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Comment Android 10 Cents (Score 1) 523

I bought my first App off the Android Market when they were promoting there 10 Cent deal during the holidays. I thougtht to myself, now that I have put in my cc number and i'm only clicks away from buying another one, I just might. Then the next 10 Cent app I went to buy it told me to enter all my info in again so I declined to buy it. The point is, I think the 15 cent app idea would have worked for their business model.

Comment Re:No! Lasers don't blind pilots (Score 1) 546

It may not blind someone but have you ever had a laser pointed at your face? It makes you want to duck and close eyes and look away. If you were a pilot and a laser was pointed at you, I be your reaction would be the same. I'd think to myself "someone is pointing a gun in my face and I'm about to be shot." or at a minimum "a laser will blind me (even though it probably won't do shit) so I better duck and cover"
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The World's Smallest Legible Font 280

hasanabbas1987 writes "From the article: 'Well 'technically' they aren't the smallest fonts in the world as if they were you wouldn't be able to read even a single letter, but, you should be able to read the entire paragraph in the picture given above... we did. A Computer science professor called Ken Perlin designed these tiny fonts and you can fit 500 reasonable words in a resolution of 320 x 240 space. There are at the moment the smallest legible fonts in the world.'"

Comment Re:The danger of too many password requirements (Score 1) 278

!QAZ@WSX3edc4 Yeah I agree, I think its stupid. Also, the government mypay.gov site is horrible as well. You have to mouse click the password on a virtual keyboard with letters all scrambled. So everyone over your shoulder can see what your clicking. You click slowly because the keyboard is scrambled.

Comment Re:Ahh TI calculators (Score 1) 234

I missed about a month of multivarialbe calculus and showed up the day of the test without knowing ANYTHING. My 3 friends were studying there butts off and I said screw it, i'm programming everything in my calculator (89). I spent 4 hours hand typing all the things i would need. Step by step it would output the equations I needed. My friends thought I was crazy. I learned a lot about the test just from typing all that crap in. Well, I got a 100 on that test. Me and my friends always look back on that day and laugh.

Comment Re:The only problem with that... (Score 1) 198

Do you honestly think they have not thought of these things? I'm not comp sci guy but it should be fairly easy to detect a "real" observation with mouse vs. an OCD mouse mover or a an idle mouse. I mean we can detect people's lies based on there face movements, why can't we detect people's observations with a mouse movement? If I do a google search and immediatley it opens up a page with 1 advert on the top...sometimes I hover over the advert but then see the same linke right below it which is not an advert. Depending on the company I click the advert or the link. For example, if its a business I don't much care for then I want google to get paid by them for the click. If its a business I want to survive, I reduce that cost by clicking the link. I do this withing milliseconds.

Comment Library, school, friends computers? (Score 1) 1217

The only requirement I had through highschool was to type my papers. If you didn't have a computer you could use a library computer, school computer, friends computer or a typewriter. The point is, it needs to be typed no matter what your excuse is. The real world does not need excuses. Just get the job done. Even when I took AP C++ course in HS, nobody ever required me to have a computer. This is complete BS. The kids that WANT to learn about computers will, the others don't give two shits about it. I know a 28 year old friend who doesn't even know how to email someone. She works at Home Depot and she owns her own business on the side. She also owns a 250K house from SAVING money.

Comment Office (Score 1) 467

I would choose the basement. Not only do you get a lot of privacy but why would management ever want to come down there. Plus its easy access out of bulding vs the top floor. If I want to go on break, I just need to climb one flight to get outside to the burger joing. Actually, I am a big fan of being around management when looking for ways to move up...but most of the time I'd rather be out of sight and out of mind.

Comment Forgot Password Link (Score 2, Interesting) 414

Almost every single site I go to less than once every 2 months I have to click on "Forgt Password". I work for DoD and probablly click "Forgot Password" at least once every 2 weeks. Also, the new mypay.gov site is horrible! Now they have a virtual keyboard with random letters everywhere. It takes so long to find the letter to click on that anyone over your shoulder can easily see what your clicking on.

Comment Blue Tooth (Score 1) 339

Solution: Blue tooth keyboard that mounts to steering wheel so that half the keys are on left side of wheel and half on right side of wheel. It is blue tooth enabled to your phone. Either mount phone on steering whell or even better have a HUD on your windshield. I would have to say it would be more likely for me to crash during texting then during reading a text. I can type without looking so get me that keyboard!!!

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