Have you ever tried to buy laptop hardware? For something that small it's pretty expensive, and then you'll have to build your own case, make sure the cooling works... Believe me, it ain't cheap. --
Quick close is Ctrl+Q, quick mimimise is Ctrl+Shift+M:) I too use a high resolution, but then I also use a supersensitive mouse (ya, one of those...) set to move at high speed. It's a lot faster than gesture still, and I ain't switching. --
Yes. It's a revolutionary almost-new form of HCI. If you believe the hype, it's as significant as the change from command-line to point-and-click.
Hopefully, though, it'll never become mandatory, because just as mouse can be slower than keyboard, this isn't as fast as using a keyboard and mouse in the conventional way. --
This is another thing like QWERTY keyboards, it's really slow. I used it in Opera for a bit, before switching back to K. It isn't really worth it if you're trying to get something done, keyboard shortcuts are a much better idea.
Hmmm, you aren't from the UK, are you? It appears that schools are allowed to install CCTV cameras inside toilets as well as everywhere else in schools. Oh joy...
How long before Comerade Tony gets his hands on these? Hopefully I'll have left school before then, it's bad enough having to stay out of view of the cameras at the momeny.
Didn't he also say that we should all go and learn how to code in machinecode if we have more than a casual interest in computers? Or was that someone else?
The main problem, though, is long lines of code. What do you do when you hit the 80 character mark? The JavaScript implementation sucks, it's no good if wrapover is also valid on its own... That's the annoying bit.
I find about 1 in 3 apps crash with it. ICQ, Counter-Strike for example... Oh, it gets very upset if NS6 tries to use SSL over it.
And now for the bit of the last message which got cut off: you want a mini firewall. Linux is really good for that, offers far more than ZoneAlarm even if you only stick in some really basic rules.
BTW, has anyone else had proplems with preview cutting text to bits?
IIRC, you can use VBScript to attach stuff onto genuine sent messages after the exe has run for the first time. Then it will be absolutely genuine email. Imagine a mailing list with this...
Marketroids: It stops thoe evil hacker people copying your music.Record Company:OK, we'll use itMarketroids:Excellent. That will be fifty billion dollars please.Record Company: Erm...Marketroids: Well it's that or get copied. Oh, and we've patented it so no-one else can do it.Record Company:OK, we'll take ten please.
Seems to me as if they did think about it quite well...
I was under the impression that you could simply stick a CD reader on one IDE cable and a writer on another, and then do a pretty much direct copy between one and the other without having to actually read (parse?) what's on the disc and make sense of it. Surely this would work regardless of what the CD is like, so long as you make sure you just copy what's there exactly...
This might stop CD -> Hard Drive -> CDR, but if I understand how all this works (which I probably don't) then a direct copy doesn't actually have to make sense of the CD at all. If an ordinary player can read it, surely it can also read an exact (down to the pits and troughs) copy? Or have I misunderstood?
But at a subatomic level, it's already dettermined which way the light will be polarised. It's like tossing a coin, you think it's random but at the atomic level it's predetermined which way it goes.
What's commonly known as probability is just how likely something is to happen in a large sample, not how likely one thing is. It's not the same thing.
Well you stick something round the lead. Or something... And yeah, it would be expensive, but it would work. How much would it cost your business if data got corrupted randomly?
Cases are made of plastic. Plastic contains lots of Carbon. Carbon-12 is fine, but Carbon-14 is a beta emmiter. Uranium is both alpha and beta at different stages (OK, it's not always Uranium, but part of that sequence).
Only if it's doing one thing at once. If it does more than one thing at a time it's not a problem. Basically, it starts on the next thing before the first instruction has left the processor, if that makes sense... Think of it in terms of a road -- you can have more than one car on it.
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Have you ever tried to buy laptop hardware? For something that small it's pretty expensive, and then you'll have to build your own case, make sure the cooling works... Believe me, it ain't cheap.
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Wouldn't that be vandalism?
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Lol, it's just too obvious that you ain't a regular goatse-er... They never put in the www. part...
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Nah, you've got to hold down a mouse button when doing them, so it's extremely rare.
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Quick close is Ctrl+Q, quick mimimise is Ctrl+Shift+M :) I too use a high resolution, but then I also use a supersensitive mouse (ya, one of those...) set to move at high speed. It's a lot faster than gesture still, and I ain't switching.
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Hopefully, though, it'll never become mandatory, because just as mouse can be slower than keyboard, this isn't as fast as using a keyboard and mouse in the conventional way.
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Although it does make good marketing :)
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I'd rather remove society, if society is that which removes the right to freedom and privacy. Maybe the constitution isn't doing its job?
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Hmmm, you aren't from the UK, are you? It appears that schools are allowed to install CCTV cameras inside toilets as well as everywhere else in schools. Oh joy...
How long before Comerade Tony gets his hands on these? Hopefully I'll have left school before then, it's bad enough having to stay out of view of the cameras at the momeny.
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Yes. I used Perl to split the whole lot into words and then stuck them into whereis. You have to convert it to lowercase though...
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Yeah, but it wouldn't be as impressive. It's not how much effort you save, it's how elegant your laziness is.
Laziness comes in two forms: avoiding the necessary and doing something with a minimal amount of work just to impress people.
Lots of work though, and a waste of a special character... Yeah, OK, I use Perl, I like character soup :)
Didn't he also say that we should all go and learn how to code in machinecode if we have more than a casual interest in computers? Or was that someone else?
The main problem, though, is long lines of code. What do you do when you hit the 80 character mark? The JavaScript implementation sucks, it's no good if wrapover is also valid on its own... That's the annoying bit.
Erm, no. Heard of groups? You just need to read up on how to do it, it's not that difficult.
You can't do it at all on NT.
I find about 1 in 3 apps crash with it. ICQ, Counter-Strike for example... Oh, it gets very upset if NS6 tries to use SSL over it.
And now for the bit of the last message which got cut off: you want a mini firewall. Linux is really good for that, offers far more than ZoneAlarm even if you only stick in some really basic rules.
BTW, has anyone else had proplems with preview cutting text to bits?
ZoneAlarm sucks. It doesn't work, it hangs regularly, it trashes performance, it's nagware and it gives wierd error messages at random intervals.
Fortunately, we don't have anything like that in the UK. I mean, take a look at what's on Channel 5 tonight... Erm, yeah, breaks every rule there.
Interesting that the UK moderation board are getting less and less strict.
IIRC, you can use VBScript to attach stuff onto genuine sent messages after the exe has run for the first time. Then it will be absolutely genuine email. Imagine a mailing list with this...
And run over how many people on the way? Or get someone to drive for you -- I can't afford that.
Mobiles are pretty dangerous, but computers???
Marketroids: It stops thoe evil hacker people copying your music.Record Company:OK, we'll use itMarketroids:Excellent. That will be fifty billion dollars please.Record Company: Erm...Marketroids: Well it's that or get copied. Oh, and we've patented it so no-one else can do it.Record Company:OK, we'll take ten please.
Seems to me as if they did think about it quite well...
I was under the impression that you could simply stick a CD reader on one IDE cable and a writer on another, and then do a pretty much direct copy between one and the other without having to actually read (parse?) what's on the disc and make sense of it. Surely this would work regardless of what the CD is like, so long as you make sure you just copy what's there exactly...
This might stop CD -> Hard Drive -> CDR, but if I understand how all this works (which I probably don't) then a direct copy doesn't actually have to make sense of the CD at all. If an ordinary player can read it, surely it can also read an exact (down to the pits and troughs) copy? Or have I misunderstood?
But at a subatomic level, it's already dettermined which way the light will be polarised. It's like tossing a coin, you think it's random but at the atomic level it's predetermined which way it goes.
What's commonly known as probability is just how likely something is to happen in a large sample, not how likely one thing is. It's not the same thing.
Well you stick something round the lead. Or something... And yeah, it would be expensive, but it would work. How much would it cost your business if data got corrupted randomly?
Cases are made of plastic. Plastic contains lots of Carbon. Carbon-12 is fine, but Carbon-14 is a beta emmiter. Uranium is both alpha and beta at different stages (OK, it's not always Uranium, but part of that sequence).
Only if it's doing one thing at once. If it does more than one thing at a time it's not a problem. Basically, it starts on the next thing before the first instruction has left the processor, if that makes sense... Think of it in terms of a road -- you can have more than one car on it.