Isn't it really the mayor's job, when you boil it down, to plot to get re-elected? That's really the only incentive that a mayor has, even one in it for altruistic purposes--more than one term gives them more time to make the world (or city) a better place.
Dont underestimate the power of broken games to teach alot about how the computers work.
Related to that, you could give him an old DOS box and make him fight with autoexec.bat and config.sys to get enough memory allocated to play his games. I learned quite a bit just having to do that and other arcanery to get my games working as a kid.
What I do with my neighbour's access point is akin to me knocking on a neighbour's door and asking to come in. If they say yes, they can't later say I was trespassing.
How about you knock on your neighbour's door and ask if you can connect to their wireless network? If you did that, then there'd be no need for all of the crazy analogies.
Heh, for 3 years I used to live right off Cedar where the speed drops at the entrance of Cleveland Heights. Somehow I managed to avoid getting a speeding ticket that entire time. You can sit in one of the restaurants there and watch the cops pull people over one after another, all night long.
Wow, this is a good reason why they should limit the use of computers in schools. There's really no need to have a a bunch of networked computers in a high school that I can see. Is there much benefit that can outweigh the time, effort and money spent to deal with kids who flaunt network security like this? I'm sure they don't go to the trouble to give them all a "release of teenage angst."
When I decide to drive to work rather than take the commuter train, my driving time can range from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours each way. If I could pay a one-time cost of $1000 to reliably keep me down towards the lower end of that range, I'd definitely do it.
It's coming full circle. From the way the media portrays it, the web is now all about blogs, which, right down to it, are not much more than "hobbyists putting up pictures of their cats and the latest Star Trek convention".
If you mark something as a gift when you buy it, they'll ignore it when they make recommendations, I believe. Also, you could go into the recommendations section and there's a page in there that will let you change your ratings and say "Don't use this for recommendations" and things like that. I went through and removed gifts with that and got much more appropriate recommendations afterwards.
What amazes me is that the most non-technical types of guys claim to have trouble remembering a string of random characters, yet they are able to remember the name of every member of their favorite sport's team... When it comes to NHL or some European teams, those players' name do look like just a bunch of random characters put in a string.
And not only that, but they can also remember all the season stats for that team, which also changes regularly...
Those sports stats have meaning behind them, which makes them easier to remember. Also, if you misspell "Dmitry Afanasenkov" it's generally not a big deal, since people (well, some) will still know who you're talking about.
If you mess up "ai$3Dn5p!" by one character, you're out of luck. And a "string of random characters" is harder to remember than some not-so-random statistics with real meaning behind them, especially if it's for something that you don't have to sign into every day.
It's no fraud. He's not tricking people into clicking on his AdWords links. He's providing information targeted at a particular audience and Google's providing targeted ad links based on that information. Presumably anyone who clicks on those links would be doing so because they were interested in that information (not counting any anti-lawyer clickers who arrive via this slashdot article).
His motives may not be pure (i.e., wanting to help out sufferers of mesothelioma), but as long as the information he provides is true and he's not tricking people into clicking on the links, the site is really no different from any other for-profit media source.
I've had no problems. Everquest, Puzzle Pirates and World of Warcraft all had easy to use interfaces on their websites that allowed me to update/change/cancel my account status and billing info.
Now, on the otherhand, I did have trouble unsubscribing from MMORPGs, but that was more of a minor addiction problem.:)
Puzzle Pirates is a great game. I played it for about 6 months quite regularly and had a great crew of people from around the world that I played and chatted with. Lots of fun. Then I got a new job and had little time to play and my account lapsed. (Also, I installed World of Warcraft:) There's only room for one MMOG in my life at a time now.)
Anyway, I highly recommend it if anyone's looking for a change of pace from MMORPG grinding. And, if any Marine Knights are reading, Rhodes didn't die, he just put his fleet into drydock for a while.:)
I remember the IIGS. I was in elementary school and all we had had up to that point was the IIe. One classroom got a IIGS. We were all (well, the budding geeks among us) like "Whoa! Look at those totally awesome graphics! Man, there are tons of colors!" I don't really remember using it, since it was in some other class, but the demo program they showed on there was pretty cool to us 9 year olds.
I've been thinking about getting a mac mini for my kitchen, too, precisely for the same reasons. Right now I end up putting my powerbook on the counter--or if I'm doing something really messy, across the room, which is a pain when you want to read the recipe.
We're going to do a kitchen remodel soon; I'm going to plan on leaving a space for a small computer with an LCD monitor.
I've tried out a number of social networking sites and I've wondered: how many people actually are visiting the site a month after they sign up? In my experience (and that of my friends), we would sign up, play around with whatever gimmick that site had and then forget about it. Maybe something like this that provides what could be a pretty useful service might be something that could keep us coming back.
Heh, I had a problem one day where I had to type in my ATM PIN using an AT-keyboard style number pad that was on a card swiper. I could not for the life of me remember what the PIN was, because the number pad was upside down compared to the one on the ATM. My PIN seemed to be stored in muscle memory rather than brain memory. My friends were disappointed when I came out of the liquor store empty handed.:)
From the article: After 130 years of typing the same way the keyboard has finally grown up.
Alphabetizing the keys and giving it a garish Fisher-Price color scheme does not make a keyboard grown up. One of the benefits of a QWERTY keyboard is that a good deal of typing is done with keystrokes alternating between the hands, speeding things up quite a bit. Alphabetical keys may make it easier for "hunt and peck typists as well as senior citizens who have never had a computer because they are challenged by the difficult basic keyboard," but it is far from becoming a standard, since the layout is very inefficient for a touch typist.
This article really reads like a marketing press release.
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Isn't it really the mayor's job, when you boil it down, to plot to get re-elected? That's really the only incentive that a mayor has, even one in it for altruistic purposes--more than one term gives them more time to make the world (or city) a better place.
Dont underestimate the power of broken games to teach alot about how the computers work.
Related to that, you could give him an old DOS box and make him fight with autoexec.bat and config.sys to get enough memory allocated to play his games. I learned quite a bit just having to do that and other arcanery to get my games working as a kid.
What do you call the whole of:
Europe
Middle East
Africa
?
I second the Macally IceKey. I use it on both a Windows and a Mac at work without a problem. Here's a quick review I wrote up long ago:
Macally IceKey review
What I do with my neighbour's access point is akin to me knocking on a neighbour's door and asking to come in. If they say yes, they can't later say I was trespassing.
How about you knock on your neighbour's door and ask if you can connect to their wireless network? If you did that, then there'd be no need for all of the crazy analogies.
Heh, for 3 years I used to live right off Cedar where the speed drops at the entrance of Cleveland Heights. Somehow I managed to avoid getting a speeding ticket that entire time. You can sit in one of the restaurants there and watch the cops pull people over one after another, all night long.
Wow, this is a good reason why they should limit the use of computers in schools. There's really no need to have a a bunch of networked computers in a high school that I can see. Is there much benefit that can outweigh the time, effort and money spent to deal with kids who flaunt network security like this? I'm sure they don't go to the trouble to give them all a "release of teenage angst."
When I decide to drive to work rather than take the commuter train, my driving time can range from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours each way. If I could pay a one-time cost of $1000 to reliably keep me down towards the lower end of that range, I'd definitely do it.
It's coming full circle. From the way the media portrays it, the web is now all about blogs, which, right down to it, are not much more than "hobbyists putting up pictures of their cats and the latest Star Trek convention".
Order it through Amazon and you can get a $35 mail-in rebate for the single version or a $50 rebate for the family pack:
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Any media set to self destruct after a set date is no use to anyone
Well, unless you're a secret agent of some sort.
If you mark something as a gift when you buy it, they'll ignore it when they make recommendations, I believe. Also, you could go into the recommendations section and there's a page in there that will let you change your ratings and say "Don't use this for recommendations" and things like that. I went through and removed gifts with that and got much more appropriate recommendations afterwards.
What amazes me is that the most non-technical types of guys claim to have trouble remembering a string of random characters, yet they are able to remember the name of every member of their favorite sport's team... When it comes to NHL or some European teams, those players' name do look like just a bunch of random characters put in a string.
And not only that, but they can also remember all the season stats for that team, which also changes regularly...
Those sports stats have meaning behind them, which makes them easier to remember. Also, if you misspell "Dmitry Afanasenkov" it's generally not a big deal, since people (well, some) will still know who you're talking about.
If you mess up "ai$3Dn5p!" by one character, you're out of luck. And a "string of random characters" is harder to remember than some not-so-random statistics with real meaning behind them, especially if it's for something that you don't have to sign into every day.
It's no fraud. He's not tricking people into clicking on his AdWords links. He's providing information targeted at a particular audience and Google's providing targeted ad links based on that information. Presumably anyone who clicks on those links would be doing so because they were interested in that information (not counting any anti-lawyer clickers who arrive via this slashdot article).
His motives may not be pure (i.e., wanting to help out sufferers of mesothelioma), but as long as the information he provides is true and he's not tricking people into clicking on the links, the site is really no different from any other for-profit media source.
I've had no problems. Everquest, Puzzle Pirates and World of Warcraft all had easy to use interfaces on their websites that allowed me to update/change/cancel my account status and billing info.
:)
Now, on the otherhand, I did have trouble unsubscribing from MMORPGs, but that was more of a minor addiction problem.
Puzzle Pirates is a great game. I played it for about 6 months quite regularly and had a great crew of people from around the world that I played and chatted with. Lots of fun. Then I got a new job and had little time to play and my account lapsed. (Also, I installed World of Warcraft :) There's only room for one MMOG in my life at a time now.)
:)
Anyway, I highly recommend it if anyone's looking for a change of pace from MMORPG grinding. And, if any Marine Knights are reading, Rhodes didn't die, he just put his fleet into drydock for a while.
I remember the IIGS. I was in elementary school and all we had had up to that point was the IIe. One classroom got a IIGS. We were all (well, the budding geeks among us) like "Whoa! Look at those totally awesome graphics! Man, there are tons of colors!" I don't really remember using it, since it was in some other class, but the demo program they showed on there was pretty cool to us 9 year olds.
"The team claims an iPod-sized device would suffice to steal the crypto key in under a second."
Is that the 40GB iPod, 20GB iPod, iPod Mini or iPod shuffle?
I've been thinking about getting a mac mini for my kitchen, too, precisely for the same reasons. Right now I end up putting my powerbook on the counter--or if I'm doing something really messy, across the room, which is a pain when you want to read the recipe.
We're going to do a kitchen remodel soon; I'm going to plan on leaving a space for a small computer with an LCD monitor.
Shift-U will upgrade all units of the given unit's type throughout all cities with barracks, assuming you have enough money to do so.
I've tried out a number of social networking sites and I've wondered: how many people actually are visiting the site a month after they sign up? In my experience (and that of my friends), we would sign up, play around with whatever gimmick that site had and then forget about it. Maybe something like this that provides what could be a pretty useful service might be something that could keep us coming back.
Hmm. Someone deserves a nice, sound slashdotting over this.
Heh, I had a problem one day where I had to type in my ATM PIN using an AT-keyboard style number pad that was on a card swiper. I could not for the life of me remember what the PIN was, because the number pad was upside down compared to the one on the ATM. My PIN seemed to be stored in muscle memory rather than brain memory. My friends were disappointed when I came out of the liquor store empty handed. :)
From the article: After 130 years of typing the same way the keyboard has finally grown up.
Alphabetizing the keys and giving it a garish Fisher-Price color scheme does not make a keyboard grown up. One of the benefits of a QWERTY keyboard is that a good deal of typing is done with keystrokes alternating between the hands, speeding things up quite a bit. Alphabetical keys may make it easier for "hunt and peck typists as well as senior citizens who have never had a computer because they are challenged by the difficult basic keyboard," but it is far from becoming a standard, since the layout is very inefficient for a touch typist.
This article really reads like a marketing press release.
Following the concert, the robots met up and started a Styx cover band.