Amen to that! I have bot IMAP and WWW mail interfaces but still waiting for CalendarServer.org to hit the LDAP milestone they've been promising for what feels like years and I can ditch google too:)
My mail server is inside my house, in the skeletal chassis of a stripped down laptop, ten seconds and a sledgehammer and it's destroyed. Though backups are password protected on an ftp server somewhere so I'm guess it's vulnerable to a rubber hose attack
Presumably it would have come about through the evolution of the language. Just like there's plenty of English that doesn't make sense. e.g. you "dial" a phone number but "type" everything else that involves pressing buttons with symbols. The physical dial is long gone leaving just a strange anomaly.
Surely the "remember me" tickbox next a login form just needs to be changed to "remember me with a cookie" and most sensible uses for cookies are covered (considering that the regulation has an exception for shopping cart contents).
Spot on, if you actually go and read a bunch of religious texts you'll see that the basic rules make a fair amount of sense in this context. Including for example the "Don't work your ass of every single day, you need a day to rest every few days or you'll kill yourself" one.
When a society is starting out, and the people in charge are simply there because of them being the smart people (teacher and/or healer being tribal leader) and there's no police force, army or judiciary, and you haven't invented chemistry and physics yet so your understanding of the planet is limited to observation on a human scale then keeping the population in check needs a different system.
I agree with most of what you've said, making my own comment a bit redundant but yeah, this is the way I see it. Nokia used to be THE phone hardware giant and MS used to be THE software giant. But just like MS vs the internet in the early 90s their Windows phones were squarely business phones and they ignored the first 4 years of the new smartphone wave that the iPhone kicked off. At the same time - before the iPhone arrived Nokia's software only had to deal with a black and white dot matrix display and one or two buttons.
So basically this is the best possible deal that both companies can hope for to give themselves any kind of future in the market. Will they drop in and surf the wave or have they missed their chance by half a decade? Curious to see how it plays out.
Time for me to go back to my HTC "Windows" phone that I wiped and replaced with Android...
So long as they provide a continual flow of cups of tea, pizza and beer (each following on, depending on the length of the task at hand) I'm happy to have a go. Even if the end result is that I actually am unable to fix the damned thing but spent the *hic* entire weekend *burp* trying my damndest *thud*
I'm wondering how long before they are sued because at least one of their techniques is patented, seems like the sort of thing that would be teeming with IP.
You are correct and I think it's great: Getting to share pictures of babies (and geeky/hobby projects) with friends in far flung places. Though obviously if your "Facebook Friends" and "Real Life Friends" aren't the same set of people - as mine are - then your experience may vary.
So you're very unhappy about the concept that you should pay for what you actually use, rather than relying on some other sucker paying half your cell bill for you? Nice.
Yep, I'm on Virgin cable and have no complaints. How hard is it to schedule torrents between 11pm and 7am? That's what I do and it means I get to wake up in the morning and see what new Linux ISOs have arrived!
This reminds me of something James May said on one of those non Top Gear spinoff things he was presenting. He said that if someone invented the petrol car now - requiring all the flammable liquid to be transported around and allowing people to pump it themselves and then drive around with what is effectively a bomb behind them - it would never get off the ground due to the bureaucracy and health & safety and liability litigation. Even with all the safety features we have.
I'd like to go farther than that and eliminate the "Load/Save" mechanics of most app. e.g. Open a word processor, open a file, edit it a bit, close the word processor. At this point the word processor just closes, no "Do you want to save?" dialog. It just closes. Opening the word processor shows it in the state it was in at the last keypress with whatever documents you were working on. On disk the file wont ever be "saved" but it will have checkpoints. so when saving you are merely inserting a checkpoint (or keyframe, if you like). When opening a document you can look at the most recent checkpoint or the current state. Apps should be intelligent enough to handle the user without baffling them.
Yep, which is why whenever a religious nutjob says something akin to "it's not natural" while referring to homosexuality I point out that if god had intended us to fly he would have given us wings, yet I don't see them crucifying aircraft pilots.
Indeed, but Facebook IS my real-life communication with my friends - all but one of my 21 facebook friends live > 150 miles from me and I use facebook to stay in touch with them. As far as I'm concerned it's just another comms tool alongside letter, phone and email. But one where you can interrupt other people's conversations with a witty remark, so it closer emulates hanging out with them in person than the other three communication methods I just listed.
I have 21 facebook friends, and they're all people I know in Real Life (TM) but don't see very often due to geography. I only joined facebook in order to keep in touch with these people in a manner which email does not suffice. The people I do see frequently (i.e. work with) can fuck off.
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Amen to that! I have bot IMAP and WWW mail interfaces but still waiting for CalendarServer.org to hit the LDAP milestone they've been promising for what feels like years and I can ditch google too :)
...that this didn't already exist, did zoologists only just learn about computers or something?
My mail server is inside my house, in the skeletal chassis of a stripped down laptop, ten seconds and a sledgehammer and it's destroyed. Though backups are password protected on an ftp server somewhere so I'm guess it's vulnerable to a rubber hose attack
Presumably it would have come about through the evolution of the language. Just like there's plenty of English that doesn't make sense. e.g. you "dial" a phone number but "type" everything else that involves pressing buttons with symbols. The physical dial is long gone leaving just a strange anomaly.
There are also Eighth Doctor (amongst other doctors) radio productions, lots of fun if you're able to provide the visual effects in your head
William Shatner himself posted on Twitter "It's Talk Like Me Day" how official do you need!
Me too, Chrome on OpenSUSE/KDE, absolutely spiffing
Surely the "remember me" tickbox next a login form just needs to be changed to "remember me with a cookie" and most sensible uses for cookies are covered (considering that the regulation has an exception for shopping cart contents).
Actually this is more like MS Visual Studio being able to cross compile to other platforms than x86 Windows. Which it can already do.
Spot on, if you actually go and read a bunch of religious texts you'll see that the basic rules make a fair amount of sense in this context. Including for example the "Don't work your ass of every single day, you need a day to rest every few days or you'll kill yourself" one.
When a society is starting out, and the people in charge are simply there because of them being the smart people (teacher and/or healer being tribal leader) and there's no police force, army or judiciary, and you haven't invented chemistry and physics yet so your understanding of the planet is limited to observation on a human scale then keeping the population in check needs a different system.
I agree with most of what you've said, making my own comment a bit redundant but yeah, this is the way I see it. Nokia used to be THE phone hardware giant and MS used to be THE software giant. But just like MS vs the internet in the early 90s their Windows phones were squarely business phones and they ignored the first 4 years of the new smartphone wave that the iPhone kicked off. At the same time - before the iPhone arrived Nokia's software only had to deal with a black and white dot matrix display and one or two buttons.
So basically this is the best possible deal that both companies can hope for to give themselves any kind of future in the market. Will they drop in and surf the wave or have they missed their chance by half a decade? Curious to see how it plays out.
Time for me to go back to my HTC "Windows" phone that I wiped and replaced with Android...
So long as they provide a continual flow of cups of tea, pizza and beer (each following on, depending on the length of the task at hand) I'm happy to have a go. Even if the end result is that I actually am unable to fix the damned thing but spent the *hic* entire weekend *burp* trying my damndest *thud*
I'm wondering how long before they are sued because at least one of their techniques is patented, seems like the sort of thing that would be teeming with IP.
You are correct and I think it's great: Getting to share pictures of babies (and geeky/hobby projects) with friends in far flung places. Though obviously if your "Facebook Friends" and "Real Life Friends" aren't the same set of people - as mine are - then your experience may vary.
So you're very unhappy about the concept that you should pay for what you actually use, rather than relying on some other sucker paying half your cell bill for you? Nice.
There's also an "X For Dummies" book too : http://www.amazon.com/Your-Babys-First-Year-Dummies/dp/0764584200
Yep, I'm on Virgin cable and have no complaints. How hard is it to schedule torrents between 11pm and 7am? That's what I do and it means I get to wake up in the morning and see what new Linux ISOs have arrived!
This reminds me of something James May said on one of those non Top Gear spinoff things he was presenting. He said that if someone invented the petrol car now - requiring all the flammable liquid to be transported around and allowing people to pump it themselves and then drive around with what is effectively a bomb behind them - it would never get off the ground due to the bureaucracy and health & safety and liability litigation. Even with all the safety features we have.
He must be a yungun with a high fallutin' HDTV and didn't get it
I'd like to go farther than that and eliminate the "Load/Save" mechanics of most app. e.g. Open a word processor, open a file, edit it a bit, close the word processor. At this point the word processor just closes, no "Do you want to save?" dialog. It just closes. Opening the word processor shows it in the state it was in at the last keypress with whatever documents you were working on. On disk the file wont ever be "saved" but it will have checkpoints. so when saving you are merely inserting a checkpoint (or keyframe, if you like). When opening a document you can look at the most recent checkpoint or the current state. Apps should be intelligent enough to handle the user without baffling them.
Yep, which is why whenever a religious nutjob says something akin to "it's not natural" while referring to homosexuality I point out that if god had intended us to fly he would have given us wings, yet I don't see them crucifying aircraft pilots.
Iceland, I reckon if Assange can get there he's safe. Though I have no evidence to back up that assertion.
Indeed, but Facebook IS my real-life communication with my friends - all but one of my 21 facebook friends live > 150 miles from me and I use facebook to stay in touch with them. As far as I'm concerned it's just another comms tool alongside letter, phone and email. But one where you can interrupt other people's conversations with a witty remark, so it closer emulates hanging out with them in person than the other three communication methods I just listed.
I have 21 facebook friends, and they're all people I know in Real Life (TM) but don't see very often due to geography. I only joined facebook in order to keep in touch with these people in a manner which email does not suffice. The people I do see frequently (i.e. work with) can fuck off.
or if you're expecting a number run it through something like parseInt() first. How hard is that?!