I like the idea of gestures as password. The android pattern password thingy is nifty. And the idea that people will draw circles the same way every time is cool if it's true, and awful if it's not. Using a picture as the basis is not obvious to me, unless that is another layer, do you have to choose the picture as part of the login process (I skimmed)?

I feel like it's crazy obvious which areas I have my fingers in the most

But it's not obvious, they say, in which order you have your fingers there, and in which directions, which the verification is dependent on. And the same smudging happens with a password or a PIN, and they've done the math about which has more variations to crack from reading the smudges, and they seem to think that pictures come out relatively secure.

do you have to choose the picture as part of the login process

No, it's the same picture every time.

I don't think it's intuitive, because touching pictures isn't intuitive to me. In fact, I think it's kind of creepy. Why am I stroking an image of my mother's face (or, well, Tom Hardy's--let's be honest here)?

But it's not obvious, they say, in which order you have your fingers there, and in which directions, which the verification is dependent on.

Isn't the part where I can see fingerprint at the end going to be the last part. My screens seem like they are filled with swiiiiiiipeprints. Because I scroll. And I end up with what appear to be smudges in one place for a tap or smears that end with some bit of fingerprint detail for swipe. Though I could just be reading into it because when I eventually clean them off I know where I've been swiping or tapping.

You'd probably be scrolling and swiping more than you'd be logging in, right? I think it'd be hard to distinguish which smudges were from what.

But I don't find it intuitive. But I do think it's workable once it's explained.

You'd probably be scrolling and swiping more than you'd be logging in, right?

iPad, yes. iPhone? I let it sit just long enough that I am reswiping that thing open all of the time. I should adjust the settings but it's fast enough that I just sigh, swipe and go on about my business.

OHMYGODIHAVETOCLEANMYSCREEN.

This is why I didn't want a touchscreen. Okay, I didn't want a touchscreen because I am ocd about smudges, but I'd trained myself to live with the smudges. UNTIL NOW.

And Gar, I'm not a pro in that area by any means, and I think the graphic designer you hire can tell you how they want to receive things. But in general I'd assume that they'd need a completely clean file, with nothing in it except the text they will use. Anything else you put in, unless it's absolutely necessary to avoid confusion, they'll just have to take out again.

Not comparable, I know, but when the SO gives me article text for the newsletter, I want it all straight, cut & pasteable, so I can flow it into the relevant containers. It's then my job to set page divisions and deal with where the images fall to make a good document. All other elements like sidebars, photo captions, headlines, etc. I want separately.

I have a friends who wants input on buying a new PC he does digital photos and video, and wants to stay with HP, as he has had good luck in the past.

He gave me these:

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to look at.

I am leaning towards the one on the right, but the one on the left seems to have more expandable graphics ram by taking some form regular ram, but has a smaller dedicated amount.

Any advice?

Dedicated video RAM has much faster access to the video processor than shared RAM and greatly increases performance, typically much more so than havin additional RAM available over a slower pipeline.

Piggybacking onto the ebook question:

I have a Nook Color. I haven't investigated, but I am limited to only buying books from B&Noble?