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German is very problematic when translated. MasculineFeminine/Neuter Der/Die/Das

Here's a "for Dummies" link:

https://www.dummies.com/langua...

If only Photoshop had a spellchecker!

Yeah, if only.

It's a good thing mammals have an automatic breathing reflex, one wonders how you'd manage otherwise.

That's easy enough for doing with two separate windows at any size you want. If you want them 50/50 full screen, drag each window to either side edge of the screen (Aero Snap - stupid name, nice UI move).

Installing Google Play Store on a device that is not licensed to run Google Play Store is infringement of copyright

Bullshit.

Have you a citation that using GApps without permission does not infringe?

That's only if the user updates. They can then install GApps to completely and legally restore Google Play.

Have you a citation that installing GApps on a device that is no longer licensed is legal? I agree with your claim that it is possible, but I dispute your claim that it is legal.

Windows 8 Metro apps are fullscreen, full stop. The only way they wouldn't be is if you BUY commercial software hacks.

Then to what feature are "How Do You Snap Apps In Windows 8?" by cynthia of WorldStart and "Snap an App Alongside the Desktop on Your Windows 8 Tablet" by Andy Rathbone referring?

What do "most people", those who you claim "are happy using a tablet or smartphone", do when they need to type something substantial?

EVERYONE uses smartphones and tablets, far more than people using PCs.

Then what does "EVERYONE" use when they need to type something substantial into an app for a smartphone or tablet running Android?

You could implement this with a simple 555 timer and a handful of other components for abut $5 worth of hardware - $10 if you want it in a nice box - it would be completely unhackable, and able to run off a single battery for days.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...

"Make it about “political correctness run amok”: For instance, you might open the article with the transgender students’ protesting the Person of Stature’s University talk. But then you will pan back and show that this is but one instance among many in a much larger and disturbing trend sweeping the nation—aka, “political correctness running amok.” (I am not sure why political correctness is always “running amok” as opposed to other synonymous phrases, but just roll with it.) And at this point, you can simply provide readers with a laundry list of seemingly similar incidents of activists and minority groups taking things way too far with their “political correctness” and “censorship.” For examples of this laundry-list approach, see recent high profile pieces by Jonathan Chait, Michelle Goldberg, and Caitlin Flanagan (there are countless others—The Atlantic alone seems to be churning out one or two of these per month!). The benefit of this approach is that you don’t have to go too in depth about any specific issue (e.g., interviewing all the parties involved, accurately conveying their differing perspectives, etc.)—you can just hastily depict all of them as being outrageous. Additionally, this allows you to conflate some potentially legitimate issues (e.g., protests of the Person of Stature) with a bunch of random mean things that random people (who have no stature) have said on Twitter." https://medium.com/@juliaseran...
"When people rail against political correctness, they're usually stating that it has run amok." http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...
"Political Correctness Run Amuck!" http://reflectionsfromtheburg....
"On the other hand, I do think political correctness has run amuck" http://greginhollywood.com/jer...
"There are those who claim that political correctness has run amuck." http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/ne...
"Flag defenders: Political correctness has run amok." https://www.dailyadvance.com/n...
“the clearest example of political correctness run amok that I have seen in quite some time.” http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyh...
"Political correctness run amuck again." http://forum.woodenboat.com/sh...
"Has political correctness really 'run amok' on college campuses?" http://talk.collegeconfidentia...
"Political Correctness Run Amok" http://www.newsmax.com/Freind/...
"Has political correctness really 'run amok' on college campuses?" https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Has Political Correctness Run Amok?" https://www.insidehighered.com...
"In Fort Collins, political correctness run amok"

His privacy was no more threatened than it is by aviation; anyone who files a flight plan can legally overfly him, and nothing prevents them from taking pictures as they go. And his property was not threatened; he shot down the drone, it was not revealed to be a firebomb.

Umm, no. There are restrictions regarding altitude "above ground level" (AGL) for aviation. https://www.faa.gov/about/offi...

There are also property rights for airspace above your property. Just for you.. http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...

Well, that is not actually correct -
"In that case the court held that a plane flying just 83 feet in the air—the commotion was literally scaring the plaintiff’s chickens to death—represented an invasion of property. The justices declined to precisely define the height at which ownership rights end. Today, the federal government considers the area above 500 feet to be navigable airspace in uncongested areas. While the Supreme Court hasn’t explicitly accepted that as the upper limit of property ownership, it’s a useful guideline in trespass cases. Therefore, unless you own some very tall buildings, your private airspace probably ends somewhere between 80 and 500 feet above the ground."

Source:
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Dummies Article on the Topic:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...

Google Search With Many Articles:
https://www.google.com/search?...

What does all of this say - the Supreme Court has ruled you own at least 83 feet above your property. So no, all airspace is definitely not public. Hopefully this will lead towards a new ruling which will legal define how much airspace you own; opposed to it being left in a legal grey area for heights between 83 feet and 500 feet.

With agile you can't just decide to take a sprint to do investigation, there always has to be a deliverable of some sort

According to this list of agile deliverable names, you might be able to get away with an investigation that produces a "roadmap for repayment of technical debt".

The geniuses at Microsoft carefully followed the fashion to ensure that "Apps" are only single windowed

How so? Windows 8's Windows Runtime environment introduced the "Snap an App" feature, which allows a 3:1 split of the horizontal space. Press Win+Period, and one Windows Runtime app fills 1/4 of the screen's width, roughly as wide as a cell phone's display, and the other 3/4 shows either the desktop or another Windows Runtime app. Windows 8.1 allowed changing the ratio, reminiscent of the tiling window manager that shipped with Windows 1.

Once you understand Snap an App, you'll realize that the most serious fault of Windows 8 was that the Start screen could not open snapped. A snapped Start screen would have been equivalent to the Start menu of previous Windows versions.

So if the taskbar showed up in the start screen, you would then be OK with it?

That would be an improvement. Even better is if the Start screen could be "snapped" the way every other Modern UI app can, or if the Start screen's tiles showed up over a dimmed version of whatever desktop or Modern UI app I was using the way Dashboard works in OS X. Microsoft could have thought of plenty of ways to preserve context among desktop applications, Modern UI applications, and the Start screen, but it didn't.

I take it you don't watch videos, do graphics/audio work or play games due to the "jarring" context switch then.

A major context switch is fine from one task to another completely separate task, such as the task of watching videos. If I'm watching a video for entertainment, then of course I'll put it in the full screen as the task consists solely of that video. But if I'm reviewing a video or watching an instructional video, I'm going to want to have the ability to take it down into a window so that I can have the video on one side and notes on the other. Same if I'm trying to follow or make a walkthrough in a game. But if I'm doing audio work and I want to quickly pull up a calculator to estimate a piece's BPM, I want the calculator added to my current visuospatial context, not to be yanked away from it.

Opening the start menu requires a refocus just as much as the start screen does unless you somehow navigate it by peripheral vision alone.

Yet while my eyes refocus to put the Start menu in front of my fovea, the previous visual context is streaking by. And once I get there, the fact that the things in my peripheral vision have not changed reminds me of where I am in the task. I can glance back and forth between Start and the task if I still need to check back.

It was shown quite some time ago that adults "read" by recognizing the shapes of words, not their spelling. If this is true then it would explain the problems described in TFA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...

Here you go

Ok, I'm going to try to try to actually answer OPs question. On Windows 7/Vista, a set-it-and-forget-it configuration that is secure. (I'm not going to give an alternate OS or a setup that will confuse grandma)

Use Chrome Browser. It has its own built-in sandboxing and is generally less prone to viruses than all other browsers. Configure plugins as click-to-play (chrome://chrome/settings/content). Disable all plugins except "Adobe Flash Player", "Chrome PDF Player", and "Google Update" (at chrome://plugins/). Disable Internet Explorer to prevent her from going back to her old ways. Set Chrome as your default PDF viewer.

Install an Anti-virus suite. No, not MSSE. You need more than just anti-virus. She needs a suite like Avast, AVG, or ESET. You need something that scans web sites, scans email, checks if software is up-to-date, and sandboxes scary downloads. Personally, I like Avast. If you use Avast, configure all the non-critical popups to only last 1 second, and turn off all non-critical sounds. It's free, but the Pro version is slightly better.

Set windows to "Always notify" on system changes. Viruses have gotten around Windows security to install into the system.

Set up a Standard User for her, rather than the default Administrative User that Windows defaults to. This will prevent viruses from installing into the system. It will also prevent her from installing system applications. She'll still be able to install some user-level applications, however.

Install Dropbox and tell her to always save her documents in the Dropbox folder. So, if the worst happens, she won't lose her work files. Dropbox also has a versioning feature, so she can recover old copies of files (in case of something like CryptoLocker).

Install BufferZone Pro. This will automatically sandbox Internet applications, like Outlook, Skype, etc. I like to exclude CHROME.EXE as Chrome has it's own sandbox.

1. Yet another save the planet cause. - Check
2. Open source. - Check
3. Excessively convoluted "solution" incorporating lots of completely impractical style. - Check
4. Completely impractical result does little or nothing to address the issue(see 1.). - Check
5. Unjustifiable feel-good backslapping and self congratulatory self promotion. - Check

Let's get real. There is no need for "open source" beehive plans. Beehives are extremely simple boxes and frames and the plans are already widely and freely available, if you couldn't figure it out yourself in 2 minutes.

Plywood? Even with linseed oil, that ain't gonna last.

A CNC machine to make a beehive? Really?!

How many people, more than one, are actually required to make a beehive?

How long did this ONE beehive take to make?

How does one transport(you know you need to move the hive around, right?) multiples of these open source hives?

This entire thing is stupid hipster horseshit. You wanna be a beekeeper, start here or here. You wanna bee a hipster, go to Starbuck, ya douche.

I do have a fucking wireless CCNA sub

Only if the channels overlap the idea is you deploy a clusters of non overlapping channels so that ap's on the same Chanel dont overlap and are separated by physical distance so that problem doesn't occur - thats why pro AP's allow you to tune the power output.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/wireless-network-routing-with-multiple-access-poin.html

WTF 80 deg F (approx 27 deg C) is quite warm in a Data-centre especially in a "cold aisle" and 95% humidity is criminal.

You're used to classic datacentres, where the goal was "shove as much cold air into them as possible", i.e. "the lower the temperature the better". It all depends on how the datacentre was built, how its cooling system is/was engineered, and an almost indefinite number of variables. References for you to read (not skim) -- the study in the PDF will probably interest you the most:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/03/10/energy-efficiency-guide-data-center-temperature/
http://www.geek.com/chips/googles-most-efficient-data-center-runs-at-95-degrees-1478473/
http://blog.schneider-electric.com/datacenter/2013/05/06/getting-comfortable-with-elevated-data-center-temperatures/
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nosayba/temperature_cam.pdf (PDF)
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/data-center-temperature-and-humidity-range-recomme.html

TL;DR -- 80F is not "quite warm" for a datacentre designed/built within the past 10-11 years.

Well, just like XP brought standardized WiFi settings (I despised the hell that was Win2k WiFi, where every vendor had their own proprietary UI), Win7 brings things like better search (especially for programs in the start menu), SSD TRIM support, better security features, and 64bit.

Umm...no. Sorry, have to disagree with you there.

The search on Windows 7 was a huge step backwards for users who actually, you know, have an idea of what they're looking for but can't *quite* remember where it is. The clear and intuitive search interface of Windows XP (once you got rid of that annoying little dog) was replaced with...a text entry box. Filtering searches now involves trying to remember some byzantine, arbitrary keywords system instead of simply checking off a list of checkboxes or radio buttons and using some (almost) universally-known wildcards (*, ?).

Want to quickly switch between searching for filenames-only or filenames-plus-contents? No quick way to do this, sorry, you have to go into the folder properties, and even then you can't disable content searching for indexed locations (and don't even get me started on how the frigging indexing hogs my system resources...). It's also slow as a spavined mule, even in supposedly indexed locations, and even when you do (finally) have a results list, selecting to sort on a different column order resets and resubmits the entire frigging search!. Oh yeah, and sometimes it won't even find the file at all, even if I know it's in there. Doesn't seem to matter if it's indexed or not, I'll wait five minutes for it to show me a list of crap files that happen to have my search term somewhere in their metadata or contents, but not the one that has the search term in the actual filename...you know, the one I was actually looking for in the first place.

No. The search on Win7 is not better, it's an order of magnitude worse than on XP. For those who feel the same, FileSearchEX is worth the cost. I got it on sale for $10 a while back, but even at $20, I'd consider it worthwhile.

possesive pronouns

apostrophe usage

Plese elaborate - why? Who's spamming whom again?

Everybody and everybody, especially here.

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The option is there for a reason. Your reaction is like that of the person who cuts themselves by accident with a kitchen knife and resorts to buying all kinds of gadgets to protect their fingers instead of learning proper technique. The lesson you should learn isn't to never use -Rf or * with rm, it's that when you use one of those features you should double check everything you've typed before pressing the enter key. Measure twice, cut once works for more than carpentry.

My mom has had sex. They sell Sex For Dummies books. Those two criteria right there are reason enough to never have sex.

Dude, that's a horrible mental image - it's bad enough knowing that *my* mom had sex, but your mom did too!? That's disgusting!

Your moms are lesbians? That's disgusting.

My mom has had sex. They sell Sex For Dummies books. Those two criteria right there are reason enough to never have sex.

There is not enough information to come to that determination. Pics of your mom please?

My mom has an iPhone. They sell iPhones for Dummies books. Those two criteria right there are reason enough to never buy an iPhone.

What, because it works, is easy to use, and you can get documentation for it that an actual consumer can understand?

So any technology your mom can use is bad? I take it you have eschewed all forms of technology she can operate like TVs, plumbing, and toasters? Or is it just phones?

Oh, you can also get Linux for Dummies, Windows for Dummies, and a whole raft of things ... so if the presence of a Dummies book is your criteria, you should stop using anything listed here ... they even have your beloved SQL.

Seriously man, I consider any technology my mother can operate to be fairly well implemented; because she's in her 70's and for her to decide she needed a GPS, laptop, scanner, digital camera, digital picture frame, a USB drive for backups, and a PVR ... well, that was quite a series of leaps for someone who isn't all that interested in that kind of stuff.

Why should technology be something that your mother couldn't possibly use?

My mom has an iPhone. They sell iPhones for Dummies books. Those two criteria right there are reason enough to never buy an iPhone.

What, because it works, is easy to use, and you can get documentation for it that an actual consumer can understand?

So any technology your mom can use is bad? I take it you have eschewed all forms of technology she can operate like TVs, plumbing, and toasters? Or is it just phones?

Oh, you can also get Linux for Dummies, Windows for Dummies, and a whole raft of things ... so if the presence of a Dummies book is your criteria, you should stop using anything listed here ... they even have your beloved SQL.

Seriously man, I consider any technology my mother can operate to be fairly well implemented; because she's in her 70's and for her to decide she needed a GPS, laptop, scanner, digital camera, digital picture frame, a USB drive for backups, and a PVR ... well, that was quite a series of leaps for someone who isn't all that interested in that kind of stuff.

Why should technology be something that your mother couldn't possibly use?

My mom has had sex. They sell Sex For Dummies books. Those two criteria right there are reason enough to never have sex.

Dude, that's a horrible mental image - it's bad enough knowing that *my* mom had sex, but your mom did too!? That's disgusting!

My mom has had sex. They sell Sex For Dummies books. Those two criteria right there are reason enough to never have sex.

That sort of terminology ("idiot-ready") is why geeks are still despised and laughed at by everyone else in the world.

Allow me to introduce you to one of the most successful lines of books ever published:

http://www.dummies.com/

No, they can not, at least not in the USA. The Magnuson-Moss warranty act prohibits it.

No it does not. The Magnuson-Moss warranty act provides a framework for all warranties in the US. It covers general outlines. In the case of modifications, it says that manufacturers cannot outright void warranties based on the act of modification alone. The type of modification must be considered. Also manufacturers are expressly forbidden from tying agreements .

Suppose, I bought a new Honda and with a manufacturer's warranty and an agreement (with the dealership) of first year free oil changes. The dealer cannot void my warranty if I don't get all my oil changes from them or if you don't use genuine Honda parts during the oil changes. That kind of tying is not allowed.

However, the dealership is well within their rights not to service any part for free that they didn't install or repair. Otherwise it would have absurd consequences. Anyone could modify anything and expect the manufacturer to service it regardless of what was done. If I installed new tint, that doesn't void my warranty or nullify the oil changes. If I installed a new aftermarket fuel injection system, that voids the warranty on the engine but not the body. That could also nullify my oil change agreement.

As has been pointed out already ad nauseam, you have a legal right to warranty hardware service on your iPhone whether you have jailbroken it or not. They might reasonably refuse you software service.

As other people have said ad nauseum, warranty coverage is not absolute even under the act you mentioned above. Do you expect Dell to service your computer because it has Linux driver issues with Slackware. Heck no. Apple may service a jailbroken iPhone but most likely they will charge for service since it will not be under warranty.

Actually, that's EXACTLY what Magnuson-Moss says.
Here's a "for dummies" reference:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/keeping-your-mods-warranty-intact.html

Yes, it's called Google. You find companies that publish games from small dev houses and you contact them.

Google companies that publish games from small development houses didn't do much. Google get your game published brought up mostly PC-centric articles such as this, which recommends the PC shareware model. Google get indie game published on console led to more varied articles: one about teams that had built a reputation for PC-style games on PC first, one reviewer's list of games that made it to console, a reference to 2D Boy working out of coffee shops (which I don't think Nintendo will let happen again), and a bunch of articles that address teams of 12 rather than teams of 2. What keywords am I missing?

But your homepage still shows [Lockjaw and Luminesweeper]

So I guess I should make six playable proofs of concept without falling blocks (I have one in progress right now) and stay off Slashdot until they are released. Would you agree?

They'll also probably find out about "other things"

What sort of "other things"? That I have hobbies unrelated to the video game industry?

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/importing-and-exporting-files-with-quicktime.html

That could of course be abused, so how is it determined whether something is employee compensation vs profit dispersal?

Not being an accountant or corporate lawyer, I don't know. However, I guess it has to do with whether or not the payment is varied according to surplus(/profit), and whether the payee is merely an employee or if he has an ownership stake in the organization.

Actually, scratch that -- it doesn't even make sense for a non-profit to be "owned" in the same way as a business, since any owner wouldn't be allowed to profit from his ownership. I just checked to make sure, and indeed non-profits really aren't "owned" by anyone .

Continuing to read that page, I see that non-profits have to specifically reveal salaries exceeding $50,000; I guess the IRS has regulations to prevent people in control of non-profits from giving themselves excessive salaries.

Oh, fun... Ad hominem attacks, how wonderful.

Okay, let's formulate it this way: for now the evidence at hand supports the big bang theory very well. That's the correct scientific way of saying it.

You are free to come up with alternative theories, but to make it scientific, please include predictions that can be tested. No predictions? No possibilities to test? That means: it isn't science but pure speculation.

Read up on The scientific method.

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/productCd-0470121025.html On the one side - do it yourself next time moron.... On the other side - he should rot in prison and let the folks there show him how they feel.

Not those. These. (Look in the upper middle of the screen).

Most people don't seem to see them, and they typically try to make it after a bright flash (which makes them a little less visibile). Personally, they drive me nuts, but so do single projector DLPs.

Why not link it by its publisher.

'What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?'

I couldn't believe that, but look at this exerpt of the book (pdf).

On page 19, the author actually says:
In my view, you should design Web pages for Internet
Explorer (IE) version 6 running on a typical 17'' monitor. Why? Here are the reasons:
-more than 95 percent of the people visiting your Web site use IE 6.
-You can take advantage of lots of cool effects that work only in IE or IE 6. Your job is much easier if you're designing for a predictable, stable canvas.

It's extremely stupid to give such an advice. I suggest that people email either the author, Richard Mansfield or the publisher, Wiley.

Also from Weiley...

Alzheimer's For Dummies?

The BEST self help book goes to: Depression for Dummies

The title is comedy gold

For starting out. (Will they have Phishing For Dummies next?)

It should become a classic, alongside with this book: Everyday Math For Dummies http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/produ ctCd-1568842481.html

After spotting the Forensics for Dummies book, nothing would surprise me. (Other than a MCFE certification.)

I am not sure where the official "rules" of English can be found - how about English for Dummies?

Using Apostrophies to Show Possession

Do you think that "his", "her", "my", and "your" need apostrophes to show posession, too?

These are possesive pronouns, which obey different rules. I don't like it, but that I can live with.

Possessive Pronoun

Should I be suprised that I see no the mention of CSS3, let alone CSS2(everything is just stated as "CSS"), anywhere on Slashdot, the book's synopsis, reviews, or even the author's own website?

For all I know, it just teaches you Microsoft's faulty CSS1 specification they used back during the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 back in 1996, exciting! What could be better worse than this? Lots of things, I'm sure, but even Cascading Style Sheets For Dummies mentions CSS3 which Opera and Firefox/Mozilla support.

I thought so. Ahh, here it is: Mac hacking for Dummies

The Word version is still lame compared to Word Perfect. Try typing in a sentence, then changing one word in the middle to a slightly different font. In Word, all you get is a bar on the right that lists the formatting for the current paragraph, where in Word Perfect you could very quickly catch any problem like this by simply scanning for the the font begin and end tags. To see the format of each element in Word, you still would have to click every single word in the document (and wait for the 2 second lag while the new layout is loaded into the formatting pane).

That was a very simple example, but in a long document that has been touched by many hands there could be any number of small formatting discrepancies that would never be caught until the print run of 20,000 copies came back from the print shop looking like crap.

Compare the screenshot of Reveal Formatting to the screenshot of Reveal codes.

Even CrossEyes doesn't give you the ability to directly edit the codes in Word, instead popping up a formatting dialog. Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't this make it much clumsier to just move or delete an existing formatting element?