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You were saying...?-Arizona Hot (February 25, 2014, 12:19 PM)
The interface might just scare me off (video), it seems to me to be so fundamentally geeky and unintuitive.-tomos (February 23, 2014, 12:43 PM)
As a rationalist, a keen environmentalist and a despiser of corporate cant, greed and corporates' hugely destructive environmental footprints despoiling the land/environment, I just love it when the troughers score a hilarious and ironic own goal.
I have already posted about 2 priceless ones in this thread:
- 1. The Hinkley Point C elephant in the room (H-U-G-E environmental footprints) - the massive "green energy alternatives" environmental footprints that they don't want you to see:
It really is a very, very big elephant and, once seen, you cannot "unsee" it. Priceless.- 2. Google Las Vegas Bird Fries now open for business. Yummy! - another massive environmental footprint, and apparently the first of several yet to come.
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Today I read of a rather good new one - it's on WSJ behind a paywall, but it was referred to in Forbes - here.
The WSJ article linked to by Forbes apparently puts it rather succinctly (and, I suspect, tongue-in-cheek) thus:
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)Exxon CEO Joins Suit Citing Fracking Concerns
Residents of Dallas Suburb Fight Construction of Tower That Would Provide Water for Drilling
By Daniel Gilbert
Feb. 20, 2014 5:45 p.m. ET
BARTONVILLE, Texas—One evening last November, a tall, white-haired man turned up at a Town Council meeting to protest construction of a water tower near his home in this wealthy community outside Dallas.
The man was Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp.
He and his neighbors had filed suit to block the tower, saying it is illegal and would create “a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” in part because it would provide water for use in hydraulic fracturing. Fracking, which requires heavy trucks to haul and pump massive amounts of water, unlocks oil and gas from dense rock and has helped touch off a surge in U.S. energy output.
It also is a core part of Exxon’s business.
Assuming that this is true, then I reckon this chap Rex Tillerson should be given an award of some kind. It really is rather ironic/funny. Another LOL moment for me, at any rate. Priceless.-IainB (February 23, 2014, 08:39 PM)
Anyway the author stated the big drawback to this "key" is that you cannot give it to someone else. "Here, go fetch my stuff out of my locker" doesn't work.
As it goes on I think more people will end up locked out of their own accounts. The true break-in pros will likely go to a deeper level to get in. (Everything has some kind of diagnostic mode.)-MilesAhead (February 22, 2014, 04:05 PM)
quietly snatching the info off someone's phone, where passwords have to be rather noisily beaten out of someone.-Stoic Joker (February 22, 2014, 09:51 AM)
Currently passwords are quietly snatched off of servers - by the millions at a time. Something needs to change (not that I'm sure that SQRL will or should be that change).-mwb1100 (February 22, 2014, 04:55 PM)
its not icon placement that's the issue (i dont have any icons on my desktop); i also use a 3rd party remote access tool (Radmin) that doesnt do any resolution changing, so that's not it-mouser (February 22, 2014, 01:05 PM)
and i never had this trouble with the same arrangement on winxp.-mouser (February 22, 2014, 01:05 PM)
I am running Win 7 Pro 64-bit with an admin level account.-lanux128 (February 23, 2014, 02:11 AM)
At times I would drag a url shortcut from the desktop on to the browser window but the action would fail silently, causing much frustration.-lanux128 (February 23, 2014, 02:11 AM)
I have to exit the browser and relaunch in admin mode for the drag-n-drop to be successful. the same goes if i am trying to interact between an explorer window and totalcmd window.-lanux128 (February 23, 2014, 02:11 AM)
my uac setting is at default so why do the apps lapse into non-admin mode? does anyone else experience this situation?-lanux128 (February 23, 2014, 02:11 AM)
...Actually I'm betting he doesn't actually have any tattoos or he'd know better because 20 years from now it ain't gonna scan right.http://www.dailymail...le-based-design.html-Giampy (February 22, 2014, 04:23 AM)
Deming was way too conceptual, compared to other quality philosophers of that time, especially Juran and populist Crosby.
Tomos, here is summary of Mr. Deming, taken from my specialisation project and master thesis, condensed for forum:William Edwards Deming is considered to be the pioneer and the founder of the quality movement. After Second World War he was involved in planning of the Japanese Census. At that time Japanese engineers were studying Shewart's methods and techniques...-Attronarch (February 20, 2014, 11:31 AM)
FWIW, I run dual monitors and I DON'T experience this behaviour. W7/64-skwire (February 20, 2014, 06:34 AM)
It appears to be free here: http://www.oldversio...s/paint-shop-pro-9-0 Note: UAYOR. This is just one example of where it is offered for free.-crabby3 (February 19, 2014, 11:48 AM)
Well, it can be used "stand alone", but it's intended to be used with other programs, for example with Perfect Suite or with Lightroom, so the "basic image manipulations" (like size/crop) are not supposed to be in it, they are supposed to be done by the other program.-verszipo (February 18, 2014, 08:19 AM)
I know that for someone who doesn't intend to use it with Perfect Suite or Lightroom it's annoying, but it would also be annoying for me to have a resize in a program that's supposed to be a plugin/extension to Lightroom.-verszipo (February 18, 2014, 08:19 AM)
Also, don't forget that Perfect Effects is supposed to be the last step in the photo manipulation workflow, while resize/cut should be one of the first things you do.-verszipo (February 18, 2014, 08:19 AM)
Besides, it's free, what more can you ask from it ?-verszipo (February 18, 2014, 08:19 AM)
I generally don't have much need for local firewall (or related features) on my home PCs. The firewall, along with antispam and privacy controls, are handled by my gateway for the entire network. So on the local machines I just run Bitdefender + the Windows built-in firewall and call it a day.-40hz (February 18, 2014, 11:00 AM)
A, being a fan of Small and Light, that was nice! But see the note about behavior vs signatures. What if you got that to behave with a second AV program without them fighting each other? Could the combined power of the two approaches synergistically become "more than the sum of the parts"?-TaoPhoenix (February 15, 2014, 11:14 AM)
Hard to say, but the AV players are aware of it. As a result, many of the big AV products (that are signature based) also include a heuristic/suspicious behavior scanning feature. Many people leave it off. And it's not necessarily turned on by default.-40hz (February 15, 2014, 03:00 PM)
40hz, question:
Why did you go with Bitdefender AV over MSE?-superboyac (February 17, 2014, 05:35 PM)
On the other hand, I had a Windows 8 Pro tablet. I really wanted to like it...-wraith808 (February 17, 2014, 08:24 PM)
might make an interesting set to be rotating through on one's desktop-ewemoa (February 17, 2014, 11:54 PM)
Would be nice if it at least had some basic resizing/crop in it, but I guess they want to charge you for that with Perfect Photo Suite...
Thats the only downside I see to that program if you want to use it as a standalone effects program.
Note: At least I could not find a resize/crop in it.-hamradio (February 17, 2014, 05:41 PM)
I have never actually met anyone with a Windows 8 or RT tablet!-Carol Haynes (February 17, 2014, 12:34 PM)
“If you want Google search, they’re going to shove Google Plus at you pretty hard, so the consumer’s forced to take the product they don’t want to get the product they want,” said Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School who studies antitrust law and the Internet.
“That raises big questions under antitrust law,” he said. “It reminds me a little bit of Microsoft when Microsoft was fearing Netscape and decided to bend over backward and do anything possible to tie Explorer to their operating system.”
Google declined to comment on this issue.
And despite what some vocal users have said, few have fled — a sign, perhaps, of Google’s sheer strength on the web.
“If people want to use your platform enough,” Mr. Elliott said, “you can get away with quite a lot.”
So, why, one wonders, did UpNp get excommunicated and HNAP get invited in...?-IainB (February 14, 2014, 06:13 PM)
