So, just wait one moment while I exercise my right to kill your wife and kids... after all my freedom to do so is more important to you than your happiness...
If it comes down to a computer trying to determine which of 25000 emails are legitemite (with a decent algorithm) and a human doing the same, I'll choose a computer. From experience, I know that it is very easy to miss an real email when it is buried in spam.
Well why stop complaining there. He should complain that the majority of the machines there have windows on them. He doesn't want to use windows, why should he pay for it?
What don't you understand about this. He agreed to pay it when he paid his tuition. He doesn't have to use the ITMS or any of the other software that he has paid to use on the other university machines.
You don't think this cost is gonna be passed onto the students, even the ones who don't even OWN computers?
Well the cost for high speed internet gets passed to the students who don't own computers. The cost of cable gets passed to students who don't own tvs. The cost of the the free medical services that many universities have gets passed to students who don't use them.
It's a service that the university provides. It's not extortion. The students know that they will be paying this fee before they pay their tuition and have every right to go to another school to save their $45 or so.
I fooled around with it 3-4 months ago when it first hit slashdot. It was still very early in it's development and I doubt much has changed since then. I was able to get a few simple applications to run on it but most would not. From what I saw though, I fully believe that this will be a very successful project.
I suppose they can always use additional coders with x86/win32/PPC experience.
Oh please. Don't read more into the statement then was meant. No matter how big your company is, you are going to be hard pressed to have a group people who together, are knowledgable about the entire world.
Since Rendevous requires the machines to be on the same network, this sounds like it is just beating around the regular local network file sharing. I wouldn't think there would be too many legal issues involved here unless someone magically manages to get this working over the internet.
If the people at Google know what's good for them, and a suspect they might, they will keep their search engine clean and fast. Refineing it such that it stays on top. No more wading though countless newsgroup posts to find what your really looking for. Or a better way to refine searches that do hit things like newsgroups.
The biggest thing they need to do is to take care of the false hits that you get that appear to be relevant. This would be difficult to do but i believe they can do it.
AS opposed to intuitve names like Access, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
Did I mention any of those? You are avoiding the problen. Those names may not be descriptive either but it doesn't change the fact that I have no iead at all what the listed applications do.
Not everybody HAS to be on the net. There are pleanty of people who have no interest in it or can't justify paying for it.
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That's different though. The chmod defines a file as being an executable and allows someone to execute it. Windows determines whether or not a file is an executable by the extension. The permission mearly allows (by default) or disallows someone to run it.
Namning another application with a less then descriptive name doesn't change the fact that sunbird is not a descriptive name and is a piss-poor response to the criticism.
Others:
Evolution
Konqueror
noatun
safari
this list could go on and on...
Plus you don't have to learn palm's "grafiti" or whatever it's called. Say what you will about WinCE but the handwriting recognition is beyond comparison with Palm's.
It did bring a couple of new ideas though. There two big ones that stick out, the serializable interface and another one whose name slips my mind. It's been a while since I used them and I get them a little confused. Basically one interface allows converts an object to a class and the other coverts a class to a string. You can also convert back up.
This allows for some really neat things involving sending objects and classes to remote machines. I had a CS professior who created a distributed computing (seti-at-home type) application that would connect to a server download pieces of arbitrary code, execute it and return the result back to the server. If someone had computationally intensive bits of code, they could just up it to the server.
I am fairly certain nothing before (or possibly since) could allow this.
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But France didn't have oil deals with Afghanistan.
So, just wait one moment while I exercise my right to kill your wife and kids... after all my freedom to do so is more important to you than your happiness...
Ability != right
Did you even read the summary or just the deceptive title?
I run Gentoo both at work and on my xbox, did my first Debian install via ftp over a 14.4 modem years ago.
How long is a modem year?
How is it secure? Surly you are not demanding that your client's encrypt their emails.
If it comes down to a computer trying to determine which of 25000 emails are legitemite (with a decent algorithm) and a human doing the same, I'll choose a computer. From experience, I know that it is very easy to miss an real email when it is buried in spam.
I hate these "Don't be surprised..." posts. Unless you have something to back this up, it's worthless FUD.
Well why stop complaining there. He should complain that the majority of the machines there have windows on them. He doesn't want to use windows, why should he pay for it?
What don't you understand about this. He agreed to pay it when he paid his tuition. He doesn't have to use the ITMS or any of the other software that he has paid to use on the other university machines.
You don't think this cost is gonna be passed onto the students, even the ones who don't even OWN computers?
Well the cost for high speed internet gets passed to the students who don't own computers. The cost of cable gets passed to students who don't own tvs. The cost of the the free medical services that many universities have gets passed to students who don't use them.
It's a service that the university provides. It's not extortion. The students know that they will be paying this fee before they pay their tuition and have every right to go to another school to save their $45 or so.
Well you can't get around that. The point is that they have access to the service. Whether they use it or not is their choice.
I fooled around with it 3-4 months ago when it first hit slashdot. It was still very early in it's development and I doubt much has changed since then. I was able to get a few simple applications to run on it but most would not. From what I saw though, I fully believe that this will be a very successful project.
I suppose they can always use additional coders with x86/win32/PPC experience.
Oh please. Don't read more into the statement then was meant. No matter how big your company is, you are going to be hard pressed to have a group people who together, are knowledgable about the entire world.
Just because someone looks innocent doesn't mean they are.
Since Rendevous requires the machines to be on the same network, this sounds like it is just beating around the regular local network file sharing. I wouldn't think there would be too many legal issues involved here unless someone magically manages to get this working over the internet.
If the people at Google know what's good for them, and a suspect they might, they will keep their search engine clean and fast. Refineing it such that it stays on top. No more wading though countless newsgroup posts to find what your really looking for. Or a better way to refine searches that do hit things like newsgroups.
The biggest thing they need to do is to take care of the false hits that you get that appear to be relevant. This would be difficult to do but i believe they can do it.
Well the two are almost certainly related somehow. I would assume they have more data then you do and have a reason for their theory.
AS opposed to intuitve names like Access, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
Did I mention any of those? You are avoiding the problen. Those names may not be descriptive either but it doesn't change the fact that I have no iead at all what the listed applications do.
KWin got a button for always on top, Juk can now burn audio CDs, and Kopete
Now how is anyone not familier with KDE supposed to know what those applications do? Do they just throw a bunch of letters together or something?
Not everybody HAS to be on the net. There are pleanty of people who have no interest in it or can't justify paying for it.
That's different though. The chmod defines a file as being an executable and allows someone to execute it. Windows determines whether or not a file is an executable by the extension. The permission mearly allows (by default) or disallows someone to run it.
Do you have a source for that? I find that a little hard to believe.
Namning another application with a less then descriptive name doesn't change the fact that sunbird is not a descriptive name and is a piss-poor response to the criticism.
Others:
Evolution
Konqueror
noatun
safari
this list could go on and on...
why anyone would buy from iTMS (or Real) when there's allofmp3 I don't know.
Well if you'd read the replies to when you post this every day you might.
Plus you don't have to learn palm's "grafiti" or whatever it's called. Say what you will about WinCE but the handwriting recognition is beyond comparison with Palm's.
It did bring a couple of new ideas though. There two big ones that stick out, the serializable interface and another one whose name slips my mind. It's been a while since I used them and I get them a little confused. Basically one interface allows converts an object to a class and the other coverts a class to a string. You can also convert back up.
This allows for some really neat things involving sending objects and classes to remote machines. I had a CS professior who created a distributed computing (seti-at-home type) application that would connect to a server download pieces of arbitrary code, execute it and return the result back to the server. If someone had computationally intensive bits of code, they could just up it to the server.
I am fairly certain nothing before (or possibly since) could allow this.