Yes, but you can climb stairs without legs. Check out this wheelchair if you don't beleive me. Your robot wouldn't need to get in the car if it had wheels of its own. You probably couldn't climb a ladder without legs, but I can't even remember the last time I climbed a ladder.
I agree. I think the one thing that they don't sell is the one thing that everybody wants. It's much harder to find a box of miscelaneous generic lego than it is to find the sets. It's almost impossible to find generic hot wheels track pieces that kids can put together on their own to create their own track designs. At least you can still get crayons and blank paper.
Of all the things I would want a robot to do, none of them would require stairs. Going out to do groceries for me would be nice, or running other errands. Cutting the grass would be another chore that the robot could do. Vacuuming would require stairs, except that vacuum robots should be small enough for you to transport yourself. I'm not that lazy that I would need a robot to go to the fridge and get me a drink.
But with all the accessibility laws in place, you can pretty much get anywhere on wheels.
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There was quite a few interface changes done when GIMP Ver 2 was released. It got a lot easier to use. It's not as if GIMP has never had any UI improvements. I haven't actually seen any reason why the GIMP interface isn't good beyond "it's not exactly like photoshop". If there is no other reason that it isn't good, then it probably isn't that bad of a UI. And it's not that the GIMP doesn't want to change just because they hate photoshop, it's just that being exactly like photoshop doesn't really solve any UI problems either. Not only would the entire UI have to be changed, but all the help docs, and all the previous tutorials written by users would be useless. That's a lot of trouble to go through just to make it look like photoshop. If I had to choose spending $150 on photoshop elements, or much more Photoshop professional, then I'd choose learning GIMP's UI anyday. Because it really isn't that hard. You just have to stop expecting it to be exactly like photoshop.
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Actually, it is quite useful. My girlfriend uses it for doing her own basic image editing. I pointed her to GIMP because I know that it could do everything she needed, and didn't feel she should buy or pirate something she didn't have to. Once you realize that it isn't photoshop, and that not everything will be done exactly the same way, it becomes easy to use. She has no problems using it, and really likes all the cool effects that GIMP has built in. I realize it's just anecdotal evidence, but for me it shows that non-geeks are capable of using GIMP.
They don't have to use google ads, but it would be nice if they stuck to nice clean text based ads in the spirit of google. That or simple banners like you see around slashdot. It would be a nice change from most of the other lyrics sites out there.
I would love if the RIAA or whoever just set up one site, possibly with a few google text ads, or maybe a few simple banners, and offered the real official lyrics to all the songs in existence. Really, it wouldn't be that hard, and it would help people find music they had heard so they could buy it. It would be a nice change from all those crappy lyrics sites with popups, viruses, and other crap that you find while searching for something as simple as lyrics. I think that the music industry could make quite a bit of money just from the ads. Not to mention the added sales from people being able to find songs. Apple, Amazon and other sites who sell music could also pay a fee to work the results into their services, so that not only could people find song by band and song title, but also by the lyrics. I'm sure the customers would love it.
It would work well if you pasted you message log into some database so that it could be searched and referenced later. They way, instead if doing the IM thing first, you could search the history. If you didn't find your answer there, then you could chat with someone over IM and find the answer.
What if you're just running small business server edition? They have needs (probably moreso) for virtualization also. What about home users. Is it permitted for them. Am I allowed to install windows XP home on a seperate partition (for dual-booting) and install it in a virtual machine for quick access to windows when I need it?
But those two sayings are contradictory. Either MS has the gold and make their own rules, or the EU government makes the rules, and takes the gold from Microsoft. You can't have it both ways. Unless you have a situation like you do in the US where the people in government are often the people in control of large corporations. As far as I know, Bill Gates and Steve Balmer aren't at the head of the EU.
The virtualization software is free, but when you're virtuallizing MS Windows, it's anything but free. You now have to pay for a license of each virtual machine. This can make the cost go up a lot. You'd probably be better off not virtualizing, and just hosting everything off of a single non virtualized server.
Yeah.. In this case we were thankful enough to have the auditing done by haxors. Thank God they are auditing it finding all the bugs so they can be exploited, before MS even knows about them. Then some security firm, not MS, finds out that the is already being hole is actually being exploited. Lastly, MS, who is the only entity with access to the code, and who can actually fix the problem is the last one to hear about it. Yeah. Sounds like this system works really great.
I find this to be a pretty moot point. Depending of which version of word you are using, things can start to look very different. I've often saved docs in one version of word, only to open them up in another version, and have all the formatting messed up. This is especially true for things like Resumes which contain more than just basic formatting. Also it looks like crap when opened in word, because there's tons of words that aren't recognized, and they are all underlined in red. By far the biggest problem is with page breaks where you'll either use manual page breaks, and the first page will spill one line onto the second page, and then your second page will end up on the third page, or you'll choose not to use manual page breaks, and the header at the top of the second page will show up on the bottom of the first page, or the last line from the first page will show above the header from the second page. Then you get HR people who end up looking at your resume, and then maybe some changes get made because they accidentally pressed the wrong key, and then the changes get sent along to next person in the loop. As far as i'm concerned PDF is the only acceptable format for Resumes, and often many employers tend to be pretty picky about the formatting and will think that you didn't take the time to make it look right if it doesn't show up properly on their version of word.
The "secret code" used to write your passwords wouldn't have to be super secure. Just something to preven people from finding your piece of paper and immediately knowing your password. Something as simple as a caesar cipher or a little bit more complicated like a Vigenere cipher. Just enough to keep people out who may happen to catch a glimpse of the paper. This would work pretty well if your password was random letters, and not based on words. Plus, it's not like you'd have to remove the piece of paper from your wallet everytime. It would just be a back up in the event that you happened to forget you password.
you could just designate 1 device as the primary device, and only events from that device are sent to the legacy applications, or at your discretion, applications from a list that don't behave properly. Then there wouldn't be any problems at all.
It would be really nice if it supported multiple keyboards too. You could have a single meeting room, each seat with a mouse and keyboard, and when anybody wanted to put something on the screen, they could use their own mouse and keyboard. You wouldn't need a switch, and multiple people could be putting stuff on the screen at the same time. With USB you can theoretically support up to 128 devices, so there's a lot of different uses for this. Another good use would be 3d Design. Instead of buying a $700 spaceball, you could purchase 3 trackballs, and just use those.
Really it's the whole DRM scam all over again. You can't give someone a lock, and the key to the lock, and expect them to not be able to open it. Especially when the thing behind the lock is something that they want. And you have to give them the key, because their computer has to be able to read the files. There's a thousand sites available the will try to sell you tools to protect your precious HTML source code. That's right. HTML Source. These tools are compeletly useless, because with a quick Disable JS, Ctrl-A, Right Click, View Selection Source, you get all the HTML Source code. The disable JS being necessary because they disable the right click with JS. I wrote an email to one of these companies once asking if they knew how easy it was to bypass their tool, with exact instructions on how to do it. They never sent me a response.
I would say 50% of the people on the Island had died. However, If I was on the evening news, I wouldn't say that this disease has killed 50% of people, because it's wrong. I would say that the disease killed 50% of the people on the island. Just like this guy could have said that each person "on the internet" receives 32 emails per day, instead of saying each person receives 32 emails per day.
Things sure have changed. When I was 8, I'm not sure if I even knew how to properly operate a telephone. And I grew up in the 80s. It's not because I was stupid, but because I didn't have anybody to call. There was more than enough kids to play with in my neighbourhood, and when you wanted to see them you just walked over to their house and knocked on the door. I remember getting a phone (not my own line, just a phone) in my room when I was 13, and I thought even that was a little unnecessary. After all, most of the time I just used the kitchen phone, called my friends for about 30 seconds, and then we'd actually meet in person. I'm actually quite certain that I spent more time using the phone line for internet, than I did talking on the phone before I moved away from home. And we only got 30 hours of internet a month.
He's writing a freaking article. He's not talking to his friends at the bar. He's actually writing an article in The Times that millions of people may read. If I wrote an article in the news paper saying that G.W. Bush is a communist, then would I be let off because i'm not a political scientist? If you're going to bother to write something that millions of people may read, then you had better make sure you have at least the basic facts correct. It seems to me like the author read somewhere that there was going to be 340..... addressees, and then made up the rest from what he thought sounded right, without doing any actual research.
Exactly. If you live in New York and someone mentions "The Times" they assume you're talking about the New York Times. Same thing goes for LA. That's why you have toe specify London when talking about The Times (from London) because otherwise nobody will know which one you're talking about.
Exactly, a person without a computer can't receive emails. Therefore they receive 0 emails per day. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be included in the statistic. I'm sure there's lots of people with email addresses who receive very close to, or exactly 0 emails per day.
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Yes, but you can climb stairs without legs. Check out this wheelchair if you don't beleive me. Your robot wouldn't need to get in the car if it had wheels of its own. You probably couldn't climb a ladder without legs, but I can't even remember the last time I climbed a ladder.
I agree. I think the one thing that they don't sell is the one thing that everybody wants. It's much harder to find a box of miscelaneous generic lego than it is to find the sets. It's almost impossible to find generic hot wheels track pieces that kids can put together on their own to create their own track designs. At least you can still get crayons and blank paper.
Of all the things I would want a robot to do, none of them would require stairs. Going out to do groceries for me would be nice, or running other errands. Cutting the grass would be another chore that the robot could do. Vacuuming would require stairs, except that vacuum robots should be small enough for you to transport yourself. I'm not that lazy that I would need a robot to go to the fridge and get me a drink.
But with all the accessibility laws in place, you can pretty much get anywhere on wheels.
There was quite a few interface changes done when GIMP Ver 2 was released. It got a lot easier to use. It's not as if GIMP has never had any UI improvements. I haven't actually seen any reason why the GIMP interface isn't good beyond "it's not exactly like photoshop". If there is no other reason that it isn't good, then it probably isn't that bad of a UI. And it's not that the GIMP doesn't want to change just because they hate photoshop, it's just that being exactly like photoshop doesn't really solve any UI problems either. Not only would the entire UI have to be changed, but all the help docs, and all the previous tutorials written by users would be useless. That's a lot of trouble to go through just to make it look like photoshop. If I had to choose spending $150 on photoshop elements, or much more Photoshop professional, then I'd choose learning GIMP's UI anyday. Because it really isn't that hard. You just have to stop expecting it to be exactly like photoshop.
Actually, it is quite useful. My girlfriend uses it for doing her own basic image editing. I pointed her to GIMP because I know that it could do everything she needed, and didn't feel she should buy or pirate something she didn't have to. Once you realize that it isn't photoshop, and that not everything will be done exactly the same way, it becomes easy to use. She has no problems using it, and really likes all the cool effects that GIMP has built in. I realize it's just anecdotal evidence, but for me it shows that non-geeks are capable of using GIMP.
This way once they take away all the other options we can still use the VOIP system to pirate music.
They don't have to use google ads, but it would be nice if they stuck to nice clean text based ads in the spirit of google. That or simple banners like you see around slashdot. It would be a nice change from most of the other lyrics sites out there.
I would love if the RIAA or whoever just set up one site, possibly with a few google text ads, or maybe a few simple banners, and offered the real official lyrics to all the songs in existence. Really, it wouldn't be that hard, and it would help people find music they had heard so they could buy it. It would be a nice change from all those crappy lyrics sites with popups, viruses, and other crap that you find while searching for something as simple as lyrics. I think that the music industry could make quite a bit of money just from the ads. Not to mention the added sales from people being able to find songs. Apple, Amazon and other sites who sell music could also pay a fee to work the results into their services, so that not only could people find song by band and song title, but also by the lyrics. I'm sure the customers would love it.
It would work well if you pasted you message log into some database so that it could be searched and referenced later. They way, instead if doing the IM thing first, you could search the history. If you didn't find your answer there, then you could chat with someone over IM and find the answer.
What if you're just running small business server edition? They have needs (probably moreso) for virtualization also. What about home users. Is it permitted for them. Am I allowed to install windows XP home on a seperate partition (for dual-booting) and install it in a virtual machine for quick access to windows when I need it?
But those two sayings are contradictory. Either MS has the gold and make their own rules, or the EU government makes the rules, and takes the gold from Microsoft. You can't have it both ways. Unless you have a situation like you do in the US where the people in government are often the people in control of large corporations. As far as I know, Bill Gates and Steve Balmer aren't at the head of the EU.
The virtualization software is free, but when you're virtuallizing MS Windows, it's anything but free. You now have to pay for a license of each virtual machine. This can make the cost go up a lot. You'd probably be better off not virtualizing, and just hosting everything off of a single non virtualized server.
Yeah.. In this case we were thankful enough to have the auditing done by haxors. Thank God they are auditing it finding all the bugs so they can be exploited, before MS even knows about them. Then some security firm, not MS, finds out that the is already being hole is actually being exploited. Lastly, MS, who is the only entity with access to the code, and who can actually fix the problem is the last one to hear about it. Yeah. Sounds like this system works really great.
I find this to be a pretty moot point. Depending of which version of word you are using, things can start to look very different. I've often saved docs in one version of word, only to open them up in another version, and have all the formatting messed up. This is especially true for things like Resumes which contain more than just basic formatting. Also it looks like crap when opened in word, because there's tons of words that aren't recognized, and they are all underlined in red. By far the biggest problem is with page breaks where you'll either use manual page breaks, and the first page will spill one line onto the second page, and then your second page will end up on the third page, or you'll choose not to use manual page breaks, and the header at the top of the second page will show up on the bottom of the first page, or the last line from the first page will show above the header from the second page. Then you get HR people who end up looking at your resume, and then maybe some changes get made because they accidentally pressed the wrong key, and then the changes get sent along to next person in the loop. As far as i'm concerned PDF is the only acceptable format for Resumes, and often many employers tend to be pretty picky about the formatting and will think that you didn't take the time to make it look right if it doesn't show up properly on their version of word.
The "secret code" used to write your passwords wouldn't have to be super secure. Just something to preven people from finding your piece of paper and immediately knowing your password. Something as simple as a caesar cipher or a little bit more complicated like a Vigenere cipher. Just enough to keep people out who may happen to catch a glimpse of the paper. This would work pretty well if your password was random letters, and not based on words. Plus, it's not like you'd have to remove the piece of paper from your wallet everytime. It would just be a back up in the event that you happened to forget you password.
you could just designate 1 device as the primary device, and only events from that device are sent to the legacy applications, or at your discretion, applications from a list that don't behave properly. Then there wouldn't be any problems at all.
It would be really nice if it supported multiple keyboards too. You could have a single meeting room, each seat with a mouse and keyboard, and when anybody wanted to put something on the screen, they could use their own mouse and keyboard. You wouldn't need a switch, and multiple people could be putting stuff on the screen at the same time. With USB you can theoretically support up to 128 devices, so there's a lot of different uses for this. Another good use would be 3d Design. Instead of buying a $700 spaceball, you could purchase 3 trackballs, and just use those.
Really it's the whole DRM scam all over again. You can't give someone a lock, and the key to the lock, and expect them to not be able to open it. Especially when the thing behind the lock is something that they want. And you have to give them the key, because their computer has to be able to read the files. There's a thousand sites available the will try to sell you tools to protect your precious HTML source code. That's right. HTML Source. These tools are compeletly useless, because with a quick Disable JS, Ctrl-A, Right Click, View Selection Source, you get all the HTML Source code. The disable JS being necessary because they disable the right click with JS. I wrote an email to one of these companies once asking if they knew how easy it was to bypass their tool, with exact instructions on how to do it. They never sent me a response.
I would say 50% of the people on the Island had died. However, If I was on the evening news, I wouldn't say that this disease has killed 50% of people, because it's wrong. I would say that the disease killed 50% of the people on the island. Just like this guy could have said that each person "on the internet" receives 32 emails per day, instead of saying each person receives 32 emails per day.
Things sure have changed. When I was 8, I'm not sure if I even knew how to properly operate a telephone. And I grew up in the 80s. It's not because I was stupid, but because I didn't have anybody to call. There was more than enough kids to play with in my neighbourhood, and when you wanted to see them you just walked over to their house and knocked on the door. I remember getting a phone (not my own line, just a phone) in my room when I was 13, and I thought even that was a little unnecessary. After all, most of the time I just used the kitchen phone, called my friends for about 30 seconds, and then we'd actually meet in person. I'm actually quite certain that I spent more time using the phone line for internet, than I did talking on the phone before I moved away from home. And we only got 30 hours of internet a month.
He's writing a freaking article. He's not talking to his friends at the bar. He's actually writing an article in The Times that millions of people may read. If I wrote an article in the news paper saying that G.W. Bush is a communist, then would I be let off because i'm not a political scientist? If you're going to bother to write something that millions of people may read, then you had better make sure you have at least the basic facts correct. It seems to me like the author read somewhere that there was going to be 340..... addressees, and then made up the rest from what he thought sounded right, without doing any actual research.
Exactly. If you live in New York and someone mentions "The Times" they assume you're talking about the New York Times. Same thing goes for LA. That's why you have toe specify London when talking about The Times (from London) because otherwise nobody will know which one you're talking about.
Exactly, a person without a computer can't receive emails. Therefore they receive 0 emails per day. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be included in the statistic. I'm sure there's lots of people with email addresses who receive very close to, or exactly 0 emails per day.
Did she attach them in emails. I have lots of problems with my mother attaching giant files in Emails too.