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if someone like the DCFS wanted to take my kids, i'd get the urge to poke them off my property with a loaded gun. i mean, US citizens have the right to bear arms, for the exact purpose of defending themselves against the government, or what was that?

if email is to become the medium for instant messages and "phone call" messages, some things will have to change.

if someone phones me (or sends an SMS), they know they'll reach me right now because my mobile phone is always on.

if someone sends me an IM, they hope to reach me now, but waiting is acceptable, because i might not be at a computer or my IM client isn't running.

if those two are to work via email, i'd need a second address that acts like a phone number. people trying to reach me on that address can expect to get through right now. of course, if you abuse that privilege, you end up on my killfile and i'll only notice your messages later.

IM-style communication would run on the old email address. when i'm online/available, you can probably chat with me in realtime. if i'm not available right now, i won't even know about the new messages right away, but i'll get to it later.

there were several occasions when i was emailing back and forth with someone within minutes. seamlessly turning that into a chat session would be awesome, but email still doesn't have sub-second delivery times and email clients still display emails like big, important letters and not like lines of a chat session. i think there can be an UI that looks good for both chat sessions (many small messages) and emails (few large messages).

did the both of you coordinate this?

the author compares linux suspend/resume to a clingy pet.

at home, it works alright.

resuming at work, the volume keys don't work.

suspending on weekends will just not work, like it wants to stay in.

i'm not sure if the author validated their theory. wouldn't surprise me if, depending on nervous system of handler and location, some EM or electrostatic fields were slightly affecting the hardware...

in scheme, the ' is the syntax for a quote. i'm guessing they use it here as syntax to symbols, but in some of the example code, i see it in front of list-like things too...

you can expect a person to ask if something is unclear. no speech recog system has done that yet.

speech recog is orders of magnitude behind humans in accuracy.

understanding is another thing entirely. i don't mean philosophy but the problem of even parsing a sentence. just look at implementations of automatic language translation to get a feeling for this problem.

speech recog has a long way to go because AI has a long way to go.

you don't get human-like machine interaction out of bare speech recog.

i just set the default encoding of my browser to latin1 and disabled auto-detection. it doesn't work most of the time because the browser doesn't have to detect anything because of encoding tags in the page code, but it's handy if i have suspicions.

now i see gibberish for everything i don't care about, including utf8 homoglyphs.

A. definitely. i don't know if i'm a realist or a pessimist, but aren't they really the same?

it's called "file sharing", minus the DRM and accounting.

you should do something about that lawyer problem. ask the aussies how they tried to deal with their rabbits.

counting brackets will get you in trouble if you have to read over strings.

there's no way around a real tokenization.

that "official statement" is not sourced by techie-buzz.com. where did they get that from?

Companies should hire drones. Companies shouldn't hire people with a life.

Is that your conclusion?

reads like advertising. where's the technical meat?

Gaia hypothesis, or something like that.

the example does not show his "improvements" on the 1-digit/L-letter shapes...

> Smart writing [...] in the profanity-laced angry rants you’ll find on someone’s blog.

I'm thinking of Zed Shaw.

which android version?

do you mean the "menu" hardware button, or the "home" hardware button?

on android 2.0.1, holding the menu button does nothing. long-press only does anything on the home button (-> task switching). holding the menu button just shows me hotkeys for menu items.

nice background color. and they presume to talk about usability?

actually, it's a reference to asimov's "last question".

i'm just curious because i heard the exact same structure used by a native speaker from the US, and on other occasions from other possibly native speakers. i speak english as a second language and don't know what to think.

as to my lack of caps... that's lazyness. i can use them, but i only do when i foresee getting judged by people i don't need judging from (professional contexts).

yeah, right...

a question about your sentence structure.

why did you write "i wonder what is ..." instead of "i wonder what ... is."

did you mean to write "i wonder: what is..."?

where are you from? the structure you used common there?

they aren't preferences either, because preferences can change easily.

and if you like to compete in something that lets less than 10% win (prize = admission).

please fix the URL, or did you intend to point at the #comments?

blah blah blah. there's a troll blog spouting the same content-less bullshit.

http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/

there you go.

unless there's some substance behind this, it's basically FUD.

he can lament the state of affairs all he wants. making software parallel is still not trivial, and i didn't see how he addressed that.

he's merely pushing his business. i get that. he's trying to sell energy efficiency, because that's what computing centers look for. the monthly power bill often is the limiting factor.

so he's peddling his stuff, hoping that nobody would ask him how to use it properly!

why do you single out XHTML? a markup language is not relevant to the problem.

besides, XHTML never caught on. otoh, HTML5 is doing great.

"mount" a "scratch monkey"...

i don't think it's such a good idea to mount the monkey that scratches you.

nah they won't. products are dumb on average. you're probably on the right slope of the bell curve and can't fathom how gullible the other side of the hill is.