Efficiency of a car combustion engine is what? 20 % (please correct me) Using this to create electicity from fossil fuel (alternator takes power off the engine, in case you did not know) is plain silly but may be patentable - go for it!
No longer necessary. Every directory and sub-directory in the address bar, all the way back to root, is clickable. Getting from C:\Documents and Settings\User\Pictures\2010-11\April\26th\BirthdayParty\PicsofNanwithbottleofwinelisteningto50Cent to C:\Documents and Settings is one click, not seven.
Oh, sorry - my bad....
Now I know - going up and doing mouse-over on the address field shows all "folders" in different length and finding the third one is soo easy, no comparison to click on the "up" button three times.
Leaving this piece of real estate of the up button available for much better goodies available makes W7 absolutely shine.
The technology is called breadcrumbs and it makes the file explorer up one level button obsolete. Windows 7 makes use of breadcrumbs.
I disagree - "bread crumbs" is going back where you came from and not one level up - different function and missing in W7 thanks to some klutz.
I can go "sideways" in XP with symbolic links (shortcuts in Windoze speak) and "up" to be on a totally different place AND I can go "back" from where I came from (breadcrumbs).
W7: NOPE!
Disclaimer: Probably not a feature used by most users but very handy on a more complex file structure work environment.
Doing stuff in command line is several factors faster than Windoze mouse locate, point and click in server/admin environments. Same goes for regex find/replace in vi.
Or try cut/paste all file names from a file browser detail into an editor in your mouse/point/click environment and see what happens.
And how often has M$oft in their new OS money milking "features" removed useful stuff? XP -> W7: File browser up one level button, essentially no-longer-existing Network file search feature.
Go keep playing in your eye-candy mouse click dream world.
"That's why your windows desktop is a combination billboard, snooper and pinball machine for marketers."
Wow. Bullshit, just bullshit.
Oh boy! Disable your Windoze built-in firewall, get decent firewall software, lock your box down and watch how many programs how often call home.
Then, on your Windoze task manager watch how many megabytes of unauthorized gnomes are sitting there hogging your memory doing exactly what on YOUR system?
Once you're there, you may figure out better what kind of BS is going on.
Maybe time to do some mind sharing - not only with those addresses, but with principles of schools or whoever is behind this shit. Don't have kids a right to free speech?
70/80's and lost momentum later on. So in comparison (I think Timothy had a hangover or something to post this) introducing to run everything in UTC - church towers across the world, all rail/subway stations and what else have you... The code changes alone, several magnitudes more than 1999/2000 changeover not even people's habits..
Any social problems in that area - like high unemployment, low standard of living, educational/career dead-end. other types of violence/repression, possibly from government agencies?
And - if so, what are the solutions of the local governments?
One person protesting there was interviewed and stated that news media would not care unless fuss would be created.
> Windows XP computers are infected with rootkits out of proportion to the operating system's market share
This statement lacks considering time the OS are in use:
XP 11 years - since 2001 W7 2 years - since 2009
So, with 2 years W7 gathered 12 % of infections having 31 % market share, that's 6 % infections/year and 11 years of XP gathered 74 % of infections having 58 % market share, that's 6.7 % infections/year
Since market share started from 0, let's assume linear increase of market share since release and use W7 with 16.5 % and XP with 37 % average market share over time.
W7 gets 6 % infections/year with 16.5 % market share and XP 6.7 % infections/year with 37 % market share.
Which give factors for W7 0.37 and XP 0.18 infections/year/market share.
- Any attempt to enter device password wrong 3 x wipes device - erases all content.
Let's say you're having the extended family over for dinner... Bad luck
Either they learn or they don't. Loose your phone on a parking lot when you get in the car, drop it in the toilet by accident etc. - that's with phones. Hard disks expire for sure, motherboards fry, power supplies go haywire and what else have you... Where's your data then, all the pictures you took, all your emails?
If people don't plan ahead, they will learn the hard way. Tuff lick
Having a mechanism preventing unauthorized access to a kind of device which is small can be easily lost, stolen or misplaced and contains potentially sensitive data is a requirement.
And - in case of BB's, there is a step to prevent a situation you describe: After a couple of incorrect pw entries, it requires correct entry of "blackberry" and then it lets you continue entering passwords. Accidental erasure by non-reading kids as you describe is prevented in that manner and if one let's a phone sitting around for public use - live with it!
They should be publicly shamed - put on a pedestal on time square with a sign around their neck saying "I am a stupid greedy jerk" and a webcam pointing to them!
Wow - didn't know they had all that gear on the space station.
There is absolutely no proof that all the gadgets/inventions you list would not have been invented/created otherwise, possibly at a lesser expense.
You use 20/20 hindsight and pick what fits your ideas.
If new things came out of space "races", they are byproducts now used to justify the whole little boys game of politicians bumping their egos on each other at a tremendous expense for the rest of the population.
US folks need to get off their obsession to be leaders or trying to dominate other's - openly or hidden.
It's not perceived well by members of other nations - openly or hidden.
There is absolutely no accomplishment performed by being born in a certain location or with a certain ancestry and anyone taking this as something s/he can take credit for is just fooling themselves.
Your Q: "How would you feel if Russia, China or the European Union were the first to land on Mars"
If it's a useful undertaking (if it can be done at all) and not only a show-off carrot of politicians to mollify people and distract from needed issues, I could congratulate them.
Things are not going too great lately - globally - and putting a new carrot up front may motivate the donkey to move on and not rebel.
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Fuck yeah!
Thanks for reminding me - always great to see the $ 5 billion Pentagon PR budget doing it's work
Oh, I forgot the Drug War, hahaha!
And US police departments inheriting all the great obsolete grenade launchers to keep up law and order, hahaha!
US wars - hahaha! Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and now - the World - hahaha!
Efficiency of a car combustion engine is what? 20 % (please correct me)
Using this to create electicity from fossil fuel (alternator takes power off the engine, in case you did not know) is plain silly but may be patentable - go for it!
Just the same BS as "permanent" storage of nuclear waste - only difference that CO2 sequestered storage does not radiate.
Who the hell knows who will be the surprised recipient of all that crap in 10k years?
Own mail server with Postfix + 1 email address per vendor && if they send UCE or SPAM, report to SpamCop && disable their email address.
No need to deal with creating extra accounts on Gmail or Spammotel.
Script:
vi + /etc/postfix/virtual # dup last line and edit email address
postmap /etc/postfix/virtual
postfix reload
XP -> W7: File browser up one level button
No longer necessary. Every directory and sub-directory in the address bar, all the way back to root, is clickable. Getting from C:\Documents and Settings\User\Pictures\2010-11\April\26th\BirthdayParty\PicsofNanwithbottleofwinelisteningto50Cent to C:\Documents and Settings is one click, not seven.
Oh, sorry - my bad....
Now I know - going up and doing mouse-over on the address field shows all "folders" in different length and finding the third one is soo easy, no comparison to click on the "up" button three times.
Leaving this piece of real estate of the up button available for much better goodies available makes W7 absolutely shine.
Thanks for pointing this out.
The technology is called breadcrumbs and it makes the file explorer up one level button obsolete. Windows 7 makes use of breadcrumbs.
I disagree - "bread crumbs" is going back where you came from and not one level up - different function and missing in W7 thanks to some klutz.
I can go "sideways" in XP with symbolic links (shortcuts in Windoze speak) and "up" to be on a totally different place AND I can go "back" from where I came from (breadcrumbs).
W7: NOPE!
Disclaimer: Probably not a feature used by most users but very handy on a more complex file structure work environment.
Doing stuff in command line is several factors faster than Windoze mouse locate, point and click in server/admin environments. Same goes for regex find/replace in vi.
Or try cut/paste all file names from a file browser detail into an editor in your mouse/point/click environment and see what happens.
And how often has M$oft in their new OS money milking "features" removed useful stuff? XP -> W7: File browser up one level button, essentially no-longer-existing Network file search feature.
Go keep playing in your eye-candy mouse click dream world.
Who gives a fucking hoot if it's outdatet or not?
Nostalgia has it's charm especially if it works and some geeks get worked up about it!
"That's why your windows desktop is a combination billboard, snooper and pinball machine for marketers."
Wow. Bullshit, just bullshit.
Oh boy! Disable your Windoze built-in firewall, get decent firewall software, lock your box down and watch how many programs how often call home.
Then, on your Windoze task manager watch how many megabytes of unauthorized gnomes are sitting there hogging your memory doing exactly what on YOUR system?
Once you're there, you may figure out better what kind of BS is going on.
That spread sheet also contains email addresses:
hsfilter@northcantonschools.org
elemfilter@northcantonschools.org
Maybe time to do some mind sharing - not only with those addresses, but with principles of schools or whoever is behind this shit. Don't have kids a right to free speech?
No - it goes PFFffffiii;;;,,,.... - and the air is out, nothing left inside. Actually in reality they seem to scream a bit more at times.
Metric has been around since the 1799, so the US is quite behind the times (no surprises there :-P )
I meant "introduction" of another system replacing an existing one, as an example metric measurements in US.
According to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States#Overview
70/80's and lost momentum later on. So in comparison (I think Timothy had a hangover or something to post this) introducing to run everything in UTC - church towers across the world, all rail/subway stations and what else have you... The code changes alone, several magnitudes more than 1999/2000 changeover not even people's habits..
Just forget it!
How about getting the US folks to use the metric system first?
How long is it now? 25+ years or so...
You can measure success rate on that one.
In the U.S. it is because the Federal Government oversteps its bounds on everything, including telling us what the clock shall say.
Ah - Tea Party airhead - right?
"gettin their taxes back"
Let's not forget these lovelies http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424
contains:
London rioters: 'Showing the rich we do what we want'
This seems to be a better attempt to try to explain what was happening:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/09/london-riots-who-took-part
Definitely a mix of motives
Any social problems in that area - like high unemployment, low standard of living, educational/career dead-end. other types of violence/repression, possibly from government agencies?
And - if so, what are the solutions of the local governments?
One person protesting there was interviewed and stated that news media would not care unless fuss would be created.
A fine line.... right.
> Windows XP computers are infected with rootkits out of proportion to the operating system's market share
This statement lacks considering time the OS are in use:
XP 11 years - since 2001
W7 2 years - since 2009
So, with 2 years W7 gathered 12 % of infections having 31 % market share, that's 6 % infections/year
and 11 years of XP gathered 74 % of infections having 58 % market share, that's 6.7 % infections/year
Since market share started from 0, let's assume linear increase of market share since release and use W7 with 16.5 % and XP with 37 % average market share over time.
W7 gets 6 % infections/year with 16.5 % market share and XP 6.7 % infections/year with 37 % market share.
Which give factors for W7 0.37 and XP 0.18 infections/year/market share.
W7 more secure? Fat chance!
- Any attempt to enter device password wrong 3 x wipes device - erases all content.
Let's say you're having the extended family over for dinner... Bad luck
Either they learn or they don't. Loose your phone on a parking lot when you get in the car, drop it in the toilet by accident etc. - that's with phones. Hard disks expire for sure, motherboards fry, power supplies go haywire and what else have you...
Where's your data then, all the pictures you took, all your emails?
If people don't plan ahead, they will learn the hard way. Tuff lick
Having a mechanism preventing unauthorized access to a kind of device which is small can be easily lost, stolen or misplaced and contains potentially sensitive data is a requirement.
And - in case of BB's, there is a step to prevent a situation you describe: After a couple of incorrect pw entries, it requires correct entry of "blackberry" and then it lets you continue entering passwords. Accidental erasure by non-reading kids as you describe is prevented in that manner and if one let's a phone sitting around for public use - live with it!
He doesn't do backups or he would not post this nonsense.
Any used Blackberry form Ebay, unlocked for $ 2, set encryption on, password tries to 3, store word documents password protected on internal memory.
Effect:
- All content on device is encrypted.
- Any attempt to enter device password wrong 3 x wipes device - erases all content.
To they have a blog or any web presence?
They should be publicly shamed - put on a pedestal on time square with a sign around their neck saying "I am a stupid greedy jerk" and a webcam pointing to them!
Wow - didn't know they had all that gear on the space station.
There is absolutely no proof that all the gadgets/inventions you list would not have been invented/created otherwise, possibly at a lesser expense.
You use 20/20 hindsight and pick what fits your ideas.
If new things came out of space "races", they are byproducts now used to justify the whole little boys game of politicians bumping their egos on each other at a tremendous expense for the rest of the population.
US folks need to get off their obsession to be leaders or trying to dominate other's - openly or hidden.
It's not perceived well by members of other nations - openly or hidden.
There is absolutely no accomplishment performed by being born in a certain location or with a certain ancestry and anyone taking this as something s/he can take credit for is just fooling themselves.
Your Q: "How would you feel if Russia, China or the European Union were the first to land on Mars"
If it's a useful undertaking (if it can be done at all) and not only a show-off carrot of politicians to mollify people and distract from needed issues, I could congratulate them.
Things are not going too great lately - globally - and putting a new carrot up front may motivate the donkey to move on and not rebel.
Insufficient greasing of palms so far - Google is rich, so....