I wasnt joking or trolling, I want some swedish dude to tell me what the deal is. Is it the lack of lumber and mining or something? Is there no wood or steel to make stuff out of?
I'm a swedish dude. We have plenty of lumber and iron. We don't have much semiconductor manufacturing in-country though.
I usually wear a digital watch (with large numbers), because sometimes I need the exact time, down to the second. And the extra functionality with timer and alarm is nice to have. But I also have some analog watches and wall clocks, giving time at a glance ("oh, it's five-ish, time to go home").
And then there are the dual watches, with both analog and digital readout. Quick glance: "it's five-ish, time to go home". Detailed look: "the event occured at 17:03".
Same for the approximation you mentioned, for example in a cockpit. Glance at a readout with a needle in the green field; "it is nominal and OK". Look at a readout saying that the fuel pressure is 289.43 kilofeet per stuff and you have to interpret that number; "the manual states that fuel pressure should be between 284.2 and 304.8 kft/stuff".
Yes, I would like to have at least monochrome now. It would be great for, for example, (interactive) billboards.
I get the feeling that monochrome "electronic paper" could be rolled out tomorrow, but the developers are holding back waiting for the 25 fps, 32-bit color, GeForce compatible version.
I don't want to watch video or 3D graphics on "paper".
I don't let my e-mail get out to stupid places on the net where a spider will get them.
But, as others also write, some people have to publish their real address. I'm postmaster at a department of a university. They (the academic staff) can't NOT publish their papers on the web without means to reach them. We're a legitimate public authority, we can't "hide" ourselves. We have to be reachable.
One way to reduce the amount of spam even sent would be for the spammers to use some goddamn common sense and prune their address lists. What use is "20% off on ink cartridges" (in USA only) for a.se (Sweden) address?
What use is herbal Viagra to the staff at a computer science department. Don't answer that one.
What use is "MAKE MONEY FAST" to an economics department? Uhm, maybe I should think up better examples...
While junk email is surely annoying, it's also purely electronic, a simple press of the delete key and it's gone, you can continue with your work unencumbered.
For that one spam, yes, but what about the other dozens I get each day, despite the countermeasures (DNS Blacklists, filtering in sendmail) I've taken?
I tracked down a domestic (Swedish, I'm in Sweden) spammer the other day. He had sent spam about a travel site to all employee adresses on our domain. And we're a university, not a bunch of web surfers going shopping, shopping, shopping on this here Inter-net.
In the forums I discussed this spam with other "victims", I only divulged public information, i.e. Yellow Pages listings and the contact info found with a whois search. In my contacts with people regarding this (abuse desk personnel, people/peons answering the phone on the numbers I called) I was always polite and merely expressing my distaste for this kind of business practice. In the discussion forums I never said explicitly "Get this guy" and I never posted the contact info, only the way to get it. Except for when I found the person ultimately responsible for the spam being sent. He ordered it, even though some emplyees expressed doubts.
I know what he looks like, I know where he lives, I know his wife's name (but not his children).
A pity that it's a real company he ran, with many employees, not your usual herbal Viagra breast enhancement scheme, otherwise I would have loved to take this further. I managed, in concert with others, to shut down another Swedish spammer's site. Only for a day or two, but I hope it hurt.
Why lump it together and assume that one excludes the other? At work, I use mostly OSS, under Microsoft Windows. I also use proprietary software. I also use Linux, and also proprietary unices.
(Also note that I called it what it's called, not M$ Windoze, Winblows et cetera. What's the matter with you people, are you afraid Microsoft are coming after you if you invoke its True Name? Or are the employees at Microsoft calling things PinkBonnet Linush, Emax, SauceFoundry, and CRIPPLE (The CaRibou Image maniPulation, simPLE), and you're only retaliating?)
I think that's what his point is, that anyone can put something up on SourceForge.net or freshmeat, even if it's been done 384 times before.
The parody rottenflesh.net is indistinguishable from the real freshmeat. It also stays crunchy in milk.
I'm sick and tired of 0.x versions or the upgrade from release version 3.23.609 to 3.23.718c because the menu choice Options was rephrased as Settings.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
The trees should be pruned, or why not a peer-review ranking system? Reciprocal altruism, yadayada.
He is not only incompetent (staying married to an outdated distro and complaining he can't get current software to run seemlessly with it with no effort
I've said it before, some of the Linux aficionados suffer from severe Versionitis. You always have to have the latest version of everything, and often it is the minor version number (i.e. the 15 in 2.15) that matters in unexpected ways. "Oh, you want to use KFlarb 3.1.4.15? Then you have to have Blarglib 6.66. But the update patch for Blarglib has a dependency to Gnitzlib that you have to compile yourself. And Gnitzlib for some reason doesn't have version numbers, the developers for some reason chose a versioning scheme based on color and taste. You need Gnitzlib Blue.Minty, which comes with Debian Potato or is available at SourceForge."
The link is java.sun.com as far as I'm concerned. As of right about now (14 Feb, a sunny Swedish afternoon) I don't see any Release Candidate and/or 'rc' in the filename (well, the Sparc version has...).
What you're missing is probably clearing of cache and throat.
The list is simply to broad. What does an instrumental track like Surfaris - Wipeout got to do with anything?
I'm not American, but I think the lyrics to another song goes "O-oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light" and the attack took place in the morning (probably why they stop Cat Stevens - Morning has broken) so "they" should stop that one too.
The list baffles me. Come on, Bridge over troubled water?!
Actually I pondered something like that some time ago. Too bad I didn't patent it...
It would be excellent for coding. Just map parentheses, curly braces, brackets, comma, dot, colon, semicolon and so on to the appropriate punches.
So
foo(bar, baz); alpha {beta; gamma::delta};
would be something like:
foo LEFT HOOK, bar KNEE baz RIGHT HOOK HEADBUT alpha LEFT PUNCH beta HEADBUT gamma KARATE CHOP KARATE CHOP delta RIGHT PUNCH HEADBUT
But the worst (or is it?) thing is that he's right. Linux and OSS suffer from severe Versionitis, at least on the client and application side. Come on, version numbers like 2.11.13b! And if you install FooBlag 2.11.13b you have to have libfnutz_3.141, but that breaks GrumpfWM if you compiled that from source without --withblag; make dependencies on any given Sunday.
Whereas on the server side... A Windows server crashes if you look at it funny.
Ask yourselves, all you who blurt out "Will it run Linux?" when some company launches a pocket calculator or "It really doesn't scale well on Alpha processors with less than four LEDs" when some company launches a piece of software for distributed cow-tipping, ask yourselves: Would you, even if you could?
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Yes! "The Last Starfighter".
I'm a swedish dude. We have plenty of lumber and iron. We don't have much semiconductor manufacturing in-country though.
the book General Systems Theory - Ideas & Applications
and Principia Cybernetica Web
Systems = Parts + Relationships. Complex systems can have emergent properties.
And then there are the dual watches, with both analog and digital readout. Quick glance: "it's five-ish, time to go home". Detailed look: "the event occured at 17:03".
Same for the approximation you mentioned, for example in a cockpit. Glance at a readout with a needle in the green field; "it is nominal and OK". Look at a readout saying that the fuel pressure is 289.43 kilofeet per stuff and you have to interpret that number; "the manual states that fuel pressure should be between 284.2 and 304.8 kft/stuff".
Yes, I would like to have at least monochrome now. It would be great for, for example, (interactive) billboards. I get the feeling that monochrome "electronic paper" could be rolled out tomorrow, but the developers are holding back waiting for the 25 fps, 32-bit color, GeForce compatible version. I don't want to watch video or 3D graphics on "paper".
But, as others also write, some people have to publish their real address. I'm postmaster at a department of a university. They (the academic staff) can't NOT publish their papers on the web without means to reach them. We're a legitimate public authority, we can't "hide" ourselves. We have to be reachable.
One way to reduce the amount of spam even sent would be for the spammers to use some goddamn common sense and prune their address lists. What use is "20% off on ink cartridges" (in USA only) for a .se (Sweden) address?
What use is herbal Viagra to the staff at a computer science department. Don't answer that one.
What use is "MAKE MONEY FAST" to an economics department? Uhm, maybe I should think up better examples...
For that one spam, yes, but what about the other dozens I get each day, despite the countermeasures (DNS Blacklists, filtering in sendmail) I've taken?
I tracked down a domestic (Swedish, I'm in Sweden) spammer the other day. He had sent spam about a travel site to all employee adresses on our domain. And we're a university, not a bunch of web surfers going shopping, shopping, shopping on this here Inter-net.
In the forums I discussed this spam with other "victims", I only divulged public information, i.e. Yellow Pages listings and the contact info found with a whois search. In my contacts with people regarding this (abuse desk personnel, people/peons answering the phone on the numbers I called) I was always polite and merely expressing my distaste for this kind of business practice. In the discussion forums I never said explicitly "Get this guy" and I never posted the contact info, only the way to get it. Except for when I found the person ultimately responsible for the spam being sent. He ordered it, even though some emplyees expressed doubts.
I know what he looks like, I know where he lives, I know his wife's name (but not his children).
A pity that it's a real company he ran, with many employees, not your usual herbal Viagra breast enhancement scheme, otherwise I would have loved to take this further. I managed, in concert with others, to shut down another Swedish spammer's site. Only for a day or two, but I hope it hurt.
Why lump it together and assume that one excludes the other? At work, I use mostly OSS, under Microsoft Windows. I also use proprietary software. I also use Linux, and also proprietary unices.
(Also note that I called it what it's called, not M$ Windoze, Winblows et cetera. What's the matter with you people, are you afraid Microsoft are coming after you if you invoke its True Name? Or are the employees at Microsoft calling things PinkBonnet Linush, Emax, SauceFoundry, and CRIPPLE (The CaRibou Image maniPulation, simPLE), and you're only retaliating?)
I think that's what his point is, that anyone can put something up on SourceForge.net or freshmeat, even if it's been done 384 times before.
The parody rottenflesh.net is indistinguishable from the real freshmeat. It also stays crunchy in milk.
I'm sick and tired of 0.x versions or the upgrade from release version 3.23.609 to 3.23.718c because the menu choice Options was rephrased as Settings.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
The trees should be pruned, or why not a peer-review ranking system? Reciprocal altruism, yadayada.
I've said it before, some of the Linux aficionados suffer from severe Versionitis. You always have to have the latest version of everything, and often it is the minor version number (i.e. the 15 in 2.15) that matters in unexpected ways. "Oh, you want to use KFlarb 3.1.4.15? Then you have to have Blarglib 6.66. But the update patch for Blarglib has a dependency to Gnitzlib that you have to compile yourself. And Gnitzlib for some reason doesn't have version numbers, the developers for some reason chose a versioning scheme based on color and taste. You need Gnitzlib Blue.Minty, which comes with Debian Potato or is available at SourceForge."
Feel free to draw your own car analogies.
Why can't he use 7.2 if it works for him?
And Devo are post-post-modern men. Stuck in a loop.
The link is java.sun.com as far as I'm concerned. As of right about now (14 Feb, a sunny Swedish afternoon) I don't see any Release Candidate and/or 'rc' in the filename (well, the Sparc version has...).
What you're missing is probably clearing of cache and throat.
No, it's the real release. It doesn't say Release Candidate anymore. It has been RC for a while but now it's for real. I call this news.
Yes, they are at Comdex. And it won a Best of COMDEX award, Best New Technology.
The list is simply to broad. What does an instrumental track like Surfaris - Wipeout got to do with anything?
I'm not American, but I think the lyrics to another song goes "O-oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light" and the attack took place in the morning (probably why they stop Cat Stevens - Morning has broken) so "they" should stop that one too.
The list baffles me. Come on, Bridge over troubled water?!
Actually I pondered something like that some time ago. Too bad I didn't patent it...
It would be excellent for coding. Just map parentheses, curly braces, brackets, comma, dot, colon, semicolon and so on to the appropriate punches.
So
would be something like:foo LEFT HOOK, bar KNEE baz RIGHT HOOK HEADBUT alpha LEFT PUNCH beta HEADBUT gamma KARATE CHOP KARATE CHOP delta RIGHT PUNCH HEADBUT
Me too?
But then a robot looking like bug would come travelling in time, to protect the eggs, sent by the cockroaches who survived the nuclear holocaust.
Satire, right?
But the worst (or is it?) thing is that he's right. Linux and OSS suffer from severe Versionitis, at least on the client and application side. Come on, version numbers like 2.11.13b! And if you install FooBlag 2.11.13b you have to have libfnutz_3.141, but that breaks GrumpfWM if you compiled that from source without --withblag; make dependencies on any given Sunday.
Whereas on the server side... A Windows server crashes if you look at it funny.
Ask yourselves, all you who blurt out "Will it run Linux?" when some company launches a pocket calculator or "It really doesn't scale well on Alpha processors with less than four LEDs" when some company launches a piece of software for distributed cow-tipping, ask yourselves: Would you, even if you could?
Do robot dogs dream of electric sheep?