If wiped and recreated, you are likely to lose application settings. You have to essentially reinstall a lot of your applications and manually set your settings back the way you like (or need) them.
The problem is that preserving all settings is very likely to preserve a lot of settings that are either inappropriate or just useless under the new OS. You spend more time weeding out those, and never gettting them all, than if you just reinstalled all your applications.
What would be really nice would be a way to inspect each application's setings and have the choice of whether to use them. Those primitive OSes that use text ini files allow that... but not the marvellously monolithic Windows registry.
Computers cost a lot more than phones. There may be no room, no reliable power supply. No one to look after it. How long woud a PC last if unsupervised in a public place -- even if not stolen, it wold be trashed or unusable in a short time. And many parts of Africa have only mobile access, via shared mobile phones. Maybe as cheap smartphones become a commodity they can be used for this.
Think about how easy it would be to misinterpret it if you wanted to. "...640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time."
Of course; that's how misattributions start. Though in this case, it was floating around before the talk in question (in 1989), so it can't be the source of the line. When it is given a date at all it's usually 1981.
And this is an admission of him being surprised by the speed of developments, it's very different to the short-sighted arrogance of "640k should be enough for anyone". The line stuck because Gates is often a supremely arrogant prick after all.
No, it isn't. Are you trolling, or just never botherd to listen to it?
If you had listened to it, you 'd have to admit HE DOES NOT say "640 k should be enough for anyone".
The only part you could be referring to is:
So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
Which if YOU READ THE FUCKING THING, is him speaking in 1989, years after the design was set (1980 or 81), saying that 640k was certainly not enough.
You found a paragraph where Bill Gates mentions "640 k". Unfortunately, it's not remotely close to the "quote".
Sad that it's based on an actual comment from the almighty one in Microsoft
No, it isn't. Gates was wrong about some things (notably the Internet), but he never said the "640 k should be enough for anyone", no matter how many people put it in their sigs. Never an actual citation of when and where he is supposed to have said this.
After struggling for an hour, he stepped into a big box store along the way in a small town and picked up a GPS, got there in about an hour after that.
Or he could have gone to a gas station, spent a dollar, bought a map and asked for directions. Or asked a cop. Or just about anyone. Didn't your friend speak English?
It would be quite simple to organize boycotts against products and companies that don't give you adequate information.
If it were "so simple" why doesn't anyone do it?
Becasue it would require you to give up your day job and devote yourself to it full time for months to get anywhere. And then, very likely have zero effect.
Being a good manager requires staying up on the management skills, techniques, and tools. It also often requires some politics, budget skills, and decisiveness.
I've done some management, though on a very small scale. So I can agree that it requires some politics, budget skills, and decisiveness". However, "management skills, techniques, and tools" are all just bullshit, as far as I could tell. The only management tool I used was a Lotus spreadsheet to do the monthly budget. Looking at the crap that MBAs come out with is nauseating, meaningless jargon. While it helps them get by in the short term, it usually is counter productive for whatever the company is actually supposed to be doing. And if the boss buys into it, it can be fatal.
This case is living proof that secrets can get out, even if you protect them jealously....For someone 5 years younger, they might indeed cry themselves to sleep over it.
Again, the "secret" itelf is harmless. It's only releasing it that hurts -- both the guy being charged, who will be forever branded a pervert and pedophile, and the kids. But I'd blame the prosecutor for making it public. As a private fantasy, it hurt no one.
Anyway, if he has a half-decent lawyer, he'll be acquitted -- though his life will be destroyed.
The counter argument is that the photoshopped (or in this case literally cut and pasted) image does harm real children
In reality: the guy made the pictures on his own PC for his own amusement. He didn't show them to the kids. How on earth could real children have been harmed by his imaginings?
if, a year from now, somebody prints of a bunch of copies and pastes them up all over her school
In that case, it's clearly the guy who printed and pasted them who is the guilty party. same as if he graffitied her name and phone number "for a good time".
And really, any idiot can paste a head onto a porn body in 10 minutes. I'm sure schoolboys all over the planet are doing so at his moment with portraits of their classmates. I've seen this used as a story device in sitcoms, years ago ("Boston Public", I think).
Just Google "Celebrity fakes" and find thousands of sites devoted to this (though not using children, the methods are obviously the same). And here's a how-to to get you started.
I can see how it might scar a child for life to see someone has posted their head on a naked body for 'fun', though... So I can see how they might think it -should- be illegal.
The guy never showed the pictures to the kids. He didn't post them online. He just made them and looked at them alone. Apparently someone in the place he was living saw them and ratted him out. So NOW the kids may hear about it and get harassed by the press and get traumatised.... or just shrug it off if they have any sense.
He could have been charged with all kinds of things if he had actually shown them to the kids, or any kids. (What's legal for adults to have and read is not legal for them to show to kids.) So we can be pretty sure that didn't happen considering how the prosecutor seems to be throwing the book at him.
Maybe she needs time to heal the wounds of being betrayed by friends before she allows herself to be put _back_ in the limelight by taking this to trial.
I'm not the one "putting this in the limelight". Appatrntyl it;s already so.
And you are not her psychiatrist.
Who is the one pontificating about "healing wounds", etc, etc?
Yes, this was my point. Word is terrible at both structure and layout.
Old versions of Word -- eg Word 5/DOS -- DID have strong styling features.
But Microsoft thought this was too hard a concept, so de-emphasised styles to the point that hardly any users know they exist, let alone use them.
Most people just start typing and use the formatting bar to make headings or any other different styles. Or you find pages of text that are "Heading 1" converted to 12 point Arial.
First thing I do when I get a file is scan through it to work out the structure, then spend 20 minutes or more making headings into heading styles and so on, before I can export it to my layout app.
Microsoft was right though: most users do not understand, and do not want to understand, what a style is. (For layout purposes, "style" maps to "structure".) And in the "user-friendly" era, it's a no-no to expect users to spend 10 minutes reading instructions before using an app: they just want to type and directly format with the button bar. Even if it's somethng they use for hours every day, they WIL NOT crack a book to learn anything if they can get by on point and click.While MSOffice has turned into bloated gigabytes of myriad features, untold menus and functions; most users never use any features (except spellcheck) beyond those in Wordpad, and would be more productive if they did just use that.
One has to ask what sort of valid conscious choices can be made while under the influence of drugs and alcohol - and I imagine taking said drugs is not necessarily consentual (something slipped in her drink, etc)
If that were the case, she should testify to that effect. The producers could be charged with aassault, rape, etc, etc. She could find a lawyer who'd work for a percentage and sue them for millions. At a minimum, she could get the videos off the market.
We need to bring sanity in document formats to the average user. To the professor of arts who doesn't know anything about a computer except how to use Word. I have wished for a long time that people who write and publish would develop some sort of typographical literacy, but the reality is that it's never going to happen.
I edit and layout books, and the worst problems are when the author DOES think he has typographic literacy. If I let them have their way they print books set in Arial 10 point with vertical quotemarks, and I could go on.
It took me months of study and years of practice to get the degree of typographic literacy I have now.
They will just waste their time on details that will actually impede the publishing process if not stripped out.
It's like cutting your own hair -- yes, you can do it. But you're less likely to make a fool of yourself if you pay someone who does it all day long a couple of dollars to do it right.
Authors ideally should not be concerned with visual layout. They just need to make sure that the logical structure (headings, notes, location of diagrams) is clear. Doesn't matter if they use Courier or Comic sans.
the EU has started down that road and I would not be surprised at efforts to extend the law
Of course the copyright lobbyists will try, but Europe seems to be more sympathetic to individual artist's rights than corporates. They're the only ones who have stood up to Microsoft and such, for instance.
Interesting, but extending to do digital products is a hige stretch. For one, it applies to "works of graphic or plastic art such as pictures, collages, paintings, drawings, engravings, prints, lithographs, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics, glassware and photographs" and does not apply to goods valued less than 3000 euro.
I guess the motivation is to give the creator a chance to profit from future use of his "product". But in the digital realm, the original artist can sell as many copies as he wants, for as long as he wants. He can earn much more by cutting the retail after a few months than trying to claim a 4% cut of resales.
My father used to turn off his engine and coast down hills on the highway to save gas. Under this scheme he'd have to pay for that -- though if the theory is "road use" it's valid I guess.
He is talking about 2050, where you likely have a much improved version of something like Natal
Well, I don't know what they're doing in KwaZulu, but to try to imagine the side effects of technology 40 years ahead might be fun, but quite irrelevant to what we should do about current technology. He can speculate it trains you to be a killer, I can speculate that it's no different to watching an episode of 24.
the injunction stopping the friend from carrying out the murder grows successively weaker with each ultra-realistic simulated murder...
And you know this for a fact? From watching Star Trek episodes about Holodecks, perhaps? Jack Thompson's newsletter? Please cite a source for this claim. Especially as no such "ULTRA REALISTIC" murder simulator exsts, or is likely to for some decades, until you can "jack in" like in Neuromancer. It's still a VIDEO SCREEN, not REALITY. If someone can't tell the difference, they need psychiatric help.
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The problem is that preserving all settings is very likely to preserve a lot of settings that are either inappropriate or just useless under the new OS. You spend more time weeding out those, and never gettting them all, than if you just reinstalled all your applications.
What would be really nice would be a way to inspect each application's setings and have the choice of whether to use them. Those primitive OSes that use text ini files allow that... but not the marvellously monolithic Windows registry.
Computers cost a lot more than phones. There may be no room, no reliable power supply. No one to look after it. How long woud a PC last if unsupervised in a public place -- even if not stolen, it wold be trashed or unusable in a short time. And many parts of Africa have only mobile access, via shared mobile phones. Maybe as cheap smartphones become a commodity they can be used for this.
Of course; that's how misattributions start. Though in this case, it was floating around before the talk in question (in 1989), so it can't be the source of the line. When it is given a date at all it's usually 1981.
And this is an admission of him being surprised by the speed of developments, it's very different to the short-sighted arrogance of "640k should be enough for anyone". The line stuck because Gates is often a supremely arrogant prick after all.
No, it isn't. Are you trolling, or just never botherd to listen to it? If you had listened to it, you 'd have to admit HE DOES NOT say "640 k should be enough for anyone".
The only part you could be referring to is:
Which if YOU READ THE FUCKING THING, is him speaking in 1989, years after the design was set (1980 or 81), saying that 640k was certainly not enough.
You found a paragraph where Bill Gates mentions "640 k". Unfortunately, it's not remotely close to the "quote".
No, it isn't. Gates was wrong about some things (notably the Internet), but he never said the "640 k should be enough for anyone", no matter how many people put it in their sigs. Never an actual citation of when and where he is supposed to have said this.
Or he could have gone to a gas station, spent a dollar, bought a map and asked for directions. Or asked a cop. Or just about anyone. Didn't your friend speak English?
If it were "so simple" why doesn't anyone do it?
Becasue it would require you to give up your day job and devote yourself to it full time for months to get anywhere. And then, very likely have zero effect.
I've done some management, though on a very small scale. So I can agree that it requires some politics, budget skills, and decisiveness". However, "management skills, techniques, and tools" are all just bullshit, as far as I could tell. The only management tool I used was a Lotus spreadsheet to do the monthly budget. Looking at the crap that MBAs come out with is nauseating, meaningless jargon. While it helps them get by in the short term, it usually is counter productive for whatever the company is actually supposed to be doing. And if the boss buys into it, it can be fatal.
This case is living proof that secrets can get out, even if you protect them jealously. ...For someone 5 years younger, they might indeed cry themselves to sleep over it.
Again, the "secret" itelf is harmless. It's only releasing it that hurts -- both the guy being charged, who will be forever branded a pervert and pedophile, and the kids. But I'd blame the prosecutor for making it public. As a private fantasy, it hurt no one.
Anyway, if he has a half-decent lawyer, he'll be acquitted -- though his life will be destroyed.
In reality: the guy made the pictures on his own PC for his own amusement. He didn't show them to the kids. How on earth could real children have been harmed by his imaginings?
if, a year from now, somebody prints of a bunch of copies and pastes them up all over her school
In that case, it's clearly the guy who printed and pasted them who is the guilty party. same as if he graffitied her name and phone number "for a good time".
And really, any idiot can paste a head onto a porn body in 10 minutes. I'm sure schoolboys all over the planet are doing so at his moment with portraits of their classmates. I've seen this used as a story device in sitcoms, years ago ("Boston Public", I think).
Just Google "Celebrity fakes" and find thousands of sites devoted to this (though not using children, the methods are obviously the same). And here's a how-to to get you started.
The guy never showed the pictures to the kids. He didn't post them online. He just made them and looked at them alone. Apparently someone in the place he was living saw them and ratted him out. So NOW the kids may hear about it and get harassed by the press and get traumatised.... or just shrug it off if they have any sense.
He could have been charged with all kinds of things if he had actually shown them to the kids, or any kids. (What's legal for adults to have and read is not legal for them to show to kids.) So we can be pretty sure that didn't happen considering how the prosecutor seems to be throwing the book at him.
Let the healing begin. Or fuck off, I don't care.
I'm not the one "putting this in the limelight". Appatrntyl it;s already so.
And you are not her psychiatrist.
Who is the one pontificating about "healing wounds", etc, etc?
YOU are not her psychiatrist.
Old versions of Word -- eg Word 5/DOS -- DID have strong styling features.
But Microsoft thought this was too hard a concept, so de-emphasised styles to the point that hardly any users know they exist, let alone use them.
Most people just start typing and use the formatting bar to make headings or any other different styles. Or you find pages of text that are "Heading 1" converted to 12 point Arial.
First thing I do when I get a file is scan through it to work out the structure, then spend 20 minutes or more making headings into heading styles and so on, before I can export it to my layout app.
Microsoft was right though: most users do not understand, and do not want to understand, what a style is. (For layout purposes, "style" maps to "structure".) And in the "user-friendly" era, it's a no-no to expect users to spend 10 minutes reading instructions before using an app: they just want to type and directly format with the button bar. Even if it's somethng they use for hours every day, they WIL NOT crack a book to learn anything if they can get by on point and click.While MSOffice has turned into bloated gigabytes of myriad features, untold menus and functions; most users never use any features (except spellcheck) beyond those in Wordpad, and would be more productive if they did just use that.
If that were the case, she should testify to that effect. The producers could be charged with aassault, rape, etc, etc. She could find a lawyer who'd work for a percentage and sue them for millions. At a minimum, she could get the videos off the market.
I edit and layout books, and the worst problems are when the author DOES think he has typographic literacy. If I let them have their way they print books set in Arial 10 point with vertical quotemarks, and I could go on.
It took me months of study and years of practice to get the degree of typographic literacy I have now.
They will just waste their time on details that will actually impede the publishing process if not stripped out.
It's like cutting your own hair -- yes, you can do it. But you're less likely to make a fool of yourself if you pay someone who does it all day long a couple of dollars to do it right.
Authors ideally should not be concerned with visual layout. They just need to make sure that the logical structure (headings, notes, location of diagrams) is clear. Doesn't matter if they use Courier or Comic sans.
Of course the copyright lobbyists will try, but Europe seems to be more sympathetic to individual artist's rights than corporates. They're the only ones who have stood up to Microsoft and such, for instance.
I guess the motivation is to give the creator a chance to profit from future use of his "product". But in the digital realm, the original artist can sell as many copies as he wants, for as long as he wants. He can earn much more by cutting the retail after a few months than trying to claim a 4% cut of resales.
Sigh, the point of the tax wasn't about the gas P "Sigh"? My post was just two lines, couldn't you bother to get to the end before sneering at me?
I have no idea what you're talking about. So, no.
And that was training using REAL GUNS in the REAL WORLD. Not a video game.
My father used to turn off his engine and coast down hills on the highway to save gas. Under this scheme he'd have to pay for that -- though if the theory is "road use" it's valid I guess.
Well, I don't know what they're doing in KwaZulu, but to try to imagine the side effects of technology 40 years ahead might be fun, but quite irrelevant to what we should do about current technology. He can speculate it trains you to be a killer, I can speculate that it's no different to watching an episode of 24.
Really? More detail -- which countries for a start?
Anyway, I think "original" art would be unique hand made objects like paintings, sculptures; not mass-produced copies of such.
And you know this for a fact? From watching Star Trek episodes about Holodecks, perhaps? Jack Thompson's newsletter? Please cite a source for this claim. Especially as no such "ULTRA REALISTIC" murder simulator exsts, or is likely to for some decades, until you can "jack in" like in Neuromancer. It's still a VIDEO SCREEN, not REALITY. If someone can't tell the difference, they need psychiatric help.