I would use it. I have some crazy misguided uber-trust for google. I already have so much personal information on my gmail account I dread to think what they could do with it if they really wanted to. Where does that trust come from? Maybe because I know that the company is 90% programmers?
Sites I can't use in Firefox include my bank, my employers time card application and a couple of online games I play.
Your mileage may vary, but regardless my point is that Firefox attempts to be more secure by not supporting that functionality... yet you simply bypass their attempt by using another product. We want stuff to do stuff, and the more stuff it does the higher the security risk.
Security is function of how much you can with a system and how many people use it.
Opera is seen as more secure but doesn't allow you to use many useful websites.
Firefox doesn't allow ActiveX which again limits it's utility.
The security of a system at the time of release is not as important as how the publisher of that system reacts to holes and patches them up as they are discovered.
Two things people always say about emacs if they've only spent 15 minutes with it...
The key combos suck
I use Vi/Notepad/Ed/Word so why use emacs?
Well firstly the key combos used in normal text editing are placed right where your fingers are when you're touch typing.
Compare copying a line of text in a normal windows editor and emacs and see where your fingers are during the steps...
Windows: Home Shift-End Ctrl-C (cursors keys top target position) Ctrl-V
Emacs: Ctrl-A Ctrl-Space Ctrl-E Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y
It really does take a little while to get used to the commands, but they were evolved to what they are by constant use. It's worth the time investment.
Secondly, emacs is not comparable to other text editors because it is more than a text editor. It's a programmable platform. You can do so many things on it because of that single fact that it's just not a text editor any more.
It also closely ties in with other Gnu tools, so that out of the box you can use grep and g++ etc, and have the results navigable in your emacs environemnt.
I would advise everyone who has briefly(sic) tried Emacs to read a book like this one and spend a few weeks using it before dismissing it.
There's two easy ways to deal with telemarketers...
Once you realise you are talking to one then either hang up immediately, or even better gently put the phone down on the table without hanging up and leave them to talk to themselves for a while until they get the point.
It's easy to detect them too. As soon as you here that there are hundreds of other people chatting in the background then you know it's a call center, then I just wait a couple of sentences to see if it's actually my bank or someone isn't selling something.
Yeah you're right. Compared to making a fun game the graphics part is easy. At least the technical side is, you still need skilled artists to get a good looking game regardless of the tech.
Good gameplay takes longer and is more difficult than implementing the latest shaders and advanced physics.
I can say that as someone who has written low level graphics code on Playstation 1 and 2, and then specialised in game and AI code.
Eternal Darkness sales have long since ceased, so this can't be to protect their interests there. What it does suggest, I hope, is that Eternal Darkness 2 (or some DS, Revolution incarnation of the original) is on it's way.
Filing a patent like this is just one of a number of ways to start drumming up interest and publicity for that title.
A lot of the people here point out that anything can happen to you in life, and your plans have to adapt.
After being downsized by a company they sent me on a 'outplacement' course. The most interesting thing on the whole course was something one of the other downsized folk said. He said he always evaluates his life based on three questions:
1) What would I do right now if I had three days to live?
2) What would I do if I had three months to live?
3) What would I do if I had three years to live?
By framing your life goals in this way you can make sure that you are not missing something important. Something that you don't want to die without doing.
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I would use it. I have some crazy misguided uber-trust for google. I already have so much personal information on my gmail account I dread to think what they could do with it if they really wanted to. Where does that trust come from? Maybe because I know that the company is 90% programmers?
So like most security measures it won't affect most people because we're not criminals or terrorists.
It will also proably not help catch terrorists, since it is public knowledge and they will now pay cash for printers or buy them used.
Sites I can't use in Firefox include my bank, my employers time card application and a couple of online games I play.
Your mileage may vary, but regardless my point is that Firefox attempts to be more secure by not supporting that functionality... yet you simply bypass their attempt by using another product. We want stuff to do stuff, and the more stuff it does the higher the security risk.
Security is function of how much you can with a system and how many people use it.
Opera is seen as more secure but doesn't allow you to use many useful websites.
Firefox doesn't allow ActiveX which again limits it's utility.
The security of a system at the time of release is not as important as how the publisher of that system reacts to holes and patches them up as they are discovered.
Two things people always say about emacs if they've only spent 15 minutes with it... The key combos suck I use Vi/Notepad/Ed/Word so why use emacs? Well firstly the key combos used in normal text editing are placed right where your fingers are when you're touch typing. Compare copying a line of text in a normal windows editor and emacs and see where your fingers are during the steps... Windows: Home Shift-End Ctrl-C (cursors keys top target position) Ctrl-V Emacs: Ctrl-A Ctrl-Space Ctrl-E Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y It really does take a little while to get used to the commands, but they were evolved to what they are by constant use. It's worth the time investment. Secondly, emacs is not comparable to other text editors because it is more than a text editor. It's a programmable platform. You can do so many things on it because of that single fact that it's just not a text editor any more. It also closely ties in with other Gnu tools, so that out of the box you can use grep and g++ etc, and have the results navigable in your emacs environemnt. I would advise everyone who has briefly(sic) tried Emacs to read a book like this one and spend a few weeks using it before dismissing it.
If they want me to buy something, how about a new DS that doesn't look like a gray brick?
There's two easy ways to deal with telemarketers... Once you realise you are talking to one then either hang up immediately, or even better gently put the phone down on the table without hanging up and leave them to talk to themselves for a while until they get the point. It's easy to detect them too. As soon as you here that there are hundreds of other people chatting in the background then you know it's a call center, then I just wait a couple of sentences to see if it's actually my bank or someone isn't selling something.
Yeah you're right. Compared to making a fun game the graphics part is easy. At least the technical side is, you still need skilled artists to get a good looking game regardless of the tech. Good gameplay takes longer and is more difficult than implementing the latest shaders and advanced physics. I can say that as someone who has written low level graphics code on Playstation 1 and 2, and then specialised in game and AI code.
Eternal Darkness sales have long since ceased, so this can't be to protect their interests there. What it does suggest, I hope, is that Eternal Darkness 2 (or some DS, Revolution incarnation of the original) is on it's way. Filing a patent like this is just one of a number of ways to start drumming up interest and publicity for that title.
lol I was going to mention the paper clip too. That is one useless annoying piece of software.
A lot of the people here point out that anything can happen to you in life, and your plans have to adapt. After being downsized by a company they sent me on a 'outplacement' course. The most interesting thing on the whole course was something one of the other downsized folk said. He said he always evaluates his life based on three questions: 1) What would I do right now if I had three days to live? 2) What would I do if I had three months to live? 3) What would I do if I had three years to live? By framing your life goals in this way you can make sure that you are not missing something important. Something that you don't want to die without doing.