Actually, I saw in Google Zeitgeist that Slashdot readership is also gradually falling last 12 months). I wonder if it is the case with other forum type sites?
I can't think of why that won't work, but I'm not a physicist. You can extend that model a bit. If you had a series of fast-slow-fast-slow-fast media then why is the light still traveling fast at the end of the chain? What happens to entropy? A loss of velocity must mean a generation of energy somehow. The only thing I can think of is that you won't be getting as many photons out as was going in.
Can a physicist explain this? If Einstein's Theory is correct, that if you accelerate mass to the speed of light, it turns into energy, but if you slow light down it doesn't turn into mass?
It's definitely a trade-off in my opinion, but worth it as it has good filtering capabilities and as I said, you can customize those annoying error pages.
No. That's what I find when I go to their homes. It's often a case of tuning Windows to their requirements as well as getting as much performance as possible in as little time and at low or no cost.
I do work occasionally for the elderly in setting up WinX computers and I regularly donate my services to various individuals. Apart from setting up their desktops as I've detailed in a previous post http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1072163&cid=26221671 you need to install some helper apps. Avast Antivirus can be set to automatically delete/quarantine anything it finds with no user action. AVG 8 free doesn't scan chat/webcam so stay away from that if they want to use it. Find a good Hosts file: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm is very good. Point their DNS to OpenDns http://www.opendns.com/ and use their filtering to stop phishing and other bad stuff. It also allows you to easily make customized error pages in case they find themselves in hot water. I would not switch off Windows Security Centre and have updates set at a reasonable time on automatic. Windows Media Player 11 is a must and set it to do everything. Also, set their screensaver to My Pictures Slideshow. They really appreciate that as many have pics of grandkids etc. Some elderly need good JPG editor. The easliest to use is Microsoft's PhotoEd which came in early versions of Office, Microsoft Office Picture Manager has now replaced it. It is much better in some regards as it can open larger jpegs, but the gui is considerably different. A bit of training helps. HP scanning software is very good as it has a decent editor inbuilt. Also Picassa 3 is my choice for a freebie.
Open up their My Pictures folder and set it up in Film Strip view and to open maximized.
IE vs Firefox: I always install Firefox and set it as default. But some apps decide to run IE, even though it is not the default. IE 6 is preferable here as it is very similar to Firefox's gui. But for security's sake, IE7 should be used and some more training required in case it pops up inadvertently. If you remove the shortcuts and pin Firefox to the Start menu, then that will be fine.
One or Two clicks? This is a hard one. Some elderly can't do a double-click fast enough or accurately enough as they move the mouse off the icon by the time the 2nd click comes along. So you have to change the mouse timing (Control Panel/Mouse Properties/Double-Click Speed), or use the single-click approach. Try and stay away from the single click, because if they double click then most probably an editor of some description open up. This is particularly bad for pictures, especially when they are in Flimstrip mode or trying to copy and paste any other file. The other thing is to remind them to click the icon and not the words below, or otherwise they'll start editing the filename (as Rename) instead of opening something up. Most elderly switch things completely off. That includes monitors, speakers, modems, so check the BIOS battery every year. They also need a checklist in turning things on. This sounds dumb, but the calls I get that the internet doesn't work because they switched their modem on last gets annoying. Switch the modem on first. By the time the modem is connected, the computer has booted and they're ready to go.
This is very easy to do without losing real-estate on Windows. DO NOT change the screen resolution or things go fuzzy. 1. Display Properties/Appearance/Font Size and while you're there click the Effects button and select large icons. Cleartype for LCD screens. Switch everything else off! 2. Click the Advanced button and choose a dark grey for the desktop. This means that the icon font will be displayed white over dark grey even though there is a custom pic on the desktop. Choose Icons to set them up too if Large Icons isn't big enough. You can also set the Title Bar and Menu font size if you need to. 3. My Computer Properties/Advanced TAB/Performance Settings/Adjust for best performance/. I recommend that you re-click the following: Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts Use Common Tasks in Folders (leaves the left hand task list) Use Visual Styles on Windows and Buttons (eye candy) The result of this is a highly readable desktop and a real increase in performance.without the loss of real estate and eye candy. --------------- For Outlook Express and Internet Explorer (uggh), you can set the default font size to large or largest. This only helps with some text on web pages though. It's a real pity that no-one has made a plugin to force older 800x600 pages to fill the screen on modern resolutions.
How would you express the concept of isomorphic, infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert spaces with a car analogy?
Ok. So you've got this car with a one cylinder engine you see, and you put it into drive. Now nano-seconds before the first cylinder fires, you take a positional mark of exactly where the car is as well as the height of piston in the cylinder. Then it fires and moves forward and you make another mark for the car's position and the bottom travel of the piston. Then you jam it into reverse and take another mark of the car and piston just before firing. Then the car moves backward to its original position. Now join all the dots on the graph paper and that's something like a theoretical Hilbert space if you ignore the spark plug firing because you didn't actually measure that did you?
LOL Beat me to it. I thought hydrogen sulphide (note the correct spelling) was a better description. And wine, cheese platters, pleasant verandahs and a few insane bands is what Adelaide is all about + extreme air-conditioning. It's very, very hot.
Two of the country's major internet providers say the Government appears unlikely to meet its own deadline for trials of mandatory internet filtering.
The Government planned to begin the trials before Christmas, but iiNet and Optus say they have not heard back from the Government about their applications to take part.
iiNet's chief operating officer Mark White has told Radio National he is sceptical about plans to filter the net.
"We absolutely endorse their intention, but don't agree with their proposed solution. We believe it's not going to work. It's as simple as that," he said.
"There are a whole range of techniques, rather than just looking at URLs, that people can use. Rotating IP addresses, a whole range of things, so it's really not going to solve the problem."
I hear you Bro. (and you're not a troll). P2P is radical and the last thing we need is radicalism because it's against the State, and if it's against the State it is criminal.
Now shouldn't that be your point? Those people who fileshare copyrighted commercial material are criminals. So they should be identified and jailed!
So the question is, Why doesn't the government do that instead? Go after those criminals who break the law? Why deny law abiding, upright citizens and visitors to our shores P2P?
Complacency is the word you are looking for. And you are both right. The general public are your Bruce Slabs* whose kids install Limewire (free version) and download masses of crap of which 20% is malware. When that disappears due to filtering, Bruce and the Missus won't care and the kids will complain a bit, but go and do something else. Maybe refining their Mall Rat abilities?
There is no way Australians will get up and protest en mass. It's just too much trouble. --- *Slab = local Australian equivalent to a Six Pack, except it has 24 bottles/slab.
it's none of your business whether they are married or not. Give this AC a cigar. The whole Ms. concept was thrown together in the 70's as part of the woman's liberation movement. Ms.= Miss or Mrs
It's up to the individual. My wife prefers Mrs instead of Ms. Perhaps the researcher in question prefers Miss instead of Ms.? You could always ask her. (thanks slushdork) On your doctoral point, in the above site she states that she is an Honours student. That's post-grad. Next step is Masters or Doctorate. As she is not a Phd, Richard Macey (the author of the article ) entitled her as 'Miss'.
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a giant engorged penis without testicles except it's white.
Disclaimer: I'm not a non-rocket scientist.
FYI: Officially Festivus is on the 23rd of December.
I just think it's about time.
Actually, I saw in Google Zeitgeist that Slashdot readership is also gradually falling last 12 months). I wonder if it is the case with other forum type sites?
I actually get that.
I was going to buy this for Christmas.
I can't think of why that won't work, but I'm not a physicist.
You can extend that model a bit. If you had a series of fast-slow-fast-slow-fast media then why is the light still traveling fast at the end of the chain? What happens to entropy? A loss of velocity must mean a generation of energy somehow. The only thing I can think of is that you won't be getting as many photons out as was going in.
Can a physicist explain this?
If Einstein's Theory is correct, that if you accelerate mass to the speed of light, it turns into energy, but if you slow light down it doesn't turn into mass?
You sir are a genius!
It's definitely a trade-off in my opinion, but worth it as it has good filtering capabilities and as I said, you can customize those annoying error pages.
Fast Ram?
Sounds ideal.
In fact I may just go and RTFA.
No. That's what I find when I go to their homes. It's often a case of tuning Windows to their requirements as well as getting as much performance as possible in as little time and at low or no cost.
I do work occasionally for the elderly in setting up WinX computers and I regularly donate my services to various individuals.
Apart from setting up their desktops as I've detailed in a previous post http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1072163&cid=26221671
you need to install some helper apps.
Avast Antivirus can be set to automatically delete/quarantine anything it finds with no user action. AVG 8 free doesn't scan chat/webcam so stay away from that if they want to use it.
Find a good Hosts file: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm is very good.
Point their DNS to OpenDns http://www.opendns.com/ and use their filtering to stop phishing and other bad stuff. It also allows you to easily make customized error pages in case they find themselves in hot water.
I would not switch off Windows Security Centre and have updates set at a reasonable time on automatic.
Windows Media Player 11 is a must and set it to do everything.
Also, set their screensaver to My Pictures Slideshow. They really appreciate that as many have pics of grandkids etc.
Some elderly need good JPG editor. The easliest to use is Microsoft's PhotoEd which came in early versions of Office, Microsoft Office Picture Manager has now replaced it. It is much better in some regards as it can open larger jpegs, but the gui is considerably different. A bit of training helps. HP scanning software is very good as it has a decent editor inbuilt. Also Picassa 3 is my choice for a freebie.
Open up their My Pictures folder and set it up in Film Strip view and to open maximized.
IE vs Firefox: I always install Firefox and set it as default. But some apps decide to run IE, even though it is not the default. IE 6 is preferable here as it is very similar to Firefox's gui. But for security's sake, IE7 should be used and some more training required in case it pops up inadvertently. If you remove the shortcuts and pin Firefox to the Start menu, then that will be fine.
One or Two clicks?
This is a hard one. Some elderly can't do a double-click fast enough or accurately enough as they move the mouse off the icon by the time the 2nd click comes along. So you have to change the mouse timing (Control Panel/Mouse Properties/Double-Click Speed), or use the single-click approach. Try and stay away from the single click, because if they double click then most probably an editor of some description open up. This is particularly bad for pictures, especially when they are in Flimstrip mode or trying to copy and paste any other file.
The other thing is to remind them to click the icon and not the words below, or otherwise they'll start editing the filename (as Rename) instead of opening something up.
Most elderly switch things completely off. That includes monitors, speakers, modems, so check the BIOS battery every year.
They also need a checklist in turning things on. This sounds dumb, but the calls I get that the internet doesn't work because they switched their modem on last gets annoying. Switch the modem on first. By the time the modem is connected, the computer has booted and they're ready to go.
This is very easy to do without losing real-estate on Windows. DO NOT change the screen resolution or things go fuzzy.
1. Display Properties/Appearance/Font Size and while you're there click the Effects button and select large icons. Cleartype for LCD screens. Switch everything else off!
2. Click the Advanced button and choose a dark grey for the desktop. This means that the icon font will be displayed white over dark grey even though there is a custom pic on the desktop. Choose Icons to set them up too if Large Icons isn't big enough. You can also set the Title Bar and Menu font size if you need to.
3. My Computer Properties/Advanced TAB/Performance Settings/Adjust for best performance/. I recommend that you re-click the following:
Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts
Use Common Tasks in Folders (leaves the left hand task list)
Use Visual Styles on Windows and Buttons (eye candy)
The result of this is a highly readable desktop and a real increase in performance.without the loss of real estate and eye candy.
---------------
For Outlook Express and Internet Explorer (uggh), you can set the default font size to large or largest. This only helps with some text on web pages though. It's a real pity that no-one has made a plugin to force older 800x600 pages to fill the screen on modern resolutions.
How would you express the concept of isomorphic, infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert spaces with a car analogy?
Ok. So you've got this car with a one cylinder engine you see, and you put it into drive. Now nano-seconds before the first cylinder fires, you take a positional mark of exactly where the car is as well as the height of piston in the cylinder. Then it fires and moves forward and you make another mark for the car's position and the bottom travel of the piston. Then you jam it into reverse and take another mark of the car and piston just before firing. Then the car moves backward to its original position.
Now join all the dots on the graph paper and that's something like a theoretical Hilbert space if you ignore the spark plug firing because you didn't actually measure that did you?
WTF does OMG stand for?
LOL Beat me to it. I thought hydrogen sulphide (note the correct spelling) was a better description.
And wine, cheese platters, pleasant verandahs and a few insane bands is what Adelaide is all about + extreme air-conditioning. It's very, very hot.
The only consistent thing about them was that it happened on a Thursday.
This woman survived all three.
How could anyone make a disaster movie into a chick-flick?
Internet filters won't work: ISP
Don't bother clicking unless you want to hear audio.
Two of the country's major internet providers say the Government appears unlikely to meet its own deadline for trials of mandatory internet filtering.
The Government planned to begin the trials before Christmas, but iiNet and Optus say they have not heard back from the Government about their applications to take part.
iiNet's chief operating officer Mark White has told Radio National he is sceptical about plans to filter the net.
"We absolutely endorse their intention, but don't agree with their proposed solution. We believe it's not going to work. It's as simple as that," he said.
"There are a whole range of techniques, rather than just looking at URLs, that people can use. Rotating IP addresses, a whole range of things, so it's really not going to solve the problem."
I hear you Bro. (and you're not a troll).
P2P is radical and the last thing we need is radicalism because it's against the State, and if it's against the State it is criminal.
Now shouldn't that be your point? Those people who fileshare copyrighted commercial material are criminals. So they should be identified and jailed!
So the question is, Why doesn't the government do that instead? Go after those criminals who break the law? Why deny law abiding, upright citizens and visitors to our shores P2P?
Complacency is the word you are looking for.
And you are both right.
The general public are your Bruce Slabs* whose kids install Limewire (free version) and download masses of crap of which 20% is malware.
When that disappears due to filtering, Bruce and the Missus won't care and the kids will complain a bit, but go and do something else. Maybe refining their Mall Rat abilities?
There is no way Australians will get up and protest en mass. It's just too much trouble.
---
*Slab = local Australian equivalent to a Six Pack, except it has 24 bottles/slab.
Ironically at least they're smart enough
Face it, Kangaroos still haven't worked out how to run.
Don't forget Milli Vanilli
it's none of your business whether they are married or not.
Give this AC a cigar.
The whole Ms. concept was thrown together in the 70's as part of the woman's liberation movement. Ms.= Miss or Mrs
It's up to the individual. My wife prefers Mrs instead of Ms. Perhaps the researcher in question prefers Miss instead of Ms.?
You could always ask her. (thanks slushdork)
On your doctoral point, in the above site she states that she is an Honours student. That's post-grad. Next step is Masters or Doctorate.
As she is not a Phd, Richard Macey (the author of the article ) entitled her as 'Miss'.