If so, and if it's in the way of IBM, IBM might have to challenge those patents; nice.
They (IBM) might be successful since they're such a good customer of the patent office. Surely they will get some favourable treatment to overthrow those patents.
Btw in this case I'd be on IBM's side, since here it is in-the-open research against patents. Aside of what one thinks about IP patents, research should never be limited by futile things like patents. But it would be ironical since IBM, in other issues such a big user (profiter) of the patent system, would kind of have to act against itself (i.e. the patent office) then.
Of course, I didn't really do the layout for her, I only (as you did) took an existing one and maybe modified it a bit.
The good thing of this is that you won't be temped to fiddle and play with layout too much, but just accept the (excellent) existing ones. There are other people that know how to make a report/letter/fax layout much better than I do, and it is only good that I have to use them.
I hate those word documents with an unprofessional layout using many different fonts, often even changing the layout during the document.
Good decision. It reminds me of my wife. She is a computer analfabetic (knows really nothing about them) pharmacist. When she had to write her thesis I gave her a Unix account (on my FBSD box) with emacs as Tex-sensitive editor, and Latex.
I learned her about 15 Latex commands (you don't need more) and did the header/footer and some generic definitions for her. It went perfectly fine and she wrote a well structured and very good looking thesis.
Later she had to use Word sometimes and cursed it, longing for the time she could use Latex.
Somehow people always think that WYSIWYG is easier, at least for non-computer-nerds. From my (actually my wives) experience, this is not true.
It is only so that today, many people only know WYSIWYG, and falsely assume that anything else is hard and scary. Which is a stupid prejudice.
It is very convenient that a.somecountry domain exists. If I want information on Zurich, Switzerland, I go to www.zurich.ch (and don't get some US town also named zurich). If I want to get a cheap monitor in the neighbourhood, I go to a swiss search engine (that only searches *.ch) and type "+monitor +philips", and I only get Swiss hits (which are always near since it is only a small country).
Without countrydomains, all information would be blurred, and 99% of this on your searches would come from the US, which often isn't too relevant for me.
In Switzerland one of the main (two) supermarkets is called "COOP". In fact also in many more european countries. This are cooperations of independent supermarket owners that formed a cooperation.
So do we get coop.coop? coop.ch.coop, coop.fi.coop?
Ugly or not, I don't say WWW doesn't have its place but more special purpose programs also have their use.
Gopher is one thing (quickly browse/search/read) hierarchically organized information, NNTP/usenet clients is another example.
Formerly Slashdot would have been a usenet newsgroup. You could interface to all groups with a standardized, optimized interface (the newsreader of *your* choice) that allows much faster and more efficient browsing. (in fact I use nnslashdots backend to the GNUS newsreader now and then to read/port to slashdot as if it were a usenet newsgroup:).
The web created a chaotic situation of unstructured information. All pages look different, all have different search/index mechanism, even more so for all Web-based discussion forums.
I think it is a very good idea to move back to the more structured situation of gopher/usenet etc. It won't appeal to all people (most people for that matter) that value flashy graphics, banners, interesting designs etc. over efficient and speedy reading of information.
Specialized clients have functionality built in, that makes searching/filtering of content uniform no matter what or where you're reading. I can use my usenet kill-files in any newsgroup; the same cannot be said of web-based discussion groups that each have their own look&feel and filtering options (if any).
MPAA: in a way, since the government enables insane patent and copyright laws that lead to monopolies.
AT&T: Don't know about the US, but in Europe the PTT's had a monopoly thanks to the governments, that only allowed license for post/telecom to one company (usually a state owned company).
Microsoft might be an example of the result ofa free market.
These examples show that the market needs some regulation, but not too much.
In Switzerland I pay $100 for 256/64 DSL. Static IP but no inbound connections (so only useful for identifying me). Inbound connections (only portmap for 25,80, the rest is always impossible for reasons beyond me) costs $40 extra.
Yes, plain files containing Latex. You can't produce better looking letters/documents with an absolute minimum of effort (except learing (la)tex once).
Indeed, I've always hated ACL because of the chaos they create. It looks nice in the beginning, fine grain control creating different permissions for every different file/directory.
Then after a while you'll see that you have all permissions without logic, without a scheme behind it.
The simple but very UNIX user/group/others scheme in contrast promotes a little thinking and planning in advance, and as a result you can do what you want by putting people in different groups and use those.
Only the rare cases that two groups need access to files (and you cannot do the same by putting the users in >1 groups) doesn't fit in the scheme.
What's so bad about TLD's which require a special fee or an 'owning' organization that can do what they want with it.
IMO these new TLD's are like a.com domain, e.g..pro might be considered like.pro.com. If someone would obtain.pro.dom, you would also have to be subject to their rules in order to get subdomains.
For me, the new TLD's is like lifting the level of some.com or.org domains by one (such as aero.org becomes.aero). It's not a big deal, as long as the good old.com/.org remain with their current easy rules/cost.
I got this too. This is really bad. In the future home users have to pay $300 for vmware, that's really way too much.
I bought the $99 version once, later did an upgrade. They'll use a lot of customers through this, only some special business customers that require lots of OS versions in parallel for testing purposes will remain.
Home users had better keep that old PC (maybe upgrade it a bit) or buy a second hand for $300, plus a monitor switch, instead of spening more than the cost of Windows itself to run it in a virtual machine.
OK some newer options aren't described yet. They are considered new and experimental, thus only the kernel developers themselves know the details. In time some of these will move to mainstream and be properly documented (has always happened in such cases).
I know, i was just roughly calculating the theoretical minimum possible.
Although, I should have taken into account that theoretically it would be possible to dig a tunne through the earth (vacuum of course) which would shorten the distance to maybe 10000km.
Internally, we'll depluy Java applets (used with Corba services located on the mainframes) soon, using the Java2 plugin for Netscape and IE.
Maybe on the Internet having to download that plugin is a drawback, but for enterprise applications that is no problem at all. All 10000 workstations at our site got the Java2 plugin distributed some weeks ago.
This is typical. FreeBSD is more cohesive, less chaotic than the Linux world. You should consider it a plus that there is one, official FreeBSD book, and one (official) "distribution".
The official book (and the documentation included with FreeBSD or available on www.freebsd.org) is all you need. No need to compare scores of books for hours to see which one is the best.
Slashdot Mirror
If so, and if it's in the way of IBM, IBM might have to challenge those patents; nice.
They (IBM) might be successful since they're such a good customer of the patent office. Surely they will get some favourable treatment to overthrow those patents.
Btw in this case I'd be on IBM's side, since here it is in-the-open research against patents. Aside of what one thinks about IP patents, research should never be limited by futile things like patents. But it would be ironical since IBM, in other issues such a big user (profiter) of the patent system, would kind of have to act against itself (i.e. the patent office) then.
Of course, I didn't really do the layout for her, I only (as you did) took an existing one and maybe modified it a bit.
The good thing of this is that you won't be temped to fiddle and play with layout too much, but just accept the (excellent) existing ones. There are other people that know how to make a report/letter/fax layout much better than I do, and it is only good that I have to use them.
I hate those word documents with an unprofessional layout using many different fonts, often even changing the layout during the document.
Good decision. It reminds me of my wife. She is a computer analfabetic (knows really nothing about them) pharmacist. When she had to write her thesis I gave her a Unix account (on my FBSD box) with emacs as Tex-sensitive editor, and Latex.
I learned her about 15 Latex commands (you don't need more) and did the header/footer and some generic definitions for her. It went perfectly fine and she wrote a well structured and very good looking thesis.
Later she had to use Word sometimes and cursed it, longing for the time she could use Latex.
Somehow people always think that WYSIWYG is easier, at least for non-computer-nerds. From my (actually my wives) experience, this is not true.
It is only so that today, many people only know WYSIWYG, and falsely assume that anything else is hard and scary. Which is a stupid prejudice.
Didn't there exist subdomains from .us for each state (like .ny.us, .ma.us etc)? That would be very good for local shops/events/organizations.
How do US people find useful stuff in their neighbourhood now?
If URL's don't need to be typable, then why have DNS at all? We could also go back to just using IP addresses.
It is very convenient that a .somecountry domain exists. If I want information on Zurich, Switzerland, I go to www.zurich.ch (and don't get some US town also named zurich). If I want to get a cheap monitor in the neighbourhood, I go to a swiss search engine (that only searches *.ch) and type "+monitor +philips", and I only get Swiss hits (which are always near since it is only a small country).
Without countrydomains, all information would be blurred, and 99% of this on your searches would come from the US, which often isn't too relevant for me.
In Switzerland one of the main (two) supermarkets is called "COOP". In fact also in many more european countries. This are cooperations of independent supermarket owners that formed a cooperation.
So do we get coop.coop? coop.ch.coop, coop.fi.coop?
Confusing....
The excellent newsreader GNUS has a 'nnslashdot' backend, which allows you to read/post to slashdot as if it were a regular Usenet group.
I can tell you using that is much more efficient and convenient than the crappy web interface.
The drawback from the user point of view is that he is confronted with different kind of navigation/indexes/searching on every website.
Uniform client programs such as newsreaders or gopher help in this respect.
How can you say that? I hate Deja's interface. It is many times as slow as a decent usenet client (such as GNUS).
Yes you can search, as an archival system Deja has it's place. But it cannot replace a decent usenet client at all.
Ugly or not, I don't say WWW doesn't have its place but more special purpose programs also have their use.
:).
Gopher is one thing (quickly browse/search/read) hierarchically organized information, NNTP/usenet clients is another example.
Formerly Slashdot would have been a usenet newsgroup. You could interface to all groups with a standardized, optimized interface (the newsreader of *your* choice) that allows much faster and more efficient browsing. (in fact I use nnslashdots backend to the GNUS newsreader now and then to read/port to slashdot as if it were a usenet newsgroup
The web created a chaotic situation of unstructured information. All pages look different, all have different search/index mechanism, even more so for all Web-based discussion forums.
I think it is a very good idea to move back to the more structured situation of gopher/usenet etc. It won't appeal to all people (most people for that matter) that value flashy graphics, banners, interesting designs etc. over efficient and speedy reading of information.
Specialized clients have functionality built in, that makes searching/filtering of content uniform no matter what or where you're reading. I can use my usenet kill-files in any newsgroup; the same cannot be said of web-based discussion groups that each have their own look&feel and filtering options (if any).
MPAA: in a way, since the government enables insane patent and copyright laws that lead to monopolies.
AT&T: Don't know about the US, but in Europe the PTT's had a monopoly thanks to the governments, that only allowed license for post/telecom to one company (usually a state owned company).
Microsoft might be an example of the result ofa free market.
These examples show that the market needs some regulation, but not too much.
In Switzerland I pay $100 for 256/64 DSL. Static IP but no inbound connections (so only useful for identifying me). Inbound connections (only portmap for 25,80, the rest is always impossible for reasons beyond me) costs $40 extra.
Maybe I should move to Canada too.
The more Microsoft squeezes the bastards that keep using its software, the better it is.
They deserve it.
Good, finally there is a 100% compatible and free M$Word viewer.
Yes, plain files containing Latex. You can't produce better looking letters/documents with an absolute minimum of effort (except learing (la)tex once).
Indeed, I've always hated ACL because of the chaos they create. It looks nice in the beginning, fine grain control creating different permissions for every different file/directory.
Then after a while you'll see that you have all permissions without logic, without a scheme behind it.
The simple but very UNIX user/group/others scheme in contrast promotes a little thinking and planning in advance, and as a result you can do what you want by putting people in different groups and use those.
Only the rare cases that two groups need access to files (and you cannot do the same by putting the users in >1 groups) doesn't fit in the scheme.
What's so bad about TLD's which require a special fee or an 'owning' organization that can do what they want with it.
.com domain, e.g. .pro might be considered like .pro.com. If someone would obtain .pro.dom, you would also have to be subject to their rules in order to get subdomains.
.com or .org domains by one (such as aero.org becomes .aero). It's not a big deal, as long as the good old .com/.org remain with their current easy rules/cost.
IMO these new TLD's are like a
For me, the new TLD's is like lifting the level of some
I got this too. This is really bad. In the future home users have to pay $300 for vmware, that's really way too much.
I bought the $99 version once, later did an upgrade. They'll use a lot of customers through this, only some special business customers that require lots of OS versions in parallel for testing purposes will remain.
Home users had better keep that old PC (maybe upgrade it a bit) or buy a second hand for $300, plus a monitor switch, instead of spening more than the cost of Windows itself to run it in a virtual machine.
Indeed. If the WHO wants to regulate and certify, than that information could use who.org and anything below it.
.health would set a precenende for hundreds and hunderds of toplevel domains.
Creating
Hey, I read it, even after a week!
OK some newer options aren't described yet. They are considered new and experimental, thus only the kernel developers themselves know the details. In time some of these will move to mainstream and be properly documented (has always happened in such cases).
I know, i was just roughly calculating the theoretical minimum possible.
Although, I should have taken into account that theoretically it would be possible to dig a tunne through the earth (vacuum of course) which would shorten the distance to maybe 10000km.
Still, 70 ms latency (in addition to your connection to the ISP) is a bit much. It will make playing Unreal Tournament quite hard for sure.
Alas due to the speed of light it can't be much lower than 60ms (20,000km / 300,000 km/s = 66ms).
Internally, we'll depluy Java applets (used with Corba services located on the mainframes) soon, using the Java2 plugin for Netscape and IE.
Maybe on the Internet having to download that plugin is a drawback, but for enterprise applications that is no problem at all. All 10000 workstations at our site got the Java2 plugin distributed some weeks ago.
This is typical. FreeBSD is more cohesive, less chaotic than the Linux world. You should consider it a plus that there is one, official FreeBSD book, and one (official) "distribution".
The official book (and the documentation included with FreeBSD or available on www.freebsd.org) is all you need. No need to compare scores of books for hours to see which one is the best.