Comment Re:Lame (Score 1) 139
Logic: Accepted.
Comment Re:Nice one, Timothy! (Score 1) 139
Um... RTFA.... that's how the original describes it, timothy quoted, maybe he should have provided a cites page. Would you prefer MLA, APA or the rare Chicago style?
Comment Re:Interesting (Score 4, Funny) 120
We move forward while we move back, if it needs to be in a vacuum then it would use a vacuum tube, while it's good for music it's bad for computers since we moved forward from these to transistors. I'm thoroughly confused now.
Submission + - DOS Batch files in 2010? 2
An anonymous reader writes: I am working on a project that would allow our customers to test our sending different PCL commands to LAN printers. My initial thought was that a DOS batch file will allow users to select some simple options, send the tests to printers, and even generate a small web page which, when launched from the batch file, will provide email feedback on the tool. This all worked. To spice it up I added some ANSI color commands to the menus, though the implementation of that may prove tricky without resorting to .COM files or forcing the load of the ansi.sys via the command.com shortcut. And this implementation goes against my initial idea that I want the entire thing to be contained in a standalone batch file.
My questions are: Is there a better option for this? Are DOS Batch files too 1990's to be taken seriously in 2010? The application need to (1) be simple (2) be easy to update (3) be able to send PCL commands to LAN attached printers and (4) allow email feedback. I don't know what other programming language would allow this and be as simple.
I tend to think that I have found the best tool for the job but if you have another idea let me know. Call me crazy but I love DOS.
My questions are: Is there a better option for this? Are DOS Batch files too 1990's to be taken seriously in 2010? The application need to (1) be simple (2) be easy to update (3) be able to send PCL commands to LAN attached printers and (4) allow email feedback. I don't know what other programming language would allow this and be as simple.
I tend to think that I have found the best tool for the job but if you have another idea let me know. Call me crazy but I love DOS.
Submission + - Lifelock Worries After Employee Data Leaked to Web (itworld.com) 2
itwbennett writes: Last week, Phoenix New Times reporter Ray Stein revealed that LifeLock CEO Todd Davis (who famously published his Social Security number in LifeLock ads) had been the victim of identity theft, at least 13 times. This week, LifeLock made it clear that they're not so cavalier with their employees' personal data. The company asked the New Times to remove from its Web site a police report containing a redacted Social Security number, date of birth, address, and phone number of Lifelock employee Tamika Jones. In an interview, Stein said that the fact that LifeLock had to call and ask for the document to be removed reflected badly on Lifelock's service. 'I think this shows clearly that they know that it's got potential problems.'
Submission + - Vulnerability in iPhone data encryption (h-online.com) 1
ddfall writes: A lost iPhone is a bigger problem than previously thought. Despite encryption, the finder can use Linux to bypass Apple's protection features and gain easy access to data including photos and audio recordings
Submission + - Researchers Create 4nm Transistor with 7 Atoms (dailytech.com)
EmagGeek writes: "University researchers have created a transistor by replacing just seven atoms of silicon with phosphorous. The seven-atom transistor has very hopeful implications for the future of quantum cryptography, nuclear and weather modeling, and other applications.
"The significance of this achievement is that we are not just moving atoms around or looking at them through a microscope," says Professor Michelle Simmons, a co-author of a paper on the subject that is being published by Nature Nanotechnology. The paper is entitled "Spectroscopy of Few-Electron Single-Crystal Silicon Quantum Dots".
"We are manipulating individual atoms and placing them with atomic precision, in order to make a working electronic device," elaborated Simmons. "We have replaced just seven individual silicon atoms with phosphorus atoms. That is amazing exactness"."
"The significance of this achievement is that we are not just moving atoms around or looking at them through a microscope," says Professor Michelle Simmons, a co-author of a paper on the subject that is being published by Nature Nanotechnology. The paper is entitled "Spectroscopy of Few-Electron Single-Crystal Silicon Quantum Dots".
"We are manipulating individual atoms and placing them with atomic precision, in order to make a working electronic device," elaborated Simmons. "We have replaced just seven individual silicon atoms with phosphorus atoms. That is amazing exactness"."
Submission + - Microsoft wants to make your house a Hohm (skunkpost.com)
crimeandpunishment writes: Microsoft is trying to turn our home energy savings into more income for them. The company is beefing up Microsoft Hohm, a Web site it launched last summer aimed at helping people cut energy costs. Starting today, Microsoft is adding real estate data to the site's calculators....which already use household utility data....to enable users to compare their homes to a neighbor's, or one they're considering buying. Eventually Microsoft hopes to feed data to utility companies, to help them predict usage and control costs.
Submission + - First Human-Computer Virus Attack Vector (bbc.co.uk) 2
analysethis writes: Dr Mark Gasson observed a microchip implant — ostensibly used to activate security doors — that he deliberately infected with a virus successfully spread the infection to 'external control systems'. This has important implications if the trend for increasingly sophisticated medical devices such as pacemakers continues. In a networked world the nightmare scenario of digital virii shutting down life-critical systems becomes imaginable.
Comment Print was first, iPad Comes second, kindle last. (Score 2, Interesting) 256
Coming from a generation that has seen the birth of the internet and school instruction online. I have to say, print is dead, or close to it, if the kindle or iPad have anything to do with it. It's promising that students gave honest reviews of the kindle as a tool for instruction, the kindle offers a lot of promise as a teaching tool, with it being a test and LOTS of room for improvement, maybe with all the honest and constructive criticism amazon will make many new improvements that will help individuals become better students. However, I can speculate that by shear performance alone, the kindle has 'a-ways' to go when competing with the iPad. Although I am not a fan of the iPad it can be a great tool for students. It will be interesting to see what direction amazon takes with this device.
Comment I wonder if I can buy it? (Score 2, Funny) 9
Fortune cookie said that was my lucky number!
Comment Windows mirrors linux mirrors windows. (Score 4, Insightful) 268
You know, I've used a computer long enough to learn that this battle between windows and linux is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. I've noticed that when XP came out, it seemed very familiar, as a matter of fact, it sure seemed a lot like mandrake. This is the way it's been through out the years. Microsoft takes something that works great from linux and makes it theirs and sometimes makes it better, most of the time worse. And the same goes for linux, sometimes it starts out worse and gets' better because they borrowed it from microsoft or sometimes makes something worse and makes it better then microsoft takes it. The point i'm getting at, after noticing i'm rambling is that I believe there are certain behaviors and tendencies of computer users that have been leveraged by OS manufacturers. That somethings just work better with certain designs, take for example the automatic printer drivers install. That works really well with Windows 7 and apparently fedora is now getting with it. God knows i Hate using CUPS.
Comment Re:boys drag girls down until they finally say NO (Score 1) 821
I agree with you; it seems that this individual needs to get off *her* ivory tower and realize the Victorian age was as morally contrived. They had their *dirty* little secrets. I said *her* because of the association that girls are held to a higher pedigree. Anyways, back to my tangent - shit was actually an acronym for Store High In Transport. S.H.I.T, words will always change, from the proper to the colloquial. People like this that cry and preach the loudest..... for the children; are always the first culpable of the sin.
Comment Thanks!!!! (Score 2, Insightful) 122
So long, and thanks for all the fish / So sad that it should come to this / We tried to warn you all, but, oh, dear / You may not share out intellect / Which might explain your disrespect / For all the natural wonders that grow around you / So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish! The world's about to be destroyed / There's no point getting all annoyed / Lie back and let the planet dissolve around you / Despite those nets of tuna fleets / We thought that most of you were sweet / Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women / So long, so long, so long, so long, so long! So long, so long, so long, so long, so long! So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!/ If I had just one last wish / I would like a tasty fish!/ If we could just change one thing / We would all have learnt to sing!/ Come one and all / Man and mammal / Side by side / In life's great gene pool!/ So long, so long, so long, so long, so long / So long, so long, so long, so long / So long, so long and thanks for all the fish! And Carry a Towel
