for Preventing Windows From Being a Burden to Developers and for Making Systems Beneficial to the Users.
Consider installing an alternative OS on your desktops. While at first it may seem to be a lot more work, the shared development efforts for the solution to the desktop/tablet duality will benefit everyone. Waiting for Microsoft to make the fix may take forever and leave many unsatisfied with their solutions.
The Core Windows interface up to Windows 7 has been the same for approximately 20 yrs.
Tablets broke my UI!
That's the root of the problem. Accommodating the tough screen interface. And Microsoft's screwed up idea that they needed to present one interface on all platforms.
On one hand, all OSs should provide some sort of API that presents the appropriate touch screen/gesture mouse/menu paradigm for the platform in use. Forcing app developers to develop and release two versions (touch and desktop) is not a good solution. It encourages them to create their own solutions or hack to solve the interface problem which will result in inconsistencies between different apps.
Admittedly, this isn't an easy task for OS developers. There are not always logical mappings between traditional desktop and tablet functions. And some desktop menus are just too complex and deep to present on a tablet. But Microsoft appears to have avoided the problem by throwing the desktop out and forcing developers to either dumb down their apps to the tablet level or roll their own hacks to support desired functions using a restricted gesture set. So, easy job for Microsoft, a PITA for everyone else. That's been their business model all along.
So why doesn't mine get fogged when I fly with it*?
*Back in the old days, before TSA would have a shit-fit if you ask them to hand check the film. I fear the baggage scanners fogging film far more than whatever is happening at 40,000 feet. And not just me, but what about the poor sod who has to stand in front of the thing for eight hours. Right at testicle/ovary level.
Slight logic error there. The anti-vandalism and anti-fornication* motives explain why there were locks. So now, not getting kids massacred is one more reason for them. So what was the reason for having them removed?
* Interesting note: Decades after leaving high school, when running into classmates, the question of what we all did when we snuck into classrooms comes up. Those who answered 'smoke' (not necessarily tobacco) seem to have fared rather worse in their life trajectories then those who answered 'fuck'.
Evidently from what I have read, professors do not have the ability to lock many university classrooms, so they have to barricade of sacrifice themselves.
This is being changed after the Virginia Tech shootings. Where faculty was unable to lock classroom doors, the shooter was able to enter. Where students were taken to lockable offices, they survived. Classroom door locks are now being added to many schools.
I don't know why they were ever removed. Back in my day, classrooms not in use were locked as a matter of policy (when no staff was present). Otherwise, students could enter and utilize them for 'unsanctioned' activities. I have many interesting stories from my high scool music department practice rooms.
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved." - Benjamin Franklin
1. Write app to identify evil corporations for smartphones.
2. Put your competitors' names on evil list.
3. Have your corporation sell 'evil list app' to suckers.
4. ????
5. Profit!
6. Watch as your competitors' market share for other products tumble.
7. ????
8. Profit some more!
My guess is that the DoJ together with the CIA/NSA have had access to such information since the invocation of the Patriot Act. Supposedly, financial transactions needed to be monitored to ensure they were not being diverted to terrorist activities*.
Our administration, desperately in need of tax revenues, just packages it all up on a hard drive and ships it off to the press. In order to foment public rage over "the wealthy" and generate public support for extending taxing authority.
There is no way one single entity in the banking world has a need (or ability) to accumulate such data across hundreds of private institutions and dozens of government jurisdictions. This is the product of a powerful national intelligence organization.
*This has been a specious argument from the outset. The entire 9/11 operation could have been financed by the weekend gambling losses of one wealthy Saudi prince. Just slip a few chips to the plot's operatives and it's laundered. There are numerous other ways to hide such relatively small fund transfers.
Problem is, you'll need to get money into your account somehow. To do so will take a wire transfer that the IRS will be notified about.
Wire transfer assumes that the money is presently 'in the system'. That means properly tracked, taxed and accounted for. So your trick is to make it 'dissapear'. Easy.
Wire your money to Monaco. After tax money, of course, since this will be a visible transfer.
1. Go to casino.
2. Buy chips.
3. Go to roulette wheel.
4. Bet everything on black (nod, nod, wink, wink).
5. Lose it all (nod, nod, wink, wink).
6. Your banker goes to cashier with chips and deposit instructions.
7. Account opened.
8. ????
9. Profit!
Or, you could just form a corporation. Losing money to a wholly owned offshore subsidiary is perfectly legal.
Slashdot Mirror
If it remains erect for more then 4 hours.
Knowing Kim Jong Un, it'll be over in seconds.
for Preventing Windows From Being a Burden to Developers and for Making Systems Beneficial to the Users.
Consider installing an alternative OS on your desktops. While at first it may seem to be a lot more work, the shared development efforts for the solution to the desktop/tablet duality will benefit everyone. Waiting for Microsoft to make the fix may take forever and leave many unsatisfied with their solutions.
Just taking a page from the "you're holding it wrong" school of PR.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The Core Windows interface up to Windows 7 has been the same for approximately 20 yrs.
Tablets broke my UI!
That's the root of the problem. Accommodating the tough screen interface. And Microsoft's screwed up idea that they needed to present one interface on all platforms.
On one hand, all OSs should provide some sort of API that presents the appropriate touch screen/gesture mouse/menu paradigm for the platform in use. Forcing app developers to develop and release two versions (touch and desktop) is not a good solution. It encourages them to create their own solutions or hack to solve the interface problem which will result in inconsistencies between different apps.
Admittedly, this isn't an easy task for OS developers. There are not always logical mappings between traditional desktop and tablet functions. And some desktop menus are just too complex and deep to present on a tablet. But Microsoft appears to have avoided the problem by throwing the desktop out and forcing developers to either dumb down their apps to the tablet level or roll their own hacks to support desired functions using a restricted gesture set. So, easy job for Microsoft, a PITA for everyone else. That's been their business model all along.
So why doesn't mine get fogged when I fly with it*?
*Back in the old days, before TSA would have a shit-fit if you ask them to hand check the film. I fear the baggage scanners fogging film far more than whatever is happening at 40,000 feet. And not just me, but what about the poor sod who has to stand in front of the thing for eight hours. Right at testicle/ovary level.
Slight logic error there. The anti-vandalism and anti-fornication* motives explain why there were locks. So now, not getting kids massacred is one more reason for them. So what was the reason for having them removed?
* Interesting note: Decades after leaving high school, when running into classmates, the question of what we all did when we snuck into classrooms comes up. Those who answered 'smoke' (not necessarily tobacco) seem to have fared rather worse in their life trajectories then those who answered 'fuck'.
Evidently from what I have read, professors do not have the ability to lock many university classrooms, so they have to barricade of sacrifice themselves.
This is being changed after the Virginia Tech shootings. Where faculty was unable to lock classroom doors, the shooter was able to enter. Where students were taken to lockable offices, they survived. Classroom door locks are now being added to many schools.
I don't know why they were ever removed. Back in my day, classrooms not in use were locked as a matter of policy (when no staff was present). Otherwise, students could enter and utilize them for 'unsanctioned' activities. I have many interesting stories from my high scool music department practice rooms.
I'll be reading TFA while standing in the TSA security line at the airport.
And what about the Elgin Marbles?
I believe 0000 is very commonly used
Nope. Its the President's birthday. All you have to do is to get hold of a copy of his birth cert ....... Oh, crap!
Yeah. Take a lesson from the British on how to handle such matters.
The summary has a link to a supposedly restored page. But it appears to be encoded or written in some dead language.
The astronaut dies of old age?
How many times?
I can envision an essay writing 'bot making multiple submissions with some AI to optimize subsequent submissions based on the .
I know it sounds like an awful lot of effort to build, but its time better spent than writing a two page essay on Dickens, IMO.
Anyone who stays at my house has to help slop the hogs and clean out the barn. You can play with the computer afterward.
Problem solved.
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved." - Benjamin Franklin
Judges are so 20th Century.
Maintain some perspective.
1. Write app to identify evil corporations for smartphones.
2. Put your competitors' names on evil list.
3. Have your corporation sell 'evil list app' to suckers.
4. ????
5. Profit!
6. Watch as your competitors' market share for other products tumble.
7. ????
8. Profit some more!
My guess is that the DoJ together with the CIA/NSA have had access to such information since the invocation of the Patriot Act. Supposedly, financial transactions needed to be monitored to ensure they were not being diverted to terrorist activities*.
Our administration, desperately in need of tax revenues, just packages it all up on a hard drive and ships it off to the press. In order to foment public rage over "the wealthy" and generate public support for extending taxing authority.
There is no way one single entity in the banking world has a need (or ability) to accumulate such data across hundreds of private institutions and dozens of government jurisdictions. This is the product of a powerful national intelligence organization.
*This has been a specious argument from the outset. The entire 9/11 operation could have been financed by the weekend gambling losses of one wealthy Saudi prince. Just slip a few chips to the plot's operatives and it's laundered. There are numerous other ways to hide such relatively small fund transfers.
Problem is, you'll need to get money into your account somehow. To do so will take a wire transfer that the IRS will be notified about.
Wire transfer assumes that the money is presently 'in the system'. That means properly tracked, taxed and accounted for. So your trick is to make it 'dissapear'. Easy.
Wire your money to Monaco. After tax money, of course, since this will be a visible transfer.
Or, you could just form a corporation. Losing money to a wholly owned offshore subsidiary is perfectly legal.
Oblig. Bloom County comic.
After the fact, you pick up the hijacker with a spatula.