Moreover, Evolution already has (slightly limited) support for MS Exchange. That's important, because Exchange uses a weird and undocumented version of extended MAPI to interact with clients (i.e. Outlook), which makes building interfaces with it hard.
If you want to see Exchange support in Outlook, vote for bug 128284 (bugzilla rejects links from slashdot).
Sorry, that was a truly awful phrasing. It's 0030 in Europe:P
Trying again:
Some people who begin comments with quotes and leave a blank line at the head of the quote, so the first line of the comment is blank, but displays the chrome for quotes (currently a vertical grey-green bar).
When those comments get abbreviated, that comment will only have the grey-green bar displayed as the abbreviation, so no useful info is displayed in the abbreviated form.
What we actually want is some text. It's a design decision whether this should show their original content or their quote.
People who begin their comments with quotes, and leave a blank line at the head of the quote, have no information when their comment gets abbreviated. What we actually want is to see the text they wrote.
Thanks. That should help fix a longstanding high-level moderation issue where several mods go through a discussion, note the same thing, and the comment gets overpromoted because of a lack of realtime response.
It's the result of the competition for a new skin that we had a bit ago. See cmdrtaco's journal.
Frankly, I didn't think this was the best of the final 3 (to me, there was clearly a nicer skin).
What I'm really waiting for, is our new-found CSS capabilities used to allow user-selectable stylesheets. It can't be too hard; after all, they hacked the stylesheet for April 1 (when it went all pink).
Plenty of democrats are paid by corporations. But the unions continue to contribute a heck of a lot, as well as other groups who aren't great fans of corporate power. There's no reason for democrats to shy away from criticising corporations just because corporations fund some Dems, and some middle-of-the-roaders aren't opposed to corporation-bashing.
OTOH, the reflexive bash-the-corporation responses that some Dems exhibit (and Republicans too - espc over oil prices, where "price gouging" - aka charging what the market will bear - gets screamed each time the gas price rises due to exogenous factors) do not make them seem very credible. It's hard to trust people who have routine scapegoats; it suggests they don't think enough.
4) Look at all these lovely pictures (especially of bundled games - seriously, about 15/40 pages are games).
All of which teaches us: 1) Tom's Hardware is good at shilling for companies so as to ingratiate themselves further. 2) Pretty pictures do not a review make.
Firstly, you can use a discounted net present value method. For this, you imagine how much, in licensing fees, you'd have to pay, now and in the future, to use the relevant piece of IP. From that, you know how much income the IP generates (or would generate if it were licensed). You then take the discounted net present value of from that. (Roughly, you say, if it's gonna pay $250 a year for ever, and you expect interest rates to be 5%, then the NPV is $5000, because you'd need $5000 returning 5% to get an income of $250 pa)
Secondly, you can try to use market value. These things aren't traded alone often, so this is difficult.
Thirdly, you can try to use production costs: How much did it cost to produce? This has certain problems with IP whose production costs are not always easily attributable (for you must account for all the time you spent dreaming up things that didn't work out etc...)
If you think standard IP is hard, though, try valuing brands....
Am I the only person who thinks calling a company Be, and then producing a BeBox, might just infringe Palm's copyrights, given that Palm acquired the IP of Be, Inc (the guys who produced BeOS, and whose original computer was called, wait for it, a BeBox)
Non-qwerty keyboarder's aren't left out in the cold provided the key mappings are changed to the same physical keys, in which case they have just the same performance.
Pity it's so much effort to change the bindings in most word processors.
You need a pump. Even with a very wide pipe, the temperature difference between the two ends of your system is not going to be enough, and the bottom will perpetually overheat.
Better put, use of a pump will reduce the temperature difference required between the cold end and the hot end, which reduces energy/dry ice requirements.
If you'd ever seen a real sodium accident, you wouldn't make that joke.
Na looks fun skitting across the top of a water bath. That's usually using a couple of grams. The amount you'd need in a cooling system --- and, as others have pointed out, you couldn't use sodium, as the temperature would be way above the operational envelope --- would blow up in your face. I once saw 14g of sodium hit some water. The guy who chucked it in got a hunk of glass from the beaker stuck in his arm. It wasn't pretty.
If you are interested in big, nasty, explosions, then water isn't the best choice; hot concentrated HCl reacts much more violently, producing a dangerous explosion with only a few grams.
In my experience, there are two types of people when it comes to explosions: those who have never seen an explosion go wrong unexpectedly, and those who have. Those who have will testify that explosive substances can be handled safely, but you avoid it at all costs.
Effectively not. You will notice that paragraphs in the document are preceded either by (U) or by (S//NF)
(U) simply means Unclassified. (S//NF) means "Secret/No Foreign Nationals".
Any US citizen has not violated fundamental clearance issues by reading it (however, OpSec provides that this information should only be available on a need to know basis). Non-US Citizens outside the US aren't covered by US law in the same way. The position of Non-US nationals in the US is probably different. I am neither a Lawyer nor a US Citizen and I possess no US Security Clearance.
Graham predicted two things would happen as a result of Bayesian filtering:
Spam would become, essentially, hyperlinks
Hyperlinks would reduce the revenue per spam so much that spamming would become uneconomic
Unfortunately, it seems he got the first right, but was too optimistic about the second. Still, Bayesian filtering removes the most egregious sales pitches, so I don't complain.
When we can work out that strings of unrelated words make no syntactic sense, we'll really have the spammers nailed (and most of Usenet, but that's just a positive side-effect).
It's not just that, different X implementations respond in different ways.
For instance, when given a key held down, there are several different ways of responding:
Give a key down event, then give a key up event when key finally released
Give a series of key down events, possibly with a final key up event
Give a series of key down events followed by key up events
(Crash) - Unlikely, but has been known
Fine, you may say, each designer has chosen their preferred method. Not fine, if you want to tell your users "hold this key down", and you want the same action for all the systems.
The real way that unix is broken is that it's broken up into little parts, and each implementation is different, which is a nightmare for giving users a coherent interface with coherent actions, and a nightmare to get your program to run on every variant, without a lot of lowest-common-denominator code.
As far as I understand, Cormack accepted that he was testing only on one person's corpus, and qualified his findings as such.
This is something that is featured throughout the rebuttal - an argument that runs:
a) Such and such was done incorrectly
b) Therefore the system was inaccurate
c) Therefore CRM-114 is better than stated
The ultimate point where I lost patience was where he claimed that the results were invalid because they didn't conform to accepted, real world knowledge. The study was empirical; it shows something, based on how it was set up; and what it shows is valuable. If you discarded results each time they contradicted agreed wisdom we would still think of a geocentric universe.
Actually it's not that. The first cell phone virus would have happened ages ago if 90% of cell phones used the same architecture and OS. Whatever system you give that dominance, it will always have people exploiting it (or poor configuration thereof).
MSIE 7.01 is not XPSP2. I run part of an extremely small website*, and when I was running XPSP2, I still showed up as MSIE 6.01 (the place is so small we can identify who visits off browser/IP.
I then quit using SP2 because it's madness to try and use it when you are sitting in a domain, group policy managed to hell, and the domain still runs SP1 policies. (Problem: group policy forced updates, which would then invariably corrupt Mup.sys. Solution: don't use SP2RC1)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.slate.com/id/2161616/
And they can't set up a redirect to the new hosting location?
But as anybody can locate a SIM in the cell to which it transmits, sensible thieves replace SIMs anyway.
Moreover, Evolution already has (slightly limited) support for MS Exchange. That's important, because Exchange uses a weird and undocumented version of extended MAPI to interact with clients (i.e. Outlook), which makes building interfaces with it hard. If you want to see Exchange support in Outlook, vote for bug 128284 (bugzilla rejects links from slashdot).
Sorry, that was a truly awful phrasing. It's 0030 in Europe :P
Trying again:
Some people who begin comments with quotes and leave a blank line at the head of the quote, so the first line of the comment is blank, but displays the chrome for quotes (currently a vertical grey-green bar).
When those comments get abbreviated, that comment will only have the grey-green bar displayed as the abbreviation, so no useful info is displayed in the abbreviated form.
What we actually want is some text. It's a design decision whether this should show their original content or their quote.
People who begin their comments with quotes, and leave a blank line at the head of the quote, have no information when their comment gets abbreviated. What we actually want is to see the text they wrote.
Thanks. That should help fix a longstanding high-level moderation issue where several mods go through a discussion, note the same thing, and the comment gets overpromoted because of a lack of realtime response.
Bluetooth headsets are a no-no, given they only support 8kHz. Not good for decent audio.
For those of you who don't know how much a pound is worth:
£600 = $1100
£2000 = $3700
(Yes, the pound is one of the heaviest currencies in the world - in that one GBP is worth more than one unit of other currencies)
It's the result of the competition for a new skin that we had a bit ago. See cmdrtaco's journal.
Frankly, I didn't think this was the best of the final 3 (to me, there was clearly a nicer skin).
What I'm really waiting for, is our new-found CSS capabilities used to allow user-selectable stylesheets. It can't be too hard; after all, they hacked the stylesheet for April 1 (when it went all pink).
Plenty of democrats are paid by corporations. But the unions continue to contribute a heck of a lot, as well as other groups who aren't great fans of corporate power. There's no reason for democrats to shy away from criticising corporations just because corporations fund some Dems, and some middle-of-the-roaders aren't opposed to corporation-bashing. OTOH, the reflexive bash-the-corporation responses that some Dems exhibit (and Republicans too - espc over oil prices, where "price gouging" - aka charging what the market will bear - gets screamed each time the gas price rises due to exogenous factors) do not make them seem very credible. It's hard to trust people who have routine scapegoats; it suggests they don't think enough.
1) Vista uses a cool new windowing technology.
2) Vista has new security features.
3) Some bits have been given a bit of a polish.
4) Look at all these lovely pictures (especially of bundled games - seriously, about 15/40 pages are games).
All of which teaches us:
1) Tom's Hardware is good at shilling for companies so as to ingratiate themselves further.
2) Pretty pictures do not a review make.
There are several methods available.
Firstly, you can use a discounted net present value method. For this, you imagine how much, in licensing fees, you'd have to pay, now and in the future, to use the relevant piece of IP. From that, you know how much income the IP generates (or would generate if it were licensed). You then take the discounted net present value of from that. (Roughly, you say, if it's gonna pay $250 a year for ever, and you expect interest rates to be 5%, then the NPV is $5000, because you'd need $5000 returning 5% to get an income of $250 pa)
Secondly, you can try to use market value. These things aren't traded alone often, so this is difficult.
Thirdly, you can try to use production costs: How much did it cost to produce? This has certain problems with IP whose production costs are not always easily attributable (for you must account for all the time you spent dreaming up things that didn't work out etc...)
If you think standard IP is hard, though, try valuing brands....
Am I the only person who thinks calling a company Be, and then producing a BeBox, might just infringe Palm's copyrights, given that Palm acquired the IP of Be, Inc (the guys who produced BeOS, and whose original computer was called, wait for it, a BeBox)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Incorporated
Non-qwerty keyboarder's aren't left out in the cold provided the key mappings are changed to the same physical keys, in which case they have just the same performance.
Pity it's so much effort to change the bindings in most word processors.
You need a pump. Even with a very wide pipe, the temperature difference between the two ends of your system is not going to be enough, and the bottom will perpetually overheat.
Better put, use of a pump will reduce the temperature difference required between the cold end and the hot end, which reduces energy/dry ice requirements.
If you'd ever seen a real sodium accident, you wouldn't make that joke.
Na looks fun skitting across the top of a water bath. That's usually using a couple of grams. The amount you'd need in a cooling system --- and, as others have pointed out, you couldn't use sodium, as the temperature would be way above the operational envelope --- would blow up in your face. I once saw 14g of sodium hit some water. The guy who chucked it in got a hunk of glass from the beaker stuck in his arm. It wasn't pretty.
If you are interested in big, nasty, explosions, then water isn't the best choice; hot concentrated HCl reacts much more violently, producing a dangerous explosion with only a few grams.
In my experience, there are two types of people when it comes to explosions: those who have never seen an explosion go wrong unexpectedly, and those who have. Those who have will testify that explosive substances can be handled safely, but you avoid it at all costs.
Effectively not. You will notice that paragraphs in the document are preceded either by (U) or by (S//NF)
(U) simply means Unclassified.
(S//NF) means "Secret/No Foreign Nationals".
Any US citizen has not violated fundamental clearance issues by reading it (however, OpSec provides that this information should only be available on a need to know basis). Non-US Citizens outside the US aren't covered by US law in the same way.
The position of Non-US nationals in the US is probably different.
I am neither a Lawyer nor a US Citizen and I possess no US Security Clearance.
Spam would become, essentially, hyperlinks
Hyperlinks would reduce the revenue per spam so much that spamming would become uneconomic
Unfortunately, it seems he got the first right, but was too optimistic about the second. Still, Bayesian filtering removes the most egregious sales pitches, so I don't complain.
When we can work out that strings of unrelated words make no syntactic sense, we'll really have the spammers nailed (and most of Usenet, but that's just a positive side-effect).
For instance, when given a key held down, there are several different ways of responding:
Give a key down event, then give a key up event when key finally released
Give a series of key down events, possibly with a final key up event
Give a series of key down events followed by key up events
(Crash) - Unlikely, but has been known
Fine, you may say, each designer has chosen their preferred method. Not fine, if you want to tell your users "hold this key down", and you want the same action for all the systems. The real way that unix is broken is that it's broken up into little parts, and each implementation is different, which is a nightmare for giving users a coherent interface with coherent actions, and a nightmare to get your program to run on every variant, without a lot of lowest-common-denominator code.
Is the best blog about Iraq around
As far as I understand, Cormack accepted that he was testing only on one person's corpus, and qualified his findings as such.
This is something that is featured throughout the rebuttal - an argument that runs:
a) Such and such was done incorrectly
b) Therefore the system was inaccurate
c) Therefore CRM-114 is better than stated
The ultimate point where I lost patience was where he claimed that the results were invalid because they didn't conform to accepted, real world knowledge. The study was empirical; it shows something, based on how it was set up; and what it shows is valuable. If you discarded results each time they contradicted agreed wisdom we would still think of a geocentric universe.
Actually it's not that. The first cell phone virus would have happened ages ago if 90% of cell phones used the same architecture and OS. Whatever system you give that dominance, it will always have people exploiting it (or poor configuration thereof).
MSIE 7.01 is not XPSP2. I run part of an extremely small website*, and when I was running XPSP2, I still showed up as MSIE 6.01 (the place is so small we can identify who visits off browser/IP.
I then quit using SP2 because it's madness to try and use it when you are sitting in a domain, group policy managed to hell, and the domain still runs SP1 policies. (Problem: group policy forced updates, which would then invariably corrupt Mup.sys. Solution: don't use SP2RC1)
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