I purchased last year and was bitten rather harshly by the activation scheme which prevented me from submitting my return from behind a proxy w/ pwd authentication. Obviously, I could not install at home after that so I had to mail my return.
This year, I purchased the software and found no problems with activation at all. The software installed without connecting to the Internet just fine.
My purchase was especially inspired by a company responding to consumer feedback and I choose to reward such a decision with my $.
Quake I. 3:00 AM. No sleep. I feel your pain. If it makes you feel any better, my old roommate and I are still friends after several years.
I did see something that may help you out. Check out the "rollable indestructible keyboard". I have seen these at Radio Shack and they appear to have that squishy feel with which I would not associate a clicking noise.
In the mouse category, look for a desktop version of the touch pad that is found on laptops. By tapping the pad, a mouse click is accomplished. That would result in at least quieter clicks of the primary button.
It is the same each time I boot. The initial ramdisk is loaded from the CD and I can do anything I want while booted from the CD (even 'rm -rf/') and I know that my system will boot to the CD next time just as well as last time.
Although now that I think of it...many keychain drives have a write-protect switch on them. That could be useful!
Never, never, never, never commit to a schedule that is not realistic. If you know it isn't realistic before you get started, imagine what happens when you discover the unknown problems.
No matter how much that guy in marketing wants to meet his roadmap, he will not help you design, code, or test your product. If you are lucky, he will complete the requirements before you are supposed to ship the product.
I always felt that the university classes were slow and watered down. As such, I got books on varying topics that interested me and not only read them, but made myself complete real projects with the newly learned skills (not the cheesy example projects in the books). I picked up several skills this way.
The cool part was that when I went to interview for jobs, I had a lot of knowledge on varying subjects in the interview. The interviewers either didn't ask where that information came from or were impressed that I had gained that information from my own personal studies.
Sure, you can probably rush yourself through an online U faster than brick and mortar, but in my case I was better suited to take my time in school and use all of the slow time to expand the breadth of my knowledge.
Just because you didn't learn it by getting a sore rear end in a classroom doesn't mean you can't put it on a resume.
I definintely think that before cursive "disappears", alternate input methods such as voice, touch screen, gestures, and handwriting recognition will offset enough typing that this won't be as much of an issue.
The same predicitions could have probably been made when telephones phones became ubiquitous and letter writing was being offset by phone calls.
This may be the case, but as a long time (although currently ex-)customer, I must say that NetFlix was satisfactory in getting movies to me. I remember a couple of waits for the most popular movies, but never over a couple of days. I subscibed at the 3-movies at a time level and was able to pretty much watch a movie every other or every third night when I wanted to (ordering new releases).
So the Navy initially funded this research? Hmmm... So the tiny vibrations normally transmitted through the hull of the submarine as noise now gets converted into electrical energy with a by-product of dampening the vibrations? Very interesting. Not that they need the energy on a nuclear sub, but they definitely don't need the vibrations causing noise.
At my previous job, the cubicle farm was a maze. You had to make several turns to get to certain cubes. I found myself subconsciously avoiding visiting my peers in the "remote" sections of the cube maze. It should be relatively easy to get from any one cubicle to another--at least inside groups of peers and to their manager.
I signed up for RHCE certification on the 7.2 track through their online training. I could never get into the classes and was told the course was being updated for 8.0 and would be available at the end of March. So, when is 9.0 training going to be online from RedHat and do I even waste my time starting an 8.0 track now knowing that I will be one tick away from certification exipration?
The problem I see here is that people's ears get messed up on airplanes. You know how you have to "pop" your ears after you land to hear properly. What I have noticed is that when a plane lands and everyone turns their cell phones on, they yell really loudly because they cannot hear well. Is this going to be a problem during the flight, too; or, is it only a problem after the landing. I don't mind people talking on phones, but a plane full of yelling people would not be very pleasant.
I never understood this until I started using my television as a computer monitor. Even set at 640x480 with large fonts, so many web sites were still illegible thanks to hard coded font sizes, tiny images with no alt text, etc.
You can't really have an appreciation for accessibility until you need it. It is a good lesson for everyone designing web sites to really try to use them with their monitor turned off and with speech software or on a television screen from across the room.
If anyone cares about your website, then the content matters as much or more than how it looks on your monitor. Well, I guess except for pr0n.
"copyright holders would have the right to disable, interfere with, block, or otherwise impair a peer-to-peer node that they suspect is distributing their intellectual property without permission"
Does anyone else have a problem with the word suspect in that sentence. So this bill would grant someone the "right" to take away my pursuit of happiness (most definitely found on most P2P networks) without the due process of law?
Or maybe "I forgot the passphrase" is the passphrase.
Agent: What is the passphrase? Me: I forgot the passphrase Agent:[bashing smallest toe with hammer] Agent: Now, what is the passphrase? Me:I FORGOT THE PASSPHRASE!
Ok, so I have n-bit keys protecting my super secret confidential data that is going to take x-million computers y-thousand years to crack and I feel pretty good knowing the CIA won't spend $z trillion dollars finding out my grandma's secret cookie recipe.
Now, how do I keep my passphrase a secret while the CIA is bashing my toes with a hammer?
I guess my point is that public/private key encryption is only as good as the passphrase which is often not good enough, and that the ecryption is way stronger than your personal torture threshold anyway.
As in WinModems doing the modulation/demodulation. These devices were a nightmare. After trying several I went back to a good old hardware-based-modulation modem.
Are there parallels to this technology? and if so, how will GNU Radio avoid those pitfalls?
I, too, was excited about GSM. I even went so far as too attempt to purchase a GSM Phone/PDA. Then I realized exactly how slowly and sparsely this was being rolled out across my service area. Looks like I will be stuck with TDMA for a while.
The same problems seem to exist with cell phone technologies and broadband distribution. Yes GSM exists. Yes broadband exists. But when can EVERYONE get it EVERYWHERE? I am beginning to think NEVER!
Like I can really get excited about this. I live 52,800 feet from my telco. My copper twisted-pair is so bad going through repeaters that my software modem doesn't even recognize a dial tone. I bought an expensive hardware modem and after disabling all of the "nifty" 56k features I can usually connect at 21.6kbps.
When will (non-lagged via satellite) broadband come to the rest of us?
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This year, I purchased the software and found no problems with activation at all. The software installed without connecting to the Internet just fine.
My purchase was especially inspired by a company responding to consumer feedback and I choose to reward such a decision with my $.
I did see something that may help you out. Check out the "rollable indestructible keyboard". I have seen these at Radio Shack and they appear to have that squishy feel with which I would not associate a clicking noise.
In the mouse category, look for a desktop version of the touch pad that is found on laptops. By tapping the pad, a mouse click is accomplished. That would result in at least quieter clicks of the primary button.
Although now that I think of it...many keychain drives have a write-protect switch on them. That could be useful!
Never, never, never, never commit to a schedule that is not realistic. If you know it isn't realistic before you get started, imagine what happens when you discover the unknown problems.
No matter how much that guy in marketing wants to meet his roadmap, he will not help you design, code, or test your product. If you are lucky, he will complete the requirements before you are supposed to ship the product.
The cool part was that when I went to interview for jobs, I had a lot of knowledge on varying subjects in the interview. The interviewers either didn't ask where that information came from or were impressed that I had gained that information from my own personal studies.
Sure, you can probably rush yourself through an online U faster than brick and mortar, but in my case I was better suited to take my time in school and use all of the slow time to expand the breadth of my knowledge.
Just because you didn't learn it by getting a sore rear end in a classroom doesn't mean you can't put it on a resume.
Actually, I think they copied my code... // Generic Error Checking Algorithm
if ( TRUE )
{
KeBugCheck( rand( ) );
}
The same predicitions could have probably been made when telephones phones became ubiquitous and letter writing was being offset by phone calls.
This may be the case, but as a long time (although currently ex-)customer, I must say that NetFlix was satisfactory in getting movies to me. I remember a couple of waits for the most popular movies, but never over a couple of days. I subscibed at the 3-movies at a time level and was able to pretty much watch a movie every other or every third night when I wanted to (ordering new releases).
So the Navy initially funded this research? Hmmm... So the tiny vibrations normally transmitted through the hull of the submarine as noise now gets converted into electrical energy with a by-product of dampening the vibrations? Very interesting. Not that they need the energy on a nuclear sub, but they definitely don't need the vibrations causing noise.
At my previous job, the cubicle farm was a maze. You had to make several turns to get to certain cubes. I found myself subconsciously avoiding visiting my peers in the "remote" sections of the cube maze. It should be relatively easy to get from any one cubicle to another--at least inside groups of peers and to their manager.
I signed up for RHCE certification on the 7.2 track through their online training. I could never get into the classes and was told the course was being updated for 8.0 and would be available at the end of March. So, when is 9.0 training going to be online from RedHat and do I even waste my time starting an 8.0 track now knowing that I will be one tick away from certification exipration?
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I stand corrected. :)
Somehow I venture to believe the respondents might answer somewhere closer to 100%.
The problem I see here is that people's ears get messed up on airplanes. You know how you have to "pop" your ears after you land to hear properly. What I have noticed is that when a plane lands and everyone turns their cell phones on, they yell really loudly because they cannot hear well. Is this going to be a problem during the flight, too; or, is it only a problem after the landing. I don't mind people talking on phones, but a plane full of yelling people would not be very pleasant.
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You can't really have an appreciation for accessibility until you need it. It is a good lesson for everyone designing web sites to really try to use them with their monitor turned off and with speech software or on a television screen from across the room.
If anyone cares about your website, then the content matters as much or more than how it looks on your monitor. Well, I guess except for pr0n.
Does anyone else have a problem with the word suspect in that sentence. So this bill would grant someone the "right" to take away my pursuit of happiness (most definitely found on most P2P networks) without the due process of law?
Feeling better aren't you?
Good for kids and adults!
Agent: What is the passphrase?
Me: I forgot the passphrase
Agent: [bashing smallest toe with hammer]
Agent: Now, what is the passphrase?
Me: I FORGOT THE PASSPHRASE!
Then again that sounds find of painful.
Now, how do I keep my passphrase a secret while the CIA is bashing my toes with a hammer?
I guess my point is that public/private key encryption is only as good as the passphrase which is often not good enough, and that the ecryption is way stronger than your personal torture threshold anyway.
Are there parallels to this technology? and if so, how will GNU Radio avoid those pitfalls?
The same problems seem to exist with cell phone technologies and broadband distribution. Yes GSM exists. Yes broadband exists. But when can EVERYONE get it EVERYWHERE? I am beginning to think NEVER!
When will (non-lagged via satellite) broadband come to the rest of us?