I have another idea. We could have an architecture that aggregates mail messages for a particular user onto a single point where they can use a client application to access it, or optionally pull it down to their own aggregator. We could have message senders notify these aggregators, and move the content downstream to the interested recipients as well.
I'm ridiculing your idea, but I'm being relatively gentle -- If you really want to see your idea ripped to quivering bloody shreds by people who are really in the trenches, have seen all these suggestions before, and are tired of them, go post it on nanae or SPAM-L.
I actually do believe that a mostly "pull" protocol where the downstream caching is more negotiated than simple "push" content (SMTP) and not as simplistic as "pure pull" (HTTP) may be better for email in the long run. Go forth, design and implement it then. Best of luck. The rest of us would like to fix the problem occuring on the medium that people are actually using.
I think we are at the point bandwidth wise where we can flip email upside down and let the senders server hold the email, and simply notify the recipients server that there is an email waiting for it.
Golly, no one's ever suggested that before, what a great idea. I really look forward to getting 404 errors with individual mail messages, and depending on 58,7124 different mail servers to get each message through to me as I click on it instead of just one that can be failed over if it falls over.
And all we have to do is completely redesign the entire e-mail system to do it. I bet you'll have no problem convincing everyone to jump on board.
SenderID is an anti-forgery system. Not an anti-spam system. Marketing it as anti-spam is disingenuous, but necessary to get the core idea through to mindless thickheaded PHB's and slashbots alike.
Forcing spammers to send with their own domain names is A Good Thing, mmkay?
Not that I think MS's SenderID is going anywhere thanks to their patent shenanigans, but that doesn't reflect on the technology.
> last, but for me most importantly, are the pretty pictures on the left-hand column of keys configurable?
No. After all, the whole point of a super-expensive keyboard with keys that can dynamically change their labels is to hardwire their function in. It was just cheaper to use an OLED display than to silkscreen them on.
You even rip off the MS menu keys on your work PC? Just... wow.
Do you honestly believe the average user cares about focus models or whether the taskbar is a generic container? (for which, I might add, you are 100% wrong -- adding arbitrary taskbar panels is a dead simple API).
Yep, Linux has a better window manager. How about the rest of the damn system?... watching kswapd eat all the CPU on his server again...
I've been using Linux fulltime on the desktop since 1999-2000. What pisses me off is applications switching between ok/cancel positions themselves. When I don't need to worry about where the OK button is going to pop up in Firefox/Mozilla then I'll start to worry about the rest of the OE.
You can thank gnome for that. They decided that since That Other Desktop Environment was ordering buttons according to the Windows interface convention (of "ok/cancel", "yes/no"), they'd just switch to the mac convention of "cancel/ok", "no/yes". They trotted out some high minded theory about how the lower-right corner of the dialog was "special", and how all these HCI studies (all put on by Apple of course) proved this was an enlightened change... but as usual for gnome these days, it was just another gratuitous jarring change. End users were told to suck it up and bask in the glow of gnome's superior wisdom.
I want a CMS I can use to be as dynamic as I want to be on the development side, then with one click, push it up to a website as static pages, so I can host it on a site without scripts. Obviously I'm not looking for a forum, but a blog publisher, one with reasonable CMS features like templates though, not just journal articles.
> Sun Microsystems has Sunblades, for example. They aren't precisely the same thing, but basically a Sunblade is an X-term. All it does is handle keyboard, mouse, video and sound, and then do X communications to the server.
They're called Sunrays, and they do not speak X. It's more like VNC. And you can cheap out and make a sunray installation cheaper than a desktop, but your performance will suck. They're good for places where you want to put severe restrictions on client state. Trading offices for one. School labs for another. Naturally you have to make the server bulletproof.
One thing I liked about having a sunray was that if I had a problem, I could yank out my card, walk over to a tech's spare sunray (they had two for this very purpose), stick my card in, and point at the problem at the screen that would pop up exactly as I left it.
The rev looks amazing. Just the right size for a game console, I say. Of course, I see the shiny plastic being covered with fingerprints in no time, but it's pretty keen looking nonetheless.
The PS3 looks... meh... rounded, very plastic, and very bulky.
None of them are meant to be stackable though. Stacking is murder on airflow. You ever notice how the top of a PS2 is somewhat warm? It's dispersing quite a bit heat through that top so it doesn't need to run fans at the speed and volume of your average rack server.
Lovelady: (what a name!) We talk about it in terms of the inhale - it's like the console is breathing in, pulling in all of this energy before you release it again.
Take a look at every self-identified conservative in the public eye. Note how pretty much all of them talk about how whiny liberals don't like to fight and would rather mollycoddle terrorists/dictators/criminals and "offer them therapy", while conservatives get tough and don't take no guff.
Gee, are you at all surprised that people have picked up a subtle association? If you are a conservative, don't bother lecturing me about "true conservatives". These folks have the microphone, and as long as they do, they speaking for you.
> All you have to do is convince Nintendo that games with Mario and Link in them won't sell as well as games with new characters.
As I have done by not purchasing a GC. And if you check Nintendo's relative marketshare this time around, I think the market has spoken. Roared, even. It remains to be seen whether Nintendo will listen.
*sigh*... I don't know though, perhaps the solution would be worse than the disease. I would hate for Nintendo to go from releasing quality games with the same insipid look, to releasing insipid games with pretty skins on each.
I may have to concede your point there. I bought a PS2 very late in the game, and have bought only 20 titles so far (most used), but I doubt I'd have sustained that purchasing momentum if I'd bought it new, so I figure I might own a whopping 35 games. And there are some real good ones for Nintendo, and I figure Nintendo's vertical integration is no worse than Sony's market manipulations.
Still, almost all the best games are simultaneously ported to either Sony's or Microsoft's offering (often both), while Nintendo locks me in to Mario-land. I mean, Mario Tennis? It might be a good game, but I'm sick of looking at that little fat stereotype. Link similarly deserves being put to pasture. It's a new console, it's time to come up with new franchised characters.
Golly... I sound really petulant and childish here, but this is a game console after all.
> Still Sony seems to be winning over Nintendo... Which IMO is a pity, not only hardware-wise but also software-wise...
Software is the reason Nintendo is losing. We're treated to a slim selection of Mario Mario Donkey Kong Mario Mario Zelda Mario Mario Mario fini. The occasional standouts like Metroid Prime and Resident Evil don't make up for a vast empty desert where titles should be (some of us don't even like Zelda).
Don't give me lines about how their pint-sized lineup emphasizes quality over quantity either. Half of the PS2 line is redundant shovelware that could go out the window, but that still makes the shelf at EBGames three times as big, with quality titles like Sly Cooper, GTA, and God of War.
In fact, I don't really care what the justifications are, because you can ask anyone else without a GC why they don't have one, and they'll give you the same reason I did. It's about selection, and that selection just isn't there.
> What the hell happens between your 17th and 18th birthday that make you all so much more mature?
Do I need to give you a civics lesson?
The state laws are also uniform at 18+ as well, none consider 18 or over a minor. Of course we continue to make the whole alcohol thing a titillating illicit thrill until the age of 21, so the patronizing doesn't quite stop, but at least it's legal for 18 year olds to see see polygonal boobies.
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I have another idea. We could have an architecture that aggregates mail messages for a particular user onto a single point where they can use a client application to access it, or optionally pull it down to their own aggregator. We could have message senders notify these aggregators, and move the content downstream to the interested recipients as well.
I'm ridiculing your idea, but I'm being relatively gentle -- If you really want to see your idea ripped to quivering bloody shreds by people who are really in the trenches, have seen all these suggestions before, and are tired of them, go post it on nanae or SPAM-L.
I actually do believe that a mostly "pull" protocol where the downstream caching is more negotiated than simple "push" content (SMTP) and not as simplistic as "pure pull" (HTTP) may be better for email in the long run. Go forth, design and implement it then. Best of luck. The rest of us would like to fix the problem occuring on the medium that people are actually using.
> We either radically change SMTP to properly prevent spam
SMTP has survived over a decade of virtual war being waged with it and on it. I'd say as a transfer protocol it's doing quite well.
Changing SMTP to stop spam is like changing HTTP to stop porn.
I think we are at the point bandwidth wise where we can flip email upside down and let the senders server hold the email, and simply notify the recipients server that there is an email waiting for it.
Golly, no one's ever suggested that before, what a great idea. I really look forward to getting 404 errors with individual mail messages, and depending on 58,7124 different mail servers to get each message through to me as I click on it instead of just one that can be failed over if it falls over.
And all we have to do is completely redesign the entire e-mail system to do it. I bet you'll have no problem convincing everyone to jump on board.
SenderID is an anti-forgery system. Not an anti-spam system. Marketing it as anti-spam is disingenuous, but necessary to get the core idea through to mindless thickheaded PHB's and slashbots alike.
Forcing spammers to send with their own domain names is A Good Thing, mmkay?
Not that I think MS's SenderID is going anywhere thanks to their patent shenanigans, but that doesn't reflect on the technology.
> There is no gnome app with "cancel/ok", "no/yes". DO you hear what I'm telling you ? So all your petty troll is based on nothing actually.
Except for firefox. The change is in GTK+ itself, actually. Who maintains GTK+ now?
Oh goody I'm a shill. Could you report me to Astroturf_Alert? I've been trying without success to get on his shitlist, but he just keeps ignoring me.
And wipe the spittle off your lips.
> last, but for me most importantly, are the pretty pictures on the left-hand column of keys configurable?
... wow.
No. After all, the whole point of a super-expensive keyboard with keys that can dynamically change their labels is to hardwire their function in. It was just cheaper to use an OLED display than to silkscreen them on.
You even rip off the MS menu keys on your work PC? Just
Do you honestly believe the average user cares about focus models or whether the taskbar is a generic container? (for which, I might add, you are 100% wrong -- adding arbitrary taskbar panels is a dead simple API).
... watching kswapd eat all the CPU on his server again ...
Yep, Linux has a better window manager. How about the rest of the damn system?
I've been using Linux fulltime on the desktop since 1999-2000. What pisses me off is applications switching between ok/cancel positions themselves. When I don't need to worry about where the OK button is going to pop up in Firefox/Mozilla then I'll start to worry about the rest of the OE.
... but as usual for gnome these days, it was just another gratuitous jarring change. End users were told to suck it up and bask in the glow of gnome's superior wisdom.
You can thank gnome for that. They decided that since That Other Desktop Environment was ordering buttons according to the Windows interface convention (of "ok/cancel", "yes/no"), they'd just switch to the mac convention of "cancel/ok", "no/yes". They trotted out some high minded theory about how the lower-right corner of the dialog was "special", and how all these HCI studies (all put on by Apple of course) proved this was an enlightened change
So that's why they're backward.
How about the silly HHGTG face from Linux Sparc?
Damned if I can find any screenshots of it though...
You might have some better luck getting people to use your Content Management System if your Content Management System's site had some Content.
I want a CMS I can use to be as dynamic as I want to be on the development side, then with one click, push it up to a website as static pages, so I can host it on a site without scripts. Obviously I'm not looking for a forum, but a blog publisher, one with reasonable CMS features like templates though, not just journal articles.
Anything like that kicking around?
How ironic, that a bogus user that exists to foment allegations of an "astroturfing conspiracy" quotes Hanlon's Razor at us.
> (You actually want to support those guys?)
You run a commerce site, these guys have money, your job is to help them spend it. So yeah.
> Sun Microsystems has Sunblades, for example. They aren't precisely the same thing, but basically a Sunblade is an X-term. All it does is handle keyboard, mouse, video and sound, and then do X communications to the server.
They're called Sunrays, and they do not speak X. It's more like VNC. And you can cheap out and make a sunray installation cheaper than a desktop, but your performance will suck. They're good for places where you want to put severe restrictions on client state. Trading offices for one. School labs for another. Naturally you have to make the server bulletproof.
One thing I liked about having a sunray was that if I had a problem, I could yank out my card, walk over to a tech's spare sunray (they had two for this very purpose), stick my card in, and point at the problem at the screen that would pop up exactly as I left it.
One of the fans has given up. The side of the case isn't on, the processor is roasting (50C), the hard disks are roasting and constantly give errors
That's why. Unless you're pointing a box fan straight at the motherboard, put the bloody side panel back on.
The rev looks amazing. Just the right size for a game console, I say. Of course, I see the shiny plastic being covered with fingerprints in no time, but it's pretty keen looking nonetheless.
... meh ... rounded, very plastic, and very bulky.
The PS3 looks
None of them are meant to be stackable though. Stacking is murder on airflow. You ever notice how the top of a PS2 is somewhat warm? It's dispersing quite a bit heat through that top so it doesn't need to run fans at the speed and volume of your average rack server.
Lovelady: (what a name!) We talk about it in terms of the inhale - it's like the console is breathing in, pulling in all of this energy before you release it again.
... it sucks?
So basically
You're cute when you're mad.
You forgot Pol Pot and Mao.
Therefore Hillary Clinton is a rabid cold-blooded murderer.
Thank you for clearing that up.
Hitler.
Now you shut up too.
Take a look at every self-identified conservative in the public eye. Note how pretty much all of them talk about how whiny liberals don't like to fight and would rather mollycoddle terrorists/dictators/criminals and "offer them therapy", while conservatives get tough and don't take no guff.
Gee, are you at all surprised that people have picked up a subtle association? If you are a conservative, don't bother lecturing me about "true conservatives". These folks have the microphone, and as long as they do, they speaking for you.
> All you have to do is convince Nintendo that games with Mario and Link in them won't sell as well as games with new characters.
... I don't know though, perhaps the solution would be worse than the disease. I would hate for Nintendo to go from releasing quality games with the same insipid look, to releasing insipid games with pretty skins on each.
As I have done by not purchasing a GC. And if you check Nintendo's relative marketshare this time around, I think the market has spoken. Roared, even. It remains to be seen whether Nintendo will listen.
*sigh*
I may have to concede your point there. I bought a PS2 very late in the game, and have bought only 20 titles so far (most used), but I doubt I'd have sustained that purchasing momentum if I'd bought it new, so I figure I might own a whopping 35 games. And there are some real good ones for Nintendo, and I figure Nintendo's vertical integration is no worse than Sony's market manipulations.
... I sound really petulant and childish here, but this is a game console after all.
Still, almost all the best games are simultaneously ported to either Sony's or Microsoft's offering (often both), while Nintendo locks me in to Mario-land. I mean, Mario Tennis? It might be a good game, but I'm sick of looking at that little fat stereotype. Link similarly deserves being put to pasture. It's a new console, it's time to come up with new franchised characters.
Golly
> Still Sony seems to be winning over Nintendo... Which IMO is a pity, not only hardware-wise but also software-wise...
Software is the reason Nintendo is losing. We're treated to a slim selection of Mario Mario Donkey Kong Mario Mario Zelda Mario Mario Mario fini. The occasional standouts like Metroid Prime and Resident Evil don't make up for a vast empty desert where titles should be (some of us don't even like Zelda).
Don't give me lines about how their pint-sized lineup emphasizes quality over quantity either. Half of the PS2 line is redundant shovelware that could go out the window, but that still makes the shelf at EBGames three times as big, with quality titles like Sly Cooper, GTA, and God of War.
In fact, I don't really care what the justifications are, because you can ask anyone else without a GC why they don't have one, and they'll give you the same reason I did. It's about selection, and that selection just isn't there.
> What the hell happens between your 17th and 18th birthday that make you all so much more mature?
Do I need to give you a civics lesson?
The state laws are also uniform at 18+ as well, none consider 18 or over a minor. Of course we continue to make the whole alcohol thing a titillating illicit thrill until the age of 21, so the patronizing doesn't quite stop, but at least it's legal for 18 year olds to see see polygonal boobies.