When I started using word, the most useful thing I learned was to define your paragraph styles and use them throughout the document. Which is really the only way to write anything above 5 pages.
The Word manuals and help files used to be quite out-spoken about that being the right way. Used to! And anyone writing texts on a regular basis also knew that you don't use tabs or blank space as indent.
Now auto-format just corrects tabs into indents, creates new styles on the fly and hides anything that could help you to write a consistent document.
This trend didn't start with the ribbon, the ribbon is just the next step.
It's a big deal and not a good idea. When your security is broken for whatever reason (trojan, key logger, intrusion, etc...) you don't want to have the extra trouble that a tiny possibility of a doubt exists that maybe, just maybe, your wife did it.
In that case, one probably has a more fundamental problem, one that is not limited to the scope of passwords and online accounts.
Now, now! The previous poster had a steadfast and perfect theoretical standpoint (never share a password) which he could apply perfectly in the given theoretical scenario (having a wife).
But, you had to object with a reasonable answer that only makes sense to people who actually have a wife. -Do you have to brag around here?
They could just redirect them to a portal, where they get informed that their computer is sending out viruses.
The portal would offer a free virus scanner and the option to have several ports closed by the ISP (checked by default) - ports that could later be reopened by going to the "experts"-page;)
If the user insists, they of course can go on and use the internet anyway. But only after clicking "ok" to a sentence declaring that they are now informed and "solely liable to any damage they might do to the internet"
It's coordinates to the place where the treasure of the Templars (and the Holy Grail) is hidden.
But in order to read it, you need a Canadian quarter and a North-pointing moose.
They did the Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, why not do a remake of the moon landing in Australia.
But I still don't like it. Sure, the original was kind of amateur-ish with the shadows all wrong and the wind and that sort of things. But a digital enhanced remake will just end up destroying the aura of the original, kind of what happened with the Star Wars remake. Gosh, I hope there won't be a Jar Jar Binks character in the moon landing remake.
For once there are direct consequences for modern Architectures obsession with full glass facades.
But the other fail is of course putting a glass box in the desert
The question isn't "why?". It had to happen. And that it happened that soon is a rather good thing.
But now there's a flock of developers that used to be paid by Sun that have to be transitioned to the new foundation or hired by someone like google, who has an interest in the office suite and its future direction.
And this has to happen rather quickly or there will be forks and fights and funny things that lead to uncertainty.
No no, arduinos are wonderful for controlling things. Especially since you can transfer your prototype to a bare and cheap atmega later. Cheap prototypig platform for cheap embedded controllers. Great.
But if you already know that your project will be connected to the internet or needs any extended connectivity, arduino is not the cheapest way of getting there.
Those lazy bums must have no idea what they're doing!
I think that sums it up.
You must have thought, that you used irony or something. But if you have to add $50 in hardware so your $3 IC can do what a $7 IC could do natively, you really don't know what you are doing.
given the fact that you can buy $50 things (pogoplug, seagate dockstar, even WRT routers) that run a full linux and IP stack, why hack around with dodgy ip-on-a-chip things (the arduino ethernet shield) when you can front-end the controller (arduino) with an embedded linux board that has proper IP features.
Exactly, only $25 if you get a deal. But somehow that's not the same for arduino people. I mentioned exactly that point several times to Followers of the Church of Arduino: $25 will give you an ethernet-shield or a zigbee module. The same money buys you a router with ethernet, wifi, and a full ip-stack in linux, plus scripting. Easy to connect the atmega to the serial port of the router.
The Followers of Arduin somehow see it differently: If you add shields to your arduino you built something yourself, if you solder it to a router, you're just using store bought hardware.
Years ago, the Beagle Boys did a similar thing to empty Scrooge McDuck's vault.
What does that mean?
That people designing security systems should read more (cartoons) and be more creative?
No! It means that cartoons should be censored. People who read this stuff as a kid could end up as criminals later. Most people committing these crimes were probably exposed to Disney during their childhood. It's not ego shooters, it's Disney cartoons.
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The Word manuals and help files used to be quite out-spoken about that being the right way. Used to! And anyone writing texts on a regular basis also knew that you don't use tabs or blank space as indent.
Now auto-format just corrects tabs into indents, creates new styles on the fly and hides anything that could help you to write a consistent document.
This trend didn't start with the ribbon, the ribbon is just the next step.
Sorry, but I now got that new mythtv plugin that replaces any TV appearance of Pope Benedict with Pope Carla.
It's a big deal and not a good idea. When your security is broken for whatever reason (trojan, key logger, intrusion, etc...) you don't want to have the extra trouble that a tiny possibility of a doubt exists that maybe, just maybe, your wife did it.
In that case, one probably has a more fundamental problem, one that is not limited to the scope of passwords and online accounts.
Now, now! The previous poster had a steadfast and perfect theoretical standpoint (never share a password) which he could apply perfectly in the given theoretical scenario (having a wife).
But, you had to object with a reasonable answer that only makes sense to people who actually have a wife.
-Do you have to brag around here?
They have a common trash password for sites they don't really care about being compromised (say slashdot).
With /. I simply fill in my user name and some fairy fills the password field with little circles.
"My PC is really l33t"
elif
Is your PC made by apple?
"My Mac is really cool"
else
"Want to have a look at my linux box in my Mom's basement?"
This sample text proves how crappy texts can look on a widescreen monitor.
Look at it on full-width on a wide monitor and it's just an OT rant.
Now look at it at a setup where no line is wider than 50 characters. Wow! Succinct
- See now, why the government wants us to change to widescreen?!
They could just redirect them to a portal, where they get informed that their computer is sending out viruses.
The portal would offer a free virus scanner and the option to have several ports closed by the ISP (checked by default) ;)
- ports that could later be reopened by going to the "experts"-page
If the user insists, they of course can go on and use the internet anyway. But only after clicking "ok" to a sentence declaring that they are now informed and
"solely liable to any damage they might do to the internet"
All good admins document their work - and often it is not documented.
...
It's coordinates to the place where the treasure of the Templars (and the Holy Grail) is hidden. But in order to read it, you need a Canadian quarter and a North-pointing moose.
that just say "FUTHARK"
Where did you get my password??
-At least, that's what Microsoft claims.
After seeing that annoying person (*) on TV claiming "Windows 7 was my idea" I would feel even less compelled to run out and buy Windows 7.
*: pick one, anyone; they are all annoying. The PC in the Mac commercial is more appealing than the average Joes/Janes in the MS commercials.
PC makers must have hated Vista a lot more than us
Why? I do buy new hardware, I use a PC at home and at work. So why would they still hate me?
Whatever
But I still don't like it. Sure, the original was kind of amateur-ish with the shadows all wrong and the wind and that sort of things. But a digital enhanced remake will just end up destroying the aura of the original, kind of what happened with the Star Wars remake. Gosh, I hope there won't be a Jar Jar Binks character in the moon landing remake.
For once there are direct consequences for modern Architectures obsession with full glass facades. But the other fail is of course putting a glass box in the desert
The question isn't "why?". It had to happen. And that it happened that soon is a rather good thing. But now there's a flock of developers that used to be paid by Sun that have to be transitioned to the new foundation or hired by someone like google, who has an interest in the office suite and its future direction.
And this has to happen rather quickly or there will be forks and fights and funny things that lead to uncertainty.
But if you already know that your project will be connected to the internet or needs any extended connectivity, arduino is not the cheapest way of getting there.
..from a planet that was colonized by hair stylists and phone sanitizers.
Those lazy bums must have no idea what they're doing!
I think that sums it up.
You must have thought, that you used irony or something. But if you have to add $50 in hardware so your $3 IC can do what a $7 IC could do natively, you really don't know what you are doing.
given the fact that you can buy $50 things (pogoplug, seagate dockstar, even WRT routers) that run a full linux and IP stack, why hack around with dodgy ip-on-a-chip things (the arduino ethernet shield) when you can front-end the controller (arduino) with an embedded linux board that has proper IP features.
Exactly, only $25 if you get a deal. But somehow that's not the same for arduino people. I mentioned exactly that point several times to Followers of the Church of Arduino: $25 will give you an ethernet-shield or a zigbee module. The same money buys you a router with ethernet, wifi, and a full ip-stack in linux, plus scripting. Easy to connect the atmega to the serial port of the router.
The Followers of Arduin somehow see it differently: If you add shields to your arduino you built something yourself, if you solder it to a router, you're just using store bought hardware.
Gosh I hate these fundamentalists.
They'll just sue you over the ipad - and that thing doesn't even have wings.
What does that mean?
That people designing security systems should read more (cartoons) and be more creative?
No! It means that cartoons should be censored. People who read this stuff as a kid could end up as criminals later. Most people committing these crimes were probably exposed to Disney during their childhood. It's not ego shooters, it's Disney cartoons.
'Thousands of Facebook users this afternoon (US Pacific Time) are reporting that the popular social networking site is down.
Seems that they don't need facebook after all to report meaningless tidbits of their life.
Obvious American intelligence tool. Why is it in North American plants?
Because Major Carter found the worm, and last night she reformated all American PCs.
She's quite good, you know. I've seen it.
While you all marvel about the size of this diamond, let's not forget this is an uncut diamond we're talking about.