Years ago at a roleplaying convention I participated in a Babylon 5 game where someone tried to plant a bug on Odo's back without him noticing.
Odo subsumed the bug and caused it to work it's way down to his hand so he could then inspect it.
Not particularly enlightening I know - but it was the image I had in my mind when I read the above comment.
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Plus accessing anything in the original iMAC with its obtrusive CRT monitor was a nightmare.
It was the flashing that was the real nightmare. The first dozen or so Bondi's I ever dismantled all ended up wearing some of my blood on the inside somewhere - and given the translucent casing it was frequently visible. Popping the front cover on a fresh machine was truely 'teh suxor'.
Well that tells me the age of one of my oldest T-shirts (synergy with Slashdot Poll) - it's an iMac launch T-shirt from when I still worked at Apple resellers. I got it after completing the service training for the original Bondi iMac.
Not something to make fun of when OS X is still using old MENU (textual word lists) concepts.
Ok, I'm not a developer, and haven't studied GUI design to any degree of expertise - but what is the problem with menus?
I would have thought the goal was unambiguous communication of options - word lists if chosen with care should be the lease ambiguous choice to perform this function as icons etc... are far more open to interpretation - especially where there are fine graduations between options (e.g. Print, Print Preview & Page Setup or Save & Save As.)
This is a genuine question and not an attempt to mock.
There was also a board game, I have the companion piece "How to be a Complete Bitch" which featured Pammy Stephenson (Billy Connelly's wife) rather than Adrian Edmendson.
Even in stable relationships the lines of communication can get blurry. I've found I have to tell my husband explicitly when I"m interested in sex, and to ask him to clarify when he seems to be dropping hints because there has been so much mutual frustrations when dropping hints have been entirely missed by the other person.
I played a druid in a long runing campaign, the DM basically restricted me to forms I had seen, and then we restricted it to only one per major category of beast (a flying creature, a swiming creature, a large mammal, a medium mammal, a small or tiny mammal etc...).
The main forms I had were: Falcon, Stoat, Wolf, Grizzly Bear, Mouse, Leopard. We wrote up stat blocks for each of these and that was my list of acceptable shapeshifing forms. If I wanted to use a new form I had to spend time learning it - we used the in game philosphy that while I could shift into almost any form - I wouldn't understand how to use it's abilities or how it moved (e.g. how does a bird fly) unless I had practiced.
This was a much maligned movie (I remember seeing it in the cinema and hearing audience members yeling out "whoops - failed your charima checdk there dude" and other similar remarks.
I saw the DVD for under $10 so bought it, I watched the deleted scenes and found al the plot. Apparently they ran out of money to do the special effects for some of the key scenes that explained the entire story.
So, superficially this looks like a case of Hollywood accounting:
GenCon ran an auction
The agreement was that the proceeds would be split between Lucasfilm and the Make-a-Wish Foundation
Lucasflim is disatisfied with the statement of earnings from the auction and believe the proceeds were greater than reported by GenCon
Lucasfilm is suing saying - "come on, we all know you made more than that - cough it up"
My questions would be: What split was LucasFilm expecting? What costs could be legitimately deducted (were all auction iems donated free of charge and were there overheads in operating the auction).
Way back when I used to still do computer hardware repairs, we would occasionally get customers bringing in monitors that said were squealing. Sometimes we would be able to hear them, sometimes we could not. You would just have to take it on faith that it did so.
Read The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell. He talks about trends and how the actions of one person can give other people permission to pursure the same action - which can lead to sudden outbreaks of preivously uncommon behaviour.
One of the examples he cites is of a rash of suicides in an otherwise sucide free society in the south pacific. We have seen it recently where I live in Melbourne (Australia) with people being booked for going at excessive speeds on public roads (in some cases greater than 100 kph over the posted limit).
In publicising the school shootings, the media allowed other people who had thought of - but not previously acted on the impluse - permission to act.
The generation of WorkCentre Pros mentioned in the article are no longer part of the current line up.
A 'smart' network entity will be a risk if it isn't locked down regardless of whether it is a printer or a server or a desktop computer.
The current generation of devices have improved security features including encryption of job files and digital watermarking at creation to ensure you can track the originator of any document.
To use a basic analogy - if you don't close and lock your doors - is it the houses' fault it's "insecure"?
Sadly that's a hardware problem - not a software problem.
It seems like a simple thing to do until you start thinking about the variety of thicknesses which have to pass through the rollers without jamming - oh and flaps, and gum which can't degrade from the heat if they pass through a fuser, so stick to the device if a flap folds up...
They actually make specialty envelope printers for high volume applications, they are almost universally based on inkjet technology because it is cold printing.
Personally I'm a fan of window envelopes, folder/inserters and well designed document templates which put the address block in the right location to show up through the envelope window. You son't even have to worry about getting the letter in the 'wrong' envelope.
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Years ago at a roleplaying convention I participated in a Babylon 5 game where someone tried to plant a bug on Odo's back without him noticing.
Odo subsumed the bug and caused it to work it's way down to his hand so he could then inspect it.
Not particularly enlightening I know - but it was the image I had in my mind when I read the above comment.
[/nerd alert]
We now return you to your normal programming.
It was the flashing that was the real nightmare. The first dozen or so Bondi's I ever dismantled all ended up wearing some of my blood on the inside somewhere - and given the translucent casing it was frequently visible. Popping the front cover on a fresh machine was truely 'teh suxor'.
Well that tells me the age of one of my oldest T-shirts (synergy with Slashdot Poll) - it's an iMac launch T-shirt from when I still worked at Apple resellers. I got it after completing the service training for the original Bondi iMac.
Should Bunyips be sequenced before or after Drop Bears?
Ok, I'm not a developer, and haven't studied GUI design to any degree of expertise - but what is the problem with menus?
I would have thought the goal was unambiguous communication of options - word lists if chosen with care should be the lease ambiguous choice to perform this function as icons etc... are far more open to interpretation - especially where there are fine graduations between options (e.g. Print, Print Preview & Page Setup or Save & Save As.)
This is a genuine question and not an attempt to mock.
There was also a board game, I have the companion piece "How to be a Complete Bitch" which featured Pammy Stephenson (Billy Connelly's wife) rather than Adrian Edmendson.
Even in stable relationships the lines of communication can get blurry. I've found I have to tell my husband explicitly when I"m interested in sex, and to ask him to clarify when he seems to be dropping hints because there has been so much mutual frustrations when dropping hints have been entirely missed by the other person.
That's ok, with the invention of the electronic thumb your patent is superceeded.
Oddly enough I did mention SEP fields in my Frist Post (TM) - but then I painted it pink... and no one else could see it.
I played a druid in a long runing campaign, the DM basically restricted me to forms I had seen, and then we restricted it to only one per major category of beast (a flying creature, a swiming creature, a large mammal, a medium mammal, a small or tiny mammal etc...).
The main forms I had were: Falcon, Stoat, Wolf, Grizzly Bear, Mouse, Leopard. We wrote up stat blocks for each of these and that was my list of acceptable shapeshifing forms. If I wanted to use a new form I had to spend time learning it - we used the in game philosphy that while I could shift into almost any form - I wouldn't understand how to use it's abilities or how it moved (e.g. how does a bird fly) unless I had practiced.
This was a much maligned movie (I remember seeing it in the cinema and hearing audience members yeling out "whoops - failed your charima checdk there dude" and other similar remarks.
I saw the DVD for under $10 so bought it, I watched the deleted scenes and found al the plot. Apparently they ran out of money to do the special effects for some of the key scenes that explained the entire story.
Sad, it had potential.
How did this story not get the tag: youcantstopthemusic?
So, superficially this looks like a case of Hollywood accounting:
My questions would be: What split was LucasFilm expecting? What costs could be legitimately deducted (were all auction iems donated free of charge and were there overheads in operating the auction).
I thought we used Khamal...
Why are people so unkind...
Way back when I used to still do computer hardware repairs, we would occasionally get customers bringing in monitors that said were squealing. Sometimes we would be able to hear them, sometimes we could not. You would just have to take it on faith that it did so.
Read The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell. He talks about trends and how the actions of one person can give other people permission to pursure the same action - which can lead to sudden outbreaks of preivously uncommon behaviour.
One of the examples he cites is of a rash of suicides in an otherwise sucide free society in the south pacific. We have seen it recently where I live in Melbourne (Australia) with people being booked for going at excessive speeds on public roads (in some cases greater than 100 kph over the posted limit).
In publicising the school shootings, the media allowed other people who had thought of - but not previously acted on the impluse - permission to act.
Eeeeuuuuuwwwwwww...
I'm not uber-rich yet, but when I get there, I want my minions to have RFID tags as well as silver lycra bodysuits.
Spandex - it's a privalege - not a right!
Personsally- if I was stuck on a desert island, I'd be wanting a powerless water filter...
Most islands don't come with a handy 110V/220V power supply...
Well, I suppose you could alway use them for an anchor for you hand made raft...
The generation of WorkCentre Pros mentioned in the article are no longer part of the current line up.
A 'smart' network entity will be a risk if it isn't locked down regardless of whether it is a printer or a server or a desktop computer.
The current generation of devices have improved security features including encryption of job files and digital watermarking at creation to ensure you can track the originator of any document.
To use a basic analogy - if you don't close and lock your doors - is it the houses' fault it's "insecure"?
Sadly that's a hardware problem - not a software problem.
It seems like a simple thing to do until you start thinking about the variety of thicknesses which have to pass through the rollers without jamming - oh and flaps, and gum which can't degrade from the heat if they pass through a fuser, so stick to the device if a flap folds up...
They actually make specialty envelope printers for high volume applications, they are almost universally based on inkjet technology because it is cold printing.
Personally I'm a fan of window envelopes, folder/inserters and well designed document templates which put the address block in the right location to show up through the envelope window. You son't even have to worry about getting the letter in the 'wrong' envelope.
You might be interested in the Lunar Society to see how street lighting affected social nightlife...
Will it blend?
I've gone from being the first page of hits on google to being several pages down after an Alaskan country music artist. :)