Yes, that was my point, that the default is for the numeric keypad to be set to cursor mode, giving you two sets of cursor keys and no numeric keypad.
Right, but the opposing side may say, in the other case, "the default is for two sets of number keys," (the second over QWERTY), "and only a cramped cursor position."
I think it will go completely the other way, and that in 50 years people will never have heard of phone numbers. The identifier will be the email address, and if I want to call someone I select that address and press "call", and a VOIP connection will be made. If I want to IM or mail, I press other buttons.
I've had that in place for about a year here. You just need to add an SRV record, of the form:
_sip._udp.example.com
and then have your PBX link the extensions, with, e.g. LDAP.
Yeah, if it's one thing that George Lucas has proven, it's that good special effects don't make a good movie.
Check out Hitchcock's two "The Man Who Knew Too Much" versions, from '34 and '56. The latter is beautiful, and in Hi-Fi, but the story lacks the punch of the original.
Cameron sidestepped the uncanny valley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley [wikipedia.org] ) by making the navi different enough from people. I have yet to see a believable CG human character.
The scenes with the humans were artificial too. At least some of them, like with the grumpy old guy giving the briefing. Either that or they forced some bad 3D on the scenes in post.
How about the scene when they first tried transference with SW's character? Was that just a composite? It certainly looked like SW was done as a younger version of herself (that, or she's quite an amazing 60-year-old. Has somebody published a scene/effects list?
I even have a automatic DVD ripper using Handbrake CLI and a bash script to watch the dvd drive on the content server.
C'mon, now, even the Handbrake developers tell you to use a different ripper. Handbrake won't rip almost everything manufactured in the past half decade.
So, Nvidia writes drivers for your system, and those drivers work. What's the problem?
They blow in several directions.
I had an nVidia card in my MythTV box for the TV-out. I upgraded my motherboard because the Intel mobo blew in other ways (it's fine in a server now, doing mundane server things, but don't try to push 'fancy' PCI cards with it). The new mobo had an nVidia graphics chip built in.
Well, it turns out that the nVidia card I bought the year before was now a 'legacy' card. It has a separate driver. That driver can't be on the same machine with the new driver that's needed for the mobo. So, I got a new nVidia TV-out card that is compatible with the mobo chipset. Oh, well, they haven't bothered implementing TVOverscan for the 'new' driver yet, that's only available in the legacy driver, so my MythTV menus are off the screen. Etc.
This kind of stuff is laughed at in the open source community. Now, granted, nouveaux doesn't have TVOut support, yet, but when it does, it won't have random conflicts with other drivers.
With the next kernel I should be able to go back to the old TV out card and legacy driver and run the open source driver on the internal display. Hurray, for getting back to square one.
No one said it self-signed certificates were worse than plaintext. You said that saying that they were 'barely better' was 'mistaken'. It's not. A self signed certificate is barely better than no crypto.
That's only true for the initial request. All browsers will warn on subsequent changes if you store the cert.
So, for example, an internal webmail that gets one initial request and then thousands of subsequent ones, has a real benefit from a self-signed cert over plain text. And if the cert is installed in the company's standard build, even better.
The real problem is that some browser vendors charge for root cert inclusion and so they put up inappropriately worded warning dialogs to scare users, and force the issue.
"I'm sorry, ma'am, you'll have to increase the radius of the curve of that cable going from your computer to your monitor, the index of refraction is too small for they way you have your cable coiled up."
Estimates are what these days for # of galaxies? Hundreds of billions?
No, don't think so small. 7x10^22, at least.
You may have heard, "there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all of the beaches on Earth." Then a few years back, they also added "and desserts" and then you still have to at least multiply by 10.
Sure, those make sense - self-defense is a natural right, and so cannot be abridged. 'Taxation without representation' was a rallying cry for the founding of this country.
Not at all, given that the amendment uses the word "unreasonable" without providing any definition whatsoever... And the Supreme Court has said
See, there's the problem. These things are supposed to be clear to ordinary people, not just fancy men in black dresses. If it takes several layers of legal indirection to arrive at a conclusion, it goes against the intent of the Constitution.
If you were to ask each US citizen driving over the Canada-US border if police should be able to rummage through their cars and look at everything they own, most people would say 'no'. That the Supreme Court errs on the side of tyranny and against the will of the People is an open problem.
The US Constitution does not limit the power of US Government, it grants powers to the US Government.
Yes, you're quite right, though a common semantic is 'limited government'. The Constitution limits the power of [the people who would seek to control the] general and State governments [in comparison to the monarchy which preceded the AoC] by enumerating only certain powers.
Really, though, it has proven buggy.
Still, based on the (probably vain) hope that we might breath some life back into the Tenth
You might think about coming up to NH, people here are working on that.
But you'll get the argument that the border is some sort of quasi-state where our inalienable rights aren't.
Yeah, tyrants always have excuses, but they never hold up to logical or moral scrutiny.
The Constitution puts limits on the actions of the government. Not 'the actions of the government within the borders of the admitted states.'
Just like Guantanamo and CIA black ops torture sites are illegal even though they're overseas. Government actions aren't automatically legal, but, in theory, we have recourse, which ought to dissuade. This seems to be less and less effective, though.
You joke; but having a dedicated ctrl+alt+del button is a Microsoft requirement for tablet PC hardware.
That's so funny, especially since the key combination was first designed to be difficult to hit. I understand how the non-maskable implementation gets bad software out of a bind, though.
I always fond it maddening that Bios manufacturers and Microsoft had the numeric keypad set to "cursor key mode" by default, despite the fact that there's a separate set of cursor keys.
To play devil's advocate, there is a separate set of number keys too.
But we both know that the dedicate cursor keys are in the most ergonomic position already, and the numeric keypad is the most ergonomic form for number entry, so 'cursor mode' is a dumb default.
But Microsoft owes its existence to backwards-compatibility, so it's not surprising.
After Bill Gates resigned, many of the Microsoft middle managers came up to Steve Ballmer's office to talk about all the problems they had under Gates. Sensing the opportunity for change, nearly all of them said, at some point, "I simply won't stand for this anymore". Ballmer just got tired of this after a while and decided to manage more efficiently.
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from unicorns free-range raised in the Swiss Alps
The one problem is how you're going to pipe in soothing Rachmaninov to the unicorns if they're free-ranging way the heck up in the Alps.
Oh, wait, Monster optical cable, nevermind.
This problem was solved a few years ago. Look up ClearCurve. They clad the fibre in tiny reflectors that recover the stray signal.
Oh, so *that's* what the Intel fiber bus is about. Cool, I missed that both times. Thanks.
Yes, that was my point, that the default is for the numeric keypad to be set to cursor mode, giving you two sets of cursor keys and no numeric keypad.
Right, but the opposing side may say, in the other case, "the default is for two sets of number keys," (the second over QWERTY), "and only a cramped cursor position."
I think it will go completely the other way, and that in 50 years people will never have heard of phone numbers. The identifier will be the email address, and if I want to call someone I select that address and press "call", and a VOIP connection will be made. If I want to IM or mail, I press other buttons.
I've had that in place for about a year here. You just need to add an SRV record, of the form:
_sip._udp.example.com
and then have your PBX link the extensions, with, e.g. LDAP.
Yeah, if it's one thing that George Lucas has proven, it's that good special effects don't make a good movie.
Check out Hitchcock's two "The Man Who Knew Too Much" versions, from '34 and '56. The latter is beautiful, and in Hi-Fi, but the story lacks the punch of the original.
From this article (by a unabashed pro-global warming person), the estimate is 3 feet by 2100.
But the same theory says that the Maldives has been sinking, when it's not.
Cameron sidestepped the uncanny valley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley [wikipedia.org] ) by making the navi different enough from people. I have yet to see a believable CG human character.
The scenes with the humans were artificial too. At least some of them, like with the grumpy old guy giving the briefing. Either that or they forced some bad 3D on the scenes in post.
How about the scene when they first tried transference with SW's character? Was that just a composite? It certainly looked like SW was done as a younger version of herself (that, or she's quite an amazing 60-year-old. Has somebody published a scene/effects list?
I even have a automatic DVD ripper using Handbrake CLI and a bash script to watch the dvd drive on the content server.
C'mon, now, even the Handbrake developers tell you to use a different ripper. Handbrake won't rip almost everything manufactured in the past half decade.
So, Nvidia writes drivers for your system, and those drivers work. What's the problem?
They blow in several directions.
I had an nVidia card in my MythTV box for the TV-out. I upgraded my motherboard because the Intel mobo blew in other ways (it's fine in a server now, doing mundane server things, but don't try to push 'fancy' PCI cards with it). The new mobo had an nVidia graphics chip built in.
Well, it turns out that the nVidia card I bought the year before was now a 'legacy' card. It has a separate driver. That driver can't be on the same machine with the new driver that's needed for the mobo. So, I got a new nVidia TV-out card that is compatible with the mobo chipset. Oh, well, they haven't bothered implementing TVOverscan for the 'new' driver yet, that's only available in the legacy driver, so my MythTV menus are off the screen. Etc.
This kind of stuff is laughed at in the open source community. Now, granted, nouveaux doesn't have TVOut support, yet, but when it does, it won't have random conflicts with other drivers.
With the next kernel I should be able to go back to the old TV out card and legacy driver and run the open source driver on the internal display. Hurray, for getting back to square one.
No one said it self-signed certificates were worse than plaintext. You said that saying that they were 'barely better' was 'mistaken'. It's not. A self signed certificate is barely better than no crypto.
That's only true for the initial request. All browsers will warn on subsequent changes if you store the cert.
So, for example, an internal webmail that gets one initial request and then thousands of subsequent ones, has a real benefit from a self-signed cert over plain text. And if the cert is installed in the company's standard build, even better.
The real problem is that some browser vendors charge for root cert inclusion and so they put up inappropriately worded warning dialogs to scare users, and force the issue.
And other than idiots like yourself who think theres something wrong with it, what exactly is the problem going to be with this happening?
You have some evidence this is settled science?
Wait, ReactOS or Wine?
Don't be silly, WINE has been unsatisfactory for sixteen years.
The english way of capitalizing words in titles doesn't help either.
The English way of punctuating would have helped though:
'Newton's Apple' Story Goes Online
(and no, nobody cares that the quotes don't balance)
shouldn't fiber be the ultimate?
"I'm sorry, ma'am, you'll have to increase the radius of the curve of that cable going from your computer to your monitor, the index of refraction is too small for they way you have your cable coiled up."
with a normal download option i could just leave wget nicely getting me the content and watch it later, without annoying interruptions.
Gotcha - shorter download windows, plus HTTP resume, right?
Estimates are what these days for # of galaxies? Hundreds of billions?
No, don't think so small. 7x10^22, at least.
You may have heard, "there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all of the beaches on Earth." Then a few years back, they also added "and desserts" and then you still have to at least multiply by 10.
If they grow, reproduce, and evolve, in what way are they not life?
Usually we count metabolism too (vs., say prions), but yeah.
Oh, certainly, courts err on the side of tyranny all the time.
Sure, those make sense - self-defense is a natural right, and so cannot be abridged. 'Taxation without representation' was a rallying cry for the founding of this country.
Not at all, given that the amendment uses the word "unreasonable" without providing any definition whatsoever ... And the Supreme Court has said
See, there's the problem. These things are supposed to be clear to ordinary people, not just fancy men in black dresses. If it takes several layers of legal indirection to arrive at a conclusion, it goes against the intent of the Constitution.
If you were to ask each US citizen driving over the Canada-US border if police should be able to rummage through their cars and look at everything they own, most people would say 'no'. That the Supreme Court errs on the side of tyranny and against the will of the People is an open problem.
The US Constitution does not limit the power of US Government, it grants powers to the US Government.
Yes, you're quite right, though a common semantic is 'limited government'. The Constitution limits the power of [the people who would seek to control the] general and State governments [in comparison to the monarchy which preceded the AoC] by enumerating only certain powers.
Really, though, it has proven buggy.
Still, based on the (probably vain) hope that we might breath some life back into the Tenth
You might think about coming up to NH, people here are working on that.
But you'll get the argument that the border is some sort of quasi-state where our inalienable rights aren't.
Yeah, tyrants always have excuses, but they never hold up to logical or moral scrutiny.
The Constitution puts limits on the actions of the government. Not 'the actions of the government within the borders of the admitted states.'
Just like Guantanamo and CIA black ops torture sites are illegal even though they're overseas. Government actions aren't automatically legal, but, in theory, we have recourse, which ought to dissuade. This seems to be less and less effective, though.
You joke; but having a dedicated ctrl+alt+del button is a Microsoft requirement for tablet PC hardware.
That's so funny, especially since the key combination was first designed to be difficult to hit. I understand how the non-maskable implementation gets bad software out of a bind, though.
I always fond it maddening that Bios manufacturers and Microsoft had the numeric keypad set to "cursor key mode" by default, despite the fact that there's a separate set of cursor keys.
To play devil's advocate, there is a separate set of number keys too.
But we both know that the dedicate cursor keys are in the most ergonomic position already, and the numeric keypad is the most ergonomic form for number entry, so 'cursor mode' is a dumb default.
But Microsoft owes its existence to backwards-compatibility, so it's not surprising.
Or flying chairs.
After Bill Gates resigned, many of the Microsoft middle managers came up to Steve Ballmer's office to talk about all the problems they had under Gates. Sensing the opportunity for change, nearly all of them said, at some point, "I simply won't stand for this anymore". Ballmer just got tired of this after a while and decided to manage more efficiently.