..if there wasn't the price differential between phone and online.
Unfortunately, the online version is often cheaper (because it doesn't take up the time of a human). With this in mind we can see that someone *is* disenfrancised by their ability...unless you really do think that the blind should pay more for the same service?
I don't use Opera. So if I need to hold a mouse button and move my mouse,then how in the heck would I select text for cut-n-paste?
Mouse gestures are done with a right drag in Opera.
Let's look at the situation where I need to copy and paste some information from the page previous into this form.
I'd sit with left hand on the keyboard in the home position, my right hand on the mouse & with the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen. To go back, I right-click-and-hold the mouse and drag it to the left slightly. Release the right button and the page jumps back.
Find the text I want to copy, left-click-and-hold at the beginning of the text, drag the mouse to the end and release. Now, I personally tend to use Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V to cut and paste, seeing as how they are directly under my left hand on the keyboard. But let's say I'm doing something with my left hand like holding a phone. In this case, I simply move the mouse pointer into the highlighted text I've selected and right-click&release.
The context sensitive menu pops up and I choose copy. Now I right-click&hold and drag the mouse right slightly and release. It pops back to this page. I position my mouse where I want the text to be, right-click, select paste, and I'm done.
Note that I never have to hunt for a back button, on the screen (I can do this in full-screen mode if I want, with no buttons visible at all) I never have to stretch for an alt+arrow-key, remove my right hand from the mouse, or use my left-hand at all (pr0n surfers take note).
Some other things to note are that those right click and holds are very short, just slightly longer than a right-click & release to be honest. Also it's worth noting that this whole combination becomes instinctive very quickly. I find that I no longer think "Oh, I need to go back a page", I just do it.
My only problem with mouse gestures is that I now get frustrated when trying to use a browser that doesn't have them.
As has been mentioned above.. when navigating the web, one hand is likely already on the mouse. The gestures quickly become second nature, more-so I'd say than the appropriate keyboard press, and require less concentration than using the mouse to find the appropriate button on the top tool-bar. (Plus allow full control while in full-screen mode, without requiring a context shift from keyboard to mouse.)
Of course, this all depends on having simple mouse-gestures for the most used features. Opera's "back" and "forward" mouse gestures are so intuitive that it very quickly becomes a pain to use browsers that don't have the ability.
Re:If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.
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Fact is, beside the lack of games and the silly controller, the Xbox is a superior system.
Hmm.. and what, perchance, do the people who purchase console systems use the most?
He said: "A 'smart card' isn't going to stop a pick pocket from theiving your wallet so we're back to square one."
You said: "The smart card could simply ask for a PIN or a fingerprint. It could even validate a signature, or show the clerk a photo of you. And it could use velocity checking to determine the interval for these sorts of checks so that it doesn't make every transaction an extra hassle."
But your anti-theft measures can easily be put on a card today with a magnetic strip. Or if you're worried about tampering, put them in a "secure database" like the one the smart card already relies on - all the magnetic strip has is what data should be retrieved from the database.
So why bother with the extra expense of "smart cards"?
Christopher Reeve, the previous movies' Superman has managed to regain sensation below the neck and can now move his right wrist to some degree.
Doctors aren't sure exactly why, but think it might have to do with the constant excercise regime that Mr. Reeve went on shortly after the accident.
The strength of will required for Mr. Reeve to be able to accomplish this after all these years is simply remarkable. Some casting agent knew what he was doing when they chose Christopher for the Superman role.
When France honors her dead, nobody pops up saying "but what about the Kurds!".
True. But then again, France doesn't make her mourning an international event as the U.S. seems so keen to do. France doesn't make statements about "The world changed that day," or "You're either with us, or against us," or start projecting the French Military across the oceans and demanding concessions from neighboring country's security forces.
I think nobody would question the right of the U.S. to mourn. We question the right of the U.S. to insist everybody else do so as well.
Do you think 9/11 was in retaliation for Isreal? Britian was the main component of that, yet they were not attacked.
Was vs. Is.
Who *is* the main aid/supporter of Israel's actions currently?
Do you think 9/11 was in retaliation for Troops on Saudi Soil? Why not attack the Government of SA, since they Allow it to happen.
Who's troops are they? Who is the main aid/supporter of the current regime of Saudi Arabia? Also, who is(was?) the less security conscious?
Here's a quick thought: If you think the attacks were because of a free flow of ideas, then why not Britain? Why not France? Why not the Netherlands, Canada, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Ireland, Italy, or a host of others? You're no less free to express ideas in them -- and given the arrest of a man who was simply planning to build a bomb -- perhaps you're more free in them than you are in the U.S.
To assume the reasons are cultural jealousy is just cultural arrogance.
Because the moment your unrecognizable aka untrusted data hits the Fritz'd computer, it's flagged as untrustworthy. Will not run, may not even send if the media/software cartels manage to get their acts together that much.
Essentially we wind up with an untrusted net filled with the hardcore users that runs separate from the trusted net. Almost sounds good - at least, until the untrusted net starts getting split into smaller and smaller networks as major routers move to DRM technology.
I mean if you do not plan to run Palladium, where's the problem? This would not stop you from doing anything you do now. Doesn't the OS have to support DRM also in order for this to have any effect?
In short, no.
Consider that if you ever need to pass data from DRM equipped computers to yours, you may need to have DRM installed in order to simply view it.
When everything from a word-processed document to e-mail is encrypted with DRM technologies, and only DRM equipped machines can unencrypt them, you have a *serious* problem.
..sooner or later everything comes from something.
Wealth does *not* come from thin air. Resources are used to create it, even if those resources are just the nutrients in the soil that eventually end up boosting somebody's brain power. Unless the resources used are returned, sooner or later we find there's no more resource. Take cod fisheries as a near-example.
The problem is that economic theories tend to equate "Haven't seen limits yet" with "No limits exist".
Fade in: COMPUTER SCREEN - so close it has no boundaries. A blinking cursor pulses on the screen.
A phone rings.
YAKKO(V.O): Hello?
DOT(V.O): I'm inside. Anything to report?
Numbers and letters start to stream in alternating columns up & down across the screen - flashing through a box in the middle. A quick reader will spot BUY AOL @ 14 as it flashes by. The first three digits of an area code snap into place.
YAKKO: Yes. I'm on the final level!
Numbers are replaced by a game of Pong on-screen.
Cut do DOT on the phone wearing traditional outfit.
DOT: Pretty good. So I bought the cutest outfit...
POLICE burst into the room, guns drawn.
POLICE: Freeze!
DOT motions to the phone and the police abashedly point their guns elsewhere and begin to quietly whistle.
DOT: I gotta go now.
YAKKO: Okay. See you when you get in.
DOT hangs up. POLICE resume aggressive stance one comes forward with handcuffs. DOT jumps in the air and motion freezes. Camera pans around her in mid-air. Motion resumes and she lands in "cute" pose.
they tried to 'embrace and extend' it, but I don't think that was a deliberate attempt to prevent interoperability with other systems - more just that they saw it useful and didn't really give a shit about the interoperbility.
One trial judge, nine appeal judges, and a number of microsoft employees who were recorded in internal e-mails disagree with you.
I'll take their opinion over yours.
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Mr Anti-Google
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From the article:
More than that, says Brandt, Google is a careless custodian of private information. When you search for something at Google, it saves your search terms and associates them with a cookie that is set to live on your machine for 36 years. Brandt fears that law enforcement officials could muscle Google into divulging all the terms you've ever searched for. Those terms could be "a window into your state of mind," and are therefore a clear violation of your privacy, he says.
Uh, Does Brandt even properly understand how Cookies work? If the Feds go to Google and say "Give us all the cookies you've stored on people's computers" Google is going to say "Uh.. see, that's the thing about storing them on other people's computers.. we don't store them here."
And as for Google recording every search term I've searched for, let's be realistic here, even if Google did have that kind of storage space available (every term, for every user, with a link between each?) why in the heck would they use it for that when they have the whole freakin' 'net to try and store?
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..if there wasn't the price differential between phone and online.
..unless you really do think that the blind should pay more for the same service?
Unfortunately, the online version is often cheaper (because it doesn't take up the time of a human). With this in mind we can see that someone *is* disenfrancised by their ability.
..more ammo for the folks who want to legislate Palladium and hardware implemented digital restrictions management.
I don't use Opera. So if I need to hold a mouse button and move my mouse,then how in the heck would I select text for cut-n-paste?
Mouse gestures are done with a right drag in Opera.
Let's look at the situation where I need to copy and paste some information from the page previous into this form.
I'd sit with left hand on the keyboard in the home position, my right hand on the mouse & with the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen. To go back, I right-click-and-hold the mouse and drag it to the left slightly. Release the right button and the page jumps back.
Find the text I want to copy, left-click-and-hold at the beginning of the text, drag the mouse to the end and release. Now, I personally tend to use Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V to cut and paste, seeing as how they are directly under my left hand on the keyboard. But let's say I'm doing something with my left hand like holding a phone. In this case, I simply move the mouse pointer into the highlighted text I've selected and right-click&release.
The context sensitive menu pops up and I choose copy. Now I right-click&hold and drag the mouse right slightly and release. It pops back to this page. I position my mouse where I want the text to be, right-click, select paste, and I'm done.
Note that I never have to hunt for a back button, on the screen (I can do this in full-screen mode if I want, with no buttons visible at all) I never have to stretch for an alt+arrow-key, remove my right hand from the mouse, or use my left-hand at all (pr0n surfers take note).
Some other things to note are that those right click and holds are very short, just slightly longer than a right-click & release to be honest. Also it's worth noting that this whole combination becomes instinctive very quickly. I find that I no longer think "Oh, I need to go back a page", I just do it.
My only problem with mouse gestures is that I now get frustrated when trying to use a browser that doesn't have them.
As has been mentioned above.. when navigating the web, one hand is likely already on the mouse. The gestures quickly become second nature, more-so I'd say than the appropriate keyboard press, and require less concentration than using the mouse to find the appropriate button on the top tool-bar. (Plus allow full control while in full-screen mode, without requiring a context shift from keyboard to mouse.)
Of course, this all depends on having simple mouse-gestures for the most used features. Opera's "back" and "forward" mouse gestures are so intuitive that it very quickly becomes a pain to use browsers that don't have the ability.
Fact is, beside the lack of games and the silly controller, the Xbox is a superior system.
Hmm.. and what, perchance, do the people who purchase console systems use the most?
Here's a hint: graphics != gameplay
A seven second fart?
The heck with violating copyright, that sounds like it violates physiology.
He said:
"A 'smart card' isn't going to stop a pick pocket from theiving your wallet so we're back to square one."
You said:
"The smart card could simply ask for a PIN or a fingerprint. It could even validate a signature, or show the clerk a photo of you. And it could use velocity checking to determine the interval for these sorts of checks so that it doesn't make every transaction an extra hassle."
But your anti-theft measures can easily be put on a card today with a magnetic strip. Or if you're worried about tampering, put them in a "secure database" like the one the smart card already relies on - all the magnetic strip has is what data should be retrieved from the database.
So why bother with the extra expense of "smart cards"?
You forget that the object is not just to prevent tampering, but to keep it hidden from prying eyes.
In which case his point still stands.. we could do all that today with credit cards.
So why bother?
While the use of wax seals has died out quite a bit, it is not completely dead.
So they took a polaroid.
Christopher Reeve, the previous movies' Superman has managed to regain sensation below the neck and can now move his right wrist to some degree.
Doctors aren't sure exactly why, but think it might have to do with the constant excercise regime that Mr. Reeve went on shortly after the accident.
The strength of will required for Mr. Reeve to be able to accomplish this after all these years is simply remarkable. Some casting agent knew what he was doing when they chose Christopher for the Superman role.
Strange, I look at the RIAA members knowing what I like to listen to as a good thing.
It'll give them added incentive to stop putting out crap.
No, no basis at all.
When France honors her dead, nobody pops up saying "but what about the Kurds!".
True. But then again, France doesn't make her mourning an international event as the U.S. seems so keen to do. France doesn't make statements about "The world changed that day," or "You're either with us, or against us," or start projecting the French Military across the oceans and demanding concessions from neighboring country's security forces.
I think nobody would question the right of the U.S. to mourn. We question the right of the U.S. to insist everybody else do so as well.
If we don't "meddle," we're called isolationists. If we do "meddle," we're called imperialists. Fuck it, we just can't win.
And you won't either..
At least.. not until you figure out the difference between "meddle" and "aid".
Here's some hints - if you're doing something to another country that you wouldn't let be done to yours - you're meddling.
Do you think 9/11 was in retaliation for Isreal? Britian was the main component of that, yet they were not attacked.
Was vs. Is.
Who *is* the main aid/supporter of Israel's actions currently?
Do you think 9/11 was in retaliation for Troops on Saudi Soil? Why not attack the Government of SA, since they Allow it to happen.
Who's troops are they? Who is the main aid/supporter of the current regime of Saudi Arabia? Also, who is(was?) the less security conscious?
Here's a quick thought: If you think the attacks were because of a free flow of ideas, then why not Britain? Why not France? Why not the Netherlands, Canada, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Ireland, Italy, or a host of others? You're no less free to express ideas in them -- and given the arrest of a man who was simply planning to build a bomb -- perhaps you're more free in them than you are in the U.S.
To assume the reasons are cultural jealousy is just cultural arrogance.
Because the moment your unrecognizable aka untrusted data hits the Fritz'd computer, it's flagged as untrustworthy. Will not run, may not even send if the media/software cartels manage to get their acts together that much.
Essentially we wind up with an untrusted net filled with the hardcore users that runs separate from the trusted net. Almost sounds good - at least, until the untrusted net starts getting split into smaller and smaller networks as major routers move to DRM technology.
I mean if you do not plan to run Palladium, where's the problem? This would not stop you from doing anything you do now. Doesn't the OS have to support DRM also in order for this to have any effect?
In short, no.
Consider that if you ever need to pass data from DRM equipped computers to yours, you may need to have DRM installed in order to simply view it.
When everything from a word-processed document to e-mail is encrypted with DRM technologies, and only DRM equipped machines can unencrypt them, you have a *serious* problem.
(to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club)
M-O-N..
Any way they can..
O-P-O..
Oh you'll pay sooner or later..
L-Y-Yessiree!
G'night folks!
..a rich content creator.
1 who doesn't like 2 B C'n much in public.
Please tell me what you think ideas can do without implementation?
You gonna *think* that food to your table?
All ideas can do is maximize the efficiency of how we use the material resources.
..sooner or later everything comes from something.
Wealth does *not* come from thin air. Resources are used to create it, even if those resources are just the nutrients in the soil that eventually end up boosting somebody's brain power. Unless the resources used are returned, sooner or later we find there's no more resource. Take cod fisheries as a near-example.
The problem is that economic theories tend to equate "Haven't seen limits yet" with "No limits exist".
Fade in:
COMPUTER SCREEN - so close it has no boundaries. A blinking cursor pulses on the screen.
A phone rings.
YAKKO(V.O): Hello?
DOT(V.O): I'm inside. Anything to report?
Numbers and letters start to stream in alternating columns up & down across the screen - flashing through a box in the middle. A quick reader will spot BUY AOL @ 14 as it flashes by. The first three digits of an area code snap into place.
YAKKO: Yes. I'm on the final level!
Numbers are replaced by a game of Pong on-screen.
Cut do DOT on the phone wearing traditional outfit.
DOT: Pretty good. So I bought the cutest outfit...
POLICE burst into the room, guns drawn.
POLICE: Freeze!
DOT motions to the phone and the police abashedly point their guns elsewhere and begin to quietly whistle.
DOT: I gotta go now.
YAKKO: Okay. See you when you get in.
DOT hangs up. POLICE resume aggressive stance one comes forward with handcuffs. DOT jumps in the air and motion freezes. Camera pans around her in mid-air. Motion resumes and she lands in "cute" pose.
POLICE: Awwwwwww....
they tried to 'embrace and extend' it, but I don't think that was a deliberate attempt to prevent interoperability with other systems - more just that they saw it useful and didn't really give a shit about the interoperbility.
One trial judge, nine appeal judges, and a number of microsoft employees who were recorded in internal e-mails disagree with you.
I'll take their opinion over yours.
From the article:
More than that, says Brandt, Google is a careless custodian of private information. When you search for something at Google, it saves your search terms and associates them with a cookie that is set to live on your machine for 36 years. Brandt fears that law enforcement officials could muscle Google into divulging all the terms you've ever searched for. Those terms could be "a window into your state of mind," and are therefore a clear violation of your privacy, he says.
Uh, Does Brandt even properly understand how Cookies work? If the Feds go to Google and say "Give us all the cookies you've stored on people's computers" Google is going to say "Uh.. see, that's the thing about storing them on other people's computers.. we don't store them here."
And as for Google recording every search term I've searched for, let's be realistic here, even if Google did have that kind of storage space available (every term, for every user, with a link between each?) why in the heck would they use it for that when they have the whole freakin' 'net to try and store?