That's a very insightful, proactive suggestion. Why bitch about the usual MS attitudes if you can provide a constructive path ahead, right?
Actually, it shouldn't be all that hard (but, it may well be tedious work) to put together a document that includes samples of *all* features of the spreadsheet / text editor / drawing / presentation document.
Providing verification is probably a bigger challenge. I wonder if it could be done as macros in any of the ODF-supporting suites, or if that's akin to an SOD violation?
Yeah, I've been looking for a place like that for a couple of years now. Sweden and Switzerland, which once seemed good candidates, have since fallen. I even joked that the Principality of Sealand was the last place remaining.
Let me know if you find any country still respecting, and thus worthy of, citizenship.
"Unsolicited white hat hacking" is rarely welcome, regardless that you might well be helping them out. Would you be unequivocally glad to see a stranger mowing your back yard lawn when you came home from work? With your own lawnmower, which was supposed to be in your shed. He's just helping out...
While there may not be an organisation to protest all of your, say, 300.000 patches, there may very well be an organisation willing to protest the 14 patches that hit their machines. The world of pain you'd be in would only be slightly different than if you'd been caught patching all 300.000.
Nope, you'd get your grumpy old granny back. Only, her room at the home seems to have be somehow given to someone else in the meantime... see the catch?
Good luck with that the next time you're at the security check at the airport. Pacemakers they know about, but with people getting withheld due to t-shirts with *images* of electronics, this thing is just asking for trouble.
I understand gmail allows using a + in the address line to sort mail in a similar fashion googleid+identifyingstring@gmail.com and you still get it-- only you know the source.
Only until someone 'helpfully' sends you something from a postcard site, joke list, or lottery draw. Then you'll get spammed at the "root" address (sans "+") and almost never again at any "+" address.
when and even whether an openmoko phone would emerge that's suitable for use by a normal end-user
This is the bit I've been waiting for, and still am.
I signed up on their interest list, but with a note that I would need it to be stable enough for use as my primary phone -- and when I respond with this question to their recurring inquiries whether I still want to be on their list, they always end up saying 'um, no, not yet'. Well, I'm very sorry but then I will buy their phone 'um, no, not yet'. Sadly.
There are a few flaws with this idea. Primarily that it blocks colorblind individuals from registering for the site, and there are much more colorblind internet users than visually and hearing impaired.
By no means am I belittling colour blindness, but it's not *that* big a problem. Firstly, the red-green variety, which is the most common, only affects 7% of males (zero females!), and secondly there are colour combinations that everyone but the totally colourblind would be able to distinguish.
Having said that, you could just as easily make it shades of grey, or serifs and sans serifs if you will.
A better method is to unhook the word/character from the meaning; e.g. show three boat symbols and ask which one is a steamer, or show "x" vehicle symbols and ask which one a person could lift. That's the kind of deduction that's really easy for humans, but requires a tremendously skilled program. At least, until the Google Image Labeler gets adopted by crackers.
Well in that regard, English also offers a ton of words for (very nearly) the same thing. I don't speak Spanish (yet) so I can't compare to that, but my native Danish has a measly one-third as many words as English, which really shows when comparing translations of books, poems, etc.
If you're interested in an unambiguous and precise language, you might want to check out Lojban (dot org, or at the Wikipedia). A colleague of mine toyed with the idea of insisting that requirements documents should be written in Lojban.;-)
I actually realized in high school that a reflective instead of emissive display was the pilotal tech missing... (Before I heard about e-ink.)
Yup, my old and dead Psion Revo had a transflective screen, so the more ambient light there was, the better it got -- just like paper (but, naturally, not as hi-res). I read a good deal of books on that thing I burned through Borroughs' Mars-trilogy while on the bus); it's very adequate as an e-book reader, and certainly cheaper than what's "modern" on the market right now. Other than that, yes, a device that only needs power (and cpu time) to "flip the page" is definitely the future.
Should publishers get a cut of the money, at least as long as their book is being scanned?
Hell yes. How would anything else not be piracy? In fact, maybe skip the publishers but ensure the authors get a cut -- since when is author royalties are an "opt in" thing?
I don't get how Google can get away with what seems to be large-scale professional copyright infringement (and please don't say it's because it's large scale and professional).
Right you are. My first impression was also more in the direction of "cough cough dust and crap everywhere" than "blink and it's gone". Although I wish they'd included a high-speed camera close-up.
Reminds me of one of my favourite quotes:
No, scratch that. It didn't take off, it JUMPED.
I've been trying to figure out a way to put it into words, but the sight is almost impossible to describe. Think of this: You know what it looks like when you shoot a paper clip with a rubber band? One second the clip is between your fingers, and the next it's just... gone. You can't track it with your eyes, because it moves too fast. All you can do is hope to shift your eyes to where it was going, so you can see where it hits.
Think of the same thing happening with a 1500-pound car.
Or, it might finally explain why we don't have a solid model for how electrons move around the atom -- there's no more precision in modelling that than a pedestrian's movements on the surface of a planet*. I mean, sure, you can use probabilities to build up models of "habits", but you can't actually predict "who will be where when", as it were.
*Incidentally, this might be a very neat one-page story on 365tomorrows, or a really spooky sci-fi novel -- supposing that electrons do indeed have free will, and their movements around the atom is just their view of reality, no more aware of "molecules" and "people" that exist outside of their atom-world than we are of "galaxies" and...well, that's where the spooky sci-fi comes in!
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That's a very insightful, proactive suggestion. Why bitch about the usual MS attitudes if you can provide a constructive path ahead, right?
Actually, it shouldn't be all that hard (but, it may well be tedious work) to put together a document that includes samples of *all* features of the spreadsheet / text editor / drawing / presentation document.
Providing verification is probably a bigger challenge. I wonder if it could be done as macros in any of the ODF-supporting suites, or if that's akin to an SOD violation?
Nope, that was 12 years ago.
Are we done with these yet?
You forgot 'walking down the street'.
Yeah, I've been looking for a place like that for a couple of years now. Sweden and Switzerland, which once seemed good candidates, have since fallen. I even joked that the Principality of Sealand was the last place remaining.
Let me know if you find any country still respecting, and thus worthy of, citizenship.
(Emphasis mine:)
Bike to work. Email instead of printing. Open windows rather than hit the terminal?! Use GotoMeeting rather than fly.
I think my mind just may have kept going along a tangent, there. I couldn't quite grasp the energy-saving factor until I re-read it.
"Unsolicited white hat hacking" is rarely welcome, regardless that you might well be helping them out. Would you be unequivocally glad to see a stranger mowing your back yard lawn when you came home from work? With your own lawnmower, which was supposed to be in your shed. He's just helping out...
While there may not be an organisation to protest all of your, say, 300.000 patches, there may very well be an organisation willing to protest the 14 patches that hit their machines. The world of pain you'd be in would only be slightly different than if you'd been caught patching all 300.000.
Nope, you'd get your grumpy old granny back. Only, her room at the home seems to have be somehow given to someone else in the meantime ... see the catch?
...and I'm just fresh out of mod points. >_
Well, let this be in lieu of a +1 Insightful.
I recall a recent story about UK train schedules being made available by a third party, which *was* deemed an infringement.
You guys got it right. Thumbs-up.
Good luck with that the next time you're at the security check at the airport. Pacemakers they know about, but with people getting withheld due to t-shirts with *images* of electronics, this thing is just asking for trouble.
Which RFC, though?
821 (from 1982) does not allow it.
822 (also 1982) does.
2821 and 2822 (2001) also respectively don't and do.
I understand gmail allows using a + in the address line to sort mail in a similar fashion
googleid+identifyingstring@gmail.com and you still get it-- only you know the source.
Only until someone 'helpfully' sends you something from a postcard site, joke list, or lottery draw. Then you'll get spammed at the "root" address (sans "+") and almost never again at any "+" address.
Don't ask me how I know this.
when and even whether an openmoko phone would emerge that's suitable for use by a normal end-user
This is the bit I've been waiting for, and still am.
I signed up on their interest list, but with a note that I would need it to be stable enough for use as my primary phone -- and when I respond with this question to their recurring inquiries whether I still want to be on their list, they always end up saying 'um, no, not yet'. Well, I'm very sorry but then I will buy their phone 'um, no, not yet'. Sadly.
There are a few flaws with this idea. Primarily that it blocks colorblind individuals from registering for the site, and there are much more colorblind internet users than visually and hearing impaired.
By no means am I belittling colour blindness, but it's not *that* big a problem. Firstly, the red-green variety, which is the most common, only affects 7% of males (zero females!), and secondly there are colour combinations that everyone but the totally colourblind would be able to distinguish.
Having said that, you could just as easily make it shades of grey, or serifs and sans serifs if you will.
A better method is to unhook the word/character from the meaning; e.g. show three boat symbols and ask which one is a steamer, or show "x" vehicle symbols and ask which one a person could lift. That's the kind of deduction that's really easy for humans, but requires a tremendously skilled program. At least, until the Google Image Labeler gets adopted by crackers.
I don't suppose you're familiar with the game, then?
http://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked
I do suppose you know the game "Achievement Unlocked"?
http://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked
Well in that regard, English also offers a ton of words for (very nearly) the same thing. I don't speak Spanish (yet) so I can't compare to that, but my native Danish has a measly one-third as many words as English, which really shows when comparing translations of books, poems, etc.
If you're interested in an unambiguous and precise language, you might want to check out Lojban (dot org, or at the Wikipedia). A colleague of mine toyed with the idea of insisting that requirements documents should be written in Lojban. ;-)
I actually realized in high school that a reflective instead of emissive display was the pilotal tech missing... (Before I heard about e-ink.)
Yup, my old and dead Psion Revo had a transflective screen, so the more ambient light there was, the better it got -- just like paper (but, naturally, not as hi-res). I read a good deal of books on that thing I burned through Borroughs' Mars-trilogy while on the bus); it's very adequate as an e-book reader, and certainly cheaper than what's "modern" on the market right now.
Other than that, yes, a device that only needs power (and cpu time) to "flip the page" is definitely the future.
Should publishers get a cut of the money, at least as long as their book is being scanned?
Hell yes. How would anything else not be piracy? In fact, maybe skip the publishers but ensure the authors get a cut -- since when is author royalties are an "opt in" thing?
I don't get how Google can get away with what seems to be large-scale professional copyright infringement (and please don't say it's because it's large scale and professional).
Hear hear. I still play, mainly, the 90's era games. Ports of Call was great, too.
The only games I've bought the last 15 years are (a gold license for) PoC, Half-Life, and the Space Quest Collection.
Only the non-pirated ones.
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Right you are. My first impression was also more in the direction of "cough cough dust and crap everywhere" than "blink and it's gone". Although I wish they'd included a high-speed camera close-up.
Reminds me of one of my favourite quotes:
No, scratch that. It didn't take off, it JUMPED.
I've been trying to figure out a way to put it into words, but the sight is almost impossible to describe. Think of this: You know what it looks like when you shoot a paper clip with a rubber band? One second the clip is between your fingers, and the next it's just... gone. You can't track it with your eyes, because it moves too fast. All you can do is hope to shift your eyes to where it was going, so you can see where it hits.
Think of the same thing happening with a 1500-pound car.
Come back tomorrow, and I'll tell you about [...] how we were able to dodge saber-toothed tigers using 1/2-inch tape reels.
That I'd really love to hear about. Can't we just pretend it's tomorrow already, aww can we grandpa? :D
Or, it might finally explain why we don't have a solid model for how electrons move around the atom -- there's no more precision in modelling that than a pedestrian's movements on the surface of a planet*. I mean, sure, you can use probabilities to build up models of "habits", but you can't actually predict "who will be where when", as it were.
*Incidentally, this might be a very neat one-page story on 365tomorrows, or a really spooky sci-fi novel -- supposing that electrons do indeed have free will, and their movements around the atom is just their view of reality, no more aware of "molecules" and "people" that exist outside of their atom-world than we are of "galaxies" and ...well, that's where the spooky sci-fi comes in!
PS. I want royalties.