While your Tolkein comment was in jest, that would be kind of neat, and it certainly is a nice language to hear. Designed by a linguist, too, without excessive (English-like) complications.
But on a serious note, why not just go back to Latin? It's served as a universal language before (well, as close to it as you get with language), it can do it again, with a little help. It's also studied a bit more than Elvish is in academic situations.
Now excuse me, I'm off to adoration, followed by a Tridentine mass. Tantum ergo sacramentum / Veneremur cernui / Et antiquem documentum / Novo cedat ritui...
"Restrict your donation"? Bah. Money is fungible. If you donate $1000 to their Server Fund, that's $1000 out of general expenses that WON'T be going to the server fund.
I'd think someone as high-profile as the chairman of the FCC could, oh, maybe beg? maybe pay? to get the golf advertisment removed from the middle of his blog post. Oh, wait, this is the FCC here, no? Never mind.;)
Well, I have a printer/scanner/copier device. The default software is bloated and slow, but remarkably pretty and nice... there is also nondefault software available on the CD (the WIA scanning wizard thingy) and I have killed the resident-in-memory junk. It wasn't hard. The equipment works wonderfully with Linux, as well.
I also ordered a HP ProLiant DL145 server, dual Opterons (1.8Ghz each), 2 gigs of RAM... pretty pretty Its initial estimated ship date was late May. They now tell me it should arrive by mid-July, and blame a part being on back order. Yeah. Thanks.
Realize, please, that calling in The Government has never produced a magical cure for any problem. In some cases, however, it certainly has done a miraculous job of making things worse.
Yes. It is trivial to detect and revert vandalism, and simple to ban the vandals, on Wikipedia and Wikibooks both. Each page has a page history, and can be reverted to earlier versions (administrators can do this with a single click per page); "bot rollback" can be used to revert all edits done by a certain user, and the developers of the project with SQL access don't report much trouble with reverting, say, IP range blocks.
The real problem with Wikipedia (and Wikibooks) is not dealing with petty vandalism and "crapfloods", but largely with users who make fair amounts of good, valid contributions but have problems dealing with other users. That's why there's an arbitration committee . (For those who have their differences but are willing to cooperate, there's mediation.)
I'm just wondering where they'd find the processor time to do this. Their current strategy is all about cheap disk space, not about blazing fast processors. I've seen $2/gb installed (with disk, the presumable RAID, accessories, whatever) as a figure elsewhere in this discussion. But if you want to throw processors into the mix... hmm, maybe they could do it with the Google Compute feature of the Google Toolbar some day...;)
Notice that with Gmail you must click a special link to enable the display of external images. This is a per-message link. (I'd post a screenshot somewhere but this is/.:)
I redirected an old manager@(two letters here).net site so Gmail gets a carbon copy of all the spam sent there (it's lots, trust me). At first it seemed that my Thunderbird Bayseian filters were doing better, but the trend seems to have reversed lately.
No, I'm not keeping proper statistics. =b
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>>It's cheaper to just send mail to everyone
>no it's not.
It doesn't matter how cheap it is when 80% of spam supposedly comes from infected zombie computers. (I'm too lazy to actually LINK to the recent story on this.)
agreed. A setup where the host controls the show is best for this situation.
The advantage of people using their own machines is they have their own environment, their own prefrences, and all the settings which they would like to use. If you're an emacs lover, what would you do if a contest stuck you with vi, or vice versa? What of all the small-time IDEs and editors which are adored by their users (both of them!)?
No, you should just run FireFox or something with decent options to block images from a specific host. Keep right clicking the image and choosing that option enough and you'll end up remarkably ad-free.
The other accessory you'll need is the Flash Click to Play extension.
no, if it infects you just by your being connected, it's more of a worm. If it exploits and infects a legitimate email (attachment)/application/etc, it's a virus... if it pretends to be an application but also is something bad THAT'S a trojan.
No, due to the quantam nature of the project, you could either know exactly who funded it, or exactly how much funding they got... just not both at once.
Erm, if you can go "tap" the data, that probably means that you have physical access to the cable, and you can take a pair of scissors (or wirecutters or other cutting implement) to the cable. Which is also an effective DOS.
Schroedinger's Cat is not an illustration of the uncertainty principle, nor is your example.
Perhaps not THE Uncertainty Principle (Heisenberg's, deals with quantam stuff) but it certainly is *AN* uncertainty principle. Perhaps we should name it after the poster. (I'm too lazy to look up the name...:)
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But on a serious note, why not just go back to Latin? It's served as a universal language before (well, as close to it as you get with language), it can do it again, with a little help. It's also studied a bit more than Elvish is in academic situations.
Now excuse me, I'm off to adoration, followed by a Tridentine mass. Tantum ergo sacramentum / Veneremur cernui / Et antiquem documentum / Novo cedat ritui...
It's not that they're antimetric, it's just that the government is so darned good at messing up whatever it is they're trying to promote.
But 640k should be enough for everyone!
"Restrict your donation"? Bah. Money is fungible. If you donate $1000 to their Server Fund, that's $1000 out of general expenses that WON'T be going to the server fund.
Wikipedia is not... YET. (they're applying, however. At least, I think that's the status, anyway. From what I remember,
I'd think someone as high-profile as the chairman of the FCC could, oh, maybe beg? maybe pay? to get the golf advertisment removed from the middle of his blog post. Oh, wait, this is the FCC here, no? Never mind. ;)
The equipment works wonderfully with Linux, as well.
I also ordered a HP ProLiant DL145 server, dual Opterons (1.8Ghz each), 2 gigs of RAM... pretty pretty
Its initial estimated ship date was late May. They now tell me it should arrive by mid-July, and blame a part being on back order. Yeah. Thanks.
Realize, please, that calling in The Government has never produced a magical cure for any problem. In some cases, however, it certainly has done a miraculous job of making things worse.
The sad thing is that I'm not really surprised... disappointed, perhaps, but not surprised.
The real problem with Wikipedia (and Wikibooks) is not dealing with petty vandalism and "crapfloods", but largely with users who make fair amounts of good, valid contributions but have problems dealing with other users. That's why there's an arbitration committee . (For those who have their differences but are willing to cooperate, there's mediation.)
Wikipedia is not what you're looking before. Wikibooks is. Both are projects of the Wikimedia foundation (which uses the MediaWiki software).
I'm just wondering where they'd find the processor time to do this. Their current strategy is all about cheap disk space, not about blazing fast processors. I've seen $2/gb installed (with disk, the presumable RAID, accessories, whatever) as a figure elsewhere in this discussion. But if you want to throw processors into the mix... hmm, maybe they could do it with the Google Compute feature of the Google Toolbar some day... ;)
Notice that with Gmail you must click a special link to enable the display of external images. This is a per-message link. (I'd post a screenshot somewhere but this is /. :)
No, I'm not keeping proper statistics. =b
>>It's cheaper to just send mail to everyone
>no it's not.
It doesn't matter how cheap it is when 80% of spam supposedly comes from infected zombie computers. (I'm too lazy to actually LINK to the recent story on this.)
Yes, Jimbo Wales (warning: Wikipedia is down). It's been mentioned before on the Wikipedia-L list...
So should I start imagining a Beowulf cluster of these things?
The advantage of people using their own machines is they have their own environment, their own prefrences, and all the settings which they would like to use. If you're an emacs lover, what would you do if a contest stuck you with vi, or vice versa? What of all the small-time IDEs and editors which are adored by their users (both of them!)?
The other accessory you'll need is the Flash Click to Play extension.
But would the FCC care to make any complaints about this interference?
no, if it infects you just by your being connected, it's more of a worm. If it exploits and infects a legitimate email (attachment)/application/etc, it's a virus... if it pretends to be an application but also is something bad THAT'S a trojan.
doesn't that presuppose that you know the passwords and account numbers, et cetera?
No, due to the quantam nature of the project, you could either know exactly who funded it, or exactly how much funding they got... just not both at once.
Erm, if you can go "tap" the data, that probably means that you have physical access to the cable, and you can take a pair of scissors (or wirecutters or other cutting implement) to the cable. Which is also an effective DOS.
Perhaps not THE Uncertainty Principle (Heisenberg's, deals with quantam stuff) but it certainly is *AN* uncertainty principle. Perhaps we should name it after the poster. (I'm too lazy to look up the name... :)