If they're building panels for monitors, and they only produce them in 16x9, then my money is looking for a competitor that produces 16x10, or even 4x3 or 3x2 panels.
My money, my decision.
If my money remains unspent, so be it - I'll stick with what I already have, until it finally stops working.
Yeah, that's not true. You should look up ICD 9 codes and its replacement ICD 10. Many (most?) insurance plans require your provider to submit these codes when billing for treatments.
the iphone running Android would make Google into Apple's bitch...
Just like Google is currently Samsung's bitch?
When I went to uni, more years ago than I care to remember, I would return home from time to time at the weekend, and go out with the lads on a Saturday night. As it was a rural area, we'd drive to the nearest big town, visit a pub and then go on clubbing.
We'd usually visit the same pub, but every few months the pub we went to would change.
Why?
We didn't go to the pub with the best beer, the best music, the best seats. No, we just went to the "place where everyone else went". From time to time, everyone in town would get bored with one place and move on somewhere else which then became the new "place where everyone went". That made it (for us, at that time) the place with the best atmosphere.
What Dice needs to realise is that all that Slashdot is is one of the "places where everyone goes" for computer / techie discussion (OK, so it's not the only one, but you get my drift). This site has no value, other than being the "place where everyone goes".
It won't be at all difficult for someone to set up Dashslot, or Slushdirt or whatever, with the same formula as traditional Slashdot, and once word gets around that new site will be the "place where everyone goes" instead of here. Slashdot will become the new Kuro5hin, a steep and tragic decline from former glories.
And that new site might even have decent editing and Unicode support.
And what kind of carpet-cleaning business maintains a "database" of their customers?
Most businesses in the US maintain a database of their customers. At it's simplest form, it's the ledger, which tracks payments in (and what they were for) and payments out (and what they were for). Beyond that, most service businesses are going to maintain records of what their employees were doing on any given day, including where they went and for how long and what the job was.
Here's a better one for you that bit me in the ass:
crontab has two options next to each other on the (qwerty) keyboard. "-e" opens the current crontab file for editing. Care to guess what "-r" does? In the infinite wisdom of the developers, it removes the current crontab file. No confirmation, no backup, just delete. They have added a new option "-i" which asks for confirmation before deleting the file, of course that doesn't actually solve the mis-type problem.
So basically, type some text that I want to find into spotlight? I'm pretty sure that was example #1 in TFA.
There is an option to set the font to bold, which does dramatically improve the thin fonts (though some of the larger text, like the lock screen clock looks odd), it's under the accessibility settings. There's also an increase contrast option (which is distinct from the invert colors option) though I haven't found where that takes effect.
There are a number of UX issues with iOS 7 that I'm frankly quite surprised made it through testing or that anyone thought these were good ideas. Ignoring the theme itself (lower definition icons means less context, especially with hi res screens, that context would have been very usable it's the whole reason we do things like image previews for icons in modern OSes rather than generic jpg icons).
1) The "partial shift" no longer has a distinct visible mode on the keyboard. iOS has 4 modes for the shift button. 1: The button is off, everything is lowercase, 2: The button is on, the next letter or symbol is uppercase / shift symbol (? vs
2) Minimalist button icons. For buttons that aren't text, the icons are very minimalist and without previous knowledge give little to no clue about what they do. For example the "share" button is now a simple box with an up arrow. The bookmarks icon in safari is a weird divided rectangle that if you squint just right you could argue looks like an open book.
3) The ".com" button is now hidden behind the "." key for web address entry making is non-discoverable except by accident.
4) Folders only display a 3x3 grid, even on iPads and do not remember your last position (nor does there appear to be an option for that).
5) When you first open the OS, it tells you that spotlight has moved and to now simply swipe down from any home screen. That's good, it's great that the search functionality is available anywhere. What it doesn't tell you is that you don't swipe down from the top (which gives you notification center. You instead swipe from another place on the screen.
6) The keyboard seems slower and less responsive. This may be just my iPad for some reason, but it appears that the keyboard sometimes hesitates on displaying and coming ready when displayed.
7) Videos have a "make full screen" button, but no longer have a "leave full screen" button that doesn't stop the video from playing. The "Done" button remains, but this stops the video. The only way to leave full screen without stopping the video is to pinch the screen.
None of these are show stoppers by any stretch of the imagination, but they are the sorts of "little things" that apple (and steve jobs in particular) are noted for fussing over. For making sure that those little experiences add up to be a better experience than the sum of their parts.
Check out the this article and search for the section on Geoffrey Prime and read what he got up to.
And remember his "data collection" was done on pieces of card, and was before the days that most adults/parents carry mobile tracking devices around with them so their locations could be known at most times.
Part of the reason for the resistance is lost institutional knowledge. These are old systems, probably poorly commented and poorly documented. They've been modified and patched a thousand times over to handle corner cases, odd hardware based bugs, new interfaces, new regulations and new laws, as well as mashing with new insurance companies, new plans, old plans, outdated data and new data and 50 states worth of independent regulations. How much money and how much time do you suppose it would take to rewrite that entire 30 year history, including refactoring all of the data such that is accessible back to the beginning, in a modern language, with modern technologies and can guarantee that it is 99.99% exactly the same functionality for all possible input combinations?
For reference, the state of North Carolina recently overhauled their Medicaid billing system. They are months and billions of dollars behind in payments from this change over, and the project was already over due and over budget.
I'm very surprised someone from AMD would say this, given that they used to produce the AMD29000, which used to be rather popular in some niche areas. This used register windows, with 192 registers in total. Nice chip, back in the day.
The Wikipedia article also says that parts of the 29050 design were used as the basis for the K5 x86-compatible chips.
The proper solution is to model what damage a trojan can do, figure out what privileges it would need to do that damage, and make sure that a program lacks those privileges without the user's knowledge.
The problem here is it lacks transparency for the user. Here's the problem you need to solve:
The user wants to get X done on their computer. Every time you prompt the user to validate or confirm something that isn't doing X, you are taking time away from the user. And every time you take time away from the user, you annoy them. And every time you annoy them, you make it less likely that they will pay attention to the prompt that you provide the next time, and the time after that. Eventually you get to the point where the user just hits "OK" on whatever prompt you provide them just so that they can get on with doing their work.
This issue is made worse by the fact that consumer level computer security is different from corporate / server level security. A user owns all their files, and they want their applications to use their files. That a malicious application can't get root privileges and install a rogue ftp server is beside the point because the user doesn't care about that, they care about the files that any app running with the user's permissions can (by design and by necessity) access.
Sure android tried to solve this with their "confirm permissions on download" but seriously, have you ever read through the list of permissions some apps ask for? What user is going to even understand half of those? Even worse are the fact that the descriptions are nearly useless, you get crap like "this permission gives the app the ability to read your location, but it could also be used to track you, your kids and your little dog too". They're useless descriptions that essentially tell the user nothing about WHY the application wants those permissions, which is the important information.
I run IDLE, a Python programming environment, on my Dell Inspiron mini 1012 netbook. Does the iPad have an app for that?
Yes, actually: http://pythonforios.com/
Really nice comment from Brian May:
"Patrick is irreplaceable. There will never be another Patrick Moore. But we were lucky enough to get one."
It's fabulous! We haven't seen anything like it in the last half an hour! -- Macy's
