Two words: Archive. Oh, that was only one word... maybe "archive, dumb!".
Do you realize you can set your filter to "skip inbox"? This feature is not even hidden!
Actually a pilot did that once during a hijack incident in Brazil in the 80's.
One pothead hijacked the plane and wanted it to be thrown against an especific in Brasília (capital of Brazil), namely the parliament.
Everyone was wearing the seatbelts, except the hijacker, who was threatening the pilot. The pilot then began a tonneaux (mind that it was a BIG plane) and the terrorist hit the wall. The plane stalled and entered a steep dive. The pilot manage to recover it perfectly and landed in Anapólis Airstrip (20km away from Brasília) shortly afterwards.
(still I can't find any link about this account...)
One Brazilian bank (namely "banco do brasil") has an incredible password typing system for its ATMs.
When the card is issued to the user, he receives a 3-letter password. Each time you use the card (for any ATM-like transaction) you're presented a screen containing 8 boxes with 3 distinct letters each. Each letter is shown only once on the screen. You then press the button equivalent to the first letter of your password. The screen then redraws/re-sorts again and you press the button equivalent to the second letter. The screen then redraws/re-sorts again and you press the button equivalent to the third letter.
Brillant! It almost completely kills shoulder-surfing!
I guess you're right. I haven't realized this "noun modify nouns" this way yet.
IIRC, in Portuguese, a noun NEEDS a conjunction do modify another noun. Thus, the sentence "The sun god..." would be something like "O deus do sol..." ("The god of sun..."). I guess other romantic languages needs that too.
IANANES (I Am Not A Native English Speaker), however I'm nitpicky.
Doesn't "this" belong to pronoun class? At least in Portuguese the equivalent word for "this" (este/esta) is a pronoun (actually a "demonstrative" pronoun)...
What if the destruction of this object triggers some orbit change in another (far away) body? I mean, this comet is supposed to pass near some other body, but due to our "attack" it doesn't.
Just a randomic thought
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What? No shark-mounted lasers? This is just not right.
Brazil did right, IMHO. The price proposed was simply ridiculous to Brazilian reality. Wanna make money on people's health/survival? Don't abuse on the profit.
Great
And what if your bank won't let you change your internet access password (easily)? Every single Brazilian bank is like this but wait, it gets worst: all passwords are weak 8-DIGITs ones. The only form of protection is the use-the-mouse-to-type-the-pass stuff, but that won't defeat shoulder riders.
If Flash actually gets to the point of having equal performance to volatile RAM (and these Flash HDDs exist and are reliable), the I wonder what the perpose of "memeory" in the traditional sense would be. I'd think we'd just get rid of it. If the whole HDD has the speed of RAM, I'd think it'd be a "fairly" easy redesign of the MOBO and you would only need the Flash HDD. Am I missing something, or if Flash could get that level of performance and reliablity as a HDD wouldn't "memeory" as we think of it today not be needed?
The memory (as RAM) would still be needed because it would need far more writes than the secondary memory.
Having multiple levels memory is useful to shorten the path (at eletric level) of things used more often (e.g. cache memmory sits near the cpu).
According to the Winhec keynote, Metro will be an integral part of Longhorn. Apparently, it will use obscure hooks inside the Longhorn kernel in order to print stuff faster. Some features will only be visible to microsoft developers in order to make M$ metro renderers faster than competitors.
C'mon, could Microsoft do something better than the long-tested/improved/used/globally-accepted PDF/PS format? Where exactly they plan to improve?
Moreover, already I can see "vulnerability found in M$ metro reader hands full computer control to any 13y script kiddie" news popping.
MS: time to accept some stuff already available are better than your crap.
I mean, if you continue as an AC you will still be jerking off their ad-servers (which gives them money). Want to make a rebellion? Give up visiting/. at all.
I really wish one of the major email players would offer an option for prepaid email. That would be an absolutely spam-proof system. It doesn't matter if the postage is two cents, the spammers can't afford it. Two cents against 50,000,000 spams turns out to be *REAL* money. Any email via that address would be at least some kind of real thing.
Hmm, so granma and Joe-six-pack will have to pay when they have their PCs zombied? Not a good idea. It would only work if someone we know patch their OS holes.
Spam damages productivity, period. I, for one, don't want and don't need to know about "V14gra and C1Al15", can I shove it upon your ass? 3 in 5 ppl who dislike "spam" have actually bought something online Hm... you mean, from the spammers? I guess not...
Wrong. At least in Brazil, if you get the minimun wage (R$ 240/month) it won't be taxed (ie. no income tax). Income taxing starts at about R$ 900/month. There are "bands" of income tax too: if you get R$ 900/month you pay, say, 10% (not sure). If you get R$ 2500/month, you pay 27%. Sounds shitty for you? Brazil is a tax world champion =/
The kind of accountability I expect from an information/answers site is different than the expected by advertisers. Ad-guys wants to get people going to their site; I want to find reliable info there.
My point is that free services are responsible for accountability for BOTH parts (me and advertisers) because the final objective is not the advertisers, but general public. If they fail to find reliable info there, general public will visit less the service and thus, hit less ads.
Want to make a cash cow? Publish useful and reliable information, freely (as in beer) and load it with contextualized ads (I smell GoogleAdSense here?).
Of course, in real life, things are not that simple, but such analysis is trivial and left as an exercise for the reader.
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Two words: Archive. Oh, that was only one word... maybe "archive, dumb!".
Do you realize you can set your filter to "skip inbox"? This feature is not even hidden!
Actually a pilot did that once during a hijack incident in Brazil in the 80's. One pothead hijacked the plane and wanted it to be thrown against an especific in Brasília (capital of Brazil), namely the parliament.
Everyone was wearing the seatbelts, except the hijacker, who was threatening the pilot. The pilot then began a tonneaux (mind that it was a BIG plane) and the terrorist hit the wall. The plane stalled and entered a steep dive. The pilot manage to recover it perfectly and landed in Anapólis Airstrip (20km away from Brasília) shortly afterwards.
(still I can't find any link about this account...)
One Brazilian bank (namely "banco do brasil") has an incredible password typing system for its ATMs.
When the card is issued to the user, he receives a 3-letter password. Each time you use the card (for any ATM-like transaction) you're presented a screen containing 8 boxes with 3 distinct letters each. Each letter is shown only once on the screen. You then press the button equivalent to the first letter of your password. The screen then redraws/re-sorts again and you press the button equivalent to the second letter. The screen then redraws/re-sorts again and you press the button equivalent to the third letter.
Brillant! It almost completely kills shoulder-surfing!
It looks like you never heard about Automator (on a Mac) or {Ba|Z|Fi|Tc}sh scripting on *nix
I guess you're right. I haven't realized this "noun modify nouns" this way yet.
IIRC, in Portuguese, a noun NEEDS a conjunction do modify another noun. Thus, the sentence "The sun god..." would be something like "O deus do sol..." ("The god of sun..."). I guess other romantic languages needs that too.
IANANES (I Am Not A Native English Speaker), however I'm nitpicky.
Doesn't "this" belong to pronoun class? At least in Portuguese the equivalent word for "this" (este/esta) is a pronoun (actually a "demonstrative" pronoun)...
we don't need light in our basements!! FP?
Weird... all I see is
.org] rather [ .org] use [ .org] the [ .org] old [ .org] way [ .org] of [ .org] linking [ .org] multiple [ .org] pages
I'd [
That smells like a new /. meme rising
What if the destruction of this object triggers some orbit change in another (far away) body? I mean, this comet is supposed to pass near some other body, but due to our "attack" it doesn't. Just a randomic thought
What? No shark-mounted lasers? This is just not right.
Brazil did right, IMHO. The price proposed was simply ridiculous to Brazilian reality. Wanna make money on people's health/survival? Don't abuse on the profit.
Great
And what if your bank won't let you change your internet access password (easily)? Every single Brazilian bank is like this but wait, it gets worst: all passwords are weak 8-DIGITs ones. The only form of protection is the use-the-mouse-to-type-the-pass stuff, but that won't defeat shoulder riders.
Having multiple levels memory is useful to shorten the path (at eletric level) of things used more often (e.g. cache memmory sits near the cpu).
According to the Winhec keynote, Metro will be an integral part of Longhorn. Apparently, it will use obscure hooks inside the Longhorn kernel in order to print stuff faster. Some features will only be visible to microsoft developers in order to make M$ metro renderers faster than competitors.
C'mon, could Microsoft do something better than the long-tested/improved/used/globally-accepted PDF/PS format? Where exactly they plan to improve?
Moreover, already I can see "vulnerability found in M$ metro reader hands full computer control to any 13y script kiddie" news popping.
MS: time to accept some stuff already available are better than your crap.
I mean, if you continue as an AC you will still be jerking off their ad-servers (which gives them money). Want to make a rebellion? Give up visiting /. at all.
speacially if the emergency has something to do with the radio antenna where instructions from ground control were supposed to be recieved...
How do you expect to reduce it's speed to orbital velocity without tearing it apart?
It sounded strange for me, but them I reminded of my slashmathics class. Everything is clear now.
There won't be "warchalking" in such place?
I really wish one of the major email players would offer an option for prepaid email. That would be an absolutely spam-proof system. It doesn't matter if the postage is two cents, the spammers can't afford it. Two cents against 50,000,000 spams turns out to be *REAL* money. Any email via that address would be at least some kind of real thing.
Hmm, so granma and Joe-six-pack will have to pay when they have their PCs zombied? Not a good idea. It would only work if someone we know patch their OS holes.
Spam damages productivity, period. I, for one, don't want and don't need to know about "V14gra and C1Al15", can I shove it upon your ass?
3 in 5 ppl who dislike "spam" have actually bought something online Hm... you mean, from the spammers? I guess not...
Get perpendicular...tra la la!
This sounds like the next slashdot meme.
Fantastic. And perpendicular. Except in Nebraska.
Wrong. At least in Brazil, if you get the minimun wage (R$ 240/month) it won't be taxed (ie. no income tax). Income taxing starts at about R$ 900/month. There are "bands" of income tax too: if you get R$ 900/month you pay, say, 10% (not sure). If you get R$ 2500/month, you pay 27%. Sounds shitty for you? Brazil is a tax world champion =/
The kind of accountability I expect from an information/answers site is different than the expected by advertisers. Ad-guys wants to get people going to their site; I want to find reliable info there.
My point is that free services are responsible for accountability for BOTH parts (me and advertisers) because the final objective is not the advertisers, but general public. If they fail to find reliable info there, general public will visit less the service and thus, hit less ads.
Want to make a cash cow? Publish useful and reliable information, freely (as in beer) and load it with contextualized ads (I smell GoogleAdSense here?).
Of course, in real life, things are not that simple, but such analysis is trivial and left as an exercise for the reader.