Forget all of this. Just sell me the dvd collection for a decent price.
When Firefly was cancelled, there was some fanboy speculation that it could be the first direct to dvd episodic show. I know, I know, denial isn't just a river in Egypt. The idea was great, just about 5 years too early.
Forget time shifting, forget fast forwarding through commercials. Just buy the series.
There's so little on tv that's actually worth watching and I'm only home about 3 hours a night. With the dvd collections I own, I could just watch them for a couple of years with no commercials and no re-runs. I'd only need about 3 hours of shows a night. Complete Bab5, Buffy, Angel, Simpsons, X-Files, STTOS, STTNG, Stargate, DS9 would provide me with a varied schedule with different shows each night augmented by bad sf movies on the weekends when we play MST3k.
I don't think it will be long before TV shows become the teaser for the dvd collection. SciFi did something similar with their Species 3 movie. All through the show they kept saying "Buy the uncut dvd with more blood and more nippleage". It won't be long until most tv shows figure out they can put the dumbed down version out for free and the good one out on dvd. Imagine Desperate Housewives with deleted scenes, Lost with more background stories on more passangers, etc.
That's correct. I was comparing the parent's claim of 38 mpg city to the Prius's 55 mpg city. The Prius is clearly the more fuel efficient car for city driving (which most people do) thus it pollutes less, as you point out. Thus showing the parent's reliance on a bumper sticker for facts and opinions to be foolish fud.
We'll assume that mpg is the only way of determining pollution. It isn't you can do many things to filter the exhaust and trap the air pollutants to keep them out of the atmosphere, along with a whole host of other things to minimize pollution regardless of pure mpg. But I'm not a big car guy, so I didn't want to get in to that. I thought it was enough that the parent was wrong on its face.;)
Hybrids aren't all about pure fuel economy. They're also about pollution. If you do a lot of city driving, you will pollute less. In your roommate's example, the 38 mpg city compares to between 55 and 60 mpg city. So for the driving that most people do(city driving) the Prius gets about 1.5 times the mpg and pollutes less as well. The EPA rates the Prius at 60 mpg. The 55 was from a blog.
The rest of your comments sound an awful lot like fud.
The debate is a good one and will probably never be resolved. My personal belief from years of tech support is that people use applications, not operating systems.
I've moved people from Dos -> WFWG -> Windows 95 -> 2000 -> XP, with no complaints about the operating system. But if WordPerfect changes a menu or the name of a frequently used feature, I hear about it.
We don't train most of our users to use "the operating system" we train them on how to use Word, WP, Outlook, etc. That's because for the vast majority of our users and the vast majority of the time, they don't (and in fact shouldn't) make any changes that involve the operating system. We do that when we roll out computers.
So if you get someone to use OpenOffice.org, firefox, and thunderbird, I don't think the operating system they run on makes much difference. This both helps and hurts Linux. It helps, because when you want to move your people to linux based computers, they will feel right at home and there'll be almost no training needed, especially if you set them up correctly in the first place. The downside is that there's no real incentive to move.
There's a very simple work around for this, provided the updates can be done silently. Just schedule a task to run as system. There's a couple of ways you can push a scheduled task out to people.
GPO to run a batch file on computer start up. The batch file has the line:
Because it's run as a computer start up script, it runs as system, which let's it tell it the task should be run as system (or any other user; system is just easier). Then the update happens automatically and the users don't need to be admins.
Thanks. It seems weird -- one of the advantages of a film SLR over a film P&S is that what you see in the viewfinder is what you get. But for DSLR, the reverse is true for the LCD. Presumably the regular, non-LCD viewfinder is still a true preview.
Brilliant. Because I was thinking the same thing.;) The eye's depth of field is normally pretty small, at least for near object. A quick experiment will show you that for close object, the depth of field is about 3 inches.
SLR's can also have a larger depth of field, it just depends on the aperature setting. And most SLR cameras have a Point and Shoot mode, at least at the hobbiest level.
After seeing these mistakes, I also wondered about the statements that you don't see what you get when use the LCD viewer of an SLR. That doesn't make sense to me at all.
A full undergraduate load is 12 hours? No wonder you kids today take 6 years to graduate. A full load just 10 years ago was 15-18 credit hours, 5-6 classes a semester. 12 hours is the bare minimum to be a full time student. A really full load was taking 7 classes a semester for 21 credits. But I only did that once or twice. If you wanted to take more you had to get special permission and it wasn't worth the hassle.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but since lulu.com is a selfpublishing site that is publishing the book, their assessment may be a little biased.
The fact that it is self-published would also explain the odd formatting issues the reviewer discussed. Which doesn't speak well for lulu.com as a book producer. For as little as $500 you can self publish from places that will at least right and left justify your text.
Ah, I just looked at lulu.com and they are much more diy selfpublishers than the companies that will charge you a small fee and make sure the book looks good.
Because MS wants people to be able to install software easily and quickly. It enhances the Windows usability experience to be able to quickly and easily install any piece of software.
Plus, Microsoft likes to sell ads on its sites. I doubt you'll ever see anything like the Firefox ad blocker or the AdBlocker extension for IE.
I was very surprised they blocked pop ups. Probably got to the point where pop ups from spyware infected computers were making people think twice about windows as an os.
Close but no cigar. It takes you to google's "I'm feeling luck" page as if you had typed in barnes and noble on google and clicked the button. That's a big difference. If you type in "cat" you get taken to the cat fanciers web site at http://www.fanciers.com and not http://www.cat.com for all your heavy machinery needs. That means that the outcome of typing in "barnes and noble" or "cat" and hitting enter in Firefox will change depending on the google rankings.
Firefox will not convert www.barnes and noble.com to www.barnesandnoble.com.
The only problem with that analogy is if it costs $100,000 to get a new door knob but that 10% of the market only brings in $50,000 in profit over the life of the new door knob. In that case, you're $50,000 in the hole if you go after that 10%.
It's called diminishing returns and it shows up in a lot of places. You might also have heard it as the "last mile" problem. It costs more money to go after the uncaptured part of the market than the upcaptured part of the market will generate in profits. In which case you really are better off letting that part of the market go.
There are exceptions to this of course, such as investing on the ground floor of a trend. But even in cases like that what you're saying is "While I'll lose money this year and next year to capture that 10%, I will establish a presence in this emerging market that will make me a greater profit in the long term."
In other words, all of this isn't really as simple as it first appears.;)
Is there a reason Labels won't work? There look to be only 5 labels available, but you can customize their meaning. In contrast, Outlook has Categories which appear to be expandable to an arbitrary number of categories and Eudora has 7 customizable labels.
Hah! My bank's website looks fine in FF, IE, Konq and even Lynx. And I wrote them a very nice letter telling them that they should appreciate their IT staff.
While good, Nvu does not have some of the advanced features of DW, such as templating with restricted areas. That being said, most of that advanced stuff probably shouldn't be used by most people since it makes for overly coded pages.
Apparently software version numbers don't work like "real" numbers.;) In other words, those aren't decimal places, their merely dividers..1 is not equal to.10. The order goes.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7,.8,.9,.10,.11. 0.10.0 came out about 2 weeks ago.
No, the responder is right. The machines could be hacked to misread or mistype the barcode. But that's no different than the potential to have a bubble form ballot misread. We use a fill-in-the-dots form here and it's possible that someone could get access to the machine and reprogram it to report the wrong vote. It's possible to reprogram any modern voting machine given access and time.
There's no real way to tell the voter that the machine actually counted the vote that as it was cast. Any hack that would change the vote would not change what was reported to the voter. The compromised machine would internally tally a vote for Kodos but report to the voter that a vote for Kang was recorded.
But with a computer generated printout, if a recall is needed, there shouldn't be any need to guess at a half filled in circle or a hanging chad. The computer print out should be easy and perfectly clear in the case of a hand recount.
There's a much simpler way of using electronic voting that is cheap, easily implemented and as secure against fraud as anything else.
The ballot is presented electronically. People can choose to view the ballot or have it read to them. People either touch the screen to mark their candidate or press a button at the appropriate time when the list of candidates is read to them. The voter can zoom in or increase the font size if needed.
After the ballot is completed, the person is either shown on screen or is read the choices. The person can then either agree that the choices are correct or re-vote.
When the person finally agrees that the ballot is correct, it is printed out in both large black type and braille. If the printout is correct, the voter puts the ballot in the ballot box.
The ballot has barcode printed on it which is then fed into a barcode reader and the vote is recorded instantly. The ballot itself is then placed in a secure box.
This combines the ability of computer based voting to make the ballot clearer, give the voter a clear summary of the vote, and make it easier for people with vision problems to vote on their own, with the clarity of a paper ballot for recounts. If you don't trust the scanned count, you have a clear, computer generated, large type paper ballot to count.
Because votes are recorded instantly at the main server, totals are known almost immediately after the polls close. The individual machines from each polling center are also recorded by humans. These numbers are hand entered on a separate system and the tallies are compared. If the numbers are the same, great. If not, the hand entries are double and triple checked; if all of that data was entered correctly and the counts don't match, then the paper ballots are checked. In case of discrepancy, paper wins.
There are flaws in every method. The goal is to minimize those flaws.
Now if we can just reform how we vote for president and other candidates and get rid of the electoral college.
If I were them, I'd wait until after they film the Hobbit. Release an extended version of that, then a year later release the 4 movie set.
I know, I know, there's been no official word about the Hobbit. But please, LoTR was one of the biggest grossing trilogy, movie, genre movie, or just about any other metric you care to use. With a ready made prequel how can they pass it up? The beauty is that the only 2 cast members who need to return are Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis. Ian McKellen would play a reduced role in the Hobbit since Gandalf isn't nearly as big of a character, so the fact that he'd be almost 70 by the time shooting got under way would not be a big deal.
Just make the movie for crying out loud. We all wants it, we needs it.
Unless they're wrong and it's not viruses that are causing the problem but ad and spyware that have infected IE, possibly even acting as local proxies. I've seen some of the nastier ones add their own proxy into the tcp/ip stack and cause all sorts of networking problems. Not to mention the normal problems of popups and redirects.
Some of them are bad enough that there aren't any good removal tools. From http://www.scumware.com/apps/scumware.php/action:: view_article/article_id::1075329940/topic::Scumwar e,-Spyware,-Adware-&-Malware-Applications/ in regards to the CoolWebSearch malware:
"Its growing complexity and the difficulty of removing the latest CoolWebSearch variants coupled with decreasing time available have culminated in the decision to stop updating CoolWebShredder."
And there are others that are just as bad.
Just because the paper calls it a virus doesn't necessarily make it so.
A new image, with things like spybot, spywareguard and spyblaster on it should be deployed asap. And switch them all to Firefox.
Gee, I never embed charts, tables, or data in my word documents and set them to automatically refresh data when the source data changes. I keep separate documents for each, change the page numbers by hand when the memo changes length and so the chart's on a different page, and type my data in three places because my apps can't talk to each other.
I've got documents that import graphs from excel that are based on a combination of spreadsheet data and database information, where the database is an access mdb with some local data and some linked mysql tables. The user's enter their data once and the charts in my document just work.
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Forget all of this. Just sell me the dvd collection for a decent price.
;)
When Firefly was cancelled, there was some fanboy speculation that it could be the first direct to dvd episodic show. I know, I know, denial isn't just a river in Egypt. The idea was great, just about 5 years too early.
Forget time shifting, forget fast forwarding through commercials. Just buy the series.
There's so little on tv that's actually worth watching and I'm only home about 3 hours a night. With the dvd collections I own, I could just watch them for a couple of years with no commercials and no re-runs. I'd only need about 3 hours of shows a night. Complete Bab5, Buffy, Angel, Simpsons, X-Files, STTOS, STTNG, Stargate, DS9 would provide me with a varied schedule with different shows each night augmented by bad sf movies on the weekends when we play MST3k.
I don't think it will be long before TV shows become the teaser for the dvd collection. SciFi did something similar with their Species 3 movie. All through the show they kept saying "Buy the uncut dvd with more blood and more nippleage". It won't be long until most tv shows figure out they can put the dumbed down version out for free and the good one out on dvd. Imagine Desperate Housewives with deleted scenes, Lost with more background stories on more passangers, etc.
Wow, that was kind of a rambling post.
That's correct. I was comparing the parent's claim of 38 mpg city to the Prius's 55 mpg city. The Prius is clearly the more fuel efficient car for city driving (which most people do) thus it pollutes less, as you point out. Thus showing the parent's reliance on a bumper sticker for facts and opinions to be foolish fud.
;)
We'll assume that mpg is the only way of determining pollution. It isn't you can do many things to filter the exhaust and trap the air pollutants to keep them out of the atmosphere, along with a whole host of other things to minimize pollution regardless of pure mpg. But I'm not a big car guy, so I didn't want to get in to that. I thought it was enough that the parent was wrong on its face.
Hybrids aren't all about pure fuel economy. They're also about pollution. If you do a lot of city driving, you will pollute less. In your roommate's example, the 38 mpg city compares to between 55 and 60 mpg city. So for the driving that most people do(city driving) the Prius gets about 1.5 times the mpg and pollutes less as well. The EPA rates the Prius at 60 mpg. The 55 was from a blog.
The rest of your comments sound an awful lot like fud.
The debate is a good one and will probably never be resolved. My personal belief from years of tech support is that people use applications, not operating systems.
;)
I've moved people from Dos -> WFWG -> Windows 95 -> 2000 -> XP, with no complaints about the operating system. But if WordPerfect changes a menu or the name of a frequently used feature, I hear about it.
We don't train most of our users to use "the operating system" we train them on how to use Word, WP, Outlook, etc. That's because for the vast majority of our users and the vast majority of the time, they don't (and in fact shouldn't) make any changes that involve the operating system. We do that when we roll out computers.
So if you get someone to use OpenOffice.org, firefox, and thunderbird, I don't think the operating system they run on makes much difference. This both helps and hurts Linux. It helps, because when you want to move your people to linux based computers, they will feel right at home and there'll be almost no training needed, especially if you set them up correctly in the first place. The downside is that there's no real incentive to move.
And that pretty much sums up the debate.
There's a very simple work around for this, provided the updates can be done silently. Just schedule a task to run as system. There's a couple of ways you can push a scheduled task out to people.
/create /sc once /st YOURTIME /sd YOURDATE /ru System /tn "TASKNAME" /tr "TASKTORUN"
GPO to run a batch file on computer start up. The batch file has the line:
schtasks
Because it's run as a computer start up script, it runs as system, which let's it tell it the task should be run as system (or any other user; system is just easier). Then the update happens automatically and the users don't need to be admins.
Thanks. It seems weird -- one of the advantages of a film SLR over a film P&S is that what you see in the viewfinder is what you get. But for DSLR, the reverse is true for the LCD. Presumably the regular, non-LCD viewfinder is still a true preview.
Brilliant. Because I was thinking the same thing. ;) The eye's depth of field is normally pretty small, at least for near object. A quick experiment will show you that for close object, the depth of field is about 3 inches.
SLR's can also have a larger depth of field, it just depends on the aperature setting. And most SLR cameras have a Point and Shoot mode, at least at the hobbiest level.
After seeing these mistakes, I also wondered about the statements that you don't see what you get when use the LCD viewer of an SLR. That doesn't make sense to me at all.
A full undergraduate load is 12 hours? No wonder you kids today take 6 years to graduate. A full load just 10 years ago was 15-18 credit hours, 5-6 classes a semester. 12 hours is the bare minimum to be a full time student. A really full load was taking 7 classes a semester for 21 credits. But I only did that once or twice. If you wanted to take more you had to get special permission and it wasn't worth the hassle.
It didn't work for me either in FF 1.0 and I specifically did not open it in another tab and I do not have Tab Browser Extensions installed.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but since lulu.com is a selfpublishing site that is publishing the book, their assessment may be a little biased.
The fact that it is self-published would also explain the odd formatting issues the reviewer discussed. Which doesn't speak well for lulu.com as a book producer. For as little as $500 you can self publish from places that will at least right and left justify your text.
Ah, I just looked at lulu.com and they are much more diy selfpublishers than the companies that will charge you a small fee and make sure the book looks good.
Because MS wants people to be able to install software easily and quickly. It enhances the Windows usability experience to be able to quickly and easily install any piece of software.
Plus, Microsoft likes to sell ads on its sites. I doubt you'll ever see anything like the Firefox ad blocker or the AdBlocker extension for IE.
I was very surprised they blocked pop ups. Probably got to the point where pop ups from spyware infected computers were making people think twice about windows as an os.
Close but no cigar. It takes you to google's "I'm feeling luck" page as if you had typed in barnes and noble on google and clicked the button. That's a big difference. If you type in "cat" you get taken to the cat fanciers web site at http://www.fanciers.com and not http://www.cat.com for all your heavy machinery needs. That means that the outcome of typing in "barnes and noble" or "cat" and hitting enter in Firefox will change depending on the google rankings.
Firefox will not convert www.barnes and noble.com to www.barnesandnoble.com.
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The only problem with that analogy is if it costs $100,000 to get a new door knob but that 10% of the market only brings in $50,000 in profit over the life of the new door knob. In that case, you're $50,000 in the hole if you go after that 10%.
;)
It's called diminishing returns and it shows up in a lot of places. You might also have heard it as the "last mile" problem. It costs more money to go after the uncaptured part of the market than the upcaptured part of the market will generate in profits. In which case you really are better off letting that part of the market go.
There are exceptions to this of course, such as investing on the ground floor of a trend. But even in cases like that what you're saying is "While I'll lose money this year and next year to capture that 10%, I will establish a presence in this emerging market that will make me a greater profit in the long term."
In other words, all of this isn't really as simple as it first appears.
Ah, if you want multiple categories or labels on one message, you want Outlook.
Is there a reason Labels won't work? There look to be only 5 labels available, but you can customize their meaning. In contrast, Outlook has Categories which appear to be expandable to an arbitrary number of categories and Eudora has 7 customizable labels.
Hah! My bank's website looks fine in FF, IE, Konq and even Lynx. And I wrote them a very nice letter telling them that they should appreciate their IT staff.
While good, Nvu does not have some of the advanced features of DW, such as templating with restricted areas. That being said, most of that advanced stuff probably shouldn't be used by most people since it makes for overly coded pages.
Apparently software version numbers don't work like "real" numbers. ;) In other words, those aren't decimal places, their merely dividers. .1 is not equal to .10. The order goes .1, .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7, .8, .9, .10, .11. 0.10.0 came out about 2 weeks ago.
No, the responder is right. The machines could be hacked to misread or mistype the barcode. But that's no different than the potential to have a bubble form ballot misread. We use a fill-in-the-dots form here and it's possible that someone could get access to the machine and reprogram it to report the wrong vote. It's possible to reprogram any modern voting machine given access and time.
There's no real way to tell the voter that the machine actually counted the vote that as it was cast. Any hack that would change the vote would not change what was reported to the voter. The compromised machine would internally tally a vote for Kodos but report to the voter that a vote for Kang was recorded.
But with a computer generated printout, if a recall is needed, there shouldn't be any need to guess at a half filled in circle or a hanging chad. The computer print out should be easy and perfectly clear in the case of a hand recount.
There's a much simpler way of using electronic voting that is cheap, easily implemented and as secure against fraud as anything else.
The ballot is presented electronically. People can choose to view the ballot or have it read to them. People either touch the screen to mark their candidate or press a button at the appropriate time when the list of candidates is read to them. The voter can zoom in or increase the font size if needed.
After the ballot is completed, the person is either shown on screen or is read the choices. The person can then either agree that the choices are correct or re-vote.
When the person finally agrees that the ballot is correct, it is printed out in both large black type and braille. If the printout is correct, the voter puts the ballot in the ballot box.
The ballot has barcode printed on it which is then fed into a barcode reader and the vote is recorded instantly. The ballot itself is then placed in a secure box.
This combines the ability of computer based voting to make the ballot clearer, give the voter a clear summary of the vote, and make it easier for people with vision problems to vote on their own, with the clarity of a paper ballot for recounts. If you don't trust the scanned count, you have a clear, computer generated, large type paper ballot to count.
Because votes are recorded instantly at the main server, totals are known almost immediately after the polls close. The individual machines from each polling center are also recorded by humans. These numbers are hand entered on a separate system and the tallies are compared. If the numbers are the same, great. If not, the hand entries are double and triple checked; if all of that data was entered correctly and the counts don't match, then the paper ballots are checked. In case of discrepancy, paper wins.
There are flaws in every method. The goal is to minimize those flaws.
Now if we can just reform how we vote for president and other candidates and get rid of the electoral college.
If I were them, I'd wait until after they film the Hobbit. Release an extended version of that, then a year later release the 4 movie set.
I know, I know, there's been no official word about the Hobbit. But please, LoTR was one of the biggest grossing trilogy, movie, genre movie, or just about any other metric you care to use. With a ready made prequel how can they pass it up? The beauty is that the only 2 cast members who need to return are Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis. Ian McKellen would play a reduced role in the Hobbit since Gandalf isn't nearly as big of a character, so the fact that he'd be almost 70 by the time shooting got under way would not be a big deal.
Just make the movie for crying out loud. We all wants it, we needs it.
Unless they're wrong and it's not viruses that are causing the problem but ad and spyware that have infected IE, possibly even acting as local proxies. I've seen some of the nastier ones add their own proxy into the tcp/ip stack and cause all sorts of networking problems. Not to mention the normal problems of popups and redirects.
: view_article/article_id::1075329940/topic::Scumwar e,-Spyware,-Adware-&-Malware-Applications/ in regards to the CoolWebSearch malware:
Some of them are bad enough that there aren't any good removal tools. From http://www.scumware.com/apps/scumware.php/action:
"Its growing complexity and the difficulty of removing the latest CoolWebSearch variants coupled with decreasing time available have culminated in the decision to stop updating CoolWebShredder."
And there are others that are just as bad.
Just because the paper calls it a virus doesn't necessarily make it so.
A new image, with things like spybot, spywareguard and spyblaster on it should be deployed asap. And switch them all to Firefox.
As a 36 year old, I resent the implication that we're all old fogeys. ;)
Gee, I never embed charts, tables, or data in my word documents and set them to automatically refresh data when the source data changes. I keep separate documents for each, change the page numbers by hand when the memo changes length and so the chart's on a different page, and type my data in three places because my apps can't talk to each other.
I've got documents that import graphs from excel that are based on a combination of spreadsheet data and database information, where the database is an access mdb with some local data and some linked mysql tables. The user's enter their data once and the charts in my document just work.