This has nothing to do with federalism. I'm very much in favor of a small, decentralized, government. My preference would be for the federal government not to support local libraries. That is clearly not one of it's constitutional mandates.
A question was asked. I answered. If what I said is so obvious, then why haven't the problems been solved? If you are so fucking smart, then why don't you solve the problems and make the world a better place.
First: I love linux and use it primarily, but I am a techno-geek-nerd.
That being said, linux will not go mainstream until my mother can use it. That won't happen until several things are resolved.
1) printer setup utilities SUCK
2) sound card setup utilities SUCK
3) Most other setup utilities suck (too a lesser degree) also.
The apps are really improving, but sysadmin for the typical home user requires way more time and thought than they are willing to put into it.
If my mom buys a new printer for her Windows machine, she plugs it in and uses it. If she was using linux, she would end up returning the printer.
On the other hand, peace and quiet sound very attractive. I live in the suburbs of D.C. and I've always been fascinated by Montana. Do you like it there? Other than never having Junkyard Wars visit, I mean.
Who says it has to sound good to any particular person? Also, there is a fair amount of classical and jazz music that combine similar major and minor chords in the same theme. It is a technique often times used to convey more complex and contradictory emotions.
However, even if you narrow the choices down to "pleasant" sounding riffs, I still say the possibilities are virtually limitless.
If not, couldn't we say the same thing about novels?
Not enough permutations?
Lets see.
Assuming just the notes in Western style music, and limited to a piano, we have 88 notes.
Assuming that our theme is 20 notes long, that allows for 88^20 possible themes. This doesn't even take into account note length, chords and dynamics. Throw in Eastern style scales and you really have a lot of possibilities.
I suppose theoritically the number of possible themes in music is finite, but realistically we have a few songs left to write.
Clearly, most businesses would not use C/R to protect their inboxes. You generally welcome unsolicited email as a business prospect.
However, if you, the business, send ME unsolicited email, then why wouldn't I want to use C/R to make sure your email isn't spam?
Even if you are sending out unsolicited email to addresses that you got from, say, a promotion where people had to submit their email address, it would still just be your business that had to deal with the C/R responses, not the potential customers.
>>As long as the messages have predictable structure, you should be able to write a parser to pick out the word or picture they want, then throw it back.
That's just it. They don't have something that a parser can pick out. Check out yahoo registration for an example.
Good point.
However, How often do blind people send email to people who are not expecting email from them? In other words, how big of a problem is this really. If you are blind, and I give you my email address, then you better give me yours so that I can add you to my white-list. If I didn't give you my email address, then why are you sending me email?
I don't mean to minimize the difficulties that blind people would experience with this. I just think that compared we could work around them.
Thank you. Yahoo registrations are a perfect example of how they work and why they will continue to work. This is a VERY difficult problem to solve. If the spammers manage to solve it, they will be doing some excellent research for us all.
The challenges are typically characters in a squiggly font or in a font with holes, so that humans can plainly see what the characters are and type in the characters as the response. The response cannot be automated because software is currenly unable to decipher these characters. The challenging program stores which characters where sent with each challenge so that the program effectively has the "answer sheet". No human intervention is necessary.
This reminds me of watching Mary Lou Retton in the 1984 Olympics when I was a teenager. Granted, she is not a 40DDD, but for her height she was fairly well endowded (IIRC).
IANAL, so I don't really know how this works, but I thought that if his rights were being violated then he (or an entity like the ACLU on his behalf) could petition a judge. Am I wrong? If so, please enlighten me. If I am correct, then why hasn't this happened?
I don't like the idea of the executive branch taking powers it doesn't have, but isn't that why we have government authority split 3 ways. If he is truly innocent (which we don't know for sure since we can't see the sealed document), then who is not doing their job here?
Please note that I did not say that warfare drove ALL technological advancement. Simply that it was one of the most significant forces. Certainly there have been other forces, that may or may not have been more significant.
As to the beginning of time... time officially began when the first homo sapien took the tool he had been using for killing animals and instead used it to kill Ogg. Seriously, what would you have prefered me to say there? Since the first weapon was created?
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Please, oh wise one, enlighten me! Tell me "what this is actually about."
This has nothing to do with federalism. I'm very much in favor of a small, decentralized, government. My preference would be for the federal government not to support local libraries. That is clearly not one of it's constitutional mandates.
If your community standards are different than the federal government's, than fund the local library with YOUR money and not MY tax dollars.
So do it. Stop posting worthless words, and write the code to solve the problems YOU see in linux.
By the way, why the personal attack?
That being said, linux will not go mainstream until my mother can use it. That won't happen until several things are resolved.
1) printer setup utilities SUCK
2) sound card setup utilities SUCK
3) Most other setup utilities suck (too a lesser degree) also.
The apps are really improving, but sysadmin for the typical home user requires way more time and thought than they are willing to put into it.
If my mom buys a new printer for her Windows machine, she plugs it in and uses it. If she was using linux, she would end up returning the printer.
On the other hand, peace and quiet sound very attractive. I live in the suburbs of D.C. and I've always been fascinated by Montana. Do you like it there? Other than never having Junkyard Wars visit, I mean.
If you want to be involved in stuff like this, you might want to move out of the 3rd least-populated state (by density) in the country.
However, even if you narrow the choices down to "pleasant" sounding riffs, I still say the possibilities are virtually limitless.
If not, couldn't we say the same thing about novels?
Not enough permutations? Lets see. Assuming just the notes in Western style music, and limited to a piano, we have 88 notes. Assuming that our theme is 20 notes long, that allows for 88^20 possible themes. This doesn't even take into account note length, chords and dynamics. Throw in Eastern style scales and you really have a lot of possibilities. I suppose theoritically the number of possible themes in music is finite, but realistically we have a few songs left to write.
Clearly, most businesses would not use C/R to protect their inboxes. You generally welcome unsolicited email as a business prospect. However, if you, the business, send ME unsolicited email, then why wouldn't I want to use C/R to make sure your email isn't spam? Even if you are sending out unsolicited email to addresses that you got from, say, a promotion where people had to submit their email address, it would still just be your business that had to deal with the C/R responses, not the potential customers.
>>As long as the messages have predictable structure, you should be able to write a parser to pick out the word or picture they want, then throw it back. That's just it. They don't have something that a parser can pick out. Check out yahoo registration for an example.
Good point. However, How often do blind people send email to people who are not expecting email from them? In other words, how big of a problem is this really. If you are blind, and I give you my email address, then you better give me yours so that I can add you to my white-list. If I didn't give you my email address, then why are you sending me email? I don't mean to minimize the difficulties that blind people would experience with this. I just think that compared we could work around them.
When you are using the system it would tell you where the email will be coming from.
Thank you. Yahoo registrations are a perfect example of how they work and why they will continue to work. This is a VERY difficult problem to solve. If the spammers manage to solve it, they will be doing some excellent research for us all.
Simply add donotreply@[host].com to the white list. No problem.
The challenges are typically characters in a squiggly font or in a font with holes, so that humans can plainly see what the characters are and type in the characters as the response. The response cannot be automated because software is currenly unable to decipher these characters. The challenging program stores which characters where sent with each challenge so that the program effectively has the "answer sheet". No human intervention is necessary.
How about that really cool robot from the television , "Small Wonder"! I still don't know why they don't make more robots like her.
This reminds me of watching Mary Lou Retton in the 1984 Olympics when I was a teenager. Granted, she is not a 40DDD, but for her height she was fairly well endowded (IIRC).
Sorry, but the basis for your argument could not be more wrong. In the U.S. anyway, teens have a LOT of money to spend. Check the demographics.
I don't like the idea of the executive branch taking powers it doesn't have, but isn't that why we have government authority split 3 ways. If he is truly innocent (which we don't know for sure since we can't see the sealed document), then who is not doing their job here?
Actually, unless I'm a victim of revisionist history, the printing press was invented to facilitate the production of copies of the Bible.
As to the beginning of time ... time officially began when the first homo sapien took the tool he had been using for killing animals and instead used it to kill Ogg. Seriously, what would you have prefered me to say there? Since the first weapon was created?
Warfare has been one of the most significant driving forces behind technological advancement since the beginning of time.
The price of Light Sweet Crude has fallen by about 25% in the last week.