I fix laptops for Toshiba for a living . . . and it is not uncommon for USB ports to be found inside. The most common case for Toshiba laptops is the fingerprint reader, it doesn't connect with an actual "USB plug" but a 4-line ribbon wire which slotted and bracketed into a tiny slot on the motherboard. The device uses the USB standard in terms of data transfer, probably because it makes the software easier to implement as well.
You'll probably find that it is a similar case for your laptop. If there is a "built-in" device in your laptop that can be controlled via software, it is probably a USB device.
I tip my hat to you, sir. I passed chemistry at the highest level in high school and found it impossible to progress. Chemistry to me had no consistency.
In maths or even physics I suppose, everything can fall back to a common set of axioms, but in chemistry, you just have to take it as it comes and believe that everything is true. Maybe it changes after high school, but I didn't want to waste more years just in case it didn't.
Anyone who can study something like that deserves credit! But I ran out of mod points.
Relax, it was a rhetorical question relating to Murphy's Law. You know, the whole "if something goes wrong, it goes wrong in the worst possible way" sort of thing. No offence to anyone intended (perhaps possibly security).
Would it have pissed you off further if a posh lady in front of you had her 143 items picked out of her handbag carefully and neatly placed onto the desk?
As far as I can tell it would be beneficial. So what if they get the whole torrent faster, it means they will become a seed faster and therefore allow the slower people to have a chance as well. It has always been up to the user to stop seeding before the share ratio is at least 1. BitTyrant would only be truly selfish if it chose not to seed at all, but because it doesn't, it will be the same old asshole leechers (and probably dial-up users and people with poor upload limits) that don't seed anyway.
It gets the torrent faster = it becomes a seed faster
Panasonic come only in Zone 4 in NZ, and the only way to re-region them is through a special infra-red remote. Sony do it a similar way. On their boxes they boast "multi-format" playback, but never multi-region. Even on Teac and LG, the cheaper ones, they still only state "multi-format", which most people interpret as multi-zone.
That's what I was told when I worked in retail. The Teac and LG sales reps told me that it is illegal to import or sell DVD players that are not zone 4 in NZ, but it is not illegal to sell them with instructions on how to change the zone. Hence, every Teac DVD component comes with instructions, and from memory, it's "Eject tray, Setup, Volume Up, Volume Down, Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute". For most LGs it is eject the tray and press 1 six times on the remote.
Most Teacs had a little blue or green piece of paper with the instructions on it, but the LGs I had to tell the customers when they bought them.
No... just, no. Vista does use more RAM than WinXP, but why do you think that is?
Ooh, ooh! I know! Poor memory management, memory leaks, bloatedness, and uhhh, because if they raise the sysreqs, they can make deals with PC manufacturers as sales would be expected to grow.
Running Hypercard on OSX isn't at all like trying to run DOS on XP. OSX is a completely different operating system to all versions prior. It's no wonder some software won't run, even virtually. But Windows just keeps adding crap to what they already have, rewriting bits of it sometimes, but mainly just adding more and more crap. That's why you have API calls in Windows like CreateWindow and CreateWindowEx, Ex standing for extra, as in, more than what they had before. They deprecate stuff but it usually doesn't get removed. I remember in Win2k there were still 16-bit functions lying around, and in the MSDN library it would say "provided for 16-bit compatibility, use x
Running DOS on Windows is easy because half the crap is still there, like reserved filenames "PRN", "COM1" etc etc. They don't have to do much to make it compatible. In fact I bet they did nothing at all since it was probably all there anyway, but labelled it a feature to attract customers using older machines.
Really, the only similarities between System 7 and OSX are the aesthetics and simplicity.
I work for Toshiba fixing laptops. I have fixed more Satellites than NASA. The main reason people need laptops fixed is because they don't know how to use them.
You can disable the write18 command in a lot, if not all of TeX implementations though. This is different to a security exploit in Word which you cannot avoid or disable. write18 is not a security hole, it is a feature that requires attention in regards to security. A security hole is a way to bypass the security put in place.
The underscore is particularly useless considering we have other mark-upabilities. The only thing worse than underlined text is text that was meant to be underlined but was instead surrounded by underscores.
That will only work when copying to particular media. Backup applications go further too, in that they will make sure all the files are readable before trying to copy, showing you a graphical representation of how much data has been backed up, and so on. Not everyone likes to type on a command line interface, and not everyone knows what a command line interface is.
Programs like Leopard's Time Machine work differently again, showing you snapshots of your hard drive that were taken each day from when you first started backing up. If you knew a file existed on January the 4th, you can simply go to January the 4th and retreive it. I guess it's quite similar to an subversion repository.
xcopy is good if you simply want to back up your "My Documents" folder, but tools like the Time Machine make it easier to backup and restore. Remember, not everyone who uses a computer knows what a command line is.
Most credit cards in NZ have PINs on them now. I used to work in retail and the number of customers that signed instead of using a PIN was very, very small. It was particularly the elder folk who are used to the more traditional way of paying by credit, and also foreigners and immigrants. (I explicitly said NZ because nearly every foreigner that I served at the retail store authenticated by signature). The banks actively encourage people to put them on. They also say that anyone with practice can forge a signature, but you can't forge a PIN.
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I fix laptops for Toshiba for a living . . . and it is not uncommon for USB ports to be found inside. The most common case for Toshiba laptops is the fingerprint reader, it doesn't connect with an actual "USB plug" but a 4-line ribbon wire which slotted and bracketed into a tiny slot on the motherboard. The device uses the USB standard in terms of data transfer, probably because it makes the software easier to implement as well.
You'll probably find that it is a similar case for your laptop. If there is a "built-in" device in your laptop that can be controlled via software, it is probably a USB device.
I tip my hat to you, sir. I passed chemistry at the highest level in high school and found it impossible to progress. Chemistry to me had no consistency.
In maths or even physics I suppose, everything can fall back to a common set of axioms, but in chemistry, you just have to take it as it comes and believe that everything is true. Maybe it changes after high school, but I didn't want to waste more years just in case it didn't.
Anyone who can study something like that deserves credit! But I ran out of mod points.
People drive into town sober, and drive home drunk. Why not just put bouncers with breathalysers at the carparks to reduce the number of drunks.
You should stop them before they get to their car, not while they are in it.
It's nice to know American cars haven't changed much.
Relax, it was a rhetorical question relating to Murphy's Law. You know, the whole "if something goes wrong, it goes wrong in the worst possible way" sort of thing. No offence to anyone intended (perhaps possibly security).
Would it have pissed you off further if a posh lady in front of you had her 143 items picked out of her handbag carefully and neatly placed onto the desk?
According to Wikipedia, the Virgin Islands drive on the left.
And by the way, there are readers from many different countries on Slashdot, and I (from NZ) drive on the left.
We already can count on binary on our hands. You can count to 1023 by using each of your fingers as a bit.
As far as I can tell it would be beneficial. So what if they get the whole torrent faster, it means they will become a seed faster and therefore allow the slower people to have a chance as well. It has always been up to the user to stop seeding before the share ratio is at least 1. BitTyrant would only be truly selfish if it chose not to seed at all, but because it doesn't, it will be the same old asshole leechers (and probably dial-up users and people with poor upload limits) that don't seed anyway.
It gets the torrent faster = it becomes a seed faster
Maybe you missed the joke about Verizon's inability to do maths. Have a lookie.
But is that point two five cents, or point two five dollars?
Panasonic come only in Zone 4 in NZ, and the only way to re-region them is through a special infra-red remote. Sony do it a similar way. On their boxes they boast "multi-format" playback, but never multi-region. Even on Teac and LG, the cheaper ones, they still only state "multi-format", which most people interpret as multi-zone.
That's what I was told when I worked in retail. The Teac and LG sales reps told me that it is illegal to import or sell DVD players that are not zone 4 in NZ, but it is not illegal to sell them with instructions on how to change the zone. Hence, every Teac DVD component comes with instructions, and from memory, it's "Eject tray, Setup, Volume Up, Volume Down, Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute". For most LGs it is eject the tray and press 1 six times on the remote.
Most Teacs had a little blue or green piece of paper with the instructions on it, but the LGs I had to tell the customers when they bought them.
Ooh, ooh! I know! Poor memory management, memory leaks, bloatedness, and uhhh, because if they raise the sysreqs, they can make deals with PC manufacturers as sales would be expected to grow.
Running Hypercard on OSX isn't at all like trying to run DOS on XP. OSX is a completely different operating system to all versions prior. It's no wonder some software won't run, even virtually. But Windows just keeps adding crap to what they already have, rewriting bits of it sometimes, but mainly just adding more and more crap. That's why you have API calls in Windows like CreateWindow and CreateWindowEx, Ex standing for extra, as in, more than what they had before. They deprecate stuff but it usually doesn't get removed. I remember in Win2k there were still 16-bit functions lying around, and in the MSDN library it would say "provided for 16-bit compatibility, use x
Running DOS on Windows is easy because half the crap is still there, like reserved filenames "PRN", "COM1" etc etc. They don't have to do much to make it compatible. In fact I bet they did nothing at all since it was probably all there anyway, but labelled it a feature to attract customers using older machines.
Really, the only similarities between System 7 and OSX are the aesthetics and simplicity.
But any owner of a bowl of disappearing rice grains would surely try to do something to stop them disappearing.
Big deal. They have a big bowl of rice and you were just one grain. What they have left is still a bowl of rice.
Hans Moleman: You took four minutes of my life, and I want them baaaaccckk!! . . . Oh well, I'd only waste them anyway . .
I work for Toshiba fixing laptops. I have fixed more Satellites than NASA. The main reason people need laptops fixed is because they don't know how to use them.
You can disable the write18 command in a lot, if not all of TeX implementations though. This is different to a security exploit in Word which you cannot avoid or disable. write18 is not a security hole, it is a feature that requires attention in regards to security. A security hole is a way to bypass the security put in place.
The underscore is particularly useless considering we have other mark-up abilities. The only thing worse than underlined text is text that was meant to be underlined but was instead surrounded by underscores.
What!? There's articles posted on Slashdot? Oh man . . . I thought that little bit up the top there was what we were all reading . . .
Was he not simply proving that it was not a static ad?
That will only work when copying to particular media. Backup applications go further too, in that they will make sure all the files are readable before trying to copy, showing you a graphical representation of how much data has been backed up, and so on. Not everyone likes to type on a command line interface, and not everyone knows what a command line interface is.
Programs like Leopard's Time Machine work differently again, showing you snapshots of your hard drive that were taken each day from when you first started backing up. If you knew a file existed on January the 4th, you can simply go to January the 4th and retreive it. I guess it's quite similar to an subversion repository.
xcopy is good if you simply want to back up your "My Documents" folder, but tools like the Time Machine make it easier to backup and restore. Remember, not everyone who uses a computer knows what a command line is.
Most credit cards in NZ have PINs on them now. I used to work in retail and the number of customers that signed instead of using a PIN was very, very small. It was particularly the elder folk who are used to the more traditional way of paying by credit, and also foreigners and immigrants. (I explicitly said NZ because nearly every foreigner that I served at the retail store authenticated by signature). The banks actively encourage people to put them on. They also say that anyone with practice can forge a signature, but you can't forge a PIN.