You obviously haven't grokked SciFi, have you? Read Time Enough for Love or one of Heinleins other works to get an idea of how un-boring it can be. I have a hard time sitting down and reading any fiction, but I was able to read that with no problems -- it was definitely not boring.
At any rate, I'm no fantasy buff myself. But anyway... enough troll-feeding for one day.
This is exactly the step which was needed to make SO a realistic alternative to that other package.
This quote seems a lot funnier if you interpret "SO" as "significant other" (as it means in non-Linux-geek circles). Just don't tell your SO about that "other package".
I need to sleep or get laid as soon as possible. This computer shit is bad for your head.
Doing both nearly every night makes life a lot nicer. I know from personal (continuing) experience. *grin* And for those few remaining nights, there's Gnutella / plaympeg.;^)
How does this have anything to do with the Constitution?
Agreed! As my government teacher in high school was fond of pointing out, in most ways, the Constitution does not protect minors in the same way that it protects adults. Over the years, the set of people to whom which Constitutional rights have been extended has grown, but still, not everyone is protected equally. To wit, in the first years of the Constitution, only white male landowners that were 21 years old or older could vote, for instance. Over the years, Constitutional protection of freedoms has been extended to women, people of all races, and people 18 and over, but really, the Constitution protects adults and not minors.
In any case, I don't see how the Constitution factors into this, even if minors vs. adults are not involved. At most, this is a "freedom of expression" issue, but expression hasn't been completely muted here, it's just been moved to the back room.
All that'd result in is a wandering mouse pointer on the screen. Whenever the battery gets low, the mouse pointer stops staying put, so you need to keep moving the mouse to keep the laptop running... (Of course, that'd only really be an issue if you were using "focus follows mouse", like all true Unix zealots do...;-) )
That's all fine and good (and I've tried WP7 and WP8.. nice, but still not as crisp as WP 5.1). However, they don't work really well with the Word documents I get here at work (they screw up the formatting rather spectacularly, and other nasty things happen). I use Word only because my employer has standardized on it. I guess it's because it simplifies the process of deploying macro vir^W^Wsoftware updates.
Agreed! Give me WP 5.1 on a 286 and a 40MB HD, and I'll be in heaven for writing papers.:-) And I'm not being even a tad sarcastic. I used to run WP 4.2 on a Tandy 1000 (the original 4.77MHz 8088 version), cached entirely in a RAM disk and booted from a 360K floppy. The whole thing booted up in less time than a modern PC, and was more responsive as well. WP 5.1 really did just improve on a good thing.
ObRant: I would kill for a Reveal Codes option for Microsoft Word, so that I don't need to "sacrifice letters" to get to one side or the other of a format-change boundary. And, no, "Show All" doesn't do what I want/need.
I seem to recall that even though Titan is the only natural satellite with a substantial atmosphere, that atmosphere is still very rarefied compared to earth...
You remember wrong. As others have pointed out, Titan's atmosphere is 4x as dense as Earth's (probably due to its low temperatures). Combine that with its low gravity (1/7th Earth's), and you'll find that helicopters can be quite effective, so long as the winds aren't too strong.
How can the second post be redundant, particularly when the first post just said "First Post"?
ObOnTopic: Colonies on Titan would be a bad idea. It's way too cold there and the amount of light reaching there is far too small to build a sustainable colony for earth-borne life.
I meant "somedomain" as a meta-name that you fill in with some other domain. For instance, I use my ISP's domain usually, since they have localhost.theirdomain.com in their DNS tables.
From what I recall SynchLink was 800Mb/s per pin (that is,a small 'b' as in Megabits per second). So, you'd need a 16-pin interface to reach the same bandwidth as RAMBUS. (Hey wow, that's the same number of pins as RAMBUS uses. Think that's a random coincidence? Think again.) I remember hearing about SyncLink before they'd added the 'h' to become SynchLink, and when their bandwidth per pin was still 400Mbit/s. From what I recall, they upped it to be competitive with RDRAM.
Adding a second RIMM channel also reduces the likelihood you'll take a "bank hit" in the RDRAM, and it allows the chipset to prefetch on the second channel if it thinks there's going to be a subsequent access over there when it sees an access on the first channel.
Of course, CPU and chipset designers have never been all that good at ESP. And, as on-chip caches grow larger, the traffic at the CPU boundary looks increasingly random because all of the redundant and predictable traffic has been absorbed/filtered by the cache, making ESP all the more important. (And yes, I mean Extra Sensory Perception, as in the chipset needs to psychically know where the CPU's going next.)
The other comments about making the channel wider rather than deeper to reduce latency also apply.
I personally use root@localhost.somedomain.com. That one resolves to 127.0.0.1 in many domains, and it's a DNS-resolvable host name for sites that require that to consider an email address valid. (Note: Newer domains don't seem to be including a "localhost" entry, so run "host localhost.somedomain.com" to check beforehand. Or, if you don't have host, you can try nslookup or some other utility.)
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Maybe public key encryption and signed DNS?
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This post wasn't a troll, this is a valid concern. Any thoughts on how spoofing would be controlled? Perhaps using public-key encryption and signed DNS records?
You could keep public keys on multiple servers as well. To make it all work, you'd need to verify a DNS record from server A with a public key from server B. With proper client-side caching and forwarding a'la Freenet (that's what a distributed network is all about, right?), it'd be pretty hard to spoof all of the elements used to validate a DNS record, wouldn't it?
Because the public keys can have larger scope (eg. covering a set of domains, rather than just a single domain or host) it's more feasible to have fewer public-key servers, with more energy put into those servers to protect security. That also makes it possible to have public-key servers of varying authority, as the number of PK requests should be far fewer than the number of DNS resolution requests. The "varying authority" comes from the fact that keys can be signed by others to verify their authenticity. Basicly, this amounts to building a web of trust with public keys, and then using that to secure the distributed-DNS network in parallel. In a sense, a public key acts as the registrar. Kinda.
You separate the attributes from the filenames. Right now, you probably sort your documents using elements in the path name. For example,/home/myacct/doc/{eng123|lit234|cs345}, that is, you're storing the attributes of the file that you're using for sorting them in the pathname. This works fine for a given way of sorting the documents, but what if you need a different ordering for some purpose?
Why not store that in the file itself? No AI involved, rather, you would have a set of attributes associated with each piece of data that could form keys for a query. Some of these, such as "file type", "author", "owner" and "date", could be rather standardized. Then you could add other fields such as "subject", "keywords", "project", etc. Use your imagination. To make it further extensible, you could allow each file to have up to N user-specifiable attributes, to let the user dream up their own categories.
Now, directories start to become irrelevant, since the information that used to be part of the pathname to the file is stored in the database record for the file itself.
For instance, if you want all of your files that have to do with CS-305, you could do a query on "class equals 'cs-305'", and voila! you're done. If you want all emails from the Linux Kernel archive about USB, you could do "list equals 'linux-kernel' AND (subject contains 'USB' OR body contains 'USB')". As more and more content is created in this meta-data aware context, even emails stand a chance of being auto-sortable, since the author will have already provided relevant keywords in the "keywords" field.
I think this scales far better than a filesystem, and requires less, rather than more, user intervention. You could still use procmail-style techniques for setting attributes on emails, and you could have your word processor fill in most of the details for you. The rest are details you already have to take care of when you select a folder to save your file in.
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You obviously haven't grokked SciFi, have you? Read Time Enough for Love or one of Heinleins other works to get an idea of how un-boring it can be. I have a hard time sitting down and reading any fiction, but I was able to read that with no problems -- it was definitely not boring.
At any rate, I'm no fantasy buff myself. But anyway... enough troll-feeding for one day.
--Joe--
This quote seems a lot funnier if you interpret "SO" as "significant other" (as it means in non-Linux-geek circles). Just don't tell your SO about that "other package".
--Joe--
Then don't read Heinlein, ok?
Grok and grep are such useful, complementary verbs. Don't expect us to omit them from our lexicon.
--Joe--
Doing both nearly every night makes life a lot nicer. I know from personal (continuing) experience. *grin* And for those few remaining nights, there's Gnutella / plaympeg. ;^)
--Joe--
Slashdot: Why do you post articles whose URLs have been wordwrapped, and are therefore broken?
Corrected link
--Joe--
Agreed! As my government teacher in high school was fond of pointing out, in most ways, the Constitution does not protect minors in the same way that it protects adults. Over the years, the set of people to whom which Constitutional rights have been extended has grown, but still, not everyone is protected equally. To wit, in the first years of the Constitution, only white male landowners that were 21 years old or older could vote, for instance. Over the years, Constitutional protection of freedoms has been extended to women, people of all races, and people 18 and over, but really, the Constitution protects adults and not minors.
In any case, I don't see how the Constitution factors into this, even if minors vs. adults are not involved. At most, this is a "freedom of expression" issue, but expression hasn't been completely muted here, it's just been moved to the back room.
--Joe--
No, the link is broken due to a space in it. Here's a corrected link for those of you too lazy to figure out how to fix it.
--Joe--
Dr. StrangeLinux?
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All that'd result in is a wandering mouse pointer on the screen. Whenever the battery gets low, the mouse pointer stops staying put, so you need to keep moving the mouse to keep the laptop running... (Of course, that'd only really be an issue if you were using "focus follows mouse", like all true Unix zealots do... ;-) )
--Joe--
(+1, Funny)
--Joe
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That's all fine and good (and I've tried WP7 and WP8 .. nice, but still not as crisp as WP 5.1). However, they don't work really well with the Word documents I get here at work (they screw up the formatting rather spectacularly, and other nasty things happen). I use Word only because my employer has standardized on it. I guess it's because it simplifies the process of deploying macro vir^W^Wsoftware updates.
--Joe--
Agreed! Give me WP 5.1 on a 286 and a 40MB HD, and I'll be in heaven for writing papers. :-) And I'm not being even a tad sarcastic. I used to run WP 4.2 on a Tandy 1000 (the original 4.77MHz 8088 version), cached entirely in a RAM disk and booted from a 360K floppy. The whole thing booted up in less time than a modern PC, and was more responsive as well. WP 5.1 really did just improve on a good thing.
ObRant: I would kill for a Reveal Codes option for Microsoft Word, so that I don't need to "sacrifice letters" to get to one side or the other of a format-change boundary. And, no, "Show All" doesn't do what I want/need.
--Joe--
You remember wrong. As others have pointed out, Titan's atmosphere is 4x as dense as Earth's (probably due to its low temperatures). Combine that with its low gravity (1/7th Earth's), and you'll find that helicopters can be quite effective, so long as the winds aren't too strong.
--Joe--
How can the second post be redundant, particularly when the first post just said "First Post"?
ObOnTopic: Colonies on Titan would be a bad idea. It's way too cold there and the amount of light reaching there is far too small to build a sustainable colony for earth-borne life.
--Joe--
Uhm yeah. That's easy -- delete all the user accounts and just drop back to showing news items with no discussion groupes. Major step forward.
--Joe--
I meant "somedomain" as a meta-name that you fill in with some other domain. For instance, I use my ISP's domain usually, since they have localhost.theirdomain.com in their DNS tables.
Next time, I'll put that part in italics.
--Joe--
From what I recall SynchLink was 800Mb/s per pin (that is,a small 'b' as in Megabits per second). So, you'd need a 16-pin interface to reach the same bandwidth as RAMBUS. (Hey wow, that's the same number of pins as RAMBUS uses. Think that's a random coincidence? Think again.) I remember hearing about SyncLink before they'd added the 'h' to become SynchLink, and when their bandwidth per pin was still 400Mbit/s. From what I recall, they upped it to be competitive with RDRAM.
--Joe--
Adding a second RIMM channel also reduces the likelihood you'll take a "bank hit" in the RDRAM, and it allows the chipset to prefetch on the second channel if it thinks there's going to be a subsequent access over there when it sees an access on the first channel.
Of course, CPU and chipset designers have never been all that good at ESP. And, as on-chip caches grow larger, the traffic at the CPU boundary looks increasingly random because all of the redundant and predictable traffic has been absorbed/filtered by the cache, making ESP all the more important. (And yes, I mean Extra Sensory Perception, as in the chipset needs to psychically know where the CPU's going next.)
The other comments about making the channel wider rather than deeper to reduce latency also apply.
--Joe--
I personally use root@localhost.somedomain.com. That one resolves to 127.0.0.1 in many domains, and it's a DNS-resolvable host name for sites that require that to consider an email address valid. (Note: Newer domains don't seem to be including a "localhost" entry, so run "host localhost.somedomain.com" to check beforehand. Or, if you don't have host, you can try nslookup or some other utility.)
--Joe--
This post wasn't a troll, this is a valid concern. Any thoughts on how spoofing would be controlled? Perhaps using public-key encryption and signed DNS records?
You could keep public keys on multiple servers as well. To make it all work, you'd need to verify a DNS record from server A with a public key from server B. With proper client-side caching and forwarding a'la Freenet (that's what a distributed network is all about, right?), it'd be pretty hard to spoof all of the elements used to validate a DNS record, wouldn't it?
Because the public keys can have larger scope (eg. covering a set of domains, rather than just a single domain or host) it's more feasible to have fewer public-key servers, with more energy put into those servers to protect security. That also makes it possible to have public-key servers of varying authority, as the number of PK requests should be far fewer than the number of DNS resolution requests. The "varying authority" comes from the fact that keys can be signed by others to verify their authenticity. Basicly, this amounts to building a web of trust with public keys, and then using that to secure the distributed-DNS network in parallel. In a sense, a public key acts as the registrar. Kinda.
Thoughts?
--Joe--
Definitely. I got the same Blue Screen. I was able to get to their "Download Flash?" page after doing a View Source and looking around.
Their whole first page is nothing but a big heaping load of JavaScript. And it is pretty darn rude!
--Joe--
Looking at your sig... are you on the FUD Patrol? :-)
--Joe--
I can just see the add campaign for Whataburger in 2005...
--Joe--
You separate the attributes from the filenames. Right now, you probably sort your documents using elements in the path name. For example, /home/myacct/doc/{eng123|lit234|cs345}, that is, you're storing the attributes of the file that you're using for sorting them in the pathname. This works fine for a given way of sorting the documents, but what if you need a different ordering for some purpose?
Why not store that in the file itself? No AI involved, rather, you would have a set of attributes associated with each piece of data that could form keys for a query. Some of these, such as "file type", "author", "owner" and "date", could be rather standardized. Then you could add other fields such as "subject", "keywords", "project", etc. Use your imagination. To make it further extensible, you could allow each file to have up to N user-specifiable attributes, to let the user dream up their own categories.
Now, directories start to become irrelevant, since the information that used to be part of the pathname to the file is stored in the database record for the file itself.
For instance, if you want all of your files that have to do with CS-305, you could do a query on "class equals 'cs-305'", and voila! you're done. If you want all emails from the Linux Kernel archive about USB, you could do "list equals 'linux-kernel' AND (subject contains 'USB' OR body contains 'USB')". As more and more content is created in this meta-data aware context, even emails stand a chance of being auto-sortable, since the author will have already provided relevant keywords in the "keywords" field.
I think this scales far better than a filesystem, and requires less, rather than more, user intervention. You could still use procmail-style techniques for setting attributes on emails, and you could have your word processor fill in most of the details for you. The rest are details you already have to take care of when you select a folder to save your file in.
--Joe--
Uhm, why does "linuxconf.com" bring up BestOfTheWeb.com, with no Linux-related links in sight?
--Joe--