It seems better to fix the machines to work with the users, rather than try an obviously futile job of fixing every programmer out there.
Thats a verry good point! Here in Sweden, the road-departement have for some years been working with the assumption that people will make mistakes, you cant educate it away and you cant make laws to stop people from doing stupid things (yes stricter speed control etc. can lessen the problem, but doesnt solver it fully).
What they can do, is to lessen the ill-effects of misstakes.
Things like trying to remove trees near roads, removing boulders and other obstacles near the roads, change crossings with many accidents to roundabouts (roundabouts doesnt remove accidents, but the accidents that do happen in a roundabout lead to less severe damage for the people involved). All this doesnt prevent accidents per se, but it sure helps people survive/get less injured.
So translated to coding, a system where people easaly make mistakes, and those mistakes will be costly, is worse than a system where "normal" misstakes still will happen, but the system reduces the ill effects.
Its better that the knowledgeable user must on purpose override the default safe system, than hoping that the programer will remember to do all the extra thinking to avoid problems
On the IDE page Click-N-Run Warehouse > Software Development > Development Environments
4 out of seven was IDLE (for different py versions), that is the python IDE that is included in tkinter, witch is normaly installed if you select python on any desktop distro anyhow, so it should already be on your system if you have python
There are a few quite good IDEs for python out there for instance WingIDE. Why not try to license one of them (there are even a few free ones), if they wanted to offer some kind of value-added service for py devel.
When it comes to C++ they only have Anjuta, even KDevelop is missing, but for some reason they offer "Gideon - data" and "Gideon -doc" - why not offer all of KDevelop?
Unfortunatelly, that is standard procedure for theKompany
They are extreamly optimistic on their shipment dates
I've been waiting for an update for BlackAdder, its been "in a few weeks" / "end of the month" / "after the weekend" and similar, changed at random for well over a year....
Last I hered on the mailinglist was "End of August" (said around august 15)
sorry to correct you, but in the server, you define what access methods to accept in the
load main="jsm" section. If you want to be secure just disallow mod_auth_plain
Most sites dont to this today, since not all clients support ssl, but if you want to have a secure server you should not allow plain auth, and just tell users to change clients
Wing IDE is quite a good development environment for python, it even hooks into Zope
If you go the python way, you gain a few nice features:
Code is portable to almost all known kinds of computing devices
It's the lingo used in Zope, a great aplication server, if you don't wana do standalone apps
Can be used with a fair number of cross-plattform GUIs, from with I would prefer QT, but that is of course a matter of taste
Hi
You claim that it's possible to heal blindness with magnets, that's a bit far reaching even if we would asume your method of "speed-healing" has any truth in it.
There are so many reasons for blindnes, and by most of them I can't see (no pun intended) what there is to heal?
examples:
A undeveloped/non functional retina-nereve like in some born-blind cases
A retina that has broken off (sorry lack the english terme for "näthinne avlossning"(sv) ) In this case the retina _dies_ within ours - so what's left to heal?
A case of "poke in the eye", if the body of the eye is broken, and the lins is basically squashed to pieces, parts of it will exit with the foreign object is removed.
Where from would these pieces come, divine intervention??
A severe case of diabetes where the retina has been _dead_ for years, the dead cells have been removed from the body ages ago
Since I've heard people talk about it, I asume they must be there somewhere, but I havve been using Google since they started, and I just don't get ads on my Google search results, very weired.
I Don't run any filtering tools, and see plenty of them in altavista etc, so they are not deleted in my end.
I just tried a few sample searches on common words, and none of them turned up any ads
I also cleared my cookies first so my system should have been clean.
A friend of mine was involved in a PIM/WAP/WEB site in Zope for the PM and his staff a couple of month back, so they are actually using OpenSource on a day to day basis.
I examined the Ericsson Web Screen at CeBIT and I wasn't all that impressed with it.
More or less every other single pad on CeBit was equiped with both modem and PCMCIA slotts.
This one had only a blue-tooth link to a phone-line base-station.
The sales rep I first spoke to was utterly clueless, when I asked about througput and broadband.
Almost comical, when I asked her if she couldn't grasp that I already had a highspeed link at home, and wondered if they had a basestation for ethernet access, she responded:
"Most people doesn't want complicated technology, those customers perfer modems" (!)
I managed to find a techy in the booth, and after some evasive talk he admited to that the main reason it only uses a phone-modem in the base-station is that the hardware in the webpad, (or as say call it Web Screen) more or less sucks. Not so much the CPU, but the layout of the motherboard had all kinds of rather embarassing shortcommings, so it can't even comunicate at rates over 56kBit.
Hes reasoning was that this platform is a rather dead-end market gimmick. If it makes any sales, they will develop a new generation with "serious network throughput"
The trouble I see in this reasoning is that I doubt if the thing will sell much, I think they expect to sell it for something like $1200
So unfortunately this as most other Ericsson consumer stuff, is propably just another stock-sinker and I'm a bit sceptical about if they will get any generation 2 version out.
If they do manage, I'd love to have one, it was nice except for the tiny litle bandwith detail;)
Nokia has today unveiled the world's first integrated mobile multimedia
device for all mobile professionals, for their corporate and personal use
alike. Nokia 9210 Communicator brings the mobile multimedia experience in
full color for the first time to GSM markets. The new Nokia 9210
Communicator was announced in conjunction with the Nokia Mobile Internet
Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, and at the same time in a virtual
launch on the Internet. The Nokia 9210 Communicator is expected to be
available during the first half of 2001.
The Nokia 9210 Communicator is a dual band EGSM900/1800 integrated full
service mobile communications terminal combining phone, fax, email,
calendar, imaging, WAP and WWW. Support for the most commonly used PC office
applications makes it possible to create Microsoft Word and Excel documents
and view PowerPoint slides. A standard memory card of 16 MB extends the
memory for installing new applications. The new communicator is also the
world's first SyncML enabled product, making it easy to remotely synchronize
calendar, contacts and to-do lists. Desk and background images can be fully
customized according to individual tastes. The Web browser supports frames
and Java applets. Wireless imaging enables users to save memorable moments
in a personal photo album.
Functioning on Symbian's EPOC operating system with PersonalJava support,
the Nokia 9210 Communicator allows an unlimited number of third-party
software solutions, ranging from corporate applications to entertainment
content.
"With the Nokia 9210 Communicator we are taking a major step forward in the
road to the Mobile Internet environment. This pioneering product showcases
the key elements in future mobile communications, such as easy navigation
and input, a high-quality color display, mobile messaging with high data
speed, imaging and video clips. Additionally, Java support and Symbian's
EPOC operating system bring open development interfaces to the Nokia 9210
Communicator for numerous additional applications to be provided by any
third party developers," said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia
Mobile Phones.
The sales and production of Nokia 9110i Communicator continues normally. In
future GEOS developer support is given through Nokia Communicator Discussion
Board. Please visit our developer section to get the latest information
which Nokia has to offer in Symbian and SyncML. Everytime we have something
new to offer for our developer in the field of Symbian and SyncML you will
find it in www.forum.nokia.com.
Please see more information: http://www.nokia.com and
http://www.forum.nokia.com
Kind regards,
Forum Nokia - 3rd party developer support
I would do a reverse dns and a whois on each ip of interest, you would in best case get adress information for the technical contact that often, but by no means allways are located in the same office as that server
This will not work in every case but perhaps it's good enough in a statistical perspective.
I agree with you on telecomuting being a good thing. Use it myself a lot;)
But there is a fundamental problem in project oriented telecomuting, like in your example with a two months porject. If it takes you two working month to complete it, sure no employer would care to much how you get there.
The problem is when that project (as so many others), turns out to be more complicated than planned.
What if it takes four month of work to complete due to an unforceable complication?
Now the trouble begins!
How can the employer tell the difference between the worker being layzy and creating/presenting complications to save him from the fact that he quaked away the first two months and a real complication?
This is where the cubicles enter the scene!
If they know you been working hard on this, it's easier for you to get the extra time or assistance to complete the job
Otherwise you easally end up in an unplesent negotioation situation, I've been ther in both roles, it isn't funny for either part...
Just been thinking, that even if sound files are watermarked, if thousands of them are disrributed under napster/gnutella/whatever there will be just to many illegaly distributed files for anybody to keep track on.
Imagine if there were on a given date 23.000 illegal files in distributions, surely in principle each one could be tracked down, but there are limits to the resources available to the one tracking.
I'm pretty sure no legal system would be able to handle a stack of 23.000 lawsuits, let alone all the complications from the fact that this will probably be cross-border crimes
And also propably most of these would be an
average broke teenager, with not to much of assets to claim anyhow
So my guess is that most people would get away with it and every now and then somebody will get picked at random and sued.
Idon't know but it sounds as it isn't much more dangerous than driving in trafic;)
Slashdot Mirror
It seems better to fix the machines to work with the users, rather than try an obviously futile job of fixing every programmer out there.
Thats a verry good point!
Here in Sweden, the road-departement have for some years been working with the assumption that people will make mistakes, you cant educate it away and you cant make laws to stop people from doing stupid things (yes stricter speed control etc. can lessen the problem, but doesnt solver it fully).
What they can do, is to lessen the ill-effects of misstakes.
Things like trying to remove trees near roads, removing boulders and other obstacles near the roads, change crossings with many accidents to roundabouts (roundabouts doesnt remove accidents, but the accidents that do happen in a roundabout lead to less severe damage for the people involved). All this doesnt prevent accidents per se, but it sure helps people survive/get less injured.
So translated to coding, a system where people easaly make mistakes, and those mistakes will be costly, is worse than a system where "normal" misstakes still will happen, but the system reduces the ill effects.
Its better that the knowledgeable user must on purpose override the default safe system, than hoping that the programer will remember to do all the extra thinking to avoid problems
>You have to have said at some point that you >trust Microsoft
;) you _have_ to agree to trust them.
If you want to run windowsupdate (to remove security risks
The only system that doesnt trust Microsoft is a outof the box unpatched one - and then you are fried anyhow...
A clear catch 22
I agree with your ambition for zero tolerance.
Problem however is that before you start suing (or perhaps rather before you start winning cases), there is the problem of how to define spam.
For a recipient its easy do tell if an incoming mail is percieved as spam or not.
Its more complicated when it comes to the legal part.
Is opt in/out options enough to make an adverisment legal? - in some countries yse
Is it legal to send advs. to adresses gathered on your own website? - mostly yes
Is it legal to sell mailadrs gathered on your site? - yes, espscially if you warned people of it
Unsolicited mail - here the problem is to prove it's unsolicited...
So in the end its not all that easy to in legal terms define what is spam and what is not
Sorry for my poor spelling...
Would it really be possible to understand a human brain for another human brain fully?
;)
Doesnt mathematics outrule this?
If I theoretically could somehow input everything in my wifes brain, where the heck would I store it, Im already using my brain for personal usage
So I could only parse portions of it at a time, wouldnt this make it impossible to do a full analyse?
Disclaimer: Of course I know this cant be done for the moment at least, just speculating about if a human ever can take in all of another humans brain
There is such a user in many config samples found on the net in Microsoft related technologies.
i n_examples.htm
, Dc=com
Below is an example where a user "James Cook" jamesc@microsoft.com uses the name Don Funk, (this time Don Funk is in Marketing!)
James Cook, as far as I remember is dead since 200+ years, so Don Funk is propably just a test name
Sample text from http://www.tburke.net/info/suptools/topics/repadm
------
(0) add CN=Don Funk,OU=Marketing,DC=microsoft,Dc=com
1> parentGUID: 69fbe37a-abff-4eec-81ce-79017142405f
1> objectGUID: 7099ec39-ac5c-4462-b2b4-3ae9670eb43a
4> objectClass: top; person; organizationalPerson; user
1> sn: Cook
1> givenName: James
1> instanceType: 4
1> whenCreated: 19990826191951.0Z
1> displayName: Don Funk
1> nTSecurityDescriptor:
1> name: Don Funk
1> userAccountControl: 512
1> codePage: 0
1> countryCode: 0
1> pwdLastSet: 125801687928437500
1> primaryGroupID: 513
1> objectSid:
1> accountExpires: 9223372036854775807
1> sAMAccountName: jamesc
1> sAMAccountType: 805306368
1> userPrincipalName: jamesc@microsoft.com
1> objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=microsoft
----
I checked out the click-n-run offerings
not to impressive
On the IDE page
Click-N-Run Warehouse > Software Development > Development Environments
4 out of seven was IDLE (for different py versions), that is the python IDE that is included in tkinter, witch is normaly installed if you select python on any desktop distro anyhow, so it should already be on your system if you have python
There are a few quite good IDEs for python out there for instance WingIDE.
Why not try to license one of them (there are even a few free ones),
if they wanted to offer some kind of value-added service for py devel.
When it comes to C++ they only have Anjuta, even KDevelop is missing, but for some reason they offer "Gideon - data" and "Gideon -doc" - why not offer all of KDevelop?
why mix parts of KDevelop and Anjuta?
Unfortunatelly, that is standard procedure for theKompany
They are extreamly optimistic on their shipment dates
I've been waiting for an update for BlackAdder, its been "in a few weeks" / "end of the month" / "after the weekend" and similar, changed at random for well over a year....
Last I hered on the mailinglist was "End of August" (said around august 15)
If NASA retrieved those rocks, it seems fair that those rocks would be NASA prop.
;)
The moon itself isn't owned, so if you feel like it just go there and grab a few tons
sorry to correct you, but in the server, you define what access methods to accept in the
load main="jsm" section. If you want to be secure just disallow mod_auth_plain
Most sites dont to this today, since not all clients support ssl, but if you want to have a secure server you should not allow plain auth, and just tell users to change clients
what will it take to unite all these individual IM networks under one umbrella?
jabber.org
Well some operators already have this service.
In sweden both Europolian (soon to be Vodaphone) and Telia have voice services for internet.
Its all configurable through the web, If you want a machine rings you and reads up each mail as it is recieved
Wing IDE is quite a good development environment for python, it even hooks into Zope If you go the python way, you gain a few nice features: Code is portable to almost all known kinds of computing devices It's the lingo used in Zope, a great aplication server, if you don't wana do standalone apps Can be used with a fair number of cross-plattform GUIs, from with I would prefer QT, but that is of course a matter of taste
Hi
You claim that it's possible to heal blindness with magnets, that's a bit far reaching even if we would asume your method of "speed-healing" has any truth in it.
There are so many reasons for blindnes, and by most of them I can't see (no pun intended) what there is to heal?
examples:
A undeveloped/non functional retina-nereve like in some born-blind cases
A retina that has broken off (sorry lack the english terme for "näthinne avlossning"(sv) ) In this case the retina _dies_ within ours - so what's left to heal?
A case of "poke in the eye", if the body of the eye is broken, and the lins is basically squashed to pieces, parts of it will exit with the foreign object is removed.
Where from would these pieces come, divine intervention??
A severe case of diabetes where the retina has been _dead_ for years, the dead cells have been removed from the body ages ago
Just to mention a few..
Since I've heard people talk about it, I asume they must be there somewhere, but I havve been using Google since they started, and I just don't get ads on my Google search results, very weired.
/Jacob L
I Don't run any filtering tools, and see plenty of them in altavista etc, so they are not deleted in my end.
I just tried a few sample searches on common words, and none of them turned up any ads
I also cleared my cookies first so my system should have been clean.
Very strange....
Anybody else also unable to see the ads?
A friend of mine was involved in a PIM/WAP/WEB site in Zope for the PM and his staff a couple of month back, so they are actually using OpenSource on a day to day basis.
I thought you couldn't mix apples and pears?
I examined the Ericsson Web Screen at CeBIT and I wasn't all that impressed with it.
;)
More or less every other single pad on CeBit was equiped with both modem and PCMCIA slotts.
This one had only a blue-tooth link to a phone-line base-station.
The sales rep I first spoke to was utterly clueless, when I asked about througput and broadband.
Almost comical, when I asked her if she couldn't grasp that I already had a highspeed link at home, and wondered if they had a basestation for ethernet access, she responded:
"Most people doesn't want complicated technology, those customers perfer modems" (!)
I managed to find a techy in the booth, and after some evasive talk he admited to that the main reason it only uses a phone-modem in the base-station is that the hardware in the webpad, (or as say call it Web Screen) more or less sucks. Not so much the CPU, but the layout of the motherboard had all kinds of rather embarassing shortcommings, so it can't even comunicate at rates over 56kBit.
Hes reasoning was that this platform is a rather dead-end market gimmick. If it makes any sales, they will develop a new generation with "serious network throughput"
The trouble I see in this reasoning is that I doubt if the thing will sell much, I think they expect to sell it for something like $1200
So unfortunately this as most other Ericsson consumer stuff, is propably just another stock-sinker and I'm a bit sceptical about if they will get any generation 2 version out.
If they do manage, I'd love to have one, it was nice except for the tiny litle bandwith detail
Of course it will drop on april fools day ;)
You broke the rules, only one vote ;)
Dear Developer,
Nokia has today unveiled the world's first integrated mobile multimedia
device for all mobile professionals, for their corporate and personal use
alike. Nokia 9210 Communicator brings the mobile multimedia experience in
full color for the first time to GSM markets. The new Nokia 9210
Communicator was announced in conjunction with the Nokia Mobile Internet
Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, and at the same time in a virtual
launch on the Internet. The Nokia 9210 Communicator is expected to be
available during the first half of 2001.
The Nokia 9210 Communicator is a dual band EGSM900/1800 integrated full
service mobile communications terminal combining phone, fax, email,
calendar, imaging, WAP and WWW. Support for the most commonly used PC office
applications makes it possible to create Microsoft Word and Excel documents
and view PowerPoint slides. A standard memory card of 16 MB extends the
memory for installing new applications. The new communicator is also the
world's first SyncML enabled product, making it easy to remotely synchronize
calendar, contacts and to-do lists. Desk and background images can be fully
customized according to individual tastes. The Web browser supports frames
and Java applets. Wireless imaging enables users to save memorable moments
in a personal photo album.
Functioning on Symbian's EPOC operating system with PersonalJava support,
the Nokia 9210 Communicator allows an unlimited number of third-party
software solutions, ranging from corporate applications to entertainment
content.
"With the Nokia 9210 Communicator we are taking a major step forward in the
road to the Mobile Internet environment. This pioneering product showcases
the key elements in future mobile communications, such as easy navigation
and input, a high-quality color display, mobile messaging with high data
speed, imaging and video clips. Additionally, Java support and Symbian's
EPOC operating system bring open development interfaces to the Nokia 9210
Communicator for numerous additional applications to be provided by any
third party developers," said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia
Mobile Phones.
The sales and production of Nokia 9110i Communicator continues normally. In
future GEOS developer support is given through Nokia Communicator Discussion
Board. Please visit our developer section to get the latest information
which Nokia has to offer in Symbian and SyncML. Everytime we have something
new to offer for our developer in the field of Symbian and SyncML you will
find it in www.forum.nokia.com.
Please see more information: http://www.nokia.com and
http://www.forum.nokia.com
Kind regards,
Forum Nokia - 3rd party developer support
I would do a reverse dns and a whois on each ip of interest, you would in best case get adress information for the technical contact that often, but by no means allways are located in the same office as that server
;)
This will not work in every case but perhaps it's good enough in a statistical perspective.
Then there is allways snmp syslocation
I agree with you on telecomuting being a good thing. Use it myself a lot ;)
But there is a fundamental problem in project oriented telecomuting, like in your example with a two months porject. If it takes you two working month to complete it, sure no employer would care to much how you get there.
The problem is when that project (as so many others), turns out to be more complicated than planned.
What if it takes four month of work to complete due to an unforceable complication?
Now the trouble begins!
How can the employer tell the difference between the worker being layzy and creating/presenting complications to save him from the fact that he quaked away the first two months and a real complication?
This is where the cubicles enter the scene!
If they know you been working hard on this, it's easier for you to get the extra time or assistance to complete the job
Otherwise you easally end up in an unplesent negotioation situation, I've been ther in both roles, it isn't funny for either part...
Just been thinking, that even if sound files are watermarked, if thousands of them are disrributed under napster/gnutella/whatever there will be just to many illegaly distributed files for anybody to keep track on.
;)
Imagine if there were on a given date 23.000 illegal files in distributions, surely in principle each one could be tracked down, but there are limits to the resources available to the one tracking.
I'm pretty sure no legal system would be able to handle a stack of 23.000 lawsuits, let alone all the complications from the fact that this will probably be cross-border crimes
And also propably most of these would be an
average broke teenager, with not to much of assets to claim anyhow
So my guess is that most people would get away with it and every now and then somebody will get picked at random and sued.
Idon't know but it sounds as it isn't much more dangerous than driving in trafic
But nowadays Solaris comes default with Gnome as windowmanager...
I tried this one on my 32MB laptop
;)
Actually it consumes more memory than both blackbox and icewm
So I can't say I agree that this is truly a lightweight wm
Maybe it's smaller than GNOME / KDE - but then agin who isn't