The push lever on a mechanical toaster is something you cannot fail to get. Lever goes down, toast goes down, toaster gets hot. Anyone who cannot comprehend that should probably not be operating it, lest they cause injury Anyone that doesn't comprehend that probably wont comprehend injury either.
In the mid 1940's, most of Germany had got used to a Facist dictatorship. This all changed in 1946 - was change wrong?
Sometimes change is for the better. The previous interface in Microsoft Word was seriously flawed in all sorts of areas (the whole suite of applications is).
I think the grandparent has it right - people expect ridiculously complex tasks to be completed in two easy steps. Any more than that and the problem is considered too complicated. Unfortunately, most tasks aren't that easy to achieve, or even describe - especially any that involve analysis type tasks. Most times the users cannot describe what they want the computer to do, so how is anyone meant to implement it?
The G4 cube did this. It didn't work very well though, partly because there was just too much heat for the small design, and partly because the vents were always blocked (how many desktop computers have you seen recently with nothing stacked on top of them?)
Seagate do this with their latest external hard drives though, and it seems to work quite well (and they are nice and quiet too) - nut the near triangular shape makes balancing stuff on top quite hard:)
That's true, but it only shows half the picture (like most statistics). If you look at the time it took to fix the exploits and ship the fix to customers then most Open Source projects win hands down. Microsoft does occasionally do this in quite a timely manner, but most of the time it is weeks, months or even years.
The other thing to consider is the number of holes that might be discovered if everyone had access to the Windows source code:)
He was talking about an induction hob - ie there is no element to stay hot. Your gas stove, however, will heat up all the ironwork around the burner that holds your pans in place, so there is still a risk of burning.
And they don't mind you publicising that fact on the Internet? I'm British, but I would be horrified if someone published the fact that I'm a closet Blair (and, therefore, Bush) fanatic! I'd end up being killed!
I get an Aeron chair, a desk, LCD panel, and a PC running Windows 2000 with a locked down user account that can do almost nothing, and an 80MB email limit.
Just go in looking like a technician, with a briefcase of tools, plus a fake ID with the logo of the ATM manufacturer on it. Nobody would know, especially in a hotel etc, and you'd probably get unrestricted access to the machine - maybe even more than that, eg access to all the documentation for it, the hotel account details etc.
Have a search for some the crawling software that spammers use - you might need to dig quite deep and investigate IRC channels, but most of it is readily available. The more sophisticated stuff has a Javascript interpretter in it for exactly this. Trying to defeat the spammers is pointless. If a computer can read something intentionally (in your case) then a spam harvester can too.
IMO the best way to filter spam on the desktop is by identifying the interesting stuff first - eg looking at your own contact "social network" and applying this model to incoming email, eg the MS Email Triage tool. At the end of the day, I know what email lists I subscribed to, and the majority of people that want to contact me. The rest of the stuff I can filter by using a conventional spam filter, or better still - a filter at ISP level, or even Global level, eg Cloudmark or MessageLabs.
Maybe they didn't sell you out? Maybe one of their machines got infected by a spammers mining tool? Most bots these days mine the PC for email addresses, bank account numbers, credit card numbers etc, as well as acting as SMTP relays and other things. Maybe your machine was the one infected? All the available virus checkers are useless at identifying the best tools currently used by hackers, even after a couple of months of updates. Finally, are you sure that someone didn't probe your mail server to find the valid addresses?
I see a couple of benefits of the GPL, namely that my favourite distributions can now supply Java as a standard part of the distribution, and that I should probably now be able to easily get ports of Sun Java to platforms I want to use (whereas I was limited to IBM or an older port from Blackdown before)
Sun can still maintain control over "Sun Java", which is what most people will use. Sure, people could fork and deliver versions that break the tests you mention, but it is unlikely many people will use them. There are forks of most major GPL packages out there, but for the most part people stick with the main tree.
The other advantage the GPL has over the existing Sun licences is that many people are unable to look at or work with the code from Sun because their employer forbids them. GNU Classpath is an example of this in open source - cleanroom implementations only, no peeking at the Sun JDK source, and make sure you don't sign any NDA's on the way.
I want wireless USB because then I can have a USB hub attached to it, and get rid of lots of unsightly wires. E.g. it would be nice to run the USB digital TV adapter over the other side of the room where the TV socket is. Or to put the printer in a more convenient location. Or even better, have the midi interface next to my disklavier in the living room, but receive the data upstairs in my studio. And no, there are no suitable bluetooth devices for most of these things.
Just "de-pepper" the images and run the ICR. It might even be better *not* to preprocess the images at all. If all the images have similar noise, then the ICR engine is going to make the same mistakes every time which might give you something to train a classifier on.
Most Java developers I know interpret the GPL in exactly this way. Most avoid using GPL licenced code in anything they write, and only use the LGPL stuff. It is one reason why nobody I work with will touch MySQL - preferring to use postgresql or even buying Oracle / Sybase licences.
How often do you shoot at very small apertures? It shows up worst at small apertures such as f/16 or f/22, at wide apertures (which I tend to shoot at most of the time when I'm not shooting landscapes) it isn't noticeable
Maybe you should buy it, or take a look at a few more corporate customers. I use Linux at work - a large UK organisation. On my desktop I'm forced to use Windows 2000 there, so I Exceed into Linux servers. We are essentially forced to use Redhat Enterprise Linux, although we do have 1 Fedora box (because what we wanted to run simply would not work on the version of RHEL we are told to use).
Corporate bean-counters think that it is safer to buy licences for something and get some kind of support contract, then completely lock it down to make it next to useless - even if it forces us to be somewhat behind where we want to be.
And the silly OS X behaviour of not terminating apps when all Windows are closed makes this a big problem. We had similar issues at University with older Macs (System 7 and earlier) whereby people left the IMAP client connected - alsorts of "entertaining" emails were sent describing lecturers in less than flattering ways! Of course, you couldn't log out, so it was purely down to the user whether stuff was closed down.
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In the mid 1940's, most of Germany had got used to a Facist dictatorship. This all changed in 1946 - was change wrong?
Sometimes change is for the better. The previous interface in Microsoft Word was seriously flawed in all sorts of areas (the whole suite of applications is).
I think the grandparent has it right - people expect ridiculously complex tasks to be completed in two easy steps. Any more than that and the problem is considered too complicated. Unfortunately, most tasks aren't that easy to achieve, or even describe - especially any that involve analysis type tasks. Most times the users cannot describe what they want the computer to do, so how is anyone meant to implement it?
The G4 cube did this. It didn't work very well though, partly because there was just too much heat for the small design, and partly because the vents were always blocked (how many desktop computers have you seen recently with nothing stacked on top of them?)
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Seagate do this with their latest external hard drives though, and it seems to work quite well (and they are nice and quiet too) - nut the near triangular shape makes balancing stuff on top quite hard
Yeah, I mean computers are fast enough for everything these days. Lets use Java for everything.
Fortran is still massively popular in the scientific community, and for some applications on certain platforms fortran outperforms C.
That's true, but it only shows half the picture (like most statistics). If you look at the time it took to fix the exploits and ship the fix to customers then most Open Source projects win hands down. Microsoft does occasionally do this in quite a timely manner, but most of the time it is weeks, months or even years.
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The other thing to consider is the number of holes that might be discovered if everyone had access to the Windows source code
My employer is exactly the same. We run a hardened Win2k on our desktops. Why would we upgrade? XP and vista give us nothing that 2k doesn't.
I love the spirit of Christmas. Soon *everyone* will know that Christ was born with a pair of Nike trainers on his feet and an ipod in his pocket!
Maybe the phones did interfere. Maybe that's why they crashed? ;o|
He was talking about an induction hob - ie there is no element to stay hot. Your gas stove, however, will heat up all the ironwork around the burner that holds your pans in place, so there is still a risk of burning.
Maybe it's a regional thing. Here we say "pay peanuts, get monkeys". Google seems to show the two variations as 50/50.
And they don't mind you publicising that fact on the Internet? I'm British, but I would be horrified if someone published the fact that I'm a closet Blair (and, therefore, Bush) fanatic! I'd end up being killed!
You need to change jobs man ;-)
I get an Aeron chair, a desk, LCD panel, and a PC running Windows 2000 with a locked down user account that can do almost nothing, and an 80MB email limit.
Just go in looking like a technician, with a briefcase of tools, plus a fake ID with the logo of the ATM manufacturer on it. Nobody would know, especially in a hotel etc, and you'd probably get unrestricted access to the machine - maybe even more than that, eg access to all the documentation for it, the hotel account details etc.
Have a search for some the crawling software that spammers use - you might need to dig quite deep and investigate IRC channels, but most of it is readily available. The more sophisticated stuff has a Javascript interpretter in it for exactly this. Trying to defeat the spammers is pointless. If a computer can read something intentionally (in your case) then a spam harvester can too. IMO the best way to filter spam on the desktop is by identifying the interesting stuff first - eg looking at your own contact "social network" and applying this model to incoming email, eg the MS Email Triage tool. At the end of the day, I know what email lists I subscribed to, and the majority of people that want to contact me. The rest of the stuff I can filter by using a conventional spam filter, or better still - a filter at ISP level, or even Global level, eg Cloudmark or MessageLabs.
Maybe they didn't sell you out? Maybe one of their machines got infected by a spammers mining tool? Most bots these days mine the PC for email addresses, bank account numbers, credit card numbers etc, as well as acting as SMTP relays and other things. Maybe your machine was the one infected? All the available virus checkers are useless at identifying the best tools currently used by hackers, even after a couple of months of updates. Finally, are you sure that someone didn't probe your mail server to find the valid addresses?
I see a couple of benefits of the GPL, namely that my favourite distributions can now supply Java as a standard part of the distribution, and that I should probably now be able to easily get ports of Sun Java to platforms I want to use (whereas I was limited to IBM or an older port from Blackdown before)
Sun can still maintain control over "Sun Java", which is what most people will use. Sure, people could fork and deliver versions that break the tests you mention, but it is unlikely many people will use them. There are forks of most major GPL packages out there, but for the most part people stick with the main tree.
The other advantage the GPL has over the existing Sun licences is that many people are unable to look at or work with the code from Sun because their employer forbids them. GNU Classpath is an example of this in open source - cleanroom implementations only, no peeking at the Sun JDK source, and make sure you don't sign any NDA's on the way.
I want wireless USB because then I can have a USB hub attached to it, and get rid of lots of unsightly wires. E.g. it would be nice to run the USB digital TV adapter over the other side of the room where the TV socket is. Or to put the printer in a more convenient location. Or even better, have the midi interface next to my disklavier in the living room, but receive the data upstairs in my studio. And no, there are no suitable bluetooth devices for most of these things.
If they choose to licence the source code, then yeah, sure. They've done it with previous releases.
Just "de-pepper" the images and run the ICR. It might even be better *not* to preprocess the images at all. If all the images have similar noise, then the ICR engine is going to make the same mistakes every time which might give you something to train a classifier on.
Hell, why not just stop all code running on computers in the first place and go back to using a pen and paper!
Most Java developers I know interpret the GPL in exactly this way. Most avoid using GPL licenced code in anything they write, and only use the LGPL stuff. It is one reason why nobody I work with will touch MySQL - preferring to use postgresql or even buying Oracle / Sybase licences.
How often do you shoot at very small apertures? It shows up worst at small apertures such as f/16 or f/22, at wide apertures (which I tend to shoot at most of the time when I'm not shooting landscapes) it isn't noticeable
Maybe you should buy it, or take a look at a few more corporate customers. I use Linux at work - a large UK organisation. On my desktop I'm forced to use Windows 2000 there, so I Exceed into Linux servers. We are essentially forced to use Redhat Enterprise Linux, although we do have 1 Fedora box (because what we wanted to run simply would not work on the version of RHEL we are told to use).
Corporate bean-counters think that it is safer to buy licences for something and get some kind of support contract, then completely lock it down to make it next to useless - even if it forces us to be somewhat behind where we want to be.
And the silly OS X behaviour of not terminating apps when all Windows are closed makes this a big problem. We had similar issues at University with older Macs (System 7 and earlier) whereby people left the IMAP client connected - alsorts of "entertaining" emails were sent describing lecturers in less than flattering ways! Of course, you couldn't log out, so it was purely down to the user whether stuff was closed down.