*crackle* This is your captain. We will now be deploying the new ComSatLink 14 communications satellite and the Hawking probe, which will be doing some of the first tests on the famous "string" theory. Mechanical sounds you may hear will be from the robotic arms handling the equipment, and are nothing to worry about.
The altitude is now 500 kilometres, or some 325 miles. As we have no wind *passengers chuckle*, we will be reaching Bangladesh on schedule, in just 21 minutes.
Please continue to observe the "no floating" sign. We will have zero gravity in about three minutes. Thank you! *crackle*
How can a monitor reproduce fluorescent orange or silver metallic ink? It can't.
Then I just have to ask: How can we do it? I'll take a wild guess that materials whose fluorescence or reflectance can be regulated with electricity are well known, and that including such materials could well be the next step for creating amazing displays. Who's up for it?
the main reason they don't want you using your cell phone, particularly while taxi-ing and such, when your cell phone will definitely be working and have a signal, is because they want you to use their (very expensive) air phones.
I call bull$#!7. Most planes I've been on have no seat phones, and absolutely all of them have banned cell phones for years.
The Internet has become a melting pot of more or less English literate persons. Today, everyone knows a bit of English, at least enough to read and fill in the forms to access forums and chat rooms. These persons file bug reports, express their feelings, advertise their country of origin, and generally want to communicate with the rest of the world. People with English as their mother language or secondary language want to (or have to) answer these persons, and they generally have to do it on the receivers' premises. I also believe that answering a really messy message in perfect English can seem a bit snobby, especially if it's to a colleague or PHB. People get used to using simple, and sometimes plain wrong, English to avoid discussions with the less literate.
It's just a combination of "garbage in - garbage out" and doing what you're used to.
I've been using these since I heard of them almost two months ago. My USB device is a TinyDisk 256MB. Here are some pros and cons with regard to the original builds: Pros:
Bookmarks, settings, and extensions will follow you wherever you go
If the drive has a locking mechanism, can probably be used on insecure machines (I haven't actually tried this)
Cons:
Having to remember the USB stick:-)
Slow startup
Bookmark insertion, moving, deleting, etc. lag at some points (1-2 seconds on my disk)
Waiting time after shutting down the applications before you can unplug the drive safely
"Manual" installation of plug-ins and extensions
Of course, the pros are an absolute heavenly gift for many, so I believe most people can live with the minor cons.
To be able to create shortcuts to the drive, ensure that the drive letter doesn't change by going to Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management, right-click the drive and select "Change drive letter and paths", and set to "Z"
OT warning: This is why guns shouldn't be allowed to carry. Criminals will always have bigger guns, so I prefer if they have small ones, and I've none. I'd much rather get robbed & beaten than killed.
We might have a serious problem if people can get high on LCDs.:)
In my younger days, y'know, when CRT was going strong, y'know, I, uh, tried it, and it was just, y'know, boom! It started with a 12", but I always needed more. I used to dream of the day I could score, y'know, 21" or sum'thin. But even when I reached it, it was still, y'know, not enough. Then LCD arrived, and it was, like, a new world. Now I'm using 17", y'know, but when you're down like this, y'know, it's only the next kick that counts. If I find enough money, I'll probably get me a, uh, dual 25" or sum'thing. It'll probably kill me, but I jus' don't, y'know, care anymore.
You don't need to be a usability "GUI specialist" to get good user interfaces. All you need is a community of creative users interested in the mainstream adoption of the software in question. They will file improvement requests, and the developers can take it from there.
OT: While I've seen people lamenting the use of Bugzilla to file usability issues, I think it's a great idea. Improvement requests are not bug reports, but should be treated as such, when time allows.
Well, I haven't heard anyone complaining about the radio as a bad thing in itself, but certainly TV and the internet have gotten their share of well-founded and not so well-founded criticism. Both are said to alienate people, as they both take up time which would(?) otherwise be used around other humans. And there is the issue of exposing children to "harmful material" and people with bad intentions.
On the other side, the computer seems to have been accepted as a Very Good Thing(TM), at least until the entertainment industry got into that business as well.
Too bad forwarding spam doesn't gain anybody, bandwidth-wise. Which brings me to something entirely off-topic: Copying is to stealing what deleting spam is to regaining bandwidth.
I've tried some six or seven distros the last few weeks, to see if any of them could be close to usable for my parents. This one so far seems to hit the spot, but I've been unsuccessful in getting optical output from my onboard nForce2 AC97 chip to work. Any thoughts? And yes, I've googled it. Everybody seems to have Sound Blasters nowadays...
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There's just one problem with that reasoning: Nothing about the physical world can be proven conclusively (ref. the Heisenberg uncertainty principle).
"Maskin" means "machine" in all the Scandinavian languages. While this product sounds really useful, the misunderstandings would be plentiful.
*crackle* This is your captain. We will now be deploying the new ComSatLink 14 communications satellite and the Hawking probe, which will be doing some of the first tests on the famous "string" theory. Mechanical sounds you may hear will be from the robotic arms handling the equipment, and are nothing to worry about.
The altitude is now 500 kilometres, or some 325 miles. As we have no wind *passengers chuckle*, we will be reaching Bangladesh on schedule, in just 21 minutes.
Please continue to observe the "no floating" sign. We will have zero gravity in about three minutes. Thank you! *crackle*
I can't wait!
Well, mostly, but does it run Linux?
It's, uh, just in case, y'know, Bin Laden or sum'one, y'know, shows up. Ya never know.
History has taught the rest of us that the U.S. will do anything it sees fit, with or without permission.
Been using Portable Firefox and Thunderbird for a few weeks already, and they're great for taking your settings with you wherever you go.
The Internet has become a melting pot of more or less English literate persons. Today, everyone knows a bit of English, at least enough to read and fill in the forms to access forums and chat rooms. These persons file bug reports, express their feelings, advertise their country of origin, and generally want to communicate with the rest of the world. People with English as their mother language or secondary language want to (or have to) answer these persons, and they generally have to do it on the receivers' premises. I also believe that answering a really messy message in perfect English can seem a bit snobby, especially if it's to a colleague or PHB. People get used to using simple, and sometimes plain wrong, English to avoid discussions with the less literate.
It's just a combination of "garbage in - garbage out" and doing what you're used to.
- Advertisers happily overload IE users with pop-ups
- Those tired of said pop-ups tries different browsers
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Advertisers panic, and
- throw a few extra pop-ups in there to "increase chances"
- start using new, currently not blocked features for advertising (e.g. keywords)
- FF starts blocking the new advertisement techniques
- IE users are even more overloaded, and get another incentive to try other browsers
Repeat steps 2-5 until IE is gone, and web advertisements are deemed bad business. What a wonderful world...Pros:
Cons:
- Having to remember the USB stick
:-) - Slow startup
- Bookmark insertion, moving, deleting, etc. lag at some points (1-2 seconds on my disk)
- Waiting time after shutting down the applications before you can unplug the drive safely
- "Manual" installation of plug-ins and extensions
Of course, the pros are an absolute heavenly gift for many, so I believe most people can live with the minor cons.A few tips:
OT warning: This is why guns shouldn't be allowed to carry. Criminals will always have bigger guns, so I prefer if they have small ones, and I've none. I'd much rather get robbed & beaten than killed.
Try KeePass (OSI certified'n'all). I've been using it for months on a USB stick, and it's quite handy.
You don't need to be a usability "GUI specialist" to get good user interfaces. All you need is a community of creative users interested in the mainstream adoption of the software in question. They will file improvement requests, and the developers can take it from there.
OT: While I've seen people lamenting the use of Bugzilla to file usability issues, I think it's a great idea. Improvement requests are not bug reports, but should be treated as such, when time allows.
Welcome to the HEV hazardous environment suit...
Maybe condoms you'll really not know are there...
Well, I haven't heard anyone complaining about the radio as a bad thing in itself, but certainly TV and the internet have gotten their share of well-founded and not so well-founded criticism. Both are said to alienate people, as they both take up time which would(?) otherwise be used around other humans. And there is the issue of exposing children to "harmful material" and people with bad intentions.
On the other side, the computer seems to have been accepted as a Very Good Thing(TM), at least until the entertainment industry got into that business as well.
Too bad forwarding spam doesn't gain anybody, bandwidth-wise. Which brings me to something entirely off-topic: Copying is to stealing what deleting spam is to regaining bandwidth.
And I can't even find 404...
I've tried some six or seven distros the last few weeks, to see if any of them could be close to usable for my parents. This one so far seems to hit the spot, but I've been unsuccessful in getting optical output from my onboard nForce2 AC97 chip to work. Any thoughts? And yes, I've googled it. Everybody seems to have Sound Blasters nowadays...