I've had real live bugs living in my keyboard before - I guess it's a warm and snug place for them to live. I was happily tapping away one day, when this cockroach-type thing crawled out from under the Z key. Luckily, they didn't attack any of the wiring, but it was scary nonetheless.
Not if we turn other planets into fake Earths. For example, to colonise Mars, we'll have to create an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere for breathing, add rivers and seas for water, grow fields and farmlands for food, and trees for recycling bits of the atmosphere. With these, there won't be many differences from Earth, so our survival on such a planet should be pretty easy.
Making other planets into Earths, that's the hard part.
Well I suppose there is a chance that eBay or PayPal could send you legitimate messages (I'm sure Gmail knows to look for the "Dear valued PayPal customer" headings but these seem to be on the decline now), and as a false positive is worse than a hundred false negatives, it's better for it to be safe than sorry.
My family doesn't check their Spam folders, so neither do most people (probably)
Although I agree spam has increased in quality over time, I think there is one thing making it not quite so credible - people get loads of it.
I have received a few spams that really do look genuine, "I tried sending this to you before" sort of thing, that could fool quite a few people. However, the trouble is that I get this same spam five or six times a day. People are more likely to respond to a one-day 'offer' spam than when they're being drowned in them.
And if spammers are being paid by the number of spams sent, rather than spams replied to, this shouldn't change soon, thankfully.
However gmail is completely useless at tagging phishing emails as spam.
From my experience with it, it does do this, and it does it well. It puts a big "This message may not be from who it seems to be from" message at the top of the screen, and doesn't load any images.
Then again, I've only had two eBay phishing spams, and they were both obvious.
It's always annoyed me how companies must register two or three domains, to pull in the users that only know.com. If you are a.org (like Slashdot) it's best to register a.com as well, so lost visitors get to your site that way as well; if you're a.co.uk (like the BBC) you also need a.com for the same reason. It shows that the TLD idea wasn't thought through, or was designed to make people register many domains, generating loads of money (not best for the end-user).
Citing monster.com as an example again: it is a jobs site, so it should get a.jobs domain. But not many people have heard of.jobs, so it has to get a.com as well. But why do we need these - what's wrong with 'http://monster' by itself? It should go to the main monster jobs page. If I wanted country-specific sites, I would go to the monster.co.uk or monster.de subdivisions. Categorising things by their status just confuses things.
I shouldn't care whether the site I want is a network, a company, or a non-profit organisation; usually I just want to get to the site.
I have seen that on many sites, and the message is there for IE users. IE's popup blocker tries to block all new windows, while Firefox only blocks those that appear before the page has loaded. As long as the page has loaded, the new windows on CNN will appear fine.
Blame the student and their previous education not a tool that MSFT offers.
What if the tool is being used in education - how can you blame a student if said student doesn't know better? My school has Word do a German grammar checker (yes, it's not English, but the principles are the same) and although it knows to change die to der, send verbs to the end with weil, and so on, it does not catch more complex phrases, such as relative clauses or a few questions. I can look up words fine in dictionaries, but checking grammar by hand is a lot more difficult if you are not sure what you are supposed to be doing.
People could learn how to drive a computer, but for most of the time they use one, learning its intricacies is not necessary. Computers can work fine for two to three years before becoming overloaded with Spyware and 'breaking'. When that happens, it is replaced with a new computer, or someone comes along to fix it. This is why the majority of people would not want to learn how to fix a computer, or even need to - nearly all the time, the knowledge is not needed.
It is equivalent (sort of) to learning a new language for a month, all its ins and outs and irregular verbs and so on, so you can speak fluently in a foreign country for a week. Yes, there is a chance you could visit again, but you probably won't. And from then on you'd know a language you would not need to use at all.
It seems incredible, but millions of families and thousands of businesses have no-one to turn to but a bunch of unqualified amateurs to fix the most complicated pieces of equipment that have probably ever existed. It's a scary thought.
Sure it seems scary at a glance (I hire a professional builder to fix my home, I hire some kid down the street to fix my computer) but after a while it does not seem so outrageous. If you're silly enough to download enough viruses or spyware to make Windows not load or your Internet connection stop working, you'd be silly enough to hire an 'unqualified amateur' to fix it.
clicking 'Yes' to install things they really shouldn't
Macs use verbs in dialog boxes, instead of 'Yes', 'No' and 'Cancel'. The button to install software on a Mac would be 'Install Software', not 'Yes', so clueless users have a better sense of what they are doing.
Well it would allow Word to play media, for a start.
What has Real got to do with this? Real don't have to do anything. Microsoft has been ordered to remove Media Player, and it seems they've removed a bit more than they should have, that is all.
Well, they could remove Media Player but leave the media-playing.dll files; that way any programs that want to play media (such as Word) may do so, while Media Player is technically not there.
Wouldn't work - if enough people look at said bill, it'll disappear for a few hours!
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Although I agree with what most of what you're saying (potential PSP versus current DS) I have to argue about the buttons/stylus issue.
The PSP, although it has other uses, is a games console. I want to press a button to accelerate, for example, and move an analog stick to change direction - I don't need any fine control of what I'm pointing at at all, just a vague "go in that direction". Don't argue that the DS has more programs that need fine control; in the same way, the PSP has more games that require an analog stick. Also, I have a long history of losing pens and styluses, where buttons tend to stick with the device.
As for the price... I can buy a G5 from $1299 and a Dell box for $649. We've obviously learned from forking over thousands to Apple.
I didn't know about [[:alpha:]], thanks. \w varies between each implementation, apparently - this screenshot shows it matching foreign characters with accents and stuff.
Though I would use [A-Za-z0-9_] just to be on the safe side.
once you've used a program for a while you get to know what they mean True, but it's true for anything. I shouldn't have to learn what an icon does, I should be able to tell from looking at it. For another example of how to do it better, see any desktop. There are clear icons with text under them, so you can see what it does.
A simple right click on a toolbar offers an option to customize it many ways, including the icon size. In all the versions of Office I can use (2000 to XP) increasing the icon size just renders the pixels four times as big, not actually making them any clearer. (Microsoft Works does this better, oddly).
Each and every toolbar in any Microsoft Office program can be removed....Want to create your own customized toolbar containing just the icons you use often? No problem. I know I can do this (and when I have to use Office, I do) but it's just a workaround to a problem that shouldn't be there in the first place. The clipboard with a tick in it is actually Create Outlook Task, and is placed under Reviewing. My mother (who is the Outlook user) has complained that it should be something better, such as a new item in a task list, even when I 'Customize'd and put it in the main toolbar for her. And there's no menu or shortcut equivalent that I could find that could be used instead.
This screenshot is an example of Microsoft Word and its 16x16 buttons. Although most people can recognise the page icon for New, floppy disk icon (with the flap the wrong way round, too!) for Save, there are inexplicable little things like a set of tools, a clipboard with a tick on it, and a padlock. I could guess at what some of these mean, but without seeing the tooltip I couldn't be sure. It's a shame most applications have adopted this way of doing things. Iconifying said commands is bad because it's hard to deduce said icon's meaning (little clipboard with a tick in it, for example).
For a better way, see the iWork applications (I can't find screenshots, though), which store most commands in menus, or GTK applications such as this one (I know gedit isn't as complex as Office, I'm just showing the toolkit). The save button has both a floppy disk icon and "Save" under it, if you weren't sure. Spellcheck has "Spellcheck" written under it. And you can change these things (globally) under Menus and Toolbars in Preferences.
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Try lowercase. /usr/lib/wine/shell32.dll.so
Funnily enough, I didn't think to ask its name, though I'll bear it in mind if it happens again
Don't type first! It'll be angry, and attack you!
I've had real live bugs living in my keyboard before - I guess it's a warm and snug place for them to live. I was happily tapping away one day, when this cockroach-type thing crawled out from under the Z key. Luckily, they didn't attack any of the wiring, but it was scary nonetheless.
Not if we turn other planets into fake Earths. For example, to colonise Mars, we'll have to create an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere for breathing, add rivers and seas for water, grow fields and farmlands for food, and trees for recycling bits of the atmosphere. With these, there won't be many differences from Earth, so our survival on such a planet should be pretty easy.
Making other planets into Earths, that's the hard part.
Well I suppose there is a chance that eBay or PayPal could send you legitimate messages (I'm sure Gmail knows to look for the "Dear valued PayPal customer" headings but these seem to be on the decline now), and as a false positive is worse than a hundred false negatives, it's better for it to be safe than sorry.
My family doesn't check their Spam folders, so neither do most people (probably)
Although I agree spam has increased in quality over time, I think there is one thing making it not quite so credible - people get loads of it.
I have received a few spams that really do look genuine, "I tried sending this to you before" sort of thing, that could fool quite a few people. However, the trouble is that I get this same spam five or six times a day. People are more likely to respond to a one-day 'offer' spam than when they're being drowned in them.
And if spammers are being paid by the number of spams sent, rather than spams replied to, this shouldn't change soon, thankfully.
However gmail is completely useless at tagging phishing emails as spam.
From my experience with it, it does do this, and it does it well. It puts a big "This message may not be from who it seems to be from" message at the top of the screen, and doesn't load any images.
Then again, I've only had two eBay phishing spams, and they were both obvious.
playing the Infocom game was a little unrealistic
Since when would you expect any incarnation of Hitchhiker's to be realistic?
'http://monster.(mydomain)' should suffice. I'm talking about TLDs not subdomains...
It's always annoyed me how companies must register two or three domains, to pull in the users that only know .com. If you are a .org (like Slashdot) it's best to register a .com as well, so lost visitors get to your site that way as well; if you're a .co.uk (like the BBC) you also need a .com for the same reason. It shows that the TLD idea wasn't thought through, or was designed to make people register many domains, generating loads of money (not best for the end-user).
.jobs domain. But not many people have heard of .jobs, so it has to get a .com as well. But why do we need these - what's wrong with 'http://monster' by itself? It should go to the main monster jobs page. If I wanted country-specific sites, I would go to the monster.co.uk or monster.de subdivisions. Categorising things by their status just confuses things.
Citing monster.com as an example again: it is a jobs site, so it should get a
I shouldn't care whether the site I want is a network, a company, or a non-profit organisation; usually I just want to get to the site.
I have seen that on many sites, and the message is there for IE users. IE's popup blocker tries to block all new windows, while Firefox only blocks those that appear before the page has loaded. As long as the page has loaded, the new windows on CNN will appear fine.
Blame the student and their previous education not a tool that MSFT offers.
What if the tool is being used in education - how can you blame a student if said student doesn't know better? My school has Word do a German grammar checker (yes, it's not English, but the principles are the same) and although it knows to change die to der, send verbs to the end with weil, and so on, it does not catch more complex phrases, such as relative clauses or a few questions. I can look up words fine in dictionaries, but checking grammar by hand is a lot more difficult if you are not sure what you are supposed to be doing.
People could learn how to drive a computer, but for most of the time they use one, learning its intricacies is not necessary. Computers can work fine for two to three years before becoming overloaded with Spyware and 'breaking'. When that happens, it is replaced with a new computer, or someone comes along to fix it. This is why the majority of people would not want to learn how to fix a computer, or even need to - nearly all the time, the knowledge is not needed.
It is equivalent (sort of) to learning a new language for a month, all its ins and outs and irregular verbs and so on, so you can speak fluently in a foreign country for a week. Yes, there is a chance you could visit again, but you probably won't. And from then on you'd know a language you would not need to use at all.
It seems incredible, but millions of families and thousands of businesses have no-one to turn to but a bunch of unqualified amateurs to fix the most complicated pieces of equipment that have probably ever existed. It's a scary thought.
Sure it seems scary at a glance (I hire a professional builder to fix my home, I hire some kid down the street to fix my computer) but after a while it does not seem so outrageous. If you're silly enough to download enough viruses or spyware to make Windows not load or your Internet connection stop working, you'd be silly enough to hire an 'unqualified amateur' to fix it.
clicking 'Yes' to install things they really shouldn't
Macs use verbs in dialog boxes, instead of 'Yes', 'No' and 'Cancel'. The button to install software on a Mac would be 'Install Software', not 'Yes', so clueless users have a better sense of what they are doing.
Discussed better here
Well it would allow Word to play media, for a start.
What has Real got to do with this? Real don't have to do anything. Microsoft has been ordered to remove Media Player, and it seems they've removed a bit more than they should have, that is all.
Well, they could remove Media Player but leave the media-playing .dll files; that way any programs that want to play media (such as Word) may do so, while Media Player is technically not there.
Wouldn't work - if enough people look at said bill, it'll disappear for a few hours!
Although I agree with what most of what you're saying (potential PSP versus current DS) I have to argue about the buttons/stylus issue.
The PSP, although it has other uses, is a games console. I want to press a button to accelerate, for example, and move an analog stick to change direction - I don't need any fine control of what I'm pointing at at all, just a vague "go in that direction". Don't argue that the DS has more programs that need fine control; in the same way, the PSP has more games that require an analog stick.
Also, I have a long history of losing pens and styluses, where buttons tend to stick with the device.
As for the price... I can buy a G5 from $1299 and a Dell box for $649. We've obviously learned from forking over thousands to Apple.
I didn't know about [[:alpha:]], thanks. \w varies between each implementation, apparently - this screenshot shows it matching foreign characters with accents and stuff.
Though I would use [A-Za-z0-9_] just to be on the safe side.
[A-z] accepts all characters from A to z, including [ \ ] ^ _ and `. You want [A-Za-z] or \w (latter for 'not punctuation').
As you specified all forms of e-mail addresses...
(I would post one here, but the lameness filter hates it, so I'll just link to it).
Covers RFC 8288, as well as IP addresses.
once you've used a program for a while you get to know what they mean
True, but it's true for anything. I shouldn't have to learn what an icon does, I should be able to tell from looking at it.
For another example of how to do it better, see any desktop. There are clear icons with text under them, so you can see what it does.
A simple right click on a toolbar offers an option to customize it many ways, including the icon size.
In all the versions of Office I can use (2000 to XP) increasing the icon size just renders the pixels four times as big, not actually making them any clearer. (Microsoft Works does this better, oddly).
Each and every toolbar in any Microsoft Office program can be removed....Want to create your own customized toolbar containing just the icons you use often? No problem.
I know I can do this (and when I have to use Office, I do) but it's just a workaround to a problem that shouldn't be there in the first place. The clipboard with a tick in it is actually Create Outlook Task, and is placed under Reviewing. My mother (who is the Outlook user) has complained that it should be something better, such as a new item in a task list, even when I 'Customize'd and put it in the main toolbar for her. And there's no menu or shortcut equivalent that I could find that could be used instead.
Quick hyperbolic examples:
This screenshot is an example of Microsoft Word and its 16x16 buttons. Although most people can recognise the page icon for New, floppy disk icon (with the flap the wrong way round, too!) for Save, there are inexplicable little things like a set of tools, a clipboard with a tick on it, and a padlock. I could guess at what some of these mean, but without seeing the tooltip I couldn't be sure. It's a shame most applications have adopted this way of doing things.
Iconifying said commands is bad because it's hard to deduce said icon's meaning (little clipboard with a tick in it, for example).
For a better way, see the iWork applications (I can't find screenshots, though), which store most commands in menus, or GTK applications such as this one (I know gedit isn't as complex as Office, I'm just showing the toolkit). The save button has both a floppy disk icon and "Save" under it, if you weren't sure. Spellcheck has "Spellcheck" written under it. And you can change these things (globally) under Menus and Toolbars in Preferences.