How does the open video format handle styling the UI? One of the reasons sites love flash for video so much is that it gives them complete control over how the video is presented, e.g. available controls, positions, colors and themes to match the rest of the page, etc. Then you have the more intrusive things, like Youtube's overlay ads, text captions, and suggested videos after playback finishes.
If open video means a widget that site owners have no control over, like Quicktime video embedding, then commercial site operators aren't going to be too keen on it.
It's perhaps worth having some dead space on a virtual keyboard to avoid seemingly arbitrary decisions on very-near-edge cases ('you were 0.01 mm closer to e than r'), but I'd wager you'll still have a higher ratio of active area than a physical keyboard.
You get tactile feedback on a touchscreen when you touch it.
Ha, okay, you're right, but I think you know what I mean; you don't get any distinguishing tactile feedback that gives you information about what button or element you pressed (or missed).
For a physical keyboard, this seems reasonable - if you eliminate edges where the keys touch, each other, then you're less likely to accidentally press two keys at once. But for a virtual keyboard like on the iPod, it doesn't matter if you "touch" two keys at once with your finger - the software can determine which one you were actually closer to, and only register that.
While there are certainly drawbacks to a touchscreen, such as lack of tactile feedback, this is one area where they have an advantage - a larger percentage of usuable surface area, as touches that would be a multiple button mash on physical keyboards can be unambiguously mapped to a single key in software.
In one demo, a player used her arms and legs to hit balls in an attempt to destroy a brick wall, and in another game, an employee threw virtual "paint" on a canvas to create a painting, even drawing an elephant using a silhouette feature.
Sounds great, but I'd be much more impressed if they had a live demo with random untrained people. Even in the demo video, you can see a noticeable input lag, particular when the guy does his "victory dance" at around 27 seconds.
The devil is in the details with these things, Microsoft is certainly not the first to try at something like this.
Argh, I hate this. Why is it that so many programs make copying the formatting when pasting the default? In my experience, it's almost never what I want. Now, granted, I'm a programmer, so I'm normally much more concerned with the content of the text than its appearance. But even when I am created a formatted document, 9 out of 10 times I want the pasted text to confirm to the formatting I'm already using, rather than creating an ugly mismatched clash of styles.
I'm not wholesale against copying formatting, but it shouldn't be the default option. Unfortunately, it's often much more difficult (e.g. 3-4 clicks deep through a menu option) or impossible (falling back to the aforementioned copy-through-notepad hack) to paste without styling.
For the casual user, perhaps, but there's plenty of people whose jobs require them to keep abreast of kernel development. A daily summary you could listen on your ride to work would be quite handy.
The hacker is an idiot. There is no reason to trust that the data he returns is correct. This is vital information, if any of the data has been tampered it could very easily be fatal.
Unless the Virginia authorities have some way of verifying that the data hasn't been changed (unlikely, since they don't have backups), there's no point in paying the ransom at all.
No, re-read it yourself. They're were not talking about auto-run, they were talking about detecting the disk in the drive without reading from it:
... if you issued just the right extremely clever sequence of commands, you could determine whether a disk was in the floppy drive without spinning up the drive.
You're correct, but one needs to choose their words carefully. The chance of an event occurring within a given range of timedoes increase for large intervals of time. e.g. you have a much higher chance of getting hit by lightning over your entire lifespan than you do tomorrow.
What I DO NOT want is a phone service that gives me a friggin "select from the following options" load of BS when I lift up the receiver! I have enough of that crap when phoning help desks.
According to the article, they've made it an option to turn that off:
Google Voice eliminates some of the annoyances of its predecessor. You can, if you wish, turn off that "press 1, press 2" option, so when the phone rings, you can just pick it up and start talking.
Funny you should say that, all the Office Depots around here (northeast Ohio) closed years ago.
Re:Ahh, the good ol' days...
on
Jurassic Web
·
· Score: 1
Shugashack? You newbie, in the good old days it was sCary's Quakeholio. Of course the real classic site was Joost Schuur's Aftershock, which folded before the game was even released!
Slashdot Mirror
Don't forget that Americans don't have nearly as much time off each year to travel as citizens of nearly all other first world countries.
How does the open video format handle styling the UI? One of the reasons sites love flash for video so much is that it gives them complete control over how the video is presented, e.g. available controls, positions, colors and themes to match the rest of the page, etc. Then you have the more intrusive things, like Youtube's overlay ads, text captions, and suggested videos after playback finishes.
If open video means a widget that site owners have no control over, like Quicktime video embedding, then commercial site operators aren't going to be too keen on it.
It's perhaps worth having some dead space on a virtual keyboard to avoid seemingly arbitrary decisions on very-near-edge cases ('you were 0.01 mm closer to e than r'), but I'd wager you'll still have a higher ratio of active area than a physical keyboard.
You get tactile feedback on a touchscreen when you touch it.
Ha, okay, you're right, but I think you know what I mean; you don't get any distinguishing tactile feedback that gives you information about what button or element you pressed (or missed).
For a physical keyboard, this seems reasonable - if you eliminate edges where the keys touch, each other, then you're less likely to accidentally press two keys at once. But for a virtual keyboard like on the iPod, it doesn't matter if you "touch" two keys at once with your finger - the software can determine which one you were actually closer to, and only register that.
While there are certainly drawbacks to a touchscreen, such as lack of tactile feedback, this is one area where they have an advantage - a larger percentage of usuable surface area, as touches that would be a multiple button mash on physical keyboards can be unambiguously mapped to a single key in software.
Hmm...
In one demo, a player used her arms and legs to hit balls in an attempt to destroy a brick wall, and in another game, an employee threw virtual "paint" on a canvas to create a painting, even drawing an elephant using a silhouette feature.
Sounds great, but I'd be much more impressed if they had a live demo with random untrained people. Even in the demo video, you can see a noticeable input lag, particular when the guy does his "victory dance" at around 27 seconds.
The devil is in the details with these things, Microsoft is certainly not the first to try at something like this.
Argh, I hate this. Why is it that so many programs make copying the formatting when pasting the default? In my experience, it's almost never what I want. Now, granted, I'm a programmer, so I'm normally much more concerned with the content of the text than its appearance. But even when I am created a formatted document, 9 out of 10 times I want the pasted text to confirm to the formatting I'm already using, rather than creating an ugly mismatched clash of styles.
I'm not wholesale against copying formatting, but it shouldn't be the default option. Unfortunately, it's often much more difficult (e.g. 3-4 clicks deep through a menu option) or impossible (falling back to the aforementioned copy-through-notepad hack) to paste without styling.
What's the RIAA's job again? I thought the headline meant that Amazon would just the listeners directly...
You could at least argue that the sequence with Scotty teleporting into the Enterprises water cooling system was character building (I don't see how)
I think that was a in-joke nod to all the time Scotty spent crawling up into the Jefferies tubes to fix the warp drive.
Read TFA more closely. He has reported for both the Times and the IHT. It's his IHT work that has disappeared, while the Times stuff is still there.
This why Google Notebook is (was) so nice - makes it very easy to copy (with most formatting retained), which keeping the link to where it came from.
I've dabbled with some of the free replacements (like Zotaro) but none have been able to match the features and ease of use of Google's service.
Duke Nuken Forever
1997 - 2009
tl;dnf
For the casual user, perhaps, but there's plenty of people whose jobs require them to keep abreast of kernel development. A daily summary you could listen on your ride to work would be quite handy.
The hacker is an idiot. There is no reason to trust that the data he returns is correct. This is vital information, if any of the data has been tampered it could very easily be fatal.
Unless the Virginia authorities have some way of verifying that the data hasn't been changed (unlikely, since they don't have backups), there's no point in paying the ransom at all.
I wonder if it was inspired by Johnny Lee's automatic projector calibration system (from 2003) which uses a very similar method. (Yes, that's the same guy that does the Wiimote hacks)
Yes, don't you hate it when people don't ask google first?
Er, what? How is remix a nerd term? If anything, it makes it sound more mainstream, using a term from music world.
No, re-read it yourself. They're were not talking about auto-run, they were talking about detecting the disk in the drive without reading from it:
... if you issued just the right extremely clever sequence of commands, you could determine whether a disk was in the floppy drive without spinning up the drive.
You're correct, but one needs to choose their words carefully. The chance of an event occurring within a given range of time does increase for large intervals of time. e.g. you have a much higher chance of getting hit by lightning over your entire lifespan than you do tomorrow.
The Atom CPU is listed as a minimum system requirement, it should run just fine on a 'normal' Intel CPU (and I'd wager it's fine on AMDs as well).
Apache's embedded database project Derby was original IBM Cloudscape.
Yes, most providers do have email to SMS gateways, but unfortunately there's no way to tell what provider a given phone number is on.
What I DO NOT want is a phone service that gives me a friggin "select from the following options" load of BS when I lift up the receiver! I have enough of that crap when phoning help desks.
According to the article, they've made it an option to turn that off:
Google Voice eliminates some of the annoyances of its predecessor. You can, if you wish, turn off that "press 1, press 2" option, so when the phone rings, you can just pick it up and start talking.
Funny you should say that, all the Office Depots around here (northeast Ohio) closed years ago.
Shugashack? You newbie, in the good old days it was sCary's Quakeholio. Of course the real classic site was Joost Schuur's Aftershock, which folded before the game was even released!