Re:Replace it with a key labelled [help]
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There's gotta be a way to have that not turn on by default at boot. I had a Logitech wireless keyboard (wireless duo pro or something like that) that I used until I sorta poured a cup of water into it*, and my function keys worked right... I may have had to change a setting though.
It's also possible newer models and newer versions of the software don't let you do this. I *still* use the iTouch software because of the on-screen notifications; I like them.
*Following which I replaced it with a Packard Bell keyboard I got at Goodwill for a buck twenty-five that doesn't even have windows keys...
Re:What a silly question
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"Now, I'm not saying that it's NEVER used by ANYONE, because I'm sure someone will reply and tell me that it does some obscure function in some obscure program."
Only if you consider *nix an obscure program. Scroll lock in those (at least those that I've tried it in, which means a couple different flavors of Linux and FreeBSD) stops the screen from scrolling so you can read it. FreeBSD will even let you scroll up with the arrow keys so you can see text that has scrolled off the screen. It's actually quite useful. (For instance, you're maknig something with dependencies and a message comes up that you should actually read but it starts to compile the next thing, you can still read it. Also removes a lot of the benefit of piping stuff to more or less.) I would imagine there's a way to set this up under Linux too, but I haven't yet seen a distribution that has it working out of the box and I don't know how to configure it.
Re:Well my roomate has this...
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Sounds dangerous... with the number of times I've hit caps by accident, I don't think I'd want to hit esc by accident...
There are plenty of reasons. For instance, look at Dell's site where you customize a computer (don't know if that link will work, but it's there...). All the "Help Me Now" links down the right are popup links. Many, many other places do this, especially on form pages. The reason is that if you're halfway through filling out a form then need additional information, you can't exactly navigate away from the page because sometimes coming back to the original page reverts the fields to their original values. (I'm not quite sure exactly when this happens and in what browers, but it *does* happen, even in Mozilla, at least v. 1.4.) Also, some other sites seem to like to pop up new windows, movie sites in particular. Not quite sure why that is. Maybe so they can be sure that it is the proper size and not too small or too large. Then popping up trailers and stuff in a separate window is somewhat common practice.
That I'll give you, and I was wrong with my statement. I should have said "while he IS being investigated for" instead "while he IS being charged with."
"You would discover, in both the Wired and USA Today pieces, that Mr. Kurtz is *not* being charged under the Patriot Act. If he is charged with anything, it will be an older act related to bioterrism. He is not being charged under the Patriot Act. He is NOT being charged under the Patriot Act (did it get through?)"
Read posts further up the page; while he IS being charged under the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, the specific sections of said act in question were amended by the Patriot Act. Previously, it was required that the bio agent be used as a weapon; now it is not so.
Actually, I stand corrected. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=110027&cid=934 0281 explains that there are analog encryption schemes, which I did not know. There are essentially 4 parts to the DMCA: one is WIPO treaty commitments changing a couple small aspects of enforcement and registration, one is on the design of boat hulls, then there are the two parts that we are concerned about, the bit with the ISPs given safe harbors and such, and the encryption bypassing. The third part still is digital, but the forth I see now would apply to analog devices as well.
Okay, you're the one that doesn't know what you're talking about. While it's true that there are not special copyrights for digital and analog works and there is only one set of copyright laws which the DMCA modified, almost all of the modifications it made were with regards to digital work (or the design of boats, though that is hardly applicable here). See a summary or the full text.
Which makes the whole argument that "However, SCSI is arguably easier to set up than IDE/ATA. SCSI is "plug and play" (except when you have conflicting IDs), whereas ATA still has the concept of master/slave/single modes, with physical jumper settings to get things right" completely moot because it means that the "plug" part has quite a learning curve.:-p
"So while it may start in less than 3 seconds, you're not counting the time it took to put it in the ram drive. (reminds me of how IE does the same thing in Windows)."
Why is that a bad thing? There seems to be a lot of comments here at/. that even if the system seems faster if you've just shifted the work it isn't actually faster.
Boot time is much less important than time when an application is in use. I can hit the power switch, walk away, and go get a drink or somtehing while the computer boots. In any case, it takes long enough that I'm not going to sit patiently in front of it staring at the screen. So if it takes an extra, say, minute even to boot, who cares? I'll just make my diversion quicker. But if that cuts the loading time of programs I use, then it's worth it by far. Especially if I open the program a lot more than I boot the computer. (Though a good disk cache would probably fix that.)
*What* competitor's software? We're talking about Windows here... if they are scared away by that question, they sure as hell aren't gonna go and pick Red Hat or Mandrake...
This is by convention though, not by necessity. Windows sends programs messages (events essentially) for both mouse button down and mouse button up*, and programs can react to both, neither, or just one. And programs can recieve just the button down message but not the button up message (if the user moved the cursor out of the window before lifting and the program didn't capture the mouse on the down event), and maybe vice versa.
*The messages are WM_xBUTTONDOWN and WM_xBUTTONUP if you're curious, where x is L, M, or R corresponding to a 3-button mouse.
"Flip side: apply the hack, and test out your equipment. If it works, that's fabulous. If it doesn't, you're wiser than most other people, either way."
But you need to buy the camera to try the hack, or have a friend who has the camera who will let you try the hack. I think what the grandparent really *means* is that probably no pros would say "OK, I'll buy the camera, and if the hack doesn't work, then I'll just go out and buy the 10D", whereas most people could say "OK, I'll buy the camera, and if the hack doesn't work, then I'll just restore it to how it was and still have a very good digicam".
But it would certainly help to have tons of CS Ph.D.s say "I've gone over this code and tried to hack it and it looks good" instead of "I broke into the state board of elections, completely changed the results, and erased all traces, and did it in five minutes."
So do exactly that... their customer service lines should be toll free, so just call up their line on a monthly basis and ask if they have made any changes to their service agreements.
You don't nievely reach for your gun. If mugger bends over to pick something up, maybe you have time to act. If mugger has knife, you can almost certainly draw gun.
There are plenty of other reasons why Vermont has the lowest crime rate besides the allowing of concealed weapons. (And Washington with the highest for the other post in response to you.) You should look at changes in violent crime deaths and injuries from before and after certain laws were put into place. I have not done this or seen them done, so have no strong opinion on the matter.
But overall, yes, the statistics do seem to support that states with lax gun laws have lower violent crime rates. I *did* compile some of this data once upon a time, though don't have it anymore. I took FBI statistics and the ratings from some anti-gun group that graded states from F (lax) to A (strict laws), and the overall trend was there. Not horribly strong, but it was there.
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There's gotta be a way to have that not turn on by default at boot. I had a Logitech wireless keyboard (wireless duo pro or something like that) that I used until I sorta poured a cup of water into it*, and my function keys worked right... I may have had to change a setting though.
It's also possible newer models and newer versions of the software don't let you do this. I *still* use the iTouch software because of the on-screen notifications; I like them.
*Following which I replaced it with a Packard Bell keyboard I got at Goodwill for a buck twenty-five that doesn't even have windows keys...
"Now, I'm not saying that it's NEVER used by ANYONE, because I'm sure someone will reply and tell me that it does some obscure function in some obscure program."
Only if you consider *nix an obscure program. Scroll lock in those (at least those that I've tried it in, which means a couple different flavors of Linux and FreeBSD) stops the screen from scrolling so you can read it. FreeBSD will even let you scroll up with the arrow keys so you can see text that has scrolled off the screen. It's actually quite useful. (For instance, you're maknig something with dependencies and a message comes up that you should actually read but it starts to compile the next thing, you can still read it. Also removes a lot of the benefit of piping stuff to more or less.) I would imagine there's a way to set this up under Linux too, but I haven't yet seen a distribution that has it working out of the box and I don't know how to configure it.
Sounds dangerous... with the number of times I've hit caps by accident, I don't think I'd want to hit esc by accident...
Yeah, I haven't had a problem with requested pop-ups. The parent though was asking if it was possible to turn it off completely though.
There are plenty of reasons. For instance, look at Dell's site where you customize a computer (don't know if that link will work, but it's there...). All the "Help Me Now" links down the right are popup links. Many, many other places do this, especially on form pages. The reason is that if you're halfway through filling out a form then need additional information, you can't exactly navigate away from the page because sometimes coming back to the original page reverts the fields to their original values. (I'm not quite sure exactly when this happens and in what browers, but it *does* happen, even in Mozilla, at least v. 1.4.) Also, some other sites seem to like to pop up new windows, movie sites in particular. Not quite sure why that is. Maybe so they can be sure that it is the proper size and not too small or too large. Then popping up trailers and stuff in a separate window is somewhat common practice.
I see too often people arguing online after they have clearly lost but still refuse to admit they were wrong, so I try to avoid that...
That I'll give you, and I was wrong with my statement. I should have said "while he IS being investigated for" instead "while he IS being charged with."
"You would discover, in both the Wired and USA Today pieces, that Mr. Kurtz is *not* being charged under the Patriot Act. If he is charged with anything, it will be an older act related to bioterrism. He is not being charged under the Patriot Act. He is NOT being charged under the Patriot Act (did it get through?)"
Read posts further up the page; while he IS being charged under the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, the specific sections of said act in question were amended by the Patriot Act. Previously, it was required that the bio agent be used as a weapon; now it is not so.
See comments further up. The Patriot act amended the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act.
Actually, I stand corrected. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=110027&cid=934 0281 explains that there are analog encryption schemes, which I did not know. There are essentially 4 parts to the DMCA: one is WIPO treaty commitments changing a couple small aspects of enforcement and registration, one is on the design of boat hulls, then there are the two parts that we are concerned about, the bit with the ISPs given safe harbors and such, and the encryption bypassing. The third part still is digital, but the forth I see now would apply to analog devices as well.
Can your 35mm film camera record 2 hours of video? Can you even bring in that much film without being noticed?
Okay, you're the one that doesn't know what you're talking about. While it's true that there are not special copyrights for digital and analog works and there is only one set of copyright laws which the DMCA modified, almost all of the modifications it made were with regards to digital work (or the design of boats, though that is hardly applicable here). See a summary or the full text.
On the other hand, I like the Dummies series because they are fun to read. Really. How many computer books can you pick up and pleasure read?
Which makes the whole argument that "However, SCSI is arguably easier to set up than IDE/ATA. SCSI is "plug and play" (except when you have conflicting IDs), whereas ATA still has the concept of master/slave/single modes, with physical jumper settings to get things right" completely moot because it means that the "plug" part has quite a learning curve. :-p
"So while it may start in less than 3 seconds, you're not counting the time it took to put it in the ram drive. (reminds me of how IE does the same thing in Windows)."
/. that even if the system seems faster if you've just shifted the work it isn't actually faster.
Why is that a bad thing? There seems to be a lot of comments here at
Boot time is much less important than time when an application is in use. I can hit the power switch, walk away, and go get a drink or somtehing while the computer boots. In any case, it takes long enough that I'm not going to sit patiently in front of it staring at the screen. So if it takes an extra, say, minute even to boot, who cares? I'll just make my diversion quicker. But if that cuts the loading time of programs I use, then it's worth it by far. Especially if I open the program a lot more than I boot the computer. (Though a good disk cache would probably fix that.)
*What* competitor's software? We're talking about Windows here... if they are scared away by that question, they sure as hell aren't gonna go and pick Red Hat or Mandrake...
This is by convention though, not by necessity. Windows sends programs messages (events essentially) for both mouse button down and mouse button up*, and programs can react to both, neither, or just one. And programs can recieve just the button down message but not the button up message (if the user moved the cursor out of the window before lifting and the program didn't capture the mouse on the down event), and maybe vice versa.
*The messages are WM_xBUTTONDOWN and WM_xBUTTONUP if you're curious, where x is L, M, or R corresponding to a 3-button mouse.
"Patents can also be deemed obvious if they were anticipated by prior art."
Does that mean that Microsoft has prior art?
"Flip side: apply the hack, and test out your equipment. If it works, that's fabulous. If it doesn't, you're wiser than most other people, either way."
But you need to buy the camera to try the hack, or have a friend who has the camera who will let you try the hack. I think what the grandparent really *means* is that probably no pros would say "OK, I'll buy the camera, and if the hack doesn't work, then I'll just go out and buy the 10D", whereas most people could say "OK, I'll buy the camera, and if the hack doesn't work, then I'll just restore it to how it was and still have a very good digicam".
But it would certainly help to have tons of CS Ph.D.s say "I've gone over this code and tried to hack it and it looks good" instead of "I broke into the state board of elections, completely changed the results, and erased all traces, and did it in five minutes."
"It's akin to the neighbor jumping through the window, rooting around inside, using your TV"
Only if your TV ate through $300,000 worth of power while he was in there.
So do exactly that... their customer service lines should be toll free, so just call up their line on a monthly basis and ask if they have made any changes to their service agreements.
You can't read terms of service that you're not paying for? Seems to me that a simple "hey Dad, can I see the cell phone contract?" would suffice...
You don't nievely reach for your gun. If mugger bends over to pick something up, maybe you have time to act. If mugger has knife, you can almost certainly draw gun.
There are plenty of other reasons why Vermont has the lowest crime rate besides the allowing of concealed weapons. (And Washington with the highest for the other post in response to you.) You should look at changes in violent crime deaths and injuries from before and after certain laws were put into place. I have not done this or seen them done, so have no strong opinion on the matter.
But overall, yes, the statistics do seem to support that states with lax gun laws have lower violent crime rates. I *did* compile some of this data once upon a time, though don't have it anymore. I took FBI statistics and the ratings from some anti-gun group that graded states from F (lax) to A (strict laws), and the overall trend was there. Not horribly strong, but it was there.