"If you want copy and paste, write a deamon to manage it"
I've been wondering for a long time why this hasn't happened already. How on earth can it be hard to come up with a daemon that can recieve, store and reguritate small blobs of text or binary data?!?
Best of all, it wouldn't depend on which gui you were using. It could work with all of them. It wouldn't depend on any gui being present all.
With a standard clipboard service/daemon, you could do stuff like cut in mozilla or a KDE app, and paste in commandline vi/emacs or reboot and paste into a gnome app.
Quit believing advertising, and you will be just fine
"Contains 90% silver" is a simple and testable claim, and clearly not just ad-speak. There are laws against outright lies on the box of any product in most countries. This is a good thing.
Yeah? So why have you invested 586 Comments (according yo your user page) into the slashdot brand already...
Re:This another area the US could get left behind.
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Noone cares, penetration isn't higher because the market sin't there
The market isn't there becuase your phones are crap - it is an effect, not a cause of the lag. I've heard of several people here in London who have decided not to bother with a landline at all.
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The US is already way behind Europe and Asia in mobile phones - coverage, market penetration and standards.
Read between the lines, because this bodes VERY well for Mozilla. While W3 and Microsoft are hemming and hawing about what this kind of patent meant to them, and it means something very bad for Internet Explorer, I suspect Mozilla will not be a target.
A dumb patent is a dumb patent, and should be overturned as a matter of principle, no matter who it advantages tactically. Dumb patents in general are a threat to open source. Actually, they are a threat to anyone wanting to make good software.
In the late 1800s mathamatitions had this idea that you could write a bunch of rules that would allow undergraduates to devise proofs. This had a lot of interest until Godel (and others) proved that it can't be done.
No, he proved that it can't always be done. Human theorem-provers don't come with guarantees either.
In traditional/. fashion I didn't read the artical. Still it seems to me that either this is very limited in what it can research
Correct, that is the conclusion that you would have come to if you had read the article. It assigns functions to genes by testing hypotheses. That's all. It's not a general-purpose science system.
If it is limited, there isn't much news about a robot programed to do something either too repeatative for a human to finish
Science involves a lot of repititive drudge-work that novertheless is highly skilled. This robot automates a bit of that. It is news, as this kind of thing ahs not been automated before.
The Stand may be high-voltage entertainment, but Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale actually have something to say about people and our future. King can tell a story, no doubt, but that's all he's trying to do.
even though it's obvious that some races tend to be better at some things than others (maybe it's ok to say that)
It's also obvious that the world is flat
You do know that genetically speaking, there is no such thing as race. That is, the genetic distance between a particular "european" and another is going to be greater than the genetic distance between the average "european" and the average "african".
And that you are a racist. You weren't born that way, any more than africans were born with rythym. You got that way by your upbringing.
Hollywood is pushing both technical groups to come up with new security measures to protect their movies. Neither group has developed a prototype that satisfies the movie industry - a major impediment to a commercial launch.
*sigh* Here we go again, for another round of macrovision, region coding and suchlike rubbish. I confidently predict(1) that the new measures will not make any difference to large-scale pirates or warez d00ds, but will make everyone else's life difficult.
"Even.Net, the new secure infrastructure, and built with security in mind, lets you have access to the 'old ways'. Yes, you are not supposed to, but people somehow do, and hackers will."
Of course you can still get at win32. It will make the transition easier. But it's not that cut and dried.
Firstly with the bytecode format of.NET not being a final binary, and all the metadata included therein, the code can be fairly easily inspected to see if it's safe or unsafe. "safe" code is code that stays only in its sandbox, doesn't use any classes that have the power to mess up the machine, and doesn't use Win32 at all. When you get code over the internet, you stick to safe code.
Get used to the fact that.NET is modern and well-designed. I won't call it original or inovative, that's open to debate.
Secondly the old ways won't be there forever. Win32 is legacy now.
Re security: The fact remains that Microsoft's entire infrastructure is based on fundamentally flawed designs, not buggy code... To change them, Microsoft would have to dump all existing APIs and break compatibility with everything up till now.
What I was thinking of was correlating data about the time that a particular vehicle was at two widely seperated locations (several miles), and calculating the minumum speed needed to cross in that time, then ticketing on that basis. It has happened, years ago.
It seems to have been pushed off the front page into the science/nature page by explosions in Pakistan and China. The UK has historic links with India/Pakistan (and a number of UK'ians have family links in Paikistan) so this was perhaps deemed more pressing. I know the Beagle probe means more to you and me, but not everyone is a nerd.
Why would you want to flood the market with another audio standard when MP3 is the defacto standard everyone has come to know and love.
It's worse than that. Apple could push a free, open, DRM-free standard if they wanted too. With Apple behind it, ogg could gain some traction in the marketplace.
It's not going to happen.
As far as I can tell, Apple doesn't really even like MP3. They'd like us to move over to thier own format, full of proprietary DRM goodness. Promoting or even supporting another open format is against thier interests.
If Apple is so pro-open source, when are they going to add Ogg Vorbis to the iPod?
In my opinion, never.
The iPod can play MP3 files becuase without it, the iPod would be dead in the water. However, what Apple really want is for you to migrate over to iTunes and Apple's very own proprietary, DRM-encrusted format, where you don't really own the files and can't play them on your machine when you upgrade the motherboard, and suchlike drivel. Suprisingly, it seems to be working so far.
Support for.ogg does not fit into that plan anywhere.
I'd love to be wrong about this, but logically I don't see how. Unless.ogg somehow becomes such a popular format in other mp3 players that it starts to bite into iPod sales. Yeah. Right.
I've found this myself... not a single person has contacted me and offered to help develop or debug the code.
It all depends on who your users are. I have put two small projects out as open source - The first never attracted any code fixes, but the second, a coding utility, (ie the users are also coders) atracts a small but steady stream of patches.
From the options help:"Encrypt+sign if possible: encrypt and sign by default, but do not notify user on failure, and send unencrypted instead. Encryption must succeed for all recipients, not just some. (This option may also be set in the preferences."
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"If you want copy and paste, write a deamon to manage it"
I've been wondering for a long time why this hasn't happened already. How on earth can it be hard to come up with a daemon that can recieve, store and reguritate small blobs of text or binary data?!?
Best of all, it wouldn't depend on which gui you were using. It could work with all of them. It wouldn't depend on any gui being present all.
With a standard clipboard service/daemon, you could do stuff like cut in mozilla or a KDE app, and paste in commandline vi/emacs or reboot and paste into a gnome app.
Quit believing advertising, and you will be just fine
"Contains 90% silver" is a simple and testable claim, and clearly not just ad-speak. There are laws against outright lies on the box of any product in most countries. This is a good thing.
...Peter Hamilton...
He asked for neither pretentious nor badly written.
On the Internet, name brand means nothing.
Yeah? So why have you invested 586 Comments (according yo your user page) into the slashdot brand already...
Noone cares, penetration isn't higher because the market sin't there
The market isn't there becuase your phones are crap - it is an effect, not a cause of the lag. I've heard of several people here in London who have decided not to bother with a landline at all.
The US is already way behind Europe and Asia in mobile phones - coverage, market penetration and standards.
You do know that "Mars needs women" is a movie, right?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060672/
Read between the lines, because this bodes VERY well for Mozilla. While W3 and Microsoft are hemming and hawing about what this kind of patent meant to them, and it means something very bad for Internet Explorer, I suspect Mozilla will not be a target.
A dumb patent is a dumb patent, and should be overturned as a matter of principle, no matter who it advantages tactically. Dumb patents in general are a threat to open source. Actually, they are a threat to anyone wanting to make good software.
In the late 1800s mathamatitions had this idea that you could write a bunch of rules that would allow undergraduates to devise proofs. This had a lot of interest until Godel (and others) proved that it can't be done.
/. fashion I didn't read the artical. Still it seems to me that either this is very limited in what it can research
No, he proved that it can't always be done. Human theorem-provers don't come with guarantees either.
In traditional
Correct, that is the conclusion that you would have come to if you had read the article. It assigns functions to genes by testing hypotheses. That's all. It's not a general-purpose science system.
If it is limited, there isn't much news about a robot programed to do something either too repeatative for a human to finish
Science involves a lot of repititive drudge-work that novertheless is highly skilled.
This robot automates a bit of that. It is news, as this kind of thing ahs not been automated before.
but seems that now even 69 year old actors like Carmine Caridi can't be trusted
My guess is that he gave it to a grandson/great nephew/etc who decided it would be kewl to rip it.
Sean Connery for Slartibartfast!
Nice choice, but the article says that they've got Bill Nighy for that role.
but it came across like a low-wattage The Stand.
The Stand may be high-voltage entertainment, but Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale actually have something to say about people and our future. King can tell a story, no doubt, but that's all he's trying to do.
Maybe they mean that since the RIAA started prosecuting file-sharers, there is less observable file-sharing.
W.A.S.T.E. , anyone?
even though it's obvious that some races tend to be better at some things than others (maybe it's ok to say that)
It's also obvious that the world is flat
You do know that genetically speaking, there is no such thing as race. That is, the genetic distance between a particular "european" and another is going to be greater than the genetic distance between the average "european" and the average "african".
And that you are a racist. You weren't born that way, any more than africans were born with rythym. You got that way by your upbringing.
Hollywood is pushing both technical groups to come up with new security measures to protect their movies. Neither group has developed a prototype that satisfies the movie industry - a major impediment to a commercial launch.
*sigh* Here we go again, for another round of macrovision, region coding and suchlike rubbish. I confidently predict(1) that the new measures will not make any difference to large-scale pirates or warez d00ds, but will make everyone else's life difficult.
1): What do I know about it? not much.
"Even .Net, the new secure infrastructure, and built with security in mind, lets you have access to the 'old ways'. Yes, you are not supposed to, but people somehow do, and hackers will."
.NET not being a final binary, and all the metadata included therein, the code can be fairly easily inspected to see if it's safe or unsafe. "safe" code is code that stays only in its sandbox, doesn't use any classes that have the power to mess up the machine, and doesn't use Win32 at all. When you get code over the internet, you stick to safe code.
.NET is modern and well-designed. I won't call it original or inovative, that's open to debate.
Of course you can still get at win32. It will make the transition easier. But it's not that cut and dried.
Firstly with the bytecode format of
Get used to the fact that
Secondly the old ways won't be there forever. Win32 is legacy now.
Re security: The fact remains that Microsoft's entire infrastructure is based on fundamentally flawed designs, not buggy code ... To change them, Microsoft would have to dump all existing APIs and break compatibility with everything up till now.
Can you say ".NET" ?
That's cameras, not passes. They're on-the-spot.
Speed cameras are very old news.
What I was thinking of was correlating data about the time that a particular vehicle was at two widely seperated locations (several miles), and calculating the minumum speed needed to cross in that time, then ticketing on that basis. It has happened, years ago.
It was on the front page of http://news.bbc.co.uk/ but is not now.
It seems to have been pushed off the front page into the science/nature page by explosions in Pakistan and China. The UK has historic links with India/Pakistan (and a number of UK'ians have family links in Paikistan) so this was perhaps deemed more pressing. I know the Beagle probe means more to you and me, but not everyone is a nerd.
Why would you want to flood the market with another audio standard when MP3 is the defacto standard everyone has come to know and love.
It's worse than that. Apple could push a free, open, DRM-free standard if they wanted too. With Apple behind it, ogg could gain some traction in the marketplace.
It's not going to happen.
As far as I can tell, Apple doesn't really even like MP3. They'd like us to move over to thier own format, full of proprietary DRM goodness. Promoting or even supporting another open format is against thier interests.
If Apple is so pro-open source, when are they going to add Ogg Vorbis to the iPod?
.ogg does not fit into that plan anywhere.
.ogg somehow becomes such a popular format in other mp3 players that it starts to bite into iPod sales. Yeah. Right.
In my opinion, never.
The iPod can play MP3 files becuase without it, the iPod would be dead in the water. However, what Apple really want is for you to migrate over to iTunes and Apple's very own proprietary, DRM-encrusted format, where you don't really own the files and can't play them on your machine when you upgrade the motherboard, and suchlike drivel. Suprisingly, it seems to be working so far.
Support for
I'd love to be wrong about this, but logically I don't see how. Unless
I've found this myself ... not a single person has contacted me and offered to help develop or debug the code.
It all depends on who your users are. I have put two small projects out as open source - The first never attracted any code fixes, but the second, a coding utility, (ie the users are also coders) atracts a small but steady stream of patches.
How soon before:
You passed between milepost 1 and 15 in under 6 minutes, here's your speeding ticket.
In the UK, a few years ago.
This is from memory, sorry no link.
Been there, done that. In australia.
Mutt comes close, but doesn't have the ability to "opportunistically encrypt" messages
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/help.html
From the options help:"Encrypt+sign if possible: encrypt and sign by default, but do not notify user on failure, and send unencrypted instead. Encryption must succeed for all recipients, not just some. (This option may also be set in the preferences."