...IMHO Enterprise should make a whole lot more of the fact that they're much closer to NASA, military outfits, etc, than the others.
Which doesn't mean technology which doesn't work as well... it means a completely different social structure and way of doing things... the crew shouldn't be one big happy family.
I have yet to see a really entertaining episode (although I admit I've only watched five or six random ones).
I suppose I should probably accept that I'm not in the target demographic... although exactly what the target demographic is, I'm not sure. As a 19-year-old compsci student I should be quite a good bet for sci-fi...
In all cases upstream is worse than downstream; on NTL it's only 120kbits on the 600kbits option, I'm not sure about the others. With BT you get 250kbits upstream.
BT also supply office connections, you can look up the numbers for those if you're interested;-)
How do I draw straight lines, squares, and rectangles?
That sounds silly, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I've discovered that you can hold down shift to draw straight lines, but that only works when you're already drawing... not much help for starting a line.
Why is this relevant to the discussion?... well, either I'm an idiot, or it's an example of where The GIMP doesn't quite cut it on the interface front...
The system that's used to electronically identify money over here is very simple...
Take a look at this image of a 10 note. Notice the yellow dots... on the left image they're on the watermark in the middle, on the right image they're part of the flowers.
That specific pattern appears on every UK bank note, and (AFAIK) on every euro bank note. Checking for it is a simple matter of finding a couple of possible dots, and looking to see if the others in the pattern are there...
It's actually very straightforward... 'where the Earth is supposed to be' is calculated assuming that the length of a day/year doesn't change, which isn't quite true.
Both measurement of time and of the Earth's position need to be accurate enough for this to be a problem... apparently they are.
Forget the 40 song limit -- it used to be 'unlimited', which in practice meant 2000 tracks a month.
At one point the download manager files were an open format, and they encouraged third party download managers...
Then they decided to encrypt the files, and to their credit released download managers for Windows, Mac and Linux at the same time.
Unfortunately all three were riddled with bugs and oversights. To this day the reliability of downloads is decidedly sub-par.
If you do use EMusic, there's a perl script available which will decrypt the files and launch wget for you -- it's far more reliable than the official download manager.
But personally I ended my subscription when the new limits were introduced... more because of their lousy approach to customer service than anything else. (They actually had the audacity to remove the message boards completely when they announced the changes).
Good points, but I have to point out the VHS vs Betamax thing isn't all that clear cut... Betamax suffered from short tape lengths, which may well be what killed it.
"I don't think free software is a good business model. The government supports business. Therefore the government must be against free software."
"Also, we're going to keep suing IBM."
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Seriously... just get an actual password keyring. They're a bit pricey, but if you have more than one or two important accounts to protect, you'll love it...
If I was in charge of security for some organisation and wanted passwords to actually mean something, I'd be handing them out to employees...
Er, I have no idea how that got modded +5 insightful... ah well.
Hmm. I'm not entirely convinced that it's not just the themes; since Java has a proper framework for actions, the GUI is build from an abstract foundation... so things like the representation of shortcuts are themeable.
That said, my knowledge of Java GUI design is pretty basic, so if you do know what you're talking about then please ignore me:-)
I think that from a purely ergonomic point of view, it's better to have one hand free to move about, rest on the desk, prop up your chin, etc, rather than being confined to the keyboard...
But I guess that's a matter of personal preference.
Hmm. If I try keeping one hand on the keyboard while I have one on the mouse, I feel like I should be playing a FPS:-)... maybe I'm conditioned not to find it relaxing, hmm...
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...IMHO Enterprise should make a whole lot more of the fact that they're much closer to NASA, military outfits, etc, than the others.
Which doesn't mean technology which doesn't work as well... it means a completely different social structure and way of doing things... the crew shouldn't be one big happy family.
I have yet to see a really entertaining episode (although I admit I've only watched five or six random ones).
I suppose I should probably accept that I'm not in the target demographic... although exactly what the target demographic is, I'm not sure. As a 19-year-old compsci student I should be quite a good bet for sci-fi...
I tend to think a simple estimation of recipient time wasted could be useful...
Let's say the average time taken to deal with a piece of spam is 10s. A million emails then wastes three or four months.
A hundred million emails, and you're looking at 25 years.
Obviously I just made up those figures, but if accurate ones are worked out, I think they'd make quite appropriate sentence lengths...
Er... according to xe.com: 1 GBP = 1.83650 USD
Hmm, I thought all the other DSL 'providers' were just resellers for BT?
In the UK there are basically two options:
NTL (cable)
150kbits; 18GBP/month = 33USD/month
600kbits; 25GBP/month = 46USD/month
1000kbits; 35GBP/month = 64USB/month
BT (ADSL)
500kbits; 23GBP/month = 42USD/month
In all cases upstream is worse than downstream; on NTL it's only 120kbits on the 600kbits option, I'm not sure about the others. With BT you get 250kbits upstream.
BT also supply office connections, you can look up the numbers for those if you're interested ;-)
But it is a problem if you're using, say, a tool with opacity set to 50%. Then you get an ugly splodge at the start of the line.
Well, I tried, but couldn't figure it out. Ho hum.
But the problem remains... how do you start the first line without actually marking the canvas?
'You are quite good at turning me on.'
The joke being, of course, that this is the highest praise Smithers has ever received...
How do I draw straight lines, squares, and rectangles?
That sounds silly, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I've discovered that you can hold down shift to draw straight lines, but that only works when you're already drawing... not much help for starting a line.
Why is this relevant to the discussion?... well, either I'm an idiot, or it's an example of where The GIMP doesn't quite cut it on the interface front...
I look forward to trying version 2, though.
Heh, that's amusing... I heard it first-hand from Markus Kuhn in one of his security lectures ;-)
The system that's used to electronically identify money over here is very simple...
Take a look at this image of a 10 note. Notice the yellow dots... on the left image they're on the watermark in the middle, on the right image they're part of the flowers.
That specific pattern appears on every UK bank note, and (AFAIK) on every euro bank note. Checking for it is a simple matter of finding a couple of possible dots, and looking to see if the others in the pattern are there...
So -- is there anything similar on US currency?
According to Google, 9mm of mercury is 1200 Pascals, whereas 0.25psi is 1700 Pascals.
It's actually very straightforward... 'where the Earth is supposed to be' is calculated assuming that the length of a day/year doesn't change, which isn't quite true.
Both measurement of time and of the Earth's position need to be accurate enough for this to be a problem... apparently they are.
Forget the 40 song limit -- it used to be 'unlimited', which in practice meant 2000 tracks a month.
At one point the download manager files were an open format, and they encouraged third party download managers...
Then they decided to encrypt the files, and to their credit released download managers for Windows, Mac and Linux at the same time.
Unfortunately all three were riddled with bugs and oversights. To this day the reliability of downloads is decidedly sub-par.
If you do use EMusic, there's a perl script available which will decrypt the files and launch wget for you -- it's far more reliable than the official download manager.
But personally I ended my subscription when the new limits were introduced... more because of their lousy approach to customer service than anything else. (They actually had the audacity to remove the message boards completely when they announced the changes).
Good points, but I have to point out the VHS vs Betamax thing isn't all that clear cut... Betamax suffered from short tape lengths, which may well be what killed it.
What he says can be summarized thus:
"I don't think free software is a good business model. The government supports business. Therefore the government must be against free software."
"Also, we're going to keep suing IBM."
Seriously... just get an actual password keyring. They're a bit pricey, but if you have more than one or two important accounts to protect, you'll love it...
If I was in charge of security for some organisation and wanted passwords to actually mean something, I'd be handing them out to employees...
Er, I have no idea how that got modded +5 insightful... ah well.
Hmm. I'm not entirely convinced that it's not just the themes; since Java has a proper framework for actions, the GUI is build from an abstract foundation... so things like the representation of shortcuts are themeable.
That said, my knowledge of Java GUI design is pretty basic, so if you do know what you're talking about then please ignore me :-)
Er... did you notice the comment saying 'check this out: Five different java applications, 5 different theme styles...'?
But since you're in a pretty good vacuum, there's no heat loss to conduction or convection... the only way to lose heat is by radiation.
You could call space cold, and technically it is, but when there are only a few atoms per cubic metre it isn't really much of anything...
S/Key is also available on Linux...
(well, I say 'solution'... obviously it's more complicated than that)
The solution to logging in from untrusted computers is to use one-time passwords... and keep a sheet of a few hundred in your wallet.
Heh...
I think that from a purely ergonomic point of view, it's better to have one hand free to move about, rest on the desk, prop up your chin, etc, rather than being confined to the keyboard...
But I guess that's a matter of personal preference.
Hmm. If I try keeping one hand on the keyboard while I have one on the mouse, I feel like I should be playing a FPS :-)... maybe I'm conditioned not to find it relaxing, hmm...