If you're surfing the web, typing a paper, writing code, or working on a spread sheet, you can see more content at once and scroll less.
It works for writing code (in some environments) or a spreadsheet but certainly not for typing a paper (unless you do typesetting) or the web. If you do that you end up with lines that are way too long to read comfortably (you can rotate the display though, but most users don't know that). This display is good for displaying two A4 sheets side by side which is not how users work.
People just maximize because they're used to it even though in a lot of cases they shouldn't on the current wide screens. It would make their apps more comfortable to use.
So, here is the question. If you have 3 screens, why on earth are you maximizing?! Seriously, because I dream of nothing more than to have to turn my head a full 90 degrees in order to read a full line of text.
Because Windows users always maximize their apps. Nobody knows why.
I never understood either why people using my computer (24" @ 1920x1600) always feel the need to maximize every single window which I almost never do except for a few graphical apps like digiKam or BibblePro.
I'm sure they'd do the same across 3 or 6 screens. Probably in Windows the maximize button stops working if you don't use it often enough.
Seriously? What? What can you do from a C64 shell on an iPhone?
Wasn't there some sort of kiler poke or HCF thing on the C64 ? (ok, I used an APPLE2 at the time, back when they actually made fun computers) Or maybe they're afraid you'd see all the "(C)Microsoft" strings if you PEEKed long enough...
You have no idea of the mischief those BASIC hackers can do. Why do you think there isn't a BASIC shell any more ?
Yes, it is ideology if your choice of college or university is governed or significantly influenced by "Does it run Linux?"
There's a difference between "does it run Linux" and "can I run the operating system I prefer to use without them being obnoxious about it".
In most cases the "IT" (hah) staff won't go out of their way to support Linux (whatever the environment, school, corporate, ISP, etc.). However, most Linux systems will insert themselves just fine in pretty much any existing topology without breaking anything or annoying anyone. So there's no a priori reason to actively ban Linux users.
In the cases where some Windows only software might be required, either emulation or virtualisation will work just fine (a licensed OS will be required for the latter) in more than 99% of cases.
So a mere reply of "you can use Linux if you like but we can't support you" would be fine in pretty much all cases. What schools run remains their own problem.
To get it working again, I had to switch DHCP clients. Neither dhclient nor dhcpcd worked, but udhcpc did. It's worth mentioning, this is not a common problem -- I used NetworkManager's point and click interface pretty much everywhere, and it worked pretty much everywhere, from hotel rooms to hospitals to crappy little Linksys routers -- it even worked if I plugged into ethernet in school -- everywhere except the school wireless.
Glad you found a solution to this rather crappy problem.
You might want to get in touch with the dhclient/dhcpcd people to see if they can incorporate a fix though. Possibly with a wireshark capture of the negotiation or something similar. There's probably something wrong with the school's setup but a correction could certainly be included.
Well, if you have 2 minutes with your ex's machine, chances are either they're already logged into their webmail, or their password is saved.
Frankly, if you have an ex (or an SO for that matter), chances are she/he already gave you that password anyway because you had to fix her/his broken machine more than once. Or you are her/his email provider and already have access to it without password. So that whole conversation is kind of silly to begin with (for tech people anyway).
Sure. That is what people tell me all the time to use a secure password. http://maord.com/ can easily help you with that. So now I have a secure password like cJQKUG4P generated by that website.
Those passwords are terrible they should have some non alphabetical characters, like punctuation, to be more effective.
When will PAM finally support Unicode passwords for Linux (and how do you enter runes on this stupid keyboard ?)
I have recently stopped using real answers to those required "Security Questions." The answers to many of those questions are already known by other people and could probably also be found on the Internet. Instead, I plan to memorize a list of some imaginary answers for those kinds of questions.
This is of course the only way to use those "security" questions. I'm troubled that there still are so few people thinking out of the box nowadays even with the high profile hacks widely published in the popular press.
The few sites that store both your question and your answer help a bit.
The Académie continues work on the ninth edition, begun in 1986, of which the first volume (A to Enzyme) was published in 1992, and the second (Éocène to Mappemonde) in 2000.The finalized ninth edition is expected to contain more than 15,000 new words.
The Académie Française actually does a bit more than just build a dictionary. Among other things it also issues language recommendations which may or may not enter general parlance (notably with the new term database at http://franceterme.culture.fr/FranceTerme) and collates misc. linguistic works.
200 million people speak French in about 60 countries. A lot of them want to keep understanding each others even though they are fond of their local specificities.
All the TLAs are taken anyway. As always, you'll have to look at the context.
That's what the ETLAs are for.
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...if Microsoft set up a Linux distro style repository...
Except that they would also have to include some methods of payment and figure out a way, such as with commissions, to pay their expenses at least. Apple has had all that worked out for quite a long time already. To translate the Ubuntu system to the large-scale that will be required for windows is quite expensive.
On the "bright" side, Microsoft is anything but cash-starved. Not that I expect them to even consider to ever start this kind of thing. There would certainly be legal implications.
Do the passengers on this other tour line get to a certain point in their tour, play with duck calls for a moment, and suddently think "wait, am I on that other carrier's tour?"
Is a passerby likely to see the tour boat, hear the duck calls, and associate it with the other carrier, perhaps tracking the boat to port so they too can get a tour from this well-reputed carrier, only to find themselves duped into taking someone else's tour?
What *I* want to know is whether any of the tourist have yet been shot by hunters or assaulted by ducks of the opposite sex. If not, then the gadgets probably aren't proper duck calls at all and shouldn't be referred to as such. I suspect it's all a fraud to lower the mindshare of *real* duck calls.
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I can't think of a single Windows user who wishes that Microsoft controlled access to every piece of hardware or software that would ever plug into a Windows machine, or who would be happy to pay Microsoft for that right. All I can say is, "Wow".
I can't think of many that would care. Most of them would probably consider it convenient. After all a fair number of those very same people manage to hose their machines with worrying regularity. And that's among both home and corporate users.
I know I'd love it if Microsoft set up a Linux distro style repository with some half-decent quality checking. I'd have much less work to do for people around me fixing their broken machines (even though I hardly know anything about Windows).
I have resistive trypanophobia, a fancy term for a fairly extreme phobia towards needles and restraint (if I know there's a needle heading my way to inject me with something my heart starts racing and my body goes into "fight or flight" mode), which happens to be rather inconvenient when you're about to get a needle stuck in your hand to administer anaesthesia.
Don't they just use dart guns in those cases ? Harming the ozone layer for a mere phobia sounds a bit extreme to me.
The metric system is only "common sense" if you are using base 10 positional notation in your arithmetic. Which is itself a relatively recent thing, particularly in the West.
Before that was developed, 12 inches in a foot made perfect sense; 12 has more factors than 10, so you can have more fractions of a foot that are whole numbers of inches.
12 was commonly used in lots of places because it's how far you could easily count on your finger using one hand (counting with your thumb on your phalanges). There's nothing "magical" about it. It's inconvenient in a modern world where everything is decimalized.
I was fairly puzzled as well, figuring it must be getting awfully crowded up there :
"take down those 45 million space probes at once !"
I'm relieved it's just another bunch of clueless media cretins. Wait, no I'm not, it means there's yet another such stupid agency I've never heard of. How many such things are there ?
There ? Try pretty much anywhere. Plastic doesn't degrade. A lot of it just breaks down into small chunks. If you use a plankton net, 60% of what you'll catch will be little fragments of plastic. In pretty much any sea today.
Nobody knows what impact this has on marine life but it has lots of people quite a bit worried.
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The question isn't why Microsoft does not innovate, the question is why innovation is clearly not profitable.
But it *is* profitable. It just only profits Microsoft.
As it is said : "the second mouse gets the cheese".
If you're surfing the web, typing a paper, writing code, or working on a spread sheet, you can see more content at once and scroll less.
It works for writing code (in some environments) or a spreadsheet but certainly not for typing a paper (unless you do typesetting) or the web. If you do that you end up with lines that are way too long to read comfortably (you can rotate the display though, but most users don't know that). This display is good for displaying two A4 sheets side by side which is not how users work.
People just maximize because they're used to it even though in a lot of cases they shouldn't on the current wide screens. It would make their apps more comfortable to use.
3 words for you: 103 inch LCD.
Yay for fist size pixels. Way to go Panasonic. Useless on a PC.
Works fine as a TV though I suppose.
So, here is the question. If you have 3 screens, why on earth are you maximizing?! Seriously, because I dream of nothing more than to have to turn my head a full 90 degrees in order to read a full line of text.
Because Windows users always maximize their apps. Nobody knows why.
I never understood either why people using my computer (24" @ 1920x1600) always feel the need to maximize every single window which I almost never do except for a few graphical apps like digiKam or BibblePro.
I'm sure they'd do the same across 3 or 6 screens. Probably in Windows the maximize button stops working if you don't use it often enough.
In Norwegian and Swedish you can call it "minne pinne".
Sounds like something out of a James Bond movie.
Seriously? What? What can you do from a C64 shell on an iPhone?
Wasn't there some sort of kiler poke or HCF thing on the C64 ? (ok, I used an APPLE2 at the time, back when they actually made fun computers)
Or maybe they're afraid you'd see all the "(C)Microsoft" strings if you PEEKed long enough...
You have no idea of the mischief those BASIC hackers can do. Why do you think there isn't a BASIC shell any more ?
Yes, it is ideology if your choice of college or university is governed or significantly influenced by "Does it run Linux?"
There's a difference between "does it run Linux" and "can I run the operating system I prefer to use without them being obnoxious about it".
In most cases the "IT" (hah) staff won't go out of their way to support Linux (whatever the environment, school, corporate, ISP, etc.). However, most Linux systems will insert themselves just fine in pretty much any existing topology without breaking anything or annoying anyone. So there's no a priori reason to actively ban Linux users.
In the cases where some Windows only software might be required, either emulation or virtualisation will work just fine (a licensed OS will be required for the latter) in more than 99% of cases.
So a mere reply of "you can use Linux if you like but we can't support you" would be fine in pretty much all cases. What schools run remains their own problem.
To get it working again, I had to switch DHCP clients. Neither dhclient nor dhcpcd worked, but udhcpc did. It's worth mentioning, this is not a common problem -- I used NetworkManager's point and click interface pretty much everywhere, and it worked pretty much everywhere, from hotel rooms to hospitals to crappy little Linksys routers -- it even worked if I plugged into ethernet in school -- everywhere except the school wireless.
Glad you found a solution to this rather crappy problem.
You might want to get in touch with the dhclient/dhcpcd people to see if they can incorporate a fix though. Possibly with a wireshark capture of the negotiation or something similar. There's probably something wrong with the school's setup but a correction could certainly be included.
Touch-typing is a drop in the bucket.
Agreed. Since most people can't write, there's no point in having them touch type.
Well, if you have 2 minutes with your ex's machine, chances are either they're already logged into their webmail, or their password is saved.
Frankly, if you have an ex (or an SO for that matter), chances are she/he already gave you that password anyway because you had to fix her/his broken machine more than once. Or you are her/his email provider and already have access to it without password. So that whole conversation is kind of silly to begin with (for tech people anyway).
Sure. That is what people tell me all the time to use a secure password. http://maord.com/ can easily help you with that. So now I have a secure password like cJQKUG4P generated by that website.
Those passwords are terrible they should have some non alphabetical characters, like punctuation, to be more effective.
When will PAM finally support Unicode passwords for Linux (and how do you enter runes on this stupid keyboard ?)
I have recently stopped using real answers to those required "Security Questions." The answers to many of those questions are already known by other people and could probably also be found on the Internet. Instead, I plan to memorize a list of some imaginary answers for those kinds of questions.
This is of course the only way to use those "security" questions. I'm troubled that there still are so few people thinking out of the box nowadays even with the high profile hacks widely published in the popular press.
The few sites that store both your question and your answer help a bit.
The Académie continues work on the ninth edition, begun in 1986, of which the first volume (A to Enzyme) was published in 1992, and the second (Éocène to Mappemonde) in 2000.The finalized ninth edition is expected to contain more than 15,000 new words.
The Académie Française actually does a bit more than just build a dictionary. Among other things it also issues language recommendations which may or may not enter general parlance (notably with the new term database at http://franceterme.culture.fr/FranceTerme) and collates misc. linguistic works.
200 million people speak French in about 60 countries. A lot of them want to keep understanding each others even though they are fond of their local specificities.
All the TLAs are taken anyway. As always, you'll have to look at the context.
That's what the ETLAs are for.
...if Microsoft set up a Linux distro style repository...
Except that they would also have to include some methods of payment and figure out a way, such as with commissions, to pay their expenses at least. Apple has had all that worked out for quite a long time already. To translate the Ubuntu system to the large-scale that will be required for windows is quite expensive.
On the "bright" side, Microsoft is anything but cash-starved. Not that I expect them to even consider to ever start this kind of thing. There would certainly be legal implications.
Do the passengers on this other tour line get to a certain point in their tour, play with duck calls for a moment, and suddently think "wait, am I on that other carrier's tour?"
Is a passerby likely to see the tour boat, hear the duck calls, and associate it with the other carrier, perhaps tracking the boat to port so they too can get a tour from this well-reputed carrier, only to find themselves duped into taking someone else's tour?
What *I* want to know is whether any of the tourist have yet been shot by hunters or assaulted by ducks of the opposite sex. If not, then the gadgets probably aren't proper duck calls at all and shouldn't be referred to as such.
I suspect it's all a fraud to lower the mindshare of *real* duck calls.
I can't think of a single Windows user who wishes that Microsoft controlled access to every piece of hardware or software that would ever plug into a Windows machine, or who would be happy to pay Microsoft for that right. All I can say is, "Wow".
I can't think of many that would care. Most of them would probably consider it convenient. After all a fair number of those very same people manage to hose their machines with worrying regularity. And that's among both home and corporate users.
I know I'd love it if Microsoft set up a Linux distro style repository with some half-decent quality checking. I'd have much less work to do for people around me fixing their broken machines (even though I hardly know anything about Windows).
Is it lower than 867 MHz? If not, it'll run 10.5 and all updates officially.
Phew, I'm sure glad I paid extra for the 870 MHz model !
Though, if hell freezes over and the gas is banned, perhaps some medicinal marijuana is in order?
Right, more CO2. Just what we needed.
I have resistive trypanophobia, a fancy term for a fairly extreme phobia towards needles and restraint (if I know there's a needle heading my way to inject me with something my heart starts racing and my body goes into "fight or flight" mode), which happens to be rather inconvenient when you're about to get a needle stuck in your hand to administer anaesthesia.
Don't they just use dart guns in those cases ? Harming the ozone layer for a mere phobia sounds a bit extreme to me.
"Stop moving ! Nurse, another dart !"
What if enemy also has stealth?
I'll have to check but I don't think he's allowed to.
The metric system is only "common sense" if you are using base 10 positional notation in your arithmetic. Which is itself a relatively recent thing, particularly in the West.
Before that was developed, 12 inches in a foot made perfect sense; 12 has more factors than 10, so you can have more fractions of a foot that are whole numbers of inches.
12 was commonly used in lots of places because it's how far you could easily count on your finger using one hand (counting with your thumb on your phalanges). There's nothing "magical" about it. It's inconvenient in a modern world where everything is decimalized.
I also read ESA as the European Space Agency.
I was fairly puzzled as well, figuring it must be getting awfully crowded up there :
"take down those 45 million space probes at once !"
I'm relieved it's just another bunch of clueless media cretins.
Wait, no I'm not, it means there's yet another such stupid agency I've never heard of. How many such things are there ?
If you look under the bottom of each plastic, you'll see a triangle-cycle.It means it can be recycled!
In many places (not sure about the US), it means the manufacturer paid a recycling-related tax. Not quite the same thing.
If you sail down there bring a microscope.
There ? Try pretty much anywhere. Plastic doesn't degrade. A lot of it just breaks down into small chunks. If you use a plankton net, 60% of what you'll catch will be little fragments of plastic. In pretty much any sea today.
Nobody knows what impact this has on marine life but it has lots of people quite a bit worried.