KPDF might be coerced to do it too -- it has a DCOP call that lets you change the page. You can also load it up as a component in your app, and tell talk to that particular instance through dcop, which is the best solution I've found so far. Still, it's a lot of work just to find a word on a page:/
Actually, this tells me he doesn't understand one or the other. The only difference between scheduling and security numbers is how you measure. Security can be measured too, if you know what you're measuring -- number of attackers who gain access, number of attacks detected, compromises detected, etc. It's just the same in scheduling -- you can measure scheduling IF you know what you're measuring: realtime desktop performance, IO performance, etc. But similar conflicts arise in both: realtime latency vs. maximum IO bandwidth; hackers prevented from accessing a secure system vs. legitimate users locked out, etc.
I've tried quite a few of the current systems, and looked at a number of the available APIs so far, in the hopes of creating something that'll do what I want.
Basically, I think all document indexers currently suck. Must-have features:
* Indexing documents on a per-sentence, per-paragraph, per-page, per-chapter, per-section (etc.) basis: I should be able to search for books that have the words "people" and "crimewave" or just sentences that contain that word. There's no point indexing a thousand cross-referenced and cited PDFs about pyschology for terms like "neurons and fear". When I search a document collection for neurons and fear, I want it to show me paragraphs or sections that discuss those two topics together, in relation to each other, in depth. I guess this is similar to proximity searching, BUT...
* It MUST be able to bring up the right section. If the search engine just throws up a list that says, "yep, book121314 --- "Everything in the human body, in detail" (which is 98435 pages long) has both those words in it", then it's no better than grep. Not a single PDF viewer I've looked at on unix has the ability to open a PDF at a particular page, much less a certain anchor on a page, with given words highlighted.
Not so crucial, but important:
* Tagging. It should allow me to tag documents, pages, etc.
* Cross-referencing, and and comparison. Side-by-side scrolling of documents in different languages, or just different translations and commentaries on documents, a bit like what sword's UIs do, but more generally.
"Diabetes" is way too over-used. One type is (seemingly) an immune disorder, requires many injections per day, can kill in an hour, requires all sorts of monitoring. Another type is (seemingly) due to self-neglect, requires some tablets and some monitoring. Another type (which I don't know much about at all, if it is another "type") is triggered by pregnancy, and now a forth is really just seemingly about the same chemical in the body, but has almost completely different causes and effects. Yes, there's some memory loss in other forms of diabetes... but, why combine all these under one name? It can only lead to confusion for patients and carers. Seems to me that they're trying to jump on the well-established funding for diabetes research.
I can not understand why anyone would want to release their code with a "or any future version" clause. With this clause, you give away all control of the content of the license.
To me, it's similar to a proxy vote, or indeed, to representative democracy in general: you trust some person or organisation to represent your views, so you give them authority to re-write the license of your software.
But yeah, it's not something I think all that wise either.
He's talking about "bouncing" messages... but I cannot tell if he means resending an accepted message or denying it at SMTP time.
Doesn't matter which he means. Anything involving end users deciphering bounce messages is doomed to failure. I don't know how many times end users have called and asked me to explain a bounce message that I thought was very clear... like those "invalid recipient" ones that actually go on to say that the address may be invalid, and that they should re-check it.
And that's not even looking at security implications, like what happens when spammers start sending these same bounce messages, requesting users to confirm they're real, to any given sender address.
people will have to realise what the **AA are up to and call shenanigans on the whole show.
Sure they will. Then it'll go to court, and the RIAA will be judged guilty, and then they'll ignore the rulings and do the same thing again in other countries for a while, until the anti-trust.. I mean copyright... judgement term is deemed to have completed, at which point they'll launch their own version of Vista.
The user agents are really useful to determine which mobile device is performing the request.
No, you just think they are, because you only care about a few of the potential visitors to your site. That's probably why the rest don't use it, and why the many future web clients in PDAs, Digital TVs etc., blind user's screenreaders etc. will never use it either.
This in turn enables me to, say, scale images to an optimal width server side. It saves a lot of bandwidth and makes full use of a larger screen.
That's what SVG is for.
I clean the ua's and apply a Jaro Winkler similarity algorithm. This approach results in a 90% successful match, and in the cases where the match is incorrect it return a sibling phone.
Seriously? Do you realise how many pontential users you're dimissing with an algorithm like that? Might as well hash the UA string, xor it with a random number generator, and take the value of the first bit for an if statement.
As far as the mobile world is concerned UA's are great.
If so, it's only because the mobile manufacturers are doing the Wrong Thing.
Crazy moderation there. This is the crux of the issue. If people start using standards -- developers AND phone companies, then the problems they're working around will no longer exist.
If anything, Creative Commons actually helped her, by providing simplified licensing options, with clear explanations. If she didn't get it, or if her family disagreed with what she did, then that's a matter for them.
More importantly... I read this as "...Virgin daughter..." on the second reading. My question obviously would have been, "do we know she's a virgin, and if so, how?" Strangely, that question still interests me;)
Agreed. However, I don't think the GP was bashing, just calling it like it is.
A *judge* of all people should be expected to judge the arguments, not the appearance of the person stating them.
You would *want* that, yes. However, the reality is probably a lot different. Very few people --- judges included --- are able to set aside their own biases. Especially the ones they don't know they have, and the ones they believe are based on experience rather than bad luck or stereotypes.
So, what is going to happen when M$ screws up and starts blocking products that are 'genuine'?
They've been doing this since XP. Never had to call Microsoft and explain that you're not a pirate, you're just reinstalling your own software? I have. Many times. Thank god for alternative operating systems.
No, because you're free to choose another job or move to another country.
I'm not sure that's true. There are lots of things we're "free to do" -- announcing what we believe in public even when everyone else is sure to hate us for it, for instance, or shooting ourselves in the head rather than paying taxes. We're free to campaign against any law we disagree with; to fight for our rights. However, that "freedom" might well cost us our lives, as we know them -- our work, our holidays, our social life, our investments...
Real freedom means being able to do something without an unreasonable amount of difficulty.
Both serfdom and slavery have specific definitions, and according to those
Well, I think we may be using different definitions, at least for slavery. According to the statistics I've seen, slavery is more common today than ever before, and this includes things like indentured servitude. I think that's a very reasonable definition.
However, I'll admit that I don't know enough about the serfdom issue, so I'll leave the rest of the argument there, pending more research. Thanks for your thoughts on it, though:)
"Then there's the little fact that 90% of the population of old Tibet (before the Communists took over) were slaves and serfs. The upper 10% owned everything, including the people. And the monks were lords of the country. Do you think they kept their slaves in line by peaceful means?"
Not if they considered themselves slaves, no. Do you consider yourself a slave when you clock into work every day to do 8 hours just to survive, though? Do we call those people slaves, who are working off their debt to society in prison, for violating laws they never agreed with? Do people in tibet consider themselves slaves to a religion they may well be proud to serve?
Things like this are not half as clear-cut as you (or the Chinese government) make out.
whether they are going to give us what want, and find a way to stay profitable... or not.
If you ask me, the whole "problem" is a bunch of balony. ISPs oversubscribe their services, because most people just browse websites, and that's low-bandwidth. Now, they're realising they can't do that, because people are using youtube and bittorrent, and that's about to reach critical mass when people like the BBC legitimize it in a consumer-oriented shrink-wrap. Suddenly, ISPs can't claim that people who actually USE their services are doing something immoral or illegal.
So, what's the problem again? You sold a service extra-cheap, because you didn't think you'd have to provide the full service? Tough. Get real, and sell what we're buying. The prices might go up, sure, but either we'll pay, or we won't care about the new service. Your upstream providers might charge too much for bandwidth, but that'll soon change as ISPs start demanding more.
this Amiga ex-user is taking enormous pleasure in seeing Windows relegated to "games system" status.
I wouldn't say that's happening (yet?), but it's a very interesting point. As another ex-Amigan, I found the distinction between games systems and professional systems very clear back then. I even asked a teacher to get an Amiga -- mostly just for the nice OS, and the response was, "aren't they just for games?"
Windows would have to make some SERIOUS mistakes (and no, vista isn't in that ballpark) to end up as a games platform only. But it is happening, to some extent -- I don't see any sign of their vista core/server OS yet. The remote possibility is fascinating.
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KPDF might be coerced to do it too -- it has a DCOP call that lets you change the page. You can also load it up as a component in your app, and tell talk to that particular instance through dcop, which is the best solution I've found so far. Still, it's a lot of work just to find a word on a page :/
Actually, this tells me he doesn't understand one or the other. The only difference between scheduling and security numbers is how you measure. Security can be measured too, if you know what you're measuring -- number of attackers who gain access, number of attacks detected, compromises detected, etc. It's just the same in scheduling -- you can measure scheduling IF you know what you're measuring: realtime desktop performance, IO performance, etc. But similar conflicts arise in both: realtime latency vs. maximum IO bandwidth; hackers prevented from accessing a secure system vs. legitimate users locked out, etc.
I've tried quite a few of the current systems, and looked at a number of the available APIs so far, in the hopes of creating something that'll do what I want.
Basically, I think all document indexers currently suck. Must-have features:
* Indexing documents on a per-sentence, per-paragraph, per-page, per-chapter, per-section (etc.) basis: I should be able to search for books that have the words "people" and "crimewave" or just sentences that contain that word. There's no point indexing a thousand cross-referenced and cited PDFs about pyschology for terms like "neurons and fear". When I search a document collection for neurons and fear, I want it to show me paragraphs or sections that discuss those two topics together, in relation to each other, in depth. I guess this is similar to proximity searching, BUT...
* It MUST be able to bring up the right section. If the search engine just throws up a list that says, "yep, book121314 --- "Everything in the human body, in detail" (which is 98435 pages long) has both those words in it", then it's no better than grep. Not a single PDF viewer I've looked at on unix has the ability to open a PDF at a particular page, much less a certain anchor on a page, with given words highlighted.
Not so crucial, but important:
* Tagging. It should allow me to tag documents, pages, etc.
* Cross-referencing, and and comparison. Side-by-side scrolling of documents in different languages, or just different translations and commentaries on documents, a bit like what sword's UIs do, but more generally.
"Diabetes" is way too over-used. One type is (seemingly) an immune disorder, requires many injections per day, can kill in an hour, requires all sorts of monitoring. Another type is (seemingly) due to self-neglect, requires some tablets and some monitoring. Another type (which I don't know much about at all, if it is another "type") is triggered by pregnancy, and now a forth is really just seemingly about the same chemical in the body, but has almost completely different causes and effects. Yes, there's some memory loss in other forms of diabetes... but, why combine all these under one name? It can only lead to confusion for patients and carers. Seems to me that they're trying to jump on the well-established funding for diabetes research.
Seems to me, that they're putting the cart before the horse there.
To me, it's similar to a proxy vote, or indeed, to representative democracy in general: you trust some person or organisation to represent your views, so you give them authority to re-write the license of your software.
But yeah, it's not something I think all that wise either.
Doesn't matter which he means. Anything involving end users deciphering bounce messages is doomed to failure. I don't know how many times end users have called and asked me to explain a bounce message that I thought was very clear... like those "invalid recipient" ones that actually go on to say that the address may be invalid, and that they should re-check it.
And that's not even looking at security implications, like what happens when spammers start sending these same bounce messages, requesting users to confirm they're real, to any given sender address.
Oh, is that how it works? I thought it wouldn't show you answers above 255, unless you have a HDCP-compliant monitor.
Sure they will. Then it'll go to court, and the RIAA will be judged guilty, and then they'll ignore the rulings and do the same thing again in other countries for a while, until the anti-trust.. I mean copyright... judgement term is deemed to have completed, at which point they'll launch their own version of Vista.
No, you just think they are, because you only care about a few of the potential visitors to your site. That's probably why the rest don't use it, and why the many future web clients in PDAs, Digital TVs etc., blind user's screenreaders etc. will never use it either.
That's what SVG is for.
Seriously? Do you realise how many pontential users you're dimissing with an algorithm like that? Might as well hash the UA string, xor it with a random number generator, and take the value of the first bit for an if statement.
If so, it's only because the mobile manufacturers are doing the Wrong Thing.
Crazy moderation there. This is the crux of the issue. If people start using standards -- developers AND phone companies, then the problems they're working around will no longer exist.
Yes, interesting lesson in not challenging the law there ;)
If anything, Creative Commons actually helped her, by providing simplified licensing options, with clear explanations. If she didn't get it, or if her family disagreed with what she did, then that's a matter for them.
;)
More importantly... I read this as "...Virgin daughter..." on the second reading. My question obviously would have been, "do we know she's a virgin, and if so, how?" Strangely, that question still interests me
Agreed. However, I don't think the GP was bashing, just calling it like it is.
You would *want* that, yes. However, the reality is probably a lot different. Very few people --- judges included --- are able to set aside their own biases. Especially the ones they don't know they have, and the ones they believe are based on experience rather than bad luck or stereotypes.
How did this get moderated "informative", of all things?
Or in the case of the microsoft customer, in the mouth of the sucker.
They've been doing this since XP. Never had to call Microsoft and explain that you're not a pirate, you're just reinstalling your own software? I have. Many times. Thank god for alternative operating systems.
I'm not sure that's true. There are lots of things we're "free to do" -- announcing what we believe in public even when everyone else is sure to hate us for it, for instance, or shooting ourselves in the head rather than paying taxes. We're free to campaign against any law we disagree with; to fight for our rights. However, that "freedom" might well cost us our lives, as we know them -- our work, our holidays, our social life, our investments...
Real freedom means being able to do something without an unreasonable amount of difficulty.
Well, I think we may be using different definitions, at least for slavery. According to the statistics I've seen, slavery is more common today than ever before, and this includes things like indentured servitude. I think that's a very reasonable definition.
However, I'll admit that I don't know enough about the serfdom issue, so I'll leave the rest of the argument there, pending more research. Thanks for your thoughts on it, though
If you don't trust it, don't trust it. It doesn't matter much, whether you don't trust it because it's from him, or because his blog isn't from him.
No, it's for making things work when the companies in question don't care.
"Then there's the little fact that 90% of the population of old Tibet (before the Communists took over) were slaves and serfs. The upper 10% owned everything, including the people. And the monks were lords of the country. Do you think they kept their slaves in line by peaceful means?"
Not if they considered themselves slaves, no. Do you consider yourself a slave when you clock into work every day to do 8 hours just to survive, though? Do we call those people slaves, who are working off their debt to society in prison, for violating laws they never agreed with? Do people in tibet consider themselves slaves to a religion they may well be proud to serve?
Things like this are not half as clear-cut as you (or the Chinese government) make out.
If you ask me, the whole "problem" is a bunch of balony. ISPs oversubscribe their services, because most people just browse websites, and that's low-bandwidth. Now, they're realising they can't do that, because people are using youtube and bittorrent, and that's about to reach critical mass when people like the BBC legitimize it in a consumer-oriented shrink-wrap. Suddenly, ISPs can't claim that people who actually USE their services are doing something immoral or illegal.
So, what's the problem again? You sold a service extra-cheap, because you didn't think you'd have to provide the full service? Tough. Get real, and sell what we're buying. The prices might go up, sure, but either we'll pay, or we won't care about the new service. Your upstream providers might charge too much for bandwidth, but that'll soon change as ISPs start demanding more.
Yes, typo :D
No, it's both, depending on context. In the linux world, it's a piece of software.
I wouldn't say that's happening (yet?), but it's a very interesting point. As another ex-Amigan, I found the distinction between games systems and professional systems very clear back then. I even asked a teacher to get an Amiga -- mostly just for the nice OS, and the response was, "aren't they just for games?"
Windows would have to make some SERIOUS mistakes (and no, vista isn't in that ballpark) to end up as a games platform only. But it is happening, to some extent -- I don't see any sign of their vista core/server OS yet. The remote possibility is fascinating.