It's actually closer to 27% or so for "premature" baldness... that is, guys who aren't 60 years old with thinning hair. Not that it's definitive, but here's the Wiki page on the topic.
Baldness is often cited in psych studies as one of those weird cultural perception items that people accept as very normal but which is actually more uncommon than you think.
Next time your in a public environment look around and do a count of the 20-50 men in the room who have hair loss (not a very slight receding of the hairline, but actual loss). You'll see that the majority of guys actually have their hair. It's weird when you realize just how much less common premature baldness is than you think it is.
Well, you got see the collision of idiots who apparently have no idea what the LHC is, what a collider does, or what the danger of this might be.
At the end of the day the chance of inadvertently destroying the Earth or our little corner of the galaxy would appear pretty small. That said, dismissing the argument that creating a black hole has the potential for dangerous results (given the complete unknowns and use of theoretical mathematics in the counter-argument) seems... oh, what's that word... retarded.
Where is that damned whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag when I need it.
Taking down a large jet aircraft... say a 747, or even a 737, 727, etc., is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.
1) You wouldn't know it was rogue until it was already WELL on the way to it's target (if you knew at all before it got there).
2) Even when you identified it, you would still need to actually CATCH it. Scrambling planes takes time, airfields aren't everywhere and, unlike BSG, I'm afraid we don't have an "Air Cap" to guard our sorry asses ($$$$$).
3) Now you have to shoot it down. You may not realize this, but a passenger jet is FREAKING HUGE. One missile isn't going to take out a jet with 2, 3, or 4 engines. You're going to have to really go to work on that bad boy... and now it's just an out of control ball of metal and fire... braaaavoooo.
Give whatever order you want, but until you can vaporize the stupid thing in mid-flight it's all a pipe dream. Me, I'm not big on confrontation and dying. If I wanted to send a message I'd just get an old stinger, head to an international third level airport (St. Louis, Cincinnati, etc), drive to the end of the runway, and blow the wing off a plane as it took off.
The point here is that the entire concept of airline security is a joke on an American public too pathetic to face the truth by a government too ready to cede to their fears. Freedom isn't free, it's expensive, and the cost is blood and tears. If you don't like it then call Kim Jong and ask how much condo's in downtown PyongYang are going for. You can be sure you won't have to worry about terrorists in North Korea.
And your post clearly shows how an uninformed Slashdot reader can still sound like he knows what he's talking about. It's sad that you equate passion for a "frothing invocation" and appear so critical of my vigor.
I can think of some other folks you might feel similarly about... Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock... yes, mad, "frothing" men, it's just a shame no one criticized them earlier on, eh?
Regarding your actual comments... first off, the wiretaps CLEARLY violate a number of different constitutional protections. Namely freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and protections against illegal search and seizure. Don't believe me? Well, there are certainly court opinions you could reference on the topic.
As the telecoms... if you REALLY believe that the major law firms the telecoms employ didn't realize that wiretapping their customers with NO warrants or court appointed oversight... in essence, illegally listening in on private conversations... wasn't legal that's your business. However, at $500 an hour and some of the best legal teams out there (Skadden Arps, I'm looking in your direction) I find that INCREDIBLY hard to believe. They saw it, they knew it for what it was, but they got caught up in the same "kill Achmed, burn him at the gate" mentality as all the other sheep.
Hey, I have a quote from another frother that you might like! "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
Now hurry along Hans, you're going to miss the torch parade.
Companies capitulated in the face of jingoist rhetoric and executive branch shenanigans, essentially offering up constitutional protections with barely a peep.
Whether they "thought they were doing the right thing" or not isn't the point... THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO DO IT. It's illegal, it's a violation of the constitution, and they're lawyers KNEW THIS.
Undoubtedly the Bush administration promised to cover their ass, and that's exactly what they've done.
People scream about how unfair and overused civil suits are, but the truth is that in a capitalist society civil suits and monetary settlements are how you keep irresponsible corporations honest. Companies DO NOT CARE about you in any way shape or form, but they care about money, and the prospect of loosing large amounts of it can help to keep them honest.
I can't believe Obama was stupid enough to vote for this tripe. At least McCain had the brains to avoid voting entirely. I favored Obama if only on the tax issue, but this has immediately made me question that decision.
Lieberman I always knew you were a weasly little maggot coward, climb back into GWB's pants.
Nice to see NY's senators did the right thing. Schumer and HC, I tip my cap to the correct call... you may have voted for your own reasons, but you voted right.
Goddamn I hate my government. This and the Patriot Act... it might as well be 1938.
-rt
Re:drobo + drobo share
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The fact that the USB port that the share uses throttles your data access to a crawl... I'd call that "crappy".
The current drobo is not a purchasable unit for network service, period. If you like the Drobo wait for the 2nd gen, which will undoubtedly have native gigabit ethernet support.
The Drobo only works as a USB device... the network unit (which is a $200+ addon) connects via USB, and has horrible throttling problems as a result.
Long story short, the Drobo looks great but is a total rip-off, and it is a non-starter if you want network access to your data. Their next generation may be worthy, but this one isn't.
To reply directly to your reqs (kind of lost track of the thread there) both manfacturers have other versions of those drives that are RAID5 (the NV+ line from Netgear, other Synology units).
As for services, both can be used as FTP servers, web servers, or anything else (I think both are LAMP, I know the Synology is). The Syn unit also supports bittorrent natively.
-rt
Dealing with the same issue myself...
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I've been using an old desktop with large HDs for years, always looking for that perfect, small NAS with minimal RAID that I could put in a corner. Unfortunately I was always frustrated since the majrotity of units were directed at business and ran over $1k (that's just too much to pay when a desktop is so cheap).
However, recently there has been a real surge in the market, with a number of more home directed products available. These often include streaming services, in some instances are OSS friendly or even hackable, and have small form factors with RAID1 or RAID5.
The best reviews I've found are at SmallNetBuilder.com... very thorough, always show the boards, etc. The best units I've found (or at least the ones that look the most interesting for my needs) are the following:
Synology DS207+ Looks like a great unit, with lots of control over the drives (RAID0, RAID1, and other drive configurations). However, it's a little pricey for a BYOD NAS ($350+). The support for NFS in external USB drives is nice, and the reviews are excellent. The fact that it doesn't have slimserver support (or not natively) is another weakness... I've been eyeing adding a squeezebox or other player to my stereo, and would like the option. One thing I can't figure out... is it worth going with the "+" unit, or is the old 207 adequate? It's a lot cheaper...
Netgear ReadyNAS Duo This is obviously the most expensive option, and is about on par with the Synology unit from a performance perspective. I like the fact that it has Slimserver as a native option... seems very well rounded. Also has internal NFS support, which both the other units lacked. Negative seems to the weak photo sharing app (requiring a local install) and the lack of drive controls (RAIDX being the only option). The fact that the 1TB unit costs $600+ also sucks (that's with just 1 1tb drive)... I want a 1 terabyte x2 setup, and I can get a nice 1TB drive for a hell of a lot less than the $275+ (that's the difference between the 500gb and 1tb versions of this sucker). Basically means the 1 drive is a throw-away for me, which I have a hard time swallowing...
Hard choice to make... but I think I'm going to go with the Synology and two 1tb WD caviar drives I can get for $160. Total cost around $650... a little more than I wanted to spend, but this should be good for years to come.
You've heard the saying, "garbage in garbage out", right? Modularity is important from a code perspective, and obviously simplicity and scalability matter. However, it all dials back to the design principles that drove the solution in the first place.
Many software design projects are driven by a core set of requirements developed by a small collection of SMEs or business stakeholders with a supposition about their client or target users but little in the way of hard data. From this ungrounded starting point bad projects just start spiraling; developers inevitably go in 50 directions due to conflicting requirements and a lack of any cohesive "strategic vision", their solution is further undermined when the same business users invariable "tweak" and redesign aspects of the app on the fly, and are even further undermined when parts of the app are wholesale redeveloped due to user dissatisfaction.
In contrast, UCD basically advocates allowing user needs, tasks, routines, and missions to drive application design. You conduct detailed research and investigation up front to determine the competitive landscape, business priorities, and user context and goals, you marry these into a collection of critical directives and capabilities matrix, and you then develop a comprehensive design that supports this from an application perspective. Because you defined and designed the application from the perspective of user need you are much closer to providing exactly what is required, but you are also better able to dial extensibility into the application both from a feature perspective and an architecture perspective. THIS means that you've accounted for all those changes and modifications users will expect, which means that it is far more likely the developers will be able to build out the application in a logical, modular, and scalable way that requires less churn, less rewrite, and less compromises.
Anyway, that's my perspective as a design lead whose worked on a lot of different engagements ranging from knowledge mananagement systems to rich applications, etc. Like anything else, if you take the time to build a sensible framework it will generally go better than if you fly by the seat of your pants. The issue is that this framework pushes all the way to requirements, not just within the development thread, and you need to think about the different project phases as a continuous and inter-dependant thread.
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
A better statement on the subject I've never found, and one that is just as apt today (if not more so) than it was during Franklin's day.
As for what they experienced, Franklin and the founding fathers didn't go through anything on the level of the invasiveness of modern society. At most they were confronted with fixed forms of blatant intrusion, such as the boarding of troops without agreement. If they'd foreseen what we have in place now (constant exposure and monitoring of all forms of individual action, unwarranted monitoring and search and siezure under the guise of public safety) they would have been DISMAYED to say the least.
Basically Franklin was speaking as broadly as he could to the idea that, at a base level, a lack of security is the price one accepts for the pleasures and benefits of an open and democratic society. He believed that the benefits of such a system (free discourse and exchange of ideas, freedom to pursue one's life unimpeded and unadulterated) were actually THE core things that needed to be protected in our society.
This was in contrast to the oppressive landed gentry systems leveraged by various monarchies at the time.
Anyway, cameras now, paramilitary gestapo tomorrow. If you want to prevent people you know just disappearing off the street you'd best read some history.
The timeline for Homesite - Created by Nick Bradbury (the guy who later built Topstyle, the BEST CSS editor out there, surprise surprise) - sold to Allaire, - absorbed by Macromedia when they bought Allaire, - incorporated into Dreamweaver while also kept as a sideline product (both because of a strong community and because of the ColdFusion community, which for those who don't know is HUUUUUGGEE for some odd reason) - and finally picked up by Adobe.
Great program, I still use it today for all my coding needs (as do all my development teams).
The guy who wrote this news piece, seconded by the guy who submitted it to Slashdot with an honorable mention to the admin who posted it.
I mean really, what respectable developer or consulting team that delivers custom software DOESN'T hand code HTML? Dreamweaver is ATROCIOUS garbage, and only hacks or folks working low-end brochure sites would even attempt to build a site with a WYSIWIG application (maybe a dirty prototype, but not production code). As a UE consultant who designs sites for Fortune 500 companies I can testify that EVERYONE hand codes their apps, if only because its the only way to get even remotely uniform presentation on FF, IE6/7, and Safari. The centrality of AJAX/DHTML and RIA solutions only makes this even more critical since their are that many more moving parts and performance optimization is just that much more critical.
I did find the mention of Homesite funny... I spoke with some folks recently on this topic (I have a deep bg in client side tech), mentioned that all my teams use Homesite for CS dev, and lierally saw jaws drop (this was a group of senior mgrs who were around when Homesite was young.. read Allaire). People were amazed that Homesite was still in use, but the truth is that these tools kind of reached their zenith in the early 2000s, and the market just isn't really big enough to merit chasing. The funny thing is that, from a hand-coding perspective, the combination of Homesite and Topstyle (both by Bradbury, oddly enough) simply can't be beat (at least on Windows).
I can only imagine what a client would say if my team took their $2 mil and built a solution with Dreamweaver type code... HA!
-rt
Dr. Freeze, Static Man, and the lost lovechild of Henry Kane (that's the guy from Poltergeist II kids).
Please, for the love of god, stop sticking your finger in the light socket.
The "relationships and observations" you mention have NOTHING to do with the methods and language we have created for understanding and analyzing them. Mathmatics is, by definition, the system we use, not the phenomena themselves.
You can say that nature lends itself to analysis via mathmatics, but clearly mathmatics doesn't exist as some kind of absolute form.
Why is this even debated? Sounds like another stupid chicken/egg topic thrown around by people who can't manage deductive reasoning (the egg comes first folks since the first instance of what we define as "a chicken" was a genetic aberration born to a non-chicken).
Input the address info you find for a Directory listing into Google Maps or Mapquest to find the location on a map. For real?!? I mean, they couldn't just write a freaking definition and set-up their own mash-up with google maps? What kind of wi-fi organization is this, Mennonites for Free Internet?
Ridiculous... hunt for addresses in NY and then type them into google maps. It's like the freaking dark ages!
Watched the demo this year when it debuted and was blown away... the level of calcuation and potential avenues off that application are enormous. The scale is something completely beyond what's currently available, and the underlying tech is so expansive I don't think a company like Fickr could quickly compete with it.
This is a non-issue. Webmail has nothing to do with Desktop mail, and the application and scenario for it are more or less entirely different. The mail client should be viewed as primarily an archive tool, with the online app as a remote access tool.
As for types of Webmail, I'm fine with something as basic as Squirelmail, though I really do like some rich projects like RoundCube (www.roundcube.net)
I originally tried to switch to Thunderbird from Outlook a couple years back. Same problem... nothing imported properly, messages and contacts all over the place in bits and pieces, etc. Multiple bugs have already been reported but never solved.
The comments are that certain architectures are hard to read and import from. My comment to that is, well, if you plan on Thunderbird being any kind of success working import is the first step, so either fix it or die.
Thunderbird was a great idea, but for those with better working IMAP options (Outlook Express for example) it leaves a great deal to be desired. I think the primary audience is Linux/Unix folks.
Actually Boo.com beats them all to the punch when it comes to an early "Rich" application... and if you don't know what THAT means then you aren't "one of the people who monitor these things".
Oh, and Webmail existed before Hotmail, or Yahoo, or Google. Yeah, I know, CRAZY, ain't it? Telnet might be one example, but Squirrlemail and it's ilk are also much older than any of the examples "people who monitor these things" apparently know about that you might want to look into.
God, I really despise know it all twits who neither know something nor it all. As someone else commented, call me when any of these systems support IMAP and don't involve a EULA that gives them the right to my lifestory.
Now I'm going to log into my personal domain webmail account from behind a firewall that filters your access to GMail. Take that SUCKA!
Riight, why would I want an aggregated news source that provides me with a filtered feed of interesting filtered articles from an array of localizized sources. Much better to watch 8,500 RSS feeds, or to wait for it to come out on Slashdot five days later!
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It's funny how the lack of one of the most basic features can drastically undermine the appeal of a whole device...
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It's actually closer to 27% or so for "premature" baldness... that is, guys who aren't 60 years old with thinning hair. Not that it's definitive, but here's the Wiki page on the topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldness
First paragraph gives you the numbers.
Baldness is often cited in psych studies as one of those weird cultural perception items that people accept as very normal but which is actually more uncommon than you think.
Next time your in a public environment look around and do a count of the 20-50 men in the room who have hair loss (not a very slight receding of the hairline, but actual loss). You'll see that the majority of guys actually have their hair. It's weird when you realize just how much less common premature baldness is than you think it is.
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Well, you got see the collision of idiots who apparently have no idea what the LHC is, what a collider does, or what the danger of this might be.
At the end of the day the chance of inadvertently destroying the Earth or our little corner of the galaxy would appear pretty small. That said, dismissing the argument that creating a black hole has the potential for dangerous results (given the complete unknowns and use of theoretical mathematics in the counter-argument) seems... oh, what's that word... retarded.
Where is that damned whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag when I need it.
-rt
Let alone view Slashdot.
"Must... crawl... out of ooze... evolve lungs..."
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Taking down a large jet aircraft... say a 747, or even a 737, 727, etc., is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.
1) You wouldn't know it was rogue until it was already WELL on the way to it's target (if you knew at all before it got there).
2) Even when you identified it, you would still need to actually CATCH it. Scrambling planes takes time, airfields aren't everywhere and, unlike BSG, I'm afraid we don't have an "Air Cap" to guard our sorry asses ($$$$$).
3) Now you have to shoot it down. You may not realize this, but a passenger jet is FREAKING HUGE. One missile isn't going to take out a jet with 2, 3, or 4 engines. You're going to have to really go to work on that bad boy... and now it's just an out of control ball of metal and fire... braaaavoooo.
Give whatever order you want, but until you can vaporize the stupid thing in mid-flight it's all a pipe dream. Me, I'm not big on confrontation and dying. If I wanted to send a message I'd just get an old stinger, head to an international third level airport (St. Louis, Cincinnati, etc), drive to the end of the runway, and blow the wing off a plane as it took off.
The point here is that the entire concept of airline security is a joke on an American public too pathetic to face the truth by a government too ready to cede to their fears. Freedom isn't free, it's expensive, and the cost is blood and tears. If you don't like it then call Kim Jong and ask how much condo's in downtown PyongYang are going for. You can be sure you won't have to worry about terrorists in North Korea.
-rt
And your post clearly shows how an uninformed Slashdot reader can still sound like he knows what he's talking about. It's sad that you equate passion for a "frothing invocation" and appear so critical of my vigor.
I can think of some other folks you might feel similarly about... Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock... yes, mad, "frothing" men, it's just a shame no one criticized them earlier on, eh?
Regarding your actual comments... first off, the wiretaps CLEARLY violate a number of different constitutional protections. Namely freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and protections against illegal search and seizure. Don't believe me? Well, there are certainly court opinions you could reference on the topic.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/17/HNwiretapsmackdown_1.html
As the telecoms... if you REALLY believe that the major law firms the telecoms employ didn't realize that wiretapping their customers with NO warrants or court appointed oversight... in essence, illegally listening in on private conversations... wasn't legal that's your business. However, at $500 an hour and some of the best legal teams out there (Skadden Arps, I'm looking in your direction) I find that INCREDIBLY hard to believe. They saw it, they knew it for what it was, but they got caught up in the same "kill Achmed, burn him at the gate" mentality as all the other sheep.
Hey, I have a quote from another frother that you might like! "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
Now hurry along Hans, you're going to miss the torch parade.
-rt
Good faith?
Companies capitulated in the face of jingoist rhetoric and executive branch shenanigans, essentially offering up constitutional protections with barely a peep.
Whether they "thought they were doing the right thing" or not isn't the point... THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO DO IT. It's illegal, it's a violation of the constitution, and they're lawyers KNEW THIS.
Undoubtedly the Bush administration promised to cover their ass, and that's exactly what they've done.
People scream about how unfair and overused civil suits are, but the truth is that in a capitalist society civil suits and monetary settlements are how you keep irresponsible corporations honest. Companies DO NOT CARE about you in any way shape or form, but they care about money, and the prospect of loosing large amounts of it can help to keep them honest.
I can't believe Obama was stupid enough to vote for this tripe. At least McCain had the brains to avoid voting entirely. I favored Obama if only on the tax issue, but this has immediately made me question that decision.
Lieberman I always knew you were a weasly little maggot coward, climb back into GWB's pants.
Nice to see NY's senators did the right thing. Schumer and HC, I tip my cap to the correct call... you may have voted for your own reasons, but you voted right.
Goddamn I hate my government. This and the Patriot Act... it might as well be 1938.
-rt
The fact that the USB port that the share uses throttles your data access to a crawl... I'd call that "crappy".
The current drobo is not a purchasable unit for network service, period. If you like the Drobo wait for the 2nd gen, which will undoubtedly have native gigabit ethernet support.
-rt
The Drobo only works as a USB device... the network unit (which is a $200+ addon) connects via USB, and has horrible throttling problems as a result.
Long story short, the Drobo looks great but is a total rip-off, and it is a non-starter if you want network access to your data. Their next generation may be worthy, but this one isn't.
-rt
To reply directly to your reqs (kind of lost track of the thread there) both manfacturers have other versions of those drives that are RAID5 (the NV+ line from Netgear, other Synology units).
As for services, both can be used as FTP servers, web servers, or anything else (I think both are LAMP, I know the Synology is). The Syn unit also supports bittorrent natively.
-rt
I've been using an old desktop with large HDs for years, always looking for that perfect, small NAS with minimal RAID that I could put in a corner. Unfortunately I was always frustrated since the majrotity of units were directed at business and ran over $1k (that's just too much to pay when a desktop is so cheap).
However, recently there has been a real surge in the market, with a number of more home directed products available. These often include streaming services, in some instances are OSS friendly or even hackable, and have small form factors with RAID1 or RAID5.
The best reviews I've found are at SmallNetBuilder.com... very thorough, always show the boards, etc. The best units I've found (or at least the ones that look the most interesting for my needs) are the following:
Synology DS207+
Looks like a great unit, with lots of control over the drives (RAID0, RAID1, and other drive configurations). However, it's a little pricey for a BYOD NAS ($350+). The support for NFS in external USB drives is nice, and the reviews are excellent. The fact that it doesn't have slimserver support (or not natively) is another weakness... I've been eyeing adding a squeezebox or other player to my stereo, and would like the option. One thing I can't figure out... is it worth going with the "+" unit, or is the old 207 adequate? It's a lot cheaper...
Netgear ReadyNAS Duo
This is obviously the most expensive option, and is about on par with the Synology unit from a performance perspective. I like the fact that it has Slimserver as a native option... seems very well rounded. Also has internal NFS support, which both the other units lacked. Negative seems to the weak photo sharing app (requiring a local install) and the lack of drive controls (RAIDX being the only option). The fact that the 1TB unit costs $600+ also sucks (that's with just 1 1tb drive)... I want a 1 terabyte x2 setup, and I can get a nice 1TB drive for a hell of a lot less than the $275+ (that's the difference between the 500gb and 1tb versions of this sucker). Basically means the 1 drive is a throw-away for me, which I have a hard time swallowing...
Hard choice to make... but I think I'm going to go with the Synology and two 1tb WD caviar drives I can get for $160. Total cost around $650... a little more than I wanted to spend, but this should be good for years to come.
-rt
You've heard the saying, "garbage in garbage out", right? Modularity is important from a code perspective, and obviously simplicity and scalability matter. However, it all dials back to the design principles that drove the solution in the first place.
Many software design projects are driven by a core set of requirements developed by a small collection of SMEs or business stakeholders with a supposition about their client or target users but little in the way of hard data. From this ungrounded starting point bad projects just start spiraling; developers inevitably go in 50 directions due to conflicting requirements and a lack of any cohesive "strategic vision", their solution is further undermined when the same business users invariable "tweak" and redesign aspects of the app on the fly, and are even further undermined when parts of the app are wholesale redeveloped due to user dissatisfaction.
In contrast, UCD basically advocates allowing user needs, tasks, routines, and missions to drive application design. You conduct detailed research and investigation up front to determine the competitive landscape, business priorities, and user context and goals, you marry these into a collection of critical directives and capabilities matrix, and you then develop a comprehensive design that supports this from an application perspective. Because you defined and designed the application from the perspective of user need you are much closer to providing exactly what is required, but you are also better able to dial extensibility into the application both from a feature perspective and an architecture perspective. THIS means that you've accounted for all those changes and modifications users will expect, which means that it is far more likely the developers will be able to build out the application in a logical, modular, and scalable way that requires less churn, less rewrite, and less compromises.
Anyway, that's my perspective as a design lead whose worked on a lot of different engagements ranging from knowledge mananagement systems to rich applications, etc. Like anything else, if you take the time to build a sensible framework it will generally go better than if you fly by the seat of your pants. The issue is that this framework pushes all the way to requirements, not just within the development thread, and you need to think about the different project phases as a continuous and inter-dependant thread.
-rt
This paraphrasing garbage is for the birds.
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
A better statement on the subject I've never found, and one that is just as apt today (if not more so) than it was during Franklin's day.
As for what they experienced, Franklin and the founding fathers didn't go through anything on the level of the invasiveness of modern society. At most they were confronted with fixed forms of blatant intrusion, such as the boarding of troops without agreement. If they'd foreseen what we have in place now (constant exposure and monitoring of all forms of individual action, unwarranted monitoring and search and siezure under the guise of public safety) they would have been DISMAYED to say the least.
Basically Franklin was speaking as broadly as he could to the idea that, at a base level, a lack of security is the price one accepts for the pleasures and benefits of an open and democratic society. He believed that the benefits of such a system (free discourse and exchange of ideas, freedom to pursue one's life unimpeded and unadulterated) were actually THE core things that needed to be protected in our society.
This was in contrast to the oppressive landed gentry systems leveraged by various monarchies at the time.
Anyway, cameras now, paramilitary gestapo tomorrow. If you want to prevent people you know just disappearing off the street you'd best read some history.
-rt
That's called "microwaves"
-rt
The timeline for Homesite
- Created by Nick Bradbury (the guy who later built Topstyle, the BEST CSS editor out there, surprise surprise)
- sold to Allaire,
- absorbed by Macromedia when they bought Allaire,
- incorporated into Dreamweaver while also kept as a sideline product (both because of a strong community and because of the ColdFusion community, which for those who don't know is HUUUUUGGEE for some odd reason)
- and finally picked up by Adobe.
Great program, I still use it today for all my coding needs (as do all my development teams).
-rt
The guy who wrote this news piece, seconded by the guy who submitted it to Slashdot with an honorable mention to the admin who posted it. I mean really, what respectable developer or consulting team that delivers custom software DOESN'T hand code HTML? Dreamweaver is ATROCIOUS garbage, and only hacks or folks working low-end brochure sites would even attempt to build a site with a WYSIWIG application (maybe a dirty prototype, but not production code). As a UE consultant who designs sites for Fortune 500 companies I can testify that EVERYONE hand codes their apps, if only because its the only way to get even remotely uniform presentation on FF, IE6/7, and Safari. The centrality of AJAX/DHTML and RIA solutions only makes this even more critical since their are that many more moving parts and performance optimization is just that much more critical. I did find the mention of Homesite funny... I spoke with some folks recently on this topic (I have a deep bg in client side tech), mentioned that all my teams use Homesite for CS dev, and lierally saw jaws drop (this was a group of senior mgrs who were around when Homesite was young.. read Allaire). People were amazed that Homesite was still in use, but the truth is that these tools kind of reached their zenith in the early 2000s, and the market just isn't really big enough to merit chasing. The funny thing is that, from a hand-coding perspective, the combination of Homesite and Topstyle (both by Bradbury, oddly enough) simply can't be beat (at least on Windows). I can only imagine what a client would say if my team took their $2 mil and built a solution with Dreamweaver type code... HA! -rt
Dr. Freeze, Static Man, and the lost lovechild of Henry Kane (that's the guy from Poltergeist II kids). Please, for the love of god, stop sticking your finger in the light socket.
The "relationships and observations" you mention have NOTHING to do with the methods and language we have created for understanding and analyzing them. Mathmatics is, by definition, the system we use, not the phenomena themselves.
You can say that nature lends itself to analysis via mathmatics, but clearly mathmatics doesn't exist as some kind of absolute form.
Why is this even debated? Sounds like another stupid chicken/egg topic thrown around by people who can't manage deductive reasoning (the egg comes first folks since the first instance of what we define as "a chicken" was a genetic aberration born to a non-chicken).
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FuckingCriminals
Ridiculous... hunt for addresses in NY and then type them into google maps. It's like the freaking dark ages!
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Watched the demo this year when it debuted and was blown away... the level of calcuation and potential avenues off that application are enormous. The scale is something completely beyond what's currently available, and the underlying tech is so expansive I don't think a company like Fickr could quickly compete with it.
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This is a non-issue. Webmail has nothing to do with Desktop mail, and the application and scenario for it are more or less entirely different. The mail client should be viewed as primarily an archive tool, with the online app as a remote access tool.
As for types of Webmail, I'm fine with something as basic as Squirelmail, though I really do like some rich projects like RoundCube (www.roundcube.net)
I originally tried to switch to Thunderbird from Outlook a couple years back. Same problem... nothing imported properly, messages and contacts all over the place in bits and pieces, etc. Multiple bugs have already been reported but never solved.
The comments are that certain architectures are hard to read and import from. My comment to that is, well, if you plan on Thunderbird being any kind of success working import is the first step, so either fix it or die.
Thunderbird was a great idea, but for those with better working IMAP options (Outlook Express for example) it leaves a great deal to be desired. I think the primary audience is Linux/Unix folks.
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Actually Boo.com beats them all to the punch when it comes to an early "Rich" application... and if you don't know what THAT means then you aren't "one of the people who monitor these things".
Oh, and Webmail existed before Hotmail, or Yahoo, or Google. Yeah, I know, CRAZY, ain't it? Telnet might be one example, but Squirrlemail and it's ilk are also much older than any of the examples "people who monitor these things" apparently know about that you might want to look into.
God, I really despise know it all twits who neither know something nor it all. As someone else commented, call me when any of these systems support IMAP and don't involve a EULA that gives them the right to my lifestory.
Now I'm going to log into my personal domain webmail account from behind a firewall that filters your access to GMail. Take that SUCKA!
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Riight, why would I want an aggregated news source that provides me with a filtered feed of interesting filtered articles from an array of localizized sources. Much better to watch 8,500 RSS feeds, or to wait for it to come out on Slashdot five days later!
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