There is a name for that: "dark patterns". Like Making one button bigger, when you want the user to choose this option. Or having an "subscribe newsletter" checkbox next to the "agree to TOS" checkbox, so the user thinks he needs to check all of the checkboxes.
The point is, on a good pc, i can install my apps. From Disk, from download, maybe from some appstore (on the pc we say repository). On an iPhone, i have exactly one option: The apple appstore. No other appstores, no files via download or usb... that's the problem.
Sorry, but this is bullshit. A recent windows or even osx features buttons, which are for example grey with black text on a lightgrey dialog, or colorful window decoration buttons, but without even a tiny 3D effect distinguishing them from the titlebar.
Even win95 had a gui, where a button were a button and not a rectangular area with a slightly different color.
I use harddrives, and often new ones, just because my data is growing.
Of course, there is little important data. But when i need to start sorting "important / unimportant", then it's easier to buy a bigger drive and backup just everything. Better than forgetting to sort something into the imporant category.
I guess it depends, which one you're used to. I tried both, when i did not use swipe before and liked swiftkey more. And the google keyboard has too little feedback.
graffiti is nice (there are graffiti keyboards for android), but not as fast as good swiping. You want to try swiftkey, then you will never want to use swype again. Swiftkey beats them all at swiping and at good predictions, typos and next word based on previous word. Have a typo in your sentence? Do not bother to set the text mark correctly (which is annoying on android). Just keep backspace pressed (swiftkey goes into "delete whole words" mode), type the word correctly, then touch the correct suggestions instead of typing the rest of the sentence (swiftkey remembers them in a type of markov chain biased to recently typed words). And swiping is just more accurate there.
Because you do not type faster, if all the most frequent letters are in the home row. Just try it, type some Text only consisting of the homerow letters, then type some english text. If you are a good typist, the english text will be much faster.
There are several reasons, but for example see typing st, the fingers are one finger away from each other (stopping irritation when the t-finger returns to the home row) and you need to move your finger for the t, which makes it more distinct (try typting stststt and then typing asasasas).
Not the ad, but the function seems plausible. Doesn't your handy do this as well? Every device with gps and a rtc can tell you the correct time whereever you are.
In europe, police would never order you to lie face down before they checked the situation, just because somebody reported something. They come and check what's happening and react in such a drastic way only if neccessary. Its the US of A with all its terror panic. And too liberal gun laws.
I guess there are some projects full of infantile jokes. Some may be funny, some may be annoying. But if dick jokes are sexist, then against men. But strangly most men are less fanatic about "(s)he's insulting me, i am offended", even when someone jokes about their dongle. But i think most women are balanced and with a sense of humor, too. The problem is, the annoying ones are the loud ones. Maybe some men are annoying as well... then the "tasty male tears" reflex of the annoying offended women kicks in and silences them. Yes, i am annoyed and offended;).
This means, if i get a TLS-Warning, it's mostly safe to click it away. Usually its a browser to stupid to ship the CACert Certificate. This is no problem, because the warning is not neccessary, as the site is secured and the access does not need to be encrypted anyway, because i just want to read something. Nevertheless, the browser panics. Now i come across some confidential page, which wants me to enter my credit card number. Now i need to awake my brain "hey, maybe i do not want to ignore the warning this time".
We need no bigger warnings. Imagine a TLS-Warning with pictures showing somebody robbing your bank account. Okay, you will get used to it and click away the warning anyway. You know the consequences. But you know the ACTUAL consequences, too. And they are "last 1000 times nothing bad happened".
So the answer is: We need less warnings. Do not warn me, that my connection is insecure with CACert. Have a decent notice, that the CA is not trusted, but the connection is encrypted. Warn me, when it's on a bank. Maybe a bank could indicate in DNS, "hey, strong check please", while my homepage which should be encrypted without much authentication can indicate "hey, maybe you do not know my CA, encrypt anyway if somebody reads the request nothing bad will happen".
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If you're dead, you just do not care anymore.
There is a name for that: "dark patterns". Like Making one button bigger, when you want the user to choose this option. Or having an "subscribe newsletter" checkbox next to the "agree to TOS" checkbox, so the user thinks he needs to check all of the checkboxes.
The point is, on a good pc, i can install my apps. From Disk, from download, maybe from some appstore (on the pc we say repository). On an iPhone, i have exactly one option: The apple appstore. No other appstores, no files via download or usb ... that's the problem.
Sorry, but this is bullshit.
A recent windows or even osx features buttons, which are for example grey with black text on a lightgrey dialog, or colorful window decoration buttons, but without even a tiny 3D effect distinguishing them from the titlebar.
Even win95 had a gui, where a button were a button and not a rectangular area with a slightly different color.
https://www.kde.org/announceme...
I use harddrives, and often new ones, just because my data is growing.
Of course, there is little important data. But when i need to start sorting "important / unimportant", then it's easier to buy a bigger drive and backup just everything. Better than forgetting to sort something into the imporant category.
I guess it depends, which one you're used to. I tried both, when i did not use swipe before and liked swiftkey more. And the google keyboard has too little feedback.
the low hanging fruit is getting the data from your workplace unencryped instead of breaking the encryption in the cloud.
no optical media. the chemicals in there decay over the time, a cd-r is hardly reliable for 5 years, after ten you can almost forget it.
People posting here should know such things by themselfs. Really, that's a stupid question, with two obvious answers
a) Cloud and encryption. Hey, 5 GB is nothing
b) give a usb stick to your mom. problem solved.
english german dual dictionary mode with swiftkey works quite good here.
graffiti is nice (there are graffiti keyboards for android), but not as fast as good swiping. You want to try swiftkey, then you will never want to use swype again. Swiftkey beats them all at swiping and at good predictions, typos and next word based on previous word. Have a typo in your sentence? Do not bother to set the text mark correctly (which is annoying on android). Just keep backspace pressed (swiftkey goes into "delete whole words" mode), type the word correctly, then touch the correct suggestions instead of typing the rest of the sentence (swiftkey remembers them in a type of markov chain biased to recently typed words). And swiping is just more accurate there.
Because you do not type faster, if all the most frequent letters are in the home row. Just try it, type some Text only consisting of the homerow letters, then type some english text. If you are a good typist, the english text will be much faster.
There are several reasons, but for example see typing st, the fingers are one finger away from each other (stopping irritation when the t-finger returns to the home row) and you need to move your finger for the t, which makes it more distinct (try typting stststt and then typing asasasas).
tried to report an extension once. No chance, without logging in to a google (plus?) account.
Your problem, google.
Not the ad, but the function seems plausible. Doesn't your handy do this as well? Every device with gps and a rtc can tell you the correct time whereever you are.
An article linking to an article, which embeds an youtube video. omg
In europe, police would never order you to lie face down before they checked the situation, just because somebody reported something. They come and check what's happening and react in such a drastic way only if neccessary. Its the US of A with all its terror panic. And too liberal gun laws.
I guess there are some projects full of infantile jokes. Some may be funny, some may be annoying. But if dick jokes are sexist, then against men. But strangly most men are less fanatic about "(s)he's insulting me, i am offended", even when someone jokes about their dongle. ... then the "tasty male tears" reflex of the annoying offended women kicks in and silences them. ;).
But i think most women are balanced and with a sense of humor, too. The problem is, the annoying ones are the loud ones. Maybe some men are annoying as well
Yes, i am annoyed and offended
> There's no question that the tech world is an overwhelmingly male place.
You can stop reading here. Some moralists sermon will follow.
consequences.
This means, if i get a TLS-Warning, it's mostly safe to click it away. Usually its a browser to stupid to ship the CACert Certificate.
This is no problem, because the warning is not neccessary, as the site is secured and the access does not need to be encrypted anyway, because i just want to read something. Nevertheless, the browser panics.
Now i come across some confidential page, which wants me to enter my credit card number. Now i need to awake my brain "hey, maybe i do not want to ignore the warning this time".
We need no bigger warnings. Imagine a TLS-Warning with pictures showing somebody robbing your bank account. Okay, you will get used to it and click away the warning anyway. You know the consequences. But you know the ACTUAL consequences, too. And they are "last 1000 times nothing bad happened".
So the answer is: We need less warnings. Do not warn me, that my connection is insecure with CACert. Have a decent notice, that the CA is not trusted, but the connection is encrypted. Warn me, when it's on a bank. Maybe a bank could indicate in DNS, "hey, strong check please", while my homepage which should be encrypted without much authentication can indicate "hey, maybe you do not know my CA, encrypt anyway if somebody reads the request nothing bad will happen".
Maybe let the user pay 50 cent to bypass the security warning.
I like the sexiest opensource developers, but moderate sexy ones are okay, too.
Hard to do, because you usually do not need them to sign up. So what should they compare against.
people too stupid to configure their proxies. It's that easy.
who cares? keep it out of the article.