Don't Bitch you say, how often does anyone read the complete terms and conditions? bitching about them especially on places like slashdot is a useful service. It's not like you can type bad press and a company name into google and find out exactly where the agreement stitches up the user/subscriber
Bitch away and forewarn people of dodgy conracts before they sign one.
factorys are geared to doing the same job over and over again software just isn't like that the only repeating which gets done is at the disk duplicators.
modular code and functions can help keep development costs down and maybe someone might come up with a way of building quickly searchable librarys of modules that can do specific tasks. so you can just include and call most of your way through
of course then you can then go about patenting each idea forget about producing a working model and sue your company into profit.
you can just imagine what it will be like paying for each patent used. customers will be screaming when they realize they have to pay 1000,s just to click on the icon to launch the program:/
MsN messenger Irc and others basically use servers to relay messages, and I think I would be a fool to think tht MSN Messenger isn't capable of allowing someone to peek in to my private messages; perhaps 6.2 doesn't but 6.3 could do, couldn't it?
does anyone know of a nonserver open source. method of connecting two or more people together for voice video and text, ideally cross platform which does not involve using a thirdparty such as MSN to make the connection.
finally is there any way of securing the packets so even if you can detect that communication is going on between 2 nodes you still wouldn't know what is being said.
It seems slashdot will not allow me to list non English letters in a post. Is this a bug or a feature? although incidentally windows can be quite broken in displaying non english letters.
for most people typing on a keyboard, they will only be using one keymap however If you write in other languages touch typing does very little good.
The Polish alphabet for instance has ó in addition to a standard english key map and the Z and Y are reversed for a lot of keyboards.
As a touch typest I would have no chance of writing on these kyboards but generally I manage ok. A natural Polish keyboard isn't very good for C++ thou, since borland thinks i am using a key board shortcut each time I try to use | (alt w)
However being a nontouch typist means I usually review what I have written.
perhaps this is a more useful skill than touch typing.
I do not think this statement is entirely justified. Amiga viri/ viruses were written.
The Amiga hardware was great for the time and the operating system was superb. Tell me how you envisage the Amiga making a comeback?
Myself I think it is possible to develop an Amiga like operating system for the Pc perhaps by utilising some of the source code for Linux at least to figure out how to drive the hardware.
At least Gpl'd software is open to being ported to an alternative os.
Pathetic if your an amiga fan waiting for the 2nd coming of the amiga.
The amiga os was great, for it's time, and had it not been tied to deadend hardware could have evolved into an easy to use resource efficient operating system anyone who used the amiga as anything other than a games machine knows it had a nice os.
however the reality is Pc's running windows rule the desktop, Linux is great but it just isn't very intuitive.
maybe it is possible to port exec to the pc and create an amiga flavoured port. in fact possibly linux could be the key since almost everything exists as source code. everyone is free to develop a kernel if they have the time and inclination but its not going to happen anytime soon.
I guess my view is different a paperback is a great device simple low cost but falls apart with to much use.
printing out books at home is slow wasteful and eventually ends up in the bin once the pages get out of order. If i am going to have a hardware device to replace books then i think it should have features over and above what you get in a paper book.
Better indexing and the ability to make notes are very useful when it comes to text books.
The reason i suggested audio and video was that then you could have a device like an enhanced IPOD carry your music your books films even where ever you go. With a dvd drive built in and wireless or ethernet networking. you would have a multifunction device which might justify the cost.
The availability of this kind of device could be useful in schools and colleges no need to print excess quantities of handouts, lists of errata. with wireless a presentation or report could be made available within a meeting. discussed and reviewed.
however the biggest problem i think with display devices is the actal orientation of the screen a paper book page is a good size and proportion. http://us2.portrait.com/prodCurrent.h tml has an interesting download a small utility to reorientate your screen and mouse.
I am currently trying it on a 17inch crt and on a 12" screen laptop the crt screen has a few problems color balance is completely wrong. The laptop is fine and I think the laptop may stay this way;I use a seperate keyboard anyway.
Word looks great this way and most webpages are looking good too. it may look a little strange but the book effect is very good.
I think the one area which really needs to grow is print on demand. This I think would make both of us happy. unfortunately while the equipment exists already bookstores seem slow to start offering this service.
actually by doing a little digging i found something called pivot pro which allows you to spin your screen 90 degree's colur is a little strange on here but wow what a difference on a 17 inch monitor. Its like having a big a4 pad and quite comfortable to read.
http://us2.portrait.com/prodCurrent.html they have a 30 day demo available.
ok this might sound daft but just reading some of the related articles i realised the main problem with reading on a screen is the constant need to scroll because we have the dimensions wrong. how many articles are we reading these days with a narrow strip of article and huge borders?
how about our web browsers wouldnt they be better side ways on? why all these menus and tabs on the top why not on the side? it cant be that difficult to render sideways or move the bars to the side or at least give us the option.
I disagree. why compare the price to a single book? when this device could be a huge libary of books. Having recently given away a large quantity of books due to lack of space. this device could be quite useful.
I think a system of anotation and highlighting and book marking would be essential and the ability to cross reference internal and external sources. You must be able to scribble in the margins. wireless connectivity would be essential both to retrieve sections of texts and notes to word process and print as well as distribute and retrieve texts and ebooks.
You might as well include sound playback and possibly video too. but the screen needs to be high resolution probably colour.
I think I am thinking of something very similar to a laptop but with a flat screen on the outside and a slide out keyboard and or a touch screen.
Perhaps part of it is that I find it far easier to flip back in a book to a passage that I want to reread. I also like having a small pile of books on my bed from which I can grab when I go to bed.
"Like most men that have been single for a while I have turned half my bed in to a desk." -Harry Hill
currently My isp provides a cablemodem for each customer into which the customer plugs their router or PC.
perhaps a solution might be for the ISP to provide a combined modem/router with a built in firewall and antivirus software.
wouldn't Joe sixpack be protected then?
Some of us wouldn't want it thats for sure but it probably wouldn't be so difficult to arrange for ports to be opened when required and the majority of users wouldn't even notice the difference.
Is the difference between murder and manslaughter basically stupidity?
he is guilty of man slaughter and that should carry a heavy penalty just short of the death penalty seems reasonable in this case. but shouldnt more road deaths be treated as harshly. Killing people through stupidity should get severely penalised whatever it is. In the uk a man was sentenced to 5 years after killing 11 people when he fell asleep at the wheel. Is that enough?
vehicular manslaughter isn't treated seriously enough, perhaps it is time it should be.
and no i don't see a need to ban in car dvd's. driving without due care and attention should cover minor infractions, without giving up keeping the kids amused for 200 mile's instead of fighting on the back seat.
isn't this going about the problem the wrong way round?
For tobacco it's not a high that is the problem its the withdrawl from the nicotine.
remove the withdrawl symptons and I will quit smoking.
probably the same goes for heroin and crack addicts.
given the choice between prostitution theft and the various other ways addicts have of supporting their habits. or an injection to allow pain free withdrawl I think you might see a willing majority ready to quit.
addiction is degrading and I think most addicts will admit to that and want to do something about it.
I think the most relevent point you make for me,is without posting a bond it is unlikely that legitimate email, will ever get read by the recipient.
personally I recieve very little Spam less than 1 a day on average but then i don't have that high a profile. However, I do get to sort my email into email from people I know and those I don't.
Maybe this makes me unusual in not having a spam problem, but I certainly see no benefit in this proposal for me.
in fact as you say if i choose not to participate in this scheme it could well be a disadvantage.
like you say its voluntary, just my emails may not get through with this scheme in place.
and just to let you know i'm reading this in Lincolnshire, one of many shire countys in the Uk.
Shire mail also goes for a horrible lincoln green colour scheme probably to invoke a closeness to robin hood with his merry men roaming the shires of England.
So chances of warner brothers laying claim to an ancient english word are very low chances the parent was pasting flamebait you decide..
First problem from the point of a view of an ordinary user. how do you pay your bond?
without a creditcard or debit card any kind of payment across the internet is near impossible. so even a 1 cent bond becomes difficult to pay the result being you just closed down the ability to send and recieve email for a sizable body of users.
how do you collect on a small size bond?
if it's a 10p bond surely mailing it wil cost a 45p stamp. international money transfer costs sizable amounts no matter what the amount.
Who is holding the money? even if all users were to have small bonds it is a sizeable sum overall If every internet user sent me a penny would i need to work again?
how about I am totally careless with my email address, can i then send repeated claims for bond money from all these companies that want to sell me something.
This system sucks and white listing sucks too, unless you never lost contact with old friends or changed your isp or got in touch with a company.
heck thinking about it somebody makes a product gets a lot of customer complaints then claims their repeated emails from dissatisfied customers is spam and claims the bonds.
seems like another get rich quick scheme to me but not one i want to pay for
who needs computers for this sort of thing Uk has at least 2 notable pieces of road
Coventry ring road, picture the scene your decending a ramp to get on to the main ring road on the same stretch of road cars ect are leaving the ring and coming on to an extension of the ramp which runs on and off on to another road yes two streams of traffic crossing over constantly.
so lets see now i guess any audio source would do, so the plants could speak wonder how long before the tv is showing home movie footage of freaked out kids and grandma's. not to mention upsetting a few vegan's but what would you have your plants say
http://wirerimmed.com/index.php?section=news&id=51 &album_id=18 okay I have just spent some time looking for the link to that stat however this is all I could find. the original bbc link is gone but here
Slashdot Mirror
Don't Bitch you say,
how often does anyone read the complete terms and conditions? bitching about them especially on places like slashdot is a useful service. It's not like you can type bad press and a company name into google and find out exactly where the agreement stitches up the user/subscriber
Bitch away and forewarn people of dodgy conracts before they sign one.
factorys are geared to doing the same job over and over again
:/
software just isn't like that the only repeating which gets done is at the disk duplicators.
modular code and functions can help keep development costs down and maybe someone might come up with a way of building quickly searchable librarys of modules that can do specific tasks. so you can just include and call most of your way through
of course then you can then go about patenting each idea forget about producing a working model and sue your company into profit.
you can just imagine what it will be like paying for each patent used.
customers will be screaming when they realize they have to pay 1000,s just to click on the icon to launch the program
MsN messenger Irc and others basically use servers to relay messages, and I think I would be a fool to think tht MSN Messenger isn't capable of allowing someone to peek in to my private messages; perhaps 6.2 doesn't but 6.3 could do, couldn't it?
does anyone know of a nonserver open source. method of connecting two or more people together for voice video and text, ideally cross platform which does not involve using a thirdparty such as MSN to make the connection.
finally is there any way of securing the packets so even if you can detect that communication is going on between 2 nodes you still wouldn't know what is being said.
It seems slashdot will not allow me to list non English letters in a post.
Is this a bug or a feature? although incidentally windows can be quite broken in displaying non english letters.
for most people typing on a keyboard, they will only be using one keymap however If you write in other languages touch typing does very little good. The Polish alphabet for instance has ó in addition to a standard english key map and the Z and Y are reversed for a lot of keyboards. As a touch typest I would have no chance of writing on these kyboards but generally I manage ok. A natural Polish keyboard isn't very good for C++ thou, since borland thinks i am using a key board shortcut each time I try to use | (alt w) However being a nontouch typist means I usually review what I have written. perhaps this is a more useful skill than touch typing.
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ok I admit to making a grammatical error.
>Amigas don't get infected . . PCs cop it ALL!
I do not think this statement is entirely justified. Amiga viri/ viruses were written.
The Amiga hardware was great for the time and the operating system was superb.
Tell me how you envisage the Amiga making a comeback?
Myself I think it is possible to develop an Amiga like operating system for the Pc perhaps by utilising some of the source code for Linux at least to figure out how to drive the hardware.
At least Gpl'd software is open to being ported to an alternative os.
It would be nice to have an alternative to linux.
Pathetic if your an amiga fan waiting for the 2nd coming of the amiga.
The amiga os was great, for it's time, and had it not been tied to deadend hardware could have evolved into an easy to use resource efficient operating system anyone who used the amiga as anything other than a games machine knows it had a nice os.
however the reality is Pc's running windows rule the desktop, Linux is great but it just isn't very intuitive.
maybe it is possible to port exec to the pc and create an amiga flavoured port. in fact possibly linux could be the key since almost everything exists as source code. everyone is free to develop a kernel if they have the time and inclination but its not going to happen anytime soon.
woody guthre didnt write the music for his song he wrote the lyrics, the tune came from an earlier 1930's source.
4 -0 -0-0-DLZTADLGXDLSADLRE/The_Plagiarism_Skit.m3u
sure the lyrical content is similar, but being similar isn't copyrightable is it?
for informed comment try the reference below
http://www.ampcast.com/LST-66334-mus-128-526674
I guess my view is different a paperback is a great device simple low cost but falls apart with to much use.
h tml has an interesting download a small utility to reorientate your screen and mouse.
printing out books at home is slow wasteful and eventually ends up in the bin once the pages get out of order. If i am going to have a hardware device to replace books then i think it should have features over and above what you get in a paper book.
Better indexing and the ability to make notes are very useful when it comes to text books.
The reason i suggested audio and video was that then you could have a device like an enhanced IPOD carry your music your books films even where ever you go. With a dvd drive built in and wireless or ethernet networking. you would have a multifunction device which might justify the cost.
The availability of this kind of device could be useful in schools and colleges no need to print excess quantities of handouts, lists of errata. with wireless a presentation or report could be made available within a meeting. discussed and reviewed.
however the biggest problem i think with display devices is the actal orientation of the screen a paper book page is a good size and proportion.
http://us2.portrait.com/prodCurrent.
I am currently trying it on a 17inch crt and on a 12" screen laptop the crt screen has a few problems color balance is completely wrong.
The laptop is fine and I think the laptop may stay this way;I use a seperate keyboard anyway.
Word looks great this way and most webpages are looking good too.
it may look a little strange but the book effect is very good.
I think the one area which really needs to grow is print on demand. This I think would make both of us happy. unfortunately while the equipment exists already bookstores seem slow to start offering this service.
actually by doing a little digging i found something called pivot pro which allows you to spin your screen 90 degree's colur is a little strange on here but wow what a difference on a 17 inch monitor. Its like having a big a4 pad and quite comfortable to read.
http://us2.portrait.com/prodCurrent.html
they have a 30 day demo available.
ok this might sound daft but just reading some of the related articles i realised the main problem with reading on a screen is the constant need to scroll because we have the dimensions wrong. how many articles are we reading these days with a narrow strip of article and huge borders?
how about our web browsers wouldnt they be better side ways on? why all these menus and tabs on the top why not on the side?
it cant be that difficult to render sideways or move the bars to the side or at least give us the option.
I disagree. why compare the price to a single book? when this device could be a huge libary of books. Having recently given away a large quantity of books due to lack of space. this device could be quite useful.
I think a system of anotation and highlighting and book marking would be essential and the ability to cross reference internal and external sources. You must be able to scribble in the margins. wireless connectivity would be essential both to retrieve sections of texts and notes to word process and print as well as distribute and retrieve texts and ebooks.
You might as well include sound playback and possibly video too.
but the screen needs to be high resolution probably colour.
I think I am thinking of something very similar to a laptop but with a flat screen on the outside and a slide out keyboard and or a touch screen.
erm maybe not so simple
currently My isp provides a cablemodem for each customer into which the customer plugs their router or PC.
perhaps a solution might be for the ISP to provide a combined modem/router with a built in firewall and antivirus software.
wouldn't Joe sixpack be protected then?
Some of us wouldn't want it thats for sure but it probably wouldn't be so difficult to arrange for ports to be opened when required and the majority of users wouldn't even notice the difference.
Is the difference between murder and manslaughter basically stupidity?
he is guilty of man slaughter and that should carry a heavy penalty just short of the death penalty seems reasonable in this case. but shouldnt more road deaths be treated as harshly. Killing people through stupidity should get severely penalised whatever it is.
In the uk a man was sentenced to 5 years after killing 11 people when he fell asleep at the wheel. Is that enough?
vehicular manslaughter isn't treated seriously enough, perhaps it is time it should be.
and no i don't see a need to ban in car dvd's. driving without due care and attention should cover minor infractions, without giving up keeping the kids amused for 200 mile's instead of fighting on the back seat.
isn't this going about the problem the wrong way round?
For tobacco it's not a high that is the problem its the withdrawl from the nicotine.
remove the withdrawl symptons and I will quit smoking.
probably the same goes for heroin and crack addicts.
given the choice between prostitution theft and the various other ways addicts have of supporting their habits. or an injection to allow pain free withdrawl I think you might see a willing majority ready to quit.
addiction is degrading and I think most addicts will admit to that and want to do something about it.
I think the most relevent point you make for me ,is without posting a bond it is unlikely that legitimate email, will ever get read by the recipient.
personally I recieve very little Spam less than 1 a day on average but then i don't have that high a profile. However, I do get to sort my email into email from people I know and those I don't.
Maybe this makes me unusual in not having a spam problem, but I certainly see no benefit in this proposal for me.
in fact as you say if i choose not to participate in this scheme it could well be a disadvantage.
like you say its voluntary, just my emails may not get through with this scheme in place.
Shiremail is a uk based company.
and just to let you know i'm reading this in Lincolnshire, one of many shire countys in the Uk.
Shire mail also goes for a horrible lincoln green colour scheme probably to invoke a closeness to robin hood with his merry men roaming the shires of England.
So chances of warner brothers laying claim to an ancient english word are very low
chances the parent was pasting flamebait you decide..
First problem from the point of a view of an ordinary user.
how do you pay your bond?
without a creditcard or debit card any kind of payment across the internet is near impossible. so even a 1 cent bond becomes difficult to pay the result being you just closed down the ability to send and recieve email for a sizable body of users.
how do you collect on a small size bond?
if it's a 10p bond surely mailing it wil cost a 45p stamp. international money transfer costs sizable amounts no matter what the amount.
Who is holding the money?
even if all users were to have small bonds it is a sizeable sum overall
If every internet user sent me a penny would i need to work again?
how about I am totally careless with my email address, can i then send repeated claims for bond money from all these companies that want to sell me something.
This system sucks and white listing sucks too, unless you never lost contact with old friends or changed your isp or got in touch with a company.
heck thinking about it somebody makes a product gets a lot of customer complaints then claims their repeated emails from dissatisfied customers is
spam and claims the bonds.
seems like another get rich quick scheme to me but not one i want to pay for
who needs computers for this sort of thing Uk has at least 2 notable pieces of road
Coventry ring road, picture the scene your decending a ramp to get on to the main ring road on the same stretch of road cars ect are leaving the ring and coming on to an extension of the ramp which runs on and off on to another road yes two streams of traffic crossing over constantly.
coventry
coventry
alternatively there is the magic round about in swindon
swindon
5 mini roundabouts arranged in a pentagon with 5 roads leading off
both scary to drive but apparently have low accident rates
so lets see now i guess any audio source would do, so the plants could speak
wonder how long before the tv is showing home movie footage of freaked out kids and grandma's.
not to mention upsetting a few vegan's
but what would you have your plants say
farmers vesion going
Giit orff moi land !
and now
Account for domain modasylum.com has been suspended
that didnt take long
pictures of ashley judd
http://wirerimmed.com/index.php?section=news&id=51 &album_id=18
/ /w ww.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/results/index.shtml
okay I have just spent some time looking for the link to that stat
however this is all I could find.
the original bbc link is gone but here
http://web.archive.org/web/20030621085159/http:
Salary
non-earner 107
below £20,000 104
£20,000 - £30,000 101
£30,001 - £50,000 99
£50,000 + 93
so as you see i wasn't mistaken in my recollection