Well, the GNU people lead an oncoming battle against this element of sexism by trying to replace it with a politically-correct, gender-neutral command 'info'.
unless the label admitted it in private correspondence with the author, but "neglected" to inform MySpace. We don't know if the case is stalled due to MySpace ignoring Warner's disclaimer, or whether Warner failed to send such disclaimer despite claiming to do so.
Cost cut = Price cut. It takes quite a bit of hardware to implement the IDE interface. And each card must have this hardware. Moving the hardware to the reader device allows you to pay its price once for many cards.
As for size, I have 12 MicroSD cards here, with me, in a 4x2x1cm box, and find handling them more comfortable than carrying and handling 12 CF cards would be.
Before you ever start thinking voting can change anything, you'd well better be in control of the candidate lists.
In many cases you have a gallery of puppets to choose from, to pick the public face of the person in power. In many other cases you can choose between two or three warmongering parties who are equally bad. Unless you can beat them at their game of keeping any 3rd party competition out of the game, you can vote to your heart's content and nothing will change.
Here we have "green arrow" traffic lights. Next to the green in a standard set of three lights, is a green arrow. If it lights, while red is lit, you can turn right, providing that you:
- stop before the lights (unconditionally) - let all the traffic on the other lanes pass - let the pedestrians pass.
It means you drive as from the lowest priority road, yielding to all other traffic - but if there is none, you don't have to wait for nothing.
Somehow I think this is more citizen-friendly than the cameras. Of course it provides less revenue...
I wonder who beat the sense into Bluetooth people. They demanded every BT device to enter pincode they provided. Never mind if it was a GPS receiver or a mouse or a webcam, that had no keyboard to enter pincode. "Crappy devices that don't allow the user to enter pin code are against the standard and thus unsupported" or something along these lines was the basis for WONTFIX on a bug about providing the UI to allow user-provided fixed PIN. But it seems recently they fixed it.
Still out of 4 cellular phones I have, Network Manager insists 3 don't have GPRS modem capabilities (while they all certainly do). Zero configuration means "if it fails the first time, you can curse, cry and kick but it will never work."
Sounds easy enough? It isn't. In the age when Compiz is THE default manager running over Gnome, we have the ancient long-standing problem: you have the cute "desktop cube", you have 4 desktops and you have only one wallpaper for all of them. Of course Compiz allows you to place 4 separate wallpapers, the problem is they will be obscured by the default Nautilus wallpaper.
And now Nautilus allows you to switch the whole desktop off (wallpaper + icons), it allows you to set transparent wallpaper (through which Nautilus default background will be seen), it allows you to set background gradient style and colors, but it doesn't allow you to tell it "don't draw background, let some external program do it."
I think this problem is as old as the "desktop cube" and possibly older. There are 3rd party patches but they haven't been accepted into Gnome.
...would be to make it more obvious to users that you don't need a separate toolbar for bookmarks.
On most new Firefox installs the first thing I do: * rightclick empty space on the menu bar * pick "customize" * drag "bookmarks toolbar items" from the toolbar to the right of the menu.(ignoring the dialog box) * click OK in the dialog box * rightclick empty space on the menu bar * uncheck "bookmarks toolbar".
I work in a company, who is, amongst all, into weather monitoring systems.
So there are like 50 automatic weather stations all over the region, most running off batteries (normal or solar), each sending about a kilobyte of data collected over the last hour, every hour, over GSM. They run a telemetric tariff billed PLN0.01/each 10kB ($0.003) or each started connection. They can't keep the connections running because of limited battery capacity - they need to reconnect every time.
And each month we get about 300 pages of paper billings filled with entries like
17.09.2009 15:48 | outgoing data | 1kB | PLN0.01 17.09.2009 15:48 | incoming data | 1kB | PLN0.01 17.09.2009 16:48 | outgoing data | 1kB | PLN0.01 17.09.2009 16:48 | incoming data | 1kB | PLN0.01 17.09.2009 17:48 | outgoing data | 1kB | PLN0.01 17.09.2009 17:48 | incoming data | 1kB | PLN0.01
with about 700 such entries per each station.
We can ask for electronic invoices but billings are only paper.
We can repair split hair ends with 98% success, provide laundry with reflectivity competing laboratory mirrors, use liquid crystals to indicate optimum temperature of beer, kill off every single microorganism in a bottle of drink while keeping it drinkable, fit over a month of continuous pop music in a pocket player, produce grain that has exquisite yield but can't be used to grow more grain, cause erection using drugs, make one's pubic hair to grow on their head, produce over 50 different flavours of flavoured condoms and manufacture cars that take 7 minutes to empty the fuel tank at maximum power.
It isn't as bad as you think with this kind of devices. Due to lacking size restrictions like normal cellphones, they can afford decently-sized antennas in place of the puny things put in the phones, and since you don't keep them to your head, they can emit stronger signal too.. That means the coverage is vastly better than in case of normal phones.
The downside is the battery life - the battery should optimally last at least one farming season. Thus it is much better if the devices don't listen in to outside communications, but simply report their status periodically, waking up for a minute once a hour or so, collect overdue SMS config/request messages, collect data, then send out what is to be sent (if any). No interactive communication.
My company currently produces what we call "potato stations" though they can be used in farming of other stuff. They monitor humidity of soil and some other factors like temperature, and send SMS when these exceed preset thresholds and require attention. The SMS can be either received on personal phone so the farmer just goes to start the sprinklers or whatever, or can be read by automated system that does it without human attention.
If you have the SVG plugin, you support whole-page SVG images, not SVG embedded in a page.
If somebody writes a new half-working SVG support for MSIE, and then one of the users uses it, and it doesn't work right, for example changing state of a part while displaying the result state wrong (say, color of "OK" instead of "Fault"), human lives will be put in danger.
This is not a device that must work always and for everyone, but it's a device that must safely switch off in case of failure - fail gracefully and shut down to a safe state. Erroneous activity is not an option and we can't depend on unknown future versions which may or may not work correctly. We are sure to provide updates for future versions of Firefox and Opera, and -maybe- (cost, hassle) if Microsoft releases MSIE with fault-free SVG support, we will support it too. For now -current- MSIE is unsupported and hard-disabled because it could mean danger. If someone tricks the app into running with MSIE, they will be responsible for any resulting damage.
The device we are currently releasing deliberately checks for and disables MSIE. The reason is the code uses live embedded SVG visualization of the process which MSIE is simply not capable of. There are no easy and simple alternatives (don't get me started on Flash), and the visualization part is an essential part of the user interface, with various modules clickable to change their state in real time. Also, the SVG files can be directly used as images in the documentation, being 100% valid pictures of projects of whatever the device is to drive. It is not intended for a wide audience and we can mandate the customers to use certain tools (you need training and certification to be allowed to access it at all).
My friend is using WEP knowing the danger fully. He switched from WPA. Left WEP to signify "this is not an open network. You are not free to use it".
He has a phone with Windows Mobile and Skype. He uses VOIP when at home. Except the CPU of the mobile can handle realtime VOIP or WPA encryption, but not both. Simply not enough power for WPA. It works just fine with WEP though.
Wait, but they will be unable to! My ISP is blocking all the kiddie porn sites! The government-sanctioned blacklist protects me!...what, you mean it does not?
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Well, the GNU people lead an oncoming battle against this element of sexism by trying to replace it with a politically-correct, gender-neutral command 'info'.
The king of all clouds.
Wait, you used it on Linux/x86?
Well, then it's a PC. They never said "Windows".
...and your friendly headhunters got 20 more contracts thanks to "good work" they did on these people's resumes.
1. Modify guy's resume
2. Send him in.
3. Profit!
4. ???
5. Guy gets fired for fake resume
6. goto 1
unless the label admitted it in private correspondence with the author, but "neglected" to inform MySpace.
We don't know if the case is stalled due to MySpace ignoring Warner's disclaimer, or whether Warner failed to send such disclaimer despite claiming to do so.
Cost cut = Price cut.
It takes quite a bit of hardware to implement the IDE interface. And each card must have this hardware. Moving the hardware to the reader device allows you to pay its price once for many cards.
As for size, I have 12 MicroSD cards here, with me, in a 4x2x1cm box, and find handling them more comfortable than carrying and handling 12 CF cards would be.
Before you ever start thinking voting can change anything, you'd well better be in control of the candidate lists.
In many cases you have a gallery of puppets to choose from, to pick the public face of the person in power. In many other cases you can choose between two or three warmongering parties who are equally bad. Unless you can beat them at their game of keeping any 3rd party competition out of the game, you can vote to your heart's content and nothing will change.
Here we have "green arrow" traffic lights. Next to the green in a standard set of three lights, is a green arrow. If it lights, while red is lit, you can turn right, providing that you:
- stop before the lights (unconditionally)
- let all the traffic on the other lanes pass
- let the pedestrians pass.
It means you drive as from the lowest priority road, yielding to all other traffic - but if there is none, you don't have to wait for nothing.
Somehow I think this is more citizen-friendly than the cameras.
Of course it provides less revenue...
I wonder who beat the sense into Bluetooth people. They demanded every BT device to enter pincode they provided. Never mind if it was a GPS receiver or a mouse or a webcam, that had no keyboard to enter pincode. "Crappy devices that don't allow the user to enter pin code are against the standard and thus unsupported" or something along these lines was the basis for WONTFIX on a bug about providing the UI to allow user-provided fixed PIN. But it seems recently they fixed it.
Still out of 4 cellular phones I have, Network Manager insists 3 don't have GPRS modem capabilities (while they all certainly do). Zero configuration means "if it fails the first time, you can curse, cry and kick but it will never work."
Sounds easy enough? It isn't. In the age when Compiz is THE default manager running over Gnome, we have the ancient long-standing problem: you have the cute "desktop cube", you have 4 desktops and you have only one wallpaper for all of them. Of course Compiz allows you to place 4 separate wallpapers, the problem is they will be obscured by the default Nautilus wallpaper.
And now Nautilus allows you to switch the whole desktop off (wallpaper + icons), it allows you to set transparent wallpaper (through which Nautilus default background will be seen), it allows you to set background gradient style and colors, but it doesn't allow you to tell it "don't draw background, let some external program do it."
I think this problem is as old as the "desktop cube" and possibly older. There are 3rd party patches but they haven't been accepted into Gnome.
1 LOC is 2000 BRM.
The speed is 50 libraries of congress per microfortnight.
...would be to make it more obvious to users that you don't need a separate toolbar for bookmarks.
On most new Firefox installs the first thing I do:
* rightclick empty space on the menu bar
* pick "customize"
* drag "bookmarks toolbar items" from the toolbar to the right of the menu.(ignoring the dialog box)
* click OK in the dialog box
* rightclick empty space on the menu bar
* uncheck "bookmarks toolbar".
in the ribbon EVERYTHING is there.
I try to imagine interface that throws whole about:config at the user in context-sensitive manner.
I work in a company, who is, amongst all, into weather monitoring systems.
So there are like 50 automatic weather stations all over the region, most running off batteries (normal or solar), each sending about a kilobyte of data collected over the last hour, every hour, over GSM. They run a telemetric tariff billed PLN0.01/each 10kB ($0.003) or each started connection. They can't keep the connections running because of limited battery capacity - they need to reconnect every time.
And each month we get about 300 pages of paper billings filled with entries like
17.09.2009 15:48 | outgoing data | 1kB | PLN0.01
17.09.2009 15:48 | incoming data | 1kB | PLN0.01
17.09.2009 16:48 | outgoing data | 1kB | PLN0.01
17.09.2009 16:48 | incoming data | 1kB | PLN0.01
17.09.2009 17:48 | outgoing data | 1kB | PLN0.01
17.09.2009 17:48 | incoming data | 1kB | PLN0.01
with about 700 such entries per each station.
We can ask for electronic invoices but billings are only paper.
We can repair split hair ends with 98% success, provide laundry with reflectivity competing laboratory mirrors, use liquid crystals to indicate optimum temperature of beer, kill off every single microorganism in a bottle of drink while keeping it drinkable, fit over a month of continuous pop music in a pocket player, produce grain that has exquisite yield but can't be used to grow more grain, cause erection using drugs, make one's pubic hair to grow on their head, produce over 50 different flavours of flavoured condoms and manufacture cars that take 7 minutes to empty the fuel tank at maximum power.
Yet we can't cure common cold.
Unfortunately, not. No solar-powered pump does 50,000 gallons per dollar. And if it's a farmer in a developing country, cost is everything.
Solar power is an expensive, luxury option.
The default is a non-rechargeable battery of several Ah, replaced at beginning of the season.
It isn't as bad as you think with this kind of devices. Due to lacking size restrictions like normal cellphones, they can afford decently-sized antennas in place of the puny things put in the phones, and since you don't keep them to your head, they can emit stronger signal too.. That means the coverage is vastly better than in case of normal phones.
The downside is the battery life - the battery should optimally last at least one farming season. Thus it is much better if the devices don't listen in to outside communications, but simply report their status periodically, waking up for a minute once a hour or so, collect overdue SMS config/request messages, collect data, then send out what is to be sent (if any). No interactive communication.
My company currently produces what we call "potato stations" though they can be used in farming of other stuff.
They monitor humidity of soil and some other factors like temperature, and send SMS when these exceed preset thresholds and require attention.
The SMS can be either received on personal phone so the farmer just goes to start the sprinklers or whatever, or can be read by automated system that does it without human attention.
If you have the SVG plugin, you support whole-page SVG images, not SVG embedded in a page.
If somebody writes a new half-working SVG support for MSIE, and then one of the users uses it, and it doesn't work right, for example changing state of a part while displaying the result state wrong (say, color of "OK" instead of "Fault"), human lives will be put in danger.
This is not a device that must work always and for everyone, but it's a device that must safely switch off in case of failure - fail gracefully and shut down to a safe state. Erroneous activity is not an option and we can't depend on unknown future versions which may or may not work correctly. We are sure to provide updates for future versions of Firefox and Opera, and -maybe- (cost, hassle) if Microsoft releases MSIE with fault-free SVG support, we will support it too. For now -current- MSIE is unsupported and hard-disabled because it could mean danger. If someone tricks the app into running with MSIE, they will be responsible for any resulting damage.
The funniest part is it would fail on some version of MSIE4 or 5 (I'm not sure) - they identified themselves as Mozilla too.
The device we are currently releasing deliberately checks for and disables MSIE.
The reason is the code uses live embedded SVG visualization of the process which MSIE is simply not capable of.
There are no easy and simple alternatives (don't get me started on Flash), and the visualization part is an essential part of the user interface, with various modules clickable to change their state in real time. Also, the SVG files can be directly used as images in the documentation, being 100% valid pictures of projects of whatever the device is to drive. It is not intended for a wide audience and we can mandate the customers to use certain tools (you need training and certification to be allowed to access it at all).
The adage isn't an admonition not to use
stop making up words.
My friend is using WEP knowing the danger fully.
He switched from WPA. Left WEP to signify "this is not an open network. You are not free to use it".
He has a phone with Windows Mobile and Skype. He uses VOIP when at home. Except the CPU of the mobile can handle realtime VOIP or WPA encryption, but not both. Simply not enough power for WPA. It works just fine with WEP though.
Wait, but they will be unable to! My ISP is blocking all the kiddie porn sites! The government-sanctioned blacklist protects me! ...what, you mean it does not?