I don't understand why google doesn't get the value of the very basic e-mail functionality of forward-as-attachment.
Perhaps it should be called `forward-without-corrupting' and the value might be seen.
This makes it painful to work with someone using gmail even if you don't use it.
I once worked with someone who need to forward me an HTML-formatted email to understand what hundreds of items that need immediate response were. Gmail insisted on formatting the HTML email (i.e. corrupting) when forwarding.
I could not make sense of the mail either. There was no way then to get the original email.. All my associate could do to share the email forward.
It turned out the HTML was invalid and gmail was formatting it in a crazy way. Since this is an AI problem, so I can't fault them for that. However, the lack of them not being able to simply get the email forwared uncorrupted wasted hours.
Solution was to help associated install an imap client.
Want to pass mail off to some more appropriate to respond; best way is `forward-as-attachement'.
Want to help someone with email problems and look at the header; `forward-as-attachement' makes it easy.
Zoom is great. we use it for schedule meetings, but not ongoing collaborative conversations. However, many of us have built up professional Real Skype (as opposed to S4B). These get used for lots for one going, collaborative conversations over the day, sometimes switching from chat to video.
It has been a great tool for cancer research.
Now, with Skype 8 being "re-built from the ground up", it is crap.
Now that they are trying to turn Real Skype from an excellent app needing some bug fixes into a failed snapchat, we are only stuck because of the network we have built.
I am a long time Skype fan; it was a powerful communication tool, not a social networking toy. If offered easy transitions from text to voice to video, easy exchange of files, cross-platform consistency, reliability with an easy to use interface.
No more. The Skype Android June 2017 is a disaster. They have deleted important features and added toys.
1) there is no more contact list; you can't tell who is available. 2) bad use of screen real estate 3) no configuration 4) no user alpha/beta; it's just install
I use to be able to collaborate all over the world; this appears to be coming to an end for a bad imitation of snap chat.
If you actually find Skype a great tool, please go to
This stems from pricing plans that are designed to brain wash consumer into thinking they are getting great deals because of words like `unlimited' and `free'. In reality, cell service is overpriced and the consumer has little power because of limited competition offering they same kind of plans.
Pay for one uses. Works for electricity, works for water. Power companies don't have family plans or double you bill with you go one watt over your limit.
Research labs I have worked in are often hampered by the viral nature of the GPL. The GPL seems to
assume that the value is in the software, not what it produces. We develop biomedical research software
that we would like to open source to non-commercial users, while having a license fee for commercial users.
Companies might make make significant amounts of money on the output of the software, without ever
reselling it or even needing to modifying it. To us, it seems fair that they contribute back with license
fees to help fund more development.
The viral nature of the GPL, along with no one being sure what use is infectious, causes us to avoid
build with GPLed software. Frustrating when there is some fine GPLed software that would be useful
and to which we would gladly contribute changes.
CentOS is completely frustrating for their inability to distribute current software. After years of compiling
more and more of my own applications on CentOS 5.*, I finally got upgraded to CentOS 6.0.
Already have to compile my own python and xfce. Something is wrong when the kernel revs more frequently
than the applications. I belive RHEL has the same approach. What's the point in running an OS for
outdated applications??
I am older and more experienced than you are. The only thing that stops me from learning new languages every year
is the fact that I am learning and doing other programming and application related stuff. New languages are
not the only thing, it's new methodologies. Extreme Programming is well worth checking out, even if we
are too old to say "Xtreme" and not make people laugh. Functional programming has a lot to say for it.
Learning a new language because it's fun is the best reason.
Look at other application areas, I completely switching application area (from system to scientific programming) at around
your age. I mentor younger people, take on problems where I don't have a clue. Sometimes I fail. The great thing about
software is that it moves fast, you can always be learning and adapting.
Any week I don't both learning something new and discover 10 things I don't know is a bad week.
Go for it, if one thing you try doesn't seem to be what you want, you still learned something, try
something different.
The only way I will not be learning a programming techniques and languages when I hit 85 is if
I am dead or have Alzheimer's; in which case it will not matter.
You realize your criteria would put an end to almost all modern biomedical research?
Being able to replicate or not replicate results from independent data sets with independent tools is a far better test than reanalyzing the same data set.
This posting continues to repeat common distortions and false
dichotomies about DDT, malaria, and the environment.
The use of DDT to prevent malaria is not an environmental
issue. The amounts used are tiny when compared to what
was used in agriculture.
Millions of tons of DDT were applied agriculturally,
resulting in the wide-spreed environmental contamination
and non-consented exposure of humans. This also resulted
in the evolution of strains of DDT-resistant mosquitoes,
making DDT less effective in malaria control.
A large about of the agricultural use in developed
countries was to produce cheaper cotton. Yet this misuse
that lead to the ban on the agricultural never seems to be
criticized by the so-called DDT defenders.
The weakening of egg shells of birds by the DDT metabolite
DDE has not been disproved.
The implication that individuals who are concerned about
the environment and other species are not concerned about
people in third world countries. There are extremists in
every corner, but as a rule, no evidence ever presented to
back this up.
Personally, I have had malaria while in a developing
country, with out access to western medical facilities. I
have a greater appreciation than most of the direct
affects of malaria.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't understand why google doesn't get the value of the very basic e-mail functionality of forward-as-attachment.
Perhaps it should be called `forward-without-corrupting' and the value might be seen.
This makes it painful to work with someone using gmail even if you don't use it.
I once worked with someone who need to forward me an HTML-formatted email to understand what hundreds of items that need immediate response were. Gmail insisted on formatting the HTML email (i.e. corrupting) when forwarding.
I could not make sense of the mail either. There was no way then to get the original email.. All my associate could do to share the email forward.
It turned out the HTML was invalid and gmail was formatting it in a crazy way. Since this is an AI problem, so I can't fault them for that. However, the lack of them not being able to simply get the email forwared uncorrupted wasted hours.
Solution was to help associated install an imap client.
Want to pass mail off to some more appropriate to respond; best way is `forward-as-attachement'.
Want to help someone with email problems and look at the header; `forward-as-attachement' makes it easy.
seriously? this is MIME 101
Yes, emacs vm is awesome. Google make a pretty good spam filter, but other than that, vm is far more powerful.
Zoom is great. we use it for schedule meetings, but not ongoing collaborative conversations. However, many of us have built up professional Real Skype (as opposed to S4B). These get used for lots for one going, collaborative conversations over the day, sometimes switching from chat to video.
It has been a great tool for cancer research.
Now, with Skype 8 being "re-built from the ground up", it is crap.
Now that they are trying to turn Real Skype from an excellent app needing some bug fixes into a failed snapchat, we are only stuck because of the network we have built.
I am a long time Skype fan; it was a powerful communication tool, not a social networking toy. If offered easy transitions from text to voice to video, easy exchange of files, cross-platform consistency,
reliability with an easy to use interface.
No more. The Skype Android June 2017 is a disaster. They have deleted important features and added toys.
1) there is no more contact list; you can't tell who is available.
2) bad use of screen real estate
3) no configuration
4) no user alpha/beta; it's just install
I use to be able to collaborate all over the world; this appears to be coming to an end for a bad imitation of snap chat.
If you actually find Skype a great tool, please go to
https://answers.microsoft.com/...
and complain.
This stems from pricing plans that are designed to brain wash consumer into thinking they are getting great deals because of words like `unlimited' and `free'. In reality, cell service is overpriced and the consumer has little power because of limited competition offering they same kind of plans. Pay for one uses. Works for electricity, works for water. Power companies don't have family plans or double you bill with you go one watt over your limit.
thanks for the ultra-intelligent reply.
Research labs I have worked in are often hampered by the viral nature of the GPL. The GPL seems to assume that the value is in the software, not what it produces. We develop biomedical research software that we would like to open source to non-commercial users, while having a license fee for commercial users. Companies might make make significant amounts of money on the output of the software, without ever reselling it or even needing to modifying it. To us, it seems fair that they contribute back with license fees to help fund more development. The viral nature of the GPL, along with no one being sure what use is infectious, causes us to avoid build with GPLed software. Frustrating when there is some fine GPLed software that would be useful and to which we would gladly contribute changes.
it's not a POSIX file system
CentOS is completely frustrating for their inability to distribute current software. After years of compiling more and more of my own applications on CentOS 5.*, I finally got upgraded to CentOS 6.0. Already have to compile my own python and xfce. Something is wrong when the kernel revs more frequently than the applications. I belive RHEL has the same approach. What's the point in running an OS for outdated applications??
I am older and more experienced than you are. The only thing that stops me from learning new languages every year is the fact that I am learning and doing other programming and application related stuff. New languages are not the only thing, it's new methodologies. Extreme Programming is well worth checking out, even if we are too old to say "Xtreme" and not make people laugh. Functional programming has a lot to say for it. Learning a new language because it's fun is the best reason. Look at other application areas, I completely switching application area (from system to scientific programming) at around your age. I mentor younger people, take on problems where I don't have a clue. Sometimes I fail. The great thing about software is that it moves fast, you can always be learning and adapting. Any week I don't both learning something new and discover 10 things I don't know is a bad week. Go for it, if one thing you try doesn't seem to be what you want, you still learned something, try something different. The only way I will not be learning a programming techniques and languages when I hit 85 is if I am dead or have Alzheimer's; in which case it will not matter.
like dump??? Instead of deciding between rsync and tar??
You realize your criteria would put an end to almost all modern biomedical research? Being able to replicate or not replicate results from independent data sets with independent tools is a far better test than reanalyzing the same data set.
This posting continues to repeat common distortions and false dichotomies about DDT, malaria, and the environment.
The use of DDT to prevent malaria is not an environmental issue. The amounts used are tiny when compared to what was used in agriculture.
Millions of tons of DDT were applied agriculturally, resulting in the wide-spreed environmental contamination and non-consented exposure of humans. This also resulted in the evolution of strains of DDT-resistant mosquitoes, making DDT less effective in malaria control.
A large about of the agricultural use in developed countries was to produce cheaper cotton. Yet this misuse that lead to the ban on the agricultural never seems to be criticized by the so-called DDT defenders.
The weakening of egg shells of birds by the DDT metabolite DDE has not been disproved.
The implication that individuals who are concerned about the environment and other species are not concerned about people in third world countries. There are extremists in every corner, but as a rule, no evidence ever presented to back this up.
Personally, I have had malaria while in a developing country, with out access to western medical facilities. I have a greater appreciation than most of the direct affects of malaria.