Everyone gets used to doing things a certain way, and gets irritated when things are improved.
An example among data-entry types is being able to use keyboard shortcuts vs having to use a mouse, It slows them down to have to use a mouse.
Another is the Microsoft Ribbon, where people had the old menu system totally memorized, and suddenly couldn't find anything because it had been "improved" and "re-arranged for you convenience". Instead of making it an option that you could toggle, it was a mandatory upgrade.
This is totally irritating, especially when the new version has improvements that are geared to the enterprise, or software profit margins. I have talked to too many people who would routinely tell me this. This is a minor point of contention.
I still have an old computer that works just fine thank you, and run an old word-processor without a lot of this extra fluff. Heck, George R. Martin uses an old dos word processor because it is more convenient for him.
In this context, I am reminded of the old video about choices in spaghetti sauce. turns out, that in the world of spaghetti sauce, there is no one perfect spaghetti sauce, despite decades of advertising to the contrary. The truth is that there are many perfect spaghetti sauces (chunky, vegetable, extra spicy, etc) and you get more sales by catering to the individual tastes of people. Which is why we now have multiple varieties of sauces, etc on the shelves these days.
Large companies like MIcrosoft are still in pursuit of "the perfect software" or "the perfect user interface" when they should give users options and choices when it comes to user interfaces and performance behavior. There is no one best interface, etc. just like there is not one best spaghetti sauce. While there should be an update for security reasons, etc. what does that have to do with the sort of an interface a person likes?
Similarly, there can be genuine product improvements when you do things a certain way, but also it is merely the pursuit of the cool and novel vs actual improvement. I upgrade systems because I need a certain functionality, and sometimes it is a royal pain when I cannot
I am a constant crank about software as a service. Especially if I can do what I need and keep a system running well for many many years, so that it is cheaper than paying a yearly fee.
The mind naturally has many systems and sub-components. This makes the mind is a complex multidimensional system, and it is easy to detect automatic decision making mechanisms.
The fact of automated response systems does not disprove freewill, no more than the fact of automated computer mechanisms (and bots, etc) disproves the existence of users on the internet (and elsewhere)
Of course, some day, the internet will be filled with AI Bots spamming each other for the fun and profit, and it will be bots and turtles all the way down. An actual user will become a rare thing indeed.
After all, this is the vendor's recommendation, which should be in writing anyhow.
Have the vendor sign a waiver accepting full responsibility for any damages and liability that could be attributed to not using a firewall
I am sure that the company lawyers would be very eager to have something like this in place.
The Sun's increasing luminosity begins to disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle; higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop. Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels begin to fall.[30] By this time, they will fall to the point at which C3 photosynthesis is no longer possible. All plants that utilize C3 photosynthesis (~99 percent of present-day species) will die.[31]
in 800 Million years
Carbon dioxide levels fall to the point at which C4 photosynthesis is no longer possible.[31] Multicellular life dies out.[32]
A lot of the time, by the time you hear that ABC place is the really cool place to be, the people who made it a really cool place to be have moved on to other locations, having been replaced by other people who have all these other ideas as to how a shop should run (which do not involve being cool), and now that really cool place to be is now "meh, not so much"
similar to investing is stocks, by the time the mass market gets in on it you may be on the wrong side of the curve.
Part of this is that everyone who participated in the 2008 protests thought that Scientology was dead and buried.
Suddenly here they are, bigger than ever, and vying for space in main stream media publications.
Most of the controversy is because it's THEM.
The statements that they make in the advertorial seem to be conservative positive reports about facilities they have opened, etc. This sort of thing is all verifiable, as well as the conclusion that this means something for their leadership.
Because it's THEM, this upsets everyone who thought they had killed Scientology.
It's like being in a bad horror movie, and the boss of the movie that you think you kicked butt on shows up again with only minor scratches.
I personally think that the whole cheating thing can be avoided by having a test bank of questions that is open to everyone, and which is sufficiently large that it is less effort to actually learn the principles, etc, rather than memorize the answers to 100,000+ questions for a specific course.
Let everyone download it.
With modern technology, you should be able to generate unique tests for each student, with each question identified by numeric code. Dump it into the scanner for a score.
If it is still an issue increase the number of test questions to 250,000 or more.
obviously the test bank could be inspected for grading the tests in situations where you are not doing multiple choice.
There are paints you can get which have metallic dust incorporated into them. This will act as shielding. You can also go with a "Luster Dust" which would give a metallic sheen to your current wall color. Or even a straight metallic wall paint. There is also metallic wall paper.
see also Force Field Wireless for paint additive, although you could also experiment with various metallic powders on your own.
Ditto Storm windows with metal frames and screens. Apparently prefinished flooring also contains metallic powder which can reduce wifi signals. The new double pane windows also have metallic coatings that can reduce wifi.
Normal cell phone reception would have to come from the side of the building opposite where the transmitters are located.
Given the the classicly high rate of computer infection among teens, this could be make sense for the school administration. Of course, it might be easier if they just required everyone to just get a Mac.
There's this whole controversy about what age is a good age for Sex Education, and how long to "prolong the innocence of Childhood". Sometimes people do this because it's "cute";- I consider it potentially damaging. But a lot depends on circumstances.
Oh, and build up her self-esteem. That is the critical factor in teen girls getting into situations they're not ready for.
In this regard, get her something like a rubics cube (if she is interested in it). Just being able to do something the grownups can't does marvels for the self esteem.
1) dismantle the drive and twist the platters with heavy pliers into the shape of an ash tray
2) drill through the platters several times (with a half inch/ 1cm drill), then let soak in a bucket of salt water for a month to corrode everything together.
Just how much crust there is is often misunderstood.
Example: imagine a model of the earth where 1 mm = 1 mile. (or you can use 1mm = 1 km, if you like)
The earth is 7926.28 miles (12756.1 km) in diameter.
At this scale, you can make out significant mountain ranges, etc. The Atmosphere would be 4 or 5 inches deep. The crust is an inch or 2 thick.
And the Earth itself is more than 8 yards across. That inch or two of crust is sitting on a chewy molten insides. (check volcano flows, etc.)
The Earth is really a molten droplet spinning in space with the thinnest external layer where life has happened to accumulate, like the layer of tarnish on a coin.
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Everyone gets used to doing things a certain way, and gets irritated when things are improved.
An example among data-entry types is being able to use keyboard shortcuts vs having to use a mouse, It slows them down to have to use a mouse.
Another is the Microsoft Ribbon, where people had the old menu system totally memorized, and suddenly couldn't find anything because it had been "improved" and "re-arranged for you convenience". Instead of making it an option that you could toggle, it was a mandatory upgrade.
This is totally irritating, especially when the new version has improvements that are geared to the enterprise, or software profit margins. I have talked to too many people who would routinely tell me this. This is a minor point of contention.
I still have an old computer that works just fine thank you, and run an old word-processor without a lot of this extra fluff. Heck, George R. Martin uses an old dos word processor because it is more convenient for him.
In this context, I am reminded of the old video about choices in spaghetti sauce. turns out, that in the world of spaghetti sauce, there is no one perfect spaghetti sauce, despite decades of advertising to the contrary. The truth is that there are many perfect spaghetti sauces (chunky, vegetable, extra spicy, etc) and you get more sales by catering to the individual tastes of people. Which is why we now have multiple varieties of sauces, etc on the shelves these days.
You can watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Large companies like MIcrosoft are still in pursuit of "the perfect software" or "the perfect user interface" when they should give users options and choices when it comes to user interfaces and performance behavior. There is no one best interface, etc. just like there is not one best spaghetti sauce. While there should be an update for security reasons, etc. what does that have to do with the sort of an interface a person likes?
Similarly, there can be genuine product improvements when you do things a certain way, but also it is merely the pursuit of the cool and novel vs actual improvement. I upgrade systems because I need a certain functionality, and sometimes it is a royal pain when I cannot
I am a constant crank about software as a service. Especially if I can do what I need and keep a system running well for many many years, so that it is cheaper than paying a yearly fee.
Surprisingly he's not dead yet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
news report
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.c...
etc
The mind naturally has many systems and sub-components. This makes the mind is a complex multidimensional system, and it is easy to detect automatic decision making mechanisms.
The fact of automated response systems does not disprove freewill, no more than the fact of automated computer mechanisms (and bots, etc) disproves the existence of users on the internet (and elsewhere)
Of course, some day, the internet will be filled with AI Bots spamming each other for the fun and profit, and it will be bots and turtles all the way down. An actual user will become a rare thing indeed.
signing in with an MS account is needed to that Cortana can work
After 10 is set up you can switch to a local account, or use the non express other option to eventually use only a local account
discussed here among many other places on the web
http://www.networkworld.com/ar...
so what part of these are related to conventional updates. and what part are related to general snoopery?
I can just imagine the young child repeatedly mashing the button because it is such a tempting thing to do.
"Don't push the Red Button"
"Don't push the Red Button"
"Don't push the Red Button"
"Don't push the Red Button"
oops
After all, this will end all of the hassle of dealing with real people.
Maybe they can get virtual people to buy all of their products.
Virtual customers will be the next growth industry
After all, this is the vendor's recommendation, which should be in writing anyhow. Have the vendor sign a waiver accepting full responsibility for any damages and liability that could be attributed to not using a firewall I am sure that the company lawyers would be very eager to have something like this in place.
from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
In 600 million years
The Sun's increasing luminosity begins to disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle; higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop. Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels begin to fall.[30] By this time, they will fall to the point at which C3 photosynthesis is no longer possible. All plants that utilize C3 photosynthesis (~99 percent of present-day species) will die.[31]
in 800 Million years
Carbon dioxide levels fall to the point at which C4 photosynthesis is no longer possible.[31] Multicellular life dies out.[32]
I not that this would be rather inconvenient
If the Americas were not there, then the climate would have been very much different. Which would have led to a very different alternate history.
Was that so difficult?
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202617111781&rss=rss_ca_civil
There should be an alternate source for this sort of thing. Too bad Groklaw had to close up shop because of the government being an idiot.
A lot of the time, by the time you hear that ABC place is the really cool place to be, the people who made it a really cool place to be have moved on to other locations, having been replaced by other people who have all these other ideas as to how a shop should run (which do not involve being cool), and now that really cool place to be is now "meh, not so much" similar to investing is stocks, by the time the mass market gets in on it you may be on the wrong side of the curve.
Part of this is that everyone who participated in the 2008 protests thought that Scientology was dead and buried.
Suddenly here they are, bigger than ever, and vying for space in main stream media publications.
Most of the controversy is because it's THEM.
The statements that they make in the advertorial seem to be conservative positive reports about facilities they have opened, etc. This sort of thing is all verifiable, as well as the conclusion that this means something for their leadership.
Because it's THEM, this upsets everyone who thought they had killed Scientology.
It's like being in a bad horror movie, and the boss of the movie that you think you kicked butt on shows up again with only minor scratches.
is the latest phase in Microsoft's search for the one true interface.
maybe they should learn something from Malcolm Gladwell when he talks about spaghetti sauce.
http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html
never mind that most of their profit comes from Monster Cables
But will it Blend?
Let everyone download it.
With modern technology, you should be able to generate unique tests for each student, with each question identified by numeric code. Dump it into the scanner for a score.
If it is still an issue increase the number of test questions to 250,000 or more.
obviously the test bank could be inspected for grading the tests in situations where you are not doing multiple choice.
see also Force Field Wireless for paint additive, although you could also experiment with various metallic powders on your own.
Ditto Storm windows with metal frames and screens. Apparently prefinished flooring also contains metallic powder which can reduce wifi signals. The new double pane windows also have metallic coatings that can reduce wifi.
Normal cell phone reception would have to come from the side of the building opposite where the transmitters are located.
because you probably hadn't noticed. but many bibles also have a copyright notice. and law suits to match
See wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_on_religious_works
The Client Security Agent appears to be another bit of Microsoft Madness
Which appears to require MS Windows.
Given the the classicly high rate of computer infection among teens, this could be make sense for the school administration. Of course, it might be easier if they just required everyone to just get a Mac.
There's this whole controversy about what age is a good age for Sex Education, and how long to "prolong the innocence of Childhood". Sometimes people do this because it's "cute";- I consider it potentially damaging. But a lot depends on circumstances.
In this regard, get her something like a rubics cube (if she is interested in it). Just being able to do something the grownups can't does marvels for the self esteem.
1) dismantle the drive and twist the platters with heavy pliers into the shape of an ash tray
2) drill through the platters several times (with a half inch/ 1cm drill), then let soak in a bucket of salt water for a month to corrode everything together.
Just how much crust there is is often misunderstood.
Example: imagine a model of the earth where 1 mm = 1 mile. (or you can use 1mm = 1 km, if you like)
The earth is 7926.28 miles (12756.1 km) in diameter.
At this scale, you can make out significant mountain ranges, etc. The Atmosphere would be 4 or 5 inches deep. The crust is an inch or 2 thick.
And the Earth itself is more than 8 yards across. That inch or two of crust is sitting on a chewy molten insides. (check volcano flows, etc.)
The Earth is really a molten droplet spinning in space with the thinnest external layer where life has happened to accumulate, like the layer of tarnish on a coin.