I'd say correct to that statement. At least for me, a colour screen adds too much cost for little gain. With no screen, I can't even navigate the songs effectively.
While colour screens add so much to the price, I think it's better to focus on monochrome screens, whilst doing R&D into colour.
This isn't quite correct. If you close one eyes, you may get a little confused as to what's in front of what, but if objects are moving, then the brain has far less trouble deciding.
There's a mobile in my room, consisting of essentially two flat pieces of plastic, able to rotate independently. I like to see whether I can convince myself that one part is actually the other way around, by closing an eye. The amount of time it takes proves my point.
This is why there is actually a point to having 3D games - they're more immersive than the alternatives because your brain is tricked into believing in the world.
Isn't bashing OSS supporters for a minority of people who believe that it's invulnerable, godsent and sacrosanct a little childish and immature? However humorous and/or karma whoreish it may appear, I think it's slightly unfair to imply that anyone who believes that F/OSS has benefits over other business practices is so over-zealous.
Before you whack me back for not recognising a joke, yes I did notice the intended humour, but it's so goddamn old that it really doesn't count.
Here in the UK there is a big push for broadband coverage and general access. There's also a lot of work going into Wi-Fi hotspots and perhaps more importantly, a lot of things targeting children. With PCs in schools, and regular access to the internet as part of the curriculum (in fact, IT is now becoming compulsory from the start of schooling) children are increasingly being active on the internet. Parents will surely hear the scare stories about chatrooms, paedophiles and so on, and perhaps will make sure children do not do that kind of thing.
However, children will be more likely to open up attachments, surf around the online gaming sites which come with spyware toolbars and so on. This will make the problem of not having a firewall/antivirus/anti spyware much worse.
I don't know about the situation in the US, but it's certainly about time ISPs started handing out information with their broadband packages, to prevent this kind of 0wn4ge. Alternatively, after installing the cable modem, they can install anti-virus software and a decent firewall, as part of the package. I'm sure this would significantly reduce these occurrences.
The problem in the first is getting people to read the material, and in the second if people then upgrade/reinstall, ensuring that they also install the security applications.
The problem is obtaining the (hopefully) encrypted PIN from its (hopefully) hidden location on the card.
However, if you take a hash of a four digit number, it will be absolutely trivial to use rainbow or something to obtain the number from the hash. After all, there are only 10^4 (or is it 4^10...?) combinations.
Seems unlikely. A black hole of any mass will consume stuff, as long as stuff gets close to it. The thing to bear in mind is that any black hole only has the gravitational pull of what went into it. The thing that makes 'em suck stuff up is that they're so small, so if one is in contact with the earth, it'll slurp up everything that gets too close, gradually gaining mass.
(Hence, if the sun randomly imploded to a black hole, nothing would get sucked in - it'd just be a helluva lot colder and darker)
Incidentally, 10 million, billion, billionths of a second sounds to me like 10 million seconds...
Indeed, that is the best solution. I only feel sorry for those who don't know any better. I feel sorry for myself in that virtually everyone I know uses MSN, but I don't use the official client. (Incidentally, it was the amsn-devel mailing list that brought this topic to my attention, proposing we all got started on an encryption plugin)
Only idiots pass truely sensitive information through an IM system.
And AOL is the intarweb for who? idiots. You expect that they're going to heed all the warnings about not giving out personal info and such? I certainly wouldn't bet on it.
The real problem is the principle, not the practical application of this term. No-one wants their messages read through by AOL or anyone to whom they're not intended. The fact that AOL has decided that it has this "right" is bad enough.
Well, for a start you've got the definition for addiction completely wrong, even before we consider that there is a medical and colloquial definition for the word
Medically speaking, addiction is a state where some kind of withdrawal or compulsion is felt when the addict has not had some of whatever it is for a while. Whilst I don't know the precise biology, it's partially psychology, partly biochemistry, but the psychological part is not caused by other psychological problems.
However, addiction has become to be used as anything done habitually or obsessively. Whilst this is not the scientific definition, it is perfectly acceptable.
However, a medical addiction is not connected to "personal problems." Perhaps drug abuse or excessive alcohol consumption is, but that is not what you stated.
Claim substantiation welcomed. Indeed, even websites that back up your opinion, as opposed to your opinion on its own. Otherwise you simply have to be counted among the bigots, trolls or other "undesirables," whose opinions count for nothing.
It would need you to be able to override it, for example, when you go to the barber's, tell it not to require FR, and set a temporary password. As for growing a beard, it would have to adapt as it took photographs...
On the subject of mugging, the easiest thing to do would be to require some sort of expression to be made, which you would not have on whilst a mugger was stealing your camera!
However, you'd still have problems if you got beat up, or had some disease and couldn't move your face into that expression. I'd stick with passwords.
Take into account the fact that the camera has to recognise the face even in different lighting conditions and you have to come up with the conclusion that it must be comparing the pixels in the face with each other, not just using some reference picture. Therefore, as long as your face hasn't had a balaclava on, you should be alright!
As for passwords, I think too many people forget them. Perhaps not/. geeks and/or geniuses such as ourselves!
I think neither KDE nor GNOME is better than the other, it is merely a matter of preference. Therefore, better advice would be to "try all different types of everything" rather than plugging your personal favourite.
I beat you all with 151Mb... But God knows what my cache is set to do, and the thing's been up for about 10 hours. It has 7 tabs open and some pretty weighty extensions, like TBE loaded up.
On some, even most machines, perhaps. Do not for a moment imagine that ANY linux distro is infallible. Now, I haven't attempted to install debian, but from what I hear, it is definately more difficult to set up than others.
If every distro did exactly what was expected according to the documentation, there would be no problems in setting up your soundcard and such. It's the unfortunate truth, however, that some distros misbehave more often than others. Why is this? Difficult to say, but with a GUI tool that does everything for you, it's less likely to screw up. And if it does, you have exactly the same.conf files to mess with.
In addition, there is the simple problem that not everyone knows what program installs stuff, or even how to fire up the terminal when starting linux. This is part of the learning process, but that does not mean the learning process is mostly done before the OS is installed. Certainly when I first booted linux up, I had no idea of this stuff, and the fact that I had a friendly set of tools was a big help. Once everything was working(ish) I could learn how to dive deeper.
Tab switching is easier due to them being there in front of you, usually not obscured due to the taskbar being full of other stuff.
Plus, pressing ctrl-pgup/dn cycles only tabs, not any old window.
Personally, I expect they'll include seriously botched tabs with an extra dosing of crankiness. In this case, I'd have every right to be pissed off with them.
If they did it right? Well, I guess I'd still be pissed off. Less so, but pissed off in a general "you're an asshole of a company" and "it took you long enough" kind of way.
However, extensions provide both the method and motivation to add quality bits and pieces.
Not like the plugins of IE, or BHOs - there's actually a drive to get these things, and a base of good ones. This is where Firefox truly shines, in my eyes - its customisability. That and its accessibility
Having said that, certain aspects of its options have been excessively dumbed down - I'd prefer a nicer interface to the about: page firefox provides for the more advanced stuff.
Someone else mentioned that not all boats can have radar, but it also depends vastly on the range of said radar. Lighthouses, each with a unique signal, tell the crew exactly where they are, whereas two stretches of coast, visible on radar, may look very similar.
Radar does not warn ships of dangerous reefs, therefore it is important to know where one is, and if the radar is ambiguous then you won't unless you have another system.
To your first point: I also find the reboot times on Fedora a real pain, and unfortunately it doesn't appear to be the hardware detection that takes the time. Indeed, it appears to be many different things taking small amounts of time. Certainly, hardware detection does take some time, but it's not the bulk of the time by a long shot.
I plan to try other distros to see whether they correct this - Fedora is not renound for its speed.
Second point: Hibernate? Linux? The linux hibernate project is a little impractical, requiring kernel-recompiles, and no doubt a bit of tinkering. I wouldn't say I'm afraid of either, but it doesn't really compare.
Unfortunately.
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However, if the book were to target particular extensions and plug-ins that were particularly useful - AdBlock being an obvious candidate, and explain these for a new user, then there's probably scope.
Admittedly, extension updates may well make information about setting things up obselete, but more general tips may, perhaps, still be useful.
Except for those of us who were only 5 years old, that September, and therefore had no chance of either getting it or being part of it.
Although I could just be a "noob" like the rest of them, but I like to delude myself into thinking otherwise.
... Now what are these password things people keep telling me about?
BZFlag is fun for a while, but I don't see much variety... I don't claim to have ADD, but I between one match, even round of Onslaught and the next, everything changes due to the intense team dynamics at play.
Plus, UT2004 is so much prettier:)
Unfortunately, ATi are being very slow with their drivers, so I have to boot to windows to play anything - it kind of ruins the point of having native games.
Um... not quite.
In Europe, this problem was referred to as a "grain moutain" because farmers were receiving subsidies for producing grain. This was not a surplus to be stored away, but to be wasted.
If this was not true, explain the "set-aside" subsidies, given to European farmers for leaving fallow land? The answer - we were producing too much. There is supposed to be enough food to feed a population 1.5 times as large as the one we have.
And finally, if the first world has the right amount of food, why are so many people obese? While people are starving NO-ONE has the right to be obese through overeating.
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I'd say correct to that statement. At least for me, a colour screen adds too much cost for little gain. With no screen, I can't even navigate the songs effectively.
While colour screens add so much to the price, I think it's better to focus on monochrome screens, whilst doing R&D into colour.
This isn't quite correct. If you close one eyes, you may get a little confused as to what's in front of what, but if objects are moving, then the brain has far less trouble deciding.
There's a mobile in my room, consisting of essentially two flat pieces of plastic, able to rotate independently. I like to see whether I can convince myself that one part is actually the other way around, by closing an eye. The amount of time it takes proves my point.
This is why there is actually a point to having 3D games - they're more immersive than the alternatives because your brain is tricked into believing in the world.
Isn't bashing OSS supporters for a minority of people who believe that it's invulnerable, godsent and sacrosanct a little childish and immature? However humorous and/or karma whoreish it may appear, I think it's slightly unfair to imply that anyone who believes that F/OSS has benefits over other business practices is so over-zealous.
Before you whack me back for not recognising a joke, yes I did notice the intended humour, but it's so goddamn old that it really doesn't count.
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However, children will be more likely to open up attachments, surf around the online gaming sites which come with spyware toolbars and so on. This will make the problem of not having a firewall/antivirus/anti spyware much worse.
I don't know about the situation in the US, but it's certainly about time ISPs started handing out information with their broadband packages, to prevent this kind of 0wn4ge. Alternatively, after installing the cable modem, they can install anti-virus software and a decent firewall, as part of the package. I'm sure this would significantly reduce these occurrences.
The problem in the first is getting people to read the material, and in the second if people then upgrade/reinstall, ensuring that they also install the security applications.
The problem is obtaining the (hopefully) encrypted PIN from its (hopefully) hidden location on the card.
However, if you take a hash of a four digit number, it will be absolutely trivial to use rainbow or something to obtain the number from the hash. After all, there are only 10^4 (or is it 4^10...?) combinations.
"BTW, I assume you know that a star smaller than 1.4 solar masses can't naturally form a black hole."
Well, I didn't know the exact figure, but yes - I knew our sun would not do so.
"Much simpler to write it as 1.0e-24 secs."
Indeed. Damn those non-mathematicians.
(Hence, if the sun randomly imploded to a black hole, nothing would get sucked in - it'd just be a helluva lot colder and darker)
Incidentally, 10 million, billion, billionths of a second sounds to me like 10 million seconds...
Indeed, that is the best solution. I only feel sorry for those who don't know any better. I feel sorry for myself in that virtually everyone I know uses MSN, but I don't use the official client. (Incidentally, it was the amsn-devel mailing list that brought this topic to my attention, proposing we all got started on an encryption plugin)
And AOL is the intarweb for who? idiots. You expect that they're going to heed all the warnings about not giving out personal info and such? I certainly wouldn't bet on it.
The real problem is the principle, not the practical application of this term. No-one wants their messages read through by AOL or anyone to whom they're not intended. The fact that AOL has decided that it has this "right" is bad enough.
Medically speaking, addiction is a state where some kind of withdrawal or compulsion is felt when the addict has not had some of whatever it is for a while. Whilst I don't know the precise biology, it's partially psychology, partly biochemistry, but the psychological part is not caused by other psychological problems.
However, addiction has become to be used as anything done habitually or obsessively. Whilst this is not the scientific definition, it is perfectly acceptable.
However, a medical addiction is not connected to "personal problems." Perhaps drug abuse or excessive alcohol consumption is, but that is not what you stated.
Claim substantiation welcomed. Indeed, even websites that back up your opinion, as opposed to your opinion on its own. Otherwise you simply have to be counted among the bigots, trolls or other "undesirables," whose opinions count for nothing.
On the subject of mugging, the easiest thing to do would be to require some sort of expression to be made, which you would not have on whilst a mugger was stealing your camera!
However, you'd still have problems if you got beat up, or had some disease and couldn't move your face into that expression. I'd stick with passwords.
Take into account the fact that the camera has to recognise the face even in different lighting conditions and you have to come up with the conclusion that it must be comparing the pixels in the face with each other, not just using some reference picture. Therefore, as long as your face hasn't had a balaclava on, you should be alright! /. geeks and/or geniuses such as ourselves!
As for passwords, I think too many people forget them. Perhaps not
I think neither KDE nor GNOME is better than the other, it is merely a matter of preference. Therefore, better advice would be to "try all different types of everything" rather than plugging your personal favourite.
I beat you all with 151Mb... But God knows what my cache is set to do, and the thing's been up for about 10 hours. It has 7 tabs open and some pretty weighty extensions, like TBE loaded up.
On some, even most machines, perhaps. Do not for a moment imagine that ANY linux distro is infallible. Now, I haven't attempted to install debian, but from what I hear, it is definately more difficult to set up than others. .conf files to mess with.
If every distro did exactly what was expected according to the documentation, there would be no problems in setting up your soundcard and such. It's the unfortunate truth, however, that some distros misbehave more often than others. Why is this? Difficult to say, but with a GUI tool that does everything for you, it's less likely to screw up. And if it does, you have exactly the same
In addition, there is the simple problem that not everyone knows what program installs stuff, or even how to fire up the terminal when starting linux. This is part of the learning process, but that does not mean the learning process is mostly done before the OS is installed. Certainly when I first booted linux up, I had no idea of this stuff, and the fact that I had a friendly set of tools was a big help. Once everything was working(ish) I could learn how to dive deeper.
Tab switching is easier due to them being there in front of you, usually not obscured due to the taskbar being full of other stuff.
Plus, pressing ctrl-pgup/dn cycles only tabs, not any old window.
Personally, I expect they'll include seriously botched tabs with an extra dosing of crankiness. In this case, I'd have every right to be pissed off with them.
If they did it right? Well, I guess I'd still be pissed off. Less so, but pissed off in a general "you're an asshole of a company" and "it took you long enough" kind of way.
However, extensions provide both the method and motivation to add quality bits and pieces.
Not like the plugins of IE, or BHOs - there's actually a drive to get these things, and a base of good ones. This is where Firefox truly shines, in my eyes - its customisability. That and its accessibility
Having said that, certain aspects of its options have been excessively dumbed down - I'd prefer a nicer interface to the about: page firefox provides for the more advanced stuff.
Someone else mentioned that not all boats can have radar, but it also depends vastly on the range of said radar. Lighthouses, each with a unique signal, tell the crew exactly where they are, whereas two stretches of coast, visible on radar, may look very similar.
Radar does not warn ships of dangerous reefs, therefore it is important to know where one is, and if the radar is ambiguous then you won't unless you have another system.
I plan to try other distros to see whether they correct this - Fedora is not renound for its speed.
Second point: Hibernate? Linux? The linux hibernate project is a little impractical, requiring kernel-recompiles, and no doubt a bit of tinkering. I wouldn't say I'm afraid of either, but it doesn't really compare.
Unfortunately.
However, if the book were to target particular extensions and plug-ins that were particularly useful - AdBlock being an obvious candidate, and explain these for a new user, then there's probably scope.
Admittedly, extension updates may well make information about setting things up obselete, but more general tips may, perhaps, still be useful.
Although I could just be a "noob" like the rest of them, but I like to delude myself into thinking otherwise.
Plus, UT2004 is so much prettier
Unfortunately, ATi are being very slow with their drivers, so I have to boot to windows to play anything - it kind of ruins the point of having native games.
Um... not quite.
In Europe, this problem was referred to as a "grain moutain" because farmers were receiving subsidies for producing grain. This was not a surplus to be stored away, but to be wasted.
If this was not true, explain the "set-aside" subsidies, given to European farmers for leaving fallow land? The answer - we were producing too much. There is supposed to be enough food to feed a population 1.5 times as large as the one we have.
And finally, if the first world has the right amount of food, why are so many people obese? While people are starving NO-ONE has the right to be obese through overeating.