Regarding James Bond: The 2006 Casino Royale reboot brought the character MUCH closer to the character from the original 1950's Ian Fleming novels that many of us cherish, and have wanted to see on the big screen for decades.
Oh hell yes. As much as I like Roger Moore, he turned James Bond into a clown.
Any driving course will teach you how to avoid 'highway hypnosis'. If you are in a 'sterile driving environment' (ie staring straight ahead) you are doing it wrong. The correct way to fix that is to look at different things (when it is safe to do so). However, you should NOT be dedicating a significant part of your brain to that activity (like by trying to identify a bird or something). If you are texting or phoning you ARE dedicating a significant part of your brain to that activity.
I strongly suspect that what these studies are showing us is that most people are far worse at multi-tasking than they think.
... and these are the same people trying to ban the practical use of satnav devices while driving, leading to everyone reading maps in traffic.
I am sick of the automotive nanny state.
Way to fail at the take-away message. The point is that anything that distracts you from the act of driving is dangerous.
If your GPS makes it easier for you to drive and pay attention then that's great, if you are constantly taking your eyes off the road to look at the GPS because you're a useless idiot who can't navigate for more than five minutes without one then you shouldn't even have a car, much less a GPS.
Perhaps we're just not restricting driving licenses as much as we should. (Which would probably prevent myself or my Dad from driving....)
Yes, it really is that easy. I migrated a friend from an xp desktop to a Win7 laptop (refurbished T500) just a month ago. Plug-em-in, fire it up and go drink the wine and laugh.
are legally responsible for some minimum amount data security.
"Yeah, yeah, we shell out for McAfee. It's enough to cover our ass." And that's from a legally-binding minimal amount of spending view that most corporations have towards regulation and contractual obligations. If they have to have ACTUAL SECURITY, the question becomes, "how much?" Because there is no such thing as absolutely secure and there's really no upper limit to how much you can spend on it.
I'm guessing you've never worked for a military contractor.
Actually I had to do this last year, and it was not so simple. I had no thumb drive large enough for the data I wanted to back up and transfer, and I didn't want to buy Microsoft's special cable and have old and new computer running at the same time (meaning I'd have to borrow a monitor from work to get both running at once). Had to borrow an external hard disk for this.
they are not going to have much of a choice. microsoft is pulling the rug out from under them.
It's not like it will suddenly stop working.
It will stop working, but slowly over time, like every windows install as it slowly collapses under its own weight like a forgotten desert city slowly reclaimed by the dunes.
Given the XP holdouts clearly don't like Microsoft's current offerings, and Mac is growing faster in percentage terms, and Linux appears to be finally getting somewhere - i don't think these XP holdouts will be migrating to another Windows box any time soon.
If the XP holdouts still prefer XP to Win7, they certainly are not going to gravitate to Mac or Linux. (Well some will, but the bulk are just too afraid of change to do anything that drastic.)
Replied to fast... "legal" in this case probably means contract law. ie they are constrained by existing contracts and other legal obligations to exercise resonable and well documented security practices.
I realize this is not the case in your basement/attic/living room/bedroom.
For example financial institutions cannot expose themselves to the risks related to running internet-facing operating systems for which there are no security fixes.
However, no worries since Apple products aren't often found in offices that can afford a cleaning person.
The double think required to put that sentence together must have caused irreperable harm.
(I'm not taking you seriously, however do note that organizations like IBM and Adobe have apps in the Appstore, how do you think they were produced? By fairies sprinkling pixey dust over raw source code?)
Who cares, really? Normally, I should be excited by this set of announcements, but I'm not now. Why? Because Apple is complicit in the largest expansion of government surveillance power in my lifetime... that we know of, at least. (That is, unless you believe their technicality-laden denial with wording nearly identical to several other of the named companies.) Every desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, and personal music player currently in my household is an Apple product, but until we get this sorted out, I'm not buying any more of their gear. And I'm recommending that family and friends do the same.
FFS, this stuff is not new, the allies have been doing active SigInt for decades, you just noticed?
I was a little surprised by this since I have a mac and an ipad and a bunch of free books in iBooks. I had simply never noticed before that I can't actually read those books on the mac.
This is probably because I use the Kindle bookstore instead since they're cheaper on average. (Or were when I checked last...)
Kind of amusing that the Kindle book reader has been available for years for OSX.
I'm fucked. I use tcsh on my *nix boxes and now my employer is moving to Lotus Notes and I have to move all the Exchange shit over to Domino and join it to the French company that bought us.
I am told by those who know more than me that Domino is actually pretty good, it's the client that sucks dead dingo kidneys. However, the Exchange to Domino migration has been known to trigger a wide variety of psychological and medical disorders.
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Regarding James Bond: The 2006 Casino Royale reboot brought the character MUCH closer to the character from the original 1950's Ian Fleming novels that many of us cherish, and have wanted to see on the big screen for decades.
Oh hell yes. As much as I like Roger Moore, he turned James Bond into a clown.
Try grabbing the demo version of RSA, (Rational Software Architect), it's great for turning Java and C++ code into UML models and has a neat way to explore models through diagrams.
The trial version is free for 30 days.
I am sure there are open source tools out there for this, but nothing so complete.
as there's no evidence that the NSA can actually break strong encryption.
That's funny since that's almost half of what they do. The NSA used to be Cray's biggest customer for exactly this purpose.
There are many studies showing that the vast majority of people *suck* at multitasking.
But they don't KNOW that they suck at it.
Any driving course will teach you how to avoid 'highway hypnosis'. If you are in a 'sterile driving environment' (ie staring straight ahead) you are doing it wrong. The correct way to fix that is to look at different things (when it is safe to do so). However, you should NOT be dedicating a significant part of your brain to that activity (like by trying to identify a bird or something). If you are texting or phoning you ARE dedicating a significant part of your brain to that activity.
I strongly suspect that what these studies are showing us is that most people are far worse at multi-tasking than they think.
I trust most people to make this distinction.
I don't. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
... and these are the same people trying to ban the practical use of satnav devices while driving, leading to everyone reading maps in traffic.
I am sick of the automotive nanny state.
Way to fail at the take-away message. The point is that anything that distracts you from the act of driving is dangerous.
If your GPS makes it easier for you to drive and pay attention then that's great, if you are constantly taking your eyes off the road to look at the GPS because you're a useless idiot who can't navigate for more than five minutes without one then you shouldn't even have a car, much less a GPS.
Perhaps we're just not restricting driving licenses as much as we should. (Which would probably prevent myself or my Dad from driving....)
Not that easy.
I guess you've never heard of easy transfer.
Yes, it really is that easy. I migrated a friend from an xp desktop to a Win7 laptop (refurbished T500) just a month ago. Plug-em-in, fire it up and go drink the wine and laugh.
are legally responsible for some minimum amount data security.
"Yeah, yeah, we shell out for McAfee. It's enough to cover our ass." And that's from a legally-binding minimal amount of spending view that most corporations have towards regulation and contractual obligations. If they have to have ACTUAL SECURITY, the question becomes, "how much?" Because there is no such thing as absolutely secure and there's really no upper limit to how much you can spend on it.
I'm guessing you've never worked for a military contractor.
Actually I had to do this last year, and it was not so simple. I had no thumb drive large enough for the data I wanted to back up and transfer, and I didn't want to buy Microsoft's special cable and have old and new computer running at the same time (meaning I'd have to borrow a monitor from work to get both running at once). Had to borrow an external hard disk for this.
ok... a monkey with a network or external drive?
How do you get all the files from the old PC to the new one when you're not a computer expert?
The sad part is that you could literally train a monkey to do it... hang on, is it politically incorrect to conflate monkey with teenager?
they are not going to have much of a choice. microsoft is pulling the rug out from under them.
It's not like it will suddenly stop working.
It will stop working, but slowly over time, like every windows install as it slowly collapses under its own weight like a forgotten desert city slowly reclaimed by the dunes.
Given the XP holdouts clearly don't like Microsoft's current offerings, and Mac is growing faster in percentage terms, and Linux appears to be finally getting somewhere - i don't think these XP holdouts will be migrating to another Windows box any time soon.
If the XP holdouts still prefer XP to Win7, they certainly are not going to gravitate to Mac or Linux. (Well some will, but the bulk are just too afraid of change to do anything that drastic.)
There is no salvaging Windows 8.
Nonsense; they just need to peel back the silly touch UI and restore the old desktop parts.
Yes, it's a trainwreck of a PR issue, but no, it's not un-recoverable. That's just silly FUD.
Replied to fast... "legal" in this case probably means contract law. ie they are constrained by existing contracts and other legal obligations to exercise resonable and well documented security practices.
I realize this is not the case in your basement/attic/living room/bedroom.
You sound really smart!
You don't.
For example financial institutions cannot expose themselves to the risks related to running internet-facing operating systems for which there are no security fixes.
However, no worries since Apple products aren't often found in offices that can afford a cleaning person.
The double think required to put that sentence together must have caused irreperable harm.
(I'm not taking you seriously, however do note that organizations like IBM and Adobe have apps in the Appstore, how do you think they were produced? By fairies sprinkling pixey dust over raw source code?)
Who cares, really? Normally, I should be excited by this set of announcements, but I'm not now. Why? Because Apple is complicit in the largest expansion of government surveillance power in my lifetime... that we know of, at least. (That is, unless you believe their technicality-laden denial with wording nearly identical to several other of the named companies.) Every desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, and personal music player currently in my household is an Apple product, but until we get this sorted out, I'm not buying any more of their gear. And I'm recommending that family and friends do the same.
FFS, this stuff is not new, the allies have been doing active SigInt for decades, you just noticed?
Define cylindrical. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/NeXTcube.jpg
Like that, only more cylindrical.
Apple needs a mini + with a good desktop cpu and a good (can be build video chip) may be at $800-$1200 as I see the new mac pro at $2,500-$3,000 base.
I agreed with a similar comment elsewhere. There's a clear hole between mini and pro that's orthagonal to the macbook.
Bringing iBooks to the MacOS is good.
I was a little surprised by this since I have a mac and an ipad and a bunch of free books in iBooks. I had simply never noticed before that I can't actually read those books on the mac.
This is probably because I use the Kindle bookstore instead since they're cheaper on average. (Or were when I checked last...)
Kind of amusing that the Kindle book reader has been available for years for OSX.
While I agree with about 90%, it does depend on how you define "game".
Given that you can get better framerates doing OpenGL in Java now than you could 15 years ago in C, it's really not that simple.
You just sound bitter and old..
... and right.
Didn't I warn you about the lawn already?
I'm fucked. I use tcsh on my *nix boxes and now my employer is moving to Lotus Notes and I have to move all the Exchange shit over to Domino and join it to the French company that bought us.
I am told by those who know more than me that Domino is actually pretty good, it's the client that sucks dead dingo kidneys. However, the Exchange to Domino migration has been known to trigger a wide variety of psychological and medical disorders.
There's just nothing more frustrating then tcsh.
You have clearly never been forced to use Lotus Notes.