- putting your picture on your cards my driver's license has holograms and other security features on it. you could get really fancy with some face recognition thrown in (at those atm's)!
- designating a geographical area It could be based on area code(s).
- an automated call You could specify Home/Office/Cell when making the purchase, and the call would come back in a few minutes to the numbers you have setup. The automated call would list the amount just purchased and you would OK it with your PIN. No need to worry about Caller ID.
How about :
- putting your picture on your cards
- requiring a pin
- designating a geographical area in which your cards work (which you can adjust if you go on vacation)
- an automated call when you purchase something online or over the phone, where you can enter your pin
- and my favourite idea - have an emergeny pin number in the case you've been taken to a bank machine. When you enter it, the police are notified and only $100 or so shows up in your accounts.
It's not all Microsoft's fault for Windows market share, it's people like me: computer consultants.
Go back to 1990 (give or take a few years) - small businesses were just discovering LANs - Novell ruled the server world and pc's were ruled by 3 DOS apps: WordPerfect, Lotus123 and FoxPro and were relatively inexpensive.
When Windows came out and MS invented the Office Suite, users loved the common interface. So did everyone who had to train and support them - it was so much easier than all those different DOS and application commands and keystokes.
So the years go by, hardware gets better but Windows and Office needs more horsepower, but that was OK since it looked better and had some neat features.
The Mac world had the coolest features, but other than desktop publishing, it wasn't what was needed for regular business. Plus, as a PC based consultant, I had no incentive to switch to Mac: no deals on hardware whereas in the pc world, I could build my own. Software was cheap (or easily copied) and it was easy to sell as a whole package to small businesses.
By getting everyone on the Windows/Office addiction at low costs (MS was the supplier, we consultants the dealers), MS could slowly up the price and we dealers could keep offering upgrades. Add some pretty features and the users are kept happy.
Prior to the internet, the biggest threat to pc's and their data was viruses (passed around by the sneaker-net) and that was easy to combat with AV programs and some new user education, part of which was using copied or pirated software was part of the problem. Voila, more sales!
Now the consultants are as hooked as the end users on the MS upgrade/maintaince loop.
Only a few can get off the merry-go-round of MS upgrade/patch/maintain and switch to Mac or Linux.
There's no incentive at all for a pc consultant to do so, unless the users say they want to switch to a new, easier to swallow drug (Mac). Linux offers no one in the biz any incentive to switch (the users will hate it and the biz owners won't see any savings in my consulting fees)
Now I cheerily visit my clients to install the latest fixes from MS, remove spyware, cleanup temp files, change their anti-Spam settings and commiserate with them over just how bad MS software is.
There's a whole industry outside of MS supporting their products - it's too lucrative to jump ship now!
Kewl - but how about one-key shortcuts. I've looked for a way (in Windows) to assign shortcuts to the function keys. For example: F10 would = Cut, F11= Copy and F12 = Paste
I couldn't find any way to contact anyone at Lego by email - just through customer service. It would be nice to send an email of encouragement directly to the management.
I think the company is long out of business so maybe you can find the program floating around out there. Works great on the same hardware. Set up one pc, image it up to the server. Push it out to up to 255 pc at the same time. I still use an older version on a school lan to restore (and update) their labs. Been doing it since 1998. Image restore takes about 30 minutes for 20 pc's. The only issue is the pc's sid's. You have to remove, then add each pc back into the domain.
The site was f*cked before the Slashdot posting. Now they have a BS page: "Due to overwhelming publicity, our store is currently at full capacity." Complete lies - the SQL server/ASP programming is screwed. I wish I saved the output error dump that filled the screen earlier this morning.
Years ago, I read about a guy who intentionally signed up for as many catalogs and other junk mail as possible. I think he got 200 lbs a day. He heats his house with it.
I guess when I mean safety, I mean a way for the crew to eject at any point during the mission. It's not in the shuttle now because that would be too heavy and take up too much space (compared to the actual payload - that's why they should separate the crew and the payload)
NASA should have 2 systems. 1) A honking powerful rocket to lauch heavy payload to wherever they want. Safety is not an issue, just reliability. 2) A small, safe crew module that re-enters the way Apollo did. Everything focused on getting the crew to space and back as safely as possible.
Imagine a mission set up this way. Payload launchs on a Monday. It may be a LEO science project, something you don't need to go the space station with. It safely achieves orbit, and on Tuesday, up goes the crew. They dock with the module, spend a week doing experiments, load up whatever results you need to bring back home and splash down in the ocean. Maybe, to decrease the descend rate, they'll have some extra fuel to slow themselves down (like that very old computer game!). Science module burns up on de-orbit. Or maybe it could be boosted up to hook up with the space station.
Why does the US have to build this? Why not a bunch of smaller countries and/or large corporations? Or a new corporation selling shares (I'd buy in - 6 million people, at $1000 each). Maybe China will build it. It's not really just up to the States.
Slashdot Mirror
is CDN - Thanks!
- putting your picture on your cards
my driver's license has holograms and other security features on it.
you could get really fancy with some face recognition thrown in (at those atm's)!
- designating a geographical area
It could be based on area code(s).
- an automated call
You could specify Home/Office/Cell when making the purchase, and the call would come back in a few minutes to the numbers you have setup. The automated call would list the amount just purchased and you would OK it with your PIN. No need to worry about Caller ID.
How about :
- putting your picture on your cards
- requiring a pin
- designating a geographical area in which your cards work (which you can adjust if you go on vacation)
- an automated call when you purchase something online or over the phone, where you can enter your pin
- and my favourite idea - have an emergeny pin number in the case you've been taken to a bank machine. When you enter it, the police are notified and only $100 or so shows up in your accounts.
It's actually a lockout, not a strike:
It's not all Microsoft's fault for Windows market share, it's people like me: computer consultants.
Go back to 1990 (give or take a few years) - small businesses were just discovering LANs - Novell ruled the server world and pc's were ruled by 3 DOS apps: WordPerfect, Lotus123 and FoxPro and were relatively inexpensive.
When Windows came out and MS invented the Office Suite, users loved the common interface. So did everyone who had to train and support them - it was so much easier than all those different DOS and application commands and keystokes.
So the years go by, hardware gets better but Windows and Office needs more horsepower, but that was OK since it looked better and had some neat features.
The Mac world had the coolest features, but other than desktop publishing, it wasn't what was needed for regular business. Plus, as a PC based consultant, I had no incentive to switch to Mac: no deals on hardware whereas in the pc world, I could build my own. Software was cheap (or easily copied) and it was easy to sell as a whole package to small businesses.
By getting everyone on the Windows/Office addiction at low costs (MS was the supplier, we consultants the dealers), MS could slowly up the price and we dealers could keep offering upgrades. Add some pretty features and the users are kept happy.
Prior to the internet, the biggest threat to pc's and their data was viruses (passed around by the sneaker-net) and that was easy to combat with AV programs and some new user education, part of which was using copied or pirated software was part of the problem. Voila, more sales!
Now the consultants are as hooked as the end users on the MS upgrade/maintaince loop.
Only a few can get off the merry-go-round of MS upgrade/patch/maintain and switch to Mac or Linux.
There's no incentive at all for a pc consultant to do so, unless the users say they want to switch to a new, easier to swallow drug (Mac). Linux offers no one in the biz any incentive to switch (the users will hate it and the biz owners won't see any savings in my consulting fees)
Now I cheerily visit my clients to install the latest fixes from MS, remove spyware, cleanup temp files, change their anti-Spam settings and commiserate with them over just how bad MS software is.
There's a whole industry outside of MS supporting their products - it's too lucrative to jump ship now!
umm, yeah... like you can in linsux, right?
I've no idea - I only use Windoze
It's kind of like the Mob offering protection services to merchants. They're the problem in the first place!
This kind of protection should already be in Windows, or least, make the OS completely separate from the apps and the data.
You should be able to click on any process running and see complete details as to what it is, why it is running and access it's startup options.
In Canada, Mercedes isn't even marketing them - there's a long waiting list, without them even spending a dime on advertising.
Ah, how about gSpot? (I can guess already taken though...)
Maximum capacity at a certain speed: the faster you go, the more cars can fit (up to a point where there's only inches between the cars)
add 15% (varies by province) for the GST and PST
Worst episode ever.
Kewl - but how about one-key shortcuts. I've looked for a way (in Windows) to assign shortcuts to the function keys. For example: F10 would = Cut, F11= Copy and F12 = Paste
I couldn't find any way to contact anyone at Lego by email - just through customer service. It would be nice to send an email of encouragement directly to the management.
Albuquerque!
I think the company is long out of business so maybe you can find the program floating around out there. Works great on the same hardware. Set up one pc, image it up to the server. Push it out to up to 255 pc at the same time. I still use an older version on a school lan to restore (and update) their labs. Been doing it since 1998. Image restore takes about 30 minutes for 20 pc's. The only issue is the pc's sid's. You have to remove, then add each pc back into the domain.
The site was f*cked before the Slashdot posting. Now they have a BS page: "Due to overwhelming publicity, our store is currently at full capacity." Complete lies - the SQL server/ASP programming is screwed. I wish I saved the output error dump that filled the screen earlier this morning.
I suggested this back in March
...and it was rejected. Good thing too. It's a bogus story.
Years ago, I read about a guy who intentionally signed up for as many catalogs and other junk mail as possible. I think he got 200 lbs a day. He heats his house with it.
trick learned from a previous post:
replace www with archive to avoid the registration
link
Didn't anyone get it? - it's a farce!
I guess when I mean safety, I mean a way for the crew to eject at any point during the mission. It's not in the shuttle now because that would be too heavy and take up too much space (compared to the actual payload - that's why they should separate the crew and the payload)
NASA should have 2 systems.
1) A honking powerful rocket to lauch heavy payload to wherever they want. Safety is not an issue, just reliability.
2) A small, safe crew module that re-enters the way Apollo did. Everything focused on getting the crew to space and back as safely as possible.
Imagine a mission set up this way. Payload launchs on a Monday. It may be a LEO science project, something you don't need to go the space station with. It safely achieves orbit, and on Tuesday, up goes the crew. They dock with the module, spend a week doing experiments, load up whatever results you need to bring back home and splash down in the ocean. Maybe, to decrease the descend rate, they'll have some extra fuel to slow themselves down (like that very old computer game!). Science module burns up on de-orbit. Or maybe it could be boosted up to hook up with the space station.
Why does the US have to build this? Why not a bunch of smaller countries and /or large corporations? Or a new corporation selling shares (I'd buy in - 6 million people, at $1000 each). Maybe China will build it. It's not really just up to the States.