You are suggesting that Parliament may not in fact always be a place of balanced, courteous discussion and a decision-making process that involves all stakeholders in an attempt to achieve an equitable solution agreeable to all?
Strangely enough, there are a number of countries where the populace is able to vote, women are required to go to school just like everyone else, and there aren't mass killings of children of the "wrong religion". Many of these countries are able to conduct their foreign policy in such a way that they don't get accused of being a dick.
Some of them even manage to enter into free trade agreements with each other without requiring that the smaller country implement something like the DMCA.
I have that problem. Many people seem to be less than experts at Subject: line writing.
But I've recently switched to a filter that rejects at SMTP time based on RBLs and SpamAssassin. This has massively reduced the amount of spam I get (much more than my old SA-only via procmail did), and users whose mail is incorrectly classified should get a message from *their* mailserver fairly promptly about the mail rejection. Much better than burying their legitimate mail in a junkmail folder that grows far too quickly.
That doesn't tell you where the spammers are, it tells you where the hosts that are sending you mail are. Spammers send mail from machines that can send mail, with little or no geographical preference.
and of course, half-remembered first year philosophy augmented with skimread wikipedia has its downfalls. modus tollens (if a then b; !b; therefore, !a) is valid. I was thinking of the (if a then b; b; therefore, a) form, which is invalid, and what I first wrote before deciding to check if it was correct:P
My vague memories of first year philosophy would suggest that it was valid: it's an instance of modus ponens. If a than b; a; therefore, b!
It's certainly not sound -- the first and second premises are just silly, and soundness requires that your premises are true as your form being valid.
Even though the terminology (valid, sound) is confusing to people who aren't familiar with it, the ideas are still useful. An invalid argument (cows have four legs; my horse has four legs; therefore, it is a cow) has another point of attack than untrue premises -- and this means you may have an easier time demolishing it.
Of course, this assumes that the person you are trying to persuade must have some ability to reason logically -- far too many people seem susceptible to the (if a than b; not b; therefore not a) (modus tollens) fallacy, for instance.
I get my gTLD (i.e. com/net/org/etc) domains from GANDI. They were recommended by some "domain name buyer's guide" site that now seems to have disappeared, mostly because the first section of their t&cs says "You own the domain name". Alas, many other registrars try to weasel out of saying anything like that.
...if the government did not subsidise farming, you would not eat...
If the US government did not subsidise farming, then the US domestic prices of farmed goods would rise, and US farmers would be less competitive against imports. Subsidies distort the market, and they don't save you money -- you end up paying for the subsidies through your taxes.
Our (New Zealand's) farmers are not subsidised, and we seem to survive.
Traffic shaping, or just more traffic? How many extra packets per second could you route using the cycles / silicon required for QoS? You only need QoS if your network is congested:-)
I presented a paper at HCC a few years ago about a web UI framework for developing web-based diagram editors. My powerpoint included screenshots for what happened after every click in the user interface, so I could "click" on a button and the next screenshot, showing the result of that click, would appear.
It was obvious from their comments later that a number of people did not realise this was not a live demo, but merely a powerpoint presentation loaded off a USB memory stick:-)
I bought an iBook G4 800 a few years ago on that basis: I didn't want to spend too much time stuffing around making it work.
Unfortunately, I discovered that I was wrong: I did want to spend time stuffing around occasionally. Linux supported this. OS X was, despite the Unix interior, not as malleable as I'd hoped. While everything that was supposed to work out of the box did, when you left the beaten track you were on your own. IP over DNS? Needs drivers that haven't been ported to OS X? Scanning with old scanner that worked under Linux? No OS X drivers, and the Mac port of SANE wouldn't work. No ability to fake a scrollmouse with the touchpad without using thirdparty apps. No ability to use the external display as a desktop extension without firmware hacks.
The only thing that I unequivocally liked about OS X was Panther's mail client, especially its support for offline IMAP and searching. But Tiger broke that.
So I bought a PC laptop late last year, being careful not to end up saddled with any hardware that required proprietary drivers. And it's great. After getting it working initially, I haven't had to do any stuffing around, and when I want to deviate from the beaten track and route some of my packets via carrier pigeon, I can!
Here in New Zealand receipts typically miss off six or so digits, so you get something saying that the card used was number 2435 43...... 1654. Which is enough to identify whose card it was from a limited set, but not enough to place orders with.
Of course, the old zip zap machines happily put the entire number on the receipt you get. And people who don't want to pay for mobile EFTPOS equipment, such as some of the shuttle companies, tend to be keen on them...
You mean segment, not selector (in your real/v86 mode analogue). Selectors only came in with protected mode. Personally, that small incorrect detail entirely ruined the joke for me.
No. Getting it, if not right, than close to it, first time is not impossible. I got a cable modem within a few months of them becoming available in my area, and there were few outages.
What makes you think it's reasonable to pay for a service as bad as the one you describe? If I signed up for something that bad, unless I was getting it cheaper as a beta tester, I'd be complaining.
Dare I ask: did you think about any of this when you acquired this hardware, and consider acquiring equivalent hardware which didn't need proprietary drivers?
Being "careful" about email addresses doesn't work. It'll ward off the spammers for a while, but eventually you'll have to change your address.
And that stinks. We need a better solution to the spam problem than carefully hiding email addresses from the world.
My current "solution" is to run spamassassin, which gets most of my enormous amounts of spam with a fairly low false positive rate. But it's only a stopgap solution -- something more permanent is needed.
You've reminded me I've still got 12 cans in a box waiting to be drunk.... wait, make that 11:-)
V is great, and insanely popular in New Zealand. One of the graduate compsci students here (VUW) produced the following unbiased comparison with Red Bull: V vs Red Bull, which you may find useful in deciding which energy drink to purchase.
I certainly found I had that problem -- I'd concentrate so much on writing illegible notes that I wouldn't take any of the content in. In classes where we were given printouts of the slides, and I could annotate them where needed, I found I retained much more information from the lectures. Unfortunately, I can't claim that the correlation is significant, as lecturers for each subject all seemed to use the same technique.
Part of the problem, I think, is that lecturers like to see students doing something, and having to write out copious notes helps with that. I had a lecturer who, in previous years, had given out a coursebook with material from the course. But for some reason he decided this was a bad idea, so stopped giving them out and just wrote up all the notes on the board verbatim and expected everyone to copy them down. This made it very difficult to learn things in his lectures, even when you did have the previous years' coursebook:-)
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You are suggesting that Parliament may not in fact always be a place of balanced, courteous discussion and a decision-making process that involves all stakeholders in an attempt to achieve an equitable solution agreeable to all?
Strangely enough, there are a number of countries where the populace is able to vote, women are required to go to school just like everyone else, and there aren't mass killings of children of the "wrong religion". Many of these countries are able to conduct their foreign policy in such a way that they don't get accused of being a dick.
Some of them even manage to enter into free trade agreements with each other without requiring that the smaller country implement something like the DMCA.
Etc, etc.
Disclaimer: I may live in such a country.
I have that problem. Many people seem to be less than experts at Subject: line writing.
But I've recently switched to a filter that rejects at SMTP time based on RBLs and SpamAssassin. This has massively reduced the amount of spam I get (much more than my old SA-only via procmail did), and users whose mail is incorrectly classified should get a message from *their* mailserver fairly promptly about the mail rejection. Much better than burying their legitimate mail in a junkmail folder that grows far too quickly.
That doesn't tell you where the spammers are, it tells you where the hosts that are sending you mail are. Spammers send mail from machines that can send mail, with little or no geographical preference.
and of course, half-remembered first year philosophy augmented with skimread wikipedia has its downfalls. modus tollens (if a then b; !b; therefore, !a) is valid. I was thinking of the (if a then b; b; therefore, a) form, which is invalid, and what I first wrote before deciding to check if it was correct :P
My vague memories of first year philosophy would suggest that it was valid: it's an instance of modus ponens. If a than b; a; therefore, b!
It's certainly not sound -- the first and second premises are just silly, and soundness requires that your premises are true as your form being valid.
Even though the terminology (valid, sound) is confusing to people who aren't familiar with it, the ideas are still useful. An invalid argument (cows have four legs; my horse has four legs; therefore, it is a cow) has another point of attack than untrue premises -- and this means you may have an easier time demolishing it.
Of course, this assumes that the person you are trying to persuade must have some ability to reason logically -- far too many people seem susceptible to the (if a than b; not b; therefore not a) (modus tollens) fallacy, for instance.
I get my gTLD (i.e. com/net/org/etc) domains from GANDI. They were recommended by some "domain name buyer's guide" site that now seems to have disappeared, mostly because the first section of their t&cs says "You own the domain name". Alas, many other registrars try to weasel out of saying anything like that.
:-)
Anyway, they've never given me any trouble
If the US government did not subsidise farming, then the US domestic prices of farmed goods would rise, and US farmers would be less competitive against imports. Subsidies distort the market, and they don't save you money -- you end up paying for the subsidies through your taxes.
Our (New Zealand's) farmers are not subsidised, and we seem to survive.
Traffic shaping, or just more traffic? How many extra packets per second could you route using the cycles / silicon required for QoS? You only need QoS if your network is congested :-)
Olympus? My E-500 takes CF. But then maybe their non-DSLRs still only do XD.
Ah, rigged demos.
:-)
I presented a paper at HCC a few years ago about a web UI framework for developing web-based diagram editors. My powerpoint included screenshots for what happened after every click in the user interface, so I could "click" on a button and the next screenshot, showing the result of that click, would appear.
It was obvious from their comments later that a number of people did not realise this was not a live demo, but merely a powerpoint presentation loaded off a USB memory stick
I bought an iBook G4 800 a few years ago on that basis: I didn't want to spend too much time stuffing around making it work.
Unfortunately, I discovered that I was wrong: I did want to spend time stuffing around occasionally. Linux supported this. OS X was, despite the Unix interior, not as malleable as I'd hoped. While everything that was supposed to work out of the box did, when you left the beaten track you were on your own. IP over DNS? Needs drivers that haven't been ported to OS X? Scanning with old scanner that worked under Linux? No OS X drivers, and the Mac port of SANE wouldn't work. No ability to fake a scrollmouse with the touchpad without using thirdparty apps. No ability to use the external display as a desktop extension without firmware hacks.
The only thing that I unequivocally liked about OS X was Panther's mail client, especially its support for offline IMAP and searching. But Tiger broke that.
So I bought a PC laptop late last year, being careful not to end up saddled with any hardware that required proprietary drivers. And it's great. After getting it working initially, I haven't had to do any stuffing around, and when I want to deviate from the beaten track and route some of my packets via carrier pigeon, I can!
Er. How does this argument work if you take into consideration "adult sites" being run outside the jurisdiction of the US?
Oh, please, no.
Here in New Zealand receipts typically miss off six or so digits, so you get something saying that the card used was number 2435 43.. .... 1654. Which is enough to identify whose card it was from a limited set, but not enough to place orders with.
Of course, the old zip zap machines happily put the entire number on the receipt you get. And people who don't want to pay for mobile EFTPOS equipment, such as some of the shuttle companies, tend to be keen on them...
You mean segment, not selector (in your real/v86 mode analogue). Selectors only came in with protected mode. Personally, that small incorrect detail entirely ruined the joke for me.
No. Getting it, if not right, than close to it, first time is not impossible. I got a cable modem within a few months of them becoming available in my area, and there were few outages.
What makes you think it's reasonable to pay for a service as bad as the one you describe? If I signed up for something that bad, unless I was getting it cheaper as a beta tester, I'd be complaining.
Dare I ask: did you think about any of this when you acquired this hardware, and consider acquiring equivalent hardware which didn't need proprietary drivers?
Being "careful" about email addresses doesn't work. It'll ward off the spammers for a while, but eventually you'll have to change your address.
And that stinks. We need a better solution to the spam problem than carefully hiding email addresses from the world.
My current "solution" is to run spamassassin, which gets most of my enormous amounts of spam with a fairly low false positive rate. But it's only a stopgap solution -- something more permanent is needed.
I wish I knew what it was.
Shrook is just one shareware Mac RSS reader. Unless it ended up with a really large userbase, you wouldn't see many requests from it.
You've reminded me I've still got 12 cans in a box waiting to be drunk.... wait, make that 11 :-)
V is great, and insanely popular in New Zealand. One of the graduate compsci students here (VUW) produced the following unbiased comparison with Red Bull: V vs Red Bull, which you may find useful in deciding which energy drink to purchase.
MICROSOFT - The High Performance Software
Halfway through the *second* book? I gave up halfway through Quicksilver. But his earlier stuff is good.
If you like his stuff, chances are you'll like Bruce Sterling too. And William Gibson -- his later stuff's better, though.
I certainly found I had that problem -- I'd concentrate so much on writing illegible notes that I wouldn't take any of the content in. In classes where we were given printouts of the slides, and I could annotate them where needed, I found I retained much more information from the lectures. Unfortunately, I can't claim that the correlation is significant, as lecturers for each subject all seemed to use the same technique.
:-)
Part of the problem, I think, is that lecturers like to see students doing something, and having to write out copious notes helps with that. I had a lecturer who, in previous years, had given out a coursebook with material from the course. But for some reason he decided this was a bad idea, so stopped giving them out and just wrote up all the notes on the board verbatim and expected everyone to copy them down. This made it very difficult to learn things in his lectures, even when you did have the previous years' coursebook