Why can't you just accept new technology and first take a look at it? It's not that the good old tree like filesystems are the best ones. They do indeed have problems. Have you ever read about data modelling? Have you studied some papers about that? Obviously not, otherwise you would know what the current state of data representation is. Hierarchical systems are indeed some of the worst if it comes to expressive semantics. There are new concepts outthere, trying to solve those problems, and, yes, they come along with a new paradigm.
If you are too lazy to learn and accept new paradigms, you don't deserve to be a geek.
I got one simple example that is very hard to organize. Manga/anime. How do you name the file? Japanese name? Japanese but in roman characters? Translated name? Official licensed translated name? I can always use locate (I store mine on a linux san) but that requires me to know the name. I can't search for a series "about a boy visited by a goddess" I need to search for "ah! my goddess" "oh! my goddess" "ah! megami-sama" etc etc. The only common character is the !
Google is a clean interface, and searching etc. I don't search my emails - I really think people should realise that email is not a storage format, and you should increase the signal:noise by extracting pertinent information into a real format.
URLs: FireFox Browser Bookmarks Emails: Thunderbird Contacts Events: Sunbird Calendar Tasks: SunBird again? I use Rainlendar but SunBird seems to do a tasty job.
Many "worst movies of all time" lists tend to not include the absolute worst ones ever made. Many obscure poorly done films are overlooked, and instead these lists will only put in the bad films that will be remembered. In fact, we could sum most of these lists up to be really lists of 3 things: 1) most disappointing hyped-up films, 2) most memorable bad films, and 3) worst recent films. http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=117776&op= Reply&threshold=2&commentsort=0&tid=186&mode=neste d&pid=9968333
And to all of you. Wouldnt it be nice to include title of the movie in the post near link to IMDB. Half of post here are not easy to read as they dont include the title of the movie in post.
Reasons why India is better to Invest: 1.Abundant and still latent talented English speaking IT workforce 2.Upcoming Quality of workforce 3.Democracy and approachable govt policies. 4.Already Established. 5.Investment cost is low and not likely to grow higher and would propagate to different unexplored places. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=115681&op=Repl y&threshold=2&commentsort=0&tid=126&mode=nested&pi d=9796933 Democracy and free press. I should underline these.
In this particular case it is child porn that is in the question. Well, you have to pay for some sites and then there is credit card records? See the next post.
If individual artists controlled their own music, we wouldn't have anyone lobbying for insane copyright terms, because individuals eventually die, so there's no one to keep lobbying for more and more extensions. The problem with corporations is that they're immortal, so there's no end to the insanity. Believe.
About the alleged "discrepancy between the United States and the EU." - Many (most?) European countries have life plus 70. I was surprised to find that Great Britain does not
I've got a 3 year old $400(CDN) Peugeot mountain bike I bought just for casual riding at the time. This year I've gotten quite a bit more serious and have taken part in a number of cross-country relay races. Up until about a month ago, I was constantly looking at the 'other guys' $4000+ machines and trying to plan how and when I would upgrade.
One ring to rule them all? It's like a dream some habitants of global village are having. That small languages will disappear and one shiny day we will wake up and we will all use english (all french or german). Everything has its purpose.
if index is created as you press "save" icon. Whoever owns save icon will lead on local search. Maybe "save" icon will be replaced by "index" and "open" by "search" in the not-so-distant future.
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Unsolicited commercial communications
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Just quick scanning. Does it apply only to e-mails & SMS? No donotcallme - registry?
Is there similar regulation in EU? germany, france, UK, nordic? any plan to adopt it in all EU states?
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Why can't you just accept new technology and first take a look at it? It's not that the good old tree like filesystems are the best ones. They do indeed have problems. Have you ever read about data modelling? Have you studied some papers about that? Obviously not, otherwise you would know what the current state of data representation is. Hierarchical systems are indeed some of the worst if it comes to expressive semantics. There are new concepts outthere, trying to solve those problems, and, yes, they come along with a new paradigm.
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If you are too lazy to learn and accept new paradigms, you don't deserve to be a geek.
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I got one simple example that is very hard to organize. Manga/anime. How do you name the file? Japanese name? Japanese but in roman characters? Translated name? Official licensed translated name? I can always use locate (I store mine on a linux san) but that requires me to know the name. I can't search for a series "about a boy visited by a goddess" I need to search for "ah! my goddess" "oh! my goddess" "ah! megami-sama" etc etc. The only common character is the !
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Google is a clean interface, and searching etc. I don't search my emails - I really think people should realise that email is not a storage format, and you should increase the signal:noise by extracting pertinent information into a real format.
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URLs: FireFox Browser Bookmarks
Emails: Thunderbird Contacts
Events: Sunbird Calendar
Tasks: SunBird again? I use Rainlendar but SunBird seems to do a tasty job.
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Absolutely no one in 1950 had an inkling of what the computer would do to society in fifty years. Looking at the history of science fiction, you see that while on occasion a few skilled authors make an accurate prediction or two, the vast majority of speculative sci fi fails dramatically to come close to reality.7 &op=Reply&threshold=2&commentsort=0&tid=214&mode=n ested&pid=9975127
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What are the most unnoticed bad and good movies?
Many "worst movies of all time" lists tend to not include the absolute worst ones ever made. Many obscure poorly done films are overlooked, and instead these lists will only put in the bad films that will be remembered. In fact, we could sum most of these lists up to be really lists of 3 things: 1) most disappointing hyped-up films, 2) most memorable bad films, and 3) worst recent films.= Reply&threshold=2&commentsort=0&tid=186&mode=neste d&pid=9968333
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And to all of you. Wouldnt it be nice to include title of the movie in the post near link to IMDB. Half of post here are not easy to read as they dont include the title of the movie in post.
homo-erotic? You are and idiot.
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Menace of turning knowledge into bits.
Reasons why India is better to Invest:
1.Abundant and still latent talented English speaking IT workforce
2.Upcoming Quality of workforce
3.Democracy and approachable govt policies.
4.Already Established.
5.Investment cost is low and not likely to grow higher and would propagate to different unexplored places.
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Democracy and free press. I should underline these.
"The contractor came back and said that they could save 60% of their disk space, but since he also analyzed their NNTP logs he told them that porn was also their major source of revenue."= Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=95&mode=nested &pid=9746889
.... What is needed is the sites/ISPs running this stuff shut down - and I cannot see how the FBI/CIA/Scotland cannot find them!"= Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=95&mode=nested &pid=9746795
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In this particular case it is child porn that is in the question. Well, you have to pay for some sites and then there is credit card records? See the next post.
"Big problem here is 'child pornography' is being used as a stepping stone to censorship on the Internet
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Should we have "child porn" site list to put into host file, so I could not access these. Voluntary action instead of "big brother" forcing us.
"Many professors have still refused to adopt the internet as a way of getting information to students and Al Gore invented that over 10 years ago. Other than the CS classes and a few tech-savy professors elsewhere this won't even be attempted."o p=Reply&threshold=2&commentsort=0&tid=146&mode=nes ted&pid=9746212
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Free iPods for every professor? I disagree, audio files are great for memorizing text.
"That's excellent! How well does the data restore work when you lose your pda, er pad?"
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How often disks in iPod crash? Does someone have information or experience?
If individual artists controlled their own music, we wouldn't have anyone lobbying for insane copyright terms, because individuals eventually die, so there's no one to keep lobbying for more and more extensions. The problem with corporations is that they're immortal, so there's no end to the insanity. Believe.
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About the alleged "discrepancy between the United States and the EU." - Many (most?) European countries have life plus 70. I was surprised to find that Great Britain does not
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If the cyclists are listening to mp3's, maybe their playlists look something like this
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I've got a 3 year old $400(CDN) Peugeot mountain bike I bought just for casual riding at the time. This year I've gotten quite a bit more serious and have taken part in a number of cross-country relay races. Up until about a month ago, I was constantly looking at the 'other guys' $4000+ machines and trying to plan how and when I would upgrade.
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One might argue that we can sort of already do such things using XUL, Javascript, DHTML, Java etc. That's all nice and well, but how many technologies do you have to learn to build a simple app? With
One ring to rule them all? It's like a dream some habitants of global village are having. That small languages will disappear and one shiny day we will wake up and we will all use english (all french or german). Everything has its purpose.
For web applications to be convenient, they have to be easy to install and offer all the power of a desktop application. That includes access to the filesystem, and to the burgeoning number of peripherals: personal LANs, WiFi antennae, microphones and webcams. (Did you know that Flash pages can turn on the web cam on your computer, if you allow it?)
I didn't know. But that bothers me. They should not act like desktop apps.
Good post and only +1 mod??
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Is there anybody who can quickly digest about 20 pages of excellent story written by Tim O'Reilly and produce meaningful comment in an hour.
Slashdot needs "slow stories", "slow food".
it is wrong to argue that MBA and linux crowd sits on opposite tabels
"slick" is the right word? :)
and it is "obnoxious"
has'nt launched its services to a larger audience. great.
"At this point, my energy level was not only elevated, it was speeding toward the red line."
Could energy level be measured by med\ trainer ? they got to have some routine measures, right?
good RSS reader ext.
if index is created as you press "save" icon. Whoever owns save icon will lead on local search. Maybe "save" icon will be replaced by "index" and "open" by "search" in the not-so-distant future.