Yahoo mail uses an interesting term: 'Bulk'. You see many mail providers using various terms- Junk, Spam, Bulk, etc. It's important to distinguish between these and handle them differently.
Bulk mail plain and simple is newsletters, monthly statements, etc. This is anything sent out en-mass. It can easily be detected by large ISPs by a burst of connections in a short piece of time, or similarly formatted e-mail in sequence. Bulk is subscribed- your bank statement, your annoucement list, your flyers, etc.
Junk mail is mail from real companies but that is clearly trying to sell you something you don't really need, but could need.
Spam is selling viagikra for just pennies to make your member bigg3r.
That's how I classify them, but it's interesting that some providers make the distinction, and tell users what they are filtering. Hotmail is probably wrong to filter 'Junk', as many non-junk e-mails go in there. I've had people sending FROM HOTMAIL to my hotmail, and it being marked as junk despite being a picture/file I requested and them being in my address book. Clearly Junk isn't the right word.
Telling a user that something is bulk is A-Okay with me- stating that this sender bursted a ton of e-mail to us. Marking as junk based on 'we've had a lot of complaints about this sender from other users'. And Spam being 'this is clearly a 20-30+ according to SpamAssassin, and isn't even worth delivering'.
Most users will never check their junk mail on hotmail. Many users won't get their bulk on yahoo. But at least FAIRLY tell people what might be in it, so they can choose where mail goes.
Has any thought been put into doing what FastCGI has done, only within Apache and its modules rather than between Apache and some other program? This could reduce the core server size, allow threading and other fun where it wasn't before, and use resources more efficiently, passing proper apache structures to a module server that could pass that same structure to PHP/Perl/TK/etc and back again?
Wait for 2.2 (currently 2.1) to go stable. The lingering daemon functionality that was provided externally in 1.3 is back and in core 2.2.
This will be a huge boost for large providers to serve more connections and provide good reason.
At present, I recommend 2.x just because it's closer to 2.2 (and hence involves less configuration and setup quirks later on)- They're about equal now with the prefork.
I'd say that people expected a huge benefit, but didn't quite get it right away. In a Web server, it just needs to work, and both worked- so why upgrade for slightly slower performance and no additional features. What people failed to realize is that changing this framework around provides long-term growth and renews the project to increase its extensibility such as module ordering in the long term. As that long term comes now, you'll see a lot more move to that as the gains keep showing up, now that the framework is stable. -M
My thumbs up to that statement. Add in why installation of Tomcat/JK is so unnecessarily complicated over core apache, and plays so poorly with other modules.
streaming content to digital media adapters from a PC in our home office
And have quite the jog to that home office when we want to control the video we want, change to another media file, or figure out why I keep getting the MSN message sounds through my living room.
finds it practical to do anything other than passively soak up multimedia content whilst relaxing on the couch
The core purpose, I'd agree is to watch movies. But you also need control over the PC. You need to be able to search for a video file, insert a DVD, pause/rewind/etc, use your portable phone without interfereing with your wireless signal of your TV.
In a connected world, people want the ability to, in a minor role, check movie listings as well. That capability is there- why not provide some functions to capture the whole screen as well and forward a trackball's signal? In contrast to a directory of files served.
No. Though Microsoft needs to make their sales in 2006 in order to fall under the expected budget of many companies who saw it coming...
SO they'll start pre-selling M$ Office before it ships. So you can give them money, and get nothing... for a while... and then maybe still get very little -M
There's lots of reasons people are switching from Palm -> Blackberry besides push e-mail. Lets be realistic, if polling every 5 minutes isn't good enough or frequent enough for you, you should probably just sit at your desk all day.
The interface is much smarter than the palm. The wheel is key. It's one-handed, very acurate operation. The stylus (which previous posting on Slashdot said may be removed) is inacurate and the touch screen requires two hands. Awful when driving.
The applications are just plain smarter in many ways, but still have a way to go. The licensing on the Blackberry has yet to be cracked- so developers love it because the security for registering software is great.
Use a Blackberry and you'll find Palm just so darn frustrating to use.
But controlling these games in the day was so much easier. You know, A is fire, B is jump? Space to shoot the puck, CTRL to pass the puck, and arrow keys to move (even in NHL'94 on its 4 floppy disks).
These days, a PS2 controller with 4 buttons + 4 buttons on top (not to mention the games that use these as modifiers to make 16 buttons up front) + 2 push-button sticks + D-PAD + start/select buttons... not to mention those controllers that sense their own movement and angle.
Games are just so complicated these days. So many moves, so many options, so much extra aiming. What happened to the aim and shoot method? The auto-reload needs to be replaced with a three-button combination? Do we really need 360 degrees of freedom for our joystick or would a 4-way/8-way pad do just as well for a driving game?
Yes games are more complex than pac-man and frogger ever were, but I think it's become a bit extreme... *thinks of playing GTA for the first time and jumping out of a plane instead of firing a weapon*.
The key would be not to 'block' AT&T customers, but purposely have a nicely negative page about AT&T. You're not going to get many people to switch providers, versus switching search engines (many don't even have a choice in providers), but it's a great way to inform consumers who normally wouldn't even know there's a problem (such as with blocking Bittorrent and P2P).
This is a mere half of your solution. It's one thing to have a system that stores locations and organizations about books in question, but it's another to keep it up to date and acurate. Think about it this way. If a friend comes over and talks about a book you have and want to lend to him, would you (a) give it to him where you know you left it, or (b) go into the system, do a search, and mark it as lent to your friend?
This system requires that every moval or removal requires you to update the system. Now add that your computer may not always be on, at the right location, may be occupied, and may not cover all of the locations of your books.
Why do people need systems when plain old pencil & paper would do quite well? Or even *gasp* using the alphabet:)
Where do you think carriers make their money? They don't make that much on you calling your spouse to say that you're on your way. They don't make much for you having a business call on the way to work.
They make their money on services. Every new phone you'll find has a big colour screen and supports EDGE/EVDO or whatever technology they want. Every phone integrates more text, video, picture features. Many phones are getting cameras! Do people want cameras? Many not, yet I can't find a phone without a camera... Because I take a picture and MMS it to someone for a buck.
These are features for the CARRIER. If there's a big screen, they can display ads, they can display video, they can display pictures, you can download games, you can download ring tones.
All of these things are paid services above and beyond the call. The carrier doesn't care- they want to sell you value added services.
Love Monkey (CBS)- Man that was a good show with some great support from viewers and corporations (Sony is big into it, introducing many new artists). Too bad they got rid of it after 3 episodes. Rumour has it that UPN will pick it up
Is there any reason not to have a per-thread working directory?
Yes- becuase I guarentee you that every existing program that supports threads and makes use of chdir() calls it once and expects the program to function. Call it within a master thread and you expect it to affect all other threads.
The way to do this is to introduce a new function that wraps it and does it only in the thread it was called in, but that's a pain.
Who will protect us from M$'s products that will slow our computers and spy on us considering that's the plan?
We need another 98lite! ( http://www.litepc.com/ ) [note that in 95/98, it actually stripped M$'s crap out. In XP it does, but to a much lesser degree... mainly because it's less broken in a stock installation]
What the hell is Realplayer? Oh! You mean that company that had a very brief up on Internet media a good 10 years ago and then lost it due to poor licensing, bloating their player beyond belief, privacy disputes, and restrictive supplier arrangements. Got it. They even still around? -M
Now if someone would sell subscriptions to this botnet in the PHP interface. I'd buy a subscription and deploy out the commands needed to delete the botnet program:) -M
Yippee? SO they're asking for older backups from Google (as much as they have) in order too look at e-mail that may have been deleted in some sort of scramble before the order was in place. So what? Guess what? They order a history of transactions from your bank; They order a history of credit card purchases; They order a list of telephone calls from your telephone carrier; They order a list history from your ISP or employer.
So what? They're asking for a bit of a backlog. This is no surprise
You'll notice a lot of 'I', 'I', 'I' in that statement.
YOU only are able to get that MRI the same day because someone else who needs it won't, because that system doesn't allow them to. Health care is every citizen's right in Canada. If you don't like the system, go somewhere that has different values, or try to influence those values.
And where are you waiting 6-12 months for an MRI? Various family members have got them in local Toronto hospitals over the past few years within days if not hours? It sounds like you're toutting the latest news sob story. Do you actually have first hand experience getting an MRI in Canada?
Huh? How about freedom to keep what I earn and use it to pay for my own medical insurance of my choice? Freedom to not run across the border to have to use a doctor of my choice? Freedom to not be poor through the sweat of my brow? My country's a great one, but it's not all roses here.
What crazy impression of Canadians do you have?
- keep what I earn: Yeah the tax bracket system does have a higher top value than in the USA. Yippie. If you're in that bracket, a good financial advisor can make you minimize any taxible income. Additionally, there have been countless comparisons that all show that by the time all is said and done (adding in health care, education, etc) we're not far off in the purchasing power of your income
- pay for your own medical insurance : why would you want to? I'm offering to give you an amazing doctor and the services you need, and you'd rather 'shop around'? It's there when you need it. You're not buying a car. You're not looking for a better deal. Everyone is entitled to a standard of health care. Note that there are 'extras' such as private rooms, that can be paid directly of through insurance, but why would anyone want to shop around for anything but a good grade of health care?
- Run across the border to have to use a doctor of my choice: You sir watch too much Dateline
- be poor through the sweat of my brow: see comment # 1
They're breaking apart as they become more and more like us!
Going hunting on a full stomach? Imposing our views on others who couldn't care less what we think? Let's jump for joy!
Thanks God we have a good, powerful neighbor.
Yeah- nothing quite like hanging out with the schoolyard bully. That'll just get us in detention as well , or put us near the line of fire when someone shows up at school with a weapon.
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Yahoo mail uses an interesting term: 'Bulk'. You see many mail providers using various terms- Junk, Spam, Bulk, etc. It's important to distinguish between these and handle them differently.
Bulk mail plain and simple is newsletters, monthly statements, etc. This is anything sent out en-mass. It can easily be detected by large ISPs by a burst of connections in a short piece of time, or similarly formatted e-mail in sequence. Bulk is subscribed- your bank statement, your annoucement list, your flyers, etc.
Junk mail is mail from real companies but that is clearly trying to sell you something you don't really need, but could need.
Spam is selling viagikra for just pennies to make your member bigg3r.
That's how I classify them, but it's interesting that some providers make the distinction, and tell users what they are filtering. Hotmail is probably wrong to filter 'Junk', as many non-junk e-mails go in there. I've had people sending FROM HOTMAIL to my hotmail, and it being marked as junk despite being a picture/file I requested and them being in my address book. Clearly Junk isn't the right word.
Telling a user that something is bulk is A-Okay with me- stating that this sender bursted a ton of e-mail to us. Marking as junk based on 'we've had a lot of complaints about this sender from other users'. And Spam being 'this is clearly a 20-30+ according to SpamAssassin, and isn't even worth delivering'.
Most users will never check their junk mail on hotmail. Many users won't get their bulk on yahoo. But at least FAIRLY tell people what might be in it, so they can choose where mail goes.
-M
Has any thought been put into doing what FastCGI has done, only within Apache and its modules rather than between Apache and some other program? This could reduce the core server size, allow threading and other fun where it wasn't before, and use resources more efficiently, passing proper apache structures to a module server that could pass that same structure to PHP/Perl/TK/etc and back again?
-M
Wait for 2.2 (currently 2.1) to go stable.
The lingering daemon functionality that was provided externally in 1.3 is back and in core 2.2.
This will be a huge boost for large providers to serve more connections and provide good reason.
At present, I recommend 2.x just because it's closer to 2.2 (and hence involves less configuration and setup quirks later on)- They're about equal now with the prefork.
I'd say that people expected a huge benefit, but didn't quite get it right away. In a Web server, it just needs to work, and both worked- so why upgrade for slightly slower performance and no additional features. What people failed to realize is that changing this framework around provides long-term growth and renews the project to increase its extensibility such as module ordering in the long term.
As that long term comes now, you'll see a lot more move to that as the gains keep showing up, now that the framework is stable.
-M
My thumbs up to that statement. Add in why installation of Tomcat/JK is so unnecessarily complicated over core apache, and plays so poorly with other modules.
-M
And have quite the jog to that home office when we want to control the video we want, change to another media file, or figure out why I keep getting the MSN message sounds through my living room.
The core purpose, I'd agree is to watch movies. But you also need control over the PC. You need to be able to search for a video file, insert a DVD, pause/rewind/etc, use your portable phone without interfereing with your wireless signal of your TV.
In a connected world, people want the ability to, in a minor role, check movie listings as well. That capability is there- why not provide some functions to capture the whole screen as well and forward a trackball's signal? In contrast to a directory of files served.
-M
Yes- The US and US Companies (both large and small businesses) are, by many factual studies responsible for more of the Spam received by US users.
Now- That doesn't mean that the Spam messages originate within the US, and this is where WHAT you measure becomes important.
US firm wants to sell product
hires foreign Spammer to do his/her dirty work
profit?!
-M
No. Though Microsoft needs to make their sales in 2006 in order to fall under the expected budget of many companies who saw it coming...
SO they'll start pre-selling M$ Office before it ships. So you can give them money, and get nothing... for a while... and then maybe still get very little
-M
Anyone else thing that maybe the Web browser may not be the best content delivery application out there?
There's lots of reasons people are switching from Palm -> Blackberry besides push e-mail. Lets be realistic, if polling every 5 minutes isn't good enough or frequent enough for you, you should probably just sit at your desk all day.
The interface is much smarter than the palm. The wheel is key. It's one-handed, very acurate operation. The stylus (which previous posting on Slashdot said may be removed) is inacurate and the touch screen requires two hands. Awful when driving.
The applications are just plain smarter in many ways, but still have a way to go. The licensing on the Blackberry has yet to be cracked- so developers love it because the security for registering software is great.
Use a Blackberry and you'll find Palm just so darn frustrating to use.
-M
Yes but the users who thought that RIM may disappear were idiots anyway. We'll push them to Palm and AOL and be done with them.
-M
But controlling these games in the day was so much easier. You know, A is fire, B is jump? Space to shoot the puck, CTRL to pass the puck, and arrow keys to move (even in NHL'94 on its 4 floppy disks).
These days, a PS2 controller with 4 buttons + 4 buttons on top (not to mention the games that use these as modifiers to make 16 buttons up front) + 2 push-button sticks + D-PAD + start/select buttons... not to mention those controllers that sense their own movement and angle.
Games are just so complicated these days. So many moves, so many options, so much extra aiming. What happened to the aim and shoot method? The auto-reload needs to be replaced with a three-button combination? Do we really need 360 degrees of freedom for our joystick or would a 4-way/8-way pad do just as well for a driving game?
Yes games are more complex than pac-man and frogger ever were, but I think it's become a bit extreme... *thinks of playing GTA for the first time and jumping out of a plane instead of firing a weapon*.
-M
The key would be not to 'block' AT&T customers, but purposely have a nicely negative page about AT&T. You're not going to get many people to switch providers, versus switching search engines (many don't even have a choice in providers), but it's a great way to inform consumers who normally wouldn't even know there's a problem (such as with blocking Bittorrent and P2P).
-M
Why is this news? I've had many profs in university who said the same thing in its time. This isn't uncommon.
-M
This is a mere half of your solution. It's one thing to have a system that stores locations and organizations about books in question, but it's another to keep it up to date and acurate. Think about it this way. If a friend comes over and talks about a book you have and want to lend to him, would you (a) give it to him where you know you left it, or (b) go into the system, do a search, and mark it as lent to your friend?
:)
This system requires that every moval or removal requires you to update the system. Now add that your computer may not always be on, at the right location, may be occupied, and may not cover all of the locations of your books.
Why do people need systems when plain old pencil & paper would do quite well? Or even *gasp* using the alphabet
-M
Where do you think carriers make their money? They don't make that much on you calling your spouse to say that you're on your way. They don't make much for you having a business call on the way to work.
They make their money on services. Every new phone you'll find has a big colour screen and supports EDGE/EVDO or whatever technology they want. Every phone integrates more text, video, picture features. Many phones are getting cameras! Do people want cameras? Many not, yet I can't find a phone without a camera... Because I take a picture and MMS it to someone for a buck.
These are features for the CARRIER. If there's a big screen, they can display ads, they can display video, they can display pictures, you can download games, you can download ring tones.
All of these things are paid services above and beyond the call. The carrier doesn't care- they want to sell you value added services.
Love Monkey (CBS)- Man that was a good show with some great support from viewers and corporations (Sony is big into it, introducing many new artists). Too bad they got rid of it after 3 episodes. Rumour has it that UPN will pick it up
-M
Yes- becuase I guarentee you that every existing program that supports threads and makes use of chdir() calls it once and expects the program to function. Call it within a master thread and you expect it to affect all other threads.
The way to do this is to introduce a new function that wraps it and does it only in the thread it was called in, but that's a pain.
-M
Who will protect us from M$'s products that will slow our computers and spy on us considering that's the plan?
We need another 98lite! ( http://www.litepc.com/ ) [note that in 95/98, it actually stripped M$'s crap out. In XP it does, but to a much lesser degree... mainly because it's less broken in a stock installation]
-M
What the hell is Realplayer? Oh! You mean that company that had a very brief up on Internet media a good 10 years ago and then lost it due to poor licensing, bloating their player beyond belief, privacy disputes, and restrictive supplier arrangements. Got it. They even still around?
-M
Now if someone would sell subscriptions to this botnet in the PHP interface. I'd buy a subscription and deploy out the commands needed to delete the botnet program :)
-M
My Hero! */me kisses M$, while lifting one of my legs slightly*
-M
Yippee? SO they're asking for older backups from Google (as much as they have) in order too look at e-mail that may have been deleted in some sort of scramble before the order was in place. So what? Guess what? They order a history of transactions from your bank; They order a history of credit card purchases; They order a list of telephone calls from your telephone carrier; They order a list history from your ISP or employer.
So what? They're asking for a bit of a backlog. This is no surprise
You'll notice a lot of 'I', 'I', 'I' in that statement.
YOU only are able to get that MRI the same day because someone else who needs it won't, because that system doesn't allow them to. Health care is every citizen's right in Canada. If you don't like the system, go somewhere that has different values, or try to influence those values.
And where are you waiting 6-12 months for an MRI? Various family members have got them in local Toronto hospitals over the past few years within days if not hours? It sounds like you're toutting the latest news sob story. Do you actually have first hand experience getting an MRI in Canada?
What crazy impression of Canadians do you have?
- keep what I earn: Yeah the tax bracket system does have a higher top value than in the USA. Yippie. If you're in that bracket, a good financial advisor can make you minimize any taxible income. Additionally, there have been countless comparisons that all show that by the time all is said and done (adding in health care, education, etc) we're not far off in the purchasing power of your income
- pay for your own medical insurance : why would you want to? I'm offering to give you an amazing doctor and the services you need, and you'd rather 'shop around'? It's there when you need it. You're not buying a car. You're not looking for a better deal. Everyone is entitled to a standard of health care. Note that there are 'extras' such as private rooms, that can be paid directly of through insurance, but why would anyone want to shop around for anything but a good grade of health care?
- Run across the border to have to use a doctor of my choice: You sir watch too much Dateline
- be poor through the sweat of my brow: see comment # 1
Going hunting on a full stomach? Imposing our views on others who couldn't care less what we think? Let's jump for joy!
Yeah- nothing quite like hanging out with the schoolyard bully. That'll just get us in detention as well , or put us near the line of fire when someone shows up at school with a weapon.
-M
If you spread yourself too thin, and still promise release dates, then you end up with multiple crappy products instead of one good one.
M$ is known for that... because why buy Windows, when you can buy Windows + Office + Windows Server + SQL Server?
-M