...and then after the appetizers, the ramen was served!
Funny, I agree - but I feel it's a shame that ramen has come to be equated with those freeze-dried instant noodles that students everywhere seems to eat instead of actual food.
In Japan (where the dish is hugely popular), real ramen is a whole different thing; thick, intense soup base with slices of meat or seafood, greens, boiled eggs, a mound of chopped leek (well, similar to leek), all floating on top of a large serving of freshly cooked ramen noodles slowly soaking up the flavours of the soup. The instant stuff is just a pale shadow of the real thing.
1) Amend the IDN spec to require that valid IDN urls use the lowest-numbered codepoints that match that glyph.
"Match the glyph" is a _very_ vague concept - and the degree of visual likeness will depend on the currently chosen fonts. Japanese half-width romaji looks very different from western monospace. Or extremely similar. It all depends on the typefaces you use, your locale and so on.
2) Have browsers use a table that identifies all the characters that share a glyph. Any invalid IDNs are mapped down to the lowest codepoints before the browser goes there, so a link to a fake paypal.com address actually goes to the real paypal.com address.
But they really don't share a glyph. Mostly, this has already been done when Unicode was defined; in fact, at some codepoints they were overenthusiastic and reused some glyphs they really shouldn't have.
Just because two different glyphs will look very similar with some combination of typefaces (but, note, not with other), it doesn't mean they aren't very different and should be treated like it.
Example: in sans-serifed fonts, I (caiptal "i") and 1 ("one") will tend to look very, very similar. With your suggestion, all "I":s will thus be changed to "1" in registered url:s everywhere.
The problem is rather the opposite, actually. WHen you don't have the real typeface needed, the browser (or font system, really) tries to substitute the missing glyph with something similar, which is a good thing when you try to read text. It can make an URL look different from intended, however. One step of the solution may well be not to accept this kind of substition in URL:s. No idea if you can get this kind of control, though.
In their home market, everybody plays video games, not just kids. This could be a pretty good move to get people in their twenties to go for the DS rather than the PSP.
Considering I've seen a ton of people that look like immigrants out on the road that drive horribly, one wonders where and how they get their licenses.
And the answer may well be that they haven't got a license. They still absolutely need to get around (to get to work if nothing else) so they drive without one - and without insurance, since you can't get insurance without a license. That of course makes even relatively light accidents much worse for all people involved.
Again, in a different reality they would not actually drive without a license, because they would be legal immigrants or not there at all, but since politics is the art of the possible (forgot who said that), you have to deal with reality, not your wish of how reality should look.
As it is, it's not going to happen, since you will effectively collapse a substantial part of the economy of states that are your country's poorest to begin with. There is zero political will - and it isn't there because the same regular citizens that are upset over illegal mexicans would start lynching politicians that actually overturned this applecart and lost them their livelihoods.
Why should we give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants? We should be giving them a ride home.
You have a very large grey economy, with a lot of companies (especially farming companies and service operations) depending on those illegal aliens for their operation. In a different world, there would actually be a real effort to stop these immigrants and kill that economy, but realistically that is not going to happen, ever. Too large a part of the economy of those states are utterly dependent on that source of inexpensive labour to ever do anything more than empty gestures.
With the fact that these immigrants are not going away, a few things follow. First, granting drivers licenses means fewer people out on the road driving without good knowledge of local laws and regulations. This means less accidents and less injuries and deaths.
Similarily, allowing medical treatment and consultation means less acute cases (that become _really_ expensive) since you can do preventative care.
Most "immigration friendly" initiatives actually save money, not the other way around (and that doesn't even touch the issue of basic human decency when it comes to medical care).
No time to waste! Systems may already be infected, so better get offline immediately, review what installed software is at risk and start figuring out a way to get the patches... no, wait, I run linux.
Yeah, sorry; I just get a little annoyed sometimes when people try to swear "casually" in written conversations. It doesn't achieve the same kind of effect at all for me when I read it as when I hear it.
Since you are going with mini-ATX in any case (sic), why build in a comparatively slow Mac mini when you could use a mini-ATX board with an Opteron and get a real 64-bit platform for about the same money in the same space?
The project is cool for its own sake of course, but there doesn't seem to be a real use for it.
Oh, and people freaking out over the "sarcriledge" - it's a computer, that's all. A piece of metal and plastic. If you really get upset about something like this, I suggest it's time to take a hard look at your priorities and your life.
On the contrary, I really do want blogs to be included.
It means someone else has already thought about whatever I'm searching for and taken some time and effort to collect links and write it up. The blogs that get ranked highly for a search are much linked to, and relevant to the search, which will tend to mean the writeup is not bad. If I search for a technical subject, more often than not the blogs I find will end up being written by the very people who create or work with the technology in question. I tend to find much better answers there than in general informational sites.
Same thing goes for getting hits from mailing list archives, by the way.
Kill It. Kill it now. It is an early spawn of Evolution, and will only seek to multiply itself at the cost of right-thinking, right-leaning, right-voting churchgoers.
If you do not kill it at once, then eventually, you will have to face down and destroy its progeny, including condom machines, male organ likenesses, and anything soft with a hirsute demeanour.
I think he measured 4 seconds for the first terminal to be started during a session (when it still needs to load a bunch of stuff from disk).
When I start a new terminal instance on a 1.1Ghz Centrino machine, it pops up in less than half a second. And if I force a new terminal application to start (which you would normally never have a reason to do), it is still less than two seconds.
Gtk+ uses SVG as the file/dataformat for vector graphics (think png for vector images). Cairo is a drawing API, used to actually render SVG (and other graphics) onto a surface. So they are complementary, rather than competitive.
Yep, sushi is cold rice flavoured with vinegar and sugar. This food can be used in various ways, and rolls are just one variation.
More common at home is to make "shirashizushi" - basically a large bowl with the rice and a bunch of different toppings spread out on top. Another variation is to have rice and toppings in bowls, then take a piece of nori (pressed seaweed) and add some sushi and whatever toppings you like, then roll up and eat - sort of the same way you make tacos.
But yes, as it happens, sashimi tends to go very well with sushi.
The spammers are sending more and more spam, and yet less and less is actually getting through. Methods for stopping it at various points have become steadily better, and they need to resort to more and more esoteric methods to get any spam delivered. And the spam that is delivered needs to look more and more like regular mail to have a chance of sneaking through.
While sending spam is almost costless, it is not _totally_ so. Creating zombie networks is not free; if nothing else, the non-zero risk of getting cought is a cost. Renting capacity on someone else's zombie network of course carries a direct cost. Farming addresses, or buying collections; getting machines and bandwidth (and keeping it, in the face of vigilance on the part of ISPs) - it all carries costs.
And since less and less is actually delivered, we are increasing the cost per message. There is a definite cutoff point where it ceases to be profitable to send spam about a particular product or service (different, depending on the product). As the cost increases, you could counteract by promoting more upscale, higher-margin products - except that you can't, in the case of spam. You could not sell real Rolexes with spam, for instance; people with that kind of money will go to High Street and buy it there.
What I meant are two things: spam is less of a problem for the end-users (since ISPs and others are doing a much better job filtering it today); and fighting spam seems to be working, seeing how the spammers are doing more and more work, and yet seeing less and less actually delivered.
This last step looks a bit desperate. Sending it through the ISP gateway seems like a great way to have the zombie network detected and shut down much faster than before, thus destroying a needed resource in the course of using it.
For me, the amount of spam I receive has gone down steadily for the past year, on all my email accounts, as ISPs and other email providers have improved their filtering capabilities.
Looking at my spam folder, I get between five and eight spam mail per day delivered, most of which I never saw since I also filter locally with spamassassin (this does not count those tagged as spam by my ISPs). A year ago, the number would have been ten to twenty times higher.
If anything, I get the distinct impression that if we aren't defeating the spammers, we certainly aren't losing either.
Who is going to say to, for example, the Mepis developers that they are not welcome to develop their distro anymore? And what do you suggest when they say "f**k you" and redouble their efforts, and most everybody else sees you as a posterior opening for trying to dictate what other people do with their time?
As for Joe:
Joe will get whatever flavour his geeky friend Billy recommends him - the same friend that in practice will work as support and mentor until Joe is up to speed on his new system. It really doesn't matter which distro Billy hands over; all the modern ones are good, and the informal support network is a much more important factor than any details of the particular distro anyway. Or, he will buy a desktop with Linux preinstalled and will run whatever came with the machine.
By the time Joe really discovers the wealth of alternatives out there, he does so because he's been delving deeply enough into the Linux world that he is perfectly capable of choosing himself.
People who aren't interested in computers aren't stupid, or dense, or uneducated. They just aren't interested in computers.
Perhaps the Linux community should get together and make a serious effort at a unified "desktop" launch. Personally, I think it'd go a long way towards getting more people off XP and involved in Open Source, all these fractured distros aren't really helping.
This seems to pop every once and again, in different varieties: "there's too many distros/desktop projects/widget sets/web browsers/Hello Kitty squid cookies to choose from. Why can't we have just one?"
A few questions:
* Who, exactly, would do the picking? Based on what criteria? And who would decide that person/organization actually was a good choice to pick an alternative?
* What did you have in mind for enforcement? Selective assassinations of developers and users that refuse to go along?
Users pick different distros/desktops and so on because they have different needs and different preferences. And developers develop a particular option for all kinds of reasons - becoming popular may not even be on the list at all.
So, let's say "we" decide on Redhat with XFCe as the new standard for Linux. Will that mean that Debian will close their mailing lists, Novell immediately liquidates itself and all gnome and kde developers quietly rm their development directories and take up the torch of XFCe? Nope. If anything, an attempt to mandate one option out of many will antagonize a lot of people and make that option less popular then before.
"Your message was blocked, a sub-adress is now required....subadress is now required... Please update your records and resend your message with the sub adress below."
And thus you have effectively blocked that email adress permanently for the 70% of the population who doesn't understand the above, and who - more importantly - doesn't have the time or interest to make the effort to understand (and that would include people like my mother), or who don't read English well enough to understand it, interest or not. Easier to just close the email adress than messing with some system like this.
Hmm, I can scroll up-down, left-right and in a circle (emulates the mouse wheel) on my Panasonic, and their models have had that feature for years. The touchpad is even circular, so all you need to do is to drag your finger along the edge. Wouldn't want to have a computer without it today.
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...and then after the appetizers, the ramen was served!
Funny, I agree - but I feel it's a shame that ramen has come to be equated with those freeze-dried instant noodles that students everywhere seems to eat instead of actual food.
In Japan (where the dish is hugely popular), real ramen is a whole different thing; thick, intense soup base with slices of meat or seafood, greens, boiled eggs, a mound of chopped leek (well, similar to leek), all floating on top of a large serving of freshly cooked ramen noodles slowly soaking up the flavours of the soup. The instant stuff is just a pale shadow of the real thing.
1) Amend the IDN spec to require that valid IDN urls use the lowest-numbered codepoints that match that glyph.
"Match the glyph" is a _very_ vague concept - and the degree of visual likeness will depend on the currently chosen fonts. Japanese half-width romaji looks very different from western monospace. Or extremely similar. It all depends on the typefaces you use, your locale and so on.
2) Have browsers use a table that identifies all the characters that share a glyph. Any invalid IDNs are mapped down to the lowest codepoints before the browser goes there, so a link to a fake paypal.com address actually goes to the real paypal.com address.
But they really don't share a glyph. Mostly, this has already been done when Unicode was defined; in fact, at some codepoints they were overenthusiastic and reused some glyphs they really shouldn't have.
Just because two different glyphs will look very similar with some combination of typefaces (but, note, not with other), it doesn't mean they aren't very different and should be treated like it.
Example: in sans-serifed fonts, I (caiptal "i") and 1 ("one") will tend to look very, very similar. With your suggestion, all "I":s will thus be changed to "1" in registered url:s everywhere.
The problem is rather the opposite, actually. WHen you don't have the real typeface needed, the browser (or font system, really) tries to substitute the missing glyph with something similar, which is a good thing when you try to read text. It can make an URL look different from intended, however. One step of the solution may well be not to accept this kind of substition in URL:s. No idea if you can get this kind of control, though.
The customers are already paying for network access. Using the network they are paying for is not "leeching".
If your cable company started an on-line newspaper and thus blocked access to all other news sites on the net, would that be OK?
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Kids play nintendo.
Adults use palm.
In their home market, everybody plays video games, not just kids. This could be a pretty good move to get people in their twenties to go for the DS rather than the PSP.
Considering I've seen a ton of people that look like immigrants out on the road that drive horribly, one wonders where and how they get their licenses.
And the answer may well be that they haven't got a license. They still absolutely need to get around (to get to work if nothing else) so they drive without one - and without insurance, since you can't get insurance without a license. That of course makes even relatively light accidents much worse for all people involved.
Again, in a different reality they would not actually drive without a license, because they would be legal immigrants or not there at all, but since politics is the art of the possible (forgot who said that), you have to deal with reality, not your wish of how reality should look.
Again, in a different world you are correct.
As it is, it's not going to happen, since you will effectively collapse a substantial part of the economy of states that are your country's poorest to begin with. There is zero political will - and it isn't there because the same regular citizens that are upset over illegal mexicans would start lynching politicians that actually overturned this applecart and lost them their livelihoods.
Why should we give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants? We should be giving them a ride home.
You have a very large grey economy, with a lot of companies (especially farming companies and service operations) depending on those illegal aliens for their operation. In a different world, there would actually be a real effort to stop these immigrants and kill that economy, but realistically that is not going to happen, ever. Too large a part of the economy of those states are utterly dependent on that source of inexpensive labour to ever do anything more than empty gestures.
With the fact that these immigrants are not going away, a few things follow. First, granting drivers licenses means fewer people out on the road driving without good knowledge of local laws and regulations. This means less accidents and less injuries and deaths.
Similarily, allowing medical treatment and consultation means less acute cases (that become _really_ expensive) since you can do preventative care.
Most "immigration friendly" initiatives actually save money, not the other way around (and that doesn't even touch the issue of basic human decency when it comes to medical care).
No time to waste! Systems may already be infected, so better get offline immediately, review what installed software is at risk and start figuring out a way to get the patches... no, wait, I run linux.
Wonder what's on TV tonight?
Yeah, sorry; I just get a little annoyed sometimes when people try to swear "casually" in written conversations. It doesn't achieve the same kind of effect at all for me when I read it as when I hear it.
I fall apart like a month-old spongecake if someone so much as asks me for the current time. That must mean I'm really bright, right? Right?
Since you are going with mini-ATX in any case (sic), why build in a comparatively slow Mac mini when you could use a mini-ATX board with an Opteron and get a real 64-bit platform for about the same money in the same space?
The project is cool for its own sake of course, but there doesn't seem to be a real use for it.
Oh, and people freaking out over the "sarcriledge" - it's a computer, that's all. A piece of metal and plastic. If you really get upset about something like this, I suggest it's time to take a hard look at your priorities and your life.
why don't you just fucking coralize links so everybody can read em and the servers aren't down after half a minute?
Because you are so cute when you try to swear.
On the contrary, I really do want blogs to be included.
It means someone else has already thought about whatever I'm searching for and taken some time and effort to collect links and write it up. The blogs that get ranked highly for a search are much linked to, and relevant to the search, which will tend to mean the writeup is not bad. If I search for a technical subject, more often than not the blogs I find will end up being written by the very people who create or work with the technology in question. I tend to find much better answers there than in general informational sites.
Same thing goes for getting hits from mailing list archives, by the way.
Would be easier if the site was actually readable to someone in the United States.
Not to the intended readership, no. Much easier to read German than English if you are German, you know.
Kill It. Kill it now. It is an early spawn of Evolution, and will only seek to multiply itself at the cost of right-thinking, right-leaning, right-voting churchgoers.
If you do not kill it at once, then eventually, you will have to face down and destroy its progeny, including condom machines, male organ likenesses, and anything soft with a hirsute demeanour.
I think he measured 4 seconds for the first terminal to be started during a session (when it still needs to load a bunch of stuff from disk).
When I start a new terminal instance on a 1.1Ghz Centrino machine, it pops up in less than half a second. And if I force a new terminal application to start (which you would normally never have a reason to do), it is still less than two seconds.
Gtk+ uses SVG as the file/dataformat for vector graphics (think png for vector images). Cairo is a drawing API, used to actually render SVG (and other graphics) onto a surface. So they are complementary, rather than competitive.
Yep, sushi is cold rice flavoured with vinegar and sugar. This food can be used in various ways, and rolls are just one variation.
More common at home is to make "shirashizushi" - basically a large bowl with the rice and a bunch of different toppings spread out on top. Another variation is to have rice and toppings in bowls, then take a piece of nori (pressed seaweed) and add some sushi and whatever toppings you like, then roll up and eat - sort of the same way you make tacos.
But yes, as it happens, sashimi tends to go very well with sushi.
Let me rephrase and expand.
The spammers are sending more and more spam, and yet less and less is actually getting through. Methods for stopping it at various points have become steadily better, and they need to resort to more and more esoteric methods to get any spam delivered. And the spam that is delivered needs to look more and more like regular mail to have a chance of sneaking through.
While sending spam is almost costless, it is not _totally_ so. Creating zombie networks is not free; if nothing else, the non-zero risk of getting cought is a cost. Renting capacity on someone else's zombie network of course carries a direct cost. Farming addresses, or buying collections; getting machines and bandwidth (and keeping it, in the face of vigilance on the part of ISPs) - it all carries costs.
And since less and less is actually delivered, we are increasing the cost per message. There is a definite cutoff point where it ceases to be profitable to send spam about a particular product or service (different, depending on the product). As the cost increases, you could counteract by promoting more upscale, higher-margin products - except that you can't, in the case of spam. You could not sell real Rolexes with spam, for instance; people with that kind of money will go to High Street and buy it there.
What I meant are two things: spam is less of a problem for the end-users (since ISPs and others are doing a much better job filtering it today); and fighting spam seems to be working, seeing how the spammers are doing more and more work, and yet seeing less and less actually delivered.
This last step looks a bit desperate. Sending it through the ISP gateway seems like a great way to have the zombie network detected and shut down much faster than before, thus destroying a needed resource in the course of using it.
For me, the amount of spam I receive has gone down steadily for the past year, on all my email accounts, as ISPs and other email providers have improved their filtering capabilities.
Looking at my spam folder, I get between five and eight spam mail per day delivered, most of which I never saw since I also filter locally with spamassassin (this does not count those tagged as spam by my ISPs). A year ago, the number would have been ten to twenty times higher.
If anything, I get the distinct impression that if we aren't defeating the spammers, we certainly aren't losing either.
So, again, who is going to do the ellimination?
Who is going to say to, for example, the Mepis developers that they are not welcome to develop their distro anymore? And what do you suggest when they say "f**k you" and redouble their efforts, and most everybody else sees you as a posterior opening for trying to dictate what other people do with their time?
As for Joe:
Joe will get whatever flavour his geeky friend Billy recommends him - the same friend that in practice will work as support and mentor until Joe is up to speed on his new system. It really doesn't matter which distro Billy hands over; all the modern ones are good, and the informal support network is a much more important factor than any details of the particular distro anyway. Or, he will buy a desktop with Linux preinstalled and will run whatever came with the machine.
By the time Joe really discovers the wealth of alternatives out there, he does so because he's been delving deeply enough into the Linux world that he is perfectly capable of choosing himself.
People who aren't interested in computers aren't stupid, or dense, or uneducated. They just aren't interested in computers.
Perhaps the Linux community should get together and make a serious effort at a unified "desktop" launch. Personally, I think it'd go a long way towards getting more people off XP and involved in Open Source, all these fractured distros aren't really helping.
This seems to pop every once and again, in different varieties: "there's too many distros/desktop projects/widget sets/web browsers/Hello Kitty squid cookies to choose from. Why can't we have just one?"
A few questions:
* Who, exactly, would do the picking? Based on what criteria? And who would decide that person/organization actually was a good choice to pick an alternative?
* What did you have in mind for enforcement? Selective assassinations of developers and users that refuse to go along?
Users pick different distros/desktops and so on because they have different needs and different preferences. And developers develop a particular option for all kinds of reasons - becoming popular may not even be on the list at all.
So, let's say "we" decide on Redhat with XFCe as the new standard for Linux. Will that mean that Debian will close their mailing lists, Novell immediately liquidates itself and all gnome and kde developers quietly rm their development directories and take up the torch of XFCe? Nope. If anything, an attempt to mandate one option out of many will antagonize a lot of people and make that option less popular then before.
"Your message was blocked, a sub-adress is now required. ...subadress is now required... Please update your records and resend your message with the sub adress below."
And thus you have effectively blocked that email adress permanently for the 70% of the population who doesn't understand the above, and who - more importantly - doesn't have the time or interest to make the effort to understand (and that would include people like my mother), or who don't read English well enough to understand it, interest or not. Easier to just close the email adress than messing with some system like this.
Hmm, I can scroll up-down, left-right and in a circle (emulates the mouse wheel) on my Panasonic, and their models have had that feature for years. The touchpad is even circular, so all you need to do is to drag your finger along the edge. Wouldn't want to have a computer without it today.