Sir Clive Sinclair said he had an extremely efficient electric vehicle. It also turned out to be too slow for traffic, dangerous, and uncomfortable,, and the company was put into receivership in 1985.
Some would argue that "Islamic Fundamentalists" is just a fancy term for normal, mainstream Muslims who aren't of the ultraliberal (from the POV of Middle Eastern folks) branch of Islam (and who are often called "apostates", not "liberals", in the same area).
And they'd be correct. Even the "ultraliberal" Muslims in the west often end up being caught funding terrorists.
Give a female who cooks a blob of leftovers or dough and she can pick the correct container that will hold the container without waste or a lot of air space. Most men can't.
Give a female a pile of dishes and a dishwasher vs a male with the same dishes and dishwasher and the average female will more effectively load the dishwasher than the male.
One day you might discover - not all women are like your mum
I suspect Apple's dismissal of vertical touch screen usage has to do with muscle fatigue. Try holding your arms out in front of you without resting your hands on anything for 5-10 minutes, and I think you'll see what he's getting at. People want to love Minority Report-style interfaces, but the truth is that there are reasons for not using them. Is it a well-founded argument against vertical screens? I guess we'll see!
I agree that this won't be used much, but most users will just use touch-screen in tablet mode and keyboard/mousepad in other modes
I really like the look of the surface hardware. I suspect that most users will end up using the touch screen only in "tablet mode" but so what! This is sour grapes from apple.
There really isn't anything displayable on a TV with available hardware that I know of - probably the closest a consumer could get is something decoded on a PC with mulit-monitor and/or special hardware.
And what's even more telling is that most digital theater projectors in use are still 2K (2048x1080) - and in fact a lot of (new and old) movies are still digitized at 2K, so there may not even be 4K sources for most current movies anyway.
A lot of blockbusters say "filmed [sic] in 8K" on the posters. True but misleading if your cinemas are 3K or 4K, though a multiplex in a city hear us has 8K on its premier screen and there is not too much difference objectively
I was unclear either. I was thinking it included some Chinese crypto algorithms that were previously secret similar to how Clipper/SKIPJACK were in the 1990s.
If the TPM chip contains additional crypto algorithms, big whoop. They wouldn't be useful for Western stuff, but for Chinese stuff, would be important (since they want their own AES for example.)
That is the only real thing I can think of which the EU would be concerned about.
I'd double encrypt with the NSA and Chinese algorithms. I don't trust China or America but I can probably trust them not cooperating to snoop data.
I can already get a laptop with Win7 for $249; I'm sure that soon I'll be able to get one with Win8. So for a present Win7 user, I don't see this as very appealing since their software won't run on it...
Whenever I hear people say "security through obscurity is no security at all" like some mantra first I laugh and then I remind them that passwords are an instant counter argument; the passwords, "password" or "12345678" are not obscure and thus suck. The password "g*&Gug®¥øç¥" on the other-hand rocks (Other than being really hard to remember or type)
Well if you are going to ignore the accepted and industry standard meaning of terms you can laugh at anything. Saying that passwords are "security through obscurity" is like saying "booting windows is a bad idea because you might break them". See Kerckhoffs's principle: "Stated simply, the security of a cryptosystem should depend solely on the secrecy of the key and the private randomizer.[Another way of putting it is that a method of secretly coding and transmitting information should be secure even if everyone knows how it works. "
yeah, i'm sure repositioning icons every 30 minutes or so will bring systems to their knees
Ever hear the story about the straw that broke the camel's back?
This proposal would not affect normal operation, only the time taken to go to full screen mode and to return from it to the Windows manager. Though not an ideal solution this should not affect normal operation of the windows manager.
The fact that the position of desktop icons is even a factor in this discussion of full-screen gaming means that the entire philosophy is broken.
Yes, I agree there is no need to reposition icons that are "behind" a full-screen view.
Slashdot Mirror
Boner jokes in 3...2...1...
The lawyers for Viagra were working pro boner
seven times more massive than Earth...
so much for their early space program
And the green alien sex.
It might be OK still as long as they aren't on top
Wasn't Mitt a lowly missionary...in Paris? lol
Almost right. I believe he was in the missionary position with Paris Hilton.
We know
just bind the cryptographically sensitive process to a dedicated processor.
and will probably be a reasonable number like "no more than 10 in the room".
Mitt Romney's kids and wives would be S.O.L. if the elections were pay-per-view...
On the other hand Jill Stein will be able to invite everyone who votes for her round and still view them.
If you do that, the Xbox will freak out, activate its optical camouflage and start killing everyone in the room.
Ballmer mode engaged!
why would you provide your address when buying a tv ?!?
Because no store in the UK will sell you a TV without getting your address, which they will then pass on.
In theory. In practice turn up with the cash and leave any old address and they don't follow up.
Will this void the warranty of my Sharp EL-330A calculator (in black)?
D'oh
Apple is more likely to buy Sharp and try to keep the entire supply chain in-house.
But a "Sharp Apple" could leave a bitter taste
For over 15 years I've been paying $24/year for a free-for-life email address.
eh? who's that with? Seriously you could have your own domain plus email form less
Sir Clive Sinclair said he had an extremely efficient electric vehicle. It also turned out to be too slow for traffic, dangerous, and uncomfortable,, and the company was put into receivership in 1985.
And the midwest (tornados), and the west coast (earthquakes), and the Great Lakes area (floods), and the southwest (drought)....
Sounds like God has got it in for you.
If you're referring to Islamic Fundamentalists
Some would argue that "Islamic Fundamentalists" is just a fancy term for normal, mainstream Muslims who aren't of the ultraliberal (from the POV of Middle Eastern folks) branch of Islam (and who are often called "apostates", not "liberals", in the same area).
And they'd be correct. Even the "ultraliberal" Muslims in the west often end up being caught funding terrorists.
Give a female who cooks a blob of leftovers or dough and she can pick the correct container that will hold the container without waste or a lot of air space. Most men can't.
Give a female a pile of dishes and a dishwasher vs a male with the same dishes and dishwasher and the average female will more effectively load the dishwasher than the male.
One day you might discover - not all women are like your mum
I suspect Apple's dismissal of vertical touch screen usage has to do with muscle fatigue. Try holding your arms out in front of you without resting your hands on anything for 5-10 minutes, and I think you'll see what he's getting at. People want to love Minority Report-style interfaces, but the truth is that there are reasons for not using them. Is it a well-founded argument against vertical screens? I guess we'll see!
I agree that this won't be used much, but most users will just use touch-screen in tablet mode and keyboard/mousepad in other modes
I really like the look of the surface hardware. I suspect that most users will end up using the touch screen only in "tablet mode" but so what! This is sour grapes from apple.
How could they be sure that she was not a Muslim
There really isn't anything displayable on a TV with available hardware that I know of - probably the closest a consumer could get is something decoded on a PC with mulit-monitor and/or special hardware.
And what's even more telling is that most digital theater projectors in use are still 2K (2048x1080) - and in fact a lot of (new and old) movies are still digitized at 2K, so there may not even be 4K sources for most current movies anyway.
A lot of blockbusters say "filmed [sic] in 8K" on the posters. True but misleading if your cinemas are 3K or 4K, though a multiplex in a city hear us has 8K on its premier screen and there is not too much difference objectively
I was unclear either. I was thinking it included some Chinese crypto algorithms that were previously secret similar to how Clipper/SKIPJACK were in the 1990s.
If the TPM chip contains additional crypto algorithms, big whoop. They wouldn't be useful for Western stuff, but for Chinese stuff, would be important (since they want their own AES for example.)
That is the only real thing I can think of which the EU would be concerned about.
I'd double encrypt with the NSA and Chinese algorithms. I don't trust China or America but I can probably trust them not cooperating to snoop data.
The photo shows a text console. if that's all it will do, it's worthless.
?! Computers where worthless before the Xerox star?
I can already get a laptop with Win7 for $249; I'm sure that soon I'll be able to get one with Win8. So for a present Win7 user, I don't see this as very appealing since their software won't run on it...
You might change your mind when you've tried Win8
Because no one but nerds actually want a Chromebopk.
I'd like any kind of bopk
Whenever I hear people say "security through obscurity is no security at all" like some mantra first I laugh and then I remind them that passwords are an instant counter argument; the passwords, "password" or "12345678" are not obscure and thus suck. The password "g*&Gug®¥øç¥" on the other-hand rocks (Other than being really hard to remember or type)
Well if you are going to ignore the accepted and industry standard meaning of terms you can laugh at anything. Saying that passwords are "security through obscurity" is like saying "booting windows is a bad idea because you might break them". See Kerckhoffs's principle: "Stated simply, the security of a cryptosystem should depend solely on the secrecy of the key and the private randomizer.[Another way of putting it is that a method of secretly coding and transmitting information should be secure even if everyone knows how it works. "
Ever hear the story about the straw that broke the camel's back?
This proposal would not affect normal operation, only the time taken to go to full screen mode and to return from it to the Windows manager. Though not an ideal solution this should not affect normal operation of the windows manager.
The fact that the position of desktop icons is even a factor in this discussion of full-screen gaming means that the entire philosophy is broken.
Yes, I agree there is no need to reposition icons that are "behind" a full-screen view.