Given the current refresh delays for eink displays (correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't.5s optimistic?) it could be pretty awkward to do annotations when the display will be lagging well behind your stylus strokes. Just a thought.
As an aside, I usually use the command-line findstr command when I need to do a real text search. It's three-quarters-assed compared to grep but it hasn't failed me yet.
You're right in that asp.net is a web dev platform, and there's every chance you don't really need it. I think it just gets chucked on automatically when the.net framework is installed on a machine where IIS is also installed. Of course, this is just my best guess.
Sorry to ruin your paranoia, but the "ASP.NET Machine Account" (ASPNET) is created when the.net framework is installed. If you look at the description of the account, it's used to run the asp.net worker process (presumably so you can lock down your asp.net applications). As to why you can't delete it I'm not sure (preliminary googling says it should be removable from the users control panel (at the cost of breaking any asp.net applications running on your machine)). However, I'm not going to try here since I do development on this machine:)
I remember reading that they've made it recognize the old "alt-..." menu navigation key sequences. If this is true, alt-f a should bring up the save as dialog. I don't have a copy of word 2007 to try this on but if you do I'd be curious to see if this works.
I just use the Wikipedia quick search that Firefox ships with. Slap "wp [term]" into the address bar and it gets the job done pretty well.
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I don't see why it would need to run diagnostics when it wakes up from standby.
At least that's what my computer does when I press the power button. There have been a few changes in the past ten years, you know.
From what I understand by having friends who worked at McDonalds, they already use a two-surface griddle akin to a george foreman grill where a griddle is pressed onto the meat from above. So I guess someone already did this research!
The article mentions that at the other end of these phone numbers is a recording that reads off the code numbers. Give it a call and you might get to hear it before it runs out of minutes.
Unfortunately, this wouldn't be a very good design. If (nearly) every pair of keys was used as an input, you'd end up in situations where you'd need to simultaneously strike two keys that are most comfortably reached with the same finger. It seems that 6 keys on a row would require too much travel of either the pinky (if the hand were centered) or the index finger (if it were offset) and that a 4x4 block would involve too much vertical travel (even the three rows of a normal keyboard can be tough at times (and that's not even getting into the digits)).
Perhaps three rows of five keys with three set below to be struck with the thumb, and then a mirror image alongside for the (optional) other hand so that all chords could be made comfortably. But then you're getting conspicuously close to a standard keyboard layout, except with the added complexity of having to strike two keys for any input. Although you do gain the advantage of potentially easier one-handed use than a standard layout, which might be nice for writing a letter while eating a sandwich or something.
I've had great fun playing MAngband and one of its derivatives, ToMEnet.
They're both multiplayer roguelikes, and although they have to sacrifice some of the depth of their turn-based cousins they're still loads of fun.
I admit that I haven't yet tried out GreaseMonkey, but when I look at the exploit code it raises one really big question. Why isn't there some way to prevent non-user script from accessing the GreaseMonkey objects? Wouldn't this allow the user to retain all the ability they have now while rendering scripts from malicious sites harmless? Seeing as how GM is meant to be a means for the user to use scripts to modify pages, it seems very odd that anything outside of user script would be able to access its functionality.
I realize it's likely due to the nature of Firefox's JS interpreter, but if this sort of separation isn't viable could someone enlighten me as to why?
The differences are so blatant that if they were observed in any other animal but humans, we would be calling them distinct species. They would be different species, not races!
I'll bite.
Before making biological claims, please at least do a sanity check on your points.
I think you underestimate the possibility for variation within a species. Perhaps you've never heard of our good friend Canis Lupus Familiaris? (Which, I might add, is not even a species unto itself, but a subspecies.)
I'd say H. Sapiens has a lot less variation than you seem to think.
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Given the current refresh delays for eink displays (correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't .5s optimistic?) it could be pretty awkward to do annotations when the display will be lagging well behind your stylus strokes. Just a thought.
Except, of course, viable fusion power.
As an aside, I usually use the command-line findstr command when I need to do a real text search. It's three-quarters-assed compared to grep but it hasn't failed me yet.
You're right in that asp.net is a web dev platform, and there's every chance you don't really need it. I think it just gets chucked on automatically when the .net framework is installed on a machine where IIS is also installed. Of course, this is just my best guess.
Sorry to ruin your paranoia, but the "ASP.NET Machine Account" (ASPNET) is created when the .net framework is installed. If you look at the description of the account, it's used to run the asp.net worker process (presumably so you can lock down your asp.net applications). As to why you can't delete it I'm not sure (preliminary googling says it should be removable from the users control panel (at the cost of breaking any asp.net applications running on your machine)). However, I'm not going to try here since I do development on this machine :)
I remember reading that they've made it recognize the old "alt-..." menu navigation key sequences. If this is true, alt-f a should bring up the save as dialog. I don't have a copy of word 2007 to try this on but if you do I'd be curious to see if this works.
(Of course, I may be smoking crack.)
It puts the 'stab' in fstab!
But you're not bitter about it or anything.
Artificial scarcity is still scarcity as far as demand is concerned.
I just use the Wikipedia quick search that Firefox ships with. Slap "wp [term]" into the address bar and it gets the job done pretty well.
I don't see why it would need to run diagnostics when it wakes up from standby.
At least that's what my computer does when I press the power button. There have been a few changes in the past ten years, you know.
From what I understand by having friends who worked at McDonalds, they already use a two-surface griddle akin to a george foreman grill where a griddle is pressed onto the meat from above. So I guess someone already did this research!
The article mentions that at the other end of these phone numbers is a recording that reads off the code numbers. Give it a call and you might get to hear it before it runs out of minutes.
John Titor, is that you?
I guess they'll have to flip the switch on Razorback3 then ;)
They should just switch to RSS 3.0.
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Unfortunately, this wouldn't be a very good design. If (nearly) every pair of keys was used as an input, you'd end up in situations where you'd need to simultaneously strike two keys that are most comfortably reached with the same finger. It seems that 6 keys on a row would require too much travel of either the pinky (if the hand were centered) or the index finger (if it were offset) and that a 4x4 block would involve too much vertical travel (even the three rows of a normal keyboard can be tough at times (and that's not even getting into the digits)).
Perhaps three rows of five keys with three set below to be struck with the thumb, and then a mirror image alongside for the (optional) other hand so that all chords could be made comfortably. But then you're getting conspicuously close to a standard keyboard layout, except with the added complexity of having to strike two keys for any input. Although you do gain the advantage of potentially easier one-handed use than a standard layout, which might be nice for writing a letter while eating a sandwich or something.
But you *need* that $10,000 cable. Otherwise your packets will sound green and not strawberry-like.
I've had great fun playing MAngband and one of its derivatives, ToMEnet. They're both multiplayer roguelikes, and although they have to sacrifice some of the depth of their turn-based cousins they're still loads of fun.
This.
I have yet to see a Roguelike with decent multiplayer.
TomeNET's not bad.
I hear the text editor could use some work though.
I admit that I haven't yet tried out GreaseMonkey, but when I look at the exploit code it raises one really big question. Why isn't there some way to prevent non-user script from accessing the GreaseMonkey objects? Wouldn't this allow the user to retain all the ability they have now while rendering scripts from malicious sites harmless? Seeing as how GM is meant to be a means for the user to use scripts to modify pages, it seems very odd that anything outside of user script would be able to access its functionality.
I realize it's likely due to the nature of Firefox's JS interpreter, but if this sort of separation isn't viable could someone enlighten me as to why?
The differences are so blatant that if they were observed in any other animal but humans, we would be calling them distinct species. They would be different species, not races!
I'll bite.
Before making biological claims, please at least do a sanity check on your points.
I think you underestimate the possibility for variation within a species. Perhaps you've never heard of our good friend Canis Lupus Familiaris? (Which, I might add, is not even a species unto itself, but a subspecies.)
I'd say H. Sapiens has a lot less variation than you seem to think.