Inbox management, selecting large numbers of emails, right click menu for initiating actions on those emails... No need to act dense, we all know how these standard gui interface conventions work and that is my exact point. I'd much rather select a start and shift-click the end of a range of emails and have them all selected for comitting actions, vs. clicking a shit-ton of check boxes which is how gmail is. This functionality alone improves the usability for me quite significantly.
Of course no one cares if Linux bundles a Roxio or Nero competitor. Oh wait, its MS, so they can't do it because they are a monopoly, except that no one is forced to buy Windows. A monopoly is the old Ma Bell, where you really didn't have a choice. You have a choice of Linux or Mac or anything else right now. Just because its not a convenient choice does not mean its not a choice. It just means your choice may limit you / create more work for you than chosing MS.
Last time I checked "Linux" wasn't a company. And on the apple side of things, Apple does bundle media mastering software, but it isn't tightly interwoven into the OS itself. I'm not sure if the dvd mastering capabilities of Vista are a "click to install/uninstall" afair or if they are tied more tightly to explorer...
You are missing the bit where I said that the buyer used paypal to complete there end of the transaction. Ebay, as owner of paypal, would be well aware of the ammount and the timing of the transaction. For transactions where other payment methods are used I think that the "blind" feedback systems suddested by others in their comments would work out well.
Ebay needs a 'list auctions by seller rating' or some such.
This is a terrible idea. The core seller rating and reputation system of ebay is greatly flawed. Sellers will not give buyers a positive feedback until after they themselves have received one, seems in cases where the purchaser uses paypal to complete the transaction that ebay should automatically positive feedback/reputation points as they have successfully confirmed that the buyers has fulfilled their part of the transaction. Instead sellers hold the positive feedback out as a carrot to buyers whom are forced to leave positive or no feedback in order to protect their own rating. In the end you get sellers with artificially high feedback scores.
Furthermore ebay gives no additional weight to people who complete high dollar transactions with positive feedback; such that a seller can do 1000 transactions for a dollar each and have a crazy high rating for when they decide to run a scam and screw someone out of several grand for a car or a piece of real estate.
A serious revamping of ebay is needed to increase buyer seller relations. My first recommendation would be to introduce a meta-moderation and abitration system whereby in cases of transactions gone bad both sides would have an opportunity to write a short summary of their view of the events (maybe 500 words or so) and then those stories would be available to be viewed side by side by random third parties who could declare fault and/or present an abitration suggestion which could then be presented back to the original parties, if the parties are able to resolve their issues through the arbitration suggestion the suggesting party might be given some additional positive feedback... In this way there is a benefit to all involved parties to act above board and behave responsibly, and even in cases which do not end with positive feedback the damaging effect of wrongly issued negative feedback could be minimized.
any how that's just my.02 I suppose their are others out there with more/better suggestions. In the meantime I'll stick to my mix of Brick & Mortar/Craigslist/Amazon shopping and only veer to ebay for items for which I have historically experienced little drama, such as used car parts with significant value and very low price (read 1972 pinto hatchback hubcaps)...
What an exciting astro-turf, I'm sure the koolaide tastes great, but I am left in the dark without any new version of flash in quite sometime seeing as how 90% of my browsing occurs under linux. Maybe one of these great developer centric features they could be/truly/ proud of would be to make flashplayer OSS...
Just becaue cpio is old doesn't make it busted. cpio is awesome for doing filesystem backup/restores handles special files, permissions etc like a champ.
Also, if you RTFA you'll see that the author was successful in using a honda override procedure without a "master key". he used his normal car key with the rfid chip shielded. I'm guessing that maybe you're implying that the ignition must already be switched into the "acc" or "run" position in order for the rfid override to work, which may be true, however the bit about getting the ingition lock into either of those positions doesn't "require" a key so much as it just requires enough force to get the lock to turn, which is basic old tech car theft type of strong arming... The common methods I've seen involve using a body dent puller with integrated slid hammer to remove the lock cylinder and then manually actuating the lock with a screwdriver which has the double effect of both working the ignition switch as well as disengaging the steering lock detent mechanism...
Really this argument is getting ridiculous... That said...
Your observations are tainted by your assumptions, if you do the majority of your driving miles commuting then it is also a solid bet that the other cars you observe are participating the same behavior (commute hours tend to work that way) such that it is also a pretty solid bet that the majority of the SUVs you see are being used as commute vehicles AND as most people do not car pool it stands to reason that these commuting SUVs are generally carrying one passenger. Likewise if you spent the majority of your day working at a boat launch or at home depot or at a motorcycle dealership (etc) you would also hacve falsy weighted observations where-in you might be claiming "in thousands of cases of personal observation I have concluded that SUVs are generally used by those who are towing large equipment/trailers/boats/motorcycles/etc" AND you'd be similarly incorrect in the psuedo-scientific nature of your observational evidence.
Let's for a moment take one of my co-workers for example, you might see him commuting everyday on the local freeway, and you'd assume that he is some ego driven SUV driver who is in an eternal pissing match with the next guy, but what you'd fail to see is that he commutes only a short distance, has only enough parking for a single vehicle, the SUV was given to him by an extended family member, he uses it one weekends to organize a church carpool, AND he also uses it to tow his motorcycle trailer when him and soem of his friends go dirtbiking... Now seems to me that an SUV would be a perfectly practical choice in this instance AND I'm going to use your same little argumentative crutch and say that occam's razor would seem to agree that this is simple enougfh reason such that it could validate the purchase decision of many others...
Who said anything about the majority?!?! This is really ridiculous, I'm just tired of people assuming the worst based on their own judgmental "holier than thou" attitude. You don't know this guy, I don't know this guy, who are either of us to assume that he is some ass-clown merely because of his choice of vehicle. It has nothing to do with how many other people you happen to see doing whatever it is they happen to be doing. Assuming that an SUV is not a sensible vehicle choice for anyone is just as stupid as assuming that every prius driver is vegan or that everybody who drives a miata likes to autocross...
I drive a 14 year old honda civic that gets 30mpg and cost me about two pay checks, that hardly qualifies me as part of the "SUV crowd". I am simply someone who sees that for some people maybe an SUV is an appropriate choice and just because for MOST people it isn't doesn't give anybody the right to assume that everyone is part of MOST people... Your occam's razor argument is flawed as well, because you have made some assumptions about the nature and intentions of people and then written that off as "the simplest answer" does not make it so... The occam's razor driven conclusion would be something more along the lines of "he bought/owns an SUV because that is what he chose to buy..." attempting to apply occams razor to things questions such as "why did he choose to buy the SUV" is inherintly flawed because there is an arbitrarily large set of answers with similar simplicity... There is nothing more inherintly simple about being ego driven vs. being practical.
Actually all of these methods require the steering column to be opened in order to disable the steering lock detent mechanism. And they do require preplanning, but if you are targetting a specific make/model fo car then the planning isn't too difficult. It is foolish to assume that theives are just going about this willy nilly and stealing in the heat of the moment when they are overcome with desire. Often times thefts are carried out by highly organized gangs with the specific intent of picking specific targets with high resale of stolen parts and then carrying out well planned thefts where-in their chances of getting caught are signifigantly lowered and their probability of getting a big pay day are likewise raised.
Tis a foolish man who assumes that dishonesty goes hand in hand with stupidity (and vice versa for that matter) high technology secuirty systems just encourage theives to be much more sophisticated...
Obviously you have no clue as to what you are speaking about. The column would steal need to be opened in order to remove/disable the wheel lock detent. The computer portion of the anti-theft system is often over ridden by clever theive who are either privy to the manufacturers over ride methodology (I.E. a prius allows a certain pattern of engaging and disengaging the parking brake to over ride the security system and other systems will be disabled by simply removing a specific fuse from underhood) OR they simply aquired an ECU with the secuirty system already diusabled and then swapped the computers to allow starting w/o the "correct" rfid embedded keys.
Both of these methods are not only possible, but are common and becoming more common every day, especially on high dollar cars which are a big time target for theft, cadillac escalades and lincoln navigators are high on the list in my neck of the woods...
I question your methodology for assesing this man's involvment as well, you remarks smack of ad-hominem attack fueled by your distaste for his choice of driving a "gas guzzling SUV", however you seem to be suffering from the same shortsightedness that many of the savagely anti-SUV crowd does, you neglect to account for the possible neccesity of such a vehicle, perhaps this many has a large family and a boat which he frequently tows? Oh, but then you'd have to get off your high horse;)
Seems that there are at least a handful of commonly known/used methods for circumventing rfid embedded key/security systems in cars. Several of these are documented by the manufacturers of the cars. It is a ridiculous notion that if say all the keys to the car had been lost that it would then be impossible to somehow replace the keys or reprogram the system for another set. Any insurance company making such claims is obviously letting the smell of money overwhelm their senses and has overlooked what is quite simply the fact of the matter...
The man in the headline should clearly be bending his insurer over a barrel and giving them a good legal fucking...
Don't forget 2.6.17 added Secure Digital Host Controller Interface drivers. I've been waiting for the built in card reader in my laptop to have some out of the box support.
Although I'll still be waiting for the fingerprint scanner and PAM biometric modules to be added as an install time option in a major distro.... Baby Steps...
Load file as a chain-loader. Like any other file loaded by the filesystem code, it can use the blocklist notation to grab the first sector of the current partition with `+1'. If you specify the option --force, then load file forcibly, whether it has a correct signature or not. This is required when you want to load a defective boot loader, such as SCO UnixWare 7.1
This simple single command has allowed grub to boot ever version of windows since grub has been around (AFAICT). So with two commands you can easily add a windows partition to any grub config...
title Vista chainloader (hd0,0)+1
Where the fist line is the display name of the OS and the second line defines the partition from which to boot. I suspect that maybe you were trying to boot windows from an extended partition which (IIRC) windows will not do, but that is a windows problem, not a grub problem...
Alternatively you could install grub to the linux partition instead of the MBR and then use NTLDR to control your multiboot setup, this is similarly easy to do although it requires reading (ZOMG wait for i, wait for it) 2 manuals...
"Anti-competitive" implies some sort of price fixing... If intel is able to cut their production costs by integrating everything and that allows them in the end to put it in consumer goods more cheaply then it isn't "anti-competetive" so much as it is just smart manufacturing....
What's next, you gonna complain that GM manufacturing both engines AND transmissions is somehow problematic because it allows them to more cheaply platform engineer their drivetrains?!?!
Good engineering/planning a monopoly does not make
Thank you! I was wondering how many posts of this non-sense I'd have to wade through before someone mentioned the NTLDR exists AND can be made to boot other non-MS products...
I find this a very unusual circumstance for one simple reason.... Anybody who has the smarts to configure and compile a custom kernel can easily read the man page fro grub where it explains in very simple term EXACTLY what one needs to do to get it to boot windows... I fail to understand what difference it makes which distro you use as (AFAICT) there is no custom grub version which break standard grub config.
I'm sitting here imaging a room full of CS students who do not understand how to non-destructively repartition, how to install to a partition and then how to use a simple text editor to add a "chainloader" command or two into the excedingly simply to use grub configs...
/me didn't go to college/me doesn't have a CS degree/me read the man page/me had no issues....
Computer controlled brushless DC motor have proven to be a cheap and effective technology for many applications. I've never priced one out that is large enough to drive a car, but the smaller "hobby" sized motors are only about double the cost of the equivalent brushed motor AND has a lower TCO due to it's fewer wear parts.
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Inbox management, selecting large numbers of emails, right click menu for initiating actions on those emails... No need to act dense, we all know how these standard gui interface conventions work and that is my exact point. I'd much rather select a start and shift-click the end of a range of emails and have them all selected for comitting actions, vs. clicking a shit-ton of check boxes which is how gmail is. This functionality alone improves the usability for me quite significantly.
It may not need these features, but it is a standard interface which requires zero learning to use effectively and efficiently...
Things like ctrl and shift modified selections and right click menus....
You are missing the bit where I said that the buyer used paypal to complete there end of the transaction. Ebay, as owner of paypal, would be well aware of the ammount and the timing of the transaction. For transactions where other payment methods are used I think that the "blind" feedback systems suddested by others in their comments would work out well.
Furthermore ebay gives no additional weight to people who complete high dollar transactions with positive feedback; such that a seller can do 1000 transactions for a dollar each and have a crazy high rating for when they decide to run a scam and screw someone out of several grand for a car or a piece of real estate.
A serious revamping of ebay is needed to increase buyer seller relations. My first recommendation would be to introduce a meta-moderation and abitration system whereby in cases of transactions gone bad both sides would have an opportunity to write a short summary of their view of the events (maybe 500 words or so) and then those stories would be available to be viewed side by side by random third parties who could declare fault and/or present an abitration suggestion which could then be presented back to the original parties, if the parties are able to resolve their issues through the arbitration suggestion the suggesting party might be given some additional positive feedback... In this way there is a benefit to all involved parties to act above board and behave responsibly, and even in cases which do not end with positive feedback the damaging effect of wrongly issued negative feedback could be minimized.
any how that's just my .02 I suppose their are others out there with more/better suggestions. In the meantime I'll stick to my mix of Brick & Mortar/Craigslist/Amazon shopping and only veer to ebay for items for which I have historically experienced little drama, such as used car parts with significant value and very low price (read 1972 pinto hatchback hubcaps)...
This is exactly my take on the situation. I wish I had not wasted my moderation points yesterday.
What an exciting astro-turf, I'm sure the koolaide tastes great, but I am left in the dark without any new version of flash in quite sometime seeing as how 90% of my browsing occurs under linux. Maybe one of these great developer centric features they could be /truly/ proud of would be to make flashplayer OSS...
Just becaue cpio is old doesn't make it busted. cpio is awesome for doing filesystem backup/restores handles special files, permissions etc like a champ.
+1 informative
+1 funny +1 insightful
Also, if you RTFA you'll see that the author was successful in using a honda override procedure without a "master key". he used his normal car key with the rfid chip shielded. I'm guessing that maybe you're implying that the ignition must already be switched into the "acc" or "run" position in order for the rfid override to work, which may be true, however the bit about getting the ingition lock into either of those positions doesn't "require" a key so much as it just requires enough force to get the lock to turn, which is basic old tech car theft type of strong arming... The common methods I've seen involve using a body dent puller with integrated slid hammer to remove the lock cylinder and then manually actuating the lock with a screwdriver which has the double effect of both working the ignition switch as well as disengaging the steering lock detent mechanism...
Your observations are tainted by your assumptions, if you do the majority of your driving miles commuting then it is also a solid bet that the other cars you observe are participating the same behavior (commute hours tend to work that way) such that it is also a pretty solid bet that the majority of the SUVs you see are being used as commute vehicles AND as most people do not car pool it stands to reason that these commuting SUVs are generally carrying one passenger. Likewise if you spent the majority of your day working at a boat launch or at home depot or at a motorcycle dealership (etc) you would also hacve falsy weighted observations where-in you might be claiming "in thousands of cases of personal observation I have concluded that SUVs are generally used by those who are towing large equipment/trailers/boats/motorcycles/etc" AND you'd be similarly incorrect in the psuedo-scientific nature of your observational evidence.
Let's for a moment take one of my co-workers for example, you might see him commuting everyday on the local freeway, and you'd assume that he is some ego driven SUV driver who is in an eternal pissing match with the next guy, but what you'd fail to see is that he commutes only a short distance, has only enough parking for a single vehicle, the SUV was given to him by an extended family member, he uses it one weekends to organize a church carpool, AND he also uses it to tow his motorcycle trailer when him and soem of his friends go dirtbiking... Now seems to me that an SUV would be a perfectly practical choice in this instance AND I'm going to use your same little argumentative crutch and say that occam's razor would seem to agree that this is simple enougfh reason such that it could validate the purchase decision of many others...
I drive a 14 year old honda civic that gets 30mpg and cost me about two pay checks, that hardly qualifies me as part of the "SUV crowd". I am simply someone who sees that for some people maybe an SUV is an appropriate choice and just because for MOST people it isn't doesn't give anybody the right to assume that everyone is part of MOST people... Your occam's razor argument is flawed as well, because you have made some assumptions about the nature and intentions of people and then written that off as "the simplest answer" does not make it so... The occam's razor driven conclusion would be something more along the lines of "he bought/owns an SUV because that is what he chose to buy..." attempting to apply occams razor to things questions such as "why did he choose to buy the SUV" is inherintly flawed because there is an arbitrarily large set of answers with similar simplicity... There is nothing more inherintly simple about being ego driven vs. being practical.
Perhaps, but not ones on from which it is reasonable to assume someone is committing insurance fraud.
Tis a foolish man who assumes that dishonesty goes hand in hand with stupidity (and vice versa for that matter) high technology secuirty systems just encourage theives to be much more sophisticated...
Both of these methods are not only possible, but are common and becoming more common every day, especially on high dollar cars which are a big time target for theft, cadillac escalades and lincoln navigators are high on the list in my neck of the woods...
I question your methodology for assesing this man's involvment as well, you remarks smack of ad-hominem attack fueled by your distaste for his choice of driving a "gas guzzling SUV", however you seem to be suffering from the same shortsightedness that many of the savagely anti-SUV crowd does, you neglect to account for the possible neccesity of such a vehicle, perhaps this many has a large family and a boat which he frequently tows? Oh, but then you'd have to get off your high horse ;)
The man in the headline should clearly be bending his insurer over a barrel and giving them a good legal fucking...
Although I'll still be waiting for the fingerprint scanner and PAM biometric modules to be added as an install time option in a major distro.... Baby Steps...
Where the fist line is the display name of the OS and the second line defines the partition from which to boot. I suspect that maybe you were trying to boot windows from an extended partition which (IIRC) windows will not do, but that is a windows problem, not a grub problem...
Alternatively you could install grub to the linux partition instead of the MBR and then use NTLDR to control your multiboot setup, this is similarly easy to do although it requires reading (ZOMG wait for i, wait for it) 2 manuals...
What's next, you gonna complain that GM manufacturing both engines AND transmissions is somehow problematic because it allows them to more cheaply platform engineer their drivetrains?!?!
Good engineering/planning a monopoly does not make
Thank you! I was wondering how many posts of this non-sense I'd have to wade through before someone mentioned the NTLDR exists AND can be made to boot other non-MS products...
I'm sitting here imaging a room full of CS students who do not understand how to non-destructively repartition, how to install to a partition and then how to use a simple text editor to add a "chainloader" command or two into the excedingly simply to use grub configs...
Computer controlled brushless DC motor have proven to be a cheap and effective technology for many applications. I've never priced one out that is large enough to drive a car, but the smaller "hobby" sized motors are only about double the cost of the equivalent brushed motor AND has a lower TCO due to it's fewer wear parts.
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