I think the $2000 is what hits most people when they read the summary. This must have been a opportunist as opposed to a planned robbery. Reading the story and others related it looks like it was only after the thief discovered "what he had" that he started to look for a buyer.
Updates state that the thief was quickly caught when he started offering the stuff for sale. Stories indicate that non of the upcoming movie info was lost either so this overall is no longer a story. The only story is the screw up and missed opportunity of the thief.
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Ok, one less acticle I can use up my mod points in but I had to comment on this one...
I agree that/. is a great place to get an overall view of what is going on in the tech world. I'll also agree that/. makes browsing most of the suggested sites redundant as most of the time if it is a worthwhile store to read it will quickly show up here.
What I strongly disagree with is that/. is your one stop solution for all that is good and necessary in the world of IT./. is a great sight to get an overall summary of what is going on... or the "big picture" [forgive the cliche; and lack of accents] but it fails misserably at supplying indepth information about many everyday IT related items.
This type of question seems to get asked on/. about once or twice a year. Every time I scan the comments looking for new sites to try out. After browsing most of the sites I generally give them up and stay on/., as most of the key stories end up here anyway and I don't have to put up with the annoying ads and layouts. This does not mean I'm satisfied and I won't keep looking for something more.
I am also primarily a Windows admin and I find that there is very few decent and interesting sites out there targeted to may area of work. As an example, Linux has Linux Format which is a damn good magazine and site for Linux admins; not only does it have the depth that an admin needs on some key subjects it has a fair bit of entertainment also. Windows has nothing equivalent either in print or on the web that I have found.
Of course many of/.ers will probably take this opportunity to rag on Windows, etc., etc. but the fact is that there is a lot of Windows administrators out there and just as much need for a decent tech information shop as there is for Linux (or any other OS for that matter). The submitter may be just looking for a general source and in that case/. will help as the parent suggests but/. is definitely not the whole solution and should not be offered as such.
Have you every tried to come up with an *intelligent* original question? For that matter I'm sure if you Googled even the dumb question you can come up with you would not only find others asking very similar questions but many suitable answers. I don't remember the exact quote or who said it but basically we have reached the critical mass where there is not an original unique idea out there. Yes there are many with the same or similar original ideas developing them in parallel.
I ran into a case where and exam I wrote was over 80% the same as a copy of an exam I had aquired from a few years before. Sure it provided me with an easy mark but I actually felt somewhat guilty as I had lucked out on getting the old exam and other than a few friends I had shared it with no one else in the class had one (I found this out after the marks were given out; the class average was less than 60%). It felt like I had somehow cheated because basically I had an answer key to the exam. I talked to the professor about it and he related the fact that over the years he had tried the track of not recycling exam questions. The problem he ran into is that when teaching the same course material there is only so many ways you can ask questions about the same topics (this was a sciences related course so simple teaching something completely new is not possible). Because of this his exam questions started to suffer from a form of "feature creep" where the questions slowly (over iterations of exams) became harder and harder. In the end he returned to recycling older exam questions but tried to keep several years of separation between cycles. I left the conversation with a better understanding of why professors recycle papers and exams.
Finally, even if you could create unique questions for assignments and term papers there is always the case of students using "rent-a-[insertprofessionhere]" services like rentacoder.com for CS assignments. I suspect that not only will these types of educational exploits become more common but they are also extremely hard to catch and prove (short of court orders for records from these types of web sites and the related ISPs). The old saying of foolproof something and the world will invent a better fool applies to cheating also.
Actually, from TFA it looks like they at least tried to avoid the $996000 diamond + $4000 laptop image. Since it is/.'ed and taking the chance of being rated a karma whore, here is part of the article that drew my attention:
Luvaglio CEO Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio told Gizmag earlier today: "Unlike many of the highly priced products being released, we took our time to develop something out of the ordinary with real attention to detail. "
"I didn't want us to simply re-house a laptop into a diamond studded casing, or diamond encrust the entire thing simply to make it expensive. We've put thought in from the keyboard down to the power charger. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification. We have used diamonds elsewhere but have given them purpose."
According to Luvaglio, "the brand is committed to re-defining luxury in a few sectors, technology being one of them.
"Many claim to produce luxury goods but we believe that the true element of luxury is having something that says "YOU", that money can't buy.
"At present and from our previous luxury work, our initial clients will be chosen from this selection as we have already established trust.
"The range to be released shortly would allow the owner to become the creator and visit our showroom at two or three well known upmarket stores we are in discussion with, whereby our selection of materials, finishes and accessories will be available to view and a choice selected.
"The choice will be based on our selection but of course other colours and finishes can be done on request. We have access to diamonds that are simply rare and near impossible to get hold of, so are able to offer a very embodied choice.
"The presentation boxes are of course supplied and finished in the choice that is selected by the client. Exact figures I am unable to provide at present due to negotiations but will certainly be more obtainable then our master piece."
The first such masterpiece will sell for more than US$1,000,000.
On note on copying profiles: when you use the copy profile feature it does not copy the "local settings" folder in the source profile. Now this makes sense from a theoretical point of view (local settings should only contain information pertaining to the current user) but unfortunately their are a number of programs that happily install configuration settings into the local settings folder of the profile you use during installation. This means that if you do not manually copy the "local settings" folder over that some of you programs will not work (I have a list around here somewhere but I'm too lazy to look it up right now).
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Interesting observation about the digital watches and peoples view of them.
I guess in glancing you probably pick up the hour and maybe the 10s digit of the minutes. Interesting.
I'll have to check out Amazon. Thanks for the info and insight.
I think one consideration or category that you did not include is aspect ratio. Dual small versus single large is definitely important but so is 4:3 versus 16:9.
I see and here of a lot of very poorly designed applications in every day installations such as banks, medical offices, etc. Next time you are with your loans officer or banker ask them a simple question like "what will be the amount of the final payment on loan X" or " what is the total interest I am paying on loan X", then sit back and watch how many screen flips and mouse clicks they have to perform to get the answer. This is of course refering to any institution where they have "upgraded" to a new system as opposed to running and older, essentially, terminal based system. After talking to various workers on these systems I invariable hear that the "old system" was faster and easier to use (yes this is typically after a year or two of using the new system) because they did not have to do so much screen flipping, etc.
Just the other day I talked to a nurse about the new scheduling software they are now using at a local hospital. Previously they were paper based which was a nightmare but nothing compared to the new system. In this case the nurse had called in to see if there were any shifts available. The person running the system kept listing shifts that the nurse obviously could not take (a day shift immediately after an already scheduled night shift == working 24 hours straight). Finally the two got talking about the system. Turns out it required swapping between 6 different screens to get a complete picture including: shifts the person was already scheduled for; days the person had indicated they were not avaialble; wards that the person had training to work on; shifts available on each ward (could only be viewed 1 ward per window).
In all the above cases the screens ranged from 17" to 19" 4:3 monitors. Crappy software design aside, if these people at least had a wide format monitor (say a 19" or 20" 16:9) they would be able to line up more than 1 window side by side with no overlap an sitll be able to read the information (not everyone can handle 1280x1024 on a 17" screen; in fact most of the installations I have seen are at most 1024x768 even on 19" monitors).
I would suggest that in many cases, and certainly the ones that probably make up the vast majority of users out there (office personel, bankers, medical personel, etc.) that larger *wide format* monitors is the way to go. Most of these setups do not have the space for dual 19" monitors but do for a single 20" wide format monitor. Going to these wider monitors would definitely: 1. increase the work efficiency by simply reducing the amount of time window flipping and searching. 2. reduce the amount of stress and frustration for both the users and their clients (giving options to your that are practically impossible does nothing to increase the confidence your client has in you or your business).
Ok, I'm really not out to start a flame war so take your mouse off that mod button for a second.
Generally KDE is great. I use it on my Linux boxes and we use it in our labs. Konqueror is the best damn general purpose browser (except web) out there. It handles just about any protocol you can thing of and does a great job (except http) of it.
But it seems to me that KDE is starting to become more and more like the Windows "windows manager" where "one program" does it all. In Windows that would be explorer.exe along with IE and now perhaps media-player. With KDE now talking about better multi-media integration, etc., one wonders if we have not been down this road before.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but it does seem that KDE (and perhaps GNOME) is headed down the same path as MS and many other projects has previously. That is, towards one very large, does a bit of everything, and perhaps does no one thing really well, application. Is this a cycle that all software seems to follow? Take Mozilla for example. Start as a just a browser, build to a one suite to do it all application, split into parts that independantly handle designated tasks better than the all-in-one.
At some point will we see a fork of a KDE Light or some such project?
I usually make a hand motion everytime my submissions get rejected.:)
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Actually I find an anolog watch far easier to pick up the time with a causal glance than digital. It seems that with a digital you have little choice but to actually read the time. With an analog I can get a sense of what time it is by the position of the hands. Most of the time I find this "sense of time" or approximate time to be enough for my needs (ex: It's close to 11:30, I need to get ready for a meeting).
On the other hand I find that a strictly analog watch lacks many of the features that I have come to use and enjoy in a digital. Count down timers (preferably more than one) are a real bonus. Alarms seem to take to long to set (ok not really a lot of time but it seems that way), especially for quick reminders (ex: phone Bob back in 15 minutes). I have used countdown timers many times for short reminder times. Too often I will remember that I have something to do "in a little while" then get absorbed into some activity (coding!) and miss the time by several if not tens of minutes. Setting a countdown timer when I remember the upcoming event has saved me more often then I care to remember.
The ultimate watch is one that has both analog and digital displays. The analog for most general time tracking purposes and the digital for precise time tracking as well as extra information like dates and extra functionality like alarms, countdown timers, and (although rarely used) stop watch features.
Unfortunatly it seems incredibly difficult to find a watch that has both with a decent sized digital read out. I'm not talking about the ability to see it but instead for the functionality of providing enough useful information. I had a Timex watch several years ago that was perfect (so far as the display goes): analog hands, digital read out large enough to display the current time and date at the same time, 2 alarms, 2 24-hour countdown timers, a stopwatch, and finaly, the ability to disply digital time in 24-hour time. Also unfortunately I seem to be rather hard on watches (I must unconciously hate them or something and purposely bang them into things) so one of the two large buttons just below the face was ripped off within a month.
For the most part I have given up on wearing watches for the last 3 years. Mostly because I can't find another one with the features I want an secondly it has to be rugged enough to survive the abuse I seem to give watches. I'd even consider a pocket watch but I have never seen anything but an analog version of those.
Unfortunately another Geocities account is now overdrawn... but I digress.
Ok, I admit I have used sysprep quite a bit but mostly with win2k. I have not been able to get sysprep to allow me to move an image across diverse hardware configurations. Linux is no problem in this area and I have been looking for a way to do the same in windows but so far no go.
If you have actually done this successfully please take the time to enlighten me as to how you achieved it. Currently I can take a Linux image built on a Dell GX-270 and move it to an IBM NetVista 6790 2U or back with no issues. With windows I can barely move an image between various models in the Dell GX series.
Now maybe winxp is different than win2k. I'll find that out in the next month as I am migrating several platforms to winxp.
Another novel that deals in this area is Thrice Upon a Time by James P. Hogan. This book does not deal specifically with faster then light or negative time but as with most of Hogan's novels it does explain the "physics" behind the story rather well.
Check it, or any of Hogan's novels, out if you like a good Sci-Fi read.
When you get a computer with windows on it, that version is tied to that computer. Technically you are supposed to destroy your copy(s) of that Windows along with the key. Or transfer it if you are giving it to someone.
Sorry but not quite. When you purchase a copy of windows, whether with a new computer or separately, the activation process ties that copy to the hardware it is installed on. This does not stop that copy of windows from being moved to another machine.
If you significantly change your hardware or move your copy of windows to another machine you will be required to reactivate. This may involve calling Microsoft and explaining to them what changed. In the case of moving the installation to another computer (imaging, or fresh installation) the old installation will be deactivated.
All this means is that you may definitely install your legal copy of windows on each new computer that you buy and remove it from the old computer. I believe you may also transfer ownership of your copy to someone else but I do not have the EULA in front of me to verify this.
With regard to newly purchased machines: some OEMs use a Volume Licenses Keyed (VLK) version of windows. Also the EULAs on some verisions provided by OEMs state that the install is a "single-use" license. These types of installs may not be able to be transferred to another computer. Check out the FAQ for more information.
Third the HP digital sender. We have had one of these in the office for several months. This is a university department so many of the staff and faculty use it regularly. It scans very fast (about as fast as the auto feed on a photo-copier) and it is relatively easy to use.
I don't know off hand if you can set it up to send the documents to a default location though. We have it set up so that each person logs in and chooses to either send the digital document by email or to a SMB mounted drive. The touch screen is a little slow for input (I wish you could hook up a USB keyboard to the unit) but other than that it is a great machine.
Not that I'm typically very religious or anything but:
It seems to me that it would be a little hard to claim that this, or a good many of the other things that people have pointed too, constitutes the mark of the beast.
It is in the bicep region, not the forehead or right hand;
It is not a name nor the number 666
From the book of revelations:
13:16 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
13:17 and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.
I'm not sure what edition the above is from but it is plain English and close enough for this discussion.
13:18 Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
On a side note: always wondered about making a program to compute all the possible combinations of the Jewish alphabet that adds up to 666 (filtering out all the nonsense ones of course). Someone must have done this somewhere already.
you may well have a grounding problem either on the strip or the outlet that the strip is plugged into.
when a computer is in the "won't work on this strip" state: unplug it and ground each of the 3 terminals momentarily. You can do this by simply touching all three prongs to the metal face plate of a switch or plug. (this is similar to the suggestion that someone gave about shorting out the prongs with a screwdriver but better). Then try the computer. If this works then you may have a floating ground on the strip or somehow voltage is getting induced onto the ground.
you can buy a simple tester to test the wiring on a duplex plug. Home Depot usually caries them for less then 10 bucks. The plug into a 3 prong outlet and have 3 lights on them (2 orange and a red if I recall correctly). Depending on which lights light up tells you about the wiring and suggests what the problem is. I have even found high resistant neutrals and other such strange wiring problems with it.
Of course once you have tried this (or not) and have a better idea where/what the problem is, it is time to call a qualified electrician.
Not just replying to your comment but also all the rest along the line "modding is stupid, yadda, yadda, yadda".
No I am not a modder, yes I have looked at several modding projects and thought "that's neat, not sure why you would want to but whatever". Some mods are cool (like the laptop case made out of exotic woods, etc.). Just slapping a neon light and some plexiglass on something (be it a car or a computer case) is not interesting to me and not something I would waste my time on.
But I have to admit, this "windowed" hard drive made me think "hey, now there is a reason to have a clear case". Basically I'm a mechanical geek at heart. Seeing things move and work is interesting (this is why I'm a steam engineer in my spare time). Now I would not put out a ton of extra cash for the privilege but it is the first decent reason to consider the whole clear case mod business.
Now modding a case with artwork... that is something that I would take before neon lights and clear plastic. The new Dell XPS system case is really cool!
If you can't carry out your 13 year old, either they need a diet or you need more excercise.[yep, I laughed when I read this too, but...]
My soon to be 13 year old is currently 2 shoe sizes larger then me, 1.5" taller and within 60 lbs of me (ya I should be about 40 lbs lighter). I can still lift him but carrying him far while he is throwing a tantrum would be a job and a half. Dead weight over my shoulder I can still carry him a fair distance though. I don't expect to be able to test that after he gets his next few martial arts belts:)
As I posted earlier, its a 1440 ppm printer:
Print at up to 330 linear feet (100.6 m) per minute (1,440 2-up duplex letter impressions or 1,354 2-up A4 duplex impressions). - IBM
Ok, maybe I'm missing something. This is not a 330 page per minute nor a 1440 page per minute printer as I calculate it.
As my emphasis above points out above it is printing 1440 2-up duplex pages. That means 1440/2/2 = 360 pages per minute.
Someone did post 360 ppm earlier but the errors seem to keep going.
Now I suppose if you are counting "printed pages per minute" you would say that it is capable of 1440 printed pages per minute outputed at a rate of 360 paper pages per minute. I have not read the article and it does say it handles the pagination externally so does this mean that the print job is 1440 regular pages but the printer does the 2-up and duplex pagination plus prints the job at 360 pages per minute...I suppose so.
I won't argue with the rest of your math.
Oh and here is a link to a page with all the detailed specs including pricing.
Before your read through all the following posts stating "why it can't be real" and "holy crap is that huge" and "size does matter", read this:
From this picture it looks like the picture that everyone is talking about is the marketing display unit on the left. This looks like a blown up version of the real unit (shown on the right side of the picture) used for the purposes of trade shows (and slash dot advertising) only!
The quoted article is obviously a joke about the marketing version and not refering to the real heatsink unit shown on the right of the linked picture. Even though the real unit is not as large as a small dog and does not use 1.4 kW of power it is still an impressive unit.
Yep, most of the above is my take on the article and may not be 100% correct but it does make more sense then the OP and some of the comments below.
[the rest of the article as the comments form would not allow the whole thing in one posting]
7. RELATED WORK The rapid growth in phishing attacks has spurred calls for solutions. A number have been proposed ranging from quickfix changes to more substantial redesigns. In this section, we provide an overview of the anti-phishing proposals. We illustrate where the proposals ignore or address the security properties developed in Section 2 (the limited human skills property, general purpose graphics property, the golden arches property, the unmotivated user property and the barn door property).
In general, attempts to solve the phishing problem can be divided into three approaches: third party certification and direct authentication, and phishing specific tools.
7.1 Third Party Certification 7.1.1 Hierarchical and Distributed Trust Models Third party certification includes hierarchical trust models, like Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which has long been proposed as a solution for users to authenticate servers and vice-versa. In PKI, chains of Certificate Authorities (CAs) vouch for identity by binding a public key to a entity in a digital certificate. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, both rely on PKI.
In the typical use of SSL today only the server is authenticated. SSL also supports mutual authentication, and in theory it is possible for both servers and users to obtain certificates that are signed by a trusted CA. Though it is an active area of research, there is currently no practical scheme for widely deploying signed personal certificates. A further challenge is how to handle the revocation of credentials. The widespread use of personal certificates may also raise privacy concerns due to the personally identifiable information contained in certificates. Even with the wide use of one-sided SSL that is in place today (in the form of server digital certificates signed by a trusted CA), there are problems. As we examined in our task analysis, certificates have been falsely issued, and most users do not have the knowledge or skill to understand digital certificates and the delegation of trust. Therefore, SSL as it is implemented in browsers today, ignores all of the properties discussed in Section 2.
Other third party approaches include "web of trust" distributed trust models (e.g., Pretty Good Privacy [34]) and the use of third party seals to indicate trusted websites (e.g. Verisign Seal Program [35] and TRUSTe [36]). By displaying seals as graphics that can be easily copied, trusted seal programs ignore the "general purpose graphics" property.
7.1.2 Trustbar The "Trustbar" proposal is a third party certification solution, where websites logos are certified. The authors suggest creating a "trusted credentials area" as a fixed part of the browser window [37]. This area can be used to present credentials from the website, such as logos, icons and seals of the brand, that have been certified by trusted certificate authorities or by peers using a PGP "web of trust". A strength of the solution is that it does not rely on complex security indicators. However, we must consider the "general purpose graphics" and "golden arches" properties. Because the logos do not change, they can be easily copied and the credentials area of the browser can be spoofed (e.g., an attacker can draw an image of the credentials area into the top portion of an untrusted webpage to make it appear trusted). Therefore, careful consideration must be given to the design of an indicator for insecure windows so that spoofed credentials can be easily detected. It is not clear how logos will be certified and how disputes will be resolved in the case of similar logos.
7.2 Direct Authentication Direct authentication approaches include user authentication and server authentication sc
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Updates state that the thief was quickly caught when he started offering the stuff for sale. Stories indicate that non of the upcoming movie info was lost either so this overall is no longer a story. The only story is the screw up and missed opportunity of the thief.
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If you look at the North American market people are still buying SUVs and other large vehicles despite the abundance of cheaper options.
I can't see why it would be any different for computers.
I agree that /. is a great place to get an overall view of what is going on in the tech world. I'll also agree that /. makes browsing most of the suggested sites redundant as most of the time if it is a worthwhile store to read it will quickly show up here.
What I strongly disagree with is that /. is your one stop solution for all that is good and necessary in the world of IT. /. is a great sight to get an overall summary of what is going on... or the "big picture" [forgive the cliche; and lack of accents] but it fails misserably at supplying indepth information about many everyday IT related items.
This type of question seems to get asked on /. about once or twice a year. Every time I scan the comments looking for new sites to try out. After browsing most of the sites I generally give them up and stay on /., as most of the key stories end up here anyway and I don't have to put up with the annoying ads and layouts. This does not mean I'm satisfied and I won't keep looking for something more.
I am also primarily a Windows admin and I find that there is very few decent and interesting sites out there targeted to may area of work. As an example, Linux has Linux Format which is a damn good magazine and site for Linux admins; not only does it have the depth that an admin needs on some key subjects it has a fair bit of entertainment also. Windows has nothing equivalent either in print or on the web that I have found.
Of course many of /.ers will probably take this opportunity to rag on Windows, etc., etc. but the fact is that there is a lot of Windows administrators out there and just as much need for a decent tech information shop as there is for Linux (or any other OS for that matter). The submitter may be just looking for a general source and in that case /. will help as the parent suggests but /. is definitely not the whole solution and should not be offered as such.
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Actually, from TFA it looks like they at least tried to avoid the $996000 diamond + $4000 laptop image. Since it is /.'ed and taking the chance of being rated a karma whore, here is part of the article that drew my attention:
Luvaglio CEO Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio told Gizmag earlier today: "Unlike many of the highly priced products being released, we took our time to develop something out of the ordinary with real attention to detail. "
"I didn't want us to simply re-house a laptop into a diamond studded casing, or diamond encrust the entire thing simply to make it expensive. We've put thought in from the keyboard down to the power charger. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification. We have used diamonds elsewhere but have given them purpose."
According to Luvaglio, "the brand is committed to re-defining luxury in a few sectors, technology being one of them.
"Many claim to produce luxury goods but we believe that the true element of luxury is having something that says "YOU", that money can't buy.
"At present and from our previous luxury work, our initial clients will be chosen from this selection as we have already established trust.
"The range to be released shortly would allow the owner to become the creator and visit our showroom at two or three well known upmarket stores we are in discussion with, whereby our selection of materials, finishes and accessories will be available to view and a choice selected.
"The choice will be based on our selection but of course other colours and finishes can be done on request. We have access to diamonds that are simply rare and near impossible to get hold of, so are able to offer a very embodied choice.
"The presentation boxes are of course supplied and finished in the choice that is selected by the client. Exact figures I am unable to provide at present due to negotiations but will certainly be more obtainable then our master piece."
The first such masterpiece will sell for more than US$1,000,000.
On note on copying profiles: when you use the copy profile feature it does not copy the "local settings" folder in the source profile. Now this makes sense from a theoretical point of view (local settings should only contain information pertaining to the current user) but unfortunately their are a number of programs that happily install configuration settings into the local settings folder of the profile you use during installation. This means that if you do not manually copy the "local settings" folder over that some of you programs will not work (I have a list around here somewhere but I'm too lazy to look it up right now).
Interesting observation about the digital watches and peoples view of them.
I guess in glancing you probably pick up the hour and maybe the 10s digit of the minutes. Interesting.
I'll have to check out Amazon. Thanks for the info and insight.
I think one consideration or category that you did not include is aspect ratio. Dual small versus single large is definitely important but so is 4:3 versus 16:9.
I see and here of a lot of very poorly designed applications in every day installations such as banks, medical offices, etc. Next time you are with your loans officer or banker ask them a simple question like "what will be the amount of the final payment on loan X" or " what is the total interest I am paying on loan X", then sit back and watch how many screen flips and mouse clicks they have to perform to get the answer. This is of course refering to any institution where they have "upgraded" to a new system as opposed to running and older, essentially, terminal based system. After talking to various workers on these systems I invariable hear that the "old system" was faster and easier to use (yes this is typically after a year or two of using the new system) because they did not have to do so much screen flipping, etc.
Just the other day I talked to a nurse about the new scheduling software they are now using at a local hospital. Previously they were paper based which was a nightmare but nothing compared to the new system. In this case the nurse had called in to see if there were any shifts available. The person running the system kept listing shifts that the nurse obviously could not take (a day shift immediately after an already scheduled night shift == working 24 hours straight). Finally the two got talking about the system. Turns out it required swapping between 6 different screens to get a complete picture including: shifts the person was already scheduled for; days the person had indicated they were not avaialble; wards that the person had training to work on; shifts available on each ward (could only be viewed 1 ward per window).
In all the above cases the screens ranged from 17" to 19" 4:3 monitors. Crappy software design aside, if these people at least had a wide format monitor (say a 19" or 20" 16:9) they would be able to line up more than 1 window side by side with no overlap an sitll be able to read the information (not everyone can handle 1280x1024 on a 17" screen; in fact most of the installations I have seen are at most 1024x768 even on 19" monitors).
I would suggest that in many cases, and certainly the ones that probably make up the vast majority of users out there (office personel, bankers, medical personel, etc.) that larger *wide format* monitors is the way to go. Most of these setups do not have the space for dual 19" monitors but do for a single 20" wide format monitor. Going to these wider monitors would definitely:
1. increase the work efficiency by simply reducing the amount of time window flipping and searching.
2. reduce the amount of stress and frustration for both the users and their clients (giving options to your that are practically impossible does nothing to increase the confidence your client has in you or your business).
Ok, I'm really not out to start a flame war so take your mouse off that mod button for a second.
Generally KDE is great. I use it on my Linux boxes and we use it in our labs. Konqueror is the best damn general purpose browser (except web) out there. It handles just about any protocol you can thing of and does a great job (except http) of it.
But it seems to me that KDE is starting to become more and more like the Windows "windows manager" where "one program" does it all. In Windows that would be explorer.exe along with IE and now perhaps media-player. With KDE now talking about better multi-media integration, etc., one wonders if we have not been down this road before.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but it does seem that KDE (and perhaps GNOME) is headed down the same path as MS and many other projects has previously. That is, towards one very large, does a bit of everything, and perhaps does no one thing really well, application. Is this a cycle that all software seems to follow? Take Mozilla for example. Start as a just a browser, build to a one suite to do it all application, split into parts that independantly handle designated tasks better than the all-in-one.
At some point will we see a fork of a KDE Light or some such project?
Just some rambling thoughts.
I usually make a hand motion everytime my submissions get rejected. :)
Actually I find an anolog watch far easier to pick up the time with a causal glance than digital. It seems that with a digital you have little choice but to actually read the time. With an analog I can get a sense of what time it is by the position of the hands. Most of the time I find this "sense of time" or approximate time to be enough for my needs (ex: It's close to 11:30, I need to get ready for a meeting).
On the other hand I find that a strictly analog watch lacks many of the features that I have come to use and enjoy in a digital. Count down timers (preferably more than one) are a real bonus. Alarms seem to take to long to set (ok not really a lot of time but it seems that way), especially for quick reminders (ex: phone Bob back in 15 minutes). I have used countdown timers many times for short reminder times. Too often I will remember that I have something to do "in a little while" then get absorbed into some activity (coding!) and miss the time by several if not tens of minutes. Setting a countdown timer when I remember the upcoming event has saved me more often then I care to remember.
The ultimate watch is one that has both analog and digital displays. The analog for most general time tracking purposes and the digital for precise time tracking as well as extra information like dates and extra functionality like alarms, countdown timers, and (although rarely used) stop watch features.
Unfortunatly it seems incredibly difficult to find a watch that has both with a decent sized digital read out. I'm not talking about the ability to see it but instead for the functionality of providing enough useful information. I had a Timex watch several years ago that was perfect (so far as the display goes): analog hands, digital read out large enough to display the current time and date at the same time, 2 alarms, 2 24-hour countdown timers, a stopwatch, and finaly, the ability to disply digital time in 24-hour time. Also unfortunately I seem to be rather hard on watches (I must unconciously hate them or something and purposely bang them into things) so one of the two large buttons just below the face was ripped off within a month.
For the most part I have given up on wearing watches for the last 3 years. Mostly because I can't find another one with the features I want an secondly it has to be rugged enough to survive the abuse I seem to give watches. I'd even consider a pocket watch but I have never seen anything but an analog version of those.
Ok, I admit I have used sysprep quite a bit but mostly with win2k. I have not been able to get sysprep to allow me to move an image across diverse hardware configurations. Linux is no problem in this area and I have been looking for a way to do the same in windows but so far no go.
If you have actually done this successfully please take the time to enlighten me as to how you achieved it. Currently I can take a Linux image built on a Dell GX-270 and move it to an IBM NetVista 6790 2U or back with no issues. With windows I can barely move an image between various models in the Dell GX series.
Now maybe winxp is different than win2k. I'll find that out in the next month as I am migrating several platforms to winxp.
Merlin.
According to this highly reliable souce. Further, don't even think about Googling for "monkey porn". Don't do it! Ya just had to try it didn't ya.
Check it, or any of Hogan's novels, out if you like a good Sci-Fi read.
Sorry but not quite. When you purchase a copy of windows, whether with a new computer or separately, the activation process ties that copy to the hardware it is installed on. This does not stop that copy of windows from being moved to another machine.
If you significantly change your hardware or move your copy of windows to another machine you will be required to reactivate. This may involve calling Microsoft and explaining to them what changed. In the case of moving the installation to another computer (imaging, or fresh installation) the old installation will be deactivated.
All this means is that you may definitely install your legal copy of windows on each new computer that you buy and remove it from the old computer. I believe you may also transfer ownership of your copy to someone else but I do not have the EULA in front of me to verify this.
With regard to newly purchased machines: some OEMs use a Volume Licenses Keyed (VLK) version of windows. Also the EULAs on some verisions provided by OEMs state that the install is a "single-use" license. These types of installs may not be able to be transferred to another computer. Check out the FAQ for more information.
Merlin.
I don't know off hand if you can set it up to send the documents to a default location though. We have it set up so that each person logs in and chooses to either send the digital document by email or to a SMB mounted drive. The touch screen is a little slow for input (I wish you could hook up a USB keyboard to the unit) but other than that it is a great machine.
http://h50025.www5.hp.com/hpcom/hk_en/16_53_164_36 45summary.html gives the specs of the device.
Merlin.
It seems to me that it would be a little hard to claim that this, or a good many of the other things that people have pointed too, constitutes the mark of the beast.
- It is in the bicep region, not the forehead or right hand;
- It is not a name nor the number 666
From the book of revelations:13:16 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
13:17 and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.
I'm not sure what edition the above is from but it is plain English and close enough for this discussion.
13:18 Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
On a side note: always wondered about making a program to compute all the possible combinations of the Jewish alphabet that adds up to 666 (filtering out all the nonsense ones of course). Someone must have done this somewhere already.
Merlin.
- you may well have a grounding problem either on the strip or the outlet that the strip is plugged into.
- when a computer is in the "won't work on this strip" state: unplug it and ground each of the 3 terminals momentarily. You can do this by simply touching all three prongs to the metal face plate of a switch or plug. (this is similar to the suggestion that someone gave about shorting out the prongs with a screwdriver but better). Then try the computer. If this works then you may have a floating ground on the strip or somehow voltage is getting induced onto the ground.
- you can buy a simple tester to test the wiring on a duplex plug. Home Depot usually caries them for less then 10 bucks. The plug into a 3 prong outlet and have 3 lights on them (2 orange and a red if I recall correctly). Depending on which lights light up tells you about the wiring and suggests what the problem is. I have even found high resistant neutrals and other such strange wiring problems with it.
Of course once you have tried this (or not) and have a better idea where/what the problem is, it is time to call a qualified electrician.Merlin.
No I am not a modder, yes I have looked at several modding projects and thought "that's neat, not sure why you would want to but whatever". Some mods are cool (like the laptop case made out of exotic woods, etc.). Just slapping a neon light and some plexiglass on something (be it a car or a computer case) is not interesting to me and not something I would waste my time on.
But I have to admit, this "windowed" hard drive made me think "hey, now there is a reason to have a clear case". Basically I'm a mechanical geek at heart. Seeing things move and work is interesting (this is why I'm a steam engineer in my spare time). Now I would not put out a ton of extra cash for the privilege but it is the first decent reason to consider the whole clear case mod business.
Now modding a case with artwork... that is something that I would take before neon lights and clear plastic. The new Dell XPS system case is really cool!
Merlin.
My soon to be 13 year old is currently 2 shoe sizes larger then me, 1.5" taller and within 60 lbs of me (ya I should be about 40 lbs lighter). I can still lift him but carrying him far while he is throwing a tantrum would be a job and a half. Dead weight over my shoulder I can still carry him a fair distance though. I don't expect to be able to test that after he gets his next few martial arts belts :)
Merlin.
Ok, maybe I'm missing something. This is not a 330 page per minute nor a 1440 page per minute printer as I calculate it.
As my emphasis above points out above it is printing 1440 2-up duplex pages. That means 1440/2/2 = 360 pages per minute.
Someone did post 360 ppm earlier but the errors seem to keep going.
Now I suppose if you are counting "printed pages per minute" you would say that it is capable of 1440 printed pages per minute outputed at a rate of 360 paper pages per minute. I have not read the article and it does say it handles the pagination externally so does this mean that the print job is 1440 regular pages but the printer does the 2-up and duplex pagination plus prints the job at 360 pages per minute...I suppose so.
I won't argue with the rest of your math.
Oh and here is a link to a page with all the detailed specs including pricing.
2. Implement it using regex/Perl
3. ???
4. Profit!
After all with all those highlighted numbers one needs a way to find the text between the numbers...
Google, text only:w ww.otherpower.com/17page1.html+&hl=en&lr=&strip=1
& safe=off&c2coff=1&q=flying17foot.JPG&btnG=Search
& safe=off&c2coff=1&q=site%3Awww.otherpower.com+turb ine&btnG=Search
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:hHhkzdBOglAJ:
Google, image of turbine:
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=
Google, images of turbines on their site:
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=
carmaHore.
From this picture it looks like the picture that everyone is talking about is the marketing display unit on the left. This looks like a blown up version of the real unit (shown on the right side of the picture) used for the purposes of trade shows (and slash dot advertising) only!
The quoted article is obviously a joke about the marketing version and not refering to the real heatsink unit shown on the right of the linked picture. Even though the real unit is not as large as a small dog and does not use 1.4 kW of power it is still an impressive unit.
Yep, most of the above is my take on the article and may not be 100% correct but it does make more sense then the OP and some of the comments below.
M.
[the rest of the article as the comments form would not allow the whole thing in one posting]
7. RELATED WORK
The rapid growth in phishing attacks has spurred calls for
solutions. A number have been proposed ranging from quickfix
changes to more substantial redesigns. In this section, we
provide an overview of the anti-phishing proposals. We
illustrate where the proposals ignore or address the security
properties developed in Section 2 (the limited human skills
property, general purpose graphics property, the golden arches
property, the unmotivated user property and the barn door
property).
In general, attempts to solve the phishing problem can be
divided into three approaches: third party certification and
direct authentication, and phishing specific tools.
7.1 Third Party Certification
7.1.1 Hierarchical and Distributed Trust Models
Third party certification includes hierarchical trust models, like
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which has long been proposed
as a solution for users to authenticate servers and vice-versa. In
PKI, chains of Certificate Authorities (CAs) vouch for identity
by binding a public key to a entity in a digital certificate. The
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS),
its successor, both rely on PKI.
In the typical use of SSL today only the server is authenticated.
SSL also supports mutual authentication, and in theory it is
possible for both servers and users to obtain certificates that
are signed by a trusted CA. Though it is an active area of
research, there is currently no practical scheme for widely
deploying signed personal certificates. A further challenge is
how to handle the revocation of credentials. The widespread use
of personal certificates may also raise privacy concerns due to
the personally identifiable information contained in
certificates. Even with the wide use of one-sided SSL that is in
place today (in the form of server digital certificates signed by
a trusted CA), there are problems. As we examined in our task
analysis, certificates have been falsely issued, and most users
do not have the knowledge or skill to understand digital
certificates and the delegation of trust. Therefore, SSL as it is
implemented in browsers today, ignores all of the properties
discussed in Section 2.
Other third party approaches include "web of trust" distributed
trust models (e.g., Pretty Good Privacy [34]) and the use of
third party seals to indicate trusted websites (e.g. Verisign Seal
Program [35] and TRUSTe [36]). By displaying seals as
graphics that can be easily copied, trusted seal programs ignore
the "general purpose graphics" property.
7.1.2 Trustbar
The "Trustbar" proposal is a third party certification solution,
where websites logos are certified. The authors suggest
creating a "trusted credentials area" as a fixed part of the
browser window [37]. This area can be used to present
credentials from the website, such as logos, icons and seals of
the brand, that have been certified by trusted certificate
authorities or by peers using a PGP "web of trust". A strength
of the solution is that it does not rely on complex security
indicators. However, we must consider the "general purpose
graphics" and "golden arches" properties. Because the logos do
not change, they can be easily copied and the credentials area of
the browser can be spoofed (e.g., an attacker can draw an image
of the credentials area into the top portion of an untrusted
webpage to make it appear trusted). Therefore, careful
consideration must be given to the design of an indicator for
insecure windows so that spoofed credentials can be easily
detected. It is not clear how logos will be certified and how
disputes will be resolved in the case of similar logos.
7.2 Direct Authentication
Direct authentication approaches include user authentication
and server authentication sc