maybe it costs more than you think not to print characters;)
Actually, there are sweat shops in Malaysia staffed by trained cats that work around the clock applying their sandpaperlike tongues to carefully polish the letters off of standard black keyboards. Cats are very hard to train, you see, so that gets expensive. They also spend most of their lives sleeping, so it takes several days for a particular cat to finish the work on one keyboard. But the craftsmanship is stunning. To help with the training, they spray on a specially formulated catnip mist that is designed to leave no traces on the finished keyboard once it is dry. They use this to entice the cats to lick the keys, and because it's specially formulated that's automatically, like, $30 a unit right there. Then there's all the litter to change, crates of fresh mice brought in daily, and an in-house addiction clinic. Done in America, that could easily pop the per unit price to $150 easily, and that's why it's done in Malaysia, so you get to save a lot of money on all this hard work. So it's a pretty good value, all things considered.
Yeah looks like they went and changed their DNS info so that their domain is basically an alias for google. I wonder if that's legal? But that aside, seems to me that it takes about the same amount of knowledge/experience to know that you can do this, as it takes to know that all you have to do is take out the bad link and the problem goes away. The fact that they didn't do that suggests to me that they actually think their page is going to slaughterhouses because it got HAXX0RD!!!1!!! So this might get even more interesting as a few days go by.
The difference here is that you present your work to the world within the context of your own space, which you are paying for. You are aware of the bandwidth demands of your audience, and you balance your site accordingly. If another site wants to rip off your work to enhance their site, the least they can do is host the content themselves. Fudd's apparently gets a wicked number of hits, that's what alerted him to the fact there was a problem in the first place. So if you're going to be lazy about taking someone's content for your own site, you really have nothing to complain about when all your visitors suddenly start seeing goatse man or whatever. The company's web policy is clearly sloppy that this was able to happen, so shame on them.
But for most people, DVD is good enough. A new format will offer no extra convenience,
I agree that there is little to gain in visual quality, at least, as far as I can tell when I watch my DVDs. They look great. I suppose they could possibly look better but they really do already look great so I don't care. However, a new format that holds more is what interests me. Keep the same quality but put a whole TV series on one disc. Or let me watch the whole Lord of the Rings Extended Edition without having to change discs. Yeah I'd be interested in that. Screw the extra quality, just give me more content per disc.
Yeah and I even cheated by looking at their frame by frame layout of the demo, that points out where in the sequences the target frame is. It still took a zillion tries to eventually work out what the heck I was seeing in some of the frames and finally I could see it. It's too quick for me to look for something that I don't know what it is, and at the same time determine that it's rotated 90 degrees. There's some kind of tree branch that I can see in the first sequence and not the next two, but it took many tries to realize it was a tree on its side and not just a branch as I originally thought. I was seeing it all along, it was just too quick for me to honestly say I had identified the target image. In the next two sequences I can spot the image, although its different there, a treeline on its side, those two are identical and I was seeing them all along too, but it still took several tries to realize they were the rotated 'target'. Short answer, if I took this test as part of their research, my form would have been filled in with:
A) Not sure b) Uh... c) Can you maybe tell me what it looks like?
So my opinion is, this study sucks because there are other things it should be accounting for that it is not.
I haven't actually seen this one yet, so I can't comment on it specifically, but I wanted to add some advice. In general, the better way to deal with items that can be handled using the method you describe (ie: they're not really trying to hide), is to include an extra step. If Windows is booted into Normal mode, make sure to kill the process before you edit the registry. Many bugs that plant themselves in this fashion will re-write the reg setting as they close. So just cleaning the registry and rebooting, with the thing still running, in many cases accomplishes nothing. Like I said I haven't seen this one with my own eyes yet, but that's a basic rule you can apply to all critters of this sort without adding much time to your fix.
The best way, if you've got a bunch of them on one machine to deal with, or if you're dealing with one that can re-open as soon as you kill it, is to boot into Safe mode so none of them get the chance to start up. Then you can regedit and delete them in one pass without having to kill each one first.
My iPod Shuffle fast forwards and rewinds within a track. It doesn't do it very well, so I barely ever use that feature but it does it. You hold down either the forward or the back button instead of just pressing and letting go, and after a bit of a delay, you are further forward or further back in the track. Keep holding it and there will be another delay, and you are further still. It sucks but it *is* there. Because you only get a little blip of noise in between the delays, it's hard to determine what part of the song you have reached, it's not a 'fast-forward' type of sound.
Some of the problems with speed are in the way people will behave if you're in front of them and not speeding like they want to be. I recently went on a road trip and found that there was a set rule: Always go at least 20 km over the speed limit otherwise the asshole behind you will sit right on your back bumper. If I have to tap my brakes for whatever reason, idiot-boy behind me is going to hit me. LOTS of people seem unaware of the '4 second rule', where you measure your distance from the car in front of you by watching them pass something and making sure it takes 4 more seconds for you to pass that same thing. Closer than that, and you're in danger of ploughing into them if they do a panic-stop. In poor conditions, or at higher speeds, you should extend that. But no, it can be raining so hard your windshield is just a blur and some asshat will still park it right on your back bumper. People are in such a hurry to die. Raising up the limits will not stop this kind of idiotic behavior, it will instead make that attitude even more dangerous.
Pretty much every radar trap I've ever noticed (and been nabbed at) has been in a location where the posted speed limit is unreasonably low for the conditions of the road. Usually no intersections along the way, or at the bottom of a hill, or on a multilane thoroughfare or something like that. I've never seen a radar trap in a school zone. They don't make enough money that way.
Indeed, years ago when I was learning to drive a car, the instructor emphasized the importance of *not* swerving to miss a small animal. If your choices are between hitting a rabbit and hitting the ditch, you always choose the rabbit.
without Google there would be a lot of questions that I would be unable to answer
I hear ya, it saves my bacon almost daily. I do tech support, and I've got a lot of other resources but without Google I'd be fairly hobbled. Had a caller yesterday who'd already talked to a few technicians before me about his problem, and had been led astray to the point of buying a new video card to get better performance out of an older game made when '98 was still the most advanced windows out there. The game was still blowing chunks after the hardware upgrade and various performance tweaking. On a P4. After about ten minutes that included some hemming and hawing, and trying to work it out on my own, taking an occasional swipe at the fact that he'd cheaped out and bought a low-end video card, making a stab or two at how naturally sucky the performance is in XP compared to '98, I finally went to Google. I typed in 'need for speed high stakes xp' and bang: The top search result took me to a forum page where I was able to see immediately that this game just sucks in XP regardless of hardware, and it went on to explain about the two patches and a few steps needed to fix it. The caller had already spent a few hours on the phone tweaking this and that to no avail, but Google gave us joy in the time it took me to type the search string. That's my typical everyday Google experience.
That way, since I've already paid for crimes I might commit, I can freely go ahead and commit them to my heart's content. Sort of like buying an indulgence.
This is MUCH more effective......site that's already running "beneath the radar"
I don't know, I think there are plenty of companies that operate 'above the radar' that would be horrified at the thought of customers being able to see what's really going on in the back room. Getting the FBI involved can be thought of as riskier than just paying up. If they are detected while going to the authorities, the psycho that's threatening them can release all the secrets and just disappear. Screw the money, you're just plain going DOWN now. Just as kidnappers can threaten (and make good on that threat) that they will harm or kill their captive if you go to the cops. And, just because your business is legitimate on paper doesn't mean it's actually operating that way either.
If you want to start making it illegal to posess software that could be used for piracy or counterfeiting then you might as well just call it quits on the whole computing age. Photoshop should be illegal since I could use it to claim credit for someone else's artwork. My soundblaster driver should be illegal because it allows me to record anything playing on it. Web browsers should be illegal because they cache copies of protected or copyright material that I can recover if I know where to look. Better get rid of my video capture functionality too, because I can record DVDs right from my Playstation with no issues other than a loss of quality. And TV-out, gotta get rid of that too, I might videotape licensed content off my computer. All chat programs are potential piracy vectors as well, for maintaining contact in 'the scene' or whatever, better get rid of those too. Where does it stop?
So if I go down your street walking up to everyone's front door, including yours, trying to turn each doorknob to see if it's locked, you'll be fine with that? I won't go in if it's locked, but if it's unlocked, maybe I'll step in and help myself to a drink of water. Still ok with that? If the door's not locked you must be inviting me in, right?
The open wireless router letting unintended people in is more analogous to me being blind and accidentally trying to go into somebody's house because I truly didn't realize I had the wrong house. This guy was going down the street trying every knob till he found one that would turn. There's nothing technically right here.
I'm not trying to defend IE, but were you aware that for a long time, you've been able to drag the menu, address bar, toolbars, links, etc, to wherever in the upper part of the screen you want them? In other words, if you don't like the menu being just before the page itself, you can drag it elsewhere.
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maybe it costs more than you think not to print characters ;)
Actually, there are sweat shops in Malaysia staffed by trained cats that work around the clock applying their sandpaperlike tongues to carefully polish the letters off of standard black keyboards. Cats are very hard to train, you see, so that gets expensive. They also spend most of their lives sleeping, so it takes several days for a particular cat to finish the work on one keyboard. But the craftsmanship is stunning. To help with the training, they spray on a specially formulated catnip mist that is designed to leave no traces on the finished keyboard once it is dry. They use this to entice the cats to lick the keys, and because it's specially formulated that's automatically, like, $30 a unit right there. Then there's all the litter to change, crates of fresh mice brought in daily, and an in-house addiction clinic. Done in America, that could easily pop the per unit price to $150 easily, and that's why it's done in Malaysia, so you get to save a lot of money on all this hard work. So it's a pretty good value, all things considered.
all requests are going straight to Google
Yeah looks like they went and changed their DNS info so that their domain is basically an alias for google. I wonder if that's legal? But that aside, seems to me that it takes about the same amount of knowledge/experience to know that you can do this, as it takes to know that all you have to do is take out the bad link and the problem goes away. The fact that they didn't do that suggests to me that they actually think their page is going to slaughterhouses because it got HAXX0RD!!!1!!! So this might get even more interesting as a few days go by.
The difference here is that you present your work to the world within the context of your own space, which you are paying for. You are aware of the bandwidth demands of your audience, and you balance your site accordingly. If another site wants to rip off your work to enhance their site, the least they can do is host the content themselves. Fudd's apparently gets a wicked number of hits, that's what alerted him to the fact there was a problem in the first place. So if you're going to be lazy about taking someone's content for your own site, you really have nothing to complain about when all your visitors suddenly start seeing goatse man or whatever. The company's web policy is clearly sloppy that this was able to happen, so shame on them.
attack microsft this weekend unless they have a whole bunch of females stockpiled at the microsft campus nothing can stop us!
We win either way, let's do it!!
A public moderation system, cool. That never gets abused anywhere that I know of.
But for most people, DVD is good enough. A new format will offer no extra convenience,
I agree that there is little to gain in visual quality, at least, as far as I can tell when I watch my DVDs. They look great. I suppose they could possibly look better but they really do already look great so I don't care. However, a new format that holds more is what interests me. Keep the same quality but put a whole TV series on one disc. Or let me watch the whole Lord of the Rings Extended Edition without having to change discs. Yeah I'd be interested in that. Screw the extra quality, just give me more content per disc.
I keep putting cinamon in my coffee (tasty!), but no prophetic visions as yet. I'll keep you guys posted though!
It can't possibly be that big, that's way too many turtles to support it all.
C is clearly the control. Well, unless you have some sort of a hidden memory of something bad (or erotic) dealing with a fire hydrant.
Yeah, how do you think Goatse man got his fame? The whole thing is rigged I tell ya!
Yeah and I even cheated by looking at their frame by frame layout of the demo, that points out where in the sequences the target frame is. It still took a zillion tries to eventually work out what the heck I was seeing in some of the frames and finally I could see it. It's too quick for me to look for something that I don't know what it is, and at the same time determine that it's rotated 90 degrees. There's some kind of tree branch that I can see in the first sequence and not the next two, but it took many tries to realize it was a tree on its side and not just a branch as I originally thought. I was seeing it all along, it was just too quick for me to honestly say I had identified the target image. In the next two sequences I can spot the image, although its different there, a treeline on its side, those two are identical and I was seeing them all along too, but it still took several tries to realize they were the rotated 'target'. Short answer, if I took this test as part of their research, my form would have been filled in with:
A) Not sure
b) Uh...
c) Can you maybe tell me what it looks like?
So my opinion is, this study sucks because there are other things it should be accounting for that it is not.
I haven't actually seen this one yet, so I can't comment on it specifically, but I wanted to add some advice. In general, the better way to deal with items that can be handled using the method you describe (ie: they're not really trying to hide), is to include an extra step. If Windows is booted into Normal mode, make sure to kill the process before you edit the registry. Many bugs that plant themselves in this fashion will re-write the reg setting as they close. So just cleaning the registry and rebooting, with the thing still running, in many cases accomplishes nothing. Like I said I haven't seen this one with my own eyes yet, but that's a basic rule you can apply to all critters of this sort without adding much time to your fix.
The best way, if you've got a bunch of them on one machine to deal with, or if you're dealing with one that can re-open as soon as you kill it, is to boot into Safe mode so none of them get the chance to start up. Then you can regedit and delete them in one pass without having to kill each one first.
My iPod Shuffle fast forwards and rewinds within a track. It doesn't do it very well, so I barely ever use that feature but it does it. You hold down either the forward or the back button instead of just pressing and letting go, and after a bit of a delay, you are further forward or further back in the track. Keep holding it and there will be another delay, and you are further still. It sucks but it *is* there. Because you only get a little blip of noise in between the delays, it's hard to determine what part of the song you have reached, it's not a 'fast-forward' type of sound.
See, negative information works!
Mod parent +6 Profit!
Some of the problems with speed are in the way people will behave if you're in front of them and not speeding like they want to be. I recently went on a road trip and found that there was a set rule: Always go at least 20 km over the speed limit otherwise the asshole behind you will sit right on your back bumper. If I have to tap my brakes for whatever reason, idiot-boy behind me is going to hit me. LOTS of people seem unaware of the '4 second rule', where you measure your distance from the car in front of you by watching them pass something and making sure it takes 4 more seconds for you to pass that same thing. Closer than that, and you're in danger of ploughing into them if they do a panic-stop. In poor conditions, or at higher speeds, you should extend that. But no, it can be raining so hard your windshield is just a blur and some asshat will still park it right on your back bumper. People are in such a hurry to die. Raising up the limits will not stop this kind of idiotic behavior, it will instead make that attitude even more dangerous.
Pretty much every radar trap I've ever noticed (and been nabbed at) has been in a location where the posted speed limit is unreasonably low for the conditions of the road. Usually no intersections along the way, or at the bottom of a hill, or on a multilane thoroughfare or something like that. I've never seen a radar trap in a school zone. They don't make enough money that way.
Indeed, years ago when I was learning to drive a car, the instructor emphasized the importance of *not* swerving to miss a small animal. If your choices are between hitting a rabbit and hitting the ditch, you always choose the rabbit.
without Google there would be a lot of questions that I would be unable to answer
I hear ya, it saves my bacon almost daily. I do tech support, and I've got a lot of other resources but without Google I'd be fairly hobbled. Had a caller yesterday who'd already talked to a few technicians before me about his problem, and had been led astray to the point of buying a new video card to get better performance out of an older game made when '98 was still the most advanced windows out there. The game was still blowing chunks after the hardware upgrade and various performance tweaking. On a P4. After about ten minutes that included some hemming and hawing, and trying to work it out on my own, taking an occasional swipe at the fact that he'd cheaped out and bought a low-end video card, making a stab or two at how naturally sucky the performance is in XP compared to '98, I finally went to Google. I typed in 'need for speed high stakes xp' and bang: The top search result took me to a forum page where I was able to see immediately that this game just sucks in XP regardless of hardware, and it went on to explain about the two patches and a few steps needed to fix it. The caller had already spent a few hours on the phone tweaking this and that to no avail, but Google gave us joy in the time it took me to type the search string. That's my typical everyday Google experience.
I don't really care what they were intended for, how people perceive them without additional guidance is what is important.
That way, since I've already paid for crimes I might commit, I can freely go ahead and commit them to my heart's content. Sort of like buying an indulgence.
Silly mods. This shouldn't have been modded 'Funny' but 'Informative' See here:
o n%20the%20left.htm
http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/driving%20
This is MUCH more effective... ...site that's already running "beneath the radar"
I don't know, I think there are plenty of companies that operate 'above the radar' that would be horrified at the thought of customers being able to see what's really going on in the back room. Getting the FBI involved can be thought of as riskier than just paying up. If they are detected while going to the authorities, the psycho that's threatening them can release all the secrets and just disappear. Screw the money, you're just plain going DOWN now. Just as kidnappers can threaten (and make good on that threat) that they will harm or kill their captive if you go to the cops. And, just because your business is legitimate on paper doesn't mean it's actually operating that way either.
If you want to start making it illegal to posess software that could be used for piracy or counterfeiting then you might as well just call it quits on the whole computing age. Photoshop should be illegal since I could use it to claim credit for someone else's artwork. My soundblaster driver should be illegal because it allows me to record anything playing on it. Web browsers should be illegal because they cache copies of protected or copyright material that I can recover if I know where to look. Better get rid of my video capture functionality too, because I can record DVDs right from my Playstation with no issues other than a loss of quality. And TV-out, gotta get rid of that too, I might videotape licensed content off my computer. All chat programs are potential piracy vectors as well, for maintaining contact in 'the scene' or whatever, better get rid of those too. Where does it stop?
this guy did nothing technically wrong
So if I go down your street walking up to everyone's front door, including yours, trying to turn each doorknob to see if it's locked, you'll be fine with that? I won't go in if it's locked, but if it's unlocked, maybe I'll step in and help myself to a drink of water. Still ok with that? If the door's not locked you must be inviting me in, right?
The open wireless router letting unintended people in is more analogous to me being blind and accidentally trying to go into somebody's house because I truly didn't realize I had the wrong house. This guy was going down the street trying every knob till he found one that would turn. There's nothing technically right here.
I'm not trying to defend IE, but were you aware that for a long time, you've been able to drag the menu, address bar, toolbars, links, etc, to wherever in the upper part of the screen you want them? In other words, if you don't like the menu being just before the page itself, you can drag it elsewhere.