Skill Zone News issue 136
The iPad has a security feature. If you type in the wrong passcode when trying to unlock it, it disables the iPad for a few seconds. Get it wrong six times in a row and it will lock you out for a minute, seven times its five minutes, then fifteen, and so on. In New York, a three year old got hold of his father's iPad, and by the time Dad discovered this, the iPad said it was locked out for 25 million minutes. To save you doing the maths, that's 48 years.
25th April 2019
Whatever happened to quality?
There is a well-known adage amongst programmers that there is no such thing as a bug-free program, but that doesn't mean testing is pointless. Good programmers spend at least as much time on rigorous and systematic testing as they do on design and coding. Poor programmers want to ignore the tedious testing and tead add more features.
Beware the USB-based computer killer
If you found a USB stick in the street, hopefully you would be wise enough not to plug it into your PC to see what it contained, lest it contains a virus and you have the autorun option turned on. Now there is even more reason to avoid plugging strange hardware into a valuable PC, as some sticks can fry the PC electronics.
Reverse-engineering words
It is easy to blind people with science, and in the modern age, to baffle them with buzzwords. At Skill Zone we try our best to keep jargon out of our conversations with customers, but it is an uphill battle.
The amplified whisper
Auto Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) has gone mainstream, and some are describing it as a marketing dream which will transform advertising. Others say its just whispering into the microphone.