agree to allow their face to be removed before the ventilator was switched off.
I call that an ethical concern. Certainly for some.
I'd largely agree with this.
// open input file
// parse into local variables
// print result
One helpful practice I picked up (see Code Complete, Steve McConnell) was to design functions in advance and use the design a the comments.
eg
function foo()
{
}
This is exactly the same as in the original UT.
Why, yes, I used to play UT. A lot.