The problem is slightly different. Due to the great number of messages I receive on a daily basis (and the frequency is high too) notifications such as {play a sound, animate tray icon, show a balloon tip} are becoming useless because they show up too often.
As a result, I decided to turn them off. I know that I am supposed to receive emails, and that some of them are of a great importance, therefore I keep going back to the mail client every now and then in order to see what's there.
There are several folders where messages go after being filtered by the rules I set, I see that some of them have new messages so I feel that I have to review them. Time is wasted.
Finally I decided to turn off automatic email checking, and instead I'm switching to the mail client and manually pressing 'check mail'.
My point is that "finding a better program" is not going to fix the problem. I think this is some sort of a logical layer addiction one cannot get rid of easily. My conclusion is that the solution is based on "updating one's psyche" rather than "updating one's mail client".
Hmm, I noticed the same kind of phenomenon in myself; my mass is pretty much constant regardless of food consumption, mental effort or amount of exercise.
I've went through a period of more eating, then more exercising (badminton, cycling, football, long walks, carrying heavy stuff). But the only way to get heavier is to put on my backpack with all the tech and books in it...:-)
How can a person gain weight when this happens? I am aware of the fact that my mass does not correspond to my age and height (~54kg at a height of 1.75m); mass has been constant since I started paying attention to it (about 5 years ago).
Imagine if every family held to about the same ratio of 1 husband to 4 wives. You now have 3 men who will never be able to find a wife, never be able to start a family.
Maybe in this case, after a certain number of iterations nature would adjust itself in a way that the boy:girl ratio of newborn children would change to match the current 'demands'.
In the area I live, there are quite a lot of homeless dogs. No one controls how they are breeding, I expect this will become a problem in the future, but so far the dogs seem to enjoy themselves.
I've noticed that very often dogs cross the road on a zebra (crosswalk), and they keep crossing there even after the road markings are worn off. Perhaps they remember the absolute location (i.e. the road marks have nothing to do with it), or maybe they remember that it was there, or maybe they use the presence of the traffic lights to figure out that the place is used for crossing.
Also, they wait for the traffic lights to switch to the right state. This is a tough one, because there are stoplights for pedestrians, and for drivers. A pedestrian's green is the equivalent of a driver's red - thus a dog cannot use colour alone to figure out what is going on.
Hmm, this makes it quite difficult to test the changes in a home environment.
Can you suggest a strategy other than "apply all the changes suggested by powertop and see how the system behaves for N days"?
The problem is that if I make only small changes - the effect can be nearly undetectable. On the other hand, applying multiple changes at once can have a visible impact, but can also have side-effects that will render some parts of the system unfunctional or unstable.
The only thing I can really measure is the time the CPU spends in each C state. I did see that it spent more time in C3, therefore I have the theoretical proof that power consumption went lower. But... I got disappointed to see that there were no updates in the estimated battery time.
I guess I will simply disregard that estimate and measure uptime with a simple clock.
You need to switch to a tickless kernel, and tinker with powertop - that should improve things.
Note that in my case, none of the powertop tricks had any impact - I was surprised to see that no matter what I did, the estimated time would always be 1h45min. This is still an experiment in progress, so don't count this feedback as 100% certain.
Not all jokes can be translated because they rely on the history and culture that is typical to a region. In spite of that, many people continue trying to translate jokes, thinking they are doing it right.
The solution is to substitute jokes with local equivalents (if any), thus engage in a serious joke l10n project.
Of course, some jokes are culture agnostic, and are instead tied to a certain professional field (like the one about perfectly spherical horses moving in vacuum) - those cannot be understood by folk with a different academic background.
Cultural context is very important for jokes, trying to tell a joke out of context is like %insert car analogy here%.
If you brute-force crypto2, you will sooner or later find a certain key3, such that
f'(key3, crypto2) = plain
In other words, you won't have to do the intermediate step of finding crypto1 first. If this was so it would mean that applying encryption twice would make your data immune to brute-force attacks because the attacker would fail to recognize the decrypted data (as they look like random garbage).
Such documents exist; Apple and Gnome have great HIGs (Human Interface Guidelines). Microsoft provides similar documentation for Vista.
The problem, in my opinion, is caused by the following: - people think "I don't have time for the HIG, I already know what I need"; - they get started using UI design tools and simply drag'n'drop widgets (Borland's IDEs are so easy to use, they gave birth to an entire generation of coders who "can do GUI"); afterwards they are too lazy to start from scratch because "so much has been done".
I once started a quest for HIGs, and downloaded and read every single one I could find. Since then I became more aware of the existing problems, and learned about their solutions.
In the end it boils down to taking your time to read a text (they are quite short too, I remember that after the Gnome HIG I was upset it ended so fast).
It is not even a fact that it is a restaurant. I can't read Chinese so I cannot verify that myself - but all the witty comments here rely on the fact that the label is indeed attached to a restaurant.
What if it is a computer repair shop or an Internet cafe?
Do you happen to know a way to do this with VBulletin? And if you do, how efficient is this?
I am a member of a forum, there is a guy who uses anonymous proxy servers, creates clone accounts whenever his old ones are deleted/banned.
How to "trollcage" that? He can login from a different account and see that his posts are not there. If you try to trace by IP - he won't see his older messages either, since he has a new IP each time.
Wow, this was indeed a cruel and a funny joke at the same time. Also, it is one of the most expensive practical jokes I've heard of.
However, I am sure that once he analyzed it he would have realized that something was wrong, because the rock did not match the specs of a rock that existed in that environment, on the surface, for some time.
Eventually the genius of the joke would have been spotted; unless of course he would be too excited about it and ended up selecting only the data that fits his model, etc.
Good joke, although I still have a general feeling of uneasiness... poor guy...
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How is this problem specific to Outlook? I've used Outlook as well as other email clients and I never felt uncertain about the effect of my actions.
Could you elaborate?
The problem is slightly different. Due to the great number of messages I receive on a daily basis (and the frequency is high too) notifications such as {play a sound, animate tray icon, show a balloon tip} are becoming useless because they show up too often.
As a result, I decided to turn them off. I know that I am supposed to receive emails, and that some of them are of a great importance, therefore I keep going back to the mail client every now and then in order to see what's there.
There are several folders where messages go after being filtered by the rules I set, I see that some of them have new messages so I feel that I have to review them. Time is wasted.
Finally I decided to turn off automatic email checking, and instead I'm switching to the mail client and manually pressing 'check mail'.
My point is that "finding a better program" is not going to fix the problem. I think this is some sort of a logical layer addiction one cannot get rid of easily. My conclusion is that the solution is based on "updating one's psyche" rather than "updating one's mail client".
Here are some additional thoughts about it: http://railean.net/index.php/2008/07/28/information_overload_is_real
Most likely lives in Korea.
Hmm, I noticed the same kind of phenomenon in myself; my mass is pretty much constant regardless of food consumption, mental effort or amount of exercise.
I've went through a period of more eating, then more exercising (badminton, cycling, football, long walks, carrying heavy stuff). But the only way to get heavier is to put on my backpack with all the tech and books in it... :-)
How can a person gain weight when this happens? I am aware of the fact that my mass does not correspond to my age and height (~54kg at a height of 1.75m); mass has been constant since I started paying attention to it (about 5 years ago).
Speaking English is a common phenomenon in The Netherlands. Most of them are fluent speakers.
Note: Czechoslovakia does not exist anymore.
Ne znayu kak vy, no lichno ea privetstvuyu nashih novyh, russko-govoreashih poveliteley!
If you want to exercise your Russian skills, try coming up with a better interpretation of the WALL-E acronym (story here: http://railean.net/index.php/2008/08/15/translation_challange_wall_e_russian)
Back in the days, when two runners arrived to the finish line at the "same" time - the race would be held again.
Maybe in this case, after a certain number of iterations nature would adjust itself in a way that the boy:girl ratio of newborn children would change to match the current 'demands'.
In the area I live, there are quite a lot of homeless dogs. No one controls how they are breeding, I expect this will become a problem in the future, but so far the dogs seem to enjoy themselves.
I've noticed that very often dogs cross the road on a zebra (crosswalk), and they keep crossing there even after the road markings are worn off. Perhaps they remember the absolute location (i.e. the road marks have nothing to do with it), or maybe they remember that it was there, or maybe they use the presence of the traffic lights to figure out that the place is used for crossing.
Also, they wait for the traffic lights to switch to the right state. This is a tough one, because there are stoplights for pedestrians, and for drivers. A pedestrian's green is the equivalent of a driver's red - thus a dog cannot use colour alone to figure out what is going on.
Also, according to this article http://www.puplife.com/Shop/Control/fp/SFV/32255/view_page/How-Dogs-See-Color they cannot see green, so I guess they know when their turn is by waiting for the "NOT red" state.
Hmm, this makes it quite difficult to test the changes in a home environment.
Can you suggest a strategy other than "apply all the changes suggested by powertop and see how the system behaves for N days"?
The problem is that if I make only small changes - the effect can be nearly undetectable. On the other hand, applying multiple changes at once can have a visible impact, but can also have side-effects that will render some parts of the system unfunctional or unstable.
The only thing I can really measure is the time the CPU spends in each C state. I did see that it spent more time in C3, therefore I have the theoretical proof that power consumption went lower. But... I got disappointed to see that there were no updates in the estimated battery time.
I guess I will simply disregard that estimate and measure uptime with a simple clock.
Linux is known to be more power-hungry than Windows; I noticed the same on my computers.
Windows XP works about 40min longer than openSuse11 on the same machine, using default settings.
Here is some reading material:
- http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/
- there was a white paper written by folk from Intel, I don't remember where I found it, but it could be somewhere here: http://oss.intel.com/en-us/casestudies/
You need to switch to a tickless kernel, and tinker with powertop - that should improve things.
Note that in my case, none of the powertop tricks had any impact - I was surprised to see that no matter what I did, the estimated time would always be 1h45min. This is still an experiment in progress, so don't count this feedback as 100% certain.
Maybe the photo illustrates the system in a "demo" state, one has to press a button first in order to let it analyze the object.
Not all jokes can be translated because they rely on the history and culture that is typical to a region. In spite of that, many people continue trying to translate jokes, thinking they are doing it right.
The solution is to substitute jokes with local equivalents (if any), thus engage in a serious joke l10n project.
Of course, some jokes are culture agnostic, and are instead tied to a certain professional field (like the one about perfectly spherical horses moving in vacuum) - those cannot be understood by folk with a different academic background.
Cultural context is very important for jokes, trying to tell a joke out of context is like %insert car analogy here%.
Ask yourself what were the Russians doing there in the first place.
This reminds me of an old joke (translated from Russian) - "America is interfering with the USSR's internal affairs all over the world".
Hmm, I figured this should be a bit different. Imagine that you have this:
If you brute-force crypto2, you will sooner or later find a certain key3, such that
In other words, you won't have to do the intermediate step of finding crypto1 first. If this was so it would mean that applying encryption twice would make your data immune to brute-force attacks because the attacker would fail to recognize the decrypted data (as they look like random garbage).
All you need is to be on good terms with Bruce Schneier... for we all know he knows our private keys.
Such documents exist; Apple and Gnome have great HIGs (Human Interface Guidelines). Microsoft provides similar documentation for Vista.
The problem, in my opinion, is caused by the following:
- people think "I don't have time for the HIG, I already know what I need";
- they get started using UI design tools and simply drag'n'drop widgets (Borland's IDEs are so easy to use, they gave birth to an entire generation of coders who "can do GUI"); afterwards they are too lazy to start from scratch because "so much has been done".
I once started a quest for HIGs, and downloaded and read every single one I could find. Since then I became more aware of the existing problems, and learned about their solutions.
In the end it boils down to taking your time to read a text (they are quite short too, I remember that after the Gnome HIG I was upset it ended so fast).
URLs:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/chapter_1_section_1.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511258.aspx
It is not even a fact that it is a restaurant. I can't read Chinese so I cannot verify that myself - but all the witty comments here rely on the fact that the label is indeed attached to a restaurant.
What if it is a computer repair shop or an Internet cafe?
Do you happen to know a way to do this with VBulletin? And if you do, how efficient is this?
I am a member of a forum, there is a guy who uses anonymous proxy servers, creates clone accounts whenever his old ones are deleted/banned.
How to "trollcage" that? He can login from a different account and see that his posts are not there. If you try to trace by IP - he won't see his older messages either, since he has a new IP each time.
I don't see a way to "trollcage" such folk.
And so the notion of "aitm" (alien in the middle) attack came into life.
Remember, you saw it here first!
Same thing on GoDaddy; not a bank, but that's the first site I've encountered in all my history, to throw such an error message.
After making it shorter, I got another one - only letters and digits are allowed.
Go figure...
Thanks for the clarification. It turns out that other languages have such a feature as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)
Could you provide some examples? I speak Russian, but I am afraid I did not get the point of your post.
Odin ...
Dva
Tri
Chetyre
Piaty
Shesty
Semy
I don't see a pattern here.
Wow, this was indeed a cruel and a funny joke at the same time. Also, it is one of the most expensive practical jokes I've heard of.
However, I am sure that once he analyzed it he would have realized that something was wrong, because the rock did not match the specs of a rock that existed in that environment, on the surface, for some time.
Eventually the genius of the joke would have been spotted; unless of course he would be too excited about it and ended up selecting only the data that fits his model, etc.
Good joke, although I still have a general feeling of uneasiness... poor guy...