I stare at computer screens all day, and then when I get home often all night till I go to sleep.
Anyway, when I used my first LCD display on a laptop, I immediately quit using my 21" CRT all together. The LCD was just WAY easier on my eyes. No refresh flicker, no glaring colors.
I will never buy another CRT ever. Maybe a TV, but never for a computer.
P.S. my boss tried to order some LCDs for us but they tricked him and sole him some Flat Screen CRTs. Suckx.
Useability is what happens after security is cleared. Securitys whole point is to give useability to those that are authorized to have it. If security is interfering with useability, then you will find that even people with authorization will start looking for ways to subvert it. Thus, any security that interfers with useability is bad security.
Its kind of like welding car doors shut and calling it more secure. It is until people start entering through the windows on a daily basis.
Just look at CD copy security measures that get cracked in minutes because they interfere with useability.
Lol, thats why Vivendi is pissed. So you can buy the game through Steam, yes that would upset Vivendi.
But the coup de grace, That all customers will be immediately acquainted with Steam since you MUST authenticate the game with steam. Everyone with the game will then know that they could save their next trip to the store.
Does anyone see Steam as a potential distribution channel for NON-Valve games?
Of course I always prefer having a burned CD. But games like Eve-online are breaking me of that.
First of all, you should have defensive capabilities in line with your planned offensive agressions. This just says the uS plans to piss off somebody that has missile capability. Or at least that the US wants it to appear as if they have a defense against missiles...
Secondly, I can only Imagine that the US saw Israel as a strategic opportunity to dominate the middle east. Currently though Israel is just bringing us lots of bad will for our stupid ass policies. Israel I understand, they were abused throughout Europe for centuries, and they are growing up to be abusers. But the US position is bizarre.
Probably since the US gave Israel Nukes, it does not want to see them used, and it can't get them back. I wonder if this makes the US the first country to give away nuclear technology?
I think WYSIWYG is a good feature to point out here. Novel had a nice implementation in 6.1. But in Windows environment, WYSIWYG is given sort of 'free'. your screen and your printer are both devices, and so you are able to show something just as it will print dut to the MS system. So going to windows replaced a lot of the core functionality in WP with underlying OS constructs.
Actually the first wp for windows was the first time I really learned about anti-competitive behavior.
WPDOS was so sweet it was clear that they were capable of creating quality products. WP for windows was not bad, not poorly organized. Nothing about the idea and design of wp was bad. It was just buggy and crashed a lot and couldnt do good DnD or printer stuff, etc. All the windows integration stuff was BAD.
Hindsight, its good that novel sold WP because WP sucks horribly today as well. But MS can't tie todays suckage to Novel.
WP was very nice from about v7?-v9 maybe, but 10-11-12 are getting worse. Its like they force everyone to think of 5 new features to implement or something. Its terribly bloated. At least in 12 they removed the email client and I think the search tool, and some other junk.
In fact MS Office 97 actually kicked much ass. But Every office since then has amazingly got worse at integrating functionality. e.g. I cant simply copy a bunch of cells from excel or a slide from powerpoint into Word XP without the format hosing. but in 97 that was a breeze...
Well I've a Handspring with palm 3.5 I believe. Pal m is good, cell phone is good, but they fail horribly at integration. Sure the appearance of integration is excellent, but the functionality is not.
For instance, SIM locking support is terrible. Its so bad they need to recall the phone. Who uses a phone without SIM lock?
If i go somewhere the signal is lost, it appears when the signal comes back the phone wants my SIM again. but since its in my pocket I dont see the dialog asking for it. About ever minut i suppose, another dialog pops up on top of the other. When I finally leave the store I have about 25-30 OKs to hit to close out this mess.
If I catch it in the store, I still cant get the phone back on for like 10 minutes. When I go to enter my code, the window keeps refreshing and it will never accept any input I give it. So I quit before it hoses my SIM.
Just plain bad. But for $100, and now that I mastered these horrid bugs, its ok I guess. But I will never buy a Palm phone until they prove to me this bug is fixed.
I have seen on obsecure boards people talking about the bug but there was NEVER a patch and Plam never acknowledged it or ever tried to fix it, so i have no way of knowing if there latest offering has the bug or not. too bad for them...
MS contrary to what they claim, has never believed that 'closedness' prevents unsavory behavior.
They have an extensive process to ensure that companies are not using unlicensed copies of MS products. And year after year it gets more invasive and agressive. To me this is open admission that they believe what can not be seen can not be trusted.
Yes, and even when it is good for the rich to have more money like the industrial revoluiotn or the information boom, they can certainly find it without any help...
I still don't understand what Bush has to do with outsourcing. In a global economy there is nothing the government can do to stop it. If they require that US companies only hire US people, then US companies will not be able to compete in the global marketplace because their products will be too damn expensive.
Flawed. Outsourcing is stopped when you make all work envoronments equal. If workers in taiwan can work but naked with no lunch breaks or safety regulations, they will always be cheaper than US workers.
The administration must enforce equality of working environments or bar the imports. I scoffed at the presidents disingenuous position for the us steel industry. With everything else he does not care what the world thinks (Iraq, Kyoto) but when it comes to sticking up for US Steel workers, oh well WTO says I can't do it...
And this is the problem with big companies. They never look back at themselves to realize most of the scammers are employees. Until they realize that, they wont solve anything.
That is why what you create must be foolproof and have no back doors. Because its the people inside that will be the first to exploit it. And of course make it look like an outside job.
Not just Canada. Returns policies are governed by State law IIRC. I know in Michigan you can return what you like in 30 days. Of course not spoiling stuff and certain other things. But the stores policy only matters if it is offering something beyond what the state mandates.
Many people fall for the no refund signs in store shops. Don't let them fool ya!
Absolutely right. Problem is people think good business and good government are one and the same. Especially those 'Republicans', but also those wannabe Republicans.
A man once told me the governments sole purpose is the protection of property rights.
true, IIRC many of those particular soldiers have as their other job, prison guards. Further I heard there was some favoritism for putting this partucilar group of soldiers in the position they were in. Time will tell.
I also don't find this to be FUD. If these licenses were so meaningless then why is anyone signing them? Getting a license is an admission that you feel the licensing body has the authority to license what it is attempting to.
Yea, I had compuserve in 1986. I believe you could renew your service while connected? In fact I believe you could connect before you even had service, and order service after you were connected.
are you agreeing or disagreeing with the coward? I would have been more clear if you offered some of your own text and not just copied the dictionary entry.
In any event the coward is correct, proffered is not the proper word to use in this case.
I was too considering the mid-west and north-east could just secede and Join Canada since we seem to share the same values (tolerance). Perhaps its a result of the cold weather that we all get forced to calm down for several months out of the year.
Marriage is very much already defined by most people as being between a man and a woman. It was never a generic term. How you can suggest otherwise is beyond me.
If you want to talk about partnerships, and the fact that recognizing marriage as a union between man and woman puts the states in the position of endorsing religious practice, then ok.
But don't try to suggest marriage is some 'social' term without concrete meaning. If you do you will loose because most of 'society' will disagree with your interpretation.
I completely disagree. Rarely is someones first experience with computers programming them.
I dont mind children seeing the potential of computers. Its exciting and motivating. Children are not too stupid to understand what is fake and what is not. I for one to not believe violent games desensitizes anyone. I played them for years and years, and when I saw a guy shot in the head in front of me, i was very sensitive to it.
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I stare at computer screens all day, and then when I get home often all night till I go to sleep.
Anyway, when I used my first LCD display on a laptop, I immediately quit using my 21" CRT all together. The LCD was just WAY easier on my eyes. No refresh flicker, no glaring colors.
I will never buy another CRT ever. Maybe a TV, but never for a computer.
P.S. my boss tried to order some LCDs for us but they tricked him and sole him some Flat Screen CRTs. Suckx.
Useability is what happens after security is cleared. Securitys whole point is to give useability to those that are authorized to have it. If security is interfering with useability, then you will find that even people with authorization will start looking for ways to subvert it. Thus, any security that interfers with useability is bad security.
Its kind of like welding car doors shut and calling it more secure. It is until people start entering through the windows on a daily basis.
Just look at CD copy security measures that get cracked in minutes because they interfere with useability.
If freezing worked, then the problem must have been physical not electrical. Or a combination of both, weighted on the physical side.
Lol, thats why Vivendi is pissed. So you can buy the game through Steam, yes that would upset Vivendi.
But the coup de grace, That all customers will be immediately acquainted with Steam since you MUST authenticate the game with steam. Everyone with the game will then know that they could save their next trip to the store.
Does anyone see Steam as a potential distribution channel for NON-Valve games?
Of course I always prefer having a burned CD. But games like Eve-online are breaking me of that.
First of all, you should have defensive capabilities in line with your planned offensive agressions. This just says the uS plans to piss off somebody that has missile capability. Or at least that the US wants it to appear as if they have a defense against missiles...
Secondly, I can only Imagine that the US saw Israel as a strategic opportunity to dominate the middle east. Currently though Israel is just bringing us lots of bad will for our stupid ass policies. Israel I understand, they were abused throughout Europe for centuries, and they are growing up to be abusers. But the US position is bizarre.
Probably since the US gave Israel Nukes, it does not want to see them used, and it can't get them back. I wonder if this makes the US the first country to give away nuclear technology?
I think WYSIWYG is a good feature to point out here. Novel had a nice implementation in 6.1. But in Windows environment, WYSIWYG is given sort of 'free'. your screen and your printer are both devices, and so you are able to show something just as it will print dut to the MS system. So going to windows replaced a lot of the core functionality in WP with underlying OS constructs.
Actually the first wp for windows was the first time I really learned about anti-competitive behavior.
WPDOS was so sweet it was clear that they were capable of creating quality products. WP for windows was not bad, not poorly organized. Nothing about the idea and design of wp was bad. It was just buggy and crashed a lot and couldnt do good DnD or printer stuff, etc. All the windows integration stuff was BAD.
Hindsight, its good that novel sold WP because WP sucks horribly today as well. But MS can't tie todays suckage to Novel.
WP was very nice from about v7?-v9 maybe, but 10-11-12 are getting worse. Its like they force everyone to think of 5 new features to implement or something. Its terribly bloated. At least in 12 they removed the email client and I think the search tool, and some other junk.
In fact MS Office 97 actually kicked much ass. But Every office since then has amazingly got worse at integrating functionality. e.g. I cant simply copy a bunch of cells from excel or a slide from powerpoint into Word XP without the format hosing. but in 97 that was a breeze...
Well I've a Handspring with palm 3.5 I believe. Pal m is good, cell phone is good, but they fail horribly at integration. Sure the appearance of integration is excellent, but the functionality is not.
For instance, SIM locking support is terrible. Its so bad they need to recall the phone. Who uses a phone without SIM lock?
If i go somewhere the signal is lost, it appears when the signal comes back the phone wants my SIM again. but since its in my pocket I dont see the dialog asking for it. About ever minut i suppose, another dialog pops up on top of the other. When I finally leave the store I have about 25-30 OKs to hit to close out this mess.
If I catch it in the store, I still cant get the phone back on for like 10 minutes. When I go to enter my code, the window keeps refreshing and it will never accept any input I give it. So I quit before it hoses my SIM.
Just plain bad. But for $100, and now that I mastered these horrid bugs, its ok I guess. But I will never buy a Palm phone until they prove to me this bug is fixed.
I have seen on obsecure boards people talking about the bug but there was NEVER a patch and Plam never acknowledged it or ever tried to fix it, so i have no way of knowing if there latest offering has the bug or not. too bad for them...
MS contrary to what they claim, has never believed that 'closedness' prevents unsavory behavior.
They have an extensive process to ensure that companies are not using unlicensed copies of MS products. And year after year it gets more invasive and agressive. To me this is open admission that they believe what can not be seen can not be trusted.
Yea, im getting that on a couple of different websites. reloading the page always seems to fix it.
Nevertheless, I must say that firefox needs to clean that up.
Momentarily you seem to have forgotten where SCO has been getting there revenue, have you not?
I don't think 'trustworthy' is the term you are looking for. Perhaps, responsible?
If they were trustworthy, you would not need them to be more open or more democratic.
Yes, and even when it is good for the rich to have more money like the industrial revoluiotn or the information boom, they can certainly find it without any help...
I still don't understand what Bush has to do with outsourcing. In a global economy there is nothing the government can do to stop it. If they require that US companies only hire US people, then US companies will not be able to compete in the global marketplace because their products will be too damn expensive.
Flawed. Outsourcing is stopped when you make all work envoronments equal. If workers in taiwan can work but naked with no lunch breaks or safety regulations, they will always be cheaper than US workers.
The administration must enforce equality of working environments or bar the imports. I scoffed at the presidents disingenuous position for the us steel industry. With everything else he does not care what the world thinks (Iraq, Kyoto) but when it comes to sticking up for US Steel workers, oh well WTO says I can't do it...
And this is the problem with big companies. They never look back at themselves to realize most of the scammers are employees. Until they realize that, they wont solve anything.
That is why what you create must be foolproof and have no back doors. Because its the people inside that will be the first to exploit it. And of course make it look like an outside job.
Not just Canada. Returns policies are governed by State law IIRC. I know in Michigan you can return what you like in 30 days. Of course not spoiling stuff and certain other things. But the stores policy only matters if it is offering something beyond what the state mandates.
Many people fall for the no refund signs in store shops. Don't let them fool ya!
Information is power.
Absolutely right. Problem is people think good business and good government are one and the same. Especially those 'Republicans', but also those wannabe Republicans.
A man once told me the governments sole purpose is the protection of property rights.
true, IIRC many of those particular soldiers have as their other job, prison guards. Further I heard there was some favoritism for putting this partucilar group of soldiers in the position they were in. Time will tell.
I also don't find this to be FUD. If these licenses were so meaningless then why is anyone signing them? Getting a license is an admission that you feel the licensing body has the authority to license what it is attempting to.
Looks Shady.
Yea, I had compuserve in 1986. I believe you could renew your service while connected? In fact I believe you could connect before you even had service, and order service after you were connected.
That should count.
are you agreeing or disagreeing with the coward? I would have been more clear if you offered some of your own text and not just copied the dictionary entry.
In any event the coward is correct, proffered is not the proper word to use in this case.
"Try not. Do or do not, there is no try."
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822.3.
You are aware that this was actually spoken by Yoda?
I was too considering the mid-west and north-east could just secede and Join Canada since we seem to share the same values (tolerance). Perhaps its a result of the cold weather that we all get forced to calm down for several months out of the year.
I can't explain California.
Marriage is very much already defined by most people as being between a man and a woman. It was never a generic term. How you can suggest otherwise is beyond me.
If you want to talk about partnerships, and the fact that recognizing marriage as a union between man and woman puts the states in the position of endorsing religious practice, then ok.
But don't try to suggest marriage is some 'social' term without concrete meaning. If you do you will loose because most of 'society' will disagree with your interpretation.
I completely disagree. Rarely is someones first experience with computers programming them.
I dont mind children seeing the potential of computers. Its exciting and motivating. Children are not too stupid to understand what is fake and what is not. I for one to not believe violent games desensitizes anyone. I played them for years and years, and when I saw a guy shot in the head in front of me, i was very sensitive to it.