and to force a power off condition, the button must be held for 3-5 seconds.
These days, there are new guidelines, which are that a forced power off condition must occur if the button is held for 0.5 seconds, or pushed 3 times within 3 seconds.
I always thought with the shift to ATX style power supplies, holding down the power button for 3-5 seconds to force power off was extremely annoying. Now in a car it can be extremely dangerous!
It's fucking sad. 10-15 years ago the Aztec was so ugly compared to everything else that you'd spot them and laugh at them from 2 blocks away. Now we've got Smart Cars and fucking Nissan Cubes rolling around and Aztecs barely even mentally register anymore.
Nissan Cube? That thing is attractive next to the Nissan Juke.
Originally Excel was a Macintosh-only software product. At the time Microsoft's spreadsheet for MS-DOS was Multiplan. They didn't produce a PC version of Excel until they released Windows.
But Apple does currently offer the competing product iWork Numbers.
But hose systems are SLOW. I don't know of any network that beats the bandwidth of driving over a portable hard drive. Seriously, cloud services are attrocious, especially when your company has a puny outgoing pipe all trying to handle the data from 500 people going to the outsourced backoffice servers in rural India.
Our facility's Internet connection is so slow, when I'm downloading updated installers (4GB downloads), I'll do it at home at night and bring it in so I won't cripple the site's network.
But how much productivity is lost because I need to use my personal laptop to transfer screenshots from a spectrum analyzer (USB port only!) via emailing to myself?
My company does basically the same thing, and as an electronics engineer that spends a bunch of time at a test bench, this SUCKS!
Our company blocks all USB flash drives except aegis secure key. These have a keypad on them so you have to enter a PIN to unlock the device at the hardware level before they can be used. Then they can be used in any OS or device. 10 wrong PIN entries and the drive is wiped. They are ludicrously expensive, but they don't get in the way too much, as you can unlock it, stick it in a client's laptop, then they can transfer files onto it, without them requiring special software.
Why, do you think he used an Arduino and Delphi to make a MIDI interface to some foot pedals that convert the stomping of his feet to the proper text format in real time?
All ISP's do is forward any warning messages from Content Providers to subscribers but there's no real obligation for a subscriber to do anything other than to toss it in the trash.
Recurrence rates are claimed to be low, so just forwarding warnings "seem to be helping", so I'm hoping that's enough to keep content providers at bay. Some try to add shady text and links to their notices, to trick people to identify themselves.
HBO seems to be the most active, and target Torrents, so I just make sure I download their shows from streaming services, or through a VPN.
The new low-end replacement Fitbit has a replaceable battery so clearly somebody is listening.
The Zip? It was released about the same time as the One and was always marketed as a lower end model.
They dropped the One because they want to focus on watched based fitness trackers. What's the point of having a fitness tracker if everyone else doesn't know you have a fitness tracker?
Even if it's not as accurate as a waist mount model.
No, now I got reddit redesign to put up with, with more whitespace than a freshly painted looney bin, 1/3 info display, slowed to a crawl, just so they can inject more upcoming ads than Putin does Russian expats.
Can't forget the excessive use of large animated full width pictures as you scroll through an article. It's more annoying than the animated "Under Construction" signs.
Underpowered hardware. 1GB Flash and 256MB RAM just wasn't enough, especially when it comes to Web browsing. It would fit the core OS barely, but it would drastically limit what you could do with the device. Double the storage and RAM would have increased the price, but it would also have lead to a much more useful device.
I think the specs would have been ok, with a decent OS. Sugar GUI was all interpreted and ran dog slow. I felt they were trying to bite off too much at once with hardware design, plus "new revolutionary UI paradigm". They should have tried to design it around a more standard Linux distro. Damn Small Linux for example would run serviceable on that machine. A more standard Linux platform would make it easier for people to target content for it.
At the time I had systems that were Pentium III with 256MB RAM. Not fast, but serviceable for web browsing, Productivity software, etc. On the storage it did have an SD slot, but even 1GB should be plenty. Look at what can fit in a CD size Live CD.
Why on earth do you have amber alerts enabled on your phone then? Turn them off!
I don't understand why anyone volunteers to be interrupted at random times for something that doesn't impact them and which they can't do anything about. Other than text and email notifications, all notifications on my phone are off. Audio and visual. If I want to check something, I check it. If I don't want to check it, it is not allowed to badger me and try to steal my attention from what I'm doing. And that especially applies to sleeping.
I live in Canada. Only now are the carriers enabling emergency text alerts. I disabled Amber alerts in my settings. It's not that I don't care, it's just significantly more likely to irritate me with absolutely no gain. If it showed up in my drop down menu with no sound, or even a brief "Bing" I would be ok and more apt to pay attention to them. I have heard of Americans complain about useless weather warnings coming across by emergency texts in some locals.
I have "Do Not Disturb" settings at night set to only notify on phone calls. Since upgrading phones, and thus installing the latest version of all apps, I'm very annoyed at the number of useless notifications I'm having to disable. During the day I only want notifications for calls, texts, and IM's. Emails generally are low priority.
I''m just amazed that people think this is something new. Since the industrial revolution technology has been replacing jobs. It's not like it's a new invention.
Pretty much the only thing I miss about Windows is the File Manager.
I really don't think it's that great.Then again I usually have to struggle to keep it as "details", no thumbnails, no metadata, show extensions, shows hidden files, please don't hang when I right click a file and it loads who knows how many extra handlers.
Well, except for the fact that Windows applications use File Manager for their load and save functions, which makes the interface much more consistent from one application to the next. Having a mix of GTK2, GTK3, and program-specific file dialogs like those in Libre Office, is just sucky.
One downside is it's a little too rich for its own good. I remember back in the day under poor attempts to lock down a machine by hiding explorer, "run" from start menu, my computer, etc could be circumvented by opening the open window of an allowable application, and navigating to cmd.exe/command.com.
One upside is in WinPE / WinRE that doesn't have access to a file manager, you can open notepad from the cmd window, open the open dialog, and get a bare bones explorer window for basic file management.
When BlackBerry tried re-inventing their mobile platform (BB10), the hate was so overwhelmingly strong that the platform was never allowed to compete on its own merits. They constantly had crap thrown in their face, and most people even refused to believe that they had something new. Even though I'd argue they made a better platform, they didn't have Microsoft's large bank account or plethora of dirt-cheap devices. So once they fizzled out, it was with a far smaller user base.
I thought it was a bit more of an Osborne effect. Classic "BlackBerry OS" was starting to reach it's limits. While Android and iOS were getting better, RIM kept saying "BB10 is just around the corner, it will fix all the problems." When it did arrive, it was too little, too late. RIM was a little cocky though, thinking they still owned the smartphone market while they were being passed by.
Then there was the Blackberry Playbook. It ran an abortion of an OS. QNX based, but not really BB10. It also didn't support native email... on a Blackberry device.
None the less I thought the Blackberry Z10 hardware, and the BB10 OS were decent. It even had an Android compatibility layer that helped with the app problems.
Cyclists are safe, because their own bodies are on the line. It's just stupid to be a blind rule-following robot and stop at every red light when you are moving 5-10 mph and can plainly see no cross traffic.
Most of them I see don't drive as if their own body is on the line. Two examples I can think of:
Four lanes of traffic in our direction were stopped at a crosswalk where the pedestrian had activated the overhead flashing lights to cross from left to right. I was stopped in the front in the right hand curb lane. The pedestrian was about half way in front of my car when I noticed a cyclist going full steam down the gutter in my wing mirror. I honked my horn which startled and stopped the pedestrian, and she was confused about why until the cyclist went wizzing by. The cyclist would have hit the pedestrian otherwise. I should have deployed the passenger door instead.
Another case was at a 3-way stop where one of the directions had two lanes. One straight, one right. Continuously every day I would see cyclists passing in the gutter of the "RIGHT TURN ONLY" lane to run the stop sign and go straight. You have to be pretty brain dead to pass on the right hand side of cars with right turn signals on, in a right turn only lane. I have no idea why they didn't just lane split between the straight and turn lanes. We've heard about cyclists "taking the lane", so at this intersection I would "take the gutter" to reduce the chance of a cyclist being "right hooked". They'd just get pissed off and suddenly decide they were a pedestrian and start biking on the sidewalk and blow through the crosswalk at 15MPH.
3. How do you support students who use assisstive technology on computers (screen readers, specific high-visibility colour desktop designs, desktops in other languages, etc.)? How do you deal with students who sent skieing in the holiday before the exams and broke both arms (again, I have seen this -- and we sorted it out)?
This one is currently done all the time. Frequently students with learning disabilities are given special accommodation. Usually in a room separate from the rest of the class, sometimes given additional time to write. I'm sure those assistive technologies are accommodated as well.
So far at least, Samsung hasn't bought into the "let's put a hole in the display" or the "let's take the analog audio away" or the "let's take away the memory card" stupids, but we certainly are seeing all of those things in various combinations from other non-Apple phone manufacturers.
Samsung does like to push "Let's make the screen curved" stupid. Which results in: -Distorted colors / image towards the edges -Hard to hold the phone without accidentally touching the screen -Hard to design a case that protects the side of the screen -Screen more likely to break
They, along with a lot of others, like to subscribe to "let's make the back of the phone out of glass so it too can break, and make the phone hard to hold onto without a case"
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and to force a power off condition, the button must be held for 3-5 seconds.
These days, there are new guidelines, which are that a forced power off condition must occur if the button is held for 0.5 seconds, or pushed 3 times within 3 seconds.
I always thought with the shift to ATX style power supplies, holding down the power button for 3-5 seconds to force power off was extremely annoying. Now in a car it can be extremely dangerous!
It's fucking sad. 10-15 years ago the Aztec was so ugly compared to everything else that you'd spot them and laugh at them from 2 blocks away. Now we've got Smart Cars and fucking Nissan Cubes rolling around and Aztecs barely even mentally register anymore.
Nissan Cube? That thing is attractive next to the Nissan Juke.
Craziness! Next you'll want to post Unicode, or punctuation marks on an iPhone.
Originally Excel was a Macintosh-only software product. At the time Microsoft's spreadsheet for MS-DOS was Multiplan. They didn't produce a PC version of Excel until they released Windows.
But Apple does currently offer the competing product iWork Numbers.
Was his name Mel?
Shift+F10 also works
But hose systems are SLOW. I don't know of any network that beats the bandwidth of driving over a portable hard drive. Seriously, cloud services are attrocious, especially when your company has a puny outgoing pipe all trying to handle the data from 500 people going to the outsourced backoffice servers in rural India.
Our facility's Internet connection is so slow, when I'm downloading updated installers (4GB downloads), I'll do it at home at night and bring it in so I won't cripple the site's network.
But how much productivity is lost because I need to use my personal laptop to transfer screenshots from a spectrum analyzer (USB port only!) via emailing to myself?
My company does basically the same thing, and as an electronics engineer that spends a bunch of time at a test bench, this SUCKS!
Our company blocks all USB flash drives except aegis secure key. These have a keypad on them so you have to enter a PIN to unlock the device at the hardware level before they can be used. Then they can be used in any OS or device. 10 wrong PIN entries and the drive is wiped. They are ludicrously expensive, but they don't get in the way too much, as you can unlock it, stick it in a client's laptop, then they can transfer files onto it, without them requiring special software.
Why, do you think he used an Arduino and Delphi to make a MIDI interface to some foot pedals that convert the stomping of his feet to the proper text format in real time?
I don't know why, but I actually LOL'd at that.
All ISP's do is forward any warning messages from Content Providers to subscribers but there's no real obligation for a subscriber to do anything other than to toss it in the trash.
Recurrence rates are claimed to be low, so just forwarding warnings "seem to be helping", so I'm hoping that's enough to keep content providers at bay. Some try to add shady text and links to their notices, to trick people to identify themselves.
HBO seems to be the most active, and target Torrents, so I just make sure I download their shows from streaming services, or through a VPN.
The new low-end replacement Fitbit has a replaceable battery so clearly somebody is listening.
The Zip? It was released about the same time as the One and was always marketed as a lower end model.
They dropped the One because they want to focus on watched based fitness trackers. What's the point of having a fitness tracker if everyone else doesn't know you have a fitness tracker?
Even if it's not as accurate as a waist mount model.
No, now I got reddit redesign to put up with, with more whitespace than a freshly painted looney bin, 1/3 info display, slowed to a crawl, just so they can inject more upcoming ads than Putin does Russian expats.
Can't forget the excessive use of large animated full width pictures as you scroll through an article. It's more annoying than the animated "Under Construction" signs.
It looks like the main change is they are switching from tabs with angled sides to tabs with vertical sides. Hardly earth-shattering.
Wait. Doesn't Firefox tabs have vertical sides? Is Chrome actually copying Firefox for once?
Underpowered hardware. 1GB Flash and 256MB RAM just wasn't enough, especially when it comes to Web browsing. It would fit the core OS barely, but it would drastically limit what you could do with the device. Double the storage and RAM would have increased the price, but it would also have lead to a much more useful device.
I think the specs would have been ok, with a decent OS. Sugar GUI was all interpreted and ran dog slow. I felt they were trying to bite off too much at once with hardware design, plus "new revolutionary UI paradigm". They should have tried to design it around a more standard Linux distro. Damn Small Linux for example would run serviceable on that machine. A more standard Linux platform would make it easier for people to target content for it.
At the time I had systems that were Pentium III with 256MB RAM. Not fast, but serviceable for web browsing, Productivity software, etc. On the storage it did have an SD slot, but even 1GB should be plenty. Look at what can fit in a CD size Live CD.
Why on earth do you have amber alerts enabled on your phone then? Turn them off!
I don't understand why anyone volunteers to be interrupted at random times for something that doesn't impact them and which they can't do anything about. Other than text and email notifications, all notifications on my phone are off. Audio and visual. If I want to check something, I check it. If I don't want to check it, it is not allowed to badger me and try to steal my attention from what I'm doing. And that especially applies to sleeping.
I live in Canada. Only now are the carriers enabling emergency text alerts. I disabled Amber alerts in my settings. It's not that I don't care, it's just significantly more likely to irritate me with absolutely no gain. If it showed up in my drop down menu with no sound, or even a brief "Bing" I would be ok and more apt to pay attention to them. I have heard of Americans complain about useless weather warnings coming across by emergency texts in some locals.
I have "Do Not Disturb" settings at night set to only notify on phone calls. Since upgrading phones, and thus installing the latest version of all apps, I'm very annoyed at the number of useless notifications I'm having to disable. During the day I only want notifications for calls, texts, and IM's. Emails generally are low priority.
I''m just amazed that people think this is something new. Since the industrial revolution technology has been replacing jobs. It's not like it's a new invention.
Far Manager is a good substitute.
You might be a good potential user for Far Manager
Pretty much the only thing I miss about Windows is the File Manager.
I really don't think it's that great.Then again I usually have to struggle to keep it as "details", no thumbnails, no metadata, show extensions, shows hidden files, please don't hang when I right click a file and it loads who knows how many extra handlers.
Well, except for the fact that Windows applications use File Manager for their load and save functions, which makes the interface much more consistent from one application to the next. Having a mix of GTK2, GTK3, and program-specific file dialogs like those in Libre Office, is just sucky.
One downside is it's a little too rich for its own good. I remember back in the day under poor attempts to lock down a machine by hiding explorer, "run" from start menu, my computer, etc could be circumvented by opening the open window of an allowable application, and navigating to cmd.exe/command.com.
One upside is in WinPE / WinRE that doesn't have access to a file manager, you can open notepad from the cmd window, open the open dialog, and get a bare bones explorer window for basic file management.
When BlackBerry tried re-inventing their mobile platform (BB10), the hate was so overwhelmingly strong that the platform was never allowed to compete on its own merits. They constantly had crap thrown in their face, and most people even refused to believe that they had something new. Even though I'd argue they made a better platform, they didn't have Microsoft's large bank account or plethora of dirt-cheap devices. So once they fizzled out, it was with a far smaller user base.
I thought it was a bit more of an Osborne effect. Classic "BlackBerry OS" was starting to reach it's limits. While Android and iOS were getting better, RIM kept saying "BB10 is just around the corner, it will fix all the problems." When it did arrive, it was too little, too late. RIM was a little cocky though, thinking they still owned the smartphone market while they were being passed by.
Then there was the Blackberry Playbook. It ran an abortion of an OS. QNX based, but not really BB10. It also didn't support native email... on a Blackberry device.
None the less I thought the Blackberry Z10 hardware, and the BB10 OS were decent. It even had an Android compatibility layer that helped with the app problems.
Cyclists are safe, because their own bodies are on the line. It's just stupid to be a blind rule-following robot and stop at every red light when you are moving 5-10 mph and can plainly see no cross traffic.
Most of them I see don't drive as if their own body is on the line. Two examples I can think of:
Four lanes of traffic in our direction were stopped at a crosswalk where the pedestrian had activated the overhead flashing lights to cross from left to right. I was stopped in the front in the right hand curb lane. The pedestrian was about half way in front of my car when I noticed a cyclist going full steam down the gutter in my wing mirror. I honked my horn which startled and stopped the pedestrian, and she was confused about why until the cyclist went wizzing by. The cyclist would have hit the pedestrian otherwise. I should have deployed the passenger door instead.
Another case was at a 3-way stop where one of the directions had two lanes. One straight, one right. Continuously every day I would see cyclists passing in the gutter of the "RIGHT TURN ONLY" lane to run the stop sign and go straight. You have to be pretty brain dead to pass on the right hand side of cars with right turn signals on, in a right turn only lane. I have no idea why they didn't just lane split between the straight and turn lanes. We've heard about cyclists "taking the lane", so at this intersection I would "take the gutter" to reduce the chance of a cyclist being "right hooked". They'd just get pissed off and suddenly decide they were a pedestrian and start biking on the sidewalk and blow through the crosswalk at 15MPH.
3. How do you support students who use assisstive technology on computers (screen readers, specific high-visibility colour desktop designs, desktops in other languages, etc.)? How do you deal with students who sent skieing in the holiday before the exams and broke both arms (again, I have seen this -- and we sorted it out)?
This one is currently done all the time. Frequently students with learning disabilities are given special accommodation. Usually in a room separate from the rest of the class, sometimes given additional time to write. I'm sure those assistive technologies are accommodated as well.
So far at least, Samsung hasn't bought into the "let's put a hole in the display" or the "let's take the analog audio away" or the "let's take away the memory card" stupids, but we certainly are seeing all of those things in various combinations from other non-Apple phone manufacturers.
Samsung does like to push "Let's make the screen curved" stupid. Which results in:
-Distorted colors / image towards the edges
-Hard to hold the phone without accidentally touching the screen
-Hard to design a case that protects the side of the screen
-Screen more likely to break
They, along with a lot of others, like to subscribe to "let's make the back of the phone out of glass so it too can break, and make the phone hard to hold onto without a case"
Way back when the tin-foil crowd were Going on about the risks of "Trusted computing". At the time it seemed so far fetched.
Yet here we are today.
There was Blackberry for a while.