Also, as you point out, you can't type while operating a handcrank. A foot pedal would also make much more sence, since a crank would have to be a rather large protrusion to make it comfortable to turn (A little 2in crank would be extremely hard on the fingers to turn).
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The input methods for consoles wouldn't be very workable. I would really hate trying to order hundreds of units around using a PS2 controller.
The space shuttle costs 450 million dollars per launch. This would cost much more than that, but the upkeep should cost a small enough amount that it might pay off in the long run (Depending upon it's projected lifespan).
This sounds very similar to what Microsoft is doing with HTML/CSS/JS. Before they release a new browser, they state how CSS2 is "flawed," and therefore we wont support it (And I'm betting that they will add propritary functions that do a similar thing). The same thing happened with the half-assed support of pretty much any standards in HTML/JS...yes, they might have one or two parts that follow standards, but the rest is either proprietary, or a horrible "improved" take on the standards.
I'm sure MS will attempt to do the same thing to ODT files. They will make some fairly basic functions in Office stored in a "enhanced" form, which, ofcourse, only works in MS Office. Judging from past experiance, the "standard" files genorated by Office would be a horrible mash of invalid markup, useless elements, and namespaces that server no purpose; except to break compatibility with any other program. In their usual style, they will probally hide a series of options hidden under 12 dialog windows which are the only way to genorate an actual standard document. Not only this, those options would probally pop up a "scary sounding" warning when disabled, to stop the non-techies among us from changing them.
Just to back this up, look at the XML Word genorates for a document that only contains "Hello world!" (No, I'm not joking, check for yourself).
I believe you are missing the point. With 2GB storage, you should not need to delete emails frequently, unless you recieve a large number of attachments. Archiving an email in gmail accomplishes the same thing, but leaves the mail in an unobtrusive location for the off chance that you might refer back to it.
Since the user has to manually select files to delete, this isn't a Trojan Horse (Not "Hours"). However, if this automatically detected "potentially illegal media," it would be no better than a virus (And I believe that this will be done at one point or another).
Depending upon the conditions a 10 minute mile may or may not be challenging for an average athlete. If this was held on an extremly hot or humid day, the chances are that the runner would tire much faster than normal. However, under fairly good conditions, I have seen people run a 4-5 minute mile, although they could not retain such a fast pace for more than a mile to a mile and half.
Of course I sit at computer for the majority of the day, so I would not be one to judge this standard by (:P).
I have a feeling if these protocols were opened, little would be achived. Everyone knows the next "critical security update" would block any non-MS clients by default, and make you jump through 25 dialogs to change this setting.
What I do agree with, however, is the position that communication protocols should not beable to remain closed. By locking clients into one product, it greatly limits the number of competitors: No products could emerge that can be compatable with this software.
The only reason I could see behind this would be to keep the high price diamonds--I don't see any other logical reason. If they create a diamond in a lab, it still will have exactly the same structure as a natual diamond, and should be completely identical (Although more flawless).
If the handle the money properly, more power to them, however I do not want to see them donating $5 Million dollars on MS software at retail value, for that does not "fight crime" in any way. They would certainly gain a small amount of respect with me, if they don't take the easy route and lock crime-fighting organizations even further into Windows. At the moment, I'm playing "wait and see" to decide what to make of this, it could be another attempt for them to gain cheap publicity, or it may be a genuine act (Although with my current opinion of them, I feel that it leans more to the former).
I must agree with you here, I have seen many people driving well over the speed limit, obviously causing little danger to other people on the road. It seems like most of the poors drivers are not dangerous because they are going too fast, but instead because they are not paying attention. Yesterday I saw someone turning down a highway on-ramp, doing the following things:
Taking on a cell phone, with a hands-free device.
Reading something on the passenger seat.
Smoking.
Combing their hair while on strait-aways (Parts of the interstate curve slightly).
Taking sips from a coffee, I can only assume that was propped between their legs.
If people would focus on driving and not everything but that, highways would be much safer, regardless of the speed. The autobahn is a good example of this, several family members who visited Germany claim that although areas of the road have no speed limits, accidents are uncommon--very few people attempt to groom themselves/converse for long periods of time on the phone while driving.
Please note that I have never been to Germany myself, and am just repeating what I have heard from various friends and relatives.
Just because there are more advisories for a paticular product doesn't mean that it actually contains more bugs, just that more are being found. Judging from the fact that Apache is much more widely used (If memory serves, a very large percentage of servers run some version of it), and is open source--making bugs easier to locate.
Personally, I have used both, and have had much worse problems with IIS than Apache, even when both were fully patched; although other people's experiances may vary.
IBM doesn't pump out buggy software year after year for insane prices, and almost-non-existant changes. Also, IBM actually carries out innovative research instead of trying to remarket office 950 which is exactly the same as office 97.
Yeah, good luck with this. Whenever I attempt to rent a game (which I gave up on by now), I drag myself out to the store, and find that they have three shelves of copies of some horrible poorly-rated game, that would be avoided like the plague by anyone who actually gamed. After poking around for 10 minutes, and thinking they don't have what I wanted to rent (as usual), I discover one empty case of it hiding behind the "hit" game that they believe they will rent a lot of. And, of course, after asking the drone behind the counter I discover that they are out of it.
After this happening almost every time I wished to rent something, I gave up. I'm glad I mostly play PC games any more, because atleast there is the option of demos there (among other reasons).
Yes, I agree that some philshing emails are extremely realistic. I was having issues with my paypal account (I just changed the credit card), when I recieved a paypal message about a change of account details. After noticing a link in theemail (which was cleverly typed out as the full url), and checking the URL in the status bar; I followed the link. It brought me to what appeared to be the paypal frontpage, but I glanced up at the title bar. After noticing it was an IP address, I reported the email to paypal, and indeed, it was a philshing attempt.
Obviously, this is not a foolproof online-banking solution, but it should pose a whole new set of problems to would-be philshers. I'm sure it will not stop all philshers, but it should certainly make it difficult enough to deter the majority of them.
Company of Heroes is the first game I've personally heard about that features this kind of destruction. It surprised me at first that they're attempting this in an RTS game, and I cringe at what the minimum specs will be, but I am definately looking foward to it after playing Warhammer (Also made by Relic).
Actually 3d modeling programs are often most effecient when you use the mouse and keyboard at the same time. The majority of the work is done with the mouse, but switching through the majority of tools is much easier with the keyboard. For example, if you bind the most used tools to easy to access hotkeys, you can continue manipulating the camera as you switch them.
Yes, because we don't want to miss the four decent stations and the other hundred+ stations that I have only watched once. Errm...nevermind...when would I go to the bathroom if there were no commercials?
In many cases, people will purchase the product, if they were planning to in the first place. Many features do not function properly in pirated versions, such as online play in games, which are important enough to warrent the product's purchase. This does not even include: (1) The people that don't know how to pirate software. (2) People who are 'scared' of pirating software. (3) Those who would not have purchased the software in the first place.
I agree that revenue is lost by pirating, but not enough in most cases to cause companies to pull out of the software business. However, if this grows; software may not be economically viable.
JavaScript can be completely accessable, if implemented correctly. For example, say a tree: You render the actual data in (X)HTML, allowing for any type of browser to access it. On top of that, you style it with CSS with all elements visible, incase someone who supports CSS has JavaScript disabled. Finally, you code the JS, which hides the elements by looping through the DOM and changing the "display" property of the elements.
If it's a screenreader, it gets a perfectly valid list of links; if it's a browser that supports CSS, a non-interactive tree; JavaScript, the completely dynamic tree.
Using cookies to store states such as that with JS is a completely valid use, preventing the person from having to click through the tree each time he refreshes.
Server side scripting is a nice alternative; but it is too slow for something like navigation. (Click on link, wait for reload, scroll back down, click on link, etc)
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Just tested it on my XP Home box, yup, neither utility exists.
Also, as you point out, you can't type while operating a handcrank. A foot pedal would also make much more sence, since a crank would have to be a rather large protrusion to make it comfortable to turn (A little 2in crank would be extremely hard on the fingers to turn).
The input methods for consoles wouldn't be very workable. I would really hate trying to order hundreds of units around using a PS2 controller.
The space shuttle costs 450 million dollars per launch. This would cost much more than that, but the upkeep should cost a small enough amount that it might pay off in the long run (Depending upon it's projected lifespan).
This sounds very similar to what Microsoft is doing with HTML/CSS/JS. Before they release a new browser, they state how CSS2 is "flawed," and therefore we wont support it (And I'm betting that they will add propritary functions that do a similar thing). The same thing happened with the half-assed support of pretty much any standards in HTML/JS...yes, they might have one or two parts that follow standards, but the rest is either proprietary, or a horrible "improved" take on the standards.
I'm sure MS will attempt to do the same thing to ODT files. They will make some fairly basic functions in Office stored in a "enhanced" form, which, ofcourse, only works in MS Office. Judging from past experiance, the "standard" files genorated by Office would be a horrible mash of invalid markup, useless elements, and namespaces that server no purpose; except to break compatibility with any other program. In their usual style, they will probally hide a series of options hidden under 12 dialog windows which are the only way to genorate an actual standard document. Not only this, those options would probally pop up a "scary sounding" warning when disabled, to stop the non-techies among us from changing them.
Just to back this up, look at the XML Word genorates for a document that only contains "Hello world!" (No, I'm not joking, check for yourself).
I believe you are missing the point. With 2GB storage, you should not need to delete emails frequently, unless you recieve a large number of attachments. Archiving an email in gmail accomplishes the same thing, but leaves the mail in an unobtrusive location for the off chance that you might refer back to it.
Since the user has to manually select files to delete, this isn't a Trojan Horse (Not "Hours"). However, if this automatically detected "potentially illegal media," it would be no better than a virus (And I believe that this will be done at one point or another).
Depending upon the conditions a 10 minute mile may or may not be challenging for an average athlete. If this was held on an extremly hot or humid day, the chances are that the runner would tire much faster than normal. However, under fairly good conditions, I have seen people run a 4-5 minute mile, although they could not retain such a fast pace for more than a mile to a mile and half.
Of course I sit at computer for the majority of the day, so I would not be one to judge this standard by (:P).
If you are refering to the PVC pipe story, I believe it was proved false, since it could not hold enough of a charge to genorate a small shock.
I have a feeling if these protocols were opened, little would be achived. Everyone knows the next "critical security update" would block any non-MS clients by default, and make you jump through 25 dialogs to change this setting. What I do agree with, however, is the position that communication protocols should not beable to remain closed. By locking clients into one product, it greatly limits the number of competitors: No products could emerge that can be compatable with this software.
The only reason I could see behind this would be to keep the high price diamonds--I don't see any other logical reason. If they create a diamond in a lab, it still will have exactly the same structure as a natual diamond, and should be completely identical (Although more flawless).
Attach them to our tin-foil hats, of course.
If the handle the money properly, more power to them, however I do not want to see them donating $5 Million dollars on MS software at retail value, for that does not "fight crime" in any way. They would certainly gain a small amount of respect with me, if they don't take the easy route and lock crime-fighting organizations even further into Windows. At the moment, I'm playing "wait and see" to decide what to make of this, it could be another attempt for them to gain cheap publicity, or it may be a genuine act (Although with my current opinion of them, I feel that it leans more to the former).
I must agree with you here, I have seen many people driving well over the speed limit, obviously causing little danger to other people on the road. It seems like most of the poors drivers are not dangerous because they are going too fast, but instead because they are not paying attention. Yesterday I saw someone turning down a highway on-ramp, doing the following things:
If people would focus on driving and not everything but that, highways would be much safer, regardless of the speed. The autobahn is a good example of this, several family members who visited Germany claim that although areas of the road have no speed limits, accidents are uncommon--very few people attempt to groom themselves/converse for long periods of time on the phone while driving.
Please note that I have never been to Germany myself, and am just repeating what I have heard from various friends and relatives.
Just because there are more advisories for a paticular product doesn't mean that it actually contains more bugs, just that more are being found. Judging from the fact that Apache is much more widely used (If memory serves, a very large percentage of servers run some version of it), and is open source--making bugs easier to locate. Personally, I have used both, and have had much worse problems with IIS than Apache, even when both were fully patched; although other people's experiances may vary.
IBM doesn't pump out buggy software year after year for insane prices, and almost-non-existant changes. Also, IBM actually carries out innovative research instead of trying to remarket office 950 which is exactly the same as office 97.
Yeah, good luck with this. Whenever I attempt to rent a game (which I gave up on by now), I drag myself out to the store, and find that they have three shelves of copies of some horrible poorly-rated game, that would be avoided like the plague by anyone who actually gamed. After poking around for 10 minutes, and thinking they don't have what I wanted to rent (as usual), I discover one empty case of it hiding behind the "hit" game that they believe they will rent a lot of. And, of course, after asking the drone behind the counter I discover that they are out of it. After this happening almost every time I wished to rent something, I gave up. I'm glad I mostly play PC games any more, because atleast there is the option of demos there (among other reasons).
Yes, I agree that some philshing emails are extremely realistic. I was having issues with my paypal account (I just changed the credit card), when I recieved a paypal message about a change of account details. After noticing a link in theemail (which was cleverly typed out as the full url), and checking the URL in the status bar; I followed the link. It brought me to what appeared to be the paypal frontpage, but I glanced up at the title bar. After noticing it was an IP address, I reported the email to paypal, and indeed, it was a philshing attempt. Obviously, this is not a foolproof online-banking solution, but it should pose a whole new set of problems to would-be philshers. I'm sure it will not stop all philshers, but it should certainly make it difficult enough to deter the majority of them.
Company of Heroes is the first game I've personally heard about that features this kind of destruction. It surprised me at first that they're attempting this in an RTS game, and I cringe at what the minimum specs will be, but I am definately looking foward to it after playing Warhammer (Also made by Relic).
Actually 3d modeling programs are often most effecient when you use the mouse and keyboard at the same time. The majority of the work is done with the mouse, but switching through the majority of tools is much easier with the keyboard. For example, if you bind the most used tools to easy to access hotkeys, you can continue manipulating the camera as you switch them.
Yes, because we don't want to miss the four decent stations and the other hundred+ stations that I have only watched once. Errm...nevermind...when would I go to the bathroom if there were no commercials?
Reference to Galaxy Quest? That's probally the only movie I haven't seen quoted on /.
In many cases, people will purchase the product, if they were planning to in the first place. Many features do not function properly in pirated versions, such as online play in games, which are important enough to warrent the product's purchase. This does not even include: (1) The people that don't know how to pirate software. (2) People who are 'scared' of pirating software. (3) Those who would not have purchased the software in the first place.
I agree that revenue is lost by pirating, but not enough in most cases to cause companies to pull out of the software business. However, if this grows; software may not be economically viable.
JavaScript can be completely accessable, if implemented correctly. For example, say a tree: You render the actual data in (X)HTML, allowing for any type of browser to access it. On top of that, you style it with CSS with all elements visible, incase someone who supports CSS has JavaScript disabled. Finally, you code the JS, which hides the elements by looping through the DOM and changing the "display" property of the elements.
If it's a screenreader, it gets a perfectly valid list of links; if it's a browser that supports CSS, a non-interactive tree; JavaScript, the completely dynamic tree.
Using cookies to store states such as that with JS is a completely valid use, preventing the person from having to click through the tree each time he refreshes.
Server side scripting is a nice alternative; but it is too slow for something like navigation. (Click on link, wait for reload, scroll back down, click on link, etc)