Perhaps you're only displaying 1920x1080 on your TV, but you could pan your view smoothly over a grid 4 times the width and height of your TV.
While that is a possible application, I don't really think it is a good idea. Much like those 360 degree* videos, while kind of cool, they always make me wonder if I am looking in the right direction. When I look over here, what am I missing over there?
Many Windows users really did not like the user interface choices that MS made in Windows 8 and stuck with their preferred interface.
They not only dropped the ball on Windows 8, they fell on it and burst it. Horrible interface out of the box. Who wants their desktop/laptop to be a tablet/phone? (The same people who want "convergence" in the bathroom? Toilet/sink all in one device!!)
The Win8 to 8.1rev1 fiasco also sucked. Had to revert to Win8 and then get Win8.1rev2 (or "Win8.1 Update" or something confusing like that). Fumble!
I'm pretty happy with Win8.1 now. I have tweaked away most of the annoying bits. Disabled the touchscreeen, boots to desktop, uses Classic Shell. Looks mostly like my XP machine did now (Which was setup to look like Win2k). But people shouldn't have to do all that. And the annoying charms still pop up at the edge from time to time. Control panel in columns but organized horizontally like sentences instead of vertically down the columns top to bottom is annoying too. (I think they may have done that in 7 too, not sure, never used it much.)
I'm sticking with 8.1. They can shove 10. (They pushed it to me twice without my permission.)
Sheesh. Apparently you omitted the part where you hire an armed security force and an assistant who carries your cash in a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist.
We've had them a long time in Canada, but when I used to have "swipe and sign" cards, I never really understood the signature verification. Cashiers are not handwriting analysts, and rarely asked to see the signature anyway. With letters that stick up and down in my signature, I could never properly sign the back of my card, so it won't look the same as what I sign on a slip of paper. Nor will it match a signature on an screen with an electronic pen/stylus the size of a hot dog. And the ones that say "stay inside the box"? Takes me a few tries to do that, and definitely will not look right.
Where I hate the Chip/Pin combo is at gas stations. Standing in the intense heat or intense cold (depending on time of year) waiting for the damn thing to process is aggravating. Often takes longer than the process of pumping the gas. I avoid these places like the plague, and go to ones that allow an insert and removal (mag swipe) and you are good to go in about 5 seconds. (And visit the USA? Gas stations want the ZIP code associated with the card, which for me there is none. It doesn't do postal codes. Doh!)
As for security, I know mag stripe can be cloned, but have also heard of some issues with chip as well. Now in the last few years, "tap" has come along, and it is very fast, not sure about the secure part though.
If they didn't want unlimited use, they should never have offered it. It has pretty much always been a lie from many of these companies, and they should be fined for it. Unlimited with an asterisk defining the limitations of unlimited is not acceptable.
If you make widgets would you prefer them to be made available through a single reseller who then has complete control over your access to market, or would you prefer to have multiple resellers who you could then negotiate differential deals with?
And if you buy widgets, would you want to pay multiple resellers so you get a widget from one?
Indeed.
From http://convergenciadigital.uol...
"More than that, the judge considers that if it is not possible to break the encryption, the service itself must be prohibited, since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."
Should ban curtains (or any other window coverings) on windows too.
Well, there is that whole burning down the White House thing...
Now you complain we burned down the White House. Then you'll have your next election. Then you'll be whining and complaining that we didn't come and burn down the White House. We just can't win.
In text, most people get to the point pretty quick. I've seen too many videos where the person seems like they will never get to the point. A video I would expect to last about a minute ends up being 5 or more, and they get to the point near the end. FB is already a waste of time. This would make it even worse. Not that I care (being a non-user).
I don't use Facebook, but if I did, I would drop it if it was all video. I hate finding something is a video and not text. I just close it. With the obvious exception if I was actually looking for a video.
About a month ago the wife got a new laptop, and it had Win10. I was asked by my 5 year old to put flowers on "the screen when it goes to sleep". (Lock Screen.)
So I set a picture, and wanted to see it. I looked for a "Lock" button. Didn't see one.
I have Win8.1 (setup more or less to look like XP, as I am used to that, with Classic Shell.) and have a lock button in my start menu.. .
Wasn't sure where the heck it was in Win10. So I typed in the search box, and got Bing search results, none of which (well, at least in the first page of results) had the answer I was looking for. I copied my search and pasted it into Google and not only did it come up with good results, it came up with instructions where to find the Lock Button I was looking for right on the search result page. I didn't have to go any further.. .
Google knows more about Win10 than Microsoft Bing does! What the hell? And I have a nagging feeling I have encountered stuff like that before.. .
I may have some issues with Google, but at least they know how to find stuff.
i hate the way it's always reported. i.e. when there's a worm affecting linux systems, the article always makes that clear. when there's a trojan affecting osx, it says so too. but when shit hits windows, it's suddenly computers or PCs. why don't journalists start calling things what they are? WINDOWS viruses, WINDOWS rootkits, WINDOWS backdoors, etc. It's not PCs that are infected, it's PCs running WINDOWS that are infected in 99.99% of cases.
While I tend to agree with you, I am pretty sure it was APPLE advertising that established that "PC" meant "Windows".
While standing in line at an airport about 2 years ago, I overheard two security personnel have this exchange:
Security Person 1: Your turn to use this wand, I want to switch.
SP2: But I don't know how to use it.
SP1: Me either. I just wave it around in the air a bit. It's easy.
I have heard stories of incompetence, and I am not saying they are ALL like this, but the magnitude of this incompetence shocked me.
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Nuclear powered attack submarines have been stolen? Oh my.
Ahh! "word" not "work". *sigh*
You used the work "Olympic" without our express written permission. This is punishable by swimming in Rio.
The Rio Olympics will appear so clear in 8K you'll be able to feel your skin crawl with excitement.
I thought you said excrement.
Brown-outs,
What with the stuff in the water, "brown-outs" conjured up some pretty vivid imagery that I really did not want to visualize.
Perhaps you're only displaying 1920x1080 on your TV, but you could pan your view smoothly over a grid 4 times the width and height of your TV.
While that is a possible application, I don't really think it is a good idea. Much like those 360 degree* videos, while kind of cool, they always make me wonder if I am looking in the right direction. When I look over here, what am I missing over there?
* /. filtered out my degree symbol
Many Windows users really did not like the user interface choices that MS made in Windows 8 and stuck with their preferred interface.
They not only dropped the ball on Windows 8, they fell on it and burst it. Horrible interface out of the box. Who wants their desktop/laptop to be a tablet/phone? (The same people who want "convergence" in the bathroom? Toilet/sink all in one device!!)
The Win8 to 8.1rev1 fiasco also sucked. Had to revert to Win8 and then get Win8.1rev2 (or "Win8.1 Update" or something confusing like that). Fumble!
I'm pretty happy with Win8.1 now. I have tweaked away most of the annoying bits. Disabled the touchscreeen, boots to desktop, uses Classic Shell. Looks mostly like my XP machine did now (Which was setup to look like Win2k). But people shouldn't have to do all that. And the annoying charms still pop up at the edge from time to time. Control panel in columns but organized horizontally like sentences instead of vertically down the columns top to bottom is annoying too. (I think they may have done that in 7 too, not sure, never used it much.)
I'm sticking with 8.1. They can shove 10. (They pushed it to me twice without my permission.)
Sheesh. Apparently you omitted the part where you hire an armed security force and an assistant who carries your cash in a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist.
And here is the briefcase to use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We've had them a long time in Canada, but when I used to have "swipe and sign" cards, I never really understood the signature verification. Cashiers are not handwriting analysts, and rarely asked to see the signature anyway. With letters that stick up and down in my signature, I could never properly sign the back of my card, so it won't look the same as what I sign on a slip of paper. Nor will it match a signature on an screen with an electronic pen/stylus the size of a hot dog. And the ones that say "stay inside the box"? Takes me a few tries to do that, and definitely will not look right.
Where I hate the Chip/Pin combo is at gas stations. Standing in the intense heat or intense cold (depending on time of year) waiting for the damn thing to process is aggravating. Often takes longer than the process of pumping the gas. I avoid these places like the plague, and go to ones that allow an insert and removal (mag swipe) and you are good to go in about 5 seconds. (And visit the USA? Gas stations want the ZIP code associated with the card, which for me there is none. It doesn't do postal codes. Doh!)
As for security, I know mag stripe can be cloned, but have also heard of some issues with chip as well. Now in the last few years, "tap" has come along, and it is very fast, not sure about the secure part though.
What does hydrogen found under tectonic plates have to do with milk pasteurization? Is this some kind of reading proficiency test?
Both articles contained the word "University".
If they didn't want unlimited use, they should never have offered it. It has pretty much always been a lie from many of these companies, and they should be fined for it. Unlimited with an asterisk defining the limitations of unlimited is not acceptable.
If you make widgets would you prefer them to be made available through a single reseller who then has complete control over your access to market, or would you prefer to have multiple resellers who you could then negotiate differential deals with?
And if you buy widgets, would you want to pay multiple resellers so you get a widget from one?
Indeed. From http://convergenciadigital.uol... "More than that, the judge considers that if it is not possible to break the encryption, the service itself must be prohibited, since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."
Should ban curtains (or any other window coverings) on windows too.
Well, there is that whole burning down the White House thing...
Now you complain we burned down the White House. Then you'll have your next election. Then you'll be whining and complaining that we didn't come and burn down the White House. We just can't win.
[CFAA] is supposed to be used to punish "hackers" who break into secure computer systems.
If they were "secure systems", then no one could break in, could they?
Therefore they are actually breaking into insecure systems.
He does not know Bolivia's reality
If Bill Gates knows nothing of Bolivia, it is probably from using Bing.
I'd hazard a guess that it is Bolivia's government he knows little about, more so than Bolivia itself.
In text, most people get to the point pretty quick. I've seen too many videos where the person seems like they will never get to the point. A video I would expect to last about a minute ends up being 5 or more, and they get to the point near the end. FB is already a waste of time. This would make it even worse. Not that I care (being a non-user).
I don't use Facebook, but if I did, I would drop it if it was all video. I hate finding something is a video and not text. I just close it. With the obvious exception if I was actually looking for a video.
Do they want to change to FaceTube?
"No Thank You!"
Re:How about content providers pull out of Europa
And Io, Ganymede, and Callisto while they are at it!
About a month ago the wife got a new laptop, and it had Win10. I was asked by my 5 year old to put flowers on "the screen when it goes to sleep". (Lock Screen.) So I set a picture, and wanted to see it. I looked for a "Lock" button. Didn't see one.
.
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I have Win8.1 (setup more or less to look like XP, as I am used to that, with Classic Shell.) and have a lock button in my start menu..
Wasn't sure where the heck it was in Win10. So I typed in the search box, and got Bing search results, none of which (well, at least in the first page of results) had the answer I was looking for. I copied my search and pasted it into Google and not only did it come up with good results, it came up with instructions where to find the Lock Button I was looking for right on the search result page. I didn't have to go any further..
Google knows more about Win10 than Microsoft Bing does! What the hell? And I have a nagging feeling I have encountered stuff like that before..
I may have some issues with Google, but at least they know how to find stuff.
i hate the way it's always reported. i.e. when there's a worm affecting linux systems, the article always makes that clear. when there's a trojan affecting osx, it says so too. but when shit hits windows, it's suddenly computers or PCs. why don't journalists start calling things what they are? WINDOWS viruses, WINDOWS rootkits, WINDOWS backdoors, etc. It's not PCs that are infected, it's PCs running WINDOWS that are infected in 99.99% of cases.
While I tend to agree with you, I am pretty sure it was APPLE advertising that established that "PC" meant "Windows".
Can you imagine the wall Donald Trump would want built if he believed extra terrestrials were real?
We'll have to tell Freeman Dyson that he isn't getting a sphere named after him after all.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em... and then take over.
While standing in line at an airport about 2 years ago, I overheard two security personnel have this exchange:
Security Person 1: Your turn to use this wand, I want to switch.
SP2: But I don't know how to use it.
SP1: Me either. I just wave it around in the air a bit. It's easy.
I have heard stories of incompetence, and I am not saying they are ALL like this, but the magnitude of this incompetence shocked me.
Good for corporations probably means bad for the peons... I mean people.