I think storing the telemetry of vehicles could be a good thing. You could prove your driving habits to insurance companies who could then lower your rate. No more problems with who was at fault in traffic accidents. It would be easier to diagnose your car at the garage.
You have a good point there. I once asked a marketing person, who mailed out news letters to customers and possible customers, how they could tell if their email was having an affect on sales. He told me they had no way of telling if a sale was actually the result of an email campaign.
Since when does Add/Remove actually properly remove a program? Leftover directories, registry entries not to mention the DLL issues. Linux package managers like apt, portage and rpm all remove applications with much better consistancy than Windows.
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How would a projectile weapon be at all practical in orbit? Firing it would alter the orbit and delta-V of the vehicle.
Productivity should always improve if the user is not forced to use two separate input devices. The mouse and keyboard are excellent tools but, with only two hands, the user often looses productivty as the mouse hand switches back and forth from mouse to keyboard.
WP5.1's "old" design made little use of the mouse. Instead keyboard shortcuts were the main interface. Thus the user's hands could stay on the keyboard. This resulted in faster typing.
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I just installed Linux on a friend's laptop. He does not have much experience with Linux. To help in through the transition I installed Openbox as his window manager and gave him a simply menu and hot key list:
Web Browser: F1
Chat: F2
Email: F3
Word Processor F4
Speadsheet F5
Presentation F6
Xterm F7
Run Command F8
Exit
Less choice, less questions, less confusion. So far I have had no complaints. Obviously, as he gets comfortable he will want more choices later. At the beginning, I think the overwhelming amount of choice is what turns new users away from Linux.
Why do we need more TLDs? Especially for commercial uses when the mega-corps already insist that if they own a.com domain then it is their right to have the.ca,.biz,.any... domains aswell. Just seems like more wasted money on squatting an litigation.
If you like scripting and all things Unix I highly recommned Unix Power Tools. I bought a copy last month. All the things about Unix that could not necessarily fill an entire book other their own nicely packaged together.
Google is still the king. Here is the article about the Navy and its war ships using NT (on an Aegis even!). Turns out, that human error was the real problem in the event in question but, I still find it a bit scary that such an advanced weapons platform runs Windows, even if it is NT.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that much of the systems on board some US Navy ships run Windows NT. Also, there was an article in Wired last year about software used by the US military in Iraq, which was mostly Windows. Both of these situations could endanger human life.
Consider the automobile. The government regulates the safety equipment in your car. Airbags, side impact beams, 5MPH bumpers, seatbelts, and standard crash tests all help protect you and your passengers while in your car. Do you think most of these systems would exist without government legislation? Consider that airbag technology has existed since the 1970s.
While the government tends to keep an eye on the automotive industry, the computer industry seems to be able to operate with virtual impunity.
Why does the software industry get off scott-free?
Stress is a misnomer. Really we are taking about fear. If you are stressed with something, you are actually afraid of something. Now, target your fear and ask 'what am I afraid of?' Identify what you can do to eliminate that fear.
With that in mind, has technology made us less fearful? I'm sure the average person is much more fearful. People fear change and the unknown. Personally, I find myself less fearful. However I can't say if that is due to technology or my own maturity (as you get older you suffer less stress).
It's frightening that even vendors believe in marketing. I meet with vendor one day to discuss supplying us with generic computers. I told them that most of our desktops were Durons. They gasped and stated they could not recommend such things. Stating that they would quote us Intel to "ensure stability". I asked them to cite proof that AMD systems were unstable. They could not but implied that it was common knowledge.
When you add new hardware that is not needed at boot (e.g not a bood device), simply build the kernel feature to support your new device as a module. Install the module and you are ready to go. No rebuild or reboot needed.
You don't throw away config files. You save them for later use. The config procedure gives an option to save your config to an alternate location.
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I've done this before.
I think storing the telemetry of vehicles could be a good thing. You could prove your driving habits to insurance companies who could then lower your rate. No more problems with who was at fault in traffic accidents. It would be easier to diagnose your car at the garage.
That's what reset buttons are for. A safe way to clear access without a remote back door.
Have any geeks out there tried the geekiest bikes: the recumbent
Your insurance company might.
You have a good point there. I once asked a marketing person, who mailed out news letters to customers and possible customers, how they could tell if their email was having an affect on sales. He told me they had no way of telling if a sale was actually the result of an email campaign.
I think that commonly people, incorrectly, interchange the word hard with different.
Since when does Add/Remove actually properly remove a program? Leftover directories, registry entries not to mention the DLL issues. Linux package managers like apt, portage and rpm all remove applications with much better consistancy than Windows.
How would a projectile weapon be at all practical in orbit? Firing it would alter the orbit and delta-V of the vehicle.
WP5.1's "old" design made little use of the mouse. Instead keyboard shortcuts were the main interface. Thus the user's hands could stay on the keyboard. This resulted in faster typing.
Less choice, less questions, less confusion. So far I have had no complaints. Obviously, as he gets comfortable he will want more choices later. At the beginning, I think the overwhelming amount of choice is what turns new users away from Linux.
If it will hold my entire O'Reilly library and have a good viewing, bookmarking and search interface I'd be interested.
What about Tang?
You are so right. For once I wish someone would report the gains and not just the costs.
Meanwhile, television and film can show graphic, glorified murder and only be rated PG13.
You insensitive clod!
Why do we need more TLDs? Especially for commercial uses when the mega-corps already insist that if they own a .com domain then it is their right to have the .ca, .biz, .any ... domains aswell. Just seems like more wasted money on squatting an litigation.
If you like scripting and all things Unix I highly recommned Unix Power Tools. I bought a copy last month. All the things about Unix that could not necessarily fill an entire book other their own nicely packaged together.
Google is still the king. Here is the article about the Navy and its war ships using NT (on an Aegis even!). Turns out, that human error was the real problem in the event in question but, I still find it a bit scary that such an advanced weapons platform runs Windows, even if it is NT.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that much of the systems on board some US Navy ships run Windows NT. Also, there was an article in Wired last year about software used by the US military in Iraq, which was mostly Windows. Both of these situations could endanger human life.
Consider the automobile. The government regulates the safety equipment in your car. Airbags, side impact beams, 5MPH bumpers, seatbelts, and standard crash tests all help protect you and your passengers while in your car. Do you think most of these systems would exist without government legislation? Consider that airbag technology has existed since the 1970s.
While the government tends to keep an eye on the automotive industry, the computer industry seems to be able to operate with virtual impunity.
Why does the software industry get off scott-free?
With that in mind, has technology made us less fearful? I'm sure the average person is much more fearful. People fear change and the unknown. Personally, I find myself less fearful. However I can't say if that is due to technology or my own maturity (as you get older you suffer less stress).
It's frightening that even vendors believe in marketing. I meet with vendor one day to discuss supplying us with generic computers. I told them that most of our desktops were Durons. They gasped and stated they could not recommend such things. Stating that they would quote us Intel to "ensure stability". I asked them to cite proof that AMD systems were unstable. They could not but implied that it was common knowledge.
A thread over at Perlmonks from a while back.
When you add new hardware that is not needed at boot (e.g not a bood device), simply build the kernel feature to support your new device as a module. Install the module and you are ready to go. No rebuild or reboot needed. You don't throw away config files. You save them for later use. The config procedure gives an option to save your config to an alternate location.