I use Password Safe, but I write down things I need to access from multiple computers (like my router's password). I also try to keep a written copy of everything somewhere safe.
If I was an alien looking to slowdown the technological advancement of the human race, I would have implanted into their society the things we call the keyboard and the mouse. In fact, the only personal proof I have that this was not the case is if aliens were involved they would have updated the pain by now. Like making the "shift" key a foot pedal or something.
Assuming mailicious aliens weren't involved, this isn't good news. It means we were silly enough to have invented these things ourselves. And then we were silly enough to let them "catch on". And we're silly enough to not personally diverge to a more efficient invention just in case we might later still need to know how to use this one. We humans follow a frighteningly simple herd mentality, God forbid someone jumps off a cliff and yells "free USB fobs!" - we'd be goners.
Truth is however, that with the keyboard at least - we have adapted. Our brains and fingers have optimized this abomination enough to actually get decent output. Obviously, the optimal tool would be one that can output words (actually, getting rid of words and going right to thoughts would be way better, but that is as of yet - out of scope) as fast as we can think them.
Now you might actually have been thinking the opposite. That the mouse is the more precise tool of the two. Well not for me it isn't. For artists and graphic manipulators the mouse is all that and a bag of chips - but for text people like myself, you can keep your seedy mice.
The problem with mice (which the nefarious aliens know all too well) is that its use removes your hand from the keyboard. To open a file in your favorite editor, chances are you grab the mouse, find the pointer with your eyes, move it to "file", click, move it down to "open" (hopefully not having to deal with any of those sub-menus that always seem to unpop off my screen as I'm moving down trying to get a lower entry) and once again click.
The alternative way to do this using just the keyboard (which I'm callously assuming is where your fingers already are) is to hold ALT, press F, let go of both, then hit O (thats as in "oh", not zero).
I have never written down all those operations before now and just looking at the two makes me feel stupid to have every used a mouse to open a file. The ALT-F method is no secret - why the heck don't we use it? ALT-F then O is even two different hands - it really is quite fast. My only explanation is that such keystrokes are cryptic and will require a bout or two of memorization whereas the peachy mouse-menu route hand-holds us right along the way. The mouse cursor gives us a constant bookmark of where our thought process is "I just clicked the file menu - now I'm moving to click open".
There is a nice book by Andy Clark called Natural Born Cyborgs. He makes an interesting observation that we all are already cyborgs (loosely defined as a fusion of humans and technology). His example is that if I am at your house, I may ask you "Do you know what the word poikilotherm means?". If you don't you would say "No, but we can look it up!". Upon consulting your house dictionary or your ubiquitous wifi connection, you can easily do that.
Now similarly, I might ask "Do you know what time it is?". And, at the very instant of me asking, you may not. However, the common response is to raise your wrist to your face and say "Yeah, its 4:30".
You liar. YOU did not know. Your watch knew but took credit for its perpetual temporal omniscience. I always know what time it is cuz dadburnit - I have a watch! In effect, we have extended our concept of self to include our watches - thus in Dr. Clark's claim we are cyborg. (Note that grammatically speaking, that sentence should end in "cyborgs", not "cyborg" - but if you ever watched Star Trek you'd know that cyborgs don't use contractions and often speak of themselves in a hive mentality - thus if we are them, no worries about speaking like them)
Firstly, not to cause you embarrassment, I am Mr. Steve Karabo, a South-Africa by Nationality, a Solicitor at law based in the United Kingdom and the personal attorney to Late Mr. Samy Makary a National of finland, who used to be a private contractor with the Halliburton Company in Saudi Arabia, herein after shall be referred to as my client.
Upon Maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers (Gardiner & Theobald) that Mr Samy Makary was aboard the EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31 1999 (http://www.greatdreams.com/PassEAir990.htm). Since then, I have made several enquiries with his country's embassies to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you with this business partnership proposal. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating a huge amount of money left behind by my Client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the Bank where this huge deposit was lodged. The deceased had a deposit valued presently at £8.5Million(Eight Million Five hundred thousand Pounds) and the Bank has issued me a notice to provide his next of kin or Beneficiary by Will otherwise have the account confiscated within the next thirty official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over three years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin / Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at £ 8.5Million(Eight Million Five hundred thousand Pounds) can be paid to you. This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, sixty percentage to me and fourty precentage to you. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to Back up any claim will be obtained From the Court of England with the Certificate Of Deposit which has been issued to me by the Bank. All I require is your honest Co-operation, Confidentiality and Trust to enable us see this project through.I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate Arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. All the relevant documents that will give you the legal backing to claim the fund will be processed.Please
acknowledge receipt of this message by e-mail as I am based in the United Kingdom. And please provide me the following below; this is to enable me commence immediate preparation of all legal document that will back up our claim.
1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number
3. Your Contact Address.
Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.
There will have to be a solar and lunar eclipse at the same time! (I would miss it, There is a thunderstorm where I am now.)
I know a solar and lunar eclipse cannot happen at the same time.
No. They just simulate it. They still use the CPU at full speed, but make it appear lower. The same amount of heat as running it under full load is generated, even if the system is "idle".
I think we should try to eliminate spaces from standard directories (program files, my...) In case an old program needs to get to one. Microsoft probably isn't concerned with backwards compatibility in Longhorn. Every program will have to be rewritten.
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I prefer post-its on the back of a CRT.
Be sure to use very strong encryption, like ROT-13.
Password Safe
I use Password Safe, but I write down things I need to access from multiple computers (like my router's password). I also try to keep a written copy of everything somewhere safe.
Keyboards are good. Mouses are dumb.
If I was an alien looking to slowdown the technological advancement of the human race, I would have implanted into their society the things we call the keyboard and the mouse. In fact, the only personal proof I have that this was not the case is if aliens were involved they would have updated the pain by now. Like making the "shift" key a foot pedal or something.
Assuming mailicious aliens weren't involved, this isn't good news. It means we were silly enough to have invented these things ourselves. And then we were silly enough to let them "catch on". And we're silly enough to not personally diverge to a more efficient invention just in case we might later still need to know how to use this one. We humans follow a frighteningly simple herd mentality, God forbid someone jumps off a cliff and yells "free USB fobs!" - we'd be goners.
Truth is however, that with the keyboard at least - we have adapted. Our brains and fingers have optimized this abomination enough to actually get decent output. Obviously, the optimal tool would be one that can output words (actually, getting rid of words and going right to thoughts would be way better, but that is as of yet - out of scope) as fast as we can think them.
Now you might actually have been thinking the opposite. That the mouse is the more precise tool of the two. Well not for me it isn't. For artists and graphic manipulators the mouse is all that and a bag of chips - but for text people like myself, you can keep your seedy mice.
The problem with mice (which the nefarious aliens know all too well) is that its use removes your hand from the keyboard. To open a file in your favorite editor, chances are you grab the mouse, find the pointer with your eyes, move it to "file", click, move it down to "open" (hopefully not having to deal with any of those sub-menus that always seem to unpop off my screen as I'm moving down trying to get a lower entry) and once again click.
The alternative way to do this using just the keyboard (which I'm callously assuming is where your fingers already are) is to hold ALT, press F, let go of both, then hit O (thats as in "oh", not zero).
I have never written down all those operations before now and just looking at the two makes me feel stupid to have every used a mouse to open a file. The ALT-F method is no secret - why the heck don't we use it? ALT-F then O is even two different hands - it really is quite fast. My only explanation is that such keystrokes are cryptic and will require a bout or two of memorization whereas the peachy mouse-menu route hand-holds us right along the way. The mouse cursor gives us a constant bookmark of where our thought process is "I just clicked the file menu - now I'm moving to click open".
There is a nice book by Andy Clark called Natural Born Cyborgs. He makes an interesting observation that we all are already cyborgs (loosely defined as a fusion of humans and technology). His example is that if I am at your house, I may ask you "Do you know what the word poikilotherm means?". If you don't you would say "No, but we can look it up!". Upon consulting your house dictionary or your ubiquitous wifi connection, you can easily do that.
Now similarly, I might ask "Do you know what time it is?". And, at the very instant of me asking, you may not. However, the common response is to raise your wrist to your face and say "Yeah, its 4:30".
You liar. YOU did not know. Your watch knew but took credit for its perpetual temporal omniscience. I always know what time it is cuz dadburnit - I have a watch! In effect, we have extended our concept of self to include our watches - thus in Dr. Clark's claim we are cyborg. (Note that grammatically speaking, that sentence should end in "cyborgs", not "cyborg" - but if you ever watched Star Trek you'd know that cyborgs don't use contractions and often speak of themselves in a hive mentality - thus if we are them, no worries about speaking like them)
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most people are willing to PAY for a product if its worth it
It seems like most people are willing to pay even if it isn't worth it. Many people have paid for Windows.
Most people don't want to look up how make their modems, soundcards, etc, work.
You should only have to make it work once.
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"Dear friend
Firstly, not to cause you embarrassment, I am Mr. Steve Karabo, a South-Africa by Nationality, a Solicitor at law based in the United Kingdom and the personal attorney to Late Mr. Samy Makary a National of finland, who used to be a private contractor with the Halliburton Company in Saudi Arabia, herein after shall be referred to as my client.
Upon Maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers (Gardiner & Theobald) that Mr Samy Makary was aboard the EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31 1999 (http://www.greatdreams.com/PassEAir990.htm). Since then, I have made several enquiries with his country's embassies to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you with this business partnership proposal. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating a huge amount of money left behind by my Client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where this huge deposit was lodged. The deceased had a deposit valued presently at £8.5Million(Eight Million Five hundred thousand Pounds) and the Bank has issued me a notice to provide his next of kin or Beneficiary by Will otherwise have the account confiscated within the next thirty official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over three years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin / Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at £ 8.5Million(Eight Million Five hundred thousand Pounds) can be paid to you. This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, sixty percentage to me and fourty precentage to you. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to Back up any claim will be obtained From the Court of England with the Certificate Of Deposit which has been issued to me by the Bank. All I require is your honest Co-operation, Confidentiality and Trust to enable us see this project through.I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate Arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. All the relevant documents that will give you the legal backing to claim the fund will be processed.Please acknowledge receipt of this message by e-mail as I am based in the United Kingdom. And please provide me the following below; this is to enable me commence immediate preparation of all legal document that will back up our claim.
1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number
3. Your Contact Address.
Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.
Best regards,
Mr. Steve Karabo.
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When will they release anti-virus software for macs?
Then consumers would always have the latest model. No more 5 year old printers printing at 1 ppm.
Just tell buyers if voids the warranty to not use their ink.
There will have to be a solar and lunar eclipse at the same time! (I would miss it, There is a thunderstorm where I am now.) I know a solar and lunar eclipse cannot happen at the same time.
I haven't gotten errors, but it is SLOW.
Or what if it fell! Thousands of feet of free-fall.
Hard drives are also noisy, but you usually can't hear it over case fans. I replaced an old 8.5Gb drive once and the computer is now half as loud.
My 2.2 GHz Celeron laptop is slow enough. But underclocking it might make the batterie last longer than 2 hours.
No. They just simulate it. They still use the CPU at full speed, but make it appear lower. The same amount of heat as running it under full load is generated, even if the system is "idle".
Apple is catching up with everyone advertising free iPods!
Good idea! We won't need a copy for every search engine that uses this technology, but specifies a different filename.
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I thought Yahoo used Google's search (or at least technology) Maybe not.
I think we should try to eliminate spaces from standard directories (program files, my ...) In case an old program needs to get to one. Microsoft probably isn't concerned with backwards compatibility in Longhorn. Every program will have to be rewritten.
Didn't the exact same thing happen last year? Wouldn't people realize this? -- These CAPTCHAs keep getting harder to read! "xdbrzcc"
you need to make sure the CD drive boots first, but you can usually get into the BIOS.
Charge the same, or slightly less, and don't tell users it is really free. 100% profit and 10 times the support calls.
Cons: They make no money
Pros: It doesn't matter if someone steals it. They won't need security systems!