For a Natural Language Processing project, I wrote a perl script that would take all of your Gaim logs, build a database of things you are most likely to say, in the style you are most likely to say it. Then, as you typed, it non-obtrusively suggested the rest of the word or next word that you were currently typing. You could hit a key and it would fill it in for you
If IM bots get sophisticated enough, they could start doing something like this. Not for typing something out, but for generating messages from a person that sound a lot like them. Perhaps copying a message of sending a link they had sent earlier, just changing the link location. Then if the person replied, they could use information from the logs on how to best respond like the person.
Hmm, perhaps I shouldn't be giving anyone more ideas...
I don't hold the view that MS is a mononopoly, not when there are free alternatives
Just because there are free alternatives doesn't mean that Microsoft can't be a monopoly, although it is starting to get less the case as coungries, schools, businesses, realize they can use things like Ubuntu instead of Windows.
What I mean to point out, Microsoft can be a monopoly, there's nothing wrong with being a monopoly. It's when being a monopoly hinders any competitors and Microsoft abuses their monopoly that it is a problem. If the whole entire world wants to use one specific product over another, no one is going to stop that monopoly from happening if it is what the people want. Abusive monopolies drown out competetors so they don't have any motivation at improving where they need to, can make ridiculous demands now that everyone is dependant on them, and so on.
Microsoft has a pretty darn good monopoly in the Desktop market. Thankfully it is lessening a bit here and there as time goes on. The question is, not whether they're a monopoly, but whether they are abusing their monopoly?
This has got to be the best place to pick up chicks.
Hehe, I'm a chick and I went last year. There were half a dozen to a dozen females maybe. Several seemed to be wives. And I don't think I saw any in my age group (college), although I might've missed them.
I'll probably try to go again, the Novell, Asterisk, and Apache talks were really interesting. But I think I'll have to come incognito. There are definitely a huge number of geeky Linux guys there. Bit intimidating at times.;)
darcs is based on arch (TLA). darcs incorperates the good stuff from arch as well as being very easy to use without those crazy commands or naming conventions, etc. from arch. Out of cvs, subversion, arch, and darcs, I found darcs to be the best.
I've played with cvs, subversion, arch, darcs and I honestly think darcs is easiest to use and best of all of them I've played with.
The only thing I would change in darcs is the way it handles binary files. It can't apply patches to binary files, it has to save full copies of them. Not very condusive to projects with lots of binaries.
Subversion, on the other hand handles this better.
But I still like darcs better... its features are sweet.
In my CS classes, it's more like a 10:1 ration of guys to gals, but that's a fairly small private university.
So, I'm female. I love computers, programming, linux, gentoo... hopefully in the future there will be more and more people like me.
I mean, there's got to be some females to help pass on geekiness to their kids. But I just don't think my mom would understand an e-mail that said something to the effect of "emerging package baby, nine month compilation time!"
By the way, geeky pick-up lines are the best. And I find all you guys very amusing.
Linux is EXPENSIVE from Dell. Most people are going to do what we did, buy Dell $329 servers, and install a downloaded version of (insert your favorite distribution)
Not everyone wants to download and install Linux themselves plus get it set up the way they need it to. I don't know how worth the money buying a SuSE linux box from Dell would be, but it could be worth it.
I think the point is to make it easier for current Windows users to move over to a Linux box. I have seen a demo of the new SuSE and it looks pretty sweet. I definitely think this has a chance.
Not everyone is a geek enough to be fine with downloading and installing Linux themselves so we get more stuff free more easily. I guess that's the price we "pay" for being Linux geeky.
Yeah, there's been so much open source activity that I think Microsoft is actually getting more worried. All those patents they're trying to get seem to be one way they think they'll be able to beat open source.
Until just recently I thought open source / linux would be hopelessly lost to Microsoft, but as each new thing like this comes out, I'm beginning to think open source may put Microsoft out of the monopoly business.
I would feel sorry for Microsoft, except... what did they ever do for the open source community??
Soon, I think Microsoft is going to reap what it has sown.
A support article by Microsoft suggests a solution to the holes in their product, specifically the one where an address can be spoofed and displays a different url than the one you're actually at. Solution: Don't click on links!:)
"The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself."
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For a Natural Language Processing project, I wrote a perl script that would take all of your Gaim logs, build a database of things you are most likely to say, in the style you are most likely to say it. Then, as you typed, it non-obtrusively suggested the rest of the word or next word that you were currently typing. You could hit a key and it would fill it in for you
If IM bots get sophisticated enough, they could start doing something like this. Not for typing something out, but for generating messages from a person that sound a lot like them. Perhaps copying a message of sending a link they had sent earlier, just changing the link location. Then if the person replied, they could use information from the logs on how to best respond like the person.
Hmm, perhaps I shouldn't be giving anyone more ideas...
I don't hold the view that MS is a mononopoly, not when there are free alternatives
Just because there are free alternatives doesn't mean that Microsoft can't be a monopoly, although it is starting to get less the case as coungries, schools, businesses, realize they can use things like Ubuntu instead of Windows.
What I mean to point out, Microsoft can be a monopoly, there's nothing wrong with being a monopoly. It's when being a monopoly hinders any competitors and Microsoft abuses their monopoly that it is a problem. If the whole entire world wants to use one specific product over another, no one is going to stop that monopoly from happening if it is what the people want. Abusive monopolies drown out competetors so they don't have any motivation at improving where they need to, can make ridiculous demands now that everyone is dependant on them, and so on.
Microsoft has a pretty darn good monopoly in the Desktop market. Thankfully it is lessening a bit here and there as time goes on. The question is, not whether they're a monopoly, but whether they are abusing their monopoly?
This has got to be the best place to pick up chicks.
Hehe, I'm a chick and I went last year. There were half a dozen to a dozen females maybe. Several seemed to be wives. And I don't think I saw any in my age group (college), although I might've missed them.
I'll probably try to go again, the Novell, Asterisk, and Apache talks were really interesting. But I think I'll have to come incognito. There are definitely a huge number of geeky Linux guys there. Bit intimidating at times. ;)
darcs is based on arch (TLA). darcs incorperates the good stuff from arch as well as being very easy to use without those crazy commands or naming conventions, etc. from arch. Out of cvs, subversion, arch, and darcs, I found darcs to be the best.
I've played with cvs, subversion, arch, darcs and I honestly think darcs is easiest to use and best of all of them I've played with.
The only thing I would change in darcs is the way it handles binary files. It can't apply patches to binary files, it has to save full copies of them. Not very condusive to projects with lots of binaries.
Subversion, on the other hand handles this better.
But I still like darcs better... its features are sweet.
In my CS classes, it's more like a 10:1 ration of guys to gals, but that's a fairly small private university.
So, I'm female. I love computers, programming, linux, gentoo... hopefully in the future there will be more and more people like me.
I mean, there's got to be some females to help pass on geekiness to their kids. But I just don't think my mom would understand an e-mail that said something to the effect of "emerging package baby, nine month compilation time!"
By the way, geeky pick-up lines are the best. And I find all you guys very amusing.
PS, no you can't have my e-mail address. :)
can I host my website out of gmail?
No, but you can out of emacs.. ;)
Linux is EXPENSIVE from Dell. Most people are going to do what we did, buy Dell $329 servers, and install a downloaded version of (insert your favorite distribution) Not everyone wants to download and install Linux themselves plus get it set up the way they need it to. I don't know how worth the money buying a SuSE linux box from Dell would be, but it could be worth it. I think the point is to make it easier for current Windows users to move over to a Linux box. I have seen a demo of the new SuSE and it looks pretty sweet. I definitely think this has a chance. Not everyone is a geek enough to be fine with downloading and installing Linux themselves so we get more stuff free more easily. I guess that's the price we "pay" for being Linux geeky.
... or reading slashdot.
/. toys, include them in every happy meal, give the kids a url to slahsdot and what'll we have?
But that's a good thing!
Let's make
More geeks of course!
(in the same way there are more gambling addicts because of McDonalds neopet toys...)
Yeah, there's been so much open source activity that I think Microsoft is actually getting more worried. All those patents they're trying to get seem to be one way they think they'll be able to beat open source.
Until just recently I thought open source / linux would be hopelessly lost to Microsoft, but as each new thing like this comes out, I'm beginning to think open source may put Microsoft out of the monopoly business.
I would feel sorry for Microsoft, except... what did they ever do for the open source community??
Soon, I think Microsoft is going to reap what it has sown.
A support article by Microsoft suggests a solution to the holes in their product, specifically the one where an address can be spoofed and displays a different url than the one you're actually at. Solution: Don't click on links! :)
"The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself."