First, there were assigned seats in the movie theaters. There weren't any signs saying such and the theater attendent took great delight in selling me the worst seat in the house despite being 3 hours early for the show. Rudeness to visitors is SOP there.
Most countries in that region have seat numbers in movie halls. I did get a good seat and decent service so there is anecdotal evidence both ways.
It was clear that the purpose was so you could see that everyone washed their hands whenever they were supposed to. Customers regularly took notice of hand washing and the stink of judgment was unmistakable. I personally don't care or want to know if someone washes their hands. In Singapore it seems it seems not just a moral imperative to wash but also to verify. It creeped me out.
I think its just you. I too noticed that people washed there hands more often and I guess thats why the washbasins are more conveniently placed. I don't see how that is judging anyone. Even in rural Texas, a lot of the 'messy' barbecue places have washbasins outside the restrooms and we dont think anyone is jugding us there.
As far as Singapore's government working, that depends on your perspective.
That really did creep me out. It doesn't really seem to be much of a democracy, more like a benevolent dictatorship with elections thrown around for fun.
Anyone who actually takes the time to write away msgs, DOES NOT reuse old away msgs. Why clutter up the status button with old msgs? Please remove this "feature."
Well, I like that feature. I sometimes write new away messages, but also reuse old ones. For example I often use: gone for lunch, will be back by 1pm.
Well, third party patches are being used and deployed quite regularly in the FOSS world. In fact, this was one of the points the Mozilla people tried to highlight in their recent trademark dispute with debian (mainly accussing them of shoddy patches).
It is not really a conundrum, whether you use a third party patch or not, just depends on who the third party is and to what level you trust it. I'll install a security third party patch by the debian devs but might think twice if it was by some one like Linspire (not because they are necessarily shoddier, just the question of trust).
My Motorola phone charges from the usb cable like a dream (I forgot the model number maybe 350 or 385.. its new). Maybe you your usb port are have a cutoff circuit and the Motorola cell phone has a high power rating (which would mean that I am frying my usb port)
Yes, I agree. The title should say " Personal (software) Firewalls Mostly Useless (for out bound traffic)". And that is unpreventable if the user is always logged in as an admin and runs malicious executables (or programs with known security issues, like older versions of browsers). This would be an issue, if a non-admin user could disable the firewall (which I guess is not easy, since the article does not mention that). So there is no real problem with the personal firewall software.
The firewalls are still very useful in preventing attacks due to OS vulnerabilities (like the Windows RPC issues). Anyway that is the main aim of personal firewalls, and the article does not have anything about the effectiveness of the firewall for inbound traffic.
If you want a secure outbound firewall the best bet is to use a dedicated gateway machine with the firewall (I use my very old laptop with BSD on it as a gateway)
Convenient email backup, access from anywhere, combined chats and emails, labels, an excellent spam filter and the best email interface (IMO) (I prefer it over thunderbird, which is nice too.. havnt really used mail.app so cant comment on that)
But I find search to be a ittle disappointing in Gmail, there is no spell checker , no suggested words, no word splitter/combiner.. all those things which we take for granted in google searches.
And even if it does change the language a little bit, thats to be expected. Languages (esp English isnt static) so this is just part of the normal evolution process of the language(albeit a little quicker than the past). Personally I do have a hard time reading netspeak but then it does remind me of Chaucer sometimes:)
eg. That it was May thus dremed me In time of love and jollite That al thyng gynneth waxen gay For there is neither busk nor hay In May that it nyl shrouded ben, And it with new leves wryen. These greves eke recoveren grene, That dry in wynter ben to sen, And the erthe waxeth proude withal For swete dewes that on it falle . . .
Maybe thats why the can still do well in their English classes.
It wont really affect performace since it uses 15% of the available space for the system restore including the shadow copies. That isnt too heavy (in terms of harddsik space). It shouldnt really take noticeably more time as the system doesnt really copy over the old file to a physically different location.
Anyway if I ever use Vista I'm going to turn this off (I dont like undelete like utilities). But I think this would still be very useful feature for say, my grandma.
I was a TA for a programming course and we had managed to get a fairly automated system running very smoothly. It was a huge class with 7+ TA's and the submission script automatically alloted each TA his/her share (randomly to ensure fairness). The automated test script required TA intervention for student program. It complied and ran the program and compared it to the standard output and displaying the output with a fail/ pass result. If the test failed , it opened the souces files for the TA to review. And finally the TA would have large list of errors to chooses from (with optional comments), and predefined penalties. The final score was just written to a CSV text file (one for each TA).
This cut down the time required by almost 80% . The correct programs were easy to grade (automatically) and most programs with 'standard'(expected) errors did not take too long either. Once a while some one would have weird errors and the TA's would have small challenge finding those. It was the most fair system I could think of and took care of most of the drudgery without being unfair (the only important caveat was to make sure that test cases for the tester script were solid and the students couldnt cheat their way out, by pre defined responses).
[i]I can also not name ONE private corporation that has attained anything close to a monopoly without the State backing them up [/i]
I can... Microsoft. In fact one of the reasons there arent too many monopolies is that most states have monopoly-control laws.
isnt table tennis ping pong, where you hit a small ball with a paddle. The last time I played that videogame it was a on a new machine less than 20 years old with really nice beep sounds. Boy, I cant wait for the next GTA . (actually reinds me of a Simpsons epsiode where they are abducted by some kind aliens who show off their ping pong game):)
I got the Roomba about an year back as a gift for my parents. I was almost sure that they wouldnt like it and it would be just another toy (which is why I actually bought it, I like 'toys':) ). Anyway the gist was that they totally totally fell in love with it, and its a memeber of our house (just like the interview says, it makes beeps and bloops and makes itself adorable).
The scooba seems to be worth a buy excpet for the fact that u have to use the special cholorox (its is still cheaper than hiring a maid, but its not as simple and easy like the original roomba). Now my only pending request to iRobot and the evil mom is a bending unit , a boomba ?
Hey thats a nice design. Simple and clean. I like the way the icons overlap with the article headings. And it works fine with different font sizes too.
[i]just explain your situation and point them to Geek Squad at Best Buy. [/i]
Please dont do that unless you really hate them... or maybe the 'geek squad' at your BB is better than what we supposedly have here. A friend of mine once paid a ridiculously large amount (around 50$ ) to get copy of an antiviurs that she bought (notincluded in the $50) installed. The best option is to find some college student to do it for you and pay him well.
I use an architects desk as my primary workspace. I dont know what an engineer's desk is but its probably similar(meant for drafting) I took out the pen holder, drawers and the slide protector and its now perfect (and looks nice too).
The professor announced that his next step was to ban all the paper and pencils in the class.
"My main concern was they were focusing on trying to transcribe every word that was I saying, rather than thinking and analyzing, The notebooks interfere with making eye contact. You've got this picket fence between you and the students. Even since paper and writing was invented teaching has been hindered. I propose that we abolish the alphabet once and for all"
I use the JVMPI by sun which IMHO does a pretty good job and is extremely easy to use. However the custom profiler looks easy enough and will probably be much more accurate. Worth a try for sure.
I am not a huge fan of MS products (since my workstation is a Linux box) but the interface of Live local is really nice. Right click support, saved state (I like the google driving direction overlay better) and a nice overall feel. And it works great on my linux box with firefox. Yahoo maps is okay, but of the three I think MS is at present the best (though hopefully google will soon come up with something new in their maps)
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Most countries in that region have seat numbers in movie halls. I did get a good seat and decent service so there is anecdotal evidence both ways.
I think its just you. I too noticed that people washed there hands more often and I guess thats why the washbasins are more conveniently placed. I don't see how that is judging anyone. Even in rural Texas, a lot of the 'messy' barbecue places have washbasins outside the restrooms and we dont think anyone is jugding us there.
That really did creep me out. It doesn't really seem to be much of a democracy, more like a benevolent dictatorship with elections thrown around for fun.
Well, I dont know if this is the norm and I am just an exception but my gmail account says "You are currently using 1301 MB (47%) of your 2769 MB."
Well, third party patches are being used and deployed quite regularly in the FOSS world. In fact, this was one of the points the Mozilla people tried to highlight in their recent trademark dispute with debian (mainly accussing them of shoddy patches).
It is not really a conundrum, whether you use a third party patch or not, just depends on who the third party is and to what level you trust it. I'll install a security third party patch by the debian devs but might think twice if it was by some one like Linspire (not because they are necessarily shoddier, just the question of trust).
Yeah, I agree. Scifi is obviously a sub genre of fantasy and not the other way around.
My Motorola phone charges from the usb cable like a dream (I forgot the model number maybe 350 or 385 .. its new). Maybe you your usb port are have a cutoff circuit and the Motorola cell phone has a high power rating (which would mean that I am frying my usb port)
Yes, I agree. The title should say " Personal (software) Firewalls Mostly Useless (for out bound traffic)". And that is unpreventable if the user is always logged in as an admin and runs malicious executables (or programs with known security issues, like older versions of browsers). This would be an issue, if a non-admin user could disable the firewall (which I guess is not easy, since the article does not mention that). So there is no real problem with the personal firewall software.
The firewalls are still very useful in preventing attacks due to OS vulnerabilities (like the Windows RPC issues). Anyway that is the main aim of personal firewalls, and the article does not have anything about the effectiveness of the firewall for inbound traffic.
If you want a secure outbound firewall the best bet is to use a dedicated gateway machine with the firewall (I use my very old laptop with BSD on it as a gateway)
I meant spell check in searches not the compose email box.
For example if you search for 'saerch' you wont get "did you mean 'search' " as you do with regular google searches.
The spell check interface in the compose mail dialog is really really nifty (for a web spell checker), I love that.
Am I missing something here?
.. havnt really used mail.app so cant comment on that)
/combiner .. all those things which we take for granted in google searches.
Convenient email backup, access from anywhere, combined chats and emails, labels, an excellent spam filter and the best email interface (IMO) (I prefer it over thunderbird, which is nice too
But I find search to be a ittle disappointing in Gmail, there is no spell checker , no suggested words, no word splitter
It reminds me of undergrad research. Do something everyone has done before, but in a trivially different way and claim its ground breaking.
:)
I think u accidently added the extra word 'undergrad'
And even if it does change the language a little bit, thats to be expected. Languages (esp English isnt static) so this is just part of the normal evolution process of the language(albeit a little quicker than the past). Personally I do have a hard time reading netspeak but then it does remind me of Chaucer sometimes :)
eg.
That it was May thus dremed me
In time of love and jollite
That al thyng gynneth waxen gay
For there is neither busk nor hay
In May that it nyl shrouded ben,
And it with new leves wryen.
These greves eke recoveren grene,
That dry in wynter ben to sen,
And the erthe waxeth proude withal
For swete dewes that on it falle . . .
Maybe thats why the can still do well in their English classes.
I agree.
It wont really affect performace since it uses 15% of the available space for the system restore including the shadow copies. That isnt too heavy (in terms of harddsik space). It shouldnt really take noticeably more time as the system doesnt really copy over the old file to a physically different location.
Anyway if I ever use Vista I'm going to turn this off (I dont like undelete like utilities). But I think this would still be very useful feature for say, my grandma.
I was a TA for a programming course and we had managed to get a fairly automated system running very smoothly. It was a huge class with 7+ TA's and the submission script automatically alloted each TA his/her share (randomly to ensure fairness). The automated test script required TA intervention for student program. It complied and ran the program and compared it to the standard output and displaying the output with a fail/ pass result. If the test failed , it opened the souces files for the TA to review. And finally the TA would have large list of errors to chooses from (with optional comments), and predefined penalties. The final score was just written to a CSV text file (one for each TA).
This cut down the time required by almost 80% . The correct programs were easy to grade (automatically) and most programs with 'standard'(expected) errors did not take too long either. Once a while some one would have weird errors and the TA's would have small challenge finding those. It was the most fair system I could think of and took care of most of the drudgery without being unfair (the only important caveat was to make sure that test cases for the tester script were solid and the students couldnt cheat their way out, by pre defined responses).
[i]I can also not name ONE private corporation that has attained anything close to a monopoly without the State backing them up [/i] I can ... Microsoft. In fact one of the reasons there arent too many monopolies is that most states have monopoly-control laws.
She should use slashdot then. We have equally bad color schemes and lameness filters unlike myspace which "doesn't do enough to protect users"
isnt table tennis ping pong, where you hit a small ball with a paddle. The last time I played that videogame it was a on a new machine less than 20 years old with really nice beep sounds. Boy, I cant wait for the next GTA . (actually reinds me of a Simpsons epsiode where they are abducted by some kind aliens who show off their ping pong game) :)
I am the enemy, you insensitive clod !
I got the Roomba about an year back as a gift for my parents. I was almost sure that they wouldnt like it and it would be just another toy (which is why I actually bought it, I like 'toys' :) ). Anyway the gist was that they totally totally fell in love with it, and its a memeber of our house (just like the interview says, it makes beeps and bloops and makes itself adorable).
The scooba seems to be worth a buy excpet for the fact that u have to use the special cholorox (its is still cheaper than hiring a maid, but its not as simple and easy like the original roomba). Now my only pending request to iRobot and the evil mom is a bending unit , a boomba ?
[i]Will the light still travel at c [/i] Yes it will (AFAEinsteinK) while newtonian physics suggested that it would go at c+velocity of the person.
Hey thats a nice design. Simple and clean. I like the way the icons overlap with the article headings. And it works fine with different font sizes too.
[i]just explain your situation and point them to Geek Squad at Best Buy. [/i] Please dont do that unless you really hate them... or maybe the 'geek squad' at your BB is better than what we supposedly have here. A friend of mine once paid a ridiculously large amount (around 50$ ) to get copy of an antiviurs that she bought (notincluded in the $50) installed. The best option is to find some college student to do it for you and pay him well.
I use an architects desk as my primary workspace. I dont know what an engineer's desk is but its probably similar(meant for drafting) I took out the pen holder, drawers and the slide protector and its now perfect (and looks nice too).
The professor announced that his next step was to ban all the paper and pencils in the class.
"My main concern was they were focusing on trying to transcribe every word that was I saying, rather than thinking and analyzing, The notebooks interfere with making eye contact. You've got this picket fence between you and the students. Even since paper and writing was invented teaching has been hindered. I propose that we abolish the alphabet once and for all"
I use the JVMPI by sun which IMHO does a pretty good job and is extremely easy to use. However the custom profiler looks easy enough and will probably be much more accurate. Worth a try for sure.
I am not a huge fan of MS products (since my workstation is a Linux box) but the interface of Live local is really nice. Right click support, saved state (I like the google driving direction overlay better) and a nice overall feel. And it works great on my linux box with firefox. Yahoo maps is okay, but of the three I think MS is at present the best (though hopefully google will soon come up with something new in their maps)