As for having to buy a Mac - do you think it's possible to develop for windows mobile without having a windows-based PC? I can totally understand Apple's point-of-view here - their time would be much better spent making the tools work, and work well rather than porting them to and testing them on other platforms.
The difference is that a copy of OEM XP is ~$100. With Apple, you have to buy (and use!) an entirely separate machine. I already have a very high-powered development machine; why would I want two?
It's as if you could only run IE on Windows or Safari on OS X.
So in other words it's business as usual. As far as I know, you cannot run any recent versions of IE without using a virtual machine or bootcamp, neither of which is supported by Microsoft. And up until recently Safari was only available for the Macs.
I think you misunderstood your parent. I believe his example was trying to say that "It's as if the only browser you could run on Windows was IE, and only Safari on OSX."
The email I use for slashdot is far from a critical email address. For my important one(s) I run my own mail server with spam digests (it emails me a list of everything in the quarantine at the end of the week).
While handheld technology is indeed getting better, it's not directly applicable to the problem at hand. Real-time handwriting analysis uses stroke analysis as well as shape analysis to determine the letter(s). That is, the order in which you construct your letters matters very much. For example, if you crossed your T before drawing the vertical bar, the engine may have a difficult time figuring out what you intended.
When OCRing documents, all of that 'meta-information' is lost.
That message only shows up when you try to run something from the command line. Like this:
user@user-desktop:~$ R The program 'R' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install r-base-core bash: R: command not found user@user-desktop:~$
How do you propose a user run something from the GUI that hasn't been installed?
You (we) actually do have a choice: press '/' to toggle between vertical, horizontal, and off. Unfortunately, this is mapped to 'quick find' in Firefox, so it conflicts with the default behavior.
I personally hate the horizontal slider for the simple reason that it breaks page up/page down. The browser scrolls by a full 'page', but the toolbar takes up ~10% of the currently-viewed 'page'.
This makes it very annoying to read the page using spacebar/page down.
>Link all the cars and let a computer control them and the moment the light goes green all the cars could accelerate at once rather than the first car moving off, then the second, then the third etc.
I've heard in some countries drivers already do this?
Really? Around where I live, all the cars accelerate when the light goes yellow, not green.
MultipleIEs is nice, but IE6 doesn't behave correctly. For whatever reason, it inherits some of IE7's HTML/CSS rendering and JS execution. I can't think of a specific example to test at the moment, but it's not the same as having separate installs.
Biometrics, of course. Fingerprint scanning, retinal scanning, voice recognition, or whatever. It's the only way to really verify. The problem is how expensive it would be to refit existing ATMs.
The trouble with biometrics is that it can't be changed. Additionally, the various ways have bad flaws:
Fingerprints are a terrible idea because you leave a copy of your private key on everything you touch.
Voice recognition is a terrible idea because everyone within earshot can hear your private key.
Retinal scanning would fail if someone was in an accident or had surgery or something.
What do you think about the Mozilla dialogs when installing an extension or downloading a file? The affirmative button is disabled for a random amount of time (3-5 seconds), so the user actually has to read the message before they can do anything. (source)
Of course, they don't/have/ to read it, but that's their own damn fault.
I agree that it's not a perfect solution, but it's better than nothing.
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If so, anyone got a list of countries without an extradition treaty with the U.S.?
Wikipedia has a list for everything.
Did you not notice the story's "department"?
from the ctrl-alt-del-makes-him-blink dept.
As for having to buy a Mac - do you think it's possible to develop for windows mobile without having a windows-based PC? I can totally understand Apple's point-of-view here - their time would be much better spent making the tools work, and work well rather than porting them to and testing them on other platforms.
The difference is that a copy of OEM XP is ~$100. With Apple, you have to buy (and use!) an entirely separate machine. I already have a very high-powered development machine; why would I want two?
So the title is misleading and/or confusing.
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Goodbye, so long, and thanks for all the Phish.
Fixed that for you.
Here's a diagram that I refer to: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/electromagnetic_spectrum.png
It's as if you could only run IE on Windows or Safari on OS X.
So in other words it's business as usual. As far as I know, you cannot run any recent versions of IE without using a virtual machine or bootcamp, neither of which is supported by Microsoft. And up until recently Safari was only available for the Macs.
I think you misunderstood your parent. I believe his example was trying to say that "It's as if the only browser you could run on Windows was IE, and only Safari on OSX."
The email I use for slashdot is far from a critical email address. For my important one(s) I run my own mail server with spam digests (it emails me a list of everything in the quarantine at the end of the week).
Other than that, I agree with your reply :)
I'd rather let a million spam emails slip through than block one legitimate one.
Same deal with suspicious characters at the border.
While handheld technology is indeed getting better, it's not directly applicable to the problem at hand. Real-time handwriting analysis uses stroke analysis as well as shape analysis to determine the letter(s). That is, the order in which you construct your letters matters very much. For example, if you crossed your T before drawing the vertical bar, the engine may have a difficult time figuring out what you intended.
When OCRing documents, all of that 'meta-information' is lost.
That message only shows up when you try to run something from the command line. Like this:
user@user-desktop:~$ R
The program 'R' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install r-base-core
bash: R: command not found
user@user-desktop:~$
How do you propose a user run something from the GUI that hasn't been installed?
Sorry, I haven't seen the episode in a long time. Where do I go to hand in my geek card?
Bender: Checkmate!
Fry: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
Minor nitpick, but there's one outlier: 6.06 was delayed by two months due to some packages not being stable, IIRC.
You (we) actually do have a choice: press '/' to toggle between vertical, horizontal, and off. Unfortunately, this is mapped to 'quick find' in Firefox, so it conflicts with the default behavior.
Oh well, just another bug.
I personally hate the horizontal slider for the simple reason that it breaks page up/page down. The browser scrolls by a full 'page', but the toolbar takes up ~10% of the currently-viewed 'page'.
This makes it very annoying to read the page using spacebar/page down.
And when steam goes belly up? Or just stops "supporting" older games? Or gets brought out by Yahoo/EA and they discontinue the service? Then what?
Steam is DRM plain and simple and Just like the yahoo music shop or M$ Music, it won't be authenticating your games forever.
Then I consider it money well spent for many fun afternoons/nights playing their games, and then download the pirated version.
What's the problem?
Also, your argument assumes they won't simply hand over the keys when they leave the business.
>Link all the cars and let a computer control them and the moment the light goes green all the cars could accelerate at once rather than the first car moving off, then the second, then the third etc.
I've heard in some countries drivers already do this?
Really? Around where I live, all the cars accelerate when the light goes yellow, not green.
You must be new here...
Trust me, I'd LOVE it to be true, but there is no magical, mystical free energy source that's gonna make all our woes vanish overnight.
There is. It's called the sun. (NOT the tabloid newspaper! ;)
I don't think you read the parent very carefully...
MultipleIEs is nice, but IE6 doesn't behave correctly. For whatever reason, it inherits some of IE7's HTML/CSS rendering and JS execution. I can't think of a specific example to test at the moment, but it's not the same as having separate installs.
Biometrics, of course. Fingerprint scanning, retinal scanning, voice recognition, or whatever. It's the only way to really verify. The problem is how expensive it would be to refit existing ATMs.
The trouble with biometrics is that it can't be changed. Additionally, the various ways have bad flaws:
As a general rule, I wouldn't use my fingerprint to protect anything that's worth more to a criminal than my finger is to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm
I can't believe that the editor put that comment. I'm not a huge fan of Java, but that's incredibly ignorant.
Suggested tag: flamebait
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile#United_States
https://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase/root/public/tm22037.htm T-Mobile's domestic roaming partners all operate on the GSM 1900 band.
What do you think about the Mozilla dialogs when installing an extension or downloading a file? The affirmative button is disabled for a random amount of time (3-5 seconds), so the user actually has to read the message before they can do anything. (source)
/have/ to read it, but that's their own damn fault.
Of course, they don't
I agree that it's not a perfect solution, but it's better than nothing.