IM also fills a need - that those users prefer to use e-mail for that need has mostly to do how IM currently is broken; specifically, the "many networks" problem. But some work to correct that - for example Google (which sort-of shouldn't be on your list) by using standard Jabber protocol and allowing server-to-server communication.
Google service could actually also blend into that sort of usage, since it's Jabber; so...enforce policy in which computers on local network can connect only to local Jabber server (so that messages between them won't leave your network), but connect this server with the outside world?
Too bad it's impossible to get here...thankfully it was aired few years ago in the middle of the night by some local channel...I wouldn't ever know about it.
It was stunning how swiftly it menaged to go from lighthearted to...well, you know the ending.
But enthusiastic...no, sorry, it only works that way when in given thing there's enough mojo for "me" (and I think the sentence you quoted was clearly enough from my point of view)
You wrote "Parent seems to confuse being brilliant at calculus with being a good driver.". I'd go further...being brilliant at calculus doesn't mean you have the thing that's usually called "wisdom". You might be even simply STUPID if you think that using your mobile while driving is ok...
BTW, I wonder if manual transmission, that you mentioned in your example, is among the things that impede driving...perhaps it forces you to focus more on the activity of driving vs. automatic? (or, even worse, automatic coupled with cruise control) Not to mention that basically you have to have both hands free, so perhaps you'll think again before holding cellphone in one of them...
But what do I know, I drive manual exclusivelly...
I agree with you that CPU influence on day-to-day performance is overrated (amount of RAM, speed of HDD and GFX card if you're into games are more important; btw, still on AthlonXP 1700+ here), however......I believe you mixed up speed relationship between P4 and AMDs of the day, it should be "p4 1,8 ot amd 1,4":P (nope, no fanboism here;P )
Well, perhaps it's the thing that I'd never, ever call LCDs refresh rates "low" when talking about using it for "www/im/e-mail/writing". Sure, e-ink _can_ be called slow easily even in such scenarios, but...why make it worse by using an interface in which you can move windows? (or scroll document instead of "jumping" through it)
But yes, I'm getting XO, should be ok for my needs (and BTW, by default XO uses WM without concept of "window":p - Matchbox WM)
Still...it's hard for me to be enthusiastic when the only piece of software that I really care about running in Linux (Google Talk) isn't functional...
Oh well, perhaps somebody will fully implement Jingle VoIP library in some Linux IM client really-soon-now (tm) (so I can talk with computer illiterate Windows users for which Google Talk is perfect when it comes to ease of use, Skype suffers too much for featuritis; oh, and Jingle/GTalk working better on slow connections is a nice bonus)
When it comes to story, I much prefer dead-tree book.
BUT...I'd really like to see subnotebook with e-ink. Yeah, no colours and low refresh rate...but that doesn't really harm www/im/e-mail/writing. With a huge bonus of prolonged battery life.
Sadly, market works against me, in similar way how it established 15,4' "laptop" as perfectly acceptable standard (cheapest) size...
Quite possible - I just replied to parent claiming that Intel can't touch gf6200, while X3100 actually surpasses it
(again, it's nothing dramatic, but I guess it's enough for a lot of folks, including me - I'm in a market for a new Thinkpad R61 14", and cheapest one, with X3100, will do the job fine; plus I'm somehow under, perhaps misjujed, impression that Intel gfx will give longest battery time; anyway Lenovo doesn't deal with AMD...)
Last Intel offerings (X3100 that is in all laptops here) are actually (finally) definatelly faster... Yes, it's still nothing spectacular, but as long as I can play (with tweaked settings of course) Orange Box titles, Hellgate: London, Sins of Solar Empire and Mythos, I'm happy.
Perhaps not "that good", but apparently it's good enough to allow survival until service module breaks off due to heat/aerodynamic stress in case of separation failure.
And Soyuz has two hatches - on the side solely to exit the capsule after landing, and top one connecting the capsule with orbital module; I guess the latter one took the heat (as heppened 39 years ago during Soyuz 5 reentry when service module also failed to separate - aerodynamically stable position for Soyuz in such configuration is "top hatch first")
Yes, of course, that's why I only wrote "it _should_ fool most keyloggers, I _guess_"
On top of that:
- I only use public terminal when I absolutelly have to (which ends up around once a year on average...) - if I do, then it's typically for writing/sending some urgent email...together with how many people do that on this terminal already, I'm not a high priority target for anyone - still, I change the password afterwards anyway, so time window when somebody would choose me, among many other low priority webmail targets, is rather short - especially that I can change the password from my Symbian smartphone
Enter your password in a different order than it is spelled? Simplest example: given your pass is "password", first write "pasrd", click between 3rd and 4th asterisk, complete it by entering "swo". The more complicated, the better.
I'm using this when I absolutelly need to use web cafe/etc....should fool most keyloggers, I guess. I still change my password afterwards as soon as possible.
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sounds like something which could work with remote detonator and claymore mine-like innards.
;)
ok, ok, I'll stop now, geeks should supress such ideas
...this could form really fun mash-up.
Hmm...at the end of shortened old video, sequence of somebody walking in "Terminator 2 flower box"-style and shooting at the kids/Mac?
IM also fills a need - that those users prefer to use e-mail for that need has mostly to do how IM currently is broken; specifically, the "many networks" problem. But some work to correct that - for example Google (which sort-of shouldn't be on your list) by using standard Jabber protocol and allowing server-to-server communication.
Google service could actually also blend into that sort of usage, since it's Jabber; so...enforce policy in which computers on local network can connect only to local Jabber server (so that messages between them won't leave your network), but connect this server with the outside world?
Too bad it's impossible to get here...thankfully it was aired few years ago in the middle of the night by some local channel...I wouldn't ever know about it.
It was stunning how swiftly it menaged to go from lighthearted to...well, you know the ending.
Gotta get my hands on it again...
"happy for other people" - sure, why not :)
But enthusiastic...no, sorry, it only works that way when in given thing there's enough mojo for "me" (and I think the sentence you quoted was clearly enough from my point of view)
I hate such stories, automobile/driving analogies suddenly make sense :/
You wrote "Parent seems to confuse being brilliant at calculus with being a good driver.". I'd go further...being brilliant at calculus doesn't mean you have the thing that's usually called "wisdom". You might be even simply STUPID if you think that using your mobile while driving is ok...
BTW, I wonder if manual transmission, that you mentioned in your example, is among the things that impede driving...perhaps it forces you to focus more on the activity of driving vs. automatic? (or, even worse, automatic coupled with cruise control) Not to mention that basically you have to have both hands free, so perhaps you'll think again before holding cellphone in one of them...
But what do I know, I drive manual exclusivelly...
I agree with you that CPU influence on day-to-day performance is overrated (amount of RAM, speed of HDD and GFX card if you're into games are more important; btw, still on AthlonXP 1700+ here), however... ...I believe you mixed up speed relationship between P4 and AMDs of the day, it should be "p4 1,8 ot amd 1,4" :P (nope, no fanboism here ;P )
Well, perhaps it's the thing that I'd never, ever call LCDs refresh rates "low" when talking about using it for "www/im/e-mail/writing". Sure, e-ink _can_ be called slow easily even in such scenarios, but...why make it worse by using an interface in which you can move windows? (or scroll document instead of "jumping" through it)
:p - Matchbox WM)
But yes, I'm getting XO, should be ok for my needs (and BTW, by default XO uses WM without concept of "window"
Still...it's hard for me to be enthusiastic when the only piece of software that I really care about running in Linux (Google Talk) isn't functional...
Oh well, perhaps somebody will fully implement Jingle VoIP library in some Linux IM client really-soon-now (tm) (so I can talk with computer illiterate Windows users for which Google Talk is perfect when it comes to ease of use, Skype suffers too much for featuritis; oh, and Jingle/GTalk working better on slow connections is a nice bonus)
Or they would simply ignore the vendor that wouldn't want to provide them with what they want, a lockable phone.
When vendor itself sells phones, they are always unlocked, at least in EU (well...just as the phones from carriers really, minus sim-lock)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9Home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iyonix_PC
That's exactly the sad reality...practically NOBODY would buy b&w display...
Consumers need colours, high refresh rates, big screens, 2GHz cpus, tons of ram, flashy cases...and so on
Yep. They aren't a hit wonder in most of EU, I guess...
When it comes to story, I much prefer dead-tree book.
BUT...I'd really like to see subnotebook with e-ink. Yeah, no colours and low refresh rate...but that doesn't really harm www/im/e-mail/writing. With a huge bonus of prolonged battery life.
Sadly, market works against me, in similar way how it established 15,4' "laptop" as perfectly acceptable standard (cheapest) size...
Your CARRIERS keep locking them, not vendors.
Where I live, I haven't yet encountered a phone that doesn't allow installing your apps (as far as technical capabilities of given phone go of course)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabit
You might find those two wiki articles highly intriguing...
Quite possible - I just replied to parent claiming that Intel can't touch gf6200, while X3100 actually surpasses it
(again, it's nothing dramatic, but I guess it's enough for a lot of folks, including me - I'm in a market for a new Thinkpad R61 14", and cheapest one, with X3100, will do the job fine; plus I'm somehow under, perhaps misjujed, impression that Intel gfx will give longest battery time; anyway Lenovo doesn't deal with AMD...)
Last Intel offerings (X3100 that is in all laptops here) are actually (finally) definatelly faster...
Yes, it's still nothing spectacular, but as long as I can play (with tweaked settings of course) Orange Box titles, Hellgate: London, Sins of Solar Empire and Mythos, I'm happy.
Perhaps not "that good", but apparently it's good enough to allow survival until service module breaks off due to heat/aerodynamic stress in case of separation failure.
And Soyuz has two hatches - on the side solely to exit the capsule after landing, and top one connecting the capsule with orbital module; I guess the latter one took the heat (as heppened 39 years ago during Soyuz 5 reentry when service module also failed to separate - aerodynamically stable position for Soyuz in such configuration is "top hatch first")
Yes, of course, that's why I only wrote "it _should_ fool most keyloggers, I _guess_"
On top of that:
- I only use public terminal when I absolutelly have to (which ends up around once a year on average...)
- if I do, then it's typically for writing/sending some urgent email...together with how many people do that on this terminal already, I'm not a high priority target for anyone
- still, I change the password afterwards anyway, so time window when somebody would choose me, among many other low priority webmail targets, is rather short - especially that I can change the password from my Symbian smartphone
Enter your password in a different order than it is spelled? Simplest example: given your pass is "password", first write "pasrd", click between 3rd and 4th asterisk, complete it by entering "swo". The more complicated, the better.
I'm using this when I absolutelly need to use web cafe/etc....should fool most keyloggers, I guess. I still change my password afterwards as soon as possible.
Will work/people will send it over and over again only untill someone gets the idea of changing archive file into "surprise exe".
This "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" doesn't seem very stealth to me...still, only shows that the weakest link is the human.