The 2D roll would be amazing... if it didn't need cleaning every 2 or 3 days to track properly. I do a lot of big zoom stuff and it's nice to pan around with. I'll admit to being a heavy user though, so ymmv.
As for the grandparent's point about chorded clicks... please Apple, I'm willing to put up with a thin 'crack' between the left and right buttons. Perhaps this'll stop the damn thing reading right clicks as left as well. It looks lovely, but my Microsoft Bluetooth gear is far more practical.
What happened to the XP installer 'checking for updates' during install time? I've never once seen it do something useful, but even a simple "I got to the interwebs and there are some patches, should I install them now (Will take n hours to download) or do you wanna do it afterwards?" would be great. Slipstreaming into a live install must be possible somehow.
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Check in your group policy - there are a comprehensive set of options including change password on next login, maximum password age, minimum password complexity, don't allow same password within..., don't allow passwords with x characters the same and so on.
Tell you what. I'll go off and compile a kernel with lord only knows what packages and options enabled and disabled and spend days fine-tuning every last cycle out of some obscure feature, then drop it on your desk and tell you to upgrade something. 12 hours later, when you're cursing it for refusing to compile because I altered some bizzare dependancy which nobody in their right mind would recompile --with-extended-range-bypassing-support-mode-library-retrograde, come to me and I'll tell you you're a mindless drone.
Far more sensible in a corporate environment is to stick to the published stuff, so when it goes tits up you can call support and say "Fix it", or when your sysadmin leaves the incoming guy doesn't have to work out why the server is configured to behave in a way which "will be really great" but actually means everybody's mail is delivered in Swahili.
When he took it and you were "guaranteed" you would get it back in a few days, ask for it in writing, on headed paper, signed by the guy who took your laptop and his supervisor.
My lack of clarification, upgrades to existing product lines tend to be simultaneous. Apple normally do try make releases simultaneous, but obviously something like the iPhone relies on various network contracts and device certification so that may not be possible.
Yes and it's wonderful, but only within your 'home' network. I'm in the UK where I get unlimited data from O2, but if I go on holiday to the states (Or any other country) I have to pay for all my data from AT&T (Or any other network) even if they also have the iPhone contract for their country.
"Webmaster" is to "Person who makes sure the website and all associated gizmos are working properly" as "Foreman" is to "Person who makes sure the work site and all associated equipment and personnel are behaving properly".
It's fallen into common usage. What else would you suggest? "Web Designer", "Network Architect" and all the other 'bits' of webmastery are already taken. Perhaps "Web Systems Administrator".
Given the iPhone is already available in those regions, and that Apple tends towards simultaneous releases (the 16gb version was simultaneous) then it would in fact make more sense to *wait* in the UK and Europe, since we have the biggest 3G infrastructure. In the USA you may as well just bite the bullet as you won't be able to take full advantage of 3G infrastructure for several months at least, unlike in the UK where we're well into the 90% coverage on most networks.
The chances are, much as the original iPhone is 'one model fits all quad band' that Apple will do the best they can to make it cross-tech compatible. Much of the 3G infrastructure is based on the same underlying tech so it shouldn't be that difficult, with the possible exception of Japan. Failing that, the EDGE will still be compatible across all iPhone markets so a region-specific 3G version which degrades to EDGE on foreign networks won't be too much of a problem (Save for data costs).
No it isn't. It's a mechanism by which you can prove that you have permission to play media which may require that permission. There's absolutely nothing which stops you playing un-DRMed media. Got some old AVIs? They'll play. That shelf full of CDs? No problem. All those MP3s you've been collecting? They'll still work.
Also, your "Digital Restriction Management" is about as useful as "Winblows" or "Micro$oft". Grow up.
Depending on the choices I make during my next year at uni, I may gain the right to legally call myself a chartered engineer. I probably won't be controlling spaceships or managing a nuclear power plant (I'm doing a cybernetics degree) but I'll be no less an engineer than anybody else who has legally earned that right. Civil engineers take many forms, not all of which are necessarily directly responsible for hundreds of lives (Acoustic engineering for example) but all of which may play a role in a larger system which does. If I can put CEng after my name, I'm an engineer both professionally and legally no matter which soap box you happen to be stood on.
I agree that the job title "software engineer" is a bit misleading, perhaps "software developer" would be more appropriate, but those people who have earned the right to call themselves Engineers should be able to do so.
Sort of, but a gyro is based on relatives not absolutes (ie you are oriented x degrees from the calibrated position of the gyro). Think of a compass with a moveable magnetic north - you would stand with 'north' directly in front of you and then as you move the 'north' needle stays in the same place but you move around it.
Making cars not able to break the speed limit is a massive safety problem. I've been in situations (usually on a motorway or other large trunk road) where something has happened, a guy loses control and pings off the central reservation etc and I needed the extra speed *immediately* to get out of the way. If I was already cruising down the outside lane at 70mph (UK limit) then where would I get the extra speed from? I suppose some form of 'burst' limiting could be a solution.
Also there's a huge difference between safe and not. On an empty motorway with clear vision I would say it's safe to do 90mph or up, conversely on a motorway in heavy fog it's common to see people going no faster than 50, and that's on the outside. If you're being really anal about it then some drivers are far safer at high speeds than others. There can be no technical solution to this unless there is a system in place which knows the skill of all drivers, the position of all cars, all road conditions, and is capable of making intelligent judgements about what is safe and what isn't.
Afghanistan != Saddam. Saddam was Iraq, or are you incapable of dealing with locations outside of the USA other than "Europe", "Asia" and "Middle East"? The right to change was given, the Muslims chose to stick with Sharia law. You could of course give them the third chance, and the fourth and so on until they happen to make a choice which is 'correct'. Finally, Sharia law is not the same as Islam. It's quite possible to be Islamic and not follow Sharia, as it's possible to be Jewish and not follow all 613 laws in the Torah.
Twins are more likely to be subject to the same or similar environmental factors, at least until the age of puberty. It's just as much a vote for nurture as for nature.
As for the bigger cock argument, I reckon that's rubbish. I'm not gay, but I've got enough gay friends to have a reasonable grasp (pun absolutely intended) of the field. If bigger cocks are classed as desirable, then those people with bigger cocks who may be gay are more likely to be approached and brought 'out of the closet' if you will. I've had enough approaches in my time that if I was gay and hiding it then I would have given in by now. I do know of friends who are at least on the gay side of bi who simply don't get any because they've not had enough approaches to make them comfortable. Thoughts?
As I said above, people find evidence all over the place to base their opinions on. You can go play with research and stats to prove that marriage is bad (For example, did you know 100% of divorcees were married at some point in their lives?) and thus should be banned, it's just not what a crowd seems to be doing. There is, however, a crowd around the 'gay marriage is bad' argument. Again it can be 'proven' either way and mostly ends up in a cyclic argument, but doesn't stop people from ending up on one side of the fence.
My sex life if amazing at the moment, thanks for asking.
We have scientific evidence explaining why slim (i.e. healthy) women are attractive. Or why chubby (ie good diet) women are attractive? Again, look at different cultures and times. Can you explain why evidence from many older cultures show fatter women as the desirable objects?
...but that doesn't mean that through research we won't eventually uncover evidence or maybe even prove what we percieve to be too complex to prove today. Like, say, religion? We have yet to find solid evidence to disprove it. I'm not picking one over the other here, I see no logical problem with the flying spaghetti monster other than a shortage of midgits.
You must be religious, or for some other reason have a philosophy of ignorance. Religious, Christian, C of E, confirmed. I choose to believe something, but it doesn't mean I discard evidence where it doesn't suit my faith. If you're afraid of things challenging your faith and attempt to silence them then you're no better than the people who cower behind their Anonymous Coward shield and try to shoot down anything which they think challenges their world view. Oh, wait...
I'm not even sure what VB has to do with anything. As far as I can tell it was a purely human cock-up which would have applied if he'd had skills in anything. Moving people around, failure to revoke permissions, poor security, and non-enforced policies all make for a bad day's work.
Objective - In this sense it means based upon observable evidence.
An objective opinion is where you base your opinion on the observable evidence, but it's easily biased depending on how you treat that evidence. For example, since you are an Anonymous Coward I could have an opinion of you as someone who is afraid to appear ignorant here, based on the evidence that you're hiding your name where there is a lack of knowledge. Related to self-justification.
For example with the "gay marriage is bad" above, you can objectively say it increases the risk of the spread of HIV based on the statistics, and from that you form an opinion.
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The 2D roll would be amazing... if it didn't need cleaning every 2 or 3 days to track properly. I do a lot of big zoom stuff and it's nice to pan around with. I'll admit to being a heavy user though, so ymmv.
As for the grandparent's point about chorded clicks... please Apple, I'm willing to put up with a thin 'crack' between the left and right buttons. Perhaps this'll stop the damn thing reading right clicks as left as well. It looks lovely, but my Microsoft Bluetooth gear is far more practical.
No, giving false references is illegal. If the offending admin was responsible for a shoddily configured server then you can say so in a reference.
What happened to the XP installer 'checking for updates' during install time? I've never once seen it do something useful, but even a simple "I got to the interwebs and there are some patches, should I install them now (Will take n hours to download) or do you wanna do it afterwards?" would be great. Slipstreaming into a live install must be possible somehow.
Check in your group policy - there are a comprehensive set of options including change password on next login, maximum password age, minimum password complexity, don't allow same password within ..., don't allow passwords with x characters the same and so on.
Tell you what. I'll go off and compile a kernel with lord only knows what packages and options enabled and disabled and spend days fine-tuning every last cycle out of some obscure feature, then drop it on your desk and tell you to upgrade something. 12 hours later, when you're cursing it for refusing to compile because I altered some bizzare dependancy which nobody in their right mind would recompile --with-extended-range-bypassing-support-mode-library-retrograde, come to me and I'll tell you you're a mindless drone.
Far more sensible in a corporate environment is to stick to the published stuff, so when it goes tits up you can call support and say "Fix it", or when your sysadmin leaves the incoming guy doesn't have to work out why the server is configured to behave in a way which "will be really great" but actually means everybody's mail is delivered in Swahili.
When he took it and you were "guaranteed" you would get it back in a few days, ask for it in writing, on headed paper, signed by the guy who took your laptop and his supervisor.
My lack of clarification, upgrades to existing product lines tend to be simultaneous. Apple normally do try make releases simultaneous, but obviously something like the iPhone relies on various network contracts and device certification so that may not be possible.
Yes and it's wonderful, but only within your 'home' network. I'm in the UK where I get unlimited data from O2, but if I go on holiday to the states (Or any other country) I have to pay for all my data from AT&T (Or any other network) even if they also have the iPhone contract for their country.
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Or, say, give all their information to a website which claims it will keep it secure and only send companies the information they need?
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"Webmaster" is to "Person who makes sure the website and all associated gizmos are working properly" as "Foreman" is to "Person who makes sure the work site and all associated equipment and personnel are behaving properly".
It's fallen into common usage. What else would you suggest? "Web Designer", "Network Architect" and all the other 'bits' of webmastery are already taken. Perhaps "Web Systems Administrator".
Given the iPhone is already available in those regions, and that Apple tends towards simultaneous releases (the 16gb version was simultaneous) then it would in fact make more sense to *wait* in the UK and Europe, since we have the biggest 3G infrastructure. In the USA you may as well just bite the bullet as you won't be able to take full advantage of 3G infrastructure for several months at least, unlike in the UK where we're well into the 90% coverage on most networks.
The chances are, much as the original iPhone is 'one model fits all quad band' that Apple will do the best they can to make it cross-tech compatible. Much of the 3G infrastructure is based on the same underlying tech so it shouldn't be that difficult, with the possible exception of Japan. Failing that, the EDGE will still be compatible across all iPhone markets so a region-specific 3G version which degrades to EDGE on foreign networks won't be too much of a problem (Save for data costs).
Then don't buy the disks. Sorted.
No it isn't. It's a mechanism by which you can prove that you have permission to play media which may require that permission. There's absolutely nothing which stops you playing un-DRMed media. Got some old AVIs? They'll play. That shelf full of CDs? No problem. All those MP3s you've been collecting? They'll still work.
Also, your "Digital Restriction Management" is about as useful as "Winblows" or "Micro$oft". Grow up.
Depending on the choices I make during my next year at uni, I may gain the right to legally call myself a chartered engineer. I probably won't be controlling spaceships or managing a nuclear power plant (I'm doing a cybernetics degree) but I'll be no less an engineer than anybody else who has legally earned that right. Civil engineers take many forms, not all of which are necessarily directly responsible for hundreds of lives (Acoustic engineering for example) but all of which may play a role in a larger system which does. If I can put CEng after my name, I'm an engineer both professionally and legally no matter which soap box you happen to be stood on.
I agree that the job title "software engineer" is a bit misleading, perhaps "software developer" would be more appropriate, but those people who have earned the right to call themselves Engineers should be able to do so.
Sort of, but a gyro is based on relatives not absolutes (ie you are oriented x degrees from the calibrated position of the gyro). Think of a compass with a moveable magnetic north - you would stand with 'north' directly in front of you and then as you move the 'north' needle stays in the same place but you move around it.
Making cars not able to break the speed limit is a massive safety problem. I've been in situations (usually on a motorway or other large trunk road) where something has happened, a guy loses control and pings off the central reservation etc and I needed the extra speed *immediately* to get out of the way. If I was already cruising down the outside lane at 70mph (UK limit) then where would I get the extra speed from? I suppose some form of 'burst' limiting could be a solution.
Also there's a huge difference between safe and not. On an empty motorway with clear vision I would say it's safe to do 90mph or up, conversely on a motorway in heavy fog it's common to see people going no faster than 50, and that's on the outside. If you're being really anal about it then some drivers are far safer at high speeds than others. There can be no technical solution to this unless there is a system in place which knows the skill of all drivers, the position of all cars, all road conditions, and is capable of making intelligent judgements about what is safe and what isn't.
Dude, a TV in all three bathrooms? What happened to the old standby of reading the newspaper?
Good point, well made.
Woah there, settle back and do some reading.
Afghanistan != Saddam. Saddam was Iraq, or are you incapable of dealing with locations outside of the USA other than "Europe", "Asia" and "Middle East"? The right to change was given, the Muslims chose to stick with Sharia law. You could of course give them the third chance, and the fourth and so on until they happen to make a choice which is 'correct'. Finally, Sharia law is not the same as Islam. It's quite possible to be Islamic and not follow Sharia, as it's possible to be Jewish and not follow all 613 laws in the Torah.
Noo, correlation does not imply causation!
Twins are more likely to be subject to the same or similar environmental factors, at least until the age of puberty. It's just as much a vote for nurture as for nature.
As for the bigger cock argument, I reckon that's rubbish. I'm not gay, but I've got enough gay friends to have a reasonable grasp (pun absolutely intended) of the field. If bigger cocks are classed as desirable, then those people with bigger cocks who may be gay are more likely to be approached and brought 'out of the closet' if you will. I've had enough approaches in my time that if I was gay and hiding it then I would have given in by now. I do know of friends who are at least on the gay side of bi who simply don't get any because they've not had enough approaches to make them comfortable. Thoughts?
Congratulations on forming an objective opinion!
As I said above, people find evidence all over the place to base their opinions on. You can go play with research and stats to prove that marriage is bad (For example, did you know 100% of divorcees were married at some point in their lives?) and thus should be banned, it's just not what a crowd seems to be doing. There is, however, a crowd around the 'gay marriage is bad' argument. Again it can be 'proven' either way and mostly ends up in a cyclic argument, but doesn't stop people from ending up on one side of the fence.
My sex life if amazing at the moment, thanks for asking.
...but that doesn't mean that through research we won't eventually uncover evidence or maybe even prove what we percieve to be too complex to prove today. Like, say, religion? We have yet to find solid evidence to disprove it. I'm not picking one over the other here, I see no logical problem with the flying spaghetti monster other than a shortage of midgits. You must be religious, or for some other reason have a philosophy of ignorance. Religious, Christian, C of E, confirmed. I choose to believe something, but it doesn't mean I discard evidence where it doesn't suit my faith. If you're afraid of things challenging your faith and attempt to silence them then you're no better than the people who cower behind their Anonymous Coward shield and try to shoot down anything which they think challenges their world view. Oh, wait...I'm not even sure what VB has to do with anything. As far as I can tell it was a purely human cock-up which would have applied if he'd had skills in anything. Moving people around, failure to revoke permissions, poor security, and non-enforced policies all make for a bad day's work.
Objective - In this sense it means based upon observable evidence.
An objective opinion is where you base your opinion on the observable evidence, but it's easily biased depending on how you treat that evidence. For example, since you are an Anonymous Coward I could have an opinion of you as someone who is afraid to appear ignorant here, based on the evidence that you're hiding your name where there is a lack of knowledge. Related to self-justification.
For example with the "gay marriage is bad" above, you can objectively say it increases the risk of the spread of HIV based on the statistics, and from that you form an opinion.