1. My new out of the box android bionic self-configures on first boot-up and actually asked me what to use for my signature. 2. My old blackberry did those advertising signatures "sent by blackberry" by default, well before apple copied...er..um..innovated the slick idea.
Forgive me Steve Jobs...for I know not how I have blasphamied.
Sent via an old laptop running XP! Sent via 802.11...B! Sent via Cisco Router! Sent via Verizon!
I'm just a fanboi of being a crusty old curmudgeon. Now get off my lawn.
um...no. You *do* sound like an out of touch academic that's never tangled with the government. It might require evidence to convict, but not to investigate & prosecute. The prosecution's moves (sending in goons, seizing all your records, etc) are seriously destructive even if there's no conviction.
I'm not sure, but I think Gibson Guitar(?) is a good case in point for their alleged eco-terrorism in putting exotic wood accents on their products. They were later cleared with an "oops" after they proved their innocence. Yes. jack-booted thugs, seized records, etc were all involved. It takes a lot of money to defend against that while your means of money is in someone else's possession.
Maybe they just contributed to the wrong political party or used a K-street lobbying firm that failed to predict which horse would win the race.
It's already having an impact on me and the kids I want to teach.
I routinely hack (modify) tools, vehicles, software and electronics I buy. Simpler and neater examples of this include installing a headphone jack on my clock radio and TV so I can plug-in the transceiver for my wireless headphones. I hate using proprietary chargers and batteries for standard voltages like 3v and 5v, so I sometimes drill out and replace the power jack with one for USB wall-warts I already own or a 3v wart I can pick up for a buck at a thrift shop.
Using low-level disk editors, I used to change the dialog and messages in complied software for backups (like add a Ctrl-G, a bell or beep) to make them more useful to my operators and users who needed to change a tape or a floppy. The manufacturer/publisher didn't think an audio prompt would be useful.
I used to make external "AA" and "D" cell battery packs for my early-generation MP3 and portable CD players so I can run them on batteries that lasted much longer or could easily replace and switch out. Same for wireless POTS phones.
I loved to salvage old heavy-duty tractor-feed dot-matrix printers because they had great robotics parts (pin-feed wheels, and rubberized tracks make great tank-like motive systems, not to mention standard interfaces and language across printer manufacturers for controlling fast or precise movement, form-feed, line-feed, dot-graphics mode)
As a tech & manager, I've always flown around a lot for my job. Sometimes, my power-packs weren't very pretty (recycled deoderant-stick containers and duct-tape) because I wanted to demonstrate that projects can be made of material that would go to the dump and that we routinely throw away worm-gears, grippy knobs, water-tight containers, etc in our consumer products, like deodorant, then hunt in frustration through bins at a home-depot for something similar to what we threw out.
My co-workers got in an argument about the chemistry of wine. It's not yet settled, but being the geeks they are each bought chemistry lab glassware and is working furiously to prove his point. My friend's condo now looks like a mad scientist's lab. He's already been warned that he might be confused with a terrorist and he decided to back off a bit
Needless to say, with the advent of TSA, I no longer pack my hand-made extended-life battery packs, even though I want to use them the most on coast-to-coast flights.
I can just envision trying to explain to a bored TSA drone that the volts and current involved in my deodorant stick and duct-taped AA battery pack has much less power as weapon than the laptop batteries they ARE letting on the plane....nah...just buy a new, unmodified consumer device and compete for the power plugs at the gate or buy $79 power packs like everyone else.
I really worry about societies where curiosity and initiative is a liability.
My grandfather (now dead) was a creative hacker/entrepreneur. He didn't speak a lick of English but fled to the USA because he believed that securing liberty for future generations was worth the personal risk. I'm certain he'd conclude that our generation is busily re-creating what he fled.
The price of the phone is not what makes it valuable or its loss dangerous. That's like considering the price of the paper to determine the severity of the offense of the hold-up note to a bank teller.
It *IS* workable. You just need to raise fuel taxes enough to ensure that a national government designs and runs a flawlessly-implemented complex national program. If that doesn't work, raise the the fuel taxes again.
Raising fuel taxes has the added benefit of keeping the poor people off the government's roads and reducing traffic congestion for the ruling class.
The government would assure you it won't be tempted to expand the fuel-denial database (once it's working) into other ways of restricting your freedom...like...um... exceeding your allowed quota of carbon-fuel. There'd be no room in the database to store liters of fuel purchased. There'd just be a binary field showing you currently had the government's permission to purchase fuel.
With Windows ME, there were few viable (compatible) alternatives, just Win98 and Win2000. That is no longer true and now I see switching.
When MS-Office switched to the ribbon interface and killed off our productivity, our agency's CIO took a hard look at Google's subscription services for email and Docs for office apps. It took a few years, but now everyone is using g-mail and collaborating under google docs. We're shipping fewer documents around in email and now we're in the habit of just granting permissions to the documents rather then sending them.
Now that we've used docs and g-mail, I'm realizing how poorly MS-Office apps integrate and how distracting their interfaces can be. When I share a doc, the enterprise-subscription-version of Google docs suggests names based on my organization and g-mail correspondence. Somehow, I just don't see Microsoft doing something that elegantly. I expect to have turn off a bunch of silly defaults and play whack a mole with pop-up animated notifications every few seconds, interrupting my thoughts to tell me another piece of spam has hit my inbox. Would I like to send a return receipt to the spammer right now?
The point is, there's actually decent competition and it doesn't have to be a similar offering, it just has to frustrate your users less and absorb their existing repository of documents easily. We're very deadline and speed-oriented. 90% of my co-workers don't care about new features, or want a new interface to learn. They just want to get stuff done quickly without a lot of fuss. Google offered that while making email searching much more powerful than the Outlook/Exchange equivalent.
Our younger-generation workers are already familiar with g-mail and Google docs because it was free. Outlook/Exchange/bing is comparatively complex to the generation that grew up with minimalist Google products.
To take root, Windows 8 had better be simpler than Android to be productive in and configure. If not, Windows will alienate us as easily as they did with the ribbon interface in introducing us to Google docs and helping us reduce our (Windows) file servers in favor of hosted apps and storage.
You forgot, "Does it run Linux?", "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these", "It's good for Global Warming", "It's bad for Global Warming" and "In Soviet-Japanese space, Obayashi elevators YOU!"
I think I can tell when I'm being stereotyped.
Um...no, I did not forget any of those responses.
I was just *too* busy welcoming our new space-elevator overlords and their pet sharks with lasers on their heads. Furthermore, not to be an English Nazi, but...
...unless PETA has a drone buzzing you as you try to shoot the dog,...instead shooting of the animal-tormenting child....so you shoot the drone...which brings us back to where we started.
We've solved nothing here....by shooting the breeze.
further proof that violence against breezes solves nothing.
Clay pigeons might involve more legal rights than animal pigeons. The clay pigeons may contain intellectual property. (e.g., proprietary shape, proprietary mix of materials, trademarked logo and/or brand name, engineered flight characteristics, etc.)
Then again, shooting a Genetically Modified petri dish pigeon instead of a naturally-gened pigeon just might violate the fine print of a GMO licensing agreement.
Some receipts are printed with disappearing ink. Some can't be read after a month...yet alone 3 years. This is especially true of the copies on yellow receipt paper. I scan when my wallet gets too fat to fold. Scanning allowed me to take deductions that more than paid for the scanner.
My newspaper headlines get to my media device via microwave. I'm pretty sure there aren't any optical spy satellites with cameras capable of resolving RF signals.:P
Socially-inept? Talk about stereotypes! Not my engineers!
To make engineers into salespeople, you just gotta tell your engineers to be more confident, wear too much aftershave, make pistol motions with their fingers while winking at prospects and call everyone "Buddy." Give customers 5% off, which they qualify for because "you like 'em." Promise everyone whatever it is they want to hear.
just remember this: "smile-wink-pistol-buddy"
Also, train 'em to abandon their silly formal logic, which no one really wants to hear and speak using non-sequiturs...generously.
I'm appalled you'd stereotype my little engineer buddies. Because as you know...ours are the best in the business. (wink)
All the cool slashdotters will mod me up. (pistol-wink)
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I just haven't figured out how to safely steer all the OTHER times of the day.
just to be fair for the record...
1. My new out of the box android bionic self-configures on first boot-up and actually asked me what to use for my signature.
2. My old blackberry did those advertising signatures "sent by blackberry" by default, well before apple copied...er..um..innovated the slick idea.
Forgive me Steve Jobs...for I know not how I have blasphamied.
Sent via an old laptop running XP!
Sent via 802.11...B!
Sent via Cisco Router!
Sent via Verizon!
I'm just a fanboi of being a crusty old curmudgeon. Now get off my lawn.
um...no. You *do* sound like an out of touch academic that's never tangled with the government. It might require evidence to convict, but not to investigate & prosecute. The prosecution's moves (sending in goons, seizing all your records, etc) are seriously destructive even if there's no conviction.
I'm not sure, but I think Gibson Guitar(?) is a good case in point for their alleged eco-terrorism in putting exotic wood accents on their products. They were later cleared with an "oops" after they proved their innocence. Yes. jack-booted thugs, seized records, etc were all involved. It takes a lot of money to defend against that while your means of money is in someone else's possession.
Maybe they just contributed to the wrong political party or used a K-street lobbying firm that failed to predict which horse would win the race.
It's already having an impact on me and the kids I want to teach.
I routinely hack (modify) tools, vehicles, software and electronics I buy. Simpler and neater examples of this include installing a headphone jack on my clock radio and TV so I can plug-in the transceiver for my wireless headphones. I hate using proprietary chargers and batteries for standard voltages like 3v and 5v, so I sometimes drill out and replace the power jack with one for USB wall-warts I already own or a 3v wart I can pick up for a buck at a thrift shop.
Using low-level disk editors, I used to change the dialog and messages in complied software for backups (like add a Ctrl-G, a bell or beep) to make them more useful to my operators and users who needed to change a tape or a floppy. The manufacturer/publisher didn't think an audio prompt would be useful.
I used to make external "AA" and "D" cell battery packs for my early-generation MP3 and portable CD players so I can run them on batteries that lasted much longer or could easily replace and switch out. Same for wireless POTS phones.
I loved to salvage old heavy-duty tractor-feed dot-matrix printers because they had great robotics parts (pin-feed wheels, and rubberized tracks make great tank-like motive systems, not to mention standard interfaces and language across printer manufacturers for controlling fast or precise movement, form-feed, line-feed, dot-graphics mode)
As a tech & manager, I've always flown around a lot for my job. Sometimes, my power-packs weren't very pretty (recycled deoderant-stick containers and duct-tape) because I wanted to demonstrate that projects can be made of material that would go to the dump and that we routinely throw away worm-gears, grippy knobs, water-tight containers, etc in our consumer products, like deodorant, then hunt in frustration through bins at a home-depot for something similar to what we threw out.
My co-workers got in an argument about the chemistry of wine. It's not yet settled, but being the geeks they are each bought chemistry lab glassware and is working furiously to prove his point. My friend's condo now looks like a mad scientist's lab. He's already been warned that he might be confused with a terrorist and he decided to back off a bit
Needless to say, with the advent of TSA, I no longer pack my hand-made extended-life battery packs, even though I want to use them the most on coast-to-coast flights.
I can just envision trying to explain to a bored TSA drone that the volts and current involved in my deodorant stick and duct-taped AA battery pack has much less power as weapon than the laptop batteries they ARE letting on the plane....nah...just buy a new, unmodified consumer device and compete for the power plugs at the gate or buy $79 power packs like everyone else.
I really worry about societies where curiosity and initiative is a liability.
My grandfather (now dead) was a creative hacker/entrepreneur. He didn't speak a lick of English but fled to the USA because he believed that securing liberty for future generations was worth the personal risk. I'm certain he'd conclude that our generation is busily re-creating what he fled.
"they need same hash for same inputs, so no salt"
Unsalted hash sounds unappetizing. I'll take my NewEgg over "Easy" button.
The price of the phone is not what makes it valuable or its loss dangerous. That's like considering the price of the paper to determine the severity of the offense of the hold-up note to a bank teller.
It *IS* workable. You just need to raise fuel taxes enough to ensure that a national government designs and runs a flawlessly-implemented complex national program. If that doesn't work, raise the the fuel taxes again.
Raising fuel taxes has the added benefit of keeping the poor people off the government's roads and reducing traffic congestion for the ruling class.
The government would assure you it won't be tempted to expand the fuel-denial database (once it's working) into other ways of restricting your freedom...like...um... exceeding your allowed quota of carbon-fuel. There'd be no room in the database to store liters of fuel purchased. There'd just be a binary field showing you currently had the government's permission to purchase fuel.
With Windows ME, there were few viable (compatible) alternatives, just Win98 and Win2000. That is no longer true and now I see switching.
When MS-Office switched to the ribbon interface and killed off our productivity, our agency's CIO took a hard look at Google's subscription services for email and Docs for office apps. It took a few years, but now everyone is using g-mail and collaborating under google docs. We're shipping fewer documents around in email and now we're in the habit of just granting permissions to the documents rather then sending them.
Now that we've used docs and g-mail, I'm realizing how poorly MS-Office apps integrate and how distracting their interfaces can be. When I share a doc, the enterprise-subscription-version of Google docs suggests names based on my organization and g-mail correspondence. Somehow, I just don't see Microsoft doing something that elegantly. I expect to have turn off a bunch of silly defaults and play whack a mole with pop-up animated notifications every few seconds, interrupting my thoughts to tell me another piece of spam has hit my inbox. Would I like to send a return receipt to the spammer right now?
The point is, there's actually decent competition and it doesn't have to be a similar offering, it just has to frustrate your users less and absorb their existing repository of documents easily. We're very deadline and speed-oriented. 90% of my co-workers don't care about new features, or want a new interface to learn. They just want to get stuff done quickly without a lot of fuss. Google offered that while making email searching much more powerful than the Outlook/Exchange equivalent.
Our younger-generation workers are already familiar with g-mail and Google docs because it was free. Outlook/Exchange/bing is comparatively complex to the generation that grew up with minimalist Google products.
To take root, Windows 8 had better be simpler than Android to be productive in and configure. If not, Windows will alienate us as easily as they did with the ribbon interface in introducing us to Google docs and helping us reduce our (Windows) file servers in favor of hosted apps and storage.
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I'm trying to get off your lawn...honestly. But I can't find the app for that.
You forgot, "Does it run Linux?", "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these", "It's good for Global Warming", "It's bad for Global Warming" and "In Soviet-Japanese space, Obayashi elevators YOU!"
I think I can tell when I'm being stereotyped.
Um...no, I did not forget any of those responses.
I was just *too* busy welcoming our new space-elevator overlords and their pet sharks with lasers on their heads. Furthermore, not to be an English Nazi, but...
...unless PETA has a drone buzzing you as you try to shoot the dog, ...instead shooting of the animal-tormenting child. ...so you shoot the drone...which brings us back to where we started.
We've solved nothing here. ...by shooting the breeze.
further proof that violence against breezes solves nothing.
for detailed control....or Latin. Latin is used a lot for demos...of document formatting-styles.
Clay pigeons might involve more legal rights than animal pigeons. The clay pigeons may contain intellectual property. (e.g., proprietary shape, proprietary mix of materials, trademarked logo and/or brand name, engineered flight characteristics, etc.)
Then again, shooting a Genetically Modified petri dish pigeon instead of a naturally-gened pigeon just might violate the fine print of a GMO licensing agreement.
...and they still can't see why users hate their software.
After Sony is dead, their albums will be worth more.
I only buy dead artists. I just haven't had time yet.
Some receipts are printed with disappearing ink. Some can't be read after a month...yet alone 3 years. This is especially true of the copies on yellow receipt paper. I scan when my wallet gets too fat to fold. Scanning allowed me to take deductions that more than paid for the scanner.
or, work for a well-equipped firm. Ask to come in one weekend to use their enterprise-grade machine. Avoid the build-up with a consumer-grade machine.
My newspaper headlines get to my media device via microwave. I'm pretty sure there aren't any optical spy satellites with cameras capable of resolving RF signals. :P
Free healthcare does solve all this. So does cutting taxes.
I'll work out the details after I'm elected. It may take more than one term.
The pitchforks are okay but I'm pretty sure the torches emit light-pollution and cause global warming.
A lot of folks in USA have noticed that, while those in the UK speak English properly, they have developed a funny accent.
Lets take a cruise to N. Korea! Their electric utility firms do a wonderful job of managing light pollution for their people.
I just can't seem to find any N. Korean cruise lines on the web.
Socially-inept? Talk about stereotypes! Not my engineers!
To make engineers into salespeople, you just gotta tell your engineers to be more confident, wear too much aftershave, make pistol motions with their fingers while winking at prospects and call everyone "Buddy." Give customers 5% off, which they qualify for because "you like 'em." Promise everyone whatever it is they want to hear.
just remember this: "smile-wink-pistol-buddy"
Also, train 'em to abandon their silly formal logic, which no one really wants to hear and speak using non-sequiturs...generously.
I'm appalled you'd stereotype my little engineer buddies. Because as you know...ours are the best in the business. (wink)
All the cool slashdotters will mod me up. (pistol-wink)