I've only recently figured out how to tweak the registry to allow me to disable automatic updates again. So all they have to do is change that registry setting and make it a critical update...
And how are they going to change that registry setting without being able to install an update?
You're talking about displacing 5,000 other people from their job, their primary source of income (most likely), and you think that it warrants a "now that's more like it"?
I'll bet you'd be a lot less glib about it (and way more pissed off) if it was your job on the line. Especially if you saw people making comments like that!
after I told her to think logically as to how it shoud work, she clicked on the picture and dragged to the desktop and said, "Oh! Mac works like you think it should!"
I will maintain forever (and probably by myself) that drag-and-drop is the most obtuse user interface metaphor ever (except for Finder/Explorer). Not to mention that there are those with disabilities that CAN NOT do it.
So how does someone not capable of dragging a picture with the mouse save a picture?
File extensions are primarily there for program associations. 99% of programs DO check that the file format is correct before processing, many programs, such as image viewers, media players and archivers can automatically use the correct decoding algorithm, even for files with incorrect extensions.
Reminds me of a few years ago when I renamed all my.mp3 files to.xyz and configured WinAmp to work with them to bypass the silly global network MP3 file scanner.
A lot of people make assumptions about file extensions. Remember back when the.SHS file extension was used as a virus payload that Windows was hard-coded to hide in Explorer? Even some of us that were "in the know" about file extensions were bitten by that one!
I reckon you could've eliminated a fair few spyware installs if the "Yes" button was labelled "Install Software", or the "Next" button was lebelled "Accept this Licence", or whatever it is. No more "Let's click Yes to make the nasty evil dialog box go away", but some people will think "Do I really want to install this software?" or "Do I really want to run this program?". It makes people think, and thinking is good when you're trying to make decisions.
If you believe that renaming the button that someone has to click on to see the funny video clip of the guy getting hit crossing the road with pizzas in his hand is going to change how many users actually end up getting infected, I'd call you an optimist.
Just yesterday I was at a friend's house (I'd call him Average at computing), and we were installing the latest ATI drivers. For some strange reason, the installer wanted to connect over HTTP to the Internet, and he just merrily clicked "Yes", reasoning "you never know what programs need what, so I always click 'Yes'".
Even if the buttons were named "Allow connection" or "Deny connection", it would not have changed his reasoning.
Granted, they didn't anticipate quite the initial subscription numbers they got, but within weeks we saw login queues show up, and Blizzard hastily added more servers.
I've seen this argument before, and I'm completely baffled by it. If Blizzard ordered to have 1,000,000 copies of the game printed and distributed to retail locations, how can they be surprised when 1,000,000 people try to sign up?
If the screen contents are replaced by a "fake" scan of an item with a bomb or whatever in it, then what is happening to the actual images of what is really being scanned? If this is poorly timed, it could cause masking of something bad actually going through the scanner.
Is the overlay a whole-screen replacement, or just putting up a picture of a bomb or whatever overlayed with the real image? The article didn't seem to mention that...
But at the same time, they still had to get the number of copies of the game printed up and issued through distribution in order to get them in the hands of all of those subscribers, did they not? I don't see how you can say they were taken by surprise when they had set up the distribution channel with each of the copies that have been sold.
Under the FCRA, you are entitled to a free copy of a report of your "file" once a year from companies which are hosting FCRA-covered data. We had to implement this where I work.
Ok, I'll take a stab at this one. Suppose for a minute that there were some sort of legislation that prevented companies from crawling through information about you and selling it.
Therefore, we would get rid of credit scoers. How would you propose that someone would be able to make a decision about offering you a home loan of 3 times your annual salary? If the information of your past credit accounts and payment history were unavailable, what would you recommend as an alternative?
I'm not trying to troll, I am just interested in how you would solve the problem.
Why don't we have city-wide gigabit networks plugged into every home and business?
Because the average person in the average neighborhood can't even figure out how to not download spyware on their own computer?
Can you imagine how much virus/trojan traffic you would have to filter out if you plugged your entire neighborhood into your LAN?
Also, who is responsible for making sure that there isn't a break in the loop? What happens when Little Johnny across the street goes digging in his side yard and cuts through the fiber (or cat5e or whatever)? Whose responsibility is it to fix it? The same neighbor who is not polite enough to prevent his dog from crapping on your lawn?
Well, if you don't have at least a Bacholers Degree, we aren't even going to look at your resume.
Excellent. Then I will hire the brilliant, talented and dedicated people who did not get a degree. Why do you think they are not worthy of your time? I think that narrow-minded consideration like that will stifle your business in the long run, but you're entitled to do things your way.
so most people probably don't feel the need to run their own ups.
Or perhaps they are not allowed to run their own UPS there? I know that the codes of the local municipality of my work do not allow us to have individual UPS systems in the datacenter, the whole thing must run from a mammoth UPS with a single kill switch.
Something to do with fire code if I recall correctly...
Ok, so the insects that eat the cotton are a bad thing. So we come up with cotton strains that are resistant to these insects. With not so much cotton to eat, these insects will dwindle in population. What long-term impact will this have further up the food chain? Predators to these insects will have a shorter food supply, so they may dwindle in numbers, no? Please someone answer my uneducated question. Thanks!
I have not encountered any problems of accidental clicks on my G5. However, a problem that I have encountered is that you can't click the moues button while holding the mouse in the air.
Now, for those of you wondering why the hell I'm holding a mouse in the air and trying to click the button, let's assume that I'm waiting for some process to finish so I can click the mouse when it is done, and the pointer is already lined up with the appropriate control. And yes, I do know about keyboard shortcuts.
A little bit of makeup and several months practicing and I bet you could get a normally young, healthy person to look and act very much like an elderly man.
Yeah, just take a look at the guy in the Six Flags ads. He reminds me of my grandpa, watching him move.
Well, I have not purchased a new gaming rig yet, but when I do, it's going to be from one of the manufacturers you mention. It all comes down to a matter of how much you value your free time at.
Personally, I value my free time at the same as my salary on-the-clock time. I'd much rather pay someone else $200 to do 4 hours of work and get to spend that time with my wife, child, or even gaming.
When it comes to building a computer, I've been there, and done that. When you have a weird problem and the damn thing starts behaving all wonky, who do you get to call? Yourself! Support for the assembled unit is a BIG reason that I have for spending the money on a commercially-built rig. Not only that, but they have taken the time to put the parts together, do the OS install, and run a burn-in test on all the components. Not only that, but if one of the parts goes bad during the warranty period, I get a free replacement!
So there you have it. Why I would buy a commercially built gaming rig rather than build my own.
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And how are they going to change that registry setting without being able to install an update?
I'll bet you'd be a lot less glib about it (and way more pissed off) if it was your job on the line. Especially if you saw people making comments like that!
Except China.
I will maintain forever (and probably by myself) that drag-and-drop is the most obtuse user interface metaphor ever (except for Finder/Explorer). Not to mention that there are those with disabilities that CAN NOT do it.
So how does someone not capable of dragging a picture with the mouse save a picture?
You mistake professional with competent.
Reminds me of a few years ago when I renamed all my .mp3 files to .xyz and configured WinAmp to work with them to bypass the silly global network MP3 file scanner.
A lot of people make assumptions about file extensions. Remember back when the .SHS file extension was used as a virus payload that Windows was hard-coded to hide in Explorer? Even some of us that were "in the know" about file extensions were bitten by that one!
If you believe that renaming the button that someone has to click on to see the funny video clip of the guy getting hit crossing the road with pizzas in his hand is going to change how many users actually end up getting infected, I'd call you an optimist.
Just yesterday I was at a friend's house (I'd call him Average at computing), and we were installing the latest ATI drivers. For some strange reason, the installer wanted to connect over HTTP to the Internet, and he just merrily clicked "Yes", reasoning "you never know what programs need what, so I always click 'Yes'".
Even if the buttons were named "Allow connection" or "Deny connection", it would not have changed his reasoning.
I've seen this argument before, and I'm completely baffled by it. If Blizzard ordered to have 1,000,000 copies of the game printed and distributed to retail locations, how can they be surprised when 1,000,000 people try to sign up?
If the screen contents are replaced by a "fake" scan of an item with a bomb or whatever in it, then what is happening to the actual images of what is really being scanned? If this is poorly timed, it could cause masking of something bad actually going through the scanner.
Is the overlay a whole-screen replacement, or just putting up a picture of a bomb or whatever overlayed with the real image? The article didn't seem to mention that...
Yes, or as they call them: The Defendents
I'm sitting here wondering if it's worth $20 to have you spend the rest of eternity with "I blow dead donkeys." in your sig.
But at the same time, they still had to get the number of copies of the game printed up and issued through distribution in order to get them in the hands of all of those subscribers, did they not? I don't see how you can say they were taken by surprise when they had set up the distribution channel with each of the copies that have been sold.
Under the FCRA, you are entitled to a free copy of a report of your "file" once a year from companies which are hosting FCRA-covered data. We had to implement this where I work.
Therefore, we would get rid of credit scoers. How would you propose that someone would be able to make a decision about offering you a home loan of 3 times your annual salary? If the information of your past credit accounts and payment history were unavailable, what would you recommend as an alternative?
I'm not trying to troll, I am just interested in how you would solve the problem.
Because the average person in the average neighborhood can't even figure out how to not download spyware on their own computer?
Can you imagine how much virus/trojan traffic you would have to filter out if you plugged your entire neighborhood into your LAN?
Also, who is responsible for making sure that there isn't a break in the loop? What happens when Little Johnny across the street goes digging in his side yard and cuts through the fiber (or cat5e or whatever)? Whose responsibility is it to fix it? The same neighbor who is not polite enough to prevent his dog from crapping on your lawn?
Excellent. Then I will hire the brilliant, talented and dedicated people who did not get a degree. Why do you think they are not worthy of your time? I think that narrow-minded consideration like that will stifle your business in the long run, but you're entitled to do things your way.
Or perhaps they are not allowed to run their own UPS there? I know that the codes of the local municipality of my work do not allow us to have individual UPS systems in the datacenter, the whole thing must run from a mammoth UPS with a single kill switch.
Something to do with fire code if I recall correctly...
Ok, so the insects that eat the cotton are a bad thing. So we come up with cotton strains that are resistant to these insects. With not so much cotton to eat, these insects will dwindle in population. What long-term impact will this have further up the food chain? Predators to these insects will have a shorter food supply, so they may dwindle in numbers, no? Please someone answer my uneducated question. Thanks!
You are missing one thing. The graph on that NOAA page you linked shows that those numbers are kW per DAY .
If you weren't already modded at +5, I'd give you a point just for the Naked Gun reference. The rest of your post deserves the point as well.
I have not encountered any problems of accidental clicks on my G5. However, a problem that I have encountered is that you can't click the moues button while holding the mouse in the air.
Now, for those of you wondering why the hell I'm holding a mouse in the air and trying to click the button, let's assume that I'm waiting for some process to finish so I can click the mouse when it is done, and the pointer is already lined up with the appropriate control. And yes, I do know about keyboard shortcuts.
c:\>wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b0 76b-aaa9-443d-84f0-739 35-SP2-ENU.exe
e 520a391d75b5a7 *WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835
[ boring wget stuff removed ]
14:58:25 (6.28 MB/s) - `WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe' saved [278927592/278927592]
c:\>md5sum WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
59a98f181fe383907
---- MD5 checksum looks right to me. Better check yoru download client.
Personally, I value my free time at the same as my salary on-the-clock time. I'd much rather pay someone else $200 to do 4 hours of work and get to spend that time with my wife, child, or even gaming.
When it comes to building a computer, I've been there, and done that. When you have a weird problem and the damn thing starts behaving all wonky, who do you get to call? Yourself! Support for the assembled unit is a BIG reason that I have for spending the money on a commercially-built rig. Not only that, but they have taken the time to put the parts together, do the OS install, and run a burn-in test on all the components. Not only that, but if one of the parts goes bad during the warranty period, I get a free replacement!
So there you have it. Why I would buy a commercially built gaming rig rather than build my own.
Take your car to the mechanic ... or get a bigger tank!