Anyone can do what Bruce implies only "special security people" can do. It's just that most people don't because there is no incentive to. You might as well announce that your special security mindset has noticed how easy it would be to go into restaurants and put poison in the salt shakers. Hell they are wide open! What were the salt shaker designers thinking of! But of course normal people are just not interested in doing that.
If you're a gamer and not using a PC then it pretty much has to be a console. Yes, those horrid locked-down computers with hardware enforcement of encryption and code-signing that prevent you from doing anything unless jointly and expressly permitted by the manufacturer and the government. You may say you don't care because it doesn't harm your game experience - but what's next? "Oh e-mail is no good on a PC because you can't stop people sending things you don't like." "Oh word-processing is no good on a PC because you can't revoke documents with bad content." Anything that deprecates general-purpose computing worries me a lot.
Who remembers when this took you to a web page showing a pile of poo and "Automated Turd Industries"... I always assumed it was a shakedown on ATI the video card manufacturer.
The world demographics demo is interesting but how do you use the tool for your own stuff?
"In the basic tutorial you learn how to use Gapminder World with preset data. In this section you will learn how you can use the tool itself for your own data. [...] The advanced features are currently being developed. The tutorial will be added as soon as the features are ready."
I can't figure out how to put in my own data in place of all those bubbles about the population of Albania.
How about 1981:) Yes really, although it was an internal company system not connected to the wide world in any way. I'm in UK and used it to stay in touch across timezones with our devs in the US.
Finally a company that actually has a clue. We can rely on Google to produce what I know everyone really wants - a phone that only makes voice calls not fancy-nancy "interweb" rubbish.
Old guy here (fifties) and the disadvantage with having technical computer knowledge is that you endlessly have to relearn the same old stuff but in a different way; when you're young it's fun but as time goes by it becomes increasingly boring. On your boss's lack of AGP-pulling ability I suggest either he never did know how to open up a PC or he did but now got burned out and just doesn't care. After the 358th iteration of "relearning how shit works this week" it's hard to be like "wow look at these new type of card gotta try this" any more.
That's why my pictures always turn out so crap, the damn camera can't record local wind speed information! One day though my work will be recognised...
Me Too, I decided I would give them five quid but after struggling with their web site for several minutes I gave up. They never got my money and I never got my music. Kudos for their heart in the right place though.
As a parent you try very hard to provide a great environment for your kids that gives them everything they could possibly need. Sometimes though you start to feel this is actually just turning them into spoilt brats and wonder if they would actually grow into better people if things were a little tougher for them. Not really the kind of thing you can experiment with though so you just have to cross fingers and hope!
[Bay Area, CA, US] Gasoline: 0.56 Euro/liter (= 3.00 Dollar/gallon) Ow! I filled up my car a few days ago and paid 0.95 UK pounds per litre (= 1.91 Dollar, 1.35 Euro.) Total cost at payment window 54 pounds (= 109 Dollar, 77 Euro.) Even factoring in the smaller US gallon this means we're paying almost 7 Dollars per!
Moving to an IDE is just not intuitive. I'm what you might call a part-time developer and I've always used notepad.exe and a Windows command prompt when I have to write Java code at work. I thought I'd try an IDE and the very first thing it wanted was "Existing or new project?" WTF is a "project?" I invented some name like "Myproject" to keep it happy but I'm still not totally sure. What I actually thought I was getting was a better way to compile my existing source files and I already know where those are located thanks. There are numerous other gotchas just like this.
You're not allowed to regenerate unless given a license by the government, which they never do. An exception for a Timelord was grandfathered in though since he was the last one of his race.
That's not entirely fair. I am a lifetime computer geek and the only time I have ever seen Windows Vista is on the laptops for sale at Costco. If you've never seen Ubuntu either then throw in a little nervousness and eagerness to display an enquiring mind and you've got a somewhat understandable mistake when confronted with a "what the hell is that" moment. Also I did once have extensive knowledge of the IRQ for everything and how to debug bad expanded memory configurations in config.sys, etc., but really how much of that is relevant these days? The rest of it sounds like good ways to separate the click monkeys though.
To all those good ole boys posting about how they are completely OK to drive after a few beers and what's all the fuss... Would you be happy to have your surgeon operate on you after necking a few? "I'm fine!!! Really! (hic) Where that bonesaw?"
Is secret filming allowed on private property if the private rule say "no"? Yesterday's story about the teen with a camcorder had everyone agreeing that the film theatre was legally capable to ban filming if it wanted to, regardless of what the **AA had to say on the subject.
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Hey I'd like one please if you're giving them out...
Anyone can do what Bruce implies only "special security people" can do. It's just that most people don't because there is no incentive to. You might as well announce that your special security mindset has noticed how easy it would be to go into restaurants and put poison in the salt shakers. Hell they are wide open! What were the salt shaker designers thinking of! But of course normal people are just not interested in doing that.
I saw this link via The Inquirer - how to build your own from a bunch of RAIDed CF cards.
Assemble a SSD disk for less than 75 Euro
http://www.guru3d.com/article/memory/506
See if our emperors actually do have any clothes.
If you're a gamer and not using a PC then it pretty much has to be a console. Yes, those horrid locked-down computers with hardware enforcement of encryption and code-signing that prevent you from doing anything unless jointly and expressly permitted by the manufacturer and the government. You may say you don't care because it doesn't harm your game experience - but what's next? "Oh e-mail is no good on a PC because you can't stop people sending things you don't like." "Oh word-processing is no good on a PC because you can't revoke documents with bad content." Anything that deprecates general-purpose computing worries me a lot.
Ramp controller: "Droid X6 - use your superior intellect and get those passengers onto the plane as fast as possible"
Droid X6: "Yessir"
(minces up pax and pumps slurry onboard at high speed)
Droid X6: "Objective complete sir"
1. Launch mindlessly stupid litigation doomed from start
2. Stock price tanks
3. Then a miracle occurs
4. Profit!
Who remembers when this took you to a web page showing a pile of poo and "Automated Turd Industries"... I always assumed it was a shakedown on ATI the video card manufacturer.
The world demographics demo is interesting but how do you use the tool for your own stuff?
"In the basic tutorial you learn how to use Gapminder World with preset data. In this section you will learn how you can use the tool itself for your own data. [...] The advanced features are currently being developed. The tutorial will be added as soon as the features are ready."
I can't figure out how to put in my own data in place of all those bubbles about the population of Albania.
...who can do this. Antigua and Sweden.
How about 1981 :) Yes really, although it was an internal company system not connected to the wide world in any way. I'm in UK and used it to stay in touch across timezones with our devs in the US.
Alternative to Hushmail; advertises itself as free secure webmail
http://www.s-mail.com/
Finally a company that actually has a clue. We can rely on Google to produce what I know everyone really wants - a phone that only makes voice calls not fancy-nancy "interweb" rubbish.
Old guy here (fifties) and the disadvantage with having technical computer knowledge is that you endlessly have to relearn the same old stuff but in a different way; when you're young it's fun but as time goes by it becomes increasingly boring. On your boss's lack of AGP-pulling ability I suggest either he never did know how to open up a PC or he did but now got burned out and just doesn't care. After the 358th iteration of "relearning how shit works this week" it's hard to be like "wow look at these new type of card gotta try this" any more.
That's why my pictures always turn out so crap, the damn camera can't record local wind speed information! One day though my work will be recognised...
Me Too, I decided I would give them five quid but after struggling with their web site for several minutes I gave up. They never got my money and I never got my music. Kudos for their heart in the right place though.
As a parent you try very hard to provide a great environment for your kids that gives them everything they could possibly need. Sometimes though you start to feel this is actually just turning them into spoilt brats and wonder if they would actually grow into better people if things were a little tougher for them. Not really the kind of thing you can experiment with though so you just have to cross fingers and hope!
[Bay Area, CA, US] Gasoline: 0.56 Euro/liter (= 3.00 Dollar/gallon)
Ow! I filled up my car a few days ago and paid 0.95 UK pounds per litre (= 1.91 Dollar, 1.35 Euro.) Total cost at payment window 54 pounds (= 109 Dollar, 77 Euro.) Even factoring in the smaller US gallon this means we're paying almost 7 Dollars per!
I think the teh answer random crap is people will just fnord learn to modify writing style their.
Moving to an IDE is just not intuitive. I'm what you might call a part-time developer and I've always used notepad.exe and a Windows command prompt when I have to write Java code at work. I thought I'd try an IDE and the very first thing it wanted was "Existing or new project?" WTF is a "project?" I invented some name like "Myproject" to keep it happy but I'm still not totally sure. What I actually thought I was getting was a better way to compile my existing source files and I already know where those are located thanks. There are numerous other gotchas just like this.
You're not allowed to regenerate unless given a license by the government, which they never do. An exception for a Timelord was grandfathered in though since he was the last one of his race.
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Although now I'm swopping to the American Pussy one
That's not entirely fair. I am a lifetime computer geek and the only time I have ever seen Windows Vista is on the laptops for sale at Costco. If you've never seen Ubuntu either then throw in a little nervousness and eagerness to display an enquiring mind and you've got a somewhat understandable mistake when confronted with a "what the hell is that" moment. Also I did once have extensive knowledge of the IRQ for everything and how to debug bad expanded memory configurations in config.sys, etc., but really how much of that is relevant these days? The rest of it sounds like good ways to separate the click monkeys though.
To all those good ole boys posting about how they are completely OK to drive after a few beers and what's all the fuss... Would you be happy to have your surgeon operate on you after necking a few? "I'm fine!!! Really! (hic) Where that bonesaw?"
Is secret filming allowed on private property if the private rule say "no"? Yesterday's story about the teen with a camcorder had everyone agreeing that the film theatre was legally capable to ban filming if it wanted to, regardless of what the **AA had to say on the subject.