I use it all the time but what happens is not always what you expect. If you're lucky it searches or it does nothing.
F5 refreshes the web page in all graphical browsers, which is handy.
F2 renames a file (in Windows, anyway).
I used to tell people about F1 as well, which has meant "help" since the DOS days.
Unfortunately there's a trend among PC and keyboard manufacturers lately to replace the F keys with customized crap like volume controls, launching the browser or email client or putting the computer to sleep. This has been around for years, but lately Dell, HP and even Lenovo have taken to making this crap the default function of the F keys and requiring the user to use a "Fn" key to achieve the normal function rather than vice versa, particularly on laptops.
Firefox was born out of dumbing down what is now seamonkey, so endless mindless dumbing down is hardly unexpected.
No, Phoenix, which became Firefox (after briefly experimenting with flight) was born from the idea that if you took all the bloat and tie-in apps out of what was then Mozilla/Navigator, you'd get a really fast browser. It was supposed to be a super-lightweight browser that did one thing and one thing only: browse web pages. That's why the extensions system was written; to keep the cruft out of the core browser.
Somewhere along the way (I'm thinking around the time of the "Awesomebar", though some would argue it was sooner) that philosophy got lost.
For most of the US there are only 4 cell phone options, period. All 4 are blatantly evil companies that are out to screw every last penny out of you while denying you service whenever possible. In most rural locations there are really only 2 options: AT&T and Verizon. These are the two most evil of the bunch. If you don't like what either one is selling, you do without cell phone service.
Occasionally you get lucky and a small company like, say, Iowa Wireless may provide slightly less rapacious rates, but typically they only cover a small region and offer out-of-date phones.
Why yes, the cell phone service situation in the USA IS absolutely insane.
Highly illegal deep packet inspection.:) It breaks a ton of privacy laws put in place by the Fed AND local governments.
Actually there is no federal or state law on the book that restricts the use of DPI by service providers. Using DPI to route traffic DOES place at risk their "Safe harbor" status under the DMCA. Unfortunately, since ISPs are now agreeing to be the private police force for copyright holders that no longer matters.
The fact that we can't manage this planet (yet) is an argument for moving beyond it. A permanent off-planet presence is the best thing we can do to avoid extinction.
The "space option" as you put it doesn't imply our planet is disposable. It implies that if we're interested in not being disposable ourselves, we need to get some of our eggs out of this particular basket. Migration off-planet is not and will never be a solution to over-population.
and how much fuel was already wasted to get the crap up where it is now?
my point is reusing what was already achieved. *everything* other than dropping it into the ocean is better.
I appreciate the sentiment, believe me. It's really wrenching to think of all that effort, money, and material burning up in reentry, but it's not as simple as "let's send it to the moon". It might -just- be feasible, though, to move it to a higher, more stable orbit and "park" it there until we can do something else with it. We wouldn't be able to shuttle crews to it any more, but I bet we could pack it full of science goodies and remote waldos so it could continue to serve us in some capacity.
Hell, install a small nuclear reactor in it, attach a few more arms and an ion drive and maybe we could use it as a remote repair bay for other satellites.
That's just sad... it should be landed on the moon. It it's too big in one piece, dismantle it and land the components. Even refurbishing as a "robot station" with just that robotic arm and the solar sails and some positioning systems for satellite repair or something would be better, than letting it all crash and burn. how about parking it in a different orbit... maybe around the moon?
Sure, we'll put it in orbit around the moon. You work out how to get about 6,000 tons of propellent up there and I'll take care of the rest.
Actually if the GP learned to read on the original Dragon Warrior, then he probably learned the difference between a PARTSN, RANSR, GUISA, GLAIVE, LHAMMR, and MFORK.
If only there were some way to populate those fields with bogus data, or not have a Google account at all! Pity Google reaches directly into your brain and autofills them without your consent.
The problem isn't Powerpoint. Powerpoint is a fine piece of presentation software. The problem is that people don't know how to present information effectively, and it's the TEMPLATES included with Powerpoint (and every other chunk of presentation software I've ever seen) that encourage this. If MS wants to alleviate Powerpoint hate, they need to revise their included templates to demonstrate what a good, informative presentation can be.
I've found that you can invite anyone in simply by manually adding their email address to a Google+ post you make. Everyone that I have "Added" in such a way has received an email that allowed them to create an account.
Okay, all jokes aside, the stated use of this tech is friggin' awesome! Learning to play an instrument with an instructor that can literally position your hand for you sounds like a pretty novel experience. You could use it to help teach all kinds of musical instruments. Scale it up and you could do some pretty nifty stuff, too. I bet it'd be useful for certain types of physical therapy. You could use it for a force-feedback gaming. With some accelerometers and orientation sensors you could probably use a scaled-up version to allow paraplegics to walk again (brief distances over very flat surfaces, sure, but it'd be -something-).
Okay, having read the article now, I see they already are working on the physical therapy angle. Now we just need to see an Evil Dead game that makes use of this tech...
No, if the host had said "Jupiter", I would have made some outraged comment and gone to look it up myself. I accepted "Saturn" without additional proof because I have been particularly interested in Titan for many, many years and have read, seen, or otherwise internalized thousands of references to the fact that it orbits Saturn.
The fact that I questioned my own knowledge on the subject at all, however briefly, is what made the incident stick in my memory and is why I posted it here in the first place. As I replied to someone below, before it happened it never occurred to me that being in a group could affect me in such a way.
If something like that happens again, I'll be more aware of the effect and stick to my guns. You can't learn -less-.
What made the experience odd was that, if someone had asked me that question -before- this happened, I would have said the same thing. Of course not! I know my solar system, Titan's a moon of Saturn, nothing could ever change my mind or make me doubt that.
When it actually happened, though, the feeling just bubbled up; it was something about being in a group.
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Obviously the solution is to give the ruling class powers to impartial robots. What could possibly go wrong?
F3.
I use it all the time but what happens is not always what you expect.
If you're lucky it searches or it does nothing.
F5 refreshes the web page in all graphical browsers, which is handy.
F2 renames a file (in Windows, anyway).
I used to tell people about F1 as well, which has meant "help" since the DOS days.
Unfortunately there's a trend among PC and keyboard manufacturers lately to replace the F keys with customized crap like volume controls, launching the browser or email client or putting the computer to sleep. This has been around for years, but lately Dell, HP and even Lenovo have taken to making this crap the default function of the F keys and requiring the user to use a "Fn" key to achieve the normal function rather than vice versa, particularly on laptops.
Firefox was born out of dumbing down what is now seamonkey, so endless mindless dumbing down is hardly unexpected.
No, Phoenix, which became Firefox (after briefly experimenting with flight) was born from the idea that if you took all the bloat and tie-in apps out of what was then Mozilla/Navigator, you'd get a really fast browser. It was supposed to be a super-lightweight browser that did one thing and one thing only: browse web pages. That's why the extensions system was written; to keep the cruft out of the core browser.
Somewhere along the way (I'm thinking around the time of the "Awesomebar", though some would argue it was sooner) that philosophy got lost.
This is a really stupid idea.
If the user wants to hide the version number, someone will write an extension to do that. Quit dumbing down Firefox.
My droid is the last moto phone I will purchase.
If you're avoiding products from manufacturers who try to enforce their patents, you're going to be living in a cave real soon now.
For most of the US there are only 4 cell phone options, period. All 4 are blatantly evil companies that are out to screw every last penny out of you while denying you service whenever possible. In most rural locations there are really only 2 options: AT&T and Verizon. These are the two most evil of the bunch. If you don't like what either one is selling, you do without cell phone service.
Occasionally you get lucky and a small company like, say, Iowa Wireless may provide slightly less rapacious rates, but typically they only cover a small region and offer out-of-date phones.
Why yes, the cell phone service situation in the USA IS absolutely insane.
Highly illegal deep packet inspection. :) It breaks a ton of privacy laws put in place by the Fed AND local governments.
Actually there is no federal or state law on the book that restricts the use of DPI by service providers. Using DPI to route traffic DOES place at risk their "Safe harbor" status under the DMCA. Unfortunately, since ISPs are now agreeing to be the private police force for copyright holders that no longer matters.
The fact that we can't manage this planet (yet) is an argument for moving beyond it. A permanent off-planet presence is the best thing we can do to avoid extinction.
The "space option" as you put it doesn't imply our planet is disposable. It implies that if we're interested in not being disposable ourselves, we need to get some of our eggs out of this particular basket. Migration off-planet is not and will never be a solution to over-population.
and how much fuel was already wasted to get the crap up where it is now?
my point is reusing what was already achieved. *everything* other than dropping it into the ocean is better.
I appreciate the sentiment, believe me. It's really wrenching to think of all that effort, money, and material burning up in reentry, but it's not as simple as "let's send it to the moon". It might -just- be feasible, though, to move it to a higher, more stable orbit and "park" it there until we can do something else with it. We wouldn't be able to shuttle crews to it any more, but I bet we could pack it full of science goodies and remote waldos so it could continue to serve us in some capacity.
Hell, install a small nuclear reactor in it, attach a few more arms and an ion drive and maybe we could use it as a remote repair bay for other satellites.
That's just sad... it should be landed on the moon. It it's too big in one piece, dismantle it and land the components. Even refurbishing as a "robot station" with just that robotic arm and the solar sails and some positioning systems for satellite repair or something would be better, than letting it all crash and burn. how about parking it in a different orbit... maybe around the moon?
Sure, we'll put it in orbit around the moon. You work out how to get about 6,000 tons of propellent up there and I'll take care of the rest.
Then you get sent an unsolicited invite. Check your inbox.
Actually if the GP learned to read on the original Dragon Warrior, then he probably learned the difference between a PARTSN, RANSR, GUISA, GLAIVE, LHAMMR, and MFORK.
If only there were some way to populate those fields with bogus data, or not have a Google account at all! Pity Google reaches directly into your brain and autofills them without your consent.
All right. I'm a moron. Why is it bad to use an auto-incrementing row as the PK as long as it's never exposed to the end user?
(Please note I am not a DB guy, I just use MySQL as a backend for some simple PHP projects)
The Dutch guy? I got in the same way, and have gotten in several people using the method you describe.
Sweet galloping Jesus! What were they thinking? Visio is MUCH better suited to that kind of flowchart!
The problem isn't Powerpoint. Powerpoint is a fine piece of presentation software. The problem is that people don't know how to present information effectively, and it's the TEMPLATES included with Powerpoint (and every other chunk of presentation software I've ever seen) that encourage this. If MS wants to alleviate Powerpoint hate, they need to revise their included templates to demonstrate what a good, informative presentation can be.
I've found that you can invite anyone in simply by manually adding their email address to a Google+ post you make. Everyone that I have "Added" in such a way has received an email that allowed them to create an account.
Okay, all jokes aside, the stated use of this tech is friggin' awesome! Learning to play an instrument with an instructor that can literally position your hand for you sounds like a pretty novel experience. You could use it to help teach all kinds of musical instruments. Scale it up and you could do some pretty nifty stuff, too. I bet it'd be useful for certain types of physical therapy. You could use it for a force-feedback gaming. With some accelerometers and orientation sensors you could probably use a scaled-up version to allow paraplegics to walk again (brief distances over very flat surfaces, sure, but it'd be -something-).
Okay, having read the article now, I see they already are working on the physical therapy angle. Now we just need to see an Evil Dead game that makes use of this tech...
AFK, hostage.
AND you linked to it before the final version is officially released, which I believe earns you 20 years in the electric chair!
... and I just finished compiling Firefox so I could submit this story to Slashdot!
*crickets* .. gee, tough crowd.
Don't forget this one. Some of the best aurora footage I've ever seen.
No, if the host had said "Jupiter", I would have made some outraged comment and gone to look it up myself. I accepted "Saturn" without additional proof because I have been particularly interested in Titan for many, many years and have read, seen, or otherwise internalized thousands of references to the fact that it orbits Saturn.
The fact that I questioned my own knowledge on the subject at all, however briefly, is what made the incident stick in my memory and is why I posted it here in the first place. As I replied to someone below, before it happened it never occurred to me that being in a group could affect me in such a way.
If something like that happens again, I'll be more aware of the effect and stick to my guns. You can't learn -less-.
What made the experience odd was that, if someone had asked me that question -before- this happened, I would have said the same thing. Of course not! I know my solar system, Titan's a moon of Saturn, nothing could ever change my mind or make me doubt that.
When it actually happened, though, the feeling just bubbled up; it was something about being in a group.