Okay, I read the messages you've linked to, and actually under the circumstances I think his frustration is very understandable. He's complaining that the BSD licence has been deleted from some source files (as shown in the link at the top of TFA), which, he is absolutely right, it in very clear and unambiguous language forbids anyone to do. I too have to wonder what the person was thinking who did it.
I've seen and rolled my eyes at Theo-eruptions before, but I don't have a problem with this.
"rolandsgirlfriend"??? Come on taggers. This is offensive. You know perfectly well that Lauren Weinstein is a man. He has been making a real contribution in the security field for many years.
I don't have an ethical problem with spamming, as you describe, to advertise a proxy service as long as it's free. In that case I think the benefit to the world clearly outweighs the cost.
Whether such a frontal assault on the censors in those countries is likely to work, as someone else posted, is another question entirely. I'm not sure it will. But I don't have a problem with the attempt, should you choose to make it.
Solaris doesn't need any magical enterprise fairy dust to be better than AIX, if my recent experience with the latter is any indication. AIX is S-L-O-W.
For the record, I did not start with the conclusion, as you are accusing me of doing. I noticed a possible correlation, and did enough trials that I now believe the correlation is real. This is not enough evidence to publish a paper on, but is plenty to influence my personal purchasing decisions (and to mention on Slashdot).
Perhaps my phrase "convince myself" misled you. Rest assured I have enough natural skepticism not to be so convinced without some relevant observations.
Well, I'm coming in at the end of this discussion, so probably no one will read this. I'm going to express myself anyway:)
I have four cats. I like to play rough with them, so I frequently get scratched. If I immediately wash with triclosan soap, the scratches usually heal before getting infected (even slightly). If I don't, they don't. I've tried it enough times to convince myself there's a difference. This does mean more than a cursory wash -- I leave the soap on the scratch for maybe 20-30 seconds.
Maybe there are other things that could work too, but alcohol stings much worse and the scratch doesn't heal as readily, as if the skin were also being damaged by it. I suppose I could try iodine.
Also, I'm not worried about the bacteria acquiring immunity. I thought it was a truism in evolutionary theory that the kind of rapid evolution required to develop such immunity only happens in isolated populations; which the bacteria on one's hands definitely are not. Washing such a small area, even frequently, doesn't begin to apply significant selection pressure to the entire population of bacteria in one's house. Consider: you wash your hands, and a few bacteria survive that have a little more resistance to triclosan than the others. Now you go about your day, exchanging bacteria with other surfaces, and the survival advantage conveyed to those bacteria once they've left your hands is zero (probably negative, actually, if the alternative pathway they're using doesn't work as well). The next time you wash your hands, the vast majority of bacteria on them are not the descendants of the survivors of the previous wash, but came from other surfaces. There's no opportunity for the more resistant bacteria to multiply faster than the others.
Aaargh! I see this all over the Web these days -- and even in newspaper stories!
People, the past tense and past participle of the verb "to lead" is spelled "led". Yes, it's pronounced like the name of the metal. No, it's not spelled the same way. No, it's not consistent with the parts of the verb "to read". Welcome to English: a writhing mass of special cases.
So: today I lead, yesterday I led, I have led many times.
This site seems to have some information on file transfer.
I don't know about the Y2K bug. I haven't actually used the machine in many years; all I've done is occasionally verify that it's still working and wonder whether it's worth anything to anybody:)
While AMD has excellent architects, Intel has a commanding process-technology lead, and has some good architects itself. It was only because Intel got complacent and made some stupid strategic decisions (Itanic) that they let AMD back in the game. We all owe AMD thanks for forcing Intel to wake up... but now that they have, I don't know how much chance AMD has of keeping up.
Also, read again. The GP was proposing the IBM buy AMD, not Intel. I think it would be a good thing too. Well, except that the company cultures are utterly different:(
For another variation on this concept see Boxbe. They deal with email recipients directly, not with ISPs, and they share the message fees with the recipients. Seems like a better system to me.
Good point. (And if that's too obvious, it's trivial to disguise it further -- say, using the sum of the digits.)
I think a better idea is to make bids non-cancellable. Bid cancellation seems to be an integral part of the game here. It's astounding that such a thing would be permitted in an auction like this.
That's silly. I'm sure it was much less distracting than if I were using a laptop -- which is, in fact, the precise reason I wasn't using my laptop! With the Palm's sounds turned off, the tapping is all but inaudible -- considerably quieter than a keyboard. And the small screen is surely also much less distracting visually.
Okay, no, I didn't poll my seat neighbors (who were all using pen and paper), but I did look around a little and saw zero indication that anyone was being disturbed. I could hardly hear the tapping myself.
It appears that Fitaly on the Pocket PC supports all of Unicode, assuming, of course, that you have the necessary fonts installed. Some configuration effort may be required to use them. Have a look.
The Palm has accented European characters (and Fitaly supports them), but I don't see any indication that it goes beyond that.
Yes, I think the Fitaly layout is pretty good, but I agree it could be improved upon. But the massive amount of effort they have put into the design of the whole product has set a very high bar for competitors, even those with better layouts. It's just packed with features -- user-definable slide gestures (which I use a lot), accented characters, etc. etc.
So until someone does a similarly high-quality implementation of Opti II or Metropolis, I think Fitaly will own this market.
Forget handwriting recognition. Fitaly, a tap-optimized virtual keyboard, is much faster -- in my experience, at least twice the speed of pen and paper. And while it's neither as fast nor as accurate as touch-typing, it's plenty good enough to make it unnecessary to carry around one of those folding keyboards.
I've used Fitaly on a Tungsten T3 to take voluminous notes at multi-hour seminars. It's that good. I wouldn't even think of going back to Graffiti.
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Okay, I read the messages you've linked to, and actually under the circumstances I think his frustration is very understandable. He's complaining that the BSD licence has been deleted from some source files (as shown in the link at the top of TFA), which, he is absolutely right, it in very clear and unambiguous language forbids anyone to do. I too have to wonder what the person was thinking who did it.
I've seen and rolled my eyes at Theo-eruptions before, but I don't have a problem with this.
Ah -- I see the tag is gone. Excellent.
"rolandsgirlfriend"??? Come on taggers. This is offensive. You know perfectly well that Lauren Weinstein is a man. He has been making a real contribution in the security field for many years.
Too bad I can't mod a tag as -1, troll.
I don't have an ethical problem with spamming, as you describe, to advertise a proxy service as long as it's free. In that case I think the benefit to the world clearly outweighs the cost.
Whether such a frontal assault on the censors in those countries is likely to work, as someone else posted, is another question entirely. I'm not sure it will. But I don't have a problem with the attempt, should you choose to make it.
Solaris doesn't need any magical enterprise fairy dust to be better than AIX, if my recent experience with the latter is any indication. AIX is S-L-O-W.
For the record, I did not start with the conclusion, as you are accusing me of doing. I noticed a possible correlation, and did enough trials that I now believe the correlation is real. This is not enough evidence to publish a paper on, but is plenty to influence my personal purchasing decisions (and to mention on Slashdot).
Perhaps my phrase "convince myself" misled you. Rest assured I have enough natural skepticism not to be so convinced without some relevant observations.
well, certianly no logical fallacy there. *rolls eyes.*
I see. You always believe results published in journals; you never try your own experiments. And you probably think this makes you more scientific.
Well, I'm coming in at the end of this discussion, so probably no one will read this. I'm going to express myself anyway :)
I have four cats. I like to play rough with them, so I frequently get scratched. If I immediately wash with triclosan soap, the scratches usually heal before getting infected (even slightly). If I don't, they don't. I've tried it enough times to convince myself there's a difference. This does mean more than a cursory wash -- I leave the soap on the scratch for maybe 20-30 seconds.
Maybe there are other things that could work too, but alcohol stings much worse and the scratch doesn't heal as readily, as if the skin were also being damaged by it. I suppose I could try iodine.
Also, I'm not worried about the bacteria acquiring immunity. I thought it was a truism in evolutionary theory that the kind of rapid evolution required to develop such immunity only happens in isolated populations; which the bacteria on one's hands definitely are not. Washing such a small area, even frequently, doesn't begin to apply significant selection pressure to the entire population of bacteria in one's house. Consider: you wash your hands, and a few bacteria survive that have a little more resistance to triclosan than the others. Now you go about your day, exchanging bacteria with other surfaces, and the survival advantage conveyed to those bacteria once they've left your hands is zero (probably negative, actually, if the alternative pathway they're using doesn't work as well). The next time you wash your hands, the vast majority of bacteria on them are not the descendants of the survivors of the previous wash, but came from other surfaces. There's no opportunity for the more resistant bacteria to multiply faster than the others.
I own several of these too. Excellent ergonomics, and cheap at $20! What more could you want?
Yes. The passive construction uses the past participle. Consider: "I will do it" but "it will be done by me", not "it will be do by me".
Aaargh! I see this all over the Web these days -- and even in newspaper stories!
People, the past tense and past participle of the verb "to lead" is spelled "led". Yes, it's pronounced like the name of the metal. No, it's not spelled the same way. No, it's not consistent with the parts of the verb "to read". Welcome to English: a writhing mass of special cases.
So: today I lead, yesterday I led, I have led many times.
This site seems to have some information on file transfer.
I don't know about the Y2K bug. I haven't actually used the machine in many years; all I've done is occasionally verify that it's still working and wonder whether it's worth anything to anybody :)
I didn't say it would be free -- I was just asking if he was interested before quoting him a price :)
But maybe I should put it on eBay. What are they going for these days?
I've got a working Model 100. Want it?
First we get the "Wii", now we have the "Eee". What's next, "Oooeeyaaaeee"???
While AMD has excellent architects, Intel has a commanding process-technology lead, and has some good architects itself. It was only because Intel got complacent and made some stupid strategic decisions (Itanic) that they let AMD back in the game. We all owe AMD thanks for forcing Intel to wake up... but now that they have, I don't know how much chance AMD has of keeping up.
Also, read again. The GP was proposing the IBM buy AMD, not Intel. I think it would be a good thing too. Well, except that the company cultures are utterly different :(
For another variation on this concept see Boxbe. They deal with email recipients directly, not with ISPs, and they share the message fees with the recipients. Seems like a better system to me.
Good point. (And if that's too obvious, it's trivial to disguise it further -- say, using the sum of the digits.)
I think a better idea is to make bids non-cancellable. Bid cancellation seems to be an integral part of the game here. It's astounding that such a thing would be permitted in an auction like this.
But don't forget this. Okay, only 10x concentration, but compact and maintenance-free.
That's silly. I'm sure it was much less distracting than if I were using a laptop -- which is, in fact, the precise reason I wasn't using my laptop! With the Palm's sounds turned off, the tapping is all but inaudible -- considerably quieter than a keyboard. And the small screen is surely also much less distracting visually.
Okay, no, I didn't poll my seat neighbors (who were all using pen and paper), but I did look around a little and saw zero indication that anyone was being disturbed. I could hardly hear the tapping myself.
It appears that Fitaly on the Pocket PC supports all of Unicode, assuming, of course, that you have the necessary fonts installed. Some configuration effort may be required to use them. Have a look.
The Palm has accented European characters (and Fitaly supports them), but I don't see any indication that it goes beyond that.
Yes, I think the Fitaly layout is pretty good, but I agree it could be improved upon. But the massive amount of effort they have put into the design of the whole product has set a very high bar for competitors, even those with better layouts. It's just packed with features -- user-definable slide gestures (which I use a lot), accented characters, etc. etc.
So until someone does a similarly high-quality implementation of Opti II or Metropolis, I think Fitaly will own this market.
Forget handwriting recognition. Fitaly, a tap-optimized virtual keyboard, is much faster -- in my experience, at least twice the speed of pen and paper. And while it's neither as fast nor as accurate as touch-typing, it's plenty good enough to make it unnecessary to carry around one of those folding keyboards.
I've used Fitaly on a Tungsten T3 to take voluminous notes at multi-hour seminars. It's that good. I wouldn't even think of going back to Graffiti.
I guess you have low testosterone.
Alas, the Lisp I am using doesn't run on FreeBSD.