The Windows Mobile I used a few years ago had copy-paste. In order to "right click" Instead of just touching an object or selected text with your finger tip, you held your fingertip on it for a second or two in order to copy it to the clipboard. You touched and paused on the target to paste.
I don't know if they kept this for their latest phone OS.
These scientists actually know the oxygen concentration because the scientists actually read the article. Yeah, I know. My logic is well shaped. I assert that "circular" is a shape.
Good idea, if you work with technical, competent, managers in a technical industry.
Outside the tech industry, virtualization is not well-understood. Many managers simply focus on seizing the tangible to obtain control and work from a position of strength and authority.
Unfortunately, our company was the technology subcontractor to a prime company that got into a dispute with its employees in at *our* location. They sent their security goons to *our* office to take all the smart phones and laptops on or around *their* employees. They didn't actually know which computers and phones belonged to them...so they just grabbed everything remotely connected to their people. I told them it was uncoordinated, that we were a separate and private business, so shoving past me to get at their people meant they were criminally trespassing. I shouted (so that witnesses would definitely remember) that without a list of property that was actually theirs and without my permission to be there and take property from my location, that each individual goon was personally engaging in criminal robbery. Thankfully, that company no longer exists...they lost a huge lawsuit.
That said, lawsuits are expensive to run and most individuals don't have the financial assets to take on a large private employer that shuts off their air supply.
Two words. "Browser Games" I play Deepolis, a very responsive and media-rich game. Can't imagine it implemented in anything other than Flash. It's the same reason many linux people have dual-boot. Games.
I'd say the "little black dress" and men's dark suit are the music equivalent of "classics." (e.g., they've been around for a long time, sell well...and probably always will.)
Then again, why "copyright" clothing when you can "patent" clothing or clothing components based on features or unique design, from Teva to Velcro.
Modern motorcycle protective clothing (the kind worn by riders of rice-rockets, not Harleys) claims patents and "patents pending" using all kinds of IP-based parts from A-Z (uniquely Articulated armor, Ceramics, Cordura, Kevlar, Teflon sliders, Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, Velco to Z (Zipper).
huh? I don't know how to read "(infinity - very few)." Is that (infinity minus very few?) which I think evaluates to "infinity"...or did you mean something else?
I'd think knowing a driver's insurance company and being able to send photos of risky behavior to them would be more effective than the cops. Money is a pretty powerful motive.
Perhaps you thought you were posting to some sort of mainstream site and not slashdot? Condoms won't help me find a life in my mother's basement. The secret to finding a life down here is a microscope and agar-infused petri dish kept warm and with the cover left off of it long enough for me to watch Wierd Science. Just to make sure...maybe use the Q-tip to scrape the keyboard then scrape the same Q-tip across the agar solution...
Ah..yes...The PC gaming experience turned me into a configuration subject matter expert. The reward was playing a game with a little color depth and stereo sound Batch files, config.sys files, himem.sys, CDdrvr.sys, IRQ channel assignments, 8-bit soundblaster cards, vesa-drv.sys, skipping work to call Microprose 1-800 numbers during business hours to diagnose why my game ran silent with a Voodoo video card. Did I load the drivers in the right order? How about a unique boot floppy with a custom config.sys file for game A and another boot floppy with a different config.sys file for game B, new-fangled bus-mastering PS/2 Micro-channel cards...programming the baud rate of the serial port on each computer to transfer a file. Take your Winders and get off my lawn!...or I'm likely to remap just one random key your keyboard...for just 2 seconds...on seconds that end in a prime number. Diagnose that! Punks!
I'm seriously open to your arguments...if you can just supply some. I need more than just answers like "wrong" or "dumb" care to enlighten me with a few facts or your logic?
I can vouch for home users on longer cycles...like maybe 10 years.
I just upgraded my wife's WinME box (still works fine for Excel'97 spreadsheets and surfing yahoo) with a new i3 core computer w/Win7 pre-installed.
To my amazement, WinME is still comparable in speed for her typical tasks (booting, opening office, opening browsers) takes about the same time with latest software running on latest hardware. (No, she's not a gamer unless, you count solitaire or Tetris) I had to delouse all the pre-installed "1 month free!" crap-ware.
After all that registration and setup work, turns out my wife likes Win7 but "hates" the new ribbon interface of Office2007 and wanted Office97 back. I can't find my Office97 CD, so I installed the latest Open Office hoping they didn't do the ribbon interface thing. OOO-Calc still offers a more familiar drop-down interface to my veteran Excel user than the new Excel. Hopefully OOO-Calc will leave the interface fairly stable as it moves forward.
That's debatable. I'm "environmentally conscious" but, I think more in engineering terms than in fads and emotional appeal terms.
When getting power from hydro, I'd run CFLs in summer and incandescants in winter as my combustion-based heater would pump out CO2.
CFL's may be greener in the summer, because they output more of their wattage as "light" and less as "heat." reducing the load on your AC.
On the other hand, in the winter, using incandescant bulbs generates significant beneficial indoor heat from electricity so your heater pumps out less CO2. More importantly, it generates the heat in the room you're occupying, so you can turn down the central heat.
When disposed, incandescents are way less toxic than CFLs and much better for "instant-on" lighting applications. (CFL's need a few minutes to "warm up" to full light output.)
The source of your electricity various by region and by individual, which is why the idea of mandating a particular technology like CFL is ham-fisted nonsense.
I have a creek that runs through my property and live next to a +200yr old water-driven sawmill. Allow me to do something useful with the wheel motion rather than mandate what light bulbs I must use in the name of "CO2 green."
Considering how the meeting between two civilizations, one more advanced than the other, has generally gone badly for the majority of human history.
I for one, am confident the space alien's relief agency will take a junket to Earth on a fact-finding mission and decide we Earthlings are living in poverty, our old are dying needlessly and we have wars with each other.
The 1st wave of emergency relief, will arrive in the form of advanced medicines, large quantities of food and clean water, thus destroying the local market for our bio-tech firms, farmers, grocery chains, food manufactures and clean-water engineers. Student will lose incentive to study things like thermodynamics and would rather jack into the Alien mp7 porno players.
The 2nd wave of relief will be to beam power, point to point to each building. thus wiping out the local market for power generation and transmission. (No more nasty CO2! Look at how much help you're being provided!)
The 3rd wave of relief will arrive in the form of galactic peace-keeping security forces with funny, bright-purple helmets of a highly reflective surface ideal for protecting their heads from advanced beam weapons, which, over a pint of Romulan Ale, the aliens will privately share with us makes it feel like they wearing targets for protection. They'll ask us "why don't your mal-contents use proper beam weapons instead of the lead-throwing tubes? Our reflective helmets were designed for beam defence and your kind just ruins these advanced systems."
A 4th wave of relief will come in the form of briefcase carrying, champaign-sipping representatives of the Galactic Bank. They'll tisk-tisk at how dependent we've become on foreign galactic aid, roll their eyes and moan "When will these poor earthlings ever become self-sustaining?"
Earthlings will want to buy the advanced alien mp7 porno players and gizmos upgrades, but will have only paper-backed currency and not the gold-pressed latinum the rest of the civilized universe uses.
As a solution, the Ferengi delegation to the Galactic Poverty Relief Bank will lobby to offer our politicians access to EZ credit...secured by the planet.
Perhaps, if we just held the Planetary Deed...we could generously increase your government's credit line.
Sure, it may sound scary, but it will be okay, because our confident-sounding politicians will promise us "change."
They'll tell us that "they have a plan" and will work tirelessly to "restructure the global economy to be competitive in the galactic economy" and will borrow the money to get it done quickly. There is no time for debate. They'll publicly promise that the borrowed gold-pressed latinum will absolutely be spent wisely. Unlike every other time we've promised that...this time, we really-really mean it!
They'll promise "complete transparency" when making legislative sausage. They'll promise the economy won't be re-structured behind closed door sessions with the Ferengi lobby. All elected officials thinking of funding their next campaign, they just loath lobbyistsand will work tirelessly with them to reduce their influence. Also, if you still like your paper-backed earth currency...in a way, it could be said that you'll be allowed to keep it. After all, the leaders say they can always borrow more gold-pressed latinum to print more paper currency. They'll just quietly hold more frequent bond auctions to raise the cash needed to meet the required down payment to borrow the gold-pressed latinum to spend on the influential and growing slashdot group known as "I for one, welcome our new peaceful and generous Overlords."
Sometimes I think the entire "Buy this ringtone and customize your phone to represent YOU" scam is one of the telecom industry's biggest worthless marketing success.
It's only worthless if you don't own the corporate stock.
Personally, I welcome the people that feel a need to project their identities with the right product. I happen to feel that the choice (whatever it was) was "an excellent choice" and lets people know they have discerning taste.
Ka-ching!
Is cash tight? We accept plastic. A person of such discriminating taste and intelligence can't be expected to bother with petty cash. Again, excellent choice, sir!
Could I interest you saving money on your next ringtone? I have $39 software package that let's you sample your own ringtones.
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On the other hand, a bicycle analogy is green...and therefore much more politically correct than your carbon-spewing analogy...chuckle...
Your lawyers we hired to foreclose on your national debt. All your base are belong to us.
The Windows Mobile I used a few years ago had copy-paste. In order to "right click" Instead of just touching an object or selected text with your finger tip, you held your fingertip on it for a second or two in order to copy it to the clipboard. You touched and paused on the target to paste.
I don't know if they kept this for their latest phone OS.
These scientists actually know the oxygen concentration because the scientists actually read the article. Yeah, I know. My logic is well shaped. I assert that "circular" is a shape.
Aye.
If I had mod points I'd mod Mr. Mischief up.
Good idea, if you work with technical, competent, managers in a technical industry.
Outside the tech industry, virtualization is not well-understood. Many managers simply focus on seizing the tangible to obtain control and work from a position of strength and authority.
Unfortunately, our company was the technology subcontractor to a prime company that got into a dispute with its employees in at *our* location. They sent their security goons to *our* office to take all the smart phones and laptops on or around *their* employees. They didn't actually know which computers and phones belonged to them...so they just grabbed everything remotely connected to their people. I told them it was uncoordinated, that we were a separate and private business, so shoving past me to get at their people meant they were criminally trespassing. I shouted (so that witnesses would definitely remember) that without a list of property that was actually theirs and without my permission to be there and take property from my location, that each individual goon was personally engaging in criminal robbery. Thankfully, that company no longer exists...they lost a huge lawsuit.
That said, lawsuits are expensive to run and most individuals don't have the financial assets to take on a large private employer that shuts off their air supply.
Two words. "Browser Games" I play Deepolis, a very responsive and media-rich game. Can't imagine it implemented in anything other than Flash. It's the same reason many linux people have dual-boot. Games.
I'd say the "little black dress" and men's dark suit are the music equivalent of "classics." (e.g., they've been around for a long time, sell well...and probably always will.)
Then again, why "copyright" clothing when you can "patent" clothing or clothing components based on features or unique design, from Teva to Velcro.
Modern motorcycle protective clothing (the kind worn by riders of rice-rockets, not Harleys) claims patents and "patents pending" using all kinds of IP-based parts from A-Z (uniquely Articulated armor, Ceramics, Cordura, Kevlar, Teflon sliders, Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, Velco to Z (Zipper).
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blteva_sandals.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro
When will manufacturers, especially software manufacturers, ever understand the concept that it is *MY* computer or device, *NOT THEIRS* ???
They'll understand that the moment you stop clicking "accept" on their EULAs.
Wait. No. That's not true. They won't understand even then.
huh? I don't know how to read "(infinity - very few)." Is that (infinity minus very few?) which I think evaluates to "infinity" ...or did you mean something else?
"Unless your job is designing large shapeless soft foam objects, you're always going to risk someone using your creation to hurt someone else."
I wonder if the foam egg-crate lining of a sniper rifle's protective case counts as a "designed, large, shapeless foam object"
wobble detector? um...Does that mean we're not supposed to huck moon rocks at it?
So...this would be NASA's version of how many people can you cram in to a Volkswagon?
I'm running P4@2.8Ghz, 0.5GB RAM for most of my work. (e.g., spreadsheets, memos, email, writing documentation)
>Would sending photos to police help?
I'd think knowing a driver's insurance company and being able to send photos of risky behavior to them would be more effective than the cops. Money is a pretty powerful motive.
Perhaps you thought you were posting to some sort of mainstream site and not slashdot? Condoms won't help me find a life in my mother's basement. The secret to finding a life down here is a microscope and agar-infused petri dish kept warm and with the cover left off of it long enough for me to watch Wierd Science. Just to make sure...maybe use the Q-tip to scrape the keyboard then scrape the same Q-tip across the agar solution...
Ah..yes...The PC gaming experience turned me into a configuration subject matter expert. The reward was playing a game with a little color depth and stereo sound Batch files, config.sys files, himem.sys, CDdrvr.sys, IRQ channel assignments, 8-bit soundblaster cards, vesa-drv.sys, skipping work to call Microprose 1-800 numbers during business hours to diagnose why my game ran silent with a Voodoo video card. Did I load the drivers in the right order? How about a unique boot floppy with a custom config.sys file for game A and another boot floppy with a different config.sys file for game B, new-fangled bus-mastering PS/2 Micro-channel cards...programming the baud rate of the serial port on each computer to transfer a file. Take your Winders and get off my lawn! ...or I'm likely to remap just one random key your keyboard...for just 2 seconds...on seconds that end in a prime number. Diagnose that! Punks!
I'm seriously open to your arguments...if you can just supply some. I need more than just answers like "wrong" or "dumb" care to enlighten me with a few facts or your logic?
I can vouch for home users on longer cycles...like maybe 10 years.
I just upgraded my wife's WinME box (still works fine for Excel'97 spreadsheets and surfing yahoo) with a new i3 core computer w/Win7 pre-installed.
To my amazement, WinME is still comparable in speed for her typical tasks (booting, opening office, opening browsers) takes about the same time with latest software running on latest hardware. (No, she's not a gamer unless, you count solitaire or Tetris) I had to delouse all the pre-installed "1 month free!" crap-ware.
After all that registration and setup work, turns out my wife likes Win7 but "hates" the new ribbon interface of Office2007 and wanted Office97 back. I can't find my Office97 CD, so I installed the latest Open Office hoping they didn't do the ribbon interface thing. OOO-Calc still offers a more familiar drop-down interface to my veteran Excel user than the new Excel. Hopefully OOO-Calc will leave the interface fairly stable as it moves forward.
That's debatable. I'm "environmentally conscious" but, I think more in engineering terms than in fads and emotional appeal terms.
When getting power from hydro, I'd run CFLs in summer and incandescants in winter as my combustion-based heater would pump out CO2.
CFL's may be greener in the summer, because they output more of their wattage as "light" and less as "heat." reducing the load on your AC.
On the other hand, in the winter, using incandescant bulbs generates significant beneficial indoor heat from electricity so your heater pumps out less CO2. More importantly, it generates the heat in the room you're occupying, so you can turn down the central heat.
When disposed, incandescents are way less toxic than CFLs and much better for "instant-on" lighting applications. (CFL's need a few minutes to "warm up" to full light output.)
The source of your electricity various by region and by individual, which is why the idea of mandating a particular technology like CFL is ham-fisted nonsense.
I have a creek that runs through my property and live next to a +200yr old water-driven sawmill. Allow me to do something useful with the wheel motion rather than mandate what light bulbs I must use in the name of "CO2 green."
If the Aliens don't pay for watching earth TV that's clearly grounds for RIAA to search their hard drives for unlicensed earth music.
I'm not grumpy...I'm just drawn out that way.
Well, if we just stopped being silly and would just build an intergalactic Pringles canantenna...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles_cantenna
Considering how the meeting between two civilizations, one more advanced than the other, has generally gone badly for the majority of human history.
I for one, am confident the space alien's relief agency will take a junket to Earth on a fact-finding mission and decide we Earthlings are living in poverty, our old are dying needlessly and we have wars with each other.
The 1st wave of emergency relief, will arrive in the form of advanced medicines, large quantities of food and clean water, thus destroying the local market for our bio-tech firms, farmers, grocery chains, food manufactures and clean-water engineers. Student will lose incentive to study things like thermodynamics and would rather jack into the Alien mp7 porno players.
The 2nd wave of relief will be to beam power, point to point to each building. thus wiping out the local market for power generation and transmission. (No more nasty CO2! Look at how much help you're being provided!)
The 3rd wave of relief will arrive in the form of galactic peace-keeping security forces with funny, bright-purple helmets of a highly reflective surface ideal for protecting their heads from advanced beam weapons, which, over a pint of Romulan Ale, the aliens will privately share with us makes it feel like they wearing targets for protection. They'll ask us "why don't your mal-contents use proper beam weapons instead of the lead-throwing tubes? Our reflective helmets were designed for beam defence and your kind just ruins these advanced systems."
A 4th wave of relief will come in the form of briefcase carrying, champaign-sipping representatives of the Galactic Bank. They'll tisk-tisk at how dependent we've become on foreign galactic aid, roll their eyes and moan "When will these poor earthlings ever become self-sustaining?"
Earthlings will want to buy the advanced alien mp7 porno players and gizmos upgrades, but will have only paper-backed currency and not the gold-pressed latinum the rest of the civilized universe uses.
As a solution, the Ferengi delegation to the Galactic Poverty Relief Bank will lobby to offer our politicians access to EZ credit...secured by the planet.
Perhaps, if we just held the Planetary Deed...we could generously increase your government's credit line.
Sure, it may sound scary, but it will be okay, because our confident-sounding politicians will promise us "change."
They'll tell us that "they have a plan" and will work tirelessly to "restructure the global economy to be competitive in the galactic economy" and will borrow the money to get it done quickly. There is no time for debate. They'll publicly promise that the borrowed gold-pressed latinum will absolutely be spent wisely. Unlike every other time we've promised that...this time, we really-really mean it!
They'll promise "complete transparency" when making legislative sausage. They'll promise the economy won't be re-structured behind closed door sessions with the Ferengi lobby. All elected officials thinking of funding their next campaign, they just loath lobbyistsand will work tirelessly with them to reduce their influence. Also, if you still like your paper-backed earth currency...in a way, it could be said that you'll be allowed to keep it. After all, the leaders say they can always borrow more gold-pressed latinum to print more paper currency. They'll just quietly hold more frequent bond auctions to raise the cash needed to meet the required down payment to borrow the gold-pressed latinum to spend on the influential and growing slashdot group known as "I for one, welcome our new peaceful and generous Overlords."
I'm not cranky...I'm just drawn out that way.
my power bill (and thus also CO2 emissions) went up noticeably....It seems much better to donate that money to poverty relief.
Because, larger populations of wealthier humans will volunteer not to exhale CO2.
I'm not grouchy...I've just been drawn out that way.
Sometimes I think the entire "Buy this ringtone and customize your phone to represent YOU" scam is one of the telecom industry's biggest worthless marketing success.
It's only worthless if you don't own the corporate stock.
Personally, I welcome the people that feel a need to project their identities with the right product. I happen to feel that the choice (whatever it was) was "an excellent choice" and lets people know they have discerning taste.
Ka-ching!
Is cash tight? We accept plastic. A person of such discriminating taste and intelligence can't be expected to bother with petty cash. Again, excellent choice, sir!
Could I interest you saving money on your next ringtone? I have $39 software package that let's you sample your own ringtones.