Regarding James Bond: The 2006 Casino Royale reboot brought the character MUCH closer to the character from the original 1950's Ian Fleming novels that many of us cherish, and have wanted to see on the big screen for decades.
Oh hell yes. As much as I like Roger Moore, he turned James Bond into a clown.
Try grabbing the demo version of RSA, (Rational Software Architect), it's great for turning Java and C++ code into UML models and has a neat way to explore models through diagrams.
The trial version is free for 30 days.
I am sure there are open source tools out there for this, but nothing so complete.
as there's no evidence that the NSA can actually break strong encryption.
That's funny since that's almost half of what they do. The NSA used to be Cray's biggest customer for exactly this purpose.
It may lose a bit in portability (but not to the Microsoft Surface) but when it comes to durability it simply rocks!
CST was my go-to portable device for eons, but I finally got fed up with the refresh rate and have since followed the expected upgrade path:
Clay Tablet -> Paypyrus -> Paper -> Laptop -> iPad
There are many studies showing that the vast majority of people *suck* at multitasking.
But they don't KNOW that they suck at it.
Any driving course will teach you how to avoid 'highway hypnosis'. If you are in a 'sterile driving environment' (ie staring straight ahead) you are doing it wrong. The correct way to fix that is to look at different things (when it is safe to do so). However, you should NOT be dedicating a significant part of your brain to that activity (like by trying to identify a bird or something). If you are texting or phoning you ARE dedicating a significant part of your brain to that activity.
I strongly suspect that what these studies are showing us is that most people are far worse at multi-tasking than they think.
I trust most people to make this distinction.
I don't. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
... and these are the same people trying to ban the practical use of satnav devices while driving, leading to everyone reading maps in traffic.
I am sick of the automotive nanny state.
Way to fail at the take-away message. The point is that anything that distracts you from the act of driving is dangerous.
If your GPS makes it easier for you to drive and pay attention then that's great, if you are constantly taking your eyes off the road to look at the GPS because you're a useless idiot who can't navigate for more than five minutes without one then you shouldn't even have a car, much less a GPS.
Perhaps we're just not restricting driving licenses as much as we should. (Which would probably prevent myself or my Dad from driving....)
Not that easy.
I guess you've never heard of easy transfer.
Yes, it really is that easy. I migrated a friend from an xp desktop to a Win7 laptop (refurbished T500) just a month ago. Plug-em-in, fire it up and go drink the wine and laugh.
are legally responsible for some minimum amount data security.
"Yeah, yeah, we shell out for McAfee. It's enough to cover our ass." And that's from a legally-binding minimal amount of spending view that most corporations have towards regulation and contractual obligations. If they have to have ACTUAL SECURITY, the question becomes, "how much?" Because there is no such thing as absolutely secure and there's really no upper limit to how much you can spend on it.
I'm guessing you've never worked for a military contractor.
Actually I had to do this last year, and it was not so simple. I had no thumb drive large enough for the data I wanted to back up and transfer, and I didn't want to buy Microsoft's special cable and have old and new computer running at the same time (meaning I'd have to borrow a monitor from work to get both running at once). Had to borrow an external hard disk for this.
ok... a monkey with a network or external drive?
How do you get all the files from the old PC to the new one when you're not a computer expert?
The sad part is that you could literally train a monkey to do it... hang on, is it politically incorrect to conflate monkey with teenager?
they are not going to have much of a choice. microsoft is pulling the rug out from under them.
It's not like it will suddenly stop working.
It will stop working, but slowly over time, like every windows install as it slowly collapses under its own weight like a forgotten desert city slowly reclaimed by the dunes.
Given the XP holdouts clearly don't like Microsoft's current offerings, and Mac is growing faster in percentage terms, and Linux appears to be finally getting somewhere - i don't think these XP holdouts will be migrating to another Windows box any time soon.
If the XP holdouts still prefer XP to Win7, they certainly are not going to gravitate to Mac or Linux. (Well some will, but the bulk are just too afraid of change to do anything that drastic.)
There is no salvaging Windows 8.
Nonsense; they just need to peel back the silly touch UI and restore the old desktop parts.
Yes, it's a trainwreck of a PR issue, but no, it's not un-recoverable. That's just silly FUD.
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