Well nine times out of ten you have to reboot the system to detect the keyboard, so it's not accurate...
That's the point of "Press F1 to continue". Since the computer can't passively determine if the keyboard has been reconnected, it asks for an active test that will definitely confirm it.
Worse are the "smart" climate control systems in some cars (like Saabs) where you set a desired "target temperature" and then the system adjusts the other settings automatically. Sounds great, until you reach the situation where you're quite happy with the current temperature but you can't get the system to stop blowing air no matter what temperature you set it at. For a simple task like this, it's usually preferable to just control the (few degrees of) settings yourself.
Hmm, you're right, that's a good point. I suppose a work-around hack would be to make a long mp3 of silence and put it somewhere so it's quickly accessible from the main menu, like in a special playlist. Then you could play that first to adjust your volume before playing something else.
ILoveJackDaniels.com also has a number of good "cheet sheet" references, mostly focused on web applications/web design: CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, VBScript, mod_rewrite, HTML, HTLM character entities, RGB hex color codes, Ruby on Rails, Microformats, and (now for something completely different) World of Warcraft.
Ah, so I have you to thank. I forgot my AIM password long ago, but I had set it to be remembered in Windows. So while I could still use it there, I was shut out on any other computer or OS. Using the information on your page, I was able to crack my own password by reversing the second hash (alphanumerics only) using tmto.org's impressive MD5 hash database. The partial plaintext I recovered was then enough to jog my memory and remember what I had set it to originally. And now I can login to AIM again without using the default client.
So, thanks for the informative webpage. It's scary, though, how much that bizarre hashing method they chose severely weakens the hash strength.
I've thought about this too, and the best idea I can come up with is to give them away, but specifically to people who wouldn't have bought it. Try to expose people to music that you think is good that's outside what they normally listen to. Worse case, they throw it out. Best case, they like it and go on to support the artist in the future by buying other CDs, seeing them live, etc. There's no loss to the artist, who wasn't about to sell to this person anyway, and only a possible benefit by increasing their exposure to a large audience.
Thanks for your example. As a result, I was also inspired to submit my two cents.
Let the candy producers sell whatever formulation of candy they wish (provided it is safe). But do not dilute widely established definitions to satisfying the marketing desires of large-scale mass producers. The less strigent the legal definition, the less useful the term is to the consumer, who will ultimately know less about what they're getting. The only reason for this proposed change is to allow manufacturers to pass off a inferior quality product while claiming it's the same quality as it has ever been. There's nothing stopping them from selling these products now, under different names and different terms. I don't see why the law should be changed.
Except that you wouldn't so much be bringing Internet to the Iraqis as are would be bringing Internet to the American troops, Haliburton contractors and Blackwater mercenaries. While this will eventually (years later) trickle down to average Iraqis, make no mistake; right now it's by westerners for westerners.
Exactly! There's a number of old films where the only copy is not in a studio's film vault somewhere but in the home of a passionate collector. If that copy is in a mass-market format like DVD, we'll lose some of original film print's quality but it'll still be a good representation of the film. But if that copy is an iTunes downloaded video, it's not going to be worth anything at all if iTunes is not still up and running. Which, in 70 years time, would not be surprising at all.
Exactly. Better (though still flawed due to fundamental differences between material goods and bandwidth) analogies for the GP's examples would be if went up to the card table and ask the dealer if you could have the chips, and he said yes. Or you went to a parking garage and the cashier gave you a claim ticket for someone else's car. The point is there is an authority in this situation (the router) that is advertising service, was asked by the user (the laptop) for service, and was explicitly granted service (an IP and routing information).
A more abundant material will occur naturally in greater concentrations, which reduces the amount of effort to retrieve and process a high-grade sample. For example, in an area where gold is plentiful, you may be able to find a large quantities of gold just by hand-panning in a stream. In an area where good is scare, you may have to sift through entire mountains to extract the same amount. The latter takes much more energy and investiment and has a much higher toll on the environment than the former.
Because data is not as straightforward is talk time.
If long distance costs by the minute then it's quite easy to figure out how much it'll cost to call Grandma and talk for an hour. But if your internet costs by the megabyte, it's not immediately clear how much routine web activities will cost. How much will a VOIP call be? How much to video chat with your friend? How much to download a track from iTunes (aside from what Apple charges you)? How many kilobytes are in a Slashdot post? The average person has no idea what amounts of data are involved in all these different scenarios.
Even if you are more knowledgable than most and have a general idea, the specifics can vary wildly depending on all sorts of parameters; site design, file format, compression settings, bitrates, codec choices, resolution, etc... It's not a meaningful metric to most people. It's why reporters keep using "libraries of congress" as a benchmark.
The article says it was her home that was vandalized. It also says she had recently evicted a rental tenant but it does not state that the vacated apartment was the one that was struck. It may be that the tenant posted the landlord's home address rather than the property he was evicted from. Or perhaps both the landlord and the ex-tenant lived in the same building and both apartments were hit. The article is not very clear on this point, but calling it her "home" strongly implies it's where she personally resided.
Whirlpool is a great resource, they list pretty every plan offered by every significant ISP in Australia, including bandwidth caps. Which is important since bandwidth limits are standard practice for all ISPs. While some ISPs will gouge you with excessive usage fees (particularly in business plans), most will instead throttle your bandwidth after you've hit the max, normally to 64kbps. A few ISPs do offer unlimited plans, but they are expensive (over A$100 a month) and offer no real guarentees, as the "unlimited" accounts are the first to be shaped if the ISP starts straining its upstream capacity.
Yeah, I'm a little miffed about that. The PCjr was the first home computer my family had and we had a blast with it. Some of the points in the article are a bit unfair; the wireless keyboard wasn't the only option, we had a wired one with perfectly normal keys. Some of the software was on the bizarre cartridges but most came on perfectly normal 5.25" floppy disks (including the original King's Quest, originally written specifically for the PCjr). Sure, it didn't have a hard drive, but that wasn't very unusual at the time, and is perfectly understandable since it was intended as affordable system.
For a computer of the time it had unusually good video and audio capacity (okay, so it was basically 4 channels of PC speaker. Still, that was better than most). There was a ton of good software for it. It came with BASIC in the system ROM (me and my brother cut our teeth transcribing games from Family Computer magazine). If it weren't for the PCjr, I would be undoubtably be a different person today.
Depending on what you want to do, you may be able to get away with using a linux-based router running OpenWRT (or something similar) for some services. You won't be able to have any large local storage (although you can access other drives over the local network), but the power usage would be pretty hard to beat.
This seems like a silly place to use a web application, since your photos normally reside on your computer. Uploading a two-to-three megabyte file just to run some simple corrections that are handled by dozens of already available tools (including many free or preloaded ones like iPhoto and Picasa), then downloading it again...
I tried to find a definitive price (the article you link says $6,000) but I couldn't easily find one. I could, however, find a rumour it has been shelved.
Keep in mind that's 6000 AUD, so that's around $4800 US by today's exchange rates.
Maybe their tests are off, or like an iPod - it simply gives the user a better experience while being technically inferior in some places.
Except that last time I checked, Consumer Reports still recommended the iPod among digital media players. They do account for things like ease of use in their ratings.
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Well nine times out of ten you have to reboot the system to detect the keyboard, so it's not accurate...
That's the point of "Press F1 to continue". Since the computer can't passively determine if the keyboard has been reconnected, it asks for an active test that will definitely confirm it.
Worse are the "smart" climate control systems in some cars (like Saabs) where you set a desired "target temperature" and then the system adjusts the other settings automatically. Sounds great, until you reach the situation where you're quite happy with the current temperature but you can't get the system to stop blowing air no matter what temperature you set it at. For a simple task like this, it's usually preferable to just control the (few degrees of) settings yourself.
Hmm, you're right, that's a good point. I suppose a work-around hack would be to make a long mp3 of silence and put it somewhere so it's quickly accessible from the main menu, like in a special playlist. Then you could play that first to adjust your volume before playing something else.
Many high-end receivers have this feature. It's pretty nifty.
He didn't say he didn't know what an RSS feed was. His question is, what does Feedburner do?
Any Korean speakers out there that can tell us what the text on the screen said, as well as what the man said at the end?
ILoveJackDaniels.com also has a number of good "cheet sheet" references, mostly focused on web applications/web design: CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, VBScript, mod_rewrite, HTML, HTLM character entities, RGB hex color codes, Ruby on Rails, Microformats, and (now for something completely different) World of Warcraft.
Ah, so I have you to thank. I forgot my AIM password long ago, but I had set it to be remembered in Windows. So while I could still use it there, I was shut out on any other computer or OS. Using the information on your page, I was able to crack my own password by reversing the second hash (alphanumerics only) using tmto.org's impressive MD5 hash database. The partial plaintext I recovered was then enough to jog my memory and remember what I had set it to originally. And now I can login to AIM again without using the default client.
So, thanks for the informative webpage. It's scary, though, how much that bizarre hashing method they chose severely weakens the hash strength.
I've thought about this too, and the best idea I can come up with is to give them away, but specifically to people who wouldn't have bought it. Try to expose people to music that you think is good that's outside what they normally listen to. Worse case, they throw it out. Best case, they like it and go on to support the artist in the future by buying other CDs, seeing them live, etc. There's no loss to the artist, who wasn't about to sell to this person anyway, and only a possible benefit by increasing their exposure to a large audience.
Thanks for your example. As a result, I was also inspired to submit my two cents.
Let the candy producers sell whatever formulation of candy they wish (provided it is safe). But do not dilute widely established definitions to satisfying the marketing desires of large-scale mass producers. The less strigent the legal definition, the less useful the term is to the consumer, who will ultimately know less about what they're getting. The only reason for this proposed change is to allow manufacturers to pass off a inferior quality product while claiming it's the same quality as it has ever been. There's nothing stopping them from selling these products now, under different names and different terms. I don't see why the law should be changed.
Except that you wouldn't so much be bringing Internet to the Iraqis as are would be bringing Internet to the American troops, Haliburton contractors and Blackwater mercenaries. While this will eventually (years later) trickle down to average Iraqis, make no mistake; right now it's by westerners for westerners.
Tell me more about how you can get wood from the Internet.
Exactly! There's a number of old films where the only copy is not in a studio's film vault somewhere but in the home of a passionate collector. If that copy is in a mass-market format like DVD, we'll lose some of original film print's quality but it'll still be a good representation of the film. But if that copy is an iTunes downloaded video, it's not going to be worth anything at all if iTunes is not still up and running. Which, in 70 years time, would not be surprising at all.
Found that video you mentioned.
Exactly. Better (though still flawed due to fundamental differences between material goods and bandwidth) analogies for the GP's examples would be if went up to the card table and ask the dealer if you could have the chips, and he said yes. Or you went to a parking garage and the cashier gave you a claim ticket for someone else's car. The point is there is an authority in this situation (the router) that is advertising service, was asked by the user (the laptop) for service, and was explicitly granted service (an IP and routing information).
A more abundant material will occur naturally in greater concentrations, which reduces the amount of effort to retrieve and process a high-grade sample. For example, in an area where gold is plentiful, you may be able to find a large quantities of gold just by hand-panning in a stream. In an area where good is scare, you may have to sift through entire mountains to extract the same amount. The latter takes much more energy and investiment and has a much higher toll on the environment than the former.
Because data is not as straightforward is talk time.
If long distance costs by the minute then it's quite easy to figure out how much it'll cost to call Grandma and talk for an hour. But if your internet costs by the megabyte, it's not immediately clear how much routine web activities will cost. How much will a VOIP call be? How much to video chat with your friend? How much to download a track from iTunes (aside from what Apple charges you)? How many kilobytes are in a Slashdot post? The average person has no idea what amounts of data are involved in all these different scenarios.
Even if you are more knowledgable than most and have a general idea, the specifics can vary wildly depending on all sorts of parameters; site design, file format, compression settings, bitrates, codec choices, resolution, etc... It's not a meaningful metric to most people. It's why reporters keep using "libraries of congress" as a benchmark.
They do offer a flash version. It's called a nano. It's also smaller.
The article says it was her home that was vandalized. It also says she had recently evicted a rental tenant but it does not state that the vacated apartment was the one that was struck. It may be that the tenant posted the landlord's home address rather than the property he was evicted from. Or perhaps both the landlord and the ex-tenant lived in the same building and both apartments were hit. The article is not very clear on this point, but calling it her "home" strongly implies it's where she personally resided.
Whirlpool is a great resource, they list pretty every plan offered by every significant ISP in Australia, including bandwidth caps. Which is important since bandwidth limits are standard practice for all ISPs. While some ISPs will gouge you with excessive usage fees (particularly in business plans), most will instead throttle your bandwidth after you've hit the max, normally to 64kbps. A few ISPs do offer unlimited plans, but they are expensive (over A$100 a month) and offer no real guarentees, as the "unlimited" accounts are the first to be shaped if the ISP starts straining its upstream capacity.
Yeah, I'm a little miffed about that. The PCjr was the first home computer my family had and we had a blast with it. Some of the points in the article are a bit unfair; the wireless keyboard wasn't the only option, we had a wired one with perfectly normal keys. Some of the software was on the bizarre cartridges but most came on perfectly normal 5.25" floppy disks (including the original King's Quest, originally written specifically for the PCjr). Sure, it didn't have a hard drive, but that wasn't very unusual at the time, and is perfectly understandable since it was intended as affordable system.
For a computer of the time it had unusually good video and audio capacity (okay, so it was basically 4 channels of PC speaker. Still, that was better than most). There was a ton of good software for it. It came with BASIC in the system ROM (me and my brother cut our teeth transcribing games from Family Computer magazine). If it weren't for the PCjr, I would be undoubtably be a different person today.
Depending on what you want to do, you may be able to get away with using a linux-based router running OpenWRT (or something similar) for some services. You won't be able to have any large local storage (although you can access other drives over the local network), but the power usage would be pretty hard to beat.
This seems like a silly place to use a web application, since your photos normally reside on your computer. Uploading a two-to-three megabyte file just to run some simple corrections that are handled by dozens of already available tools (including many free or preloaded ones like iPhoto and Picasa), then downloading it again...
I tried to find a definitive price (the article you link says $6,000) but I couldn't easily find one. I could, however, find a rumour it has been shelved.
Keep in mind that's 6000 AUD, so that's around $4800 US by today's exchange rates.
Maybe their tests are off, or like an iPod - it simply gives the user a better experience while being technically inferior in some places.
Except that last time I checked, Consumer Reports still recommended the iPod among digital media players. They do account for things like ease of use in their ratings.