Ignoring for a second MS's monopoly which the Israeli government had chosen to ignore up till now: the claim made by this recent ban on MS products is that MS isn't localizing it's products for Apple.
This is a completely rediculous claim: 90%, if not more, of bidi localization is in the OS. Office and other progs are built on top of that and consequently have very little work to do with regards to localizatoin. Now they expect MS to either alter its' Office suite completely by making the localization built into the program (impossible) or to do the necessariy OS changes to APPLE's OS - impossible as well.
This is a shake-down of MS, plain and simple. Not that I have any objections to that (what goes around), but the end result will be more MS licensing - probably long term, and that's too bad.
The Israeli government is just holding out in order to get a better deal on MS products for the upcoming years. Too much of the government and the army's software is tied too MS for a transition to Linux to take place. Besides, no other platform, sadly, has as good a support of Hebrew as MS. Although it's getting better constantly - the latest OpenOffice, for example, is quite an improvement.
There's also the issue of MS's political power through the US government. Israel gets quite a bit of money from the US and large portions of it are conditioned on the buying of American products with this money. So I wouldn't bet on Israel doing the Munich thing. At least not for a while.
What next, paying per HTTP request?
This will never happen, the second that SMTP transactions cost money people will switch to another, perhaps rogue, protocol that is free and that would be the end of stardardized email.
Whoever came up with this idea lacks some basic understanding of the Internet and information in general.
Remember the days when MS was the most hated organization within the/. community? The good ol' days. Now RIAA is the Emperor to MS's Darth Vader. (Or is it the other way around? I don't know Star Wars...)
Since today Gaim users that use MSN accounts receive these messages every few minutes: (12:50:09) messenger@microsoft.com: You are running a version of messenger that requires an immediate security update. Please visit http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx to complete the update.
It's annoying as hell and I'm this close to ditching my MSN account all together.
If "A implies B" means "if A happens then B happens" then we say that A is a sufficient condition for B and that B is a necessary condition of A.
A->B == ~B->~A
It doesn't get any more basic than that.
A->B means 'if A then B'
~B->~A means 'if B is false then so is A'
They are equivalent. Use a truth-table and see.
I agree.
Both programs seem to do the job almost equally well and each has it's own unique advantages that, if I'm not mistaken, were not mentioned in the review.
POPFile offers much more than spam filtering, it classifies email according to almost any criterion very successfuly. It's UI offers much more information than SpamBayes too.
SpamBayes is much more spam dedicated and makes it easier for people only interested in spam filtering to get the job done. It also has an Outlook (not express) plug-in which saves a lot of time.
I'm a long time POPFile user and today I switched to SpamBayes in order to give it a try (since I use Outlook). I advise everyone else to do the same thing and give both products a try.
Turns out that copying the shlwapi.dll file from the system32 folder to the application folder solves the problem of the plugin not being able to register it self.
Just FYI.
POPfile really got shortchanged by this review. It serves as much more that a spam filter.
I thought I'll give SpamBayes a try anyway but the Outlook plugin won't install on my XP machine. Some problem with an unresolved dependency in shlwapi.dll... boring. The point is, the SpamBayes site doesn't have a tech support forum where I can ask for help with these kind of problems.
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simply put.
Of course, IANAL, but it seems to me that...
UANAL?
In hebrew it's "C Little Ladder".
Search the Magna Carta for "jew".
Ignoring for a second MS's monopoly which the Israeli government had chosen to ignore up till now: the claim made by this recent ban on MS products is that MS isn't localizing it's products for Apple.
This is a completely rediculous claim: 90%, if not more, of bidi localization is in the OS. Office and other progs are built on top of that and consequently have very little work to do with regards to localizatoin. Now they expect MS to either alter its' Office suite completely by making the localization built into the program (impossible) or to do the necessariy OS changes to APPLE's OS - impossible as well.
This is a shake-down of MS, plain and simple. Not that I have any objections to that (what goes around), but the end result will be more MS licensing - probably long term, and that's too bad.
The Israeli government is just holding out in order to get a better deal on MS products for the upcoming years. Too much of the government and the army's software is tied too MS for a transition to Linux to take place. Besides, no other platform, sadly, has as good a support of Hebrew as MS. Although it's getting better constantly - the latest OpenOffice, for example, is quite an improvement.
There's also the issue of MS's political power through the US government. Israel gets quite a bit of money from the US and large portions of it are conditioned on the buying of American products with this money. So I wouldn't bet on Israel doing the Munich thing. At least not for a while.
Great idea, thanks. How 'bout seeding the new ThunderBird too?
Just let it run, ya cheap bastard.
What next, paying per HTTP request?
This will never happen, the second that SMTP transactions cost money people will switch to another, perhaps rogue, protocol that is free and that would be the end of stardardized email.
Whoever came up with this idea lacks some basic understanding of the Internet and information in general.
... is how we know the world to Banana shaped!
This is a test to see how a completely random quote from the HHG gets modded. I'm actually optimistic.
I'm still waiting for support for my Turbo button...
Remember the days when MS was the most hated organization within the /. community?
The good ol' days.
Now RIAA is the Emperor to MS's Darth Vader. (Or is it the other way around? I don't know Star Wars...)
Miranda won't connect with v8, as of now it suffers the same fate as Gaim - a message from MSN every minute or two.
Since today Gaim users that use MSN accounts receive these messages every few minutes:
(12:50:09) messenger@microsoft.com: You are running a version of messenger that requires an immediate security update. Please visit http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx to complete the update.
It's annoying as hell and I'm this close to ditching my MSN account all together.
It's those kinds of comments that warrent more than 5 points for funny. That one was about 9 on my scale.
Would that include shows such as Monty Phython or Fawlty Towers?
That song was so bad I think it gave me cancer!
I figured PalmOne should be pronounced like the Italian name Corleone: Pal-Mo-Ne
I said A is a necessary condition for B. Check.
If "A implies B" means "if A happens then B happens" then we say that A is a sufficient condition for B and that B is a necessary condition of A.
A->B == ~B->~A
It doesn't get any more basic than that.
A->B means 'if A then B'
~B->~A means 'if B is false then so is A'
They are equivalent. Use a truth-table and see.
> "A implies B" does not mean "B only if A"
If A is a sufficient condition for B then B is a necessary condition for A. IOW: 1st year math logic, get to know it.
I agree.
Both programs seem to do the job almost equally well and each has it's own unique advantages that, if I'm not mistaken, were not mentioned in the review.
POPFile offers much more than spam filtering, it classifies email according to almost any criterion very successfuly. It's UI offers much more information than SpamBayes too.
SpamBayes is much more spam dedicated and makes it easier for people only interested in spam filtering to get the job done. It also has an Outlook (not express) plug-in which saves a lot of time.
I'm a long time POPFile user and today I switched to SpamBayes in order to give it a try (since I use Outlook). I advise everyone else to do the same thing and give both products a try.
Turns out that copying the shlwapi.dll file from the system32 folder to the application folder solves the problem of the plugin not being able to register it self. Just FYI.
POPfile really got shortchanged by this review. It serves as much more that a spam filter. I thought I'll give SpamBayes a try anyway but the Outlook plugin won't install on my XP machine. Some problem with an unresolved dependency in shlwapi.dll... boring. The point is, the SpamBayes site doesn't have a tech support forum where I can ask for help with these kind of problems.