I actually remember an ad that would air AGES ago about not driving while distracted. That's right, just opposed to allowing yourself to be distracted. It was a radio ad and in it, it described a young woman who ended up rear ending someone because they were too busy fiddling with the radio knob.
I bet a lot of people changed stations on that ad.
Thieves take any and every box. Doesn't matter what's on the outside or what time of year. Sometimes they get gourmet cheeses, sometimes electronics, sometimes prescription drugs... there's almost never anything bad in a box. Instruct your local UPS/Fedex/USPS shop to have a blanket-hold on your items. It beats never getting them.
the ribbon (which not only give more context/info about what the function does, but have live document preview, unobstructed by any drop down menues, of what the function will do to your document)
All the ribbons I've seen are completely non-intuitive graphical menus that are haphazardly organized into what some middle manager decided was logical groupings. And I've never seen it do a document preview.
To bad a Christmas Tree has absolutely nothing to do with any Christian message (beyond a vague "evergreen-eternal life" connection). The standard Christian message would be best represented (if you only get one image) of a dual image with an old-testament sheep sacrifice beside a crucifix. If you're going for a specifically Christmas message, then a nativity scene. A couple of my atheist friends have Christmas trees up. Trees and lights are fairly secular.
Maybe he bought broken parts of the same type on the Internet and returned them to Cisco? Assuming all the parts aren't checked for serial numbers, that'd be hard to track.
True, but they had legally good grounds for doing so
&@$^ their "legally good" grounds. If Star Trek Replicators ever become a reality, I don't want Amazon using a team of transporter technicians to dematerialize stuff from my house that was replicated with the wrong copyright license. They shouldn't have the *ability* to do this because it is likely to be abused (again).
The FBI is getting involved by changing its definition of rape in a way that might expose the TSA's 'enhanced pat-down' screeners to prosecution.
Stop the presses. When did enforcement agencies get to write laws? Are they just changing the in-house definition? So it'll be like "FBI internal policy says I have to arrest you, but you'll get off scott free because the law says something different"? This is not a good thing. It sets a precedent that things like "standing in a public area" could be made "illegal" per internal FBI mandate, allowing them to arrest you for literally anything over and over again, while never facing a jury. I'm all for ending the TSA feel-ups, but this is *not* the way to do it.
Problem is, Windows' lockdown depends on Windows users being idiots.
Not true. True kiosk mode exists in Windows world. Do some regedits and gedit.msc foo and you'll have replaced explorer.exe with your choice of program (so it's the only program that can run), auto-logged in your user and disabled most of the ctrl-alt-del functions. Lock the bios, boot only from HDD, and padlock the computer, and the end users will have to bring in a set of lockpicks and a live CD to do anything normal with the computer.
Um, by using the system utilities to see disk activity and the associated files (the windows equiv of lsof).
The OS will commit memory to swap when it is not being used yet to free up more real memory for other applications.
Even with 10gb free? Why? Since this is his gaming machine, I'm assuming that he's talking about enabling the "minimum suggested" pagefile of 512mb in size. Even with 16gb of ram, windows will waste time with io to this pagefile.
You think poor people have the time, money, and legal representation to implement an attack on a nuclear plant or shoot rotten meat at whaling ships? It's a pastime only 1% of us could ever enjoy.
It's not blood thirstiness in this case. It's plain common sense. If these had been evil wrongdoers instead of mischievous, then severe repercussions would have resulted. The logical conclusion to stepping past a barbed wire fence with guards is getting shot. Now, as long as you phone ahead and pretend to be Greenpeace, you can do whatever you want. Note that I'm not advocating the Greenpeace folk be hunted down and shot after the fact (actual bloodthirstiness), but instead am saying that they should have been Darwin Award winners (getting shot storming a secure facility).
Umm, no. Greenpeace called the French authorities and told them that they'd sent men sneaking into nuclear power plants, and the French authorities then stood down their snipers and allowed the Greenpeace guys to finish climbing the building and deploy their banner before arresting them.
So, the phone call saved the lives of the Greenpeace protesters, which hardly shows that security of the plants was lax....
That *is* lax security. If you're walking into a secure facility and someone runs up saying "hold the door, I'm Jim, from accounting!", and someone smoking outside the door says "Yup, he's Jim from accounting" do you let them in, or close the door and require they use their key/badge/whatever?
Those guards should have at the very least beaten the Greenpeace infiltrators unconscious. Realistically, they should have shot them and sent a letter back to GP saying "Sorry, we understand you called us, but you can't have people running into secure facilities like that. Their blood is on your hands. In fact, we're created a law regarding assisted-suicide-by-cop if you ever try this again."
FYI, TV shows are starting to use the extra space on the sides that you lose with the HD->SD conversion. They started only showing environment in those sections of the screen (like a phone or a lamp), but now they're showing important things like a character (you might only see part of their face) or something a character is interacting with. I've also noticed on my SD set that words on the screen have finally expanded into the HD sides, so you have to guess what they are sometimes.
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I actually remember an ad that would air AGES ago about not driving while distracted. That's right, just opposed to allowing yourself to be distracted. It was a radio ad and in it, it described a young woman who ended up rear ending someone because they were too busy fiddling with the radio knob.
I bet a lot of people changed stations on that ad.
But would you kill him, dissect him, and clone him?
It doesn't have any DNA!
Thieves take any and every box. Doesn't matter what's on the outside or what time of year. Sometimes they get gourmet cheeses, sometimes electronics, sometimes prescription drugs... there's almost never anything bad in a box. Instruct your local UPS/Fedex/USPS shop to have a blanket-hold on your items. It beats never getting them.
the ribbon (which not only give more context/info about what the function does, but have live document preview, unobstructed by any drop down menues, of what the function will do to your document)
All the ribbons I've seen are completely non-intuitive graphical menus that are haphazardly organized into what some middle manager decided was logical groupings. And I've never seen it do a document preview.
The first thing I think is that It was nice of someone to make the landscape more interesting.
Which is a capital crime in North Korea. Especially if the lights are any color other than red or gray.
To bad a Christmas Tree has absolutely nothing to do with any Christian message (beyond a vague "evergreen-eternal life" connection). The standard Christian message would be best represented (if you only get one image) of a dual image with an old-testament sheep sacrifice beside a crucifix. If you're going for a specifically Christmas message, then a nativity scene. A couple of my atheist friends have Christmas trees up. Trees and lights are fairly secular.
Maybe he bought broken parts of the same type on the Internet and returned them to Cisco? Assuming all the parts aren't checked for serial numbers, that'd be hard to track.
Star Trek called. They want their technobabble back.
I personally like clicking on a vague icon and not knowing what will happen. It's thrilling.
If you'd ever had a broken ankle you'd know there was no confusing it for a sprain.
I've had both (hairline fractures, not full-on busted ankle), and they're very similar.
True, but they had legally good grounds for doing so
&@$^ their "legally good" grounds. If Star Trek Replicators ever become a reality, I don't want Amazon using a team of transporter technicians to dematerialize stuff from my house that was replicated with the wrong copyright license. They shouldn't have the *ability* to do this because it is likely to be abused (again).
The FBI is getting involved by changing its definition of rape in a way that might expose the TSA's 'enhanced pat-down' screeners to prosecution.
Stop the presses. When did enforcement agencies get to write laws? Are they just changing the in-house definition? So it'll be like "FBI internal policy says I have to arrest you, but you'll get off scott free because the law says something different"? This is not a good thing. It sets a precedent that things like "standing in a public area" could be made "illegal" per internal FBI mandate, allowing them to arrest you for literally anything over and over again, while never facing a jury. I'm all for ending the TSA feel-ups, but this is *not* the way to do it.
Because I don't have another computer at home.
Anyone remember when [peta] tried to get people to call fish "sea kittens", so that we wouldn't eat them?
Yeah, kitten consumption went up 300%
Problem is, Windows' lockdown depends on Windows users being idiots.
Not true. True kiosk mode exists in Windows world. Do some regedits and gedit.msc foo and you'll have replaced explorer.exe with your choice of program (so it's the only program that can run), auto-logged in your user and disabled most of the ctrl-alt-del functions. Lock the bios, boot only from HDD, and padlock the computer, and the end users will have to bring in a set of lockpicks and a live CD to do anything normal with the computer.
Are you saying they weren't coherent?
How do you tell it's using your swap?
Um, by using the system utilities to see disk activity and the associated files (the windows equiv of lsof).
The OS will commit memory to swap when it is not being used yet to free up more real memory for other applications.
Even with 10gb free? Why? Since this is his gaming machine, I'm assuming that he's talking about enabling the "minimum suggested" pagefile of 512mb in size. Even with 16gb of ram, windows will waste time with io to this pagefile.
It would have kept them alive while preventing them access to the nuclear site.
Of course they taste great. We hunted them to extinction!
You think poor people have the time, money, and legal representation to implement an attack on a nuclear plant or shoot rotten meat at whaling ships? It's a pastime only 1% of us could ever enjoy.
Someone is jumping your gate == Threat identified. Open Fire.
It's not blood thirstiness in this case. It's plain common sense. If these had been evil wrongdoers instead of mischievous, then severe repercussions would have resulted. The logical conclusion to stepping past a barbed wire fence with guards is getting shot. Now, as long as you phone ahead and pretend to be Greenpeace, you can do whatever you want. Note that I'm not advocating the Greenpeace folk be hunted down and shot after the fact (actual bloodthirstiness), but instead am saying that they should have been Darwin Award winners (getting shot storming a secure facility).
Umm, no. Greenpeace called the French authorities and told them that they'd sent men sneaking into nuclear power plants, and the French authorities then stood down their snipers and allowed the Greenpeace guys to finish climbing the building and deploy their banner before arresting them.
So, the phone call saved the lives of the Greenpeace protesters, which hardly shows that security of the plants was lax....
That *is* lax security. If you're walking into a secure facility and someone runs up saying "hold the door, I'm Jim, from accounting!", and someone smoking outside the door says "Yup, he's Jim from accounting" do you let them in, or close the door and require they use their key/badge/whatever?
Those guards should have at the very least beaten the Greenpeace infiltrators unconscious. Realistically, they should have shot them and sent a letter back to GP saying "Sorry, we understand you called us, but you can't have people running into secure facilities like that. Their blood is on your hands. In fact, we're created a law regarding assisted-suicide-by-cop if you ever try this again."
FYI, TV shows are starting to use the extra space on the sides that you lose with the HD->SD conversion. They started only showing environment in those sections of the screen (like a phone or a lamp), but now they're showing important things like a character (you might only see part of their face) or something a character is interacting with. I've also noticed on my SD set that words on the screen have finally expanded into the HD sides, so you have to guess what they are sometimes.