Why put the fingerprint scanner on the keyboard? Just slap it on the USB fob.
Also, make sure that after a set number of bad guess at the PIN, the data on it goes bad. That way, if someone steals it, dusts the fingerprints off the scanner part, and tries to brute force the PIN, after 5 or 10 guesses they're SOL.
Something you are, something you have, something you know, eh?
The best bit is, as you say, I dont actually KNOW my passwords, only the start key and the sequence as a motor gesture.
How is that the best part? I don't get it. Do you expect to say, "Ah, you'll never guess my password-- EVEN I DON'T KNOW IT!" when you're tortured or something? That sounds pretty cool and all, but they'll still just sit you down at keyboard and make you play your chords that unlock the machine...
What's the point of running a high resolution if you only have one window open? Try restoring the window size and opening a couple new ones! You'll be surprised to find, yes you can use more than one application at a time!
It's pointless to reminisce about the good old days of MP3 players, when you consider that old player all held less and had lower quality audio than modern players.
Now, old digital cameras, there's something to be nostalgic about! True, they also hold less and take worse pictures, but taking worse pictures is a feature as well as a bug, if you're into artsy-fartsy stuff. Recently, you hear a lot about people using "Lomo" cameras (old Russian camera that produce awesome looking but unrealistic photos) and abusing Polaroids. I myself have gotten some fun out of the Game Boy Camera. What I really wish I still had though is my first digital camera. Now that thing took some awesomely ugly pictures! I really enjoyed how it left funky streaks on all the 640x480 pictures. Plus the color was all clumped up and everything had compression artifacts. It's a shame that it just broke one day.
Anyhow, old MP3 player -> lame. Old cameras -> awesome.
As far as I can tell, Apple changed the system to make it stop drawing the line between title bars and toolbar. Fine, whatever. What I hate about the new Mail.app though are the toolbar icons. They are ugggly. I'm not sure why Apple went with such strange, non-standard, and visually unappealing icons.
Yeah, I never got motion sick reading in the car as a kid either. I'm not sure why people always talk about it like it's universal. OTOH, coding on a ship does sound like a recipe for nausea.
I think part of MS's problem is they're too mired in legacy code. The fact of the matter is in a lot of cases, it's easier to start from scratch than it is to try to move an old codebase. Look at the browser market: MS has IE, Mozilla has Firefox, and Apple has Safari. Which are developing the fastest today? Firefox and Safari. Which has the most developers? Probably IE. The fact of the matter is that IE is saddled with a bunch of code that's being made to do things it wasn't designed to do. Moz escaped some of that by being created 1999 or whatever, and Safari escaped even more cruft by being created from Konqueror in 2002. The later projects move faster, because they know about the mistakes of the past without being married to them, as IE is.
Windows is similarly hobbled by its marriage to old APIs and whatnot. I say MS should drop them. "B-b-but, what about legacy applications?" I hear you say. Screw them. If the application can run today in Windows XP it can run in 20 years in Windows XP. Let businesses know, if they want to use the latest platform, they have to go out whole hog and drop the legacy applications or just stick with what they have.
Yeah, I thought it was kind of weird how Turing ordered the British government to order him to take hormone therapy too. Strange, huh? Why would a guy in charge of the British government, have the government order him to do stuff that drove him to insane despair?
Here's something even more astounding: Firefox usage is up more than 50,003.55% since 2001.
It's also up more than 12.34% from 2000, but more than -111.00% from 1999.
Hmm. What does ERR mean, and why does my calculator keep spitting that out. Oh well. Firefox is has more than 87,282,811.3% more users than they had in 1996!!
If someone in a foreign country screws you, yes it's easier for them to get away with it, but it's also easier for you to prove it's not your fault. Just point out that the charge was made to deliver a bunch of awesome stuff to Dehli and that your passport hasn't been stamped by India, and the credit card companies will buy your story and let you off. Credit history restored; problem solved, as far as you care.
If you say that you were ripped off by an American, and all the awesome stuff just happened to be sent to a PO box down the street, that's when the credit card companies are less likely to believe you and leave your credit history in a bad state.
That's the point. It's a personal webpage, so I can rant about whatever I want, and only those who care have to read it. If you're on a public webpage like slashdot, what's the point of bragging about how cool you are for not watching TV, when the topic has nothing to do with that? The topic is television market fragmentation, but basically no one talked about that for this whole thread, so whatever it's too late now.
For real, people who brag about not watching TV need to get over themselves. I stopped watching TV for a while in college, then I watched it for a while, now I'm not again, but, shit, bragging about it is retarded. TV is entertainment. Heaven forbid people enjoy watching TV instead of reading a book, which is so totally different and holier. Apparently, all entertainment must be painful or else it's evil.
That's sort of the thing though. The reason people watch shows that aren't really that good but are fairly popular like American Idol and The Apprentice is mostly just to talk to other people about them. People aren't retarded; they know these shows are basically crap. But they watch them anyway, because it's not painful to do so (in fact, it's fairly relaxing to just switch off your brain), and it gives you something to talk about later. Unless we all want to talk about the weather all the time, humans need to have common experiences to talk about. For the most part, once you're acquainted people only talk about what's been going on for the last week or so of their life. (In fact, I've found that this the best thing to do if you're ever talking to someone you used to be friends with, but haven't seen for a while. At first, it can seem really awkward, since you don't have anything to talk about, but if you start talking about what's been happening to you in the last week, the conversation comes much more easily.)
When people ask you about the last episode of The Show, they're assuming that you've let your standards drop and wasted your time so that you can be a social person. Watching these shows smoothes the flow of human interaction. There's a reason the're called "water cooler shows." When you're able to talk about them, it shows that you care about getting along with your coworkers enough to let your brain rot for an hour a day. It's fine to not watch the shows if you don't like them, but if you do that don't complain that it's all anyone ever talks about-- they're talking about the shows because that's the whole reason that the shows exist in the first place! If you don't want to be left out of the conversation, it isn't that hard to grit your teeth and figure out what's going on on the show. If you don't mind being left out of the conversation just say, "Oh, I haven't really seen that show," and let it drop. But don't get mad at other people for using the shows the way that they're meant to be used.
I read the article yesterday, as a matter of fact. And you're full of shit, the article is about fragmenting markets, not people not watching TV. The problem is 10 people watch each of 100 cable channels, instead of 100 people watching each of 10 channels.
In fact, I'm living in Japan, and when I do watch sitcoms, I get to feel smug, because it means I'm actually studying Japanese for a change. But, hey, maybe I should skip that and brag about how I only watch 1 hour of TV per week! Aren't I l33t! LOOKATMEEVERYBODY!!!!1!
Ah, but have you overcome the main problem I have with people who don't watch TV? It seems they have an irrepressible urge to go to places where people are talking about TV and bring up out of nowhere that they don't watch TV as if to brag about it.
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I know, tell me about it. I heard, this one guy, he's been copying a 17 meg file... SINCE 1998!!!
Why put the fingerprint scanner on the keyboard? Just slap it on the USB fob.
Also, make sure that after a set number of bad guess at the PIN, the data on it goes bad. That way, if someone steals it, dusts the fingerprints off the scanner part, and tries to brute force the PIN, after 5 or 10 guesses they're SOL.
Something you are, something you have, something you know, eh?
Even better, if you outsource your work to an obscure enough country, then suddenly spouses names are no longer vulnerable to dictionary attack!
Is that right !Xeng2tan1, my blushing bride?
How is that the best part? I don't get it. Do you expect to say, "Ah, you'll never guess my password-- EVEN I DON'T KNOW IT!" when you're tortured or something? That sounds pretty cool and
all, but they'll still just sit you down at keyboard and make you play your chords that unlock the machine...
What's the point of running a high resolution if you only have one window open? Try restoring the window size and opening a couple new ones! You'll be surprised to find, yes you can use more than one application at a time!
It's pointless to reminisce about the good old days of MP3 players, when you consider that old player all held less and had lower quality audio than modern players.
Now, old digital cameras, there's something to be nostalgic about! True, they also hold less and take worse pictures, but taking worse pictures is a feature as well as a bug, if you're into artsy-fartsy stuff. Recently, you hear a lot about people using "Lomo" cameras (old Russian camera that produce awesome looking but unrealistic photos) and abusing Polaroids. I myself have gotten some fun out of the Game Boy Camera. What I really wish I still had though is my first digital camera. Now that thing took some awesomely ugly pictures! I really enjoyed how it left funky streaks on all the 640x480 pictures. Plus the color was all clumped up and everything had compression artifacts. It's a shame that it just broke one day.
Anyhow, old MP3 player -> lame.
Old cameras -> awesome.
That's my two cents.
As far as I can tell, Apple changed the system to make it stop drawing the line between title bars and toolbar. Fine, whatever. What I hate about the new Mail.app though are the toolbar icons. They are ugggly. I'm not sure why Apple went with such strange, non-standard, and visually unappealing icons.
Yeah, I never got motion sick reading in the car as a kid either. I'm not sure why people always talk about it like it's universal. OTOH, coding on a ship does sound like a recipe for nausea.
I think part of MS's problem is they're too mired in legacy code. The fact of the matter is in a lot of cases, it's easier to start from scratch than it is to try to move an old codebase. Look at the browser market: MS has IE, Mozilla has Firefox, and Apple has Safari. Which are developing the fastest today? Firefox and Safari. Which has the most developers? Probably IE. The fact of the matter is that IE is saddled with a bunch of code that's being made to do things it wasn't designed to do. Moz escaped some of that by being created 1999 or whatever, and Safari escaped even more cruft by being created from Konqueror in 2002. The later projects move faster, because they know about the mistakes of the past without being married to them, as IE is.
Windows is similarly hobbled by its marriage to old APIs and whatnot. I say MS should drop them. "B-b-but, what about legacy applications?" I hear you say. Screw them. If the application can run today in Windows XP it can run in 20 years in Windows XP. Let businesses know, if they want to use the latest platform, they have to go out whole hog and drop the legacy applications or just stick with what they have.
That's my two bits.
Man, that's just like Aristotle-dude: always deprecating the Ideal Filesystem in order to talk about the telos of empirical filesystems.
"Vulcan Bay Watch"?
Sounds highly logical.
It's a shame the mods haven't noticed this post. It's a good one.
Here's something even more astounding: Firefox usage is up more than 50,003.55% since 2001.
It's also up more than 12.34% from 2000, but more than -111.00% from 1999.
Hmm. What does ERR mean, and why does my calculator keep spitting that out. Oh well. Firefox is has more than 87,282,811.3% more users than they had in 1996!!
Wow, does that mean in the next version of OS X it won't be the case that, "Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this"? Dude, it's like we're letting the trolls win!
/. troll overlords!
Then again, it might be interesting to see Natalie Portman covered in grits... Hmm. I guess I, for one, will welcome our new
If someone in a foreign country screws you, yes it's easier for them to get away with it, but it's also easier for you to prove it's not your fault. Just point out that the charge was made to deliver a bunch of awesome stuff to Dehli and that your passport hasn't been stamped by India, and the credit card companies will buy your story and let you off. Credit history restored; problem solved, as far as you care.
If you say that you were ripped off by an American, and all the awesome stuff just happened to be sent to a PO box down the street, that's when the credit card companies are less likely to believe you and leave your credit history in a bad state.
That's the point. It's a personal webpage, so I can rant about whatever I want, and only those who care have to read it. If you're on a public webpage like slashdot, what's the point of bragging about how cool you are for not watching TV, when the topic has nothing to do with that? The topic is television market fragmentation, but basically no one talked about that for this whole thread, so whatever it's too late now.
You are my new king!
For real, people who brag about not watching TV need to get over themselves. I stopped watching TV for a while in college, then I watched it for a while, now I'm not again, but, shit, bragging about it is retarded. TV is entertainment. Heaven forbid people enjoy watching TV instead of reading a book, which is so totally different and holier. Apparently, all entertainment must be painful or else it's evil.
Hmm, apparently that's different from the one in West Columbia. Oh well, live and learn about fast food chains, as I always say.
That's sort of the thing though. The reason people watch shows that aren't really that good but are fairly popular like American Idol and The Apprentice is mostly just to talk to other people about them. People aren't retarded; they know these shows are basically crap. But they watch them anyway, because it's not painful to do so (in fact, it's fairly relaxing to just switch off your brain), and it gives you something to talk about later. Unless we all want to talk about the weather all the time, humans need to have common experiences to talk about. For the most part, once you're acquainted people only talk about what's been going on for the last week or so of their life. (In fact, I've found that this the best thing to do if you're ever talking to someone you used to be friends with, but haven't seen for a while. At first, it can seem really awkward, since you don't have anything to talk about, but if you start talking about what's been happening to you in the last week, the conversation comes much more easily.)
When people ask you about the last episode of The Show, they're assuming that you've let your standards drop and wasted your time so that you can be a social person. Watching these shows smoothes the flow of human interaction. There's a reason the're called "water cooler shows." When you're able to talk about them, it shows that you care about getting along with your coworkers enough to let your brain rot for an hour a day. It's fine to not watch the shows if you don't like them, but if you do that don't complain that it's all anyone ever talks about-- they're talking about the shows because that's the whole reason that the shows exist in the first place! If you don't want to be left out of the conversation, it isn't that hard to grit your teeth and figure out what's going on on the show. If you don't mind being left out of the conversation just say, "Oh, I haven't really seen that show," and let it drop. But don't get mad at other people for using the shows the way that they're meant to be used.
I read the article yesterday, as a matter of fact. And you're full of shit, the article is about fragmenting markets, not people not watching TV. The problem is 10 people watch each of 100 cable channels, instead of 100 people watching each of 10 channels.
In fact, I'm living in Japan, and when I do watch sitcoms, I get to feel smug, because it means I'm actually studying Japanese for a change. But, hey, maybe I should skip that and brag about how I only watch 1 hour of TV per week! Aren't I l33t! LOOKATMEEVERYBODY!!!!1!
Ah, but have you overcome the main problem I have with people who don't watch TV? It seems they have an irrepressible urge to go to places where people are talking about TV and bring up out of nowhere that they don't watch TV as if to brag about it.
Hmm, apparently not.
Did you just make up Whataburger, are you from Columbia, SC, or is Whataburger a chain and I never realized it?
I counted nthree different spelling errors!