I don't agree with you that the "American people is giving stuff away to Iraq for free"... I rather see it as: american president, together with his oil cronies and the few percent rich bastards controlling the economy/country, THEY give away YOUR (the american people's) money. and they don't give it to the iraqi people, but - through rebuilding contracts - basically to themselves, i.e. to the rich bastards controlling the economy/country.
Yes, I agree with you that's no way to live - but on the other hand, I'm happy *someone* gets into obsession mode about this, and is raising his voice for us. This is not really an argument against your point, just a general rant:
In my experience, the problem *is* getting worse, especially from the ISP's point of view. Spammers just don't play nice, and there's a lot of collateral damage. End users might get away with deleting a couple of mails per day, but for an ISP, the story is a different one. Even if you have a decent setup, relays closed, filters in place, you *still* suffer from spam as an ISP: customers complain about what gets through, forged headers fill up mailboxes with bounced messages, cgi scripts are increasingly getting abused by spammers..
In short, spammers make our job so much harder and less enjoyable, and there is hardly anything we can do about it, which makes it all so frustrating. Read the posts above. So many people hint at violence to punish spammers - because their mean, weasly, coward, antisocial, irresponsible, apres-moi-le-deluge attitude makes us so fucking angry, yet we have not the time or resources to stay fucking angry for very long, because there's networks to babysit and spam filters to update... so, I'm glad someone has "snapped" and *stays* fucking angry for good in, as you put it, obsession mode, to fight the bane so many of us have resigned against, I don't blame anyone for giving up on trying to remove the cause and just give in to shovelling the shit out of those mailboxes and server logs.
(I mean, what's there to do? Go to the police and say hello Mr. officer, some anonymous bad person from a country in eastern europe you've never heard about has abused a cgi script installed on one of our clients' webservers and now the client is getting swamped by complaints, can you put him in jail please (the bad guy, not the client or the script)? Yes, spammers do steal from us. They do a lot of damage. And since I personally don't know what to do about it, I'm glad someone takes the banner and, sounding rational about it or not, makes some noise about it.)
mark this down as -1, Rant.. thanks for listening:-)
the problem with a poll is that you don't get "real data" about the life expectancy of batteries - instead, you get real data about what slashdotters feel, remember, think, or wishfully hope that their batteries last.
well, e.g. in switzerland the prosecution and the defendant are just parties in a trial, both can appeal if they don't accept the outcome, to a higher court - until they run out of higher courts that is..
Hmm, last time I checked it was *more expensive* to set up a website that was only accessible by a certain array of hardware/software configurations.. if they use a web based front end for account setup, I don't see the point in restricting access to the site by OS.
You usually can send mail like that, the ip being the one of the smtp server handling your incoming mail. However, smtp servers usually heavily rely on dns resolving for sanity checks, one frequent setup being that mail coming from a domain that doesn't resolve is rejected..
Also, while lots of stuff will still work with plain vanilla ip numbers, there will be a lot of standstills due to timeouts when the dns servers are not up. Try a shell login on a machine with a fucked resolver setup: most likely you get in, but only after a 30 second lookup timeout or so. Same thing with tools like netstat or route without the -n flag, which explicitly disables reverse lookups...
From the article:
A presidential advisor encouraged the nation's top computer security professionals and hackers Wednesday to try to break computer programs, but said they might need protection from the legal wrath of software makers.
... and there I was, thinking that most computer programs were broken to begin with. How about encouraging computer professionals to *fix* programs?
i think the conducting capacity of diamond vs air is beside the point, since the air is typically flowing outside the case and thus transporting the heat away.
yup, you got a point there. same with music industry. of course file swapping is to blame that their revenues don't keep rising indefinitely, not the fact that they are producing crap.
maybe i'm just old-fashioned, but i liked it better back then when musicians were ugly but could play their guitars like the devil to the songs they wrote THEMSELVES. today, those show puppets sure may be pretty, but they're not musicians anymore, not by a long call.
you still might hear this (well, more likey you'll hear "I'm sorry, terradyn, I can't do that" in your particular case). the article says it's inconvenient to control the computer by issuing voice commands. i think output/feedback from the machine verbally can be useful indeed.
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a "site" is not mentioned in the post. you can build very usable applications with flash, also standalone stuff for offline use. if your flash app "sucks", it might just be that the creator can't handle the software. i did a chat application and some tutorial movies (the latter to go on a cd) that went down very well with the end users, or so i was told.
the poor thing will take quite a beating i guess. you can watch their tcp/ip stats at http://tfe.c64.org:6510/cgi/tcp but for how much longer i just don't know.. heh.
I agree with you with new technology that shifts the border of functionality, so users have to learn a new way of organizing things and thinking about problems.
However, I don't think this applies to PDA devices. They have been around for quite a while, and I yet have to encounter one that doesn't have so serious limitations as to generate more work for me instead of making me more productive. But then again, I might just be playiing the devil's advocate now, since I regularly use things like my nokia 9210, and despite having to buy a shitload of third-party software to make it half-way usable and learning about how now to crash it, I do enjoy it:-). So, for hackers, your statement may be true anyway, but I don't think I still believe that technological innovation must mean that the end user always has to adapt instead of the device being userfriendly.
Nevertheless, I am glad that I got rid of the other devices, I am learning to live with the current limitations of the Treo [...]
That's exactly what I lament about all the PDA's and cell-phone/pda chymeras I've used so far. They all require *you* to adapt to work around their obvious limitations, and IMHO that's not what technology should be about. I'd keep falling back to my paper filofax and plain-vanilla-cellphone if it wasn't for geekdom and my need for wireless ssh.
well, depending on what kind of services you provide on your e-mail server, you could actually do with some additional horsepower. Things like virus checking, spam filtering, large IMAP homes with automated archiving mechanisms spring to mind. running everything over ssl will add to the load, too i guess.
but generally, i agree with you that you can tend to quite a lot of regular mail users with a decent beige box, although i always prefer not to run services on desktop hardware, tempting as it may be (well, i might change my mind if there's a hot spare standing by...:))
I use Photoshop extensively (on a mac) and i do also some teaching (on windows). For smaller stuff I also started using the gimp a while ago, since my primary workstation and laptop computers all run under linux.
As much as I'd like it to be the case, I just cannot get rid of that mac/photoshop combo yet, because for certain tasks, i'm just too slow with gimp. This is mostly due to with small GUI issues (and of course to having years of PS experience compared with only the occasional experimental wee hours in the gimp) such as
in PS, the tab key will hide and show all toolbox elements at an instant, freeing up valuable screen space. YES, this works in the gimp too, if the drawing window is focused, the dialogs disappear. however, hitting tab again once will only show the main toolbox, focused, and i have to focus the drawing window again and hit tab again to see the rest of the dialogs. doesn't sound like much of an inconvenience, but this this 100 times per hour and it will be.
in PS, cursors can be set to exactly display the current brush size, i haven't found that in gimp, i can only switch between crosshairs and tool icons. the PS setting here is invaluable.
There are a couple of other gripes i have with the user interface that have me keep my mac for real graphics work. i'm sure it will all get there into the gimp someday, and i'm sure willing to try and move more of my work to use it whenever there's a new release or something.
anyway, to hear it for the gimp, here's one feature that's VASTLY superiour to the equivalent photoshop tool:
The magic wand selection tool can adapt its sensitivity on the fly when the mouse is dragged to the left or to the right. i'd love to see that in Photoshop... great gimp feature!
Anyway, weren't we talking about StarOffice in the first place? Heh... rambling again...
I'd say the competition is right there, between the contributors. For one problem, various people might submit different patches and solutions, and eventually one of those is chosen to make it into the kernel. Arguably, that is a kind of competition.
Right, it's not driven by market forces but decisions are made by the kernel maintainers, but still... I'd say a lot of people use patches (especially driver stuff) before they make it into the kernel tree, so there's a certain amount of democratic feedback going on abour what patch might be the best for a task or a problem.
i think you are referring to tamagotchis. they became popular in around 1996 i think.
going OT a bit: on a side note, i never found a authoritative answer what "tamagotchi" actually means. various translations i heard over the years include:
Why do so many incompetant [sic] idiots instantly believe any new technology will be used only for some illegal purpose?
Well, perhaps new technologies will not "only" be used for illegal purposes, but arguably, any new technology will be applied to (or was developed for that reason in the first place):
stealing stuff
getting sexual satisfaction out of it
military applications (that would be a combination of the former two i guess)
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I don't agree with you that the "American people is giving stuff away to Iraq for free"... I rather see it as: american president, together with his oil cronies and the few percent rich bastards controlling the economy/country, THEY give away YOUR (the american people's) money. and they don't give it to the iraqi people, but - through rebuilding contracts - basically to themselves, i.e. to the rich bastards controlling the economy/country.
same here in switzerland.. after leaving my provider, packets stop at their first hop at telia.net
Yes, I agree with you that's no way to live - but on the other hand, I'm happy *someone* gets into obsession mode about this, and is raising his voice for us. This is not really an argument against your point, just a general rant:
:-)
In my experience, the problem *is* getting worse, especially from the ISP's point of view. Spammers just don't play nice, and there's a lot of collateral damage. End users might get away with deleting a couple of mails per day, but for an ISP, the story is a different one. Even if you have a decent setup, relays closed, filters in place, you *still* suffer from spam as an ISP: customers complain about what gets through, forged headers fill up mailboxes with bounced messages, cgi scripts are increasingly getting abused by spammers..
In short, spammers make our job so much harder and less enjoyable, and there is hardly anything we can do about it, which makes it all so frustrating. Read the posts above. So many people hint at violence to punish spammers - because their mean, weasly, coward, antisocial, irresponsible, apres-moi-le-deluge attitude makes us so fucking angry, yet we have not the time or resources to stay fucking angry for very long, because there's networks to babysit and spam filters to update... so, I'm glad someone has "snapped" and *stays* fucking angry for good in, as you put it, obsession mode, to fight the bane so many of us have resigned against, I don't blame anyone for giving up on trying to remove the cause and just give in to shovelling the shit out of those mailboxes and server logs.
(I mean, what's there to do? Go to the police and say hello Mr. officer, some anonymous bad person from a country in eastern europe you've never heard about has abused a cgi script installed on one of our clients' webservers and now the client is getting swamped by complaints, can you put him in jail please (the bad guy, not the client or the script)? Yes, spammers do steal from us. They do a lot of damage. And since I personally don't know what to do about it, I'm glad someone takes the banner and, sounding rational about it or not, makes some noise about it.)
mark this down as -1, Rant.. thanks for listening
the problem with a poll is that you don't get "real data" about the life expectancy of batteries - instead, you get real data about what slashdotters feel, remember, think, or wishfully hope that their batteries last.
well, e.g. in switzerland the prosecution and the defendant are just parties in a trial, both can appeal if they don't accept the outcome, to a higher court - until they run out of higher courts that is..
Hmm, last time I checked it was *more expensive* to set up a website that was only accessible by a certain array of hardware/software configurations.. if they use a web based front end for account setup, I don't see the point in restricting access to the site by OS.
You usually can send mail like that, the ip being the one of the smtp server handling your incoming mail. However, smtp servers usually heavily rely on dns resolving for sanity checks, one frequent setup being that mail coming from a domain that doesn't resolve is rejected..
Also, while lots of stuff will still work with plain vanilla ip numbers, there will be a lot of standstills due to timeouts when the dns servers are not up. Try a shell login on a machine with a fucked resolver setup: most likely you get in, but only after a 30 second lookup timeout or so. Same thing with tools like netstat or route without the -n flag, which explicitly disables reverse lookups...
quality AND television? where do i sign up?
actually, blinkenlights was around back then, check this all your base animation..
i think the conducting capacity of diamond vs air is beside the point, since the air is typically flowing outside the case and thus transporting the heat away.
the mesh won't be flowing i guess.
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yup, you got a point there. same with music industry. of course file swapping is to blame that their revenues don't keep rising indefinitely, not the fact that they are producing crap.
maybe i'm just old-fashioned, but i liked it better back then when musicians were ugly but could play their guitars like the devil to the songs they wrote THEMSELVES. today, those show puppets sure may be pretty, but they're not musicians anymore, not by a long call.
ahem.. got a bit carried away there..
or thinking at all, in the first place.
you still might hear this (well, more likey you'll hear "I'm sorry, terradyn, I can't do that" in your particular case). the article says it's inconvenient to control the computer by issuing voice commands. i think output/feedback from the machine verbally can be useful indeed.
it's not the "dark" side, it's the far side.
a "site" is not mentioned in the post. you can build very usable applications with flash, also standalone stuff for offline use. if your flash app "sucks", it might just be that the creator can't handle the software. i did a chat application and some tutorial movies (the latter to go on a cd) that went down very well with the end users, or so i was told.
the poor thing will take quite a beating i guess. you can watch their tcp/ip stats at http://tfe.c64.org:6510/cgi/tcp but for how much longer i just don't know.. heh.
However, I don't think this applies to PDA devices. They have been around for quite a while, and I yet have to encounter one that doesn't have so serious limitations as to generate more work for me instead of making me more productive. But then again, I might just be playiing the devil's advocate now, since I regularly use things like my nokia 9210, and despite having to buy a shitload of third-party software to make it half-way usable and learning about how now to crash it, I do enjoy it :-). So, for hackers, your statement may be true anyway, but I don't think I still believe that technological innovation must mean that the end user always has to adapt instead of the device being userfriendly.
well, depending on what kind of services you provide on your e-mail server, you could actually do with some additional horsepower. Things like virus checking, spam filtering, large IMAP homes with automated archiving mechanisms spring to mind. running everything over ssl will add to the load, too i guess.
:))
but generally, i agree with you that you can tend to quite a lot of regular mail users with a decent beige box, although i always prefer not to run services on desktop hardware, tempting as it may be (well, i might change my mind if there's a hot spare standing by...
As much as I'd like it to be the case, I just cannot get rid of that mac/photoshop combo yet, because for certain tasks, i'm just too slow with gimp. This is mostly due to with small GUI issues (and of course to having years of PS experience compared with only the occasional experimental wee hours in the gimp) such as
- in PS, the tab key will hide and show all toolbox elements at an instant, freeing up valuable screen space. YES, this works in the gimp too, if the drawing window is focused, the dialogs disappear. however, hitting tab again once will only show the main toolbox, focused, and i have to focus the drawing window again and hit tab again to see the rest of the dialogs. doesn't sound like much of an inconvenience, but this this 100 times per hour and it will be.
- in PS, cursors can be set to exactly display the current brush size, i haven't found that in gimp, i can only switch between crosshairs and tool icons. the PS setting here is invaluable.
There are a couple of other gripes i have with the user interface that have me keep my mac for real graphics work. i'm sure it will all get there into the gimp someday, and i'm sure willing to try and move more of my work to use it whenever there's a new release or something.anyway, to hear it for the gimp, here's one feature that's VASTLY superiour to the equivalent photoshop tool:
- The magic wand selection tool can adapt its sensitivity on the fly when the mouse is dragged to the left or to the right. i'd love to see that in Photoshop... great gimp feature!
Anyway, weren't we talking about StarOffice in the first place? Heh... rambling again...Right, it's not driven by market forces but decisions are made by the kernel maintainers, but still... I'd say a lot of people use patches (especially driver stuff) before they make it into the kernel tree, so there's a certain amount of democratic feedback going on abour what patch might be the best for a task or a problem.
going OT a bit: on a side note, i never found a authoritative answer what "tamagotchi" actually means. various translations i heard over the years include:
- Egg-friend
- Watch inside the egg
- Lovable
- Love-me
- Care-for-me
any native speakers can shed some light on this?