Wasn't this tried out before WWII with Japan feeding oil to Germany? Mu history is a bit rusty but I seem to recall this. And we all know how well it worked.
Dude! That was in 1981 and, if you didn't notice, that page was as long as a manual.
This is only the mouse part:
Mouse -- An interactive computer system must provide a way for users to indicate which operations they want and what data they want those operations to be performed on. Users of early interactive systems specified operations and operands via commands and data descriptors (e.g., text line numbers). As video display terminals became common, it became clear that it was often better for users to specify operands -- and sometimes operations -- by pointing to them on the screen. It also became clear that graphic applications should not be controlled solely via a keyboard. In the Sixties and Seventies, many different pointing devices were invented and tried: the light pen, the track ball, the joy stick, cursor keys, the digitizing tablet, the touch-screen, and the mouse.
Like other pointing devices, the mouse allows easy selection of objects and triggering of sensitive areas on the screen. The mouse differs from touch screens, light pens, and digitizing pads in that it is a relative pointing device: the movement of the pointer on the screen depends upon mouse movement, rather than upon its position. Unlike light pens, joy sticks, and digitizing pads, the mouse (and the corresponding pointer on the screen) stays put when the user lets go of it to do something else.
To achieve satisfactory mouse-tracking performance, the mouse is handled in at a very low level. In some workstations, mouse-tracking is handled in the window system, with the result that the mouse pointer often jerks around the screen as and may even freeze for seconds at a time, depending upon what else the system is doing. The mouse is a hand-eye-coordination device, so if the pointer lags, users just keep moving the mouse, and when the system catches up, the mouse moves beyond the user's target. This was considered unacceptable at Xerox.
Star uses a two-button mouse, in contrast with the one-button mouse used by Apple and the three-button mouse used by most other vendors. Though predecessors of Star developed at Xerox PARC (see History of Star Development, below) use a three-button mouse, Star's designers wanted to reduce the number of buttons to alleviate confusion over which button did what. The functions invoked via the Alto's middle button are, in Star, invoked in other ways. Why did Star's designers stop at two buttons instead of reducing the number to one, as Apple did? Because studies they did involving users editing text and other material showed that a one-button mouse eliminated button-confusion errors only at the cost of increasing selection errors to unacceptable levels.
The sidebar doesn't save your settings and you have to start over? I've been using Vista since pre-Beta 1 and I've never had to reset my sidebar widgets once.. (though I never really used the Sidebar until RTM, it still kept my zipcode for weather and stuff)
Hey, watch it. Thems is gadgets. Widgets is them Apple thingies.
Just wanted to clear that up before the lawyers march in.
Have you ever seen a person in a crosswalk in the dark with poor lighting in the rain before it was too late? I have. I hit a homeless person in these condiions. It freaked me out. Nothing became of it but I view crosswalks in a different light (no pun intended) now. What if it was a prominent citizen?
I still shudder at the thought. Hitting a car is one thing; hitting a person is another. At the time all I thought was fuck! I hit a baby carriage. It was the shopping cart.
And they still have not fixed the poor lighting. My taxes at work.
I was in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident and had to cross a busy street to get to a store for food and meds. I would stand up and wave to the drivers in their tall SUVs to get their attention so I could cross the street. More times than not they didn't see me. And this was in a crosswalk with the green light.
The drivers fault? Won't help much at the funeral.
I left a job over "unfortunate circumstances." I never looked back. Jail time is not my bag. Six months severance with all benefits was ok with me but looking back if I had the money I would have sued. I needed the money but lost my house anyway.
I did not sabotage the 'puter. I don't like the idea of doing jail time over a few missed passwords.
Whatever. I did score in the end. A better job with more pay and am I advancing on schedule.
Macleod concluded: "So as far as doing the right thing, I'd suggest that you start from the basis that your IT staff are the biggest risk to your organization's security, and if anyone of them disputes this, remember that arguing with colleagues was one of the clear signs of an impending attack.
You know the rest.
Geez. I argue with my boss on a regular basis. I cannot count the times I have argued with a coworker over this or that. We do it constantly. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose.
Nice post, Sparky. I am leet therefore I am teh only one who should be on the intertubes.
How old are you? Surely not one of the pioneers or early adopters.
People like you are the threat, not MS. MS wants to stop sharing of copyrighted works. You want to stop sharing of ideas and thoughts you don't agree with.
BTW nice pic link. But even if I disagree with it I will defend your right to share it.
Oh, and:
Today, ANY idiot with enough cash or access to a computer at work can jump online and post anything he or she wants to. They can be as "authoritative" as they want. Why did this happen? Because the true point of the internet (free exchange of information, ideas, collaboration on culturally and globally beneficial non-profit projects) was lost.
That's how it has always been. That's how it will always be. If you don't like the idiots don't read them. Problem solved.
Oh, one more thing. Kubrick and many others did wonderful things with those profits. It is a great motivator.
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Sure, you can call the police, but that'll be kind of hard if they're the ones that come a'knockin'. It doesn't matter that you use open-source software. What does matter is (in the case of a workplace or other public location) is that you contractually protect yourself from what your employees/customers do with your internet connection.
What my company does on the internet has a bearing on what prirated software It may or may not have installed?
My driveway is beyond the borders of the public. So they can track me there?
And no one needs a warrant to look into your home as long as they are not on your property. Ever wonder why so many telescopes are sold in NY? They don't watch birds and it's perfectly legal to watch *that* window from your apt. across the street.
"Sometimes people use file wiping utilities or other tools but often they are not configured properly. People accept the default settings, which can leave fragments of data."
Change defaults.
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Tracy Kidder was not an EE but his book The Soul of a New Machine is classic. Sometimes you need people who are not experts in the field to see what you don't.
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Wasn't this tried out before WWII with Japan feeding oil to Germany? Mu history is a bit rusty but I seem to recall this. And we all know how well it worked.
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Why should they have to? Does the general Joe even know what on is?
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Or previewed it.
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Dude! That was in 1981 and, if you didn't notice, that page was as long as a manual.
This is only the mouse part:
Mouse -- An interactive computer system must provide a way for users to indicate which operations they want and what data they want those operations to be performed on. Users of early interactive systems specified operations and operands via commands and data descriptors (e.g., text line numbers). As video display terminals became common, it became clear that it was often better for users to specify operands -- and sometimes operations -- by pointing to them on the screen. It also became clear that graphic applications should not be controlled solely via a keyboard. In the Sixties and Seventies, many different pointing devices were invented and tried: the light pen, the track ball, the joy stick, cursor keys, the digitizing tablet, the touch-screen, and the mouse.
Like other pointing devices, the mouse allows easy selection of objects and triggering of sensitive areas on the screen. The mouse differs from touch screens, light pens, and digitizing pads in that it is a relative pointing device: the movement of the pointer on the screen depends upon mouse movement, rather than upon its position. Unlike light pens, joy sticks, and digitizing pads, the mouse (and the corresponding pointer on the screen) stays put when the user lets go of it to do something else.
To achieve satisfactory mouse-tracking performance, the mouse is handled in at a very low level. In some workstations, mouse-tracking is handled in the window system, with the result that the mouse pointer often jerks around the screen as and may even freeze for seconds at a time, depending upon what else the system is doing. The mouse is a hand-eye-coordination device, so if the pointer lags, users just keep moving the mouse, and when the system catches up, the mouse moves beyond the user's target. This was considered unacceptable at Xerox.
Star uses a two-button mouse, in contrast with the one-button mouse used by Apple and the three-button mouse used by most other vendors. Though predecessors of Star developed at Xerox PARC (see History of Star Development, below) use a three-button mouse, Star's designers wanted to reduce the number of buttons to alleviate confusion over which button did what. The functions invoked via the Alto's middle button are, in Star, invoked in other ways. Why did Star's designers stop at two buttons instead of reducing the number to one, as Apple did? Because studies they did involving users editing text and other material showed that a one-button mouse eliminated button-confusion errors only at the cost of increasing selection errors to unacceptable levels.
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Hey, watch it. Thems is gadgets. Widgets is them Apple thingies.
Just wanted to clear that up before the lawyers march in.
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I tried to send a complaint via their contact page. It may have worked but looped on me.
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I have IE 5.2.3 on my PPC Mac. Didn't work anyway. It allowed me to see the page but not put anything in my shopping cart.
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But many of us have store-bought Macs without Windows.
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Did we read the same article? I dodn't see anything about OS activation.
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Have you ever seen a person in a crosswalk in the dark with poor lighting in the rain before it was too late? I have. I hit a homeless person in these condiions. It freaked me out. Nothing became of it but I view crosswalks in a different light (no pun intended) now. What if it was a prominent citizen?
I still shudder at the thought. Hitting a car is one thing; hitting a person is another. At the time all I thought was fuck! I hit a baby carriage. It was the shopping cart.
And they still have not fixed the poor lighting. My taxes at work.
I was in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident and had to cross a busy street to get to a store for food and meds. I would stand up and wave to the drivers in their tall SUVs to get their attention so I could cross the street. More times than not they didn't see me. And this was in a crosswalk with the green light.
The drivers fault? Won't help much at the funeral.
qz
I left a job over "unfortunate circumstances." I never looked back. Jail time is not my bag. Six months severance with all benefits was ok with me but looking back if I had the money I would have sued. I needed the money but lost my house anyway.
I did not sabotage the 'puter. I don't like the idea of doing jail time over a few missed passwords.
Whatever. I did score in the end. A better job with more pay and am I advancing on schedule.
qz
Survive or become successful? A major difference.
qz
You know the rest.
Geez. I argue with my boss on a regular basis. I cannot count the times I have argued with a coworker over this or that. We do it constantly. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose.
There other signs but arguing is not one of them.
Note to self: update resume...
Crap. There goes that ten years.
qz
How old are you? Surely not one of the pioneers or early adopters.
People like you are the threat, not MS. MS wants to stop sharing of copyrighted works. You want to stop sharing of ideas and thoughts you don't agree with.
BTW nice pic link. But even if I disagree with it I will defend your right to share it.
Oh, and:
Today, ANY idiot with enough cash or access to a computer at work can jump online and post anything he or she wants to. They can be as "authoritative" as they want. Why did this happen? Because the true point of the internet (free exchange of information, ideas, collaboration on culturally and globally beneficial non-profit projects) was lost.
That's how it has always been. That's how it will always be. If you don't like the idiots don't read them. Problem solved.
Oh, one more thing. Kubrick and many others did wonderful things with those profits. It is a great motivator. qz
What my company does on the internet has a bearing on what prirated software It may or may not have installed?
Makes sense to me.
qz
My driveway is beyond the borders of the public. So they can track me there?
And no one needs a warrant to look into your home as long as they are not on your property. Ever wonder why so many telescopes are sold in NY? They don't watch birds and it's perfectly legal to watch *that* window from your apt. across the street.
qz
Change defaults.
qz
Tracy Kidder was not an EE but his book The Soul of a New Machine is classic. Sometimes you need people who are not experts in the field to see what you don't.
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Then my favorite show will be Buffering.
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Anything? Then show me how to do Marshall Oils in GIMP. I still have not figured it out.
Thanks.
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You are aware you can make XP look like W2k, right?
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You forgot the "bing bang."
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Thanks.
I'm still uncomfortable with a pig with a red bow on its tail on a banking site.
The year of the golden pig 2007 wags its tail fluttering with new hope as it greets us with anticipation and prosperity.
Maybe its a culture thing.
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Their stock price certainly doesn't reflect this.
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I tried (OS X FF) but I can't read Korean. Not sure I'd bank with a site that has a pig with a red bow on its tail anyway.
Japan has Hello Kitty. Does Korea have Hello Piggy?
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