Back when Drachmae still had denomination, we called them "minutes" ("lepta", sorry, apparently no international characters on/.) (which makes as much sense in English if you notice that it stems from "minutus", "small"). This was decades, if not centuries, ago, so we now have resorted to calling euro-cents "minutes" again. I find it a very apt name and like it a lot.
People, stop asking for minority report screens already. Think about how much time you spend in front of your computer. Now imagine what it would feel like if during all that time, your arms were raised in front of your face.
Yes, that's exactly my thought (although I was thinking more of a cable with RJ45 plugs at regular intervals). Purely for novelty value, really... I will try it some day.
Damn, you actually know about this?! I had been wondering on how to do the "one cable for all the computers" thing for a while now. I know that it obviously works, since a hub is essentially just that, but I don't know the cabling to do it. Would you by any chance have any idea on how to construct such a cable? By now it's so old that it's gotten new again, so it should amaze quite a few people as a trick.
That's not really it. Right now you need to tell the computer exactly what to do when you're talking to it, so you need to say "move down five, move left three, press enter". This is done much faster with a keyboard, obviously. What we need is a way to micromanage computers less and have them do what we want, e.g. "find a restaurant in the area that serves seafood". Unfortunately, the fewer information you give, the more can go wrong, so I'm not sure that movie-like voice recognition will ever catch on...
Just imagine how you would want the computer to obey voice commands, and then imagine giving the same command to a human, e.g. "Write a letter to my mother". I wouldn't trust a human to do exactly what I want with the limited information I gave, so why would a computer be different?
Most linksys are U: , P: admin. Default passwords are meant to be as stupid as possible so people are scared into changing them, HW manufacturers have it right in that respect.
You might think their world is "little", but in my country (Greece) and I'm sure in most of Europe, everyone uses MSN almost exclusively. Noone has ever heard of AIM/Y, and only old timers remember ICQ. If you want to get a taste of what this news is like for me (apart from the obvious theoretical benefit of using an open protocol), replace the word AOL/AIM with the word MSN, to you it'd be non-news.
That's nothing, at least you can cmd+backspace. What drives me crazy is the little canceling "X" in the move/copy/delete operations. In any other OS, it's accessible with esc, enter, or alt+f4. In MacOS, there's no keyboard access to it. If you discover you started deleting a huge directory by mistake, you have to scramble for the mouse, aim at this teeny tiny button and click.
And don't even get me started on the lack of keyboard accelerators. It seems that Apple doesn't think many of its users prefer the keyboard (which might very well be the case)...
Most people would put "not destroying all usable bombs while testing" above "making sure it works", but not you! You work for the government, don't you!
I agree and am pretty sure that strong encryption can't be broken at the moment, but what the GGP said isn't necessarily true. It might mean that they can't break it, or it might mean that they don't want to be bothered utilizing big (and expensive) means to catch "small fish".
You say that it's enough for 90% of the corporate desktop, but my experience has sadly shown otherwise. I use linux exclusively for servers and would never use Windows, but I tried to convert company PCs to linux (obviously ignoring resistance of the type "I don't know how to use this!", it's not like they were technical geniuses with windows either, it took them an hour to learn how everything in Gnome worked), but bugs such as OpenOffice not working with compiz, OpenOffice hanging when opening files on network shares and less than transparent network file access (I had to mount network drives in fstab so they could email files from them, for crying out loud) made it hard.
Almost everyone is disappointed in it, and I understand them, but I'm hoping there will be fixes for the OO.o bug at least. Needless to say, whenever I walk into someone's office they say with a terrified look "oh, you're not installing linux on my PC!".
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Back when Drachmae still had denomination, we called them "minutes" ("lepta", sorry, apparently no international characters on /.) (which makes as much sense in English if you notice that it stems from "minutus", "small"). This was decades, if not centuries, ago, so we now have resorted to calling euro-cents "minutes" again. I find it a very apt name and like it a lot.
Gah, the GoDaddy one was so bad it borders on offensive... Why oh why...
People, stop asking for minority report screens already. Think about how much time you spend in front of your computer. Now imagine what it would feel like if during all that time, your arms were raised in front of your face.
Not very comfortable, is it?
Yes, that's exactly my thought (although I was thinking more of a cable with RJ45 plugs at regular intervals). Purely for novelty value, really... I will try it some day.
Now if only the retards at the *AAs got the point...
They weren't doing anything illegal.
Damn, you actually know about this?! I had been wondering on how to do the "one cable for all the computers" thing for a while now. I know that it obviously works, since a hub is essentially just that, but I don't know the cabling to do it. Would you by any chance have any idea on how to construct such a cable? By now it's so old that it's gotten new again, so it should amaze quite a few people as a trick.
That's not really it. Right now you need to tell the computer exactly what to do when you're talking to it, so you need to say "move down five, move left three, press enter". This is done much faster with a keyboard, obviously. What we need is a way to micromanage computers less and have them do what we want, e.g. "find a restaurant in the area that serves seafood". Unfortunately, the fewer information you give, the more can go wrong, so I'm not sure that movie-like voice recognition will ever catch on...
Just imagine how you would want the computer to obey voice commands, and then imagine giving the same command to a human, e.g. "Write a letter to my mother". I wouldn't trust a human to do exactly what I want with the limited information I gave, so why would a computer be different?
Most linksys are U: , P: admin. Default passwords are meant to be as stupid as possible so people are scared into changing them, HW manufacturers have it right in that respect.
I am! That was a funny reply!
You might think their world is "little", but in my country (Greece) and I'm sure in most of Europe, everyone uses MSN almost exclusively. Noone has ever heard of AIM/Y, and only old timers remember ICQ. If you want to get a taste of what this news is like for me (apart from the obvious theoretical benefit of using an open protocol), replace the word AOL/AIM with the word MSN, to you it'd be non-news.
Let me tell you, worm porn rules.
That's nothing, at least you can cmd+backspace. What drives me crazy is the little canceling "X" in the move/copy/delete operations. In any other OS, it's accessible with esc, enter, or alt+f4. In MacOS, there's no keyboard access to it. If you discover you started deleting a huge directory by mistake, you have to scramble for the mouse, aim at this teeny tiny button and click.
And don't even get me started on the lack of keyboard accelerators. It seems that Apple doesn't think many of its users prefer the keyboard (which might very well be the case)...
What use is a $180 OS if you can't run it anywhere?
Show me a person who doesn't wish for a right trackpad button on the mac, and I'll show you a person who doesn't use Opera.
About that, I've been wondering how players detect ads. I can't think of a good heuristic way to do it, does anyone know how it works?
Most people would put "not destroying all usable bombs while testing" above "making sure it works", but not you! You work for the government, don't you!
Next up: Test if your explosives have gone bad by detonating them.
That's not more impressive. It might even be stupider than TFA.
I agree and am pretty sure that strong encryption can't be broken at the moment, but what the GGP said isn't necessarily true. It might mean that they can't break it, or it might mean that they don't want to be bothered utilizing big (and expensive) means to catch "small fish".
Wikipedia disagrees with your definition of zero-sum, and states that chess is, in fact, a zero-sum game.
You say that it's enough for 90% of the corporate desktop, but my experience has sadly shown otherwise. I use linux exclusively for servers and would never use Windows, but I tried to convert company PCs to linux (obviously ignoring resistance of the type "I don't know how to use this!", it's not like they were technical geniuses with windows either, it took them an hour to learn how everything in Gnome worked), but bugs such as OpenOffice not working with compiz, OpenOffice hanging when opening files on network shares and less than transparent network file access (I had to mount network drives in fstab so they could email files from them, for crying out loud) made it hard.
Almost everyone is disappointed in it, and I understand them, but I'm hoping there will be fixes for the OO.o bug at least. Needless to say, whenever I walk into someone's office they say with a terrified look "oh, you're not installing linux on my PC!".
Someone tell them they were supposed to encrypt the data before the breach!
QMUNAD, WHEA (Quit Making Up New Acronyms Damnit, We Have Enough Already)!
MACGYVER invented that list?