Cool! I myself wanted to write a long FAQ about how to do an analogous thing for traditional mice. i.e. how to use a whiteboard marker to change the ball to match your decor.....but got bogged down by technical details...perhaps someone can help me...
Obviously you've not seen Cap'n Kirk in action.
Otherwise you'd know that using a laser (or its star trek cousin) will make the target completely DISAPPEAR. Of course, these guys could just have used Spock's "press the shoulder" trick with equal effectiveness!!
Heck, if someone could write a decent language translation program I might think there is a hope
One website for you. babelfish.altavista.com. While it might goof up occasionally, it generally translates well enough for me to get a good idea of the contents.
Also, computers *have* been getting better at turing tests (though only for limited domain interactions). I see no reason that computers cannot recreate some "abstract" (or atleast seemingly so) patterns. Hell, if a computer can play chess, thats abstract enough "thinking" for me.
nice quality video doesn't fit on a 700MB cd-rw
This has me wondering - is the quality of video even on a new VHS tape good enough that it might significantly deteriorate when copied onto cd-rws? Of course, all of us law-abiding people are talking about movie^H^H^H^H^H home videos, aren't we?!
... in this hiring freeze season.Just "bear" with the bad economy for 6 more months. (That's how far the recovery is at any given time). Anyway, I share your anxiety - being
on the verge of graduation, I've nothing to do.
Sadly, research has gone out of industry
(even Bell lab is go(i)ng soon), and academia is just too much uncertainty.
If nothing else, I'm just hoping to get a data entry operator working for cowboyneal.
If they're willing to use Wordstar, they may as well just use vi. : )
That would really be good. I hope some day we all will use plain text instead of bloated fancy-formatted text. vi is fast and reliable. Chances, are that raw text would probably be the only "format" still in use in 20-30 years. Often I get one line mails embedded withing tonnes of HTML crap - what a waste of resources - but then again, these guys are willing to spend billions...
In circumstances like these, I think the best metric would be to use averages. An average windows box is less likely to be well managed given the profile of an average windows user (not to say (s)he is less smart, just less of an OS/security geek). Add to this the bundling of
dangerous products like VB-script enabled utilities, and the winbox (even corporate-admin managed) is a disaster waiting to happen.
On the other hand, a *nix user is mostly a more sophisticated user with a little more understanding of security. I don't think it is possible to have a really completely fair and proper comparison of the two systems unless you only ask persons who use/admin both systems.
Given that these things will probably get as hot as toasters, they'll probably work as well as toasters too. And who can beat the remote eject feature we'll have with those toasters!!
Then it wouldn't be an anomaly for you to breach security thereafter. Your second attempt at breaching security would be classified as being "normal"! (I mean hackers will be hackers, hackers will hack, all perfectly normal!!)
The answer is :
Bow, Wow! Arrrrffff, bark, roarrrr, Bow, Bow, Bark, Grrrrrrrrrrrrr,, Bow, Bow!!
The canine-lingual challanged should just use the Bow-lingual translator.
While new UI devices are always fun, I seriously doubt how scalable and how expressive these are going to be. For someone who makes moderate use of shell programming facilities, I really see no good alternative to typing out "for i in `cat $i`;do...done". I see no universally intuitive way of expressing this action using any mouse or hand gestures. Also, how easy is it to "program" gestures? Can I make macros/functions (with arguments?????) to do things I do often? In general, I'm very skeptical of new UIs claiming to increase productivity manifold because they are "closer to the way we think". I think it is very important for any new UI to specify the particular context (or group of users) for which it is meant.
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Cool! I myself wanted to write a long FAQ about how to do an analogous thing for traditional mice. i.e. how to use a whiteboard marker to change the ball to match your decor.....but got bogged down by technical details...perhaps someone can help me...
You'll get to make movies starring Schwarzenegger (or whichever way it's spelt) about such incidents.
Obviously you've not seen Cap'n Kirk in action. Otherwise you'd know that using a laser (or its star trek cousin) will make the target completely DISAPPEAR. Of course, these guys could just have used Spock's "press the shoulder" trick with equal effectiveness!!
Someday, all of us will actually read the news headers!
Or mix the real and imaginary to have a match between cowboyneal and robin?
One website for you. babelfish.altavista.com. While it might goof up occasionally, it generally translates well enough for me to get a good idea of the contents. Also, computers *have* been getting better at turing tests (though only for limited domain interactions). I see no reason that computers cannot recreate some "abstract" (or atleast seemingly so) patterns. Hell, if a computer can play chess, thats abstract enough "thinking" for me.
nice quality video doesn't fit on a 700MB cd-rw
This has me wondering - is the quality of video even on a new VHS tape good enough that it might significantly deteriorate when copied onto cd-rws? Of course, all of us law-abiding people are talking about movie^H^H^H^H^H home videos, aren't we?!
... in this hiring freeze season.Just "bear" with the bad economy for 6 more months. (That's how far the recovery is at any given time). Anyway, I share your anxiety - being on the verge of graduation, I've nothing to do. Sadly, research has gone out of industry (even Bell lab is go(i)ng soon), and academia is just too much uncertainty. If nothing else, I'm just hoping to get a data entry operator working for cowboyneal.
you mean you weren't using TeX? :)
That would really be good. I hope some day we all will use plain text instead of bloated fancy-formatted text. vi is fast and reliable. Chances, are that raw text would probably be the only "format" still in use in 20-30 years. Often I get one line mails embedded withing tonnes of HTML crap - what a waste of resources - but then again, these guys are willing to spend billions...
One of them players might be willing to do it for about 20,000 platinum. BTW, is the plural of platinum not platina?
Isn't it the job of a secure OS to prevent applications (however badly written) from royally screwing up things?
In circumstances like these, I think the best metric would be to use averages. An average windows box is less likely to be well managed given the profile of an average windows user (not to say (s)he is less smart, just less of an OS/security geek). Add to this the bundling of dangerous products like VB-script enabled utilities, and the winbox (even corporate-admin managed) is a disaster waiting to happen. On the other hand, a *nix user is mostly a more sophisticated user with a little more understanding of security. I don't think it is possible to have a really completely fair and proper comparison of the two systems unless you only ask persons who use/admin both systems.
Given that these things will probably get as hot as toasters, they'll probably work as well as toasters too. And who can beat the remote eject feature we'll have with those toasters!!
Well, we'll just have to wait for microcables, wont we!
Then it wouldn't be an anomaly for you to breach security thereafter. Your second attempt at breaching security would be classified as being "normal"! (I mean hackers will be hackers, hackers will hack, all perfectly normal!!)
How is the system used by credit card and phone companies different than the one proposed by this paper?
Hey, even a non-respected lowlife like me can answer that! The answer's Viper - the best of both worlds!!!
You're assuming that India is necessarily the only market.
Yes, the judge might be a lot, lot smarter than most of us - possibly all of us. Sadly, being smart has never implied being fair and being just.
Well, now that is something that definitely deserves the NOBEL prize
The answer is : Bow, Wow! Arrrrffff, bark, roarrrr, Bow, Bow, Bark, Grrrrrrrrrrrrr,, Bow, Bow!! The canine-lingual challanged should just use the Bow-lingual translator.
While new UI devices are always fun, I seriously doubt how scalable and how expressive these are going to be. For someone who makes moderate use of shell programming facilities, I really see no good alternative to typing out "for i in `cat $i`;do...done". I see no universally intuitive way of expressing this action using any mouse or hand gestures. Also, how easy is it to "program" gestures? Can I make macros/functions (with arguments?????) to do things I do often? In general, I'm very skeptical of new UIs claiming to increase productivity manifold because they are "closer to the way we think". I think it is very important for any new UI to specify the particular context (or group of users) for which it is meant.
Ummm...and risk getting bombed?