I have a relative in the Fire Alarm business and he tells me about the restrictions on strobe lights on long corridors, they have to flash simultaneously because the random flashes could cause a seizure during a fire. I thought, "wow, that's right. I wonder if they actualy thought about it before hand, or if they wrote the regulation based on a real incident."
Just had a discussion about this recently when one of our life protection system's sync modules croaked. I had never though about it, but it makes perfect sense. Kinda glad the guy wasn't blowin' smoke, now that I've heard it somewhere else.:)
Well, I know you're waiting for some to say that it has a lot to do with what you're used to, and that's true, but Gimp can be pretty aggravating. Most of the functionality in GIMP is buried in right-click menus (nothing contextual about them), instead of visually obvious toolbars and top menus. I don't know if GIMP has a quick macroing feature like PS, but if it does I never did figure out how to use it. Photoshop's pathing is much easier to work with, IMHO. The tool boxes bother me... oddly large and rearranging them manually bugs me (compare with PS's arrangement options). Layer effects were borderline non-existent. All of the text tool in gimp should probably be thrown out and redone... and I'm pretty sure I could think of a few more with time. That on top of the previously mentioned stuff I guess.
I liked Gimp, but I like Photoshop better, and it seems people tend to agree.
As for this Photoshop Express thing, it doesn't even vaguely resemble photoshop. It's picassa done in flash, is all.
As with any product, it's an issue of having to give me what I already have, but better.
If this browser doesn't have working flash, working javascript, and render at least as well as the big two... it gets zero uptake. It's as simple as that. Once it has all those things, THEN if it's more secure it might get some adoption.
Wasn't there a bunch of noise about this at a school in England a couple years ago? Didn't they also find that this is total nonsense?
I know the US spent TONS of money finding out that power lines weren't giving us cancer.
It's another "let's sue" solution to a problem that plagues a lot of games... boredom. I've played a few games that require some kind of grind... A Tale in the Desert, Puzzle Pirates, etc. (yeah, I pick the obscure ones)... and I've written somewhat less sophisticated macroing tools like this Glider app for each of them. I've never felt bad about writing something to deal with the parts of a game that I don't like. I'm convinced it's the nature of all these types of games that eventually someone will get fed up and do the same thing.
I'm inclined to agree with you, but my disdain for management of Iraq and such aside, I didn't see anything about the Bush administration in the article. Did the administration cut the funding for this somehow or was it an internal decision at NASA to redirect the funds? I honestly don't know, is this something congress controls through an oversight committee?
Was it due to diminishing returns on the rovers? Is the money genuinely better spent on what the article says they'll be spending it on... next year's new rover?
I'd imagine that $8 mil is a tiny bit of their annual budget and you'd think you'd want to put it towards something you already have parked on another planet and you know works. But then, I'm about the least qualified guy in the world to guess about those things.
I know! I found that part about using a Treo 750 to reprogram your Roomba for an Apple store raid totally inappropriate. Can't we just love our turtleneck wearing, dancing silhouette neighbors? We all stole a little bit from our predecessors.:(
It's an issue of risk-taking. I'm a very loyal person, but occasionally I've had to take a step back and realize just how bad I was being screwed before leaving for something better.
Oddly, every time, it HAS been for something better. Currently I'm quite happy where I'm at. I'm not rich, I'm not a big shot, but I make enough and there's plenty of opportunity and flexibility. What's more, I work for a smaller business, so I get personally appreciated.
Lifting my fingerprint is much easier than lifting my wallet, which is easier than guessing my password. Now do all three.
Supposing one could get all three, the time and effort involved in compromising just one identity this way, with a very short time for use could make the whole process worthless compared to todays methods of authentication. The big problem is not how often it would happen, it would be the extraordinary level of trust people would have in a successful authentication.
You take Mythbusters too seriously. Those were NOT top-of-the-line biometric authentication techniques. On top of that, they were all based on a single method, each. It wasn't even a good thumbprint with a pincode, which they would not have cracked.
I'm confused about why this has anything to do with linux at all. As someone asked earlier, the question is, "has MS REMOVED driver support in a service pack?" If so, that's very odd, at least in that the SP was supposed to help address the shortcomings of vista in this regard.
I'm a linux user and a windows user (not vista anymore). But what linux distros do is irrelevant, in that their package management systems all have their own problems we could bitch about all night... starting with maintaining package repositories of "supported" software in the first place, all the way through the notorious hardware support issues. This is about Vista, and why MS apparently did something so odd.
I think his point is exactly that the stock market is not like a casino. Noticing someone dumping stock is an open indicator... and a good one. The trouble arises when someone makes a play and then damages the company to make earnings take a shit. THAT, I think everyone would agree, is the sort of "insider trading" that people are generally worried about.
You're right, I know more about the Democratic primaries than I'm at all interested in knowing... but had no idea about Kenya.
I think the truth is, one closely resembles "reality" TV and the Paris Hilton obsession Americans can't get enough of. Nobody seems to be interested in the politics any more than to use it as a way of framing yet another TV show contest. Our elections are a perfect justification for another contest TV show that all the networks get to capitalize on at the same time.
But then we wouldn't need to use all those other crazy new weapons we're always making, and wars wouldn't last long enough to subvert civil rights back home.
I try not to speak for other people, but I think he was asking the relevant, "what if" about Wikileaks philosophies.
With a more appropriate example, what if they managed to get their hands on the exact construction diagrams, etc. for a more modern, secret and dangerous weapon? Would they post it? Would they openly deliver this dangerous information out to anyone and everyone? If so, is that a bad thing? As he asked, when does absolute disclosure turn into something so dangerous that it's not worth it? Where do you draw the line between, "right to know" and issues of security or privacy?
Could be wrong, that's just what I got from his questions.
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I have a relative in the Fire Alarm business and he tells me about the restrictions on strobe lights on long corridors, they have to flash simultaneously because the random flashes could cause a seizure during a fire. I thought, "wow, that's right. I wonder if they actualy thought about it before hand, or if they wrote the regulation based on a real incident."
:)
Just had a discussion about this recently when one of our life protection system's sync modules croaked. I had never though about it, but it makes perfect sense. Kinda glad the guy wasn't blowin' smoke, now that I've heard it somewhere else.
Well, I know you're waiting for some to say that it has a lot to do with what you're used to, and that's true, but Gimp can be pretty aggravating. Most of the functionality in GIMP is buried in right-click menus (nothing contextual about them), instead of visually obvious toolbars and top menus. I don't know if GIMP has a quick macroing feature like PS, but if it does I never did figure out how to use it. Photoshop's pathing is much easier to work with, IMHO. The tool boxes bother me... oddly large and rearranging them manually bugs me (compare with PS's arrangement options). Layer effects were borderline non-existent. All of the text tool in gimp should probably be thrown out and redone... and I'm pretty sure I could think of a few more with time. That on top of the previously mentioned stuff I guess.
I liked Gimp, but I like Photoshop better, and it seems people tend to agree.
As for this Photoshop Express thing, it doesn't even vaguely resemble photoshop. It's picassa done in flash, is all.
As with any product, it's an issue of having to give me what I already have, but better.
If this browser doesn't have working flash, working javascript, and render at least as well as the big two... it gets zero uptake. It's as simple as that. Once it has all those things, THEN if it's more secure it might get some adoption.
What is between the monitor and keyboard that causes issues with the internet?
Wires. Without them computer security would be easy!
What comes as a surprise is that this dogshit is on Slashdot. I guess it's not News for Nerds, it's Digg v0.5.
Wasn't there a bunch of noise about this at a school in England a couple years ago? Didn't they also find that this is total nonsense? I know the US spent TONS of money finding out that power lines weren't giving us cancer.
So... what you're saying is I should take my laptop off my lap?!
There are worse decisions they could make. For instance, apparently in 2015 we're going to be using Windows Vista. I weep for our children.
It's another "let's sue" solution to a problem that plagues a lot of games... boredom. I've played a few games that require some kind of grind... A Tale in the Desert, Puzzle Pirates, etc. (yeah, I pick the obscure ones)... and I've written somewhat less sophisticated macroing tools like this Glider app for each of them. I've never felt bad about writing something to deal with the parts of a game that I don't like. I'm convinced it's the nature of all these types of games that eventually someone will get fed up and do the same thing.
That WAS a fantastic article, I remember it from years ago. ;)
Here's one version of it... I hope someone gets to read about what a stand-up guy he is:
The Man Who Said No to WalMart
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/open_snapper.html
I'm inclined to agree with you, but my disdain for management of Iraq and such aside, I didn't see anything about the Bush administration in the article. Did the administration cut the funding for this somehow or was it an internal decision at NASA to redirect the funds? I honestly don't know, is this something congress controls through an oversight committee?
Was it due to diminishing returns on the rovers? Is the money genuinely better spent on what the article says they'll be spending it on... next year's new rover?
I'd imagine that $8 mil is a tiny bit of their annual budget and you'd think you'd want to put it towards something you already have parked on another planet and you know works. But then, I'm about the least qualified guy in the world to guess about those things.
I know! I found that part about using a Treo 750 to reprogram your Roomba for an Apple store raid totally inappropriate. Can't we just love our turtleneck wearing, dancing silhouette neighbors? We all stole a little bit from our predecessors. :(
It's an issue of risk-taking. I'm a very loyal person, but occasionally I've had to take a step back and realize just how bad I was being screwed before leaving for something better.
Oddly, every time, it HAS been for something better. Currently I'm quite happy where I'm at. I'm not rich, I'm not a big shot, but I make enough and there's plenty of opportunity and flexibility. What's more, I work for a smaller business, so I get personally appreciated.
What? Why?
Lifting my fingerprint is much easier than lifting my wallet, which is easier than guessing my password. Now do all three.
Supposing one could get all three, the time and effort involved in compromising just one identity this way, with a very short time for use could make the whole process worthless compared to todays methods of authentication. The big problem is not how often it would happen, it would be the extraordinary level of trust people would have in a successful authentication.
You take Mythbusters too seriously. Those were NOT top-of-the-line biometric authentication techniques. On top of that, they were all based on a single method, each. It wasn't even a good thumbprint with a pincode, which they would not have cracked.
So you're saying I should not feel bad about rounding up Verizon executives and burning them?
Only if it's for profit.
I'll pay to watch.
So now if you develop a search engine, you get your computer confiscated?
That would be great. Google can afford to fight something retarded like this.
I'm confused about why this has anything to do with linux at all. As someone asked earlier, the question is, "has MS REMOVED driver support in a service pack?" If so, that's very odd, at least in that the SP was supposed to help address the shortcomings of vista in this regard.
I'm a linux user and a windows user (not vista anymore). But what linux distros do is irrelevant, in that their package management systems all have their own problems we could bitch about all night... starting with maintaining package repositories of "supported" software in the first place, all the way through the notorious hardware support issues. This is about Vista, and why MS apparently did something so odd.
I think his point is exactly that the stock market is not like a casino. Noticing someone dumping stock is an open indicator... and a good one. The trouble arises when someone makes a play and then damages the company to make earnings take a shit. THAT, I think everyone would agree, is the sort of "insider trading" that people are generally worried about.
That was both an excellent explanation, and a good dose of perspective. 'preciate it. :)
You're right, I know more about the Democratic primaries than I'm at all interested in knowing... but had no idea about Kenya.
I think the truth is, one closely resembles "reality" TV and the Paris Hilton obsession Americans can't get enough of. Nobody seems to be interested in the politics any more than to use it as a way of framing yet another TV show contest. Our elections are a perfect justification for another contest TV show that all the networks get to capitalize on at the same time.
But then we wouldn't need to use all those other crazy new weapons we're always making, and wars wouldn't last long enough to subvert civil rights back home.
I try not to speak for other people, but I think he was asking the relevant, "what if" about Wikileaks philosophies.
With a more appropriate example, what if they managed to get their hands on the exact construction diagrams, etc. for a more modern, secret and dangerous weapon? Would they post it? Would they openly deliver this dangerous information out to anyone and everyone? If so, is that a bad thing? As he asked, when does absolute disclosure turn into something so dangerous that it's not worth it? Where do you draw the line between, "right to know" and issues of security or privacy?
Could be wrong, that's just what I got from his questions.
through a covert operation of bribery and supply (Operation Ajax) designed to undermine support of the popular secularist movement
Yes, blame bad Javascript, as always. So predictable.
The PR folks must have been working with dated audience demographics.
Those super-hip, troll kids are all over on Digg.com now, sir.