From TFA:
"In the early days we bought a support contract from HP, and they've provided us with gold-plated support all along," Robertson says. "All in all, five external organisations have provided support to De Bortoli's open-source software -- we've had no trouble finding help, and no trouble implementing on-site training."
It sounds like he is saying those that are having trouble aren't looking at all.
I'm a lefty and I use two hands when using a laptop trackpad, although I have the scrolling feature set up for right-handed use, and in general prefer the right even though I have better accuracy with my left.
I have better accuracy with my right hand when using the mouse, but I switch hands often, depending on what I am doing. I use a right-handed mouse, but the design is such that it's not entirely uncomfortable to use left-handed (although I've only had the mouse about a month and I find myself favoring the right more often). Physically using the right is easier, but my brain is more comfortable using the mouse on the left, if that makes sense.
IIRC, left/right button confusion went away very quickly when I first started switching between left- and right-handed mouse use.
Unfortunately, a large portion of Americans would stop reading your post at "unlocked nude sex scene". Some would read your post and twist your argument around, saying their claims are "proven" since you equate the game with pornography.
They're only interested in forcing their own morality onto you - regardless of whether you are a child or adult. This particular game is really just an excuse.
I know several journalists and other professional writers who would argue that. All the latest video card does is display my manuscript, so long as it can display the resolution I want, they are all the same.
You're missing the point. The poster didn't understand why people won't shell out money for a good keyboard. I gave some reasons.
You're talking about a special purpose (writing professionally). I'm talking about typical use. Remember, we're talking about people who don't shell out for a keyboard, not about people who do. But let's continue...
A good keyboard means the codes get translated correctly at high typing speeds, gives the feedback the user needs to maintain those speeds, and lowers stress on the fingers enabling them to type longer more comfortably.
I type ~110wpm and I've never had a problem with cheap keyboards dropping characters. If I found one that did, I'd throw it away and use another free keyboard.
I do probably as much typing on any given day as the typical professional writer. I understand the comfort of more expensive keyboards. This goes back to my argument: if you don't use it, you don't miss it.
Searching for two dropped letters in a thousand word essay can quickly eat up the $$$ delta between a cheap and expensive keyboard. Most coders feel the same way.
Don't writers proofread their essays anyway? You can't shift the entire cost of proofreading their essay onto the keyboard because of two dropped characters they should discover during their proofreading anyway. Not to mention if two characters are dropped, the resulting error is going to show up immediately upon spell checking the document in 99% of cases.
I've never understood why people are unwilling to shell out money for a good keyboard, but will cheerfully plop down money for the hottest CPU or latest video card.
Because:
A working keyboard is an exacting input device. The most and least expensive keyboards still print the exact same codes to the computer. As long as it works, who cares?
Keyboards get old and wear out or break. I would rather replace a used Dell keyboard I got for free than a $100 buckling spring keyboard.
When you are used to cheap keyboards, using them is no big deal. When you are used to expensive keyboards, anything less seems like a chore.
Expensive keyboards usually justify their cost by offering features that aren't really that useful or innovative. Sometimes they just look pretty.
Your keyboard shouldn't be 10-30% the cost of the entire system.
An expensive keyboard doesn't typically provide the same value as "the hottest CPU or latest video card".
Atlantis sucks...
the acting is on par with B-movies like "The Toxic Avenger"
SG1 is much much better!
and BSG...one of the better remakes I've seen ever.
Atlantis is only entering into its second season.
With the exception of Firefly, and maybe BSG, I can't think of a sci-fi series that didn't have acting issues for the first two or three seasons, including SG-1.
1. Reject any HELO messages claiming to be your own server. 2. Reject any email with unresolvable from headers. 3. DNS Blacklisting. 4. SPF 5. Greylisting 6. SpamAssassin 7. ClamAV 8. Procmail moves tagged messages to my spam folder.
The order is important. Every step 1-5 drops the email entirely. After that, they just get tagged. The more expensive options occur at the end, so they deal with less email.
I have been using this for a few months now. I'm only seeing about one spam a month now, and those are appropriately tagged and filtered into my spam folder.
A couple of times I have had to whitelist mailing lists because they don't make it past the greylisting, but other than that, I haven't had any false positives.
I drop email based on SPF, but you could always add a header instead. In fact, SpamAssassin has support for SPF and can use it as part of its scoring system when determining whether an email is spam or not.
To answer your question, I don't think this is an option for large companies. I agree it would be very effective at least temporarily (and save them money, probably, because most spam would be dropped at the door). Large companies are probably less tolerant of false positives than you or I might be. They probably won't/can't use greylisting and DNS blacklisting.
Still, they could use most of the things in this type of system and tag everything rather than drop it.
You may as well be saying: "Yeh, take back your ball, but say goodbye to that game I thought you."
You don't have that option. If you don't want to play with our ball on our terms and we don't want to share, you can get a ball of your own, but you can't force us to forget how to play the game.
Before reading this, I would have said what they are doing is illegal. I bet an equally strong letter to whatever credit agencies they report you to, copied to the collection agency, Wired, and your attorney would probably be enough to get them to drop the charge.
I have never had a subscription to any magazine renew automatically, paid for or otherwise. Normal operating procedure for magazines seems to be collect money first, renew later. Instead, they send multiple letters when you're down to about three issues (although they send junk to extend your subscription long before that point too) in an effort to get you to resubscribe.
I did have this problem with a newspaper once, though. They stopped delivery because I didn't pay, but continued to charge me for renewal after renewal. I asked them how I could have 6+ months of papers delivered to my home if I only lived there for 4 months after I started the subscription and if they stopped delivery after 13 weeks. They decided to drop it.
'We thought that using an objective check through the computer would be the most fair and objective way to do that,' she said Wednesday."
Because the amount of typing is a sure indicator of productivity./sarcasm
Sorry, but about the only thing it will tell you is whether someone is spending time using email, message boards, and instant messages for personal use.
And it's poor at that, because unless they're doing A LOT of non-work related typing, you don't really know how much time they're spending doing non-work related stuff. We all type at different speeds. Maybe it's all on their lunch hour.
Besides, you can check all that stuff in other, less intrusive ways.
Objective? Please. Except in obvious cases (like data entry as another poster mentioned) this requires subjective review by its very nature.
That only makes sense if the unit self destructs at the end of that 4 years. Us waiters are perfectly happy to play the unit long after the end of its competitive lifetime. By the time the "price waiters" by the unit, there are more titles, tons of reviews, and everything - games included - costs less money.
The only positive the early adopter gains is the bragging rights of playing it while it's new and exciting.
The negatives include higher cost, a possible lack of titles, possible hardware/software failure, and competition in finding the new console. If any of those other negatives co-exist with the higher cost, he may in fact be getting LESS value over those 4 years than someone who buys it a year later, even if they pay the same amount per year.
For example, if you pay $100/yr, but there are only 20 titles out that first year of which you like 1 or 2, are you really getting the same $100 worth of use out of it?
Except you don't have any control over it. I can set up an SPF record for a domain, but if they don't look at the record on the other end, it does me no good. As you suggest, my server may still have to deal with "the mass of bounces and spam reports from clueless admins." Not to mention, servers that just mark this as "spam" and send it on to the end user aren't doing me any favors. The end user doesn't know I'm not the one spamming them.
I think this is about spam. I block spam using SPF all the time. SpamAssassin includes SPF support. It's just about a specific type of spam. If SPF became widely implemented, you could block anyone without a valid record. Folks still spamming get blacklisted, because you know it's coming from their domain. It wouldn't stop spam completely; spammers can always create new domains or use legitimate email accounts via zombie machines. But it would help.
On the client end, SPF can be used to detect phishing. Thunderbird has an extension for just that purpose.
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It wasn't even a direct quote.
From TFA:
"In the early days we bought a support contract from HP, and they've provided us with gold-plated support all along," Robertson says. "All in all, five external organisations have provided support to De Bortoli's open-source software -- we've had no trouble finding help, and no trouble implementing on-site training."
It sounds like he is saying those that are having trouble aren't looking at all.
I'm a lefty and I use two hands when using a laptop trackpad, although I have the scrolling feature set up for right-handed use, and in general prefer the right even though I have better accuracy with my left.
I have better accuracy with my right hand when using the mouse, but I switch hands often, depending on what I am doing. I use a right-handed mouse, but the design is such that it's not entirely uncomfortable to use left-handed (although I've only had the mouse about a month and I find myself favoring the right more often). Physically using the right is easier, but my brain is more comfortable using the mouse on the left, if that makes sense.
IIRC, left/right button confusion went away very quickly when I first started switching between left- and right-handed mouse use.
I definitely favor the keyboard.
Unfortunately, a large portion of Americans would stop reading your post at "unlocked nude sex scene". Some would read your post and twist your argument around, saying their claims are "proven" since you equate the game with pornography.
They're only interested in forcing their own morality onto you - regardless of whether you are a child or adult. This particular game is really just an excuse.
I know several journalists and other professional writers who would argue that. All the latest video card does is display my manuscript, so long as it can display the resolution I want, they are all the same.
You're missing the point. The poster didn't understand why people won't shell out money for a good keyboard. I gave some reasons. You're talking about a special purpose (writing professionally). I'm talking about typical use. Remember, we're talking about people who don't shell out for a keyboard, not about people who do. But let's continue...
A good keyboard means the codes get translated correctly at high typing speeds, gives the feedback the user needs to maintain those speeds, and lowers stress on the fingers enabling them to type longer more comfortably.
I type ~110wpm and I've never had a problem with cheap keyboards dropping characters. If I found one that did, I'd throw it away and use another free keyboard.
I do probably as much typing on any given day as the typical professional writer. I understand the comfort of more expensive keyboards. This goes back to my argument: if you don't use it, you don't miss it.
Searching for two dropped letters in a thousand word essay can quickly eat up the $$$ delta between a cheap and expensive keyboard. Most coders feel the same way.
Don't writers proofread their essays anyway? You can't shift the entire cost of proofreading their essay onto the keyboard because of two dropped characters they should discover during their proofreading anyway. Not to mention if two characters are dropped, the resulting error is going to show up immediately upon spell checking the document in 99% of cases.
Because:
don't know what I will do without Richard Dean Anderson's (Jack O'Neil) comedy :-(
It's O'Neill. Two L's.
Atlantis sucks...
the acting is on par with B-movies like "The Toxic Avenger"
SG1 is much much better!
and BSG...one of the better remakes I've seen ever.
Atlantis is only entering into its second season.
With the exception of Firefly, and maybe BSG, I can't think of a sci-fi series that didn't have acting issues for the first two or three seasons, including SG-1.
I'll plug this again.
Basically each email goes through the following:
1. Reject any HELO messages claiming to be your own server.
2. Reject any email with unresolvable from headers.
3. DNS Blacklisting.
4. SPF
5. Greylisting
6. SpamAssassin
7. ClamAV
8. Procmail moves tagged messages to my spam folder.
The order is important. Every step 1-5 drops the email entirely. After that, they just get tagged. The more expensive options occur at the end, so they deal with less email.
I have been using this for a few months now. I'm only seeing about one spam a month now, and those are appropriately tagged and filtered into my spam folder.
A couple of times I have had to whitelist mailing lists because they don't make it past the greylisting, but other than that, I haven't had any false positives.
I drop email based on SPF, but you could always add a header instead. In fact, SpamAssassin has support for SPF and can use it as part of its scoring system when determining whether an email is spam or not.
To answer your question, I don't think this is an option for large companies. I agree it would be very effective at least temporarily (and save them money, probably, because most spam would be dropped at the door). Large companies are probably less tolerant of false positives than you or I might be. They probably won't/can't use greylisting and DNS blacklisting.
Still, they could use most of the things in this type of system and tag everything rather than drop it.
I didn't think anyone would recognize the name Morena Baccarin. Silly me.
Natlie Portman and Kathy Bates neck and neck when it comes to hotness.
That is absurd.
You may as well be saying:
"Yeh, take back your ball, but say goodbye to that game I thought you."
You don't have that option. If you don't want to play with our ball on our terms and we don't want to share, you can get a ball of your own, but you can't force us to forget how to play the game.
As hard as it may be to believe, women posting on /. isn't just a myth.
And unlike their male counterparts, the women here may actually care about fashion and other unimportant things; you know, like hygiene.
Yeah, but at least it contains those pesky beams of concussive force that keep shooting out your eyes.
Before reading this, I would have said what they are doing is illegal. I bet an equally strong letter to whatever credit agencies they report you to, copied to the collection agency, Wired, and your attorney would probably be enough to get them to drop the charge.
I have never had a subscription to any magazine renew automatically, paid for or otherwise. Normal operating procedure for magazines seems to be collect money first, renew later. Instead, they send multiple letters when you're down to about three issues (although they send junk to extend your subscription long before that point too) in an effort to get you to resubscribe.
I did have this problem with a newspaper once, though. They stopped delivery because I didn't pay, but continued to charge me for renewal after renewal. I asked them how I could have 6+ months of papers delivered to my home if I only lived there for 4 months after I started the subscription and if they stopped delivery after 13 weeks. They decided to drop it.
Yeah, and nothing says "third class" better than a domain name that's not in .com or .net.
I know what you mean!
'We thought that using an objective check through the computer would be the most fair and objective way to do that,' she said Wednesday."
/sarcasm
Because the amount of typing is a sure indicator of productivity.
Sorry, but about the only thing it will tell you is whether someone is spending time using email, message boards, and instant messages for personal use.
And it's poor at that, because unless they're doing A LOT of non-work related typing, you don't really know how much time they're spending doing non-work related stuff. We all type at different speeds. Maybe it's all on their lunch hour.
Besides, you can check all that stuff in other, less intrusive ways.
Objective? Please. Except in obvious cases (like data entry as another poster mentioned) this requires subjective review by its very nature.
Well, for one thing it wasn't a cookie jar. It was a pile of cookies on a table on the guy's front lawn with a sign that read "free cookies".
How about human reaction times?
They've improved too. It's all that GTA we've been playing on the road.
That only makes sense if the unit self destructs at the end of that 4 years. Us waiters are perfectly happy to play the unit long after the end of its competitive lifetime. By the time the "price waiters" by the unit, there are more titles, tons of reviews, and everything - games included - costs less money.
The only positive the early adopter gains is the bragging rights of playing it while it's new and exciting.
The negatives include higher cost, a possible lack of titles, possible hardware/software failure, and competition in finding the new console. If any of those other negatives co-exist with the higher cost, he may in fact be getting LESS value over those 4 years than someone who buys it a year later, even if they pay the same amount per year.
For example, if you pay $100/yr, but there are only 20 titles out that first year of which you like 1 or 2, are you really getting the same $100 worth of use out of it?
I've been running an OpenBSD/PF firewall at home for ages now and the system load has never gone above 0%.
:)
Have you tried plugging it in?
Don't forget excellent customer service.
I've never had anything but top-notch customer service from them. It's their number one selling point as far as I'm concerned.
Except you don't have any control over it. I can set up an SPF record for a domain, but if they don't look at the record on the other end, it does me no good. As you suggest, my server may still have to deal with "the mass of bounces and spam reports from clueless admins." Not to mention, servers that just mark this as "spam" and send it on to the end user aren't doing me any favors. The end user doesn't know I'm not the one spamming them.
I think this is about spam. I block spam using SPF all the time. SpamAssassin includes SPF support. It's just about a specific type of spam. If SPF became widely implemented, you could block anyone without a valid record. Folks still spamming get blacklisted, because you know it's coming from their domain. It wouldn't stop spam completely; spammers can always create new domains or use legitimate email accounts via zombie machines. But it would help.
On the client end, SPF can be used to detect phishing. Thunderbird has an extension for just that purpose.
-1, Independant Thought
I wonder where those people who are supposedly against these attachments (but "must" vote yes), now?
It's not too late (or too soon) to start a new bill repealing those portions of the bill which were attached arbitrarily.
Well, I, for one, will never enjoy a pasty ever again.