I can agree with Halo 3 driving sales- I finally broke down and bought an Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago so that I would have it ready to go when Halo 3 arrives. Picked up Gears of War to test out the system with too. I can see them selling another million consoles this fall to new and returning Halo fans...
I don't know if there's anything we can do for her. I supplied her with earplugs to fight off the incessant sound of bagpipes, and a can of sheep-b-gone. I did my part... Anyway I'm enjoying the quiet time;)
The guy is an idiot and deserves what he got. "OFF" is not just when the screen is dark. You have to press and hold the button on the top of the iPhone for about 5 seconds, and it will bring up a screen that says "Slide to power OFF". You then slide your finger across the screen and it is turned off. For real. I have 2 iPhones (one for me, one for the wife), we travel out of the country (she's in Scotland right now) and don't have these kind of problems...
Second and third that. I had a 1994 Honda Del Sol (base model, not the si model) with manual transmission and no AC. I averaged 45+ MPG easily with that car, wish that I had not sold it years ago... If the Smart Car would get at least 60 MPG, I would get in line to buy one.
A lot of higher end car manufacturers use fiber optic rings in the vehicle. My Mercedes has a fiber network in it. Pisses me off because I can't replace the stereo in it due to the fiber and integration of various car systems on that ring.
They have had SXGA+ for several years on 12" screens. My old Toshiba M200 is 1400x1050 on a 12" screen, a more recent model would be the Lenovo Thinkpad X60, which is also 1400x1050 at 12". If you're looking for something a tad smaller, my Fujitsu P1610 is 1280x768 on an 8.9" screen:)
I can't wait till someone brings out 1600x1200 on a 12" laptop. I know you can get 1920x1200 on a 15.4" widescreen from Dell and a few others but those laptops are just too large for me.
Thanks for the link, I never tried to look for a solution... My MCE will have bouts of trouble where it will not return to standby after overnight guide updates. It seems to "cure" itself for a week or two before starting the same trouble again. Now I don't have to bother writing my own standby utility:)
I have the same Dell 24" with 1920 x 1200 resolution, have you tried coding with it rotated vertically 90 degrees? That is the cat's pajamas. 1920 pixels of verical resolution allows you to see soooo much more of the routines you are working on! I like it so much I leave it that way alomst all the time now. Web pages are so much better in portrait mode too...
Boy, you'd hate my laptop... I have a Fujitsu P1610, widescreen resolution 1280x768 on an 8.9" screen! My last laptop was a Toshiba M200 - 1400x1050 on a 12" screen. At least I know you won't be reading over my shoulder on the plane;)
I really have to wonder if I am an anomoly, a geek who doesn't need glasses (and I'm in my later 30s)...
A 15.4" laptop screen at 1920x1200 is NOT that bad. I currently use a Fujitsu P1610, which has an 8.9" screen at 1280x768, which is even higher DPI than the OP's 15" screen! With the high DPI of my screen, you only need to expand it to ~13.3" to have 1920 horizontal native resolution.
With that said, I really hope that Apple is making an ultraportable close to the size of my P1610. I'd compromise with a 10 or 11" screen at 1280x800, SSD, Core Duo, 2GB RAM, and NO optical drive.
Actually this *is* a good idea, but you take it one step further. You enter the login name, it takes you to an image verification page where you need to select your image placed randomly in a 3x3 tic-tac-toe grid with other random images. There is no "next" button. You need to click on the correct image, and then it will go on to the password entry page. You have to make them actively look for and find their image in order to continue the login process.
We will see 1Tb hard drives readily available someday, sure thing.
"Some day"? Some day, as in far, far into the future?!? First of all, a Tb is 128 GB. Second: Lacie BiggestDisk. You, my friend, are suffering from "Future Shock"
I don't know if you realize or not, but the Lacie "Big"-Disk series consist of multiple drives in one enclosure with some sort of controller. They are also complete shit, but that is a topic for another post. The largest hard disk available at present is 750 GB (with 250, 300, 400, and 500 GB much more common), so we are still not too far off. Someone is bound to make one in 2007, so your point is still well taken.
Oh come on! "Who Wants to be an Underwear Pervert" is some of the funniest reality TV comedy around.
"Reality" shows have no place on a Science-Fiction channel, funny or not. Put the damn show on Fox, along with the "Wrasslin", John Edwards, and those low budget Mansquito flicks. Buy up the rights to show all of the major Sci-Fi series made in the last 40+ years and run them around the clock until you can create some good shows of your own!
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if bogus userids and passwords were entered into the bogus phishing portal, then the cost of doing business for the phishers would get very high.
I like it. Maybe another little button like "mark as spam", but in this case it's "mark as phish". When you click "mark as phish" your e-mail plugin does the following:
1) Grabs the source for that page that is linked in the Phishing e-mail
2) Skims the HTML for input fields, generating junk data based on some simple algorithm
3) Submits/Posts the junk data to the address given in the HTML form.
Maybe while we're at it someone can create an "Eliza" like program that would be triggered with a "mark as 419 scam" that would maintain a threaded e-mail discussion with the scammer for weeks. This would keep them busy and prevent them from preying on all the low hanging fruit on the internet. Eat your heart out Turing!;)
Nice to see things like this are still done today. I attended several programming contests in New England through the 1980s. Some of them were much like the contest you linked to here. My favorite was different- Rather than the standard little problems we were all asked to make a game. This game was somewhat like battleship, but had some unique rules. Each team had about 4 hours to create this game and then the teams were all pitted against each other in succesive rounds until a final winner was announced (The computer programs played against each other, with a member of each team typing in moves called out by the other team's computer). Prizes were awarded for several categories, and my team won nearly all of them. We lost the final match by *one* move, and so had to take second place for the elimination rounds. Ahh, I miss the good old days. Thanks for the memories...
I agree with your thoughts. A close friend of mine had to move away a number of years ago because his company closed their factory in New England and move the equipment to Mexico (They even had to train their replacements. I hear that the Mexico plant has since closed and moved to China, so they get the last laugh). Anyway, he was told he could stay with the company if he accepted a job at a plant in the south, which he took. We used to chat online regularly, and on the phone some. I even went down there to be the best man when he met a nice southern girl and got married. Even with all this, distance and time still cause people to grow apart. We havent spoken since last year. Maybe I'll try to look him up and see how things are going...
I use a Toshiba M200 tablet and got used to that after a very short adjustment period. As long as you keep in mind nothing happens until you press down on the screen you'll do just fine:) It sure beats the problems you get with a passive digitizer and brushing a knuckle or a palm against the screen.
If you want something for art/drawing then do not get an Origami device, or the Fujitsu P1510 either. You need an Active Digitizer, not a passive touch screen. With an active digitizer you can rest your hands on the screen, and it provides pressure feedback - press down harder and get a thicker or darker line.
Since you're looking for a small device, maybe you could try the Motion LS800 tablet. It has a small 8" screen with an active digitizer, I would expect it to be a great sketchpad.
But I always submitted my crash reports when the crash was caused by my own buggy code. I just thought it was humorous I could even send that data in, so I did.
I would like to try that sometime, but the programs I write do not have any bugs:)
Thanks for that. I'm 35 as well and was wondering if I was the only one here with that experience...
Calculators were banned throughout my entire K-12 schooling too, and I can't imagine why they would be allowing them now. I am definitely better off for the extra effort back then, and can work out fairly complex problems in my head before someone can punch it all into a calculator.
People can't even add, subtract, multiply, or divide anymore- try to get someone in this new generation to make change for you if they don't have a cash register to tell them what to give (and some of those even count and spit the coins out for them)! And don't even get me started on the whole text messaging/IM spelling thing:)
Maybe I got lucky, but I was able to pull an Intel "Centrino" Mini PCI wireless out of my Toshiba M200 and replace it with a Dell Truemobile 1300 Mini PCI wireless unit I got on eBay. It worked out great once I got the laptop back together again- installed the new drivers and off I went.
At the time Intel's wireless solution would not play nice with stuff I wanted to do (not sure if that is still the case). NDIS problems made it incompatible with NetStumbler and it was also impossible to switch to "promiscuous mode" for wireless packet sniffing.
OK, new question with what I assume is the original intent: I have 10 glasses of either safe water or polluted water. All contents are colorless to the naked eye. How do you tell which ones contain safe water and which contain polluted water?
Simple. Assume that all 10 glasses of water are bad, and go get your own bottle/glass of water. Or, to switch back on track- assume there is always a possibility the address in an e-mail is a phishing attempt and just type the www.ebay.com or www.paypal.com or whatever into the address bar. Never click the links provided, never drink the water provided.
The people that came up with HTML formatted e-mails should be piled in a rocket and fired into the sun...
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I can agree with Halo 3 driving sales- I finally broke down and bought an Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago so that I would have it ready to go when Halo 3 arrives. Picked up Gears of War to test out the system with too. I can see them selling another million consoles this fall to new and returning Halo fans...
Well, I don't know what swap.avi contains, but unless you like scat then avoid 2 girls 1 cup at all costs. DO NOT WANT!
I don't know if there's anything we can do for her. I supplied her with earplugs to fight off the incessant sound of bagpipes, and a can of sheep-b-gone. I did my part... Anyway I'm enjoying the quiet time ;)
The guy is an idiot and deserves what he got. "OFF" is not just when the screen is dark. You have to press and hold the button on the top of the iPhone for about 5 seconds, and it will bring up a screen that says "Slide to power OFF". You then slide your finger across the screen and it is turned off. For real. I have 2 iPhones (one for me, one for the wife), we travel out of the country (she's in Scotland right now) and don't have these kind of problems...
Second and third that. I had a 1994 Honda Del Sol (base model, not the si model) with manual transmission and no AC. I averaged 45+ MPG easily with that car, wish that I had not sold it years ago... If the Smart Car would get at least 60 MPG, I would get in line to buy one.
A lot of higher end car manufacturers use fiber optic rings in the vehicle. My Mercedes has a fiber network in it. Pisses me off because I can't replace the stereo in it due to the fiber and integration of various car systems on that ring.
They have had SXGA+ for several years on 12" screens. My old Toshiba M200 is 1400x1050 on a 12" screen, a more recent model would be the Lenovo Thinkpad X60, which is also 1400x1050 at 12". If you're looking for something a tad smaller, my Fujitsu P1610 is 1280x768 on an 8.9" screen :)
I can't wait till someone brings out 1600x1200 on a 12" laptop. I know you can get 1920x1200 on a 15.4" widescreen from Dell and a few others but those laptops are just too large for me.
Thanks for the link, I never tried to look for a solution... My MCE will have bouts of trouble where it will not return to standby after overnight guide updates. It seems to "cure" itself for a week or two before starting the same trouble again. Now I don't have to bother writing my own standby utility :)
I have the same Dell 24" with 1920 x 1200 resolution, have you tried coding with it rotated vertically 90 degrees? That is the cat's pajamas. 1920 pixels of verical resolution allows you to see soooo much more of the routines you are working on! I like it so much I leave it that way alomst all the time now. Web pages are so much better in portrait mode too...
Boy, you'd hate my laptop... I have a Fujitsu P1610, widescreen resolution 1280x768 on an 8.9" screen! My last laptop was a Toshiba M200 - 1400x1050 on a 12" screen. At least I know you won't be reading over my shoulder on the plane ;)
I really have to wonder if I am an anomoly, a geek who doesn't need glasses (and I'm in my later 30s)...
A 15.4" laptop screen at 1920x1200 is NOT that bad. I currently use a Fujitsu P1610, which has an 8.9" screen at 1280x768, which is even higher DPI than the OP's 15" screen! With the high DPI of my screen, you only need to expand it to ~13.3" to have 1920 horizontal native resolution.
With that said, I really hope that Apple is making an ultraportable close to the size of my P1610. I'd compromise with a 10 or 11" screen at 1280x800, SSD, Core Duo, 2GB RAM, and NO optical drive.
Actually this *is* a good idea, but you take it one step further. You enter the login name, it takes you to an image verification page where you need to select your image placed randomly in a 3x3 tic-tac-toe grid with other random images. There is no "next" button. You need to click on the correct image, and then it will go on to the password entry page. You have to make them actively look for and find their image in order to continue the login process.
I figured that MIT Bates Lab would be blurred out too, but it is not. I guess particle accelerators are not as high on the security list.
We will see 1Tb hard drives readily available someday, sure thing.
"Some day"? Some day, as in far, far into the future?!? First of all, a Tb is 128 GB. Second: Lacie BiggestDisk. You, my friend, are suffering from "Future Shock"
I don't know if you realize or not, but the Lacie "Big"-Disk series consist of multiple drives in one enclosure with some sort of controller. They are also complete shit, but that is a topic for another post. The largest hard disk available at present is 750 GB (with 250, 300, 400, and 500 GB much more common), so we are still not too far off. Someone is bound to make one in 2007, so your point is still well taken.
Oh come on! "Who Wants to be an Underwear Pervert" is some of the funniest reality TV comedy around.
"Reality" shows have no place on a Science-Fiction channel, funny or not. Put the damn show on Fox, along with the "Wrasslin", John Edwards, and those low budget Mansquito flicks. Buy up the rights to show all of the major Sci-Fi series made in the last 40+ years and run them around the clock until you can create some good shows of your own!
if bogus userids and passwords were entered into the bogus phishing portal, then the cost of doing business for the phishers would get very high.
;)
I like it. Maybe another little button like "mark as spam", but in this case it's "mark as phish". When you click "mark as phish" your e-mail plugin does the following:
1) Grabs the source for that page that is linked in the Phishing e-mail
2) Skims the HTML for input fields, generating junk data based on some simple algorithm
3) Submits/Posts the junk data to the address given in the HTML form.
Maybe while we're at it someone can create an "Eliza" like program that would be triggered with a "mark as 419 scam" that would maintain a threaded e-mail discussion with the scammer for weeks. This would keep them busy and prevent them from preying on all the low hanging fruit on the internet. Eat your heart out Turing!
Nice to see things like this are still done today. I attended several programming contests in New England through the 1980s. Some of them were much like the contest you linked to here. My favorite was different- Rather than the standard little problems we were all asked to make a game. This game was somewhat like battleship, but had some unique rules. Each team had about 4 hours to create this game and then the teams were all pitted against each other in succesive rounds until a final winner was announced (The computer programs played against each other, with a member of each team typing in moves called out by the other team's computer). Prizes were awarded for several categories, and my team won nearly all of them. We lost the final match by *one* move, and so had to take second place for the elimination rounds. Ahh, I miss the good old days. Thanks for the memories...
I agree with your thoughts. A close friend of mine had to move away a number of years ago because his company closed their factory in New England and move the equipment to Mexico (They even had to train their replacements. I hear that the Mexico plant has since closed and moved to China, so they get the last laugh). Anyway, he was told he could stay with the company if he accepted a job at a plant in the south, which he took. We used to chat online regularly, and on the phone some. I even went down there to be the best man when he met a nice southern girl and got married. Even with all this, distance and time still cause people to grow apart. We havent spoken since last year. Maybe I'll try to look him up and see how things are going...
I use a Toshiba M200 tablet and got used to that after a very short adjustment period. As long as you keep in mind nothing happens until you press down on the screen you'll do just fine :) It sure beats the problems you get with a passive digitizer and brushing a knuckle or a palm against the screen.
If you want something for art/drawing then do not get an Origami device, or the Fujitsu P1510 either. You need an Active Digitizer, not a passive touch screen. With an active digitizer you can rest your hands on the screen, and it provides pressure feedback - press down harder and get a thicker or darker line. Since you're looking for a small device, maybe you could try the Motion LS800 tablet. It has a small 8" screen with an active digitizer, I would expect it to be a great sketchpad.
But I always submitted my crash reports when the crash was caused by my own buggy code. I just thought it was humorous I could even send that data in, so I did.
:)
I would like to try that sometime, but the programs I write do not have any bugs
Thanks for that. I'm 35 as well and was wondering if I was the only one here with that experience...
:)
Calculators were banned throughout my entire K-12 schooling too, and I can't imagine why they would be allowing them now. I am definitely better off for the extra effort back then, and can work out fairly complex problems in my head before someone can punch it all into a calculator.
People can't even add, subtract, multiply, or divide anymore- try to get someone in this new generation to make change for you if they don't have a cash register to tell them what to give (and some of those even count and spit the coins out for them)! And don't even get me started on the whole text messaging/IM spelling thing
Thanks, that really made my day! Oh well, back to spellcasting... I mean programming! :)
Maybe I got lucky, but I was able to pull an Intel "Centrino" Mini PCI wireless out of my Toshiba M200 and replace it with a Dell Truemobile 1300 Mini PCI wireless unit I got on eBay. It worked out great once I got the laptop back together again- installed the new drivers and off I went.
At the time Intel's wireless solution would not play nice with stuff I wanted to do (not sure if that is still the case). NDIS problems made it incompatible with NetStumbler and it was also impossible to switch to "promiscuous mode" for wireless packet sniffing.
OK, new question with what I assume is the original intent: I have 10 glasses of either safe water or polluted water. All contents are colorless to the naked eye. How do you tell which ones contain safe water and which contain polluted water?
Simple. Assume that all 10 glasses of water are bad, and go get your own bottle/glass of water. Or, to switch back on track- assume there is always a possibility the address in an e-mail is a phishing attempt and just type the www.ebay.com or www.paypal.com or whatever into the address bar. Never click the links provided, never drink the water provided.
The people that came up with HTML formatted e-mails should be piled in a rocket and fired into the sun...